Chapter 458: Chapter 458

Shen Chun’s reaction terrified everyone in the room. Mrs. Shen immediately rushed over and hugged her daughter, who hadn’t yet fallen to the floor, and shouted loudly.

"Chun’er, what’s wrong with you? Don’t scare Mom. You’re Mom’s only daughter. If something happens to you, how will Mom live?"

"Aunt, let’s help her onto the kang first!" Gao Xique advised from the side.

Shen’s father glared at Shen Bin angrily, "Are you satisfied now? Do you have to drive our family of three to death for you to be happy? Do you think we’re a burden to you and can’t wait for us to die so you can relax? Let me tell you, Shen Bin, don’t be ungrateful. If we hadn’t raised you all these years, you would have starved to death long ago."

"No matter how capable or powerful your parents are, when they got into trouble, they were afraid to implicate you and sent you to us. If we hadn’t taken you in back then, who knows what would have happened to you; you might have died long ago. Ungrateful wretch, dreaming of ditching our Shen Family."

Shen’s father cursed from one side while Mrs. Shen, with Gao Xique’s help, moved Shen Chun onto the kang.

Shen Bin sat there motionless, quietly watching the scene unfold. From disappointment earlier to numbness now, he no longer felt anything.

Or rather, he no longer felt any attachment to this family.

Shen Chun, who was helped onto the kang, slowly opened her eyes, looked at her parents nearby, and finally landed her gaze on Shen Bin not far away.

"Brother, don’t go looking for Zhao Guodong, nor Zhao Jia. It’s my fault I didn’t stop Mom and Dad from causing trouble at the Zhao Family, bringing you trouble. Like you said, this is fate; now that it’s happened, I must endure it. I don’t blame anyone, only my own bad luck." Shen Chun spoke and couldn’t help but burst into tears.

She cried not because of her bad luck, but because her brother finally hardened his heart against her, no longer the caring person he used to be. His harsh words showed she no longer mattered to him.

She cried at losing her place in her brother’s heart, and cried because her last glimmer of hope was gone. Latest content published on noᴠelfire.net

After speaking, Shen Chun cried loudly, with Mrs. Shen anxiously looking at her son, "Binzi, I’m begging you, please consider your sister’s state; she can’t take even a little shock. You’re really pushing her to the brink of death! I don’t know what you heard? But Chun, since her childhood, you watched her grow up, surely you understand what kind of person she is? As for Zhao Guodong, he obviously isn’t a good person. His grandma chose our Chun, and he can’t go against her, coming to trouble Chun’er; isn’t that bullying?"

"We didn’t expect you to defend us; otherwise, we would have called you. We just thought the Zhao Family can’t bully us , so we wanted to reason with them. But as you know, these days, the Zhao Family hasn’t cared at all; they’ve bullied us, and don’t even show a sign of remorse. Who could swallow this indignity?" Mrs. Shen said while holding her daughter’s hand, "Binzi, you’re an educated person, having studied in big cities. Tell me, is what the Zhao Family did right? Without even confronting them or questioning them, you tell your sister to resign herself to fate; aren’t you stabbing her in the heart?"

While Mrs. Shen kept speaking, Shen Bin stayed silent, with Shen Chun’s crying constantly echoing from the kang, and the moment Shen’s father finished, he started cursing again.

"Why speak to him about this? He’s hoping we never involve him again; he wouldn’t mind us all being bullied to death. Don’t bother saying so much to him; we didn’t do wrong. I’ll visit the compound tomorrow to ask if the Zhao Family will handle this; if not, I’ll go to their superiors. I refuse to believe army folks can bully civilians." These words, though spoken by Shen’s father, were aimed at Shen Bin, laying down the final ultimatum.

"I think we should talk to his sister-in-law; Chun’er said Zhao Guodong and his sister-in-law are good friends. As long as his sister-in-law steps up, Zhao Guodong won’t disregard reason, right?" Gao Xique suddenly said from the side, casting a gloating glance at Shen Chun crying on the kang.

Back then, she was attracted to Zhao Guodong too, especially during that encounter at the hospital, when she orchestrated a collision with Zhao Guodong. Instead of hitting Zhao Guodong, she ended up injuring herself, her mouth was bruised for almost a month before recovering.

Then who could have imagined Shen Chun, at the hospital later, also set her sights on Zhao Guodong? After Gao Xique saw through this, she felt both jealous and hateful, wondering what tricks Shen Chun could possibly have up her sleeve.

And who would have thought? Shen Chun devised a plan targeting Mrs. Zhao, which at that time made Gao Xique quite envious, thinking Shen Chun appeared simple and quiet but had a sharp mind. In the end, Zhao Guodong didn’t agree, making Gao Xique secretly laugh for a long time. Yet in a swift move, Shen Chun escalated the situation, cornering the Zhao Family.

Actually, through this incident, she genuinely admired Shen Chun; she seemed silent but her schemes were brilliant—proving that barking dogs don’t bite.

Of course, the Shen couple long favored this marriage. The Zhao Family, being a military family, associating with such a good match would be considered reaching high; they naturally cooperated fully with their daughter to push forward the marriage.

In this moment, seeing the Shen family’s threats ineffective, Gao Xique spoke out as a reminder—not to help Shen Chun ensure this marriage, but to add insult to injury because if Shen Chun’s thoughts were revealed, Shen Bin wouldn’t help Shen Chun thereafter either.

Especially in Shen Bing’s eyes, Shen Chun was always kind and good; Gao Xique couldn’t bear this facade—clearly a whore but insisting on being a chaste saint.

Her intention outwardly appeared as helpful advice, but she sold out Shen Chun. How else would everyone know that Zhao Guodong had a good relationship with his sister-in-law without Shen Chun’s words?

Gao Xique believed that without saying much more, Shen Bin could see through what kind of person Shen Chun truly was.

As Gao Xique’s voice fell, Shen’s mother and father’s eyes lit up, but the crying from Shen Chun on the kang momentarily paused, though resumed softer.