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Chapter 3632: 4.1232 Madam's Thoughts

Qiao Mu shook her head. "I heard everything. You said you've always been disgusted by him."

Mu Qingya's face immediately grew even uglier, becoming somewhat twisted and unnatural.

She was, after all, Qiao Mu's nominal stepmother. To discuss such private, old affairs in front of a child was truly difficult to utter.

"Why?" Qiao Mu, however, wasn't letting her off the hook so easily. She continued to press coldly, her gaze lingering on Mu Qingya's face, not missing even the slightest change in expression.

Mu Qingya bit her lip hard. "I, I naturally hate him! He was already engaged to Sister Chuyun, yet he still pestered me. I had already gone as far away as possible from him. For a while, I went out for training and missions every day just to get away from him."

"Who knew, who knew that this deranged man would still act out while drunk... How heartbroken Sister Chuyun must have been after that incident. She's such a strong person; she would only keep all her grievances bottled up inside and wouldn't say anything."

Mu Qingya said coldly, "Mu Jingfeng is truly a repulsive person."

"If he hadn't been so cowardly and timid, how could Sister have left the Mu family and gone alone to save her own relatives?"

"And afterward, how could we have lost contact with Sister?"

"It's all this man's fault! It's him, he harmed Sister! It's him! He's utterly unfit to be a husband, utterly unfit to be this Mu family head! Today, he was stripped of his position by the Old Ancestor, suffered the punishment of five lightning strikes, and had half of his meridians destroyed—that's all his just deserts!!"

"If Sister is in heaven and has a spirit, she should feel comforted."

Qiao Mu had been staring at her, continuously staring at her.

She noticed that whenever Mu Qingya spoke of Mu Jingfeng, her eyes seemed to exude a poisonous light, whereas when she spoke of her mother, Long Chuyun, the brilliance and tenderness that blossomed in her eyes were completely unconcealable.

This truly didn't seem like an act.

If a person could act to such an extent, they could truly be said to be flawless, practically invincible in terms of emotional control.

Qiao Mu shook her head. She intuitively felt that she might have truly misunderstood Mu Qingya.

The tenderness in Mu Qingya's eyes towards her mother truly didn't seem feigned.

And this tenderness even made Qiao Mu feel that something was a little off.

It seemed almost a bit perverted in its tenderness...

Could it be her imagination?

She carefully observed Mu Qingya a few more times, seeing her compose her expression, then turn and smile kindly at her. "Qiao Qiao, will you try to trust me? I will certainly not harm you. I will definitely protect you on behalf of your mother."

Qiao Mu's expression was incredibly complex. She gazed at Mu Qingya for a long time before a sentence finally escaped through her clenched teeth. "Don't you hate me?"

"Because of my return, your biological daughter grew insanely jealous and was ultimately crippled, had her hands broken, and was cast out of the main family by the Mu family."

"Her entire life was ruined because of me." Qiao Mu watched her with cold eyes, carefully observing the intensity of every muscle twitch on her face.

"Although I don't feel I harmed her, everything was due to her own paranoia and self-inflicted actions," Qiao Mu said coldly. "But regardless, your cold-blooded husband did persecute Mu Rouxuan because he wanted to please me."