Chapter 2047: Biased
The old neighbor definitely believed that with Qiao Nan around, even if Ding Jiayi was more capable, Qiao Zijin didn’t need to think about becoming a fake phoenix and rising to the top!
Ding Jiayi felt that someone had crushed her heart and she couldn’t react. Her ears were buzzing. She wanted to internalize the neighbor’s words a few times and understand them clearly before making a decision.
Before she could make a decision, Qiao Zijin, who rushed out from the house, said with a hateful look, “Mom, is what that old woman said true? I received a call today saying that I no longer have to go for the interview because Qiao Nan harmed me? Why is she so vicious?! She’s already the chief’s wife. For her, I’m not even thinking about my son. Why is she not willing to give me another path? Why must she personally ruin everything that I have obtained by working hard? Does she want to see me in a miserable state and force me to a corner? Would she be willing to let me go only if I’m begging on the streets?”
“I don’t understand. I’m her birth sister. We have the same blood. Does she need to hate me so much and be so vicious? She wants to force me to my death. Isn’t she afraid of retribution?!”
At this moment, Qiao Zijin was really filled with hatred. She hated Qiao Nan, who was unwilling to leave her a path of life. She did not look for Qiao Nan and didn’t try to make her presence known in front of her. She also did not hope for Qiao Nan to help her and pull her up. She had already made so many concessions. Why must Qiao Nan still reach out for a yard after taking an inch? Why must she destroy everything that she had worked hard to achieve?
How was she in the way of Qiao Nan?!
Would Qiao Nan let her off only if she died a terrible death?
“Don’t be agitated. Those words might be nonsense. Would our family not know what kind of person Qiao Nan is? If she is really this ruthless…” Ding Jiayi’s heart and mind were suddenly in a mess.
She wanted to say that Qiao Nan was a wretched girl lacking a conscience. If Qiao Nan had a conscience, would they have to sell the big house then to cover the cost of Qiao Zijin’s kidney transplant operation? However, that being said, that big house was bought using Qiao Nan’s money. As such, it was still because of Qiao Nan’s money that Qiao Zijin could perform the operation and live to this day.
All these years, Ding Jiayi’s relentless toward Qiao Nan and Qiao Nan’s repeated compromises were enough to explain how weak Qiao Nan was.
Ding Jiayi felt that her brain was going to be in knots after thinking so much. She still couldn’t tell if Qiao Nan was a good-tempered or particularly ruthless person.
“Heh…” There was such a huge commotion in the house. Qiao Dongliang wasn’t dead. How would he not have heard everything? It was only now that Qiao Dongliang understood how capable Ding Jiayi was. They didn’t pull strings with the Zhai family and the Zhai family hadn’t agreed to anything. However, Ding Jiayi was so bold as to take on the ident.i.ty of Zhai Sheng’s mother-in-law and handle the matter alone.
Great. She got into trouble now, right?
After trying for such a long time, Qiao Zijin still couldn’t become a civil servant.
“Do the both of you really know what kind of person Nan Nan is?” Qiao Dongliang was asking both Ding Jiayi and Qiao Zijin and himself.
As time pa.s.sed and after calming down, Qiao Dongliang could understand certain matters. Ding Jiayi was really stupid beyond cure to believe that Qiao Zijin was the most filial and promising child while Qiao Nan was the heartless, penniless, and useless daughter.
No, in Ding Jiayi’s subconscious mind, she knew clearly that the only reliable person whom she could lean on if something happened in the Qiao family was Qiao Nan.
What was disgusting was that as Ding Jiayi enjoyed the comfort and ease that Qiao Nan brought for the entire family, she was using the most vicious words to pour dirty water on Qiao Nan’s body and give all her credit to Qiao Zijin. She even imagined that the Qiao family was leading such a good life all because of Qiao Zijin.
As such, when Qiao Zijin seriously imagined Qiao Nan as a vicious woman lacking conscience, Ding Jiayi couldn’t help but subconsciously refute, disagreeing with Qiao Zijin’s description of Qiao Nan. “Okay, stop it. Don’t push all the responsibility to Nan Nan. What do you mean by Nan Nan can’t bear to see you well and can’t wait for you to die? Are you really capable to pa.s.s the written test of the civil servant examination? Or are you unhappy that your tricks have been exposed and you feel that Nan Nan isn’t helping you? It’s best to be ethical in your words.”
Qiao Dongliang was extremely helpless at Qiao Zijin’s and Ding Jiayi’s shamelessness. In reality, he knew that not only would his words not let the both of them be clear-minded, but they would hate him in their hearts although he was obviously saying them for their own good.
Upon thinking of how his family of four became like this today, Qiao Dongliang felt sad. Was this still a family?
“Dad, you…” Qiao Zijin only felt that she was being bullied by Qiao Nan and was wronged. When she heard Qiao Dongliang putting in a good word for Qiao Nan but not helping her, Qiao Zijin was so angry that she almost burst into tears. “I know you feel that Qiao Nan’s promising now that she’s married to Zhai Sheng. I’m a divorcee and the family I married into back then wasn’t as good as Qiao Nan’s. As such, you despise me. However, your words are too overboard. How am I wrong? At this age and in this situation, Qiao Nan isn’t taking care of me. She even destroyed what Mom was helping me to do. Doesn’t she want me to die?”
Really, she was already very tolerant. In the past, she didn’t need Qiao Nan’s presence or efforts, let alone her money. Her mom had settled everything for her, but now, Qiao Nan was destroying them. Did this make sense?
“As long as your mom doesn’t use the ident.i.ty of Zhai Sheng’s mother-in-law or Nan Nan’s mom, I’m not going to say anything about what she’s doing,” Qiao Dongliang said weakly.
Qiao Zijin was even more unconvinced. “Didn’t my mom give birth to Qiao Nan? Isn’t my mom Qiao Nan’s mom? After Qiao Nan married Zhai Sheng, my mom became Zhai Sheng’s mother-in-law. How is that wrong? My mom didn’t lie. Dad, what you said is really funny.”
Qiao Dongliang was instead criticized by Qiao Zijin for talking funny. Qiao Dongliang felt extremely weak and didn’t want to say anything. “Yes, I’m stupid. I’m a fool.”