Chapter 413: You Are the One Who Made Me Selfish
"Jiang Yao! This was all your plan, right? You deliberately set up this situation to sow discord between me and my mother, right? Otherwise, why did the kidnapper kidnap me instead of you?!"
Jiang Yao laughed out loud after hearing this. "Who would joke about their own life like this? But it's true. A stupid and selfish person like you can only come up with such a ridiculous reason to justify your cold-bloodedness.
First, you tried to drag me down to my death in order to save your own life, and then you even used your own mother as a shield. You are so evil, are you still a human being?"
Xu Yueyao shuddered at the coldness in her words.
But she quickly defended herself confidently: "Shut up, who can think so much when their life is at stake? I didn't mean it!"
"A person's character is best revealed by his instinctive reaction."
Even the other people in the store started to speak up, "If it were me, I would never let my own mother take the bullet for me, even if I died!"
"Isn't this just a complete ungrateful person?"
"It's despicable."
Xu Yueyao's cheeks turned red from being confronted, and she turned around and ran away in anger.
Afterwards, Jiang Yao also left with Lan Qiuru and Li Beiting.
Back in the car, Lan Qiuru observed her daughter's expression. Seeing that she was distracted, she reached out and held her hand. "Yaoyao, are you still worried about Ms. Cheng? Is your unhappiness today related to her?"
Jiang Yao didn't expect his mother to be so sensitive.
At this point, she simply confessed: "Mom, I don't want to lie to you. Although the Xu family hurt me and treated me badly later, when I was young, Ms. Cheng really treated me like her own daughter. I remember several times when I was sick and hospitalized, or felt unwell, she stayed by my bedside, guarding me day and night.
Every time it’s my birthday, she gives me a gift that she carefully prepares, gives me red envelopes during festivals, and supervises my studies, praising and encouraging me on a daily basis.”
Because of this, she had never doubted that she was not Cheng Peilan's biological daughter before.
Because she was the best mother she could be.
But after I turned eighteen, everything changed.
Because they were not related by blood, Cheng Peilan took away all her kindness and patience towards her. Although she felt lost, she accepted it.
But later on, she became mean and heartless, using all kinds of words to hurt her and always favoring Xu Yueyao. Even though many things were obviously unreasonable at a glance, she still believed in Xu Yueyao.
Even when she was pushed down the stairs and into the lake by Xu Yueyao, Cheng Peilan could find reasons to defend her daughter.
Finally, she was kicked out of the house, leaving her completely desperate.
The collapse of a faith that was once beloved and worshipped is like falling from heaven to hell.
So her feelings towards Cheng Peilan are very complicated.
Lan Qiuru touched her daughter's head with some heartache.
If she hadn't lost her memory, how could she have allowed her daughter to be stolen?
Then she would have been the one who stayed with her daughter all these years, and she wouldn't have suffered so much grievance.
"Yaoyao, if you really care, go and see Ms. Cheng later!" said the mother gently.
Jiang Yao shook his head. "Given the kindness of raising her for eighteen years, I hope she can be safe. But the relationship between her and me is over, so I won't expect anything, and I won't look back."
She is a determined person.
Once a decision is made, it cannot be changed.
Just like my obsession with Lu Xuan back then, after I let it go, I never thought of looking back.
Even if the other party repented, gave her his heart and soul, even at the cost of his life, she would not even look at Lu Xuan.
Life is only a few decades long, and emotions and time are limited, and should be left to important people.
In response, Lan Qiuru did not persuade her any further, but said, "Okay, Mom respects your decision."
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The other side.
When Cheng Peilan woke up again, she didn't know how much time had passed.
A dull pain came from her shoulder, causing her brows to furrow unconsciously.
"Mom, are you okay?" At this moment, Xu Yueyao came up to her with a concerned look on her face.
Looking at this daughter whom she wanted so badly to make up for the debt she owed, at this moment, Cheng Peilan no longer felt the joy and emotion she had felt before, only disappointment.
She has not forgotten that Xu Yueyao sacrificed herself to protect herself in the jewelry store.
But Xu Yueyao seemed to have completely forgotten about it, and there was not even a trace of guilt on her face.
Seeing that she didn't speak for a long time, Xu Yueyao began to get anxious. "Mom, why do you look at me like that? I already know I was wrong about the jewelry store incident. I was so angry at Jiang Yao that I did that in a hurry. Can't you forgive me?"
"Forgive?" Cheng Peilan raised the corners of her mouth with difficulty and suddenly asked, "Yaoyao, have you never really considered me your mother? No matter how good I am to you, you always take it for granted."
"Of course I'm not. You are my mother. I love you very much..."
Xu Yueyao wanted to argue again, but was interrupted by Cheng Peilan, "No, you don't love me, nor anyone else, you only love yourself! From the moment you returned to the Xu family, you wanted to use all the means you could to drive Yaoyao away, but it wasn't her fault that you were switched.
Why could you be so selfish as to allow human traffickers to abduct her? She was only eighteen years old at the time. Didn't you think about the consequences she might suffer?"
She had never dared to think too deeply about this matter, but now that it was laid out in the open, she realized how ridiculous she had been in the past. At the age of eighteen, she had faced so much suffering, yet she still expected Jiang Yao to be magnanimous and forgive her.
It's true that you don't feel the pain until the knife cuts yourself.
Now she realizes her regret.
Her questioning completely infuriated Xu Yueyao.
"So what? Compared to the hardships I went through in the past eighteen years, she deserved to be kidnapped. I want her to suffer even more than I did. I want to destroy her."
At this time, she had already given up, "Besides, what's wrong with loving yourself! It was you who didn't think highly of me that led to my being switched. I have been helpless since I was a child, and I can only trust myself. Even if I am selfish, it's all your fault!
Even if you took a bullet for me, that's the punishment you deserve as a mother."
Cheng Peilan opened her eyes wide and was speechless.
She never dreamed that Xu Yueyao actually harbored such deep hatred for them all.
Is it really her fault?
Seeing her silence, Xu Yueyao became more confident. "If you still treat me as your daughter, let's put this matter behind us and never mention it again. From now on, you have to help me deal with Jiang Yao! Help me get revenge, otherwise I will not forgive you."
Her obsession has reached an irreversible point.
Cheng Peilan looked up and looked deeply at her familiar yet unfamiliar daughter. After a while, she finally made a decision.
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