Qiqi looked in the direction of the sound and saw a pretty and cute girl wearing a pink princess dress and with two braids being led over by a woman in her thirties.
The girl looked to be about four or five years old, roughly the same age as Ji Zeqian.
He was taller than Qiqi, and his eyes looked down at Qiqi, exuding a spoiled and arrogant air.
Upon seeing the two, Madam Ji subconsciously frowned, but her good upbringing prevented her from showing any disgust.
"Cousin, you've come to pick up Yunhan and Jinyou?" Yang Xue greeted Madam Ji familiarly, her probing gaze landing on Qiqi. "Who is this little girl? I've never seen her before?"
Madam Ji lowered her eyes affectionately: "This is Qiqi, the daughter Chengfeng and I just adopted today." Then she introduced Qiqi, "Qiqi, this is your aunt."
Qiqi blinked her big eyes and bowed obediently to greet her: "Hello, Auntie, I'm Qiqi."
He glanced at the face of this so-called aunt without making a sound, and couldn't help but click his tongue in his heart.
High cheekbones, sunken cheeks, horizontal lines on the eyebrows, and a fierce look in the eyes—he definitely has the appearance of a villain!
Moreover, the little girl she was leading wasn't a good person either.
At such a young age, he already has a cunning and calculating look on his face.
Upon hearing Madam Ji say that Qiqi was her adopted daughter, Yang Xue's expression changed, and the way she looked at Qiqi became different.
“Cousin, I’m not trying to be mean, but even if you really want a daughter, there’s no need to adopt from an orphanage, is there?” Yang Xue started lecturing as soon as she opened her mouth. “Those children in orphanages are all abandoned by others. They either have character problems or some serious illness.”
"Bringing a child like this home, cousin, are you trying to make trouble for yourself because you think the Ji family is living too comfortably?"
Upon hearing Yang Xue belittle Qi Qi, Madam Ji's face immediately darkened: "Cousin, what did the children from the orphanage do to you? They don't steal or rob, so what gives you the right to say they have character flaws?"
"They're just children, it's already pitiful enough that they were abandoned! Besides, this is a matter for the Ji family, it's none of your business, cousin, you should watch your words."
Yang Xue's face flushed red from the rebuke, and she pointed at Madam Ji, trembling, "You... how can you be so ungrateful? I'm saying all this for your own good!"
"You said you wanted a daughter, and I gave you the daughter I had carefully raised, but you didn't want her. Instead, you went to an orphanage to adopt a bastard of unknown origin!"
"What's so good about this bastard? Can it compare to our Jiaojiao?"
Upon hearing this, her daughter, Ruan Jiaojiao, puffed out her chest and gave Qiqi a haughty look.
How can a bastard from an orphanage compare to her?
Upon hearing Yang Xue call Qi Qi a bastard, Ji Zeqian roared and charged at Yang Xue like a cannonball.
"You're not allowed to insult your sister!"
"Ouch!" Yang Xue was caught off guard and fell to the ground, clutching her stomach and screaming in pain.
Ruan Jiaojiao, who was being led by her, also fell down, scraping her palms on the ground and crying out in pain.
The school gate was filled with the shrieks of the mother and daughter, which were very jarring.
Ji Zeqian, like a crazed little wild beast, tried to pounce on the mother and daughter, but Qiqi held him back and calmed him down.
"Sixth Brother, no." Qiqi hugged Ji Zeqian's waist with her little hands. "Qiqi is fine. We won't stoop to the level of an unlucky guy who's about to suffer a bloody disaster."
As she spoke, she gently stroked his back with her small hand.
Surprisingly, Ji Zeqian, who was furious, actually calmed down under her comforting words.
Turning her head, her eyes reddened, she looked at Qiqi with a somewhat aggrieved expression: "Qiqi, she's not a bastard, she's my little sister!"
The parents waiting to pick up their children were stunned.
The adopted daughter of the Ji family is quite something; she actually managed to calm down the Ji family's little devil and even get him to speak.
No wonder the Ji Chengfeng couple, who had visited several orphanages but had not been able to adopt a child they liked, actually adopted her and brought her home.
"Yes, Qiqi is Sixth Brother's sister." Qiqi squinted her eyes and smiled at Ji Zeqian.
Ji Zeqian's violently heaving chest gradually calmed down, and the bloodshot in his eyes faded as he regained his senses.
He reached out and, mimicking Qiqi's gesture, patted her head, saying, "Brother, protect, Qiqi."
Beside her, Madam Ji covered her mouth, overjoyed and weeping.
Xiao Liu finally understands the importance of family and knows how to protect them, which is wonderful.
And all of this is because of Qiqi.
Thinking of this, Madam Ji's expression turned cold.
She walked up to Yang Xue in her high heels, looking down at her coldly and condescendingly: "Cousin, Qiqi is my daughter. Neither I nor anyone in the Ji family will allow anyone to harm her in the slightest. I hope you can remember that."
"This time, for my uncle's sake, I won't hold it against my cousin. But if there's a next time, I will withdraw my investment in the Yang family!"
The Yang family company was the brainchild of Madam Ji's maternal grandfather, but it has been declining day by day since it fell into the hands of her uncle.
Since last year, the company has been in a business crisis and is on the verge of bankruptcy. It was her uncle who begged her mother, and her mother came to her again. In the end, out of respect for her mother, the Ji family finally invested in Yang's company.
But her uncle was simply not cut out for business. Even with the support and assistance of the Ji family, he still couldn't achieve anything in the past two years.
Once the Ji family withdraws their investment, the Yang family's company won't even last a week.
Yang Xue never expected that Madam Ji would disregard even familial ties because of a bastard child.
Her heart was churning with venom, but reality forced her to bow her head.
Yang Xue's eyes flickered, and she got up from the ground to apologize to Madam Ji: "Cousin, what are you saying? We are all family. It's just a small conflict. How could it escalate to the point of withdrawing investment?"
"I misspoke just now, and I apologize. But I also felt that no child outside could be as considerate as one's own, which is why I said that. If you don't like hearing it, then I won't say it."
Madam Ji's expression remained cold: "The person you should apologize to is not me, but Qi Qi."
Yang Xue gritted her teeth inwardly. They actually wanted her to apologize to that bastard?!
But faced with Madam Ji's stern gaze, and considering that the Yang family's company was now entirely supported by the Ji family's investment, she had no choice but to compromise.
She forced a smile and said to Qiqi, "I'm sorry, Qiqi, your aunt shouldn't have said that to you. Your aunt apologizes."
You little bastard, just you wait. She'll get her revenge for this debt with interest sooner or later!
Qiqi saw the malice hidden in her eyes and waved her little hand in front of her nose: "Auntie, what did you eat for lunch? Your breath smells awful!"
"With such a foul mouth, you'd better shut up, lest you get into trouble and suffer big bad luck."
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