The Female Cannon Fodder With Boundless Merits-Chapter 56 - The Ordinary Girl Brought Down by Vanity

Chapter 56 -56: The Ordinary Girl Brought Down by Vanity (Part 6)

Chapter 56 -56: The Ordinary Girl Brought Down by Vanity (Part 6)

Yao Lin hated how Su Mo looked right now.

She suddenly stood up, smiling loudly at Su Mo, “Su Mo, is your bracelet new? I’ve seen it at the counter before. It’s this year’s new model, and it costs over 20,000 yuan…”

“Who bought it for you?”

Su Mo’s face displayed a smug expression. She intentionally exposed her wrist under the bright light, looking like a victorious swan, and glanced sideways at Yao Lin.

“It looks good, doesn’t it? My mom just gave it to me a few days ago.”

“She said it particularly suits my skin tone, and indeed…”

“Look, doesn’t it look especially pretty on me?”

If you were from a rich family, something costing over 20,000 yuan wouldn’t be a big deal, but in the eyes of ordinary high school students, it was still a very expensive price.

The expected sounds of admiration did not arrive as expected. The girls who usually gathered around her were unusually quiet tonight.

Yao Lin smiled without speaking, but one of the girls couldn’t help asking, “Su Mo, I thought your family was not well-off; how could you let your mom buy such expensive stuff for you?”

Su Mo was dumbfounded, her mouth agape, and her face flushed with embarrassment, “What are you talking about? When has my family ever been in bad conditions…”

“Look at how I usually eat, wear, and dress; you can tell my family isn’t poor, okay?”

Su Mo’s temperament was exactly like Ma Li’s, inheriting the natural pride in her personality completely.

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Being questioned about poverty by classmates who normally admired her, Su Mo felt quite humiliated.

Although her family’s circumstances were not as affluent as she usually made them appear, they were indeed well-off.

If Su Mo hadn’t always chased after the best things, the Su Family could have lived comfortably, instead of struggling like they were now.

The Su Family still had some savings, but sustaining a daughter who lived like a princess was an expense that ordinary families could hardly bear.

“Which of your eyes saw me as very poor…”

At the age of her late teens, being the time when one most detests others’ doubts, being called poor, Su Mo’s noble pride couldn’t stand it and she lashed out fiercely at the girl who had just spoken up.

Yao Lin, however, interjected with a smiling face, “Then why do you look so rich, yet your sister looks so shabby…”

“It’s not fair to be so biased…”

Su Mo’s hand trembled, her ice cream nearly dropping to the ground.

Her heart panicked, her eyes dodged, yet she still tried to act tough on the surface, “What are you talking about, my family just…”

Before Su Mo could finish her sentence, Yao Lin cut her off.

“So Su Li is really your biological sister, we’ve been classmates for almost three years now, and we never knew.”

The clearly flustered look on Su Mo’s face made the classmates, who were initially skeptical of Yao Lin’s words, realize the truth.

They had thought Yao Lin, who didn’t get along with Su Mo, had concocted some crazy plan to annoy Su Mo, but seeing Su Mo’s expression revealed that Yao Lin was telling the truth.

It was unbelievable.

Normally, Su Mo didn’t treat Su Li well, sometimes bossing her around and bad-mouthing her in front of other classmates.

Fortunately, their class, High School Senior Year (1), focused heavily on studies, with most students concentrating on learning except for a few slackers.

Otherwise, Su Li, sharing the class with Su Mo for over two years, would definitely have had a much tougher time.

On their original trajectory, Su Li, who ended up at the same university as Su Mo, must have had a hard life indeed.

Being ostracized, labeled as vain and vicious, disliked and shunned by everyone…

Yao Lin started it, and curiosity-filled classmates bombarded Su Mo with questions, “Is Su Li truly your sister?”

“Why haven’t you ever mentioned her? Were you really born to the same parents? Su Li couldn’t have been picked up… or adopted by your family, could she?”

Everyone’s imaginations ran wild with messy speculations bursting forth.

“That’s right, that’s right…Su Li is so different from you. I thought her family was extremely poor…”

Su Mo felt once again uncomfortable under Yao Lin’s piercing gaze.

She scanned Su Mo from head to toe and smilingly asked, “Su Mo, is your family really not poor? Why does Su Li…”

Yao Lin left her sentence hanging, which made Su Mo hate Su Li to the bone.

That troublemaker Su Li, it was all her fault…making her a laughingstock to her nemesis…

Annoyed, Su Mo shouted loudly, “Who knows what weird habits she has? She can’t get used to good clothes or nice things…”

“Heh…”

Ashamed and angry, Su Mo looked around and, not finding Su Li, glanced at the classmates in the room and couldn’t stay there any longer. She turned and ran outside.

Su Mo cried all the way while she called her mom, “Mom, get Su Li on the phone… It has to be her…”

On hearing her daughter sobbing, Ma Li instantly panicked and repeatedly asked, “What happened? What’s wrong?”

Su Mo yelled into the phone, “Get Su Li to talk. She did it on purpose. Can’t she stand to see me doing well?”

This time, Ma Li understood that it definitely involved Su Li.

She had calmed down in the morning, but now that girl had caused trouble again in the evening.

Thankfully, Su Li wasn’t around, or Ma Li would have slapped her.

She couldn’t stand to see her darling daughter Su Mo cry…

After speaking briefly with Teacher Qi, Su Li skipped the evening self-study session.

She took the opportunity of her parents not being home from work yet and went back.

She rummaged through old clothes that looked like rags and picked out two sets that were still decent. She found 300 yuan she had saved from being frugal since she was little and left the house.

She didn’t plan on staying here forever to be the unpaid housekeeper of this family, the kind who gets scolded and smacked.

She was no masochist…

In this family, sisters didn’t feel like sisters, parents didn’t seem like parents.

Moreover, she had a particularly bold speculation in her heart, awaiting an opportunity to verify it in the future.

Funny to say, Su Li’s grades had always been good. During high school, she received scholarships every semester and various awards from competitions, which should have amounted to more than the mere 300 yuan she had.

Yet, laughably, every time she received money, before it even warmed in her hand, Su Mo would snatch it away.

She couldn’t even afford to buy a bright dress she wanted.

Su Li took the 300 yuan and bought some simple daily necessities at a small store near the school, then moved directly into the girls’ dormitory.

Thanks to Teacher Qi’s arrangements, Su Li got a two-person room, but the other bed was not assigned, so it was essentially hers alone.

To this, Su Li was quite pleased.

She still preferred a quieter life.