"Mom!" Seeing Wang Ying, Gu Youlan latched onto her like a drowning person clutching a life-saving straw, crying bitterly and sharply!
Gu Yuandao stood beside them with a sullen face, hearing everyone gossiping about his daughter’s scandalous acts, wishing he could dig a hole and hide in it. Simply disgraceful!
"Dad, I was wrong, please don’t hit me..."
Zhang Zhiqiang, beaten black and blue by Zhang Jianjun, was kneeling on the ground weeping bitterly!
"You bastard, you’re engaged, yet you dared to fool around with another woman, and it’s your fiancée’s sister! How could you even do it!"
Zhang Jianjun cursed and hit his son, deeply disappointed by him. He had lived his life without remorseful deeds, yet he had raised such a useless offspring, he couldn’t face his ancestors even in death!
"Dad, I didn’t do it on purpose, it was Gu Youlan, she seduced me. I was young and impulsive, unable to resist, that’s why I made a mistake, Dad, it’s all Gu Youlan’s fault!"
Zhang Zhiqiang screamed while getting beaten, quickly deciding internally to shove all the blame onto Gu Youlan!
He was the town mayor’s son, destined to inherit Zhang Jianjun’s career. If he bore the stigma of having illicit relations with his fiancée’s sister, how could he show his face in the village? How could he command respect in inheriting Zhang Jianjun’s work?
He had lost all his credibility!
Zhang Zhiqiang was an extremely opportunistic and selfish person; although he liked Gu Youlan, that liking paled in comparison to his future!
Since he could betray Gu Nianyang and have an affair with Gu Youlan, he could also betray Gu Youlan and retreat unscathed!
Ha! Scumbag!
Upon hearing that it was Gu Youlan who seduced Zhang Zhiqiang, the crowd erupted, looking at Gu Youlan with eyes full of disdain!
"Who would’ve thought that Gu Daya would stoop so low? Even going after her own sister’s man!"
"She’s an unmarried girl, how can she act so disgracefully? What’s the difference between her and the fox spirits in the operas?"
"Pah, what maiden? She’s no better than those whores in the city’s red-light district! If this were fifty years ago, her debauchery would have landed her in a pig cage before going to hell!"
"That Gu Erya is really unfortunate, how did she end up with such a shameless sister? If I had such a daughter, I’d drown her in a urinal!"
Everyone hurled venomous words at Gu Youlan, especially in this simple era when most people in the countryside were honest, they were most intolerant of such illicit acts.
Gu Youlan was dumbfounded by the insults, eventually regaining her senses and realizing Zhang Zhiqiang had dumped all the blame on her. Unbelievably and indignantly, she refuted, "Brother Qiang, how can you say that? We were genuinely in love; it was you who forced me earlier. How can you shirk responsibility!"
Hearing this, Zhang Zhiqiang cursed Gu Youlan internally countless times, looking at her with an extremely cold gaze, devoid of any prior tenderness, "You’re lying! Who was genuinely in love with you? You’re just a wicked woman who coveted my wealth to seduce me, I fell for your trap in a moment of negligence!"
Gu Youlan had regained her composure by this time, quickly realizing Zhang Zhiqiang intended to cut ties and sacrifice her to save himself.