As soon as Liu Wanwan said these words, she burst into tears.
“Crazy!”
Liu Qingyue couldn’t help muttering inwardly. To be honest, before coming here,
she hadn’t noticed anything unusual about Liu Wanwan at all.
She hadn’t even known that Liu Wanwan was pregnant.
And now she was saying all this—it was simply ridiculous.
“You’re overthinking things!” Looking at Liu Wanwan’s eyes, which
were bulging like a bull’s, Liu Qingyue stood at the doorway and shrugged. “I genuinely didn’t
know you were pregnant before.”
“You’re lying!”
Liu Wanwan’s shouting grew louder and louder.
Although she had stayed at Zhou Heshan’s house the previous night, his mother had
done nothing but curse at her nonstop.
Yang Su had paced back and forth in the living room, hurling insults at her, while
Liu Wanwan could only stay inside the room. Zhou Heshan would occasionally say a few words.
The whole household had been thrown into chaos. Yang Su had practically hurled every
nasty insult imaginable at her. If Liu Wanwan hadn’t been pregnant, she might have been kicked out of
the house that very night.
Liu Wanwan was extremely unhappy about it. So after everyone had left the house that
morning, she made herself something to eat and then went around asking about where Liu Qingyue had stayed
the previous day.
After learning that Liu Qingyue and Lu Fengting’s relationship was already a done
deal, and that the two had even submitted their marriage application to their superiors, Liu Wanwan came
looking for her.
She felt that Liu Qingyue simply wasn’t worthy of marrying the deputy regiment
commander.
How could someone like Liu Qingyue possibly marry someone better than her?
Even if Liu Qingyue was going to follow her husband to the island, she should only
have been able to marry an ordinary soldier. So why was she getting to marry the deputy regiment
commander?
She herself had only married a deputy battalion commander. What had Liu Qingyue done
to deserve such a man?
She couldn’t accept it!
“Believe it or don’t.” Liu Qingyue really didn’t want to continue
talking to Liu Wanwan.
She turned around and was about to leave. However, Liu Wanwan’s eyes shifted, and
she suddenly reached out and grabbed Liu Qingyue, yanking her back before viciously shoving her
forward.
Fortunately, Liu Qingyue had a steady center of gravity. Otherwise, Liu Wanwan would
have pushed her straight to the ground.
“What are you doing?”
Liu Qingyue turned around and snapped angrily.
Liu Wanwan stuck out her belly and supported her waist with one hand. “I
didn’t do anything! I only pulled you a little. You were the one who couldn’t keep your
balance!”
After saying that, she even looked smug.
Liu Qingyue could only complain inwardly.
This woman must really be crazy!
The baby in her belly was at most a month and a half old. She wasn’t even showing
yet, but here she was acting so smug, sticking out her belly and holding her waist.
What was she even pretending for?
It was ridiculous!
This time, Liu Qingyue didn’t want to argue with her. She glared fiercely into
Liu Wanwan’s eyes.
“Stop coming to cause trouble for me. Otherwise, I’m afraid you’ll
regret it!”
Seeing how completely unconcerned Liu Qingyue looked, Liu Wanwan became even angrier.
She stepped forward and shoved her hard again.
After all, Liu Qingyue wouldn’t dare hit her.
She was pregnant.
If anything happened to her, Zhou Heshan certainly wouldn’t let Liu Qingyue
off!
After being shoved twice in succession, Liu Qingyue closed her eyes for a
moment.
She was genuinely furious now.
She turned around and grabbed Liu Wanwan’s hand, gripping her wrist tightly and
squeezing with all her strength.
Liu Wanwan cried out in pain.
“Let go of me! Hurry up and let go of me!”
Liu Wanwan screamed loudly, but Liu Qingyue remained unmoved.
She had spent years doing housework at home, so she had quite a bit of strength. Liu
Wanwan was squeezed until tears rolled down her cheeks.
“How can you bully a pregnant woman like me? You’re being completely
unreasonable! I’m going to let everyone see what you’ve done!”
Just moments ago, Liu Wanwan had been wondering how she could provoke Liu Qingyue
into hitting her.
Although what she had done wasn’t exactly honorable, if Liu Qingyue actually laid
hands on a pregnant woman, that would be a completely different matter!
As long as it was firmly established that Liu Qingyue had hit her, everyone would
condemn Liu Qingyue as a terrible person. No one would bring up the things Liu Wanwan herself had done
anymore.
So with a flick of her eyes, Liu Wanwan immediately began shouting at the top of her
lungs.
“Come and look! Everyone, come and see! Someone is bullying a pregnant
woman!”
“Waaah!”
Liu Wanwan’s loud cries soon attracted quite a few neighbors. The island
wasn’t particularly large, and the houses were all situated roughly the same distance from one
another.
After hearing the commotion, the neighbors gradually made their way over.
When Liu Wanwan saw the neighbors approaching, she wanted to simply plop herself down
on the ground.
Who would have thought that Liu Qingyue would grab her first?
Then, all of a sudden, Liu Qingyue began crying.
Because Liu Wanwan had been pulled back, she didn’t manage to sit down on the
ground.
Liu Qingyue, however, cried as she said to her, “How can you do this to me?
I’ve already given my fiancé to you. Why do you still have to come and cause trouble for
me?”
“I didn’t hold any of the things you’ve done against you. I even wished
the two of you happiness together. But now, not only have you come looking for trouble with me, you’re
even telling everyone that I’m bullying you. My life is already miserable enough!”
After Liu Qingyue finished speaking, she even pretended to be pitiful as she wiped
away her tears.
Several neighbors who had come over happened to have been away yesterday, and they
had not gone out yet this morning either, so they knew nothing about what had happened.
After hearing this, they were quite puzzled.
“What happened?”
Some people had no idea, but others knew the whole story very clearly.
When someone asked, one of the army wives who loved to gossip shook her head and
looked at Liu Wanwan with undisguised disdain.
“You have no idea. This girl became quite famous on the island
yesterday!”
“The one who was crying just now, the woman who is about to become Deputy
Regiment Commander Lu’s wife, it’s because…”
That army wife vividly recounted everything that had happened the previous day. The
few army wives who had not heard about it before all widened their eyes.
They practically wanted to slap their thighs in regret!
Why hadn’t they been around yesterday? If they had been there, wouldn’t they
have been able to witness such an earth-shattering piece of gossip?
This was huge!
The younger sister had gotten pregnant with her older sister’s
fiancé’s child, and now she had come here and caused a scene again this morning?
“That woman has no shame at all!”
“She’s an unmarried woman who got pregnant with her future
brother-in-law’s child. How does she even have the nerve to come knocking on her sister’s
door?”
“That’s absolutely disgusting!”
Several army wives began discussing the matter among themselves, and every single one
looked at Liu Wanwan as if she were some disgusting object.
Liu Wanwan suddenly became panicked.
She had thought that there were still people who did not know about the matter, so
she could use it to cause another scene and ruin Liu Qingyue’s reputation.
She absolutely refused to let Liu Qingyue live a better life than her.
She had never expected things to turn out like this!
The panic in her eyes was obvious to everyone, and it only made them feel that she
was even more disgusting.
“You’ve already stolen someone else’s fiancé, so why are you
still coming here to cause trouble today?”
“Can’t you just stay quietly by yourself?”
“Do you really have to disgust everyone like this?”
…
The army wives all chimed in one after another, leaving Liu Wanwan’s face
bright red.
Liu Qingyue sneered coldly in her heart.
Wasn’t Liu Wanwan the one who loved using this trick the most?
Then she would simply use Liu Wanwan’s own strategy against her and see what
else she could do.
This was exactly what it meant to fight magic with magic!
With everyone talking over one another, Liu Wanwan simply couldn’t stand being
stared at by everyone anymore. She no longer had the time or energy to slander Liu Qingyue and simply turned
around and left.
After watching her leave, Liu Qingyue finally pretended to wipe the tears from her
face before apologizing to the army wives.
“Thank you, sisters-in-law. Otherwise, she would have caused trouble for me
again!”
Seeing this, the army wives gathered around her.
The few who did not know the truth comforted her as they came over.
“Don’t take it too much to heart. If she comes looking for trouble again,
just call out to us. We’ll all come out and stand up for you.”
“That’s right, just let us know.”
“Exactly what happened?”
“How did things end up like this? Your younger sister’s character is
really terrible!”
Although these army wives were comforting her, Liu Qingyue could hear the excitement
hidden in their words.
In reality, they simply wanted to hear the gossip and find out what had
happened.
Liu Qingyue sighed inwardly.
Not every army wife was as sincere as those three from yesterday.
But that didn’t matter.
These were precisely the kind of people she needed.
She needed to use their mouths to spread the news. Ideally, she wanted everyone on
the entire island to know what Zhou Heshan and Liu Wanwan had done.
Let’s see if the two of them could still put on that righteous and respectable
facade afterward!
So even though she knew exactly what these women were thinking, Liu Qingyue still
pretended to sigh before putting on a wronged expression.
“I came here to join my husband. She said she wanted to come with me, and my
stepmother told me to bring her along. She wanted to see if we could find her a job on the island afterward
because things were getting so difficult at home that we could barely make ends meet.”
“At the time, I didn’t think there was anything wrong with it. We still
had a younger brother at home, so I thought our situation really wasn’t very good, and that was why I
brought her here with me.”
“Who would have thought…”
The more Liu Qingyue spoke, the harder she cried.
“Only after I came here did I find out that the two of them had already gotten
involved with each other. She was already more than a month pregnant!”
“It was only because one of the kind-hearted army wives took my pulse that I
found out. Otherwise, I would have remained completely in the dark. Tell me, isn’t my life
miserable?”
After all, Liu Qingyue had lived into her fifties in her previous life. She had seen
all kinds of things, so she had developed at least some talent when it came to making herself look
pitiful.
She had only cried for a short while, yet the army wives’ desire to hear gossip
had already transformed into genuine sympathy.
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