After breaking free from the previous world, Su Li discovered that she had absorbed some purple Faith Power. Although it wasn’t much, it had indeed caused the mist at the center of her Conscious Sea to fade slightly. At the same time, she had a clear understanding that the droplet rule she’d grasped was now tightly linked to the golden page in the book at the heart of her Conscious Sea.
Correct, with the increase of a bit of Faith Power, she naturally came to understand certain things. It turned out that the droplet she had condensed by absorbing Spiritual Energy was constructed with the rules of water.
In her past life, Su Li had been the president of the Su Group, bearing the livelihoods of tens of thousands of people. The respect and affection from her subordinates formed a certain amount of Faith Power, but she had stepped down too early. Had she stayed in the position of president for a few more years, or even decades, she believed that the Faith Power she could have gathered would have been far greater.
Apart from Faith Power, she also absorbed the Merit Golden Light offered up by her original self.
After completing these tasks, Su Li felt a warm comfort that made her consciousness involuntarily float up and down in Chaos.
And it was at that moment that a grey shadow slowly condensed into a figure and manifested before Su Li.
It was a woman in plain clothes, her hair tinged with grey, her eyes bearing the vicissitudes of trials and tribulations. Yet, her demeanor and actions were exceptionally elegant, giving her an overall sense of alienation.
Initially confused about her appearance here, the woman seemed a bit stunned. After getting over her initial panic, she turned her gaze towards Su Li.
With a thought, she also understood the purpose of her presence here.
"Then I must thank you," the woman said with a relieved expression. "I ask for nothing, I only wish for my son to live a healthy and happy life."
She did not seek wealth or fame, nor did she wish for revenge on those who had harmed her. She solely desired for that child she had never met to live a normal, happy life, experiencing the joys and sorrows of ordinary people, rather than having his life taken away at such a young age.
Once Su Li agreed, the woman smiled and dissipated.
Hopefully, the other party would forgive the little trick she had played.
When Su Li regained consciousness in a new body and merged with the other’s memories, she realized the linguistic trap set by the woman.
What seemed like a simple request for her child to survive was actually incredibly difficult.
Because this meant that to protect the child’s life, she would have to struggle against the powerful elites. The powerful figure standing against her was her current husband, Yuan Qiran, the scion of the Yuan Family who held a significant status in the upper echelons of Kyoto City.
This also meant she would be opposing the entire Yuan Family, while her own identity was that of Madam Changsun, Yuan Qiran’s wife, with whom she shared a less-than-loving relationship, and the daughter of the Su Family, who had climbed up the social ladder by clinging to the Yuan Family.
One could imagine the immense difficulty of the task ahead of her.
In the end, this was nothing more than the clichéd story of a rich heir falling in love with a Cinderella figure.
And the original self happened to be a supporting character in this story, and not one who met a good end.
What the original self couldn’t understand was why, if they were in love, they couldn’t just keep to their own stage and live through their happiness and sorrows; why did they have to drag an innocent person like her into their drama as a supporting character, and even sacrifice her son...
Speak of hate? She was so filled with hatred that she felt like vomiting blood, but she knew the gap between them well. Therefore, she did not express the wish to overthrow them; she only wanted her son to stay far away from them and to live well.
Su Li could be said to have been a lucky girl. From a young age, she was the flower of the village, and in a place where sons were valued over daughters, the Su Family still doted on and loved her. Additionally, Mr. Su’s fortune turned for the better when Su Li turned ten, suddenly making their family wealthy. Su Li leaped from a country girl to the daughter of a rich family.
Entering the business circles, Su Li soon discovered that these nouveau rich, while friendly to your face, would criticize you behind your back.
And they would often use elegant vocabulary to express their extremely disdainful comments.
In order to hold her ground in that social circle, Su Li made a great effort to improve herself, to dress better, learn etiquette, and even mastered three foreign languages. Moreover, her personality became highly aggressive.
People in the circle called her both a bitch and a bad person, but who dared to say these things to her face? They were all too scared to be torn to shreds by her...
However, Su Li was quite self-aware; she only strutted her stuff within her own circle, and she would keep her head down in front of those who were above them.
Yet what made many women green with envy was that the bitch they looked down upon was favored by the Yuan Family’s eldest grandson, and, in a single leap, she became the wife of the distinguished and wealthy Yuan Family.
Indeed, that bitch always leveraged her beauty to great effect, even subduing such a precious man.
Su Li was, of course, very proud of herself.
Being a wife in a family like the Yuan’s was not easy. She had to deal with the difficulties imposed by her in-laws and the torment by her sister-in-law. What’s more, after Yuan Qiran married her, he treated her with neither warmth nor coldness. Su Li thought he was just a cold and restrained person because he provided her with enough respect.
Swipe the card any time, spend money as she pleased... She was scandal-free outside the home, and regarding the troubles from her parents and younger sister, Yuan Qiran would take her side.
Having had little expectation for love initially, Su Li naturally thought that such a husband was acceptable, and she felt content.
Especially in front of those plastic friends who had always been pessimistic about her marriage, she felt a great sense of achievement.
For this reason, she put in the effort to make her marriage work.
Those bitches said that she would be swept out the door within a few years, but, steadily, several years went by, and she went from being the wife of the Yuan Family’s eldest grandson to the lady in charge of the Yuan Family, and she even gave birth to a cute and handsome son. Su Li was even more satisfied.
Although the one imperfection was that, no matter how hard she tried to foster a relationship with her son, he always remained aloof towards her.
Su Li thought her happy life would continue , but...
If it had not been for that scene she witnessed, where her slightly drunken husband pinned a pure and innocent woman against the wall, she would never have known that the man she thought was naturally cold and restrained had such a side to him. He was like a flame wanting to completely melt someone.
Until later, he appeared before her, holding that lady’s hand, and confessed that she was just a tool he used to get back at his family.
The woman he had always loved was a kind and gentle girl named Huayin, but due to family disagreement, he had reluctantly parted ways with her. To infuriate his family, he had deliberately chosen Su Li, whose reputation in the social circle was not good.
Even later, the girl he loved turned out to be pregnant, but as he was at a critical point of power transition, he had to wrong her.
It was just that at this time, Su Li too became pregnant, so... there was a case of baby-switching.
Su Li felt like she was a joke; so, the son she treasured like a pearl was not her own after all, then where was her son?