There was no denying that everyone was eagerly anticipating Li Ziqing's second birthday gift.
Even Zhou Zhishan himself was curious to see what further mischief his granddaughter would conjure.
At this moment, Li Ziqing took out her phone, dialed a number, and then said calmly, "Xiao Nan, you can start now!"
Chen Xiao, standing nearby, was slightly taken aback. He hadn't expected Xiao Nan to be here as well. Come to think of it, it had been quite some time since he last saw that girl.
"The second birthday gift has been delivered. Please check your messages!"
Li Ziqing announced with a radiant expression.
Everyone was momentarily stunned. Wasn't the gift for Zhou Zhishan? Why were they all being asked to check their messages?
Immediately after, the banquet hall was filled with a chorus of text message notification sounds as everyone pulled out their phones to check.
Chen Xiao, too, received a message and quickly took out his phone.
The message contained only a video. Upon opening it, Chen Xiao's face registered utter astonishment, his eyes glued to the screen.
Concurrently, gasps of surprise erupted throughout the entire banquet hall.
However, as fate would have it, Zhou Zhishan, being elderly, did not carry his phone with him like the younger generation.
Therefore, despite the video being his second birthday gift, he was the only one who didn't receive it.
Seeing everyone's peculiar expressions and hearing their exclamations, he couldn't help but frown and look towards Zhou Tai.
"Tai'er, what are you all looking at? Bring it here for Grandpa to see!"
Zhou Tai hesitated, his face a picture of embarrassment, and stammered, "Grandpa, perhaps you shouldn't watch it..."
Zhou Tai's reaction only fueled Zhou Zhishan's suspicion.
He grumbled, "Bring it to me quickly!"
With no other choice, Zhou Tai presented his phone.
The moment Zhou Zhishan saw the video on the screen, his vision went black, and he nearly fainted.
The phone displayed an extremely sensational scene: a man and two women, naked, a sight too indecent to behold...
And the male protagonist was none other than Zhou Zhishan himself.
Chen Xiao whispered, "Ziqing, I recognize this man. Who are the two women?"
Li Ziqing smiled slightly and announced loudly, "I forgot to introduce them. One is my maternal uncle's wife, and the other is my second maternal uncle's wife..."
"..."
Chen Xiao was dumbfounded. This old man sure knew how to live!
Li Ziqing deliberately spoke loudly so that everyone present could hear.
Upon hearing her words, a greater uproar erupted from the crowd.
The other two protagonists in the video were nearby. They buried their heads deeply, terrified of being recognized.
If there had been a crack in the floor at that moment, they would have crawled into it.
Zhou Tai looked at Zhou Xingguo, bewildered, and asked, "Dad, what's going on?"
Zhou Xingguo's face was contorted with anger, clearly having just learned of this himself.
He was so furious his nose seemed to be twitching, and he snorted, "Don't call me Dad. It's not certain who your father is!"
"That's right, perhaps we're even brothers..."
Zhou Tai said carelessly, nearly driving Zhou Xingguo to suicide on the spot.
Zhou Zhishan finally managed to recover, having nearly passed out from anger.
Once he had regained some composure, he roared furiously, "No more watching! Turn off all your phones!"
At this critical juncture, Zhou Wen reacted quickly.
He shouted to the crowd, "This is fake! The video is clearly photoshopped. Please don't misunderstand. This is entirely a video maliciously edited by Li Ziqing to slander and insult my grandfather. Please discern right from wrong and do not be blinded by such low-level tactics!"
Zhou Zhishan cast a grateful glance at Zhou Wen. It seemed he had not misjudged him; in times of crisis, it was indeed Zhou Wen who came through.
However, the truth of the video was obvious to anyone with discerning eyes.
Moreover, whether the video was real or fake was ultimately irrelevant. Such gossip was something people enjoyed, and even if it were fake, it had now become real.
After tonight, this matter would spread like wildfire throughout the city.
And then, the Zhou family would become the biggest laughingstock in the entire Wei City!
Zhou Weiguo glared fiercely at Li Ziqing, "Li Ziqing, why don't you quickly clarify this to everyone? Do you want the Zhou family to never be able to hold their heads up again?"
Zhou Weiguo's heart was also in turmoil. In fact, he had known about this matter for a long time, and it had been going on for many years.
It would be a lie to say he didn't hate it, but what was the use of hate?
Family shame should not be aired publicly. The entire Zhou family was a community of interests; they prospered together and suffered together.
Thus, for many years, he had chosen to endure it in silence!
Zhou Yuanyuan also chimed in, "Ziqing, stop this nonsense. Quickly tell everyone the video is fake..."
If she had known it would escalate to this extent today, she would never have allowed Li Ziqing to attend this birthday banquet.
What should have been a pleasant birthday banquet had devolved into a farce, and the Zhou family had become a laughingstock in the eyes of everyone.
Zhou Yuanyuan was heartbroken by this. Although she also resented her father,
Once all this had happened, she unhesitatingly sided with her father.
Li Ziqing looked at Zhou Yuanyuan with pity, "Auntie, what is true cannot be faked, and what is faked cannot be true. Justice resides in people's hearts..."
Seeing that Li Ziqing was unyielding, Zhou Yuanyuan turned to Chen Xiao and reprimanded him, "Chen Xiao, are you just going to stand by and watch her make a scene? She's gone mad, have you gone mad too? Are you just going to watch your woman run wild like this?"
"Run wild? I don't think so..."
Chen Xiao shook his head and said firmly, "Li Ziqing is my woman. Whatever she does, I will stand by her side. Even if she tears a hole in the sky, I will hold it up for her!"
"You'll hold it up? Can you hold it up? Did I say all that to you in vain?"
Zhou Yuanyuan's face was filled with indignation, and she finally sighed in resignation, "Fine. Do as you please. I'm done with this!"
In her opinion, Li Ziqing had pushed the elder to a desperate situation.
And as could be foreseen, what followed would be a bloody storm.
Li Ziqing glanced at Zhou Yuanyuan and said indifferently, "Auntie, you have ultimately disappointed me. It seems there is no one left in this Zhou family that I care about!"
"Zhou Zhishan, now I will present the third birthday gift. Open your dog eyes and see what this is!"
Saying this, Li Ziqing took something out of her bag, held it in her hand, and raised it high.
It was a lock of hair.
Zhou Zhishan looked at the lock of hair, his expression shifting between anger and uncertainty.
He pointed at Li Ziqing and shouted, "Good! You little harbinger of death! It seems you had all of this planned out!"
"Of course, I had it all planned out!"
Li Ziqing's voice was cold, devoid of any warmth, and her eyes flashed with the fire of anger. "From the moment you killed my parents, my plan for revenge began!"