Du Xixi clicked her tongue twice, her face showing exaggerated mockery and a deliberately feigned realization.
"Yo, so you're already protecting her? No wonder you moved out of home so desperately, even giving up a catch like Yan Qiubai."
"So it turns out you ran out to live a happy life with your little lover?"
As she spoke, her gaze shifted to Pei Jiangmu, and her tone became extremely caustic and provocative.
"Hey, you pretty boy over there. You look decent, but do you know that the woman beside you already has a man?"
"She's the fiancée of Yan Qiubai, the heir of the Yan Group. Although Young Master Yan might just be playing around, she's still marked." "You've got some nerve, daring to cuckold Young Master Yan?"
"Do you know who Young Master Yan is? He can make someone like you disappear from Haicheng with just a snap of his fingers!"
She laughed maliciously and continued to slander Meng Ruozhao.
"I advise you to open your eyes and not be deceived by this promiscuous woman."
"I get it. She must not have told you that she's still involved with Young Master Yan..."
Meng Ruozhao's face turned pale with anger, and she interrupted her sharply.
"Du Xixi!"
This woman never seems to learn from her mistakes.
The words that come out of her mouth are always so infuriating.
Meng Ruozhao didn't really mind her wanton slander since she was used to it.
But she couldn't stand it when Du Xixi dragged Pei Jiangmu into this.
Even though she and Pei Jiangmu were innocent, if Du Xixi exaggerated the story and told Yan Qiubai.
It was hard to guarantee that Yan Qiubai wouldn't take action against Pei Jiangmu just to save face as a man.
Pei Jiangmu was just a student. He shouldn't be involved in such a mess.
However, before she could finish her words, she felt the aura around Pei Jiangmu suddenly change.
The Pei Jiangmu who had been leaning on her, looking a bit weak and dependent, slowly straightened his body.
The paleness and vulnerability on his face disappeared in an instant, replaced by a gloom that could almost freeze the air.
If she had looked up at this moment, she would have found that his gaze was like a poisoned ice blade.
As his gaze slowly swept over Du Xixi's plastered leg and the wounds on her face, there was a terrifying killing intent and violence surging deep in his eyes.
Finally, Pei Jiangmu's gaze landed on Du Xixi's face.
No wonder this delicate but ugly face looked a bit familiar.
Unexpectedly, it was really this woman who just wouldn't go away.
It seemed that last time, just having Qi Yu arrange a good show to "lightly teach her a lesson" was far from enough.
Even after having her leg broken and being confined to a wheelchair, her mouth was still so foul.
Not only was it foul, but she also didn't know how to shut up.
His Chaolao was someone that this kind of trash could insult at will?
Pei Jiangmu slowly raised his eyes. His deep eyes were now so dark that one couldn't see the bottom. He looked straight at Du Xixi, who was still chattering non - stop.
Du Xixi's heart skipped a beat when she met his gaze, and the even more venomous words that were about to come out were suddenly stuck in her throat.
An inexplicable chill rushed from the soles of her feet to the top of her head, making her shiver involuntarily.
This pretty boy... Why was his look so terrifying?
Before Du Xixi could question him.
She saw Pei Jiangmu turn his head slightly. There even appeared a seemingly gentle and harmless, yet slightly confused expression on his face.
His voice also softened, as if he was really just curiously seeking confirmation.
"Madam?"
He deliberately used a distant form of address, and his gaze landed on Du Xixi's distorted face, which was flushed with anger.
"From what you've said, it seems that you know Chaolao quite well?"
Du Xixi had just recovered from Pei Jiangmu's suddenly cold gaze.
Hearing his question, she immediately seemed to have caught hold of something.
She raised her chin proudly, her tone full of a strange sense of superiority and malice.
"Of course. I'm her older sister. We've lived under the same roof for so many years. How could I not know her?"
"I just can't stand her behavior of having multiple lovers and being so ungrateful. That's why I'm kind - heartedly warning you not to be deceived by her looks! I'm just speaking out for justice!"
"Sister? Lived together for years?"
Pei Jiangmu repeated these two words softly, with the end of his tone rising slightly, carrying a hint of imperceptible ridicule.
The next second, the bit of gentleness on his face disappeared in an instant, and his entire aura suddenly changed.
An invisible, extremely oppressive aura of a superior radiated out from him. The temperature in the corridor seemed to drop several degrees.
His eyes became as sharp as a falcon's. His voice was not loud, but every word was clear and cold, like ice beads hitting the ground.
"Since you're her sister, then why do I only see your malicious slander and smear, instead of the love and support between sisters?"
"Not to mention as a woman, just as a fellow female, why do you so easily impose such filthy and jealous words on another woman?"
"You keep saying 'speaking out for justice' and 'righting wrongs'..."
He leaned forward slightly, his gaze like a knife, as if it could cut open the darkest corners of people's hearts.
"Is it really out of so - called 'righteousness', or is it purely out of that ugly, unseemly jealousy deep in your heart?"
This series of questions was logical and imposing.
It directly tore off all of Du Xixi's false pretenses and exposed her dark thoughts in broad daylight.
Yes, she was jealous of Meng Ruozhao.
She was so jealous that she was going crazy.
Du Xixi was left speechless by his questions. Her face turned green and then white, and the gazes of the onlookers around her also became full of meaning.
However, Pei Jiangmu's performance was not over yet.
Just as Du Xixi opened her mouth to refute but couldn't find the right words.
The coldness and sharpness on his face receded like a tide, quickly replaced by an extremely "tea - like" innocent and surprised expression.
He even exaggeratedly covered his mouth with his hand and slightly widened his eyes.
"Ah! Did I guess right?"
"Surely not?"
He tilted his head, his tone extremely annoying.
"Could it really be that you like your sister's boyfriend yourself but can't have him?"
"So you've become psychologically twisted and are doing everything you can to slander your own sister, in the vain hope of stepping on her so that you can have a chance to take her place?"
"But as long as her boyfriend isn't blind, he won't give up a pearl for a fish - eye."
"Pfft—" Someone in the crowd couldn't help but laugh out loud again.
This young man was so sharp - tongued.
But what he said seemed to make a lot of sense.
"You... You're talking nonsense!"
Du Xixi trembled with anger. She pointed at Pei Jiangmu with a shaking finger, and her chest heaved violently.
Her face turned from red to white, and then from white to green, as if she was about to faint at any moment.
In all her life, she had never been so thoroughly humiliated and exposed in public.
And it was by a "pretty boy" that she looked down on.
She tried to use her status to intimidate him and shrieked in a show of bravado.
"Do you know who I am?! How dare you talk to me like this?! Do you believe that I can make you unable to survive in Haicheng?!"
Hearing this, Pei Jiangmu sneered, as if he had heard the biggest joke in the world. His eyes were full of contempt, as if he was looking at a pile of trash.
"I don't care who you are. Do I need to know every Tom, Dick, and Harry?"
"Just by looking at your sour, jealous face, I can tell that you're definitely not a good person who does good deeds."
"I advise you to get treatment if you're sick. The psychiatry department is probably downstairs."
"You... You...!"
Du Xixi was completely silenced by his retort. She could only cover her chest and gasp for breath, unable to say a single word, only filled with impotent rage.