The beloved but ungrateful girl is reborn: This time she has truly changed.

Zhang Qingtian chimed in, "Exactly! What will the neighbors think of our family?"

Pretty.

Qi Weiwei sneered inwardly.

As expected of a seasoned veteran in officialdom, with just a few words, he transformed adultery into "taking care of her," portrayed her, the victim, as "daydreaming" and "jealous," and even depicted Tang Tiantian as an orphan girl in need of sympathy.

"Sibling bond?"

Qi Weiwei repeated those four words, her tone undisguisedly sarcastic.

"I have a love letter that Tang Aijun wrote to Tang Tiantian!"

Zhang Qingtian shuddered upon hearing this.

She rushed to Tang Qu's side, grabbed his arm, and her voice trembled:

"Old Tang, she...she really knows! What do we do?!"

"Shut up!" Tang Qu roared, shaking off Zhang Qingtian's hand.

He stared at Qi Weiwei, his eyes like poisoned knives.

"Qi Weiwei." He slowly stood up, looking down at her. "I underestimated you. You've been playing the docile little woman for so many years, only today do you show your fangs, huh?"

Qi Weiwei also stood up.

She was two heads shorter than Tang Qu, but she stood up straight and showed no fear.

"No matter how good I am at pretending, I can't pretend as well as you Tang family members."

Her voice wasn't loud, but every word was clear.

"You coaxed me into being a slave, raising someone else's son, draining the blood and flesh of our Qi family to feed your Tang family of ingrates."

Director Tang, your scheming and cunning are truly beyond my comprehension.

"What do you mean, 'someone else's son'!"

Zhang Qingtian screamed again.

"Your ancestors and lineage are your own flesh and blood!"

Qi Weiwei, have you lost your mind?!

They don't even recognize their own son anymore!

"I gave birth to her?"

Qi Weiwei turned to look at her, her eyes as cold as ice.

"Zhang Qingtian, I have two daughters."

They were sent back to the countryside in Shandong Province by you, where they were starving and cold, and were almost abused to death.

"But your Tang family's offspring, Tang Aijun and Tang Tiantian's illegitimate children, live in my grandfather's courtyard, right under my nose, eating and drinking well, growing fat and fair."

With each word she spoke, Tang Qu's expression grew increasingly grim.

"You know very well, don't you?"

Qi Weiwei took a step closer.

"But none of you say anything, and you watch me like a fool, treating the son of my enemy as my lifeblood."

Watching me push my family to the brink of despair as I forced them to support me.

"You're insane...you're really insane..."

Zhang Qingtian muttered to himself, taking a step back and bumping into the dresser, causing the radio on top to shake.

Tang Qu grabbed the radio and looked up again. The panic from before was gone from his eyes; only a ruthless determination remained.

"Qi Weiwei, do you have any evidence to support your claims?"

His voice was hoarse.

"A love letter? Who knows if you forged it? You said Xiaojun and Tiantian... who can prove it? Just based on your words?"

"evidence?"

Qi Weiwei smiled, a smile tinged with an indescribable sorrow and ruthlessness.

"Director Tang, do you think I would dare to come to your Tang family's door alone and say these things without solid evidence?"

She reached out, as if to take something out of her military green shoulder bag.

Tang Qu and Zhang Qingtian's eyes instantly locked onto the handbag, and they held their breath.

Zhang Qingtian even involuntarily took half a step forward.

Qi Weiwei's hands rummaged through her bag, her movements very slow.

She could feel the tension in the two people opposite her, and she could see a bead of sweat rolling down Tang Qu's forehead.

Just as Tang Qu was about to reach out and snatch it, Qi Weiwei suddenly stopped, and then—

"Hahaha……"

She burst into laughter.

Laughter echoed in the quiet living room, abrupt and jarring, carrying undisguised mockery.

Tang Qu was stunned.

Zhang Qingtian was also stunned.

"You two old hags," Qi Weiwei laughed until tears almost streamed down her face, pointing at them, "did you think I'd carry such important evidence on my person? You thought you could just steal it from me, or perhaps even detain me here?"

She wiped away the tears of laughter from the corners of her eyes, her expression instantly turning cold:

"Tang Qu, I am not a three-year-old child."

If I can walk through this door today, I can walk out safely.

If anything happens to me, those love letters will be there where they're supposed to be tomorrow morning.

She deliberately used the word "those" to make Tang Qu believe that she had a lot of evidence.

Try to trick him.

"You…" Tang Qu's face was ashen, his chest heaving violently, "What do you want to do?!"

"What do I want?" Qi Weiwei composed herself, speaking slowly and deliberately, "First, release my parents. Second, your Tang family framed me for a huge debt of three thousand yuan. I got back one thousand nine hundred yuan, and now you still owe me one thousand one hundred yuan."

"fart!"

Zhang Qingtian cursed, "I think you're desperate for money! You caused this mess yourself, don't try to pin it on us!"

Qi Weiwei didn't even glance at her, only staring at Tang Qu:

"Your son, Tang Aijun, had a long-term affair with Tang Tiantian, the wife of an active-duty soldier, and they had two children that I have to raise."

According to current laws, what crime is committed in disrupting a military marriage?!

Director Tang works on the harvesting committee; he should know more about it than I do!

Tang Qu's pupils suddenly contracted.

Of course he knew.

In the past two years, quite a few people have been punished for similar issues, and in serious cases, it can really lead to...

The word "execution" struck him like two blocks of ice.

"Qi Weiwei!" Tang Qu slammed his hand on the table, making the glasses on it clang loudly. "You're threatening me?!"

"Yes."

Qi Weiwei answered crisply and decisively.

"I'm threatening you."

Tang Qu, I've made myself perfectly clear.

First, release my parents. I want to see them safely home by midnight tonight, with not a single hair on their bodies missing.

Second, give me that 1,100 yuan now.

"You're dreaming!" Zhang Qingtian shrieked. "Old Tang! Don't agree to her demands! This bitch is just trying to blackmail us! Arrest her too! Lock her up in your triage committee! Let's see if she can still talk back!"

"Oh?" Qi Weiwei raised an eyebrow and looked at Tang Qu. "Director Tang, is Zhang Qingtian's meaning the same as yours? Then there's nothing to discuss. I'm leaving now. Tomorrow morning, you can wait for the notification to take over the troops."

After she finished speaking, she turned around and walked towards the door.

"Stop!" Tang Qu growled.

Qi Weiwei's hand was already on the doorknob. She stopped when she heard this, but did not turn around.

The living room was deathly silent.

The only sounds were Zhang Qingtian's heavy breathing and Tang Xiulan's nervous swallowing.

A full half minute passed before Tang Qu's voice rang out again, carrying a barely suppressed anger and... a hint of barely perceptible compromise:

"Old Zhang, you... shut up and go back inside."

"Old Tang! You—"

"I told you to go back inside!" Tang Qu suddenly raised his voice, startling Zhang Qingtian.

She glared at Qi Weiwei fiercely, but in the end didn't dare to say anything more. She stomped her foot, turned around and went into the bedroom, slamming the door shut with a loud bang.

Only Tang Qu and Qi Weiwei remained in the living room.