"Alright, 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 Huo Dongning was back, happily opened the door.
To her surprise, the first thing she saw was Jiang Nan Fang's furious face.
Seeing her in beautiful makeup, wearing a lovely dress, and living in such a beautiful house, while she herself had been constantly on the run because of her.
Jiang Nan Fang immediately slapped her across the face.
"Tang Xueying, so you were hiding here! Do you know how hard I've been looking for you?"
One after another, Zhan Bei Jue, Huo Dongning, and Gong Bei Bei also entered.
Seeing this, the clever Tang Xueying knew immediately what had happened.
She sneered, covering her face, and showed an expression of utter despair.
"You're all here? I knew this day would come sooner or later, but I didn't expect it to come so quickly."
"Jiang Nan Fang, 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 Nan Fang was almost amused to anger 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 Nan Fang with firm eyes.
"Don't look at me with the eyes of a victor, don't judge me with the gaze of the righteous. Jiang Nan Fang, I don't owe you."
"You don't owe me? Tang Xueying, was there something I did that wasn't good enough to displease you? Even now, you can say such a thing?"
Tang Xueying sneered.
"You think you've done well? That everything you've done has satisfied me? Actually, I've been annoyed with you for a long time."
The two had been good friends since middle school.
Back then, Jiang Nan Fang was very ugly and was ostracized by everyone at school. Only Tang Xueying was willing to be friends with her.
She never expected that a friend with whom she had such a long association would tell her that she had been annoyed with her all along.
Jiang Nan Fang 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 then at 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 just to huddle together for warmth."
"..."
"Although our backgrounds were similar, we weren't entirely the same. You studied well; you got into Nan Da High School on your own merits. As for me, I used all of my mother's connections."
"You were always first in the grade for every exam. Apart from classmates not liking you, which teacher didn't like you?"
Jiang Nan Fang felt she was truly blind.
So, from that time on, others had not truly considered her a friend.
And she, still naively believed that Tang Xueying was the only ray of light sent by heaven.
"Heh, I never expected our friendship to be impure from the start. Since that's the case, why didn't you leave me after leaving Nan Da High School?"
"It was because you still had some value to exploit."
At this point, there was no need to hide anything. Telling the truth made Tang Xueying feel quite pleased.
"Originally, it was nice to have an extra companion. To be honest, Jiang Nan Fang, even if we grew distant after going to university, I never thought of ending our friendship."
"Who would have thought that with your status, you would marry Zhan Bei Jue during university and become the envied Mrs. Zhan!"
"Do you know how I felt when I saw the marriage certificate in your hand, and you could come and go freely in the Zhan family?"
"We were both people with our feet in the mud, and suddenly one of us became a phoenix..."
"If Zhan Bei Jue hadn't divorced you later, and you came back to me with nothing, I might have distanced myself from you by 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 Bei Jue's child! My goodness, what a trump card!"
"Zhan Bei Jue, he's a male god that countless women can only dream of, and you, you actually have his child!"
Jiang Nan Fang understood.
"So, at that time, Zhan Bei Jue never intended to completely cut me off. Everything I experienced was orchestrated by you?"
"That's right. If I hadn't done this, you wouldn't have given up on Zhan Bei Jue and might have 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 that you only had twins and sold the other two to Zhan Bei Jue?"
Tang Xueying said righteously.
"Shouldn't I have? You should thank me for the decisions I made back then."
"If I hadn't given those two to Zhan Bei Jue, with your situation back then, could you have raised 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 work? Would you have had all of this later?"
"But you knew very well that I had completely cut ties with Zhan Bei Jue at that time. My world only had you and the children. Shouldn't you have been content?"
Hearing Jiang Nan Fang say this, Tang Xueying sneered again.
"Yes. Originally, I thought you would be settled then, and we could continue to be good friends."
"But, heavens know, even after you divorced and had two children, you were still so charming?"
"In work, people appreciated you. In life, so many men were willing to help you. Seeing you grow stronger and stronger, your career getting better and better, radiating brilliance every day. While I, besides raising children, knew nothing. Do you know how I felt?"
Jiang Nan Fang was truly impressed by her perspective on things.
"So, every day we were together, you were full of hostility towards me, thinking that whatever I did was stealing your spotlight..."
Tang Xueying interrupted her.
"It's not that I think so, it's just that it's the reality!"
"I hate you, Jiang Nan Fang. You always perform better than me, you have a successful career, and two adorable children. As I get older, I have nothing. How could you expect me to feel balanced?"
Jiang Nan Fang corrected her: "Who says you have nothing?"
"Your boyfriend loves you so much, and he's willing to share half of all the money I earn with you! As long as you are content, you can have what I have. Why are you still psychologically unbalanced?"
"Heh." Tang Xueying smiled again.
"Don't 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 I have such a good friend, such high-quality connections, and because of everything you've given me, he looks at me with more regard."