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The guard recognized her: "Why didn't you ride in a carriage, young lady? You fell here!"

Hearing the sound, Madam Jiang lifted the curtain and looked outside. Sure enough, she saw Jiang Ruining standing up with his arms around the wall and limping forward.

The carriage pulled up.

Seeing that her clothes were a bit disheveled and covered in dust, Madam Jiang's face darkened immediately. She frowned and scolded, "What kind of behavior is this, a young lady of noble birth running around after dark!"

"Your father and brother aren't in the capital, so you better behave yourself. If you cause a huge disaster, no one will be able to clean up your mess! Can't you learn a little more of Jin'er's composure and dignified manner!"

Jiang Ruining looked at Madam Jiang and Chu Jin sitting side by side in the carriage. They had the same gentle, white-flower-like appearance and the same porcelain-white skin. Who wouldn't say that they were mother and daughter?

Who does she think she is?

Even a concubine's daughter is not as good as her!

A slight tightness gripped my heart; the sadness was like a leaky wall, seeping out with a faint stinging pain.

That was the original owner's body's instinctive reaction.

He stopped and turned to meet Madam Jiang's displeased expression.

Her gaze was cold and calm: "Didn't Mother notice her daughter was missing when she returned home from the banquet? Seeing her daughter in such a disheveled state, didn't she first check if she was injured?"

Madam Jiang was taken aback.

Over the years, she has relentlessly bullied and scolded Jin'er, which has become an instinctive reaction.

Jiang Ruining did not complain or get angry, but calmly stated the facts: "I was wronged once, and now, without even asking any questions, you've accused me again. It seems that my mother really can't tolerate me as her daughter."

"No wonder I have to endure sarcastic remarks from the servants when I need to use a carriage."

They just left after the banquet.

When Madam Jiang saw that both carriages were waiting outside, she naturally assumed that she was sitting inside. Madam Jiang was worried that if she went to check on her, it would only cause a scene and make her a laughingstock, so she didn't ask.

The driver knew perfectly well that she wasn't in the car, but he didn't say a word.

If something happens to her...

The coachman of the carriage that was originally carrying Jiang Ruining rushed over in a panic.

He knelt down with a thud.

He immediately lied: "Madam! I saw the eldest daughter come out and asked her if she wanted to ride in the carriage, but she refused, saying she didn't need it. She also forbade me from following her and from telling you that she didn't get in the carriage."

"My whole family are servants of the Jiang family. How could we dare to show the slightest disrespect to our master? Madam, please understand, I am truly innocent!"

Upon hearing this, the slight guilt in Madam Jiang's eyes immediately vanished.

He was convinced that she was deliberately trying to make him anxious and compete with Chu Jin for favor!

He coldly swept his gaze over Jiang Ruining: "You used to bully Jin'er, and now you're a habitual liar! I think you're truly beyond saving!"

The driver lowered his head and raised an eyebrow smugly.

Chu Jin, sitting at the right angle, saw it all, and her eyes turned cold.

He was about to speak to Madam Jiang.

Jiang Ruining spoke first, neither warm nor cold: "Mother would rather believe the words of a servant whose name she doesn't even know than believe mine."

Madam Jiang, her face somber, sat calmly in the carriage, looking down at him. "My trust comes from you..."

Jiang Ruining interrupted her lecture and belittling: "If Mother cared even a little bit about me as her daughter, she wouldn't have sat so calmly in the carriage, scolding and reprimanding me when I was disheveled and uncomfortable. I overestimated motherhood and wasted my breath saying that!"

To remain calm and unconcerned when one's own daughter is in such a sorry state, and to say one thing without caring, is not a matter of how much one loves her, but rather a matter of complete indifference or even utter disgust!

The guards, maids, and servants all had changing expressions.

Looking at Jiang Ruining, some people felt sympathy, while others looked down on her even more.

Madam Jiang believed that she only hated her for being domineering and ill-mannered, but she still loved her in her heart.

But when her actions were exposed, she froze, stammering, "You..."

The coachman was afraid that Madam Jiang would take her anger out on him out of guilt.

With an expression that said, "You still don't know you're wrong?", she preemptively spoke up before Madam Jiang could, subtly inciting and accusing her: "It was clearly the young lady who did something wrong and angered Madam, how can you turn around and blame Madam? Is this something a daughter should say?"

Jiang Ruining's heart was pounding, her blood was racing.

It is the original body's reaction.

If the core hadn't already been replaced, I would definitely kick it.

If she were to take action, Madam Jiang would surely be furious and punish her.

Then the rest of the household will surely follow suit and not take her, their only legitimate daughter, seriously!

The coachman saw through Madam Jiang's disgust and, without fear, continued in a lecturing tone, "The eldest young lady should immediately kowtow to Madam and apologize, admitting that she was lying and deliberately competing with the cousin for favor."

"Your wife is gentle and kind; seeing your remorse, she will surely forgive you!"

Jiang Ruining sneered, "The Jiang family has really good rules these days. Even a lowly servant can reprimand his master! Do they think I'm no longer their father or brother?!"

The coachman's face stiffened.

The same goes for others.

After all, everyone knows that the master and the eldest son love their eldest daughter the most, not their cousin!

Madam Jiang was furious.

She had tried to persuade her husband and son to give Chu Jin special treatment, but they couldn't get them to favor Chu Jin. She had been unhappy for many years!

Hearing her daughter bullying others, she became even angrier: "You..."

Jiang Ruining knew that the worst thing was not being able to vent one's anger, so she didn't give her a chance to finish speaking and said loudly, "When the scoundrel was making things difficult for me, a close attendant of the Regent's entourage happened to be passing by. It was the Regent's carriage that gave me a ride and dropped me off on Zhengyang Street."

"I've heard that martial arts practitioners have exceptional hearing; they must have heard every single word that the scoundrel said! Mother, you could go to the Regent's Palace and ask him about it!"

He added.

"Fortunately, Mother is not a judge."

Madam Jiang was taken aback again.

I never expected that a lowly coachman would dare to lie and frame his master!

But once again, he was publicly ridiculed by his good-for-nothing daughter, which made him both angry and embarrassed.

The driver panicked: "How could this be... No, that's not it... At that time..."

"Shut up!" Chu Jin snapped, then turned to Madam Jiang and said, "Aunt, the servants must have seen that you're stricter with my cousin, so they think you don't love her! They dared to slander her in front of you today; who knows what they might do behind your back? I'm afraid many of the things they did in the past were just fabrications by those wicked servants!"

Having repeatedly misunderstood and reprimanded Jiang Ruining in front of everyone, Madam Jiang felt somewhat embarrassed and coldly said, "Who dares to disregard her? Is she the type to suffer a loss?"

Jiang Ruining countered, "Mother, you navigate the social circles of various high-ranking families every day, encountering those who fawn over the powerful and opportunistically follow the winds. How could you not know that the servants are the same!"

"Every time you berate or belittle me in front of outsiders or servants, you are giving them the right to humiliate me in private! If I were still weak and easy to talk to, I'm afraid those despicable people would have torn me apart long ago!"

"Mother seems to have forgotten how the second daughter of the general's mansion next door, who was born in February, died."