Chapter 5: Counterattack
Mr. Zhan is a very serious person, but every time he faces Jing Qian, he shows his sincerity.
He cooperated and said, "Yuxi is the granddaughter of my old friend Jiang Cheng. Before Jiang Cheng died, he asked me to take care of her. At that time, Yuxi was not yet an adult, so my plan was to take care of her until she graduated from university at the age of 23. By then, she will leave the Zhan family and live her own life, which has nothing to do with Lichuan."
The sneer on Jiang Yuxi's lips gradually disappeared after hearing the old man's words, and her face turned pale.
"grandfather?!"
Jiang Yuxi's voice was trembling as she screamed, unable to believe that such words came from the mouth of Old Master Zhan himself.
She thought that even if the old man foolishly listened to the charlatan and found a low-class wife for Brother Chuan, at least he liked her more in his heart! He treated her as his own granddaughter!
Jing Qian picked up a piece of Kung Pao shrimp with his chopsticks and put it in his mouth, enjoying the home-cooked delicacy comfortably. He said, "Look, Grandpa, you see, she looks incredulous every time you say it. She doesn't even believe what you, her adoptive father, say. How can you expect her to recognize her place and do her duty when you're not around?"
"Jing Qian, shut up!"
Jiang Yuxi felt her whole body cold and trembling with anger. She never thought that the old man not only did not intend to marry her to Zhan Lichuan, but even planned to kick her out of the Zhan family.
The key point is that she is already 22 years old, and only half a year away from turning 23!
Jing Qian shrugged indifferently, but facing Mr. Zhan's face, which was so serious that no one dared to act rashly, he acted without any pressure.
"Grandpa, she's always so mean to me when you're not around. Everyone else calls me Madam, but she calls me by my given name, even calling me a bitch. She doesn't acknowledge my identity at all."
"When did I ever call you a bitch?"
Jiang Yuxi's face was speechless, shocked, and looked as if she was sick.
Although she did scream in her heart, it was only in her heart. She was not a fool. Without any evidence against her and with absolute certainty of expelling her from the Zhan family, she would do whatever it took to save face. Jing Qian's words were clearly slandering her!
However, Jing Qian didn't feel the slightest bit of the burden of lying and continued, "At first, I didn't care. I could have just denied it, and I wasn't living to prove anything to her. But the Third Young Master is married after all, and she, a woman temporarily adopted by the Zhan family, keeps running into my husband's bedroom. I now seriously suspect that she is the mistress of this house, and I'm just a pretty vase displayed in the Zhan family."
While belittling Jiang Yuxi, Jing Qian also did not forget to praise herself at the right time. She was quite satisfied with her new shell.
"Jing Qian, stop slandering me!" Jiang Yuxi was so angry at Jing Qian's words that her chest heaved violently.
"Slander? Then who was it this morning, wearing a thin nightgown with a hint of cleavage exposed, that tried to run into the Third Young Master's bedroom and try to feed him bird's nest?"
Jing Qian glanced at a certain part of Jiang Yuxi with disdain and sneered, "I'm not saying anything bad about you, but even with your contact lenses, your figure is so flat that it's hard to tell whether you're male or female. If someone accidentally touched you, they'd think they'd touched a man. So, considering you're pitiful and yet strong-willed, I never intended to argue with you."
Mr. Zhan: ...
Zhan Yuheng, the eldest son of the Zhan family, who had been silent the entire time, said: ...
Seeing Jiang Yuxi's face flushed, trembling with anger, and unable to say a word, Jing Qian drank a sip of matsutake soup in a good mood and continued -
(End of this chapter)
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