Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
“Don’t talk nonsense!” Old Master Gu’s complexion was a little ugly. He glanced at Ye Xingbei, “I think that what the Great Master said was right. You and the Jiang family’s girls have an affinity bestowed by the heavens. Haven’t you noticed how you simply slept with Bei Bei for one night, and your complexion has already gotten a bit better? You can even jest around. This means that what the Great Master said was right. You and Bei Bei are a match made in heaven. This is all Bei Bei’s contribution!”
Ye Xingbei, “…”
She did not want this sort of contribution, all right?
Keeping her composure, she asked, “Uncle Gu, I’ve been working overseas for five years and I had just returned yesterday. Before I could even returnhome, I was deceived by Jiang Siyou and fainted. Can you tell me what is going on here?”
Old Master Gu frowned, “You don’t know?”
Ye Xingbei shook her head, “I don’t know anything. I’ve been living very well overseas. If the Jiang family had not been searching for me in every country’s publications, saying that my grandpa is deathly ill and wished to see me for the final time, I would’ve never come back to this place for the rest of my life!”
Old Master Gu’s forehead wrinkled even tighter and he slapped his palm heavily on the table, “This Old Jiang is really a fool due to his age now. How could he do such a foolish thing!”
Sighing, he looked towards Ye Xingbei and spoke sincerely, “Girl, our Gu family and your Jiang family originally should have had a destined marriage but because my daughter reneged, that fated marriage did not go through. Ever since she broke the promise, every matter in our family has been unfavorable these few years. Bad luck befell us continuously and our household population has dwindled, so I went to beg the Great Master. He said that the Gu family owes the Jiang family one fated marriage so once we complete this affinity, our Gu family can then survive this calamity. As a result, I went to the Jiang family and asked to marry a girl from their family for Ah Zhu.”
Having said that, he patted the table with annoyance again, “At that time, I said it very clearly. It should all be voluntary with no coercion at all. I didn’t know that they did not discuss anything with you and forcibly sent you over. No wonder the Jiang family is going from bad to worse. This Old Jiang is becoming more and more senile!”
No wonder so!
Ye Xingbei came to a sudden realization.
No wonder, Jiang family had spent so much effort to find her after being indifferent about her life or death for five years.
It turned out that it was because the family lacked a marriage tool.
Jiang Siyou was the gem in their palms.
Jiang Lingyu was the flesh in their hearts.
Only she, Ye Xingbei, was a tool that the Jiang family was willing to sacrifice.
Clenching her fists, she asked Old Master Gu, “May I ask, what favor did you grant the Jiang family if they agreed to marry their daughter to the Gu family?”
Somewhat embarrassed, Old Master Gu coughed once and mumbled, “We didn’t grant any special favor, just that the Jiang family’s company is about to go bankrupt from a mistake in their decision-making. So I promised your grandpa that I would help your Jiang family to overcome this difficulty as long as they are willing to marry a girl over here.”
Ye Xingbei nodded, “As expected!”
Gu family promised huge benefits to the Jiang family.
The Jiang family was neither willing to part with the boon that the Gu family had promised nor willing to marry Jiang Siyou and Jiang Lingyu to Gu Junzhu—this “person who was about to die”—so they remembered her, who had been wandering outside. They used the news of Grandpa’s deathly illness and tricked her into returning.
How malicious their hearts were.
Yes.
She did not grow up beside them from young.
But had she been willing to be switched during infancy?
Did they even ask if she wished to return to the Jiang family before forcibly bringing her back?
Jiang Siyou had taken possession of her identity and enjoyed the generous livelihood that originally belonged to her in the Jiang family.
Since young, she had been starving in her foster parents’ family.
When the Jiang family members discovered that they had carried the wrong child home, without caring about her protests, they brought her back to the Jiang family by force.
After bringing her home, they were also disgusted that she was a “wild child” who grew up in a small and humble family. They deliberately made things difficult for her whenever they could.
Until she turned 16 that year. Because Bai Mengluan had forcibly stuffed a child to her, the Jiang family cut off all ties with her and chased her out of the door.
If not for that bit of affection that Grandpa had towards her originally—so she wanted to see the elder once last time—perhaps, she would never step into the Jiang family again forever.
She had never thought of taking revenge on the Jiang family for the way that they treated her that year. Yet, they were unwilling to let her go and even tricked her into returning from abroad; knocked her out and married her to a deathly-ill person who had an incurable sickness.
She was only 21 years old and the Jiang family wanted to make her a widow.
Even a cruel tiger would not devour its own cubs. Jiang Zhengxing and his wife treated her so cruelly; it was evident that they had never regarded her as their biological daughter.
In that case, don’t blame her for returning the “favor”!