4 Her family

In the morning.

Jiang Yue looked at her own reflection in the mirror. Her face had changed to when she was in her youth. She had tears in her eyes and smiled bitterly, "I recovered my appearance.."

In her previous life, she had a hideous scar on her left eye and a few other scars on her body when she tried to save Jian Ming multiple times. Since then, Jian Ming despised her even more. He felt disgusted looking at her face. Even though, she did that all for his sake, he didn't feel guilt, sympathy or any other feelings.

(A/N *ungrateful bastard)

Although Jiang Yue was a workaholic and was not like any other women, she was and is still a 'woman.' She actually cared about her appearance. She thought that as long as Jian Ming hadn't lost a single hair, it didn't matter how much she needed to sacrifice.

After a few minutes of crying, determination and hatred could be seen in her eyes. She was determined to make all those people who hurt her and the people she cared about to suffer. She wanted to pay them back tenfold. She hated them for doing those things and hated herself more for letting them to.

'Maybe if I was more cautious and protected them well, things wouldn't turned out like that,' she blamed herself.

She then prepared herself to meet An Ran. She remembered that she needed to meet her in a mall near her neighborhood. She went down the stairs and saw her whole family in the dining table, including her beloved stepmother and half-sister. She could see the undisguised disgust in their eyes. 

'They don't even have the intention to hide it,' she rolled her eyes.

She intended to eat breakfast before but seeing their faces made her lost her appetite. They made her want to puke. She walked to her seat beside her mother and greeted her mother, father and brother. "Good morning, mother, father, brother."

Jiang Yue has a brother named Jiang Wei. He's the legitimate inheritor and is now working in their father's company. Jiang Wei may looked cold on the outside but his heart was warm. When she was in danger, her brother would usually protect her. She was the reason her brother died. Thinking about this, Jiang Yue felt guilty inside.

Seeing Jiang Yue's attitude, Jiang Mei and Shi Rou felt irritated inside and at the same time suspicious. 'Had she known about the plan?' she thought. They had cold sweat running down their backs. Then, they comforted themselves. "Our plan was perfect, there was no way she knows. 'That' person had covered all the evidence too.'

Shi Rou was Jiang Yue's stepmother and Jiang Mei's birth mother. She was the same as her daughter, a two-faced bitch. She had really good acting skills that Jiang Yue believed her in the previous life.

Jiang Mei hurried to Jiang Yue's side and hugged her right hand and said with a wronged expression, "Sister, why didn't you greet Mother Shi and me?" If someone else was seeing that moment, they would think that Jiang Yue was bullying her younger sister.

As a matter of facr, Jiang Yue was older than Jiang Mei by a year.

No one knew where Jiang Mei came from before. The people only knew that there was once a woman knocking on their door two years ago saying that Master Jiang's child is here. That woman was Shi Rou. Master Jiang denied it at first saying that he never impregnate any woman. When they did a DNA test, it was proven that Jiang Mei is Master Jiang's daughter and so they moved in the house.

At first, Madam Jiang felt heartbroken thinking her husband cheated on her with another woman but then she calmed herself and decided to trust her husband. Although Master Jiang didn't mistreat Jiang Mei and her mother, he still preferred Jiang Yue and Madam Jiang. He only loves Madam Jiang until now.

Jiang Yue smirked inside, 'Wow, what good acting skills. I really want to rip off that fake facade.'

Jiang Yue replied with an apologetic face, "My apologies, sister. I didn't see you both. I think it's because your presence is too low that I didn't notice. As a good sister, you will forgive me, right?"

Jiang Mei's mouth twitched hearing her reason and at the same time an insult but still forced a smile, "Of course, sister."

On the other hand, Shi Rou was fuming in anger as she gritted her teeth but kept it inside since she knows that Master Jiang will took his legitimate daughter's side.

Master Jiang was the one who broke the silence, "Xiao Yue, how are you feeling now?" 

Jiang Yue replied with a smile, "I'm okay now, Daddy." That smile was a true smile from the heart.

After eating their breakfast, Jiang Yue bid everyone goodbye and said some words that made Jiang Mei and her mother fumed in anger. Seeing their forced smiles and anger in their eyes, she felt satisfied and arrived in the mall with a blooming smile.

Since Jiang Yue had a devastating beauty, she would always attract attention. This was one of the points that Jiang Mei was envious of. When the people saw Jiang Yue's beautiful and elegant smile, they were awe-struck.

In her previous life, she investigated Jiang Mei's identity and found out that she wasn't Master Jiang's real daughter and the DNA test was planned. She didn't figure who was Jiang Mei's real father before though. This meant that there was a powerful person covering up for them and it seems that Jiang Mei's real identity isn't simple either since she can't get ahold of much information even with her special identity in the underworld.

'Who was her backer and what's the motive in helping her? I think I should gather my comrades in my previous life and some potentials to build an empire.'

When she was lost in thought, she didn't realise that there was a pair of eagle eyes looking at her intensely.