Learning to Love Again

Hearing her words, Su Mo Chou instantly became furious. She hated whenever someone called her a bastard or an illegitimate child. She was unwilling to accept this fact.

"I-I, I'm not a bastard. I'm the first daughter of my father. I'm his first child so how can I be the bastard? If grandpa hadn't arranged a marriage for my father, then he would have married my mother."

Yun Dongmei laughed at the child's naiveté. Yes, in her eyes the twenty-five-year-old Su Mo Chou is still just an unruly child.

"There are no ifs. Your grandfather did arrange a marriage for Su Feng and Qin Rong, your shameless mother still slept with him anyway. She had you from an illicit affair with an already married man. You came as a result of infidelity."

"If you're not a bastard child, then what are you? Don't delude yourself into thinking that you're a noble first daughter. You are a mistake, a stain that could not be washed away. Or how else would you explain the first sixteen years of your life? You lived in hiding in the outskirts of a small town. Have you ever seen a legitimate child live like that? Up until now, your mother is still unmarried. Your father is still a widower and he had two children with his late wife so where does that leave you in the equation?"

Su Mo Chou shook her head vigorously. She had never felt so insulted before, but she couldn't refute her words because they were all true. But she was still unwilling, she won't let anyone question her status. "Tang Xiu is already dead and my father will marry my mother soon."

"Well that's all very good, but until then, you are still a bastard. What a shame, your mother is a homewrecker and now you're following her footsteps and trying to seduce my husband isn't it?" Yun Dongmei raises Su Mo Chou's face up by her chin.

"No, I wasn't trying to seduce your husband. I have a boyfriend, Li Shaofeng, I have proof."

"Young master Li? Trying to steal your sister's man?

"As far as I know, Li Shaofeng had asked to marry your younger sister after seeing her once, and your father who had been trying to curry favor with the Li family immediately agreed but she disappeared before anything could progress. The Li Shaofeng that we're talking about, is he the same man who wanted to marry your sister?"

"No- no I-" Su Mo Chou widens her eyes in shock. She almost couldn't believe what she was hearing.

Just who is this woman? How can she know so many influential people and secrets? Her father and the Li family had only discussed an engagement between Su Lian and Li Shaofeng. Nothing had been announced or set in stone. They couldn't even tell Su Lian about it because she vanished overnight. So how exactly does this woman know all this? Just what kind of identity does she have?

"Well, I don't blame you. Being raised by a mother like that, how can your character be any good? But don't worry, since she was so unreliable, in educating you, I will discipline you in her place."

An hour later, Su Mo Chou laid sprawled on the floor with her face swollen like a pig. Her clothes were in a tatters and the words "MAN THIEF" had been written on her forehead in bold black letters.

Yun Dongmei knew boundaries, kidnapping in broad daylight is already one thing. She didn't want to go too far by doing anything extreme. Plus in her eyes, Su Mo Chou is just a child brought up in the wrong environment. She didn't choose her mother, she didn't choose her fate. Having her beaten to a pulp and giving her a temporary tattoo on her forehead was enough.

But Yun Dongmei couldn't help but ponder on what Su Mo Chou had said.

'Su Feng would marry Qin Rong soon?'

Her mind wandered to Su Lian and Su Qiong... Tang Xiu's children. How have their lives been? She clearly knows that Su Mo Chou and her mother Qin Rong would do everything in their power to make sure that they're miserable and take everything Su Feng owns for themselves.

She definitely had to prevent this marriage from happening. That was the least she could do for her late friend.

After having her men send Su Mo Chou off, she turns to face her adultering husband and his mistress with a big smile on her face.

With them, she needed no restraints.

"Shall we begin?"