Reborn as a Weak Beauty Pampered by All Chapter 1687 - 1305: Ridicule

"Open your eyes and look carefully,"

Kang Li fetched a photo from the master bedroom, held it up in front of Xu Chunxia’s face, and said coldly, "See it clearly? In this photo, one is my grandmother, and one is my grandaunt. My father found me using this photo. It was my father who recognized me, not me who went looking for him. Do you have anything else to say now?"

Xu Chunxia was dumbfounded.

Because the photo was obviously taken many years ago, and the faces of the two people in the picture... one of them looked almost identical to Li Bao.

As if feeling she hadn’t shattered Xu Chunxia’s daydream enough, Kang Li went on: "If you’re still clinging to hope, you can go ask that Lady Fang you mentioned to confirm it. Ask her if I’m actually the child she abandoned all those years ago.

Xu Chunxia, it’s your business if you like dreaming, no one else has the right to meddle, but if you drag my family into your unrealistic fantasies, don’t blame me for crushing your dreams!"

Utterly shameless, always scheming to get something for nothing—this kind of behavior is simply despicable!

"Li Bao, you... you’ve gone too far!"

Xu Chunxia tore her gaze from the photo, met Kang Li’s cold eyes, and accused, "All the suffering I endured after being tricked into going abroad is because of you, Li Bao, why don’t you just drop dead?"

There was a crisp "slap."

Kang Li slapped Xu Chunxia across the face, sneering, "Was it me who made you get swindled into going abroad and suffer? Xu Chunxia, you still don’t see your own faults. I really pity you, and also think you’re nothing but a pathetic wretch!

After all, you got ’mistakenly recognized’ by Lady Fang with a purpose—this could have been completely avoided. But you’re vain, and just had to grab this pie falling from the sky. Later you couldn’t tell good people from bad, got fooled and abused abroad—so who’s to blame? Besides, if I hadn’t picked you up off the street and had someone take you to the embassy, do you think you could have made it back to China alive?"

"So it was you... you saved me abroad..."

Xu Chunxia staggered back two steps, muttering, "No, I don’t believe it. You’re so cold-blooded and you hate me, how could you possibly save me?!"

"You think I wanted to save you?"

Kang Li scoffed, "Never mind that we’re from the same village—even if you were just another Chinese person, I’d still lend a hand. So you really don’t need to thank me."

After a slight pause, Kang Li’s eyes grew complicated as she looked at Xu Chunxia, "Remember when I ran into you at the G City train station? I warned you not to get too close to strangers, but you didn’t listen—you said I was meddling. Xu Chunxia, if I’m not mistaken, you’re the one who went abroad with that foreign man at your side. You followed him yourself, didn’t you? It wasn’t coercion, nor were you forcibly kidnapped and taken abroad, right?"

"..."

Xu Chunxia’s lips quivered, but for a long while, no words came.

"Are you awake now?"

Kang Li asked.

Xu Chunxia still didn’t answer.

It wasn’t that she didn’t want to—it was that she had no idea what to say.

Her scheming had fallen flat, and now Kang Li was throwing sarcasm at her—Xu Chunxia was lost. Back when Lady Fang "mistakenly recognized" her as her daughter, why did she let herself get swept up in it?

Her mother had given birth to her out in the fields, which was something most villagers knew. But she just... she just believed what that Lady Fang said.

Vain?

She was vain. She just wanted a better life...

Thinking of this, Xu Chunxia glared at Kang Li: "Is it wrong for me to want a better life? Why do you say my wanting a good life means I’m vain?"

"Wanting a better life for yourself isn’t wrong, but you knew the person recognizing you as her daughter had ulterior motives. Instead of thinking to prove your identity, you chose to go along. That’s on you—you should have expected to fall from the clouds one day."

Kang Li said expressionlessly. Seeing Xu Chunxia had no reaction, she added, "Come on, I’ll take you out."

But to her surprise, Xu Chunxia suddenly screamed hysterically, "I didn’t want to prove my identity? You have no idea what it was like for me back then—how can you judge me? I fainted by the roadside and didn’t know anything. When I woke up, I was in the hospital, and then that woman took me home to be her little maid.

At first I was fine being her maid, but then one day she suddenly called me into her room and told me I was the daughter she’d been separated from for years. There wasn’t a flaw in her whole story, and ever since I was little the Xu family treated me harshly, so how could I not doubt my own parentage?

And that woman—seeing how much I hated my own family—she poured her heart out to me, saying I was her own daughter, that I’d been lost and that’s why we were separated. How could I not believe it? She was truly kind to me—she took me out for haircuts, took me shopping for clothes, even arranged a job for me. If it were you, would you treasure this warmth? Would you rather go back to the Xu family who always treated their daughter so badly?"

Not giving Kang Li a chance to interrupt, Xu Chunxia kept sobbing, hysterically continuing, "Every day she made me learn this and that, because she said my birth father liked obedient, sensible, ambitious girls. She told me my biological father’s surname was Jiang, said he’d definitely like me, and insisted I follow her every instruction every day,