CHAPTER 109: CHAPTER 109: SLAPPING THE FAKE RICH GIRL 10

The Zhao Family had their dinner, and apart from Anning, no one else enjoyed their meal.

Zhao Han and Song Ruyi kept urging Anning to eat more, but they weren’t really happy inside.

They hated the Liu Family to the core.

Having raised Anning for fifteen years without ever letting the child sit at the table for a meal.

Therefore, when they thought about Zhao Mingzhu eating alone in the upstairs room, they didn’t feel too sorry for Zhao Mingzhu.

Right now, they couldn’t care less about Zhao Mingzhu; they were only thinking of ways to make it up to Anning.

After dinner, Song Ruyi took Anning upstairs to bathe.

Anning had injuries on her body, and her wrist was wrapped in gauze, so they had to be very careful while bathing.

As a mother, Song Ruyi naturally had to help Anning wash up.

In the bathroom, as Song Ruyi helped Anning undress and went to wrap the injured wrist with a plastic sheet, she burst into tears in an instant.

She simply could not imagine how a girl could have so many wounds on her body.

She had heard from the nurses at the hospital about the many injuries on Anning’s body, but at that time, she had not seen them with her own eyes.

Now facing these wounds, Song Ruyi didn’t know what to do.

She dared not touch Anning, nor did she dare to let her bathe any longer.

Song Ruyi took out a white bath towel and wrapped it around Anning’s body carefully; her hands were shaking as she did so, struggling to restrain herself from crying out loud.

"Does it hurt a lot?"

Song Ruyi asked Anning carefully.

With a smile on her face, Anning replied, "It hasn’t hurt for a while, actually. The first time I got hit, it hurt a lot, but then I got used to being hit every day."

With that one word, "used to," Song Ruyi could no longer control herself and rushed out the door, covering her face.

Anning watched Song Ruyi running away, closed the bathroom door, wrapped up her wounds with the plastic sheet, and started to bathe.

Anning didn’t actually care much about these wounds.

In this world, she couldn’t practice any cultivation techniques, but the knowledge Anning had learned was not limited to those cultivation skills; her understanding of medical science could be said to be unmatched in this world.

In a little while, Anning would be able to concoct her own medicines to treat these scars, and by that time, her body would be spotless, without a single scar.

Still, when the hot water fell on her body and washed over the wounds, it was really painful for Anning.

Of course, this pain was nothing compared to the excruciating pain of advancing through cultivation levels, which was worse than death by a thousand cuts.

Anning quickly cleaned herself, took the pajamas Song Ruyi had prepared for her, changed into them, and then quietly got out of the bathroom and lay down on the bed with delicate grace.

Song Ruyi came out of Anning’s room, crying as she raced back to her own.

Zhao Han had just taken a bath. While drying his hair, he asked Song Ruyi, "Has Ningning finished bathing?"

Song Ruyi did not respond.

Zhao Han found this strange and turned around, only to be shocked.

He saw Song Ruyi sitting on the chair, silently crying; she was lost in thought, so deep that she didn’t even notice Zhao Han approaching.

"What’s wrong?"

Zhao Han asked softly, pressing on Song Ruyi’s shoulder.

As he asked, it was as if he flipped a switch.

Song Ruyi hugged Zhao Han and started sobbing, "Husband, I... you have no idea when I was bathing Ningning earlier, she had so many wounds on her body, not a single part of her was unharmed, I couldn’t bear to see it, it’s all my fault... If I had been more careful back then, Ningning wouldn’t have been switched."

Song Ruyi was heartbroken for Anning and blamed herself deeply. Her emotions were immensely complex; she didn’t know what to do and just wanted to cry her heart out.

"Is Ningning... in very poor health?"

Zhao Han waited until Song Ruyi had cried enough before asking.

With red eyes, Song Ruyi wiped away her tears and said, "You can’t imagine how bad it is. Just one glance and I couldn’t control myself any longer. I want to kill the people of the Liu Family."

Zhao Han could imagine that, to make Song Ruyi lose control like this, Anning must have very serious injuries.

"Tomorrow, take the child to the hospital for another check-up. Also... I see Ningning doesn’t have any suitable clothes to wear out. Though we prepared some previously, we didn’t really know what she likes. Let Ningning choose a few outfits while you’re at it. From now on, let’s try to compensate as much as we can."

Zhao Han consoled Song Ruyi well until she no longer felt so distressed.

Anning woke up in the middle of the night.

She lay quietly without opening her eyes. After a while, she heard the sound of the door opening and then the soft footsteps that followed.

Anning could tell it was Song Ruyi who had come.

Song Ruyi walked delicately to Anning’s bedside and, using the moonlight, looked at her for a good while, taking extra care to tuck her in before leaving after watching her a little longer.

Anning could feel that Song Ruyi had a motherly love for her, and truly wanted to show her affection.

In fact, in her previous life, Song Ruyi had always been good to Zhao Anning.

But Zhao Anning was just too stubborn, and especially since she had been frightened by the people of the Liu Family and covertly threatened by Zhao Mingzhu, she didn’t dare accept Song Ruyi’s kindness.

Moreover, she felt very inferior and did not dare reveal any genuine emotions, let alone let the Zhao Family find out she had been beaten. Whether it was bathing or changing clothes, she always hid and did not dare let anyone see her.

Even in the summer, she wore long sleeves to cover the wounds on her body.

She was so resistant to the Zhao Family’s approach.

Adding to that, Zhao Han and Song Ruyi were truly busy and did not pay much attention to her emotions, which resulted in her later moving out and the tragedy of her life.

It’s said that a crying child gets the candy, and this saying isn’t false at all.

Zhao Anning was too well-behaved and quiet, making herself invisible.

What Anning needs to do now is to lay everything out in the open before the Zhao Family, letting them choose whether to love and compensate her or continue to favor Zhao Mingzhu.

She wants Zhao Han and Song Ruyi to understand how the Liu Family mistreated and ruined her.

When the Zhao Family is filled with guilt towards her, will they still be able to care for and love Zhao Mingzhu without any qualms?

Now, it seems that what Anning has done has planted seeds of resentment towards Zhao Mingzhu in the hearts of the Zhao Family.

No matter what, the couple from the Liu Family are Zhao Mingzhu’s biological parents.

The worse Anning is treated by the Liu Family, the more resentful energy Zhao Han and Song Ruyi harbor inwardly against Zhao Mingzhu, even though it might not show on their faces.

They can’t bring themselves to love Zhao Mingzhu the way they did before.

Zhao Mingzhu is exceptionally astute, how could she fail to notice the change in the Zhao Family?

As the Zhao Family changes, growing more affectionate towards Anning and distancing themselves from her, Zhao Mingzhu will become unsettled.

She won’t sit idle as she did in her previous life, effortlessly getting everything she wanted. She will become suspicious and paranoid, unable to hide her hatred towards Anning and will inevitably lash out.

Anning’s current objective is to provoke Zhao Mingzhu into taking action, to erode the Zhao Family’s affection for Zhao Mingzhu bit by bit, driving Zhao Mingzhu to a point of no return.