Tianyi continued, "You not only impersonated the real Wu family's daughter but also killed all the Wu family members out of fear of being exposed."
"You're spouting nonsense, I didn't impersonate anyone! I am the real Wu family's daughter!" Wu Xiufang still tried to maintain an arrogant demeanor, pulling out her phone and looking down at them, threatening to call the police. "How dare you injure my bodyguards, trespass into my house, and tie up someone I don't know to frame me! You're burglars! I'll have you all jailed!"
"If you're the real Wu family's daughter, then what is my mother's identity?" Song Jiaping asked with amusement, pointing at Shi Changying on the ground. "He's confessed everything. He has proof that you are not the Wu family's daughter. When you first returned to the Wu family, my maternal grandfather did two DNA tests with you. The real results are with him. It was he who helped you swap the paternity test results."
Wu Xiufang's face turned ashen. Back then, she had tried to impersonate Zhu Qin and claim kinship with the Wu family. The Wu family had been suspicious at first, but she hadn't told anyone about the two paternity tests, let alone Zhu Qin.
How could Song Jiaping know? Had Shi Changying really confessed everything?
She felt a sudden unease and looked at Shi Changying. He had betrayed her like this!
Shi Changying couldn't move his body at all, only able to shake his head and make muffled sounds.
Song Jiaping's subordinate immediately turned him upside down and held his head down.
Qin Tianyi looked at her coldly and said, "You don't need to blame him. When disaster strikes, everyone looks out for themselves. It's perfectly normal for him to confess everything about you to clear himself. You don't need to call the police; the authorities will be here soon, and your actions can no longer be concealed."
Wu Xiufang's face turned pale. She gritted her teeth and glared at Shi Changying, saying resentfully, "He's talking nonsense! He did everything! I didn't do anything! I only stepped in for Zhu Qin to go to the Wu family with a 'let's try and see' attitude. It was supposed to fail, but he threatened me and used me. He actually had a grudge against the Wu family himself!"
Seeing her psychological defenses about to crumble, Shi Changying was frantic. She didn't trust him at all and had her guard so easily broken by Qin Tianyi and the others.
But no matter how anxious he was, he couldn't move or speak.
Song Jiaping asked angrily, "Since you impersonated my mother and became the Wu family's daughter, why did you kill my grandfather and father? Why?"
Tianyi's heart also tensed, his eyes still filled with ferocity as he stared at her, seeing that she was on the verge of complete collapse.
"I didn't harm them, I didn't!" Wu Xiufang denied. "One was sentenced to death, and the other died in prison himself. It has nothing to do with me."
"What about me and my mother? Why did the car we were in end up in the Jiangzhong River? Wasn't it you who deliberately designed it to kill us!" Song Jiaping stared at her intently. "Do you remember that crazy woman who suddenly attacked you at your son's funeral?"
Wu Xiufang smiled and said, "You're not going to say I drove that woman crazy, are you? I don't know her at all. Besides, there are crazy people everywhere, who knows where she came from?"
"That was my mother's ghost. Even in death, she wants revenge!" Song Jiaping's eyes reddened, and his voice lowered. "She has been following you, and she is right behind you now."
Wu Xiufang's pupils contracted sharply. Terrified, she immediately turned her head, as if she truly saw the crazy woman from the cemetery baring her teeth at her.
"Ah, don't come near me, go away!" She turned to the empty air behind her, flailing her hands.
"Why did you harm me and my son!" Song Jiaping asked sternly on behalf of his mother.
Wu Xiufang completely broke down and yelled at the air, "I didn't want to, but as long as you were alive, you would eventually find out that our pharmaceutical factory used prescriptions from medical texts, and the fake medicine was also given to your husband! I'm different from you. I'm already a young lady from a prominent family, and I'm about to be engaged to the eldest son of a top wealthy family... I can't have any blemishes, nor can I let anyone know about my past..."
"You? Who else besides you? You all owe my entire family your lives!" Song Jiaping suddenly stood up, the hatred and torment that had been suppressed in his heart for years erupting.
He rushed to Wu Xiufang, grabbed her shoulder with one hand, and choked her neck with the other, wishing he could kill her on the spot.
Tianyi quickly moved to stop him, pulling him away. "Doctor Song, please calm down. With the recording of her confession, coupled with the people already apprehended, she will surely face severe legal punishment this time."
"So what!" Song Jiaping couldn't control his reddened eyes, his heart churning like a stormy sea. "My family, my mother, they can never come back. My mother's life, my life, were all ruined by her..."
Tianyi tightly embraced his shoulder, his heart also heavy. "But you forgot, she is Mengyao's mother. You promised Mengyao just now..."
As he spoke, he casually turned his head and found that Mengyao had already come down from the room upstairs and was standing not far behind them.
"Mom, is all of this true?" Mengyao's tears were already falling as she asked, still unwilling to believe.
Hearing this voice, Wu Xiufang shivered and looked at Mengyao, her voice hoarse. "Yaoyao, they are all framing me..."
"Did you really have me kidnapped?" Mengyao couldn't accept it. "Mom, you kidnapped me to set a trap for Song Jiaping, you wanted his life?"
"Yaoyao, listen to me. If I hadn't done these things before marrying your father, how could I have secured my position as the mistress of the Huangfu family? I also did it for you three, so you could live a life of wealth and happiness. I've raised you for so many years, and I never expected anything in return. This time, just consider it helping Mom. You, tell him not to hand me over to the police. Let's pretend none of this ever happened. I won't stop you two from being together anymore. Let him be the son-in-law of the Huangfu family, and in the future, let you two inherit everything in the Huangfu family."
Mengyao felt her entire world collapse. How could her mother be such a terrible person?
When Song Jiaping had told her earlier, she had thought perhaps there was a misunderstanding between their elders.
Even if her mother had wronged Song Jiaping's family, it shouldn't have escalated to murder and treating human lives as worthless.
But she had heard everything in the room upstairs. Her mother had killed so many people. What right did she have to ask Song Jiaping to let her mother go?
Her voice trembling, she said, "Mom, even now you're still thinking of wealth and status. You should apologize to Song Jiaping for what you've done and accept the punishment you deserve. Otherwise, you will always live with a troubled conscience..."
Before she could finish, Wu Xiufang, enraged, lunged to slap her, but Song Jiaping quickly shielded her.