CHAPTER 702: CHAPTER 706: INTERSTELLAR HEARTTHROB (25)

Su Xun felt she had already lowered her posture enough.

Wouldn’t any mother want her child to lead a better life?

She didn’t even want to acknowledge that in a hellish place like Garbage Star, no human should have to live.

What was even more infuriating was that she was an exceptionally attractive girl, yet she had been forced to shave her head into a hideous buzz cut and mix with the boys, enduring hardship alongside them, learning both cultural knowledge and martial arts.

She simply couldn’t understand why her mother refused to let her leave Garbage Star when she could have lived so well, leading a life akin to a princess’s.

Just like she was living now, like a princess.

With beautiful clothes to wear, delicious food to eat, and a throng of servants to attend to her. This was the kind of life Su Xun was meant to lead.

Remembering the suffering she had endured unnecessarily for years, Su Xun felt a surge of indignant resentment. Her tone was impatient, having long forgotten the words of her foster mother, focused only on swiftly achieving her goal.

A pair of biological mother and daughter, separated for a long time, and yet the daughter felt no longing for her own mother.

If the original owner had been standing here, how heartbroken and pained she must have been.

Su Xun exchanged niceties with Su Li slowly and impatiently, eager to get to the point without putting in much effort.

The person before her wasn’t one of those who required her to plead and coax.

Her foster mother had said that Su Li was quite the hot commodity at the moment.

Not only had the Empire’s princess openly supported him, but several other major powers had also extended offers, hoping to absorb him into their ranks.

Aside from the Federation, who was embarrassed due to public opinion, Su Li was in high demand.

So now, if they could entice him to their side before anyone else, the benefits they could reap later were immense.

As long as Su Li leaned towards them, they were willing to agree to any conditions within their ability to fulfill.

However, Su Xun felt her foster mother was overthinking it—he didn’t know the real relationship between her and Su Li, only imagining they had some connection, but never guessing it was the intimate bond of mother and daughter.

Who would have thought the Lord of Garbage Star was actually a woman?

Even the original inhabitants who had lived with her for over a decade on Garbage Star hadn’t noticed anything unusual about her.

Her mother had hidden her true identity exceptionally well.

If the foster mother knew Su Li was actually her birth mother, she wouldn’t have reminded and hinted repeatedly beforehand.

But Su Xun wasn’t foolish enough to reveal that Su Li was actually a woman, even though her foster mother treated her well. One still needed to be cautious.

"Mom, where are you now? Since you’re out, why not live with me from now on?"

Su Xun’s tone left no room for Su Li’s opinion, as she issued a directive more than a suggestion.

"I’ll send you my current coordinates in a moment, my mom..." Su Xun suddenly realized her slip of the tongue and awkwardly corrected herself, "I mean my foster mother, who you know as well..."

The foster mother Su Xun mentioned was the key figure who sent the original owner’s daughter away.

Her name was Connie, a woman the original owner had once saved by chance while out gathering supplies.

Connie’s life was full of stories, to put it simply, she had a great deal of trouble attached to her.

However, the original owner herself was a woman and could empathize with her, felt a deep compassion for Connie’s experiences, and thus took her in.

The reason Connie had fallen into such a wretched state was due to the filthy affairs of a great family.

Being the original spouse, she not only got squeezed out by Xiao San to a miserable state, but also lost a woman’s basic ability to give birth.

It was precisely because she couldn’t have children, and because the original owner owed her life-saving grace, that the original owner felt assured to entrust the daughter to her.

Falling to the garbage star was the greatest disgrace in Connie’s life, one that she was ashamed to mention to others. The original owner hoped for the same, not wanting her whereabouts to be discovered.

The two saw eye to eye on the matter, so the original owner paid a heavy price to send them away.

Indeed, as agreed, Connie never mentioned to anyone that she had known someone named Su Li.

Of course, if the original owner had stayed on the garbage star until death like in her previous life, Connie would naturally have kept her promise not to mention it to anyone for the rest of her life.

No one would know that Lady Connie of the Federation Main Star had any connection to someone on a garbage star through her foster mother.

But now everything had changed. Su Li was no longer the unknown small Lord of the garbage star.

She was not someone the upper echelons would deign to associate with, but she was a person of interest who possessed some exploitable value.

Plus, there was that hidden relationship that could be conveniently used.

Su Li simply sorted through the original owner’s memories about this person and instantly understood the other’s intentions.

It was nothing more than seeing that she had some potential value now, and since it wouldn’t affect her, why not give it a try.

Su Li shook her head. There was nothing wrong with the original owner, except it seemed her judgement was poor, and so was her luck.

How was it that all around her there was a cluster of... well, it was hard to say.

Did she really have a magnet for trash?

Even the daughter who sprang from her womb and was raised by her own hands headed in an unsavory direction and never turned back.

Su Xun made the decision for Su Li on her own and, as if remembering something, added, "And that Clown Robot of yours, you’ve never even told me you had such a thing..."

"My mom, uh... Aunt Kang said a lot of people are interested in this robot, so I thought we’d let everyone see it together when the time comes."

After all, that was their true objective, wasn’t it?

Su Li had gradually discovered the abnormalities in the Clown Robot.

Every time the robot was upgraded, its intelligence seemed to automatically enhance as well, which she had assumed was normal.

After all, this was the interstellar era; if black holes and interstellar jumps could be achieved, why be surprised by an upgradable intelligent robot?

Even in a small world with a modern background, where humanity hadn’t yet stepped into the interstellar era, intelligent entities existed; the science and technology of the interstellar era could only be more advanced than that era.

But it now seemed that she was mistaken.

After the video of the robot blocking the Black Pirates spread on the Star Network, Su Li saw many comments on the robot’s agility and extraordinary abilities that contradicted its appearance, and she realized.

Not every robot was as nimble as hers or capable of autonomous thinking and judgment.

Most were more like tools meant to assist.

Su Li began to doubt the original owner’s identity.

It wasn’t that there was an issue with the memories she had inherited from the original owner but that perhaps even the original owner herself was unclear about her own background.

The original owner’s memories contained little about her childhood.

She was raised by an old man, and as for the robot... according to the old man, it was picked up in an abandoned junkyard alongside her.