"Mom, I was wrong, we were wrong... we were all deceived by Jiang Yonghe."
Qin Yulian knew just how much her son Jiang Zhao doted on their adopted daughter Jiang Yonghe. Hearing him say they had been deceived by her the moment he woke up, she could not help but say in surprise, "Zhao'er, when you were unconscious, Yonghe took care of you in the hospital almost without rest. Now that you've finally woken up, how can you say we were deceived by Yonghe?"
At this point, she grew angry again and looked up at Jiang Youli. "You wretched girl, did you do something to Zhao'er just now? There must be something fishy about that silver needle!"
Jiang Youli sneered and reminded her, "Ms. Qin, didn't your son tell you to shut up and stop talking? Have you gone deaf?"
Qin Yulian was furious. "You..."
Jiang Zhao was truly anxious to death. He shouted with all his might, "Mom, I already said it has nothing to do with my sister. Can you just shut up first! Everything is because of that vicious woman, Jiang Yonghe!"
The term vicious woman greatly shocked Jiang Xing. Did Jiang Zhao actually despise Little He this much now?
Qin Yulian was frightened by her son's reprimanding tone. Afraid that he might have another problem from getting too agitated right after waking up, she hurriedly said, "Okay, okay, Mom won't interrupt anymore."
Jiang Yonghe's fingers clenched tightly in her palms. Deciding to strike first, she choked with red eyes, "Second Brother, I know what you want to say. Yes, I admit it, I did deceive you..."
"But it was all because I care about you too much, so I had no choice but to do that kind of thing."
At this point, Jiang Yonghe bowed and apologized one by one to Jiang Yangxu, Qin Yulian, and Jiang Xing. "Dad, Mom, Big Brother, I'm sorry. When you said you were going to bring Sister Youli back, I was terrified. I knew you loved me very much at the time, but I am ultimately not your biological daughter. I was worried that sooner or later you would abandon me one day, so I hired someone to... to..."
Jiang Xing had already guessed the rest. "Little He, so you really hired someone to assault my sister Jiang Youli, didn't you?"
Jiang Yonghe's face was full of remorse. "Big Brother, I regretted it later. Fortunately, Sister Youli is fine, otherwise my conscience would be uneasy for the rest of my life."
Jiang Youli sneered, "I am fine because I am capable. If I wasn't capable, I would have long been defiled by a criminal fugitive with a long list of crimes, and a video would have been taken. And you would have taken the video and planned to threaten me with it forever, so that I could not threaten your position in the Jiang family."
Upon learning the truth, Jiang Xing felt his legs go weak and could not help but stagger back two steps. His gaze shifted to Jiang Youli's face; her expression remained indifferent, without any ripples of emotion.
Jiang Xing's heart clenched fiercely.
Jiang Youli had clearly told him before that Jiang Yonghe had found someone to defile her, but he refused to believe it. After all, he did not believe that the adopted sister he doted on so much would be the vicious and unbearable person Jiang Youli described.
How could this not make his biological sister Jiang Youli feel bitterly disappointed and resentful towards them?
Jiang Yangxu did not care at all about what his adopted daughter had done to his biological daughter Jiang Youli, nor what his biological daughter had experienced. In his eyes, this was merely a tactic for his adopted daughter and biological daughter to compete for favor!
He only cared now whether their family would truly lose everything!
And the only one who could reverse all this was Jiang Youli!
Therefore, their family could only seek Jiang Youli's forgiveness!
Jiang Yangxu decided to put aside all his pride and status to beg for his biological daughter Jiang Youli's forgiveness.
Thinking of this, Jiang Yangxu endured his pain and said angrily, "Jiang Yonghe, so you actually did such a thing to our biological daughter behind our backs. Kneel down!"
Jiang Yonghe knelt down without any hesitation, tears bursting from her eyes. "Dad, Mom, Big Brother, Second Brother, I'm sorry, I really know I was wrong."
Jiang Yangxu reprimanded her harshly, "Yonghe, your mother and I always thought you were a kind-hearted child, but we never expected you to do such shady deeds behind our backs! You have disappointed us too much!"
After saying that, he quickly gave his wife Qin Yulian a meaningful look; merely scolding Jiang Yonghe was not enough to make Jiang Youli forgive them!
Meeting her husband Jiang Yangxu's eyes, Qin Yulian quickly understood his hint.
The current situation was truly unfavorable for their family, but Zhao'er was awake. He said their family had been deceived, so if they blamed everything that happened before on being deceived by their adopted daughter Jiang Yonghe, would Jiang Youli be able to forgive them? Then, when the time came, would the old master be less heartless, and they could still inherit the Jiang family's assets!
Having figured this out, Qin Yulian put on an appearance of bitter heartache and said, "Jiang Yonghe, we raised you as our own daughter, yet you secretly did such a thing to our biological daughter! If it weren't for you, we wouldn't have become more and more estranged from our own biological daughter!"
At this point, she looked at Jiang Youli. "Youli, my poor daughter, you heard it too. We were all deceived by Jiang Yonghe. We didn't know that the reason you hated her so much and wanted to kick her out of the Jiang family was because she once hired someone to harm you. If we had known, your father and I definitely wouldn't have continued to keep her in the Jiang family!"
A cold sneer appeared at the corners of Jiang Youli's mouth, and that smile was full of mockery. "After saying so much, in the end, isn't it only when Jiang Yonghe wants to harm me that you, as my biological parents, can finally harden your hearts to abandon her? And the reason you were so easily blinded and deceived by Jiang Yonghe is, at its root, nothing more than the fact that you have always shown favoritism toward her from start to finish. As for me, your biological daughter, you despise and loathe me from the bottom of your hearts, and you aren't even willing to acknowledge my existence!"
Hearing these words, Qin Yulian hurriedly waved her hands in denial. "No, Youli, we were really just deceived by Jiang Yonghe. We thought she was kind and sensible, and that driving her away would be too cruel of us. Who knew she was actually so vicious inside? Now your father has punished her by making her kneel here. No matter how you want to deal with her to vent the resentment in your heart, it is entirely up to you! This time, we will absolutely not show favoritism or protect her anymore!"
Hearing Qin Yulian's words, Jiang Yonghe's originally delicate and beautiful face turned as pale as paper, entirely devoid of color, making her look extremely pitiful.
But Jiang Youli was completely unmoved, continuing to watch everything unfolding before her with cold eyes. "Heh, what? Now you even want to push the matter of punishing your own adopted daughter onto my head, making me play the role of the villain? Could it be that even now, you still can't harden your hearts and can't bear to lay a hand on her yourselves?"
Faced with Jiang Youli's questioning, Qin Yulian frantically shook her head and explained, "Youli, it's not like that. We absolutely do not mean that we can't bear to do it. We were just thinking that letting you personally punish Jiang Yonghe might be the only way to truly let you vent your anger..."
Jiang Zhao could tell that his parents still had lingering affection for Jiang Yonghe, so he pressed on. "Dad, Mom, while I was in a coma, that vicious woman Jiang Yonghe secretly injected me with a drug to keep me from ever waking up!"
With that, he rolled up his sleeve and bared his elbow. "Look, this red mark is where she injected me!"
Jiang Xing's eyes widened in shock. So that red dot wasn't a mosquito bite after all—it was from Jiang Yonghe's needle!
Qin Yulian gently took Jiang Zhao's arm. As she stared down at the red mark on his elbow, her breathing grew rapid.
Filled with righteous indignation, Jiang Zhao continued, "What's more, she has actually been in touch with her biological father this whole time! Every month, she takes the money we give her and transfers it straight to him. And during this recent poisoning incident, she even tried to hire a hitman to murder our sister, Jiang Youli!"
