C177 (1/2)

Just as Chu Yi Rong was stealthily looking at Ye Qing and lost in thought, a group of people suddenly walked into the front hall.

The leader was a middle-aged man with a refined and handsome appearance. Behind him were numerous robust bodyguards. It was obvious that their origins were not small.

”You … ”Why are you here?!”

When his mother saw the middle-aged man, her expression couldn't help but change.

Chu Yi Rong was stunned for a moment before she slowly asked, ”Father?”

”Rong'er, upon hearing that today is your seventeenth birthday, I came here from Lishui County, Yangzhou, specially to visit you.” The middle-aged man smiled apologetically at his daughter, then looked at his mother with a gentle expression, ”As a father, I naturally will be able to obtain the birthdate of my daughter.”

Under his gentle gaze, his mother's expression gradually softened.

Then, she said with a sad tone: ”Humph, you heartless person, do you still remember us? ”Why don't you stay with your legal wife in Yangzhou!”

When the middle-aged man heard this, he hurriedly rushed forward to embrace his mother and consoled her with soft words. Mother Chu struggled symbolically for a while before she laid on his shoulder and started crying.

Chu Yi Rong looked at the two of them and sobbed for a while. She couldn't help but tear up and threw herself at them. She cried as she called for her father.

”He is Chu Yi Rong's father? Didn't they say that Chu Yi Rong is only with her mother? ”

”No, I heard that when Chu Yiran was young, her father had abandoned them and gone away. He had also joined another family. Who would have thought that he would come back now?”

”Recruited again? Could it be that her father was once a member of the Chu Clan? ”

”That's right, her father was the one who had been married into the Chu Clan that year. Otherwise, why would Chu Yi Rong have the same surname as her father? ”

”However, looking at his father's demeanor, it seems like he's doing pretty well …”