Chapter 22: Don't fight? Then I'll leave first

Pain surged across her face. Cen Shu covered her face in disbelief, screaming and jumping on the spot: "How dare you hit me? Cen Wan, go to hell!"

As she said this, she was about to reach out to pull Cen Wan, but Cen Wan dodged nimbly.

The noise in the yard alarmed the people in the living room, and Cen Baiqing, Fang Yaqing and a group of servants followed out.

Seeing that a backer had arrived, Cen Shu immediately ran to Cen Boqing crying, "Dad, my sister hit me!"

Cen Baiqing looked at the bright red slap marks on Cen Shu's face, his face ashen and furious: "Cen Wan, are you trying to rebel?"

Fang Yaqing touched Cen Shu's face distressedly and looked at her with forbearance: "Wanwan, I know you have always disliked me and your sister, but if you have any anger, come to me. Don't bully Xiaoshu."

Cen Boqing was furious when he heard this. Fang Yaqing was still pregnant, so there couldn't be any mishaps.

"Apologize to your sister!"

Cen Wan looked at the family of three in front of her who shared the same hatred for a common enemy. They were standing in the house where she grew up and accusing her indiscriminately. The servants behind her also had expressions of watching a good show. For a moment, she felt as if the world was spinning.

But this place was clearly once her home.

She slowly raised her eyes and looked over. The roses that had been planted in the yard since she was born had long been uprooted. Every blade of grass and tree here had been replaced, even the mistress of the house had changed.

This place is no longer her home.

Cen Wan gradually came back to her senses from her numbness and looked at the people in front of her calmly and indifferently.

"Cen Shu said that the young master of the Wu family is a playboy. You asked me to go on a blind date because you wanted to sell me to the Wu family in exchange for cooperation with the company."

"If word gets out that she's selling her daughter for fame, the Cen family's reputation will be ruined. I'm just teaching her a lesson on your behalf so she doesn't talk nonsense outside."

"Or," Cen Wan paused, looked up, and said coldly, "She's right. That's what you think."

Cen Baiqing's face turned red and blue. How could he possibly admit such words?

"I asked you to go on a blind date for your own good, to find you a good home."

"Really?" Cen Wan sneered, "Then what did I do wrong?"

Seeing this, Fang Yaqing said softly: "Your sister is young and speaks without thinking. She didn't mean it. It's just that your father and I have never been willing to touch her since she was a child. Her face..."

Cen Baiqing turned around and saw Cen Shu's red and swollen cheeks, and he immediately became furious.

"Even if your sister said something, you shouldn't hit her!"

Cen Wan stood quietly in the middle of the yard, her figure slender, and her eyebrows and eyes seemed covered with a layer of frost.

"You can also help her fight back, if you don't mind me going to see Master Wu with that face tomorrow."

"you……"

Cen Baiqing was choked by him and his face looked ugly.

Fang Yaqing's expression flickered slightly. She pulled Cen Shu and lowered her head. "Wanwan might be in a bad mood today. Xiaoshu is my younger sister, so she deserves the beating. It's all my fault. Bai Qing, don't be angry. You've hurt our relationship."

Cen Wan was too lazy to watch her act: "You don't want to fight? If not, I'll leave first and go back to get some beauty sleep so that I can go on a blind date tomorrow."

After saying that, Cen Wan left without looking back.

Cen Boqing's face was filled with rage. He turned around and walked inside: "I don't know who you learned this bad temper from!"

Cen Shu covered her face with her hands, looking unwilling: "Mom..."

Fang Yaqing patted her soothingly and shook her head at her.

Cen Baiqing cares most about face. Even if they have this plan, it must not be said openly like this, so Cen Shu can only take the slap today.

"When she marries into the Wu family, she'll have her cake and eat it."

…

After leaving the Cen family, Cen Wan walked along the road alone.

The cool night breeze filled her chest. She took a deep breath and then slowly exhaled the foul air in her heart.

Every time she went to the Cen family, she would only feel more disappointed with Cen Baiqing and more disgusted with that place.

My mother's favorite and carefully arranged roses were also pulled out. There was nothing left in that place for her to miss.

However, she had to go to the blind date tomorrow.

When Jiang Yuan heard that she was going on a blind date with the young master of the Wu family, he put his hands on his hips and started to scold Cen Boqing: "Is he still a human being? Doesn't he know what the Wu family's reputation is like in the circle? He is really blinded by greed. This biological father of his is even more vicious than his stepfather!"

"Wanwan, why don't you just not go?"

Cen Wan shook her head: "If I don't go, there will be some trouble."

"I'll just go through the motions and meet for a meal. I won't agree to anything else."

Jiang Yuan was still a little worried: "Then I'll go with you tomorrow."

"Okay." Cen Wan did not refuse her kindness.

…

The next afternoon, Xiaolin planned to invite Cen Wan to have dinner at a newly opened restaurant nearby.

"It's not possible today. I have something to do tonight. I'll go with you tomorrow."

Xiao Lin: "Okay, then I can only go home and order takeout tonight."

Before getting off work, Cen Wan just came out of the bathroom when the phone rang again. It was Cen Baiqing calling.

"Be at the restaurant on time at six o'clock and don't keep people waiting."

"Dress up a little prettier, be gentler and more enthusiastic. Don't always have a wooden face and look so cold. I don't know who you take after."

As Cen Wan listened to Cen Baiqing's words, her fingers gripping the phone tightened little by little.

Is this what a father should say, or is he really just treating himself as a commodity?

Cen Wan responded vaguely and looked up at herself in the mirror. She didn't wear any makeup today, and even her clothes were dressed casually.

If possible, she would rather not have such a face.

On the other end of the phone, Cen Baiqing was still telling her, "Mr. Wu is an important client of the company. He only has one son at home. You need to pay attention."

Cen Wan pursed her lips and said sarcastically, "Are you asking me to go on a blind date, or are you selling me to the Wu family?"

"What are you talking about!" Cen Baiqing was furious. "With the Wu family's background, you're marrying up!"

"How many women want to marry into your family? Don't be ignorant of your own limitations. Show your abilities."

Cen Wan didn't want to talk to him anymore and hung up the phone. She turned on the faucet and splashed a handful of cold water on her face, and then her emotions slowly calmed down.

After she left the bathroom, the cubicle at the back opened and Jiang Yunlan walked out. He looked at her back and narrowed his eyes thoughtfully.