The sun was high in the sky, blazing down on Xu Zijin.
Her legs had gone numb from kneeling on the ground for a long time and her forehead was oozing sweat. She felt her face burning with heat, her whole body trembling violently as if she was going to faint at any time.
She was now like an arrow at the end of its flight. However, she gritted her teeth and forced herself to stay awake.
The reason Fu Sinian asked her to kneel at the graveside was that he wanted to humiliate her in front of all those people. She had to bear it. Otherwise, he wouldn"t be soft on the Xu family.
As time went by, the mourners had left and Xu Zijin was the only one in front of the tombstone.
Suddenly, there came a sharp, hard voice.
"Aha! Ms. Xu, you are the famous daughter of the Xu family. Why are you kneeling here? Tut-tut, you look really beautiful in the mourning dress. You deserve this."
Xu Zijin raised her head with difficulty and vaguely saw a few young women standing before her.
Their faces seemed familiar. Xu Zijin thought for a while and then remembered that they were all Mu Anan"s good friends.
She instantly realized what they were going to do.
"Get out of my sight!" Xu Zijin snapped at them. Even though she was down and out, she wouldn"t allow them to humiliate her.
"Do you still think that you are the first young lady of note in Jiang City? The Xu Consortium went bankrupt and your father, Xu Yuanshan, is going to die. You will soon be penniless and homeless."
"Weiwei, what you said is not absolutely right. She still has the support of the Fu family. I have to say that Ms. Xu has a good eye for people because she has chosen a capable man as her husband. Fu Sinian is now the most powerful businessman in Jiang City. But I"m afraid that she will be abandoned by her husband soon."
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They talked with one another and their remarks were loaded with irony towards Xu Zijin.
After a while, Fu Sinian sent someone to take her to him.
It took Xu Zijin some time to struggle to her feet. After kneeling on the ground for so long, her legs felt numb. It even felt as if she had numerous needles stuck to her knees and every time she moved she would whimper in pain.
Xu Zijin bit her lips hard and staggered along the path. She dared not to go against Fu Sinian"s command because he could decide whether her father was dead or alive.
But those women quickly blocked her path.
"Do you want to escape? No way!"
Xu Zijin looked at them with an indifferent expression on her face and said, "What do you want?"
"Xu Zijin, you are indeed shameless. You killed Anan! How dare you attend her funeral! You just can"t let her rest in peace, right? I won"t let you succeed! You stole Fu Sinian from Anan. You are such a b.i.t.c.h! Come on, my friends, let"s undress this b.i.t.c.h!"
Xu Zijin"s face drastically changed. "Go away! Don"t touch me!" she shouted angrily.
However, she was too weak to ward off them. They fiercely shoved her to the ground and began to tear up her clothes.
Xu Zijin was overwhelmed with hatred. Strong emotions of humiliation began to spread in the bottom of her heart.
"What did I do wrong for me to deserve such a humiliation? Is this my retribution for falling love with Fu Sinian? In their eyes, my love is a sin. What a ridiculous thing!" she thought.
At this moment, all she could feel was hatred, anger and grievance. She picked up stones on the ground and madly threw them at the women around her. "Get away from me! Don"t touch me!"
"Ah! My face hurts!" the women screamed.
Xu Zijin"s hair was loose and several b.u.t.tons had been ripped from her dress. A wound had appeared where her head had made contact with the flagstone pavement in the melee just now. Blood gushed out of her forehead, dripped down and stained the white mourning dress red. Her legs were so weak that she could hardly stand. But the anger that bled out of her eyes seemed like it could burn down anything on its path to ashes.
She clutched the stones in her fist so hard that her knuckles whitened as she roared, "Come on! Don"t you want to humiliate me? Since you all think that I have committed a crime and deserve death, I will kill you all before my death. In this case, I don"t want to live any longer."