After the True Heiress Travels Back
Chapter 388: She’s Just a Stay-in Daughter-in-law

Chapter 388: Chapter 388: She’s Just a Stay-in Daughter-in-law

Wei Qingtian heard Wei Jinyan’s words and his expression changed.

His tone also became heavier, "Why would Yaoguang make enemies because of this?"

Wei Jinyan looked at his unhappy father and voiced the thoughts he held deep in his heart.

"Those people befriended me previously, thinking of the conveniences they could get after I became the head of the Wei Family."

"Now, the position they thought they could easily obtain is gone, and the advantages they envisioned have evaporated, naturally leaving them disgruntled."

As he spoke about this, Wei Jinyan’s tone also carried a hint of helplessness.

He had explained this more than once already.

But to no avail, he was out of solutions.

After Shi Yaoguang decided to leave behind whatever development she had for the Wei Family, she even suggested,

Letting Wei Jinyan inherit the family business.

As long as the Wei Family wouldn’t end up aiding Shi Yiqing, whether it was under his own name or not, Shi Yaoguang didn’t care.

However, Wei Jinyan refused.

The words he spoke before were indeed sincere.

Inheriting the Wei Family was truly not what Wei Jinyan wanted.

If there were other choices, he would not insist on inheriting the Wei Family.

Therefore, he directly declined Shi Yaoguang’s suggestion.

But...

Knowing the truth himself wasn’t enough.

The outsiders were unaware.

In their eyes, he was just someone who had been used and then discarded...

No, scratch that.

He was just a tool that had been used and thrown away.

The Wei Family was far too heartless towards him, and some even began to harbor dissatisfaction with Wei Qingtian.

They felt that Wei Qingtian was too selfish, claiming to have severed ties with his daughter, but in the end, wasn’t everything still handed over to his daughter’s daughter?

What difference did it make from not severing the relationship at all?

It was just an extra layer of fig leaf.

The Wei Family didn’t lose anything; the wealth did not fall into the hands of outsiders.

But Wei Jinyan was pitiful.

He had given so much to the Wei Family but ended up with nothing.

Wei Jinyan couldn’t stop the public’s wild theories.

But he had to find a way to stop them.

They couldn’t just change the heir because of their dissatisfaction, could they?

Not to mention how cowardly such behavior was if they really did that, who knows how others might take advantage of the situation.

This was not what they wanted to see.

While Wei Jinyan and Wei Qingtian were discussing how to change the public’s perception, Shi Yiqing abruptly barged in.

At that moment, Shi Yiqing’s eyes were red and swollen; it was evident she had been crying.

Even now, there were tear stains on her face.

"Grandpa, Uncle, how could you do this?"

She bit her lower lip, and in her eyes, as she gazed at them, was filled with disappointment.

Wei Jinyan raised an eyebrow, his tone laced with sarcasm, "What have we done?"

Shi Yiqing sniffled, with the look of distress written all over her face, "What have you done? How could you go behind my back—"

Before she could finish speaking, Wei Jinyan interrupted her, "Hold on a second, when did we ever do anything behind your back?"

"Not to mention we didn’t, even if we really wanted to do something, there’s no need to hide it from you. You’re just a visiting cousin to the Wei Family, with no blood relation to the Wei Family whatsoever, not even as close as a cousin thrice removed. What makes you think that we have to do anything behind your back?"

The sarcasm in Wei Jinyan’s voice was quite apparent, "Miss Shi Yiqing, are you perhaps taking yourself too seriously?"

Shi Yiqing’s face grew a few shades paler, but she was not one to be pushed around easily.

She retorted immediately, "What gives you the right to say that to me?"

"I may not have blood ties to the Wei Family, but do you?"

Upon saying this, she even felt a bit smug, "It’s true that you’re the adopted son of my grandfather, but over these years, with all the toiling you’ve done for the company, what have you achieved? In the end, didn’t you just make the wedding dress for someone else?"

"I may not have a blood relationship with grandfather, but doesn’t that exactly prove that I can be trusted?" Shi Yiqing didn’t know where her confidence came from as she looked at Wei Jinyan with an expression full of self-satisfaction.

"My mother... no, Ms. Wei Lan is grandfather’s biological daughter, but the things she did in the past have brought shame to grandfather! If it weren’t for that, the Wei Family wouldn’t have undergone such turmoil."

"As the saying goes, ’like father, like son,’ if Ms. Wei Lan could do such things, how good can her daughter be?"

Hearing Wei Jinyan’s ridicule, Shi Yiqing just wanted to retort.

Carried away by emotion, she ended up speaking somewhat recklessly.

After blurting out what was on her mind, she immediately regretted it.

Dragons give birth to dragons, phoenixes give birth to phoenixes, and a rat’s son will dig holes.

If this saying were to be applied to Wei Lan and Shi Yaoguang, then...

It would be equally applicable to Wei Qingtian.

Wei Lan is Wei Qingtian’s daughter, and if Wei Lan’s behavior was questionable, Wei Qingtian was not exactly a saint himself.

With such a relationship in the picture, Wei Qingtian could only be the crooked beam that leads to a skewed house.

Thinking about the foolish things she had said, Shi Yiqing felt extremely uneasy at heart.

She was worried she couldn’t explain herself clearly and would face Wei Qingtian’s questioning.

Thinking of this, she nervously pinched the corner of her dress and said in a weak voice, "Grandfather, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean that... "

"If not that, then what did you mean?" Wei Jinyan turned on his sarcasm again, "I didn’t expect that someone who usually seems so calm and collected could actually be like this."

"I... I didn’t..." Shi Yiqing sniffled, her face about to cry but not quite there.

Unfortunately, neither of the two men present had any desire to show pity or indulgence.

Watching her crying and sniveling, they merely observed with cool detachment.

Wei Qingtian suddenly asked, "Why are you crying and running over here, anyway?"

At this question, Shi Yiqing felt she had regained some ground.

"Grandfather, the Wei Family officially announced their heir today, is that true?"

Wei Jinyan spoke, "If you hadn’t taken that so seriously, would you have rushed here in such an embarrassing manner?"

Shi Yiqing had not gotten along with Wei Jinyan from early on.

Seeing him now only intensified her discontent.

At this point, she simply chose to ignore him.

She looked at Wei Qingtian, her eyes misty with a film of fog.

"Grandfather, I really didn’t mean to slander you, I just found it tough to accept at the moment!"

As she spoke, she took out her phone and brought up the earlier news...

In her view, the old man of the Wei Family did not pay attention to domestic news.

This way, she could twist the truth to her favor.

Even if the incidents of Shi Yaoguang bullying her had been clarified in China, Wei Qingtian would certainly be unaware of them abroad.

By doing so, all she needed was to hint to Wei Qingtian to recall the unfair treatment she suffered.

Unfortunately.

Wei Qingtian did not comply as she wished, seeing her pull up the video, he scoffed, "What are you doing? Trying to tell me that Yaoguang is not a good person, and that she deliberately bullied you?"

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