Chapter 88

Chapter 88: When the Sky Falls, Your Mouths Can Hold It Up

Du Lian Shuang suddenly woke up like from a dream, her face full of curiosity. “Right, there is still that one or two times. So even though he is a bit of a dictator, he still occasionally compromises with you, doesn’t he?”

Yin Bai Lu’s face flushed red and she muttered, “Those are issues of principle. How could I compromise? And every time he makes me so mad I have to drive him to sleep in the study before he knows he’s wrong. I think he does it on purpose. He agrees with his mouth, but who knows how unconvinced he is in his heart.”

“…”

Du Lian Shuang felt like she had been force fed dog food. As someone who had been through it herself, how could she not see that the so called fights between these two were just little lovers acting spoiled and throwing petty tantrums for fun?

“So after all this, I’ve just been part of your play? If I ever feel bad for you so seriously again, then I’m a dog.”

Yin Bai Lu’s face went a bit stiff. She refused to admit it. “It really is something to be angry about. Why are you twisting my words?”

“Hehe…”

“Alright, alright.” Mother Du glanced at the two grown men watching quietly from not far away and interrupted their argument with a light smile, pulling them back to the main topic. “An An hasn’t finished yet.”

“Right, right, we went off topic. An An, hurry and tell us. What was that about being plagued by petty people?”

“Simply put, it’s an issue with Uncle Liao’s personality. It makes it easy for him to attract petty people’s resentment. After all, Uncle Liao can’t be as patient with everyone as he is with Aunt Yin.”

He not only racks his brains to think of all kinds of explanations to get her approval, but sometimes even suppresses his nature and compromises for his wife’s sake.

“His personality is strong, and he doesn’t like to explain. Sometimes unequal communication easily causes information to go wrong and makes people misunderstand. Even if his intentions are good, saying nothing can also make people misunderstand and give rise to irreconcilable conflicts.”

The reason Du An Rao said this was because she knew that not long after this, Liao Yu Qian would be betrayed by the brother he trusted most, be ambushed, and be seriously injured, ending up paralyzed from the waist down.

It was exactly because of this major change that the Liao couple had no energy left to manage their daughter’s personal life, giving Cui Cheng Ye the perfect chance to get close to Liao Jing Yi.

By the time Liao Yu Qian’s condition stabilized and he recovered a bit, Liao Jing Yi had long since fallen under Cui Cheng Ye’s careful caring and comforting, quietly stepping into a place of no return full of endless tribulation.

So when you traced it back to the root, the turning point in Liao Jing Yi’s life lay in this accident.

And the reason this brother of Liao Yu Qian’s betrayed him was all because of a mistaken misunderstanding.

This brother of Liao Yu Qian was named Zou Heng. His parents had both passed away, leaving him with only one relative, his younger sister Zou Shan.

Five years ago, in order to get the bid documents in Liao Yu Qian’s hands, his arch enemy secretly reached out his claws toward Zou Heng’s only sister.

They sent a glib tongued fake rich second generation to approach Zou Shan, wooing her day after day with flowers, gifts, and confessions.

Although the siblings had no parents, Zou Heng had always protected Zou Shan very well and had never let her suffer since she was small.

This also made Zou Shan overly naive. Emotionally, the little girl was like a blank sheet of paper. How could she resist someone who had planned everything and pursued her so fiercely? Not long after, she was moved by the fake rich guy, started dating him, and soon became pregnant with his child.

When her parents died, Zou Shan had been too young to remember much, so she had always envied those whose parents were both alive, and dreamed of having a complete family of her own.

The arrival of the child made joy rush to her head.

So when the fake rich guy asked her to steal the bid documents that were with her brother, she agreed without hesitation.

Thankfully, Liao Yu Qian had already guessed his enemy’s tricks and did not let them succeed.

But he never imagined that the person they sent to steal the bid documents would actually be Zou Shan!

By the time Liao Yu Qian realized something was wrong and brought people to chase after them, the scene he saw was Zou Shan lying in a pool of blood, barely breathing.

It turned out that when the fake rich guy found out the plan had failed, he immediately took the still confused Zou Shan and tried to flee in a panic. Because he was so flustered, they got into a car accident.

Seeing things go bad, the scumbag ran off on his own, leaving the badly injured and unconscious Zou Shan in the car, which could explode at any time.

By the time Liao Yu Qian arrived, Zou Shan was already barely breathing. When she saw this brother who had taken care of the two siblings since they were young, she finally sobered up and realized that she had done something unforgivable.

She cried and confessed to Liao Yu Qian, explaining that this matter had nothing to do with her brother and begging him not to take his anger out on her brother because of it.

She also begged him not to tell her brother about what had happened, so she could leave a bit of a beautiful image in her brother’s heart. She hoped that even in death, in her brother’s eyes she would still be that well behaved, sensible, and considerate little sister.

Liao Yu Qian agreed. When he later learned that when Zou Shan died there had been a newly formed child in her belly, he was even more grief stricken.

Afraid that knowing the truth would hurt Zou Heng even more, he hid both this and the fact that Zou Shan had stolen the files. He only lied that the other side had accidentally kidnapped Zou Shan, then had a car accident on the way, causing her serious injuries and death.

That was actually the truth, just with some details removed.

But to Zou Heng, those missing details were without a doubt the most important part.

Liao Yu Qian’s concealment aroused Zou Heng’s suspicions and also gave his enemy a chance to take advantage.

They forged a series of evidence and told Zou Heng that his sister had indeed been held hostage at the time, but that the kidnappers had clearly said that as long as Liao Yu Qian let them go, they would let his sister go.

But Liao Yu Qian couldn’t bear to lose the bid documents he had finally gotten, and ignored his sister’s life, chasing the criminals relentlessly. That was what made the car carrying his sister speed around in panic, smash about, and end up in the crash.

Even worse, after the crash, Liao Yu Qian was in a hurry to chase the thief who had stolen the bid documents and ignored the already badly injured Zou Shan, delaying her best rescue time and causing her unfortunate death.

This lie was not very clever, and at first Zou Heng did not believe it.

But after that, whenever he tried to test things by bringing up Zou Shan in front of Liao Yu Qian, the man would always dodge the topic and talk around it.

After a few times, it finally planted a shadow of doubt in Zou Heng’s heart.

Once you start to suspect something like this, your mindset will go off balance, and turning against Liao Yu Qian and becoming enemies was only a matter of time.

When Du An Rao saw this part, she was speechless. Were all these people’s mouths just decorations?

Every one of them was harder to pry open than a diamond.

It was really like even if the sky fell, they would use their mouths to hold it up rather than say a word, and in the end, the sky really did fall.

But she also knew that, in most stories, the main characters not being able to talk things out was simply to push the plot forward, to force out millions of words of melodramatic sagas of you hurt me, I hurt you, you love me, I love you; you hurt me and I still love you, I hurt you and might not even hate you.

And side characters not talking was also to push the plot, but mostly just to make them suddenly stupid so they could be cannon fodder and hand the main characters golden cheats, solid tools through and through.