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At three in the morning, Su Qianci rushed to the Li family. “I want to see him!” "Sorry, Grandpa said... Su Qianci and dogs are forbidden!" Her heart pounded like a drum. Su Qianci felt as if something inside her was shattering. She screamed, "Li Sicong, come out! Let's talk this through. Grandfather's death has nothing to do with me. I was knocked unconscious, and when I woke up, Grandfather was already dead!" The security guard stared at the half-burned scar on my face, saying nothing. "Give up," a voice came, A young man in his twenties or thirties stood inside the iron gate, tall and elegant, "He won't see you, Grandpa just passed away, he needs peace." Yes, Li Siceng's publicly acknowledged person, and the former self-proclaimed best friend, Tang Mengying. For five years, as Li Sicong's companion, Tang Mengying had frequented all sorts of venues. In the eyes of the public and outsiders, she was already the Mrs. Li in their minds, a mere facade for Su Qianci. Step by step, she walked down the stairs. The security guard opened the iron gate because of her arrival. Heaven and earth were treated equally. Su Qianci saw this in her eyes, and her hatred for Tang Mengying grew even deeper. "You two, go busy yourselves first. I have something to say to him/her alone." Please note that without context, it's impossible to know the correct pronoun to use for "him/her". The two security guards looked at each other and nodded, quickly leaving. "Grandpa didn't kill me!" "I know, of course Grandpa wasn't killed by you," Tang Mengying smiled slightly, stepped forward and walked outside, quickly reaching the pond opposite the Tang family. Tang's doorstep was a wide road, and across the road was a pond. There were no streetlights on the opposite side. Tang Mengying stood there, finding it extremely difficult to tell her exact location. Su Qianci heard this and felt something was off. She quickly chased after him, "What do you mean?" "Grandfather certainly wasn't killed by you. You were knocked unconscious by me, how could you have killed him?" Su Qianci's eyes widened as she stared, "Could it be... you!" "Shh..." Tang Mengying put her finger to her lips, smiling triumphantly. "It's really you! You wretch, grandpa has been so good to you, why…" "Good?" Tang Mengying sneered. "If it wasn't for that old geezer, the one marrying Brother Si Cheng right now would be me instead of you. I grew up under his watchful eye, he just dislikes me, he just doesn't like me. That old thing could have died years ago!" "You're terrifying, I'm going to tell them!" Su Qianci was about to leave, but Tang Mengying had a look of confidence and sneered: "Do you think they will believe you?" Su Qianci paused in her steps. "Just like you desperately explained that you didn't drug Brother Si Cheng back then, who would believe it?" Su Qianci abruptly turned, staring in disbelief. "It's like what you said, that you didn't set me on fire. Who would believe that?" "What do you mean, Tang Mengying!" Su Qichen's mind seemed to have something flash suddenly, "It's you!" “Yes, it was me,” Tang Mengying sneered. “But so what? Remember, when you first came to my house, I almost died from gas poisoning. You said you didn't tamper with anything, who would believe that? Afterward, Si Cheng was kidnapped by a cult and almost burned alive in an abandoned warehouse. Everyone saw that I saved him, but you just happened to be unconscious at the scene. You say the fire wasn't yours, who would believe that?” Su Qianci was caught off guard by the mention of that past event and instinctively reached out to her face. He pulled Li Si Cheng out of the fire, but he himself couldn't escape the flames. The fire destroyed half his face and…his whole life! is the illegitimate child of the Su family. From the age of eighteen, she returned to the Su family, knowing that the person she was to marry was Li Si Cheng, but she didn't know that he had a childhood sweetheart named Tang Meng Ying. Since I married him at twenty, I've been constantly compared. Tang Mengying is dignified and graceful, while you are simply uncouth. Tang Mengying appears kind and well-meaning, but she has a heart of a viper. Tang Mengying studied abroad and got married to Li Siceng before she even graduated from college. ...and foolishly considered her a close friend, from eighteen to twenty-five years old, yet she didn't realize that everything in her life was ruined by him. Everyone knows that the newlywed's spring medicine was given to stimulate Tang Mengying; the almost fatal fire was set to kill Tang Mengying; and the fetus in her womb was intentionally dropped from the stairs, causing a miscarriage, all with the purpose of framing Tang Mengying. It's almost a deeply ingrained awareness that no one has seen what it takes to be worthy of Li Sicheng. When Li Siceng's all-nighters to revise the plan made him sick, they said he was being pretentious. In order to help Li Sicheng take good care of his stomach illness, they said they were putting their hearts into learning how to cook. To fulfill her grandfather's wish to hold a great-grandchild, she dropped out of school to get pregnant. They couldn't go further with their education. After the Su family went bankrupt, they said he was too high-class for her and she was beneath him. After the miscarriage, they said it was a terrible sin, that she wasn't worthy of pregnancy, that even heaven had taken the child. Only later did I gradually understand that everything Tang Mengying did was right, and everything she did was wrong. Until yesterday, she woke up to find her grandfather dead at the foot of the stairs on the first floor. When she stood on the second floor and looked down, the police broke in, and Su Qianci became the prime suspect in the murder. “You vicious woman, wretch! Why, why did you do this to me!” Su Qianci lunged at Tang Mengying like a madwoman. Tang Mengying had trained in martial arts, with a flash, she countered and grabbed him, pushing him hard towards the pond. Spitting out a mouthful of water, Su Qianci struggled desperately, "Help…" "Glug glug" Tang Mengying looked coldly at the shore, "Go in peace, I'll take your place well and be a good Mrs. Li..." |