Translator: SJade, Editor: Dj22031
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Ever since Shen Junyu took Wen Xiyao to have a meal with Chu Yunrong, Chu Yunrong had liked Wen Xiyao very much and would call Wen Xiyao from time to time. She had just made an appointment with Wen Xiyao for lunch at noon.
“Auntie, I’m sorry, I’m late.” Wen Xiyao said apologetically.
Chu Yunrong waved her hand, “No, I’m here early. Sit down quickly. I see that your face is a bit haggard. Have you been tired from work recently?”
Wen Xiyao’s face was indeed not very good-looking. She had been busy with a case recently and had already not had a good rest for more than a week. She originally wanted to take a rest in the office at noon, but she received an invitation from Chu Yunrong.
“I probably didn’t sleep well last night.” Wen Xiyao touched her face and said nonchalantly.
“Girl, you shouldn’t work so hard. Look at how thin you are. I thought my Qinglan was thin, but you are even thinner than her.” Chu Yunrong muttered, “You young girls all like to be slim now, and so do aunties. But you also have to pay attention to your health, you know?”
Wen Xiyao kept a gentle smile on her face and was not impatient with Chu Yunrong at all, “Auntie, I was born thin, but I actually have a good appetite.”
The two of them talked and laughed while eating, and they had a lot of topics of conversation. Wen Xiyao was a very good talker and could always say one or two sentences just right, so that Chu Yunrong would not feel that she was talking to herself alone. She thought to herself that after having met several times, Chu Yunrong was very satisfied with Wen Xiyao. She had also mentioned it to Shen Qian and Mr. Shen a few times. Now the entire Shen family knew that there was such a person, and Shen Junyu was very helpless about it, there was really nothing between him and Wen Xiyao, but it seemed that his mother always wanted to pair them up.
After eating, Chu Yunrong originally wanted the driver to pick her up, but Wen Xiyao said that she could see her off. Naturally, Chu Yunrong did not want it, but she could only agree.
When she arrived at the entrance of the compound, Chu Yunrong saw Shen Xitong at the door. This was the first time Chu Yunrong saw Shen Xitong since she came out of the hospital.
She waited at the door of the compound, but did not go in. In fact, it was not that Shen Xitong didn’t want to go in, but that she couldn’t get in at all now. The Shen family had greeted the guards at the door and told them not to let Shen Xitong in if she came in the future, so they never let her in. It was the first time that Shen Xitong, who could enter and leave here freely, was turned away. Shen Xitong was so angry that she wanted to leave on the spot, but thinking of her situation, she endured it again. She needed Chu Yunrong’s help.
She had called Chu Yunrong, but it kept showing that the phone was turned off, so she could only come to the entrance of the compound to block her.
When Chu Yunrong got out of the car, Shen Xitong saw Chu Yunrong and her eyes lit up, “Mom.”
Chu Yunrong looked at the woman in front of her, her adopted daughter who she had loved for more than ten years, with a very complicated expression. She had been reflecting on past these days, and she realized that whether it was through empathy or hypnosis, she had really loved her, and her family members even had objections to her because of her excessive love for her.
She didn’t know that Shen Xitong had already fallen out with the Shen family. Shen Qian just told her that Shen Xitong wanted to live with her biological parents, so she moved out and changed her surname back, so she should be called Li Xitong now.
Shen Qian gave Chu Yunrong a new mobile phone number, so it was normal for Li Xitong to be unable to contact Chu Yunrong during this period. Moreover, now that the Shen family knew Chu Yunrong’s situation, they basically asked Chu Yunrong to keep recuperating at home, thus it was rare for her to go out to have a meal with Wen Xiyao today.
“Mom.” Li Xitong called again and looked at Chu Yunrong with an aggrieved face.
The look on Chu Yunrong’s face was faint, “You’re here, why don’t you come in?”
How could Li Xitong answer this? Could she say that the Shen family wouldn’t let her in? She even doubted whether Chu Yunrong said this on purpose.
“Mom, I miss you. Why don’t you answer my phone calls?” She felt aggrieved. She thought that even if the Shen family didn’t want her, at least Chu Yunrong was sincere to her and would not ignore her.
Chu Yunrong knew in her heart that he had changed her mobile phone number because Shen Qian did not want her to have any contact with Li Xitong. There was such a big fuss on the Internet that Chu Yunrong couldn’t have not known about it, but she deliberately did not pay attention to it every day. Just make tea, grow flowers, or play the piano at home, and don’t pay attention to external things at all.
“Mom, don’t you miss me?” Seeing that Chu Yunrong didn’t respond at all, Li Xitong’s heart felt cold, and a flash of panic appeared in her eyes. Because of the black material leaked on the Internet, her advertising contracts had been cancelled. Not only that, but she also had to compensate those advertisers a large amount of money. Even all her savings were not enough. And those advertisers, as if they had made an appointment, were calling her every day to urge her to pay back the money. Otherwise, they would go to court and sue her. The family was in a mess. These days were really more painful for Li Xitong than the past twenty years combined.
Now she realized more clearly that after leaving the Shen family, she had nothing at all, and even her position in the orchestra had been replaced. The reason was that her current reputation was not conducive to the development of the orchestra.
Although Chu Yunrong was managing the orchestra before, she did not start it alone. She could not be the only one to speak for her. In the past, Li Xitong had no stain on her body and performed well. And Chu Yunrong wanted to promote her, so naturally there were people, who would give her face, but things were different now. Some people had already heard the rumours. Li Xitong had been kicked out by the Shen family. Now, Li Xitong did not live in the Shen family but lived with her biological parents, which seemed to confirm the authenticity of the rumours. So, Li Xitong, who used to be like a fish in water in the orchestra, was now struggling.
After holding on for a while, she couldn’t hold it anymore and had no choice but to come to Chu Yunrong.
“Mom, I miss you very much. I heard you were sick before. I went to the hospital to see you, but father wouldn’t let me in. I know father is blaming me, but mom, please believe me. What I said on the Internet is true. I didn’t do it, I didn’t harm my sister, and I didn’t do anything to shame the Shen family.”
Li Xitong cried, her expression was haggard, and her silent crying was very distressing. Chu Yunrong felt very sad, but she didn’t step forward to comfort her as she always did.
Wen Xiyao had been sitting in the car watching the show. She naturally knew this woman, but she didn’t expect to see her today. To be honest, she was not as beautiful as in the photos. This was the conclusion Wen Xiyao came to after meeting Li Xitong.
“Auntie, who is this?” Wen Xiyao got out of the car, held Chu Yunrong’s arm, and asked with a smile.
“This is…” Chu Yunrong originally wanted to say it was her daughter, but when the words came to her lips, it became “Li Xitong.”
Li Xitong’s eyes darkened, the expression in her eyes was dark and unclear, and even the smile on her face turned a little forced.
Wen Xiyao smiled knowingly, “Auntie, let me take you in. It’s very cold standing outside.”
Chu Yunrong nodded and followed Wen Xiyao into the car, “Mom.” Li Xitong called, “Mom, I beg you to help me.”
Li Xitong spoke quickly, regardless of the presence of outsiders. She was afraid that Chu Yunrong would really leave if she didn’t speak.
Chu Yunrong paused and looked at Li Xitong. As soon as Li Xitong’s eyes lit up, she knew that Chu Yunrong still liked her and would definitely not ignore her.
“Mom, I’m being pestered to pay off my debts by advertisers. They said they will sue me if I don’t pay back the money. Can you help me for the sake of our being a mother and daughter pair for more than ten years?”
Li Xitong’s posture was not calm. It was very low. Chu Yunrong felt very distressed when she saw Li Xitong like this. After all, she was the daughter she had raised for more than ten years. It was definitely a lie that she didn’t have any fluctuations in her heart. But when she thought about what she had done to Shen Qinglan, she felt so distressed, that all the fluctuation just disappeared without a trace.
“I can’t help you with your matter.” Chu Yunrong said slowly.
“No, Mom, you can, as long as you want. Mom, do you really believe that I did what happened online?” Li Xitong’s eyes were filled with tears.
It would have been better if Li Xitong didn’t mention those things on the Internet. As soon as she mentioned it, Chu Yunrong remembered it. She looked directly at Li Xitong, “Tong Tong, ask yourself, how have I treated you over the years? I treated you as my biological daughter, but how did you treat Qinglan? She is my daughter. When you did those things to her, did you ever think about the motherly bond between us?”
Li Xitong put away her words. The look on her face was pitiful, but her eyes gradually turned cold, “Mom, after all, you just don’t believe me, and you believe that I did those things. You always said that you treat me as your biological daughter, but if you really treat me as your biological daughter, how could you give up on me now?”
Li Xitong looked at Chu Yunrong and continued, “Do you think your daughter Shen Qinglan is really that innocent? Compared to me, she is much more cruel. She took away the man I loved most, and she also took away everything that originally belonged to me. It is because of her that I am ruined now. The kind-hearted daughter you think is actually a duplicitous and extremely hypocritical green tea bitch.”
“Pa.”
Li Xitong looked at Chu Yunrong in disbelief, “You hit me because I told the truth?”
Chu Yunrong looked at her hands in confusion, as if she couldn’t believe what she had just did. She actually hit her, but just now, when she heard Li Xitong say something bad about Shen Qinglan, a surge of anger surged in her heart, and she had already moved her hand without even realizing it.
“Tong Tong, I…” Chu Yunrong softened her expression.
“Auntie, I called Qinglan yesterday. She seemed to be sick. Is she feeling better now?” Wen Xiyao suddenly spoke, interrupting what Chu Yunrong was about to say.
“Ah?” Chu Yunrong was at a loss for a moment, and then she realized what Wen Xiyao had said, and her face became anxious, “Qinglan is sick? How could she suddenly become ill?”
“I don’t know, I wanted to invite her to dinner, so I called her, but found that her voice was wrong, and then I found out that she had a fever. I thought aunt knew about it, but now it seems that you didn’t know.” Wen Xiyao said a little apologetically.
Hearing that Shen Qinglan had a fever, Chu Yunrong couldn’t care less about anything. “Why doesn’t this child know how to come home when she is sick? She has to hold on by herself.”
Chu Yunrong muttered, and then thought about it, Shen Qinglan spent her childhood in the orphanage. So, maybe she had managed to survive like this since she was sick since she was a child. She was so distressed that she couldn’t care about Li Xitong, so she just pulled Wen Xiyao and wanted to leave.
“Mom, are you really so cruel?” Li Xitong shouted from behind. Chu Yunrong paused but did not turn around. “Xitong, I have something to do now. I will discuss your matter another day.”
Wen Xiyao turned her head and rushed to Li Xitong, smiled and followed Chu Yunrong.
Seeing the car disappear before her eyes, Li Xitong’s face turned completely gloomy.
Wen Xiyao sent Chu Yunrong to Jiangxin Yayuan. Shen Qinglan was very surprised when she saw Chu Yunrong, “Mom, why are you here?”
Chu Yunrong pulled Shen Qinglan and looked her up and down, then she put her hand on her forehead and said, “Why don’t you go to the hospital when you have a fever? What’s the point of holding on by yourself? Don’t you know how to call your mother?”
Shen Qinglan heard this inexplicably, but only saw Wen Xiyao blinking at her. She blinked and mouthed “Li Xitong”. Although Shen Qinglan didn’t understand, she guessed that this was an excuse made by Wen Xiyao, and said cooperatively, “Mom, it was just a little cold. I took medicine and slept. It’s all healed. There’s no problem at all now.”
Chu Yunrong had just probed Shen Qinglan’s forehead, and naturally knew that the temperature was normal, but she still felt uneasy, “How about we go to the hospital to check again, even though it’s just a minor cold. But we can’t be careless.”
“No, I’m really fine,” Shen Qinglan refused. In fact, she still hadn’t adapted to Chu Yunrong’s sudden change. She thought for a while and said, “Mom, I haven’t eaten lunch yet, and I’m hungry now.”
Chu Yunrong immediately said, “I’ll make you something to eat. Just wait. Xiyao, please accompany Qinglan.”
“Okay.” Wen Xiyao responded. When Chu Yunrong went to the kitchen, Wen Xiyao briefly and quickly told Shen Qinglan what had happened, and finally said, “Your adopted sister will never let it go, and she will probably find your mother again.”
Shen Qinglan’s eyes flashed with a faint light, “Thank you, Sister Xiyao, for this matter.”
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