"Haha!” Hearing that, Ruth suddenly burst out laughing wildly.
After laughing, Ruth said sarcastically, "Should I call you Dad and Mom now, or call you Uncle and Aunt, or even call you enemies?"
Mr. Mann stuttered, "Ruth, we...We have also loved you before."
"Loved me?" Ruth asked rhetorically. "Was it out of love for me that you instilled in me from childhood that I was a maid and your real daughter, Mindy, was the queen?
"Or telling me since young that I was Mindy's hatchet man, and it did not matter if what she did was right or wrong, I had to spearhead the attack for her?
"If you loved me, would you let me have all of Mindy’s hand-me-downs?
"Also, it was only the ones she thought were ugly that were given to me to wear.
"If you loved me, why didn't you guys provide for me t o go to school? Instead, you allowed me to grow wild like a shrew?
"Are these your ways of loving me?"
Mr. Mann said in embarrassment, "Ruth, your academic performance had been poor since young..."
"My academic performance was poor when I was young because you always either asked me to help you play poker or cook for you!" Ruth criticized harshly. "After I grew up a little, I once had the thought of wanting to study. However, as soon as I wanted to study, you just said that I didn’t need it. You said my cousin is a lady in a noble family, and she will marry into the most eminent Ford family in the future. You said as long as my cousin does well, she will carry me!
"You said my cousin will at least matchmake me with a senior management personnel working for the Ford family.
"These are all the things that you have constantly instilled in me since I was a child, right?"
Mr. and Mrs. Mann were both speechless.
When she finished saying those words, Ruth was already crying. "I suddenly understand it now. The reason why you had educated me like this when I was young, was that you were afraid that one day, when I grew up and became suspicious of you, I would go get a DNA paternity test. Therefore, you tried every way to raise me to be a dim-witted person!
"As long as I was raised to be a dim-witted person...
"I would never think of doing a DNA paternity test, would I?"
Mr. and Mrs. Mann had indeed been thinking like that.
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