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"I was wondering why I heard that...that shaking noise from the bed last night! I thought it was Mom and Dad...but it was...it was you two..."

Her voice grew softer and softer, her cheeks flushed red with embarrassment, and finally she shut her mouth tightly, as if she realized that she, as an unmarried young woman, had said the wrong thing in front of her parents, and her eyes darted around timidly.

Upon hearing this, Qiao Lijun and Qiao Mingzhu felt as if they had been stripped naked in public, extremely embarrassed. They awkwardly looked away, not daring to look at their parents' faces.

"Well--"

Qin Fangfang let out an extremely strange gasp, her brain went completely blank with a "buzz", and suddenly her body swayed, her eyes rolled back, and she was about to fall to the ground.

"mom!"

With quick reflexes, Qiao Xinxin lunged forward and caught Qin Fangfang as she fell. Then, without hesitation, she pinched Qin Fangfang's philtrum firmly with her thumb!

She used all her strength, her nails almost digging into Qin Fangfang's flesh!

"Mom! Please, please don't let anything happen to you!" Qiao Xinxin cried out in a piercing, alarmed scream, her voice so loud it seemed the whole courtyard could hear. "My brother and sister are asleep! What are we going to do, Mom! Wake up!"

Before Qin Fangfang could completely faint, she was jolted awake by the excruciating pain!

"Hiss—" Qin Fangfang shuddered in pain and slapped Qiao Xinxin's hand away.

At that moment, she no longer cared about the pain; she only felt as if the sky had fallen and the earth had collapsed. Filled with rage and anger, she pointed at Qiao Lijun and Qiao Mingzhu, who were embracing each other, trembling like a leaf, and screamed, "You two... beasts! Beasts!! Beasts who disregard human ethics!"

Qiao Shouguo felt a surge of anger rush to the top of his head, his reason completely collapsing. He suddenly charged forward like an enraged bull, swung his arm, and slapped Qiao Mingzhu hard across her pale face.

"Smack!!!"

The extremely crisp and loud sound of a slap echoed through the living room!

Qiao Mingzhu was already physically weak, how could she withstand a blow from a grown man in a fit of rage? She was sent flying by the slap, crashing heavily to the floor with a "whoosh," her mouth instantly split open, and bright red blood gushed down her chin.

"Mingzhu!" Qiao Lijun's eyes reddened with anxiety.

"You beast! I should never have kept such a menace in the house!" Qiao Shouguo pointed at Qiao Mingzhu on the ground, his eyes blazing with rage. "What have we, the Qiao family, ever done to wrong you?! We feed you, clothe you, and treat you like our own daughter, and this is how you retaliate against us?!"

"I didn't, Dad, I really didn't..."

Qiao Mingzhu covered her swollen cheek and collapsed into Qiao Lijun's arms as he rushed over, sobbing uncontrollably. She stammered, "I really didn't mean to, I was just so scared..."

Qiao Shouguo was so angry that his vision blurred and his chest heaved violently. He couldn't listen to her innocent explanation at all!

Today is the wedding day! The Zhou family's wedding procession is arriving at 10 o'clock! His house has been ransacked, and his biological son and adopted daughter have committed this shameful act. How is he going to explain this to his protective father, Zhou Zejun, who is so fiercely protective of his son?!

"You...you did this on purpose!" Qiao Shouguo pointed at her nose, laughing angrily. "Qiao Mingzhu, you deliberately seduced your older brother to avoid marrying that cripple Zhou Liguang! I really didn't expect that my adorable adopted daughter, whom I've always doted on, would give me such a big 'surprise'! You're really something!"

"You've completely disgraced the Qiao family! How am I supposed to explain this to our relatives and friends?! How am I supposed to answer to the Zhou family?!"

"You beast! You shameless bastard!"

Qiao Mingzhu was tightly protected behind Qiao Lijun, looking pitiful. She just kept crying and biting her lip, refusing to say another word.

Qiao Lijun felt heartbroken seeing her so pitiful and wronged.

He quickly reached out and covered half of Qiao Mingzhu's face. Seeing the blood at the corner of her mouth, he felt a pang of heartache and gasped for breath.

"Dad!" Qiao Lijun's blood boiled, and he looked up to complain to his father, "Things are already like this, the deed is done! What's the use of hitting and scolding Mingzhu anymore?! Besides... besides, this was my own choice! I wanted her!"

When Qiao Shouguo and Qin Fangfang heard their own son utter such obstinate and absurd words, they felt like they wanted to die and wished they could find a rope and hang themselves immediately.

Just then, Qin Fangfang, panting heavily, suddenly looked at Qiao Xinxin, who was trembling beside her. Her eyes lit up and she grabbed Qiao Shouguo's sleeve as if she had grasped a lifeline.

"Old Qiao! Since things have come to this, why not marry Xin Xin off to the Zhou family? After all, she shares the same surname, Qiao! It was originally an arranged marriage between her and the Zhou family!"

Qiao Shouguo was stunned for a moment, then followed his wife's gaze to his biological daughter who had just returned to the city. Although he felt it was absurd, this was the only way to shut the Zhou family up.

Qiao Mingzhu smiled. Yes, that's it, her plan had succeeded.

Qiao Xinxin lowered her head and secretly rolled her eyes.

Here they come, this bunch of scoundrels have finally set their sights on her!

The next second, Qiao Xinxin suddenly raised her head, and tears fell like beads from a broken string, "plop plop" at just the right moment.

She seemed unable to believe what she had heard; her delicate face turned deathly pale, and her voice, choked with sobs yet filled with desperate rage, demanded, "Big brother, Mingzhu, how...how could you scheme against me like this?!"

She forcefully wiped away her tears, her voice growing increasingly aggrieved, like a small animal driven to desperation: "Our house was robbed clean, we have nothing left, not even a rice bowl! Did you really intend to force me into a marriage with nothing?!"

"No dowry! No wedding dress! You don't want to marry Zhou Liguang, so you make me go?! Do you think I'm some object you can summon and dismiss at will?!"

"Why did it have to be today of all days? Why did you two have to sleep together last night?!"

Qiao Xinxin pressed closer, her eyes red-rimmed as she stared intently at Qiao Lijun and Qiao Mingzhu. "Was this your plan from the beginning? To scheme against me? To make me marry in place of Qiao Mingzhu?!"

"Oh……"

Qiao Xinxin let out a chilling laugh, tears streaming down her face.

"Fine, even if I'm willing to take your place in marriage," Qiao Xinxin pointed to the empty surroundings, where there wasn't even a place to stand. "Then please tell me, my dear brother and sister, how am I supposed to get married?! Getting married is the most important day of a woman's life! And now we have nothing! No wedding dress, no dowry!"

"With the family in this state, you expect me to pay the price for Qiao Mingzhu's shamelessness! You don't care about me at all, you don't treat me like family, you're just deliberately scheming against me!"

With almost all her might, she shouted out the last sentence, then laughed self-deprecatingly, forcefully wiping away the tears on her face. She then looked up at the four nominal relatives opposite her, her eyes resolute.

"Fine! Since you all can't tolerate me, since you're all trying every possible way to drive me out of this house... then fine, I'll do as you wish!"

"I don't want to live anymore! Anyway, there's no one in this family who truly cares about me!"

Qiao Xinxin dropped this bombshell, turned around abruptly, and like a cannonball, charged towards the nearest load-bearing wall without hesitation!

"Will you be satisfied now that I'm dead?!"

Qiao Xinxin's sudden and fierce resistance and determination shocked everyone present!

Qiao Shouguo was the first to react, his heart pounding in his chest.

If his own daughter were to die in a car accident at home today, the Zhou family would not only break off the engagement, but also send him to the police station!