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The Zhou family's wedding procession arrived like a tornado and left even faster.

But the commotion was so great that the neighbors and military dependents who had been peering out of the alleyway all gathered in the corridor outside the Qiao family's house, their eyes shining like searchlights, and whispers rising and falling.

This is an unprecedented and earth-shattering piece of gossip; if you miss it, you'll never have anything to talk about for the rest of your life!

"Oh my, they're leaving already? The wedding car just went back like that?"

"Nonsense! Are you really going to marry that vixen if we don't leave? What family would want a woman who's having an affair with my own brother? Aren't they afraid of being cuckolded?"

"Tsk tsk tsk, it seems this time, the Zhou family and the Qiao family are truly at odds, sworn enemies!"

"This fake heiress of the Qiao family is incredibly audacious! She usually looks so delicate and doesn't even dare to raise her voice, how could she dare to do such a despicable thing?"

"What do you know! This girl's got wildly high ambitions. Didn't you see how she was fawning over that Zhou boy before he was injured? She was always hanging around him, so attentive! Ever since Zhou Liguang injured his leg on a mission, she's been looking at him like she wants to cut ties with him immediately. And look what she's done—she's already climbed into her own brother's bed!"

"If you ask me, Qiao Shouguo and his wife aren't exactly saints either! A bad parent leads to a bad sibling; otherwise, how could they have raised two philandering siblings under one roof?"

"Shh! Keep your voice down, or someone will hear you!"

"So what if you heard it! You dare to do it, why are you afraid of what people say? A whole family of heartless scoundrels! It's one thing for their own daughter to be promiscuous, but I just heard from the makeup artist that they actually forced their biological daughter, whom they just found in the countryside, to marry in place of them! Their shamelessness is beyond belief!"

"Exactly! And that eldest son of the Qiao family, he always looks so respectable, you'd never guess he has this kind of hobby behind the scenes? He even goes after his own sister..."

"Maybe they've been together for a while, and they're just using last night's incident as an excuse..."

"Bang--!!!"

A deafening roar.

Qiao Lijun slammed the rickety door shut, completely shutting out the scathing mockery and gossip from outside.

Inside, there was a deathly silence.

"You...you're really great!"

Qiao Shouguo gritted his teeth, each word seemingly squeezed out from between his teeth, filled with endless regret and anger: "I, Qiao Shouguo, raised you for twenty whole years! In those twenty years, you ate the best food, wore the finest clothes, and even after Xinxin came back, we didn't mistreat you in the slightest! And you... is this how you repay me?!"

"Dad..." Qiao Mingzhu was so frightened that she shuddered and tears welled up in her eyes. She scrambled over to hug Qiao Shouguo's legs.

But as soon as she got closer—

"Slap! Slap!"

Suddenly, Qiao Shouguo raised his rough hands and slapped her hard twice with both hands!

He slapped her so hard she flew like a kite with a broken string, crashing heavily onto the dusty floor!

These two slaps, slapped with almost all the strength of Qiao Shouguo's life, were aimed at the culprit who destroyed the Qiao family, and also at his own blind eyes!

Visibly, Qiao Mingzhu's fair face swelled up instantly, revealing two clear, blood-red handprints, and her mouth split open completely.

"Dad! Why are you hitting Mingzhu!"

Qiao Lijun immediately rushed over, grabbed Qiao Mingzhu from the ground and held her tightly behind him, glaring angrily at his father.

"You still dare to protect her?!" Qiao Shouguo pointed at Qiao Lijun's nose, trembling with rage. "You worthless beast! She enjoyed the Qiao family's immense benefits for twenty years, and now she repays us in such a despicable way! She's ruined your future, ruined the Qiao family's reputation, and destroyed the marriage agreement between our two families! Now, who in this compound isn't talking behind our backs?! Are you satisfied?! Huh?! Are you satisfied?!"

"Dad, I didn't... I really didn't mean to, sob sob sob..." Qiao Mingzhu covered her swollen face, crying uncontrollably, trying to defend herself.

"Not on purpose?!" Qiao Shouguo laughed angrily, picking up a piece of broken wood from the ground and throwing it at him. "I think you clearly planned this all along! You didn't want to marry Zhou Liguang because he's a cripple, so you dragged your older brother into it! You're a menace! What sins did I, Qiao Shouguo, commit in my past life to be so blind as to raise such a jinx!"

"Dad, I really didn't, I was just confused for a moment..." Qiao Mingzhu cried out in despair. Seeing that Qiao Shouguo had completely abandoned her, she turned her head in terror, looking at her mother standing to the side like a lifeline. "Mom! Mom, please say something for me, Mom, you love me the most, don't you...?"

However, following her gaze, Qin Fangfang, who usually cherished her and treated her with utmost care, was now silently shedding tears.

Upon hearing Qiao Mingzhu's plea, Qin Fangfang's body stiffened slightly. Then, she bit her lip tightly, resolutely turned her head away, and refused to give her even a glance.

His reputation was completely ruined, and his son's future was also jeopardized.

Even if Qin Fangfang was biased, she was completely heartbroken in the face of this bloody reality.

Seeing her mother, who had always doted on her, turn away without hesitation and refuse to protect her, the light in Qiao Mingzhu's eyes instantly went out.

She collapsed onto the cold ground, a tremendous panic engulfing her like an abyss. Now, she was truly terrified!

Qiao Mingzhu huddled in Qiao Lijun's broad arms, trembling like a frightened quail.

Tears streamed down her face, landing on Qiao Lijun's shirt and spreading out in patches of water.

She covered her swollen cheek, not daring to utter another word.

Watching the woman he cherished most being slapped to the ground by her own father and ignored by her own mother, Qiao Lijun felt his heart breaking.

He suddenly raised his head, his eyes bloodshot, like a lone wolf cornered in a desperate situation, staring intently at his parents.

"Dad! Mom! Haven't you done that?!"

Qiao Lijun let out a desperate roar, "Blame me! This has nothing to do with Mingzhu, it's not her fault at all! It's me... it's me who insisted on being with her! Why do you have to hit her? If you want to hit someone, hit me!"

"Hit you? You think I wouldn't dare hit you?!"

Qiao Shouguo trembled with rage, his hand shaking as if electrocuted, pointing at Qiao Lijun's nose. "You little beast! You two... what kind of disgusting thing have you done! How can your mother and I hold our heads up in this compound after this? Now all the leaders, comrades, and neighbors know about your shameful affair of sleeping in the same bed! How could I, Qiao Shouguo, who have been so wise all my life, have given birth to such a shameless dog like you!"

Standing to the side, Qin Fangfang's tears streamed down her face, and she could barely stand. She slapped her thigh hard, making a sharp "smack," and wailed in despair, "What a tragedy! What a tragedy!"

She rushed forward, grabbed Qiao Lijun's arm, and with all her might pulled him away from Qiao Mingzhu, her voice shrill and piercing:

"Qiao Lijun! Are you out of your mind?! Do you even know what you're doing?! Your excellent reputation, the future you've worked so hard for, you don't want any of it anymore?! Just for her..."

Qin Fangfang's lips trembled, her finger shaking as she pointed at Qiao Mingzhu on the ground, her eyes filled with disbelief, "Just for this woman!"

Faced with his mother's desperate questioning, Qiao Lijun showed no remorse whatsoever.

He shook off his mother's hand, his expression so calm it was chilling.