Chapter 143: Fourth Sister Framed By Qin Yun And Humiliated, Grandma Qin Goes Mad

In just an instant, Qin Shuyun—whose looks were already ruined—suddenly seemed to have aged several years.

The moment she coughed up blood, Qin Qianyun, who had at first stood to the side fairly calm and rational, couldn’t help but knit her brows.

She was the youngest daughter, raised and spoiled by the Qin family. Although previously, because of how she treated Qin Jiang, she harbored some resentment toward each sister.

But now, watching her own fourth sister being tortured into this state, even though she knew in her heart Qin Jiang hadn’t done anything wrong, she couldn’t help but tremble.

She could no longer restrain herself and stepped forward to support the frail body that looked as if it were about to lose all signs of life.

When she looked again at Qin Jiang—who remained unmoved as his fourth sister spit blood—her gaze this time carried a few strands of reproach she hadn’t even noticed in herself…

That look happened to fall into Qin Jiang’s eyes.

Indeed.

The so-called fifth sister, Qin Qianyun, who had been hypocritically pleading for his forgiveness—when truly faced with the Qin family opposing him, didn’t she, unsurprisingly, choose the Qin family?

Tch, the Qin family’s repentance was so cheap, it’s worse than street peddler goods.

So what if Qin Qianyun blamed herself?

He never really took her seriously anyway.

“Fourth sister… are you all right?”

Qin Qianyun felt her wavering stance was really off-putting, but… the fourth sister was still her own kin.

She could never be as heartless as Qin Jiang!

To sever ties and completely view the Qin family’s calamity as nothing—she could not do that.

“Jiang, about Mom…”

Qin Qianyun looked up. An intense sense of humiliation and the guilt of broken promises almost made her unable to raise her head.

But Mrs. Qin raised her.

She wasn’t truly heartless or ungrateful…

“Get lost! What the hell does that have to do with me?”

Qin Jiang didn’t care at all that Qin Qianyun suddenly spoke on behalf of the Qin family—after all, he had never placed any expectations on her.

What the Qin family was really like at heart.

He knew all too well.

“Fifth sister… don’t be afraid, Qin Jiang won’t really sue us.”

“Qin Jiang has always been sensible, so I’m sure he’ll understand that I once tried to build an emotional bridge between him and fourth sister. Though there were misunderstandings, my original intention was always good.”

“Qin Jiang and us are family. He’s only angry that we misunderstood him—he surely wouldn’t send us to prison.”

Qin Yun lay on the ground, forcing his frail body upright, tears falling pitifully and abundantly.

His wronged expression elicited sympathy.

Yet his words were cunning.

With a meek and weak demeanor, he blamed the previous accusation of Qin Jiang’s plagiarism entirely on a misunderstanding.

In a few words he turned truth into falsehood.

It turned out that this younger brother was so considerate—that all those claims of him being the creator of countless original scripts weren’t what he wanted. He was simply misunderstood by Qin Shuyun.

How innocent he was.

He sacrificed himself for the harmony between Qin Jiang and his fourth sister. Even if he enjoyed certain privileges in the process, he was still an innocent good man…

In just a few words, he had turned the blame around.

He shoved all the blame onto Qin Shuyun’s misunderstanding, claiming it had nothing to do with him.

He was kind and innocent, while this whole thing was a misunderstanding maliciously inferred by the fourth sister—what fault did he, Qin Yun, have?

Even the usually worldly-wise Zhou Ning couldn’t help widening his eyes at this maneuver.

This scumbag, one must admit… was indeed impressive!

Qin Shuyun looked up at Qin Yun in disbelief.

She saw Qin Yun’s eyes and brows still as gentle and kindly as before, offering self-exculpation and explanation.

Exactly like when she once stood up for Qin Yun and demanded Qin Jiang be punished and apologize… identical!!

But now, Qin Shuyun found it unfamiliar to her.

She wanted to question and refute.

But as soon as she opened her mouth, blood choked her throat. Under the sudden high pressure on her heart, she could barely get a word out.

Powerless to explain… that’s all there was to it!!

But in fact, the truth was clearly not like that.

It turned out that when Qin Jiang was repeatedly misunderstood and slandered by her in the past, no matter how he explained, she coldly interrupted him and threw him to be punished.

It had been so painful.

Only when you’ve been the person torn and trampled can you have a glimpse of that empathy.

But this hurt so much.

The helplessness of being wronged with nowhere to vent.

After being blindly misunderstood, not a single person cared how wronged you truly were.

That kind of indifference was the deepest, sharpest blade stabbed into the wronged person!!

Qin Shuyun felt increasingly suppressed and enraged, and she vomited another mouthful of blood.

As for Qin Jiang, his gaze merely swept indifferently across Qin Shuyun’s collapse. His features were cold and detached, as if a demon long embedded in hell were casually admiring human suffering.

His heart showed no ripple—clearly a stranger.

“Enough, I don’t have time to watch your family tear each other apart.”

“The verdict is in: compensation for infringement of cultural property is $50 million, transfer it to my account within one day. As for detention… it can be carried out after you finish your hospital stay—don’t try any tricks.”

“As everyone knows… my retained lawyer, Luo Xiang, has never lost a case.”

As for Qin Yun, his punishment would probably be the lightest.

But Qin Jiang didn’t continue piling on to make his punishment heavier.

Given the current psychological strike, the fact that Qin Yun wouldn’t even have to serve time in prison would truly be the greatest torment for Qin Shuyun.

Qin Jiang’s exhilarating courtroom duel concluded perfectly.

No one in the Qin family gained any benefit.

Qin Jiang, on the other hand, used Qin Shuyun to gain ten million new followers.

Even without further marketing tactics like “follow to receive $200.”

Qin Jiang’s popularity and status on social media had also stabilized at the mid-tier.

Right now, his name alone was trending, just as he had expected.

At the dawn of the internet era, companies’ awareness of building personal IPs was still relatively weak.

Qin Jiang had already taken the lead and stood squarely at that tipping point.

“Oh my god, Brother Jiang is awesome!! This comeback was so exhilarating, especially Luo Xiang’s stacks of lawsuit files—who wouldn’t turn tail and run, claiming ‘emergency defense’??”

“Gosh… Qin Jiang gained millions of followers in just a few hours. Even without a monetary follow incentive, fans are still pouring in—this guy is really on fire!”

“Qin Jiang’s move to step on the Qin family while elevating himself is so thrilling! The slap in the face is delicious—those who once bled him dry are now being milked by him as feeding machines. The wheels of fortune turns, as they say…”

“Putting everything else aside, no wonder Yan Group’s female CEO Yan Liang personally showed up to back this little shrimp Qin Jiang… if this isn’t true love, what is? Ms. Liang has fallen for him.”

Online comments were also won over by Qin Jiang’s deliberate maneuvering.

Of course, how many of those turncoat netizens were deliberately hired by Qin Jiang to steer mindless fans to defect is another matter.

Qin Jiang was well versed in the rules of the entertainment circle.

Before his rebirth, he also knew a bit about the influencer world.

These low-level tricks were trashy, but they worked best.

After all, not every netizen had an independent sense for navigating online society.

Most netizens still followed the crowd.

Therefore, to play the traffic game, manipulating people’s minds was necessary.

As soon as Qin Jiang finished speaking, the lawsuit was practically settled.

Signed, sealed.

“Qin Jiang, my illness really wouldn’t withstand prison. I’ll hire a lawyer to again request a medical stay of sentence…”

“During this time, it’s inevitable my family would come to visit me in the hospital—if Grandma knows you’ve misunderstood me to this extent, she’d surely be heartbroken…”

Qin Yun slumped to the ground in dejection. In this moment he even somewhat accepted his own mud-like posture.

But deep down, he was always unwilling to accept that Qin Jiang could turn things around in front of him and be superior to him.

Qin Jiang ignored him and turned to leave.

Luo Xiang would naturally handle the aftermath of the lawsuit.

However, just as Qin Jiang turned to leave, suddenly an old woman leaning on a cane rushed into the courtroom as if the wind were at her feet.

She entered with a clear target, hurled a string of jade Buddhist beads in her hand hard at Qin Jiang’s face, and proudly and aggressively shouted, “Qin Jiang, you’ve defied heaven!”

“Accursed child, calamity star, how dare you sue my fortunate, obedient grandson—why don’t you just die?”

“Are you such a sinful spawn that you must kill off our entire Qin family before you’ll stop?”

“Come on then, if you have the guts, send these old bones to prison too—if Yun suffers any mishap, this old woman won’t want to live anymore…”

“I’ll make you bear the unfilial sin of causing your own grandmother’s death, and be spat upon and abused for your whole life!!”