Wait, why is this blond guy a lolicon?

"The insect eggs you mentioned, is this what they are?"

Song Ruyu held a translucent insect egg, the size of a pigeon egg, between her fingers, a cold, mocking smile playing on her lips:

"Song Jie'er, these despicable methods you rely on are completely ineffective against me."

"What?!?!"

Song Jie'er screamed, her pupils shrinking to pinpoints, the madness on her face replaced by unbelievable terror.

"Impossible—! I clearly saw you with my own eyes..."

"You watched me eat it?"

Song Ruyu scoffed, her tone almost overflowing with sarcasm.

"Which eye of yours saw me actually swallow that?"

Or are you really so naive as to think that time reversal is my only hidden skill?

"No...it's impossible..."

Song Jie'er stared intently at the insect egg, as if watching her beautiful dream completely collapse.

She simply couldn't accept that her carefully planned scheme had been so easily and completely reversed, and she roared hysterically:

"It shouldn't be like this...it shouldn't be like this—! You should have been firmly controlled by me with your Gu worms, reduced to a servant at my mercy...Bastard, you bastard!!"

She stared at Song Ruyu defiantly, her eyes surging with an almost obsessive devotion. Suddenly, as if grasping at a last straw, she screamed:

"I understand—! You went to Southern Xinjiang, it must be because you went to Southern Xinjiang! You found the solution there and expelled the insect eggs, right?"

That's right...that's right! It must have been you who broke free from my control without my permission...

Song Ruyu almost laughed out of anger at her words.

What the hell do you mean I should break free from your control?

Am I supposed to be controlled by you?

Who do you think you are?!

He's nothing but an ungrateful parasite kept in the Song family.

"Further words are pointless. Song Jie'er—I came back today for only two reasons."

Song Ruyu reached out and lifted the seemingly deranged Song Jie'er like a dead dog. She then turned and swept her gaze over the shocked Song family members in the ancestral hall, her words chillingly cold:

"One of them is that I want to settle scores with... Song Jie'er, and all the Song family members who side with the second wife!"

These words immediately caused an uproar in the ancestral hall.

The acting head of the family, Song Tao, who was also Song Jie'er's biological father, suddenly widened his eyes in shock, fell to his knees with a thud, and shouted hoarsely:

"Young Miss... the vast majority of us here were coerced and threatened by Song Jie'er!"

"She has completely gone mad. She even dared to poison me, her own father, and manipulate me with the eggs of the Heavenly Fiend Insects, forcing me to be her slave..."

"Not to mention the other members of the clan! Young lady, please think carefully and distinguish between loyalty and treachery!"

Before he finished speaking, he frantically winked at Wang Yunfang, who was standing to the side, signaling her to quickly step forward and appeal to Song Ruyu's emotions, begging her to show leniency.

Wang Yunfang immediately understood, and scrambled to Song Ruyu's feet, grabbing her trouser leg tightly, crying and pleading with her:

"Ruyu, I was also bewitched by her, that's why...that's why I did such a foolish thing. I'm sorry, please forgive me..."

"Wang Yunfang".

Song Ruyu's voice was devoid of any warmth, and she didn't even lift her eyelids. "My mother was all alone; she died long ago."

"As for you, from the moment you easily told Song Jie'er about my hidden skills, you were already a dead man in my eyes."

"What...?"

Wang Yunfang's tearful expression froze instantly, then replaced by an even more humble pleading, as she clung tightly to her clothes, refusing to let go:

"Ruyu, look at me, Ruyu! Mom really didn't mean it, it's all because...they forced Mom!"

"Mom loves you, she really loves you... It's all Song Jie'er's fault, that bitch!"

She suddenly turned her head to look at Song Jie'er.

The balance of power has now been reversed.

As someone who is prone to betrayal.

Her choice was naturally to betray again and to kick Song Jie'er while she was down.

To distance himself from the situation

"You slut! You're the one who drove a wedge between my mother and me, forcing me to be your slave! There's no one more despicable than you in the world! Why don't you just die!"

"Hehehe..."

Song Jie'er gritted her teeth, the anger in her eyes burning through her reason:

"You're the one who tipped me off and told me about Song Ruyu's itinerary! How dare you criticize me now?!"

"Wow, you can actually make up something like that? I... when have I ever done something like that willingly!"

Wang Yunfang, acting as if she had gone mad, suddenly pounced on Song Jie'er, scratching and biting her.

But she forgot that although Song Jie'er couldn't control Song Ruyu, she herself was still under the control of Song Jie'er's insect eggs.

"Go to hell!!"

Song Jie'er stumbled as she was tackled.

He immediately roared in anger, activating the Heavenly Fiend Insect Eggs within her body.

"I'm starving—!!"

Wang Yunfang suddenly clutched her stomach, letting out a piercing scream as a tearing pain shot through her abdomen.

She could clearly feel the long-dormant insect eggs hatching frantically, and cold sweat instantly soaked through her clothes.

"What are you doing, Song Jie'er...you're going to get me killed..."

She hurriedly turned to look at Song Ruyu, her eyes filled with a desperate plea:

"Ruyu, Ruyu... You can get rid of the insect eggs, you must have a way, right? Please help your mother... I beg you..."

Song Ruyu simply stood there coldly, watching this dog-eat-dog farce, not even bothering to utter a single word.

Finally, the excruciating pain completely shattered Wang Yunfang's last shred of reason. The pleading on her face instantly turned into a ferocious, venomous rage as she cursed Song Ruyu:

"Song Ruyu! You stood by and watched me die, you beast! Even if I did those things, I am still your mother in law!"

Aren't you afraid of divine retribution? Go ahead and be punished by heaven!!!

At this moment, Song Ruyu had only one thought in her mind—thankfully, Jiang Ling hadn't followed.

If he came along and saw this chaotic scene, he'd probably laugh and say:

"Ruyu, how come your family is full of extraordinary people..."

That's fucking amazing!

Even if Song Ruyu racked her brains, she still couldn't figure out what kind of mush was in these people's brains.

A woman who is merely a pretty face easily betrayed her stepdaughter, the only person she could rely on in the family, and turned around to wag her tail and beg for mercy at someone else's feet, willingly becoming a dog.

Another parasitic woman, for the sake of so-called illusory "love," ruthlessly harmed the only pillar of the family who could uphold the family's reputation, naively believing that this would allow her to win back her so-called "love."

Indeed, wherever there is a sleeping dragon, there will surely be a phoenix chick.

Come to think of it, I'd consider myself a genius.

I knew all along that these people were unreliable.

They haven't even made worst-case scenario plans yet.

I even thought about it.

To become stronger, so as to protect the people in this family.

Looking back on the first half of her life, Song Ruyu couldn't help but laugh self-deprecatingly.