Back to the 1980s: Transmigrated as the Bigshot's Pampered Wife-Chapter 88: The World’s Bitterest Suffering

Gu Jiaojiao took a bite of her ice cream bar. It tasted pretty good. Just as she looked up, she saw Mrs. Sheng pedaling furiously toward them on a bicycle.

"Gu Jiaojiao, have you no conscience? Your sister is in trouble, and you have the nerve to stand here eating an ice cream bar!"

Mrs. Sheng kept one foot on the pedal and planted the other on the ground. She spat out the curse, her face a mask of pure disappointment.

"Cousin Jiaojiao was upset, so I brought her out to get a popsicle. What’s wrong with that? Your own daughter is the one who’s a disgrace to public morals! Why are you blaming my cousin?"

Dong Qiming, furious as a lion, deliberately twisted the knife in Mrs. Sheng’s heart.

He had known since he was a kid that his step-grandmother and Mrs. Sheng didn’t get along. Normally, he might even feel some sympathy for Mrs. Sheng.

But now that she had hurt his cousin, that little bit of sympathy had long since vanished. He was so mad he wanted to jump up and down and curse her out.

He felt a light kick. Gu Jiaojiao, whose hands were full, could only kick him gently as a warning not to go too far.

Baffled by Mrs. Sheng’s scolding, Gu Jiaojiao was about to say something, but Mrs. Sheng had already ridden past. She could only resentfully take another bite of her mung bean popsicle.

She had no idea what she’d done wrong, but that look on Mrs. Sheng’s face was one of complete and utter disappointment, as if she were a lost cause.

"Her daughter’s gotten into such big trouble, she’s got enough on her plate. We can be the bigger people and not hold it against her."

"Alright, since you said so, Cousin Jiaojiao, I won’t curse her out. To be honest, her life is pretty miserable, too. My step-grandma is always walking all over her and berating her."

"Doesn’t she curse back?" Gu Jiaojiao had a memory of such a scene: the two cousins from the Ren family going at each other’s throats whenever they met.

"She cares too much about face. She’s not as shameless as my step-grandma, so she always loses."

Dong Qiming said with a hint of schadenfreude. But before he could even enjoy the moment, another angry shout cut through the air.

"Gu Jiaojiao, how can you be so shameless!" Sheng Shiwen had also arrived in a hurry, riding a classic roadster bicycle.

"What?" Gu Jiaojiao was a bit slow to react, asking blankly, "What are you talking about?"

"Hmph! You know exactly what I’m talking about," Sheng Shiwen snorted.

He had received a call from the school saying his sister had "poor conduct" and that he needed to come handle the situation immediately.

The moment he entered the school grounds, he saw Gu Jiaojiao standing between two male students. If that wasn’t a disgrace to public morals, what was?

"Sheng Shiwen, did a donkey kick you in the head? You start cursing out my cousin the second you arrive! You need to get things straight—the slut is your own sister! Did a teacher call your workplace to tell you your sister is a loose woman?"

Dong Qiming’s Combat Power was off the charts as he kept rattling on, "Don’t think I don’t know. You just can’t accept that a daughter of your Sheng Family is a tramp.

I see right through your little scheme! You’re just a coward, and you have to drag my cousin into it, don’t you?

Let me tell you, if the Sheng Family thinks they can bully my cousin again, they’ve got another thing coming! The tramp is over by the entrance to the academic building, surrounded by students. Go see for yourself."

Understanding dawned on Sheng Shiwen. His chest heaved with anger as he ground his teeth, stomped on his pedals, and rode away.

"Cousin Dong, why are you stating the obvious? Does Sheng Shiwen not have a brain?"

Gu Jiaojiao understood now. Sheng Shiwen hadn’t necessarily misunderstood her; perhaps he was trying to make her the scapegoat again.

’With everyone watching, how is the Sheng Family going to pin the blame on me this time? It’s ridiculous.’ 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

Actually, Gu Jiaojiao was just being conspiratorial. This time, Sheng Shiwen had genuinely misunderstood her.

Because of Sheng Yueyue’s comments that morning, Sheng Shiwen was already reluctant to even admit she was his biological sister.

So when he got the call from the teacher, his subconscious mind had automatically defaulted to Gu Jiaojiao as the "sister" in question.

"Classmate Jiaojiao, let’s go watch the show and see how the Sheng Family handles this," Zhang Mingyu said.

"Yeah, Cousin Jiaojiao, let’s go take a look."

"Alright."

At the end of the day, Gu Jiaojiao was only human. She wanted to know why Sheng Yueyue had rushed into sleeping with the male lead.

The book said that the male lead was the one who relentlessly pursued the female lead, while the female lead played coy and tried to avoid him.

’Even with me transmigrating into the book and derailing the plot a little, it shouldn’t have gone this far off the rails!’

What Gu Jiaojiao didn’t know was that ever since Song Zijin saw her again, he had been giving Sheng Yueyue the cold shoulder.

He was hot and cold with her, which gave Sheng Yueyue a sense of crisis. She desperately didn’t want to lose Song Zijin.

Because in Sheng Yueyue’s mind, Song Zijin was still the lofty, untouchable billionaire from her past life.

So she took the most direct approach: to possess Song Zijin’s body. Naturally, this meant seducing him into tasting the forbidden fruit with her.

When Mrs. Sheng arrived at the entrance of the academic building, she saw her own daughter clinging to Song Zijin, refusing to let go.

Song Zijin, his face full of impatience, tried to push her away. "Yueyue, watch your image! There are so many people watching!"

"Zijin~ WAHHH... What are we going to do... WAHHH... I don’t want to live anymore~"

"If you don’t want to live, then why are you still holding onto me? If you hadn’t screamed so loudly, would the teachers have found us?"

"Song Zijin! What kind of bastard nonsense are you spouting?" Mrs. Sheng roared, her anger uncontrollable.

When she received the call from the school, her heart had ached as if someone were stabbing it with a knife.

After her biological daughter came home, all she wanted was to wholeheartedly make it up to her, wishing she could give her the best of everything in the world.

She gave her every ounce of her motherly love. But no matter how much she loved her daughter, Mrs. Sheng had never thought of snatching Jiaojiao’s fiancé for her.

Deep down, she had always believed that Song Zijin and Jiaojiao were childhood sweethearts, innocent playmates whose bond was stronger than gold.

Jiaojiao’s beauty was top-tier in their residential compound. Furthermore, she and her husband had doted on Jiaojiao as she grew up, raising her with an upbringing comparable to that of a lady from a distinguished family.

Mrs. Sheng never let her thoughts stray in that direction, so she never pushed her biological daughter to stay away from Song Zijin.

That was until Gu Jiaojiao started pointing at Yueyue’s face and cursing her for seducing Song Zijin, stopping just short of a physical fight.

On several occasions, she had cursed Yueyue out in front of the entire family, calling her shameless.

And every time, Yueyue would apologize to Jiaojiao and gently explain that she had never intended to get involved with Song Zijin.

She claimed it was Song Zijin who insisted that she was the one he had a childhood engagement with.

Mrs. Sheng and her family were completely baffled. The Sheng Family and the Song Family had never arranged any childhood engagement; the two kids had simply taken a liking to each other on their own.

In the beginning, she, her husband, and her three sons would all try to persuade Jiaojiao to calm down.

They would appeal to both emotion and reason, persuading Yueyue to ignore Song Zijin.

And Yueyue had also repeatedly promised that she didn’t like Song Zijin.

But Jiaojiao was aggressive and unforgiving, turning the house upside down. Unable to bear it any longer, Mrs. Sheng had finally cursed Jiaojiao, calling her an ungrateful wolf she had raised in vain.

Gu Jiaojiao would then sob and wail that the entire family was biased toward their biological daughter and sister.

She admitted she was biased toward her daughter. Her daughter, who had suffered the worst hardships in the world at such a young age.

So what if she was a little biased? Besides, her daughter hadn’t stolen Song Zijin at all.

After that came Jiaojiao’s endless, unreasonable tantrums at home, which left the entire family utterly exhausted.

Everyone in the residential compound said Gu Jiaojiao had no manners, and that crossed a line for Mrs. Sheng.

She had poured her heart and soul into raising her for eighteen years, only for her to turn into someone everyone despised.

How could she bear it? Her patience was exhausted, and from that point on, she never showed Jiaojiao a pleasant expression again.