Could you do that again? I missed a lot of the laughs

Supposedly, her adoptive parents had even traveled all the way to S City to see Shen Yunzhi.

But Shen Yunzhi thought they were too shabby and refused to see them.

All of this had earned Shen Yunzhi the label of an ungrateful wretch.

But what they heard from this driver...

Clearly told a different story.

The moment An Zhizhi asked, the driver could no longer hold back his urge to spill everything.

He smacked his lips knowingly.

"Treated Yunzhi badly? Everyone in the village knows those two old bastards did nothing but latch onto Shen Yunzhi and suck her..."

Before the driver could finish...

The two old bastards at the center of the conversation came charging out.

"Lame Li! What the hell are you blabbering about?!"

The fierce dialect boomed out of a loud mouth. The speaker was Shen Yonggui, Shen Yunzhi's adoptive father.

He charged over in a single stride, the heavy flesh on his dark face twitching.

"Keep running your mouth, and I'll break your other leg too!"

Her adoptive mother, Wang Dezhen, was not to be outdone.

Arriving right behind Shen Yonggui, she plopped down in front of the camera, slapped her thighs, and started wailing at the top of her lungs.

"It was bad enough that the daughter we raised, cleaning up her piss and shit, made it big and walked out on us. Now even some cripple in the village is bullying us!"

Shen Yonggui joined in. "Picking on us honest folk!"

Jiang Yunli, who had been nervously gripping her sleeve, finally breathed a sigh of relief when the couple appeared.

After learning that these two might appear on the show, she had called them to coordinate their stories.

Everything was developing exactly as Jiang Yunli had planned.

Even the livestream viewers began sympathizing with these "poor parents."

[Oh my god... they look so pitiful...]

[Sure, Shen Yunzhi had a bad time with the Jiang Family, but isn't she being way too cold-blooded? After all, raising a child counts for more than giving birth.]

[Shen Yunzhi's just standing there watching with her arms crossed. My god, how can anyone act like that?]

[I told you she was no better than Jiang Yunli. One puts on a hypocritical act, and the other can't even be bothered to pretend. She's openly nasty and mean.]

Once the couple started wailing...

The whole scene descended into chaos.

Most people were watching Shen Yunzhi, waiting to see how she would react to the accusations.

Shen Yunzhi waited for the director to calm the two down.

Then she finally spoke.

"Could you do that again? I missed a lot of the laughs."

Shen Yonggui: "?"

Wang Dezhen: "?"

The director, who had just coaxed them into stopping their full-throated wailing: "??"

"When other people talk about raising a kid through piss and shit, it's hyperbole. Coming from you, it's realism."

"When we were little, Shen Yaozu accidentally broke something and pinned it on me. You were so angry you shoved me straight into the pit latrine."

"A neighbor saw you and held you back with everything they had."

All of this had been described in the original novel.

Shen Yunzhi had been confident enough to drag this couple onto the show.

Naturally, she had more evidence.

She was not afraid of them spouting lies, either.

Shen Yunzhi said, "You know perfectly well what's true and what's false."

At Shen Yunzhi's words, the two immediately reacted like cats whose tails had been stepped on.

Shen Yonggui snapped, "You little bitch! What nonsense are you talking about?!"

"We raised you to this age, and not only won't you support us in our old age and see us buried, you've never sent a single penny home." Wang Dezhen started wailing again. "Oh, heavens! What a curse! How did we end up raising such an ungrateful wretch?!"

Shen Yunzhi asked, "So did you come here for money, or to condemn me for being an unfilial daughter?"

Shen Yonggui said, "Of course we want..."

Seeing that her husband was being an idiot, Wang Dezhen hurriedly kicked him to cut him off, then declared self-righteously to Shen Yunzhi, "Of course we're not after your money! But if you were a dutiful daughter, would you really not give us a penny?"

Shen Yonggui wanted to lay hands on Shen Yunzhi just as he had back then.

He rolled up his sleeves, ready to slap her.

"You come back and turn this whole family upside down! If I don't beat you to death, I'll write my name backward!"

The group from the city had clearly never witnessed anything like this.

Of the elderly couple, one threw tantrums, and the other was violent.

Neither would listen to reason.

Everyone stopped watching from the sidelines and rushed forward, some holding people back and others trying to break up the fight.

But Shen Yonggui was fierce. He broke free of a staff member's grip and charged menacingly toward Shen Yunzhi.

He wanted to teach Shen Yunzhi a lesson.

The cameraman hurriedly let go of the camera to try to stop him.

Seeing this, Jiang Yunli took advantage of the chaos and discreetly stuck out a leg to trip the cameraman.

The cameraman cried, "Ow!" and ended up knocking over the camera as he fell.

Thud.

The livestream picture turned to static.

The staff in the other vehicles had not encountered a driver as wild as theirs, so they were still behind and had yet to arrive.

This was the livestream's only camera.

The picture abruptly cut out.

The livestream audio dissolved into chaos as well.

Angry curses, the sounds of scuffling, and voices trying to break up the fight all mingled together.

Only a few voices could be faintly made out.

A staff member said, "All right, all right, stop this!"

The director said, "Keep this up and I'm calling the police!"

An Zhizhi asked, "Shen Yunzhi, what happened to your arm?"

Shen Yunzhi's fans in the livestream thought she had been hit and injured.

They went wild in the chat.

[What happened? What happened?]

[What the hell!! Where's my livestream?!]

In reality, rolling up her sleeve just now had exposed something. She had not even noticed and was still acting rather nonchalant.

"Come on, then. It's not like you haven't beaten me plenty of times before."

Who would have thought...

Some old injuries on her arm were laid bare.

They were old cigarette burns and marks from beatings with sticks, some deeper than others.

An Zhizhi had been standing close to Shen Yunzhi and spotted them immediately.