Shocking! The school heartthrob who was adopted by a wealthy family is actually a heiress!

Chapter 184 You're really a girl?!

"I lied to you."

The three exchanged glances. Lin Shi asked, "What, are you Ultraman?"

"..."

Qin Qiong glanced at him, then placed the back of his hand on her forehead: "Are you stupid? If you're not Zhaozhao, then who is?"

Qin Zhao raised his head, pursed his lips, and smiled faintly, looking utterly sad: "Let me tell you a story."

Lin Shi tried to play tricks again, but Lin Zheng glared at him, and he finally behaved himself.

“Once upon a time, there was a child.” Qin Zhao paused before continuing, “She was constantly being resold, and no one wanted her. Because most sellers only wanted sons, the traffickers told the outside world that she was a boy.”

"She was about four years old when she met her grandmother. But her grandmother also wanted a boy. She tried to return her, but the traffickers had already left. Maybe she felt sorry for the child, or maybe she had no other choice, so she kept her."

"Grandma only had one requirement for her: to act like a boy, to speak and walk like a boy, and not to let anyone find out. Otherwise, she would sell her."

“She doesn’t understand much, but she’s very obedient. She won’t have to be sold back and forth anymore.”

"From then on, she and her grandmother depended on each other for survival. They made a living by collecting bottles, cardboard boxes, and tin sheets, and sometimes they would braid red ropes and fold paper ingots."

Qin Qiong and Lin Zheng both widened their eyes.

“When she was twelve, she ate her first small cake. It was this big.” She gestured, “It cost five cents at the corner store, and she felt so happy.”

"She didn't want to eat it, and in the end, a drunk man knocked the cake over and stepped on it. She wanted to argue, but her grandmother scolded her, saying that she hadn't learned from boys."

“She is really learning, she has been learning all along.”

"Grandma said she was only pretending, not really convinced. If she couldn't keep up the act, the house would be full of drunk men the next day, and she'd be sold off."

"Grandma said that it would be good if she got into university and went out into the world. So from that time on, she had her first dream besides having enough to eat and not being beaten."

"At the age of thirteen, she began wearing a corset."

"When she was fourteen, she got her period and was beaten by her grandmother."

“When I was fifteen, my grandmother fell ill.” Qin Zhao frowned and moved his lips. “She suddenly looked so old. Just a few months ago, she could carry heavy sacks up the stairs. They said they would abandon her if she dared to fight with anyone.”

She suddenly ran out of steam, and the child seemed completely uninterested.

Qin Zhao wiped away her tears, her voice trembling slightly: "She was scared."

"Grandma is the only person in the world who is good to her. What would she do without Grandma?"

“But she had no money. Her nominal father made her drop out of school to work and pay for her grandmother’s medical treatment. Her grandmother had a big fight with him.” Qin Zhao choked up, unable to continue.

"That was the first time that Grandma stood firmly in front of her without backing down."

Qin Qiong held her, his face streaked with tears.

“Her grandmother found out she was working and beat her again.” Qin Zhao said, a tear falling from her eye. “It didn’t hurt at all. For the first time, she wished she would be beaten harder, but she had no strength left.”

“She was so thin she was just skin and bones. She said,” Qin Zhao sobbed, “Jiang Ye, if you’re so capable, go to university. Don’t drag this old woman down with you.”

“Jiang Ye?” Lin Shi pointed at her. “Wasn’t your name Jiang Ye before?”

"Zhaozhao," Qin Qiong called out to her with heartache.

Qin Zhao smiled and said, "I'm fine."

She glanced up and said, "When I was sixteen, my grandmother passed away. That year, she was on her period and was discovered by the people who had been bullying her."

"She might be sold as a woman, or she might be forced to run away."

"That same year, she had just turned 17. A couple found her and said they were her biological parents."

“She didn’t really have a concept of her parents, and she didn’t know if they had any other intentions. They seemed kind and promised to let her continue her studies, saying that things couldn’t get any worse than they were now. She went with them.”

“She didn’t have a good life before,” Qin Zhao said with difficulty. “But it seems like her luck changed after she was brought home by her parents when she was seventeen.”

"She also has an older brother. They bought her lots of clothes and provided her with delicious meals every day. They taught her what love is, that she would be praised for even the smallest things, comforted when she was sad, and that she could be protected when she was bullied."

Qin Zhao smiled, but tears welled up in her eyes again.

"She really wants things to stay like this forever."

One day, she realized she was a fake boy. It was all built on her deception, and she didn't know how to bring it up. What if, what if they didn't like it?

"She continued to pretend while struggling with her inner conflict."

"On her 18th birthday, she ate her first cake that belonged to her." Qin Zhao looked up and smiled. "It turns out that there really are people in this world who are happy and celebrate because of her existence."

Lin Zheng and Qin Qiong looked at her, their eyes filled with emotion.

"At the airport, she heard her mother say that even her daughter would not abandon her. Finally, she decided to confess."

"Before confessing, she suddenly realized that what her mother had lost was her son." Qin Zhao smiled, but he looked as if he had shattered.

She then realized that she had been mistaken for someone else.

Lin Shi's expression was complex, a mixture of shock, confusion, and sadness.

“None of this belongs to her.” Qin Zhao laughed self-deprecatingly. “Why isn’t her mother her mother? Her father, her brother, and her home aren’t hers either.”

“She wanted to pretend nothing had happened.” Qin Zhao’s eyes were filled with tears. “But they were so good to her, how could she lie to them?”

"So, she decided to confess."

Qin Zhao seemed relieved, saying, "I'm sorry, I lied to you."

All three of them forgot to speak.

Qin Zhao forced a smile: "Thank you so much for taking care of me during this time. I can't pay back the money I spent right now, but I'll pay you back slowly once I go to university."

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Qin Qiong tugged at her arm, feeling both distressed and angry.

"No!" Lin Shi combed his hair from front to back with his fingers, making it look like a bird's nest. "You might as well say you're Ultraman!"

"..."

"It's not April Fool's Day, is it? How did a story end up about you?!" Lin Shi couldn't calm down for a long time, looking at his parents' reddened eyes and licking his dry lips. "Are you really a girl?!"

He looked Qin Zhao up and down, pacing back and forth a few times: "Ber, are you really my sister?!"

"..."

Qin Zhao was furious at his question, but he admitted he knew it was her younger brother. If she didn't know he was stupid, Qin Zhao would have thought he was deliberately stabbing her in the heart.

She clenched her fist and explained, "No, I made a mistake."

Sorry, I've only written half of the next chapter, it will be late.
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