"I suppose so," Lian Manman thought for a mont and nodded.
"She’s afraid of Lian Duoduo?" Lady Zhang said incredulously, "With outsiders, it’s hard to say, but in this family, who is she afraid of? I don’t think she’s afraid of anyone."
In front of her family, especially her daughters-in-law, Lady Zhou has always been very strong and domineering. Moreover, Lady Zhou puts on quite a show of power. Among the Lian Family’s daughters-in-law, Lady Zhang and Lady Zhao fear her the most. Therefore, in their eyes, there’s almost no one in the world that Lady Zhou fears, let alone Lian Duoduo.
"Mom, you’re not wrong. She isn’t afraid of reason, she isn’t afraid of kind-hearted people, and she isn’t afraid of those who treat her as an elder. But those unreasonable, unkind people who would turn their back on her in a flash, don’t you think she’d be afraid of them?" Lian Manman said with a smile to Lady Zhang.
"Oh," Lady Zhang said with so enlightennt.
To put it simply, Lady Zhou is soone who bullies the kind-hearted and fears the wicked. And Lian Duoduo’s situation is quite special and can’t be judged by common sense.
Speaking of Lian Duoduo, the common insults of being heartless or cruel often used by Lady Zhou are quite objective evaluations of Duoduo’s character. Lian Duoduo is ruthless and heavy-handed, yet not smart, and her hands have been tainted with blood before. Moreover, she has a mother who died violently. Lian Duoduo’s future is almost predetermined, with no concern for reputation.
Lady Zhou bullies the kind-hearted and fears the wicked, and she can sharply sense and judge others’ malice and kindness. Therefore, of course, Lady Zhou fears Lian Duoduo and doesn’t want to further offend her. Old Master Lian has already taken an avoidance attitude towards Lian Duoduo. This old couple likely wants to send Lian Duoduo away early, but Lady Zhou doesn’t have the ability to do so, and while Old Master Lian has the ability, his character makes him too reserved to handle the matter actively.
Lian Shouren is now like an invisible person at the old residence, rarely expressing his opinion in public. As for Lian Duoduo, his attitude is indifferent. anwhile, Lian Jizu and Lady Chiang, as the older brother and sister-in-law, seemingly don’t think it appropriate to take the initiative in this matter.
And Lian Shouyi’s group completely keeps themselves out of Lian Duoduo’s affairs.
This has resulted in Lian Duoduo’s peculiar situation, where everyone at the old residence dislikes her, but no one wants to offend her. Instead, they deliberately ignore her, hoping soone will move this "deity," or rather this trouble, away.
However, none of them wants to take action themselves or lack the ability to do so.
No matter that Lian Duoduo ruined the dowry intended for Lian Zhizhi, she’s like a pig not afraid of hot water.
The people at the old residence must be hoping for soone in our family to settle Lian Duoduo’s affairs soon, Lian Manman thought.
"Lian Duoduo’s heart is just too unkind," Lady Zhang sighed, "Old Lady truly is soone who bullies the weak and fears the strong."
"Mom, you just realized that?" Lian Manman laughed.
"She’s really got figured out," Lady Zhang said wistfully, "All my good intentions have been fed to the dogs. She doesn’t know gratitude at all. She’s determined that your dad and I can’t bear to be harsh to the elders."
"That’s not wrong," Lian Manman said.
After uncovering the hidden truth about the dowry at the old residence, Lian Manman was further convinced of her judgnt. At this ti, Lian Zhizhi was to marry off gloriously, and Lady Zhou was not at ease with it. But she also wouldn’t completely ignore the current situation. So, she wasn’t intentionally trying to make trouble from the beginning.
But with the disruption caused by Lian Duoduo, Lady Zhou didn’t want to seriously spend money and effort to make up a dowry for Lian Zhizhi. Instead, she just used whatever was at hand to make up the numbers.
And it was evident that Lady Zhou was happy to see the inconvenience that adding up the numbers caused to Lady Zhang and Lian Zhizhi. Even if pursued afterward, she would have enough reasons to shirk responsibility.
Ultimately, it’s about not taking you seriously and harboring resentnt.
And Lian Manman’s family wouldn’t be surprised by this.
"Zhizhi only has this one big event in her life, and we all went to the old residence that day, saying everything we needed to. The old lady’s side is sothing that can’t be changed in a lifeti. Old Master, how she should be more ticulous, well, let’s not talk about it. We’ve long been disheartened by them, and it’s just like this, how many new tricks can they pull?" Lady Zhang said to herself.
"We can’t do anything too bad, what can we do?" Lady Zhang added at the end.
"Mom, as long as we don’t take it to heart," Lian Zhizhi comforted Lady Zhang, "After all, I’ve long gotten used to it."
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