Chapter 1597 - 1309: This Isn’t Over

Chapter 1597: Chapter 1309: This Isn’t Over

Li Guirong was startled: "You... what do you want to do? Do you want to kill me? I’m warning you, if you dare to do anything to me, you’ll never know the true reason for your mother’s death!"

Shi Nuan’s fingers trembled, and Li Guirong repeated: "Throw the knife away, throw it away immediately. I’m not joking. The reason for your mother’s death is known only to me, only to me!"

Shi Nuan’s eyes flickered slightly, then she reached out and threw the knife out the window.

She had brought a fruit knife just in case; it wasn’t part of her plan to threaten Li Guirong like this.

But Li Guirong’s claim that her mother committed suicide was something Shi Nuan couldn’t accept, resulting in her loss of control!

She needed to stay calm, absolutely calm; she couldn’t ruin the plan for tonight, she couldn’t!

Seeing Shi Nuan throw away the fruit knife, Li Guirong felt some relief, while Shi Nuan pressed closer once again: "Tell me, how did my mother truly die? What did you say to my mother that day? Tell me everything!"

Li Guirong said: "I’ll say it again, your mother died by suicide, and I actually didn’t say anything much to her, except revealing my identity and telling her that the man that night wasn’t your father!"

Shi Nuan was stunned: "What are you saying? What man?"

Li Guirong sneered: "Didn’t your mother go to America with you for about a year back then? Why did your mother come back later? Have you ever thought about the reason?"

Shi Nuan pondered, indeed her mother took her and sent her grandmother to Younger Aunt’s place, and they stayed there for about a year.

A year later, her mother brought her back to China without explaining why, only saying: "We should go home!"

When she said this, her mother was smiling. Shi Nuan was happy back then because she didn’t like staying abroad much; home was better, and she preferred Chinese snacks and meals.

"Wasn’t it normal for my mother to bring me back to China? Could there be another reason?"

"Of course there was!" Li Guirong laughed: "Do you not know that before your mother returned to China, your father went to find her and spent a night with her? That basically meant reconciliation, so she chose to return. But it’s a pity she didn’t know that the man who was actually with her that night wasn’t your father..."

Shi Nuan froze: "What... what are you saying? What do you mean not my father? What nonsense are you talking?"

Li Guirong said: "I’m not talking nonsense. When I went to America, I was there too; that night, your father was with me the entire time, so how could he have spent the night with your mother? As for who spent the night with your mother, I don’t know!"

Shi Nuan felt as if her heart was being fiercely torn apart!

Mother was quiet, taciturn, but she very much loved Father, truly loved him!

If not for love, how could she have turned her back on her parents’ wishes and resolutely chose Father back then?

But that day, she learned of Father’s betrayal, and also understood her own betrayal!

Her beliefs in love collapsed in an instant!

But... still, Shi Nuan couldn’t believe her mother would choose to die, she didn’t believe it!

Unless...

Shi Nuan looked at Li Guirong, tears shattered in her eyes, glittering with brightness.

She said: "So, you told my mother everything and threatened her that if she didn’t die, you’d expose everything to the public, letting everyone know that she did unfaithful things in her marriage, ruining her reputation to the point she could no longer face anyone, right?"

Li Guirong’s eyes flickered, saying: "I... when did I threaten her? I didn’t threaten her. She couldn’t bear the shock and committed suicide herself!"

"No, you’re lying. My mother wasn’t as fragile as you say. You did threaten her. My mother didn’t care about love, didn’t care about losing Father, couldn’t care less about you, but she cared about Grandfather’s reputation, cared about what I, as her daughter, thought of her, and even more about the fact that because of her, her precious daughter’s future could be ruined by the strange looks of those around her... Yes, that’s how you threatened her, forcing her to die. You forced her to die, and except for dying, she had no other choice... So you were the one who caused my mother’s death, it was you who killed her!"

Li Guirong felt weak inside, trembling as she said: "I... I said I didn’t, why don’t you believe me!"

"I don’t believe you because that was my mother. I understand her better than you, know more about what she cared about..." Shi Nuan sneered, saying: "You don’t dare to tell me the truth, what are you afraid of? What are you afraid of?"