Chapter 413: Chapter 5: Brother-in-law and Sister-in-law (Part 5)

“Dad, Mom, little sister knows about her origins now.”

Li Zhongguo and Sun Xiaolan were a bit surprised.

Sun Xiaolan looked somewhat somber: “If she knows, she knows. We never planned to hide it, just thought that after so many years, so few people knew, there was no need to tell her, lest she overthink things.”

Li Shuning, however, laughed: “Mom and Dad, in hindsight, I realize I was blind back then. Dad opposed my marriage to Zhang Mingyang, but I was too stubborn, thinking that man and I were together because of love just like I did.”

Li Zhongguo and Sun Xiaolan exchanged a glance, disbelief in their eyes. How could their daughter say such a thing? Did Zhang Mingyang do something to betray their daughter?

“Mom, Dad, due to someone’s instigation, my sister felt that we owe her. She disrupted her marriage with the Song Family because she thought we found her an unsatisfactory husband. She was persuaded to believe that her parents died back then because they covered for father’s crimes, after all, during those difficult times when father left Du City for another military district, he did face some hardships.”

“Sister believes our entire family owes her, so she wants revenge. Now she has hooked up with her brother-in-law, the two of them are entangled together.”

Sun Xiaolan cried out: “Jiaojiao, how could she do that.”

Li Shuning looked disheartened: “Mom, Dad, it’s only today that I understand the person beside me.”

“Perhaps from the start, what he was after was the power of our family. Little sister hadn’t been in Jian City for long before it started raining heavily there. I had been working outside for Zhang Mingyang, caught a fever, and was sent back home, yet there was no one at home. I fainted for hours alone, and when I woke up, still no one was there. I struggled to take some medicine and lay on the sofa for several more hours. It wasn’t until eight or nine in the evening that Zhang Mingyang and my sister came home, acting intimately, and little sister was no longer a girl but a grown woman.”

“One seduced with intent, the other craved beauty, naturally they ended up together.”

Li Shuning’s face held traces of sorrow: “Dad, back then you disdained Zhang Mingyang, and I thought you were being superficial. So I tried every means to help Zhang Mingyang rise. Over the years, I have done so much for him, and my uncle secretly supported him too. Does he not know how he got to where he is today?”

“Yet what did he do? Sister is obviously seen as my blood sister in the eyes of others, but he actually got involved with his sister-in-law. Did he ever spare a thought for me? If he had, he wouldn’t have done such a thing, even if my sister seduced him. Couldn’t he refuse? I’ve been busy for him for years, worn myself out, lost my former beauty, and ruined my health after a miscarriage. Our child is left with our family year after year. What has he done?”

Sun Xiaolan was already sobbing uncontrollably. Her poor daughter, what kind of life had she been living these years?

“I observed them in Jian City for several days, and their relationship was already hot as fire. I didn’t want it to continue like this. I have a clue about little sister’s thoughts, but to exact revenge, she’ll do anything. Seducing her brother-in-law was only her first step. Snatching her sister’s husband gives her a strong sense of achievement. She wants to use Zhang Mingyang as a stepping stone, and then, once in power, topple the Li Family. On one hand, she relies on our family’s connections to help Zhang Mingyang rise, but on the other, she takes it for granted, bears no gratitude, and still resents our family, ready to exact revenge once she is established.”

Li Zhongguo, having come this far, is no simple man. Maybe there’s a hint of resentment in his daughter’s words, but her analysis isn’t wrong.

The child they’ve raised all these years has turned into an ungrateful wretch.

Did she really not know in her heart how they treated her all these years, just because she listened to other’s words?

They painstakingly chose the Song Family as her marriage, and isn’t the Song Family’s condition good enough?

Why didn’t she directly come and ask them? What really happened back then?

It’s clear as day that she no longer trusts them. After so many years of affection, could it not withstand a single word from outsiders?

Li Zhongguo let out a sigh. Calling Li Shujiao back for explanations was unnecessary; the harm done to Ningning shouldn’t have happened.

Even if everything were explained clearly, what would it change? The damage Li Shujiao caused to Ningning was already done.

Perhaps raising Li Shujiao all these years was a mistake. What would she have become without their upbringing?

Didn’t Li Shujiao ever think about it?

Because of Li Shujiao, their good relationship with the Song Family suddenly changed.

It’s good that their daughter has come to terms with it, and their granddaughter is a good child, isn’t she? Is it so bad to be without a husband?

Li Zhongguo thought about many things at once. But how did Xiao Ning come to know so much?

“Xiao Ning, in the future, don’t act on impulse over things anymore. Dad won’t bring up the past. Have you thought it through now?”

Li Shuning knew what Li Zhongguo was asking: “Dad, I have thought it through; it is precisely because I have thought it through that I’m telling you all this. Little sister is no longer the sister from before. She clearly knows some things, harbors malice in her heart but pretends to be close to me on the surface. How did I find out about these things? If it weren’t for a friend of mine who specializes in hypnotism, I might not have known about this either.”

Li Zhongguo frowned: “Is your friend reliable?”

“Dad, don’t worry. She won’t leak anything. Dad, in a few years, there will be another round of leadership changes. Families like ours, if we make a single misstep, the consequences could be dire. So I pretended to be unwell to come back and rest, and inform you to prevent bringing trouble to the family later.”

“Little sister confessed these things to me herself. I’m worried about the family becoming passive because of them.”

Naturally, Li Shuning couldn’t speak bluntly about how things went in the storyline but she could make up something similar.

Isn’t this exactly what Li Shujiao’s intentions are?

“Don’t worry, no need to fret, Dad will handle it.”

One could say, the two elders had immense trust in Li Shuning. She hadn’t even explained how she knew these things, yet they believed her.

Afterward, Li Shuning went to mend relations with Nannan, while Li Zhongguo went off to discuss the issue with his elder brother and younger brother.

The Li Family is tightly-knit, and evidently, this wasn’t just an issue concerning Li Zhongguo’s immediate family.

According to Uncle Li Baoguo, they should directly detain or covertly deal with Li Shujiao, and as for Zhang Mingyang, the ungrateful wolf, directly divorce him.

However, Uncle Li Zhenguo had a different plan. Those two people hurt their niece; they can’t let them off so easily. If they want to stir things up, they should really let them have fun.

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