Chapter 92: Holding a Grudge Over Something from Twenty Years Ago

Shen Lan naturally did not want to either.

The two of them snuck away, turning to leave, but they did not expect that when they reached the back door, Wen Xiang would be guarding it.

"Move!"

Li Xuan was exasperated; what on earth was wrong with this guy?

Didn't he say he liked her before?

Refusing her was one thing, but now he dared to block her?

Wen Xiang closed the small door directly and said to the police officers who had rushed over, "They are here!"

Li Xuan:...

The police quickly rushed over and handcuffed both of the couple.

She never expected that dead fat man to be so useless, actually selling her out so quickly.

The two were handcuffed and led all the way to the fat man's side, the three of them standing in a row.

Mother Si narrowed her cold eyes, stepped forward, and gave Li Xuan a fierce slap, "I truly do not understand, where exactly did my Rongrong ever wrong you, that you have spent so many years plotting to harm her! What on earth are you trying to do?"

At this moment, in Li Xuan's eyes, Mother Si looked remarkably like a mother hen protecting her chicks, standing in front of Si Rong, wanting to shield her from all harm.

Unfortunately, Li Xuan had never experienced this kind of maternal love.

She laughed mockingly, "You have to ask yourself, Auntie. Do you still remember our sophomore year? You went to see Si Rong and bought her many beautiful clothes and delicious cakes."

"You even praised me for being capable, praised me for being a good child!"

Mother Si thought for a long while, vaguely digging this trivial matter out from the depths of her mind, "And so?"

What was wrong with buying things for her own daughter?

If she didn't buy for her own daughter, was she supposed to buy for someone else's?

Moreover, every time she sent things to Si Rong, she would buy extra for her daughter to share with her roommates so that she could get along well with them.

"Did you not want to adopt me as your goddaughter back then?"

This matter was a wound in Li Xuan's heart; every time Mother Si and Father Si saw her, they would praise her, a kind of praise that made it seem as if they wished she were their own daughter.

If Mother Si had adopted her as a goddaughter, if she were a daughter of the Si Family, she would surely be a hundred times more outstanding than Si Rong now.

She would not be like Si Rong, who only knew how to be a parasite dependent on her family.

She would have done very, very well.

But, when she tentatively suggested to Mother Si that she wanted to be her goddaughter, what did Si Rong say?

She would remember it forever.

Amidst Ming Zi's mocking laughter, Si Rong hugged Mother Si's arm and acted spoiled, "No! I am Mom's only daughter!"

Just because of that one sentence from Si Rong, Mother Si politely declined her.

She was never to have a connection with the Si Family again.

Shouldn't she hate them?

It was Si Rong who wronged her, and before that, she had never thought of harming Si Rong; if she had been willing to accept her, she would have been her good sister forever after.

But Si Rong must have been worried that she was too outstanding, which was why she instigated Mother Si like that.

"Just because of this?" Mother Si simply could not believe that someone would hold a grudge in their heart over such a trivial matter from decades ago.

"I never had such thoughts."

She had sons and daughters, every one of them the apple of her eye; why on earth would she want to adopt some goddaughter?

Furthermore, for a family like theirs that did business, they were very superstitious about these things.

God-kinship could not be established casually.

Since the older generation, their Si Family had never established god-kinship.

Some say that god-kinship occupies the children's palace, and establishing it casually is bad for one's own children.

Li Xuan could not accept this.

"But, you always praised me, you looked like you liked me so much..."

How could you not want a daughter like her?

"It was just polite social grace."

Mother Si was someone who had always liked to praise people; a kind word warms three winters, a harsh word hurts in the sixth month of summer—it was just her habit of speaking.

She just never expected it would give Li Xuan such a misconception.

Si Rong had completely forgotten about this matter.

At that time, she was about eighteen or nineteen, and it was very likely she would have said something about only wanting her mother to have her as a daughter.

Because the Si Family indeed only had her as a young daughter.

She had been raised pampered and spoiled since she was small.

Even now, at thirty-nine years old, she would not want some woman to suddenly pop up and fight her for her mother.

"Li Xuan, thank you!" Ming Zi laughed until tears were almost coming out after hearing these words, "You've provided me with a year's worth of entertainment."

"Your train of thought is truly extraordinary. Auntie praised me like that back then too, but I never thought in that direction. You really can blame anything on others!"

"Praising you twice means wanting to be your mother, one wrong word makes you a lifelong enemy—honestly, it's really ridiculous!"

Li Xuan snorted coldly, not even bothering to pay her any mind.

"Alright, let's not dig up old scores today. Confess clearly about this frame-up; those who need to go to prison go to prison, and those who need to go to the wedding banquet go to the wedding banquet!"

Li Xuan had been stubborn at first, but she did not expect the dead fat man to be so spineless, revealing all of her plans in one go.

"Comrade Police, this matter really has nothing to do with me," the fat man pointed at Li Xuan, "It was this woman! She gave me money and told me to say that! Look, I've been beaten into this state; please show mercy and just let me go like a fart!"

"Li Xuan, do you have anything to say?" the police officer asked while taking notes.

Li Xuan had nothing to say, but she did not want to drag Shen Lan into this, "Today's matter was entirely my own idea; let my husband go!"

It was she who had been single-mindedly thinking of an eye for an eye, but she had forgotten that the person Si Rong was engaged to was a soldier, which was why she ended up in this state.

Is marrying a soldier so amazing?

There is still a long time ahead, just wait and see!

Shen Lan lowered his head, glancing at Si Rong from the corner of his eye from time to time.

It had only been a few months since they had parted, after all.

Yet now, seeing her standing beside Jiang Cheng, carrying herself as a military spouse, he suddenly felt as if a chasm lay between them.

She was high and mighty.

He lowered his head, looking exactly like a defeated rooster.

Fortunately, that woman Li Xuan was not stupid to the end and knew that she could not go to prison.

Otherwise, how would he have the face to go to work in the future?

"Don't be in such a rush, I have one more question," Si Rong stared at the fat man who was eager to absolve himself of guilt, "Since you have already admitted that you framed me, then who told you that I have a birthmark on my chest?"

As for Shen Lan and his daughter, let's see who is more disgusting.

The fat man's eyes flickered.

"I told him, so what?" Li Xuan immediately chimed in, "What? Are you still a maiden? Do you have to harp on about such a remark?"

"If I remember correctly, I don't recall ever taking a bath with you, so where did you find out?"

Si Rong was determined to get to the bottom of it today.

"I just won't tell you." Li Xuan laughed smugly; the Si Family heiress wasn't so tough, let her guess!

The fat man really did not want to continue being held by the public security officers, "Alright, alright, I'll talk! It was her daughter! Her daughter told me!"

When they were plotting at home, they thought they had to mention a private mark on Si Rong's body; just as Li Xuan was struggling with the dilemma, Shen Yuan ran out of the room and told them.

Si Rong nodded in realization, "As expected, if the upper beam is crooked, the lower ones will be askew."

She had not been wrong to sever ties.

Raising such ingrates only harms others and oneself.

"What do you mean by that?" Li Xuan could not bear to hear Si Rong speak ill of her daughter, as if implying that her daughter being pregnant out of wedlock now was because she was just like her in the past.

Si Rong made a gesture, and the police immediately dragged Li Xuan and the fat man out.

Perhaps because Li Xuan's struggle was too violent, she suddenly felt something strange in the area where she had undergone plastic surgery on her chest.

She immediately relaxed her body; no, she absolutely could not lose face in front of Si Rong! It had been so hard to finally get their curves to match.

"Comrade police, hurry up and take me to prison! I'm in a hurry." Li Xuan urged.

The public security officers:...

But what made Li Xuan uncomfortable was that with every step she took, something seemed to be brewing inside her body; the path from the lobby to the door looked so long.

One step, two steps, three steps...