The neighbors gasped, swallowed hard, and said uneasily, "The Huo family..."

"That's right, the Huo family! How could we, a small and insignificant family, afford to offend the Huo family? Does this wretched girl even deserve the second young master of the Huo family? When her teacher called me to the school, even the young master Huo said that this wretched girl seduced him, and that he had long since stopped liking her!"

The man was filled with resentment: "That brat, she's bound to cause trouble for the family! I'll deal with her first, so she won't drag me into this mess!"

He kicked Tongsu hard and looked around for a bamboo broom to hit her. The neighbors hesitated and advised, "Old Cao, although this child is not your biological child, he is still adopted by you. Don't hurt him!"

"Hua Ping, why don't you talk some sense into your husband Lao Cao! Tong Yang is your child now that she's been adopted. Are you really going to watch her get beaten to death?"

"Her father, her father! Stop hitting her! You're beating the child unconscious! Please stop..."

"Don't you fucking stop me, or I'll beat you up too!"

Despite all the advice and pleas, the man's anger hadn't subsided. After he had finished beating and scolding her, he grabbed Tongsu by the collar, threw her into the toilet, and slammed the door shut.

"I won't hit you today. You can reflect on your actions inside! I'll lock you up all night, you wretched girl. You'll apologize to Young Master Huo tomorrow!"

Behind the door, Tongsu sat slumped against the wall, dizzy and disoriented, trembling with pain all over her body, and her stomach ached with hunger. It took her a long time to come to her senses.

Once he came to his senses, he angrily cursed out loud.

Domestic violence!

Regardless of whether he is the biological father or not, a man who commits such domestic violence against his wife and children is scum!

The room was pitch black. The Cao couple had both gone out, leaving her locked in the toilet. It was filthy, but at least it didn't smell bad. The window was half-open, letting in the pale moonlight outside.

Tong Su pressed her stomach hard twice to suppress her hunger and began to receive information about the plot of this world.

This is a modern world filled with gang warfare, business CEO battles, powerful families, and turbulent undercurrents in elite schools.

This time, her identity is that of a girl adopted from an orphanage named Ye Tongyang, who has just turned fifteen and is in the first year of junior high school at a prestigious high school.

The man who hit her was surnamed Cao. The Cao couple were Ye Tongyang's adoptive parents, a couple whose business had gone bankrupt—of course, on the current household registration, the original owner's name was changed to Cao Tongyang.

The first family mentioned in this world is actually the "Huo family" that the man just spoke of.

Before the Cao family went bankrupt, their wealth of tens of millions was quite good, but compared to the Huo family, they were not even worth a hair on the head of one of their servants!

The Huo family is a century-old prominent family with multinational operations, operating in both legitimate and illegitimate spheres, wielding immense power and influence.

The head of the family, Huo Xuanxi, was only twenty-six years old, but he was a powerful figure in the underworld, with an iron fist and a far-reaching reputation.

However, thirteen years ago, the Huo family experienced a major upheaval that nearly destroyed the entire family.

The head of the family died tragically, leaving behind only two sons: the thirteen-year-old eldest son Huo Xuanxi and the three-year-old youngest son Huo Xuanan.

In order to preserve their bloodline and prevent the entire clan from being wiped out in the event of defeat, the elders of the Huo family decided to send their second son, Huo Xuan'an, to an orphanage under an assumed name.

They, along with their eldest son Huo Xuanxi, who was only thirteen years old, endured hardship and bided their time, preparing to fight to the death and return to avenge their family.

—They succeeded.

After thirteen years of bloodshed, the Huo family has returned to its peak. Huo Xuanxi, the eldest son of the Huo family who had already taken a life at the age of thirteen, is now the new cold-blooded head of the Huo family.

In front of his parents' graves, he personally shot and beheaded the murderers who killed his father and mother!

Now that everything is peaceful, the Huo family has brought back their second son, Huo Xuan'an, who had been raised in the orphanage for thirteen years, and arranged for him to attend a prestigious high school in City A.

But a problem has arisen.

When Huo Ershao was sent to the orphanage, he was too young and had no memory of his family. He always thought he was just an ordinary orphan.

Therefore, before anyone from the Huo family came to pick him up, he fell in love with his childhood sweetheart from the orphanage.

That girl's name is Ye Tongyang.

That is, the original body that Tong Su possessed.