Bai Yitang puffed out his cheeks in anger and stomped his feet in protest, "I won't accept this!! All you do is bully me. Bai Qianmo didn't come home last night, why didn't you hit her?"

Old Bai raised his cane as if to strike, but Bai Yitang, like a monkey, leaped up and narrowly dodged it.

"If you can't win an argument, you resort to violence. Grandpa, even if you're an elder, you can't be unreasonable. I seriously suspect I was a free gift with a phone top-up. No way, I'm going to get a DNA test."

Xu Hualan lifted her eyelids and looked at Bai Yitang indifferently: "Okay, when your dad comes back, he'll take you to get tested."

Bringing out Bai Kangcheng immediately extinguished Bai Yitang's arrogant demeanor.

Xu Hualan picked up a fried dough stick and placed it in Bai Lao's bowl: "Dad, don't be angry because of this kid. I'll call his dad later, and we'll teach him a lesson when Kang Cheng gets back!"

Bai Yitang felt a chill run down his spine, a cold sensation rising from the soles of his feet.

His biggest fear was his own father. Although Bai Kangcheng had never hit him, just one glare from him was enough to make his legs go weak.

His own mother is really ruthless; she actually wants to badmouth him.

"Mom, are you really my mom?"

“You’re absolutely right, it was a free gift with a phone top-up,” Xu Hualan replied without hesitation.

Bai Yitang: "..."

It feels like my heart is bleeding again...

Bai Qianmo put down her spoon and obediently said to Grandpa Bai and Xu Hualan, "Grandpa, Aunt, Yitang is still young and is my younger brother. It's only right that we give in to him. Please don't be angry."

After saying that, Bai Qianmo picked up her schoolbag from the chair: "I'm done eating. I'm early today, so I won't trouble Auntie to drive me. I'll walk to school. Goodbye, Grandpa and Auntie."

"Okay, be careful on the road." Both Elder Bai and Xu Hualan smiled kindly at Bai Qianmo.

Bai Yitang increasingly felt that the word "cheap" was written all over his body.

He was definitely a free gift with a phone top-up!!

After Bai Qianmo left, Xu Hualan looked at her son with a serious expression: "Look how well-behaved and sensible your sister is. You just said such hurtful things to her, and she still stood up for you. How can you be so shameless?"

"That little brat has no conscience and is blind too," Old Bai added insult to injury.

Bai Yitang looked dazed, as if he had just been hit by a landmine.

Bai Qianmo, you're such a good actress.

She was cold and arrogant in front of him, showing no respect for him at all, but in front of elders, she acted like a well-behaved and sensible older sister.

Bah! Bai Qianmo, one day I will tear off your mask.

He quickly grabbed a fried dough stick from the table and took a big bite.

Bai Yitang picked up his schoolbag and slung it over his shoulder: "I'm walking to school today too."

Then, he dashed out like a gust of wind.

The two children went to school one after the other.

Only Old Bai and Xu Hualan remained in the restaurant. Old Bai's feigned anger gradually faded, and he suddenly chuckled, as if he had just thought of something.

"Dad, what are you laughing at?"

Old Bai said, "I'm laughing. Yitang is too stupid. He's no match for Qianmo. Just watch, one day Qianmo will teach him a lesson he won't forget."

Xu Hualan sighed, "Yitang is just too naive and easily taken advantage of."

A sharp glint flashed in Bai Lao's powerful eyes: "It's not that Yi Tang is naive, it's that the enemy's level is too high. Hua Lan, come to my study with me."

Old Bai got up with his cane, and Xu Hualan immediately got up and went to help him.

The two arrived at the study. Old Bai walked to the bookshelf, opened a locked cabinet, and took out a rectangular brocade box from inside.

"Have you acquired another antique painting?"

Old Bai opened the brocade box, took out a scroll, and handed it to Xu Hualan: "Open it and take a look."

Xu Hualan nodded and carefully unrolled the scroll, revealing a vast landscape painting.

"This painting is unsigned; I wonder which master painter it is?"

With a profound expression, Old Bai smiled and said, "You also have a lot of insight into painting. What do you think of this painting?"

Xu Hualan examined it carefully again: "Although this painting is a traditional Chinese painting, it handles the sense of space very cleverly, and vividly expresses the magnificent landscape and the atmosphere of clouds and mist. Judging from the painting technique, it should be a modern style work, which reminds me of someone."

Xu Hualan paused for a moment, then looked up at Elder Bai: "It looks a lot like Ye Bai's work."

Old Bai smiled approvingly and said with a deep smile, "Not bad, it is indeed Ye Bai's work."

Xu Hualan's face showed obvious shock: "Ye Bai's only published work so far is 'The Other Shore Flower.' Where did you get this painting from?"

Old Bai reached out and took the scroll, carefully placing it on the table: "This is the painting that A-Ye brought over that day."

"Oh, I remember now. That day, A-Ye brought over a painting and asked you if it was yours. So this is the one."

"Yes, this is the painting. Qianmo gave it to Aye on his birthday."

"Qianmo gave it to you?" Xu Hualan was deeply shocked.

Suddenly I remembered the watch on Bai Qianmo's wrist; it was a globally limited edition collectible.

Although there are many counterfeit versions of this watch, when she suggested taking a look, she was already certain that even if Qianmo's watch was a counterfeit, it would be an extremely high-tech one.

Because the diamonds around the watch are all genuine, top-quality diamonds.

"Dad, didn't you ask Qianmo where she got this painting?"

Old Bai laughed and said, "Qianmo said she stole it from my study."

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