Chapter 100: Chapter 100: Do You Have to Compete with Qiaoqiao for Everything?

Sang Jiao’s Weibo post had not been out long before it shot up to the top of the trending searches. There were loads of comments blessing and envying her, but also a tiny minority who thought she was desperately throwing herself at him, with Sang Siyang not bothering to respond to her.

The colorful-haired ‘Big Sisters’ waiting for Su Nuanying on the sidewalk saw this Weibo post and their first reaction was to deem the person shameless and brazen.

Yang God had personally handed the concert ticket to Su Nuanying yesterday to give to Sang Qiao, so how did it end up being a present for this woman?

The few people with multicolored hair immediately started to post comments from their secondary accounts.

But they were few in number, and their claims that the family ticket was never given to Sang Jiao were quickly overwhelmed and they were viciously attacked by others.

[How could you outsiders know Yang God better than his own sister?]

[And you claim Yang God gave you tickets and asked for your help, which is laughable. Even if Jiaojiao is just his adopted sister, Yang God has always treated her like a real sister.]

[Exactly, if Sang Qiao is as important to Yang God as you claim, how come there’s no news about it? He hasn’t even given her a ticket in all these years.]

Sang Jiao even replied to them, [Please, no rumors. My fourth brother always brings home just one family ticket for me. He doesn’t have many friends, let alone give out audience tickets to others.]

Sang Jiao’s reply only led to them being attacked even more, accused of things like trying to leech off her popularity.

All they had were audience tickets, which were the only evidence they could post online.

However, netizens were skeptical, saying that they had bought the tickets themselves and were just trying to drag Yang God into it.

Even though these few individuals were usually up to no good, they couldn’t outtalk the sheer number of netizens, and ended up so infuriated that they stopped replying out of sight, out of mind.

The netizens didn’t let up, and seeing that they stopped replying, went straight to Sang Qiao’s Weibo and accused her of clout-chasing and paying people to spread lies.

It was when Sang Qiao saw the overwhelming slander online that Su Nuanying spoke up.

“I’m so angry. The ticket is clearly in our hands, how dare she say that.”

Sang Qiao, however, was quite indifferent, unbothered by the ordeal, “Perhaps he gave one to Sang Jiao as well?”

“But aren’t there only supposed to be one family ticket?” Su Nuanying asked, puzzled.

“He could easily buy an extra ticket from a teammate.” Sang Qiao ate her breakfast leisurely, not believing that Sang Siyang would let Sang Jiao be scolded.

After all, the Sang Family regarded her higher than anything else, and it was entirely possible that they would acquire another ticket to give her.

“Aren’t we going to post our family ticket to prove it?” Su Nuanying didn’t quite see Sang Siyang as that kind of person, especially since he was sincerely asking for reconciliation with his cousin just yesterday.

So he shouldn’t act like a fence-sitter, trying to please both sides.

“Don’t post it, it’s pointless.” Sang Qiao didn’t even lift her eyelid.

Seeing she had no plans to post any proof, Su Nuanying had no choice but to let it go, yet she was incredibly frustrated on the inside.

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Over at Sang Jiao’s end, she saw that netizens trusted her, speaking up for her, and she sighed in relief.

However, considering what people had said about her fourth brother giving the ticket to Sang Qiao, she started to worry and made a phone call, which rang for a long while before finally being answered.

“Fourth Brother, can I have this year’s tickets? I know you want to give them to Qiaoqiao, but since I’m not getting a big birthday celebration this year, I just want this gift, is that okay?”

Jiaojiao lowered her stance deliberately, coloring her tone with despondence, aiming to evoke his pity—a tactic she habitually used and often succeeded with.

After a moment of silence on the phone, Sang Siyang’s voice came through, “Jiaojiao, do you really have to compete with Qiaoqiao for everything?”

Hearing this, Jiaojiao was momentarily in disbelief. Fourth Brother had never spoken to her like this before.

But at that moment, all she could do was bite the bullet, “I… I’m not, Fourth Brother you can’t just view me this way? Every year you give me tickets, if you don’t this year, everyone will look down on me, ridicule me.”

“In the past, we showed you undue favoritism, taking only you along to any event and looking after only you. Wasn’t Qiaoqiao looked down upon then? I promised to take her to the internet cafe to play games, and you cut in. Standing alone at the door waiting, wasn’t she subject to ridicule? Last year, you snatched the tickets meant for her using your birthday as an excuse. Wasn’t she disrespected then?”

On the other end of the phone, the more Sang Siyang spoke, the more he found it ludicrous. Why hadn’t he seen this before?

Why hadn’t he stood firm and insisted on giving the tickets to Qiaoqiao when the older siblings were persuading him to give them to Jiaojiao?

In the end, it was because he compromised too easily, blinded by resentment towards Qiaoqiao.

“I… I didn’t cut you off. That day I was genuinely upset when I came to you. The tickets from last year were also… it was because…” Jiaojiao stammered, unable to articulate a complete excuse.

That’s how the Sang Family was, finding reasons to justify any action for the favored one.

So Siyang never gave much thought to her clumsy actions then.

“Jiaojiao, I don’t owe you anything. You’re just an outsider, yet I’ve treated you better than a real sister for so many years. You should be grateful.”

As Sang Siyang’s words ended, the call was abruptly disconnected, leaving Jiaojiao with no chance to retort.

Staring at the black screen, she was so angry that she threw the phone.

Then she crouched down to pick it up again, her hands trembling as she dialed her second brother. She couldn’t just be ridiculed like this; too many people on the internet were laughing at her.

The phone rang for quite a while before it was picked up. Jiaojiao recounted the story between sobs.

Expecting to hear her second brother’s comfort, the next second, however, the words coming from the other side were merciless, “You’ve been allowed to go every year. Let’s give it to Qiaoqiao this year.”

“Second Brother, I didn’t mean to fight with Qiaoqiao for them. There are just so many people online who want to laugh at me. Could you just lend me the ticket to take a photo? Is that okay?”

“Jiaojiao, what others think of you is not important. There’s no need to mind it. I’m still on a shoot outside. I have to hang up now.”

The call ended quickly, leaving Jiaojiao feeling as if the sky had fallen. Had Second Brother ever spoken to her like this before? No, he would have comforted her, helped her resolve issues.

With this thought, her inner anger flared even more.

Her hands went limp as she considered photoshopping last year’s photo with the current date and posting it online—she couldn’t let the netizens ridicule her like this!

But when she opened Weibo and saw the overwhelming mockery, calling her out for “swelling her face to appear fat,” she was too preoccupied to see what had happened before she noticed the first comment in the barrage was a sweepstakes link posted by someone with the username “Listening to Xingxing’s endless prattle.”

[Yang God indeed gave the tickets to @Sang Qiao, but Sister Qiao didn’t have time to go this year and gave them to me. Seeing everyone criticizing Sister Qiao really angers me, I’ll draw from the praises for Sister Qiao and give them away at random. People who have criticized Sister Qiao and Jiaojiao fans please stay away, the draw will roll over if you win!]

Sang Siyang not only liked this Weibo post but also followed Sang Qiao’s account.

It was a clear confirmation that the tickets were indeed given to Sang Qiao and that he was indifferent to Sang Qiao’s act of giving away the ticket, now being raffled off to fans.

Source: Webnovel.com, updated by lotustale.com