Chapter 48: Chapter 48: Gaining Love and Favor Through Struggle
Translator: 549690339
Jiang Ning looked serious.
“I must be crazy.” Jiang Yuan reached out to grab her flower ball, “You don’t deserve this thing, give it to me!”
Jiang Ning avoided her hand: “Have you forgotten the fate of Princess Ling’an?”
Jiang Yan quickly persuaded: “Fifth Sister, don’t be like this… We are sisters after all, didn’t you just help Seventh Sister?”
“I did it because I dislike Princess Ling’an, not to help her!”
“But Seventh Sister helped us too, even smashing the precious flower ball given by the Prince of Yu.” Jiang Yan said weakly, “If it were me, I would definitely not bear to break the flower ball.”
Jiang Yuan became angry upon hearing this and reached out to grab Jiang Yan: “Do you have a heart?”
Jiang Yan struggled: “Wouldn’t Fifth Sister be reluctant to do it as well?”
Jiang Yuan hesitated for a moment, then stubbornly said: “I can’t find anything else!”
“Still unable to let go of it?” Jiang Ning leisurely sat to the side, watching them quarrel.
Jiang Yuan pushed Jiang Yan aside, tidied her hair, and coldly said: “You really can let go of it. Since you don’t care about the flower ball from the Prince of Yu and don’t want to marry him, why do you hold onto it? As a sister, I can marry the Prince of Yu in your stead.”
“You’re seriously ill.”
“What do you mean?”
“It’s my thing, and I’m happy to throw it away or smash it. You want to take it, but I don’t want to give it. Understand?”
“You’re simply infuriating!” Jiang Yuan, frustrated, lunged over to try and grab it.
“You asked for this.”
Jiang Ning leaned back and then kicked her in the buttocks, sending her out of the carriage.
Although the carriage wasn’t moving very fast, it was still in motion.
“Oh my god!” Jiang Yan was terrified and quickly shouted for the coachman to stop before sticking her head out to look.
Jiang Yuan climbed up from the ground, sat on the ground, and cried: “Jiang Ning, you just wait!”
Jiang Yan wanted to get out and help her but was stopped by Jiang Ning’s words.
“There is still a long way from here to the Jiang Family. If you want to accompany her back and be scolded and beaten all the way, then get off the carriage.”
“…” Jiang Yan silently sat back down.
“Jiang Fu, let’s go back to the residence.” Jiang Ning instructed the coachman.
Watching the carriage moving further and further away, Jiang Yan peeked outside and then retreated, whispering: “When she comes back, she will definitely not spare us.”
Jiang Ning leaned against the carriage with her eyes closed, and said indifferently: “She deserves it.”
“Seventh Sister, are you not scared? Fifth Sister has always been favored at home, and no one dares to offend her. Look at her temper, even Princess Ling’an dared to beat her. It’s because our father spoils her and treats her as his legitimate daughter.”
“You’re also your father’s daughter, why doesn’t he treat you as his legitimate daughter too?”
“I… My father doesn’t care much about me.”
“Favoritism isn’t innate; it’s something to be fought for.” Jiang Ning opened her eyes to look at her, “There’s a saying that a crying child gets the milk. If you don’t fight and make a fuss, how will your father notice you? People are cheap; if he hasn’t spent any energy on you, he won’t care about you.”
Jiang Yan’s worldview was refreshed by these words.
Thinking carefully, it was true.
Since childhood, Fifth Sister loved to cry and act coquettishly. When she tripped and got a little dirty, she would throw herself into their father’s arms and cry for a long time. When Jiang Yan pricked her palm with a needle while learning how to sew, she didn’t dare to go to their father to cry even once, enduring the pain silently.
She thought that if she was well-behaved and didn’t cause trouble for her father, he would like her.
However, in reality, the more their father favored the noisy Fifth Sister, the more he ignored her, the well-behaved one..