Jiang Rui, Jiang Jin, and Jiang Yu ate the breakfast Jiang Wanxi had prepared, each of them filled with complicated emotions.
Jiang Rui and Jiang Jin felt sorry for their younger sister. At home, Jiang Yu had always lived like a pampered young lady who never had to lift a finger to do any housework. Yet Jiang Wanxi, who had been born on the exact same day as her, could cook such delicious food.
Their mother had told them last night that the Jiang family in Ji Province had treated Jiang Wanxi extremely well. There were plenty of people in the household, so she could have easily lived without doing any chores at all.
The fact that she had learned to do so much only showed that their younger sister was diligent, observant, and grateful for everything her family had given her.
Meanwhile, Jiang Yu found the breakfast utterly tasteless.
Jiang Wanxi really knew how to win people over!
They already had Aunt Zhang to cook for the family, yet Jiang Wanxi had deliberately gone out of her way to make breakfast herself.
It was just one breakfast. What was so impressive about it that Mom had to specially call Dad and tell him?
An entire night had already passed since Jiang Wanxi came home.
If Jiang Yu had been switched at birth and raised in the countryside, the first thing she would have done after returning home would be to drive out the person who had stolen her identity.
Shouldn’t Jiang Wanxi be throwing a huge tantrum because Jiang Yu refused to leave?
Shouldn’t she arrogantly demand that Jiang Yu get out of the house?
How could she still be in the mood to cook?
“After breakfast, let’s go out and look around,” Shen Menglan said. “Wanwan, see if there’s anything else you need, and we’ll buy it for you. Your second aunt has to work today, so she can’t come with us. We’ll ask your grandmother to join us instead.”
“That’s right,” Jiang Jin added. “Your second brother and I will be leaving in the next couple of days. If there’s anything you want, just tell your big brother. I’ll buy it for you.”
“Exactly. Whatever Wanwan wants, just tell your brothers.”
The three men of the Jiang family truly felt sorry for Jiang Wanxi.
Although they had been separated for sixteen years, they were still bound by blood.
Before Jiang Wanxi could say anything, Jiang Yu spoke first.
“We really should take Little Sister out and let her see more of the world. She probably doesn’t know this, but the department stores in the capital are much bigger than the supply and marketing cooperatives in the countryside. I’ll show you around properly later.”
Jiang Wanxi secretly rolled her eyes.
Please. What kind of supermarket hadn’t she seen before?
Wasn’t Jiang Yu simply mocking her for being an ignorant country bumpkin who had never seen the world?
Jiang Wanxi gently bit her lower lip.
“Mom, I… I think I’d better not go. I don’t know anything. What if… what if people laugh at me?”
Large tears immediately spilled from her eyes.
This was a skill she had perfected in the orphanage in her previous life.
Come to think of it, if she had become an actress back then, she probably would have been much better than those actresses who couldn’t even film a crying scene without using eye drops.
If Jiang Yu wanted to play the green tea, then Jiang Wanxi would simply beat her at her own game and leave her with nowhere to go.
Jiang Jin immediately caught the hidden meaning behind Jiang Yu’s earlier words and frowned in displeasure.
It seemed they really had spoiled A-Yu too much.
He hadn’t thought there was anything wrong with it before. As long as the family was around, she could do whatever she wanted.
But now, it seemed he had been mistaken.
With her personality, she was bound to suffer for it someday.
Even if he could protect her for a while, could he possibly protect her for the rest of her life?
As for his biological younger sister…
She clearly wasn’t someone willing to quietly accept being wronged either.
Jiang Jin had become a county magistrate at such a young age, so naturally, he wasn’t a fool. He could already tell what kind of person his biological sister was.
Jiang Wanxi clearly distinguished between those she liked and disliked.
Treat her well, and she would repay you tenfold.
But if someone tried to bully her, she certainly wouldn’t sit there and take it.
Jiang Wanxi continued eating while tears streamed down her face. To Shen Menglan and Aunt Zhang, she looked as though she had suffered an unimaginable grievance.
Seeing her daughter crying so miserably made Shen Menglan’s heart ache terribly.
It was all her fault.
She had been careless back then, resulting in the babies being switched.
If Wanwan had grown up by her side, she wouldn’t have become so insecure.
Shen Menglan took out a handkerchief and gently wiped away her daughter’s tears as she comforted her.
“Wanwan, what silly things are you saying? With Mom here, who would dare laugh at you?”
Jiang Yu was dumbfounded.
This… how was she supposed to respond to that?
Wasn’t pretending to be aggrieved and pitiful supposed to be her tactic?
What exactly was going on with Jiang Wanxi?
Jiang Rui remained silent throughout the entire exchange.
He had once believed there was nothing wrong with pampering Jiang Yu either.
That was until the day he saw her and a group of classmates bullying another student whose family was poor.
That was when he realized this younger sister of his had been raised crooked.
He had blamed himself for it for a long time and had tried to guide her back onto the right path.
But Jiang Yu behaved one way in front of him and another behind his back.
Eventually, he stopped wanting to interfere in her affairs altogether.
Their mother had said that the Jiang family in Ji Province were all honest and decent people.
Judging from Jiang Wanxi, it was obvious that despite being doted on in the countryside, she hadn’t been spoiled rotten.
Their family was indeed partly at fault.
They shouldn’t have spoiled Jiang Yu so excessively.
But Jiang Yu herself wasn’t entirely blameless either.