Chapter 50: Chapter 50: Pity Her Chapter 50: Chapter 50: Pity Her Chapter 50: Heartache for Her
Gu Dongxing scooped a bowl of rice and handed it to Mengyu: “Stop worrying, just eat.”
Mengyu took a few bites, then suddenly looked up at Gu Dongxing: “Actually, I am not the biological child of Father Jiang and Madam Jiang.”
Gu Dongxing had suspected it for a while, wondering which biological parents would treat their child like that.
Mengyu looked towards the gate, but her eyes were unfocused: “I am someone who was trafficked twice. The first time was right after I was born, trafficked by human traffickers to my now adopted mother.”
Gu Dongxing felt a pang of pain in his heart: How unlucky does one have to be to be trafficked twice?
Mengyu told Gu Dongxing how her adopted mother, unable to have her own children, and upon the advice of the Divine Woman to adopt a child to bring her own children, brought her home. Subsequently, her adopted mother did conceive and gave birth to a daughter and a son.
“After my sister was born, my sufferings began.”
She remembered the days before she went to university in her past life, her tears uncontrollably started to fall.
“Normally, people who have adopted children who brought them their own kids would feel grateful, after all, according to tradition, having children depended entirely on the adopted daughter.
But for me, it was the opposite. They treated me like an enemy.”
Mengyu recounted her childhood filled with beatings, scant warm clothing, insufficient food, heavy labor, and no opportunities for schooling.
It was only the intervention of the team leader and her own promise to finance her education without using the family money, by picking up junk to make money, that she was able to attend school.
“I couldn’t understand why Mom and Dad treated me so badly. It was not until one day, when I overheard them speaking, that I realized I was bought.”
In reality, Mengyu learned about her non-biological relationship with Father Jiang and Madam Jiang from Jiang Huaiyu in her previous life.
Originally, she had mentioned a “past life dream” to Gu Dongxing, but she did not tell him that the person who killed her by car in that “dream” was her sister, Jiang Huaiyu.
Nor did she tell him about the truth Jiang Huaiyu revealed before she died—she wasn’t their biological child.
Thus, she could only use the eavesdropping excuse to reveal it.
“After knowing I wasn’t their biological child, I just wanted to change my fate.
Yet, at the beginning of this year, I accidentally heard my adopted mother’s plan to marry me off after I finished high school.
So, I took the university entrance exam early. By attending university, I could avoid being forced into marriage by her.
Eventually, I was admitted to Beijing University. But my mom told me to give up my university spot for my sister, Jiang Huaiyu.
I struggled so hard to get into university to escape this family. How could I possibly want to give my hard-earned spot to Jiang Huaiyu?
That’s why they drugged my food and sold me off… and you know the rest.”
“So, the reason you’ve been trying so hard to stay with me is that you’re afraid to go home? Are you afraid they might sell you again?” Gu Dongxing asked.
Mengyu felt awkward, knowing she had schemed to stay? But then, she had even declared that she’d “repay his life-saving deed with her life,” desperate to stay.
Yet, she muttered: “You yourself suspected I was a spy, that’s why you let me stay.”
Gu Dongxing gave her a disdainful look: “Ungrateful creature, if I hadn’t said that, what reason would I have had to let you stay?”
Yet, he still felt heartbroken for her.
Using the money from selling an adopted daughter for travel expenses, letting a biological daughter impersonate the adopted one to attend university—Father Jiang and Madam Jiang are too shameless, aren’t they?