After the True Heiress Travels Back
Chapter 177: Demanding a Meeting Gift

Chapter 177: Chapter 177: Demanding a Meeting Gift

Facing the old master’s dissatisfaction and accusations, Quan Jinbei merely hooked the corner of his lips slightly, and the words he spoke were even more likely to make the old man want to vomit blood.

"What my wife says is also what I want to say."

As he spoke, his eyes clouded with suspicion, "Dad, not to mention her, even I can’t help but doubt whether your kindness towards Quan Sicheng is really because you want the Quan Family to have a successor, or if you have ulterior motives."

He then looked toward Shi Yiqing, "Could it be that you really do have a lost gem out there?"

Shi Yaoguang took the opportunity to join the conversation, "If all of this was deliberately plotted by you, old master, then I must give it deep thought."

"What do you mean?" the elder Quan’s gaze turned hostile as he looked at her.

Shi Yaoguang shrugged, not at all afraid of offending him, "What do I mean? Of course, I have to fight for my own justice."

The elder Quan instinctively replied, "You want justice, why come to me for it?"

"That’s a question for you," Shi Yaoguang sighed, her eyes filled with condemnation, "Do you dare say you have no guilty conscience? Can you admit that you really have no illegitimate children out there?"

"Also, over the years, have your actions truly not been to pave the way for your illegitimate children?"

The elder Quan, as if insulted, began to curse loudly, "What nonsense are you spouting?"

He panted heavily, looking at Quan Jinbei, "Is this how you let your wife question me?"

Quan Jinbei maintained the same attitude, "She represents my stance. If you have behaved correctly and can sit upright, then naturally I can’t say anything, but otherwise... I think you owe me an explanation."

"Explain, explain, how do you want me to explain?"

The elder Quan was full of rage, "If I really had any shameful illegitimate children, wouldn’t it just be easier for me to bring them back home directly?"

Quan Jinbei raised an eyebrow, "Is that really what you think?"

"Otherwise?" The old man had an expression of immense indignation, "If I really wanted to hide the fact that I have illegitimate children, your eldest and second brothers would not have been brought back!"

Quan Jinbei showed a trace of emotion on his face, and in his tone there was also a hint of hope, "Really?"

"Of course!" affirmed the old master confidently.

Quan Jinbei was "easy to deceive," but Shi Yaoguang was not.

Therefore, no sooner had the old master breathed a sigh of relief, than he heard Shi Yaoguang continue, "You say that if you had illegitimate children there would be no need to not bring them home, and this I believe."

The old master huffed, "Good that you know!"

Shi Yaoguang deliberately spoke with a half beat delay, "But I have another question."

The old master frowned, his face full of impatience, "What do you mean?"

"It’s just a reasonable suspicion," Shi Yaoguang said, revealing a radiant smile, "After all, my husband’s affairs are mine, too. We are now a community of shared interests."

As she spoke, she gently stroked her belly, "Furthermore, it won’t be long before my husband can become a father. There is a difference between having a biological son and not having one."

"If I couldn’t bear a child, that would be one thing, but since I can, then... why should everything my husband has worked hard for be left to outsiders born from someone else’s womb?"

With that, she snuggled up next to Quan Jinbei and coyly asked, "Husband, am I right?"

Quan Jinbei looked at her tenderly and nodded, "What you say is right."

Shi Yaoguang playfully complained, "Husband, you’re really good~"

Quan Jinbei responded with a smile, the two of them appearing as a loving and harmonious couple.

This certainly irritated the others present.

Especially Shi Yiqing.

Although Shi Yaoguang deliberately said she was a precious gem lost in the vast sea by the old Master Quan, she knew very well in her heart.

She definitely could not be a daughter of the Quan Family.

Otherwise, the old master wouldn’t have treated her the way he had before.

Since she knew her status could not possibly develop in a favorable direction, staying in the Shi Family and preserving her status as a daughter of the Shi Family became an imperative.

Fortunately, she had never neglected this aspect.

Even so, she still felt somewhat stifled.

If she had known marrying Quan Jinbei would easily grant her everything he had, she should have made her move on him from the start.

Although Quan Jinbei and Quan Sicheng were a generation apart, there was only a six-year age difference between them.

Six years, really wasn’t much at all.

Especially when she saw how well Quan Jinbei treated Shi Yaoguang, she felt even more bitter inside.

If one could easily ascend to become the Empress Dowager, who would be willing to struggle as a Prince’s wife?

If she had gotten together with Quan Jinbei from the beginning and had his child early on,

then everything of Quan Jinbei’s would have been hers.

Thinking of this, she was filled with regret.

Quan Sicheng watched their interactions, and his heart was also uneasy.

After all, Shi Yaoguang had once been his admirer, but now, she had transformed into his nominal foster mother.

That alone would have been enough to deal with, but what was key was that she unreservedly displayed her affection for his foster father right in front of him.

Is there anything more heart-wrenching than this?

Quan Sicheng truly couldn’t bear this slight.

Shi Yaoguang took in their differing expressions and then said to the old Master Quan, "Dad, I’m coming through the door for the first time today. You can’t possibly have no presents for me, right?"

Upon hearing this, the three members of the Quan Family were stunned by her "shameless" words.

How could she have the nerve to ask for such things?

Just by arriving, she had rendered the old master speechless?

Shi Yiqing was even more direct, "Sister, asking for things from our elders this way seems a bit inappropriate... Although you have just been brought back and have yet to receive the proper etiquette training, still... it inevitably puts Grandfather Quan and Third Uncle in a difficult position."

Shi Yaoguang licked her lips with a look of grievance and glanced at Quan Jinbei, "Husband, do you feel it’s difficult?"

Quan Jinbei shook his head, his words all in her defense, "I don’t find it difficult."

"Logically speaking, Dad should have prepared a gift for you on our first meeting, rather than requiring someone to repeatedly ask and plead."

As he spoke, his sharp gaze turned to the old Master Quan, "Dad, isn’t that right?"

Shi Yaoguang also looked at him with an expectant face.

The old Master Quan would certainly not admit that his lack of preparation was rude; he said coldly, "Didn’t you show disdain as soon as you arrived? Since you’re so prickly, why are you still asking me for a gift?"

Shi Yaoguang replied with a jovial smile, "That’s two different matters; they shouldn’t be confused."

"Disliking your ways is one thing, but... the gift a daughter-in-law deserves from her father-in-law—I wouldn’t mind holding it in my hands."

Speaking, she sighed with feigned lament, "Speaking of which, if mother-in-law were still alive, she would probably like me very much, wouldn’t she? Presumably, you wouldn’t mind giving your daughter-in-law a gift on behalf of mother-in-law either."

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