“…” Lin Keke’s gentle, pretending face instantly cracked.
Wang Xiujun and Lin Zhifeng couldn’t understand what Lin Yunchu was saying, but Lin Keke understood perfectly.
This damned woman was calling her a white lotus.
“I agree to go back to the countryside.” Just as Lin Keke was about to speak, Lin Yunchu opened her mouth again.
That single sentence shocked Lin Keke.
In her previous life, Lin Yunchu had refused no matter what, but in this life, she actually relented.
Wang Xiujun was stunned at first, then revealed a satisfied smile.
Looks like scolding her more really works!
Wang Xiujun’s naked and blunt expression made Lin Yunchu sneer inwardly.
This was what true ingratitude looked like!
Back then, when she thought Lin Keke wouldn’t survive, she treated her like a treasure.
Now that Lin Keke had grown up, she suddenly felt her biological daughter was better. After confirming the marriage alliance with the Si family through her, she immediately discarded her like a worn-out pawn.
In the original story, Wang Xiujun had always wanted to send Lin Yunchu back to the countryside, but Lin Yunchu refused and insisted on competing for the male lead. In the end, she was reduced to living on the streets and was violated to death.
Now that Lin Yunchu had become her, she would never follow such a damned plot.
She had to leave this place.
Stay away from the male and female leads, away from these bizarre adoptive parents, away from all misfortune.
“But I have two conditions. First, I need to stay here for another week to attend Yanzi’s wedding. Second, you have to return the 1,360 yuan that belongs to me.”
“1,360 yuan? Why don’t you just go rob someone?” Wang Xiujun’s voice turned sharp.
In this era, a monthly salary was only thirty to forty yuan. Yet Lin Yunchu opened her mouth not for sixty, not for three hundred, but for 1,360 yuan.
Wang Xiujun’s face darkened as she began scolding her harshly, “All these years, you’ve eaten mine, worn mine, used mine, and occupied everything that originally belonged to my daughter. Not only are you ungrateful, but you even tried to harm Keke and now want to extort money from me! 1,360 yuan—how dare you ask for it!”
Lin Yunchu naturally knew that this amount was huge in this era.
But it originally belonged to the host.
“I raised you all these years, gave you good food, good clothes, and good things to use, and in the end, it’s all my fault? I should’ve raised a dog instead! Even a dog would have more conscience than you!” The more Wang Xiujun thought about it, the angrier she became.
Lin Yunchu rolled her eyes.
Did she really raise her out of kindness?
No.
It was because of her own malicious intentions. When Lin Keke was born, she was on the verge of death. Thinking she wouldn’t survive, and since her own body was damaged from childbirth and she couldn’t have another child, Wang Xiujun used her position at the hospital to secretly switch her with Lin Keke. Later, when she saw Lin Keke being raised well by her biological parents, she shamelessly took her back.
After Lin Keke returned, she worried the Si family would only want her as a daughter-in-law and not Lin Keke, so her attitude toward her turned cold, and she tried every means to drive her away.
“The money I earned when I first started working was clearly agreed to be saved by you for me. And the money I got from saving someone—you also said you’d keep it for me,” Lin Yunchu said calmly, not in a hurry to argue.
The original host had worked for one year, earning thirty yuan a month—three hundred sixty yuan in total.
The Si family had given her one thousand yuan, making it 1,360 yuan altogether.
Wang Xiujun felt a pang in her chest, her brows twisting fiercely.
Lin Yunchu frowned slightly and said, “If you won’t give it to me, that’s fine. I’ll just go ask the Si family directly. Back then, they promised whoever saved the person would get a reward of one thousand yuan. If I can’t get it, I’ll just ask them again. Anyway, there’s no fate between me and the Si family now.”
Wang Xiujun felt as if her throat was being choked. “You dare!”
“You said it yourself—I’m an ungrateful wretch, shameless and despicable. Why would someone shameless be afraid of anything? Besides, I’m barefoot—why would I fear those wearing shoes?”
Lin Yunchu retorted, looking like she had nothing to lose.
“…Mom.”
Before Wang Xiujun could speak, Lin Keke panicked.
If Lin Yunchu really took this matter to the Si family, the Lin family would be the ones embarrassed. The Si family would think poorly of them for taking Lin Yunchu’s money.
Moreover, it was Lin Yunchu who had saved the person. That was why the Si family brought up the marriage in the first place. If she made a scene, the marriage might even fall through.
Lin Keke could think of this, and Wang Xiujun naturally could as well.
“You!” Wang Xiujun’s face turned red and pale repeatedly before she finally suppressed her anger and said through gritted teeth, “I’ll give you the money! Stay quietly at home these few days!”
After speaking, Wang Xiujun went into her room, opened the safe, and as if cutting flesh from her body, took out 1,360 yuan.
She threw the money at Lin Yunchu like tossing out garbage.
Lin Yunchu didn’t care about her attitude.
Compared to attitude, the money in hand was what mattered most.
There were no good people in the Lin family.
Wang Xiujun was selfish and vicious.
Lin Zhifeng seemed like a kind man, but in reality…
Lin Keke was even more of a black-hearted white lotus.
Right now, her reputation was ruined, and her situation was unfavorable.
If she wanted to contend with them, she had to endure for now and plan slowly.
But before enduring, there was one thing she could always do without going wrong.
Make money!
“Mom, you’re so good! You really keep your word! I thought you wouldn’t give it to me,” Lin Yunchu said with a smile.
“…” Wang Xiujun looked like she had swallowed a fly.
“Then I’ll trouble you for another week,” Lin Yunchu added.
Wang Xiujun felt both heartache and anger, her chest rising and falling. But thinking that the longer she stayed, the more ridicule she would bring, she waved it off. “Suit yourself! After a week, get out of here!”
“Okay,” Lin Yunchu replied weakly.
“Bad luck!” Wang Xiujun shot her a glare and walked out of the room. “Keke, let’s go! This room smells moldy after staying too long.”
“Get ready. We’ll go to the Si family later.”
“Okay,” Lin Keke replied obediently.
As she walked out of the room, she cast a cold glance at Lin Yunchu.
At that moment, Lin Yunchu looked pitiful and delicate. Her skin was fair like a freshly peeled egg, as if it would break at a touch. Though there were bruises on her face, it didn’t diminish her beauty at all. Her whole being carried a fragile, broken beauty.
If her parents weren’t present, she would’ve torn her face apart.
Lin Yunchu was clearly a countryside girl—how could her skin be so good?
She had known early on that she was her parents’ biological daughter. She applied snow cream every day and avoided the sun, yet her skin remained dark, never becoming fair.
Lin Yunchu saw the jealousy and hatred in her eyes and gave her a faint smile.
“…Heh…” Lin Keke sneered. Only someone like Lin Yunchu, greedy for money and brainless, could still smile at a time like this.
In her previous life, she had let her jump around for too long.
In this life, every path she walked would leave a deep mark.
Did she think taking money back would let her live peacefully?
How naive.
Before she returned to the city, she had prepared a huge “surprise” for her.
Lin Yunchu, go ahead and laugh.
After you return to the countryside, that “surprise” will make sure you can’t laugh at all.