Ruan Mingying slowly spoke, "Zhuozhuo, I don't know if you've ever heard of something called Peach Blossom Gu."
Their mother, Ruan Mulan, was seen by outsiders as a frail woman, like a parasitic vine, who had to depend on others to survive.
When she was young, she relied on her good looks and constantly depended on men, unable to live without them.
In his old age, he would rely on his young and beautiful daughter, encouraging her to marry into a wealthier family.
The reason why Ruan Tiantian's family dared to make such a big fuss in the village last time was because those people didn't believe that Ruan Mulan could raise a good daughter.
Even now that the matter has been clarified, my great-aunt still occasionally hears people gossiping, saying that Ruan Mulan relied on her daughter.
"Actually, my mother's business trip this time was something she finalized when she went back to her hometown last time. She plans to open a food processing plant there to give back to the countryside."
"After going through site selection, factory construction, and manufacturing equipment and production lines, it won't be long before the county's largest food processing plant will officially start operation."
Ruan Mingying handed a photo to a few people, and Ruan Mingxuan suddenly realized, "This is a very popular brand abroad, Mulan. So it's from our family?"
Ruan Mingying: "Yes, it was founded by my mother."
At first, Ruan Mingying only gave Ruan Mulan a sum of money, but she never expected that planting a seed would grow into a towering tree.
The Mulan brand is very popular, and many of its hot sauces are loved by local Chinese people who say they taste like mom's cooking. At the same time, its other products, such as various jams, are also popular with foreigners.
These recipes were all developed and improved by Ruan Mulan herself, little by little.
"Imagine someone who has the courage to start a business at forty; would she just be a parasite?"
Ruan Mingying felt that this evaluation was a huge insult to her mother, a label forcibly attached to her. She believed that as long as Ruan Mulan stood up and revealed her identity, she could clear her name of these stigmas.
But Ruan Mulan said that this was good, and instructed her never to reveal her true identity.
This is the only way to protect their family's safety.
Ruan Mingxuan understood: "Is it because of that Taoist priest? Is he our family's enemy, and he's targeting us? Our family always suffers financial losses, isn't it because of heavy karma?"
Mingzhuo said firmly, "No. Our family's fates are clearly very good, how could we have heavy karma?"
Ruan Mingying shook her head. She still couldn't understand whether her fate was really bad.
"When Zhuozhuo was a month old, my mother and I took her outside for a walk. Suddenly, a big monk came over and looked at us strangely."
The other person hesitated for a moment, but ultimately said, "That's strange."
The beginning sounded like a routine. Ruan Mingying pulled her mother and tried to leave, but then the monk said, "Putting everything else aside, female benefactor, you've been bewitched by the Peach Blossom Gu, haven't you?"
Ruan Mulan was stunned. She stopped and asked anxiously, "What is Peach Blossom Gu?"
The monk said that this is a harmful evil spell. The person who casts the spell plants a mother Gu in themselves and a child Gu in another person. The person with the child Gu will fall madly in love with the person with the mother Gu. It is usually used to manipulate others... But it is strange that you have traces of three kinds of peach blossom child Gu on your body.
Ruan Mulan felt as if she had fallen into an ice cave, as if she had suddenly and completely woken up from her previous state of confusion.
She was trembling all over, her face was deathly pale, and her hands were ice-cold.
Ruan Mingying was terrified. She was no longer a child and quickly thought of her and her sisters' biological fathers—three different men.
Although she had never met her biological father, she had met the biological fathers of her two younger sisters.
Those were two utterly despicable people.
One was an alcoholic, the other a gambler; neither had any sense of responsibility and only knew how to rob women and children.
As a child, she didn't understand why her mother kept giving her money. It wasn't until that moment that she realized her mother was under a spell.
No woman with even a modicum of self-respect could tolerate being trampled on like this.
The person who used the poison was incredibly malicious.
Although Ruan Mulan explained time and again that she did not regret having the three of them, Ruan Mingying felt intense hatred every time she thought about it!
The head monk noticed that Ruan Mulan was in a bad mood and sighed, saying, "Let me show you a way out. Go to the Free State. There, you can live in anonymity and that's your only chance of survival."
After that conversation, Nguyen Mok Lam set her sights on going to the Free State.
But how could they get there? Without money, they couldn't even leave Yunwu City.
Ruan Mulan rushed to work to earn money before she had fully recovered from childbirth. Her body couldn't take it anymore, and she fell seriously ill, gradually becoming unable to recover.
Later, the Cheng family wanted to adopt Mingzhuo, and just a few days after Mingzhuo was adopted, Ruan Mingying met someone...
"Who is it?" Xianze asked curiously.
Ruan Mingxuan: "Famous music producer, David King."
Xianze didn't understand, "Is that person very powerful?"
“He’s amazing. He’s the singer Claire, who has produced five platinum records and received the Free State Lifetime Achievement Award in Music,” Mingzhuo said.
Ruan Mingying felt a little embarrassed for some reason, "Zhuozhuo, you guessed it all."
Mingzhuo: "Although you wore heavy smoky makeup and had a mole removed, changing your appearance, I'm very good at recognizing people. I could tell right away."
Ruan Mingying: "..."
So, she thought she was wearing a thick vest, but in Mingzhuo's eyes, it was all just paper?
My sister is amazing, I wasn't surprised at all!
Ruan Mingying thought for a moment, then continued, "The warning from that big monk made my mother and me wary. But we couldn't figure out who was so deliberately targeting us."
"When I arrived in the Free State, I gradually became famous and was able to earn a lot of money. But every time I made money, all sorts of accidents would happen, and I would lose it in the blink of an eye."
"The fortune teller said that our family has bad luck and no wealth in our destiny. If we insist on keeping that money, we will suffer a disaster. It would be better to find a way to donate it or spend it to avoid disaster."
There was nothing she could do about it; she had verified that the fortune teller was right.
That's why she feels anxious about spending money.
If you're always in debt, you're actually luckier and won't encounter any strange or unusual things.
Even now, she has visited countless temples, big and small, to have her fortune told, but she has never received a kind word.
Some people suspect that she should have died young, so how is she still alive? Others say that her family has heavy karma and no good fortune.
Over the years, she's heard these pronouncements so many times that her ears are practically calloused. Sometimes she even wonders if she really did too many bad things in her past life to deserve this retribution.
Xianze sensed something was wrong; it clearly didn't match the facts: "Is it because the people you hired are all incompetent?"
Mingzhuo: "Not really, he does have some skills."
Seeing the puzzled looks on everyone's faces, she quickly added, "I only half understand it, or maybe I don't understand it at all. Those comments are all fake."
Ruan Mingying thought for a moment, "Actually, I suspect that the Taoist priest behind us changed our fates, which is why we are so contradictory."
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