Chapter 143 Someone from the Qi Family Shows Up
"Why are you here?"
In a lounge on a cruise ship, a young woman was looking at the boy sitting diagonally opposite her. The woman had a pretty face and was wearing a plain long dress. Her every move exuded a ladylike demeanor.
The boy sitting diagonally opposite her looked younger than her, about seventeen or eighteen years old. He was very tall, but had a youthful air.
"Look at what you said, elder sister. If you can come here, of course I can come here too."
The cruise ship has set sail. During these three days, people on the cruise ship cannot leave unless they find other ways.
"Don't you like to stay at home reading and growing flowers? You hate noisy occasions like this. Why are you here?"
Without waiting for the other party to answer, the young man smiled and said, "Oh, I heard that my elder sister wanted to buy this cruise ship as a birthday present for my elder brother, but she failed to buy it. Could it be that my elder sister is unwilling to give up and wants to come and see this cruise ship that you liked but missed?"
"If that's the case, then it's understandable. I wandered around here last night and found that this cruise ship is really good, with many new and interesting things to eat, drink and have fun on. The owner of the cruise ship is also very good at running the business, and has set the bar very high. The level of the guests here has been raised, and it's a different feeling. Big sister, you may not know, but almost all the younger generation of the Qi family are here, including the eldest son of the Qi family."
"Oh, wrong, now I should call you second brother-in-law."
The young man who was speaking was called Qi Ziqian. He was the third son of the Qi family and the youngest child in the family, only eighteen years old. The other person is Qi Shiyin, the eldest daughter of the Qi family, who is twenty-five years old, three years older than Qi Luo.
They both have the same father and mother, and are half-sisters to Qi Luo.
Qi Shiyin's expression was normal at first, but when she saw Qi Ziqian here, she only frowned at first, and then she didn't show any more emotions.
But when she heard Qi Ziqian calling him "Second Brother-in-law", her brows frowned slightly.
"Their marriage has not been announced to the public. We continue to refer to the other party as Young Master Qi, so as to avoid the Qi family thinking that our Qi family deliberately came to them to establish a relationship."
"How can you say that he came here on purpose to establish a relationship with me?"
Qi Ziqian disagreed. "Our Qi family is no worse than the Qi family in terms of foundation. It's just that the Qi family and the Lou family have been fighting for many years, which has caused the Qi family to fall behind the Qi family in recent years. But even so, the Qi family has not yet reached the point of using "connections" in front of the Qi family."
"Let's not talk about the background of the two families. It is a fact that my second sister married Mr. Qi, so I am justified in calling him brother-in-law. If my eldest sister wants to use the fact that they are in a secret marriage and don't want to expose their relationship, I am not calling him brother-in-law outside. Aren't there only you and me here? No one else can hear it."
"Big sister, do you think that he is the person in charge of the Qi family, and we are inferior to him? Do you think it is not right for me to call him brother-in-law and you to call him brother-in-law? You can't think like that. Public is public and private is private."
"In public, we are inferior to Young Master Qi, and this is understandable. Among the younger generations of the eight major families, only the young head of the Wanqi family can barely compare with Young Master Qi and can hold his own in front of him. But in private, Young Master Qi is Second Sister's husband, and we are Second Sister's family. We need to support Second Sister, and we cannot belittle ourselves, otherwise Second Sister might be looked down upon by the Qi family."
At this point, Qi Ziqian suddenly lost his temper. "But it seems to be useless. The Qi family knows exactly what the relationship between my second sister and my family is. Let's not talk about whether the Qi family and Mr. Qi recognize us as their in-laws. My second sister may not even want to recognize us."
"Sister, I've asked around. My second sister is also on the cruise ship. I plan to go see her. There are no elders on this cruise ship, so I'll go quietly and no one will tell Dad about it. It's been more than half a year since my second sister had a car accident, and I haven't visited her until now. I only saw the news about her car accident on the Internet after she was discharged from the hospital."
At that time, three months had passed since Qi Luo’s car accident.
Qi Ziqian had thought about calling to inquire about the situation, but he was afraid. Qi Luo has been very cold to him since he was a child, and he is a little afraid of Qi Luo.
He didn't dare to call, and thought about secretly going to Kyoto to take a look, but he was only 18 years old and just a freshman in college. He had no real power, and he couldn't hide it from his family and go to Kyoto quietly. And once his father knew that he went to Kyoto to see Qi Luo, he would definitely be punished.
So this delay has lasted until now.
"I heard that mom went to Kyoto to see my second sister. Mom is really mean. She didn't even tell me that she was going to see my second sister. If I had known earlier, I would have gone with her. With mom's support, dad would have just scolded me at most if he got angry."
"I just don't understand why the younger generation has to suffer for the disputes of the elders. My second sister was only a few years old when her mother and father divorced and married into the Lou family. How could my father take his anger out on my second sister? He has been venting his anger on her for so many years. It is too unfair to my second sister."
Qi Shiyin listened to him quietly without interrupting him the whole time. Qi Shiyin had heard Qi Ziqian's complaints like this many times and was no longer moved by them.
"I advise you not to go and make trouble for yourself. You miss her, but she may not. She left home with her grandfather when she was ten years old and never returned to the Qi family again. As soon as her grandfather left, she immediately found the Qi family as a backer. She is very capable. Only you are rushing to cling to her. I'm afraid she has long forgotten who you are."
Qi Shiyin made no secret of her dislike for Qi Luo... or rather, disgust.
Qi Ziqian frowned when he heard this: "Big sister, don't always say that about my second sister. My second sister didn't want to go home. If I were at home, where my biological father would beat and scold me every day and I had to rely on others for food and clothing, I wouldn't go home either. Also, my second sister was able to find the Qi family to rely on because my grandfather was worried about her and entrusted her to the Qi family. Fortunately, my grandfather always thought about my second sister, otherwise who knows what kind of hard life she would be living now."
"Big sister, you feel that the second sister has taken away mom's attention, and that mom cares more about the second sister than you, her own daughter. I understand that you don't like the second sister. But if you don't like her, it's fine if you just scold her verbally, but if you really do something to hurt the second sister, that's too much."
Qi Shiyin's face darkened and she said unhappily, "Qi Ziqian, what do you want to say?"
"Our Qi family and the Qi family have never had any intersection in business, but Young Master Qi suddenly intercepted a big project that the two brothers had put a lot of thought into. Was it you who implicated him? I remember that my second sister had a live broadcast accident while filming a variety show. Originally, my second sister's popularity at that time did not have such a great influence, but the incident quickly became a hot topic. You must have been behind the scenes to fan the flames, right?"
"So what?" Qi Shiyin did not deny it, and sneered, "She wants to be in the entertainment industry and gain popularity, so why not give her a hand?"
"It's really you."
Qi Ziqian was not sure at first, he just had doubts, so he asked his elder brother, but his elder brother didn't tell him either. He was just testing it out just now, but he didn't expect that he actually guessed it right.
"You're not helping Second Sister. It's undeniable that what you did brought popularity to Second Sister, but you deliberately tied Second Sister and another male artist together to create a scandal, not only attracting the male artist's fans to attack Second Sister, but also..."
"You know that my second sister and Mr. Qi got married according to the arrangement of their elders, and they don't have much affection for each other. What if Mr. Qi gets angry and is unwilling to help my second sister after seeing this scandal... Have you ever thought about how much impact it would have on my second sister if Mr. Qi and the Qi family didn't come forward to help solve it and she was struggling in the entertainment industry alone and encountered such a big scandal right after her debut?"
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