After the True Heiress Travels Back
Chapter 357: What Will Wei Lan Choose?

Chapter 357: Chapter 357: What Will Wei Lan Choose?

"Elders are to be addressed as such because they’re deserving of respect. You two—"

Shi Yaoguang hooked up the corners of her lips, her fingertips sliding over the faces of Shi Rusong and Wei Lan as a couple, "Do you think you’re worthy?"

Shi Yiqing, unable to hold back her need to assert herself, interjected, "How can you say such things?"

"Whether you’re the real Shi Yaoguang or not, you’re occupying Shi Yaoguang’s identity right now! No matter what, they are Shi Yaoguang’s biological parents, and that’s a fact that cannot be changed. Even if you have grievances, you can’t be disrespectful to your parents!"

Hearing her righteous words, Shi Yaoguang laughed.

Her brilliant smile dazzled the onlookers, and even Quan Sicheng, who internally resisted Shi Yaoguang, couldn’t help but feel a ripple in his heart.

At the same time, he couldn’t help but despise himself.

He knew all too well who Shi Yaoguang was.

How could he harbor those kinds of thoughts for Shi Yaoguang just because she was a little more attractive?

It was so unfair to his Qingqing.

Furthermore...

Shi Yaoguang didn’t even spare him a glance...

Quan Sicheng, suddenly realizing this, felt a subtle shift in his emotions.

For some reason, Shi Yaoguang seemed especially different today.

Shi Yaoguang, completely unaware of the twists and turns in his heart, looked at Shi Yiqing and silently started clapping her hands.

"Clap, clap, clap..."

The rhythmic clapping sounded almost like a beating on Shi Yiqing’s heart.

For reasons she couldn’t understand, facing such a Shi Yaoguang made her inexplicably fearful.

Fearful.

As if she were a savage beast.

A single misstep could doom her.

Even though Shi Yaoguang had been aggressive before, Shi Yiqing had never felt this way, but this time...

Shi Yiqing trusted her instincts.

Her intuition had brought her many benefits from childhood to adulthood.

This time, she trusted her instincts as well.

Her instincts told her that the current Shi Yaoguang was dangerous, and she wanted to stay away from Shi Yaoguang, away from danger.

But, Shi Yaoguang was not her mother.

She wouldn’t indulge her.

Watching Shi Yiqing’s retreating expression, Shi Yaoguang’s laugh grew even more defiant.

"What’s with all your faces? Wasn’t it you who asked me to come here? Just say what you want to say."

Despite her seemingly nonchalant words...

Nobody present dared to underestimate her.

Shi Yaoguang waited a moment, and seeing that no one spoke up, she grew impatient.

"I’ll count down from three. If you don’t speak up, then I’m leaving."

Having said that, she raised three fingers.

"Three."

"Two."

Just after counting two, Quan Sicheng finally spoke up.

"Shi Yaoguang, can’t you calm down a bit?"

Hearing this, she laughed, "Calm?"

Quan Sicheng nodded, his expression very serious, "I know you’re jealous because Qingqing is more favored at home than you, but you need to understand that Qingqing is more doted upon because she has spent more time with Uncle Shi and Aunt Shi."

"If it had been you who stayed by their side all this time, they would have shown the same partiality toward you. This isn’t an issue of the true or false daughter; the affection from spending a long time together cannot simply be summed up by the two words of blood relation."

Shi Yaoguang patiently listened to him finish, then she asked, "So what?"

Quan Sicheng hadn’t expected her to question him further and found himself momentarily at a loss for words.

Seeing this, Shi Yaoguang sneered, "Quan Sicheng, you can’t still be this naive, can you? Do you really think that hatred can be dispelled with a simple conversation?"

After speaking, she laughed first, "Dispelling hatred, indeed. I have really overestimated you all."

"From the moment I was brought back to the Shi Family, everything that has happened was with your involvement and tacit approval, wasn’t it? I don’t want to talk about the past now; there’s no need to vie for sympathy, and I don’t want to do that, I’m just..."

She deliberately elongated the pitch of her voice, "I’m just a bit curious, that’s all."

"Curious?" Quan Sicheng frowned, "What are you curious about? If you have something to say, can’t you talk normally instead of being so sarcastic, you know this kind of..."

Shi Yaoguang glanced at him coldly. Her icy look was so chilling that it silenced Quan Sicheng for some time.

Shi Yiqing then scoffed, "I’ve said it, I don’t want to harp on the past events anymore, and you don’t have to keep telling me these things. Whether you play the sympathy card or anything else, there’s really no need."

With her words landing, she emphasized her tone, "I came here today just to see your final decision."

This time, she didn’t count down but signaled with her eyes for them to stop dawdling.

Indeed, Shi Rusong had already made his decision before her arrival.

Of course, he was a man who cared about his face.

His pride was larger than life.

He didn’t outright state his choice but instead conveyed his thoughts to Shi Yaoguang in a subtle manner.

He hoped that Shi Yaoguang, considering the sisterly bond between her and Shi Yiqing, wouldn’t be too harsh on her...

It meant that between his own company and Shi Yiqing, his foster daughter, he had chosen his company.

While choosing the company, he also hypocritically advised Shi Yaoguang, attempting to leave a way out for Shi Yiqing.

Shi Yaoguang snorted in disdain at this but was not surprised.

Now, it was Wei Lan’s turn to make a choice.

Seeing Wei Lan’s indecision, Shi Yaoguang pulled out a small monitor.

She aimed at the smooth wall and projected the content from the monitor onto it.

This was the very video of Zhuang Yueyan switching the babies years ago.

The voice in the video was the same as the audio Shi Yaoguang had played at the school, and this voice was in sync with the woman’s expressions.

This was enough to prove that Shi Yaoguang’s claim of having more concrete evidence was true.

Although Wei Lan had already heard about the truth of the baby-switching and was psychologically prepared, knowing it was Zhuang Yueyan’s doing,

upon seeing Zhuang Yueyan’s vicious and triumphant expression on the screen, she still felt some discomfort deep down.

What’s more, upon closer inspection, Shi Yiqing’s face bore a strong resemblance to Zhuang Yueyan’s.

Before she knew that Shi Yiqing was Zhuang Yueyan’s daughter, Wei Lan had not paid attention, but now that she thought about it, the mature Shi Yiqing was really a carbon copy of Zhuang Yueyan, wasn’t she?

Shi Yiqing’s gaze had been fixed on Wei Lan all this time.

Noticing Wei Lan’s expression, her heart raced with anxiety.

Speaking of which, if she hadn’t been the beneficiary in this affair, she wouldn’t have forgiven the woman in the video with the terrifying countenance.

That was her daughter borne through ten months of pregnancy and brought into the world with great effort.

To have her so easily switched by someone, and judging by Zhuang Yueyan’s expression, it was clear that she wouldn’t treat the child kindly after taking her away.

In her heart, Shi Yiqing even imagined that if she were the child’s mother, she would have wanted to shred the perpetrator into pieces to satisfy her hatred.

But that was merely hypothetical.

She was in no position to entertain such thoughts now, her eyes reddening and filled with tears as she looked at Wei Lan, hoping she would remember their past mother-daughter bond and choose her.

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