Chen Liuyue watched the scene before her calmly.
Wu Peihua had already trotted over and quickly helped Chen Ruanruan, who was kneeling on the ground, to her feet.
When she looked up, her face was full of displeasure directed at Chen Liuyue.
"Chen Liuyue! You've really gone too far!"
"How could you make Ruanruan kneel to you?"
"No matter what conflicts exist between you sisters, can't you sit down and talk it out calmly? Is this how Teacher Jin raised you from childhood?"
The last sentence was particularly severe.
These were words from a biological mother to her own biological daughter.
The corner of Chen Liuyue's lips curved up slightly.
It was a good thing she had no heart.
She wouldn't care.
She retorted lightly, "I don't know. Did Mom teach Sister from childhood to kneel for people at the drop of a hat?"
By now, Chen Ruanruan had been helped up by Wu Peihua.
Tugging at Wu Peihua's sleeve with a sob in her voice, she whispered,
"Mom, Liuyue didn't bully me."
"It's just that I feel wronged. I feel wronged for you!"
Wu Peihua was confused. "What do you mean?"
Chen Ruanruan seemed to reveal it unintentionally:
"I heard that Grandpa might give the shares originally meant for you to Liuyue."
"Grandpa is so biased. Is it just because Liuyue looks like Aunt Lihua?"
"He favored Auntie back then, and now he favors Liuyue. I just feel it's so unfair for you, Mom!"
She was actually distorting the facts.
Deliberately trying to equate Chen Liuyue with Wu Lihua in Wu Peihua's mind.
To plant an insurmountable chasm and a knot in Wu Peihua's heart.
Chen Ruanruan did it on purpose.
But upon hearing this, Wu Peihua's whole body stiffened.
"Really? Is Dad really going to give all the shares to Liuyue?"
Chen Ruanruan wiped the corner of her eye and said with her head lowered, "I heard it from Miss Jin. Her grandmother and Grandma are good friends. It shouldn't be wrong."
Wu Peihua's expression was complicated.
The figure of Chen Liuyue before her gradually blurred, as if the image of her younger sister, Wu Lihua, had surfaced again.
The most unwilling, most painful thorn in her heart had appeared once more.
Chen Ruanruan quickly added, "I knelt just now because I wanted Liuyue to refuse Grandpa about this matter. Mom, the Wu family shares are rightfully yours!"
Wu Peihua seemed a little dazed.
But she still tightened her grip on Chen Ruanruan's cold hand, nodded, and praised,
"Good child, Mom hasn't spoiled you for nothing all these years."
"But you didn't have to kneel."
Chen Ruanruan said softly again, "I was afraid Liuyue wouldn't agree."
Wu Peihua said subconsciously, "Why wouldn't she agree..."
Then she turned to look at Chen Liuyue, this still somewhat unfamiliar biological daughter, and asked,
"You will refuse the shares Grandpa wants to give you, right?"
Chen Liuyue glanced at Chen Ruanruan with a faint, mocking smile.
She defeated the mother-daughter pair with just one sentence.
"Then will Chen Ruanruan refuse the Chen family shares Dad gave her?"
Chen Ruanruan: "..."
Wu Peihua: "How did you know about that!"
Chen Liuyue delivered another silent blow to Chen Ruanruan's heart.
"Everyone knows the Qin family agreed to the marriage alliance because Dad gave Chen Ruanruan family shares."
"She's not even of Chen blood, yet she can accept the Chen family shares without a qualm."
"I'm Grandpa's own granddaughter, of the same bloodline. Why can't I take them?"
After saying that, she turned and walked away.
Her movements were crisp and decisive, with a certain dashing air.
Ignoring the mother and daughter standing like statues rooted to the spot.
She sneered inwardly: Hah! Is that all the fighting spirit they've got?! I wouldn't even blink if three more came.
...
Before going to bed at night.
She received a text message from Qin Xuanye.
"I will propose to break off the engagement with Ruanruan after she returns from her hometown."
Chen Liuyue: "Brother-in-law, that's your own business. You have no obligation to inform me."
Qin Xuanye: "I am not your brother-in-law!"
Chen Liuyue rolled her eyes.
Less than three seconds later, he sent two more messages.
"I am... Ah Xuan."
"Yours."
Chen Liuyue: "Can't afford you!"
Ding dong—
A new message popped up.
Wei Miao: "You little heartless one, not even saying goodnight to me in the evening?"
Chen Liuyue curled her lips, her fingers tapping as she replied:
"Brother Wei, that's a bit too intimate."
Wei Miao: "Hmm?"
Chen Liuyue: "Think about what 'goodnight' means when you break it down."
Wanan~
Wei Miao: "Are you really going back to the hometown with Chen Ruanruan?"
Chen Liuyue: "That topic change was a bit forced."
Wei Miao: "I'm afraid you'll get bullied."
Chen Liuyue: "Do you think I can be bullied?!"
True.
Even if Chen Ruanruan were bullied into a pulp, Chen Liuyue wouldn't be bullied.
She had the ability to protect herself.
Like... resilient grass.
No matter what pressure or blows the outside world dealt, she could always stubbornly stretch out a shoot from the crevice of a cliff and grow slowly.
Wei Miao: "Alright then, goodnight."
Chen Liuyue: "Do you like me?"
On the other end of WeChat.
Wei Miao nearly dropped the phone he was holding.
That was too blunt.
It instantly made him blush, not knowing how to respond.
They had only met twice.
Was it this fast?
Is this how you date? He had never dated before.
But in TV dramas, don't the male and female leads have to go back and forth for over thirty episodes before getting together?
Wei Miao panicked.
Visibly panicked.
Another message came through.
Chen Liuyue: "Brother Wei, I quite like you. Goodnight."
That's it?
Just like that...
Nothing more.
She flirts and then runs?!
Wei Miao stared blankly at his phone screen, his fingertips trembling slightly, perhaps from excitement.
Actually, he could tell that Chen Liuyue didn't like him.
Nor did she like Qin Xuanye.
She only liked herself.
She only loved herself.
A refined egoist. And men like them were like little cats and dogs she could play with in Chen Liuyue's eyes.
She'd coax them and pat their heads when she was happy.
Including today, that's what she did.
She orchestrated the fight between him and Qin Xuanye with one hand, standing by and laughing heartily as they fought.
A bona fide enchantress.
A bad woman.
Wei Miao hated being used and hated being deceived. He should have been angry today.
But because it was Chen Liuyue, he couldn't muster any anger at all.
He even absurdly had a thought: Why didn't she find someone else to provoke Qin Xuanye, why only me?
Could it be because... she likes me just a little bit?
But Chen Liuyue's eyes held no trace of him.
It was precisely this indifference that made him even more obsessed.
A bright, high-hanging moon, seemingly within reach yet actually hundreds of thousands of miles away.
But you're still unwilling to give up.
Because that moon is so beautiful.
She casts a soft glow upon you, and you can feel her gaze.
Wei Miao realized he might be sick.
Because he wanted to be shameless!
He actually felt a greedy desire to touch that moon.
Perhaps he could become the special one in her eyes?
