Chapter 10
“Why the heck are you gambling again!? Didn’t you say the other time that you’ll never gamble again!? It’s only been a short while since then, and you managed to rack up 300,000 RMB in debt!”
Qiao Mu gritted her teeth, and her tone was extremely cold. “No matter what you say, it doesn’t change the fact that I have no money. I’m only a student. Why the heck would I have 300,000 RMB? I have already given you the money that I have saved throughout the years before this, and I had to borrow money from my friend to give you 50,000 RMB the other day. I haven’t even paid all the money back yet!”
When the other party heard this, she was embarrassed and furious. “You’re seriously heartless. How dare you tell me that you have no money! Since when are you so cruel? Or is it because after staying in the Qiao family for a few years, you’ve forgotten about me and think of that woman, Yu Tingyun as your mother instead?”
“Mum, you…” “Stop calling me mum. No daughter would leave their mother to die like this. You’re enjoying life as the daughter of the rich man and ignoring your birth mother who brought you into this world. Do you think that you would get to live such a luxurious life without me? Qiao Jiannan is so rich, and you’re his birth daughter. What’s so difficult about asking for a few hundred thousand RMB from him as your pocket money?”
Qiao Mu’s heart slowly sank, and whatever pity she felt for her birth mother disappeared. “So, should I thank you for selling me back then?”
The person on the other end of line was her birth mother, and she was a selfish woman who sold off her daughter for the sake of money!
Qiao Mu suppressed the sadness in her heart, and she could hear her birth mother sobbing. “Mu Mu, I only did that for your sake, as you wouldn’t have been able to live such a luxurious life where you don’t have to worry about food and money now. I really have no other choice right now. I don’t want to do this to you either. Please, you must help me this time. You can’t just do nothing while those loan sharks beat me to death, can you? Your father likes you very much. As long as you ask him for money, he would definitely…”
This happened all the time, and Qiao Mu was already numb to her birth mother’s words. Qiao Mu could not take it anymore and hung up. She leaned against the marble wall. The coldness of the wall seeped into her back, and her heart was cold too.
Ten years ago, her birth mother, Zhou Jieru, sold her to the Qiao family. Yes, that was correct. She sold Qiao Mu for 1,000,000 RMB.
Zhou Jieru was an avid gambler, and she used to ask for money from Qiao Jiannan again and again, saying that she needed it to raise her daughter. Qiao Mu knew that to Zhou Jieru, she was nothing but a source of income. Since Zhou Jieru had Qiao Mu with her, she never had to worry about money.
That was until one day, when Zhou Jieru owed someone 600,000 RMB from gambling. At that point of time, her daughter had become nothing but a burden for her. Hence, she decided to negotiate with Qiao Jiannan. She offered to give Qiao Mu to Qiao Jiannan in exchange for 3,000,000 RMB. Qiao Jiannan did not agree to this sum. In the end, because of how much Zhou Jieru needed money, she decided to compromise and ask for 1,000,000 RMB. This was when she handed over custody of Qiao Mu to Qiao Jiannan.
Now that Qiao Mu thought about it, if her father did not buy over her custody from Zhou Jieru for 1,000,000 RMB, she did not know what kind of horrible life she would be leading now.
Because of Zhou Jieru’s problematic personality, Qiao Jiannan did not allow Qiao Mu to keep in touch with her. However, Zhou Jieru always asked Qiao Mu for money behind Qiao Jiannan’s back. Qiao Mu wanted to make up her mind to ignore Zhou Jieru, but that woman was after all, her birth mother.
Qiao Mu leaned against the wall helplessly. They were talking about 300,000 RMB, for God’s sake. She was obviously not able to get this sum of money.
Zhou Jieru had always thought that Qiao Mu was living a luxurious life with tens of thousands of RMB of pocket money. Her birth mother had no idea that she was merely an outsider in the Qiao family, and that her status was completely different compared to that of Qiao Ya’s.
Qiao Jiannan liked her very much, but she was after all, an illegitimate child. Yu Tingyun would get upset if Qiao Jiannan treated her too well, and he had no choice but to care about his wife’s feelings. Qiao Mu totally understood where Qiao Jiannan was coming from, and she had always been very sensible about it since she was young. She tried her best not to trouble her father by playing her role as an outsider of the family well to avoid upsetting Yu Tingyun and Qiao Ya.