"I thought it was her younger brother, but it turns out it's her stepson?"
"No wonder she was having so much fun with that kid earlier; she was trying to curry favor with him and his father!"
"You're so young, why don't you do something better? You're capable enough to find a job and live a good life, yet you're wasting your time on this. You're so young and already learning bad things... Liangliang, let's go, let's go play something else, we don't want to hang out with people like this!"
"Duoduo, let's go!"
...
The adults looked at Ye Li with disgust, as if she had done something dishonorable.
The children all looked bewildered, not understanding why they were playing so happily when suddenly they couldn't play anymore.
For every person who wants to leave, there is someone who doesn't.
The urging and scolding voices of adults.
The sound of children wailing.
The noise gradually faded away, leaving only a group of young people on the ice.
Xu Moran looked smug.
They're both girls from wealthy families in the capital, so you'd expect them to have some semblance of friendship, even if it's just superficial.
But Xu Moran hated Ye Li the most.
The two are about the same age, but from childhood to adulthood, Ye Li has always been someone else's child.
When we were young, we would hire tutors to teach us various skills.
While she was struggling through her piano exams, Ye Li was already performing a solo piano concert abroad.
While she was stretching and dancing with tears streaming down her face, Ye Li was already dressed in a snow-white ballet dress, like a white swan.
While she was pondering which beautiful country to study in, Ye Li received her admission letter from Imperial University. Overjoyed, she hugged her parents' arms and said she wouldn't go anywhere else, wanting to stay by their side as their sweet little girl for life.
For the past 20 years, ever since Xu Moran could remember, Ye Li was the "other people's child," the outstanding comparison.
Compared to Ye Li, she seemed so unruly that she wasn't born from her parents, but rather sprang from a crack in a rock.
Every time Xu Moran heard her parents' exasperated words, she knew that the next thing they would say would be, "Look at Ye Li."
So much so that whenever Xu Moran saw the words "leaf" and "pear" in a book, she would poke them to pieces with her pen to vent her anger.
I thought I was destined to be compared to Ye Li for the rest of my life, but unexpectedly, things changed, and the Ye family went bankrupt.
This month, Xu Moran didn't hear her parents mention Ye Li at home anymore, and she felt a great sense of peace and quiet.
Unexpectedly, we ran into each other at the ski resort.
Seeing Ye Li's pale face made Xu Moran feel exceptionally relieved. She spoke in the harshest terms possible, "Ye Li, I'm not trying to be mean, but you're a graduate of Imperial University. Even if you can't earn a million a year after graduation, you could still earn thirty to fifty thousand a month with some effort. How could you so degenerate as to become someone's stepmother?"
Then look at Xiao Bao, who was cowering behind Ye Li and hadn't said a word the whole time.
I ran through my mind, and it seems like he's not from any wealthy family in the capital.
"Ye Li..."
Xu Moran stared at Ye Li's pure and beautiful face, full of malice, "You're clinging to the child's father's leg, not the child's grandfather's, aren't you?"
In short, Xiao Bao is desperately trying to climb higher again.
Ye Li held Xiao Bao's hand tightly, afraid that he would rush out and bite Xu Moran, just as Fu Yanci had said.
As a young lady from the Xu family, even though the Xu family was no match for Fu Yanci, Ye Li felt it was better to avoid trouble.
"It's not worth getting angry with people you don't know well!"
After gently patting Xiao Bao's head to soothe him, Ye Li looked up at Xu Moran and said, "Do you live by the sea? Why are you so nosy? What business is it of yours whose leg I'm clinging to? You're just being nosy!"
After saying that, Ye Li turned and walked away.
When the men and women around Xu Moran gathered around, Ye Li's heart sank.
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