Qin Huaiyu couldn't help but tremble his shoulders and tears welled up in his eyes.

"Huai Yu, what's wrong?" Qin Wenyuan's appearance startled her. He hurriedly squatted down and held her shoulders tightly. "Huai Yu, Daddy is here. Tell Daddy if you have suffered any injustice!"

Qin Wenyuan was secretly unhappy.

At the banquet, he heard that his youngest daughter brought him great honor, and he wanted to come over to show off. However, he did not expect that he would have to comfort his daughter in front of everyone, which made him feel very helpless.

"Daddy, can we...can we bring Mom home?" Qin Huaiyu asked sobbingly.

"Ah?" Qin Wenyuan pushed Qin Huaiyu away suddenly.

Qin Huaiyu felt a sharp pain in his shoulder and frowned.

Qin Wenyuan suddenly came to his senses, looked around to make sure that no one noticed his actions, then decisively held Qin Huaiyu's hand, not giving her any room to struggle, and led her straight home.

Being forcibly dragged onto the carriage, Qin Huaiyu still felt aggrieved: "Father, why are you doing this?"

"Why?" Qin Wenyuan's face was as gloomy as water. "Did you run into that despicable woman Sheng Yunrong here by chance? What did she say to you?!"

"No, mother didn't tell me anything." Qin Huaiyu pouted, looking dissatisfied.

Liu Shuangshuang followed closely behind and boarded the carriage. After hearing the conversation between the two, a smug smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.

Humph, she knew that there was no way Qin Huaiyu would not feel resentful?

It turns out that a trap was set here for her!

She was planning to bring Sheng Yunrong home in an attempt to win back the favor of the Qin family.

"Don't be so wishful thinking!" Liu Shuangshuang giggled and said sarcastically, "Even if your mother comes back, your father's heart will always belong to me!"

Qin Wenyuan was displeased by her shrill laughter, but he did not get angry in the end.

Although he still harbored resentment towards this child of unknown origin, he would never allow Sheng Yunrong to step into the Qin Mansion again!

Even though he was not sure whether Ling Meng had really betrayed him, his love for her was deep in his bones. From childhood to adulthood, she had always been the woman of his dreams.

Liu Shuangshuang was secretly delighted, as if her previous speculation was confirmed: Qin Huaiyu, who had Sheng Yunrong's blood flowing in his veins, was an outlier after all.

She and the Qin family do not share the same aspirations.

"Father, she's talking nonsense!" Qin Huaiyu argued emotionally, "I just want my mother to come back!"

"Okay." Qin Wenyuan's attitude had turned cold, "Don't say anything more."

Qin Huaiyu wanted to continue arguing, but Qin Wenyuan's cold gaze and the way he treated her as an outsider made her unable to utter a word.

Why?

Qin Huaiyu's palms were covered with beads of sweat. Why did her father's face become so terrifying when she simply expressed her wish for her mother to come back?

Qin Huaiyu's lips were tightly pursed, as pale as paper, but Liu Shuangshuang smiled at her provocatively at this moment.

Qin Huaiyu was so confused that he had no time to think about anything else. He just sat there with his fists clenched silently.

After arriving at the Qin Mansion, Qin Huaiyu wanted to speak again, but Qin Wenyuan didn't even bother to give him a glance, and even directly held Liu Shuangshuang's hand and left.

Qin Huaiyu stood alone in front of the gate of the Qin Mansion. The feeling of being abandoned and lonely became stronger and stronger. The image of the spoiled young lady in the past no longer existed.

"Miss, what's wrong with you?" a servant asked with concern.

"Where is my mother? Where is my mother?" Qin Huaiyu tightly grasped the servant's clothes, tears welling up in his eyes.

"You mean Miss Lingmeng?" The servant asked with a smile on his face, "She is now immersed in the embroidery room, embroidering carefully, planning to make a beautiful bellyband for the future young master of the Qin Mansion."

"No!" Qin Huaiyu's voice was trembling and he was very emotional. "I mean... my biological mother. Sheng Yunrong."

"What?" The servant was slightly stunned and seemed a little surprised.

Isn't it that Miss Qin has always been very fond of Miss Lingmeng?

He also publicly declared that he wanted to recognize Miss Lingmeng as his mother.

I remember that when Miss Lingmeng sneaked into the mansion, she often spoke ill of and insulted Sheng Yunrong. Why has the situation reversed now?

"Tell me quickly! Where is my mother?!" Qin Huaiyu was extremely anxious.

"Yes, yes..." The servant's brain was spinning rapidly, and he finally remembered the direction she had appeared on the day of Qin Wenyuan and Ling Meng's wedding, and the direction she left...

"Right over there!" The servant pointed in a direction. "I saw her leave along that path before."

After Qin Huaiyu got the clue, she hurriedly lifted her skirt and rushed in that direction.

Mother! I am here to look for you!

It's raining heavily outside.

Sheng Yunrong was sitting in the room eating.

"Yunrong, did you see the things you wanted to see during this outing?" Sheng Hongxiao asked gently.

Sheng Hongye also nervously interrupted, "Yes, Yunrong. Did anything happen to you that made you unhappy when you came back this time?"

Sheng Yunrong suppressed her thoughts and raised her head to respond, "Big Brother, Second Brother, why do you ask such a question?"

Sheng Hongye and Sheng Hongxiao exchanged glances and finally said it out.

"Ever since you came back, you've always seemed a little depressed." Sheng Hongxiao said in a low voice.

Sheng Yunrong tried hard to force a smile and said softly: "It's just..."

Sheng Yunrong's mind flashed back to Qin Huaiyu's gaffe at the banquet, and her heart was filled with mixed emotions.

She had long been tired of the Qin family.

What's more, these two children whom she raised with great effort were cold as ice to her.

Seeing Qin Huaiyu crying bitterly, she did not feel the slightest bit of sympathy in her heart, but instead felt extremely happy.

But as time goes by, I feel a little uncomfortable.

The child she raised with great effort, who lived with her day and night, secretly called the concubine's daughter "mother" and cursed her in his heart all day long.

However, it was just an elaborate scheme to contrast her with Liu Shuangshuang, the daughter of a concubine. Qin Huaiyu burst into tears and went looking for her.

Her efforts...seemed to have really gone to waste.

"Yunrong." Sheng Hongxiao saw that her expression was becoming more and more solemn, so he held her hand and said softly, "At today's banquet, you have seen everything you expected and witnessed Qin Huaiyu's pain, which is enough.

If you still feel reluctant, we brothers will understand. We won’t stop you from doing what you want to do, but... we brothers will never forgive her. "

Sheng Yunrong raised her head slightly, a trace of fluctuation flashed in her eyes. She knew that her brother's words came from the heart, and nodded slightly with tears in her eyes: "Yes."

"Mother! Mother! Mother!" Outside the door, a faint voice calling echoed in the air.

Sheng Yunrong seemed not to hear it.

Xiang Zhu knocked on the door and announced softly, "Madam, it's Miss."

This situation is quite strange. Ever since the eldest lady withdrew from the Qin family's disputes and no longer interfered in family affairs, the eldest master and the young lady of the Qin family seemed to have become different people.

One after another, with tears streaming down their cheeks, they searched for the eldest lady.

The once highly praised cultural family has now become a chaotic place where people make random comments.

"Why is she here?" Sheng Yunrong asked in a cold tone, as if she no longer cared about anyone in the Qin family.