“Baby, are you sleeping with Mommy?” Chen Lin’s eyes were sparkling as she looked at her daughter expectantly.
The memory that suddenly appeared in Yu Yao’s mind suddenly stopped. She was not the original Yu Yao. Logically speaking, she should be filled with a sense of unfamiliarity with Chen Lin. But at this moment, Yu Yao strangely agreed.
She said, “Sure, let’s sleep together, Mom.”
Chen Lin immediately became happy. She was not used to hiding her emotions like normal people. Therefore, her happiness and unhappiness were very obvious.
Yu Yao pulled Chen Lin upstairs and avoided meeting Yu Wan. Yu Yao was not afraid of confronting Yu Wan, but like Yu Hong, she did not want Yu Wan to agitate Chen Lin.
Watching the mother-and-daughter pair walk up the stairs, Yu Hong said to Auntie He, “Open the door and let her in.”
Yu Wan had only waited outside the door for a few minutes, but these few minutes were torture to her heart. She kept thinking about what she should say to persuade Yu Hong and Chen Lin to let her stay in the Yu family.
Finally, the door in front of her opened again. Yu Wan took a deep breath and stepped into this home that she had lived in for almost twenty years but was now rejecting her.
When she saw Yu Hong, she did not explain or defend herself immediately. Instead, she knelt down by his legs and tears fell from her eyes. She looked up at Yu Hong pitifully and said, “Daddy, I’m sorry. I didn’t know things would develop to this point. Now, Eldest Brother and Second Brother don’t acknowledge me anymore. Daddy, please don’t abandon me, okay?”
Yu Hong looked at this young, beautiful, but scheming girl. This was the first time he had sized up this child so seriously in so many years. Back then, he had brought her back to the Yu family to lend his wife some emotional support. However, Chen Lin refused to accept a substitute for a daughter.
Therefore, Yu Hong had never paid attention to this adopted child. He thought that raising a girl would only require money for her to buy beautiful clothes and accessories, arrange the best school for her, and wait for her to grow up before finding a suitable marriage for her. Who knew that the result of letting her grow freely would be to make Yu Wan become a bad person with no morals?
He did not help Yu Wan up from her knees and only looked at her with an unfamiliar gaze. After a long while, he sighed faintly and said, “Yu Wan, I used to feel guilty about bringing you back to the Yu family but not being able to make you feel normal parental kinship.”
Hearing Yu Hong say that he felt guilty towards her, Yu Wan immediately looked at him in surprise. As long as she could deepen Yu Hong’s guilt, then could those things that she had done be written off?
Yu Hong was more than fifty years old and was used to seeing all kinds of things. With just a slight movement and expression, he knew what was on Yu Wan’s mind. He sighed and continued, “Yu Wan, you like clothes, accessories, you like all kinds of expensive things, and you like to be the popular person among your classmates and friends. I can’t stand these things, but because of that guilt, I can tolerate it. I think my three sons think the same way.”
Yu Wan’s expression froze on her face, and there were traces of tears. Even if she was already prepared and had waterproof makeup on, she still looked a little disheveled.
She turned back to look at Yu Heng stiffly. “Second Brother, is what Daddy said true?”
Yu Heng subconsciously frowned. “Don’t call me Second Brother.”
Then he seemed to have caught onto the main point. “That’s indeed what we think. After you came to the Yu family, we couldn’t give you the love a normal family would give. Dad brought Mom to live in Switzerland. Eldest Brother, Third Brother, and I are busy with work and studies. We don’t know how to raise children at all. So we just give you money for you to buy whatever you want. But I didn’t expect that to become something for you to show off to Yaoyao.”
At this point, Yu Heng’s face revealed a disgusted expression. “Yu Wan, the material conditions that you value so much were given to you by us.”