"You asked me to speak, so now I'll say it in front of everyone—exactly how you've wronged me."
"Shut up." Qiao Zhenguo immediately sensed trouble. Once she opened her mouth, she was bound to drag their reputation through the mud even further.
"You two need to get on the same page—do you want me to talk or not? I don't have all day to waste." Shen Yunyun crossed her arms, looking thoroughly annoyed.
Guo Yuhua was about to speak, her blood rushing to her head. This rebellious daughter was driving her to the brink of madness.
"Let her talk, let her talk. We fed her, clothed her, put her through school, and now she's our enemy?" Guo Yuhua believed they had nothing to hide—they walked upright and had nothing to be ashamed of.
"Shut your mouth. Have you forgotten why we're here today?" Qiao Zhenguo wanted nothing more than to slap Guo Yuhua across the face.
Shen Yunyun didn't waste any more time. She looked at the crowd, their eyes brimming with gossip, cleared her throat, and said, "Most of you probably don't know who they are, right?
They're the chairman and chairwoman of the Qiao Group. And me? I'm their adopted daughter—the one they picked up from an orphanage after they lost their biological child.
After I was adopted into the Qiao family, they never skimped on food or clothes. But once their real daughter showed up with a paternity test, everything changed.
They said I..."
"Shut your mouth!" Qiao Zhenguo stormed forward, trying to cover Shen Yunyun's mouth.
But Shen Yunyun nimbly slipped into the crowd. Everyone was eager to hear the gossip, so they blocked Qiao Zhenguo's path.
Hiding among the people, Shen Yunyun kept talking.
"They said I stole their daughter's life, so they had to treat me harshly to make it up to her.
What a joke. I was fine in the orphanage, but they used me to achieve some shady goal, and now they're blaming me for stealing their daughter's life.
Think about it—what normal person loses their child and doesn't search for them, doesn't call the police, but instead goes to an orphanage to adopt?
There had to be some ulterior motive. I was just a tool they used, and now they're preaching about the kindness of raising me."
The crowd buzzed with chatter.
"Exactly. Even if she's not their biological daughter, after all these years, shouldn't there be some affection?"
"What's that matter? They didn't even look for their own daughter when she went missing—no search, no police report, no letting anyone else look. Why would they care about a daughter who's not even theirs?"
"True. What exactly does the Qiao Group do?"
"The Qiao family is pretty wealthy..."
Shen Yunyun raised an eyebrow at Qiao Zhenguo, delighted to see his face turn purple.
"I'm not done yet. When their real daughter came back, they kept implying I stole her life. They wanted me to give up my fiancé—oh, my ex-fiancé is Gu Yunzheng from the Gu family."
"I know Gu Yunzheng. Handsome, rich—his family owns malls and tons of hotels. The Kaiyuan Grand Hotel is one of their properties."
"Really? I know the Kaiyuan Grand Hotel. Even the waitstaff need a bachelor's degree, and they make over ten thousand a month."
"Everyone, hold on. Let me finish." Shen Yunyun clapped her hands.
"Seeing how things were, I knew the Qiao family had no place for me. So I kowtowed to them, thinking they had raised me after all, and I should be grateful. I decided to return everything to its rightful place.
But then he said that once I walked out that door, I was no longer part of the Qiao family.
And when I was packing my clothes to leave, they had the servants search my suitcase. Good thing I didn't take anything valuable from the Qiao family, or they might have called the cops on me."