Chapter 5
Chapter 5: Stirring Up Trouble and Letting Them Tear Each Other Apart, So Exciting
Chu Ming and Mu Mei Xi rushed over with changed faces and checked Jiang Yi Zhu’s hand.
Four of her five fingers were broken at the second joint, and her thumb was broken at the base.
After they broke, each finger drooped downward. Only the layer of skin wrapped around them kept the bones from falling off.
Chu Ming glared at Jiang Tea Tea and shouted: “Jiang Tea Tea, how can you be so vicious?” He completely forgot whose fiance he was and was the first to attack her as he said: “Do you know she is a B-grade water-type ability user? Do you know how precious her hands are, how many people she can save on the battlefield?”
Mu Mei Xi followed with deep pain in her voice as she cried: “Jiang Tea Tea, you actually hurt your younger sister right in front of me. You have gone too far. I am so disappointed in you.”
The fake young lady’s scummy fiance and her adoptive mother were the same kind of people. Their hearts were both twisted and biased.
Jiang Tea Tea blinked her big dark eyes, which naturally looked wet and innocent, and spoke in a choked, wronged voice: “Mom, Brother Chu Ming, you say I hurt my younger sister, but have you forgotten that I am a weak human who has not awakened any powers?”
She continued: “Fine, even if you did forget, your eyes are still working. You should have seen that from the moment my younger sister and Brother Chu Ming came back hand in hand, I have been sitting here the whole time without moving. It was my younger sister who ran over to hit me. I just dodged a little and did not even touch her. How could I have hurt her?”
Chu Ming and Mu Mei Xi froze for a moment. It was as if someone had silently slapped them across the face. Their faces turned pale and green with embarrassment.
They always forgot that Jiang Tea Tea was a human without awakened powers. Even if she fought with a B-grade water-type ability user, she could only be beaten, not do the beating.
Jiang Yi Zhu had broken her own fingers by hitting the sofa. It had nothing to do with Tea Tea. They were just trying to force the blame onto her.
Jiang Yi Zhu’s face was white with pain. She cursed as she shouted: “Bitch, it was you, it was you who broke my fingers.”
She snarled: “If you think you can get away with this, I am telling you, no way.”
Only people without power screamed and shouted.
People with power took their time, slowly torturing others, turning the tables, and making the dogs bite each other.
Jiang Tea Tea ignored Jiang Yi Zhu. She stood up, her reddened eyes full of bleak sadness, and her voice became even more choked.
She said: “Mom, Brother Chu Ming, my younger sister stayed on the Trash Star for fifteen years. You feel sorry for her and want to give her more love. I understand, and I support that.”
She went on: “In the three years since she came back, when she wanted my room, I gave it to her. When she liked my clothes, I gave them to her.”
She continued, voice trembling: “My younger sister said Brother Chu Ming liked her more. The two of them go everywhere together at the Academy. I have never said anything.”
She spoke bitterly: “My younger sister said that as an ordinary person without powers, I did not need to spend so much money, so the family stopped giving me a single credit. I did not complain either. I just went out to do part-time work.”
She lowered her head slightly as she said: “Adulthood is at eighteen, but I started working when I was fifteen. I only earn fifty star credits a day. In three years, other than the uniforms given by the Royal Military Academy, I have not had a single new piece of clothing. Is my giving way still not enough?”
Then she looked up and said: “Fine, if it is still not enough, I will go on StarNet and post a statement saying that I have nothing to do with the Jiang family and that I am no longer Brother Chu Ming’s fiancee. Whatever my younger sister likes, I will give it to her. Everything will be hers.”
After Jiang Tea Tea finished speaking, she looked at Chu Ming and Mu Mei Xi with tear-filled eyes. Her tears trembled but did not fall. Her stubborn little green tea white-flower act was displayed to the fullest.
The old Jiang Tea Tea, the fake young lady, had not known how to talk. She only swallowed her anger, which gave the true young lady a chance to take advantage, bullying and tricking her every day.
She was a tree spirit, a Tea Demon. If she wanted, every branch could be a mouth. There was no way she would treat her mouth as a decoration and not use it.
As soon as Chu Ming heard that she wanted to break off the engagement with him, he was shocked, delighted, and guilty all at once. His hand gripping Jiang Yi Zhu’s arm tightened from excitement.
[Great, great, I can finally get rid of this useless human and be with Yi Zhu, a water-type ability user.]
Jiang Yi Zhu’s arm hurt from his grip, and she cried out: “Brother Chu Ming…”
Mu Mei Xi was guilty but still kept some reason. She reached out and brushed away Chu Ming’s hand as she said: “Chu Ming, you are Tea Tea’s fiance. Yi Zhu is your future little sister-in-law. You must keep some distance from her, so people will not misunderstand.”
She turned to Tea Tea and said: “Tea Tea, Mom did not know you were suffering so much. Yi Zhu suffered on the Trash Star for fifteen years. Mom felt so bad for her that I forgot about you for a while.”
She promised softly: “Do not worry. From now on, whatever living expenses Yi Zhu has, you will have the same amount. Mom will dote on you like before.”
Then she added: “Do not talk anymore about going on StarNet to cut ties with the Jiang family or breaking off the engagement with Chu Ming. Those are just foolish words.”
Their family was still counting on her to raise their status. If she went on StarNet and announced she was no longer their daughter and no longer Chu Ming’s fiancee, then she and the Jiang family would have nothing to do with each other.
If the Jiang family then tried to give her away and trade her for benefits, that would be against the law. If she sued, they would definitely be convicted.
Her precious daughter Yi Zhu would also be stuck with an ugly reputation, known for grabbing someone else’s fiance and behaving in a shameless way.
Chu Ming moved closer to Jiang Tea Tea. When he met her tear-filled eyes, his heart skipped a beat. He felt she had become even prettier and more delicate.
Jiang Tea Tea then landed a finishing blow on Mu Mei Xi as she said: “I do not want Mom’s money. I want Mom’s love.”
It was as if lightning had struck Mu Mei Xi. She stared at her in a daze.
Jiang Yi Zhu was completely ignored. Added to the fact that she had been beaten by Jiang Tea Tea outside, rage surged through her. Ignoring her broken fingers, she charged at Jiang Tea Tea.
She screamed: “Bitch, who taught you all this fake nonsense? You want to fight me for Mom and for Brother Chu Ming? I will beat you to death, you bitch.”
Jiang Tea Tea let out a cry, lifted her skirt, and ran outside while shouting: “Younger Sister, do not hit me, do not hit me, I was wrong, I was wrong.”
The fake young lady’s physical strength could not match Jiang Yi Zhu’s, but even with only twenty percent of her spiritual power, Jiang Tea Tea was as nimble as a loach.
Jiang Yi Zhu never even touched her. Tea Tea ran outside, jumped into the flying device, and, hiding her skills and fame, piloted the flying device straight up into the sky.
Jiang Yi Zhu ran outside, looked up at the sky, and cursed loudly: “Jiang Tea Tea, you bitch, I will not let you go. You can run, but you cannot hide. Just you wait, when we get back to the Academy I will kill…”
“Enough.” Mu Mei Xi cut off Jiang Yi Zhu’s words and scolded her as she said: “As the Jiang family’s young lady, you keep saying ‘bitch’ this and ‘bitch’ that. Have the three years of teaching all been fed to the dogs?”
Jiang Yi Zhu stared at her mother in shock: “Mom, you…”
Mu Mei Xi interrupted her: “Your hand got broken because you wanted to hit her. What does that have to do with her? She is a useless pure human without awakened powers. How could she possibly hurt you?”
She went on coldly: “Usually I let you be willful when nothing is happening. I can turn a blind eye. But this time, I told you again and again to bring her back because she is useful to our family.”
She narrowed her eyes and said: “And you still have to fight with her over everything. Can you really not get rid of that trashy stink you brought back from the Trash Star, the kind that cannot be shown in public?”