“That’s enough. I’ll pretend that I don’t know what you and Mother did,” Helan Fangnian interrupted, frustrated. “Xiuse... As a woman, first, you must be kind; second, you must be composed...”
Helan Xiuse’s eyes reddened. “You tell to be kind, but what about Qingsi?” she said. “She’s so rotten. How could you still like her?”
Helan Fangnian paused to look at Helan Xiuse for a while. “She’s not rotten... She was once the kindest girl in the world,” he said, expression stony. “She went through things that you have never experienced, and you wouldn’t want to experience. Her character today was forcefully shaped by the people around her. Don’t compare your circumstances to hers.”
Helan Xiuse blinked; tears stread down her cheeks. She cald down and extended a hand to clutch onto Helan Fangnian’s. “I’m sorry, Brother,” she said. “I was wrong. I shouldn’t be comparing myself to Qingsi. Please don’t be mad at .”
“You’re all grown up. When it cos to Mother’s words, you have to learn to differentiate between the right and the wrong yourself,” Helan Fangnian sighed. “Listen to what should be right, but you cannot heed her words when they are wrong.”
Helan Xiuse nodded. “Okay.
“But Mother said that we have to invite Mrs. Yue and Tingfeng to the charity auction dinner. But we don’t know if they’ll go. What should we do?”
“It’s their choice to go or not. We don’t have a right to dictate their decision.”
“Okay...”
...
Only the trio was left in the living room. Yan Qingsi quietly ate a slice of waterlon. “Aren’t you going to talk to ?”
Yue Tingfeng cleared his throat. “Hmm, we should be talking, eh? Mom, let’s not go to this charity dinner. There’s no point in going.”
Mrs. Yue nodded her head in agreent. “I agree. Let’s not go.”
Yan Qingsi cast a side-glance at Yue Tingfeng. “Don’t think that I’m stupid.”
Yue Tingfeng rubbed his nose. “It’s nothing. It’s none of my business anyway. I’ll tell you what happened...”
He told Yan Qingsi what happened during the night before he went to Hai city when he encountered Helan Fangnian. “And that’s what happened,” he said. “I never touched a single hair on her head from beginning to end. Later I saw right through that little sche she pulled at the door, so I didn’t fall from it from the start. But I didn’t do anything though. It’s strange that those two siblings apologized.”
Yan Qingsi and Mrs. Yue both looked at Yue Tingfeng, silent.
Yue Tingfeng shivered under the two’s stares. “Don’t look at like that. I’m telling the truth. It has absolutely nothing to do with .”
Yan Qingsi reached out to pinch Yue Tingfeng’s chin. “Gee... How did I not notice that you were this attractive?”
Yue Tingfeng grabbed Yan Qingsi’s hand. “Don’t speak such nonsense. I don’t think she likes . She just wants to sabotage .”
Mrs. Yue’s expression darkened.
Yue Tingfeng noticed it. “Mom, what’s wrong?” he asked.
Mrs. Yue slamd a hand on the table. “Zhang Suya—that b*tch. She tried to sabotage even you—I won’t let her get away with it. We’ll go to that charity dinner. We must.”
“Mom – You—”
“You idiots,” Mrs. Yue huffed coldly. “And you call yourselves clever. It’s so obvious that she wants to bla you for everything, then marry her daughter off into the Yue family. This sche has been used so often it’s getting dull.”
Mrs. Yue knew, not because she was clever enough, but because Mrs. Helan happened to use this ruse before. That was why... Mrs. Yue rembered it so clearly.
However, Mrs. Helan only told her daughter to probe around this ti. She was not really scheming.
Still, who knew if the real deal would co later?
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