Free Web NovelChapter 177: Chapter 177: What Right Do You Have to Call Me Heartless?
Given Wang Siying’s selfish and self-serving nature, she was bound to say horrible things while throwing a tantrum.
Don’t be fooled by her begging Shen Nian now; who knew what awful things she must have said before Shen Nian showed up!
"You’re being completely unreasonable! What does your daughter’s situation have to do with my sister-in-law? How dare you go around ruining my sister-in-law’s reputation like this!"
Lu Xinyue was about to explode with anger at Wang Siying. She had just gotten home and hadn’t even had a chance to share the great news with her parents—that her sister-in-law was the provincial top scholar—when Wang Siying appeared.
The moment she arrived, she started squatting at the Lu Family’s gate, wailing and caterwauling. After a crowd of onlookers had gathered to watch the drama unfold, she began listing all of Shen Nian’s supposed faults.
The one at fault was clearly Qin Xueling, but to hear her tell it, you’d think the whole world had wronged her daughter.
’She doesn’t even stop to think, if Qin Xueling hadn’t done all those wicked things, would she be in this mess right now?’
Fortunately, the Lu Family had always been on good terms with their neighbors. Although the people who gathered around started whispering among themselves after hearing Wang Siying, they didn’t completely believe her.
"How am I being unreasonable? If it weren’t for Shen Nian, would my daughter have been taken away?! Xiao Nian, I’m begging you. I’ll do anything you ask, just please let my daughter go!"
After shouting at Lu Xinyue, Wang Siying turned back to Shen Nian. Her words were no different than before; she just kept begging Shen Nian to let Qin Xueling go. Anyone who didn’t know the situation might actually think Shen Nian had terribly wronged Qin Xueling.
Then again, hadn’t Wang Siying always been like this? To think that Shen Nian used to feel sorry for their family and often helped them out. She even used to unconditionally take Wang Siying’s side whenever she got into trouble.
’Thinking about it now, it must have been so frustrating for anyone who got on her bad side!’
"Aunt Wang, you can’t just say things like that. The reason your daughter was taken away by the police is because she did something wrong. What does that have to do with me? Besides, I’m just an ordinary person. Your daughter committed a crime, so what good will coming to me do?"
In this era, people, especially those in the countryside, had an innate fear of the police. Anyone taken away by them must have done something wrong.
Wang Siying had been making a scene and saying all sorts of things, but she only dared to claim that Qin Xueling was taken away *because* of Shen Nian, trying to mislead the onlookers into thinking Shen Nian had framed her.
However, she never expected that Shen Nian’s very first sentence would directly reveal that Qin Xueling had been arrested by the police.
Someone arrested by the police couldn’t possibly be a good person. With that thought, the surrounding crowd instantly distanced themselves from Wang Siying, afraid of getting entangled with her.
After all, if her daughter could be arrested by the police, who knew what kind of trouble the mother might get into as well?
Hearing Shen Nian’s words and seeing the reaction of the crowd, Wang Siying’s eyes instantly turned red.
"Shen Nian, you can’t be so heartless! My daughter was so good to you before! Is this how you repay her? My daughter was framed! She was framed by all of you!"
"Heh, I’m heartless? Aunt Wang, why don’t you talk about how your daughter treated me? For so many years, I know I’ve been more than good to you and your daughter, but what did she do? She used me to covet my family’s money, ruined my reputation behind my back, tried to destroy my future, and even attempted to destroy my marriage! She did so many things to wrong me, so what right do you have to call me heartless? What right do you have to say I framed her?!"
