Chapter 404 A Chu's Ambition

Upon hearing that her beloved daughter wanted to give up her room, Xu Li immediately said, "How can that be!"

"The guest rooms are basic; are they suitable for you to stay in?"

"I've already told her to change her room back."

"I'm sorry to trouble you, Xueyao, but you'll have to put your clothes in the guest room for now."

Nangong Xueyao said, "I'm not wronged, it's you who are wronged, Mommy."

Xu Li felt a surge of comfort.

She does favor her adopted daughter, but her adopted daughter is her dearest little darling!

If I don't love her, who will I love?

Is Nangong Chu that ingrate?

Xu Li didn't know how many times she had regretted it.

If I had known my biological daughter was like this, I should have suppressed the truth when I found out, instead of trying to find her!

Because of Nangong Chu, how many jokes have their three branches made?

Fortunately, she has an outstanding son and a well-behaved and filial adopted daughter!

While Xu Li and Nangong Xueyao were showing their motherly love and filial piety, A Chu was playing Go with Nangong Tianyue.

The old man rarely had any free time, so he sat down and watched.

Nangong Tianyue is actually very clever. If Achu gives him a little leeway, he can win.

"Wow! I won again!"

After winning several rounds in a row, Nangong Tianyue was so happy that he danced with joy, his smile innocent and carefree.

Because he is good-looking, even his childlike actions are adorable.

Achu looked at him with a smile and praised, "Second Brother is amazing, you won again!"

Nangong Tianyue sat down with a smile: "Let's go again! I'll let you win this round!"

Achu replied, "Okay."

As expected, Achu won the next two rounds. She smiled and said to Nangong Tianyue, "Second Brother is so nice!"

Nangong Tianyue puffed out his chest: "I'm the older brother, after all~"

Due to the aftereffects of an accident in his early years, Nangong Tianyue's health is actually not very good, and he is somewhat weak.

He started to feel sleepy after playing only a few rounds.

Seeing him yawn, the old man next to him said gently, "Ah Yue, you should take a nap."

Nangong Tianyue rubbed his eyes and shook his head: "No, I still want to play with Sister Chu!"

He usually only has servants to play with, so it's a rare treat to have a little sister to play with, and he's really enjoying it.

At this moment, A-Chu covered her mouth and yawned: "Second Brother, I'm sleepy. How about we continue playing after I take my afternoon nap?"

Nangong Tianyue hesitated for a moment before nodding: "Okay, then we'll play again after you wake up!"

The servants who were standing guard nearby immediately came over to accompany Nangong Tianyue back to his room.

Nangong Tianyue stood up and waved to Achu and the old man: "Good afternoon, Grandpa! Good afternoon, little sister Achu!"

The old man smiled and nodded: "Okay, good afternoon."

Achu: "Good afternoon."

Nangong Tianyue left, but Achu and the old man did not leave immediately.

Achu looked at the old man and asked, "Grandpa, is there something you want to tell me?"

The old man looked at Achu.

Old people are shrewd, especially an old man who has been in the business world for many years. How could he not see that Ah Chu was pretending to be pitiful?

However, the third wife's actions were indeed excessive.

"A-Yue likes you very much," the old man said.

For this reason alone, the old man was willing to take care of Ah Chu a little.

Achu smiled and said, "I also like my second brother very much. Although he is mentally challenged, he has a pure and kind heart."

"My second brother treats me better than my eldest and fifth brothers."

The eldest brother and fifth brother that Achu mentioned were her biological eldest brother and second brother.

She was telling the truth.

Although the eldest brother, Nangong Tianyu, never spoke ill of Achu, he always ignored her and didn't take her seriously.

On her birthday, he would transfer money to her so she could buy whatever she liked.

For Nangong Xueyao, however, she had to carefully prepare a gift in advance.

As for her second brother...

One year, Nangong Xueyao framed her, saying that she was jealous that she could participate in an international dance competition, and deliberately put thumbtacks in her shoes.

Nangong Xueyao injured her foot and missed the match.

Her second brother, Nangong Tianchen, smashed several glasses and ordered Achu to step on them barefoot.

Achu, of course, disagreed, saying that she hadn't put any thumbtacks in at all.

But nobody believed her.

Nangong Tianchen pulled her over and shoved her hard against the shards of glass.

Ah Chu fell onto the broken glass and suffered multiple cuts.

Especially her hands, because she instinctively braced herself with her hands, causing shards of glass to embed deeply into her palms.

Achu lowered her eyes, looking at the ugly scar on the palm of her right hand, her eyes filled with coldness.

She still remembered clearly what Nangong Tianchen had said to her back then.

He looked at her with cold, disgusted eyes and said, "Nangong Chu! You vicious bastard, if you ever dare to hurt Xueyao even a little bit again, I will make you pay double, just like I did today!"

What do you want?

The old man's voice pulled Achu out of her memories.

She looked up at the old man's aged yet sharp eyes and said, "Grandpa, I want to surpass my uncles and brothers and become the successor in your heart."

The old man had imagined many possible answers from Chu, but this was the only one he hadn't considered.

He was quite surprised to see the ambition clearly written in A Chu's eyes.

But then, the old man smiled.

“Little girl, my Nangong family has not fallen to the point of choosing a girl as our heir.”

Old Master Nangong was inherently sexist, otherwise he wouldn't have refused to acknowledge any of his illegitimate daughters.

Achu laughed too: "Grandpa, things are different now than before. Your thinking should also change."

“I know you hope that after the Nangong Group is handed over to the next generation, it can go further and achieve greater success.”

“I know you still hope that the Nangong Group can always be owned by the Nangong family.”

"But has Grandpa ever considered that only a daughter of the Nangong family can guarantee with absolute certainty that her offspring will have the blood of the Nangong family?"

Ah Chu's words reminded Grandpa Nangong of ten years ago.

The reason why Nangong Xueyao was found out that she was not the biological daughter of the third wife was because the old man ordered paternity tests to be done on all the children in the family.

There are reasons for this, of course.

The old man's fourth daughter-in-law had been having an affair with another man for many years behind his back, and even gave birth to a son.

Ten years ago, her affair was exposed, and the old man, suspecting that the child was not his grandson, had a paternity test done.

It turned out that wasn't the case at all!

To avoid confusion with other bloodlines in the Nangong family, the old man had all his grandchildren undergo paternity tests.

That's how they found out about Nangong Xueyao.

Only daughters of the Nangong family can guarantee with absolute certainty that their children will be of the Nangong bloodline...

For some reason, the old man actually felt that there was some truth to what he said!

But this one sentence alone is not enough to change the old man's deep-rooted prejudice that he has held for many years.

Of course, Achu knew this.

Her smile remained unchanged as she continued, "I can also guarantee that as long as I am alright, my second brother will also be alright, and no one can hurt him."

"Grandpa, do you think my uncles and brothers are truly good to my second brother?"