Chapter 8 (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Xia Villa was located at the last row of the housing estate, mainly owned by the richest of the rich. Lan You drove to Xia Yanxi’s house, and when she wanted to follow Xia Yanxi, she quickly stopped Lan You, asking her to remain in the car.

Once she had entered the compound and stepped into the flower garden, Xia Yanxi smiled provokingly as she gazed up at the three storey villa, beautifully and lavishly built.

This place… this entire villa was filled with sweet memories. Was. Ever since the woman known as Yao Manlian moved in, everything changed.

The rose garden that was once beloved by her mother was removed. The commissioned pond was filled and covered up…

Back then, Yao Manlian would always coax her, telling her one white lie after another just to get closer to Yanxi. Xia Yanxi herself was naively fooled. She thought that this stranger was going to be her new mother, to give her a chance to have a new mother-daughter relationship. It was hard to discern her true intentions as ever since the day she moved in, Yao Manlian had been an angel to her. Even if Yanxi had a fight with Yao Manlian’s daughter, Yanxi’s stepsister, Yao Manlian would always step in and defend Xia Yanxi.

‘Heh.’

Last night was the big reveal. Only then did Xia Yanxi know what kind of person Yao Manlian really was.

Aunt Xu, the woman who had been with Xia Yanxi her entire life, came running, concerned about Xia Yanxi’s well-being, until a maid interjected their conversation with a face that was incredibly displeased.

“Miss, the master and mistress are waiting for you in the living room.”

“Aunt Xu, you need not worry. I’ll be fine,” she said. Her eyes glinted with a sharp look; determined even, as she walked into the excessively large villa.

Huo Changsheng and Yao Manlian could be seen sitting on the leather sofa, and when Xia Yanxi made her presence known, their expressions changed drastically.

“You little rascal! You’re finally back! Just when I thought you had forgotten how to do so!” Huo Changsheng bellowed with a face so enraged, his eyes filled with anger, as if the person he was glaring at, Xia Yanxi, had wronged his ancestors.

Xia Yanxi could not help but feel disappointed. She thought that she still had hope. She thought that her father was oblivious to Yao Manlian’s scheme to gift Yanxi to a certain Mr. Gu. However, from the looks of it, they, Huo Changsheng and Yao Manlian, were in this together. Perhaps, he could even be the mastermind behind all this.