Chapter 676: Chapter 677: Ruthless and Shocking
Xia Yangyang walked over, as Liu Ruyan handed her a cup of tea: “This is top-notch white tea, your father’s favourite kind. It has been aged for seven years. They say about white tea that it’s merely tea in the first year, becomes a medicine by the third year, and enhances to a treasure by the seventh. When I left Feng City, I didn’t take anything with me except for two bricks of tea that your father prized. All this time, these have been my only keepsakes. Serving it to you today can’t be more appropriate.”
Upon hearing Liu Ruyan casually mention her father.
A surge of fury welled up in Xia Yangyang: “Aunt Liu, my father treated you well back then, how could you harm him so easily? Regardless, he was Weiwei’s father. Your heartlessness and ruthlessness are simply outrageous.”
Liu Ruyan smiled: “You’re talking about your father’s car accident, right? I didn’t cause it, Xi Jiaxin did. I shared a bed with your father for ten years, and even though I knew he was always longing for your mother and never truly saw me as his wife, I did have feelings for him. But after so many years, I just got tired. Yes, I did attach myself to Xi Jiaxin, but I never thought of killing your father. At that time, Xi Jiaxin was too impatient. He staged the accident. Yangyang, if you want revenge, go after Xi Jiaxin. Just a few days ago, his car had an issue. It was you who tampered with it, wasn’t it? Do you want to give him a taste of his own medicine?”
Xia Yangyang smiled: “Aunt Liu, you really do have a knack for twisting the narrative, offloading the blame in a matter of a few sentences. I suppose you did the same before Xi Jiaxin, shifting all blame onto me. Fanning flames between us, watching us fight while you sit back and enjoy the gains. Truly a stroke of genius.”
Liu Ruyan sipped her tea: “This child, everything about you is commendable. Except you’re too clever.”
Xia Yangyang spoke: “I know the truth about my father’s affair. You don’t need to break it down, Aunt Liu. At this point, I won’t take your words too seriously. My arrival today is not for that matter.”
Liu Ruyan looked up at Xia Yangyang: “Oh? Is there anything else you need?”
Xia Yangyang took out the Swiss remittance slip for five million: “Do you recognize this remittance slip, Aunt Liu?”
When Liu Ruyan saw the remittance slip, her eyes flickered for a moment before she casually asked: “What is this?”
Xia Yangyang laughed: “Aunt Liu, no need to play dumb. This is what Xia Weiwei took from your private safe box. Aunt Liu, you and I both know that today we are playing fair and square, and there’s no point in you beating around the bush.”
Now that Xia Yangyang had made it so clear, Liu Ruyan stopped pretending: “Yangyang, you always say I’m smart, but I have to admit, you are more resourceful. You always manage to exploit those around me. If Weiwei was half as clever, you wouldn’t use her to repeatedly undermine me. How did I, with my life of shrewd astuteness, bring up such a dull-witted daughter?”
Xia Yangyang smiled: “It seems Aunt Liu is still bothered about the incident when Weiwei caught you and Xi Jiaxin in bed. Yes, that was also my doing. I often think, Aunt Liu, you’re like a cunning fox, but how did you raise a mindless, wide-eyed, selfish wolf?”
Liu Ruyan sighed helplessly: “If only you were my daughter.”
“I’m not lucky enough to be your daughter.” Xia Yangyang said sarcastically.
Liu Ruyan laughed lightly: “Alright, no point in beating around the bush. If you found this remittance slip, it means you must have already met Ma Jianguo.”
“That’s right, so I now understand that it was you, Aunt Liu, who framed my mother for graft years ago. You were the one who harmed my mother, not Gu Mingzhu. Four years ago, you instigated this feud because you had plans all along. You intentionally mislead me into thinking that Gu Mingzhu was the one who caused my mother’s death, causing a break in my relationship with the Gu family. Aunt Liu, is everything, everything at all, your doing?”