After Transmigrating into a Villain, the Heroines' Character Settings All Changed, Chapter 975
For one thing, cultivation was indeed exceedingly difficult—bitterly, bitterly hard. Many women simply could not endure it.
Only the small number who endured could continue onward.
For another, many people believed that only men could accomplish great things.
So under the same circumstances, men often received more resources.
Jiang Xiaoran's situation was actually quite easy to understand.
If she had been a girl, Jiang Wencong definitely would not have given her so many resources back then.
After all, wasn't it better to give them to a son?
Better than good.
Women would eventually be married off anyway. What use could they possibly be?
That was, without question, Jiang Wencong's way of thinking.
Xu Chen nodded. "Go on."
Jiang Xiaoran's expression dimmed slightly.
"So, if my mother hadn't fled with me back then, my father would certainly have resented her. He might even have beaten her.
It was the only way. We hadn't wanted it either. We only returned to the Jiang Family when I was five.
By then, I already knew everything, and I had learned how to disguise myself.
Those five years, my mother and I lived very hard lives. But there was no other way—we had to get through them.
After we returned, I displayed astonishing talent and crushed everyone in this branch, men and women alike.
And precisely because of that, I was chosen as the heir to this branch from a young age.
Only after Jiang Qingyi saw how outstanding I was did she come to like me."
She murmured,
"But what did I do wrong? I only wanted to live a little better. I couldn't change the world, but I could change myself.
Now, my mother and I are living quite well."
Xu Chen asked, "Do you hate your father?"
Jiang Xiaoran said viciously,
"I