As soon as Su Yun arrived, Xu Dongmei’s constant crying and tearful performance could no longer gain her any advantage.
Xiao Yuan would not soften his heart.
And Su Yun would soften her heart even less.
She only found it ridiculous.
Not far away, Qin Jiao had been watching from the crowd. Seeing that their plan had failed—and that Su Yun, that “bitch,” and that cripple Xiao Yuan had cornered Xu Dongmei into having nothing to say—Qin Jiao was furious.
She pushed through the crowd and stepped forward.
“Su Yun, who do you think you are? Since when is it your place to interfere in our family matters?”
Qin Jiao looked arrogant.
“A woman like you who hooked up with a cripple without a matchmaker—how dare you stand here and speak?”
“If I were you, I would have long jumped into a river and killed myself.”
Qin Jiao had really struck a sore spot.
Su Yun had not even planned to settle this account yet—but since Qin Jiao brought it up, she might as well settle it now.
She crossed her arms and curved her lips slightly.
“You’re right.”
With that, she stepped forward and walked toward the podium.
Every word she spoke rang out clearly.
“Comrades, I want to report Qin Aiguo, his eldest son Qin Xiao, and the entire Qin family for suspected murder.”
Yesterday in the county town, she had only exposed Qin Aiguo’s exploitation of the production team—embezzling work points and stealing public resources.
Now, she was making a personal report: how the Qin family had harmed the original owner of her body.
Standing on the platform, Su Yun calmly and without hesitation revealed everything—how she had been married into the Qin family, how Qin Xiao had gone back on his word, beaten her, and tried to frame her.
“The injury on my forehead was caused by him forcing my head into the wall. The marks on my neck were from him choking me.”
She pulled her collar down slightly, revealing shocking finger-shaped bruises.
Even though several days had passed, the marks were still deep and clearly visible.
Qin Aiguo, already furious, nearly exploded when he saw Su Yun appear and heard her accusations.
“Su Yun, you bitch! You’re lying!”
“Lying?”
Su Yun sneered, completely unfazed.
She turned to the crowd.
“People from the second production team are here, and so are members who live near the Qin household. On the sixth day of the lunar month—did none of you really see anything?”
Hearing this, the members of the second team hesitated.
Su Yun did not press them.
Instead, she looked at the rest of the crowd.
“Ladies, aunties, sisters—do you think I would smash my own head into a wall and strangle myself just to frame Qin Xiao?”
“Because I despise brick houses and prefer a thatched hut? Because I wanted to marry a disabled man with no parents and no support, so I risked my life just to frame someone?”
She wasn’t insulting Xiao Yuan.
She was simply laying out facts.
Anyone with a functioning mind would know this made no sense.
The crowd indeed agreed.
No one would risk their life just to marry a disabled man.
Seeing that her words had taken effect, Su Yun turned back toward the podium and used her final trump card.
“Leader comrades, the reason Qin Xiao treated me like this is because he had already hooked up with my younger sister Su Zhen. He wanted to kill me to clear the way for her.”
But Qin Xiao did not want to bear the crime of murder.
So he dumped the “dead body” at Xiao Yuan’s house next door.
Xiao Yuan, a bedridden cripple, would never be able to move a corpse.
Then Qin Xiao would bring people to ‘catch them in the act’—and whether she was alive or dead, Xiao Yuan would be ruined beyond recovery.
“What a Qin family! The elder is wicked, and the younger is even more vicious!”
Zhang Chenggong could no longer listen. He slammed the table.
“Leader, I request permission to bring Qin Xiao back immediately.”
The leader nodded.
“Go. And the girl called… Su something?”
“Su Zhen,” Su Yun reminded him.
“Yes. Bring Su Zhen back as well.”
Su Yun added, “Leader, on the sixth day of the lunar month, they already submitted a marriage registration at the commune. Qin Aiguo used his seal to issue the introduction letter. You can send someone to check at the commune and verify everything I said.”
Zhao Fang suddenly exclaimed, “Marriage registration requires the brigade leader’s seal—Aiguo, you’re only a team leader, how did you—”
How could he have stamped it?
Realizing this late, not only the county leaders but even other team leaders nearby sighed quietly.
The brigade leader was too foolish.
Soon after, Zhang Chenggong brought back Qin Xiao and Su Zhen.
Qin Xiao’s clothes were disheveled.
So were Su Zhen’s.
The villagers’ gazes sharpened instantly, scanning them like searchlights.
“Wait… weren’t these two just doing that kind of thing?”
An aunt exclaimed, “Look at their clothes—the buttons are all wrong!”
“They must’ve been caught in the bushes and rushed to get dressed!”
Her tone was full of experience.
Once she said it, others immediately agreed.
Su Zhen, despite her thick skin, could not withstand so many stares.
Her face turned bright red as she lowered her head, unable to look at anyone.
Qin Xiao, however, flushed with anger.
“We are husband and wife! What’s wrong with being in the bushes?”
“We’re legal!”
Before anyone could question further, he had already exposed himself.
The county officials now fully believed Su Yun.
“Qin Xiao, everyone knows you married Su Yun—yet you claim you are legally married to Su Zhen. Are you mocking the law?”
Qin Xiao’s face hardened.
“Who said I married Su Yun?”
He swept a cold gaze across the crowd.
“Who saw it?”
He thought he was still the Qin Xiao protected by Qin Aiguo—still untouchable.
But someone in the crowd spoke up boldly.
“On the sixth day of the lunar month, I saw Su Yun carrying a bundle into the Qin household myself.”
“Me too!”
More voices followed.
The crowd began to confirm it one after another.
Qin Xiao’s anger surged.
Qin Aiguo shouted from the side, “That shameless girl Su Yun forced her way in because she wanted to steal her sister’s marriage!”
“Shut up.”
The escorting officers immediately silenced him.
But his words had already given Qin Xiao direction.
He quickly turned the story around.
“I was always going to marry Zhenzhen! It was Su Yun who shamelessly seduced me!”
“When things were exposed, she turned it around and claimed I abandoned her!”
He grabbed Su Zhen, who had been keeping her head down.
“Zhenzhen, tell them! Wasn’t it us who were engaged from the start?”
Su Zhen looked confused.
Qin Xiao desperately signaled her.
She hurriedly nodded.
“Yes… yes, that’s right…”
“It was Su Yun’s shameless sister who stole my marriage—it was her who stole it first!”