Xia Yiran returned after drinking.
She hummed a tune and stumbled into the villa.
The living room lights suddenly turned on. Su Hui was sitting on the sofa, watching her. "Why are you only back now? Have you been drinking?"
Xia Yiran was stunned for a moment, then immediately became very obedient and sat down beside her. "I'm going to be acting in 'Exclusive Love,' right? I had dinner with the director today, and I got a little carried away with happiness."
Su Hui looked at her daughter. Although she was her biological daughter, she felt increasingly estranged the more she looked at her.
"Do you know that your mother... your adoptive mother jumped off a building?"
A flicker of discomfort crossed Xia Yiran's face. "Yes, the news was so big, I found out this afternoon."
"And then?"
Xia Yiran didn't understand. "What 'and then'?"
Su Hui couldn't believe it. "She's the mother who raised you for over twenty years. She's now on the verge of death, and you're out drinking and having fun with colleagues instead of going to see her?"
Xia Yiran finally sobered up a bit and quickly explained, "Mom, why would you think of me like that? I already sent someone to visit her at the hospital. It's just that it's really inconvenient for me to show my face right now, and I don't want to be involved with anything from my past anymore!"
Su Hui stared at her blankly.
"Besides, you know how much I want to act. This opportunity with 'Exclusive Love' is very rare, and I have to seize every chance!"
Su Hui watched her like this for a long time before speaking in a low voice, "It's inconvenient for you to show your face? What about Weil Liang? Is it convenient for her? She rushed to the hospital the moment something happened. Even though there were many media outlets waiting and people cursing at her, she still went."
As soon as her mother mentioned Xia Weil Liang, Xia Yiran frowned, her tone tinged with impatience. "Of course she had to go! The person lying there is her own mother! Besides, she was just putting on a show, otherwise she would have been cursed at even more!"
As she spoke, she even let out an unconscious smile.
Triumphant, and arrogant.
Su Hui slowly shook her head. "Bao Fang is Weil Liang's biological mother... but she merely gave birth to Weil Liang. She didn't raise her for a single day! But you? Twenty years of nurturing, and you dismiss it so lightly?"
Xia Yiran had been in a good mood today, but as soon as she returned, she was interrogated, which ruined her mood immensely.
She stood up abruptly, her tone turning cold. "I know you only have that Xia Weil Liang in your heart, so no matter what I do, it's wrong. Then why did you acknowledge me and beg her to come back as your daughter!"
With that, she went upstairs without looking back.
A moment later, the sound of a door slamming shut echoed.
Su Hui sat alone on the sofa, her expression dejected and complicated.
Someone came down the stairs. She quickly concealed her emotions and looked up at the person. "Auntie, why aren't you asleep yet? Did I disturb you?"
Xie Wanxi, wearing a vintage long pajama dress and a shawl, slowly walked down the stairs.
"Had a fight with your daughter?"
"No."
A trace of embarrassment flickered across Su Hui's face.
Xie Wanxi poured two glasses of red wine, handed one to her, and then sat down gracefully. She spoke slowly, "You women are always so tied down by things like blood relations. Because Weil Liang isn't yours by birth, you immediately sent her away. But you and I aren't directly related either, so why do you still covet my money?"
Su Hui's face turned red at her words. "Auntie..."
Xie Wanxi spoke frankly and didn't seem to mind. She took a sip of the red wine and said, "Weil Liang is the child you raised. You know her character best. Today's incident was clearly aimed at her by that family. If I were in your shoes, I wouldn't acknowledge such biological parents either; they're better off without them."
"Auntie is right, I think so too. No matter what mistakes Weil Liang made, she's still your own flesh and blood. How could she... how could she do something like this at the peak of her career!"
As Su Hui spoke, a hint of hatred appeared on her face. She picked up the wine glass on the table and drained it.
"In my opinion, this matter needs to be investigated thoroughly."
"Mm!"
Su Hui quickly became troubled again. "But... how should we do it?"
Su Hui was also a lady from a good family. After marrying, she had been accustomed to being a rich wife. If it weren't for this matter of the fake and real rich daughter, her life would have been relatively peaceful and smooth. This made her panic when faced with a crisis, not knowing how to resolve it.
Xie Wanxi said, "What Weil Liang needs most now is the support of her family, especially yours." She looked at Su Hui. "You go to the hospital tomorrow. Go in a high-profile manner. There will definitely be reporters interviewing you. No matter what they ask, remember, you just need to stand firmly by Weil Liang's side."
"That's it?"
"That's it." Xie Wanxi took another sip of wine. "Leave the rest to me."
Su Hui thought for a moment, then gritted her teeth. "Okay, I'll listen to Auntie!"
The next day, Su Hui dressed very discreetly, but it still couldn't conceal her inherent nobility.
She got out of the car and headed straight for the main entrance.
The reporters who had been waiting there had already spotted the wealthy madam. After a few moments of recognition, they realized she was Madam Xia and rushed to stop her, asking for an interview.
"Madam Xia, are you here to visit Ms. Bao?"
Su Hui took off her sunglasses and replied, neither subservient nor overbearing, "I heard she was injured, so I came to see her."
"Mr. Liu Wan Quan accuses Xia Weil Liang of abandonment, which forced his wife into such a desperate situation. What are your thoughts on this?"
Hearing this, Su Hui became angry. She took a deep breath, stood at the entrance, facing all the media present, "Although Weil Liang is not my biological daughter, she was raised by me. For him to say that is equivalent to saying I don't know how to raise children!"
Before anyone below could ask a question, she continued, "Let's talk about abandonment first. Do I need to elaborate on how they schemed against Weil Liang before? There's also something you might not know. To thank Mr. and Mrs. Liu for raising Yiran, we once gifted them two million yuan in a lump sum. I don't know how they managed to accept that money and then, with what mindset, stood before the media crying about their biological daughter being unfilial."
There was an uproar from the surroundings, as no one knew about this.
This wasn't all. Su Hui added, "As a mother, I can empathize. Even until the day I die, my only wish would be for my children to be healthy and safe. Yet Mrs. Liu, at her daughter's event, jumped from the upper floor in such a desperate manner. She didn't even leave an opportunity for explanation, allowing the outside world to pour so much slander onto her daughter. What is this? Motherly love?"
The surroundings became very quiet. Su Hui's voice became choked with emotion as she spoke.
"Weil Liang's current achievements are all thanks to her own hard work! Don't talk about her being unwilling to share her current success; even if she wanted to, I wouldn't agree! Why do you keep bothering, slandering, and defaming my daughter, and then demand that she support you? And now, with this incident, everyone is questioning her, cursing her?"
She looked around, holding back her tears, and said in a loud voice, "I can tell you frankly, Weil Liang is not my biological daughter, but she is my daughter! I'm not here to visit the sick today; I just want to see if the villains who bullied my daughter have met their retribution!"
With that, she strode into the hospital in her high heels.