Rebirth of a Wealthy Beauty: A Farming Story

Li Mengze gritted her teeth as she glared at the affectionate couple outside the Civil Affairs Bureau. Did they have to be in such a hurry? The divorce certificates had barely been handed over, and here they were flaunting their intimacy right in front of her.

Fortunately, she had never wanted children. Over the years, she had been so focused on her career, believing she couldn’t manage both work and a family, so she’d insisted on not having any. Otherwise, now with a child, she could easily imagine how this man would resort to any means to fight for custody, and then shamelessly use the child as leverage for support payments. If it were more than a decade ago, before the Li family’s collapse, how would this damned upstart ever dare such a thing? Divorce would have been out of the question—he would be lucky just to kiss the tip of her shoe.

But this wretched man could never have guessed that the so-called bankruptcy of the Li family was nothing but a smokescreen. The family simply shifted from being out in the open to operating in the shadows. After all, when a tree grows tall, its branches spread; when a family prospers, it divides. To prevent the younger generation from coming to blows over inheritance, it was better to divide the assets while the elders still had the strength to guide and support them onto the right path. Then the older generation could spend their remaining years in peace.

She hadn’t expected, though, that the division of the family would cause such a stir, with rumors of the Li family’s bankruptcy spreading like wildfire. Uncles an