She won't clear her name; she'll throw away all the scum.

After parting ways with the child, Fang Yingdi remained silent on the way back.

Jiang Wenhua kept comforting him in a self-righteous way, "I told you long ago there was no need to go back. Look at you, isn't this a waste of time? As long as you stay in the factory, no matter what stupid tricks they pull, they can't do anything if you don't respond."

"However, the kids in your village are quite good at lying. Even that dirty little girl managed to hold it in until now before she finally confessed."

“After we didn’t go back with her, she seemed like the sky was falling, saying that your parents would definitely take back the things we gave them.”

"Your family is really full of bad people. Didn't you say your sister was your best friend? How come she didn't even think to let you know? You keep asking me to find a way to get your sister out of the village. Do you still think that way now?"

"Alright, don't be discouraged. Shouldn't you have seen through your family members a long time ago? It's better to draw clear lines sooner rather than later. Some feelings are simply unnecessary and will only drag you into a pit later."

"Look at you now, all alone. You can eat well at state-run restaurants, buy nice fabrics to make clothes, and often have time to go out with Old Xia to see how other people are doing, and even help them curse along. You're living a pretty good life. You don't need to go back to being a slave to your family and being sold off anymore. Isn't this better?"

"..."

Once back at the factory, Fang Yingdi suddenly stopped and looked directly at Jiang Wenhua. "Draw a line? You know your mother and sister's personalities, so why don't you draw a line with them? Why do you have to threaten them to prevent them from being bullied to death by your stepfather and brother-in-law? Isn't that a waste of your time?"

You knew perfectly well they would only hold you back, yet you still helped them, didn't you? You were furious but still had to visit them frequently, so now you're telling me to cut ties? It's not that easy!"

Jiang Wenhua: "That's because they never even considered selling me. It's because they've taken care of me and treated me well since I was little. If they treated me the way your family treated you, the first thing I would do after I became an adult would be to sever ties with them."

Fang Yingdi: "You consider yourself a smart person, how come you can't understand? They're not doing this for your own good, they're doing this for your status as a man. If you were a girl, you'd be no different from your sister who, even though her in-laws are practically killing her, still wants to go and be their slave. They're not doing this for you as a person, they're doing this for your status as a man."

What are you deceiving yourself about? Do you think your mother chose to marry someone else and endure so many years of hardship to raise you because it was for your own good? Ask yourself honestly, if you were a girl, would your mother have married someone else or would she have gone with him just because she didn't leave your father with an heir? She probably wouldn't care whether you lived or died and would have gone with him anyway.

Your mother doesn't value you the most; she values ​​herself. You're just a tool for her to play the role of a good mother and wife. If she truly cared for you, she would consider your needs in everything. She knows you love her and you can't bear to see her serving others, so she shouldn't do things that hurt and anger you. She shouldn't have this mentality of preferring to exhaust herself to serve her husband, right?

Jiang Wenhua's eyes flashed with panic, and he said with a fierce but weak tone, "Do you know what you're saying? Now you're starting to spout nonsense along with Lao Xia, aren't you? What kind of twisted logic is this? My mother raised me, my sister took care of me since I was a child, and my stepfather has never hurt me. Regardless of their intentions or what they were thinking, they have never done anything wrong to me. How is that selfish?"

Fang Yingdi chuckled, "Do you know Qiao Yi's family? Her parents never favored her brother just because she's a girl. She had everything her brother had growing up. When she's hungry, she thinks of her parents; when she's tired, she wants to go home; when she's wronged, the first thing she wants to do is go home and tell her family. Would you? When you're wronged, would you want to tell your mother or your sister?"

Jiang Wenhua: ......What nonsense is he talking about?

Fang Yingdi: "They raised you, and that's all. You once told me that your stepfather took the last of your family's sweet potatoes to give to other families, and your whole family almost starved to death at that time, so they almost didn't raise you either, right? You were just lucky, but you also stumbled and struggled as you grew up, which is why you developed this money-grubbing personality now. It's a shadow left over from your childhood. So, aren't they selfish enough?"

Jiang Wenhua was speechless after she exposed something she didn't want to think about. She then steered the conversation back to her own family, saying, "We're talking about your family now, why are you bringing up my family?"

Fang Yingdi: "Okay, let's get back to me. I used to work so hard for my family because I wasn't mature enough. I still hoped my parents would love me more, so I wanted to do better and let them see that I was an excellent daughter. But now I understand that as long as I am still their daughter, no matter how excellent I am, even if I could build an airplane by myself, I still won't be worthy of their attention. So I'm slowly starting to stop expecting them to be good to me."

However, I'm a human being, and it's hard to take back the feelings I've invested in them all at once; I can only try to take them back little by little. When I heard they were going to continue hurting me, my first thought was to go back and confront them, which is only natural. However, after your persuasion along the way, I realized my irrationality, so I came back with you halfway.

As for my sister, she's always been clear-headed, much clearer than me. It's just that she can't break free; her path to escaping home was cut off from a young age—my parents wouldn't let her go to school. Like Lao Xia said, if I could, of course I'd want to help her. Why wouldn't I help if I could? She used to secretly advise me to come home less often, but I wouldn't listen back then.”

Jiang Wenhua's mentality was ruined by Fang Yingdi, but he couldn't refute her constant questions. He could only sulk and the two had their first argument, which ended badly.

Fang Yingdi, who was hurt by her family in the past, secretly went to jump into the river alone. How come she has changed now and started attacking him, her target, with reason and evidence? He really can't argue with her.

No wonder people say in private that Lao Xia's mouth is a big weapon, while hers is a small weapon. What kind of nonsense have they learned from Lao Xia every day? If they marry her, won't they be suppressed by her?

Before he knew it, Jiang Wenhua had already started thinking about marriage.