The True Heiress Is a Jianghu Woman - Chapter 1

Chapter 1

No wonder my sudden appearance had put them in such a difficult position.

So it was because of my elder sister’s marriage.

When I was young, I had been betrothed to the Heir of the Marquis of Dingbei.

But I had been missing for years, leaving the marriage in limbo.

Half a year ago, my family discussed the matter with the marquis’s household.

They decided to have the Heir Apparent take my elder sister and younger brother to Mobei to search for me one last time.

If they could not find me, the engagement would be called off, and the Heir Apparent would not be delayed any longer.

They searched bitterly for three months, yet still found no trace of me.

Then the Heir Apparent was accidentally captured by desert bandits, and it was my elder sister who saved him.

My younger brother pointed at the jade pendant hanging from my elder sister’s waist and said, “The Heir Apparent has already given Elder Sister a token of love.”

I could not help looking over-and for some reason, that jade pendant seemed familiar.

Because half a year ago, I had also rescued a noble young master from a desert bandit den.

At the time, both of us had been poisoned and could not see clearly.

Later, I summoned the Blood Scorpion, and only then did I manage to lead him out through the encirclement.

Unfortunately, I lost that jade pendant on my way here.

Everything had happened in such a rush afterward that I never had the chance to ask the noble young master’s name or background.

When my elder sister saw me studying the jade pendant, she hurriedly covered it up.

I was speechless.

Tsk. I might be a little poor, but I wasn’t going to rob her in broad daylight.

I scratched my head and said, “Heir Apparent, persimmons, apples-I don’t care about any of it. Give me fifty taels, and I’ll leave right now.”

But my mother questioned me coldly, “You may look similar to my eldest daughter, but that does not prove you are my daughter. What evidence do you have?”

Since I dared to come here, of course I had asked around carefully.

I asked, “When I was little, did Madam once feed me a Tianshan Snow Lotus?”

My mother was the daughter of a famed general of Mobei.

I had heard that eighteen years ago, the emperor bestowed a Tianshan Snow Lotus upon my maternal grandfather. It was an unparalleled treasure, capable of neutralizing a hundred poisons.

I rolled up my sleeve, revealing the scars of all sizes covering my arm.

My parents’ expressions changed at the same time.

With absolute confidence, I said, “Before I turned ten, I was kept in a desert bandit den as Blood Ginseng. You once lived in Mobei, so you should know that for me to survive until now, I must have been relying on the medicinal properties of the Tianshan Snow Lotus.”

The desert bandits raised a kind of scorpion that could kill without drawing blood.

Before reaching maturity, these scorpions lived by sucking the blood of children.

The people of Mobei called the children used to feed the scorpions Blood Ginseng.

Eldest Senior Brother once told me that ordinary children could not withstand the poison of the Blood Scorpion.

By the third year of serving as Blood Ginseng, they would bleed from all seven orifices and die.

But I had stubbornly endured it.

That could only mean my blood carried the medicinal properties of the Tianshan Snow Lotus.

The cold tension on my mother’s face vanished in an instant.

She rushed over and grabbed my hand.

My father also said excitedly, “It is Xingzhao. She is our daughter!”

Seeing that I was determined to leave, my younger brother quickly explained things to me.

My parents had been cold and wary toward me because, over the years, too many impostors had come pretending to be me.

They had suffered too many disappointments.

A sour ache rose in my heart as I realized that it was not that they were unwilling to acknowledge me.

Seeing this, my elder sister burst into tears and said, “Father, Mother, I am willing to return the marriage to Younger Sister.”