Chapter 557 - : I Thought There was No Place for Me at Home Anymore (1/2)

“She’s my sister.”

Su Peizhen avoided looking at Su Qingsang when she said this. She bit her lips in hesitation before saying those words aloud. To all appearances she seemed to be struggling.

Sister?

The others immediately turned their gazes to her.

Huo Manzi and Wei Simeng glanced at each other before simultaneously turning to Su Peizhen in anticipation, expecting to see a great show.

“She’s your sister?”

The smile on Old Master Huo’s face had faded a little. He knew about Su Qingsang’s family and who her sister was.

“She used to be my little sister but recently, she’s become my elder sister, and…”

Su Peizhen bit her lip and spoke in a slightly trembling voice. She bore no resemblance to the arrogant girl from the Su family that she used to be.

She glanced at Huo Yifan with an unreadable look in her eyes saying, “I guess she doesn’t want to be my sister anymore.”

That sounded like it hurt. Upon hearing her, Su Qingsang sat there motionlessly in perfect silence.

Huo Yifan shot Su Qingsang a glance. Her composure surprised him.

He thought for a moment and then questioned Su Peizhen. “What did you do to make her not want to be your sister anymore?”

Su Peizhen only shook her head, as if she didn’t want to go into the details. “I don’t know what I did wrong,” she said, “all I know is that after my sister got married to Mr. Huo, my parents considered her their only daughter and kicked me out of the house.”

What Su Peizhen had said was the truth, but it was not the whole truth.

On hearing what she had said, the others turned their eyes towards Su Qingsang.

They immediately understood what Su Peizhen had meant.

Put simply, the Su family were snobs.

That proved one thing – Su Qingsang was so capable, that she had managed to induce her parents to kick their real daughter out of the house.

Huo Mingmei looked at Su Qingsang thinking, ‘I knew she wasn’t as innocent as she appeared!’

Huo Manzi and the other younger members of the family all exchanged glances with each other. When they returned their gaze to Su Qingsang, the look in their eyes had changed. They hadn’t known that Su Qingsang was capable of something like that.

“I seem to remember that you were an illegitimate daughter. Isn’t that right?” Huo Yifan stared at Su Qingsang meaningfully as he spoke to her. An illegitimate daughter of the family had cut off relations with her sister – their parents’ legitimate child?

‘Illegitimate daughter? Who was the illegitimate daughter?’ Su Qingsang thought.

Su Qingsang didn’t intend to defend herself at first. After all her father had switched his two daughters in anger. That was not something that she could disclose to people with her head held high.

She had never intended to reveal the truth about that matter.

Su Chenghui was her father regardless. Her birth father.

“I’m so impressed. My cousin-in-law is such a capable person.”

The others might not have had the guts to say it, but unlike them Huo Yifan went on to ask, “How come she’s no longer an illegitimate daughter? Is it because she got married to my cousin?”

None of the others responded to his words, with the exception of Huo Mingmei. She didn’t mind embarrassing Su Qingsang. After all, she was Su Qingsang’s elder.

“I was wondering about that for some time,” she said. “I was surprised when the Su family came to visit us. An illegitimate daughter from their family marrying into ours shouldn’t have been such a big deal. Yet they still came to visit us in person. That was rather…”

She didn’t need to finish her sentence for the rest to take her meaning.

Huo Jinyao was about to say something when Su Qingsang pressed a hand on top of his to stop him. This was her problem. She didn’t need Huo Jinyao to defend her.

“Peizhen, Grandpa really misses you. He talked about you all the time at his birthday party. It’s a pity that you didn’t show up.”

She didn’t mention why exactly Su Peizhen had left the family, nor did she say anything to disprove the latter’s account. She didn’t have to.

As expected, the look on Su Peizhen’s face changed immediately.

If there was anyone from the Li family that she would find it difficult to sever ties with, it would be Old Master Li. Old Master Li loved her deeply.

She hadn’t forgotten Old Master Li’s birthday. She had considered going back to Lin City to visit Old Master Li, or to give him a call at the very least.

However, in the end, she didn’t allow herself to do it. She didn’t want to return to the Li family as she currently was and in such an ignominious manner.

In other words, she didn’t want any sympathy. Especially not the sympathy of the other Li family members.

“Grandpa misses you all the time,” Su Qingsang said mildly. “We threw a small party for his last birthday and invited just a few people. All he wanted was to have a meal together with his family.”

Sighing, she continued on, “But sadly, not all of his family members were there. That birthday couldn’t be perfect for him.”

Su Qingsang had been in close contact with Li Qianxue and Su Yuxin lately.

Li Qianxue had never spoken of Su Peizhen to her, but Su Yuxin had done so a few times.

They had been family for over twenty years. The affection that existed between them couldn’t just disappear so easily. However, Su Peizhen really turned out to be that heartless. Not only had she not visited their family, she had never even called them.

How could Li Qianxue accept it? How could she not be disappointed?