Chapter 229: Chapter 229: You Covet My Man. You Tell Me, What Am I Going to Do?
It was a good thing Miao Suiping was having this meltdown at the Miao family’s home. If this were happening outside, she probably would have been covered in spit by now.
Shen Nian looked at Miao Suiping and let out a cold laugh.
"You say you’re a thousand, no, ten thousand times better than me. Why don’t you tell me, then, exactly how you’re better?"
"I..."
The moment Miao Suiping opened her mouth, she faltered.
’Where was she better than Shen Nian? Looks? She wasn’t as pretty as Shen Nian. Grades? She couldn’t compare to Shen Nian, the top scorer in the province. And on top of that, Shen Nian knew medicine and had saved their grandfather’s life.’
’She... she actually couldn’t think of a single way she was better than Shen Nian! How was that possible!’
"What’s wrong? Cat got your tongue? Didn’t you just say you were a thousand, no, ten thousand times better than me?"
When Miao Suiping first started making a scene, the others in the room had wanted to step in. But after seeing Shen Nian take charge, they held back.
At first, they were worried Shen Nian wouldn’t be a match for Miao Suiping. After all, when it came to a contest of sheer shamelessness, Shen Nian probably couldn’t win.
But to their surprise, Shen Nian had left Miao Suiping speechless with just a single sentence.
Instantly, their worries vanished. ’Let Shen Nian handle it herself; she’s definitely got this! We’ll just stay on the sidelines and enjoy the show.’
"Whatever, I don’t care! I’m just better than you! Better in every way!"
Since Miao Suiping couldn’t think of any way she was better than Shen Nian on the spot, she decided to just throw logic to the wind and start making an irrational scene.
Hearing Miao Suiping’s outburst, Shen Xiangnan was the first to lose his composure, letting out a snort of laughter. ’His cousin really is one of a kind!’
"What are you laughing at!"
Miao Suiping was running on pure, shameless nerve. Hearing Shen Xiangnan laugh, she felt he was mocking her and immediately whirled on him.
"I’m laughing, of course, at certain people who have no sense of their own limitations!"
’Daring to say she’s better than his sister in every way—if that isn’t not knowing your own limitations, what is?’
"You..."
Provoked by Shen Xiangnan’s words, Miao Suiping started to move toward him, but her path was blocked when Shen Nian took a single small step forward.
Even though it was just a small step, as Miao Suiping looked at Shen Nian, who was now slightly closer, she inexplicably felt a surge of nervousness.
’Since when did this cousin, who she could always bully, develop such an intimidating presence?’
As Miao Suiping was thinking this, Shen Nian took another step toward her. At the same time, Miao Suiping instinctively took a step back.
It looked exactly as if Miao Suiping had been forced back by Shen Nian.
And in fact, she had indeed been pushed back by Shen Nian’s sheer presence.
"Wh-what do you want?"
Miao Suiping looked at Shen Nian and, for some reason, started to feel afraid.
’Even though Shen Nian was smiling, no matter how she looked at it, that smile was terrifying!’
"Miao Suiping, you covet my man. What do you *think* I want to do?"
"I... Wh-who’s your man!"
"We are a legally married couple. Lu Cheng, of course, is my man! As for you? Fantasizing about stealing another woman’s husband... in the old days, you’d be drowned in a pig cage for that! Do you know what that is? They’d tie you up, stuff you in a cage, and throw you into the sea to drown!"
The area where Shen Nian and her family lived was still quite traditional, but of course, things like drowning in a pig cage no longer happened.
Shen Nian had only said it to scare Miao Suiping. She never expected that the formerly aggressive Miao Suiping would actually be so easily frightened.
