Li Juan could not hear what Pan Xiaoying was saying over the phone, but based solely on Wen Leyu's side of the conversation, she could guess eight or nine parts out of ten.
So despite her usually quiet temperament, she still muttered in protest, "Sister-in-law, my brother promised to give me until I was twenty-five. Besides, I can drive myself, so there's no need for a driver, right? I've only been working for two years. If I get assigned a driver, people will gossip."
"Gossip?"
Wen Leyu glanced at Li Juan and said with some disappointment at her failure to live up to expectations, "You've been working for two years already, yet you still haven't learned how to face gossip? Who standing at the highest heights does not get talked about?
Did your brother hear little gossip when he was young? When people called me Little Mute back then, did I hear any fewer idle remarks?"
Li Juan immediately fell silent after hearing that.
Li Ye was her idol. Back when people mocked him as a fool, they all thought he relied on the "influence" of his grandfather Li Zhongfa to throw his weight around. Li Juan had found that embarrassing too, because Li Ye was her brother.
But did Li Juan still find it embarrassing now?
And Wen Leyu's experiences in Qingshui County made Li Juan feel even more ashamed. She had stayed in Liuqiao Township with Teacher Ke for four years, enduring more cold looks and gossip than Li Juan and Li Ying combined.
But had Wen Leyu cared about what others said back then?
Compared with Li Ye and Wen Leyu, she, Li Juan, was truly far too weak.
Seeing Li Juan fall silent after Wen Leyu scolded her, Li Ye gently explained, "Juan, your sister-in-law and