Although she had mustered the courage to get divorced, she still didn’t want to face the judgmental looks from people at the factory.

On the outside, she acted like she didn’t care, but deep down, it still bothered her.

Now that her sisters were there to support her, she felt brave again.

She walked with her head held high!

When the three women were eating in the cafeteria, they attracted a lot of attention.

Lin Shu had gained a reputation for her sharp tongue!

Soon, many people knew that she had scolded Fu Xiumei so badly that her face was swollen and her leg was almost injured.

Tong San saw her and immediately looked around, relieved when he didn’t see Lu Shaotang’s tall and strong figure.

Other young men secretly glanced at Lin Shu, admiring her fair skin and beautiful features, while others looked at Lin Xia, thinking, “Master Lin is divorced; doesn’t she need a new man?”

They wondered if they had a chance.

Master Lin had a high salary, strong abilities, and a promising future.

Whoever married her would really hit the jackpot!

Of course, many people secretly gossiped, saying things like, “You should never marry a woman like Lin Xia—too strong, too capable, and ready to divorce at the drop of a hat.

Can you handle that? If you’re not afraid of being ridiculed, then go ahead and marry her.

As if they could actually marry her if they wanted to.

Lin Xia felt relaxed and didn’t care about the strange looks from others.

Lin Shu, on the other hand, was itching to find someone to scold!

Her beautiful, charming eyes searched around like light bulbs.

Whenever she saw someone looking at them with a peculiar gaze, she would immediately glare back fiercely, scaring them—whether male or female—into quickly lowering their heads, not daring to meet her gaze.

Lin Shu snorted, “Dare to stare back at me? I’ll destroy you!”

Before long, Old Lady Jiang heard about the commotion and hurried over.

“Girls, girls!”

She had just returned from her younger son’s house when she heard people in the factory saying that Lin Xia’s younger sister had arrived and had given Xuemei a thorough scolding, leaving her with a swollen face and a limp.

Some even said that Xuemei had been cursed into spitting blood by Lin Shu, and when she tried to fight back, she was beaten so badly by Lin Shu’s sister-in-law that she ended up with a swollen face and a limp.

Anyway, her good friend, Comrade Lin Shu, was here.

“Girls, why don’t you stay at my place tonight?”

Lin Shu quickly thanked her, “Auntie, we don’t want to trouble you. We’ll go to the guest house.”

Old Lady Jiang replied, “How could a guest house be as comfortable as a home? Don’t worry, I’ve already sent Factory Manager Jiang to stay in the dormitory. It’s just me, an old woman, at home.”

Lin Shu didn’t want to bother her, and she also felt that staying at the guest house would give her more freedom to talk with her second sister.

But Old Lady Jiang insisted, saying she was lonely and bored at home with no one to talk to, and if they didn’t agree, she’d probably get down on her knees and beg.

Sister-in-law Lu Da, being straightforward, felt that refusing such a warm invitation would be rude to the old lady.

Lin Shu thought for a moment.

Her second sister had gone through a difficult divorce and would definitely have been bullied by the Qian family if it weren’t for the help of this kind and righteous old lady.

She owed a big debt of gratitude to Aunt Jiang.

Whether it was because of the old lady’s sense of justice, her friendship with her, or even because Jiang Weidong was willing to help out of regard for Lu Shaotang, Lin Shu felt deeply indebted to her.

She decided that she needed to repay Old Lady Jiang well when she had the chance.

Lin Shu also wanted to ask Aunt Jiang about the matter of the test results, so she agreed to stay.

Old Lady Jiang, overjoyed, led Lin Shu and her group to her house and began assigning rooms.

Her home was a small courtyard with low walls and a small yard.

The main house had three rooms: one bright room in the middle and two dark rooms on either side.

The center was a living room, the east room was where Jiang Weidong lived, and the west room was where Jiang…

The old lady said, “I’ll sleep in Factory Manager Jiang’s room, and you can sleep in my room. I’m used to sleeping on the heated brick bed, so my bed is extra large.”

Originally, she planned to use the brick bed, but her son told her they didn’t have firewood, so they used coal instead.

Since they would use coal to heat the stove in winter anyway, they made her a large bed, two meters by two meters.

First, she led Lin Xia to the Secretary’s house to fetch some bedding.

Then, she grabbed her son’s bedding, rolled it up, and took it to the door.

She saw a young man passing by and said, “Hey, go tell your Factory Manager Jiang that I have guests at home. He’ll need to stay in the dormitory for a couple of days.”

The young man was stunned.

Could things really work like this?

People said Auntie Jiang was tough, and she truly was… extraordinary!

When Jiang Weidong saw the bedding in his office, he was even more shocked.

The old lady was really reckless!

How could she let Master Lin stay at her house?

Wouldn’t that give people a reason to gossip?

But when he asked, he found out that Lin Shu and her sister-in-law had come over.

Since it was Comrade Lu Shaotang’s wife, it was a good thing that the old lady was helping to host them.

As long as Master Lin wasn’t staying there alone, Jiang Weidong felt relieved.

After Lin Xia went to work, Lin Shu expressed her gratitude to Auntie Jiang for protecting and helping her second sister. “Auntie, I’ll bring you any ointments I have in the future.”

Auntie Jiang smiled and said, “Even if I didn’t help your sister, you’d still bring me some, wouldn’t you?”

After thanking her, Lin Shu asked Auntie Jiang about the medical report.

Auntie Jiang whispered, “Honestly, I’m not too sure. I overheard Factory Manager Jiang talking with the other manager, but from what I gathered, it’s almost certainly true.”

Lin Shu replied, “Then I need to get the evidence!”

In the afternoon, she and her sister-in-law went to the city hospital to find Doctor Sui and get the evidence.

They rode a rickshaw to the city hospital and first greeted Doctors Shen and Zhao.

If they were busy, they just said hello; if not, they chatted for a bit before heading directly to find Doctor Sui.

They waited outside until Doctor Sui had a free moment.

When he went to fill his large teapot with hot water, they blocked his way.

Doctor Sui, humming a little tune, poured the hot water and turned around to find two women standing in front of him.

One had snow-white skin and was as beautiful as a flower; the other was tall, strong, and dark-skinned.

He was startled, “What do you want?”

Lin Shu smiled innocently and said, “Doctor Sui, I’m Qian Lisheng’s former sister-in-law.”

Doctor Sui mentally recalled who Qian Lisheng’s sister-in-law was.

Why did she have the same last name as him?

He had been tormented by that medical report, so the name Qian Lisheng was very familiar to him.

Lin Shu: “Qian, as in ex-husband. Qian Lisheng is my sister’s ex-husband.”

Doctor Sui’s eyes widened immediately. “They… they got divorced?”

Lin Shu nodded. “Yes, even if you tried to hide it from my sister, she still found out.”

Even though her second sister didn’t get divorced because of this, Lin Shu wanted Doctor Sui to think it was.

Otherwise, why didn’t he remind her?

Seeing that they already knew, Doctor Sui didn’t hide it any longer.

He apologized, “I’m really sorry. It’s not that I didn’t want to tell your sister, but it was difficult for me. If I told your sister, and she divorced because of this, and then Qian Lisheng came to the hospital and caused trouble, I… I’d lose my job.”

Earlier, he had told Jiang Weidong the gossip because he couldn’t handle it himself and wanted to pass the trouble to Jiang Weidong.

He subconsciously thought that Jiang Weidong had told Lin Xia.

Lin Shu understood. “So, now that everything is settled, can you give me a copy of Qian Lisheng’s initial and later test results?”

Doctor Sui hesitated, “Uh…”

Lin Shu said, “They’re already divorced. What are you worried about? Qian Lisheng has a guilty conscience and poor character. What right does he have to cause trouble for you? If he does, just call the police and have him arrested!”

Doctor Sui thought about it and realized she was right.

If Qian Lisheng dared to cause trouble, he could just report it to the authorities at the steel plant.

Faking something might not be illegal, but causing trouble at the hospital definitely is.

Lin Shu reassured him, “Don’t worry, he won’t dare to cause trouble.”

Qian Lisheng wasn’t that clever or powerful—he wouldn’t dare to stir up any trouble.

If he were smart enough, he wouldn’t have panicked at the sight of the test results and gotten a stranger to retest right away.

Instead, he could have waited and gone to a big hospital in Qizhou to get a normal test result or claimed he was cured.

To prevent Qian Lisheng from causing trouble, Doctor Sui didn’t give her the original hospital records.

Instead, he prepared two new test results with official hospital authority for her.

Back then, all test results were handwritten.

As long as they had stamps and signatures from the doctors, they were valid.

Lin Shu thanked Doctor Sui and left with her sister-in-law, holding the test results.

With these two test results, they could prove that Qian Lisheng had been deceitful.

If he or his mother dared to bully her second sister at the plant again, they would post these all over the factory.

Let Qian’s mother see who the real liar is—her own son!

Lin Shu and Sister-in-law Lu returned to the back gate of the steel mill’s residential area while it was still light.

At the back gate, there were locals from nearby production teams selling vegetables and eggs.

Lin Shu wanted to buy some eggs and vegetables to give to Auntie Jiang.

As she was browsing, she saw Qian’s mother and Tong’s mother, along with a few other old women, picking out vegetables.

Tong’s mother said, “You’re too weak and kind. If you were tougher, she wouldn’t dare bully you. You’re the one who gave her a job. Without your family, she’d still be digging in the dirt in the countryside. Could she have come to the steel mill to be an electrician? She’s laughing at the Qian family while being jealous of Lin Xia.”

Fu’s mother, feeling resentful because Lin Shu had scolded her daughter, added, “She’s nothing special. If she were in the countryside, she’d have been sent back to her family long ago. Infertile, ungrateful, always causing trouble—what mother-in-law would want her? And her venomous-tongued sister will eventually be sent back to her family, too…”

As they were talking, they suddenly heard a cold laugh from behind.

“A bunch of heartless, rotten women. No wonder people say the daughters of the Fu family and the sons of the Tong family are either gossips or rogues. It’s better to avoid them completely.”