The beloved but ungrateful girl is reborn: This time she has truly changed.

Qi Weiwei paused, her voice growing even colder:

"I suspect they're plotting to kill two birds with one stone."

Firstly, they wanted to give Tang Tiantian a respectable and prestigious job.

Secondly, there's your position—a lucrative job as a purchasing agent at a supply and marketing cooperative.

Tang Tiantian took over your job, but the position she was assigned was sales clerk.

This frees up the purchasing staff position, and their own people can fill in!

Didn't you always say that you weren't one of the director's cronies, and that he tried to win you over and corrupt you several times, but you didn't fall into his trap?

"So, that three thousand yuan..." Chen Hongxia's hands trembled even more violently.

"The three thousand yuan was just a side effect," Qi Weiwei said. "It not only burdened me with debt and made me lose my job, forcing me to rely more on the Tang family, but it also emptied our family's coffers, making it impossible for us to recover. It's a win-win-win situation."

The room fell into dead silence.

Only the occasional sounds of neighbors talking, children crying, and the distant whistle of a train—long, desolate, like a sigh—could be heard outside the window.

Chen Hongxia sat on the edge of the bed, feeling as if all her strength had been drained away.

She stared blankly at her daughter, at the clarity and coldness on her face that were beyond her years, and at the unfathomable pain and hatred in her daughter's eyes.

My daughter seems to have suddenly grown up? Become more sensible?

Six years.

What kind of life did my daughter live in the Tang family for the past six years?

She suddenly remembered many details—

On the few occasions my daughter has returned to her parents' home, she has always been dressed in the same drab, faded clothes, patched up, just like now.

My daughter's hands are as rough as an old farmer's, and the backs of her hands are often covered with chilblains.

My daughter always speaks cautiously, her eyes darting around...

She saw it all, and it pained her deeply.

However, the debt had already overwhelmed her, and she had no energy left.

"Weiwei..." Chen Hongxia began, her voice terribly hoarse, "My Weiwei..."

She hugged her daughter tightly, as if she wanted to make up for the six years she had missed.

Tears welled up and soaked Qi Weiwei's shoulder.

"Mom is so sorry...Mom should have realized it sooner...Mom should have been more assertive and not let you marry him...They were plotting against Mom, and you were dragged into this..."

She was incoherent and trembling with sobs.

Qi Weiwei also cried.

Mom will have to take the responsibility again.

How can you blame your mother?

If she hadn't been so eager to get close to Tang Aijun, he wouldn't have even considered plotting against her family.

Qi Weiwei cried quietly, but her tears kept flowing, soaking her mother's clothes on her shoulders.

The mother and daughter hugged each other and cried for a long time.

Chen Hongxia only slowly stopped crying when the train whistle sounded again outside the window.

She released her daughter, wiped away her tears with her rough hands, then wiped her own, and took a deep breath.

"Vivi."

Her voice was still hoarse, but it had calmed down.

"You just said that you deserve this money. What do you mean?"

Qi Weiwei wiped away her tears and pointed to the money and banknotes on the bed:

"This 800 yuan in cash was the dowry you and Dad gave me back then."

Tang Aijun and Sun Xidi said they would keep it for me, but they never returned it.

I found it in her suitcase today.

The Tang family married me without spending a single penny.

They certainly won't get any of the dowry either.

She picked up the bankbook again:

"These two thousand yuan have my name on them, but the money was found in Sun Xidi's box."

I suspect it's the dirty money Tang Qu received over the years, the money he gave to his mother as a form of filial piety.

They opened the account in my name, probably so that if anything goes wrong, they can blame it on me.

"And these four hundred yuan and these tickets were found in Tang Tiantian's house."

Chen Hongxia was terrified: "You...you went through their things? What if we get caught..."

"So what if they found it? What evidence do they have? Besides, there's dirty money inside, and they don't dare to make a fuss."

Qi Weiwei twitched the corners of her mouth.

"Mom, I've thought it through. For the past six years, I've been a slave to the Tang family, taking care of the elderly and the young, and even taking on a debt of three thousand yuan for them. That money isn't even enough to cover the interest."

She grasped her mother's hand: "Mom, I want a divorce."

She said those four words softly, but with great determination.

Chen Hongxia's eyes widened, and she seemed to freeze in place.

divorce.

In this day and age, divorce is a huge deal.

In particular, if a woman files for divorce, she will be gossiped about behind her back, accused of being "unfaithful" or "unwanted."

Children of divorced women are affected in their schooling and find it more difficult to find jobs.

She looked at her daughter, whose eyes were clear and firm, without the slightest hesitation.

After a moment, Chen Hongxia took a deep breath and nodded emphatically: "Mom supports you."

Qi Weiwei was stunned.

She thought her mother would at least try to persuade her, worry, or hesitate.

Chen Hongxia continued:

"Your mother has seen how Xiaojun treats you."

Every time he comes to our house, he acts like a son-in-law, making us serve him tea and water.

He was very attentive and protective of his grandmother and his sister-in-law.

But since you liked him before, and Mom wanted you to be happy, she didn't say anything.

She reached out and gently stroked her daughter's face, the movement as tender as touching fragile porcelain.

"Now that you understand, Mom is overjoyed."

Let's get a divorce!

"After you move back home, Mom will cook you delicious food every day to make up for all the weight you lost, okay?"

"mom……"

Qi Weiwei's tears welled up again.

This time, it was warm and scalding hot.

Chen Hongxia paused, hesitated for a moment, and then asked, "So... what are your plans for Yaozong and Yaozu?"

Chen Hongxia didn't have a good impression of her two grandsons.

Qi Weiwei doesn't bring them back often, but every time they do, the house is left in a mess.

Those two boys are too naughty.

The thought that the two boys might come back after the divorce sent a chill down Chen Hongxia's spine.

However, they are their daughter's own flesh and blood, and we should try to win them back if we can.

At least, it would be good to have the younger one with me.

Chen Hongxia's eyes had already scanned all the furniture, and she was planning to put the fragile pieces in Grandpa Weiwei's old house in the suburbs first.

However, Qi Weiwei's eyes turned cold the moment those two names were mentioned.

The coldness made Chen Hongxia shiver involuntarily.

"Mom," Qi Weiwei's voice was calm, eerily calm, "There's something I need to tell you."

She took a deep breath and took out Tang Aijun's guarantee.

After reading it, Mom was completely stunned.

Qi Weiwei then said:

"Tang Aijun and Tang Tiantian had been having an affair for a long time."

I overheard them saying that Tang Yaozong and Tang Yaozu were actually their illegitimate sons, and that I had two biological daughters.

"As soon as she was born, she was sent to Tang Tiantian's rural hometown..."

Chen Hongxia froze after hearing this.

The color drained from his face in an instant.