After Miss Shen became beautiful alone, her five brothers cried and begged for forgiveness

Jiang Li thought that as long as she defeated Shen Suihuan, she would be able to stand on equal footing with all the top forces and make Jiang Zhou look at her with new eyes!

But reality gave her the loudest slap in the face!

When she thought of the embarrassment she had encountered today, tears welled up in her eyes.

Li Xichen looked at his emotionally agitated daughter without a trace of emotion on his face.

But today, she did not scold Jiang Li for being rude, and she did not act like the eldest daughter of the Jiang family or Li Xichen's daughter at all.

Instead, he reached out, took Jiang Li's hand, and pulled Jiang Li into his arms.

She raised her hand, placed her palm on the top of Jiang Li's head, and gently stroked Jiang Li's hair, as if she was soothing a kitten with its fur standing on end.

When Jiang Li felt the hand falling on his head, his body stiffened, and then slowly relaxed.

"I know everything that happened at the banquet."

Li Xichen comforted Jiang Li with unprecedented tenderness and taught him business experience, "You can't compete with her in the top market. But you can compete in other markets."

However, these words deeply touched Jiang Li's sore spot!

She stood up suddenly and looked down at her mother in disbelief.

"What do you mean?" Jiang Li felt deeply humiliated.

Li Xichen wanted to take this opportunity to teach Jiang Li a lesson, so he said patiently:

"Shen Suihuan can only perform two surgeries a month, far from meeting market demand. This world is not just about those at the top of the pyramid. There are countless people who yearn for health but cannot reach Shen Suihuan's threshold. They are your market."

Li Xichen's voice was very gentle, as if he was painting a beautiful blueprint.

However, Jiang Li didn't buy it at all!

Secondary market?

Simplification? Mass production?

Isn't this an admission that she, Jiang Li, is only fit to be a substitute for Shen Suihuan!

She is only worthy of picking up things that Shen Suihuan dislikes!

She absolutely cannot accept this!

"I do not!"

Jiang Li was proud and arrogant. What she wanted was to win! To completely crush Shen Suihuan! To gain Jiang Zhou's approval!

"Lili, calm down and listen to me... You can even train a lot of doctors and have them work with you."

Jiang Li shook off Li Xichen's hand, and with red eyes, he yelled at Li Xichen for the first time:

"I don't want to be a substitute! I want to beat her!"

Seeing that he couldn't persuade her, Li Xichen rubbed his forehead with a headache.

She tried to summon her last bit of patience and advised:

"You have to learn to seize the moment. A single spark can start a prairie fire. Wouldn't it be better to wait until you have enough power before challenging her?"

"Enough!" Jiang Li roared angrily.

She looked at the mother in front of her who was always calm and rational, and the resentment that had accumulated in her heart for twenty years burst out at this moment!

“Seize the moment?”

Jiang Li sneered, and that laugh was filled with strong sarcasm.

"You thought the same thing twenty years ago, didn't you? You just wanted to seize the moment, so you followed Grandpa's wishes and gave birth to me through in vitro fertilization, thus tying my father down! What was the result? You thought you seized the moment, but in the end, you still got nothing from the Jiang family!"

The gentleness on Li Xichen's face finally showed a crack.

Jiang Li panicked.

She...what did she say?

How could she use her mother's deepest pain to attack her!

"Mom... I... I didn't mean that... I'm sorry, I, I just..."

Like a child who had done something wrong, he stood there at a loss, his words incoherent and stammering.

The crack on Li Xichen's face only appeared for a moment and then disappeared without a trace.

Then she sighed softly.

There was no anger in that sigh, but instead a hint of indescribable fatigue and pity.

"How come I didn't get anything? I got the Li family, and made my Li family the most powerful family in Kyoto, second only to the Four Great Families. We're even about to replace the Fang family. Isn't that enough?"

Li Xichen raised her brown eyes, tilted her head, and looked at Jiang Li like an innocent girl.

Jiang Li's head drooped even lower.

Although, she had never witnessed how her mother went from being an inconspicuous member of the Li family, the illegitimate daughter who could not even enter the Li family's gate, to becoming the head of the Li family.

But she grew up in the Jiang family and knew that this was not an easy road.

This power is what many people dream of.

It was not easy for her mother to become the head of the family as a granddaughter, surpassing all of her grandfather's sons and daughters.

And her mother allowed her to walk around Kyoto almost freely.

But she hurt her mother like that.

Jiang Li lowered his head even deeper.

Li Xichen looked at his daughter's guilty expression, smiled indifferently, and extended his hand to her.

Her well-maintained hand, showing no trace of aging, gently held up Jiang Li's face.

"I like your father."

Li Xichen's voice became softer than ever before.

"But you have to know that liking someone doesn't mean you have to hold them in your hands to own them."

Her fingertips gently stroked Jiang Li's cheek, as intimately as when Jiang Li was still a child.

"Lili, it's not like I didn't get anything. Don't I have your dad and I's little star?"

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star...

Ten years later, Jiang Li's body froze when he heard this name again.

This is her nickname.

Her mother hadn't called her like that for a long time, and now when her mother called her like that, she felt her face getting hot.

She felt a little embarrassed and tried to turn her head away awkwardly.

But she couldn't turn around because her face was still held in Li Xichen's palm.

Her voice once again regained the decisiveness, calmness and rationality of her leadership.

She was like a top mentor, imparting the most valuable experience to Jiang Li.

“Sometimes, power is more important than men.”

The two of them looked at each other.

"Now, it was Jiang Zhou who forced you to marry someone you don't like and suffer humiliation."

Li Xichen poked at Jiang Li's most painful spot, but there was no trace of aggression in her tone.

"But if your power was reversed with Jiang Zhou's, then today, the one forced to compromise would be him, Jiang Zhou. If you want him to pamper you and stay by your side, isn't it just a matter of asking?"

This sentence, like a thunderclap, exploded in Jiang Li's mind!

If she is stronger than her brother, she will have power that even her brother will be afraid of.

That’s right, she can do whatever she wants!

Just like her brother arranged for her to marry Shen Yi, whom she didn't like, didn't she have to accept it?

She suddenly looked up and looked at her mother with an innocent face.

No wonder the mother didn’t stop my brother, it turned out that she had been waiting to teach him an important lesson in life!

The unwillingness and resentment in Jiang Li's eyes were gradually replaced by something deeper and colder.

"I think... I understand a little bit."

Li Xichen curled up her red lips and smiled slightly.

"Actually, Shen Yi isn't completely useless. He has a pretty good figure and looks."

When Shen Yi was mentioned, Jiang Li's face suddenly darkened.

A faint, contemptuous smile appeared on Li Xichen's lips.

"We can kill the father and keep the son, and swallow up the Shen family at the same time."