Rebirth in the 90s: Her Counterattack and Redemption

Chapter 1419: Chapter 836: Qi Joins the Fight (Part 2)

My parents absolutely forbade my brother and me to be together. First, they didn’t want people gossiping; second, they didn’t want to provoke my biological parents into coming to our house to make trouble.

When my brother had just started working as a cadre in the town, my biological parents would wander around there from time to time, getting people to inquire about me.

They were basically just itching to grab hold of some leverage on my adoptive parents and squeeze some benefits out of them. Given their nature, they were insatiably greedy. If they really started playing the rascal, my brother wouldn’t be able to stay in town at all.

That was also the fundamental reason why back then my brother and I didn’t want to go against our parents and gave up on being together.

Later, I married Jiao Zuoting. Although his family wasn’t very satisfied with me, he was always very good to me. Only now do I understand that we had completely walked into his trap.

He’s the older brother of my best friend Jiao Zuoqin. Thinking about it, he must have always known about me and my brother, yet he pretended to know nothing.

Whenever his parents made things hard for me, he would always put on this look of being torn on both sides and heartbroken for me. My brother, wanting him to treat me better, would often give him a pull.

Over time, he found the knack for dealing with us as brother and sister. He could always use his family, and then, right when we were on the verge of collapse, he would pull back, thus getting the benefits he wanted.

Of course, I only figured all this out when he went in hard on me and said those things. I’m telling you this because I don’t want my brother to keep carrying everything for me, and I also don’t want you to misunderstand the feelings between me and my brother.

We’re already this old; we really don’t want to leave this world with a bad name on our backs, and we don’t want that bad name to cling to our children and grandchildren and bring them trouble."

"You’re thinking quite far ahead." Luo Ye couldn’t help muttering under her breath. It wasn’t that she was cold-blooded; it was just that everything the other woman had said, she had already thought through long ago. There was nothing surprising in it at all.

The idea that "without a son, you have no roots" has been circulating in Huaxia for thousands of years. So all kinds of cases of people doing whatever it takes to have a son just keep coming up.

If you really talk about it, there are far more people more pitiful than Qian Ba’e, so this cannot be taken as a good reason to talk herself out of guilt.

If she hadn’t given this explanation, or if she had still been somewhat moved by the feelings between her and Qian Ba Gang, now, after hearing her self-justification, Luo Ye actually felt nothing at all.

Because you’ve suffered before, does that mean you get to force the more than four thousand people of Qin Mountain Town to pay the price?

Just one look at Luo Ye’s expression and Qian Ba Gang knew that Qian Ba’e had overdone it and made things worse. The two girls in front of him were clearly not ordinary little girls from ordinary families. He’d been in office for so many years; he still had some skill at reading people.

"Miss Luo, my sister said all that because she’s had this matter bottled up in her heart all along. Today she finally found someone she could confide in, so she just blurted it all out without thinking.

When she talks like that, it’s not that she wants to excuse me. Or maybe it’s just a habit—she doesn’t want others to look at me with a bad eye, and she doesn’t want me to be punished because of what she’s done.

Of course, thinking like that is wrong. Everyone has to take responsibility for what they do, and I’m no exception." Qian Ba Gang let out a soft sigh. "Once I get to the new post, I’ll work steadily and earnestly to atone for my sins."

Although he hadn’t counted on them being able to help him with anything, being misunderstood by them wasn’t something he wanted either.

After Qian Ba Gang explained it this way, Qian Ba’e realized she’d made another mistake. She hesitated, gritted her teeth, and suddenly sat up. The sharp pain twisted her face out of shape.

"What are you doing?" Zhu Hongyu grabbed her and kept her from getting up further.

"Miss Luo, Miss Zhu, what I said just now really didn’t come from any malicious intent. Just like my brother said, I’ve kept this matter bottled up inside and never dared tell anyone.

Today, by coincidence, it all got dragged out into the open, and I was afraid you’d misunderstand. I kept thinking I should explain the causes and consequences clearly, so you wouldn’t see my brother and me as shameless bad people.

All these years, we’ve always strictly observed the bounds of brother and sister. There has not been the slightest transgression. I... I just didn’t want you to think of my brother and me as shameless... that’s why I explained like that.

I really had no other intention. You saved my life, I don’t want you to misunderstand me. Aside from that, I really had no other intention, I..."

Luo Ye cut off Qian Ba’e’s rambling explanation: "Alright, alright, we understand what you mean. Don’t sit up, hurry and lie down properly.

Your injuries are already painful enough. The medicine I applied has no side effects, but during the rapid recovery stage, even a slight movement will make the pain flare up."