As she said all this, Liu Wanwan suddenly burst into tears.
“She’s crazy…” Liu Qingyue muttered to herself.
Honestly, before coming here, she hadn’t noticed anything unusual about Liu Wanwan—she didn’t even know she was pregnant. So what she was saying now sounded completely ridiculous.
“You’re overthinking it,” Liu Qingyue said calmly, shrugging as she stood at the doorway.
“I really didn’t know you were pregnant before.”
“You’re lying!”
Liu Wanwan’s voice grew louder and louder.
The night before had been miserable for her. Even though she stayed at Zhou Heshan’s house, his mother had been scolding her nonstop.
Yang Su paced around the living room, cursing endlessly, while Liu Wanwan hid in the bedroom. Zhou Heshan only occasionally tried to calm things down.
The whole house was in chaos. Yang Su said every insult imaginable. If Liu Wanwan hadn’t been pregnant, she probably would’ve been thrown out that very night.
Still upset, Liu Wanwan waited until morning, grabbed something to eat, and went around asking where Liu Qingyue was staying.
When she found out Liu Qingyue and Lu Fengtíng were already set to get married—and had even submitted their marriage application—she came straight here.
She simply couldn’t accept it.
How could Liu Qingyue deserve to marry someone better than her?
Even if Liu Qingyue stayed on the island, she should only marry an ordinary soldier—not a deputy commander!
She wasn’t willing to accept that.
“Believe it or not, I don’t care,” Liu Qingyue said, no longer interested in arguing.
She turned to leave.
But Liu Wanwan’s eyes flickered. She suddenly grabbed Liu Qingyue, yanked her back, and shoved her forward.
Luckily, Liu Qingyue kept her balance.
“What are you doing?!” she snapped.
“I didn’t do anything,” Liu Wanwan said smugly, holding her stomach with one hand and her back with the other.
“I just pulled you a little. You’re the one who couldn’t stand properly.”
She even looked proud.
Liu Qingyue couldn’t help but think, This woman must be insane.
She was barely a month and a half pregnant—there was no visible bump at all—and yet she was already acting like that, holding her waist and showing off.
It was ridiculous.
Not wanting to argue further, Liu Qingyue glared at her.
“Stop causing trouble for me. Otherwise, you’ll regret it.”
But seeing how indifferent she looked only made Liu Wanwan angrier. She stepped forward and shoved her again.
She was confident Liu Qingyue wouldn’t fight back—after all, she was pregnant.
If anything happened to her, Zhou Heshan would definitely blame Liu Qingyue.
After being pushed twice, Liu Qingyue finally lost her patience.
She turned around, grabbed Liu Wanwan’s wrist tightly, and squeezed hard.
Liu Wanwan immediately cried out in pain.
“Let go of me! Let go!”
But Liu Qingyue didn’t budge.
She had done heavy housework for years—her grip was strong. Liu Wanwan’s eyes filled with tears from the pain.
“How can you bully a pregnant woman? You’ve gone too far! I’m going to let everyone see what you’re doing!”
In truth, Liu Wanwan had been waiting for this moment.
She wanted to provoke Liu Qingyue into hitting her.
Yes, what she did was shameful—but if Liu Qingyue attacked a pregnant woman, that would be even worse.
If everyone believed Liu Qingyue hurt her, people would stop talking about her own actions.
So Liu Wanwan suddenly started shouting loudly:
“Come look! Everyone come look! Someone is bullying a pregnant woman!”
“Help!”
Her loud cries quickly attracted neighbors. The island wasn’t very big, and houses were close together.
People began gathering around.
Seeing the crowd, Liu Wanwan tried to drop to the ground dramatically—but Liu Qingyue suddenly pulled her, stopping her.
Then, to everyone’s surprise, Liu Qingyue started crying first.
She looked at Liu Wanwan and said tearfully:
“How can you treat me like this? I already gave my fiancé to you—why are you still coming to trouble me?”
“I didn’t argue about what you did. I even wished the two of you well.”
“But now you’re not only harassing me—you’re also telling everyone I’m bullying you…”
“My life is really too miserable…”
After saying that, Liu Qingyue pretended to wipe away her tears, looking pitiful.
Some of the neighbors who came over hadn’t been around the day before and hadn’t gone out yet that morning, so they didn’t know what had happened.
They looked confused.
“What’s going on?”
Some people didn’t know—but others knew everything.
When someone asked, one outspoken military wife shook her head and looked at Liu Wanwan with obvious disgust.
“You don’t know? This woman became famous on the island yesterday!”
She then vividly retold everything that had happened the day before.
The women who hadn’t heard the story widened their eyes in shock.
They almost wanted to slap their thighs in disbelief!
How did we miss this yesterday?!
This gossip was huge.
“The younger sister got pregnant with her sister’s fiancé’s child—and now she’s here causing trouble again today?!”
“That’s shameless!”
“She’s unmarried and pregnant with her future brother-in-law’s child—and still has the nerve to show up here?”
“That’s disgusting!”
The military wives whispered among themselves, all looking at Liu Wanwan like she was something filthy.
Liu Wanwan suddenly panicked.
She thought some people still didn’t know and planned to use this chance to stir things up again—to ruin Liu Qingyue’s reputation.
She couldn’t stand the idea of Liu Qingyue living better than her.
But now things had completely backfired.
Her flustered expression only made her look worse.
“You already stole someone else’s fiancé—why are you still here causing trouble?”
“Can’t you just stay out of her life?”
“Why do you have to be so disgusting?”
The women’s comments came one after another, leaving Liu Wanwan red-faced with embarrassment.
Liu Qingyue sneered inwardly.
Isn’t this your favorite trick?
Now I’m just using it against you.
Fight fire with fire.
Unable to take the stares and criticism any longer, Liu Wanwan gave up trying to accuse Liu Qingyue and hurried away.
Once she left, Liu Qingyue wiped her tears again and said gratefully:
“Thank you, everyone… otherwise she would’ve kept harassing me.”
The military wives gathered around her.
Those who didn’t know the full story tried to comfort her:
“Don’t take it too hard. If she comes again, just call us—we’ll stand up for you.”
“Yes, just let us know!”
“But what exactly happened?”
“How could things turn out like this? Your sister’s character is really terrible!”
Although they sounded comforting, Liu Qingyue could tell—there was excitement in their voices.
They were curious. They wanted gossip.
She sighed inwardly.
Not all military wives were as sincere as the three she met before.
But that was fine.
This was exactly the kind of person she needed.
She wanted the story to spread—through them—until everyone on the island knew what Zhou Heshan and Liu Wanwan had done.
Let’s see if they could still pretend to be respectable after that.
So even knowing their intentions, Liu Qingyue sighed and spoke in a hurt tone:
“When I came here to join my fiancé, she insisted on coming with me. My stepmother told me to bring her—maybe she could find a job here, since our family is struggling.”
“I didn’t think much of it at the time. We still have a younger brother at home, so I thought things must really be hard… so I brought her along.”
“But who would’ve thought…”
Her voice broke as she cried harder.
“After we got here, I found out they had already been involved for a long time—and she’s been pregnant for over a month!”
“I only found out because a kind military wife checked her pulse. Otherwise, I would’ve been kept in the dark the whole time!”
“Don’t you think I’ve had it really hard?”
Having lived into her fifties in her previous life, Liu Qingyue had seen enough of the world.
When it came to playing the victim… She was actually quite skilled.
After just a short moment of crying, the women around her stopped being curious—
and started genuinely feeling sorry for her.