Father Lu and Mrs. Lu exchanged a look. They didn't quite understand what was happening.
Father Lu had just gotten home when Lu Xinyue brought a young woman over, claiming she was a good friend of Shen Nian's. When Father Lu and Mrs. Lu asked what was going on, Lu Xinyue insisted they had to wait for Shen Nian to get back before she would say anything.
Now that Shen Nian was back, they couldn't help but feel that something about this situation was off.
'If this girl, Qin Xueling, is really Shen Nian's good friend, shouldn't Shen Nian be happy to see her? Why is she frowning instead?'
"Sister Xueling, why don't you tell them what you told me earlier! Don't worry, with my family here, Shen Nian won't dare to do a thing to you!"
After speaking, Lu Xinyue shot a defiant glare at Shen Nian.
"Xinyue, that's your sister-in-law! How can you be so rude!"
"Mom, what's the rush? After you hear what Sister Xueling has to say, let's see if you're still willing to call her your daughter-in-law!"
"You foolish girl!"
Sun Yufeng was also alarmed by Lu Xinyue's words. 'Could it be? Did Shen Nian really do something terrible?'
"I'm sorry to intrude, sir, ma'am. I didn't want to bother you, but I've been trying to talk to Xiao Nian and she just ignores me. I felt I had no other choice."
Shen Nian watched Qin Xueling put on her pitiful act in front of Father Lu and Mrs. Lu. 'Playing the damsel in distress was always her specialty, wasn't it? In my past life, I was too blind to see through it. But this time, I will never be fooled by Qin Xueling again.'
"Qin Xueling, cut the act. You know perfectly well why I'm ignoring you!"
"Xiao Nian, I know you're worried I'll tell everyone about you and Yin Yang. I don't want to have to do this, really. It's just... I'm worried about Yin Yang. He's..."
Shen Nian's expression faltered the moment she heard Yin Yang's name leave Qin Xueling's lips. In her past life, she had two arch-enemies: one was Qin Xueling, and the other was Yin Yang.
Since her rebirth, she had already encountered Qin Xueling, but she had yet to see Yin Yang. Shen Nian had thought she would have to wait to find Yin Yang and get her revenge, but she never expected Qin Xueling to drag him into the picture now.
Of course, Shen Nian wasn't scared. But this was all happening in front of Father Lu and Mrs. Lu, and Qin Xueling's words were deliberately vague and full of insinuation.
There was already a rift between her and her in-laws. She had worked so hard over the past two days to make a small amount of progress, and she couldn't let Qin Xueling destroy it all so easily.
When they heard a man's name—Yin Yang—come from Qin Xueling's lips, and realized from her tone that he was somehow connected to Shen Nian, Father Lu and Mrs. Lu both turned to look at their daughter-in-law. Their eyes were filled with confusion and suspicion.
"Xiao Nian, what is all this about? What is going on between you and this... Yin Yang?"
"Father, Mother, don't listen to her lies! I have never done anything to betray Lu Cheng!"
'She had done some awful things in her past life, but at least before her divorce from Lu Cheng, she had never crossed that line.'
'That was the one thing Shen Nian was most thankful for after her rebirth. At least she hadn't been *that* foolish.'
"I'm not lying! Xiao Nian, you're the one who told me you didn't want to marry Lu Cheng! You said you only wanted to marry Yin Yang!"
If Qin Xueling's previous words had only planted a seed of doubt in the minds of Father Lu and Mrs. Lu, this last sentence struck directly at their greatest pain point.
After all, it hadn't been long since Lu Cheng and Shen Nian's wedding, and the memory of how unwilling Shen Nian had been to go through with it was still fresh in their minds.
"Xiao Nian... is what she's saying true?"