Chapter 98 Each with their own ulterior motives, testing each other.
Xia Jianyong: "Xia Yuhuan, if your mother saw you like this, she would be utterly disappointed in you."
These words successfully made Xia Yuhuan stop in her tracks.
A cold hatred flashed in her eyes, but when she turned to look at Xia Jianyong, the hatred vanished, and she just frowned with resentment.
"Xia Jianyong, what gives you the right to say that to me? How do you know my mother doesn't like me the way I am now? Maybe she likes me just the way I am!"
“Because I know your mother! She’s gentle and kind, unlike you who’s sharp and annoying. You’re not even as good as one of your mother’s fingers, so she wouldn’t like someone like you!” Xia Jianyong said with a look of disgust.
Xia Yuhuan pouted: "If you really liked my mother that much, how could you have married Li Rouyue so soon after she died? Saying you liked her is ridiculous. It was her misfortune that you liked her!"
Xia Jianyong retorted angrily, "Look at yourself now! Even if we're no longer related, I'm still your father!"
"If your mother and I hadn't fallen in love back then, would you, this wretched child, have been born? Are you here to upset me now?"
When Xia Yuhuan heard the words "love", her eyes were full of sarcasm.
"Love? Did you and my mother really love each other back then? If you really loved each other, why couldn't you even take good care of me when I was a child? You even lost me and I suffered in the countryside for more than ten years?" Xia Yuhuan questioned.
The scumbag clearly coveted the Xia family's wealth and harmed an entire family, yet he deliberately used the name of love to cover it up, casting a shadow over this beautiful word.
Xia Jianyong's face stiffened upon hearing this.
He immediately scolded, "You got lost because you ran off on your own, it wasn't me who deliberately lost you. You can only blame yourself for this."
Xia Yuhuan sneered and retorted, "Really? I seem to remember that you were the one who dropped me off by the roadside, coaxed me, said you would buy me candy, and told me to wait for you there, but you never came back!"
Xia Jianyong's pupils constricted involuntarily. She was so young back then, how could she still remember?
His hands clenched into fists involuntarily, a surge of anger rising within him, and he felt more and more that Xia Yuhuan could not be allowed to live.
"Do you dare say you didn't deliberately lose me in order to have a son?" Xia Yuhuan questioned again.
Her question immediately put Xia Jianyong at ease: So that's what she was thinking?
So the reason she insisted on severing ties with him was because she remembered that he was the one who deliberately lost her, and she held a grudge, which is why she insisted on breaking off the relationship.
Judging from the resentful expression on her face, she must still have feelings for him, her father.
Without love, where would resentment and hatred come from?
After Xia Jianyong understood, he felt relieved and softened his expression towards Xia Yuhuan.
"You've really misunderstood this. You're my own daughter, how could I possibly bear to lose you?"
“When I went to buy you candy, I was hit by a car and lost consciousness. I was taken to the hospital, which is why I couldn’t go back to pick you up right away. By the time I woke up, it was already the next day, and when I went to look for you, you were no longer there,” Xia Jianyong explained.
Xia Yuhuan scoffed, looking unconvinced: "If you find I'm missing, won't you call the police or go looking for me? Don't try to fool me."
“How could I not look for you? I called the police and looked for you too. I was almost going crazy looking for you. Your mother even got into trouble because of looking for you, she…” Xia Jianyong choked up as he spoke.
Xia Yuhuan watched him perform, her heart filled with coldness.
Xia Jianyong did report the incident to the police and took his mother to look for her everywhere, but the place where he took his mother to look for her and report the incident was far away from where she was abandoned, and they weren't even in the same district.
If you can find her even when you're going in completely opposite directions, then there's something truly strange about it!
She had just released a little bit of her emotions when Xia Jianyong seized the opportunity, seemingly wanting to get something from her or find out something.
If that's the case, let's see who has the better acting skills!
Xia Yuhuan thought for a moment, then gently pursed her lips and asked him with reddened eyes, "Why didn't you go with my mother when she came looking for me? What were you doing when my mother died?"
“At that time, you had been missing for more than a year. The police said that you were most likely abducted by human traffickers and would never be found.”
“I also have my own job, and I can’t just stay away from work and waste my time looking for you. I was at work at the time, and your mother went out to look for you by herself. I never expected that something would happen later. She… she just left me like that.”
Xia Jianyong choked up, tears welling in his eyes, looking distressed and pained.
Xia Yuhuan clenched her fists tightly, her nails digging deep into her palms, just to keep herself from giving herself away.
That scumbag is such a good actor. If she didn't know his true colors, she would have been completely impressed by his acting skills.
"What kind of person was my mother? Can you tell me about her?" Xia Yuhuan asked softly, as if she wanted to know about Xia Qingqing's life.
Xia Jianyong wiped away his tears and said, "Didn't your in-laws ever mention your mother to you?"
Xia Yuhuan asked him with a puzzled look, "Why are my in-laws talking to me about my mother?"
“Your mother had a good relationship with your mother-in-law before she passed away, so I thought she would mention it to you,” Xia Jianyong said, his eyes flashing.
"Is that so? How come I've never heard my mother-in-law mention it before?" Xia Yuhuan asked curiously.
Afterwards, Xia Yuhuan kept asking Xia Jianyong about Xia Qingqing.
Xia Jianyong did tell her, but he clearly had ulterior motives. While talking, he also subtly asked Xia Yuhuan about the Chi family.
The main questions were about Chi Shaokang's activities and whether he had mentioned the Xia family at home.
Xia Yuhuan's main tactic was to deceive people if she could, and if she couldn't, she would just talk nonsense, which she managed to get by.
After a long, friendly exchange between father and daughter, each with their own hidden agendas, Xia Yuhuan finally made an excuse that her feet were sore and she had to leave.
Xia Jianyong called out to her, "Yu Huan, we are still father and daughter. Although you forced me to sever ties with you back then, I still consider you my own daughter. Father and daughter don't hold grudges overnight. Come home and visit more often when you have time."
Xia Yuhuan had already figured out his intentions and had no interest in playing along. With her back to him, she pouted and said, "Really? Didn't you say before that you hated me and didn't welcome me to your house?"
Xia Jianyong smiled and said, "I was just saying it in anger. You still hold a grudge against me?"
“I know we had a falling out before, but now that Xia Zhuyu has gone to the countryside, there’s no longer the culprit that caused our relationship to deteriorate. So why don’t you stop arguing with your father?”
"How about you take some time later and bring your in-laws home for a meal? Dad will apologize to you properly then. What do you think?"
Xia Jianyong adopted a very humble attitude, thinking that Xia Yuhuan should take the opportunity to reconcile with him now, right?
Unexpectedly, Xia Yuhuan was completely unmoved by reason.
She waved her hand and said, "We'll talk about that later."
Then, she just left.
Xia Jianyong watched Xia Yuhuan's retreating figure, his lips twitching, a bellyful of anger stuck inside him, unable to be vented.
If he hadn't wanted to get close to Xia Yuhuan to find out information, he really wouldn't have wanted to talk to her.
It seems like he and Xia Yuhuan are incompatible; ever since Xia Yuhuan came back to his side, he's had a lot of bad luck.
However, judging from the probing just now, Chi Shaokang did not mention anything about investigating him at home.
So, was the person's information wrong and Chi Shaokang didn't investigate him secretly, or was Chi Shaokang keeping a close watch on Xia Yuhuan and not revealing any information to her at home?
Xia Jianyong was unsure, his eyes flickered, and instead of returning to the Xia family home, he turned and left the compound.
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