The Hellborn Heiress​ - chapter 38

Ye Shuhua was enraged by her arrogant attitude and cursed resentfully, “What status do you have, and what status does Grandpa have?”

“I don’t care what status you have. Whoever wants me to go back should come and pick me up first,” Jiang Ci replied calmly.

Ye Shuhua was so angry that her chest ached faintly. This damned girl was so stubborn and hard to deal with, so she simply threw out a harsh remark: “Come back if you want, but you’d better die outside so I don’t have to collect your corpse!”

She angrily got into her luxury car and left.

Grandma Hao watched and curiously asked Jiang Ci, “Master, so you have family? Why don’t you go home? Who is she?”

Jiang Ci replied indifferently, “That woman is ‘my’ biological mother, I suppose.”

“Huh?” Grandma Hao was stunned. “She’s your mother? What kind of real mother curses her own daughter like that?”

Jiang Ci slowly curled her lips into a harmless smile. “Because I blinded her, you know~”

Grandma Hao: “…”

She hadn’t expected Master to be so ruthless.

She looked so delicate and weak-truly, appearances can be deceiving.

Jiang Ci sat calmly in the Incense and Candle Shop, because she knew the Jiang Family would send someone again.

She had already figured out the identities of the Jiang Family members before she came back to life in this body.

Jiang Fu and Ye Shuhua needed no introduction-a pair of selfish, self-serving scoundrels.

But Jiang Shou was different. He believed in metaphysics, often moved to live in a Taoist Temple in the mountains, living a quiet and ascetic life, burning incense and worshipping gods.

He sounded like a recluse, a practitioner who didn’t concern himself with worldly affairs.

Jiang Shou only appeared kind on the surface; in reality, he was a sanctimonious old man-the very definition of a snake with a Buddha’s mouth.

Back then, when Xiao Ci was diagnosed with congenital intellectual disability, Jiang Fu and his wife couldn’t accept the blow and insisted on quietly killing the child.

It was Jiang Shou who stopped them.

But he didn’t intervene out of compassion. Feng Qingyang had given the Jiang Family a prophecy, saying that the Jiang Family’s daughter possessed extraordinary fortune and was a person of great destiny. Anyone close to her would have boundless prospects, and if the Jiang Family kept the child, she would lead them to the pinnacle of power and wealth.

It was this divination that made Jiang Shou keep Xiao Ci; otherwise, she would have been dealt with quietly long ago.

Jiang Ci guessed that Jiang Shou had probably received news that his son and daughter-in-law were injured, so he hurried down the mountain to visit.

The Jiang Family would definitely come again-they hadn’t finished avenging Xiao Ci yet.

An hour later.

The Jiang Family’s luxury car stopped in front of the Incense and Candle Shop again.

Jiang Wan helped the frail and elderly Jiang Shou out of the car, followed by a very reluctant Ye Shuhua.

“Xiao Ci,” Jiang Shou greeted her with a kindly smile as soon as he saw her. “I heard your mother Ye came to bring you home and you threw a tantrum. Alright, alright, Grandpa has come to bring you home himself. Is that good enough?”

His words sounded pleasant, but the implication was that Jiang Ci was being unreasonable and ungrateful.

Jiang Ci retorted, “Oh? And what status am I returning as?”

“The Jiang Family’s adopted daughter? Or the real heiress of the Jiang Family?”

She deliberately emphasized “real heiress.”

Jiang Wan’s eyes darkened a little at these words.

Ye Shuhua couldn’t hold back her temper and shouted, “Jiang Ci! Are you done yet? I have only one real daughter, and that’s Wanwan!”

Jiang Shou glared at her, signaling her not to escalate the conflict.

He then turned to Jiang Ci with a gentle smile and said, “Xiao Ci, no matter what your status is, you grew up in the Jiang Family. In Grandpa’s eyes, you’re a child of the Jiang Family. From now on, everyone in the Jiang Family will treat you equally.”

He still maintained an ambiguous attitude, unwilling to admit that the Jiang Family had ever had such a stain.
Jiang Ci smiled, “Equal treatment?”

“That’s right.” Jiang Shou said kindly, “From now on, you’ll move into the villa and live on the same floor as Jiang Wan. The cultural knowledge you missed out on when you were ill, Grandpa will find a professional home tutor to help you catch up, and also hire the best etiquette teacher to train you into a well-educated and refined lady of the Jiang Family.”

“Whatever Jiang Wan has enjoyed, Grandpa will make sure you have it too.”

Jiang Wan narrowed her eyes slightly and smiled, “Xiao Ci, all the unpleasant things that happened before are wiped clean. The matter of you injuring Zhang Qiang and Nanny Zhang, Grandpa has already taken care of it for you. You don’t need to worry about them coming after you. Why don’t you come home with us?”

The three looked at Jiang Ci.

Except for Jiang Shou, the mother and daughter certainly didn’t want Jiang Ci, whom they’d finally managed to drive out, to come back and be an eyesore.

But because of the old man and Master Feng’s divination, they had no choice but to swallow their pride and invite Jiang Ci back.

Ye Shuhua was fuming inside, feeling as if everything that had happened in the past few days was like lifting a stone only to drop it on her own foot.

Her own family suffered heavy losses, yet they had to put on a smiling face and welcome the culprit back home.

So infuriating.

Once Jiang Ci’s mission was complete, she was determined to make this brat pay for her blood debts!

“Wiped clean?” Jiang Ci chuckled softly, got up, and walked toward the luxury car.

As she passed Jiang Wan, she spoke in a voice only the two of them could hear, “How could it possibly be wiped clean, Fake Goods~”

All the unfair treatment Xiao Ci had suffered, the abuse from the servants, the abandonment by her biological parents-Jiang Wan, the fake heiress, had played her part in all of it.

A few words to make the victim wipe the slate clean? Dream on!

Hearing “Fake Goods,” Jiang Wan’s expression didn’t change, but her fists clenched tightly, her sharp nails almost digging into her palm.

It seemed the Jiang Family wouldn’t be peaceful in the future.

This Jiang Ci would sooner or later become a threat to her status.

The four of them, each with their own thoughts, got into the luxury car and returned to the Jiang Family.

Just as Jiang Shou had said, the Jiang Family arranged a new residence for her, on the second floor, just like Jiang Wan.

Jiang Ci pointed directly to the top floor, “I want to live at the very top.”

“There’s only an empty attic up there. If you stay on the second floor, you can discuss anything you don’t understand with Jiang Wan, and she can teach you.” Jiang Shou said.

Jiang Ci said nothing, just looked at him calmly.

In the end, Jiang Shou gave in and hurriedly ordered the servants to prepare the room.

The room was well furnished, with an exquisite French bed, a French wardrobe, a dressing table-everything one could need.

The wardrobe was filled with new clothes of all kinds.

Jiang Ci didn’t like these flashy colors. She also noticed that although the clothes were new, compared to Jiang Wan’s, the quality was much inferior.

Basically, Jiang Wan’s dresses were worth tens of thousands each.

The ones bought for her were worth at most a thousand or so.

So much for “equal treatment.”

“Well, Xiao Ci, do you like your new room?” Jiang Shou asked kindly, smiling.

Jiang Ci replied coolly, “From now on, without my permission, no one is allowed on the top floor.”

Jiang Shou’s smile froze for a moment, but he quickly recovered and said with a laugh, “Alright, alright, Grandpa will give the order. No one will come up and disturb you.”

“Then you can leave now.” Jiang Ci waved her hand.

Jiang Shou: “…”

He almost ground his molars to pieces.

How did this girl change so much!

She used to be so silly-when he teased her, she was as obedient as a kitten.

Now she seemed to have turned into a fierce wildcat, bristling with thorns all over.