Chapter 349: Not Every Apology Can Be Exchanged for

At a time like this, you still want to play tricks?

Does Wang Bingbing think she is the only smart person in the world, and everyone else is a fool?

Shi Youxuan said directly, "You don't need to apologize to me; you used the child's trust and admiration for you to lie to her, you should apologize to her."

Sweat instantly broke out on Wang Bingbing's face.

Sheng Hanyu had emphasized the script for apologizing to the child three times: "Do not change it, do not add or subtract anything, you cannot change a single word!"

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, she did not dare to play any tricks.

She had no choice but to go to Shi Ran and tell her that everything she had told her before was a lie, and that it was because she was jealous of her mother.

There was also the fact that she and Zhu Yiwen were "in cahoots," and that letting her return to L Country was to continue using Shi Youxuan to make money for them; the key point to explain—Zhu Yiwen did not like the mother and daughter at all, he just wanted to use Shi Ran as a hostage to coerce Shi Youxuan into continuing to be his cash cow.

These were all facts, not lies.

It was just that none of it had anything to do with Wang Bingbing; it was all orchestrated by Zhu Yiwen himself, and Zhu Yiwen and Wang Bingbing didn't even know each other.

He had no interest in women, no matter how beautiful they were!

Wang Bingbing "voluntarily" getting involved was purely self-inflicted; who told her to be so bored that she had to go and provoke Shi Youxuan.

……

After the press conference ended, by the time Shi Ran returned home, she had completely recovered her previous lively and cheerful personality.

She chattered to her mother non-stop: "Mom, shouldn't I go to school? If I don't go to school again, I'm going to get moldy."

"Mom, Mom, why hasn't Uncle come for several days? I miss Uncle, can we invite Uncle to come home to cook?"

"Cook what?" Shi Youxuan suspected she had misheard.

Shi Ran emphasized: "Cook, your cooking is too terrible."

Shi Youxuan: ……

Of course, these questions were not the most difficult ones to answer, but the question she found hardest to answer was asked by the little one after they got home: "Mom, who is my father?"

"Are you hungry?" Shi Youxuan attempted to change the subject: "I'll go check the fridge to see what food is left, if there isn't any, I'll order takeout for you."

"Not hungry."

The little one pulled on her mother and wouldn't let her leave: "Mom, who is my father?"

"Hey, I'm hungry, I need to eat something!"

The question Shi Youxuan least wanted to answer was finally asked by her daughter.

But she still hadn't figured out how to answer it.

"You don't have a father." After holding it in for a long while, she only managed to squeeze out this one sentence.

The little girl put her hands on her hips and widened her eyes: "That's not right, everyone has a father, I have a father too. Since you said Daddy isn't my father, then who is my father? Is it Uncle?"

"No." Shi Youxuan denied it.

The little girl stopped asking, but she was no longer happy; she plopped down onto the floor, lowered her head in grievance, and her pitiful little appearance made Shi Youxuan unable to bear looking at her.

"Baby, stand up and let's sit on the sofa. The floor is cold, you'll catch a cold and get a stomachache." Shi Youxuan went to pick up her daughter, but almost couldn't lift her.

The child was growing up and becoming harder and harder to fool.

If she brushed it off this time, what would she do next time?

And if the mother and daughter stayed in Jiangzhou, seeing Sheng Hanyu every single day, she would know the truth sooner or later.

She planned to take the child away from Jiangzhou again, but this time it couldn't just be the mother and daughter; she had to take her father away too!

……

Jiangzhou Nursing Home.

"Grandpa, Grandpa—"

Shi Ran's voice arrived before she did.

Shi Yucheng was in the courtyard tending to his flowers, preparing them to be used as a bouquet for Jian Yixin's wedding.

The bright roses were budding, dripping with vibrant red, and were very beautiful.

"Ranran is here, let Grandpa see if you've grown taller?" Shi Ran stood obediently in front of her grandfather. Shi Yucheng touched the top of her head and measured: "Hmm, you've grown taller, and you're getting prettier as you grow."

Shi Youxuan got out of the car and brought in the bags.

Shi Yucheng complained: "I don't lack anything here, just come by to see me when you have time, you don't need to buy things. Every time you buy a bunch of useless stuff, just wasting money..."

He had lived through hard times and couldn't stand extravagance and waste, especially now that he was older, he found it even harder to tolerate.

"Oh, you've grown these flowers really well..." Shi Youxuan said, and her hand reached out.

She wanted to pick a few.

And the ones Shi Youxuan had her eyes on were exactly the ones Shi Yucheng had cultivated for Jian Yixin's wedding.

"Smack!"

He slapped his daughter's hand: "Don't touch them, these aren't for you, these are flowers I specifically cultivated for Yixin."

Shi Youxuan understood they were for the wedding, but she still pouted and pretended to be angry: "Old man, you're biased. I'm your daughter, how can you treat an outsider better than you treat me?"

Shi Yucheng: "You get married soon, and I'll let you use these flowers immediately!"

"Fine, I'm wrong!" Shi Youxuan conceded, picked up the bags, and went inside.

With his daughter and granddaughter here, Shi Yucheng naturally stopped working in the courtyard, tidied up his things, went inside, and asked the nanny to go to the Cafeteria to get a few good dishes to treat his daughter and granddaughter for lunch!

Shi Ran played in the courtyard, while the father and daughter chatted in the living room.

Shi Yucheng asked her: "Xuanxuan, Yixin is getting married soon, when are you getting married?"

"I'm not getting married anymore, I'll just raise the child and live with you for the rest of my life."

Shi Youxuan took the opportunity to suggest that her father leave the nursing home and live with her.

Shi Yucheng shook his head: "Thank you, Xuanxuan, for still being willing to take care of this sick old man, but I don't want to move out. It's quite good living here. You come to see me when you have time, and when you don't, the doctors and nurses here take good care of me..."

"You're still young, a woman raising a child alone is never a long-term solution. Why don't you find someone else, Xuanxuan? Find a man who is good to you and also good to Ranran..." After going in circles, he still couldn't stop trying to get her to find a man and get married.

Shi Yucheng belongs to the older generation, and his way of looking at problems is different from young people.

He knows that Shi Youxuan can earn money and has the ability to let herself and her daughter live very well, but he always feels that a woman raising a child alone is not a long-term solution; she still needs to find a man.

He told his daughter to find a good man to marry, but he still firmly demanded that she not remarry Sheng Hanyu!

Shi Yucheng used to have a soft personality, but after that family upheaval five years ago, he became very stubborn.

Especially regarding the issue of Sheng Hanyu, as long as this person is mentioned, he grinds his teeth in hatred.

Shi Youxuan thought for a moment, then told the truth: "Ranran is asking me for a father, and I don't know how to tell her, so I want to take you and Ranran away from Jiangzhou, far away from Sheng Hanyu, so he can't find us."

"Leave Jiangzhou?" Shi Yucheng hesitated.

He does not object to hiding from Sheng Hanyu.

But he is truly unwilling to leave Jiangzhou.

She saw her father's concerns and simply stated it directly: "Are you worried about your elder daughter? I have already thought of a place for her to go."

"Once we find a place to settle down, we will arrange for her to stay in a local psychiatric hospital, or somewhere not too far from us; I have already arranged a separate place for her to live, with doctors and nannies fully equipped, and it will be convenient for you to visit her."

Regarding Shi Yuke, this is all she can do.

This can be considered doing everything within her power.

Shi Yucheng was moved to tears; his daughter's answer was completely beyond his expectations.

"Xuanxuan, do you no longer hate your sister?"

Shi Youxuan:...

Shi Yucheng still thought of the matter too simply; how could she not hate her?

If she didn't hate her, she wouldn't have come to see him several times without mentioning a single word about "Shi Yuke".

If she didn't hate her, she wouldn't have proposed finding a separate place for her to live.

That Shi Youxuan is still willing to take care of her is entirely for the sake of Shi Yucheng, and it is limited only to financial assistance; as for sisterly affection—there is none at all!