Chapter 75: Falling Out
Jiang Yueyao’s heart skipped a beat, and a smile unconsciously appeared on her face: “Little brother, why are you bringing this up? Back then, wasn’t your hand tendon severed because Bai Wenyin got scared and ran away, leaving you alone to face those thugs?”
She couldn’t help but clench her fists tightly, her back breaking out in layers of dense cold sweat, her heart gradually growing panicked.
Why was Jiang Lixuan asking this? Could he have discovered something?
No, impossible. She had already dealt with everyone from back then, and Jiang Lixuan was always so doting on her; he definitely wouldn’t deliberately investigate.
Where did things go wrong…
Jiang Yueyao took a deep breath, trying hard to calm down, stepped forward and took Jiang Lixuan’s hand: “Little brother, did Bai Wenyin come to you and say something…”
The anger in Jiang Lixuan’s heart burned even more fiercely. He let out a cold scoff, forcefully pulled his hand from hers, and glared at her with bloodshot eyes: “Even now, you’re still lying! You’re still making excuses! You’re still trying to shift the blame to Bai Wenyin!”
Jiang Lixuan was not a heartless person. When he investigated the truth of that incident back then, he was tormented every moment.
Jiang Tianzong warned him not to destroy the family atmosphere. Jiang Lixuan was inwardly conflicted, pained, and full of regret, yet he also hoped that Jiang Yueyao would notice something off about him and take the initiative to confess to him.
He had thought that as long as Jiang Yueyao took the initiative to confess and apologize to Bai Wenyin, he would give her one more chance.
But in the blink of an eye, several days passed, and Jiang Yueyao turned a blind eye to his suffering. Now she was even pretending like nothing had happened and questioning why he was being cold to her!
How had he never noticed before that Jiang Yueyao was so good at pretending?
“Jiang Yueyao, you must have been so smug back then, right?” Jiang Lixuan’s eyes were filled with strong sarcasm as he gritted his teeth and asked in a low voice: “You paid people to sever my hand tendon and hurt Bai Wenyin who was protecting me.”
“Then you deceived me, making me misunderstand that Bai Wenyin really abandoned me and ran away alone back then, causing me to misjudge her for so many years…”
“I’ve searched my conscience, and I haven’t done anything to wrong you! Why did you do this to me! Why!”
The tormenting pressure of these days finally made Jiang Lixuan explode. He grabbed Jiang Yueyao’s collar and roared lowly with blood-red eyes.
When Jiang Yueyao heard him say she paid people, her scalp exploded, and her whole heart sank continuously.
When Jiang Lixuan grabbed her collar and lifted her up, she panicked inwardly. Her eyes instantly reddened, and she spoke in a trembling voice: “Little brother, d-don’t do this, I’m scared.”
She reached out to hold Jiang Lixuan’s hand, still trying to quibble: “Little brother, where did you hear these things? They’re talking nonsense, I’m innocent, I…”
Hearing this, Jiang Lixuan was completely disappointed in Jiang Yueyao. He flung her forcefully to the ground: “Even now, you’re still making excuses. Do you think I have no evidence?”
“Jiang Yueyao, let me tell you, I have evidence of everything you did back then.”
He looked down at the staggering Jiang Yueyao retreating with icy cold eyes, his voice cold: “You have Father and brother protecting you, so I can’t touch you for now. But Jiang Yueyao, if you dare to touch Perfection even a little, I’ll make you completely disgraced in S City’s upper-class social circle!”
Jiang Yueyao: “!!!”
With that, Jiang Lixuan gave Jiang Yueyao a deep look, restrained the urge to hit her, and turned to leave.
The innocence on Jiang Yueyao’s face could no longer be maintained. She hurriedly stepped forward, grabbed Jiang Lixuan’s hand, and spoke in panic: “No! Little brother, you can’t do this!”
She had finally become the most envied person in S City’s entire upper-class circle. She didn’t want to be a laughingstock! Nor did she want to be kicked out of the Jiang family!
Jiang Lixuan paused, turned his head to look at her: “Admitting it now? That what happened back then was your doing?”
Jiang Yueyao couldn’t tell if Jiang Lixuan’s words were just to scare her or if he really had evidence, but she knew she couldn’t keep quibbling.
She gritted her teeth and said: “It was me, but… back then, you were wrong first!”
Jiang Lixuan asked incredulously: “I was wrong first?”
“Right!” A ferocious jealousy finally appeared on Jiang Yueyao’s beautiful face: “If it weren’t for, if it weren’t for you being so good to Bai Wenyin back then, I wouldn’t have thought of harming you!”
“Me being good to Bai Wenyin?” Jiang Lixuan looked incredulous: “Isn’t it only right for me to be good to her? She is my biological sister!”
“Besides, we weren’t as good to her as we were to you back then! We always put you first, and you still weren’t satisfied?!”
“Satisfied? Ha! As soon as Bai Wenyin came back, all your attention was on her, and you couldn’t see me at all!” Jiang Yueyao sneered coldly.
She still remembered even now, when Bai Wenyin had just returned, Jiang Lixuan said he disliked her and rejected her, but when going out to the mall, he still had the family driver wait for her to go together.
At that time, she understood that as long as Bai Wenyin was there, she could never become the Jiang family’s young miss. In the Jiang family, she would forever be an outsider.
“Just like now, Perfection has come back, there’s no Xin Xin in your eyes, nor me. You even… secretly investigated me!”
Jiang Yueyao was both angry and disappointed. She looked up at Jiang Lixuan: “Little brother, it’s been so long since those things happened. Why dig them up again? Wouldn’t it be better to pretend you know nothing and continue on…”
“I admit I was too young and made a mistake back then, but I also took care of you and compensated you at the time. Little brother, can’t you forgive me?”
Jiang Lixuan’s pupils contracted slightly, looking at Jiang Yueyao with full disbelief, as if meeting this girl he had doted on since childhood for the first time.
After the initial panic, Jiang Yueyao’s heart gradually calmed. She had forgotten that she was no longer the girl who would only hide and cry secretly when something happened.
She was now the Jiang family’s true, only daughter.
Even if Jiang Lixuan had evidence, he couldn’t drive her out of the Jiang family.
“Little brother, when I made mistakes as a child, you always forgave me. Forgive me one more time this time, give me the evidence, okay?” Jiang Yueyao softened her voice, coaxing him as before.
Jiang Lixuan’s chest heaved rapidly, the indescribable emotions in his chest forcing tears from his eyes. He forcefully shook off Jiang Yueyao’s hand in a reflexive manner, full of disappointment: “Jiang Yueyao, this is the first time I’ve realized you’re so shameless!”
“I won’t give you the evidence!” Jiang Lixuan lowered his eyes coldly and said: “For the sake of our past relationship, not laying a hand on you is my final mercy. Jiang Yueyao, from now on, I won’t treat you as a sister anymore!”
“Take care of yourself!”
With that, Jiang Lixuan turned and strode away. He was afraid that if he stayed longer, he wouldn’t be able to control himself from hitting Jiang Yueyao.
Jiang Yueyao’s brows darkened, and she couldn’t control herself as she slammed the small bag in her hand to the ground hard. The small items she carried scattered messily in the corners.
She irritably ran her hand through her hair, her eyes full of frustration: “Damn it! Who exactly! Who gave Jiang Lixuan the evidence? Was it Bai Wenyin? Is she not dead? Did she really hide away?”
If that was really the case, Bai Wenyin had such a vicious mind, using her own daughter to attract her attention while striking at her in secret.
Sure enough, whenever she encountered anyone or anything related to Bai Wenyin, things stopped going smoothly for her…
Jiang Yueyao’s face darkened. Through the glass, she looked venomously at Nan Yuanman who was curiously wandering around inside the mall. Since that’s the case, don’t blame her for targeting her daughter…
However, before that, she had to first find a way to destroy the evidence in Jiang Lixuan’s hands…
Inside the mall, Nan Yuanman, who was looking around like a little kitten, suddenly felt a chill on her back, as if stared at by some evil ghost. She vigilantly looked around but saw nothing.
Jiang Xinxin panted as she followed behind her, roaring impatiently in a low voice: “Can you stop running around like a country bumpkin! It’s so embarrassing!”
