HBWMA -Chapter 183 The Beginning of the Truth vs. Lies

Su Miao was practically fuming.

She had finally managed to sneak out of the ceremony, only to find not Shen Guiling—but instead a crazy woman.

The woman had trendy wavy curls, wearing a leopard-print tight camisole, a leather skirt, and short high-heeled boots. Her face was heavily made up, giving off an overall cheap and vulgar impression.

“Seriously, why does the school let just anyone in?” Su Miao muttered unhappily. She took out her phone. “I’m warning you, don’t follow me anymore, or I won’t be polite.”

The woman stared at her face, eyes filled with uncontrollable excitement. “I’m not a bad person, you have to believe me! I—”

She glanced around, then stepped closer and lowered her voice. “I have something very important to tell you.”

The strong smell of cheap perfume made Su Miao recoil repeatedly. “You’re insane.” Without looking back, she turned and ran toward Class Three’s classroom.

Seeing this, the woman hurried after her and grabbed her wrist.

“Let go!” Su Miao was completely enraged. “Do you know who my grandfather is? Believe it or not—”

“I’m your mother!” the woman blurted out before she could run again. She was terrified of missing her chance after waiting so long.

“What?” Su Miao froze for a moment, then her face twisted in disgust. “You’re crazy. Say one more word of nonsense and I’ll have someone tear your mouth apart.”

There were surveillance cameras in the corridor. The woman glanced around cautiously and pointed toward a blind corner by the stairwell. “Let’s talk there.”

“You’re sick.” Su Miao shook off her grip forcefully and stepped back, already preparing to call someone on her phone.

The woman immediately lunged to snatch her phone. Her attitude was forceful. “Go ahead. If you’re not afraid of losing everything, call them. When the Su family comes and finds out you’re a fake daughter, let’s see how you handle it.”

A crazy woman!

Su Miao didn’t believe a single word, but the woman’s grip was too strong and she couldn’t break free. Realizing things were turning bad, she opened her mouth to shout for help.

The woman saw her intention and quickly covered her mouth.

In a rush, she blurted out, “Your birthday is September 19th, and you have a black mole on the side of your lower back, right?”

“……”

Su Miao’s expression shifted slightly, but she quickly steadied herself. “So you really came prepared for me.”

Seeing that she still didn’t believe her, the woman immediately pulled out her phone and opened a password-protected album.

“Look. This is you when you were born. This is your hair as a baby. This is our DNA paternity test.”

The camera on the cheap phone wasn’t very clear, but the infant photo still shocked Su Miao. A newborn baby girl lay naked in the woman’s arms, photographed from multiple angles. The black mole on her waist matched Su Miao’s almost perfectly.

Impossible.

She shook her head and stepped back cautiously, glaring at the woman. “This is fake. The photos are stolen, the documents are fabricated—you’re trying to trick me.”

The woman continued calmly, coaxing her. “Do you want to know what really happened? Let’s talk.”

Su Miao still shook her head firmly. “Get lost.”

The woman glanced at the time, patience thinning. “Fine. If we have nothing to talk about, I’ll go find Mrs. Su. I’m sure she’ll be very interested in who her real daughter is.”

Su Miao’s fingertips trembled slightly. She said nothing, just stared at the woman.

Reason told her this was a scam targeting her—but…

Somehow, she suddenly remembered how relatives at home often joked that she was getting prettier as she grew up, but didn’t really resemble her mother.

The woman softened her tone slightly. “This kind of thing can be verified at a hospital with a test. If I were lying, why would I use such an easily exposed lie? The Su family’s status—you think I’d dare offend them without real proof?”

Su Miao still didn’t respond.

The woman took out a pre-prepared plastic bag from her purse and, on the spot, pulled out a strand of hair and placed it inside before handing it to Su Miao.

“I’m not expecting you to accept me right away today. Since you don’t believe me, you can verify it yourself.”

Su Miao stood in place, her expression guarded.

The woman stepped forward and stuffed the plastic bag into her hand. “My phone number is on the bag. Call me after you see the results.”

Su Miao lifted her gaze, her eyes cold as she stared at the woman.

The woman smiled faintly. “Don’t be nervous. I’m your biological mother. We’re not enemies.”

With that, she patted Su Miao’s shoulder and turned to walk toward the corridor.

Su Miao stared at the plastic bag in her hand, her fingers tightening around it. After a moment, she gritted her teeth and threw it away.

But as she turned around, the blurry, out-of-focus baby photo surfaced in her mind again.

Her body froze once more. She looked back at the plastic bag on the ground, and in the end, she couldn’t suppress the doubt in her heart and slowly crouched down.

At that moment, an unprecedented sense of despair washed over her.

In the classroom, Jiang Huashan sat on her desk, watching everything through the gap in the window.

She looked at Su Miao’s figure in the corridor, her emotions somewhat complicated.

In her previous life, after Su Miao betrayed Zhou Qishan, she became notorious—publicly cursed by everyone and targeted by the Zhou family’s retaliation. Yet the Su family never once stepped forward to protect her. Later, when the Su family expanded their overseas market, Su Miao was treated as a bargaining chip and married off to an old man twenty years older than her.

After that, there was no longer a Su family heiress Su Miao in A Country—only a rising national goddess, Su Yun.

She had originally found it strange. The Su family patriarch clearly liked Su Miao very much; logically, even if he learned that Su Miao was not his biological granddaughter, he shouldn’t have treated a child he had raised for over ten years so harshly. After all, Su Miao had been just a newborn at the time and knew nothing.

But combining it with the current situation, in her previous life, Su Miao most likely learned the truth about her identity early—perhaps at sixteen. Out of fear of losing everything she had, she chose to conspire with her biological mother to deceive the Su family.

If that was true, then everything took on a different meaning.

Su Miao’s mother was just like Fang Mei—both were demons who drained their daughters dry. A true heiress growing up under such care must have suffered greatly. Once the Su family concluded that Su Miao had also participated in the fraud, the more guilty they would feel toward Su Yun, the more hatred they would direct at Su Miao.

So today… was actually the beginning of Su Miao’s descent into an abyss.

【Ding——】

【Congratulations, you have triggered a hidden storyline of the drama: Golden Orchid Arc, “Mountains and Rivers Are Not Worth Much, Only Meeting a Kindred Spirit Matters”】

【Completion condition: Willing to betray oneself for each other once】

【Would you like to bind the current character—Su Miao?】

Another system task?

Jiang Huashan jumped down from the desk, lightly tapping her fingers against it.

Three years had passed, and the main storyline had not deviated at all. If this continued, Shen Jiao’s crisis would likely become completely unmanageable. Without breaking something first, there would be no rebuilding—looks like this time as well, she could only let the story lead her by the nose.

By then, Su Miao had already picked up the plastic bag the woman had left behind.

Jiang Huashan turned around and lay back down again.

“Bind it.”