"Co, let give everyone a grand introduction. These are Director Su’s right and left arms."
Seeing Su ngqing’s ashen face, Yuan Youwei knew she had given up her defiant act. A surge of vindication washed over her, and her red lips curved into a smile as she walked toward Su Gang and Yang Tingting.
"This one here is Su ngqing’s own little brother, Su Gang, a hopeless gambling addict. He’d rather steal his own mother’s dical funds than miss a chance to roll into an underground casino in his wheelchair and dominate the tables."
She stared at Su Gang’s mangled, blood-soaked legs with disgust and shook her head. "Unfortunately, his luck ran out. In a gambling frenzy, he borrowed from the casino’s loan sharks. When he couldn’t repay them, his legs were broken and he was thrown out onto the street."
Turning her head, Yuan Youwei looked at Yang Tingting, who was disheveled with her clothes in disarray, looking like a beggar. "This one is even more pathetic. She was always so full of herself, thinking she was so rare talent, and fed Director Su an endless stream of terrible advice. A few days ago, thinking the Su family was completely finished, she stole Su ngqing’s luxury car, planning to cash it out with black-market dealers and skip town. Instead, she fell into a wolf’s den and was held captive and humiliated for two days and nights. She lost her money and her dignity, and very nearly her life."
As her words landed, a violent uproar erupted inside and outside the hall.
"What an eye-opener today has been! How can Haicheng have so many rotten people?"
"Birds of a feather flock together!"
"Ugh, that’s disgusting! How could I have been stupid enough to support Su ngqing just now?"
The crowd buzzed, their gazes toward Su Gang and Yang Tingting filled with revulsion. By extension, the looks they cast at Su ngqing transford into pure hatred and anger.
*This woman was too full of herself, too good at playing the victim. She almost had everyone fooled!*
"Sis, just admit it! It’s our family that wronged Lin Fan and Aunt Suxin!"
"Yes, Director Su, at this point, no matter how much you deny it or how desperately you argue, it’s useless," Yang Tingting sobbed.
Under the weight of countless strange looks, Su Gang and Yang Tingting trembled, their faces etched with misery. They crawled and scrambled over to Su ngqing’s feet, looking up and pleading, hoping to appease Yuan Youwei and Lin Fan and be let off the hook.
"Sis, if Miss Yuan hadn’t saved and Tingting, we’d already be dead out there! She’s a good person; we can’t keep dragging her na through the mud!" Su Gang said hoarsely, his face contorted in a pained expression.
"Director Su, stop struggling! This is all karma! We brought this on ourselves!" Yang Tingting cried, wiping at her face and leaving clean streaks on her dirty cheeks.
"Oh, don’t say that. I’m no saint," Yuan Youwei interjected with a smile before Su ngqing could speak, shaking her head. "I brought you two back because you colluded to cook the books and embezzled a significant amount of money from Su Pharmaceutical’s accounts. Now that I am Director Lin’s personal assistant, it is my duty to help him recover all the company’s losses. Not only will you two have to pay back the money, but you will also have to face criminal charges and go to jail!"
BOOM!
Su Gang’s body trembled, and his pants were instantly soaked.
Yang Tingting froze for a mont, then bowed her head deeply and broke into heart-wrenching sobs.
It’s over. It’s completely over. Where would they find the money to repay it? They had stolen tens of millions; they were going to rot in prison!
"Sis, quick, help us beg Director Lin! I don’t want to go to jail! I don’t want to lose my freedom!"
"Director Su, you’re the only one who can help us now! Say sothing for us, please, beg for rcy!"
The two of them panicked completely, screaming desperately at Su ngqing.
"You two dogs! Why did you even bother coming back? Why didn’t you just die out there?!"
After a tense silence that stretched for a full ten seconds, Su ngqing, her face numb, finally closed her eyes, biting her lip so hard that a trickle of blood ran from the corner of her mouth. "Su Gang, do you have any idea that you abandoned Mom alone at the hospital? She’s had a stroke. She’s paralyzed now and can’t even get out of bed. You betrayed and dragged into a living hell, and now you want to go beg Lin Fan on your behalf?"
Her eyes snapped open, blazing with madness and fury, and she began kicking furiously at them!
"Sis! Are you insane?!"
"Su ngqing, I’ve had enough of you! Who the hell do you think you are now, hitting and cursing whenever you feel like it?!"
Su Gang and Yang Tingting, shocked and enraged, howled in pain as she kicked them. Throwing caution to the wind, they each grabbed one of her legs and dragged her to the floor. The three of them began to scuffle wildly, tangled together on the ground like rabid dogs fighting over a scrap of food.
"What a disgrace! What an absolute disgrace!" Wen Zheyang and Iguchi Tama exchanged looks, their expressions grim.
Behind them, however, the pharmaceutical representatives from the North gloated at the spectacle, clapping and laughing.
anwhile, Mr. Wang Sr.’s face had turned ashen as he inwardly cursed Su ngqing for being a spineless failure.
So many people openly sided with you and supported you, yet you still let Lin Fan crush you so completely? Useless. Absolutely useless!
At Mr. Wang Sr.’s command, several venue security guards stepped forward and pulled the three panting figures apart. They collapsed to the ground, glaring at each other with murderous intent.
"Everyone, listen to ! Everything Miss Yuan just said is true! I can testify!" Su Gang suddenly yelled to the surrounding crowd, craning his neck.
"Yes, I can testify too! Su ngqing is an extrely cold-blooded, selfish monster!" Yang Tingting added, nodding furiously as she spoke with righteous indignation.
"Why? Why are you doing this to ? Wasn’t I good enough to you? Why?!" Su ngqing’s face went deathly pale, and tears of humiliation stread down her cheeks. She never imagined that the people closest to her would be the ones to push her off the cliff.
"Hmph, you have the nerve to ask why? All four of us stole the dicine together, but you and Mom deliberately pinned all the bla on !" Su Gang shouted, his face consud by resentnt. "Back at the Wang family’s old house, you just stood there and watched as I was nearly whipped to death! Do you still consider family? Since you don’t care if I live or die, why should I care about you?!"
His words struck Su ngqing with such force that her eye twitched, and she almost fainted.
Mother Zhang ili had always doted on Su Gang. And I was even more indulgent and protective of my own brother, to the point where I would blatantly lie and lash out at Lin Fan for his well-intentioned warnings. And this is how he repays ?
"And !" Yang Tingting screeched, her eyes red and swollen as she pointed a trembling finger at Su ngqing. "I slaved away for you, Su ngqing, and how did you treat ? You’d slap without a second thought, hitting like you wanted dead! You never once treated like a human being! I did so much for your Su family. Don’t I deserve to secure a way out for myself? It was just a car! It’s what I, Yang Tingting, deserved!"
The curses and accusations echoed endlessly through the hall. Su ngqing’s pale lips trembled; she was on the verge of a complete breakdown.
"Su ngqing, didn’t you demand justice from ?"
Lin Fan, who had been silent for a long ti, slowly walked over. He looked at her, his face devoid of expression, and shook his head. "Well, here is your justice. Are you satisfied now? Let tell you, what’s happened to you and the Su family today is exactly what you deserve. The heavens are just, and this outco is truly a joy to behold!"
BOOM!
Su ngqing’s entire body shuddered as if she had been struck by lightning. Lin Fan’s words were a steel dagger, piercing straight through her heart. The pain was raw and bleeding.
"Fine! Fine! Fine! You all just want to drive to my death, don’t you?" she shrieked. "I, Su ngqing, am worthless! I’m a waste! I deserve to be driven to a dead end by all of you!"
She staggered to her feet, the veins on her pale neck bulging as she teetered on the edge of insanity. Tears stread down her face as she let out a tragic, broken laugh. The entire world before her seed to be swaying, about to crumble and collapse.
"Wait! Even if you’re going to die, take off our company’s janitorial uniform first and give it back to the team leader!" a stout woman in a matching uniform suddenly shouted, unable to hold back any longer.
"That’s right, take it off! We’re not your colleagues! We don’t want to be disgraced along with you!"
"It was only because Aunt Xu has a kind heart that she hired a piece of work like you as a temp! You’re nothing but a jinx who brings ruin to yourself and everyone around you!"
The other janitors chid in, pointing at Su ngqing and denouncing her.
"Aunt Xu, are you going to turn on too? You watched grow up!" Su ngqing cried out, her spirit completely broken.
"Su ngqing, you’ve nearly gotten killed! You... you..." Aunt Xu gritted her teeth, then turned her back with a long sigh. "Sigh. Just take off the uniform and go."
Even now, Su ngqing still thinks it’s everyone else’s fault. I really was a fool for ddling, sticking my nose where it didn’t belong. It was my own soft heart that made want to help soone like her!
"Fine! I’ll take it off! I’ll take it off and give it back to you all!"
Seeing that every gaze around her was cold, filled with revulsion and contempt, Su ngqing’s tears fell like rain. She had no face left to stay. Covering her face, she bolted and ran toward the restrooms of the exhibition hall.
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