CHAPTER 848: CHAPTER 852: BORN A REBEL (PART 2)

Seriously speaking, the original owner was just a scapegoat, and one that exited halfway through.

In fact, she was also a pitiful person, seeking what she could never obtain her whole life. It’s understandable that she took a wrong path for something elusive.

If at this moment, someone could extend a hand to pull her up, perhaps she could let go of her obsession.

But such a noble never appeared for her, all she encountered were accusations without understanding.

Everyone criticized her with an air of superiority, condemning her for not being grateful and having a malicious heart.

But to be precise, what did she do wrong?

She was just a child desperately lacking love, longing for care and affection.

The mother she idolized did not give it to her, nor did those she considered as her beliefs reach out to help, instead they pushed her harshly into the abyss.

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The original owner didn’t tell Su Li about those disheartening experiences, she just pushed memories onto her.

If you sort through the memories from the beginning, you’d understand that the same people have different fates.

This is a contrast between her and her half-sister Cheng Xinxin.

Back then, the original owner’s mother Su Ying married Su Li’s biological father, a romantic painter, despite the family’s opposition.

After the passion waned, the carefree and rebellious painter quickly lost interest in Su Ying and abandoned the mother and daughter, leaving to seek new inspirations elsewhere.

Su Ying hated that man, and she took it out on the original owner, who was just one year old.

Su Ying threw the child at her mother’s home, packed her bags, and left too.

Less than a year later, Su Ying married a widowed businessman, soon became pregnant, gave birth to a daughter, and became a noblewoman.

As for her daughter, whom she considered a stain, she acted like the girl never existed.

Apart from the regular monthly living expenses, it became their only remaining connection.

As a child, the original owner would ask Grandma Su why other kids had parents, but she didn’t.

Whenever this happened, Grandma Su remained silent.

After it happened enough times, the original owner stopped asking.

When inconsiderate kids mocked her for having a mom who gave birth but didn’t teach, she’d swing her fists like a little beast whose tail was stepped on, fighting back fiercely.

Then she became a famously bad kid.

Everyone said, don’t play with Ah Lee from the Su Family, she’s ill-mannered and bites.

Even though Su Ying regularly sent money over, there wasn’t much, so Grandma Su had to take up her craft again to support her granddaughter. Fortunately, her skills were good, and the neighbors took care of her business, allowing them to barely get by.

However, when she was busy, Grandma Su couldn’t find time to discipline her granddaughter.

When she noticed the changes in her granddaughter, she wanted to correct them but was powerless.

Entering the rebellious teenage years, the original owner learned to smoke, drink, and get piercings.

She would buy cheap makeup, making herself look neither human nor ghostly, her academic performance ranked first from the bottom, and she was quite pleased with herself.

Later, the original owner unintentionally overheard Grandma Su and Su Ying on the phone.

No one knows what was said, but they had a heated argument.

The next day, Grandma Su sold her tailor shop and moved with the original owner to a peaceful rural area in Jiangnan.

Although they lost the shop’s income, their lives improved significantly; the original owner guessed her penny-pinching mother sent more money each month.

In a new environment, Grandma Su wanted to change her granddaughter’s character. There was some effect, but not much.

The original owner stopped smoking and drinking, no longer roaming like a rebellious girl, but that unique aesthetic remained stubbornly preserved.

After wasting many years on studies, her mental hardware couldn’t keep up, and her grades remained at the bottom, a typical poor student.

Still, Grandma Su was satisfied; as long as her granddaughter didn’t stray, a little peculiar taste in dressing wasn’t much, just a bit unique, she’d know better as she grew older.

In the town with simple and sincere customs, despite the original owner’s bad girl appearance, familiar people didn’t talk much about her.

If she always lived here, perhaps the original owner would grow up just as Grandma Su envisioned, become aware of her childish past behavior, then learn a skill, connect with people, marry, and have children.... leading an ordinary yet peaceful and happy life.

After having her own tiny happiness, she’d look back on her early life, realizing the missing happiness and regrets, the setbacks and hardships endured were just laying the groundwork for future happiness.

At this moment, the middle-aged woman would smile serenely and slowly find peace.

Of course, this is the ideal scenario, but the original owner never waited for it.

In the summer she turned eighteen, failing to enter college, she received representatives from her long-unseen biological mother...

They wanted to take her to the Capital to live with them.

Initially, Grandma Su disagreed, but upon seeing her granddaughter’s excited and happy face, she swallowed her protests.

At this time, the eighteen-year-old original owner was full of longing and expectation towards her mother.

She didn’t understand Grandma Su’s worries.

As a child, she begged Grandma Su to let her live with her mother.

Not because Grandma wasn’t good, but children always have a natural closeness and yearning for their mothers.

But Grandma always said Xiao Li’s mom wasn’t available, and when she earned big money, she’d take Xiao Li over to live together.

Later, when the original owner learned this was a kind lie from Grandma, she got angry for a while and never brought it up again.

Now, with her wish truly fulfilled, she couldn’t think of anything else.

The original owner imagined many scenarios for their meeting.

Like on TV, hugging and crying or showing great concern... but never considered her mother’s attitude, who proposed taking her in, would be so... indifferent.

She was taken to a beautiful villa, anxiously waiting to meet her mother.

In the end, besides seeing a lukewarm nanny, she didn’t see Su Ying anywhere.

On her first day, she didn’t see her.

On the second day, she didn’t see her, nor the third day.... until a week later, she saw her mother coming back happily from an overseas trip with arms full of bags, along with her half-sister, Cheng Xinxin.

Along with the Cheng Family who all surrounded Cheng Xinxin.

Before the original owner could process the joy of seeing her mother again, Su Ying’s reaction deeply hurt her sensitive heart once more.

The gaze of the Cheng Family, the original owner had seen in many people’s eyes before, she wasn’t bothered by it.

What she cared about was Su Ying’s frown of disgust.