Mind reading saves the whole family; I'm firmly in the role of a charlatan.

Chapter 360 One shouldn't be too double-standard

"Even if I were to choose someone to hate, that person should be you, not her! Or is it that in your eyes, I, a country bumpkin from a remote place who has never seen the world and knows nothing about human relationships, am just a paramecium with a single-minded way of thinking, unable to understand even such a simple thing, only able to fixate on the fact that Fourth Sister and I were switched, and deserve to be used as a pawn by you?"

Li Qianxi's face was deathly pale, and she swayed as if about to collapse: "I... I didn't mean it. I didn't want it either. When that happened back then, I was just a newborn child and had no choice at all. If I could, I wouldn't want to take someone else's place and steal someone else's life, but what could I do? Knowing the truth is also very painful for me, but this really wasn't my intention."

If the person standing in front of Li Qianxi were a blind man, he might have been bewitched by her pitiful appearance and generously told her that it wasn't her fault, asking her to forgive her.

Unfortunately, the person standing in front of her now was Du Anrao, who was not fooled at all by her feigned pitifulness. He was indifferent and even wanted to roll his eyes.

[Oh, look at this innocent yet pretentious white lotus! You don't know anything, you know absolutely nothing. Yes, yes, yes, you've been forced to live a good life by others, you've reaped all the benefits, while others bear all the blame and suffering. It's all about outsourcing responsibility, no pressure at all.]

"Miss Wang, have you forgotten what you just said? Do you need me to help you recall? You said that if it weren't for the baby swap, I wouldn't have been living on the streets for so many years, suffering and enduring so much hardship. After rambling on and on, it turns out that when it comes to you, you were just a child back then, and you were innocent too, so I can't blame you."

The same thing happened to my fourth sister: she enjoyed the life of a rich young lady for me all those years, she owed me, hurt me, and deserved my lifelong hatred and repayment. Miss Wang, I don't know what your standards are, but even a three-year-old knows that you can't be hypocritical.

Li Qianxi's biological mother's surname is Wang, and she only had a de facto marriage with her biological father, without a written marriage contract. When Du Anrao was taken back to his hometown by Wang Xuehe and left with his parents, he took his mother's surname and was given a name to fool people.

Logically, when Li Qianxi was kicked out of the Li family and the families went their separate ways, she should have changed back to her biological mother's surname. However, she seemed to understand that once she changed her surname, she would completely sever ties with the Li family. From then on, she would be the daughter of two lowly human traffickers, and she would never again be able to reach that glamorous life with designer brands.

Therefore, although her household registration was moved out of the Li family, she still insisted on not changing her surname.

Du Anrao's two calls of "Miss Wang" precisely struck at the darkest, most insecure, and repulsive spot in Li Qianxi's heart, truly killing her in the heart, a fatal blow.

With her defenses breached, Li Qianxi's face no longer showed the frail look she had just had, where she would gasp for breath after saying just a few words, as if she might die at any moment. Instead, her face was as dark as ink, and her eyes were filled with a fierce glint that seemed to want to tear Du Anrao to pieces.

[Can't keep up the act anymore? That look is like it wants to eat me alive, I'm so scared! No, I'm just pretending, hehehe~~~]

The atmosphere at the scene was clearly very solemn, but someone's inner thoughts seemed a little too lively, making both families laugh and cry at the same time. They were also glad that her inner thoughts were only audible to their own people, otherwise the person opposite her would probably have already lost their composure.

Li Qianxi lost her composure for a moment, but gradually calmed down. She noticed that the other customers in the coffee shop were looking in their direction because of what Du Anrao had just said.

She quickly changed tactics, lowered her head, and said with tears welling up in her eyes, "I know... I know it's all my fault. If it weren't for my illness, none of this would have happened, and you and Yu Xi wouldn't be in this situation now."

If only I had died from this disease at birth. You're right, I'm a jinx, a jinx that nobody wants, a cursed bastard. I promise... I promise I'll stay far away from you all and never appear in front of you again. I... I just wanted to live, cough cough cough..."

As Li Qianxi finished speaking, she clutched her chest and coughed violently until her eyes turned red and tears welled up in them. Seeing this without knowing the context, it would be difficult not to mistakenly believe that Du Anrao, a healthy and able-bodied man, was bullying a frail woman suffering from a serious illness.

Du Anrao held back for a moment but couldn't help it any longer and rolled his eyes dramatically.

I knew it, I knew it. No matter what you talk about with this self-absorbed, self-absorbed, manipulative girl, it'll always end up like this. I'm tired. Let it all end.

The expressions of the Li and Du families who listened to the whole thing were subtle, especially the Li family. How come they never realized that this child was such a good actor? An'an was right. Their family was really blind and foolish. They mistook a wolf for a rabbit and raised it. No wonder they ended up with such a miserable end.

Du Anrao was already regretting coming here. He had originally thought he could get some fresh gossip from this troublesome female protagonist, but it turned out to be just the same old clichés.

She felt that as soon as the other person said the first sentence, she could already think of the second, third, and even the last sentence.

[This is so boring. If I'd known she only had this much to offer, I wouldn't have come. I'd rather take a nap than watch her act; the handsome men and beautiful women in my dreams are definitely more pleasing to the eye.]

Nearby crowd: Pfft...

Although Du Anrao wanted to give up at any moment, he did not have the hobby of sacrificing himself for the sake of others.

"What you just said is not the reason why your mother switched other people's children, causing other families to be separated from their children, raising other people's sick children who were not related to you by blood without knowing it, and letting your own healthy children wander outside and eat chaff and wild vegetables, because of your human trafficker parents, who have suffered all the scorn of the world for you."

Du Anrao stared intently at Li Qianxi, his gaze like a sharp knife, easily piercing through her facade and exposing all the shameful things inside.

"Just because you want to live, does that mean others should pay for the evil things you and your daughter have done?"

As soon as Du Anrao finished speaking, a noisy discussion immediately broke out in the coffee shop.

"It wasn't me, it has nothing to do with me, she did it all. It has nothing to do with me, I'm innocent."

Li Qianxi endured the pointing fingers and whispers from all sides, and finally couldn't bear it anymore. She got up and tried to escape, but Du Anrao grabbed her wrist first.

"Trying to leave now? Too late! Miss Wang, before you came to me, did you forget to check what I did before the Du family brought me back?"