Chapter 347 - 335: Proud
Chen Qiuyu deliberately paused halfway through her sentence.
Yang Banmei’s face froze, displaying a touch of panic.
Chen Qiuyu watched her panicked expression with enjoyment, slowly savoring it until she had her fill, then she leisurely said, "Is there anyone in a more miserable state than I am now? People always sympathize with the underdog. Tell me, if the story changed from my own doing to ’justifiably excusable,’ wouldn’t at least more than half of the people change their tune and start sympathizing with me?"
The color drained from Yang Banmei’s face.
The people in the village were unilaterally sympathetic to her family precisely because Chen Qiuyu’s actions had gone far beyond any moral boundary, right? So when they humiliated her like this, aside from a small number of people who felt they were too harsh, most would say Chen Qiuyu had brought it upon herself.
If, if Chen Qiuyu were really to go out and say that, and adamantly claim that she did it all out of despair and for revenge after being...’betrayed’ by her own man...
Cold sweat ran down Yang Banmei’s back; she knew very well that such a narrative could be quite persuasive. Even if people were only half-convinced, from then on, her own family could no longer hold their heads high in the village.
She felt an intense hatred in her heart and wished she could tear that lecherous old man in her home into pieces. It was all trouble caused by him. Even if he spent money on pleasures outside the home, it would have been better than this mess caused by his philandering at home.