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"Fine...fine! You're all protecting her, you're all forcing me! Since I have no way out in this house, since you all want me to fill this fire pit, then I might as well die! I'll give this life back to you!"

As soon as she finished speaking, Qiao Xinxin, with a sudden burst of strength, broke free from Qiao Shouguo and Qin Fangfang's slightly relaxed hands, which were gripped by shock.

Like a desperate bird, she turned and rushed outside, slamming the door open and running straight into the yard!

"Oh my god! What are you doing!" Qin Fangfang screamed in fright.

Once inside the courtyard, with a thud, Qiao Xinxin collapsed to the ground, completely losing her composure. She covered her face with her hands, her thin shoulders trembling violently as she cried her heart out.

"Why are you treating me like this?! What did I do wrong?! Why is my life so miserable?!"

Qiao Xinxin screamed at the top of her lungs, her cries both shrill and poignant, "It's bad enough that my father doesn't love me and my mother doesn't care about me, but now that I've finally come home, I'm being bullied and schemed against by my own brother and my fake sister! You're not giving me a way out! I might as well be dead!"

Her voice, delivered with deliberate skill, was so loud it seemed to penetrate the rooftops, instantly spreading throughout the entire courtyard in the quiet morning air!

It was early morning, the time when everyone in the courtyard was getting up, washing up, and preparing to light the stove and cook.

Today was a big day for the Qiao family, and they were making quite a fuss. Everyone was eager to hear what was going on.

Instead of hearing firecrackers, all I heard was a series of increasingly loud and mournful cries.

"Clang," "Squeak"—

One after another, the doors of the surrounding neighbors opened, and many aunties and grandmas carrying enamel basins and fire tongs poked their heads out.

Wow! What's going on with the Qiao family today?!

When everyone got closer to take a look, they were all dumbfounded.

The Qiao family's legitimate biological daughter, whom they had recently reunited with from the countryside, sat alone in the muddy courtyard, sobbing uncontrollably. The courtyard was deserted; there wasn't a trace of the wedding procession.

This noise sounds really strange!

Could it be that the bride is reluctant to leave home and is crying here? But this isn't the bride crying! Besides, the groom's family hasn't even arrived yet, so why is she crying like this?

"What's going on?"

The kind-hearted Aunt Wang from next door was the first to step forward. Seeing Qiao Xinxin crying her eyes out, she asked with heartache, "Xinxin, why are you crying? Isn't today your sister Mingzhu's wedding day?"

"Yes!" Aunt Li from the backyard chimed in. "I think I just heard something about 'not wanting to live anymore' and 'scheming' in the back. What's going on? Your house is so quiet today, not even a red 'double happiness' character is up. There's no joy at all for a daughter's wedding!"

"Xin Xin, stop crying. The wedding procession hasn't arrived yet. Why are you so upset?"

At this moment, Qiao Shouguo, Qin Fangfang, and Qiao Lijun, who was protecting Qiao Mingzhu, had just chased after them from inside the house in a panic.

Qiao Xinxin covered her face and cried bitterly. Through the corner of her eye between her fingers, she accurately captured the expressions of shock, fear, or despair on the faces of the Qiao family members.

She gave a cold sneer to herself, a fleeting smile playing on her lips.

You think you can lock her up in a room and control her? Dream on!

Before the Qiao family could rush up and cover her mouth, Qiao Xinxin suddenly raised her head. Her delicate face was covered in tears, and her eyes were red. Like pouring out beans, she spilled out all the dirty things that had happened in the house in just a few words!

"Auntie! Granny! I can't live like this anymore! My brother and my fake sister actually slept in the same bed in the middle of the night last night, and I caught them! They have no shame!"

"When I woke up this morning, the house looked like it had been robbed; everything had been stolen! Not even a pot or pan was left! Now Qiao Mingzhu absolutely refuses to marry, and my parents, to protect her, are forcing their own daughter, me, to marry in her place! I don't even have a wedding dress; they're trying to kill me!"

boom--!!!

Qiao Xinxin's words were like a series of bombshells, exploding in the air above the courtyard!

What?!

The Qiao family's biological son and that adopted daughter... slept together last night?!

My house was robbed of everything overnight?!

Now, to cover up their shameful affair, the Qiao family is forcing their newly reunited biological daughter to marry in place of their adopted daughter?!

Oh my god!!!

The amount of information was simply too much, too explosive! All the neighbors who were watching the spectacle gasped in shock, instantly falling into a state of immense disbelief and disbelief.

What's shocking is that, without even having breakfast this early in the morning, they managed to uncover such a huge and incredibly juicy piece of gossip! And there's more than one!

The question is, do these outrageous and absurd things, things you only hear about in feudal stories, really happen around them?!

A deathly silence fell over the room.

Immediately afterwards, with a loud "boom," a burst of extremely enthusiastic whispers suddenly erupted from the crowd, almost lifting the roof off!

"Heavens above! What a terrible thing! These two have been siblings under the same roof for twenty years, how...how could they do this?!"

"Absolutely! And they even slept together the night before Mingzhu's wedding! Isn't that cheating?!"

"I think this is definitely Qiao Mingzhu's way of using seductive tricks because she doesn't want to marry the Zhou family's son because he's crippled! It's obvious she's scheming against their own daughter!"

"Shh! Did you hear that? The house was robbed clean! What a coincidence! They probably just ran off with the money!"

The neighbors pointed and whispered, their disdainful gazes, sharp as steel needles, piercing Qiao Mingzhu who stood at the door.

Qiao Mingzhu's face instantly turned deathly pale, devoid of any color, and her body trembled violently like a leaf falling in the autumn wind.

The moment Qiao Xinxin blurted it out, her brain went blank. She stood stiffly on the doorstep, her face burning with shame, wishing she could dig a hole in the ground and bury herself in it!

It's over! It's all over!

She had originally been secretly planning to resolve the matter within the house, using her parents' guilt to force Qiao Xinxin into marriage. To the outside world, she could feign generosity and grievance, saying that Qiao Xinxin herself had long harbored a crush on Zhou Liguang, and that she had given up this good marriage to fulfill her sister's wishes.

In this way, she could avoid marrying the disabled man without any problem, and at the same time preserve her perfect image of being kind, innocent, and unassuming!

But now... everything has been ruined by that bitch Qiao Xinxin!

Why did this bastard have to expose everything?! Why couldn't he just stay home and handle it quietly?! Why did he have to shout these disgraceful things out in front of so many people?!