"Since no matter how hard we try, it's all useless... I..." The words caught in her throat and she couldn't continue.

  Finally, Li Hua took a deep breath, as if she had made a major decision, and suddenly turned around, kneeling down on the ground with a thud in front of the old lady.

  After bowing his head three times, Li Hua lifted up that tear-stained face, and said with a sorrowful expression.

  "Grandma, from now on, I will stay away from the Li family and hide where you can't see me. Perhaps only this way, you can feel at ease in your heart."

  Finally, she looked at Li Xiang who was also kneeling on the ground, stretched out her hand and gently rubbed her head, with a full expression of guilt.

  "All these years, in order to support you, my mother and I have never had a full meal. The child is so young, when he's hungry, he can only drink cold water."

  "Since you dislike us so much, I suppose our filial piety towards you is also beneath your notice,"

  "If so, then the granddaughter will be bold and filial in the future."

  Before Li Hua could finish speaking, the old lady finally reacted and jumped up, swinging her hand towards Li Hua's face.

  Mu Yan's eyes were quick and his hands were fast. In an instant, he flashed in front of Li Hua and her mother, and a loud slap landed squarely on his face.

  He stumbled and staggered for several steps before barely managing to steady himself, a testament to the force of that slap.

  Li Xiang's eyes sharpened, his gaze towards the old lady filled with hatred.

  "You wicked person, always hitting my mother, always hitting my mother! Mother, don't give her meat anymore, don't give her food anymore!"

  "You give them food and meat but still beat us. Why don't the children of your uncle and aunt have to give? Why do you only make me give? Do you owe them?"

  Li Hua's eyes were brimming with tears as she tried to cover Li Xiang's mouth, but was shaken off by the little girl.

  "Why won't they let me speak? We work so hard to earn our food, but in the end we don't have much left for ourselves, it's all taken away by them!"

  "How much can my elderly grandmother eat by herself? With both paternal grandfathers around, can't we show filial piety according to our abilities?"

  "But why did these foods ultimately not end up in her mouth, and were all eaten by the children of her uncle's family instead?"

  "I'm also a little kid, why can't I eat, but they can? Why? Why?"

  Li Xiang hated this family of blood-sucking leeches to the extreme, bah!

  Is it just because her father is missing that she and her mother have to work so hard to repay?

  Five years have passed, and five years of dedication have not been understood at all. Instead, they have become more and more ruthless in treating them as scapegoats.

  She never wants to live such days again.

  Li Xiang's crazy crying shout made the people around her feel very heartbroken, and the eyes looking at the mother-daughter pair were filled with sympathy and unbearable pain.

  As for Mrs. Li's overbearing behavior, they had heard of it, but never thought she would go to such an extreme.

  Not even sparing a child in confinement, this eating appearance, isn't it also too unsightly?

  Just as Li Hua was hugging Li Xiang and crying, Mu Yan gave a cold glance at the gloomy Mrs. Li who looked like she could cry at any moment, and let out a cold snort.

  "It's none of my business as an outsider, but what Nangnang said is astonishing."

  "You're also a great-grandchild, but you take the mother-daughter duo's things to support your eldest son's family with hands and feet, this is how biased can one be?"

  "Phooey, you little turtle egg, what do you know?"

  "My family's eldest son has a biological grandson and great-grandson, what are they counted as?"

  "Speaking of granddaughters, it's Lao Lian's family line, speaking of outsiders, it turns out to be my old Li family name. I don't want such a granddaughter."

  "Oh? If you don't want it, why take what others offer with respect?"

  "You don't even care about people, yet you care about their things? Isn't this unreasonable?"

  Mrs. Li really hated this little rascal who had taken it upon himself to speak up for the mother and daughter.

  "What does this have to do with you? They're happy, what business is it of yours?"