“Don’t talk nonsense! Momo will always be our sister!”
Ji Chenxing protectively wrapped an arm around Ji Mo and glared at Li Wangshu with obvious displeasure.
“Even if you come back, that will never change!”
“My child, I know you feel wronged, but you were both just babies back then. She was innocent too.”
Xu Jingya gently took Li Wangshu’s hand.
“Momo grew up in our family. She’s gentle and sheltered. Your father and I simply can’t bear to send her away. From now on, you’ll both be our daughters. Is that okay?”
Li Wangshu looked at Xu Jingya expressionlessly before quietly pulling her hand back.
“I still have to catch a train later, so time is tight. I’ll skip the unnecessary talk.”
Her cold gaze swept across everyone present before she lowered her eyes slightly and spoke again.
“I’m not here today to reunite with my family.”
“I’m here to cut all family ties.”
The room instantly fell silent.
Everyone was stunned.
Xu Jingya became visibly anxious.
“Little Moon, you can’t say things like that. They’ll only hurt everyone’s feelings…”
Li Wangshu raised a hand, stopping her before she could continue.
“I don’t know how much you’ve learned about me, but I assume you’ve investigated some things.”
“Still, today I’d like you to hear my side of the story.”
“I’ll keep it as brief as possible. I hope no one interrupts me.”
She paused.
When no one objected, she continued.
“After the Ji family’s nanny kidnapped me, she took me back to her hometown in the southwest.”
“She had a husband who drank heavily and two useless sons.”
“I lived with them until I was six years old.”
“During those years, I was beaten countless times.”
“From the moment I can remember, I never once had a full meal.”
“Going hungry every few days was completely normal.”
“When I was three…”
She brushed aside the bangs covering her forehead, revealing a faint scar about four or five centimeters long above her right eyebrow.
“It’s faded now, but you can still see it.”
“My adoptive father got drunk and smashed a liquor bottle over my head.”
“I stopped breathing on the spot.”
“He probably thought I was dead.”
“When I woke up, I was lying in a pigsty.”
“One of the pigs was biting my arm.”
“I was almost eaten alive.”
Xu Jingya gasped softly and covered her mouth.
Everyone present looked horrified.
Ji Mo, especially, was panicking.
She gripped the pillow in her lap so tightly that her fingertips turned pale.
Although she didn’t fully understand what was happening, instinct told her that she was about to lose something she could never get back.
“I survived by sheer luck.”
“But after that, life became even worse.”
“I had endless chores to do and endless beatings to endure.”
“Sometimes, when they found me especially annoying, they’d deliberately try to kill me.”
“For example…”
“One winter, they pushed me into a well.”
“The water was freezing.”
“I stayed trapped in it for most of the day before someone finally found me and pulled me out.”
“When I got home, I developed a fever.”
“Of course, there was no medicine.”
“I somehow survived again.”
Sometimes even she found it unbelievable.
The original owner had endured such horrific abuse and still managed to survive until the age of six.
“Then, when I was six…”
“One day I accidentally dozed off while boiling water and burned down half the kitchen.”
“Naturally, they beat me again.”
She gently patted her slightly crippled leg.
“My leg was broken during that beating.”
“That time they hit me especially hard.”
“They probably thought I was dead again.”
“When I woke up in the middle of the night, they’d already dumped me in the mountains.”
“At that time of year, bears often wandered through the area.”
“I suppose they intended to feed me to one.”
Xu Jingya had completely broken down in tears.
Even Ji Huaiyang couldn’t bear listening any longer.
He wanted to stop her.
But one cold glance from Li Wangshu silenced him.
The original little girl had finally exhausted both her will to survive and her luck.
She died that night.
And that was when Li Wangshu was reborn into this body.
After a brief period of confusion, she inherited the little girl’s memories and understood the situation she had been thrown into.
“I was lucky.”
“I never ran into a bear.”
“That night, the moon was huge and perfectly round.”
“I crawled through the mountain ravines all night long.”
“My arms and legs were scraped raw.”
“When daylight finally came, I reached the main road.”
“I met some people from a neighboring village who were taking vegetables into the city to sell.”
“I begged them to take me to the police station.”
She wasn’t like the original owner, who had been conditioned by years of abuse to simply endure everything.
She had always believed in taking revenge whenever she was wronged.
With injuries that severe, the evidence of abuse was overwhelming.
No matter what happened, she was determined to send that family to prison.
As for whether they were her biological parents, she hadn’t even considered it before reporting them.
It didn’t matter.
Whether they shared her blood or not, they were monsters.
They belonged behind bars.
Things turned out even more smoothly than she had expected.
She only needed to undergo a medical examination documenting her injuries and identify them.
The police arrested both the nanny and her husband.
“Ordinarily, domestic abuse would only result in six or seven years in prison.”
“But after investigating, the police discovered I wasn’t their biological daughter.”
“The case became one of child trafficking as well.”
“In the end, combining all the charges, one received a twelve-year sentence, while the other was sentenced to fifteen years.”
“The unfortunate part was…”
“They never confessed where they’d kidnapped me from.”
Li Wangshu slowly raised her eyes and looked at the family, all of whom were too shocked to speak.
The corner of her lips lifted slightly in an indifferent smile.
“Sending them to prison was my own revenge.”
She turned toward Xu Jingya.
Seeing the woman crying uncontrollably, Li Wangshu felt a complicated sense of frustration.
To be honest, when she first learned she’d been kidnapped as a child, she’d actually felt happy for the original owner.
No matter what, that was still far better than having such monstrous parents.
Who would have thought…
…that her biological parents would turn out to be people whose favoritism was dictated by the novel’s plot?