Mr. Xiao, can I borrow your wedding invitation?

Chapter 341 Your biggest mistake was coming back.
“Lily, tell Fourth Master, what exactly did you see in the backyard the day Fourth Madam fell? Don’t be afraid, just tell us what you saw!” The maid named Lily glanced at Nan Wu, then lowered her head and said, “I saw the young mistress using a shovel to spread those ice shards on the path. At the time, I wondered, why would the young mistress do that? Isn’t she afraid someone will slip and fall?”

Nan Wu closed her eyes.

"Did you see clearly? That person is the young mistress?" Xiao Shen asked slowly, resting his chin on his hand.

Lily looked at Nan Wu and said, "I'm absolutely certain, it's the young mistress. If Lily utters even a single lie, may she die a horrible death!"

"Impossible! You must be seeing things, Fourth Master. You can't just conclude that I did it based on her words alone!" Nan Wu struggled desperately.

"You're no longer needed!" Xiao Shen waved his hand to dismiss the maid, then turned back to settle accounts with Nan Wu.

His sharp, knife-like gaze swept over Nan Wu, who shivered and lowered her head, no longer daring to meet his eyes.

"I'll ask you one more time, did you put the ice shards on the path?"

"Fourth Master, it really wasn't me. Lily must have been mistaken. Although Su Ying and I aren't exactly friends, we're not bad friends either. Why would I want to harm her?"

Xiao Shen grabbed an empty cup and smashed it on the table. He then held the remaining sharp half against Nan Wu's neck and grabbed her hair with his other hand.

"Was it you?" The tone became more forceful, and the pressure increased.

A cut appeared on Nanwu's fair neck, and blood immediately seeped out.

Nan Wu panicked completely, trembling all over, and blurted out, "That's right, it was me! Who told her to be so blind? This is God's arrangement, she deserves it!"

She practically shouted the last three words.

"Why did you do this?" Xiao Shen asked coldly.

Now that things had come to this, Nan Wu saw no need to hide anything anymore. She gave a cold, mocking smile. "Even though we share the same face, everyone only sees her. Xiao Jiayang is infatuated with her, Miss Wu likes her, you like her too, and even Old Master Xiao dotes on her. She's the center of attention in the Xiao family, while I'm like a stray dog, completely invisible. Do you know how Xiao Jiayang and Chen Wanru treat me? Whenever they're unhappy, they take it out on me. If I hadn't wanted to use my child to get Xiao Jiayang drunk, he wouldn't even touch me!"

"What did I do wrong? Why are you all treating me like this?"
"So, you're resentful and jealous of Su Ying?" Xiao Shen's eyes blazed with fury.

Nan Wu, defiant and reckless, laughed without fear. "Who told her to steal my spotlight? You should know that I am the eldest daughter of the Nan family, the young mistress of the Xiao family. She is just my substitute, a minor supporting character. What I did was simply to take back everything that belongs to me. What did I do wrong?"

Xiao Shen tossed aside the broken glass, repeatedly wiping his fingers with a handkerchief. "Your biggest mistake was coming back. You should have stayed abroad to recover! Coming back is just humiliating yourself!"

Nan Wu was deeply hurt by his words.

Sure enough, in everyone's eyes she was a loser.

"Killing you would be too lenient. Get out of the Xiao family and never show your face in front of me again!"

The man tossed the handkerchief aside, put his hands in his pockets, and left.

Song Hao respectfully opened the back door for his master. "Brother Shen, this Nan Wu is truly despicable. Keeping her around will only bring endless trouble!" Xiao Shen closed his eyes to rest. "Kicking her out of the Xiao family is far more cruel than killing her!"

Nan Wu felt as if her bones had been pulled out, and her body instantly went limp.

Suddenly, a piercing pain shot through her heart. She clutched her chest and collapsed to the ground, watching helplessly as the life-saving medicine bottle rolled nearby. She stretched out her arms, but couldn't reach it no matter how hard she tried...

Nan Wu was rushed to the hospital and only survived after two hours of emergency treatment. She lay on the hospital bed, barely alive, with Fang Lanxin by her side taking care of her.

"Why did this happen? I told you to behave yourself and be a good young mistress of the Xiao family in the Nan family. Why did you have to provoke Xiao Shen? Now look what's happened. You've become a discarded wife of the Xiao family, and I've been kicked out of the hospital. Look at the mess you've made!"

As soon as Nan Wu woke up, she was met with a barrage of complaints from her mother, Fang Lanxin.

She opened her mouth, "Mom, do you know what kind of life I've been living in the Xiao family lately? Harming Su Ying was a decision I don't regret. Why would I ruin my own happiness for the sake of so-called face? Life is for yourself!"

Fang Lanxin, her temper flaring, pointed at her face and growled, "You dare talk back? I've wasted my time teaching you! All the hard work Mom put in has been ruined by you. You've made me a laughingstock again. How am I supposed to compare to Jiang Xue now? You..."

"Jiang Xue, Jiang Xue, it's Jiang Xue again! Mom, so many years have passed, and my father is already dead. Why are you still living in hatred? Does it really matter that you're doing better than her, or that your daughter is doing better than her daughter? Aren't you tired of living like this? I don't want to be your pawn anymore! Please don't impose your failures on me!"

"shut up!"

Snapped!
Fang Lanxin lost control of her emotions and slapped Nan Wu.

A red mark immediately appeared on Nan Wu's pale face. Instead of being angry, she laughed, a chilling laugh.

Fang Lanxin stared at her hand, suddenly realizing she had acted impulsively. "I...I'm sorry, Xiaowu, Mom..."

"Oh my! What's going on between you two, mother and daughter?" Jiang Rourou and Jiang Xue came in hand in hand, their tone sarcastic.

"What are you doing here? You're not welcome here, get out!" Fang Lanxin pretended to shoo them away, but Jiang Rourou shoved her hard.

"What are you doing? This is a public place, it's not like you've booked it out!"

After saying that, she glanced at Fang Lanxin on the hospital bed, covered her mouth and laughed gloatingly, "Oh my, isn't this our young mistress of the Xiao family? I heard that you were kicked out of the Xiao family? Tell me, why would a perfectly good family abandon you like that?"

Then, feigning regret, she said, "Hey! You two really are like mother and daughter. Your mother was kicked out of the Nan family, and now you've been kicked out of the Xiao family. It's hilarious, hahaha!"

"Jiang Rourou, shut up!" Fang Lanxin growled.

Seeing her fly into a rage, Jiang Rourou spoke even more vehemently, "Did I say something wrong? And you, Fang Lanxin, you've lost your job now. Look at you, I thought you'd worked hard and made something of yourself after being kicked out of the Nan family, but in the end, you're just a stray dog ​​again. Isn't that pathetic!"

Jiang Xue joined in the mockery.

Fang Lanxin's self-esteem felt like it had been brutally crushed on the ground. She lunged at Jiang Rourou and began to tear at her, shouting, "No matter how pitiful I am, I'm still better off than you two who have taken over my place! If you hadn't used those tricks back then, the Nan family would never have tolerated you!"