Rebirth Counterattack with Space
Chapter 397 - 383: Swan VS Toad

Chapter 397: Chapter 383: Swan VS Toad

"Mom, after being harmed by that old hag, do you really expect me to be able to find a wife around here?" Su Kair glanced at Chen Juxiang with a resentful gaze and mocked.

"...Let’s think carefully, don’t set the bar too high. You’re handsome, maybe there’s still a girl who’d be willing,"

He Damei paused for a moment, hesitant and uncertain, "Don’t worry, as long as there’s a girl willing to marry into our family, even if she’s an ugly freak, I’d treasure her like a swan."

"Treating people like ancestors doesn’t help," Su Kai retorted with a cold laugh.

"Mom, do you think I haven’t tried? I started scheming since middle school. To find a girl willing to jump into our family’s pit, I even targeted one who was fat and unattractive, courting her for a whole semester. Just when that girl was hopelessly devoted to your son, her family noticed and you have no idea how ruthlessly they acted, do you?"

His eyes bloodshot, his face twisted into a grimace as he recalled the past.

"How ruthlessly?"

Whatsaw in her son’s expression scared the wits out of He Damei; she asked cautiously, fearing he might do something irrational. Both Su Lao Liu and the third elder of the Su family looked over, waiting expectantly for him to continue.

"Hmph, her family immediately made her drop out of school and locked her in the house for three days without food. They forced her to swear never to see me again and made threats of crippling me if I dared come within ten steps of her, saying even a widower in the deepest valleys wouldn’t be allowed to marry her, refusing to let her bring shame upon her entire clan.

Unsatisfied, her brothers and cousins took turns from that day on to block me and keep an eye on me, afraid I’d secretly meet the girl again. They’d point at my nose and curse me daily, ’a toad lusting after swan meat.’ This went on for over half a year, until that girl was casually married off far away. After that, no girl in my class would come near me."

Su Kai stood up, turned in place a couple of times, and then hurled the stool he was sitting on in Chen Juxiang’s direction. The stool landed not far behind Chen Juxiang, kicking up dust and startling her so much that the pig feed bucket in her hand fell to the ground, spilling feed everywhere. She sat down on the ground with a pale and terrified face.

Nobody paid attention to Chen Juxiang’s fright. It was also because everyone could see that Su Kai had held back and hadn’t truly lost his reason. The distance was not too far; if he had intended to, the stool could have really hit Chen Juxiang.

He Damei dropped the vegetable basin and rushed over to embrace Su Kai, "Xiaokai, let’s not be angry, not be angry... Why didn’t you come back and tell us at the time?"

"Would coming back to tell do any good? Would you go over to their house and fight them? Could you beat them? Or were you looking for more reasons to disgrace our family in Yushu Village?"

He Damei was instantly at a loss for words.

After venting his emotions, Su Kai had begun to calm down, but He Damei’s words raised his voice a few notches again as he pointed at Chen Juxiang.

"Those people said I was ’a toad lusting after swan meat,’ do you understand? Grandfather, father, mother, if it weren’t for this old hag, I might now be the swan, and our family could have risen along with the Lu Family.

Lu Yun is my blood cousin, my grandfather’s granddaughter. If my aunt had wanted to remarry and this old wretch hadn’t played tricks and fooled my cousin into drinking rat poison to stop her, the two families would not have become deadly enemies. Even if my cousin had followed my aunt in remarriage, she might not have necessarily taken a new surname.

After all, she was my uncle’s only child. Even if she did take a new name, given that her blood relation to us is clear, and considering how much Lu Aiguo adored her, if the Lu Family had prospered, they wouldn’t have treated the Su Family like this. Perhaps we would have been regarded in a particularly different way."

"Don’t even mention Lu Aiguo, just a single hair from Lu Yun’s body could have ensured our entire Su Family a lifetime of luxury. Sadly, all of those possibilities were destroyed by that old wretch’s bottle of rat poison."

Su Kai said it all in one breath, gasping for air, trying to calm his raging anger, but the harder he breathed, the more suffocated he felt, causing his heart and liver to ache.

We could have been swans, living a life of superiority in the village with the help of the Lu Family, with the help of Lu Yun’s influence. Instead, we were twisted into the fate of toads. Who could swallow such a change without feeling bitter?

The words of Su Kai left everyone in a moment of silence.

Over the years, mentioning Lu Yun had become taboo in the Su Family. Although Su Kai’s words were not always spoken out loud, in truth, they had been circulating in everyone’s minds countless times.

If it weren’t for Chen Juxiang’s malicious bottle of rat poison, Su Yun—no, now it should be Lu Yun—if she dared to ignore her own family as she does now, even the wealthy Lu Aiguo would be in the wrong.

Unfortunately, there are no what-ifs. Chen Juxiang made a definite move back then, and they all regret not having had the chance to stop her...

At this moment, the other members of the Su Family had completely forgotten that they had actually approved of Chen Juxiang’s actions back in the day, even giving her a push behind the scenes...

"Xiaokai, my poor Xiaokai, no wonder you changed so drastically all those years ago," He Damei said as she wiped away her tears.

"It’s all the fault of that damned old hag, she’s made our lives miserable. Not only you but also your grandpa, your dad, and me, your mom. These past years, my family has refused to associate with us because of this, and I have accepted it. I can’t blame them."

Back then, I couldn’t bear for you to lose your mother at such a young age, but inadvertently, I caused your maternal grandparents, uncles, and aunts to look down on us for being related through marriage. The Su Family has dragged them down, how could I possibly blame them? But now, with no girls willing to marry you, what are we going to do?"

Su Laoliu, whose spirits had just lifted because the Lu Family had softened towards them, felt his mood sour again when he saw Chen Juxiang still shivering on the ground. He wanted to rush over and beat her up.

"Grandpa—"

Su Kai quickly stopped him, "Don’t lay a hand on her these next few days. If that old wretch makes a fuss and ruins the festive mood, the Lu Family will start to disdain us."

Instantly stopping in his tracks, Su Laoliu kicked the ground in frustration, then let out a defeated sigh, "Ah—"

"Then what do you think we should do?" Su Family’s Old Third looked up and asked his son in a low voice.

"I’m thinking of going out to make my own way," Su Kai said through gritted teeth.

"No way, you’ve never been far from home. What if you get tricked by someone?"