"Grandpa, what did Rong Ming tell you?" Rong Jiaojiao asked softly, her heart filled with resentment.
Rong Ming must have exaggerated many of her and Aunt Liao’s wrongs, and then spoke up for Rong Qingqing.
"Do you need me to repeat what he said to you?"
Mr. Rong’s tone was displeased, "The matters caused by Shen Qiao’s classmate, what right do you, Rong Jiaojiao, have to meddle? Plead for others? What status do you think you have? To compare yourself with Shen Qiao?"
Rong Honghui had been away from the company all day. Just returning from a business trip out of town, he immediately took his wife to attend an important banquet, naturally unaware of the events of the past few days.
Hearing Mr. Rong say that Rong Jiaojiao caused trouble for Shen Qiao for others, Rong Honghui furrowed his brows.
But the words that followed from Mr. Rong were too harsh, and Rong Honghui, after all, still protected this daughter, so he stepped forward.
"Dad, Jiaojiao was also considering the company’s interests. She just said that the two families are cooperating with our company, and one is a senior executive of our company. Since this matter was brought to her attention, she had to try to see if she could help."
"Is she unsure if she can help? Is such a large group like the Rong Family dependent on these two cooperative companies to survive?"
Mr. Rong sneered, "What do you think you are? Trying to take on everything, thinking that just because you are now Shen Xingwei’s fiancée, you can speak everywhere?"
"Has the flattery from others made you unclear of your own position?" Mr. Rong asked Rong Jiaojiao, "The Shen Family hasn’t troubled you on account of the Rong Family’s reputation, yet you still recklessly offend and invite resentment?"
"Dad, Jiaojiao means well." Ma Li hurriedly stepped forward and took her daughter’s shoulder.
Seeing her mother step up and make such a statement, Rong Jiaojiao suddenly felt uneasy.
She couldn’t stop her mother in time, and after Ma Li spoke, Mr. Rong’s expression changed.
"Who do you think you are? When do you get a say when I’m speaking?"
Mr. Rong didn’t give Ma Li any face at all, "A century ago, you would have been just a concubine without even the qualification to eat at the table!"
"Though I agreed to let you enter the Rong Family, it doesn’t mean I acknowledge you as the Rong Family’s primary wife! You are not worthy of the title of the primary wife of the Rong Family. In my eyes, Jiang Min is the rightful primary wife of the Rong Family!"
Mr. Rong never hid his disdain for Ma Li as a daughter-in-law. In contrast, Rong Ming’s biological mother was the daughter-in-law he was most satisfied with.
The Rong Family still kept Jiang Min’s art studio, which housed many of the art supplies she didn’t have time to move out during the divorce. Later, Jiang Min didn’t want them, and they remained there all these years.
Ma Li stood there pale-faced, not daring to say another word.
Rong Jiaojiao suppressed her dissatisfaction in her heart.
Why does her mother never learn her lesson?
Why does she always invite humiliation?
Why does she always have to bear the brunt of Mr. Rong’s disdain because of her mother?
Rong Jiaojiao even resented in her heart, if her mother was pregnant with her back then, why was she so useless, why couldn’t she have her father marry her openly and honorably?
In that case, she would be just like Rong Qingqing, a legitimate daughter of the Rong Family.
The status of an illegitimate daughter is a stain nailed upon her, impossible to wash away in a lifetime.
Her mother is disliked by Mr. Rong, and still cannot enter the circles of those noble women.
And she has always been excluded by those socialites.