70. Cheaper than grass
Upon hearing this, Zhu Wenhao's smile froze.
Ke Hengyuan jumped up from his chair and shouted, "What nonsense are you talking about?"
"Where did you get a boyfriend? Didn't I already tell you to break up with the last one?"
He suddenly realized something, his eyes widened, and he could no longer maintain his benevolent image: "Don't tell me you and him haven't broken up yet?"
Keqi couldn't understand his anger: "When did I say I broke up with him?"
"When will you say that?!" Ke Hengyuan's face darkened. "Last time I called you and told you to break up with your boyfriend and then come back for a blind date, didn't you say you knew?"
"I did say I knew."
Ke Qi smiled innocently, "But did I say I would agree?"
"you!"
Ke Hengyuan was speechless, furious inside. "Qiqi, look at yourself now!"
"You used to be so well-behaved, but look at you now."
He retorted angrily, "You're just spouting nonsense! You can lie all you want!"
"I think you really are just like your aunt and uncles said, you've been corrupted by those sleazy old men in the streets!"
"I'll tell you!"
He spoke sternly, slamming his hand on the table, "I didn't call you here today, Wenhao, to discuss blind dates, but to get you married!"
"You have to get married today, whether you like it or not, or you can forget about going to university!"
The atmosphere was silent.
Looking at his face, which revealed his true nature, Ke Qi felt that the little hope for fatherly love that had finally risen in her heart was instantly shattered.
"He's not a social scumbag."
Her eyes reddened slightly as she looked at him with disappointment: "You don't even know who he is, and you never listen to my explanations before slandering him like this. Dad, have you ever respected me even once?"
"What else could it be but a social scumbag?"
Ke Hengyuan's expression also showed disappointment: "I knew you left in that kind of car last time, are you still going to deny it?"
"You say he's only 20 years old? Do you think I'd believe that lie?"
"What 20-year-old can afford a car like that?"
"At such a young age, you're not learning good things, you're becoming a mistress, Keqi, how can you face the way I taught you since you were little?"
His eyes were bloodshot, and his expression was one of disgust: "I thought you had listened to what I said on the phone last time and had turned over a new leaf, but it turns out you were just lying to me!"
"You have truly brought shame upon the Ke family! I deeply regret having given birth to such a shameless wretch!"
"Your morals have degenerated to such an extent, how can you face your mother in heaven..."
"Enough!"
Ke Qi suddenly stood up like an exploding hedgehog, smashing a wine bottle on the table and pointing at him, shrieking, "Don't mention my mother!"
Seeing this, Ke Hengyuan was startled. He stared wide-eyed in disbelief at the sharp, broken wine bottle in her hand. "Ke Qi, are you trying to rebel?"
"You think I can't even say a few words to you now?"
"Look at yourself now..."
"Shut up!"
Ke Qi's tears fell in a steady stream. "Ke Hengyuan, you don't love my mother anymore. You only love my stepmother now, and the two children she gave birth to for you. You have no right to mention her again!"
"You don't love me either!"
"You never care about me or respect me."
"From childhood to adulthood, all you've ever done is try to fob me off with that insignificant amount of money that's nothing to you!"
"You only give birth but don't raise the child. What kind of good father are you pretending to be? And what right do you have to lecture me?"
"Ke Qi!" Ke Hengyuan stared at her in disbelief, almost thinking he had misheard. "What are you saying? Say it again if you dare!"
I said you don't deserve to be my father!
Ke Qi became hysterical; all the grievances she had accumulated over the past decade could no longer be contained and erupted completely.
"When I was a child, whenever I was sick with a fever, or whenever I was bullied, did you ever care about me?"
"Do you know that your angelic twin children humiliate me and my mother every time?"
"Your concubine appears gentle and kind on the surface, but she's a vicious snake in the heart who abused me. When I was little, she repeatedly made the servants give me the leftovers meant for the dogs."
"And you know that I was locked out of the stairwell and made to eat moldy bread every year on my birthday?"
"What~"
Ke Hengyuan was stunned. He turned to look at his wife and their twin children. "Is what she said true?"
"Nonsense!"
Jiang Yashi's gentle and proper demeanor completely crumbled, and her eyes welled up with tears of grievance. "Ke Qi, your aunt has always treated you well and has always treated you like her own daughter. Why are you accusing me like this?"
She embraced her two children and tearfully accused them, "And your younger siblings, they're so young, how could they be as vicious as you say?"
"I know you've always been unhappy with me because of your mother, but whatever grudges you have, come at me, don't involve my child!"
As soon as she finished speaking, Ke An and Ke Ran exchanged a glance and burst into tears.
Ke Qi watched their performance with a cold eye and mercilessly exposed them: "You didn't even shed a tear, so stop pretending, okay?"
In the past, she would maintain a superficial peace with them in order to take care of Ke Hengyuan's feelings.
Even after the disappointment of last time, she still held onto a sliver of hope and, to save face for him, did not expose everything at the two little devils' birthday party.
But from this day forward, Ke Hengyuan is completely dead to her.
She didn't need to give this disgusting family any more face.
Upon hearing her words, Ke An and Ke Ran paused awkwardly, buried their faces in Jiang Yashi's waist, and glared at Ke Qi resentfully.
But Ke Hengyuan didn't see any of this.
At that moment, all he saw was his wife and children crying heartbreakingly.
Thus, all doubts were shattered.
"Ke Qi".
He looked at her with disappointment, "Why have you become like this?"
"You lied to me, wasn't that enough? Now you want to humiliate your stepmother, your younger brother and sister too?"
"Lying~"
Ke Qi said self-deprecatingly, "Do you think I'm lying to you when I say all this?"
Ke Hengyuan's expression was sorrowful: "Isn't that right?"
Ke Qi remained silent.
At that moment, she suddenly felt extremely bored.
"Since I've disappointed you so much, from now on, just pretend I was never born."
Her tears had dried, and she looked at him blankly and expressionlessly. "I'll pretend I never had a father like you."
"As for all the money you've spent on me since I was a child, name your price, and I'll definitely make it all back to you later."
After she finished speaking, she didn't look at him again and turned to leave.
"Yes, very good!"
Ke Hengyuan's chest heaved violently as he watched her departing figure. At this moment, he could no longer connect her with the obedient and well-behaved little Ke Qi from his childhood.
His deceased wife's face reappeared in his mind, and Ke Hengyuan closed his eyes in heartache.
When he opened his eyes again, he coldly ordered the bodyguards outside the door, "Grab your young lady and lock her in her room."
"She must not be released until she has fully reflected on her actions and repented!"
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