CHAPTER 1341: CHAPTER 684: THE VILLAIN (PART 2)

Lian Lanlan finished speaking and looked expectantly at Lady Zhang.

Lady Zhou still didn’t speak. She lowered her head, holding her hands together and hummed a sound from her throat. It was neither a cold snort nor an approval of Lian Lanlan’s words. Instead, it was a long, wavering hum.

Lian Manman couldn’t help but blink, thinking, does Lady Zhou have a new tactic today? But no matter the tactic, today it won’t work anymore.

"The things you say, they don’t represent the old lady, do they? Look how your words upset her." Lian Manman said to Lian Lanlan, "How about this, the old lady just recovered from her illness, you all should just go back for now. When she’s fully recovered, then we’ll talk about it."

Having come all the way here, without achieving a result, Lian Lanlan naturally wouldn’t leave. She looked at Lady Zhang awkwardly, then at Lian Manman, and understood that the words she spoke on behalf of Lady Zhou were worthless here. They wanted to hear Lady Zhou personally apologize.

Lian Lanlan knew how stubborn Lady Zhou’s temper was and how deeply she looked down on her daughters-in-law, and she had no confidence in persuading Lady Zhou to apologize to Lady Zhang.

But whether she had confidence or not, she had to try, and she must succeed, because her husband’s and son’s lives were at stake.

"Mother, remember what we talked about at home, didn’t we agree? Mother, just repeat what you said at home to Fourth Madam. Just say it once." Lian Lanlan pleaded, bowing to Lady Zhou.

Lady Zhou was unmoved.

"Mother, I beg you, didn’t we agree?" Lian Lanlan dropped to her knees with a thud in front of Lady Zhou. "Mother, it’s a matter of life and death, I beg you, you can’t just watch me become a widow with no one to see me off... "

Lian Lanlan held onto Lady Zhou’s arm, sobbing as she did so.

With Lian Lanlan crying like this, Lady Zhou didn’t even blink. Lian Lanlan was crying so hard she couldn’t catch her breath, and finally, Lady Zhou moved.

Lady Zhou suddenly stood up from the chair, perhaps too abruptly, her body swayed, and it was only with Lian Lanlan’s support that she didn’t fall.

"Mother..." Lian Lanlan exclaimed in surprise.

Once steady, Lady Zhou pushed Lian Lanlan aside, then dropped to her knees before Lady Zhang with a thud.

"This old woman is here to apologize to you." Lady Zhou sang out word by word in an operatic tone, "Fourth Madam Lian, this old dying thing is kowtowing to you. I beg your magnanimity, forgive this old woman."

Singing as she was, Lady Zhou made a show of kowtowing to Lady Zhang.

Lady Zhang’s expression changed, she couldn’t sit still and wanted to get up. Lian Manman quickly placed her hand on Lady Zhang’s leg, coaxing her to sit back down.

"Mother, look, didn’t I tell you yesterday, and you didn’t quite believe me. When grandma falls ill, she acts like this. Yesterday she was cursing whoever she saw, and today it seems she’s kneeling and kowtowing to whoever she sees." Lian Manman exclaimed loudly.

If Lady Zhou was kowtowing to Lady Zhang in a clear state of mind, naturally Lady Zhang couldn’t accept it. But if Lady Zhou was in a state of delirium, then her actions and words would lose their normal meaning.

Seeing Lady Zhou’s head reach the ground, Lian Manman did not intervene.

"Dear sister-in-law, the old lady’s illness isn’t fully healed, who encouraged her to come out? It’s urgent that we take her back to recover. All other matters must take a back seat." Lian Manman said to Lady Chiang.

Lady Chiang agreed and was about to help Lady Zhou up, but Lian Lanlan quickly stopped her with her hand.

"The old lady isn’t having an episode. She truly came to apologize to Fourth Madam." Lian Lanlan said, then lowered her head to speak to Lady Zhou, "Mother, didn’t we agree at home? Didn’t you say you felt uneasy and needed to apologize to Fourth Madam?"

"This old dying thing, I am sinful, I deserve to die..." Lady Zhou muttered nonsensically with her eyes closed, while her hand rose to slap her own face.

Lady Chiang looked around but didn’t step forward to intervene, while Lian Lanlan raised her hand to stop her but thought better of it and retracted her hand. The servants of Lian Manman’s family in the room, lacking orders from the master, also did not intervene.

As her slap landed on her own face, Lady Zhou’s heart sank as well.

If it was usual circumstances, her kneeling would have been more than enough for Lian Shouxin or Lady Zhang; they wouldn’t allow her the opportunity to kowtow. But today, she kowtowed once, and no one stopped her. Lian Manman even claimed that she was mad again. She had no choice but to take drastic measures and hit herself.

She thought, surely either Lady Chiang or Lian Lanlan, both of whom were nearby, would stop her, and Lady Zhang surely wouldn’t tolerate her self-abuse. Even though she truly wanted to hurt herself, it wouldn’t be an easy task with all these people in the room.

But neither Lian Lanlan nor Lady Chiang stopped her, and Lady Zhang remained silent.

Lady Zhang had really steeled her heart, keeping calm, leaving Lady Zhou in shock. No one came to stop her, one slap already fell, and the other hovered in the air. Lady Zhou gritted her teeth, hardened her heart, and delivered the second slap with even more force.

Still, no one stopped her!

"It’s sinful, why can’t I just die, let me crash to death..." Lady Zhou said, searching around for something to hit.

"You came here today just to do this, wasn’t hurting the people at the old house yesterday enough? And now you’re here to harm us?" Lian Manman pointed promptly at Lian Lanlan and scolded, "If something happens to the old lady, you’ll pay with your life. And if that isn’t enough, doesn’t your daughter still live at the old house? She won’t escape either."

Lian Lanlan quickly hugged Lady Zhou, who struggled a bit but then went limp. Suicide was her last desperate card, but it was deflected so skillfully by Lian Manman.

"Too vicious, too vicious..." Lady Zhou lay limply on the ground, muttering softly.

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