Chapter 15 The Anonymous Email
I sent my dad an anonymous email during the banquet he was hosting.
I told him that Shen Chuxue from the marketing center was his biological daughter.
That I was just a lowly Fake Heiress born to a nanny.
Everything I had should belong to that kind girl.
I also apologized to Shen Chuxue—for the embarrassing “caught cheating” incident at the bar, and for making things difficult for her during that meeting.
I said Xie Siyuan actually liked her, and everything had been forced by me.
I hoped they could be happy together.
Then I left a Divorce Agreement and vanished into the rainy night.
I had enjoyed the good life for so long. I was terrified of dying.
So as long as I cut all ties with them, I would finally have my own life, right?
Before leaving, I had someone cancel all my identification documents.
I erased every trace of myself.
I arranged a fake death certificate.
My favorite gold bars would all belong to Shen Chuxue now!
Bank cards could reveal my whereabouts, so I left them behind too.
All those beautiful clothes—I didn’t want them anymore.
I only carried some cash.
Then I boarded a cruise ship toward my new life.
The life that should have been mine from the beginning.
Life in the Fishing Village was quiet and comfortable.
I was no longer the spoiled young miss.
Just a single woman living alone at the edge of the village.
The only thing worth being grateful for was that after so many years as a young miss, I knew a little bit of everything.
When someone in the village held a funeral, I played the suona.
When someone got married, I played the erhu.
When New Year came, I ground ink and wrote couplets on red paper for them.
The village primary school had no art teacher, so I took the job and taught the kids how to draw.
So this was another way to live.
It was after the first autumn rain the following year that I suddenly realized my period hadn’t come in a long time.
Lately I had been feeling sleepy all the time too.
Grandma Li next door said it was just autumn fatigue. Normal.
So I went out to sea with her family’s fishing boat to catch fish.
On the way back the sun was blazing, and I fell asleep just like that.
When I woke up, Grandma Li told me I was pregnant.
My eyes widened in shock. “What?”
My first thought was: Can I get rid of it?
Grandma Li’s face changed. “Child, pregnancy is a good thing!
Why would you even think like that?”
I wasn’t being unreasonable.
I was still a child myself. How could I raise another little one?
Besides, the dream never mentioned I would have a child.
That night, I pressed my hand to my belly and spoke to it. “You’re so stupid. You must have seen me living well and eating well and thought I was rich, right?
Well, you’re wrong. I’m fake. If you had looked down from the sky just once more, you wouldn’t have chosen me as your mom.”
Grandma Li said, “Children are smart. He chose you because you’re good.”
Because of those words, I kept him.