"Do you insist on me going to the Nie Family to apologize?"
Shi Yaoguang changed her tone and asked this question.
Shi's father didn't hesitate to say, "Yes."
Over the phone, there came a low chuckle.
Then came Shi Yaoguang's indifferent tone, "If that's the case, as you wish."
After speaking, she hung up the phone.
Shi's father was quite satisfied with Shi Yaoguang's timely correction of her attitude.
However, he was still somewhat dissatisfied with the way she simply hung up the phone after speaking.
Seeing him silent, Shi's mother asked anxiously, "What happened? What did that rebellious girl say?"
Shi's father's face stiffened, showing displeasure as he said, "What else could she say? Of course she agreed to go to the Nie Family to apologize."
While speaking, he scoffed, "Had I known it would be like this, why make such a fuss at school?"
Shi's mother also felt that today's incident was all stirred up by Shi Yaoguang making trouble.
Meanwhile, Shi Yiqing, listening to the elders' conversation, breathed a sigh of relief.
It was good that Shi Yaoguang was willing to apologize. If she had stubbornly refused to yield, then she would have had no way to deal with her afterwards.
Anyway, now that she had apologized today, she would have to keep a low profile at school in the future.
After all...
Everybody wasn't a fool.
It was Nie Feng's fault, yet she was the one apologizing.
The attitude of the Shi Family was clear.
To not "treat" such a person properly would be a loss.
Shi Yiqing's dark thoughts, of course, were known to her alone.
After hanging up the phone, Shi Yaoguang took a taxi to the Nie Family.
Speaking of which, families like the Nie Family and Shi Family, with similar influence, all lived in the same Banshan Villa area.
However, the two families were situated in different directions, the Shi Family to the south and the Nie Family to the west.
Nie Family.
When Nie Feng returned home from school, Mrs. Nie was heartbroken to see his head wrapped like a mummy.
In her distress, she inquired about the perpetrator.
Nie Feng naturally wouldn't cover for Shi Yaoguang, so Mrs. Nie's accusatory phone call went directly to the Shi Family.
On this side, just as the phone call connected, Shi Yaoguang appeared at the doorstep of the Nie Family's villa.
"Madam, Miss Shi has arrived and is currently standing outside the door."
Upon hearing this, Mrs. Nie hung up the phone and walked toward the door.
On the other end, Shi's mother stared at the hanging phone with unease.
She wondered why Mrs. Nie suddenly hung up—could something unexpected have happened?
"Is it you who injured my son Feng?"
Mrs. Nie walked to the door and looked down at the stunningly beautiful girl holding a megaphone before her.
Shi Yaoguang's features were bold and glamorous, a type of beauty that usually didn't garner the favor of mothers-in-law and could easily bring to mind derogatory terms like gorgeous troublemaker.
Unfortunately, Mrs. Nie was one who disliked such types.
Shi Yaoguang approached her with a smile, her tone brimming with sincerity, "Mrs. Nie, you've misunderstood, I didn't hit your son."
Mrs. Nie frowned, thinking Shi Yaoguang was trying to talk her way out and absolve herself, "Don't try to wriggle out of this!"
"I'm not trying to wriggle out of anything," Shi Yaoguang said innocently, shrugging her shoulders, "Nie Feng wasn't hit by me, and the injury he got, he brought upon himself."
As she spoke, she raised the megaphone in her hand, "Rest assured, Mrs. Nie, although it's not my fault, the Shi Family is too spineless. They think I should apologize to your family."
"So, here I am."
As the words fell, she pressed the play button on the megaphone.
Mrs. Nie had not yet recovered from Shi Yaoguang's remark about the Shi Family being spineless when she heard her voice amplified through the speaker: "Don't miss out, everyone— the grand drama of the wealthy begins now~"
"Today is a day that will be remembered in history, a day that cements disgrace, today..."
After a string of parallel sentences, she finally got to the point.
"I, Shi Yaoguang, am the true heiress ousted by the Shi Family, and I find it an honor."
"The reason I stand here today is to offer an apology from the Shi Family to the Nie Family! Young Master Nie Feng of the Nie Family attempted to murder me and ended up injured by mistake. In a situation where the fault is not mine at all, the Shi Family fears the revenge of the Nie Family and has compelled me to come here to apologize..."
"Even though I have been ostracized by the Shi Family, in consideration of the 'kindness' of the Shi Family for not raising me, I am extremely willing to run errands for them. Let me emphasize again, the Shi Family once more solemnly apologizes to the Nie Family, and should there be a need, everyone in the Shi Family, except for Shi Yaoguang, is willing to kneel and kowtow to atone for their wrongdoing!"
"Thank you for listening, that concludes this broadcast."
Mrs. Nie stood watching her turn off the megaphone, her complexion pale and livid.
Shi Yaoguang didn't give her a chance to react and turned to leave.
After opening the car door, she paused, shouting into the megaphone, "I came today to apologize on behalf of the Shi Family. My personal desire remains to publicly apologize to Nie Feng, otherwise, wait for my accusation of your son's attempted murder!"
Having said that, she got into the car and left with flair.
Mrs. Nie was left standing there, dumbfounded, unable to react for a long time.
…
Shi Yaoguang might have left with flair, but her recorded apology on behalf of the Shi Family sent all of Banshan Villa into an uproar.
Of course, this wasn't just the work of a megaphone.
Before heading to the Nie Family, she had pulled a little stunt so that the entire villa community could hear the recording.
The Shi Family, naturally, was included.
Father Shi, Mother Shi, and Shi Yiqing almost passed out with rage upon hearing the recording.
When they came to, intending to call Shi Yaoguang and berate her for her unfilial behavior, they found her phone was turned off.
Unable to find the initiator, Shi Yaoguang, the Shi Family had to face the questioning of the other families in the villa community themselves.
Father Shi, having dealt with all these neighbors—some who came for a laugh, others who wanted to kick the family while they were down—had a face as dark as the bottom of a pot.
"I knew that ungrateful wretch would never be tamed. We should never have taken her back in the first place!"
Mother Shi couldn't help but complain too, "What's the use of saying 'I knew it' now?"
"That wretched girl is deliberately ruining our reputation; she doesn't want our family to live well! Such a daughter, truly born to be our nemesis!"
Shi Yiqing would have been happy for Shi Yaoguang to meet a terrible end, yet she wore a self-reproachful expression: "It's all my fault, if sister and I hadn't been switched at birth, perhaps she wouldn't have ended up like this..."
Father Shi glanced at her, his tone softening slightly, "This is her fault; what does it have to do with you? You've always been the good child of our Shi Family!"
"I can't imagine what that scourge is thinking, smearing the Shi Family like this, how does it benefit her..."
"What else could be the benefit? I see it; armed with her connection to Quan Sanye, she's got the confidence to burn bridges with the Shi Family! But she should look at herself—without the status of the Shi Family heiress, would Quan Sanye even spare her a glance?"
"Why do they say she's shallow? Indeed, one raised away from home is different!"
Listening to her parents' complaints about Shi Yaoguang, Shi Yiqing felt a secret thrill of pleasure.