253 – Local Tyrant (土皇帝)
The warm and cozy living room was quiet, while Jing Yun Zhao was facing the three people giving her their undivided attention, ready to listen to what she has to say.
“When I went there, my ‘Father’ and ‘Mother’ were still welcoming, and in the house were three kids. The eldest child was called Jing Xiu, and had an obedient but submissive personality, while her sister was called Jing Ling. Her sister was only 12, yet she’s basically a smaller version of Qiao Hong Ye, having a fickle and calculative personality. On the other hand, the youngest child was a boy called Jing Ming Kai who was the local tyrant of the family.
“Mmhm, what happened nex?” Su Chu asked.
“Jing Ling likes to be greedy for small and cheap things but isn’t greedy for success, while Jing Ming Kai has a domineering personality. Just because he didn’t like me, he threatened to quit his studies, then he tried to take my things, but when I stopped him, my ‘Father’ and ‘Mother’ showed their true colours and started berating me. They wanted me to drop out of school, and stay at home to take care of their precious son…”
“Drop out!?” Xiao Hai Qing instantly stood up after hearing what Jing Yun Zhao said, “Are they out of their minds? Why do you have to drop out of school!?”
Su Chu tugged Xiao Hai Qing’s shirt to remind her.
Although they were entitled to their own opinions, they couldn’t just disrespect someone’s parents. After all, they were still Jing Yun Zhao parents.
With that, Xiao Hai Qing angrily went back to her seat saying, “You would never agree to this right? But if you didn’t, they wouldn’t let you leave.”
She hated families who prioritizes boys over girls.
This was because 3 years after her mother passed, her father remarried again. Before, her father treated her fairly, and she also considered herself to be the treasure of the Xiao Family, but everything changed when her father married her stepmother. There’s a saying, that having a stepmother means having a stepfather too, and this saying became evident when her stepmother gave birth to a son. From then onwards, she lived in the Xiao Family like a ghost.
Therefore, hearing how Jing Yun Zhao’s ‘Family’ treated her, Xiao Hai Qing felt aggrieved and angry for Jing Yun Zhao.
So what if someone’s a girl? She herself was a girl yet she’s never felt a difference between her and guys, let alone Jing Yun Zhao.
Jing Yun Zhao glanced at her and continued, “Obviously, I didn’t agree. When I prepared to leave, my ‘Father’ and ‘Mother’ forcibly stopped me from doing so. Later, Li Shao Yun and his friend happened to arrive at the village to bring me home. Just as we were about to leave, a group of villagers surrounded us holding weapons. If the 3 of us didn’t know any martial arts, we would’ve not been able to come back today.”
Jing Yun Zhao was downplaying what had happened, but the 3 people listening could already imagine the dangerous situation Jing Yun Zhao was in at the time.
The only reason Jing Yun Zhao could escape was because she knew martial arts, but what if she didn’t? Wouldn’t she and Li Shao Yun be beaten mercilessly?
How could these people be so merciless? Are they really your biological parents!?
Xiao Hai Qing gritted her teeth and replied, “Yun Zhao, all of these were caused by your little brother right? I’ll go find some people to beat him up, how bout that? You don’t need to go back to that place called ‘home’ in the future, with that type of family, it’s understandable.
Rather than beating them up, she was more inclined to slaughter that whole family.
Jing Yun Zhao experienced so much hardships while living at her adoptive parents house, it was fine if they didn’t compensate her as long as they left her in peace, but they even bullied her young and helpless self.
“I agree, Biao-Jie, that family’s just too vile! You shouldn’t go back there anymore…” Su Chu said instantly.
She and Biao-Ge have been spoiled since childhood, and have never seen such scary parents before.
Additionally, the Su Family only had a daughter, and her parents never considered having a second child. Because in their eyes, she and Biao-Ge were considered to be the same, part of their family, unlike Jing Yun Zhao’s family being so biased!
Jing Yun Zhao, felt that her heart was about to melt from the concern shown by her 3 friends.
“Relax, I’m not that stupid. Moreover… Li Shao has already sent someone to check whether the Jing Family had forged a fake paternity test result.