But if Ye Shiying defied them, they could make her lose her life of guaranteed food and clothing at any time.
"Cousin, you’re all grown up, are you still worried about starving to death if you leave the Ye Family?" Ye Wanwan was really in a hurry to go to the bathroom at this point, so she spoke without any politeness.
Ye Shiying’s face turned from green to white, and finally, with a stiff neck and a look of total incomprehension, she said, "If I leave the Ye Family, I might even struggle to support myself."
Ye Wanwan opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but Ye Shiying didn’t give her the chance, bombarding her with words like a rapid fire.
"I heard that my little cousin has been working lately, at some small company as an ordinary clerk, earning a meager few thousand yuan a month."
"Do you really think that those few thousand yuan a month are enough for you?"
Ye Shiying then glanced at Ye Wanwan’s simple yet elegant dress, "You can say that now because you don’t have to worry about making a living, which is why you can say it so easily."
"But if you really had to live off that small salary of yours, I bet you couldn’t even afford the dress you’re wearing!"
Ye Wanwan looked at Ye Shiying in disbelief, unable to utter a word.
To Ye Shiying, Ye Wanwan’s expression meant that her previous words were utterly nonsensical, otherwise, she wouldn’t have been rendered speechless and unable to rebut.
Ye Wanwan stared at Ye Shiying for a long time and, unable to help herself, she finally hissed with gritted teeth, "Crazy!"
After cursing her out, she didn’t give Ye Shiying another chance to speak and turned around to step into the restroom.
She shouldn’t have felt a moment’s mercy earlier because Ye Shiying, with her problematic mind, was not worth it!
To actually insinuate sarcastically that her small salary was useless!
Hmph, what about her small salary? No matter how little it was, it was earned through her own efforts!
She despised people like Ye Shiying, who clearly knew where the problem lay but were unwilling to change, only wallowing in self-pity.
The more Ye Wanwan thought about it, the angrier she got, and she still couldn’t calm down. When she came out of the restroom, she saw Ye Shiying waiting in the corridor.
Ye Shiying also noticed Ye Wanwan, her slightly knit brows suggesting some kind of worry.
"Wanwan, are you angry?" Ye Shiying asked tentatively.
This time, Ye Wanwan didn’t even spare Ye Shiying a glance, briskly walking past her.
"Wanwan!" Ye Shiying called out anxiously from behind, but it was futile; Ye Wanwan still ignored her.
Ye Wanwan was no saint. Out of consideration for being a fellow woman, she temporarily put aside the memories of Ye Shiying bullying her when they were children and reminded Ye Shiying not to mindlessly follow her uncle’s family arrangements.
But Ye Shiying wouldn’t listen.
Now, it had nothing to do with her, and she wouldn’t remind her a second time!
Ye Wanwan returned to the banquet hall, looked around, and then approached Lin Xu.
Seeing Ye Wanwan back, Lin Xu took her hand and whispered, "Let’s go sit down; the charity gala is about to start."
"Okay," Ye Wanwan cast aside her anger toward Ye Shiying, agreeing sweetly and obediently.
Not until the charity gala ended did Ye Wanwan and Lin Xu leave the hotel, and then they got into Lin Xu’s car together.
Lin Xu first instructed the driver to take Ye Wanwan home, and only after watching Ye Wanwan return to the villa did Lin Xu command the driver to drive away.