Chapter 510: The Reason why he didn’t want to tell Rong Yan
Li Shengxiao paid no attention to her suddenly paling face, turned around, and sat down on the sofa with his long legs crossed, his chiseled jaw lifting as he looked at her, “Also, Mrs. Rong doesn’t have to look for Rong Yan anymore. If there’s anything, she can come to Li Group to find me.”
Jiang Meiqi abruptly turned to look at the distinguished and imposing man on the sofa; it took her quite a while to find her voice. She said sheepishly, “What does Mr. Li mean by that? Rong Yan is my daughter, wouldn’t it be inappropriate for Mr. Li to forbid me from seeing her?”
The last thing Li Shengxiao wanted to hear at the moment was her claiming Rong Yan as her daughter, especially since he was one of the few who knew the truth! His eagle-like eyes suddenly narrowed, a chill radiating from them as they swept over Jiang Meiqi like a bone-chilling gaze reserved for a clown jumping about, “Rong Yan is Mrs. Rong’s daughter, is she? How come I’ve never heard of that? I recall you only have one daughter, Rong Weiwei. Mrs. Rong must be mistaken.”
His piercing gaze seemed like a knife, causing Jiang Meiqi’s heart to tremble inexplicably, as if the deepest secret she harbored was known to this man.
But that was impossible; that secret was known only to her and her mother, not even Rong Nanfeng or Weiwei were aware, there absolutely couldn’t be a third person privy to it!
Even if this man had power that reached the skies, he shouldn’t possibly know her secret…
After some mental recalibration, her racing heart finally began to settle. Glancing at Rong Yan, she pursed her lips and asked, “Were these words told to Mr. Li by Rong Yan?”
She took a deep breath and continued, “Weiwei is my friend’s daughter. Her father died in a car accident, leaving her all alone. Seeing her so young, I couldn’t bear to let her end up in an orphanage, so I took her back to the Rong Family. Everyone in the Rong Family knows that Weiwei is just staying with us.”
“Having no parents since she was young, I felt sorry for Weiwei and gave her some extra care. I know my concern for my friend’s orphan caused Rong Yan to feel uncomfortable and to misunderstand me. But she is my own daughter; even if I treated Weiwei a bit better, it doesn’t mean I didn’t consider Rong Yan as my daughter. Moreover, Weiwei has now moved out of the Rong Family and is living elsewhere. It’s not easy for me to correct the misunderstandings the outside world has about our family. After all, me stepping forward to clarify things would hurt both parties. One is my own daughter, and the other is the orphan of a friend—they’re both dear to me. Mr. Li can understand a mother’s heart, right?”
Her words were earnest, as though the reality was indeed as she described—that she had not favored one over the other, and that treating Rong Weiwei better was simply out of sympathy for her lack of ‘parents’.
Had someone not privy to the truth heard her, they might have believed her.
Unluckily for her, Li Shengxiao knew the truth and was aware of how she had used Rong Yan over the years while disparaging her as a “little bastard” behind her back. Just the thought of this woman exploiting her so-called maternal identity to repeatedly inflict psychological wounds on an innocent young woman filled him with a desire to see her gone from Capital City.
But if he were to do so, there would only be two outcomes—either Rong Yan would not accept his extreme actions, or he would reveal the truth to Rong Yan, only for her to find out she had been deceived and used by the Rong Family for twenty years!
Neither scenario was what he wished to see. Whether it was the Rong Family, Jiang Meiqi, or Rong Weiwei, he didn’t care; he only wanted that young woman to live unrestrainedly and without reservations.