Chapter 430 Insatiable Greed
"I'm your mother, the person who knows you best in this world." Seeing her flustered appearance, a hint of weakness finally appeared on her porcelain-white face, and Li Lihua smiled with relief. "Yueyue, no matter what I know, as long as you and your mother are well, your mother will never harm you."
Seeing that she wouldn't explain clearly, Shen Xiyue naturally couldn't bring herself to ask further, otherwise she would be walking into a trap.
"You... Mom, I was too emotional just now." Shen Xiyue calmed herself down and said a few insincere words to comfort her before getting to the point, "You've been following Rebecca for so long, have you found any evidence? Is she really Su Youling?"
"I... of course I found it." A hint of guilt flashed in Li Lihua's eyes. "Otherwise, why would I have come all the way here tonight to find you? I haven't even exchanged a single word with my own daughter, and I've been treated like this. My heart is broken."
“…Mom, I’m sorry.” A hint of impatience flashed across Shen Xiyue’s eyes, but she still smiled and handed her a bank card. “Even if you hadn’t come to me, I would have come to see you after I finished my work these past few days. I already feel guilty that I can’t bring you back to live the life of a wealthy lady right now. There’s 200,000 yuan in this card, which is the most money I can take out right now.”
"Only 200,000? What can that do?" Li Lihua said reluctantly. "I'm getting old now, and I don't have a proper income. I can't keep relying on you to leech off me, can I? Why don't you give me a larger sum of money all at once, and I'll open a shop and start a business..."
Shen Xiyue clenched her fists imperceptibly. "What kind of business are you looking to start? The market is tough right now..."
"No matter how tough the market is, the rich are still rich, aren't they? How come you're getting more and more backward, developing a poor person's mentality?" Li Lihua said unhappily. "I've looked at almost all the shops. I'll go into custom clothing. I used to be the most fashionable rich lady in the industry. The total cost, after all the calculations, is about seven or eight million..."
"Seven or eight million?" Shen Xiyue was disgusted by her unrealistic and greedy ideas. When the Shen family was still rich, how much money did she lose in business? Now that she's so old, she still dares to dream of doing custom clothing.
Unless you're out of your mind, nobody would spend money on this!
"Mom, I really don't have that much money... Here's 200,000, you can use it first," Shen Xiyue tried to reassure her. "Once I win over Li Tingxi, I'll have plenty of money. Why are you in such a hurry?"
No sooner had she finished speaking than Li Lihua suddenly erupted in anger, slapping her hard across the face. "You lied to me! You fooled me! You even told me to go find that Rebecca, do you know I almost got killed by her?"
“That woman is crazy. She comes from a good family, is beautiful, and has bodyguards that Li Tingxi sent to her every day. What about you? What do you have?” She grabbed Shen Xiyue’s shoulders and shook her violently. “You are a useless thing. You couldn’t beat Su Youling back then, and now you’ve spent four years, but you still can’t even beat a substitute. You just watch Li Tingxi dote on other women!”
"What did you say?" Shen Xiyue coldly covered her swollen cheek. "So, Rebecca isn't Su Youling? How did you verify that?"
“How else can we verify it? Of course, we’ll do a DNA test…” Li Lihua felt a little guilty and didn’t dare to look her in the eye.
However, if she really finds out that I'm afraid of Rebecca and I return empty-handed... then I can forget about getting any money tonight.
“They’re open and honest, they just do the verification, you can tell they have nothing to hide, unlike you,” Li Lihua said.
#Please do not use incognito mode whenever verification is required!
Seeing Chen Xiyue deep in thought, she realized she had been too agitated and softened her voice, saying, "Yueyue, Mommy didn't mean to hit you..."
“You have no idea what kind of miserable life I’ve been living all these years. I can’t stand living such a poor life for even a day, but you have so many troubles here. I can’t just keep asking you for money, right? Doing business is also to help ease your burden. When Mom becomes successful, maybe you won’t need to rely on Li Tingxi at all and can be a rich young lady again.”
A greedy glint flashed in her eyes as she whispered, "You keep telling me to wait until you win over Li Tingxi? When will that ever happen! He's all lovey-dovey with that foreign woman right now, what woman could possibly get in his shoes?"
"I have my own way of doing things, so you don't need to worry about it." Shen Xiyue pushed her away with disgust. In the past, she hated it when people said she was not as good as Su Youling, and now she hates it when people say she is not as good as Rebecca.
She had been trying so hard to win back Li Tingxi's heart, trying to make herself worthy of him... even at the cost of her life.
In recent years, who hasn't suffered through hardship and misery?
It was these two children, who were her parents' burdens, that led her into a desperate situation with no way out.
Why would she reappear after five years? Why would she want to ruin my perfect plan?
"I only have 200,000 yuan right now. Take it or leave it." Shen Xiyue stood up coldly, looked down at Li Lihua who was looking displeased, and said indifferently, "Mom, I am your only relative in this world. You'd better not force me."
Is Rebecca really not Su Youling?
That doesn't make sense.
Li Lihua was so reckless, actually dragging Rebecca to get a DNA test... Could it have aroused that woman's suspicion?
Thinking of this, Shen Xiyue was even more eager to get rid of the person. "You should leave quickly. If anyone asks again, just say you came here to do housekeeping. Don't come looking for me for a while."
Li Lihua staggered a few steps, shoved Shen Xiyue in displeasure, and angrily said, "Do you think I'm some beggar to be dealt with? You're just going to throw me away after you've used me?"
“Chen Xiyue, let me tell you—if you refuse to pay, I will come to the Li Mansion every day and cause trouble. If Li Tingxi finds out I’m here, he will definitely suspect your identity, and then what you did back then will no longer be able to be hidden.”
"You! What do you know?" Shen Xiyue pounced on her frantically, wishing she could bite her to death.
This greedy woman actually dared to threaten and extort her!
Something that does more harm than good.
Seeing Li Lihua's mocking yet fearless gaze, Shen Xiyue finally calmed down. She clenched her fists, helped Li Lihua up, and smiled ingratiatingly, "Mom, seven or eight million is too much. I really can't come up with it all at once. Otherwise, you can wait a little longer, and I will definitely find a way to get the shop open first."
“You’re right. You’re doing business for our future. I was just too hasty… It’s just that you kept talking about the past, and I got a little anxious. I was afraid you’d be scammed, so I started talking nonsense.”
"Yueyue, that's a good girl." Li Lihua stood up, patted her clothes, and said proudly, "No one lied to me; you just let it slip. But it's okay, I'm your mother, I would never harm you. Your secret is my secret!"
Shen Xiyue forced a smile and quietly saw the person out.
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