Only when Lin Jingyu looked up did she realize that Shen Jingyao was looking at her expressionlessly and said, "Jingyu, you're getting married. You need to adjust your mindset and prepare to be a bride."
"Your family will prepare your dowry, but you also need to sort out your feelings. Besides, you're a public figure; aren't you afraid of being discovered if you keep running around like this?"
Lin Jingyu opened her mouth, "Mom, I just had a meal with Aunt Su, nothing else."
After a few seconds of silence, she asked again, "You just said you're going to acknowledge Wen Shu as your daughter, is that true? If you're going to acknowledge her as your daughter, what about me? Just because I'm getting married, are you going to find a substitute for your daughter?"
Lin Jingyu said that on purpose. She wanted to provoke Wen Shu and make her think that she was a substitute for Wen Shu because the Lin family needed to find a daughter to replace her in order to get married.
Upon hearing this, Wen Shu didn't react much, but Shen Jingyao's expression immediately turned ugly. "Jingyu, you're not a child anymore. You should be more careful with your words. You should know what you should and shouldn't say."
“Jing Yu, since you’ve brought this up, I might as well tell you directly that Wen Shu is my biological daughter, and my relationship with Wen Shu is like your relationship with Ms. Su.”
Shen Jingyao's words were quite clear, but Lin Jingyu was unwilling to accept them.
She can associate with Su Ying, but she cannot accept the Lin family associating with Wen Shu!
So, suppressing her inner grievances, she looked at Shen Jingyao and asked, "Mom, do you mean that Wen Shu is your daughter, and I've become an outsider? Can you bear to part with me? Can you really treat me like this?"
Shen Jingyao closed her eyes briefly. "So what if I can't bear it? When you were in close contact with your birth mother, did you ever think about how your father and I felt?"
Lin Jingyu opened her mouth, "My relationship with Aunt Su is just normal, nothing like the close relationship you're talking about. In my heart, Mom and Dad are still you, but you're in such a hurry to go find Wen Shu, how do you know how I feel?"
Lin Han couldn't help but sneer, "Lin Jingyu, do you think we're fools, that you're the smartest person in the world? Do you really think the Lin family knows nothing about what you and your birth mother did?"
Lin Jingyu stared at Lin Han, "What do you mean by that?"
Lin Han sneered: "So you're saying something like, 'Don't try to morally blackmail me like the Lin family has wronged you. You've already recognized Su Ying behind your parents' backs, so what are you pretending for? We're not exposing you because we want to save face for you. Since you don't want it, then we won't give it to you!"
Lin Jingyu immediately became a little anxious, "Lin Han, is that how you've judged me, and that's why you deliberately withheld my dowry?"
Upon hearing this, Cai Qian couldn't help but cover her forehead with her hand. Good heavens, has this sister-in-law gone mad?
At this moment, what she was worried about was still her dowry?!
Wen Shu was somewhat surprised; it was particularly unexpected for Lin Jingyu to say the word "dowry."
Grandma had told Li Duo that Wen Shu didn't have a dowry, which was an old-fashioned idea. But Lin Jingyu was a young woman, raised by the Lin family. She actually stood against the Lin family and argued with Lin Han about Lin Han withholding her dowry!
Wen Shu was truly stunned.
Lin Han thought she was hopeless. "Lin Jingyu, all I can say is that you were born unworthy of being a member of the Lin family!"
She wasn't like this before. Her personality wasn't to his liking as her older brother, but he definitely didn't dislike her. Why did she become more and more petty after recognizing Su Ying?
The changes in people are truly terrifying!
Lin Jingyu looked at Shen Jingyao and said, "Mom, listen to what Lin Han has to say!"
Shen Jingyao spoke up, "I heard it. If your brother is wrong, I'll talk to him later. If he's right, you should reflect on yourself. Anyway, you're getting married soon, and you chose the groom yourself. We support you."
Lin Jingyu had already noticed Shen Jingyao's displeasure, as well as the disgust and shock on Cai Qian's face. She also realized that what she had just said was too obvious, so she could only awkwardly say, "Mom, I know you're doing this for my own good."
“I didn’t know you were here at this hotel. If I had known, I would have come to find you.”
Shen Jingyao's expression was indifferent. She turned her head and smiled gently at Wen Shu, saying to Lin Jingyu, "Never mind, it's not important anymore. I'm in a particularly good mood today because I recognized Wen Shu. You're getting married soon, so the Lin family is doubly blessed. There's no need to worry about these things anymore."
The color drained from Lin Jingyu's face instantly. She opened her mouth, but couldn't utter a single word.
Lin Han spoke again, "I suppose you now understand why we've never gotten along since we were little. We're not blood siblings at all, so our personalities are inherently incompatible. From now on, let's both keep that in mind and not force ourselves to be together."
"As for the dowry you've been worried about, we will naturally not change the terms we've agreed on, so you can rest assured."
Lin Jingyu quickly said, "I'm not worried..."
Lin Han glanced at her, wondering if she was worried. She knew exactly what was going on; even at a time like this, she was thinking about her dowry, and she wasn't worried at all?
He sneered and said bluntly, "You don't need to feel wronged. After all, I can see that you made your choice the night Su Ying came to you."
Lin Jingyu couldn't help but speak again: "Lin Han, don't talk nonsense. What choice did I make? Why do you have to sow discord in front of so many people?"
Lin Jingyu rushed to Shen Jingyao and grabbed her hand: "Mom, don't listen to my brother's nonsense. Whether I chose or not was all his doing. I didn't choose anyone!"
“You and Dad are my parents, and they always will be. I admit that Aunt Su contacted me and explained the reason, and I even called her Mom, but Mom, you and Dad raised me for so many years. Why not others? No matter how good Aunt Su is, she can't compare to how good you are to me!”
When Lin Jingyu said these words, she was thinking about the text message Su Ying had sent her.
Lin Jingyu has acted in many movies, both big and small. She knows everything about the characters in those movies. The person who truly cares about and worries about the child is always the child's biological mother. Everyone else is ultimately an outsider.
Her only good fortune was finding her birth mother, a mother who truly cared for her!
Her birth mother is the one she can never be separated from in the world. Just like back then, her mother swapped her with Wen Shu and gave her to the Lin family so that she could live a better life.
The mere thought of living a miserable life like Wen Shu's makes her feel like she's going to collapse.
The despair of being bullied to the point of no return because of poverty would make her wish she were dead.
However, because her mother moved her to the Lin family, she was able to live so well and freely in the Lin family, and grow up in a superior environment.
Otherwise, she would suffer for the rest of her life!
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