Chapter 222: A Thorough Slap in the Face

The leader looked at the notebook Su Ruo handed over, and couldn't help but stare for a moment; he hadn't expected Su Ruo to have prepared this as well.

But the leader only hesitated for a moment, then took the notebook from Su Ruo's hands.

Wang Lihua's face turned ashen as she watched this; she knew she was done, wanted to stop it, but the aura emanating from the leader made her dare not utter a word.

The leader picked up Su Ruo's notebook and examined it carefully; the contents basically matched what Su Ruo had said.

What truly amazed the leader was that Su Ruo was not only meticulous in her thinking, having prepared the evidence in advance, but even her handwriting was so beautiful.

Moreover, she was a doctor; the leader glanced at Wang Lihua's leg, her medical skill was also excellent, she was attractive, and had a good temperament; the leader now found himself increasingly pleased with Su Ruo, thinking she was a perfect match for his own troublesome subordinate.

If the current situation allowed, the leader would have immediately pulled Su Ruo aside to ask about her circumstances.

The leader suppressed his inner excitement, looked kindly at Su Ruo, and asked: "How did you think of gathering these?"

Wang Lihua's face grew even paler; she looked pleadingly at Su Ruo, but Su Ruo ignored her and simply laid everything out in detail.

After hearing this, the leader's expression instantly turned more solemn; he hadn't expected Wang Lihua to cause trouble again today; she really wasn't willing to let them off easily.

"Now that everything has been made clear, do you have any objections to what Song Jingyu and the others said?"

The leader, having been on the battlefield, when these few words were spoken, his aura made Wang Lihua's body tremble involuntarily.

Wang Lihua bit her lower lip tightly, not daring to meet the leader's gaze, yet if she were to just give up like this, she would feel unwilling.

Since things had already come to this point, she had nothing left to lose; finally, Wang Lihua gritted her teeth and fell to her knees with a thud.

Because of this, the wound on Wang Lihua's broken leg reopened, and blood instantly stained the bandage on her leg.

But Wang Lihua paid no attention, crawling to the leader while weeping, and said:

"Leader, I know deceiving you was wrong, but I truly had no choice—because of this disaster, my parents are gone, my home is gone, and even I have become a cripple; please, have pity on me!"

"In this state, I truly cannot survive on my own! Aren't you supposed to serve the people?"

"Then why can't Comrade Song marry me? I've inquired—he's unmarried and has no girlfriend. If he married me, I would wholeheartedly treat him well and live happily with him."

"Or is it that you preach equality but actually look down on us disabled people, thinking we're unworthy of marriage and children, unfit to be with you soldiers?"

At this moment, Wang Lihua displayed shamelessness to the extreme, essentially claiming that because she is weak she is right, and if you refuse to marry her, you are looking down on her and on disabled people, blatantly using morality as a tool of coercion.

The leader had originally seen Wang Lihua as just a little girl, but then such a sudden change occurred; for a moment he was at a loss, and making a mistake could be understood.

But he hadn't expected Wang Lihua to say such things; instantly his face turned livid with anger: "Comrade Wang Lihua, I sympathize with your plight, but that is not a reason for you to demand that Song Jingyu marry you."

"You cannot be forced to marry him just because he saved you and must take responsibility for your life; there is no such principle in the world."

The leader suppressed his anger and said this; the only reason he gave her face was because she was a girl—if it were one of his subordinates, he would have already started scolding.

But although the leader's words were crystal clear, Wang Lihua still refused to give up.

She sobbed: "But if Comrade Song doesn't marry me, I truly won't be able to survive; do you really want to watch me die?"

The leader's expression darkened further; he despised Wang Lihua's behavior, but for someone who only whines and thinks about survival, he truly felt helpless.

"I won't marry you!" Song Jingyu said in a cold, hard tone.

Wang Lihua stared at him in shock: "Why? Is it just because I lost a leg that you also despise me?"

"It has nothing to do with your leg; I don't know you, I don't love you, and I will absolutely not marry a woman I don't love."

Upon hearing Song Jingyu's words, Wang Lihua seemed to fall into madness and shouted a rebuttal:

"You're talking nonsense! If you don't like me, why did you save me and even take off your own clothes to cover me? If you don't like me, how could you be so gentle and thoughtful?"

"Doing these things clearly shows you like me, but now that you see my leg is disabled, you want to abandon me—how can you be so ruthless?"

Wang Lihua's remarks stunned everyone present; previously they thought she was merely selfish, but now it seemed her mental state might be problematic.

Just because Song Jingyu saved her and perhaps showed a little tenderness during the rescue, she could conjure up such a grand romance in her mind—there's no one else like her.

Everyone looked at her as if she were an idiot, but Wang Lihua didn't care at all.

She continued to shout hoarsely at Song Jingyu: "You say you don't like me—then who do you like? You're clearly unmarried and have no girlfriend; marrying anyone is still marrying, so why can't you marry me?"

"If you can't give me a reasonable explanation today, I will hang myself here; I want everyone to know that you drove me to death."

"I will expose your hypocritical masks before everyone, letting people know that while you preach benevolence, righteousness, morality, and equality, deep down you actually look down on disabled people."

Su Ruo gazed coldly at the already hysterical Wang Lihua, feeling that uttering the three words "disabled person" from her mouth at this moment was practically an insult to disabled people.

Someone like her, selfish and crazy, is not even fit to be called human.

After Wang Lihua finished, she looked triumphantly at the few people before her, knowing they would never just watch her die; as long as she held firm, they would eventually relent.

But just then, Su Ruo spoke in an icy voice: "Who said he doesn't have a girlfriend?"