Chapter 26: Chapter 26: You Were Never Worthy
"I..."
Qin Xueling’s voice started to tremble. Shen Nian was right—Qin Xueling didn’t dare.
Because she knew, deep down, that she was the one who wrote that letter.
"Lost your nerve? Are you admitting you wrote this letter? You wrote it, but you made Yin Yang think I did. And now, you bring him and the letter to my home to slander me. Qin Xueling, just what are you trying to pull!"
Father Lu and Mrs. Lu also turned to look at Qin Xueling. The mere thought of what just happened filled the elderly couple with rage toward her.
If they had actually believed her, if they had condemned their own daughter-in-law just like that, they would have been the real culprits!
Lu Xinyue, standing to the side, was already stunned. She was the one who had brought Qin Xueling back, and she had let Yin Yang in, too.
She had thought she was exposing her wicked sister-in-law’s true colors to her parents, but it turned out to be all fake, all a lie!
"Yin Yang, as far as I’m concerned, we’ve barely interacted. I’ve hardly said more than a few words to you. So what possessed you to team up with Qin Xueling and slander me like this!"
In her past life, Shen Nian had never confronted Qin Xueling and Yin Yang like this. But now, her words carried the fury of two lifetimes.
It wasn’t just Qin Xueling and Yin Yang who were shocked by Shen Nian’s anger; the three members of the Lu Family were equally stunned by her overwhelming fury.
"I... I didn’t... It was Qin Xueling who told me you liked me but were too shy to say it to my face, so you asked her to tell me. She was also the one who gave me the letter you ’wrote’ and passed along the one I wrote to you."
"I never received any letter from you, I never said I liked you, and I certainly never wrote you a letter!"
"Qin Xueling, speak!"
"Qin Xueling, speak!"
In an instant, everyone’s eyes were fixed on Qin Xueling.
No matter how calculating Qin Xueling was, she was still just an eighteen-year-old girl. Besides, she had never anticipated a turn of events like this. For a moment, she really couldn’t think of a way to refute Shen Nian’s words.
"Qin Xueling, the last time you insulted my little brother to my face, I told you we were no longer friends! Now, I take that back. You, Qin Xueling, were never worthy of being my friend! Don’t you ever cross me again. Otherwise, I swear, even if it means dragging myself through the mud, I will destroy you!"
Listening to Shen Nian’s hate-filled words and meeting her glaring eyes, Qin Xueling couldn’t stop her body from trembling. This version of Shen Nian was terrifying.
It wasn’t just Qin Xueling; Yin Yang, standing nearby, was also frightened by Shen Nian. She was just a woman, a seemingly fragile woman, yet the look in her eyes right now seemed fiercer than a wild beast’s.
"You, and you! Get out! Don’t dirty our home!"
As she spoke, Shen Nian grabbed a nearby stick and started swinging it at Qin Xueling and Yin Yang, not stopping until the two of them stumbled and scrambled out of the Lu Family’s main gate.
Leaning on the stick, Shen Nian panted, trying to calm the rage that had consumed her.
Behind her, the three members of the Lu Family watched her back and exchanged uncertain glances.
They had to admit, they too had been a little frightened by Shen Nian just now.
But thinking back on what had happened, they looked at her with a renewed sense of guilt. After all, they had come so close to wrongly accusing her.
