She opened it and found not an application form, but several printed pages. As she read the contents, she nearly fainted.
It clearly detailed all the bad deeds she had committed when she impersonated the Wu family's daughter. The person also knew that if it weren't for an accident, the Wu family members would have been killed by her to cover up the truth.
Wu Xiufang's hands trembled as she held the papers. She immediately turned and went back to her room, glaring fiercely at the maid who had delivered the package, afraid the maid might have seen something.
The maid, startled, quickly went about her business, not knowing what she had done wrong.
Wu Xiufang locked her room door and reread the papers several times, afraid she was mistaken. She looked at the envelope containing the papers, which looked like a delivery from a company. However, upon closer inspection, the label was not a delivery slip at all, but a fake one filled with the recipient's address, with no sender information.
Wu Xiufang immediately took photos of the papers and sent them to Old Shi, unsure of what to do.
Besides these papers, the person had made no demands, and she had no idea where to find them.
Thinking of something, she rushed out of the room and loudly called for the maid who had just delivered the package.
The maid came out and asked cautiously, "Madam, do you need anything?"
Wu Xiufang asked sternly, "When you received the package, what did the delivery person look like?"
"The person was riding a motorcycle. It looked like a young man wearing a helmet, so I couldn't see his face," the maid replied hurriedly.
Wu Xiufang asked again, "Did he have any company logos on him, and what did he say?"
The maid thought for a moment and said, "No company logos. He just handed me the package and said nothing."
Wu Xiufang waved the maid away impatiently and returned to her room. She saw Old Shi's reply on her phone: "You must find this person."
She couldn't afford to wait and immediately called Old Shi back. She blurted out, "It's Zhu Qin and her son! Zhu Qin and her son are here for revenge. They won't let me go. What should I do now?"
"Don't panic. If this person knows everything, why haven't they come forward to expose you to the media or given the evidence to the police?" Old Shi analyzed calmly. "Sending something like this to threaten you means they have an agenda. Let's wait and see what this person wants."
Wu Xiufang felt panicked and her head ached. She felt she was on the verge of a breakdown and said, "You want me to wait? I'm suffering every second without knowing what this person wants!"
"Chun Xing, where is your usual composure..."
"Shao Hua is gone. Is this truly Heaven's punishment for me?" Wu Xiufang couldn't calm down. "And now this has happened. Retribution has arrived..."
"Who was it that said they didn't believe in retribution and would change their destiny by any means necessary?" Old Shi said calmly. "You did it. Isn't it ridiculous to talk about retribution now? No one could expose you before, let alone now. It'll be fine."
"Yes, it'll be fine. Nothing will happen." Wu Xiufang didn't want to go back to her old self. She had long been accustomed to being the elegant and dignified lady of the Huangfu family.
So many years had passed, and she had almost forgotten those distant events. She never expected someone to bring them all back when she was completely unprepared.
Old Shi said again on the phone, "Since the person impersonated a delivery driver to deliver the package, there will be surveillance cameras along the way. I will do everything I can to find out who this person is."
"Okay." Wu Xiufang regained her former decisive and ruthless demeanor. "Once you find that person, make them disappear forever."
"Understood." Old Shi hung up without further ado.
Wu Xiufang gripped her phone tightly, taking deep breaths to calm herself.
She remembered that back then, she was the golden phoenix of her village, the only girl from the small mountain village to ever be admitted to a prestigious city university.
But upon arriving at university and in the big city, she discovered there were too many people more outstanding than her. She was nothing, and no one respected her.
Her diligent studies there were useless. In the eyes of her classmates, she was a joke who understood nothing, and she never got any good opportunities.
During her summer break in her third year, when she returned to the village, she accidentally discovered Zhu Qin's family secret. Zhu Qin, who seemed foolish and even more unsophisticated than her in the village, was actually the daughter of a wealthy merchant in Lancheng.
At that time, she and Zhu Qin were good friends. Zhu Qin had asked her to accompany her to her former maternal grandmother's old house to sort through some belongings.
She inadvertently saw the belongings left by Zhu Qin's mother. While Zhu Qin wasn't paying attention, she secretly hid them and didn't show them to Zhu Qin.
Later, she cautiously asked Zhu Qin about her past and her relationship with her grandmother and mother. She discovered that Zhu Qin had no idea of her true identity.
Neither Zhu Qin's grandmother nor mother had ever told Zhu Qin. She felt her opportunity had arrived.
If she impersonated Zhu Qin to claim kinship with the wealthy family, would she become a rich heiress? With that identity, who would dare to look down on her or mock her?
After this idea sprouted in her mind, she returned to university in the city after the summer break and began to repeatedly familiarize herself with the belongings left by Zhu Qin's mother, thinking about how to successfully claim kinship with the Wu family.
She secretly rehearsed it many times herself. She also considered giving up and telling Zhu Qin about it.
If she let Zhu Qin claim kinship herself, and Zhu Qin became a wealthy merchant's daughter, as good friends, Zhu Qin should help her.
While she was hesitating and wavering, she was mocked by a classmate in her dormitory.
As she returned to the dormitory after evening study, she saw several female classmates gathered together discussing an English original book.
Out of curiosity, she approached them and asked, "What reference book are you discussing?"
A classmate held up the book in her hand and told her to look for herself.
She read out the English title of the book with a very unpolished pronunciation, immediately causing the other female classmates to burst into laughter.
"What book is 'Gone with the Wind'?" Wu Xiufang asked, wanting to blend in with her classmates, enduring their mockery.
A female classmate glanced at her, tilted her head back, and said with disdain, "You don't even know 'Gone with the Wind'? You're such a bumpkin."
The other classmates chimed in, some saying she must have come from some remote mountainous area, truly unsophisticated.
Some even said she had poor hygiene habits, and they felt dirty just being near her bed.
Others said she had a strange smell and that all her clothes were terribly ugly...
Wu Xiufang wished she could disappear into the ground. Filled with sadness and inferiority, she turned and ran out of the dormitory, wandering around the campus like a lost soul.
She hated her parents. Why were they so ignorant and uneducated?
Why wasn't she born in a big city, but in that impoverished countryside?
The schools there, besides teaching from textbooks, offered no opportunities for them to engage with world-renowned English literature, nor did they have English teachers with standard pronunciation.
Every time she took an English exam, her listening comprehension was a blind guess, and her pronunciation was not standard. She was only good at test-taking; her listening and speaking skills were very poor.