Chapter 23: I hope you can also stand up for yourself in front of that actor from the New Year's gathering

 Chapter 23: I hope you can also stand up for yourself in front of that actor from the New Year's gathering

Ning Qing straightened her body and looked at the three women in front of her whom she did not recognize.

She remained calm and composed, her beautiful eyes cold and serene as she asked, "Is there something you need?"

Girl A smiled and said, "Nothing really, we just wanted to see what the wife who has been hidden away for so many years looks like."

Girl B looked Ning Qing up and down, her envy evident as she spoke in a strange tone, "What hidden away? She's just a useless cripple who has been lying in bed for years, and only managed to gain the sympathy of the young master."

The girl with short hair, who had started talking to Ning Qing earlier, sneered and said, "You're all wrong. Miss Ning is not that kind of person."

"She's just someone who can't figure out her own identity and insists on taking the position of the young master's wife," the woman continued with malice.

"I heard she's even a murderer," she added with a vicious look at Ning Qing.

Ning Qing clenched her fists, her face tense.

Girl A asked incredulously, "Young Master Nian married a murderer?"

Girl B confirmed, "Look, she's not denying it. She must have been caught."

"How disgusting," Girl A exclaimed. "Who would have thought that such a person would be capable of killing? Who did she kill?"

Ning Qing's lips were tightly pursed, and the blood drained from her face.

Emotions surged inside her like waves, causing pain and threatening to overwhelm her reason.

"It's her," the girl with short hair spoke slowly, deliberately tormenting Ning Qing's nerves. "It's her..."

"Is that enough?" Ning Qing interrupted their conversation with a cold voice.

"Of course not," the three women replied, with a proud expression that held disdain and contempt for her.

"Do you even remember who you are, with your current status? You've hooked up with the Nian family, and you've forgotten who you are?" they continued.

Ning Qing smirked, lifting her eyelids with a hint of a charming and bewitching look.

"How could I forget who I am?" she said.

"A child from an ordinary family who was not pampered since childhood. In your eyes, I naturally don't match up to the man in your heart."

Girl B sneered, "If you know you don't match up, why don't you pack up and leave the Nian family?"

Ning Qing picked up a glass of champagne from the table and covered her lips with the rim of the glass, her eyes shimmering as she chuckled, "What if I'm not interested?"

The girl with short hair sneered, "Ning Qing, you have some self-awareness. You think young men will like you forever just because of your foxy face?"

"I don't know how long they will like me," Ning Qing replied.

Ning Qing took two steps forward, a strand of hair curling in front of her eyes, adding to her charm. Her cold gaze swept over the faces of the three women, and she suddenly whispered, "But he didn't choose you because of your looks, which means I caught his eye and you didn't."

The girl A was intimidated by her cold demeanor, clutching the other two and backing away.

However, B couldn't swallow this insult and yelled at Ning Qing, "You really are a vulgar person from a lowly family, you have no manners!"

Ning Qing refused to back down, and retorted with a cold face, "You keep calling me vulgar, you really have manners."

This mockery made the other side furious, and one of them grabbed a glass of wine and was about to pour it on Ning Qing.

The girl with short hair stopped her, signaling to her left.

Not far away, Nian Che was searching through the crowd, and when he looked over, he walked straight over.

The women glared at Ning Qing in anger, and the girl with short hair couldn't resist mocking her, "It's easy to be high and mighty in front of us, but I hope you can have the same dignity when facing the young man and that actor."

(End of chapter)