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Chapter 572: Aunt 364 is thorny and fierce, acting just in time to save the beauty (2 more updates) _2After days of running around for her husband’s sake, she looked utterly exhausted, her figure thin, her complexion pale. When she spoke to Shen Shuci, a fierce expression even emerged.

Shen Shuci merely gave a cold laugh.

”You wretched girl, how dare you laugh? Because of you, my husband lost his job, and he might even end up in jail. How can you still have the face to laugh?”

”To be honest, over the years, I’ve seen some shameless people, but I’ve really never encountered anyone as completely disgraceful as you and your husband,” Shen Shuci said, raising her hand to wipe off her shoulder where she had just been jabbed.

”In the past, I did feel somewhat sorry for you, being married to someone like Fa Shoucheng, but now it seems...”

”Two of a kind, perfectly matched.”

Shen Shuci’s disdainful arrogance thoroughly infuriated her.

”You dead girl, you...” Peng Yan raised her arm, about to strike her.

The manager and colleagues standing behind Shen Shuci all gasped in fright, but before her hand could land, Shen Shuci caught it.

She moved quickly, her action clean and decisive.

Clearly, Peng Yan hadn’t expected her to fight back, her pupils shook slightly, she twisted her wrist, but couldn’t break free, growing frantic and enraged.

”You little vixen, you dare...”

The woman’s face turned red, unable to break free, and the force on her wrist seemed to be increasing, that feeling...

It was as if it was going to snap her wrist.

Her desperate struggle, compared to Shen Shuci’s calm composure, made her look like a hysterical clown, which infuriated her even more. She gathered all her strength, but the next second, Shen Shuci suddenly exerted more force.

”Ah—” The woman shrieked, almost bumping into Shen Shuci’s face.

With a cold expression, those eyes seemed to grow even cooler. Being so close, she could almost feel her breath, chilly—

”What, what are you trying to do!” Peng Yan hadn’t anticipated this turn of events, her face turning pale in an instant.

”Originally, I mentioned talking privately with you because I didn’t want to make things difficult for the manager.”

”You were a victim in this matter too, and if things escalated, it wouldn’t bother me, but I wanted to save you some face...”

”Now it seems you couldn’t care less about your dignity, so let’s just clarify everything right here!”

By this time, even the manager felt powerless to deal with this rampaging woman, but Shen Shuci remained exceptionally calm from beginning to end.

”And if you try to hit me again, I won’t be so polite!”

After she finished speaking, she loosened her grip on Peng Yan’s wrist. Already straining to pull back, once the confining strength released, the inertia made her stagger, her body nearly toppling backward.

”You... you dare to strike me?” Peng Yan reached to touch her wrist, already marked with a red line.

Shen Shuci scoffed lightly, ”Didn’t you just push our manager?”

”So it’s alright for you to be violent towards others, but not for anyone to lay a hand on you?”

”Besides, when you jabbed my shoulder earlier, I didn’t say a thing. If you try to hit me again, can’t I resist a little?”

...

By this time, surrounding colleagues had also slowly risen and gathered around.

”Auntie, this is a company, please stop making a scene. If there’s an issue, go to the police.”

”Just talk it out, there’s no need to get physical.”

”Really causing unnecessary trouble, Shen Shuci is truly unlucky to encounter such a shrew.”

The murmuring of the people around her intermittently reached her ears.

Shen Shuci’s resistance and warning were already a thorn in her side, and with the stimulation from the crowd, her hands clenched tightly, anger swiftly ignited.

Shen Shuci watched her coolly, ”What sort of man your husband is, I think many in the company know.”

”Often harassing female employees, yet some colleagues, for various reasons—maybe they don’t want to offend their superior, or they’re afraid to expose the issue and feel embarrassed, or they’re scared to call the police—keep quiet and swallow their grievances, which only emboldens his vile impulses.”

”Clearly a victim, yet eventually criticized by others. Sometimes, I truly can’t agree with certain societal comments—who’s indulging him?”