Chapter 52 The Chu family can only have one daughter

The coffee shop was very quiet at three o'clock in the afternoon, with only a few employees coming in to buy a cup of coffee occasionally.

Yuan Xi gave Yang Ying a cup of coffee and sat down. Looking out the window, you could see the vast river view.

Yang Ying looked at Yuan Xi and asked, "Did you go to the hospital for a checkup yesterday and see if everything was OK?"

Yuan Xi said: "Fortunately, nothing happened."

Yang Ying put down her coffee and said, "Xin'er, Ke Xin talked about Chu Li's circle of friends on the phone yesterday. Let me explain to you, Chu Li was leaving at noon, and since you hadn't come, she took a photo and said it was a family reunion. She didn't mean to leave you out. You really shouldn't have stayed away from grandpa and grandma's house because of this."

Yuan Xi paused with a smile and said, "Mom, if you want to come and ask me why I didn't go to my grandparents' house, then I think there's no need to talk anymore."

Yang Ying said: "Xin'er, your father and I are basically very busy with work. After you came back, your father and I have never found time to talk to you properly. In fact, Xin'er, there has not been a single day in the past 25 years that we have not thought about you.

Do you know how sad I was when you turned off your phone on Saturday and chose your buyer's so-called grandmother's house? "

Yuan Xi looked at Yang Ying and said, "What about you? Ever since I returned to the Chu family, have you ever thought of me when you favored Chu Yan? Chu Yan smashed the Yang Green Jade Bracelet I gave you. My brother said that Chu Yan was kind-hearted and he just needed to pay the money.

Chu Yan denounced me and my friend's dresses as knockoffs at my return party, but you still asked me to be patient... Have you ever thought that I would be sad too?"

Yang Ying was stunned. "Xin'er, I raised Yanyan. She didn't mean any bad things. She did think the bracelet was fake at first, and she was worried about my health, so she smashed it without knowing the truth. She also apologized to you.

As for the dress, your father and I were busy, and she was in charge of the homecoming banquet. The Bo family was there that day, your red wine was spilled, and Yanyan was embarrassed. After all, we are a family..."

Yuan Xi said: "What you call family is that you let me wear a high-end dress worn by a female star at my homecoming party?"

"Xin'er, I didn't expect you to still remember this. It's not that I didn't want to prepare a dress for you, but it would take at least three months to customize it. You just happened to have a similar figure to the dress that the female star wore, so Yanyan bought it especially for you...

Yanyan really treats you as a sister, including when she told you to divorce her in the office just now, she was really thinking about you."

Yuan Xi said: "Since we are a family, I can't wear a haute couture dress for a while, so why did Chu Yan wear the latest haute couture dress of the season at my return party? Instead of wearing ready-to-wear dresses?"

Yang Ying was stunned, "Xin'er..."

Yuan Xi said: "Mom, let's just treat each other as distant relatives from now on. Even though Chu Yan is sincere to me, I am petty and sensitive. I can't become a family with a "sister" who has no blood relationship with me."

Yuan Xi took a sip of iced American coffee. The bitter taste lingered between her lips and teeth, making her much more sober.

"Mom, I'm very busy at work, and I don't want to spend more energy on unimportant things."

"If you really treat me as your daughter, then you should completely separate yourself from Chu Yan and say that Chu Yan is no longer the daughter of the Chu family."

Yang Ying hurriedly said, "Xin'er, Yanyan is our daughter whom we have raised for 25 years. When you disappeared, I was about to collapse. Disappointments over and over again turned into despair. I took handfuls of sleeping pills and was brought back to life by emergency treatment.

Later, your father suggested that we adopt a child. We adopted Yanyan, Xin'er. Yanyan is your substitute. No matter how much we love her, it's all because of you... I often think of you when I look at Yanyan...

Yanyan is our adopted child after all, and we can’t just ignore the twenty-five years of relationship and throw her away after finding our biological daughter..."

Yuan Xi said: "If you don't want to sever your relationship with Chu Yan, then there is no need for us to say anything more. Just treat us as distant relatives from now on." Yuan Xi breathed a sigh of relief when he said this.

Yang Ying said: "Xin'er, why do you hate Yanyan so much?"

Yuan Xi said, "Just think that I'm sensitive, petty, and jealous. The 25 years of luxurious life she enjoyed should have been mine. If I hadn't been stolen away by the nanny, she would never have been able to enjoy her 25 years of life. Everything she had should have been mine. Now she's using the life that should have belonged to me to look down on me and pity me. Why can't I hate her?"

Yang Ying said: "Xin'er, you know that Yanyan has already married into the Bo family. If we sever our relationship with Yanyan now, how can we get along with the Bo family? We are all in the Jiangcheng circle. Yanyan can't just sever the relationship just like that..."

Yuan Xi knew this was the result, but she thought it was reasonable. She was not sad at all that Yang Ying chose Chu Yan.

"Okay, I understand, Mom. If there is no important communication in the future, we should not contact each other. My time is not as valuable as yours and Dad's, but it is also valuable."

After Yuan Xi finished speaking, he stood up and said, "I'm going to work first."

"Xin'er!" Yang Ying stood up.

Yuan Xi said, "Mom, didn't you say you wanted to talk? I have already made my feelings clear. The Chu family can only have one daughter. If Chu Yan is in the Chu family, I will never go back to the Chu family."

Yang Ying said, "Xin'er, Chu Yan will marry into the Bo family in four months, in September. We, the Chu family, cannot kick the future young mistress of the Bo family out of the house now. If we really do this, we will completely break off relations with the Bo family. Can't you consider the overall situation?"

Yuan Xi took a deep breath and smiled distantly, "So, your biological daughter whom you miss every day is not as important as the overall situation and reputation of the Chu family?"

Yang Ying said: "Xin'er, it's not like that..."

Yuan Xi glanced at his watch and said, "I really still have a lot of work to do. You've heard that Michen is going public, right? I'm really busy."

Yang Ying didn't stop Yuan Xi anymore.

After returning home, Yang Ying sat on the sofa in the living room and talked to Chu Qing about Yuan Xi's request for Chu Yan to leave the Chu family.

"This child...Alas!" Yang Ying sighed deeply.

Chu Qing frowned and said, "Yan Yan is our daughter whom we have raised for 25 years. How can we just let her go?"

Yang Ying said with tears in her eyes: "Then we can't just give up our daughter who we have been looking for for 25 years, right? I think Xin'er is very determined. If Yanyan doesn't leave the Chu family, she will never come back to the Chu family again... She must let Yanyan leave."

Chu Qing said, "In fact, Yanyan is already 26 years old. We have fulfilled our obligations of adoption and upbringing. The dowry we gave her is enough to make her feel confident in the Bo family. We really owe a lot to Xin'er, and we cannot hurt her heart again..."

"Yan Yan."

At the gate, Chu Lin's voice caught the attention of the two people inside.

Chu Lin chased after Chu Yan who ran out, held Chu Yan's arm and said, "Yan Yan."

Chu Yan leaned on Chu Lin's shoulder and cried aggrievedly: "Brother, my sister is back, I am redundant in this family..."