The Female Cannon Fodder With Boundless Merits
Chapter 555 - 559

Chapter 555: 559

"As for what Lao San left behind..."

Su Li took the lead, cutting off the clan elders before they could speak, "Lu Xi will live with me."

The little boy, whose full name was Luo Luxi, suddenly raised his head in astonishment, his surprised expression endearingly dumbfounded.

His disbelief and shock were clearly written all over his face, obviously caught off guard by Su Li’s words.

Various expressions flitted across his taut little face, but what was conspicuously absent was anticipation.

This was a prematurely mature child who tugged at the heartstrings.

In the memories the original owner had hidden, there was a lot about this child.

In fact, the original owner had already been angered to breathlessness by this pair of char siu buns at the moment Su Li arrived.

Yet for some reason, her soul didn’t follow her two sons or see her dearly loved grandchildren; instead, it stayed with this little grandson she hadn’t paid much attention to.

She couldn’t leave from within ten meters of him.

The original owner followed this child who had been forgotten, his name Luo Luxi, and watched him be driven out of the Luo Family’s doors by his two uncles after she passed away.

She watched him beg along the street, and because of his increasingly outstanding appearance, nearly encounter some dreadful incidents.

She watched his thoughts grow deeper, his schemes more frequent, less and less like a child.

The original owner’s dislike for this child, her own grandson, grew.

Luo Luxi could smile while cruelly breaking the neck of a little friend’s bunny, simply because the little friend had called him a bastard.

Everything he did showed he was nothing less than a devil...

Especially after he entered the Sports Academy with a perfect disguise, and a well-meaning instructor showed wariness from the start, Luo Luxi’s nature became even more twisted, giving the original owner feelings of regret.

Regret for having kept him in her house just because he had a trace of her youngest son’s blood in his veins.

The original owner followed Luo Luxi, watching him transform from an underfed beggar into a suave hypocrite, growing increasingly cold at his cruel disposition.

She feared even more that he would, gaining strength, seek to retaliate against the two uncles who had mistreated him.

However, what the original owner worried about never happened — or more accurately, never had the chance to happen.

Because of the instructor’s wariness at the Sports Academy, Luo Luxi was cut down before he could accomplish anything, while still a budding threat.

Just as the instructor had judged, Luo Luxi wasn’t as perfect and gentlemanly as he appeared.

Luo Luxi was like a villain in a story, his death elevating the reputation of another child at the Sports Academy.

Even though Luo Luxi had not harmed the rest of the Luo Family until his death, the original owner’s revulsion towards him was genuine.

Apart from wishing for her family’s wellbeing and harmony, the original owner also hoped to adopt this unexpected child out.

Previously, a family in the clan who lacked a male heir considered adopting a young boy to support their household and had approached the original owner through the clan elders.

But considering that the boy might be the only surviving bloodline of her third son, she hesitated and eventually refused.

But this time, the original owner truly hoped this little calamity would stay far away from their family.

Could Su Li fulfill her wish? Absolutely not.

In her eyes, considering all the unfair treatment Luo Luxi had endured, it was understandable that his nature had become twisted.

When he was just a tiny infant, no one gave him the chance to choose—could anyone say for certain that he wanted to become a descendant of the Luo Family?

Even after Su Li carefully reviewed the deeply hidden memories of the original owner, going over them again and again, she didn’t find anything truly excessive about Luo Luxi.

Admittedly, he was duplicitous, with no lack of intimidating and threatening tactics.

To fit into the upper echelons of the Sports Academy, he wrapped himself in a perfect façade, bringing adult schemes into a juvenile world, yet he never truly harmed any innocent person.

That self-proclaimed embodiment of justice, the teacher, treated a just-enrolled student with extreme prejudice and guardedness, and those tainted views undoubtedly stabbed deep into the sensitive heart of Luo Luxi, forcing him towards a descent into the abyss.

Then, they would proudly proclaim to the world that their judgment was correct—Luo Luxi, fundamentally, was just a bad kid.

The original owner wanted the whole family together in harmony and smooth sailing, yet Su Li precisely split the home.

She couldn’t care less about the well-being of these cheap, blood-sucking leech-like descendants.

The original owner wanted to send the unlucky star Luo Luxi away through adoption, but Su Li chose to keep him close by her side instead.

If the original owner knew of Su Li’s actions, he probably would regret his own manipulative schemes to the point of turning green with envy.

Demon King Su’s pettiness grew even worse.

Actually, there was another reason—Su Li quite admired the ruthlessness Luo Luxi showed in his eyes, the kind that was willing to do anything for survival.

Compared to those little lambs that needed to be fed to survive, she naturally preferred the wild, untamed little wolf cub—and such a creature captured Su Li’s heart more.

Su Li, someone who wouldn’t suffer even the slightest loss, how could she tolerate these little fleas from the Luo Family sucking her blood?

After conferring with a few of the clan elders, the rules for the household separation were finalized.

The old lady was iron-willed; no matter how strongly Luo Rujiang and Luo Ruhe, the brothers, objected, their voices were ignored.

And Tang Yilan and Yuan Ling, the two sisters-in-law, dared not utter half a word due to their guilt.

By the time they realized what had happened, everything was already set in stone.

The second branch of the family got off relatively well; aside from the house they currently lived in, they also got a newly built large tiled house, and half of the kitchen.

Moreover, with the private savings they had secretly accumulated over the years, they could still get by for the time being.

Now that the domineering matriarch no longer loomed over them like a mountain, the feeling of being able to manage their own household was actually not so bad.

Yuan Ling quickly saw the benefits and thus had less resistance to the decision of household separation.

In comparison to the second branch, the first branch had a lot more to worry about.

First and foremost, there wasn’t enough space in the house for everyone.

A fifteen-and-a-half-year-old boy still sharing a room with his parents—what would people say?

Even the private savings they had siphoned off were not enough to build an extra tiled house, not to mention there were so many mouths waiting to be fed by the head of the household.

For a time, Luo Rujiang was so worried he felt his hair could turn white.

But the division of the household was a matter finalized by the clan elders, and he had no right to question it; besides, with the "good deeds" his own wife had done, he couldn’t put forth any other requests with a straight face.

Even if the old mother was willing, it was unlikely that the second branch would agree.

Once the matter was settled, Su Li waved over that scrawny grandson of hers who resembled a little monkey, "Lu Xi, come here, from now on, you’ll live with Grandma."

Luo Luxi hung his head and hesitated for a long while before slowly taking a few steps towards Su Li.

Su Li didn’t rush him; her smiling eyes watched gently over the wary little cub.