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This remark from Yan Liang was truly ambiguous to Qin Jiang.
Even more bad.
How bad?
To what extent of badness?
Most importantly… were they doing bad things together, or were they pushing the Qin family toward an even darker, more catastrophic extreme?
Qin Jiang enjoyed this game of human nature, but in front of the Young Mistress, he still preferred to be played by her.
As long as the Young Mistress liked it, Qin Jiang could transform into any shape she preferred to match her actions and mindset.
Even though he knew… the Young Mistress’s psyche could hardly be called healthy.
“Ahem… Yanyan, what do you think is insufficient?”
“What would satisfy you, Yanyan?”
“Or rather… what kind of thrill do you like, it doesn’t matter— as Yanyan’s man, I can accommodate it.”
Qin Jiang, already holding the woman’s slender waist, idly rubbed his fingers along it.
At this moment, his eyes held only Yan Liang.
He only wanted the Young Mistress’s eyes to hold only him.
Anyone who tried to occupy the Young Mistress’s gaze, he wanted to destroy.
It was uncontrollable and gave him a tingling on the scalp.
So this is what possessiveness feels like when it overwhelms you…
“Mm, I want Jiang.”
“Yanyan will be satisfied.”
Yan Liang, rarely getting such an utterly obedient Jiang, looked up at him in pleasant surprise and suddenly nuzzled happily into his arms.
Her fragrant hair brushed the man’s neck, a soft, tingling sensation… bringing a burst of scalp-tingling happiness.
The Young Mistress’s single word “want” was so spirited.
When Yan Liang nuzzled him like that, Qin Jiang’s heart melted. He sighed softly and helplessly stroked the soft crown of Young Mistress Yan Liang’s hair.
“Be good, Yanyan… I belong to you.”
“I can become any form Yanyan likes…”
At that moment, something inside Qin Jiang collapsed.
Reconstruction.
Catalyzing a new world.
However, neither Yan Liang nor Qin Jiang had any intention of stopping this change.
“Muacks~”
Yan Liang leaned in and kissed Qin Jiang’s cheek again. The domineering, ruthless tycoon Young Mistress only showed this small gentleness in front of Qin Jiang.
“Then I’ll let you handle things here yourself, Jiang.”
“The Qin family has always been a knot in your heart. I want you to personally… destroy it!”
She wasn’t referring to merely destroying the Qin family, but destroying the past Jiang who had habitually swallowed his pride for the Qin family and allowed so-called relatives to leech his blood…
No destruction, no construction!!
Yan Liang had never harmed the Qin family before because once Qin Jiang stood between them, threatening to die to stop her from hurting them.
But now she used this to measure and push Jiang toward becoming hers.
If one is abandoned by kin.
And still repay ingratitude with virtue, that’s just foolish.
She wanted Qin Jiang to break it with his own hands, just like Yan Liang on the night of her coming-of-age— even if he became a villain in the world’s eyes, he’d be the first to treat himself like a person!
After all, even if Jiang truly faced betrayal and abandonment by all.
He still had her.
In this world, she would forever be Qin Jiang’s unyielding support!
Qin Jiang increasingly understood Young Mistress Yan Liang’s intentions and he returned a comforting smile to the Young Mistress.
He then released Yan Liang and let her return to her seat.
The two figures who had just overlapped seemed like a bubble. Although they had secretly drawn everyone’s attention, no one dared to look directly.
The live broadcast camera deliberately cut away from Qin Jiang and Yan Liang’s intimate embrace.
Qin Yun and Qin Shuyun both completely collapsed.
The entire courtroom scene was like a giant rotten-egg spectacle.
After much struggle and humiliation, Qin Shuyun finally lifted her head and saw Qin Jiang standing at the plaintiff’s seat, calm, rational, neither servile nor arrogant.
Qin Shuyun felt her throat go dry and painful, barely able to speak, “Jiang… putting Qin Yun’s actions aside, at least… at least Fourth Sister never intended to harm you.”
“All those past actions were just misunderstandings. You are my biological brother, I will not give up trying to win your forgiveness.“
Of course, she also wouldn’t stop pleading with Jiang to spare Qin Yun.
In any case, as Fourth Sister… Qin Shuyun didn’t want fragile Qin Yun to be provoked and suffer further bodily harm.
After all… Qin Yun’s health was so poor that if he couldn’t take the pain and something happened in prison, it would be a catastrophe for which she, as Fourth Sister, would gladly die.
Although deep down she wanted to protect Qin Yun.
But Qin Yun’s indirect role in her disgrace had silently planted the seed of estrangement in Qin Shuyun’s heart.
“I apologize.”
“I’m sorry, I misunderstood you, Jiang— Fourth Sister now knows that ‘Endless Cold Wind’ was your creation.”
“It truly was a good work, sharp with talent, and when it first screened in the national film circles it stood out and helped me win a Best Actress award—your contribution is part of my honor.”
“Fourth Sister has reflected; why don’t we siblings cooperate and take over the film scene properly?“
“If you agree to help Fourth Sister, she would even be willing to slave for you…”
Qin Shuyun, having been in showbiz for years, knew well that after such exposure her career would certainly fall into a trough from which she might never recover.
But how could she accept that?
With complicated feelings, Qin Shuyun finally devised a makeshift plan in her mind.
Qin Jiang was her brother. Setting aside sending Qin Yun to prison, she only needed to placate him.
Just like before… if Qin Jiang willingly handed over copyrights and manuscripts to her unconditionally, wouldn’t that save her career?
But this path would certainly be difficult.
Qin Shuyun knew this, so she deliberately let Qin Jiang set the terms himself.
It’s not that she hadn’t reflected or felt remorse.
But Qin Shuyun was someone who treated her acting career as her lifeblood. As long as she could keep her standing in showbiz, what did it matter if she had to kneel before Qin Jiang?
“Pfft… cooperate with you?”
Qin Jiang laughed with a teasing tone.
“Qin Shuyun, you really want it all, don’t you.”
“What, do you truly think you can survive in showbiz with that hideously disfigured face and without any talent as a screenwriter or director?”
“Of course, perhaps you’re still hoping your disfigured face can be fixed? Even… hoping Qin Yun could help restore your looks?”
Qin Jiang stepped closer, bent slightly, and his gaze—almost pitying yet contemptuous—swept across Qin Shuyun’s face.
When she was pelted with rotten eggs, the mask on her face had already fallen off.
Her disfigured face was exposed to the public, and her pride shattered to pieces.
But she still had a sliver of hope.
As long as… as long as she could keep Yun safe.
Then her face still had hope.
Yet Qin Jiang’s words made the seeds of suspicion and estrangement she had already begun to feel toward Qin Yun tremble again.
What’s the point of killing someone?
Destroying their heart! That’s the most satisfying.
Human nature is complex and dark. Once suspicion and doubt arise, evil emotions breed and drive you to judge the other as unforgivably guilty!!
Even those who were once closest to you.
After mutual suspicion, they become the sharpest, most vicious blades to stab each other.
“What… what do you mean?”
“Qin Jiang, I admit your talent in creation, but in medicine, Qin Yun was personally taught by our grandfather…”
Qin Shuyun suddenly choked and couldn’t continue.
“I mean, Qin Yun, having long been ill, learned medicine. Our grandfather took care of him and naturally taught him a great deal of traditional medicine. Compared to you, who received only a few medical books from him four years ago and only got a rudimentary grasp… he’s obviously far superior!”
“Don’t deliberately slander others!!”
Realizing she’d misspoken, Qin Shuyun hurried to patch it up.
But no one noticed that although Qin Jiang remained expressionless, the low-pressure atmosphere around him betrayed his emotions.
Grandfather?
That so-called Old Master Qin who had promised his foster parents to personally bring him back to the Qin family and treat him well?
In his past life, he really believed that nonsense.
But if that elder truly cared and was willing to protect him, why would he have hidden himself away in a sanatorium, deaf to the world, letting the family squeeze almost all of his value out of him?
And now Qin Shuyun had blurted out that Qin Yun’s medical skills were personally taught by the same man.
That explained why, no matter how he explained, the family’s belief that his specially made ointment was made by Qin Yun persisted.
Because the whole family, except for him as the “outsider”.
Everyone knew that although Qin Yun had been ill for a long time, aside from not treating himself, he could solve nearly all the family’s difficult ailments…
As for Qin Jiang, he had only received a few medical books from Old Master Qin and, with his second uncle’s secret guidance, had merely a rudimentary understanding of medicine.
Whom the Qin family should trust was almost a stalemate.
“Your Honor, the test results of the two ointments used by Mrs. Qin are out. This box of ointment is toxic.”
“Ginseng of this kind is indeed one of the hardest-to-find herbs, but the dosing and proportioning can only be expertly controlled by the top physicians. Even an extra gram or a gram less… becomes highly toxic.“
“Fortunately, Mrs. Qin’s dosage wasn’t excessive, so it only caused inflammation and necrosis. She may need surgery to remove decayed tissue and must be rushed to the hospital for emergency treatment…”
These words.
Came from the top testing lab of the court.
Qin Shuyun, who had been aggressively confronting Qin Jiang, suddenly swayed and trembled, almost falling apart.
“No… no… how is this possible?”
“That box of ointment was obviously concocted by Second Sister personally, using a prescription from Qin Yun… she even used a different box to distinguish it— how could it be toxic?”
“Did you… did you make a testing error…”
Qin Shuyun’s gaze went vacant as she suddenly collapsed to her knees.
Her worldview collapsed and burst its banks at that moment.
Her face pale and haggard, her chest heaving violently. Even upon learning that Qin Yun had deceived her… she didn’t have this kind of emotion.
Yet in that instant, she suddenly felt a murderous resentment toward Qin Yun.
Qin Shuyun couldn’t believe it. Falling to the ground as if she had lost her center, she bitterly held onto her last thread of reason, looked at Qin Yun, and spoke with difficulty.
“Qin Yun, did you lie to me?”
“Qin Yun, did you deceive me again? Just like taking the scripts Jiang prepared for me… you lied that you could cure my face?”
“Deliberately letting me see the materials you prepared to restore my looks?“
Once trust collapses.
It can never be picked up again.
Once a rift forms, the relationship’s rupture is only a matter of time.
Tears slid down her face without warning.
Her lips trembled uncontrollably. Her chest felt crushed by a boulder, as if a knife were carving out her heart and entrails, piece by piece…
“Fourth Sister, what are you saying… how could I possibly harm Mother? There must be some misunderstanding…”
“And Fourth Sister, I’ve never said those scripts were written by me. I only wanted Qin Jiang’s efforts to be recognized by you…”
“I never said those scripts were mine.”
Of course Qin Yun wouldn’t admit it. For a moment he and Qin Shuyun couldn’t tell who was more miserable. With severe leg injuries, he could only drag his broken body and kneel on the ground.
At this moment he practically crawled forward and gripped the arm of the fallen Qin Shuyun tightly.
The frail young man was deathly pale, unable to hide his sickness and weakness, his voice choked with grievance.
“I never intended to take anything from Qin Jiang. He’s so capable, how could a cripple like me compare…”
He simply neither proactively admitted nor denied it.
How innocent he seemed.
Now that the truth has come out, why were the sisters who initially guessed wrong all blaming him?
Qin Yun was innocent and helpless, wearing an extremely aggrieved expression that Qin Shuyun found so familiar.
Once, she had been the staunchest defender on his side.
But now, seeing him “play the victim,” she just felt nauseated.
So that’s what it felt like back when Jiang was misunderstood and couldn’t argue back… was it this disgusting?
And she had once been Qin Yun’s most powerful accomplice.
This realization made Qin Shuyun feel sicker than if she’d swallowed half a maggot.
“Qin Yun, you don’t deserve to call me Fourth Sister!”
“You’re right, you truly are a cripple… Grandma had your fortunes read when you and Jiang were born, saying you were the Qin family’s little lucky star, and the whole Qin family put you on a pedestal everywhere.”
“But now I realize… you are actually the calamity! You are the disaster for all of us in the Qin family.”
Qin Shuyun felt her consciousness blur.
After berating Qin Yun, she again tried to lunge at Qin Jiang, as if grasping her last lifeline.
“Jiang… Jiang… Fourth Sister is truly sorry for misunderstanding you for four years!”
“I don’t expect your forgiveness, but Mom is dying. She needs surgery to cut away the necrotic flesh—her chest is burned… how could she, as a woman, accept that?”
“I’m begging you—your medical skills are superb, there must be a way to treat her inflammation without surgery, right?”
Qin Shuyun knew her request was excessive.
But right now she felt utterly desperate.
“I do have a method.”
“But, I will not give it.”
Saintly compassion? Error 404, not found.
In this reborn life, what he wanted to shatter was precisely what each member of the Qin family held most dear.
And Mrs. Qin, Jiang Yuyao, cared most about her identity as a mother and as a wife, didn’t she?
Now… how devastated must she be?
Qin Jiang’s upright figure remained solitary, proud, and gentlemanly like an elegant youth, making Qin Shuyun and Qin Yun seem worlds apart from him.
“Qin Jiang!!”
“She’s your mother…”
A dull pain surged in Qin Shuyun’s chest, an endless bitterness sweeping and overwhelming her.
Qin Jiang raised an eyebrow. “Attempting moral blackmail?”
“Legally speaking, I’m no longer a Qin family member. Jiang Yuyao has no biological relation to me.”
“From a humanitarian standpoint… I simply have no morals. Stop trying to blackmail me!“
Qin Shuyun felt as if the last hope for her and her mother had been snuffed out, and an overwhelming guilt suffocated her…
Human nature was returning.
But Qin Jiang no longer needed it.
In the next instant, Qin Shuyun suddenly clutched her chest and forcibly vomited a mouthful of blood!
So indeed, no sorrow is greater than a dead heart—it’s this painful…
Jiang’s past had become her present.
The phrase “reap what you sow” became tangible in this moment!
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