"Daddy’s badass baby girl!"

Without even thinking, Jiang Boya gave Kang Li a like. Seeing that, Kang Li was stunned for a moment, then her beautiful eyes widened: "That’s what you really think? You don’t feel like I’m being unfilial and outrageous? I mean, no matter what, that woman did give birth to me, and she was your first love."

Before Jiang Boya could speak, Kang Li’s tone was already showing some dislike: "Can’t you just say I’m mighty and domineering? ’Badass’ feels a bit crude to me, not very presentable."

"Hey! Who says so? In Daddy’s heart, ’badass’ means you’re awesome, it’s completely a compliment, especially when it’s used on you. It doesn’t have even the slightest negative meaning!"

Jiang Boya’s refined, handsome face was full of smiles. His gaze was full of doting affection, and his voice when he spoke was like the sound of the finest cello—low, pleasant, and extremely nice to listen to.

"As for you saying you’re being unfilial, that depends on whether she’s even worthy of being called a mother. Since she was able to abandon you back then, and years later she came at you swinging without even figuring out what was going on, and got sent back with a slap from you, she has no one to blame. She had it coming!"

His voice suddenly turned cold. The smile disappeared from Jiang Boya’s face, and his brows and eyes were filled with chill: "Back then when I was with her, there was no ’parents’ orders and matchmakers’ words’, and we never had a proper wedding ceremony.

And the moment she abandoned you and married someone else, she was already completely unrelated to me. So even if one day she finds out you’re the child she abandoned back then,

and wants to acknowledge you, just listen to Daddy: feel free to spit in her face if you’re in the mood. Don’t make things harder on yourself by recognizing this so‑called birth mother who only gave birth but never raised you."

"Spitting in her face isn’t necessary. I never planned to have even the slightest connection with that so‑called birth mother anyway. As long as she doesn’t show up in front of me spouting nonsense, I’ll just treat her like a stranger. Otherwise, if she crosses the line with her words or actions, I still won’t be polite to her."

Kang Li used the calmest tone to say the coldest words.

"That’s how it should be." Jiang Boya was relieved. He nodded, then casually played dumb and asked, "You mentioned that little buddy of yours and your birth mother seem to have something going on between them?"

Hearing this, Kang Li didn’t think much of it and directly told him what Fang Su had done to Feng Yi. In the end she said, "Every single one of them in that family is heartless. It’s been years since Feng Yi last contacted his family.

His so‑called mother acts like she never gave birth to this son. His so‑called father and brothers just pretend there’s no such person as Feng Yi in the family. They don’t look for him and just live their own lives in peace.

If I were Feng Yi, faced with a family like that, I’d definitely make the same choice: cut off all ties and never have anything to do with them for the rest of my life!"

Jiang Boya wasn’t surprised when he heard this: "That woman has always put her own interests above everything else. For her, being able to secure her footing in the Feng family and to win over the male head of the Feng family by pleasing his stepchildren while completely neglecting her own son—there’s nothing more normal than that."

"Daddy."

Kang Li called out to Jiang Boya.

"Mm?"

Meeting Kang Li’s gaze, Jiang Boya asked, "What is it?"

"That girl I accidentally saved overseas before... she’s actually the daughter Lady Fang recognized for herself." Hearing this, Jiang Boya froze for a second, his expression turning grave: "Judging by your tone, you know her?"

Kang Li nodded: "Not only do I know her, we grew up in the same village. Her original name was Xu Chunxia. After Lady Fang recognized her as a daughter, she changed her name to Jiang Lei. Before I turned eighteen, she and I could be considered very good friends, but in the year I turned eighteen, because of something that happened, I cut ties with that Xu Chunxia."

Jiang Boya: "You don’t happen to feel guilty, do you? Like it’s your fault that girl got dragged into your birth mother’s schemes and almost lost her life abroad?"

"I don’t think that."

Kang Li shook her head and said, "Lady Fang recognized a daughter for herself out of selfish motives, and as I see it, Xu Chunxia almost died in a foreign country because of her own greed.

In our village, whenever someone has a baby and when exactly it was born, the whole village knows clearly in no time. Xu Chunxia was born by her mother right out in the fields.

This is something she must have heard the villagers mention. But after she came to North City, she suddenly went and recognized herself a new mom. I don’t believe she didn’t have a clue in her heart."

"Then you..." What are you getting at?

Bewilderment flashed in Jiang Boya’s eyes. 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

"I just think it’s a bit too coincidental that Xu Chunxia got recognized as a daughter by Lady Fang." Kang Li frowned slightly. "Why is it that Lady Fang randomly picks a girl to recognize as her daughter, and that girl just happens to be from the same village as me?"