After the Fake Heiress Returned to the Village, I Slacked Off and Let My Ungrateful Adoptive Family Starve

Ten years ago, a group of people came to the village entrance and said I was the real daughter of the Prime Minister.

By chance, my mother was gravely ill at the time, so I didn't go back with them. I devoted myself to caring for her.

Ten years later, the Prime Minister was arrested and imprisoned. With nowhere else to go, the fake daughter was taken in by my mother.

I paid her no mind. I kept going out to sea to fish as usual, saving up tuition for my younger siblings and supporting the whole family.

But when I came home today, I heard my parents talking:

"The eldest is about to get married. What about her dowry..."

My mother cut him off, clutching a red box like it was a treasure.

"This is all the dowry I have. It has to go to Shang Shang!"

"She lived in luxury in the Prime Minister's residence for half her life. She must be struggling to adjust. As her birth mother, this is all I can give her!"

My father hesitated. "Then how about giving the eldest one of the rooms in the house? After all, she earned the money to build it. Besides, you were the one who pretended to be ill back then, just so she would stay in this little fishing village..."

My mother refused. "No! Our own daughter is back now. Jiang Ling is still an outsider!"

I stood outside the door, chewing over the word "outsider," feeling cold all over.

The next day, for the first time in my life, I slept until the sun was high in the sky.

No one could have imagined that the hardest-working girl in the entire fishing village would completely give up and stop doing anything!