Chapter 242: Resentment and Poison
Li Jinzhi felt as if her very face had been torn off in public and trampled underfoot.
Although everyone knew that Li Jinzhi’s maternal family was the same Li Family that had caused the misfortune of the Wang Family’s Eldest Child,
after all, the neighbors saw each other frequently, and on top of that, there were those who were tempted by a bargain and still hoped to buy cheap goods from the He Family’s store.
The two older sisters of the He Family had married into the town for many years and had made a few acquaintances.
Out of respect for the faces of the two sisters and brothers-in-law of the He Family, people would at most grumble behind their backs but never said anything to their faces.
Li Jinzhi deceived herself into thinking that no one in the town spoke of her, perhaps because the village was far away, and the news hadn’t reached there yet.
If nobody knew her background, she wouldn’t have to feel humiliated or inferior.
But today’s uproar, with Wang Yongzhu exposing her secrets, left her feeling as if she were stripped bare, wishing she could find a crack in the ground to crawl into.
She felt an ever-increasing resentment toward Wang Yongzhu!
If only she hadn’t eavesdropped on the conversation between Li Jinzhi and her mother, how would there have been the Wang Family calling off the engagement? Without the broken engagement, would Jinlong dream of seeking revenge? Without revenge, would the Li Family have ended up in such a state?
Perhaps Jinlong might have even become a Scholar, and she would have been the sister of a Scholar, able to marry into the He Family in a respectable manner.