After the True Heiress Travels Back
Chapter 369: Definitely Learned Something Fishy from Zhuang Yueyan

Chapter 369: Chapter 369: Definitely Learned Something Fishy from Zhuang Yueyan

It’s not to say that if Shi Yaoguang became more sentimental, something bad would definitely happen.

It was perhaps a man’s sixth sense.

Wei Jinyan felt that his future life might never be peaceful again.

The facts proved him right.

What Yaoguang brought to the Wei Family, apart from achievements and risks, was also busyness.

Wei Jinyan had his own ideas before; he didn’t want the Wei Family’s assets.

One reason was...

He wanted to entertain himself.

With money and leisure, what couldn’t he do?

Why should he linger in the company?

It was precisely because of this awareness that he decisively gave up the Wei Family’s assets.

What he hadn’t expected was that the bright future he had longed for had not materialized at all.

After finding an heir for the Wei Family, instead of being able to shake off the burden of the Wei Family, he became even busier.

After that, Wei Jinyan would occasionally fall into confusion.

Why had this happened?

It shouldn’t have.

Surely he was approaching it the wrong way.

Of course, all these were matters for later.

As for the present moment, the situation was still quite good.

The Wei Family had just recognized Yaoguang as one of their own, and their feelings were at their strongest.

Even if it was a bit hectic, they all found joy in it.

...

While Yaoguang and the Wei Family got along harmoniously, the Shi Family couldn’t accept it.

The story of Wei Jinyan, the adopted son of the Wei Family, personally returning to the country to find Shi Yaoguang and recognizing her, spread like wildfire throughout the entire elite circle.

Everyone knew that Shi Yaoguang had been acknowledged by the Wei Family.

This also substantiated a fact.

That was...

Wei Lan was indeed the Wei Family’s daughter.

Similarly, it reminded everyone of something.

Wei Lan, the Wei Family’s blood daughter, had been exiled.

The foster daughter she had favored was also dropped.

Yet her blood daughter, whom she didn’t favor, had soared high onto a branch.

This incident almost completely disgraced Wei Lan.

If before, due to the exposure of the child-swapping incident, Wei Lan had felt a bit of pity, and even shame for Shi Yaoguang,

Now, after this ordeal, Wei Lan felt a thorough disgust towards Shi Yaoguang.

The ladies and madams’ previous guesses weren’t wrong.

Even if Wei Lan knew that Shi Yiqing wasn’t her blood daughter, wasn’t the daughter she had mistakenly taken, but even her enemy’s daughter, her attitude towards Shi Yiqing remained the same as before.

Even more so, she treated Shi Yiqing even better than before.

Many were disdainful of this.

They said Wei Lan really couldn’t tell right from wrong.

In the past, everyone could find reasons to excuse her behavior, after all, she had raised the daughter for over a decade; her emotional attachment was understandable.

But now...

It was difficult to comprehend.

At least, none of them in her place would forsake their own blood daughter because of more than a decade of feelings.

Even if they couldn’t let go of the bond formed over those years, they wouldn’t be indiscriminately kind to a foster daughter.

Especially knowing that the foster daughter’s birth mother had done such things to their own blood daughter, and still being able to feel no qualms.

One could only say that Wei Lan was truly broad-minded.

One could say it was a clash of beliefs.

Anyway, after that incident, Wei Lan and the ladies of the high society gradually drifted apart.

Only those whose status was not as high as the Shi Family’s were willing to associate with her.

However... Wei Lan did not care to deal with those people, and as time went on, she became notoriously unpopular in the circle.

But let’s not dwell on that for now.

Let’s talk about the Wei Family acknowledging Shi Yaoguang.

Before this, Shi Yiqing had never even heard a whisper of the news, and she only learned about it from the gossip of others.

In theory, she was one of the parties involved.

Yet, she had to hear about it from someone else’s mouth.

How could she not feel aggrieved?

What she found most unacceptable was that when she returned home to ask Wei Lan, Wei Lan was unwilling to tell her.

"Mom, what exactly is your relationship with the Wei Family conglomerate?"

After hearing those discussions, Shi Yiqing couldn’t help but go back and ask.

She really couldn’t accept this fact.

Her mother had always had a very strong family background.

Yet, she was already in her teens and still knew nothing.

She even began to suspect that Wei Lan was deliberately keeping it from her.

Wei Lan had not expected her to suddenly confront her about it.

"Qingqing, why are you suddenly asking about this?"

Shi Yiqing’s expression wasn’t very good, "You don’t need to worry about why I’m asking this suddenly, I just want to know, do you really treat me like your biological daughter?"

Wei Lan had not expected Shi Yiqing to question her like this.

She was completely unable to accept it, "Why would you say that?"

"All these years, have I not treated you well, do you not feel it yourself?"

Shi Yiqing’s eyes were red, "It’s exactly because I feel it that I can’t understand, why you’re willing to give the opportunity to Shi Yaoguang but not to me? Is it just because we don’t share blood relations?"

Wei Lan was directly stumped by the question.

Not because Shi Yiqing was right.

But because...

She didn’t even know what had happened, and Wei Lan looked at Shi Yiqing with evident doubt in her eyes, "Qingqing, why would you say that? Did Shi Yaoguang deliberately say something to you?"

Before Shi Yiqing could answer, she spoke up for herself, "I understand now, she must have learned some bad behavior from Zhuang Yueyan..."

Shi Yiqing naturally knew that Zhuang Yueyan was her birth mother.

Now, hearing her adoptive mother speak about her birth mother like this, she inexplicably felt like the criticism was indirectly aimed at her.

It must be intentional.

If it wasn’t intentional, she would never speak like this.

The more she thought, the more suffocated she felt.

It couldn’t just end like this.

There had to be a way.

Shi Yiqing thought to herself, and suddenly her expression changed, she let go of her previously aggressive stance, and tears streamed down.

"Wuu wuu wuu~" She sobbed, expressing her grievance, "Mom, why has our happy family become like this? I so wish I could go back to a year ago, I wish I could return to being the carefree me?"

"Do you know, mom? This past year, I’ve been waking up in the middle of the night, I’m really sad, and I’ve been under a lot of pressure, I don’t know why this is happening, can you tell me why, mom? I’m so distressed, I even feel like I’m suffocating..."

Wei Lan had initially harbored some grudges because of her attitude.

But now, hearing what she said, she began to feel sorry for Shi Yiqing again.

"Qingqing, you’ve suffered during these days."

Shi Yiqing threw herself into her arms, and said with grievance, "Mom, did I do something wrong?"

Wei Lan hurriedly replied, "No, you haven’t done anything wrong..."

"Really? Do you think I haven’t done anything wrong?" Shi Yiqing looked at Wei Lan with eyes full of hope, her gaze clearly pleading, as if she desperately needed Wei Lan’s affirmation.

Without any hesitation, Wei Lan gave her the affirmation she sought, "My Qingqing is the best, you’ve never done anything wrong, none of this is your fault."