A Beauty in the 80s Goes on a Blind Date with Her Child, Captivating the Military Compound - Chapter 78

The way Shen Sisi looked at her was incredibly complex.

Chen Ting, who had always valued “face” above all else, was now frantically slapping herself in public and claiming her brain was broken. She was clearly terrified.

Feng Yanzhou looked at Sisi awkwardly. “Sister-in-law, this…” He didn’t know how to proceed.

Chen Ting looked at Sisi with red eyes, sniffing and sobbing. “Shen Sisi, we’re relatives! Blood is thicker than water!”

“My mother only has one daughter. If I go to prison, she won’t survive it.”

“Don’t forget how much my mother looked after you all these years. Are you really going to repay kindness with enmity?”

“Repay kindness with enmity?” Sisi was so angry she laughed. Who exactly was the farmer and who was the snake in this scenario? Since Chen Ting couldn’t figure it out, Sisi didn’t mind giving her a reminder.

“Chen Ting, you have the nerve to mention ‘kindness’ to me? If my mother hadn’t arranged jobs for your parents back then, you’d still be stuck in the village.”

“Even your spot in the cultural troupe—you took my quota.”

“And yet, you try to sabotage me again and again. What is your goal?”

Chen Ting had almost forgotten about that. She was arrogant by nature, always believing she was a high-class city lady and that all the good things she had were hers by right. Now, the beautiful image she had worked so hard to maintain was being ruthlessly punctured by Sisi.

She gnashed her teeth. “Shut up! Shut up!”

She could scream at Sisi to shut up, but she couldn’t stop the loose tongues of the crowd.

“Oh, so that’s how it is. This woman is truly ungrateful.” “Exactly. If I had relatives that powerful, giving out jobs and quotas, I’d be willing to carry their shoes for them.” “Someone who doesn’t understand gratitude is worse than a dog. If I feed a dog a bone, it wags its tail; it doesn’t bite back.”

Every word from the crowd was like a knife stabbing into Chen Ting.

“What do you people know?” She glared with crazed eyes and scrambled to her feet. “That was just her family’s charity! Her mother was just showing off…”

“So what if she gave my parents ordinary worker positions? They aren’t cadres; what’s the big deal?”

“Who cares about that…”

Shen Sisi’s eyes grew as dark as an ancient well. Did Chen Ting even deserve to mention her mother?

Her family had been the beneficiaries, yet they weren’t grateful—they viewed it as an insult. Sisi felt a deep sadness, not for herself, but for her mother’s sincere heart. Her mother’s kindness had been fed to a dog! No, a dog would have been better; at least a dog is loyal and grateful.

“Fine. Since you don’t care, don’t blame me for being impolite…”

If her family had the power to give those things away, she had the power to take them back. Every single one of them.

For some reason, seeing the sharp, prickly aura surrounding Sisi, Chen Ting felt a chill run up her spine. It felt as if something had gone off the rails. She felt a momentary dread but comforted herself: Jobs and houses have been given; how could they be taken back? Besides, Sisi’s mother has been in the ground for years. Who’s going to care about old history?

The farce ended on a sour note. Before leaving, Feng Yanzhou shot a sharp, fierce glance at Chen Ting. “I reserve the right to press charges. You’d better behave…”

Chen Ting barely heard him, consumed by the relief of having “saved her life.”

On the road, Gu Chengfeng kept a tight grip on Sisi’s cold fingertips, glancing at her occasionally with heartache. Feng Yanzhou followed behind, carrying his new leather shoes and looking huffy.

“Sister-in-law, what kind of ‘top-tier’ relatives do you have? If you ask me, we shouldn’t have let her go.”

“Who said I let her go?” Sisi said firmly.

“You didn’t…?” Feng Yanzhou and Gu Chengfeng exchanged a look, unable to guess what she was thinking.

“You could have sent her to prison just now, but that would be too easy on her,” Sisi said. She wanted Chen Ting to lose everything she had, bit by bit. She knew Chen Ting too well—even if she went to prison and lost her job, she wouldn’t admit defeat or feel true remorse. She would just be filled with resentment.

Sisi wanted to take away the things Chen Ting cared about one by one, letting her feel the slow agony of losing everything. Wasn’t that more painful than prison?

She was kind-hearted, but even a kind person has a bottom line. Chen Ting had stepped on her ultimate “minefield”—her mother.

Seeing Gu Chengfeng remain silent, only peeking at her, she bit her lip awkwardly. “What? Did I scare you?”

The hand holding hers suddenly tightened. “I just feel bad for you.”

Sisi gave him a small smile to show she was okay.

“What do you plan to do?” Gu Chengfeng asked.

“I’m going to talk to the leaders at her unit about her character,” she said plainly. The matter of the stolen quota was too old to prove, so she wouldn’t mention it. But today’s incident? Their leaders needed to hear about it. As a public figure and a singer on stage, a character flaw was a major issue.

Gu Chengfeng caught her drift and shot Feng Yanzhou a look.

Feng Yanzhou, ever perceptive, spoke up: “Sister-in-law, leave this to me! A private individual complaining to a public unit isn’t very persuasive. It’ll be much easier if it’s handled ‘officially’.”

Sisi thought about it. That makes sense. “Thank you, Brother Feng. I’m bothering you again. Let me treat you to dinner!”

Feng Yanzhou’s brain was already browsing the menu of the state-owned restaurant. The sweet and sour ribs and spicy chicken by Chef Long are legendary…

As he was daydreaming, a sudden chill hit him. He looked at Gu Chengfeng’s sour face and realized his “brother” was silently telling him to get lost.

Tsk tsk. Once a man has a wife, everything changes. He finds his brothers an eyesore now… choosing romance over friendship!

He rolled his eyes mentally and cried out, “Oh! I just remembered I have a report to file. You two go ahead. Save that dinner for another day…” He waved his hand, patting his empty stomach. “I’ll take the shoes though. Thanks, Sister-in-law!” He deliberately flaunted the shoe box in front of Gu Chengfeng before leaving.

Gu Chengfeng’s face dropped. He looked at Sisi with a wounded expression. “You bought him shoes. What about me?”

Sisi looked at that handsome, pouting face. Is he… acting spoiled?

His tall head was bowed, and his usually cold eyes were filled with a jealous, unreasonable sulk. Sisi couldn’t help but let out a helpless laugh. “Don’t worry, you have them too…”

She hooked her finger into his and led him back into the cooperative. Gu Chengfeng followed behind her, the corners of his mouth lifting uncontrollably.

But in the next second, his smile froze. His eye twitched.

Sisi shouted to the clerk: “Please get me two cotton quilts and two sets of duvet covers!”

How could she have forgotten something so important? Luckily, Gu Chengfeng had reminded her.

“Gu Chengfeng, thank goodness you reminded me. Otherwise, I would have made you suffer again tonight.”

“No… it’s no suffering.”

Gu Chengfeng spoke through gritted teeth, his heart practically bleeding. If I had known, I would have kept my big mouth shut!

Now it was great—Sisi was going to sleep under a separate blanket from him. He stared at the two new quilts like a hungry wolf, his gaze sharp enough to set the cotton on fire. He had to find a way to deal with these “obstacles” as soon as possible.