"Wanwan, I beg you, please don't talk to me like that, okay? I'm your mother... I'm your mother..."

As Mei Aiqing finished speaking, she choked up and began to cry, large tears streaming down her face. In the end, she cried uncontrollably.

"Wanwan, waaaaah..."

The crying coming from the other end of the phone made Ye Ningwan feel a little irritated.

It's always the same!

Whenever the Ye family has something to resolve, and Ye Ruoxin wants to find someone to take the blame, Mei Aiqing will come along, crying and using family ties as an excuse.

At first, Ye Ningwan thought that Mei Aiqing truly loved her; she was just too weak and could only waver between her two daughters, ultimately suffering so much.

At that time, Ye Ningwan longed for family affection so much that she could only give in whenever Mei Aiqing was indecisive, just to prevent Mei Aiqing from suffering so much pain and sadness.

But what was the result...?

As a result, Ye Ningwan became a delinquent girl hated by everyone in Jiangcheng, burdened with many infamys that did not belong to her, whether it was cheating on exams, bullying classmates at school, or dating and promiscuous people.

It wasn't until much later that Ye Ningwan realized that Mei Aiqing was just picking on the weak.

Because she is easy to talk to, because she is sensible, because she is obedient, and because she cares about others, she was chosen as a target. This is the exploitation of the weak by the weaker.

Selfishness and demands disguised as love are even more disgusting.

Ye Ningwan gave a cold sneer and said irritably.

"Mrs. Ye, if you called just to let me hear you cry, then I'm hanging up. Don't ruin my good mood; crying is bad luck."

Mei Aiqing paused in her sobs, seemingly surprised that Ye Ningwan would say such a thing.

After a long while, Mei Aiqing gasped in disbelief, choking back tears as she almost questioned Ye Ningwan.

"Wanwan, how could you talk to your mother like that?!"

Ye Ningwan coldly corrected Mei Aiqing's words.

“Mrs. Ye, I have no connection with the Ye family anymore. Chairman Ye and I reached an agreement that as long as I marry Pei Fengzhi in place of Ye Ruoxin, my relationship with the Ye family would be even. Chairman Ye also canceled our adoption agreement five years ago. I have no connection with your Ye family for a long time.”

"Mrs. Ye, please call me Miss Ye. I am not your daughter. Your only daughter is Ye Ruoxin!"

Mei Aiqing covered her face in anguish and cried into her phone for a long time, not even realizing when Ye Ningwan hung up.

Not long after, Ye Ningwan's phone rang again. She answered it, and Mei Aiqing's hoarse voice came from the other end of the line.

"No! I have two daughters, you and Ye Ruoxin are both my daughters. I've always treated you as my daughter! Wanwan, how could you do this to me?"

Ye Ningwan scoffed, finding it all laughable as she listened to Mei Aiqing's heartbroken voice on the other end of the phone.

She asked Mei Aiqing in a cold voice.

"Does Mrs. Ye really treat me like a daughter?"

Mei Aiqing said urgently.

"Of course! You've always been my daughter! I've always considered you my daughter!"

Ye Ningwan didn't say whether she believed it or not, she just said it calmly.

"Since Mrs. Ye treats me like her own daughter, I hope she will treat me the same way she would treat her own daughter!"

"So, in this yacht club assault case, someone tried to kill your daughter. Any normal mother would pursue this to the end, right? So, Mrs. Ye, what will you do?"

When Mei Aiqing heard Ye Ningwan say that, her eyes turned red and she growled in a hoarse voice.

"Ye Ningwan! Wanwan! How could you do this to me! How could you treat your mother like this?"

"You know perfectly well...you know perfectly well that Xinxin is also my daughter, both of them are my flesh and blood, and now you're trying to tear a piece of my heart out!"

Mei Aiqing cried and wailed for a while, then pleaded with Ye Ningwan in a hoarse voice.

"Wanwan, please, please, just for the sake of our years of mother-daughter relationship, and for the sake of me being your mother, please drop the case. Then, do a live stream with Xinxin and explain to those people online that it was just a misunderstanding and that you two are very close sisters."

"If we do it this way, this matter can be resolved properly, and no one will be hurt!"

Upon hearing Mei Aiqing's words, Ye Ningwan couldn't help but scoff and said irritably.

"No one was hurt?! Mrs. Ye, how can you say such a thing?"

"You keep saying you treat me like your own daughter, but every time something happens, your first thought is to push me out and sacrifice me!"

“Mrs. Ye, your so-called good for everyone and no one being harmed is actually just making me swallow my anger, making me pretend that nothing happened! If that’s the case, then why did you let Ye Ruoxin file a case when I was arrested, ignore me, and even let Ye Ruoxin slander me online and try to make things bigger?”

Mei Aiqing cried even more miserably, trying her best to explain to Ye Ningwan.

"Wanwan, that's not how it is! I tried to stop Xinxin, but she wouldn't listen to me, and I couldn't stop her at all. Mommy had no choice! Mommy is sorry, please forgive Mommy!"

As Ye Ningwan listened to Mei Aiqing's tearful plea on the phone, her last glimmer of hope vanished completely, leaving only an unparalleled chill, as if all the blood in her body had frozen into ice.

She took a deep breath and tried her best to suppress all her emotions.

"Since that's the case, then Mrs. Ye can't order me around anymore! This has nothing to do with you; it's my disagreement. You've already told me what you needed to say, and I believe Ye Ruoxin won't blame you! If there's nothing else, I'll hang up now."

After saying that, Ye Ningwan was about to hang up the phone.

Almost simultaneously, Mei Aiqing's scream stopped Ye Ningwan's actions.

"No! Don't hang up yet!"

Ye Ningwan asked without any politeness.

"Is there anything else, Mrs. Ye?"

Mei Aiqing pleaded tearfully.

"Wanwan, there are some things that are really inconvenient to say over the phone. Can you let me see you? I just want to see you, to see you. If you don't want to after I see you, I'll never bother you again. Please, I'm begging you."

Mei Aiqing's desperate cries reached Ye Ningwan's ears through the microphone, but they could no longer evoke any emotional response from her.