“Ah!”
Lu Rou burst in.
When she saw Jiang Nuan getting off the bed, she hurriedly covered her eyes and hid in Lu Daqiang’s arms.
Pointing at Jiang Nuan, she shouted angrily, “Sister-in-law, you really are here! We’ve been looking for you all day and night, and you’ve been in Second Brother’s room the whole time!
You… you’re shameless!
How could you do something so disgraceful?”
When the villagers saw Jiang Nuan getting down from her brother-in-law’s bed, the room exploded with noise.
“Oh my heavens! Lu Lin is her brother-in-law. This… this is outrageous!”
“What’s wrong with Jiang Nuan? Lu Daqiang works at the meat processing factory now—he’s even a team leader!
With such a good man, she still wasn’t satisfied and hooked up with her crippled brother-in-law? I heard Lu Lin has no feeling in his lower body at all. Can he even do that?”
“Forget whether he can or not! If this gets out, how will anyone from Lotus Village ever hold their heads up again?”
The man on the bed, his dark eyes as deep as a frozen lake, shifted slightly and was about to speak when Jiang Nuan suddenly leaned close.
He instantly held his breath.
The frost in his eyes melted away as he stared unblinkingly at the woman approaching him.
Meeting his pitch-black gaze, Jiang Nuan thought of his identity and suppressed the discomfort in her heart.
As she tucked the blanket around him, she quickly whispered in his ear,
“No matter what happens later, don’t say a word.”
His dark eyes flickered. With the woman so close, his hands clenched into fists beneath the blanket.
“Did you hear me?” Jiang Nuan was frantic.
Her brother-in-law was too upright.
In her previous life, he had taken all the blame upon himself, admitting that he had seduced her and bearing the stigma of seducing his sister-in-law. Even after his death, people still dragged his name out to curse him.
In this life, she would stop him.
She would not let history repeat itself.
Lu Lin looked at the anxiety on her face. Thinking of the current situation, he frowned slightly and nodded.
Jiang Nuan let out a breath of relief and gave him a reassuring look before standing up.
“Jiang Nuan! You shameless woman! You married Daqiang and still weren’t satisfied—now you’ve seduced the second son!”
Old Madam Lu rushed at Jiang Nuan with a thick wooden stick, cursing loudly. “You wretch! You’ve disgraced the entire Lu family!
I’ll beat you to death right now and clean house for the Lu family!”
Seeing the ferocious look on Old Madam Lu’s face, memories of the torment she endured in her previous life flashed before Jiang Nuan’s eyes. Her gaze turned icy.
She grabbed the stick before it could strike her. In her previous life, it was this very blow that nearly caused her to miscarry.
She had been knocked to the ground, desperately explaining that she had nothing to do with her brother-in-law.
Blood ran down her pant leg, and everyone found out she was pregnant.
Caught “in the act,” the child in her womb was labeled a bastard. From then on, she bore the stigma and could never lift her head again.
The scenes of her past life flashed before her eyes. Jiang Nuan wrenched the stick away and struck Old Madam Lu hard.
Old Madam Lu immediately screamed, dodging as she howled, “Ahhh! It hurts! You lunatic, stop!”
“Daqiang! Rou Rou! Save me!”
Jiang Nuan chased her, striking with all her strength each time. Her fierce expression was nothing like her usual timid self, shocking everyone present.
Except Lu Lin.
Watching Jiang Nuan as if she had become a different person, his dark eyes followed her figure, and his fists slowly loosened.
“Brother Daqiang, hurry and stop this madwoman! Mom’s going to be beaten to death!” Lu Rou hid behind Lu Daqiang, pushing him forward in fear.
Seeing Jiang Nuan’s crazed state, Lu Daqiang’s legs went weak. He retreated again and again, pointing at her as he stammered, “Ji… Jiang Nuan, have you gone mad?! Put down the stick!”
Jiang Nuan suddenly turned to look at him.
Lu Daqiang had never seen such coldness in her eyes. He trembled, his tongue tying into knots. “You… why are you looking at me like that? You’re the one who did something to wrong me—”
“Wrong your mother!” Jiang Nuan flashed in front of him and beat him mercilessly.
She didn’t spare Lu Rou either.
Lu Jie burst into tears. “You fat hag! Don’t hit my mom—”
Lu Rou’s face changed drastically. She hurriedly covered her son’s mouth and glanced guiltily at the others.
Jiang Nuan paused for a moment, then sneered and yanked Lu Jie out of Lu Rou’s arms.
“Jiang Nuan! What are you doing?!” Lu Daqiang and Lu Rou cried out at the same time.
Jiang Nuan brought the stick down on Lu Jie. A five- or six-year-old child couldn’t withstand such a blow and immediately let out a piercing scream.
Seeing his precious son being beaten, Lu Daqiang lunged forward, pale-faced. “Jiang Nuan, you damn fat woman! Let go of my son!”
Jiang Nuan swung the stick across his face. With a howl, Lu Daqiang was sent flying to the ground, several teeth scattering from his mouth.
“Brother Daqiang!”
“Daqiang!”
Old Madam Lu and Lu Rou crawled to his side. Seeing him barely conscious, they glared at Jiang Nuan with fury.
“Jiang Nuan, are you crazy?!” Lu Rou no longer looked gentle and delicate. Her hair was disheveled, her face twisted.
“Let Xiao Jie go! Or I’ll report you and your brother-in-law to the Public Security Bureau for adultery! You’ll spend the rest of your lives in prison!”
Old Madam Lu, bruised and swollen, stroked Lu Daqiang’s battered face and glared at Jiang Nuan as if she wanted to devour her.
“Yes! Send them to the Public Security Bureau! Let this adulterous couple never lift their heads again!”
Holding Lu Jie in one hand and pointing the stick at Old Madam Lu with the other, Jiang Nuan sneered. “Fine. Let’s go to the Public Security Bureau right now—and we’ll also report your precious daughter and Lu Daqiang for having an affair and giving birth to an illegitimate child!”
The room fell silent.
The villagers instantly turned to stare at Lu Rou and Lu Daqiang.
“Jiang Nuan! What nonsense are you talking about!”
Lu Rou’s face turned deathly pale. Forcing herself to steady her voice, she cried pitifully, “You’re the shameless one having an affair with your brother-in-law, and now you’re slandering me and Brother Daqiang because you think everyone is as immoral as you!”
Lu Daqiang wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and shouted guiltily, “I watched Rou Rou grow up. She’s like my own sister! How could we possibly do something so vile?”
Old Madam Lu’s eyes darted around. “That’s right! Everything requires evidence.
We saw with our own eyes that you were in the second son’s room, lying on the same bed as him—that’s evidence.
You’re accusing Rou Rou and Daqiang? If you’ve got proof, show it!”
Jiang Nuan curled her lips. “Proof? Of course I have proof.” With that, she threw Lu Jie to the ground.
Lu Daqiang and Lu Rou’s faces turned ashen. It was too late to stop her.
“This is the proof.”
Under the villagers’ stunned gazes, Jiang Nuan sneered. “Lu Jie was never some abandoned baby you kindly took in. He’s the bastard child born from Lu Rou and Lu Daqiang’s affair!”
The crowd instantly erupted in an uproar!