Chapter 758: You Make Me Feel Disgusted

"What right do I have to beat her? I'm her father, what right do I have to beat her?"

Yan Weizheng put on the same stern demeanor he used to scold new recruits in the army, "Look at her now. She's always complaining and dissatisfied, as if the whole world owes her something. She should go see how children in the mountains live. Compared to them, she has it good. What more could she possibly want?"

"A parent in the mountains wouldn't raise their own biological daughter as a foster child."

The statement hung in the air like a pause button, and with its descent, all sound in the living room ceased.

Zhou Shuyue looked at her: "You..."

"I never expected Yanji to know... I was so shocked, my voice even changed."

As soon as I uttered a word, I remembered that Yan Jiaojiao was still watching. I swallowed the words back down and awkwardly twitched my lips: "Xia Ji, did you misunderstand something from what people were gossiping about? We can talk about other things later. First, apologize to your dad. The doctor said his emotions shouldn't be too agitated right now."

As a military wife her entire life, Zhou Shuyue also has a job of her own. She's usually very charming and articulate, but to come up with such blunt words to change the subject, it seems she's truly desperate.

Yanji looked at her with a smile that wasn't quite a smile, making her speechless.

Long before they knew she wasn't actually an adopted daughter, but their biological child, I had anticipated this outcome. They would raise her, fulfill their parental duties, but to the outside world, her identity could only remain as Yan family's adopted daughter.

Yanji lowered her eyelashes, concealing the disappointment in her eyes. All sharpness seemed to retract at that moment, replaced by a world-weary and listless air. "I'm sorry, the doctor said I have mental illness, and people with mental illness can't be stimulated."

She didn't want to stay in this house for another second. After saying that, she turned and left.

Yan Ji felt that she wasn't particularly sad. Feeling the burning pain on her cheeks, she could even spare a few thoughts: luckily it was the other half of her face that got hit, otherwise it would have been double the pain.

Zhou Shuyue wanted to pull her over, but Yanji walked past as if he hadn't seen her outstretched hand, quickening his pace.

Yan Ji descended the building. This time was dinner, smoke curled from every household's chimney, and there wasn't a single person on the road.

"Sister."

Behind her, Yan Jiaojiao called out to her.

Yan Ji turned her head to look, the woman was about 1.6 meters tall, slender, wearing a winter dress that emphasized her waist, standing in the hallway she looked particularly graceful and delicate like a willow branch being supported by someone else.

She rushed toward Yan Zhi, gave him a sweet smile and said, "You know how Mom and Dad found out you stole my boyfriend, right?"

She and that man hadn't formally gotten engaged, weren't technically a couple, they had just broken up. It wasn't something that should have alarmed their parents.

Yan Ji is best at piercing the heart, and her swordsmanship is extremely accurate. Every time she strikes, it hits right at the core of someone's feelings: "Could you please be clear about what you mean by me stealing your boyfriend? It was because you were simply not good enough that others didn't want you. You got dumped, so don't blame me and throw all this trash on my head. This isn't a garbage dump where I collect any kind of rubbish."

She had met Yan Jiaojiao's boyfriend twice, and he looked quite sleazy. His eyes were even more so, looking at people with a creepy gaze. Even for revenge, she couldn't muster any interest in fighting over him.

"If I'm not wrong, he broke up with you because you're ugly."

All members of the Yan family were known for their striking appearances, but Yan Ji's beauty reached its peak. She inherited all the best features from her parents, and when combined together, she was breathtakingly beautiful. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to call her "the fairest in the land."

But Yan Jiaojiao was different. She had no blood relation to the Yan family, and her appearance was average. Even with careful dressing up, she could only be described as pretty.

Yan Jiaojiao was hit at her weak point, her face contorted in pain, and her voice sharpened: "Yan Ji, what's so great about being good-looking? Chen Ye still doesn't love you. Do you know how much he hates you?"

Since the two of them tore their faces apart, Yan Jiaojiao no longer concealed her selfish and jealous side in front of her. She looked at Yan Ji with a smug face: "The fact that you met my ex-boyfriend privately was also told to your parents by him."

"...."

“I know it was that man who was harassing you, but so what? No one would believe you. In their eyes, you're a woman who is always seducing men and playing around. You’re their own blood, what does it matter? You'll never fit in this circle, and no one wants to be friends with someone as notorious as you…”

She seemed to recall something and suddenly said, “Oh, there are still some, just…”

Before Yan Jiaojiao could finish her words, Yan Ji pulled her hair and pressed her head against the wall.

A dull thud.

Yan Jiaojiao's eyes went black before her, and her head spun. She screamed and struggled violently, "Sister, sister, it hurts so much, let me go, ah..."

But Yan Ji's hands were like iron clamps, no matter how she struggled, she couldn't break free. Her head was repeatedly slammed against the wall. Yan Jiaojiao felt that she really wanted to kill her. Fear rose from the bottom of her heart, leaving her with no time to care about appearances, she became a screeching chicken: "Help, help me! Someone is killing me..."

Yanji's hand was clamped, and a sharp pain shot through her wrist. She involuntarily loosened her grip on Yan Jiajiao's hair.

"Yan Ji, are you crazy?" Gu Chenye's voice was laced with suppressed anger. "You're killing him."

Upon hearing the commotion, Yan's father and mother came down from the upstairs. Seeing Yan Jiaojiao with a face covered in blood, they were both stunned.

Yan Weizheng trembled with anger: "Get out, get out of my sight! My family doesn't need someone as heartless and selfish as you, someone who would even harm their own sister!"

Yanji's gaze held nothing but hatred as he looked at them. "That slap just now, is payment for what you did."

This was still her first time so openly expressing her emotions. Zhou Shuyue felt a jolt in her heart when she looked at her, a suffocating tightness in her chest. She mumbled with her lips, hating iron for not being steel: "Xiaoji, how did you become like this? Jiaojiao is your sister, how could you..."

Such a heavy hand to bear.

Yan Ji had no defense for himself. Although Yan Jiaojiao was annoying, there was truth to what she said. No one believed her. This was a conclusion she had drawn after countless disappointments.

She turned her head and no longer looked at them. She twitched the hand that Gu Chenye was holding, and her gaze towards him also carried disgust: "Gu Chenye, you really make me feel sick."

It wasn't that she was bothered by being reprimanded for his words. What disgusted her was that he, a grown man, would gossip like those gossipy women at the village head like him, spreading unfounded rumors and idle chatter behind people's backs.

The man's eyes darkened: "Do you find me repulsive? Yan Ji, why do you think I'm repulsive? Did I force you to marry me? Or did I force you to... be with me day and night?"

With elders present, he couldn't speak too plainly. After a pause, he used a more polite word instead.