Chapter 699: Chapter 699: Xia’s Family’s Apology_1
In front of the cameras, Xia Wealth and Wang Zimei dare not let out a fart, especially Xia Wealth. His heart burns with rage, which he hides beneath a smiling face: “Mr. Song is correct, our self-examination was not profound enough. An insightful word from you is worth ten years of studying. Yet, we still hope you could tell us our daughter’s whereabouts. We were out of our minds with worry.”
Song Chuanqi did not answer but counter asked, “Mr. Xia, why did you abandon your younger daughter initially?”
The reason, of course, was that the young girl was too ugly. If such a daughter was publicly shown, she would definitely be a laughingstock.
After the birth of their eldest daughter, the media propagated that the Xia family’s genes were one of a kind. Many couples participated in mermaid genetic modification, but only his daughter stood out. This glory, how can it be tarnished by the younger daughter?
But then, he had never anticipated that the younger daughter would be such a dark horse.
“Mr.Song, you may not know, we truly did not abandon our younger daughter…”
As Xia Wealth started to speak, Song Chuanqi cut him off. He did not want to hear more hypocritical words, and laughed sarcastically, “Because she is ugly and doesn’t bring honor to the Xia family, you can abandon her even when she’s gravely ill? How much shame did you have to swallow today to have the audacity to come here to ask for your daughter?”
Xia Wealth was left speechless, but he was not willing to give up. After a while, he said, “Mr. Song, we truly owe our daughter a lot, but after all, my daughter is a citizen of country A, while you are from country S. Our Qiongqiong is a national treasure of A country, not of S country.”
As this issue escalated to an international level, Xia Wealth shifted the focus. He had to let the public know that his younger daughter could not fall into the hands of the crown prince of S country. Otherwise, wouldn’t his daughter become a national treasure of S country? That would be a huge loss for the country.
Sure enough, after his words were spoken, two diplomats from the A country looked at Song Chuanqi.
“Mr. Song, please tell us the whereabouts of Miss Xia Qiongqiong. From now on, the country will definitely protect her.”
Xia Wealth sighed with relief. Now that the state had stepped in to inquire about his daughter, today’s public apology was not in vain, and all the humiliation he had suffered was worth it.
Who knew that in the next moment, Xia Ye Zhao would stand up and say, “Diplomat Yang, my younger sister has been in contact with me privately. She will not go to S country and become a national treasure of S country. You can rest assured about this. Dad, stop pressing. It is my sister who does not want to come home, not Mr. Song who does not want to let her come home. She is living well in A country and keeping close contact with me.”
“You…” Xia Wealth wanted to say, “shut up!”
However, with all the reporters’ cameras on him, Xia Wealth dared not lose his temper. Giving his son a good cuss out internally, he still managed a smile on his face, “You should have told us earlier that you were in contact with your sister, then we wouldn’t have caused such unpleasantness.”
Xia Ye Zhao glanced at the always tense Ye Xingguang and sighed, “She doesn’t want to go home. Let’s stop disturbing her. We are here today to apologize to Uncle and Aunt. Uncle Xia, we will post public apologies on the official website of Xia Group and in newspapers for ten days. We hope that you and Aunt can accept our apology. We also thank you for saving and raising my younger sister.”
Song Chuanqi looked at Xia Ye Zhao, wondering how such parents raised such a decent lad?
Despite their ugliness, how fortunate they were to have a son like Xia Ye Zhao?
Song Chuanqi couldn’t help recalling his own son, whom he had never met. He wondered what his character was like.