After the True Heiress Travels Back
Chapter 359: Why would I want his daughter? It’s not like I don’t have a daughter of my own.

Chapter 359: Chapter 359: Why would I want his daughter? It’s not like I don’t have a daughter of my own.

"The Wei Family has been making quite the noise lately, haven’t you heard anything?"

Shi Rusong looked at her, his eyes filled with a hint of hope.

Regrettably, Wei Lan failed to grasp his intention, and upon hearing the question, she shook her head honestly.

Indeed, she hadn’t heard any whispers.

"What exactly is happening with the Wei Family?"

Of course, she wasn’t entirely foolish and could tell that Shi Rusong’s attitude was off, so she hurriedly asked, "Did the Wei Family apply pressure?"

Shi Rusong shook his head with a hint of unease in his voice, "Lately, everyone in the circle has been saying that the Wei Family wants to pass the heir position to the patriarch’s granddaughter."

Upon hearing this, Wei Lan’s first reaction was joy, "Does that mean Grandpa is willing to accept Qingqing?"

Having said that, she immediately refuted herself.

Her father’s attitude was clear during their last phone call.

Shi Yiqing was not the apple of his eye.

But...

If Shi Yiqing couldn’t win her father’s favor, who could?

It certainly couldn’t be that wayward girl, Shi Yaoguang!

At this thought, she suddenly widened her eyes, asking incredulously, "Husband, what does my father mean? He couldn’t possibly be thinking of handing the Wei Family over to Shi Yaoguang, could he?"

Shi Rusong nodded, his expression growing uglier by the second.

"How could this be?" Wei Lan’s face turned green, "What does Shi Yaoguang have to deserve this? This is my Wei Family’s legacy!"

Shi Rusong glanced at her, "Haven’t you already given up on that inheritance?"

"Is it the same thing?" To her, who took over the Wei Family’s affairs was her father’s decision to make, as it was his legacy that he had built from the ground up.

But...

Handing it to someone else and handing it to an enemy were two different concepts.

"No, I absolutely can’t stand by and watch my father hand over the family business to that ungrateful Shi Yaoguang!"

Driven by her emotions, Wei Lan pulled out her phone and immediately called the Wei Family.

Regrettably, her father didn’t care to acknowledge her intentions; her call went through, only to be met with a message stating the line was busy.

This did not mean her father was on a call at the moment, it only proved she was still on his blacklist.

Wei Lan’s expression turned even uglier as she watched, Shi Rusong sighed, "Don’t be angry, this might not be a bad thing, after all. Shi Yaoguang, at the end of the day, is our biological daughter. Even if we don’t have much affection for each other, the fact that she is our biological daughter won’t change."

However, Wei Lan was not comforted by these words.

"What does being biological mean? Wasn’t we good enough to her after she came back? She had no clothes, no shoes, her whole person was filthy, and didn’t I specifically have someone buy her new clothes? Wasn’t the room upstairs specially cleaned for her to stay?"

"Her grades were poor, and Qingqing was willing to sacrifice her study time to tutor her, yet she herself was unwilling! Tell me, since she returned, in every aspect, in every incident, how have we wronged her?"

"And in the end, what do we get in return? It’s her hostility towards us! If she gets hold of the things from the Wei Family, how will she treat us? Have you thought about that?"

Listening to Wei Lan’s impassioned words, Shi Rusong’s expression softened slightly, and a strange feeling arose in his heart.

In the past, he actually hadn’t thought about these things.

Back then, they were all focused solely on Shi Yiqing.

What Shi Yaoguang could gain was left to fate.

Frankly, not many in their family were willing to pay attention to Shi Yaoguang.

For Wei Lan to think of something for her and make arrangements was already a mercy for which Shi Yaoguang should’ve been grateful.

Now that he thought about it, what was it all for?

A biological daughter?

Would a biological daughter receive such treatment!

Shi Rusong couldn’t help but question himself in his heart why he hadn’t noticed these things before.

Wei Lan, seeing him distracted, felt somewhat dissatisfied.

She reached out and tugged at him, "Husband, what are you thinking about? I’m talking to you!"

Shi Rusong snapped back to reality, his face bearing signs of weariness, "This matter..."

"What do you want to say?" Wei Lan narrowed her eyes, with a hint of threat in her gaze, "You’re not going to tell me that Shi Yaoguang isn’t beyond hope, are you?"

Looking at his wife’s agitated expression, Shi Rusong felt conflicted, unsure whether he should speak his mind.

Wei Lan could tell by his expression that he had something to say.

At the same time, she also knew that whatever Shi Rusong was about to say would not be what she wanted to hear.

After all these years of marriage, she could discern the meaning behind each expression, even with her eyes closed.

"If you want to tell me about Shi Yaoguang’s virtues, you really don’t have to."

Shi Rusong opened his mouth but, in the end, didn’t go against his wife’s wishes and say what she didn’t want to hear.

However, the questions that needed to be asked still had to be asked.

"Do you truly not mind that Qingqing is Zhuang Yueyan’s daughter?"

Wei Lan narrowed her eyes, showing a displeased expression, "Are you asking me this because you mind?"

Truth be told, he did mind a bit.

The Shi Family had just two sons.

He was the younger; Shi Ruhong was the elder.

When they were young, their statuses were quite different from what they were now.

Shi Rusong vaguely remembered how, when they were very young, Shi Ruhong was the object of praise from all the elders.

As for him, he was merely given passing remarks like "not bad" and "pretty good."

Praises for Shi Ruhong involved phrases like "naturally gifted" and "young prodigy."

It was also because of the constant belittling during his childhood that, once he grew up, he pushed himself so hard; everything he did was to surpass Shi Ruhong and prove himself.

Later on, he succeeded.

Even after their statuses had reversed, deep down he still harbored resentment toward his elder brother.

The affair of his sister-in-law and Wei Lan’s whistleblowing were things he found out about later.

If it weren’t for Wei Lan taking action before consulting him, he would never have agreed to let her tell his brother about it.

Of course, he didn’t feel this way because he wanted to see his elder brother cuckolded.

He was simply...

Not content.

He couldn’t accept what had happened to him when he was young.

Even though their statuses had changed, from heaven and earth apart to vastly different, the knots in his heart from the past couldn’t be untied.

Wei Lan, looking at his expression, also had a rough idea of what he was thinking.

Just as she felt uncomfortable that Shi Yiqing was Zhuang Yueyan’s daughter, Shi Rusong also had unresolved feelings knowing that Shi Yiqing might be Shi Ruhong’s daughter.

But at the end of the day, they had raised the child themselves.

Wei Lan still felt that blood ties were not that important.

"Even if Qingqing really is their child, don’t forget that we raised her through hard times and devoted so much effort to her. Are you really going to deny everything we have done just because of her bloodline?"

Shi Rusong shook his head, defending himself, "I don’t think that way, but..."

He showed a troubled expression, "Qingqing is still my brother’s daughter, after all. We didn’t know before, but now that we do, we can’t just keep his daughter to ourselves, can we? People who don’t know might think I don’t have a daughter of my own!"

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