"Alright, then I'll give you another chance. Go, take me to see Tang Xueying."
Soon, a group of people arrived at a villa in the suburbs owned by Huo Dongning.
The doorbell rang, and Tang Xueying, thinking it was Huo Dongning returning, opened the door with excitement.
To her surprise, the first person she saw was Jiang Nanfang's furious face.
Seeing her wearing beautiful makeup, dressed in fine clothes, and living in such a lovely house.
While she herself had been made to run around day after day because of her.
Jiang Nanfang immediately slapped her across the face.
"Tang Xueying, so you've been hiding here! Do you know how hard I've been looking for you?"
One after another, Zhan Beijue, Huo Dongning, and Gong Beibei also entered.
Seeing this, the intelligent Tang Xueying couldn't help but realize what had happened.
She sneered, covering her face, and revealed an expression of facing death without fear.
"You're all here? I knew this day would come eventually, but I didn't expect it so soon."
"Jiang Nanfang, what right do you have to hit me?"
"What right do I have to hit you?"
After committing so many wrongdoings and hiding, this was their first meeting, and she could still ask such a shameless question.
Jiang Nanfang was almost amused to death by her.
"You ask what right I have to hit you! Aren't you already dead? A dead person, and you're afraid of being hit?"
"Heh, I'm dead, that's right. I am indeed dead. I died many years ago."
Tang Xueying looked at Jiang Nanfang with firm eyes.
"Don't look at me with that victor's stance, don't scrutinize me with that aloof gaze. Jiang Nanfang, I don't owe you anything."
"I don't owe you? Tang Xueying, is there anything I did that wasn't good enough, that upset you? Even now, you can say such things?"
Tang Xueying sneered.
"You think you did very well? That everything you did was to my satisfaction? Actually, I've been annoyed with you for a long time."
The two had been good friends since middle school.
Back then, Jiang Nanfang was very plain-looking and was an outcast at school. Only Tang Xueying was willing to befriend her.
To think that a friend of so many years would eventually tell her that she had been annoyed with her all along.
Jiang Nanfang couldn't understand.
"If that's the case, and no one forced you, why did you choose to be friends with me back then?"
"Because back in school, only you and I had the most similar backgrounds."
Tang Xueying said faintly.
"Besides you, who was poor and ugly, no one looked down on me or was willing to be with me. I sought you out simply to huddle together for warmth."
"..."
"Although our backgrounds were similar, we weren't entirely the same. You were good at studying; you got into Nanda High School on your own merits. Whereas I used all of my mother's connections."
"You were always first in your grade in every exam. Besides the students who disliked you, which teacher didn't like you?"
Jiang Nanfang felt she was truly blind.
So, from that time on, others no longer genuinely considered her a friend.
And she, still naively believing that Tang Xueying was the only ray of light sent by heaven.
"Heh, I never expected our friendship to be impure from the very beginning. Since that's the case, why didn't you leave me after leaving Nanda High School?"
"It was only because you still had some value that could be exploited."
At this point, there was no need to hide anything. Telling the truth made Tang Xueying feel quite good.
"Originally, it was good to have an extra companion. To be honest, Jiang Nanfang, even if we drifted apart after going to university, I never intended to break off our friendship."
"Who knew that with your disposition, you would actually marry Zhan Beijue during university and become Mrs. Zhan, whom everyone envied!"
"Do you know how I felt when I saw the marriage certificate in your hand, when I saw you freely entering and exiting the Zhan family's residence?"
"Both of us were people with our feet stuck in the mud, and suddenly one of us became a phoenix..."
"If Zhan Beijue hadn't divorced you later, and you came back to me with nothing, I might have distanced myself from you then."
"I like to see you in distress. It makes me feel like I'm not the worst in the world."
"Who knew you would betray me later! You told me you were pregnant, pregnant with Zhan Beijue's child! Oh my god, what a huge trump card that was!"
"Zhan Beijue! That's a male god that countless women can only dream of reaching. And you, you actually had his child!"
Jiang Nanfang finally understood.
"So, at that time, Zhan Beijue never intended to completely destroy me, and everything I went through was orchestrated by you?"
"That's right. If I hadn't done that, you still wouldn't have given up on Zhan Beijue, and what if you had gone back to him with the child?"
"And the scar on your face was fake! Who knew that when you took off the mask, you could be so beautiful! I couldn't just watch you have everything while I remained a pathetic nobody!"
"So you lied to me, saying I only had twins, and sold the other two to Zhan Beijue?"
Tang Xueying said righteously.
"Shouldn't I have? You should thank me for the decision I made back then."
"If those two hadn't been given to Zhan Beijue, given your situation at the time, could you have afforded to raise four children? Don't forget how difficult the conditions were when we first went to Dan Country."
"If I hadn't worked hard to help you raise the children, would you have had time to go out and work? Would you have had everything you have now?"
"But you knew very well that I had completely cut off contact with Zhan Beijue at that time. My world only consisted of you and the children. You should have been content!"
Hearing Jiang Nanfang say this, Tang Xueying let out another cold laugh.
"Yes. Originally, I thought you would settle down then, and we could continue to be good friends."
"But, heaven knows, even after you divorced and had two children, you were still so charming?"
"You were appreciated at work, and so many men were willing to help you in life. Seeing you grow stronger and stronger, your career improving, shining brightly every day. While I knew nothing but raising children, do you know how I felt?"
Jiang Nanfang was truly impressed by her perspective.
"So, every day we spent together, you were filled with hostility towards me, feeling that everything I did was stealing your thunder..."
Tang Xueying interrupted her.
"It's not that I feel that way, it's that it's the truth!"
"I hate you, Jiang Nanfang. You always perform better than me, you have a successful career, two adorable children. I have nothing but getting older. How can you make me feel balanced?"
Jiang Nanfang corrected her: "Who says you have nothing?"
"Your boyfriend loves you so much, and he's willing to split all the money I earn with you! As long as you are content, you can have what I have. Why are you still unbalanced?"
"Heh." Tang Xueying smiled again.
"It's better not to mention him; the more you talk about him, the more I hate him."
"You think he truly loves me, that he's with me because I'm good? It's all because of you!"
"He just thinks that because I have such a good friend, such high-quality connections, and because you've given me everything, he looks upon me with more favor."