True or False Heiress: Becoming a Vicious Supporting Female Character (18)
“Treat each day as if it were the last?” Dong Fei repeated the phrase, and everyone understood why Chu Xiang had undergone such a significant transformation. If one truly treated each day as if it were the last, what else would be important? Of course, their own happiness would take precedence.
They thought about it. If it were themselves, they would definitely have endless courage to do many things they had always wanted to but hadn’t done. Isn’t that exactly what Chu Xiang is doing now?
“The last day” could make people brave, but it could also transform them into someone else.
Chu Xiang’s smile gradually helped the few people who weren’t familiar with her to relax. When they mentioned the hotel preparing the medicinal soup for her, someone reminded her, “After all, the hotel is an external place. It’s better to rely on the safety and reliability of home. Medicines are best prepared by the household servants.”
Chu Xiang paused while picking up a dish, shaking her head. “I think the hotel chefs are more reliable.”
The three girls looked at her, and although Shao Yan kept his head down while eating, his gaze also shifted in her direction. Dong Fei noticed that Chu Xiang’s expression seemed natural, as if she didn’t mind such matters. So she probed and asked, “Why? Are your household servants not trustworthy?”
Chu Xiang pondered for a moment. “It’s not that. I guess it’s just that they dislike me. It’s dangerous to have someone who dislikes me prepare my food, especially when it involves medicinal ingredients.”
“They dislike you?” The three girls wore expressions of confusion. Chu Xiang was the only young miss of the Chu family. How could the household servants dare to dislike her?
Chu Xiang timely clarified for them, “It’s similar to the situation at school. Aren’t there many classmates who dislike me there? They think I bully Chu Xuan. It’s the same in the Chu family. Everyone except me thinks I bully Chu Xuan every day. After all, she has been living there for 17 years, and the servants have feelings for her. It’s only natural for them to dislike me.”
“The household servants tampered with your food? No way, that’s too harsh, isn’t it?” Dong Fei gaped because she suddenly realized that Chu Xiang had suffered from malnutrition even after returning home for three months. How could she be malnourished when she had been eating well in the Chu family? Could someone be harming her?
Chu Xiang quickly waved her hand, “No, no, I didn’t explain it clearly and caused a misunderstanding. I don’t want them to prepare my meals because… um… I have a strong sense of vigilance. Back when I was at the Chen family, Mrs. Chen really disliked me. She thought I brought them bad luck. There were a few times when she put spoiled food in my meals, which made me vomit and have diarrhea. Since the Chu family’s servants also dislike me, I’d rather not let them handle my medicine.”
She thought for a moment and added, “But even if I ask them to prepare medicinal meals, they probably wouldn’t do it. Once, I mentioned that I wanted to have chicken congee, and they said they had already made fish congee for Chu Xuan and asked me to eat together with her instead of making something separately for me. I checked online, and it seems that other people’s servants wouldn’t do that. It’s probably because they don’t want to cook for me.”
As she spoke, Yun Nan and Dong Fei had the word “malnutrition” constantly flashing in their minds. They felt that the actual situation was probably more severe than what Chu Xiang was saying. Otherwise, how could she be malnourished?
Yang Xueqing had always loved eating delicious food since she was a child. She had never imagined that Chu Xiang, who had a family similar to hers, would have no one to cook for her and had to buy food outside. Moreover, her previous mother even put spoiled things in her food. It was terrifying. She found it hard to continue eating the food in front of her.
Unable to understand, Yang Xueqing asked, “Your parents… don’t care?”
“They don’t care. They dislike me too. They often make me reflect in my room and warn me not to bully Chu Xuan,” Chu Xiang replied, her smile disappearing. She sighed heavily and continued, “That’s why I haven’t been going home these past two days. Chu Xuan fell into the water, and I’m definitely going to be punished, but I can’t eat in my room. The doctor said I can’t skip meals anymore, and I have to eat four times a day, with small portions. So for now, I can only eat outside and go back home in a few days.”
Dong Fei exclaimed in shock, “Your malnutrition is because of this? You’re being punished and not allowed to leave the house, yet no one brings you food?! Do your parents not know about the servants’ behavior, or do they condone it?”
Yang Xueqing and Shao Yan both looked at Dong Fei simultaneously. Yang Xueqing exclaimed in astonishment, “Malnutrition? What do you mean by malnutrition?”
She recognized those four syllables, but why couldn’t she understand their relevance here? What did malnutrition have to do with them?
Then she saw Chu Xiang hesitate for a moment before smiling and saying, “So you know now? I’m not sure about my parents’ thoughts. Maybe they’re unaware of my physical condition and think it’s okay to punish me. The doctor has talked to me, and I now understand how poor my health is. I’m going to start taking care of myself properly. Anyway, I’ll take care of my own body, and their opinions don’t matter anymore.”
The phrase “punish me” confirmed their suspicions about the Chu couple. They must be deliberately punishing Chu Xiang by not allowing her to eat, teaching her a lesson for not obeying. However, they hadn’t expected Chu Xiang to be malnourished and in such poor health that she didn’t dare go home anymore.
But when it came to the fact that they “didn’t know,” it made them even angrier. Why didn’t they know? They brought back the wrong child and let her grow up in such a family. Didn’t they have her examined after bringing her back? What kind of parents were they?
Dong Fei drank a large glass of cold cola to cool down, not caring about offending anyone, and asked Chu Xiang seriously, “So, did you really bully Chu Xuan at home?”
Chu Xiang smiled and replied, “Not really anywhere. Instead of saying I bullied her, it’s more like she bullied herself and turned it into an illusion that I bullied her.”
Chu Xiang added in her heart, It wasn’t the case before, but in the future, who knows?
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