Zhang Nana clearly didn't believe Lu Rong's words. "She's from Fuxing Reservoir Village. I'll go ask the people there, won't I? Give me the money, and I'll go right now!"

Lu Rong was terrified. "No, no...you, where did this girl come from? How could you lie and deceive people? Tell me quickly, tell me you're lying!"

Lu Rong pointed at Xu Yao's nose, glaring at her fiercely, the implication in her words and eyes was self-evident.

Xu Yao understood what Lu Rong meant.

Thinking that she would need to get benefits from Lu Rong in the future, it wasn't worth offending her now, so she immediately said, "I, I didn't say I was your daughter, it was all my classmate spreading rumors. Yes, it was all my classmate spreading rumors. Um, Nana, listen to me, my classmate and I don't get along, she deliberately spread rumors so that you would come after me. Yes, that's it."

Zhang Nana didn't believe it at all: "Why would someone spread rumors about you if they don't spread rumors about others? These kinds of rumors are easy to expose, why would they spread them? Isn't she afraid you'll retaliate against her? Stop pretending, you two obviously know each other and are conspiring to lie to me! Mom, you arranged for her to transfer from No. 1 Middle School to Yucai Middle School, didn't you?"

Lu Rong was utterly speechless. How did Zhang Nana find out about this?

It seems that the fact that Xu Yao is her biological daughter can no longer be kept a secret.

At the end of last year, after Xu Yao found Lu Rong, Lu Rong initially did not want to acknowledge Xu Yao.

So, Lu Rong played the sympathy card, saying that she wasn't doing well herself and couldn't help Xu Yao transfer schools. Xu Yao didn't insist and left, leading Lu Rong to believe that Xu Yao had given up.

Not long after, Xu Yao contacted Lu Rong again, saying that she had seen Zhang Nana while shopping.

What are they trying to do?

Lu Rong then realized that her daughter from her previous marriage was no ordinary person.

That's good too. I can secretly help Xu Yao with her studies, and once she gets into university, everything will be fine. After all, I'm her biological mother, and she won't mistreat me.

Therefore, Lu Rong used her connections to transfer Xu Yao to another school.

The cigarette factory was the largest taxpayer in the county, accounting for more than half of the county's tax revenue. The factory director's wife was someone many people fawned over, so Lu Rong easily accomplished the task.

He only said that Xu Yao was the daughter of a distant relative of his.

Seeing that Zhang Nana didn't believe her lies at all, Lu Rong had no choice but to tell her the whole story: "Nana, don't blame Mom, Mom will tell you everything. But you absolutely mustn't tell your dad..."

"What can't you tell me?"

A man's voice sounded behind Xu Yao.

Lu Rong: ...

Didn't he say he had something to do at noon and wouldn't be home?!

...

An hour later, at the Zhang family's residence.

Lu Rong covered her face, sobbing silently, unable to look at Zhang Hongsheng's ashen face.

Zhang Hongsheng never dreamed that Lu Rong had given birth to a child before marrying him, and that this child had now come knocking on his door!

A thousand horses could gallop over his head!

After a while, Zhang Hongsheng turned and left.

Zhang Nana screamed, "Mom, you should just go with this scheming woman! You're terrifying!"

Zhang Nana also disappeared.

So, only Lu Rong and Xu Yao remained in the house.

Lu Rong raised her tear-streaked face, still so beautiful, "Xu Yao, are you satisfied? You've brought this far, are you satisfied now?"

Xu Yao kept shaking her head: "Mom, Mom, it really wasn't me. It was my classmate who got revenge on me and deliberately exposed this."

"Don't call me Mom! If you don't tell your classmates, how would they know? Huh? Even your dad doesn't know where I am, how could your classmates know? If your grandparents knew where I was, they would have come looking for me long ago!"

Xu Yao was also puzzled. How did Yang Wanwan know?

"I really didn't tell my classmates..."

"Get out! Get out!"

"mom……"

"Don't call me Mom! Get out!"

Xu Yao tried to argue, but Lu Rong gave her no chance and angrily yelled at her to get out.

Xu Yao, locked outside the Zhang family's gate, felt utterly desolate.

But she quickly cheered up.

She never expected to receive maternal love. If Lu Rong had even the slightest bit of maternal affection for her, she wouldn't have never visited her in Fuxing Reservoir Village for so many years.

Now that I'm all grown up, do I still expect maternal love?

We're all just using each other.

Isn't that right?

Having figured all this out, Xu Yao wiped her face, gave a mocking smile, and went back to school.

Back at school, Xu Yao found Yang Wanwan reading a book and loudly questioned her, "Yang Wanwan, how could you do this to me? I've been trying to repair our relationship. If you don't want to, fine, but you can't hurt me like this!"

Yang Wanwan threw down her pen, stood up, and retorted defiantly, "How did I hurt you? Tell me! Don't you just want everyone to know that I hurt you? Come on, classmates, stop reading and listen to Xu Yao tell you how I hurt her!"

"you……"

Seeing all her classmates staring at her, Xu Yao couldn't say what she was about to say.

Can she tell the truth? What will others think of her? She's someone even her own mother didn't want, which would completely ruin the image she's cultivated in front of her classmates about coming from a well-off family. Besides, she's getting along well with Miao Feng and Guan Fangfang, both of whom come from wealthy families.

Xu Yao said unwillingly, "Class is about to start, I'll talk to you after class so you don't have trouble concentrating."

"How could I possibly have trouble attending class when I get almost 100 in every subject? You wouldn't understand the world of academic superstars. But you, if you don't finish what you're saying, what am I to blame if you can't concentrate in class later? Oh right, I forgot, your grades are always at the bottom. You only got a score in the thirties on yesterday's test. Want to know how many points I got? 100."

Xu Yao blushed.

She had average grades at No. 1 Middle School, but by the time she got to Yucai Middle School, she was at the bottom of the class.

As a student, Xu Yao felt embarrassed because of her poor grades.

"You, Wanwan, don't humiliate me like this..."

"Wrong! You're asking for humiliation! Did I just speak to you? Didn't you come to me yourself? You only said half of what you wanted to say, stammering and hesitating, just to make everyone think I bullied you, right? Then tell me how I bullied you. If you don't tell me, do you think the students at Yucai Middle School are so stupid and easily fooled that they can be fooled by your performance?"

Xu Yao retreated step by step, unable to defend herself. She regretted that she hadn't thought things through before coming to find Yang Wanwan.

"We need to go to class soon, let's talk about it later."

"Why turn back! Class will end after class! It's the same thing to talk after class, isn't it? I won't talk to you alone. If I didn't say anything, you'll pass it around and who knows what will become of it."

"Wanwan, you, you shouldn't be so aggressive..."