Chapter 14 - Are You Jealous of—Me? (1/2)

Translator: Atlas Studios  Editor: Atlas Studios

The next morning, Wen Xinya changed into a light-green peach-blossomed dress, with a jade-rose sculpted hairpin holding her hair. On her ears were a pair of jade-rose earrings. The silver earring-findings had precious yellow jades on the tips as decoration, and they extended through these rose petals hooked onto her earlobes. These were beautiful earrings with thin translucent sculpted rose petals, quivering along as she moved.

The way she dressed up made her look even more pure and elegant.

Wen Xinya greeted everyone with a warm smile on her face. “Grandpa, Grandma, Father and Aunt Ning, good morning!”

Old Mr. Wen nodded. The originally stern face had softened. “Come and sit beside Grandpa,” he told Wen Xinya.

She walked over with a big smile.

The ambiance in the living room became weird. Wen Xinya had opened up, thus Ning Shuqian and her daughter did not have an edge over her the day before. They wouldn’t let the matter rest. In this family, Old Madam Wen loved her son dearly, and Wen Haowen was willing to listen to Ning Shuqian.

“Sister, why do you wake up so late every morning. The entire family has to wait for you.” Wen Yuya remarked with an evil smile.

Ning Shuqian glared at her, signaling her to stop. “Do not make jokes about your sister.” Then she looked at Wen Xinya. “Xinya, do not mind your sister. You know that she has an outspoken character. Oh yes! Did you have a good night’s sleep?” she asked in a warm tone and with a smile.

With a simple statement, she had turned Wen Yuya’s original intention of a challenge into a silly joke. And with another simple sentence, she changed the topic smoothly. Wen Xinya had no reason to show displeasure towards Wen Yuya. “Thank you for your concern, Aunt Ning. After shopping for the whole day, I was so tired that I fell asleep very soon. All the way until this morning,” she replied.

Ning Shuqian slowly turned towards Wen Haowen and looked at him gently with a deeper smile.

Wen Haowen glanced at Wen Xinya. She looked like a totally different person with her new outfit. She looked much more charming and elegant. But what difference would it make? Though she managed to change her outlook, it didn’t mean it would also change her unrefined nature.

“You are the eldest daughter of the Wen Family. Your actions and every word you say represents the Wen Family. You have just returned to the Wen Family, thus you need to be aware that some actions are considered appropriate while others are considered inappropriate. Do not display your past gangster-behavior in the family. Otherwise, it would cause a disgrace to the Wen Family.”

“Yes, Father, I understand!” Wen Xinya dropped her head, feeling wronged. It must be Ning Shuqian who had spoken badly about her to Wen Haowen last night.

Wen Haowen felt angry after detecting her feelings of being wronged. “If you understand, why did you visit those sleazy places? If the media finds out, they will make a molehill out of a mountain. You would then have caused damage to the Wen Family’s reputation.”

Wen Xinya was taken aback by Wen Haowen’s anger. She raised her head and looked at him. There was confusion in her almond-shaped eyes, as if she did not understand what he’d said. “Father, did I do something wrong?” she asked innocently.

Wen Haowen was even more agitated by Wen Xinya’s innocent look. Just when he had decided to lecture her, Old Mr. Wen interrupted with a pa sound by pounding the table with the newspaper in his hands. “Xinya is your daughter. Can’t you talk things out nicely? Do you need to create a big fuss early in the morning?” he reprimanded.

Wen Haowen gave a quick hard stare at Wen Xinya, then looked at Old Mr. Wen with displeasure. “Father, can’t I even lecture her as her father? Why didn’t you ask her what she has done? Now it became known to the media, that our Miss Wen is an arrogant and unrefined person.”

“Xinya has just returned home for a few days, and yet there’s already bad rumors about her spreading. Did you analyze this matter with your brain? It is obvious that someone has been trying to make use of this pretext to create a big fuss.”

Old Mr. Wen felt disappointed in Wen Haowen. Xinya was his birth daughter, after all, his own flesh and blood. Although she had been living a wandering life outside for 15 years and there weren’t many bonds between them, but he did not have any reason to detest his own daughter.