Chapter 1202 - 1244: This Will Not Be Tolerated Again

Chapter 1202: Chapter 1244: This Will Not Be Tolerated Again

Even though Tiantian was little, she was a sensitive, thoughtful kid. She didn’t understand a lot of things, but she could tell this woman was being all nice to her dad, and it made her uncomfortable. Especially when she heard her keep badmouthing her mom in front of her dad, her impression of this woman dropped even more.

So a thought popped into her head—she had to drive this woman away. She absolutely wouldn’t allow anyone to steal her dad.

Nan Jinning flushed and argued back, "When did I ever talk bad about your mom in front of your dad? You’re just a little runt, what do you know?"

"You did, you totally did! You said Mom doesn’t deserve Dad, you said Mom is a bad woman, you even said Mom is a... is a...!" At this point, Tiantian suddenly got stuck. Her round eyes swiveled as she tried to say exactly what Nan Jinning had said, but she just couldn’t remember how that sentence went.

Ling Yueyue asked with a smile, "Did she say Mom is good-for-nothing?"

Hearing Ling Yueyue’s words, Tiantian’s eyes lit up. She clapped her hands excitedly. "Mom is so smart, that’s it, she said Mom is good-for-nothing!"

"Of course Mom is smart, otherwise how could I have such a clever little girl like you?" Ling Yueyue squinted her eyes with a smile and ruffled Tiantian’s little head, then turned to look at Nan Jinning.

Held down by the maids, Nan Jinning’s gaze flickered with obvious guilt the moment she saw Ling Yueyue turn her face over. She had originally wanted to glare at Ling Yueyue with righteous indignation, but when she saw the smile on Ling Yueyue’s face slowly turn cold, her heart jolted for no reason. For the first time, she actually felt a trace of fear toward Ling Yueyue.

Ling Yueyue sneered. "Miss Cousin, how do you explain this? I kindly let you stay in this house and treat you like an honored guest, but who knew you’d turn out to be an ungrateful wolf. You’re actually sowing discord between me and my husband right in front of him. You sure have some nerve."

Nan Jinning, guilty, didn’t dare meet Ling Yueyue’s eyes. She tried to argue. "Why are you staring at me like that? She’s barely over a year old, how can you believe what she says? I never badmouthed you in front of my brother?in?law!"

Ling Yueyue raised a brow. "You think I’m stupid? If you hadn’t said those things, how could a one?year?old kid come up with them? Do you really think the daughter I gave birth to is some kind of prodigy, able to say at this age that her mom doesn’t deserve her dad, and that her mom is good?for?nothing?"

Nan Jinning’s face burned as she shot back, unwilling to admit defeat, "You really don’t deserve my brother?in?law in the first place! Everyone knows that! Who knows if behind your back, the maids in your house say the same things about you! Don’t pin all the blame on me, I can’t carry that!"

The moment she said that, all the servants around them sucked in a breath. They were terrified Ling Yueyue would believe Nan Jinning and start suspecting them, so before Ling Yueyue could even speak, they all lowered their heads and rushed to defend themselves.

"Ma’am, we didn’t, how could we dare speak ill of Sir and Ma’am behind your backs, especially when Ma’am treats us so well? We would never say such things about you!"

"Ma’am, let alone saying those things in front of Miss, we wouldn’t even dare think anything like that in our hearts about you and Sir! Ma’am never puts on airs with us, we all like Ma’am very much, we would absolutely never say even one bad word about Ma’am to Sir!"

"Ma’am, we don’t dare, and we wouldn’t!"

For a moment, the servants’ voices explaining themselves rose one after another in the room.

Tiantian also rushed to defend the servants. "Mom, it was that bad woman who said it just now in front of Dad. It has nothing to do with them. They didn’t talk bad about you!"

While the servants were explaining, their murderous gazes all shot toward Nan Jinning.

Those eyes were so full of hatred it was as if they wanted to tear her apart and eat her alive.

Only then did Nan Jinning realize that one careless sentence of hers had offended everyone.

"I... I didn’t mean it like that... you misunderstood... I...!" Nan Jinning tried to explain. But words once spoken are like water spilled; no matter how hard she racked her brains, she couldn’t find a way to smooth over what she’d just said.

She looked down on this bunch of servants and never took them seriously.

But she knew that if she offended all of them at once, her days in this house over winter break would definitely be hard. And if Ling Yueyue chose to turn a blind eye and let them retaliate against her, she certainly wouldn’t be able to stay in this house.

Ling Yueyue waved a hand and deliberately said, "Forget it, why bother explaining? Everyone here’s smart, we all know exactly what you meant. But even though you said all that, I trust my people at home very much. I believe they wouldn’t say such things in front of my precious daughter."

What she said was extremely artful—while deepening the servants’ hatred of Nan Jinning, it also made her own image grow even taller in their hearts.

Nan Jinning wasn’t stupid; of course she caught what Ling Yueyue really meant. Her little face flushed red with anger. "Ling Yueyue, y?you’re such a sly woman! You’re doing this on purpose!"

Ling Yueyue shrugged and spread her hands, deliberately putting on an innocent look. "On purpose how? Which word of mine was wrong?"

"You...!" The more innocent Ling Yueyue’s expression looked, the more furious Nan Jinning became.

She had never imagined Ling Yueyue would actually be this scheming, this good at putting on an act. Clearly she’d underestimated her before!

"Enough, enough, I don’t feel like bickering with you. I’m hungry and I’m going to eat. As for you badmouthing me in front of my husband and insulting my daughter, I can be magnanimous and let it slide this once. But if there’s a next time, don’t blame me for turning ruthless and throwing you out of here!" As she spoke, she waved her hand, signaling the servants restraining Nan Jinning to let her go.

Once she was free, Nan Jinning not only didn’t feel grateful to Ling Yueyue, she instead questioned her angrily, "Ling Yueyue, who are you calling petty and vile?"

"Whoever’s petty and vile knows it themselves." Ling Yueyue tossed out the cold remark and walked toward the dining room without looking back.

Ling Yueyue left, completely ignoring Nan Jinning. Nan Jinning, aggrieved, looked toward Huo Junmo, her eyes reddening as she called out pitifully, "Brother?in?law..."

"Just this once. If you dare say things you shouldn’t in front of my daughter again, I won’t give Jiansi any face, so you better watch yourself." With that, Huo Junmo didn’t spare Nan Jinning another glance. He held Tiantian in his arms and headed for the dining room.

Leaning on Huo Junmo’s shoulder, Tiantian faced Nan Jinning. As if worried Nan Jinning wasn’t upset enough, she deliberately made a big funny face at her.