CHAPTER 262: CHAPTER 241: I HAVE EVIDENCE 1

Zhou Mengqin took a deep breath, intending to seriously use this opportunity to teach her a good lesson.

She wanted her to stand tall and be strong and brave, even in the most painful times...

But as the words were about to come out, seeing Su Xiaomeng’s tear-streaked face, she swallowed them back.

She sighed lightly, her words taking a turn, as she reached out her hands to her, "Come, let mommy give you a hug."

The two tears hanging on her eyelashes fell, and she got up, walked to Mrs. Yin’s side, and threw herself into her arms...

"Mom..."

Zhou Mengqin looked solemn, with a touch of guilt and regret in her eyes.

Perhaps she was wrong; this era is indeed different from the one they lived in, and she seemed to have inadvertently given Su Xiaomeng too much pressure.

"Didn’t old four tell you when you got married? Once you enter the Yin Family’s door, you must not step back out."

"But mom, I..."

"A wife who doesn’t keep her virtue should receive three whips and be driven out... but have you not kept your virtue?"

Su Xiaomeng bit her lip tightly, "...No."

"Since you say no, then it’s no. You’re still my daughter-in-law, still Shixiu’s wife, still Jinxi and Huaiyu’s mother."

Su Xiaomeng buried herself in Zhou Mengqin’s arms, smelling the light perfume on her body, elegant and calm, making one feel at ease.

"What do you think is the most important thing for a woman?"

Mrs. Yin asked her while gently patting her back...

"Is it her body? Her chastity?"

Su Xiaomeng did not nod, but she also didn’t have the courage to deny it.

"Girl, those things are certainly important, but not as important as dignity and life. Your father-in-law and I are naturally old; even if we’re a bit slow, we still keep up with the times..."

"But even as old relics, we’re not relics who can’t tell right from wrong..."

"Your mother, your grandfather entrusted you to Shixiu, to us, the Yin Family. You’re a child of the Yin Family..."

"In this world, no parents will blame their child when she’s hurt."

"Mom... I’m sorry... I should have said..."

"No need to apologize, no need to be sorry. The one who should apologize is not you." Zhou Mengqin stroked her hair and sighed.

"If your in-laws knew, I don’t know how heartbroken they would be..."

"You didn’t tell your parents either, did you?"

Su Xiaomeng nodded.

"Keeping it all to yourself, won’t the mind have problems? Afraid if you say it, I’ll drive you away? Afraid Shixiu will despise you, afraid the children will also hate you?"

"Just this thing... what’s the big deal, hmm? Is the sky falling?"

Su Xiaomeng’s nose felt sour, she nodded forcefully, "It’s falling... I feel like the sky has fallen!"

Zhou Mengqin lightly patted her back, "If the sky falls, there’s someone to hold it up for you! But if you say nothing, who can help?"

"...I can’t get it out, sob sob..."

"Can’t get it out? But haven’t you said it out now?"

Su Xiaomeng had no words to respond.

"The Yin Family’s house rules were not aimed at you who married in, but constrained every member of the Yin Family. When you married old four, I was strongly against it, fearing one day you wouldn’t stand the life of a wealthy family and want to escape."

"Our expectations of old four are as high as our expectations for his wife..."

"I don’t believe you can bear this expectation... but you said you will try hard, okay, then I believe you."

"But you should also believe me, believe old four, right?"

"It’s not the event itself that is frightening, but if you don’t even defend yourself, if you give up on yourself, no matter how much effort others put in, it’s like throwing punches into cotton."

"I defended myself... but no one believes me..."

"How is no one believing? Didn’t old four believe? Didn’t I believe?"

Zhou Mengqin lifted Su Xiaomeng’s head, "You should trust your husband, believe the words he said when you married, to never leave nor forsake, and keep your promise to him too."

"If today after you speak the truth, old four despises you, hates you, and abandons you, I’d be the first to break his leg!"

Su Xiaomeng widened her eyes, shocked by what Zhou Mengqin said...

People say there are no parents who don’t stand up for their children.

But she knows, this elderly woman before her, she means what she says and does what she says.

Zhou Mengqin drew a tissue from beside her for her, "Go, go wash your face in the bathroom, come back with your face washed, then don’t shed another tear."

Su Xiaomeng took the tissue Zhou Mengqin handed her, got up, and left the study...

Zhou Mengqin took a deep breath, then looked at Yin Shixiu, "She encountered such a big thing, and you didn’t notice?"

Yin Shixiu closed his eyes briefly and then directly said to his mother, "What Ren Yixuan gave her wasn’t an ’aphrodisiac’ or a ’sedative’, it was drugs."

"...What?"

"The evidence Su Xiaomeng mentioned downstairs was the blood test she did afterward, which I interrupted. What the Rong Family wants is for her to be ruined, for her reputation to be destroyed, and if she brings up drugs, I’m afraid it’ll get even messier with just one word."

"At that time, she didn’t know what drug Ren Yixuan gave her and didn’t dare easily feed Shuangshuang and Huang Huang with her milk. So, she went for the test."

"What kind of background does Ren Yixuan have exactly? How does he have such nerve?"

"The Ren Family and the Su Family have a very good relationship. They grew up together... If it weren’t for me, they probably would have ended up together."

Zhou Mengqin glanced at him, "It sounds like you’re not quite at peace in your heart."

Yin Shixiu looked at his mother, his expression somewhat bitter, "I can’t help it, I like her too much..."

"Something like this happened, she didn’t want it either."

"I know, it’s just that I have a little bit of... resentment, resentment that she encountered such a huge issue yet didn’t tell me... she’d rather endure it alone than tell me. I don’t know... how much she trusts me..."

"Do you want to hear the truth?"

Zhou Mengqin looked at him and said blandly.

Yin Shixiu lightly furrowed his brow... waiting for her to continue.

"As a mother or an observer, I hope she can be open and not fear anything, say what’s on her mind, trust the elders, trust her husband."

"But as a woman myself, I think I can understand."

Yin Shixiu was taken aback for a moment.

"You are husband and wife, supposed to share your fortunes and adversities. Ideally, she should trust you completely, no matter what happens, you’ll never abandon her..."

"But this is the ideal state, the most enviable state, but if it’s bad... a couple is like birds in the same forest, when disaster strikes, they fly their separate ways."

"It’s not that she doesn’t trust you, she doesn’t believe she’s that lucky, that special."

"How many men in this world can still be wholeheartedly devoted and unwavering even after their women have had relations with others?"

"Too few, too few... pitifully few."

"People’s hearts are fickle, especially since in this world, there are fewer hopeless romantics and more faithless ones. Not to mention for most men, many things are supposedly more important than love... dignity, face, pride..."

"You are so outstanding, and she considers herself so ordinary, like a speck of dust. She despises herself, disgusts herself, what reason does she have to believe you won’t despise her, won’t be disgusted by her?"

"Old Four, you can swear to her that you won’t despise her, won’t be disgusted by her, but only you know if you have a knot in your heart."

"As far as I know, you broke up with your first girlfriend because you found out she was intimate with someone else, right? You didn’t even ask for a reason..."

"I remember that girl should’ve been two or three years older than Xiaomeng is now, she waited for you outside the Yin Mansion for a month. Yet you were so resolute, chilling to the heart."

"That’s different."

Yin Shixiu pressed his lips together and said in a cold voice.

"It is different. Perhaps your love for Su Xiaomeng is deeper. But what if one day, those feelings fade? You’ve been a germaphobe since you were a child..."

"...I understand what you mean."

Even as a married couple, it’s not guaranteed to be completely open—it’s the ideal state, yet they are mere mortals.

No matter how entangled their bodies are, they are still two separate individuals.

With their own thoughts, their own concerns, their own ways of doing things.

He understood Zhou Mengqin’s words, but he couldn’t concur with her doubt that one day he would be like most men...

But he didn’t argue with his mother about this issue.

His mother had seen too much of the fickleness in the world, yet she overlooked that he resembled Yin Shaohui.

To love only one person in a lifetime, to cherish one person, to adore one person.

To give all without regret.

When Su Xiaomeng returned, her eyes were still a bit swollen, but after washing her face and tying her hair back, she looked much more refreshed.

Yin Shixiu reached his hand out to her, smiled at her, "Come."

Su Xiaomeng took his hand and sat beside him...

Zhou Mengqin’s face once again wore a graceful, gentle smile, "Alright, since the Rong Family has sent such a grand birthday gift, I should return the gesture... The birthday gift has already been spoiled anyway, guests are guests after all, so let’s play along with the Rong Family, what do you think?"

Su Xiaomeng looked at Zhou Mengqin’s slight smile...

Warmth and heat filled her heart.

She felt sorry for Mrs. Yin, and a bit sour in her heart, but she had promised Mrs. Yin not to shed another tear.

She knew she still had many difficulties to overcome, but suddenly she wasn’t afraid anymore.

She should believe that from the moment she met Yin Shixiu, she has already been the luckiest person in the world.

The study door opened, and Yin Shixiu and Su Xiaomeng followed Zhou Mengqin downstairs.

By this time, a few more people had arrived in the living room...

"Grandfather..."

It was Bai Fengmao and Bai Sidong’s family of three.

Not only that, but the atmosphere in the living room was extremely tense, and the juniors and servants around didn’t dare to make a sound.

The children were scared, each of them wearing a distressed face, and the mothers quickly took their children out of the living room.

No one had a good expression on their face, apparently... there had been some confrontation.

"Brother Bai is here, and just in time, I was about to have someone call and urge Brother Bai."

Zhou Mengqin said, glancing at Rong Si.

Bai Fengmao responded to Zhou Mengqin, then stood up when he saw his granddaughter behind her, "Xiaomeng."