Only then did Gu Rou coldly turn her gaze to Gu Li, who was being “intimately engaged” by the piglet, screaming and struggling. Her voice cut clearly through the chaos:
“Well? Gu Li, how does it feel to ‘fool around’ with a pig? Enjoy it?”
“In broad daylight, doing such shameless things with a pig—how very honorable for the Gu family!”
“So shameless—shouldn’t you be thrown into a pig cage?”
“I was cutting pig grass up the mountain and ran into a wild boar! I screamed for help until my throat was raw! Gu Li, were you deaf or blind? You turned around and spread rumors all over the village that I was rolling around in the grass with a man?!”
“Gu Li! What kind of intentions do you have?!”
“I think you’re filthy to the core yourself, so everything you see looks dirty! Do you usually do these sneaky, shameless things?”
“You’re the real trash being ridden! A filthy-hearted, rotten-souled piece of garbage!”
Gu Rou’s voice thundered like a bolt of lightning, exploding in everyone’s ears.
Li Xiufang and the villagers all stared at Gu Li in shock, then looked at the obvious wounds on Gu Rou—scratches torn by beast claws and thorns, her swollen ankle—and suddenly understood everything!
So that was it!
Gu Rou had been attacked by a wild boar!
There was no affair at all!
It was Gu Li spreading rumors, trying to ruin her cousin!
“Gu Li got ridden by a pig! Trash! Rotten seed!”
Little Gu Chuan broke free from his mother’s grip and pointed at Gu Li, shouting loudly, his childish voice filled with rage.
“Tsk, when you put it that way, Gu Rou really was wronged…”
“Gu Li’s intentions… that’s vicious.”
“Exactly! She nearly ruined a person’s life!”
The crowd buzzed with discussion, their gazes toward Gu Li full of disdain and contempt.
“You’re lying! You were sneaking around with a man! I heard the sounds!”
Gu Li was on the verge of collapse from being rooted by the pig and condemned by everyone. She panicked completely and shrieked in rebuttal.
“If it were a wild boar, how could you still be alive?! You’re lying! You were definitely fooling around with a man!”
She absolutely could not admit it!
If she did, her reputation would be finished!
And that city fiancé of Gu Rou’s—whom she had coveted for so long—would be completely out of reach!
“Are your ears deaf, or are you scared? Xiao Rou already said it was a wild boar!”
“I’ll have my man take people up the mountain right now to look for evidence. If it turns out you spread rumors, I’ll skin you alive!”
Li Xiufang spoke with fierce conviction. She knew Gu Rou would never lie—this little slut must be vicious-mouthed and rotten-hearted, deliberately slandering her Xiao Rou.
Watching Gu Li’s flustered attempts to explain herself, Gu Rou sneered coldly.
“People with dirty hearts see dirt everywhere. You didn’t even see clearly, yet you said I was fooling around with someone.”
“Is it because you yourself often do this kind of thing?”
“That’s why you think this way about others?”
“I think you’re the dirty one—the rotten trash that gets ridden!”
“Slap! Slap! Slap!”
Still not satisfied, Gu Rou slapped Gu Li several more times as she tried to open her mouth again.
Seeing his sister being beaten, Gu Yaozu ground his teeth. “Gu Rou, Gu Li is your sister! How can you be so vicious?”
“Huh? I’m vicious?” Gu Rou laughed coldly.
“Gu Yaozu, this so-called sister spread rumors about her own cousin sleeping around, trying to ruin my reputation. Tell me—who’s vicious, her or me?”
“Do you think Gu Li came up with this on the spot, or had she long wanted me dead?”
Gu Yaozu glanced at the injured Gu Li, a trace of guilt flickering across his face.
Gu Rou froze for a moment when she saw his expression.
She couldn’t help but think back. The original owner had been staying at home perfectly fine—it was Gu Li who kept urging her to go up the mountain together. The two of them had been in the same area. The original owner had been cutting pig grass when she looked up and Gu Li was gone.
Worried something had happened to her, the original owner searched the mountain while calling out—only to run into a frenzied wild boar.
Then, in the blink of an eye, her reputation was ruined.
The rumors spread far too fast—unnaturally fast.
Gu Rou suspected Gu Li had prepared everything in advance and even arranged for others to cooperate. Otherwise, it wouldn’t have spread so quickly.
Sure enough, as soon as Gu Rou said that, Gu Li’s expression tightened, and even Gu Yaozu showed guilt.
Damn it—how could there be such a coincidence?
Li Xiufang had barely asked Zhang Cuihua one question before Zhang Cuihua rushed to curse and insult them. What kind of proper relative reacts like that?
It was the third branch!
That whole family had planned this long ago.
Realizing the original owner had been set up by her own relatives, the fire in Gu Rou’s heart instantly ignited.
Right now, Gu Rou just wanted to clench her fists and beat people senseless.
At this point, no one could stop her. Gu Rou charged straight at them.
Using both hands and feet, she beat Gu Li and Gu Yaozu all over—their faces, bodies, even their lower halves—until both of them were covered in blood and misery!
“Fuck! A whole family of wolf-hearted scum! You planned this today, didn’t you? You deliberately framed me! I’ll beat you two bastards to death, you pigs and dogs!”
In just a few seconds, Gu Rou had figured it out. It had to be the second branch of the family—they didn’t want the third branch to live well, so they came up with this scheme: completely ruin the original owner’s reputation so Gu Li could marry into the city.
Not only that—the book even mentioned that after this incident, the original owner was inexplicably harassed by village thugs, losing her chastity entirely.
Facing Gu Rou’s fury, Gu Li and Gu Yaozu had no strength to fight back at all. They were beaten until they couldn’t even lift a hand, finally lying half-dead on the ground.
“Tsk tsk, look at Gu Yaozu—such a big guy, yet he can’t even beat a little girl like Gu Rou. Is he even a man?”
“I don’t think it’s that he can’t fight—this is obviously guilt from doing something wrong.”
“Exactly. If they hadn’t done something shameful, with their family’s temperament, would they not be jumping around screaming by now?”
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