"She's here!"
Jiang Ziyu paused and looked up at the elderly and majestic Old Mrs. Ye on the sofa.
Ye Qianzhi had not known about Old Mrs. Ye's arrival in advance.
"Mom, why are you here?"
"Qianzhi, I brought Mom over. I thought that as a child of the Ye family, she should also meet the old lady," Shen Meixiu explained.
As soon as the old and middle-aged women entered, Jiang Ziyu could feel their dislike towards her.
Old Mrs. Ye bypassed Ye Qianzhi and scrutinized Jiang Ziyu from head to toe, "Are you the one born to *that* woman?"
"Mom," Ye Qianzhi interrupted her displeasedly, "She is the daughter of Yu Man and me, and a child of our Ye family."
Old Mrs. Ye ignored Ye Qianzhi's words and continued looking at Jiang Ziyu, "The Ye family is not like some small, insignificant family outside. Everyone must abide by the Ye family's rules. Do you understand?"
"I understand," Jiang Ziyu replied cooperatively.
Seeing that she was relatively well-behaved, Old Mrs. Ye did not torment her further and turned back to sit on the sofa.
"Qianzhi, aren't you going to introduce them?" Shen Meixiu prompted.
He found one daughter and brought back a whole football team.
Ye Qianzhi patted his head and quickly introduced, "Ziyu, this is my current wife. If you don't want to call her Mom, you can call her Auntie."
As he spoke, Shen Meixiu's face fell.
This clearly showed she was not being treated as a wife.
"Nonsense. Since she is a child of the Ye family, how can she not acknowledge her mother?" Old Mrs. Ye reprimanded.
She had lived this long only to suddenly discover her previous father was fake, inexplicably gained a biological father, and her surname changed from Jiang to Ye.
Now, to top it all off, her biological father had arrived, bringing a stepmother along with him.
Facing Shen Meixiu, Ye Ziyu remained silent, refusing to greet her.
"Mom, Ziyu has just returned. She's not familiar with anything yet, don't force her to accept this," Ye Qianzhi advised tactfully.
Sensing Jiang Ziyu's importance to Ye Qianzhi, Shen Meixiu quickly spoke words of appeasement to ease the atmosphere, "It's alright, Auntie is fine. We can change it later when we're more familiar."
After saying that, she proactively walked to Jiang Ziyu's side, linked her arm, as if they were mother and daughter.
Jiang Ziyu remained unfazed and slowly withdrew from the touch.
With one of the protagonists having spoken, Old Mrs. Ye, with a stern face, no longer defended her.
Ye Qianzhi looked around. In the spacious living room, only Old Mrs. Ye and Shen Xioumei were present.
"Where are the children?"
Speak of the devil, and he shall appear.
Ye Chenhan entered from outside carrying shopping bags, his voice full of enthusiasm, "I'm here."
"Where have you been again?" Ye Qianzhi frowned. Looking at Ye Chenhan, he couldn't help but want to get angry.
He placed the shopping bags on the ground and looked at Jiang Ziyu beside Shen Xioumei, "Are you my sister who's been away for many years?"
"Behave yourself!" Ye Qianzhi, afraid Ye Chenhan would startle Jiang Ziyu.
Ye Chenhan made a funny face and continued to ask Jiang Ziyu, "My name is Ye Chenhan, your fourth brother. I heard you have three children, so I specifically went to buy gifts for my nephew and nieces."
Compared to the attitudes of Old Mrs. Ye and Shen Xioumei just now, Ye Chenhan was like the sun breaking through dark clouds, sweeping away the frost around Jiang Ziyu and giving her warmth.
He took out children's toys from the shopping bags and crouched down to look at the three children, "Come, let Uncle get to know you."
The three children looked uncertainly at Jiang Ziyu and Di Mingjue.
With Jiang Ziyu's nod, the children immediately became active and surrounded Ye Chenhan.
"Hello, Uncle, I'm Xiaoran."
"I'm Qianqian."
"I'm Yuze."
Listening to the childish voices around him, Ye Chenhan responded to each of them, busy placing different gifts into their hands.
Witnessing Ye Chenhan's actions, Ye Qianzhi's attitude towards him softened. He looked at Shen Xioumei and inquired about the whereabouts of the other three.