School was about to start.
Li’s father proudly posted a huge sign at the entrance of the food stall that read:
“Taking my daughter to Jing University. Closed for three days.”
Then he and Liu Ping accompanied their daughter to Baijing.
The Ji family had asked when she would arrive.
After thinking about it, Li Wangshu gave them a specific time.
“You actually replied to them?”
The female ghost was shocked.
For the past two months, Li Wangshu had practically gone wild traveling and enjoying herself. Ji Lian had thought she was going to abandon everything and ignore the Ji family forever. She had been terrified every day, but didn’t dare ask.
“Every now and then, I have to remind them I exist.”
Li Wangshu smiled.
“And annoy them a little.”
She had no interest in “going to work” by dealing with the Ji family.
Unfortunately, she couldn’t avoid them forever.
The more she thought about it, the angrier she became, so she decided that if she had to “work,” then the Ji family would have to work too.
Although she had agreed to stay at the Ji residence, Li Wangshu secretly booked a hotel online.
“Aren’t you staying at home?”
Ji Lian was confused again.
“Home?”
Li Wangshu looked at her.
“Was that ever your home?”
She always knew exactly how to stab the ghost in the heart.
As expected, Ji Lian shrank into a corner to sulk.
This time, besides Ji Huaiyang and Xu Jingya, Ji Qingshuang also came to pick her up.
He enthusiastically helped carry Li Wangshu’s luggage and politely invited Li Guangwei and Liu Ping into the car.
“So far, they’re all acting pretty normal.”
Li Wangshu didn’t lower her guard.
After all, melodramatic novels were filled with crazy men and women.
You couldn’t overestimate their intelligence, nor underestimate how low their morals could sink.
Knowing Li Wangshu would be staying with the Ji family, Li Guangwei and Liu Ping had hesitated before agreeing.
It certainly wasn’t as convenient as staying elsewhere.
But they wanted to see for themselves exactly how the Ji family treated Little Moon.
The moment they entered the house, however, someone came looking for trouble.
The original male lead.
Jiang Fengmian.
“It’s him!”
Ji Lian immediately became agitated.
“He was the one who killed me in my previous life! I loved him so much! I treated him so well! I even betrayed my husband for him! But for that bitch’s sake, he pushed me off the building!”
Li Wangshu clenched her teeth in annoyance.
She hadn’t even witnessed how insane the Ji family and the protagonists were yet.
The ghost beside her had already started losing her mind.
Ji Lian even rushed forward, trying to strangle Jiang Fengmian.
Of course, she couldn’t touch him.
“So you’re the reason Momo can’t come home today?”
Jiang Fengmian walked straight through the raging ghost and confronted Li Wangshu.
He was youthful and spirited, tall and well-built, with sharp, striking features.
He was undeniably handsome.
Even while angry, he possessed a confidence, strength, and sunshine that Ji Lian had never had.
It wasn’t surprising that someone trapped in darkness would be attracted to him.
“Momo?”
Li Wangshu replied calmly.
“Oh, you mean the human trafficker’s daughter.”
She remained determined to permanently tie Ji Mo to the nanny’s criminal family.
She firmly believed that if she repeated it often enough, sooner or later everyone would associate Ji Mo with her criminal parents.
“What nonsense are you talking about?”
Jiang Fengmian had absolutely no idea.
The Ji family had only announced that they had found their long-lost daughter.
They had never publicly revealed that Ji Mo wasn’t their biological daughter.
“You didn’t know?”
Li Wangshu looked at him in surprise.
“Ji Mo is the daughter of the Ji family’s former nanny. Her mother switched the two of us.”
She then turned toward the visibly embarrassed Ji parents.
“So… you never made her identity public?”
“Momo… after all… we raised her ourselves…”
Xu Jingya answered guiltily.
The entire Ji family looked equally guilty.
“How is that possible?”
Jiang Fengmian couldn’t believe it.
“Not long ago, Uncle and Aunt even held a birthday party and admission banquet for Momo! If she wasn’t your biological daughter, would you spoil her like that?”
“A birthday party? An admission banquet?”
Li Wangshu let out a cold laugh.
“You really do have a wonderful relationship.”
“She’ll be living on campus once college starts.”
Ji Huaiyang rubbed his forehead.
“In a few days, we’ll also hold an admission banquet for you.”
“No thanks.”
Li Wangshu snatched her luggage back from Ji Qingshuang.
“I told you long ago. If you couldn’t bear to let her go, then you shouldn’t have come looking for me.”
“No matter what, you’re still our daughter!”
“No.”
Li Wangshu shook her head.
“The human trafficker’s daughter is your daughter. Go ahead and treasure her.”
She turned around.
“Dad. Mom. Let’s go.”
“What she said… is it really true?”
Jiang Fengmian asked Ji Qingshuang in disbelief.
Ji Qingshuang didn’t know how to answer.
He could only step forward to stop Li Wangshu.
“Momo was only a baby back then. What her mother did shouldn’t be blamed on her.”
“So Momo really…”
Jiang Fengmian was clearly shaken.
But in the end, his concern for the girl he loved won out.
“In that case, Momo is just as much a victim as you are! How can you be so narrow-minded?”
Li Wangshu rolled her eyes.
“Move.”
She looked at her parents.
“Let’s not stay here after all. No point making their precious daughter unable to come home and then getting hated for no reason.”
“That’s right! Let’s go!”
Liu Ping finally understood what was happening.
“What kind of people are you? Saying our Moon is keeping your precious daughter from coming home? Whoever likes living here can stay. Our Moon doesn’t care!”
She glared fiercely at Jiang Fengmian, grabbed Li Wangshu, and headed for the door.
Even Li Guangwei stopped trying to play peacemaker and quietly followed them out.
“Please don’t leave!”
Xu Jingya hurriedly grabbed Liu Ping.
“We’ll definitely give Moon an explanation regarding Ji Mo. Don’t worry. She absolutely won’t come back today.”
“Aunt Xu!”
Jiang Fengmian protested.
“That’s unfair to Momo!”
“Unfair?”
Liu Ping glared at him.
“What do you know about fairness?”
“Our Moon suffered so much! She endured so much misery! Was that fair?”
She sized Jiang Fengmian up.
“You seem to come from a pretty good family, don’t you?”
“If your family’s nanny had switched you at birth, abused you every day, while her own child lived in your home enjoying everything that should have been yours…”
“Would you think that’s fair?”
Jiang Fengmian paused.
For the first time, he seriously imagined himself in that situation.
It seemed…
He really couldn’t say he’d remain completely indifferent.
“Hmph!”
Liu Ping snorted.
“You young people really don’t know what you’re talking about.”
“If you’re so generous and forgiving, then hurry up and take the human trafficker’s daughter home with you!”
“She’ll become part of our family sooner or later!”
Jiang Fengmian declared without hesitation.
“So you’re the human trafficker’s future son-in-law.”
Liu Ping looked at him with open disgust.
“No wonder you’re so annoying.”
“I’m not a human trafficker’s son-in-law…”
Jiang Fengmian had always considered himself a righteous knight.
He came today to seek justice for the princess he believed had been wronged.
So why…
Why did it suddenly feel like he had become the villain?
He wanted to argue a little more.
Instead, Ji Qingshuang immediately dragged him aside.
“I’m begging you, stop talking. We’ll deal with Momo’s situation later.”
Ji Qingshuang thought this young master was making everything worse.
His biological sister had only just started responding to the Ji family again.
At this rate, she would leave once more.
Just then, the butler hurried in.
“The He family is here.”
Before he even finished speaking, a large group of people entered the mansion.
Leading them was a tall, imposing man with sharp features.
He wore a perfectly tailored black suit, but several buttons of his dress shirt were left undone, giving him a carefree yet dangerously attractive appearance.
His phoenix eyes swept across everyone present with a faint smile.
“What perfect timing.”
He looked around the room.
“Is the Ji family putting on a show today?”
It was He Yu.