Compared to the injuries Qin Buwan suffered, this was nothing, yet Qin Lang was already this distressed.

Fu Yunshang’s gaze involuntarily fell on Qin Buwan again. She was watching Qin Lang and Qin Zhiyu with a faint smile, her eyes filled with only weariness and coldness.

So what about Qin Buwan? What did she even count as?

In this entire room of people, the entire Qin family, when she was being beaten, who stood up to stop it and plead for her? Who would feel sorry for her?

He retracted his gaze, met Qin Lang’s eyes for a few seconds, and then cast his teasing gaze towards Qin Zhiyu in the center of the crowd.

“Little, indeed,” he smiled.

But this smile sent a chill down the spines of everyone present, and the hairs on their bodies stood on end.

“At nineteen, already knowing how to seduce your sister’s fiancé.”

“No! I didn’t seduce Nanhe Gege!” Qin Zhiyu immediately shook her head, crying, denying it, “There’s nothing between him and me! Elder Sister misunderstood!”

“Then…” Fu Yunshang said with a slight smile, leaning back against the back of the armchair, “Let’s have an examination.”

These few words were like the low murmur of a demon.

Qin Lang, standing to the side, was shocked and lost his composure, immediately pleading, “Master Fu! It’s all my fault! I beg you to be lenient! It’s all because I didn’t teach her well! She’s caused trouble for the Xu family and the Fu family!”

Only now did Qin Lang understand how serious this matter was. He thought that Qin Zhiyu was just occasionally flirting with her sister’s fiancé, which was harmless, but he didn’t expect it to cause such a big problem!

Fu Yunshang looked at him expressionlessly, unmoved.

Qin Lang then walked to Qin Buwan’s side, “Buwan! Beg your Little Uncle Fu for mercy! Your younger sister is just an adult, she’s not married yet! How will she live in the future? How will she be able to hold her head up?”

Qin Buwan looked at Qin Lang with a complicated expression. He seemed to be a different person from the one who had been so ferocious just now, wanting to strangle her to death.

She had never seen an expression of heartache for her on Qin Lang’s face, not even a single look of pity.

Qin Lang looked at her anxiously, “Buwan, say something!”

“Shen Chuan, start the live broadcast.” At this time, Fu Yunshang continued to calmly instruct.

Qin Lang’s face changed drastically upon hearing this. He didn’t expect Fu Yunshang to be so ruthless. He turned around and knelt in front of Fu Yunshang with a “plop,” “Master Fu, I beg you! Please don’t!”

Fu Yunshang chuckled, “Mr. Qin, why are you kneeling to me? You haven’t done anything to offend me.”

Shen Chuan, who was standing to the side, had already taken out his phone and aimed the camera at Qin Zhiyu.

Qin Lang finally understood what Fu Yunshang meant. Only if Qin Buwan relented could this matter be resolved.

The Xu family initially chose Qin Buwan as their daughter-in-law because Qin Buwan’s mother had done a great favor for the Xu family. Before Qin Buwan’s mother passed away, the Xu family had sworn at her bedside that they would take good care of Qin Buwan.

He guessed that Fu Yunshang’s visit to the Qin family to cause trouble today must have been instructed by Xu Nanhe’s mother, Fu Yunyi.

He had been too lenient when he laid a hand on Qin Buwan just now.

“Buwan…” Qin Lang forced himself to look at Qin Buwan.

Qin Buwan only silently looked in Qin Zhiyu’s direction.

“Master, there are already more than two thousand people in the live broadcast room.” Shen Chuan reminded, “Shall we start now?”

Qin Lang turned around, wanting to shield his younger daughter from the disheveled appearance in front of the camera, but he was forcibly stopped, unable to get close.

“Don’t rush.” Fu Yunshang watched from the side, and said calmly, “Shen Chuan, look, Mr. Qin is so anxious, can you give a suggestion?”

Shen Chuan exchanged a look with Fu Yunshang. Seeing Qin Lang looking over anxiously, he deliberated for a few seconds, and said to Qin Lang, “How about this, for the sake of fairness, please repeat exactly how Mr. Qin beat Elder Miss Qin, and administer all the punishments on Younger Miss Qin.”

“This…” Qin Lang was dumbfounded upon hearing this.

He stared blankly at Qin Buwan. At this moment, it could be said that Qin Buwan didn’t have a single good patch of skin on her whole body, especially her face, which was covered in bloodstains, with green and purple bruises, swollen to the point of almost being deformed.

What’s more, how could he bear to hit his own daughter in front of the live broadcast camera!

He hesitated for a while, not responding.

Qin Buwan stared at him and laughed coldly, “How boring.”

He was already so distressed, unwilling to hit Qin Zhiyu even once, even a single tap.

She had seen enough of this father-daughter love act over the years, and it made her especially sick today.

If she were to force Qin Lang to hit Qin Zhiyu, she couldn’t be bothered to watch them act all sentimental and heartbroken later, just thinking about it made her nauseous.

“Did you hear that?” Fu Yunshang said, “This punishment is boring, and you, old thing, are even more boring.”

“Then what exactly do you want for you to be satisfied?” Qin Lang stared at Qin Buwan anxiously.

Before he finished speaking, Qin Buwan couldn’t help but laugh.

Every word he said chilled her to the bone.

That’s right, to the Qin family, she was superfluous.

Her eyes were full of ridicule as she looked at Qin Lang.

“I originally thought that since I was forced to kowtow to Qin Zhiyu’s deceased mother just now, I would make Qin Zhiyu give me a hundred apologies in return.” She said, word by word, with utmost clarity, “However…”

“However, what?” Qin Lang immediately asked.

“However, now I want you to take her place and kowtow to me a hundred times in front of the ancestors, apologizing.” Qin Buwan gently raised her hand, pointing to the hundreds of spirit tablets beside her.

Qin Lang was stunned for a few seconds, then said in shock and anger, “Qin Buwan! You are simply unfilial!”

“What am I being unfilial about?” Qin Buwan raised her eyebrows slightly and laughed.

“The third deceased woman can’t even enter the Qin family’s genealogy. I publicly brought her spirit tablet in. Who is she to me? You want me to kneel in the Qin Family Ancestral Hall to apologize to a dead woman, you are the one who is unfilial.”

“You…” Qin Lang wanted to say something, but found that he couldn’t say a word.

Only endless coldness remained in Qin Buwan’s eyes, “If you kneel, I will let her off.”

Qin Lang glared at her in shame and anger, then looked towards his younger daughter, who was huddled in a corner, tears streaming down her face.

“Dad… I don’t want you to kneel, don’t agree to her.” Qin Zhiyu sobbed, “I am already a shameful illegitimate daughter, you can’t suffer such humiliation for me!”

Qin Lang sighed deeply.

A few seconds later, he walked quickly to Qin Buwan’s side, stood straight, and knelt down.

Then, he bowed down and truly kowtowed to Qin Buwan.

Shen Chuan counted from the side, “One, two…”

Qin Buwan turned her eyes elsewhere. The nails of her hand that was clutching the hem of her clothes slowly dug into her palm.

When Shen Chuan counted to thirty-something, Qin Lang’s forehead was already bleeding from the kowtows.

Qin Buwan didn’t look at him the entire time. Her thin body huddled in the armchair, listening numbly to Shen Chuan’s counting, watching the large flakes of snow fall outside the door.

At this moment, she felt how ironic it was, as if she had turned into a villainous supporting character in a TV drama.

Fu Yunshang looked at her, lightly twisting the jade thumb ring on his hand, without saying a word.

“Dad! Don’t kowtow anymore…” Qin Zhiyu cried beside him, her voice hoarse and heartbroken.

At this moment, Qin Buwan suddenly smiled, retracted her gaze, and looked at Qin Lang in front of her, “So it seems that Mr. Qin and his daughter both know what propriety, righteousness, integrity, and shame are.”

Qin Lang’s eyes were filled with grief and indignation as he stared at her without saying a word.

Qin Buwan supported herself from the chair, stretched out her bloodstained right hand, and gently patted Qin Lang’s face as a sign of comfort. She leaned closer to him and said softly, “But do you know? Today is also my birthday.”

It was her birthday, and she disregarded her dignity, only wanting to beg for money to save her mother’s life, but she was framed, publicly humiliated, and beaten half to death by her own biological father. Yet, they still expected her to show mercy?