Rebirth: Splendid Marriage in the 80s

Chapter 2228: Chapter 2164: Why Did You Save Me?

Xie Landi’s tears flowed down like a stream.

"Can I still attend classes? If everyone finds out, they’ll all look down on me and mock me..." she murmured, speaking to herself rather than to Chiang Xiao.

But Chiang Xiao had excellent hearing and heard it clearly.

Sure enough, it’s because of that incident that she’s troubled.

Chiang Xiao sighed quietly in her heart.

Even after thirty years, if a woman is harassed, there will still be many strange looks from those around her, and many words that stab at the victim’s heart.

If she’s beautiful, some will say: Who told her to dress so beautifully every day? Who told her to be so sexy? Who told her to be so provocative? Who told her to be like this...

If she looks average, some might even say, with such looks, someone actually harassed her, maybe she was the one who initiated it. People wouldn’t make a move without signals.

Xie Landi was rather average-looking, her skin had some white spots, and she was from a mountain village, living frugally, her clothes clearly a notch below her peers.

If people knew she took fifty bucks from that Old Man, who knows how terrible the rumors would be.

Some might even suspect she sold her purity.

This is human nature.

So Chiang Xiao understood her.

In some ways, Xie Landi was very similar to her past self. One similarity was that they both died by falling.

Chiang Xiao didn’t want Xie Landi to follow the same path in this life.

"Who would laugh at you?" Chiang Xiao asked casually.

Xie Landi looked at her, "Everyone, everyone will laugh at me, even you. Chiang Xiao, I really envy you, you’re good at painting, you’re beautiful, smart, teachers like you, classmates like you..."

Chiang Xiao interrupted her, "Then why does Ye Wanqing hate me so much? She targeted me from the first day of school, you know that. And, Ye Wanqing has talked bad about me, spread rumors about me many times, you know this too, right?"

"I, she..." Xie Landi panicked, wondering if Chiang Xiao was bringing this up to settle scores, since in many classmates’ eyes she was once closest to Ye Wanqing.

Of course, that was only for a period of time.

Later Ye Wanqing didn’t give her much attention.

Chiang Xiao continued, "If I couldn’t stand hearing the bad things she said about me, how many times do you think I’d have collapsed by now? And, you say I’m beautiful, good at painting, and smart, well, you’re right, I admit you’re right."

Xie Landi was taken aback again.

Could it be like this?

She thought Chiang Xiao would at least be a bit modest.

But Chiang Xiao really was like this.

So once again, with these unexpected responses, she interrupted Xie Landi’s self-pity and self-loathing, leading her to follow Chiang Xiao’s train of thought.

Chiang Xiao went on, "But I wasn’t smart from the start, or good at painting from the start. Don’t you know my background? I’m just like you, from a poor mountain village, and I grew up with my grandparents, never met my mother, don’t know who my real father is, and the whole village called me a wild child, a bastard, some even called me the daughter of a rapist, and as a kid those bratty village kids would throw cow dung at me."