Ring!
Mrs. Ji couldn’t bear to look, so she let Mr. Ji act roughly with Ji Gui, who was going mad, and feebly picked up the phone.
“Hello.” Liu Lian’s voice came from the other side of the phone. Usually, her voice was soft, but at this moment, it was unusually cold and sharp.
Mrs. Ji trembled. She took a glance at Ji Gui and said in a steady tone, “Hey, Liu Lian.”
Hearing this, Liu Lian frowned and said, “Don’t call me so intimately. I’ve not agreed to the marriage. It’ll be terrible if someone misunderstands you.”
Mrs. Ji’s face froze and her hand holding the phone turned cold.
“Mrs. Ji, I called you for nothing else. Our Yu An is reaching his end. Now, it seems that we are not worthy of your daughter, so don’t let Ji Gui pester Yu An in the future.”
As soon as Liu Lian finished speaking, she hung up the phone. Mrs. Ji trembled in anger. She did not expect that Liu Lian would disentangle herself so quickly!
“Mom, mom, what did my mother-in-law say?” Ji Gui looked at her mother with expectation.
“What mother-in-law? What did you call her? Since this video was uploaded, have you ever shown your face to Shang Yu An? Now, he has made it clear that he wants to distance himself from you.”
Mrs. Ji was fuming and she was not as good-tempered as she used to be to Ji Gui.
Ji Gui was shocked and looked at Mrs. Ji in disbelief. She was even more unable to accept the meaning of Mrs. Ji’s words. How could Shang Yu An not want her?
She screamed, “Why are you blaming me? It’s Ji Yan who framed me. She must have told Shang Jinshen about the photos!”
“What photos?” Mr. Ji grabbed hold of the main point in her words. Immediately, he realized that what had happened to Ji Gui recently was not an accident. Someone was behind the scenes.
Ji Gui’s face was covered with tears and snot, and her eyes gleamed with a vicious light. She said, “I merely wanted her to lose her reputation. Why was it me who lost in the end?”
Mr. Ji looked at Ji Yan seriously and then stared at Mrs. Ji, who obviously knew something. He snapped, “What on earth did she do?”
Mrs. Ji turned away and didn’t want to say anything. No matter how cold Ji Zhengming was, he was still Ji Yan’s biological father. It was inevitable that he would favor Ji Yan after hearing it.
But under his pressure, Mrs. Ji could only say briefly with a pale face, “It’s nothing. It’s just that Ji Gui sent someone to kidnap Ji Yan and scare her.”
Mr. Ji did not believe that things were so simple. He looked at Mrs. Ji and Ji Gui and snapped, “What a fool!”
“Is Ji Yan someone you can mess with now? Even if it is for the sake of their face, the Shang family will not sit idly by and watch you bully Ji Yan.”
“As I told you before, as long as Ji Yan can bring us money, it’s enough. But you have to…” Mr. Ji looked at them, disappointed that they were not reaching his expectations.
After thinking for a moment, he said to Ji Gui, “In the afternoon, go to the Shang family and ask for forgiveness. Perhaps they will stop.”
“I don’t want to!” Ji Gui raised her head in anger. How could she possibly lower her head in front of that b*stard Ji Yan?
Ji Zhengming was so mad that his blood was boiling, so he slapped Ji Gui in the face. “It’s not up to you!”
Ji Gui covered her face and looked hatefully at Ji Zhengming. She hated Mr. Ji, who had always doted on her, for protecting Ji Yan instead of getting revenge for her.
Mrs. Ji wanted to say something, but in the end, she remained silent.
In the afternoon, Ji Yan finished making tea for Mrs. Shang, who was resting in the garden. She sat at the side and was deep in thoughts, writing and drawing from time to time in a small notebook.
From a distance, it looked like they were on good terms.
Madam Zhang also smiled and sincerely hoped that Ji Yan could get along well with Mrs. Shang.
But when she thought of the family at the door, Madam Zhang’s face darkened. She went forward and said, “Mrs. Shang, Madam Ji Yan’s family came.”
Mrs. Shang was lying on a soft and luxurious couch. Hearing this, she opened her eyes unhappily and said, “Why did that poor family come again?”
Ji Yan pretended that she didn’t hear the words “poor family” and closed her notebook before she looked at Madam Zhang.
“Bring them here. I’d like to see what tricks they are up to this time.” Mrs. Shang glanced at Ji Yan with raised eyes and sat on the couch with dignity.
After a while, Mr. and Mrs. Ji appeared in front of them while smiling ingratiatingly. Behind them, Ji Gui’s face was not clear and the handprint on her face had turned bluish as if she had suffered some abuse.
She glared at Ji Yan with eyes full of unwillingness and resentment. Ji Yan was slightly stunned and sat straight. She didn’t know what the purpose of the Ji family coming in like that now!
“Well, Mrs. Shang, I brought my daughter here to apologize to you. What do you think?” Ji Zhengming showed a hypocritical smile and handed over the gift in his hand.
Mrs. Shang swept at the gifts of the Ji family. They were not attractive to her. She did not hide the disdain in her eyes and looked at them, “Why are you apologizing?”
Ji Yan was also confused. Obviously, Mrs. Shang and Ji Yan did not know about the viral video online.
Mr. Ji was stunned. He didn’t know what to say. Were Ji Yan and Mrs. Shang not the person behind the scenes? Or, perhaps, they did not know about it at all.
Mrs. Ji also saw it. She felt relieved and smiled, “It’s nothing. Ji Gui said a few harsh words to Ji Yan. It’s normal to have a quarrel between sisters.”
Ji Gui hired someone to kidnap and insult Ji Yan then secretly took photos of her and sent them to Mrs. Shang. Mrs. Ji disregarded it as a quarrel between sisters. Ji Yan had to admit that lying without batting an eyelash was also a type of ability.
Mrs. Shang glanced at Ji Yan. Ji Yan expressed that she knew nothing about it. So she then looked up and down at the Ji family, who was acting a bit weirdly.
“Ji Yan, don’t be angry with your sister. She has a child’s temper.” Mrs. Ji came to Ji Yan with a thick face and said so, like a kind mother.
Unfortunately, Ji Yan was not the ignorant child who trusted her wholeheartedly when she was a child. She frowned, looked at Mrs. Ji and Ji Gui. A flurry of conspiracy ideas emerged in her mind.
Mr. Ji also said lovingly, “Ji Yan, your sister has come to apologize to you in person. Be generous and don’t dispute with your sister.”
Ji Zhengming wanted to with a humble stance and good attitude first. Even if Ji Yan knew that Ji Gui had kidnapped her, she then cannot use it to make a fuss.
At that time, he could ask Shang Jinshen to stay his hand because Ji Yan would have said earlier that she did not care about it. Ji Zhengming had a good plan in his heart.
But Ji Yan’s expression was calm and she did not seem to be willing to cooperate at all.
Child’s temper? Ji Gui must have provoked someone or caused some trouble and so they wanted to use their connections with the Shang family to solve it. Ji Yan smartly didn’t answer to avoid Mrs. Shang picking quarrels with her.
Seeing that Ji Yan did not respond, Mr. Ji’s expression turned rigid. But with Mrs. Shang around, he did not dare to scold Ji Yan.
Mrs. Shang could also see the purpose of the Ji family’s visit. She raised her eyes impatiently and looked at them with her head held high in the air. She felt annoyed that she had such humiliating in-laws!
The butler behind Mrs. Shang walked over with a tablet and passed it over. He then whispered a few words in Mrs. Shang’s ear.