How to eat pineapple buns on the immigration ship

Chapter 290 Sasha's Past

"Nancy, we were classmates after all, why are you targeting me like this?"

Sasha lowered her head slightly, and anyone who didn't know better would think she was holding back tears in grievance, but she was actually just calming down her emotions, which had made her breathing a little too fast after Nancy's words.

"Same to us, just a little revenge for the three of us's terrible memories in junior high."

Nancy snorted.

"Of course, as long as you and your followers don't do anything harmful to anyone other than Aino, you're free to go after that guy, after all, the Delta family and the Li family are so close."

"Or to put it more directly, why don't you have your father talk to Uncle Daolin and see if there's a chance for you two to get a verbal engagement? Then you can officially date when you're in college, and get your marriage certificate right after graduation. How romantic would that be?"

As she spoke, Nancy couldn't help but nod: "You know what, it really is a good idea."

If they "sell" Aino off before she graduates from university, they can guarantee that she and Yating will actually be dragged by their parents to discuss their marriage with him after graduation.

Even after hearing this good idea, Sasha's expression didn't improve. She knew, of course, that Nancy's casual suggestion was worth implementing, but there were certain prerequisites that most of her peers at the banquet possessed, while she was the only one who didn't…

“Nancy…you know perfectly well that I…”

She bit her lower lip, afraid to say what she was going to say next. Sasha still clung to a sliver of hope: Maybe? Maybe Nancy just didn't know anything about her family and was just saying it casually...?
"What do I know about you?"

Nancy chuckled softly, narrowed her eyes, lowered her voice slightly, and asked in a volume only the two of them could hear:

"Do you know you're not popular in the Delta family? Or do you know the reason is that you planned to use that little trick on your sister and brother, but it was seen through by your parents and the Delta family as soon as you tried to do it?"

"Or perhaps, they know that your parents have completely given up on you because of this, and instead are investing all their resources in your older sister and younger brother?"

With each thing she said, Sasha's face paled a little more.

How did Nancy know about these things? Could someone have leaked them?
She looked up, staring incredulously at Nancy's beaming face.

Nancy, as if she knew what Sasha was thinking, gave a cold laugh and snorted.

"Don't worry, the Delta family also cares about their reputation, and they won't spread such a scandal. Besides, your qualifications aren't good enough for most parents, so this little rumor will only circulate within your family. As for me, I just overheard it by chance."

This is half true and half false.

It's true that the news only circulated within the Delta family, and Nancy had no intention of revealing it. If they found out, and it caused a rift in the close relationship between the Delta and Li families, she would literally be locked up for fifty or sixty years when she got home.

The lie was that she overheard it by chance. Sasha actually heard these things from a Delta family member of the same age who happened to be visiting at a family banquet. The other person was probably also eager to hear it, and kept her talking for more than an hour. Before leaving, the other person did not forget to remind her, "Don't spread this around, okay? If Uncle, the head of the family, finds out, I won't get my allowance this year."

However, Nancy never saw that person her age again after that, probably because she was too eager to confide in him and was promptly banned from attending the banquet by the Delta family.
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Sasha could not possibly know these things.

She is currently in a state of panic.

That matter…someone's talking about it outside? No, Father strictly forbade this from being spread, so that means Nancy overheard someone discussing it with the family outside? How could that be…

Sasha gripped her skirt tightly, as if trying to suppress the unease in her heart.

If Sasha weren't currently preoccupied with Aino's situation and this matter, she would have really wanted to argue with Nancy:

She didn't do anything excessive to her older sister and younger brother; she simply made the requests she should have made regarding some issues between siblings. Even after being neglected by her family for three years, Sasha still believed that her demands were correct. After all, her older sister had no intention of inheriting their father's business, and her younger brother was only in the third grade of elementary school. In her view, the one who would most likely inherit the family business was herself, who planned to specialize in finance.

Therefore, she should enjoy the rights that future heirs should enjoy.

After hearing her words, her older sister and younger brother looked at her for a long time with a look that made Sasha feel very uncomfortable, and then they both sighed and left.

Sasha found it hard to understand her sister and brother's attitude, because her classmates all agreed with her after hearing her say that, and even listed several reasonable points. After listening to them, she felt that the other person's thinking was more organized than her own.

So she decided to let her older sister and younger brother hear their classmate's opinion as well.

However, just as she was coaxing her older sister and younger brother out to meet their classmates, her parents and other elders angrily took all three of them back home.

Immediately following was a turn of events that Sasha couldn't understand.

She didn't understand why her parents and elders were so angry when she was the only one with the best chance of becoming the family heir and she wanted to convince her sister and brother to accept this.

All Sasha knew was that after that, her status in the family plummeted. The elders basically treated her like air, and she only maintained minimal communication with her parents, siblings, and other relatives.

If her parents hadn't strictly forbidden her from spreading the news, Sasha would have really wanted to discuss with her classmates what exactly went wrong and what she hadn't done well.

Under these circumstances, she entered junior high school, where she met Ai Nuo.

Aino Lee, the handsome heir to the Lee family.

Sasha did indeed fall in love with Aino at first sight, but besides that, the reason she persisted in this relationship, which was now forced into the open, was also because of Aino's identity.

The conclusion she drew during her three years of junior high school was that her parents must not trust her because she was still inexperienced. Therefore, she needed to find a partner who could convince them, so that the whole family would have nothing to say!
However, such a self-serving mindset seemed too out of place in her pure love, so Sasha never told anyone about it. No one around her knew about her family situation either, so for three years everything went smoothly, and her classmates all assumed that Sasha simply liked Aino.

However, it is different now.

Someone found out what happened to her back then!

This person, of all people, is Nancy!

Sasha looked at Nancy with a complicated expression.

"Um... Nancy, I hope you won't..."

Nancy let out a disdainful snort.

"Don't worry, no matter how much I love to chatter, I won't go around telling everyone about this. If it gets out of hand, I'll be punished."

That's the truth. Nancy doesn't want the Lee family and the Delta family to have a conflict over something so absurd.

"...Thank you. Well, I'll go get something to drink first. If Aino..."

Hearing Sasha's words, Nancy managed to resist the urge to roll her eyes at her, but couldn't control her lower body and simply walked away.

Instead of arguing with someone who's not thinking straight and listening to her sob stories, I'd rather try the tofu that was just served.

These are all freshly cooked and delicious!