"Dad, Mom, I swear to the heavens, if I have any such thoughts, let me be struck by lightning, die a miserable death, and have no one to bury me!" Lady Gu also made a fierce oath, stringing together a series of curses without stopping for breath. "I was wrong, I’ll change. From now on, I won’t go to the city anymore. For the rest of my life, I have no other thoughts; I will just serve you both. Whatever you ask me to do, I’ll do. I’ll grind grain for you every day as my penance."

"You still know how to atone?!" Lady Zhou said harshly.

"Mom, I know I was wrong. I’ve let you down, let Xiuxiu down, let the entire Lian Family down. I’ll atone, while I’m alive, I’ll atone, and even after I die, I’ll continue to atone. This life, I’ll serve you, the next life, and the life after that, let me turn into a donkey, anything, I’ll still atone. I’ll atone for Xiuxiu, I’ll work like a beast for her..."

Hearing Lady Gu mention Lian Xiuxiu, Lady Zhou started crying, and as she cried, she continued to curse at Lady Gu.

Lady Gu did not retort, she just lay on the ground kowtowing, her forehead bleeding profusely, seemingly not feeling any pain at all, while continuously swearing and apologizing to Lady Zhou, begging for mercy.

Every time Lady Gu bowed her head, her disheveled hair covered her eyes, so no one saw the vicious look in her eyes.

For Lady Gu, today was almost the most painful day in her life, even more than when Lady Zhou decided to give Yingzi to Lian Shouren as a concubine, and later when the whole family was imprisoned.

She had exhausted all her schemes to enter the city, found the Song Family’s door, thinking that even if she couldn’t live the life of wearing gold and silver, having everything handed to her, at least she could escape her misery.

Lady Gu was a clever and pragmatic person. When they returned from Taicang and the Song Family ignored them, only with Shouxin bringing back some gifts did Lady Gu understand the Song Family’s attitude towards them, and guessed that Lian Huahua was not having a glorious time at the Song Family.

The reason she still came was she saw Lian Huahua and the Song Family as her last straw.

The Song Family was wealthy, and though they had not cared much about them before, they were never stingy in giving money, things, or houses. She thought that even if the Song Family didn’t favor her, and Lian Huahua had no influence in the Song Family, given the Song Family’s wealth and the Old Madam Song’s usual way of doing things, providing her with a life of a middle-class family was not an issue.

And she was confident that as long as the Song Family was willing to take her in, she could quickly make the Old Madam Song fond of her, and in the future, rely on the Song Family to live a better life. 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

Therefore, even though the Song Family let her in but treated her coldly, she didn’t mind at all.

After sitting in cold reception for half a day, she finally saw Lian Huahua, and she was shocked.

That obese and ugly woman, how could she be her precious daughter Lian Huahua!? A young husband surrounded by countless tempting women, without strong parental support, without a son to rely on, unappreciated by the mother-in-law, and having lost the only bargaining chip—beauty—that initially attracted Song Hailong and led to marrying into the Song Family, what awaited her?

Lady Gu immediately hugged Lian Huahua and cried loudly.

Without the skin, what can the hair attach to? With Lian Huahua like this, all the beautiful plans she had meticulously crafted were utterly futile!

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