Wen Qing turned around abruptly and met Yu Shuyan's icy, piercing gaze.

Unconsciously, a chill suddenly rose in my heart, and I couldn't help but take a step back, a guilty look flashing in my eyes.

Wen's mother shoved her aside and started yelling at Yu Shuyan:

"You little whore, you ungrateful wretch! How good our Wen family has been to you! We not only allowed you, a merchant's daughter, to marry into our scholarly family, but we also made your son the wife of a scholar who passed the imperial examination. And what have you done? Not only did you have an affair with another man, cuckolding my son, but you also fathered an illegitimate child. When your shameful deeds were about to be exposed, you framed my son and sent him to prison. How could you be so vicious? You harlot, you poisonous woman!"

She became more and more excited as she spoke, and the more she felt that what she was saying was not very true.

For a moment, people overlooked the changes in Yu Shuyan.

Having bullied her for years, he rushed forward and swung his hand, slapping Yu Shuyan hard across the face.

"Shuyan~"

Fu Yuqin felt a sudden wave of dizziness.

Wu Manting held her tightly, then anxiously stared at Yu Shuyan:

"Shuyan~ Get out of the way~"

Wen Qing's eyes, however, gleamed with eager excitement:

Slap her to death! Slap that bitch to death!

"Crack~"

A loud, crisp sound—the sound of a slap landing hard on flesh.

Wen's mother staggered back several steps, taking a while to regain her senses. She raised her hand to touch her face, which clearly bore a slap mark, her eyes filled with disbelief, followed by anger and embarrassment. She pointed at Yu Shuyan with a face full of resentment:

"Yu Shuyan, are you crazy? How dare you hit your mother-in-law! You unfilial wretch!"

Wen Qing also recovered from her shock, and then, pointing at Yu Shuyan, she cried out to the onlookers:

"Look at this woman, everyone! She's so arrogant in public, daring to slap her own mother-in-law. It just goes to show how domineering and arrogant she's been in the Wen family all these years!"

The onlookers all chimed in:

"How disobedient! I was doubting them just now, but now it seems very likely that they are true."

"Yes, that's too arrogant. To slap one's mother-in-law is truly unfilial."

"Sigh, the Yu family's family values ​​are truly worrying, given that they could raise a daughter like this!"

"Yeah, her son might actually be a bastard!"

~~~

Hearing the accusations from the crowd, Wen's mother suddenly became even more agitated and began to wail:

"Everyone has seen it, right? This is how she's treated me, her mother-in-law, all these years. Please, everyone, speak up for me and my poor son!"

Ignorant sympathy and a sense of justice always exist, and soon someone pointed at Yu Shuyan and shouted:

"You woman, Heaven is watching what people do! How could you slap your mother-in-law? This is utterly lawless!"

"That's right, that's right. If you have any conscience, hurry up and go to the government office to admit your evil deeds and clear your husband's name."

"Sigh, the Wen family is really unlucky to have a woman like you. The Yu family should not only apologize to the Wen family, but also show absolute sincerity."

~~~

Wen's mother howled even more triumphantly, and didn't forget to wink at Wen Qing.

Wen Qing immediately understood, pointing at Yu Shuyan with a pained expression:

"We're begging you, sister-in-law. We won't pursue the matter of you having an affair and giving birth to a child. Please don't hurt us anymore, okay?"

His eyes, however, were subtly scanning Yu Shuyan, clearly wanting to see her panicked and helpless expression.

"Sister-in-law? You're a criminal, what right do you have to call me sister-in-law?"

Yu Shuyan, however, stared at Wen Qing with a calm expression, a half-smile on her face.

Wen Qing stared at Yu Shuyan in disbelief.

Yu Shuyan then sneered:

"What's wrong? Did I say something wrong?"

He then looked directly at the crowd of onlookers and pointed at Wen's mother:

“I’ve already divorced Wen Lang, so what kind of mother-in-law is she to me?”

Wen Qing became anxious:

"Even if you're divorced, my mother is still your elder, so you shouldn't have..."

Yu Shuyan, however, didn't wait for her to finish speaking and said coldly:

"An elder? She doesn't even deserve that title!"

"Back then, it was Wen Lang who orchestrated and staged his own heroic rescue, which made me fall in love with him and vow to marry no one but him. How come in your mouths it's me who's so unworthy of your family!"

A hint of surprise flashed in Wen's mother's eyes, and she blurted out:

"How did you know? Ah, no, you're talking nonsense! My Wen family is a family of scholars, why would we need to scheme against a merchant's daughter like you? This is utter rubbish!"

The onlookers echoed:

"Yes, I heard that Wen Lang passed the imperial examination at a young age and will soon be entering the court as an official. Such an outstanding person, why would he need to scheme against a merchant's daughter!"

"Yu Shuyan is just spouting nonsense because she knows things have been exposed!"

A smug glint flashed in Wen's mother's eyes:

"You're the one who's shameless! You did something shameless and even harmed your own husband! You slut, you should be drowned in a pond or thrown into a pig cage!"

Yu Shuyan's eyes grew even colder:

"What kind of scholarly family are you? You're just a bunch of farmers. You look down on my Yu family, a merchant family, yet you covet our money. All these years, you've eaten and drunk our food, but you've never treated me like a human being. I bore children for your Wen family, contributed to your dowry, and even took financial support from my own family to feed your family. And how have you treated my family? You are so vicious it's disgusting!"

"You must have already anticipated that once Wen Lang passed the imperial examination and I was no longer of any use, you would abandon me and choose a high-ranking official's daughter to pave the way for Wen Lang's future. For this, you plotted long ago. Wen Lang instigated someone to try and kill my elder brother. Although they failed to kill him, they crippled him, ensuring he could never enter officialdom. Wen Lang even orchestrated the murder of someone at my Yu family's pharmacy, attempting to ruin the Yu family. Do I really need to recount all these things you've done to the neighbors in detail?!"

Yu Shuyan spoke with heartbreaking emotion, each word dripping with tears. As she spoke, the image that haunted her mind was that snowy day in her past life when her entire family was tragically killed.

Amidst the blanket of white snow, what is truly shocking is the sight of those bloodstains!

The onlookers unconsciously stopped talking and silently watched Yu Shuyan.

Immediately, they all looked at the Wen mother and daughter with suspicion.

They were clearly hesitant, unsure of whom to believe!

Wen's mother became anxious:

That damned bastard, he used to be so quiet you wouldn't utter a word. How come he's so eloquent now?

No, we absolutely cannot let her change the winds.

Otherwise, let alone saving Wen Lang, wouldn't it be a death sentence for her to swallow all that money in her family and then have to spit it out?

With a heavy heart, I made a decision:

No, we have no choice but to use that last resort!

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