Chapter 86: The Li Of Dawn
“Mingzhu!” Father Jiang shouted sternly, his face full of anger: “Li Li is our child. Why are you treating her like this? Jiang Yan too—he is your son, but have you ever acted like a mother to him at all? Do you want to force them to death before you’ll feel satisfied in your heart?”
“You ignored her for twenty-three years. Now that your daughter has returned, you still say such things. You are truly heartless.”
“My daughter is Jiang Li—the Li from ‘leave,’ the Li from ‘parting,’ not the Li from ‘dawn.’ I don’t recognize her!” Madam Jiang turned her head away, refusing to look at Jiang Li.
Jiang Li’s expression dimmed.
Her eyes stung a little. When she was little, she never understood why everyone else had a father and mother, but she didn’t.
Her mother never looked at her. Her father only came to see her once or twice a year when he had time, touching her head and telling her not to blame her mother—she was sick.
What illness could make someone not even love their own child?
Until she saw her sister being born.
The gentle, loving look in Madam Jiang’s eyes made Jiang Li understand—it wasn’t a lack of love, but no extra love left for her.
So she was thrown to the countryside to fend for herself with Grandmother.
Grandmother didn’t like her and would often scold her as a dead girl, refusing to give her food and frequently beating her.
Grandmother said why didn’t she just go die, she only knew how to drag down this old woman.
But the family was very rich.
Yet Jiang Li was never full.
Later, when she was fifteen, she jumped into the river.
Huo Yu rescued her by accident, and she followed him to the Capital City.
From then on, she was no longer Jiang Li, but Jiang Li.
The Li from dawn.
That day was her new life.
But the person who gave her new life was now dragging her into hell.
When Jiang Li brought Huo Chengxuan to Jin Cheng, she saw her sister—the sister she had envied since childhood.
She was very pretty, sunny, healthy, and loved to smile.
A bit different from what she had imagined.
She thought she would hate this sister who had been pampered since birth, but on the contrary, she didn’t. She couldn’t hate her. Maybe that was her fate—to always be the one no one cared about.
Until Jiang Ning stood in front of her, tore up that donation agreement, held her hand tightly, and told her she could still go home. In that instant, Jiang Li felt like she still had a way out.
So she mustered her courage and stepped into this nightmare of a place.
But in the end, it was all her delusion.
Jiang Li stood up awkwardly and bowed to them: “Sorry, I’ll leave right now.”
Father Jiang grabbed her and said fiercely: “If you leave, Dad will leave with you. I can’t live like this anymore. Whatever, Mingzhu, let’s get divorced. Just like that.”
Hearing the word “divorce.”
Madam Jiang looked at Father Jiang in disbelief, her eyes welling with tears, her voice sharp and piercing: “Jiang Huan, I’ve been with you for over twenty years, and now you want to divorce me because of this daughter? Do you know what she’s done out there? She’s being a mistress—everyone wants to beat her. Jiang Li, why couldn’t you do anything else? Why did you have to be a mistress?”
Madam Jiang deeply despised “mistresses” because her marriage had been interfered with before. That failed past had disfigured her. She loved Father Jiang too much and endured the disgust to choose forgiveness, but that incident was a thorn in her heart.
She looked at Jiang Li with hatred in her eyes.
Jiang Li kept her head down, making no defense.
That glamorous face showed panicked helplessness.
She wanted to open her mouth to say something, but upon seeing Madam Jiang’s disgusted expression, she ultimately said nothing and silently accepted it.
Jiang Ning observed from the side. According to the new information Little Honey sent her about Jiang Li’s ending, she had liked Huo Yu, who had been so attentive to her, but all that ended after he got married.
So after Bai Chuchu’s miscarriage, Jiang Li chose to debut in a foreign girl group, not wanting to get involved in their couple’s affairs, just developing overseas. But for some reason, it suddenly came out that she had interfered in someone else’s marriage, and now she couldn’t survive in the entertainment industry.
So that’s why Huo Yu said that now, besides his side, where else could Jiang Li go.
Jiang Ning walked to Madam Jiang’s side and soothingly patted her back.
She said slowly: “Mom, I believe Sister isn’t that kind of person. There must be a misunderstanding here.”
Madam Jiang turned to look at Jiang Ning: “Ning Ning, you want to keep her too?”
Although Madam Jiang was angry, she ultimately didn’t say anything harsh to her beloved little daughter whom she had doted on since childhood. She was just annoyed that Jiang Ning wasn’t on her side.
Jiang Ning’s brows showed helplessness as she comforted: “Mom, do you still remember last time when I had a fever and was bedridden for days?”
Mentioning this made Madam Jiang’s heart race with lingering fear.
“You child, I told you not to exercise when injured, but you wouldn’t listen, split the wound open, and now you know the pain, right!”
Jiang Ning decided to tell Madam Jiang everything that happened that day.
Madam Jiang went from bewildered to shocked.
“You… you’re saying you got yourself into that state to save Jiang Yan?” Madam Jiang’s voice trembled.
But why.
Why was Jiang Ning gradually warming up to Jiang Yan?
Jiang Ning nodded: “Yes, so that day I provoked people from the Huo Family in the Capital City. It was Sister who rushed into the private room and rescued me. Otherwise, if I hadn’t gotten to the hospital in time that day, I might have…”
Jiang Ning didn’t say the rest.
But Madam Jiang’s eyes reddened first.
She hugged Jiang Ning tightly: “Don’t say any more. Mom got a divination for you—you’ll be safe and sound your whole life.”
Jiang Ning let out an extremely light sigh.
Actually, she hoped that after she logged off, there would still be Jiang Yan and Jiang Li to accompany her.
Easing their relationship was also so that Madam Jiang would have a new hope and not be so heartbroken from her departure that she jumped off a building.
“It’s all in the past. Without Sister, you wouldn’t have seen me. Mom, just let Sister stay.” Jiang Ning acted cute toward Madam Jiang.
Madam Jiang hesitated for a moment.
Finally, she turned her head and instructed the servant: “Go clean up a room upstairs for the Young Lady to live in.” Then she looked at Jiang Li: “But I have a condition. You can stay, but don’t wander in front of me usually. You don’t learn the good things but go learn crooked ways to seduce men, so try not to go out and expose yourself. I don’t want to be pointed at and watched by everyone—I can’t afford to lose that face!”
After speaking, Madam Jiang looked at Father Jiang: “Li, we’ll divorce tomorrow!”
Father Jiang smiled awkwardly: “Wife… I was just saying it casually. Even if you beat me to death, I wouldn’t divorce you.”
Seeing him made Madam Jiang angry, so she simply turned and went upstairs.
Father Jiang hurriedly chased after: “Hey, Mingzhu, hear me out, Mingzhu…”
The living room fell quiet. Jiang Li sat on the sofa as if drained of strength.
Jiang Ning smiled at her: “It’s okay now. You can live here from now on. No one will drive you away. That man wanting your cornea and kidney is impossible. We’ll protect you.”
Jiang Li’s expression was complicated. After a long pause, she asked: “Why are you so good to me?”
Jiang Ning pondered for a few seconds before slowly saying: “Maybe because you’re my sister. I’ve wanted a sister since I was little. I’ll take you to the room. Let’s go.”
Jiang Li was slightly stunned, her eyes slowly reddening.
Looking at Jiang Ning’s excited figure, a flash of painful struggle passed through her eyes.
Sister is back. Ning Sister has one more person to love~
