Yu Mingxiang: "!!"

He was taken aback.

Before her daughter could speak, she anxiously asked, "Qin Yuzhu went to your house? What was she doing there?"

Ji Zichen: "The Zhao family father and son wanted to sell her to me..."

He recounted how the Zhao family of three had come to his house, and at the end, he mentioned how he had scared them away.

Upon hearing this, Yu Mingxiang exclaimed, "!!!"

He immediately fell into deep thought.

Selling his daughter for personal gain?

That's exactly the kind of thing that father and son would do!

But.

Qin Yuzhu was no less impressive.

After all, before their family went to the countryside, Qin Yuzhu was willing to marry a local ruffian like Wu Yong in order to stay in Beijing and live a good life. Thinking of this...

Yu Mingxiang felt a sudden jolt in her heart.

The Zhao family has run out of food!

Given Qin Yuzhu's arrogant, extravagant, and dissolute nature, and her inability to endure any hardship, would she still be willing to stay in the Zhao family?

She won't agree!

I'm afraid it's...

Even if the Zhao family wouldn't sell her, she'd sell herself!

Thinking of this, Yu Mingxiang knew something was wrong and turned to rush outside.

Daylily: "??"

Watching his mother's departing figure, he anxiously called out, "Mom? Mom, where are you going?"

Amidst the daylily's earnest calls, Yu Mingxiang went directly to the backyard.

"Wei Guo, Xiang Dong, come out."

Upon hearing their mother's voice, Qin Weiguo and Qin Xiangdong hurriedly put on their cotton-padded coats and went out.

"Mom, what's wrong?"

A gust of cold wind blew, and Qin Xiangdong shivered. He looked at his mother and said, "Weren't you flirting with Uncle Gu? Are you done?"

Upon hearing this, Yu Mingxiang said: ...

Enraged, she slapped him, grabbed him, and turned to walk towards the front yard.

"We need to go to the Zhao family."

As she walked, she said, "Let's see if Qin Yuzhu is home!"

Qin Weiguo and Qin Xiangdong were both bewildered upon hearing this.

A look of utter confusion on his face.

Yu Mingxiang noticed her son's confusion and continued walking, "Zhao Tiezhu and Zhao Tengfei wanted to sell Qin Yuzhu, but they couldn't sell her to the Ji family. I'm worried they might have another buyer!"

She said in a deep voice, "Qin Yuzhu cannot be sold!"

As they spoke, the mother and her two children hurriedly left.

The daylily that chased after them: "..."

I happened to overhear those words.

She stood in the wind and snow, watching her mother and brothers hurry away...

The hand hidden under the sleeve gradually clenched.

Qin Yuzhu...

It stole eighteen years of her life.

She was her mother's daughter for eighteen years.

It's understandable that her mother cares about her.

But.

She hated Qin Yuzhu, and it was perfectly justified in her hatred.

Ji Zichen: "..."

Seeing the daylily standing in the wind and snow, I slowly stepped forward and draped a coat over her shoulders.

Daylily.

He said slowly, "People aren't plants or trees; if you spend a lot of time together, you'll develop feelings for each other."

"Aunt Yu treated Qin Yuzhu this way, and I will treat you the same way!"

Upon hearing this, Xuancao said, "..."

She turned her head and looked at him.

What are your feelings for me?

She said with a self-deprecating smile, "Sympathy or pity?"

Ji Zichen was taken aback upon hearing this.

Upon seeing this, Xuancao chuckled.

With a bitter smile, he said, "Ji Zichen, sympathy and pity are acts of charity and favor bestowed by superiors upon inferiors. They require the inferiors to fawn over and carefully flatter. Now, I no longer need your charity, so naturally I will no longer fawn over or flatter you."

As she spoke, Xuancao turned around and tried to go back into the house.

But.

Ji Zichen reached out and grabbed her arm.

"Who told you that I only feel pity and sympathy for you?"

He looked at Xuan Cao with a pained expression and said, "Also, who is it that has been fawning over and flattering whom, Xuan Cao, do you really not know?"