Before Jiang Meiqi could speak, she continued, “You might think she’s innocent, but in my eyes, she’s not innocent at all! She intended to harm others, but failed. She should suffer the consequences of biting off more than she could chew. Otherwise, she wants to do evil, gets caught, and then plays the victim—there’s no such logic in this world!”
Jiang Meiqi had never been rebuked so strongly by Rong Yan before. She was stunned for a moment and it took her a while to squeeze out a response, “Are you talking back to me now? Do you no longer regard me as your mother in your heart?”
Rong Yan thought about the conversation she overheard at the hospital door, thought about Li Duidui, thought about Li Shengxiao, and suddenly felt a profound calmness in her heart. Holding her phone quietly, she asked in return, “Then Mrs. Rong, do you really consider me your daughter in your heart?”
Jiang Meiqi felt a sudden panic, afraid that Rong Yan might know something, and anxiously asked, “What do you mean by that?”
Rong Yan actually didn’t know anything; she was just voicing the thoughts that had been buried in her heart for over twenty years, “No particular meaning. I just feel that, compared to me, Rong Weiwei is more like your biological daughter, that’s all.”
I just feel that compared to me, Rong Weiwei is more like your biological daughter, that’s all! Jiang Meiqi’s heart trembled fiercely. She felt that Rong Yan knew nothing, but Rong Yan’s words still made her subconsciously worry that Rong Yan knew something.
Perhaps because of her own guilt, her reaction was particularly intense, she said sternly, “This is how you talk to me? With this kind of attitude, why should I take your side? Just because I don’t side with you means I’m not your real mother? After raising you for so many years, this is who you’ve become? So, you’ve always been against Wei, not because of Mufeng, but because you’ve been jealous of her since childhood, right? Just because I treat her a bit better, you can’t stand to see her well-off. Rong Yan, you’ve disappointed me greatly!”
If she hadn’t gone to the hospital that day, she might still have held a sliver of hope for her so-called biological mother, but after that visit, she had become numb.
“Have I disappointed you so little? I thought you had long given up on me, without any expectations,” Rong Yan said calmly, “This time it was Rong Weiwei’s own fault! If she hadn’t harbored the intention to harm others, she wouldn’t have been caught bringing Huang Youde home. If she’s now misunderstood, it’s her own problem. Mrs. Rong, you must have heard the saying, ‘A clear conscience laughs at false accusations,’ haven’t you?
“Calling me is useless. I am not the one who exposed her, I can’t control the media reporters, and I don’t have the money to buy an online army like she does. So, don’t worry about me hiring an online army to smear her behind her back.”
“It was clearly you who conspired with that crazy woman and intentionally let her disrupt Wei’s press conference. Do you really think claiming innocence cleans your hands of guilt?” Jiang Meiqi was adamant that Rong Yan was behind it.
Rong Yan didn’t want to explain anymore, “You can think whatever you like. No matter what I do, in your eyes, I am always the cunning and malicious one, the one who can’t show her face in polite society. If there’s nothing else, I’m hanging up.”
“Mrs. Rong, please be direct if there’s anything you wish to say.”
“I want you to go and explain things clearly to Mrs. Huang, tell her that Wei and her husband have no improper relationship. You should be well aware that Wei couldn’t possibly have any other kind of relationship with her husband, right?”