“Xianxian…” Shan Jing stood up, her eyes filled with the familiar, complex light of Ruan Xianxian, more blatant and intense than before.
Ruan Xianxian didn't bother with their elaborate reconciliation between mother and daughter, and simply said, "Say it."
"For the sake of you giving birth to me, I've spared an afternoon. Get to the point quickly. When I came back, I saw Lu Yi waiting for you at the entrance of the community."
The debt of gratitude for being born? She had already repaid it in her past life. She was only willing to meet them again because of that jade pendant, the jade pendant that carried the system.
The blunt words, coupled with the mocking tone, made Shan Jing extremely embarrassed.
If the system could display the favorability rating, and Ruan Xianxian's favorability towards Shan Jing was negative, then Ruan Tai, who was panting heavily next to her, would have a score of zero.
It doesn't even deserve a negative number; the carbon dioxide it emits is nothing but a stench.
"Xianxian, my parents, your maternal grandparents, all died at the hands of Ruan Kangri. I married your father to get close to Ruan Kangri."
I've always suspected there were other motives behind your grandfather's murder of your maternal grandparents. I admit I've wronged you all these years. Can you understand your mother?
Did my maternal grandparents die at the hands of Ruan Kangri?
The news was quite unexpected. Ruan Xianxian was surprised for a moment, but quickly recovered and asked with a smile, "Is it important?"
"What?" This time, it was Shan Jing who was taken aback. She hesitated for a long time, wanting to ask her if she hadn't been searching for and waiting for an answer all these years.
The answer to why a mother doesn't love her.
She said, "Why is her reaction so indifferent?"
Ruan Xianxian smiled, but the smile didn't reach her eyes. If she were the one who had just been reborn, she would definitely have questioned Shan Jing hysterically upon hearing her explanation.
How is she supposed to understand that giving birth but not raising the child, or even kicking him a couple of times, is hardly better than old man Ruan's behavior?
She sat down leisurely next to her grandmother, crossed her legs, rested her chin on one hand, and looked at Shan Jing with a smile:
"Hey, let's just say you're getting revenge. Where's the progress? Where's the satisfying part? Where are the results?"
It's not that there's none at all. Lu Yi, right? Comrade Shan, is that something to be proud of?
If I were you, and I couldn't eliminate all the enemies within a year or two, I would have switched my daughter with hers the day Nguyen Bao Chau was born.
Since you don't love either of them, instead of tormenting yourself, you might as well torment your enemy's daughter. Let your daughter enjoy the good life while your enemy's daughter suffers under your hands.
It's okay if you miss the window for pregnancy; during the great famine, there were plenty of people who abandoned their children.
First, they'd pick up a baby on the street, missing limbs or born weak and unhealthy, and switch them with Ruan Baozhu. Then, they'd throw away Baozhu, the baby they had so painstakingly given birth to.
Doesn't it feel unpleasant to see your enemy painstakingly raising a child for a stranger, while your own children suffer and wander outside?
But what did you do? Seduced Lu Yi?
As she was talking, Ruan Xianxian laughed first.
Ruan Tai slammed his hand on the table. "That's enough."
He pointed at Ruan Xianxian, his face flushed and neck thick, "How could you be so vicious? Baozhu is your own cousin."
If your grandfather has done something wrong, just talk to him.
Baozhu is just young and acts according to the adults' wishes; why do you hate her?
People really do laugh when they're angry. Ruan Xianxian smiled meaningfully, then suddenly stood up, grabbed the table lamp, but before she could do anything, Xie Zheng snatched the lamp away.
He swung his arm and smashed it down on Ruan Tai's head...
Duang——
The whole world fell silent.
Ruan Tai collapsed softly to the ground.
Xie Zheng cursed, "I've wanted to beat you up, you bastard, for a long time! Feng Hua, your head must have been caught in a hole when you were born!"
Yan Fenghua: ? ? ?
He pulled one back with each hand. The old man was afraid that his granddaughter would hit her father in front of him. As her grandmother, he was also her mother, and he would be unhappy about it.
You're overthinking it!
From the day Ruan Tai abandoned his beggar mother to become an official, she no longer had this son.
"With such a foul mouth, let alone beating him up, even if he just smashed his head against my head and died right in front of me, I'd see if he'd even blink."
That's an exaggeration!
Dan Jing ignored Ruan Tai, who was lying on the ground. She just stared blankly at Ruan Xianxian, each word turning into a fine needle piercing her heart. It didn't hurt, but it had already left her riddled with holes.
She had so much to say, that back then she was about the same age as the current girl, or even two years younger.
Designing for the Ruan family exhausted all her skills.
What Ruan Xianxian said, thirty-four-year-old Shan Jing dared to think and dared to do.
But sixteen-year-old Shan Jing is just an orphan with no parents and has to rely on Ruan Tai. It's really... impossible.
But she knew that this was not what her daughter wanted to hear.
She pursed her lips, all the words she had prepared before coming turned into a sigh, and without saying anything more, she took out an old parchment book and pushed it in front of Ruan Xianxian.
“This is something your great-grandmother left behind. I found it when I returned to my ancestral home this time. I think it will be useful to you.”
"After watching that beast Ruan suffer and die, I will leave completely."
"Where to?" Ruan Xianxian asked with a smile, casually flipping through the parchment book. "To hell?"
Suddenly, Ruan Xianxian sat up straight as she looked at the contents of the parchment book. Her fingertips were trembling slightly. What had she seen?
How to activate supernatural abilities?
The booklet actually contains methods for a single family to activate their superpowers?
Anyone with a single bloodline who drips a drop of blood into an ancestral jade pendant has a chance to gain the ability to communicate with animals.
The Shan family rose to prominence because of a jade pendant, and also fell into decline because of a jade pendant.
The ancestors advised their descendants that in times of chaos, this ability could be used to live in seclusion in the mountains and forests to preserve one's life, but in times of peace... one should not use it again.
Special abilities bestowed upon descendants are never blessings, but endless calamities.
Ruan Xianxian's heart was beating irregularly and out of rhythm.
[Tongtong, isn't it the blood-stained jade pendant that awakens you? Why couldn't the Shan family's ancestors do the same? Or perhaps their abilities were bestowed upon them by you?]
365's voice, feigning maturity yet tinged with amusement, came through: "No, the jade pendant belongs to the Shan family; I'm the only one who owns it."
[What does that mean? What do you mean by "only you are mine"? Were you attached to this jade pendant later?]
[You bastard, talk to me!]
Ruan was screaming in his heart, but the system insisted on playing dead.
She calmed herself down. If she could tell, she would not hide anything from her. Ruan Xianxian came to her senses and saw Shan Jing smiling bitterly.
"Going to hell now is better than going to hell. I've already made arrangements. We'll take a boat through the mangroves to the other side, and once we get there, we'll take a plane to a place where we can never come back."
Dan Jing got up, wanting to touch her daughter's long, smooth, jet-black hair, but when she saw her daughter staring intently at her, the whites of her eyes were almost rolling back.
He had no choice but to withdraw his hand.
"Whether you believe it or not, it's true that I don't love you, and it's also true that your birth was a scheme, a means to force me into submission, and that it was never voluntary from beginning to end."
It's getting late, I'm leaving!
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