The Hellborn Heiress​ - Chapter 1

“What are you doing here, you idiot?”

“You disgraceful thing, get out of here now!”

Slap-

A crisp slap echoed through the family banquet.

A young girl, dressed in tattered clothes and covered in stains, was thrown heavily onto the champagne tower.

Crystal glasses shattered all over the floor.

Blood began to spread from her face and body.

Ye Shuhua, dressed to the nines, looked at her mentally disabled daughter with a dark expression, furious beyond words.

If it weren’t for someone waiting for Jiang Ci’s healthy kidney, she would have strangled this disgraceful thing herself!

The Jiang Family was a prominent family in Jiangbei.

She never expected to give birth to a mentally handicapped child.

To prevent this scandal from ruining the reputation of the Jiang Family and her own family, they had no choice but to hide this child away and adopt another girl, publicly claiming that Jiang Wan was the true heiress of the Jiang Family.

Jiang Ci was hidden away for eighteen years.

No one could have imagined that this fool would escape from the cellar and make a scene, ruining Jiang Wan’s eighteenth birthday banquet in front of everyone.

All the guests today were either wealthy or powerful figures from Jiangbei’s business elite!

Most importantly, the eldest young master of the Song Family, Song Sibe, was also present!

Seeing the guests whispering and casting mocking glances,

Ye Shuhua put on a magnanimous face and explained:

“She’s the child of our former maid. Her mother died in a car accident and no one took care of her. I took her in out of pity. The child is mentally challenged and has offended you all. Please forgive her.”

Upon hearing this, everyone expressed their understanding, praising Ye Shuhua for her kindness and generosity in taking in even such a disgrace to the family.

Ye Shuhua accepted all the praise with a clear conscience, smiling gently as she jabbed her pointed high heel into Jiang Ci, who was lying in a pool of blood.

“Xiao Ci, be good, get up now. This isn’t the time to play games.”

The girl remained motionless for a long time.

The blood beneath her kept flowing, the scarlet color glaringly bright.

“Could this fool be dead?”

“If she’s dead, it’s a relief. She was useless alive anyway. At least it saves trouble.”

“Exactly. Madam Jiang has taken care of her for so many years; that’s already more than enough.”

The guests murmured among themselves.

“Oh, no matter what, she’s still a child I’ve raised for many years. I can’t just watch her die, can I? Xiao Ci may look thin, but she’s actually quite sturdy. She probably just fainted from sneaking food and falling over.”

“Old Li, come here and take Xiao Ci to the hospital to get her wounds dressed.”

Ye Shuhua explained with a smile, then grabbed the Steward, Old Li, and lowered her voice to give a cold order: “Take her straight to Song Family Hospital and remove her left kidney.”

Anyway, the original plan was to send this idiot to the hospital after Jiang Wan’s birthday banquet.

Now that she was injured, it was the perfect opportunity to harvest her kidney and save someone.

After tonight, Jiang Ci would be eighteen and eligible to donate organs.

The Steward nodded. When he went to lift Jiang Ci, he found her body frighteningly cold.

He didn’t think much of it, assuming it was just blood loss causing her temperature to drop, and quickly called for help to carry her away.

When they turned her over, her bloodied face was covered with shards of glass!

The faces of the socialites all showed the same look of disgust and contempt.

People like her, from the bottom of society, had no place in their circle. Her presence at the banquet was like a rotting piece of meat, making them sick.

They didn’t care whether she lived or died; they just wanted her gone so she wouldn’t sully their noble eyes.

The girl was thin, her skin unnaturally pale from years of being locked in the basement-a sickly kind of white.

Scarlet bloomed on her body, like demonic blood-red roses.

Blood dripped down, drop by drop.

It stained the French pastry she clutched tightly in her hand, which she hadn’t even had a chance to bite.

“Hurry and get someone to clean this up! Don’t let it ruin Jiang Wan’s birthday banquet!”
Ye Shuhua urged impatiently.

“Mommy~”

The beautiful and gentle Jiang Wan walked over, arm in arm with the handsome Song Sibe.

Song Sibe glanced indifferently at the blood all over the floor, his brows furrowing almost imperceptibly.

Ye Shuhua, quick to read the room, immediately said, “Jiang Ci was just too greedy and accidentally fell. It’s just a scratch on her face. Young Master Song, rest assured, after tonight your esteemed father will be in perfect health.”

Song Sibe withdrew his gaze and smiled faintly. “The kindness of the Jiang Family, I will remember it.”

Ye Shuhua grinned from ear to ear. To be able to connect with the Song Family, the top elite family in Jiangbei-what a blessing that countless people could only dream of!

Once things were settled, she would have Jiang Ci locked up in a mental hospital, the kind she’d never get out of for the rest of her life!

Thud!

A strange noise sounded, and everyone looked over.

Jiang Ci had tumbled to the doorway.

A servant hurriedly explained, “We didn’t throw her out, she struggled free herself.”

Jiang Ci lay on the ground, her hand moved slightly.

Ye Shuhua, fuming, rushed over and, with her back to the crowd, tenderly stroked Jiang Ci’s face.

“Xiao Ci, are you alright?”

In reality, Ye Shuhua pressed the shard of glass deeper into Jiang Ci’s face.

The pain would make this fool absolutely obey her commands.

“You brat, feeling itchy again? Crawl up and walk out properly, don’t embarrass us again, do you hear me!”

She lowered her voice and growled.

Looking at Jiang Ci’s bloodied, vacant face, Ye Shuhua felt an indescribable disgust.

She hated from the bottom of her heart that this thing had come out of her own belly.

She’d been so fair and cute at birth, but now the more she looked, the more she loathed her!

She pressed harder in anger.

The sharp glass shard stabbed deep into Jiang Ci’s flesh.

The wound on her face split wider, sending a wave of intense pain.

Suddenly, Jiang Ci sharply raised her eyes to look at Ye Shuhua.

In that instant, the dullness in her eyes was replaced by wild, cold ferocity.

Ye Shuhua was stunned.

She had never seen Jiang Ci look at her like that. Whenever things didn’t go her way, she’d beat Jiang Ci to vent her anger.

Jiang Ci feared her, never resisted when beaten, curling up in the corner like a dog, hugging her head and trembling all over, not daring to look at her.

But just now, Jiang Ci’s gaze was terrifying.

It was as if a vengeful ghost had crawled out of Hell, coming to claim her soul.

That look sent a chill down Ye Shuhua’s spine.

“What are you looking at? Don’t want to eat anymore?”

Jiang Ci was a fool, intellectually deficient, only knew how to eat. Using food to threaten her had always been Ye Shuhua’s tactic.

She thought Jiang Ci would obey as she always did.

But Jiang Ci kept staring at her, her eyes dark and ominous.

It was as if something terrifying was awakening inside this body…

Ye Shuhua was so unnerved by her gaze that she subconsciously wanted to make her suffer more.

She had just raised her hand, not yet touching Jiang Ci.

Unexpectedly-

Jiang Ci was faster!

She yanked the glass shard from her own face and, with force, stabbed it into Ye Shuhua’s eyeball.

“Ah-”

A sudden, shrill scream echoed through the Jiang Family.

Ye Shuhua collapsed to the ground, trembling uncontrollably, clutching her ruptured left eye and howling like a slaughtered pig.

“My eye!!! Help-”

Everyone was stunned by the bloody scene.

Ye Shuhua, who moments ago had been dignified and graceful, was now covered in blood, her face twisted like a ghost.

Jiang Ci slowly stood up, her mangled face expressionless.

Her gaze was icy, her blood-stained lips parted slightly, curling into a wicked, mocking smile.

“Triangular eyes, high cheekbones, hollow nose and mouth-classic sharp, mean, greedy features. You? Fit to be a mother? Trash who sells her daughter for glory!”