When the car reached the foot of the mountain, Si Huan stopped by a bus stop nearby.
"You can get off now. It's very convenient to wait for the bus or take a taxi here."
Huo Tian unbuckled her seatbelt but stopped a second before she opened the car door. She turned around and looked at Si Huan with anticipation in her eyes. "Helpful Sir, I'd like to ask for a small, small, small, small favor."
Her index finger got close to her thumb, with her trying to use gestures to prove how insignificant the help she wanted was.
Si Huan took a deep breath. He felt that he had done too many abnormal things today and one more wouldn't matter.
"Speak, what is it now?"
Huo Tian revealed an ingratiating smile. "I don't have a single cent on me. I won't be able to pay for a ride. Can you lend me some money first?"
Si Huan was here to attend a banquet. He didn't have his wallet with him, so he couldn't have cash on him.
He pulled out his phone and said, "I'll transfer it to you from my phone."
Huo Tian shrugged, her palms facing up. "The Huo Family bought the phone. I didn't take it with me."
Si Huan felt a little regretful to have been softhearted and picked up trouble on the mountain road. However, he was not cold enough to let a penniless girl wander the streets.
He said, "Where is your destination? I'll send you there."
Huo Tian did not stand on ceremony with him. She quickly mentioned a place and buckled her seatbelt again. "Sorry to trouble you, Sir."
The luxurious and clean sports car was incompatible with the dilapidated and messy urban village. Si Huan's car was parked at the outermost street of the urban village.
Huo Tian said to Si Huan, "The road conditions inside are very complicated. You can just drop me off here."
Si Huan nodded. "Be careful on the road."
When the luxury car left the area, Si Huan saw Huo Tian waving at him through the rearview mirror. Her bright smile lit up the dark streets.
Huo Tian had obtained her biological mother's address from Huo You and found it near the center of the urban village.
The urban village was very large. Shangjing was a place with many high-rise buildings. This area with low buildings and lagging facilities would be what others called a slum. If one looked down from a high altitude, they would find that this area was like an ugly scar attached to the prosperous and beautiful Shangjing city.
Huo Tian asked for directions while looking for her biological mother's address.
Probably because of the makeup on her face that wasn't cleaned up yet as well as her strange attire, the hooligans in the urban village did not dare to do anything to Huo Tian. She successfully found the two-story brick house with peeling walls.
The first floor of the brick house was modified to a shop on the side of the street. The signboard wrote 'Ah Rong Clothing'.
When Huo Tian entered the narrow shop, she saw clothes hanging from the ceiling. Rolls of fabric scraps were piled on a table by the wall and there was a piece of unfinished garment on the sewing machine beside the table.
There was a small room separated by a curtain. Two people were talking behind the curtain.
A gentle female voice asked, "Sister Lin, what do you think of this dress after it has been tailored? Does it fit well?"
"Ah Rong, your craftsmanship is really amazing. You've changed this dress of mine into something fitting and beautiful."
The woman called Ah Rong smiled and said, "Sister Lin has lost a lot of weight compared to last year. Those loose-fitting clothes from before don't suit you anymore. You'll look more energetic if you tailor them."
Sister Lin's laughter didn't stop upon hearing the unobtrusive compliments. She even said that she wanted to bring all her old clothes over to tailor them.
The two of them talked and laughed as they lifted the curtain and walked out. They were shocked by Huo Tian, who was standing in the room.
Sister Lin patted her chest. "Young people nowadays really like to dress up weirdly. I thought I saw a ghost."
Sister Lin wanted to discuss Huo Tian's outfit with Ah Rong, but she realized that Ah Rong was staring at this strange girl in a daze as if she had been shocked silly.
It took a while before Ah Rong came back to her senses. She smiled politely at Sister Lin and said, "Sister Lin, there are a few water pits on the roads nearby. Be careful when you go home."
Sister Lin was sent away without a trace.
Ding Rong looked at Huo Tian with a complicated expression. "Are, are you Huo Tian?"
Huo Tian nodded and also sized up Ding Rong.
At the Huo Family's banquet, she saw many women and young ladies who were well-dressed and had on exquisite makeup. However, after seeing Ding Rong, all of them seemed very ordinary.
She shouldn't be young, but she was still beautiful. Every move she made was filled with charm.
Huo Tian tilted her head and asked, "The Huo Family gave me a DNA test report. You should be my biological mother, right?"
Ding Rong's eyes reddened slightly. "Yes, you are my daughter."
At this moment, Ding Rong was feeling particularly unsettled. She had heard from Youyou that her biological daughter was a willful and reckless girl. Ding Rong had been very worried about how to get along with Huo Tian, but the moment she saw her daughter, Ding Rong sensed the bond that came from deep within her blood.
She was still worried if Huo Tian would accept her.
Huo Tian smiled happily. "It's great that Mom is so beautiful! I'll definitely be beautiful in the future too!"
Ding Rong did not expect Huo Tian to call her "Mom" so easily. Tears immediately trickled down her face.
Huo Tian took a step forward, wanting to comfort Ding Rong, but was pulled her into her arms instead. "Tiantian, Mom has let you down. I can't give you the life you used to have. Having not heard from you for so many days, I thought you would never come back."
"But I just found out yesterday that I'm not the daughter of the Huo Family. Of course, I didn't hear anything about it before."
Huo Tian recalled the treatment the original owner of this body received at the Huo Family and said without much surprise, "Maybe they completely forgot about me. They only remembered that there was still a fake young miss in the villa before the banquet started, so they anxiously asked me to leave."
Ding Rong's heart couldn't help but ache as she asked, "Tiantian, were you unhappy in the Huo family?"
"It's alright. At least I've never been aggrieved materialistic-wise. It's just that I only get to see servants through the years."
What Huo Tian didn't say was that to attract Mr. and Mrs. Huo's attention, the original owner of this body had deliberately dressed as a punk, submitted blank papers during the exams… She had always yearned for the kinship that didn't belong to her.
"It's alright. From now on, Tiantian will live together with Mommy. Mommy will give you even more love." Ding Rong carefully caressed Huo Tian's cheeks, her gaze filled with pity.
"If Tiantian feels unhappy in the future, you must tell Mommy."
"Alright, I understand!" Huo Tian gave Ding Rong a wide smile.
Huo Tian felt that the original owner of this body had died an unworthy death. As long as she was willing to abandon the aloof parents from the Huo family, she would be able to get a mother who truly loved her. The kinship she had always yearned for was actually close at hand, but she could no longer feel it.
Then let her take the original owner of this body's place and cherish this kinship.
Ding Rong found a change of clothes for Huo Tian and let her take a shower. She even helped her remove the remaining makeup on her face.
Huo Tian walked out of the bathroom wearing Ding Rong's clothes. The eyes of the siblings sitting in the living room lit up.
The tall and thin man in a flowery shirt said, "Sister, this is your biological daughter, right? She looks exactly like you when you were young. Both of you are beauties."
Ding Rong rolled her eyes at Ding Chen. "You're an uncle. How can you speak to your niece like that?"
Huo Tian sized Ding Chen up from head to toe. "Uncle? You look like Mom. Everyone in our family is so good-looking!"
After washing the makeup off her face in the bathroom, she was very satisfied with her looks that resembled Ding Rong's! Now that she realized that she had a handsome uncle, she was in an extremely good mood!
Ding Chen's smile became even friendlier. "Tiantian has good taste. This is my girl, unlike that Huo You…"
"Ding Chen!" Ding Rong immediately interrupted her brother.
Ding Chen snorted unhappily, and the atmosphere became a little strange.
A phone ringtone broke the silence. Ding Rong picked up the call and threw a subconscious glance at Huo Tian.
It was Huo You on the other end of the line. "Mom, Dad and Mom specially organized a banquet for me today. The guests just left, so I called you immediately."
The living room was too small, and Ding Rong's phone had some leakage. Both Ding Chen and Huo Tian heard Huo You's words.
Ding Rong sighed wearily. "I don't think Mrs. Huo will like you calling me that. Youyou, don't make her unhappy."
"It was just a slip of the tongue. Mom loves me very much, she won't mind," Huo You explained casually before changing the topic.
"Oh, right, Huo Tian left the Huo Family. She even said out of spite that she wanted to return all the money she spent all these years. Sigh… She doesn't know the Ding Family's financial situation. She'll only cause trouble for the family! Mom, if you have any difficulties in your life in the future, you must tell me. I'll try to help."
Ding Rong's brows gradually furrowed. "Miss Huo, you have your mother, and I have my own daughter. I'm happy that she's a strong-willed and responsible child. Since she has agreed to return the Huo Family's money, as her mother, I will support her without hesitation."
Huo You, who was on the other end of the line, immediately lost her cool. "Support? Do you know how much she's spent on the Huo Family all these years? It's more than 20 million yuan, and you can't even pay that amount in your entire life with that ten-square-meter tailor shop of yours. I'm offering to help you out for your own good. Why are you as ungrateful as Huo Tian?!"
Ding Rong wanted to say something, but her phone was snatched away by Ding Chen, who was next to her.
Ding Chen said to Huo You in a flippant tone, "Hey, isn't this my ex-niece who got hooked up with wealthy parents? Now that you're rich, you're showing off in front of the person who raised you up painstakingly? Let me tell you this. Since you left the Ding family without any hesitation, then cut it off cleanly. Don't let me know that you're trying to find a sense of superiority from my sister and Tiantian. Otherwise, I have plenty of ways to deal with you!"
With that, Ding Chen immediately hung up and blacklisted Huo You's number.
Ding Rong said helplessly, "She had called me Mom for more than ten years. This…"
Ding Chen shrugged his shoulders at Huo Tian and mouthed, "How did Uncle do?"
Huo Tian gave him a thumbs up!
"Uncle is awesome!"
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