Chapter 290: Sasha’s Past
“Nancy, we’re classmates at least, why do you have to target me like this.”
Sasha slightly lowered her head. Those who didn’t know might think she was aggrievedly holding back tears, but in reality, she was just calming her emotions, which had been stimulated by Nancy’s words to breathe a bit too quickly.
“Tit for tat, just a little revenge for our three’s unpleasant junior high memories.”
Nancy hummed.
“Of course, if you and your followers don’t do anything harmful to others besides Ainuo, you can boldly go after that guy, after all, the Delta family and Li Family are so close.”
“Or more directly, you could just have your father come find Uncle Daolin to talk it over, see if there’s a chance for you two to have a verbal marriage agreement. Then formally date in university, get the marriage certificate right after university graduation, how romantic?”
As she spoke, Nancy couldn’t help nodding: Not bad, this was indeed a pretty good idea.
Before university graduation, “selling off” that guy Ainuo would ensure that she and Yating would really be dragged by their parents to discuss marriage issues with that guy after graduation.
But even hearing this good idea, Sasha’s complexion didn’t improve. She of course knew that this suggestion Nancy casually made had a lot of practical value, but there were some prerequisite conditions that most peers in this banquet venue had, except just she didn’t…
“Nancy… you clearly know I…”
She bit her lower lip, not daring to say the words that followed. Sasha was still holding onto a sliver of wishful thinking: Maybe? Maybe Nancy just wasn’t clear on her family situation and really just said it casually…?
“Know what about you?”
Nancy chuckled lightly, narrowed her eyes, slightly lowered her voice, and asked in a volume only the two of them could hear:
“Know you’re not welcome in the Delta family? Or know the reason is that little trick you planned to use on your sister and younger brother, but it was discovered by your parents and the Delta family people right as you started implementing it?”
“Or perhaps, know that your parents completely gave up on you because of this, and shifted all resources to your sister and younger brother?”
With each thing she said, Sasha’s face paled a bit more.
How did Nancy know these things? Could someone have leaked it?
She raised her head, looking incredulously at Nancy, whose face was full of smiles.
And Nancy, as if knowing Sasha’s thoughts, sneered with a hum.
“Rest assured, the Delta family also cares about face, they won’t spread such ugly matters outside. Moreover, your aptitude isn’t enough to catch most parents’ eyes, so this little rumor only spreads in your family circles. As for me, I just heard it by chance.”
These words were half true, half false.
That it only spreads in the Delta family was true, and Nancy had no intention of leaking it. If it were traced back, causing a rift in relations between the closely cooperating Delta family and Li Family for no reason, she’d literally be grounded at home for fifty or sixty years.
The false part was hearing it by chance. Sasha’s matters were actually things she heard at a certain family banquet from peers of the Delta family who happened to be visiting. The other probably couldn’t hold it in, chattered to her for over an hour, and didn’t forget to remind before leaving, “Don’t spread this, if the family head uncle finds out, my pocket money for the year is gone.”
But after that, Nancy hadn’t seen that peer again, probably because their urge to vent was too strong and they were promptly banned by the Delta family from banquet attendance rights.
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These things Sasha naturally couldn’t know.
She was now plunged into a state of panic.
That matter… someone said it outside? No, father strictly forbade spreading it outside, so that means someone was discussing it with family outside and Nancy overheard? How could…
Sasha gripped her skirt hem, as if trying to suppress the uneasy emotions in her heart.
If it weren’t for being stirred up so annoyed by Ainuo’s matter and this now, Sasha actually really wanted to retort Nancy:
She hadn’t done anything excessive to her sister and younger brother, just made the demands she should make on some sibling issues.
Even after being neglected by the family for three years, Sasha still believed her demands were correct. After all, her sister had no intention of inheriting father’s business, her younger brother had just entered third grade of elementary school, and in her view, she, intending to major in finance, was most likely to inherit the family.
So, she should enjoy the rights a future heir should have.
But after her sister and younger brother heard her words, they looked at her for a long time with an expression that made Sasha feel very uncomfortable, then sighed and left together.
Sasha couldn’t understand her sister and younger brother’s attitude, because her classmates, upon hearing her say this, all expressed agreement and listed several well-reasoned points, which she felt were even more logical than her own thoughts.
So, at the time, she decided to have her sister and younger brother come listen to her classmates’ views too.
But just as she coaxed her sister and younger brother out the door to meet her classmates, her parents and other elders in the family angrily brought the three of them back together.
What followed was a development Sasha couldn’t understand.
She didn’t understand, clearly she was the most likely to become the family heir, so why did her parents and elders get so angry when she wanted to convince her sister and younger brother to accept this.
Sasha only knew that after that, her status at home plummeted. The elders basically treated her like air, and she only kept minimal communication with her parents, sister, and brother.
If her parents hadn’t strictly forbidden her from spreading things outside, Sasha really wanted to discuss with her classmates what exactly she hadn’t done well.
In this situation, she advanced to junior high, where she met Ainuo.
Ainuo Li, the handsome Li Family heir.
Sasha did fall in love with Ainuo at first sight, but what made her persist in this feeling now forced onto the table, besides that, was also because of Ainuo’s identity.
The conclusion she reached over three years of junior high was: Parents must not trust her because her foundation is still shallow now, so she needed to find a partner who would convince them, then the whole family would have nothing to say!
But such a utilitarian idea was too abrupt in her pure love, so Sasha had never mentioned it to anyone. Besides, no one around knew her family situation, so over three years it was peaceful, and the classmates around all thought Sasha was just purely liking Ainuo.
But now, it was different.
Someone knew about what happened to her back then!
And this person was none other than Nancy!
Sasha looked at Nancy with complex eyes.
“That… Nancy, I hope you won’t…”
Nancy let out a disdainful snort of laughter.
“Rest assured, no matter how much I love chattering with people, I won’t spread this kind of thing everywhere, or I’d get punished if it blows up.”
This was the truth; Nancy didn’t want the Li Family and Delta family to have conflicts over such a speechless matter.
“…Thanks, then, I’ll go drink something first. If Ainuo he…”
Hearing this from Sasha, Nancy at least held back the urge to roll her eyes at her, but couldn’t control her lower body and directly lifted her leg to walk away.
Rather than talking nonsense with this muddleheaded person, listening to her play the victim, better to go taste the tofu that was just served.
These were all hot, freshly out of the pot good stuff!
