Chapter 66: Considering Her a Marriage Tool

Translator: Peggyan and Ruriko

Lin Xiaomi eventually understood why Jiang Hui asked her to get back and wasted time reasoning with her.

This was Jiang Hui’s objective.

No wonder why Lin Xin’er just smiled at Lin Xiaomi but said nothing.

Lin Xin’er couldn’t possess Leng Yihuang and now tried to break up them.

Lin Yaoguo would introduce a man to her? Hohoho!

Lin Xiaomi said lightly with a darkened face, “No need. I get along with Lin Hai and don’t want to date anyone else. Please extend my thanks to Uncle Lin.”

Lin Xiaomi turned around and wanted to leave. Jiang Hui instantly turned angry while seeing how resolute Lin Xiaomi was. “Freeze!”

“Why won’t you listen to me? Will your Uncle Lin introduce an ordinary man to you? I tell you I’ve met this man, and his qualifications meet my requirements. His family has long had trade dealings with the Lin family. After you get married, you’ll directly be the hostess. Why can’t you tell good from the bad?”

Lin Xiaomi felt extremely disappointed. “Mother, what do you consider me, a marriage tool?”

“Why do you always look at the dark side? Am I wrong that I hope you have a good life?”

Ho!

Lin Xiaomi didn’t know what to say.

Hoping that she had a good life?

During all those years when she lived outside alone, Jiang Hui hadn’t visited her once.

Each time Jiang Hui called Lin Xiaomi, she kept talking about Lin Xin’er.

Jiang Hui didn’t take Lin Xiaomi as her daughter.

“No need. Only we know if we’re good or not. I and Lin Hai are very happy. I’d like to be with him even if our life is hard.”

Jiang Hui said with a sarcastic sneer, “You’d like to have a hard life with him? You haven’t suffered hardship, so you don’t know how dreadful the hardship is. You want to have a hard life with him, but does your grandma want to?”

Lin Xiaomi finally turned around and looked at Jiang Hui. “What do you mean?”

“The sanitarium at which your grandma stays is the most expensive private one in the city with the best-supporting facilities. The one-year expenditure there is able to buy a house in the third ring road. It’s the Lin family that has paid it for these years. Do you want the Lin family to cover the cost forever? Is the Lin family willing to do it for free? ”

Jiang Hui stood in front of Lin Xiaomi and persuaded her. “But if you’re married to that man, the medical expenditure will be nothing to you, and your grandma will get someone to count on.”

Jiang Hui sighed. “I admit I’m not a good mother, but your grandma raised you. If she can’t stay at the sanatorium, she won’t live long. Do you really want her gone in this way? It’s your call to make the decision.”

Although Lin Xiaomi had early learned that Jiang Hui was callous to her, she still felt sad at the time.

She couldn’t help but ask for the first time, “Mom, am I your biological daughter?”

Jiang Hui was stiff and looked bad. “What do you mean?”

Lin Xiaomi said with a miserable smile, “I really doubt whether I’m your daughter because I really don’t understand why there is a mother like you forcing her daughter.”

With tears welling up in her eyes, she felt grieved. “You don’t care about my thoughts at all in order to make me a marriage tool for the Lin family. You even use my grandma to make threats after I said no to you.”

“For all those years, do you know how many times you used her as leverage to threaten me? Aren’t you the biological daughter of her? Why do you not care about her? How long since you visited her last time?”

“To gain a footing, you only have Lin Xin’er in your heart, don’t you? I know Lin Xin’er asked you to introduce a man to me. Is her words the imperial edict? You gave birth to me, but why do you never care about me?”

Lin Xiaomi couldn’t help it and gave her grievance out.

“Are you a human being? Are you capable of caring about others? Why are you so selfish? Do you care about my...”

Pa!

Lin Xiaomi confronted Jiang Hui in a sad voice, but Jiang Hui slapped her before she could finish talking. “I’m your mother. Do what I ask you to do.”

The door slammed closely, there was no outsider in the room, so Jiang Hui wasn’t a noblewoman anymore and cursed while pointing at Lin Xiaomi’s nose, “I selfish? If I were selfish, I would have strangled you when you were born.”

“Do you know how many grievances I’ve suffered when I got re-married and took you here? How dare you speak to me like this! Without me, you would have starved to death. If I weren’t capable of caring about others, would your grandma have been able to get such good treatment? You’re an ungrateful and useless daughter! If you refuse the marriage today, your grandma will be driven out of the sanatorium tomorrow. It’s your choice!”

The chest of Jiang Hui was ups and downs fiercely. After a long time, she put her messy hair in order and smiled, becoming that elegant noblewoman again.

“Freshen yourself up and apply concealers on your face to cover the marks of tears. The man will come soon, so you tidy yourself and get your ass off the upstairs.” Jiang Hui then opened the door and stepped out.

The moment the door was shut, Lin Xiaomi got cold feet and faintly fell onto the ground.

She curled herself up and cried silently.

Jiang Hui didn’t slap Lin Xiaomi hard, probably because Lin would see the man soon. She didn’t feel the pain. It was her heart that ached as if someone was tearing it apart.

She wanted to scream!

She wanted to ask why her life was so bad; why her mother was so apathetic; why she had to bear such a fate; why all people came to force her; why Lin Xin’er couldn’t let her go.

She felt extremely desperate.

Agreeing on the marriage? Then, her life would be ruined, wouldn’t it? She would live under the shadow of the Lin family forever.

Saying no? What should her grandmother do? She believed what Jiang Hui said. If she turned the marriage down today, her grandmother would be expelled out of the sanatorium tomorrow.

Grandmother was all she had. She couldn’t step aside and watch her grandmother die.

She smiled, but tears streamed down her face.

There left no choices for her.

Having sat on the ground for a long time, she stood up and washed her face. Looking at the exceedingly beautiful face in the mirror, she suddenly thought to herself if she was disfigured, she wouldn’t need to get married, would she?