The Lucky Heiress

But standing there now, every moment was an enormous torment to her body and mind.

In the end, Wei Qingwan could no longer bear the humiliation, so she stifled it and found a stone to sit on nearby.

Hunger and pain, coupled with the cold reception she received, tears couldn’t help but roll down her cheeks after she sat down.

Madam Qin saw everything but left it unsaid.

Half an hour later, Wei Ruo returned with a group of people carrying behind her several bags of soil.

Seeing Wei Ruo, Madam Qin quickly stepped forward to meet her.

“Young lady, you must be tired. How was the harvest this trip?”

“I have collected the soil samples from this entire area. I will devise an appropriate amendment plan according to the conditions of these soils in the following days. For now, these people can weed and turn the soil. Remember, don’t discard these wastes, let them dry naturally on the soil, these weeds will be useful after burning.” said Wei Ruo.

“Ok, anything Young lady needs, just let me know.”

After giving instructions to Madam Qin, Wei Ruo planned to return home. As she passed by Wei Qingwan, She paused, turned her head to glimpse at her, sitting on the stone.

Wei Qingwan also raised her head and locked eyes with Wei Ruo.

The look in her eyes was filled with resentment and grievances.

Wei Ruo then returned a small smile and continued towards the carriage.

She didn’t say a word, but her action gave Wei Qingwan the message that she was going back, and Wei Qingwan was urged to follow if she wanted to return.

Seeing this, the weakened Wei Qingwan suppressed her pain and humiliation, made an effort to stand up, and, under the scrutiny of everyone, walked laboriously towards the carriage.

The final few steps to get on the carriage were the hardest.

As soon as her first foot landed on the stool, Wei Qingwan felt the piercing pain at the sole of her foot.

She looked around butfound no one intending to help her.

She couldn’t rely on others, only herself.

The second step, the third step, for each step Wei Qingwan took, she felt like she was walking on knives.

Just a few steps took all her strength.

Once she finally got into the carriage, she saw Wei Ruo still looking elegant, leaning on the cushion.

At this moment, her long-suppressed anger could no longer be contained.

Wei Qingwan exclaimed to Wei Ruo, “Is this your way of exacting revenge on me?”

“Revenge?” Wei Ruo looked at Wei Qingwan, reveling in the hatred displayed on her face.

Wei Ruo found Wei Qingwan rather amusing in her current state. In the original story, Wei Qingruo had to painstakingly contrive tactics to compete with Wei Qingwan, but Wei Qingwan remained rock-solid against it, never putting Wei Qingruo’s excitement in her eyes.

In this life, the roles are reversed. Wei Qingwan became the anxious one, competing with her instead.

Where is that gentleness and high-spirited attitude of Wei Qingwan when she was the main female persistent for?

“Is not that it?” Wei Qingwan, with her reddening eyes, kept staring at Wei Ruo.

“If you put it in that way, yes.” Wei Ruo casually confessed.

“What did I do to deserve your kind of revenge?” Upon hearing Wei Ruo’s confession, grievance gushed out of Wei Qingwan like a geyser.

“If you really want to know, then I should give you a detailed account. Not to mention anything else, the event where you falsely accused me of pushing you when I went to get Madam Li to treat Second Brother’s illness is enough for me to hold a grudge against you for a while. We should also settle the account for the time you deliberately made Big Brother misunderstand me for neglecting father and indulging in pleasure. So, in your opinion, those grievances I had endured didn’t count as grievances, and not worth my vengeance?”

Wei Qingwan glared at Wei Ruo but found no words to refute her.

Wei Ruo continued, “There’s no one else here. You don’t need to put on that pitiful look. We both know how these things really happened. Whether you did it or not, both you and I know very well.”

“I did fall that one time; I was hurt, and Madam Li was punished and sent to the countryside for some time; that time with big brother, even though it wasn’t on purpose, you can say it was my fault, but I also bore your slap.” Wei Qingwan argued.

“Your fall was your own problem; Madam Li deserved the punishment; I being locked up and scolded were inflicted by you. So you are trying to claim that your suffering can offset the injustice and wrong accusations I’ve experienced? What kind of logic is that?” Wei Ruo questioned.

“So you are admitting on purpose that you turned me into my current state? ” Wei Qingwan brought the topic back to the situation at hand.

No matter what happened before, the current condition is that she was deceived and bullied by Wei Qingruo, and the pain she experienced was an indisputable fact.

“How did you become? Some minor cuts on your hands from the weeds, some blisters on your feet?” Wei Ruo drew up her eyebrow.

Wei Qingwan bit her lip, “What you said as minor cuts and blisters, do you know how painful they are!”

“Don’t I know? Are you joking? Wei Qingwan, when you lived in the Military Prefecture with my identity, I was in the countryside of Huzhou Prefecture, going up and down the mountains, plowing fields, collecting herbs, cutting firewood, I have been to places ten times harder than today. I encountered all sorts of creatures- – snakes, rats, bugs.”

“The kind of cuts you got from the weeds, who in the countryside hasn’t suffered from such? They’ve rolled in thorny bushes and lost count. As for those blisters on your feet, huh, why don’t you wonder how I covered more distance than you, but I didn’t end up with any issue? You think it’s innate?”

Wei Qingwan was stunned and unconsciously glanced at Wei Ruo’s feet.

Wei Ruo laughed disdainfully, “You kept saying how sorry you are for taking my place, but do you really understand how much you benefitted from it and how much good fortune you had enjoyed? You simply don’t know. You say those things just to make yourself look gentle, kind, generous and sensible. You don’t genuinely feel guilty in your heart, but just make pretences.”

Wei Ruo didn’t hold back; she mercilessly stripped Wei Qingwan’s hypocritical coat.

“I didn’t…” Wei Qingwan denied.

“Stop pretending! What’s good, you want; a bitter pill, you can’t swallow. Now that you lost your halo, your kindness and gentility also shattered like the reflection of the moon in the water.” Wei Ruo said.

Perhaps the Wei Qingwan in the original story was genuinely kind because she was blessed with various fortunes and miracles, she was cared for, even though she met difficulties, someone would always lend a helping hand, turning misfortune into blessing.

Now, the Wei Qingwan of this timeline, having not experienced those disasters, nor those miracles, her gentility was shattered under the monotonous tranquility.

So sometimes, some people aren’t kind-hearted due to their luck; rather they appear kind-hearted because they are lucky..