Meng Wan chuckled softly, "So that's why I said you don't come to the temple without a reason."
"He's your cousin, not an outsider. It's just a matter of writing a recommendation letter. At most, I'll give you some money as a referral fee." Luo Juan looked Meng Wan up and down, her eyes full of disdain, as if it was already a great honor for Meng Wan that she was even asking for it.
"Qin Yang?"
“Yes.” Luo Juan proudly raised her chin when Meng Wan read out her beloved grandson’s name.
It seems to be saying, "My precious grandson is really successful; even these common people know his name."
Unexpectedly, Meng Wan's cold snort made Luo Juan's smile disappear.
"Every profession has its own secrets, I wish him success. These days, anything can be called genius. As for the recommendation letter, I see you two are so arrogant, you must know a lot of people, why don't you go to them and see if they're willing to help? I'm too shy to do that."
"Meng Boqun, you've really raised a wonderful daughter."
Qin Huai'an was furious, but he only vented his anger on Meng Boqun and Qin Yi, hoping to use the two of them to suppress Meng Wan and make her obediently follow his arrangements.
"I'm ashamed. My daughter's achievements and connections are all due to her own efforts, and have nothing to do with us. On the contrary, we, as her parents, have to rely on Wanwan all the time. I see it's getting late, and the elderly are usually going to bed early, so I won't keep you two any longer."
If it were someone insulting him, Meng Boqun wouldn't say much. But since it was someone insulting his family, he, as the head of the family, not only didn't say anything, but also helped outsiders criticize his family. What kind of head of the family is he?
"Great! Qin Yi, are these the good husbands and good daughters you've chosen?"
"Dad, no! Mr. Qin." Qin Yi stood up, took a deep breath, and seemed to have made a great decision.
“I know you’ve never liked your weak daughter, and you’re disgusted that I didn’t follow your arrangements to marry a so-called match, a widowed man with a child. But the worst thing you could do was to have people cause trouble at the wedding after you’ve accepted the dowry.”
As soon as Qin Yi opened her mouth, her eyes reddened.
“You call me Qin Yi an ingrate, and I accept that. You call Bo Qun a poor wretch and say I've disgraced the Qin family. But Bo Qun worked day and night to earn money for the dowry and buy a house so he could marry me. To gain your approval, he put the house in my name and gave me all the company shares. Even so, you still think that other man is better, just because his family can get you into the so-called real intellectual circle!”
Qin Yi spoke with some emotion, while Meng Boqun remained silent, gently patting her back.
"After we got married, you accepted our gifts and money, but you wouldn't let us even step through the door. When we stopped giving you anything, you called us ungrateful and said we wouldn't last more than a few years. But you were the ones who said we were cutting ties! Why! Why is everything my fault!"
Meng Wan was shocked to see Qin Yi screaming. She never expected the usually gentle Qin Yi to have such a hysterical side. Just how repressed and suffocating must Qin Yi have been when she was in the Qin family?
She suddenly understood why she loved Tang Zhiyi so much. It wasn't just because Tang Zhiyi was her daughter, but because she didn't want her daughter to suffer the same fate she had experienced in her childhood.
"Wanwan, take your mother to her room to rest." Meng Boqun said with a pained expression.
Meng Wan nodded and helped her into the house.
With his wife and children inside, Meng Boqun's face fell.
"Gentlemen, it's getting late, so I won't see you off any longer. You don't need to come here again in the future; you're not welcome in our home. As for your grandson's matter, don't bother my daughter anymore. Neither I, Qin Yi, nor our child have anything to do with your Qin family, and we have no reason to help you."
"Since you look down on us, you don't need to make yourself suffer by coming here."
"Hmph! I knew I had to pick this ingrate!" Luo Juan cursed as she picked up her bag, and Qin Huai'an also stood up with a gloomy face.
The butler followed silently behind the two without uttering a word.
The pleasant atmosphere was ruined. After entering the room, Meng Boqun saw that Qin Yi was already asleep, sighed, and called Meng Wan out.
Meng Wan gently closed the door. "Mom was so busy today. She wiped her face, rested for a while, and then fell asleep."
"Okay, okay." Meng Boqun nodded and sighed.
"They're gone?"
"Yes, that's how they always talk. They want to be intellectuals and make money at the same time. Since your maternal grandparents passed away, the Qin family is no longer the Qin family it used to be, so you don't need to care too much about them. If they dare to come looking for you again, just tell your father to refuse to do anything that could cause a complete breakdown in relations."
Qin Yi was physically weak when she was a child. When she was three or four years old, her parents sent her to her grandparents' home in the countryside to live out her old age. They called it a recuperation trip, but they all knew that they had actually abandoned the child.
Fortunately, the two elderly people were not like her parents. Instead, they protected Qin Yi in every way. It wasn't until Qin Yi was about to enter junior high school that they reluctantly let her come back to attend a better school and receive a better education.
The two met and fell in love in college, but their relationship was opposed by Qin Yi's parents, who even wanted her to marry someone else after graduation.
At that time, Meng Boqun thought that the Qin family looked down on him because he was a poor boy. He worked hard on the project and made many substantial demands on Qin Yi. It wasn't until later that he found out that the son-in-law they wanted didn't have to be good to their daughter, but he had to be helpful to the Qin family.
Qin Yi was heartbroken and took Meng Boqun back to the countryside to visit the two elderly people, saying that as long as they agreed, that was enough. Unfortunately, the two elderly people passed away before they could attend the wedding. Before they left, they only hoped that the couple would be well and not fall out with the Qin family.
"If the Qin family hadn't kept telling outsiders that we were coming to their door every few days to get their assets, we wouldn't have broken off all contact. We didn't expect to be accused of being insincere. After the negotiations, we gave them 30 million, and that was the end of all contact. But I haven't told your mother about this, because I'm afraid she'll overthink it."
Meng Boqun sighed, knowing that Qin Yi had had a tough time all these years and had been carrying a heavy burden on her mind. Now that she had finally been able to breathe a sigh of relief, she was being confronted again.
That night, Meng Boqun talked a lot about Qin Yi's life in the Qin family. Ever since she was brought back, she had been ostracized at every turn, treated like an outsider, and constantly criticized. People would point fingers at her in front of others, saying that she had a dark personality, a heavy heart, and that she was good on the surface but was actually very bad. She was always being compared to her younger brother...
Meng Wan listened to what was being said with her eyes lowered, without uttering a word.
"I'm not saying all this so you'll remember such a bad thing, but your mother was a bit emotional just now, and I was afraid you'd be scared."
Meng Wan slightly curled her lips, "Dad, do I look like the kind of person who would be afraid of something like this?"
Meng Boqun was taken aback, then smiled. He had forgotten that Meng Wan was different.
"It's getting late, go to sleep early." Meng Boqun patted her head, full of affection.
Meng Wan agreed, and the Qin family acted as if they had never been there, eating and drinking as usual, living their own lives.
Three days later, a black car appeared downstairs in the dormitory building.
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