Announced divorce, madly criticized Ling Shaochang for kneeling down

Qiao Ruyi fell into Ling Che's arms and developed a high fever.

After Ling Che brought her home, he called a private doctor to check on her. He gave her fever-reducing injections and physical treatments, but her temperature kept fluctuating.

This recurring high fever lasted for two days and two nights, and Qiao Ruyi was in a coma for two days and two nights.

She seemed to be trapped in a long dream, and in the dream, she was experiencing a time that she didn't want to go back to again.

......

The year after Yin Rufang's death, Qiao He brought back a mother and daughter.

The woman was young, dressed simply, and looked a little embarrassed. When she first saw Qiao Ruyi, she greeted her warmly.

"Hello, is your name Ruyi? You are so beautiful."

Qiao Ruyi just stood there and looked at her quietly. Qiao He called her and told her, "Ruyi, this is your Aunt Liling. You will live with us from now on."

"This is your sister, her name is Ruyuan."

He pulled a little girl out from behind the woman named Li Ling. The little girl's skin was not very white, and the brand new princess dress and little leather shoes looked a little awkward on her.

Qiao Ruyi looked over and found that the eyes of this little girl who looked younger than herself were full of hostility towards her.

Even though it was the first time they met, she seemed to dislike her.

Qiao Ruyi thought, it was just right, she didn't welcome them either.

She didn't say anything, just glanced at Qiao He and ran upstairs.

In those eyes, there was the disappointment of an eleven-year-old child towards his father.

She hid back in her room, staring at the photo of their family of three for a long time, and finally hid in the quilt with her mother's solo photo and cried for a long, long time, until she was so tired that she didn't even know when she fell asleep.

Finally, Aunt Chen came up and gently wiped the tears from her face and covered her with the quilt.

In the second month after Li Ling and Qiao Ruyuan entered the Qiao family, Qiao Ruyi's life changed drastically.

All the familiar servants were sent away, even Aunt Chen, who had taken care of her since she was a child. This was all because Li Ling had said to Qiao He that she and her daughter had lived alone for nine years and were not used to so many strangers in the Qiao Mansion. However, the Qiao Mansion was so large that it couldn't do without servants, so she wanted to replace the servants with familiar folks from her hometown, whose accent would be familiar to her occasionally.

Qiao He was busy with work and had no time to take care of these trivial matters, so he left it to her to decide.

In this way, originally, to Qiao Ruyi, there were only two strangers in Qiao Mansion, Li Ling and her daughter, but later, she became the only stranger in Qiao Mansion.

In the days that followed, Qiao He became increasingly busy, often leaving early and returning late, and occasionally a business trip would last for more than half a month. Li Ling naturally became the mistress of the Qiao Mansion, Qiao Ruyuan became the respected second daughter of the Qiao family, and she, Qiao Ruyi, became a dispensable existence in the entire Qiao Mansion.

......

"As you wish, come, eat more, drink up this milk and eat this egg too."

In the restaurant, Li Ling repeatedly reminded Qiao Ruyuan at the table to finish his breakfast.

Twelve-year-old Qiao Ruyi came downstairs in her school uniform and sat down in the dining room. Li Ling ate her breakfast as if she hadn't noticed her. Her stepsister, two years her junior, simply rolled her eyes at her.

Li Ling placed the remaining fried eggs next to Qiao Ruyuan, fearing that she couldn't reach them.

Qiao Ruyi noticed her movements, glanced at the fried egg, and said nothing. She had an exam that morning and just wanted to finish her meal quickly before going to school. She grabbed a piece of toast, only to find that her favorite bottle of strawberry jam was gone from the table, replaced by a bottle of peanut butter.

She never ate peanut butter, so she casually looked at the servant beside her and asked, "Where's the strawberry jam?"

"Miss...strawberry jam..." The servant beside her stammered and looked at Li Ling.

Li Ling pretended not to care and continued, "Oh, Ruyi, I saw that strawberry jam was thrown away before it was even eaten. Ruyuan and I both like peanut butter, so we changed it to peanut butter."

Qiao Ruyi put down the toast and saw a bowl of chicken soup on the table. She thought, I'll just drink some chicken soup to fill my stomach.

Before the hand reaching for the chicken soup could grab the spoon, the bowl of chicken soup was taken away.

"As you wish. It must be hard going to a new school recently. Drink more chicken soup. Mom specially told them to make this this morning. It's made with black-bone chickens from the countryside."

As she spoke, she filled a large bowl for Qiao Ruyuan.

"Mom, I can't drink it." Qiao Ruyuan looked at the chicken soup in the bowl with disgust, pouting in protest, "You make me eat so much every day, I'm almost dying of fullness."

"You are growing now, so you need to eat more."

Li Ling sighed as she spoke, "You've had a hard life with your mother since you were little, unlike your sister Ruyi who lives a life of luxury every day. I'm afraid she's already tired of this chicken soup."

Qiao Ruyi was too young at the time to know what Li Ling was thinking. She only knew that Li Ling didn't like her and she didn't like Li Ling either, but they had to live in the same house forever.

She glanced at the breakfast on the table, picked up her schoolbag and left.

"Ruyi, don't you want to have breakfast?" Li Ling asked, looking at her back.

Qiao Ruyi walked out without answering.

"Since she doesn't want to eat breakfast, don't make her portion anymore." Li Ling turned to the servant and said, "It would be a waste if she did."

Later, there was no longer any breakfast for Qiao Ruyi on the dining table in Qiao Mansion.

She got used to it over time and would use her pocket money to buy bread and milk outside.

However, the pocket money will run out one day, and Qiao He is always on business trips.

Until one day, when she couldn't even take out ten dollars to buy breakfast, she had no choice but to call Qiao He.

The first thing she said was "Give me money." This made Qiao He very dissatisfied with her attitude. As he was busy in a meeting, he only said, "Ask your Aunt Li Ling for it."

Qiao Ruyi hung up the phone without asking Li Ling for pocket money. She would rather go hungry than to beg for pocket money from someone she didn't like.

As long as we can hold on until noon, there will be lunch at school and we won’t go hungry.

Li Ling gave the pocket money that originally belonged to her to Qiao Ruyuan.

Therefore, due to not eating breakfast for a long time and eating too much at lunch, Qiao Ruyi suffered from gastroenteritis at the age of twelve. She would have stomach pain if she did not eat on time.

......

The summer when I was thirteen.

Qiao He came back from a business trip in Nancheng and brought back several ethnic-style skirts with exquisite workmanship.

Qiao Ruyi and Qiao Ruyuan each had two sets of little dresses.

Qiao Ruyi put all the new clothes in her closet, intending to wear them later when she went out with her classmates. However, when she was about to wear them, she found that all the new clothes in her closet were gone.

She was just about to go out and ask the nanny when the door opened.

A pile of clothes fell on her head, followed by Qiao He's angry voice, "If you don't like these clothes, just tell Dad why you cut them into pieces."