Chapter 154: Can You Take Responsibility for What You Said?
Chapter 154: Chapter 154: Can You Take Responsibility for What You Said?
Seeing Xu Qingsui’s utterly fearless expression, Liang Xiaoxiao nodded emphatically. "Fine. I hope you can still be like this in a moment!"
Having delivered her threat, Liang Xiaoxiao turned to face the crowd of onlookers.
After all, both of these women had ambiguous ties to the boss. There was no telling which one might become the boss’s wife someday.
It was best to stay away from this kind of drama, lest they get dragged in and end up paying the price.
So when Liang Xiaoxiao looked over, no one dared to meet her gaze. Some were even getting ready to slip away.
But Liang Xiaoxiao was the first to speak. "I wanted to give a certain someone a chance to save face, but since they don’t appreciate the gesture, there’s nothing more for me to say."
"Since everyone’s here, I’ll have to ask you all to bear witness. We’ll see just how honorable a certain someone’s actions have been, and whether she really has any right to challenge me."
At these words, everyone’s eyes lit up. ’Isn’t this basically getting official permission to listen to gossip?’
Liang Xiaoxiao herself was asking them to listen. So even if something went wrong, the blame wouldn’t fall on them, right?
Their spirits lifted, the crowd surged forward a few steps. Some people even started jostling for a spot at the front, eager for a front-row seat to the drama.
Seeing everyone crowd around, Liang Xiaoxiao grew even more smug.
’With so many people watching,’ she thought, ’once I expose Xu Qingsui’s secrets, no matter how thick-skinned she is, she won’t have the face to stay here any longer.’
For a moment, Liang Xiaoxiao could already picture it: Xu Qingsui’s true colors exposed, too ashamed to stay, scurrying away in disgrace.
Liang Xiaoxiao tilted her chin arrogantly at Xu Qingsui. "You brought this on yourself!"
"According to my information, even before you activated your guide physique, you already had designs on your own sister’s fiancé. You even went out of your way to seduce him, making him fall for you and leave her, unable to get you out of his head."
Liang Xiaoxiao finally began, and she didn’t disappoint. The moment she opened her mouth, she dropped a bombshell that left everyone in the crowd dumbfounded.
In an instant, all eyes were on Xu Qingsui, raking over her from head to toe without any attempt at subtlety.
’So she’s that kind of person! Seducing her own sister’s fiancé!’
’Wow, she plays around that much? You’d never guess. Does that mean I have a chance too?’
’Vixen. What a shameless bitch!’
All sorts of contemptuous gazes converged on Xu Qingsui, sweeping over her body as if trying to strip her bare.
Xu Qingsui’s brow tightened. Her first thought was that Liang Xiaoxiao must have investigated her, but she quickly dismissed the idea.
’A lie that twists black into white like this couldn’t possibly be the result of a real investigation,’ she reasoned. ’Not unless Liang Xiaoxiao was willing to shamelessly make it all up herself.’
After all, her own conduct had been aboveboard; she had nothing to fear from people digging into her past.
But remembering how utterly convinced Liang Xiaoxiao had looked, she didn’t think Liang Xiaoxiao was the one who’d invented the lies.
After thinking it through, she concluded that someone must have been feeding Liang Xiaoxiao lies, deliberately twisting the truth to frame her.
Shen Yan stared at his phone screen, his eyes glinting behind his rimless glasses.
’Xu Qingsui did something like that?’
He had his doubts.
His gut told him that Xu Qingsui wasn’t the kind of person who would do such a thing.
But you couldn’t prove anything based on a gut feeling alone.
He could trust his instincts, but others had no reason to.
He felt he should go and say something on Xu Qingsui’s behalf, but he had no pretext; he didn’t know how he could just show up.
After some thought, he decided to wait and see. It would be best if Xu Qingsui could produce evidence to prove her own innocence. If she couldn’t come up with any on the spot, then he would step in.
Even if it was just to buy her some time to prove her case to the crowd.
His mind made up, Shen Yan continued to stare at the screen. He also wanted to know what else Liang Xiaoxiao would say. Did she have any evidence?
And could Xu Qingsui prove her own innocence?
After speaking, Liang Xiaoxiao watched Xu Qingsui with a smug look, observing her expression for any change.
Seeing that Xu Qingsui didn’t object and her expression flickered as if deep in thought, Liang Xiaoxiao was certain she had hit the mark.
Liang Xiaoxiao grew even smugger. After throwing a triumphant look at Xu Qingsui, she continued to up the ante. "And that’s not all. Not long ago, after you activated your guide physique, you used it to join Zone 9’s Survival Team."
"The leader of the Zone 9 Survival Team has a fiancée he grew up with, a childhood sweetheart. But for some reason, she wasn’t with him. You took advantage of that opening to swoop in and seduce him, making him abandon his fiancée."
"Oh my god! How could she do that? That’s just despicable!"
"You really can’t tell, can you? She looks like such a proper young woman. How could she do something so shameless?"
"It’s true you can’t judge a book by its cover! We were all fooled by her looks."
At first, the onlookers had only been jeering in their minds, not daring to show their contempt openly.
But upon hearing that Xu Qingsui had destroyed someone’s relationship more than once, the crowd could no longer hold back and began to murmur loudly among themselves.
They weren’t afraid of Xu Qingsui hearing them; on the contrary, they wanted to make sure she did.
Xu Qingsui’s brows furrowed. ’This talent for twisting the truth is really something else,’ she thought. ’To even drag Lu Jingyu into it...’
’But who could it be?’
Seeing Xu Qingsui’s brows knit together, yet she remained silent, Liang Xiaoxiao grew even more triumphant.
She pressed her advantage. "Because she’d latched onto the Survival Team leader, she dumped her sister’s fiancé. But that scumbag was so infatuated that he kept pestering her, which ended up offending the team leader. In the end, he was kicked out of the safe zone."
Liang Xiaoxiao loudly proclaimed Xu Qingsui’s "sordid past," successfully riling up the emotions of the crowd.
All manner of contemptuous insults were hurled at Xu Qingsui, making Liang Xiaoxiao even more excited.
"Luckily, just when she thought she’d secured the leader of the Zone 9 Survival Team and could do as she pleased, his real fiancée showed up. And while the leader defended her at first, she ultimately didn’t get her way."
"That’s exactly why she couldn’t stay in Zone 9 and had to come here, to our 27th District. But I guess a leopard can’t change its spots, because as soon as she got here, she locked onto Shen Yan and started making her moves."
At the mention of Shen Yan, Liang Xiaoxiao’s smile finally vanished, replaced by a flash of anger.
"Xu Qingsui, everything you’ve done is out in the open now! I’m telling you, Shen Yan will soon see you for who you really are, and he won’t be fooled by you anymore. I advise you to know what’s good for you and leave the 27th District on your own. Otherwise, if you get thrown out, it won’t be nearly as pleasant."
"That’s right! The 27th District doesn’t welcome hussies like you! Get out of the 27th District!"
"We support Guide Liang! Get lost, you wicked woman!"
"Drive that shameless woman out of the 27th District and make our home clean again!"