Every time she looked at the girl's eyebrows or the shape of her jaw, she saw her rival.
When she realized she couldn't kill the child without drawing too much suspicion from the tribe, she decided to hide her beauty instead.
She began to overfeed the girl. At first, the young Su Qinglan would cry and refuse to eat the heavy, greasy portions, but Mu Lihua would settle the matter with two hard slaps to the face. Eventually, the child stopped resisting.
In no time, the girl's weight increased excessively. Mu Lihua also made sure the child's face and clothes were always caked in dirt.
Whenever she saw a glimpse of that beautiful, Wang Mulan-like face peeking through, she would beat the girl again.
"Stay dirty! Stay fat!" she would hiss during those secret beatings.
That was how the original owner of this body had developed the habit of overeating and neglecting her appearance.
She wasn't born a tyrant; she was forced into it by a woman who used food and filth as a cage.
