Chapter 336 The Object of Gratitude isn’t Her
Indeed, Hai Xue’s eyes slowly changed, and although she hid it well, who was Gu Dongxing? He might be a bit low on emotional intelligence, but he wasn’t lacking in intellect.
The change in Hai Xue’s eyes did not escape his attention!
Ye Qing, who was busy in the kitchen, had been all ears. She really wanted to hear what Gu Dongxing and Hai Xue were saying, but, despite the kitchen being quite close to the main hall, she still couldn’t hear clearly.
She heard Gu Dongxing mention Jiang Mengyu’s name and really wanted to listen clearly, so she quietly walked over, just in time to hear Gu Dongxing talk about how Jiang Mengyu suffered a backlash to her own body because she was treating her, which led to problems during her cultivation, and that’s why her Master took her away and adjusted her for nearly a month.
Moreover, she only knew that it was Jiang Mengyu who treated her, she really didn’t know that she had also taken Jiang Mengyu’s precious Yuan Nourishing Pill!
She was anxious in her heart; after all, she had told Hai Xue that Jiang Mengyu had run away from home.
Furthermore, at that time, Hai Xue had followed her lead and concluded that it was because Jiang Mengyu had acknowledged Ye Qing as her goddaughter that she ran away from home.
If Hai Xue knew she had lied, what would she think of her?
She would definitely see her as an ingrate, thinking she was ungrateful and disloyal, right?
Ye Qing felt extremely anxious.
Truth be told, she did have ulterior motives and wanted to win over Hai Xue.
She did indeed want Hai Xue to have a bad opinion of Jiang Mengyu.
But the truth was, the conclusion that Jiang Mengyu ran away from home because Hai Xue acknowledged her as a goddaughter wasn’t really her doing.
She had simply nudged Hai Xue’s thoughts in that direction a little.
But now, it was clear Hai Xue would pin that very conclusion she’d come up with onto her.
No, she absolutely couldn’t admit she had lied.
That’s right, she had said before that she had only heard Jiang Mengyu had run away from home, not that she ran away because Hai Xue took her as a goddaughter.
Suddenly, the smell of something burning reached her nose. Hai Xue wrinkled her nose: "What’s burning?" She immediately stood up and headed toward the kitchen.
Only then did Ye Qing realize that, in her preoccupation with eavesdropping on the conversation between mother and son, she had forgotten about the rice on the stove.
After her initial panic, she quickly composed herself and rushed back to the stove door.
When Hai Xue entered the kitchen, she saw Ye Qing pulling the firewood from the stove and then taking the pot of rice off the stove.
Seeing Hai Xue enter, Ye Qing put on a wry smile: "Mom, I put too much fire on and burned the rice."
Hai Xue, of course, understood that Ye Qing probably went to eavesdrop on the conversation between her and her son.
She sighed: "Ye Qing, you’ve been living with our family for almost a month now, haven’t you?"
Ye Qing’s heart panicked: "Mom—— You——"
Hai Xue cut her off: "The New Year is coming; you should go back home now."
Hearing Hai Xue wanted to send her away made Ye Qing’s heart flutter with panic.
No, she absolutely couldn’t go back to that Ye Family controlled by her stepmother, where there was not a single bit of warmth for her.
She had already left the Ye Family and didn’t plan on returning to that home again.
Besides, she had already taken her mother’s dowry back from her stepmother; going back truly meant there was no good ending for her!
But, Hai Xue clearly had suspicions about her, so what could she do to stay with the Hai Family?
She dropped to her knees with a thud and latched onto Hai Xue’s legs: "Mom, mom, please don’t send me away, I can’t go back to that family anymore."
Hai Xue looked down at her, for a moment not knowing what to say.