(Seventh update)
Chen Qiaoyu went on, "Actually, after I got married, my life was satisfying to a certain extent. After all, I went from a discarded daughter of the Chen Family to a daughter-in-law of the Yang Family."
"That shows Mrs. Chen is a capable woman too!" Luo Ziling praised Chen Qiaoyu with a smile, then added, "Otherwise things wouldn’t have turned out like this."
"Yang Yunlin treated me well, that’s why I have the status I do today. Maybe it’s because I’m pretty, with a good figure, and also..." When she got to this point, Chen Qiaoyu looked rather embarrassed, but she still forced herself to say it: "Back then I was still a virgin. Even though I had taken the initiative to pursue your dad, I still... anyway, you know what I mean. Later, I gave birth to a pair of twins for him, and I handed over all the property the Chen Family gave me to the Yang Family."
There was one thing Chen Qiaoyu didn’t mention: when she was young, her physical desires were strong and wild, and she frequently gave Yang Yunlin pleasant surprises. Anyway, after she married Yang Yunlin, he was quite satisfied with her and treated her very well.
Back then Yang Yunlin probably also sympathized with what she’d gone through, so he indulged her a lot, which kept Chen Qiaoyu’s status in the Yang Family consistently high.
Especially after she gave the Yang Family the twins Yang Qingye and Yang Qingyin, her status rose another level.
Of course, the rise in Chen Qiaoyu’s status also had to do with the improvement in relations between the Chen Family and the Yang Family.
As relations between the Chen Family and the Yang Family improved, as a daughter of the Chen Family married into the Yang Family, there was no way Chen Qiaoyu’s status would be low.
Chen Qiaoyu’s own capabilities were also quite good, and that naturally was an important reason too.
Growing up in a bad environment and being tempered by life, Chen Qiaoyu matured earlier than people her age. She inherited her mother’s tough temperament, and the pressures of life taught her how to survive; she became smooth and adaptable. Anyway, at that time, in many respects Yang Yunlin couldn’t match her. For several years after they married, he listened to her, and helped her win quite a lot of benefits.
Luo Ziling didn’t know most of what Chen Qiaoyu was telling him, and he understood many things from her words for the first time, which thrilled him. He really wanted her to say more, but he was too embarrassed to ask.
Chen Qiaoyu didn’t let Luo Ziling down. She probably had never told anyone these things. It was rare to have someone she could talk to without restraint, so if she didn’t get everything out, she felt unwilling to stop.
"In the end, relations between the Chen Family and the Yang Family still cooled off, and that’s mainly my doing." Chen Qiaoyu said with a proud look on her face, "The way the Chen Family treated my mom, of course I had to get revenge. If the Chen Family and the Yang Family had stayed on good terms, the other families would definitely have been under huge pressure. After I got married, my life was good and I felt satisfied. But women, the thing they can’t forget most is always their first love—no matter who it is."
"I kept thinking about your dad, wanting to do something for him. In fact, over the years I wanted to get closer to your mom, there were lots of things I wanted to cooperate with her on, but she wasn’t interested. Later I found out that all these years, Yang Yunlin was still trying to hit on your mom, but she turned him down. Because of that, and also because of your dad, I didn’t dare get too close to your mom, afraid it would cause unnecessary trouble."
Luo Ziling nodded. He also hoped Chen Qiaoyu wouldn’t act too over the top, or things would get awkward for everyone.
Feeling the atmosphere was off, Chen Qiaoyu immediately shifted the topic: "But I still underestimated the power of the Chen Family in the end—they did come after me. You don’t even need to mention Chen Ruchang, but after he took over the Chen Family he did have a sense of the bigger picture and never moved against me. The ones who targeted me were my blood relatives, Chen Yihe and Chen Yiping. Those two are worse than animals, they’re disgusting. My mom is their birth mother, yet they never treated her as their own, and they joined the Chen Family in mistreating her."
Talking about Chen Yihe and Chen Yiping made Chen Qiaoyu angry again: "If they’d treated my mom a bit better, stood up for her a little, she wouldn’t have died so early. After my mom passed away, they even stopped treating me as their little sister. Ha, my mom gave Chen Rushan two sons and a daughter, and in the end she still died a bad death. I share blood with Chen Yihe and Chen Yiping, yet they mistreated me too. Not only did they fight me over interests, they even wanted me dead. I hope they die miserably!"
Luo Ziling really wanted Chen Qiaoyu to describe in detail what kind of fights she’d had with Chen Yihe and Chen Yiping, but seeing her so worked up, he ended up not asking.
It seemed Chen Qiaoyu didn’t really want to get into the specifics of her struggle with Chen Yihe and Chen Yiping either. After giving a rough outline, she shut her mouth.
She took a sip of water before continuing, "The only one who treated me well was my older sister, Chen Jiaoyun. Actually, after my mom married into the Chen Family, she never planned to keep in touch with her first love. She ran into him again only after she’d already had two sons and a daughter. On a business trip, she happened to meet her first love, and after drinking quite a bit, something that shouldn’t have happened, happened. She never expected that one stupid mistake would result in getting pregnant with me."
"Originally, the Chen Family didn’t suspect anything, and my mom also thought I was Chen Rushan’s biological daughter. It wasn’t until I was in kindergarten and they checked our blood types during a health exam, and found my blood type didn’t make sense, that Chen Rushan started to suspect. Chen Rushan is type A, my mom is type O, but I’m type B. Based on their blood types, mine could only be A or O, it couldn’t possibly be B or AB. Back then, I don’t think there was paternity testing technology in the country yet. Through overseas connections, Chen Rushan had a paternity test done for us, and the result ruled him out as my biological father."
At this point, Chen Qiaoyu gave a dry little laugh. "So my mom and I became the Chen Family’s disgrace. Even though the whole thing was kept strictly secret, we were the ones who got screwed."
"But no matter what, you’re innocent!" Luo Ziling hesitated, but still chimed in.
"To be honest, in the early years I was quite grateful to Yang Yunlin, because he treated me well, gave me status and identity, and let me become a true daughter-in-law of the Yang Family." Chen Qiaoyu said with a bitter smile, "I just never thought things would turn out so dramatic—that you and Qingyin would end up together. Oh, there’s one thing I don’t understand: how come it never occurred to you that you and Qingyin might be blood-related?"
"I never thought in that direction, and my grandpa and the others never warned me!" Luo Ziling gave a bitter smile too. "Now I finally understand everything!"
"The actual situation is far more complicated and even more dramatic than what I’ve described. I don’t really want to say too much. I just hope you don’t cooperate with the Chen Family. It’d be best if you could ruin them completely—especially those brothers, Chen Yihe and Chen Yiping. They really are worse than animals." Chen Qiaoyu hesitated, then finally forced herself to tell him something she’d originally been too embarrassed to say. "They actually tried to lay hands on their own little sister—they wanted to force themselves on me. Luckily I remembered my mom’s lessons and took thorough precautions, so they didn’t succeed. Otherwise, my whole life would’ve been ruined!"
Listening to her up to this point, Luo Ziling suddenly came to a realization.
Wasn’t she saying all this because she wanted him to help her take revenge?