In fact, the moment Li Huairou received the heirloom bracelet from her grandmother, she had recognized that its material was terribly poor.
But then she thought about how her grandmother always made excuses even when it came to having new clothes made.
So it was not entirely incomprehensible that she would treat a poor-quality jade bracelet as a family heirloom.
But from what she was hearing now, had her grandmother done all that to her solely for the property her mother had left behind?
Disbelief suddenly rose on Li Huairou's little face.
The system continued revealing what it had discovered, and the more Yunjian and I heard, the angrier we became.
[Within six months of his first wife's death, Li Yuanwailang married his second wife-Li Huairou's birth mother. Her family was the wealthiest in Qu'an Commandery, and her bridal dowry could truly have formed a procession of red stretching ten miles. The comfortable life the Li household enjoyed today had been funded almost entirely by her lavish dowry.] [But this second wife was not as lacking in forethought as the first. She had a real knack for both business and judging people. She only married Li Yuanwailang because her father liked scholars, and she thought she could keep him under control.] [After marrying into the Li household, she evaded numerous schemes and safely gave birth to Li Huairou. Unfortunately, when her daughter was eight, the Li family still managed to conspire against her.]
At this point, Li Huairou's hand trembled, spilling a few drops of the milk tea she was holding onto her hand.
She remembered the incident the system described. That day, she had returned from school happily clutching her teacher's comments, eager to share her joy with her mother at once.
But her mother's senior maid