Chapter 2198

The first time Ye Chen saw Liu Manqiong, he felt that this girl was far more beautiful than in her photos.

What Ye Chen saw in the files were all the girl's ID photos; in those photos, she wore glasses and was expressionless, looking only delicate and pretty, but nowhere near the level of being stunning.

However, the Liu Manqiong before him was slender and tall, with fair, rosy skin; her unadorned features had a charm of classical Chinese beauty, and paired with a long, high ponytail, she seemed like an angel who had fallen into the neighborhood and become a top-tier version of the girl next door.

Liu Manqiong's attire was very simple: a plain dress, a pair of simple black sandals, and a shoulder bag with no visible brand. Such casual attire instead highlighted her extraordinary, refined temperament to a new height.

Ye Chen truly did not expect that the pot-bellied Liu Jiahui could produce such an ethereal daughter; judging by Liu Manqiong's features, Liu Jiahui's genes had almost no effective influence on her.

At this moment, Liu Manqiong just gave Ye Chen a lukewarm look and said casually, "Mr. Ye, I presume? Hello."

After saying this, she didn't wait for Ye Chen to respond and said directly to Liu Jiahui, "Didn't you say to let me come back for dinner? Please hurry up; I have things to do this afternoon and cannot be delayed for too long."

Liu Jiahui was angered by Liu Manqiong's attitude and blurted out, "What kind of attitude is this? Mr. Ye is a distinguished guest of the family. Since he is new to Hong Kong, I intended for you to help me host him and take Mr. Ye around this afternoon!"

Liu Manqiong refused without hesitation, "No, I said I have things to do this afternoon! Since he is your guest, why don't you host him yourself?"

Liu Jiahui said angrily, "I just think that you and Mr. Ye are about the same age, both peers, so it's more appropriate for you to host him than me!"

"I don't have time!" Liu Manqiong said somewhat angrily, "You asked me to come back for dinner, and I have already returned. Please stop while you're ahead and don't push your luck!"

Liu Jiahui said coldly, "Is this the attitude you use to speak to your father?"

Fang Jiaxin hurriedly came over to smooth things over, "Oh, Jiahui, why are you at daggers drawn with the child? Besides, Mr. Ye is here too; we shouldn't let a distinguished guest see us make a fool of ourselves."

As she spoke, she hurriedly smiled to persuade Liu Manqiong, "Manqiong, you know your father's temper; don't lower yourself to his level. Hurry up and sit down to eat."

Liu Manqiong looked at Fang Jiaxin with disdain and said coldly, "I don't need you to play the good person here."

Fang Jiaxin's expression changed slightly, but she still accompanied it with a smile, "Manqiong, you might have misunderstood me just now. My intention was to persuade your father not to be so serious with you. There is no hatred between father and daughter; what could be so impossible to resolve?"

Liu Manqiong said indifferently, "There is indeed no hatred between father and daughter, but there is an irreconcilable hatred between a daughter and a homewrecker who destroys a family!"

As soon as these words were spoken, Fang Jiaxin's expression immediately became very ugly.

Liu Jiahui, standing to the side, also had a face of leaden gray.

Fang Jiaxin's large eyes instantly clouded with moisture, and she said to Liu Jiahui with extreme grievance, "Jiahui..."

Liu Jiahui was also very annoyed; after all, Liu Manqiong calling Fang Jiaxin a homewrecker was implicitly calling him a heartless man.

Consequently, Liu Jiahui, in a fit of shame and anger, immediately shouted at Liu Manqiong, "Apologize to your stepmother, right now, immediately!"

Liu Manqiong said with a cold expression, "I'm sorry, both you and she are the indirect murderers who killed my mother. I will never apologize to either of you!"

"You!" Liu Jiahui was suddenly furious, pointing at Liu Manqiong, unable to speak for a moment.

And the person Liu Manqiong hates most in this life is Fang Jiaxin.

From the time she could first remember, she recalled her mother washing her face with tears at home every day, while her father rarely came home. Back then, her mother had told her that her father had his soul hooked by a homewrecker outside, which was why he ignored the two of them.

And the homewrecker her mother spoke of was Fang Jiaxin, whom Liu Jiahui kept as a mistress.

At that time, her mother was still pregnant with her younger sister, and it was precisely because she was pregnant that she neglected routine checkups and failed to detect and intervene in the cancer in its early stages.

After ten months of pregnancy, when her mother gave birth to her sister, she personally breastfed for half a year. During that time, to ensure the health of the breast milk, her mother wouldn't even take a single pill even when she had a cold, so her condition was delayed even further.