"Sis, can’t you let people sleep at this ungodly hour?"
"Xiao Hai, what do you plan to do about this matter?" Su Yun asked anxiously.
"Of course I’m going to find the person and bring her back!" Isn’t that obvious? If I wasn’t worried something might happen, I would have told Dad a long time ago.
"No way!" Su Yun suddenly screamed, the shrill sound banishing all of Su Hai’s sleepiness.
"Sis, have you really gone crazy? That’s your own daughter!" Su Hai had been feeling resentful toward Su Yun ever since he learned about the matter.
"That’s not it, but if you bring her back, how am I supposed to explain to your brother-in-law?" She missed her child, but she was even more afraid of losing Xingzhi.
A fierce look appeared in Su Hai’s eyes; the more his sister acted , the more he wanted to bring his niece back.
"You don’t need to worry about this. Just leave it to me..." Su Hai said and hung up the phone directly.
On the other side, Su Yun’s hand holding the phone froze mid-air, her eyes shifting from aimless to a look of heavy contemplation.
She was a person conflicted in character. In the face of love, she would become as naïve as a little girl who could never grow up, innocent, craving protection, longing to be the cherished flower held in the palm of the person she loved. But at the same time, her personality also bore the domineering traits of the Su Family people.
Relentless, cunning in calculations, and capable of hard-hearted decisions.
Initially, she ruthlessly picked any man for a better life, and later, for love, she could leave her newborn child behind without a second thought.
Now, for love again, she was ready to abandon her own daughter.
Weakness followed by extremes, that’s Su Yun, the Su Yun who had always been feared.
Sitting alone by the phone, she began to reminisce about the past, and the more she recalled, the clearer her mind became. For Meng Xingzhi, she would do anything and could lose anything.
She couldn’t acknowledge this child for now, but the Su Family could.
Having her eldest brother acknowledge her as his illegitimate daughter would have been perfect, wouldn’t it? If her younger brother had been age-appropriate, having him acknowledge the daughter would have been even better.
Not only Su Yun was sleepless, but someone else was awake too.
Hai Lan was lying in the bottom bunk underneath Qin Cuifen, half-opening her eyes, still covering her cheek with her right hand. In her eyes swirled flaming anger that could devour a person.
She was a little beggar who had been skillful enough to eat her fill and ask for more on the streets than the others.
Now with all favorable conditions at hand, how could she possibly lose?
Sheng Ning, right? Dare to compete with her over a man; she would make her life a living hell.
Imagining Sheng Ning’s tragic fate, Hai Lan laughed with a sense of satisfaction.
The next day, what should have been the main attention-grabber was Hai Lan joining the Song and Dance Troupe. However, due to the sudden emergence of Blood Rose, Hai Lan’s limelight didn’t stand a chance.
At the introductory session for newcomers in Training Room One in the morning, enthusiasm was lacking. After all, the stir caused by Mr. Meng’s arrival was too great, and the women, with their sensitive and even jealous minds, found it too much.
Excessive, to a fault!
Moreover, that night at the auditorium, Sheng Ning had slapped her, and in the end, the head of the Inspection Department didn’t side with the so-called Miss of the Hai Family, so even less of a fuss was made by the others.
Hai Lan was met with a cold reception, an unprecedentedly chill not experienced since she started school, nor since she joined the Hai Family.
Back at the Dance College, she was renowned as the standout talent, the one everyone revolved around, didn’t they?
And Qiu Bai, whether purposely or not, seemed to needle her; under normal circumstances, shouldn’t she have been the first to present her talent?