Chapter 228: Selling a Daughter for Glory

"You're not my mother," Chen Anqi had already given up on the Chens; she just regretted not listening to Guo Yi. She should never have acknowledged her ancestry and returned to her family. She had a blood relationship with the Chens, but in the end, they were still two separate families. In other words, they could not be truly sincere with her. Looking back now, their motive for finding her was nothing more than to use her—to marry her off to Liu Shaofei, then leverage the Lius' connections for profit.

"Silly child, I know you're upset," Zhang Jinfen said with a bitter smile, "but I did it for your own good. Back in the day, the Chens were impoverished; your dad even moved bricks on the construction site. I also worked in a factory cutting cloth. Those days of destitution were inhuman. So, Mom didn't want you to live like that. What's so good about that boy? The Guo family is no longer what it used to be; he can't give you the life you want. Do you understand?"