Chapter 25: Every Cause Has Its Effect—your Retribution Is Me
Nan Yuanman truly couldn’t figure it out. She tilted her head and asked him again: “Jiang Lixuan, why do you all always say my mother did something wrong? Did she kill someone or set a fire back then? Or did she do something cruel?”
“Even if she did something wrong, you are her relatives. Can’t you be more tolerant of her?”
“Isn’t she your own younger sister? Why can you tolerate outsiders, but not even her, your own blood-related younger sister?”
Faced with Nan Yuanman’s puzzled yet somewhat cruel questioning, Jiang Lixuan’s throat tightened slightly, unable to say a word, his head buzzing as if it had been hammered hard by someone.
He couldn’t help but ask himself inwardly: Yeah, why were they so ruthless to Bai Wenyin back then?
Nan Yuanman looked at him and continued asking: “Moreover, did she really do something wrong? Were those wrongdoings really done by her?”
Jiang Lixuan’s pupils shook slightly. He hastily looked away, not daring to meet Nan Yuanman’s gaze, his emotions exceptionally complex.
He opened his mouth, then closed it again. After pursing his lips hard, he said with some lack of confidence: “She… if she didn’t do those wrong things, why didn’t she explain herself back then?”
“If she didn’t do anything wrong, why did she leave you alone in Batang Village and not dare to return to the Jiang family with you? Doesn’t that prove she felt guilty?”
“If she really didn’t do anything wrong, then let her come to the Jiang family herself, prove it herself, and seek justice for herself.”
“She can’t come. I said it, she died.” Nan Yuanman’s small face was tightly tense, her voice cold and hard: “I’ll seek justice for my mother.”
“I don’t believe it.” Hearing the words “she died” again, Jiang Lixuan finally showed a bit of the hidden panic and fear. He tried to find excuses for Bai Wenyin: “She used to love using such tactics to vie for favor and make us worry about her.”
“This time, she’s definitely doing it on purpose too.” Jiang Lixuan deliberately put on a stern face: “Perfection, you can’t curse your mother like that.”
Nan Yuanman: “…” Nerves.
Nan Yuanman looked at him with an expression like she was looking at a mentally disabled person: “Aren’t you the richest person in S City? You should have people who can investigate, right? Just like on TV.”
“Just send someone to investigate, and you’ll know whether my mom is alive or dead.”
Jiang Lixuan was speechless and remained silent without replying.
He… didn’t dare.
He was afraid that the investigation results would really be as Nan Yuanman said, something he couldn’t bear.
“What are you two doing standing in the doorway?” Jiang Hengzhi’s voice came from behind Jiang Lixuan.
Nan Yuanman looked up at Jiang Hengzhi upon hearing the voice.
This second uncle of hers in name.
The Jiang family members all had good looks, and because Jiang Hengzhi worked in the clothing industry, his outfit was even more refined than the other Jiang family members.
His exquisite and superior features, aloof peach blossom eyes, tall and straight figure like a model, made him the most eye-catching presence even in a crowd.
Nan Yuanman blinked her eyes and surprisingly discovered that this second uncle looked a lot like her mother.
Jiang Hengzhi slightly lowered his gaze, indifferently scanning Nan Yuanman. Because of what happened with Jiang Xinxin, the slight fondness he had for her had disappeared.
There was no liking for Nan Yuanman in his eyes, nor any disgust for her, as if treating a stranger: “If you’re back, come in. Xin Xin is still waiting for your apology.”
Nan Yuanman furrowed her small brows and stubbornly said: “I’m not apologizing.”
As soon as she finished speaking, a small figure appeared behind Jiang Hengzhi.
Jiang Xinxin nervously grabbed Jiang Hengzhi’s leg, peeked at Nan Yuanman, and said guiltily: “Forget it, forget it, Second Uncle, Uncle, Sister didn’t mean it, no need for Sister to apologize to me.”
She… at the beginning, she just wanted to pretend a little to draw the uncles’ attention back to her, without intending to target Nan Yuanman…
Now seeing Nan Yuanman being forced by Uncle and Second Uncle to apologize to her, she inexplicably felt that she was a bit pitiful.
“I didn’t do anything wrong, and I don’t need to apologize to you.” Nan Yuanman said: “I’ve also understood now, I can’t casually help you all in the future, or else just like Grandpa said, some people are just dogs.”
“And I’m Lu Dongbin.”
She shouldn’t have helped her from the start when she saw the flames above Jiang Xinxin’s head weakening.
She should have let the fire on her head go out, let her be possessed by a little ghost.
Grandpa was right, she was still too kind.
Jiang Xinxin didn’t understand Nan Yuanman’s insinuation, but Jiang Hengzhi and Jiang Lixuan did. Both their faces instantly darkened.
This was subtly calling them dogs!
Jiang Hengzhi with a dark face: “You’re just like your mom, ill-mannered and unreasonable!”
“My mom is also one of your Jiang family members. If she’s ill-mannered, isn’t it because you didn’t teach her well?” Nan Yuanman bared her teeth, her expression exceptionally innocent, but her words were infuriating: “You didn’t teach her well, so she didn’t teach me well either. What do you call that?”
“That’s cause and effect. Your retribution is me!”
Jiang Lixuan: “…”
His mouth twitched, he raised his hand to cover her mouth, helplessly: “Little Ancestor, stop talking.”
If she kept talking, he was afraid Second Brother would be angered to death.
Jiang Hengzhi had never seen a five-year-old with such a sharp tongue and such strong verbal attack power; he was indeed made to feel embarrassed and angry by her words.
His upbringing wouldn’t allow him to truly get angry at Nan Yuanman, so he could only darken his face and take the still confused Jiang Xinxin back: “Let’s go, Xin Xin, we won’t play with bad kids.”
Hearing this, Jiang Lixuan subconsciously turned to look at Nan Yuanman, afraid she would be upset by it.
But at this look, he found Nan Yuanman’s face completely calm, with no sign of being upset.
Jiang Lixuan was stunned for a moment, vaguely realizing that although Nan Yuanman had returned to the Jiang family, she… didn’t like the Jiang family members, or perhaps, she didn’t consider herself one of the Jiang family at all.
More precisely, she didn’t care about them.
This realization made Jiang Lixuan feel a bit uncomfortable inside.
He opened his mouth and subconsciously defended Jiang Hengzhi: “Your Second Uncle is just like that with his words, don’t take it to heart.”
“I’m not taking it to heart at all.” Nan Yuanman shrugged, saying indifferently.
In her heart, her relatives were only Grandpa and her mother.
What the Jiang family members said couldn’t hurt her at all.
Jiang Lixuan was instantly speechless.
The two didn’t continue staying outside and entered the living room.
Jiang Hengzhi was accompanying Jiang Xinxin playing in the children’s play area in the living room. Jiang Yueyao and Ge Peiyao weren’t there, probably out shopping.
Hearing Nan Yuanman’s footsteps, Jiang Hengzhi didn’t even look up, directly ignoring her existence.
Jiang Xinxin still felt a bit guilty inside and, with a compensatory mindset, weakly asked: “Sister, do you want to play?”
“No.” Nan Yuanman’s clear black-and-white round eyes glanced at Jiang Hengzhi, huffing: “There’s a mentally disabled person over there. My grandpa doesn’t let me play with mentally disabled people, or I’ll get dumb.”
After saying that, she ran upstairs with her short legs pattering.
Jiang Hengzhi: “…”
Jiang Hengzhi: (╬益)
He looked at Jiang Lixuan in disbelief: “She said I’m mentally disabled?”
Jiang Lixuan nodded while holding back laughter.
The current Nan Yuanman was like a little cannonball, launching indiscriminate attacks at them.
After laughing, Jiang Lixuan
