The Outcast Heiress’s Secret Identities
Chapter 433 - Chapter 433 As long as the Su Family remains in your hands it

Chapter 433: As long as the Su Family remains in your hands, it is not considered destroyed. Chapter 433: As long as the Su Family remains in your hands, it is not considered destroyed. “She’s always despised the Su Family. How could she possibly come back so easily without a motive? And to choose this critical moment, Xinyan, have you finished your design draft?”

Su Xinyan paused, her beautiful eyes shimmering with a faint light.

“Mom, do you mean…”

At the mention of Su Ran, Tan Lirong’s face was full of disdain. She didn’t even regard her mother, Yaosang Qianyue, highly, let alone her.

“The preliminaries for the designer competition are the day after tomorrow, yet she has chosen this time to return, and who knows what tricks she’ll pull out. In any case, you must keep your design draft safe, so it won’t be seen by those with ill intentions. Hah, thinking of competing with you? She doesn’t even see if she’s worthy!”

Tan Lirong’s words were filled with sarcasm toward Su Ran, and upon hearing them, Su Xinyan’s originally solemn expression eased somewhat.

She knew the cruelty of the design world, so even during her years in the entertainment circle, she always kept an eye on the Design Circle.

Su Ran was never her target; perhaps she had a high talent for design, but unfortunately, she lacked any experience.

In the Design Circle, she was completely a novice. Su Xinyan thought dealing with her would be as easy as flipping her hand.

What if she participated in the preliminaries? She still had the reputation of plagiarizing her works.

But, she could be kind, let her go out to broaden her horizons, experience the atmosphere of the competition, and also let her see clearly the gap between them.

And then…

Su Xinyan’s eyes revealed a ruthless determination.

She would completely crush her in this competition.

At that thought, her mood instantly brightened!

“Xinyan, Mom’s only hope is on you. In this competition, you must fight for me and show your grandfather who is truly worthy of inheriting the Su Family.”

Su Xinyan took a deep breath and patted Tan Lirong’s hand.

“Mom, don’t worry, I will definitely try my best. The heir to the Su Family can only be me.”

–

The study.

When Su Zhongyuan walked in, Su Ran immediately stood up.

“Grandfather.”

Su Zhongyuan gave her a glance and sighed softly, pointing to the sofa behind her.

“Sit down!”

Su Zhongyuan sat opposite her. Facing his granddaughter, whom he had cherished since childhood, he suddenly found it hard to speak.

After a long while.

“Xiao Ran, Grandfather is sorry.”

Su Ran’s eyes trembled slightly as she looked at the old, frail man before her, a surge of bitterness welling up in her heart.

She shook her head, her expression calm and still.

“Do you have something you want to say to me?”

Su Zhongyuan saw her increasingly distant demeanor and a pain flashed in his eyes.

He picked up an envelope from the desk and handed it to Su Ran.

“This was originally yours.”

Su Ran was puzzled but still reached out to take it, opening it to look inside. Upon seeing the contents, her eyes flickered.

She was silent for a while before putting the stuff back into the envelope.

“Are you sure you want to give this to me? You should know what it means to give this to me!”

Su Zhongyuan sighed deeply, “It was always yours, now it’s simply returning to its rightful owner.”

Su Ran tugged the corner of her lip, looking steadily at him.

“Aren’t you afraid I’ll destroy the Su Family?”

Su Zhongyuan looked up at her, then shook his head.

“As long as the Su Family remains in your hands, it won’t be considered destroyed.”

“I thought you would advise me to let them go.”

Su Zhongyuan sighed softly, and after a long time, he said mournfully:

“How could Grandfather be someone who cannot discern right from wrong? They have only themselves to blame for everything.”

The room fell into silence!

After a while, Su Zhongyuan passed another document to her.

“Take it, this is the only compensation I can offer you.”

It was a signed agreement, Su Zhongyuan transferred all his personal stocks, funds, real estate, and shops to Su Ran’s name.

“Grandfather, you…”

“Just take it. If I keep it, they’ll just benefit from it.”

Su Ran looked at the document in her hands, her mouth opened, but no sound came out.

She wanted to ask why he was so good to her.

But then she thought, who could truly understand familial affection?

It was just like how she couldn’t fathom why Wen Peipei would be so partial to Su Xinyan, nor why the Su Family treated her the way they did!

“Alright, I’ll accept it!”

Su Zhongyuan let out an almost imperceptible sigh of relief, a shadow of heaviness fleeting across his eyes.

“Xiao Ran, Grandfather once made mistakes, turned a blind eye to what happened to you, and now I have no right to advise you, but, never let hatred cloud your nature. Your father…”

“I only know to return what I’ve received. What I’m doing now is just using their own methods against them.”

Su Ran stood up with the documents and spoke again.

“Grandfather, you should rest well. I’m leaving now.”

Su Zhongyuan watched her with a helpless expression.

“Okay, be careful on your way.”

Su Ran nodded her head slightly, turned slowly, and left the Su residence.

–

She drove straight to the company and first dealt with the pile of documents on her desk, and then she remembered the items Su Zhongyuan had given her.

She took a deep breath, opened the document bag, and took out the contents.

Each piece of paper was laden with the marks of time, the edges of the pages faintly yellowed.

The handwriting might have begun to blur, but the designs’ outlines and the garments’ color coordination were still distinguishable.

She touched the signature and the date at the bottom right corner; these designs were drawn with her longing for her mother.

They might not be the best, but they represented her feelings the most.

As she flipped through them one by one, she had not expected that Grandfather would have kept her original drafts.

After all, these designs were either sketched in magazines or on draft paper, which to anyone else would just be a stack of waste paper.

Finally, her gaze settled on a design draft, and Su Ran snorted softly.

A work in progress?

No, a weapon!

Su Xinyan had better ensure she wouldn’t use her designs again.

Otherwise…

She took out her cell phone and dialed an overseas number.

The call was answered after just two rings, an indifferent voice slowly speaking, fluent in English.

“Gael, are you well?”

After a brief silence, the other side spoke excitedly.

“I’m not well, I’m ill, without new materials, or a discount, I’m very poor, extremely poor.”

Su Ran chuckled softly, “I’m not asking you for materials.”

Upon hearing this, Gael instantly breathed a sigh of relief, but the next second he remembered something and his voice uncontrollably rose in pitch.

“You’re not going to tell me you’re not entering this year’s design competition, are you? Dear Ran, to put it in Hua Country’s words, you took my stuff, you can’t go back on your word, to pull off a deception.”

Su Ran pinched the bridge of her nose, speechlessly saying:

“Who said I’m not participating?”

“Then, what’s this about?”

“Just that I want you to enter my name. I’m going to participate in this year’s preliminary round.”

The other end fell into a long silence, then suddenly erupted.

“What? You want to enter the preliminary round?”

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