Chapter 190: Choice

Ji Xiaoling watched helplessly as a child threw a banana peel on the ground. She wanted to avoid the spot where the banana peel lay, but her hands and feet simply wouldn't obey. She saw it but couldn't dodge it, and her foot stepped right down on it.

For the sake of looking elegant and refined, she was wearing high heels. With that one step, her limbs lost balance and her speed was slow, so she fell flat on her face right in front of the cotton candy stall.

The pain in her hands and feet didn't frighten Ji Xiaoling — what she was worried about was her face.

She carefully reached up to touch it and felt a glaring red!

Ji Xiaoling screamed once more and fainted on the spot.

Ye Shu clapped and cheered!

"That was incredibly satisfying!"

Su Yu was also happy, but after being happy for a while, she became unhappy again!

Ji Xiaoling wanted to seize Ji Yan's identity — this was a thorn in her heart. Ji Yan said she didn't want it, but Su Yu understood that Ji Xiaoling would never believe Ji Yan didn't want it. Whether Ji Yan was willing to go back or not, once Ji Xiaoling learned of Ji Yan's existence, she would make a move against Ji Yan.

Right now Ji Xiaoling hadn't yet been adopted. If she truly became Ji Tianlin and Xu Mingyue's child in name, then Ji Yan would have no advantage at all.

"If one day, a very powerful enemy came after Mommy, could you protect Mommy?"

"Nothing short of death could resolve it!"

Su Yi sighed inwardly. Hearing Su Yu's answer, she could understand it, which meant the girl understood quite a bit. "Not weak, but power and money have never been things of the same dimension."

If they were going to flee abroad, they had to prepare early. Forging an identity in a rush would leave many flaws. To live peacefully abroad, they had to prepare well in advance.

Su Yi could tell that this rebellious daughter was indeed being very serious this time — even her baby voice had lost its softness!

Su Yi, who had just been chatting with his wife, was full of confusion. He had nothing to say to his rebellious daughter. If he were awake, they might start fighting the moment they met.

Su Yu stomped her foot in anger. "Su! Yi! I am discussing this issue with you very seriously. Don't use public office to settle personal scores!"

By the end of the day, an accident occurred on Ji Xiaoling's side, and recording was halted. Qin Yuanjun and Guan Xianxian had become the most despised new parents among netizens since the show began airing. A group of netizens joined forces online to spam the hashtag #QinYuanjunGuanXianxianGetOutOfNewParents#.

Su Yi began to doubt Su Yu's intelligence. Could it be that Yan Yan and the others had too thick a filter for this child they felt they'd wronged, which was why they described such a stupid child as a high-IQ one?

After learning about something like this, shouldn't Su Yu immediately tell her older brother Su Xi and let Su Xi figure out a solution? What use was telling him? He couldn't even get up now — no amount of influence would be of any use!

At this moment, Su Yi started despising his own broken body!

Su Yi was speechless.

"If something really happens, you need to have your uncle prepare to live under an assumed name abroad to save his life! Otherwise, it'll be even more dangerous overseas!"

Receiving this answer, Su Yu grew somewhat grave. "Is our family really that weak?"

"Mommy, I want to talk to Daddy alone. Is that okay?"

After returning home, Su Yu, uncharacteristically, took the initiative to enter Su Yi's hospital room.

Ji Yan was taken aback. "Mommy can't listen?"

What was she anxious about?

Ji Xiaoling becoming the daughter of the Ji Family's third branch?

Su Xi wasn't confident he could bring down Ji Tianlin — after all, that was a state-owned enterprise. And though Ji Tianlin was constrained by the Ji Family's connections, he could also leverage those same connections. If he got serious, the Su Family would indeed be no match. But Su Xi was confident he could make a move on the assets of Ji Xiaoling's biological parents, forcing them to rein her in.

If his body were intact right now, he could have started preparing!

So there was only one possibility!

"Did you offend the Qin Family?"

She would soon be able to get a Lucky Card and wish to draw a card that could wake Su Yi up. Should she go ask Su Yi?

Su Yi moved his fingers. "Of course you can!"

Being your father is truly the worst luck of eight lifetimes!

Thinking this to himself, Su Yi didn't stop moving his hand. "How serious is it?"

Su Yi didn't understand where this little brat got her stubborn streak.

Su Xi couldn't ask directly, so he secretly sent a message to Ji Yan, telling her to probe indirectly and test the waters.

Seeing Su Yi not responding, Su Yu continued, "You still haven't answered my question!"

After reading the report Meng Xianle gave him, Su Xi looked at Su Yu beside him with some confusion. Logically speaking, whether it was Qin Yuanjun and Ji Xiaoling making fools of themselves, or Tang Can and Liang Yan coming to accompany Su Yu, she should have been happy.

This time Su Yi didn't answer immediately, but was rather surprised. His precious Yan Yan was kind to others in her daily life, gentle and soft — how could she possibly offend an entity like the Qin Family?

Thinking of their family's inherited stubbornness, Su Yi worried that Su Yu wouldn't be satisfied with a casual brush-off of an answer. He thought it over carefully and cautiously typed out some words: "Before I fell into a coma, given the Qin Family's power, in a situation where nothing short of death could resolve it, they could annihilate the Su Family. We could flee abroad, but our livelihood couldn't be guaranteed!"

But right now, she wore a look heavy with worry, as if she might as well have written "I'm anxious" right on her face.

"I'm only hypothesizing!"

Realizing that his ability to communicate with his family now was all thanks to his rebellious daughter's help, he moved his fingers. "Speak!"

"An existence like the Qin Family — could you handle that too?"

Even with Ji Tianlin's help, he could still hold out for a while. If it came down to it, he would just be honest with Su Yu and have her system look into Ji Tianlin's or the Ji Family's dark history, then use those things to threaten the Ji Family.

Su Yu nodded. "This is a little secret between me and Daddy!"

Hearing this, Su Yi immediately breathed a sigh of relief. A hypothesis was great! He really thought something had happened! He had even planned out a survival strategy of having Yan Yan abandon him and flee abroad.

Ji Yan was curious, but she still went out.

Thinking of this, Su Yi felt somewhat speechless inwardly. Could it be that his rebellious daughter wanted to hit him?

"Su Yi, I'm asking you something very serious! I hope you can treat me like an adult and answer these questions seriously. These questions are really important!"

Su Yi was stunned! His Yan Yan didn't just make a little noise — she made an earth-shattering one!

This was a last resort!

Generally speaking, their family wasn't yet at the point of having to go that far.

Su Yi quickly typed out a few words: "When did this happen? Tell your uncle!"

You're not using public office to settle personal scores — you're just taking revenge every single day!

"I got it! Thank you. I'm going to eat!"

Su Yi:???

Just left?

Without telling him what exactly is going on?

"Don't tell Mom, or she'll be really upset! You wouldn't not feel bad for Mom, would you?"

Outrageous! Who are you disgusting with that tea-speak!

Su Yi was furious!

Why did he have such a rebellious daughter? Every time she spoke, she never said things completely, and she wouldn't even let him ask!

If Su Yi couldn't hear Su Yu's inner thoughts, then he would definitely have to ask Ji Yan. But as it happened, he could hear them, and so he suspected—had Ji Yan unknowingly offended someone, but that person didn't know Ji Yan's identity?

If he told Ji Yan and she remembered, what would happen if it came to light later?

But if he didn't ask, he simply couldn't figure out what that rebellious daughter of his was thinking!

Su Yi was absolutely tormented inside!

But it seemed to be mealtime, and his darling wife, darling older brother, and loving grandmother all hadn't come to see him. He didn't even have anyone to confide in!

Su Yi silently sulked, and didn't eat very happily at the dinner table either.

Su Yu had a big appetite; normally she would eat one bowl of rice and two bowls of vegetables. But today she hadn't even finished half a bowl of rice before she said she was full. She didn't even watch TV and went straight back to her room.

Such unusual behavior made Yang Zhichun a little uneasy!

"What happened at the company today?"

Su Xi recounted everything in detail, and also shared his own speculation.

Ji Yan also mentioned the matter of Su Yu chatting privately with Su Yi.

"I'll go ask Xiao Yi. Sister-in-law, you go up and try to get it out of her."

"Okay!"

Ji Yan went upstairs and knocked on the door.

"Sweetie, can Mommy come in?"

"Come in!"

Ji Yan pushed the door open and saw her daughter hugging a stuffed animal, looking a bit dazed.

"Was Sweetie unhappy at the company today?"

Su Yu shook her head. "I was quite happy. Can Can and Huo Huo were both there, and I even ran into something really happy."

"But Sweetie, you're not very happy?"

Su Yu's hand unconsciously scratched at the huge bear plushie.

She was truly torn inside!

"Mom, I saw a lot of orphans today!"

"Mm, does Sweetie want to help them?" Or was she reminded of the past and thinking about the bad old days?

Ji Yan stepped forward and held Su Yu in her arms, gently nuzzling her chubby little cheek. During the period right after Su Yu first came to her side, her inner thoughts would occasionally mention that she really liked her as a mom and didn't want to be a motherless child living in an orphanage.

"Mom, if your mommy was always looking for you, would you want to go back?"

Ji Yan looked down at her nervous daughter. Su Yu had asked her about news of her parents more than once. Was there some problem with her background?

Su Yu probably didn't want her to go back to her real home. But Su Yu also frequently mentioned it, and this time even revealed that her biological mother was looking for her? Since her biological mother was looking for her, why would Su Yu be unwilling for her to go back?

Going by Su Yu's usual style, if her biological parents were good people, she would have long gone on a rant in her inner thoughts and then had Wulongcha help her stage an "accident scam."

Whether Su Yu wanted to make a phone call or talk in person, she could pull it off. But she had never once actively sought out her biological parents.

And now she was suddenly asking her strange questions with a heavy heart.

Ji Yan was genuinely a little curious!

She thought she should ask her older brother to help investigate privately.

What kind of people were her parents? Why would they make Su Yu so conflicted?

"Mom doesn't know either! Mom doesn't know why Mom's mommy and daddy separated from Mom, and Mom has no way to make a choice!"

If her parents weren't good people, she would rather not acknowledge them as family!

Su Yu broke out in a sweat from anxiety. She didn't know how to explain to Ji Yan that she knew the situation regarding Ji Yan's biological parents, as well as the situation she would have to face.

"Mom..."

Su Yu buried herself in Ji Yan's arms, drenched in sweat.

"Sweetie, if something's bothering you, you can tell Mom!"

"It's nothing, Mom. I just saw those orphans and thought about things a little too much!"

Things hadn't reached that point yet.

Su Yu figured that she would Draw card the day after tomorrow anyway. Once Su Yi woke up, she'd assess Su Yi's resources and then decide what to do!

Su Yu was under a lot of pressure. She wanted to tell Su Xi, but she had no way to explain everything she knew.

The anxious Su Yu had several nightmares in her sleep.

She dreamed that Ji Yan died in all sorts of ways!

Whether she returned to the Ji Family or not, she died all the same!

The dream ended like a curse—Ji Yan was always going to die at Ji Xiaoling's hands!

Su Yu woke up the next day in low spirits!

"There's no work today. I need to go to the Qin Family. You just rest at home?"

Su Xi looked at Su Yu's listless state and felt a pang of heartache.

Since there was an issue with Ji Yan's background, he could just investigate it himself. As it happened, this time Ji Yan was an innocent bystander caught in the crossfire and ended up on Hot Search.

Returning from the Qin Family, he could use that as a pretext, making it perfectly reasonable to investigate Ji Yan's background.

"Why do you need to go to the Qin Family? Did Uncle Qin die?"

"That's not the case!"

He not only didn't die, but shamelessly spread rumors that Ji Yan died! Now the person managing Ji Yan's account is a stand‑in!

Ji Yan, who married into a wealthy family and also has a genius treasure, Su Yu, is a female celebrity more popular than Qin Yuanjun, and the Hot Search is all discussing Ji Yan's life and death.

Ji Yan came forward to clarify that she wasn't dead, but Qin Yuanjun soon had people spread rumors that Ji Yan was living poorly in the wealthy family!

Not clarifying means Ji Yan is suffering in the wealthy family!

Ji Yan, left with no choice, could only continue to clarify online; she is doing well now, please don't use concern as an excuse to manipulate others' lives!

After Ji Yan clarified, the internet was flooded with her black material!

The marketing accounts even took Ji Yan's line "Please don't use concern as an excuse to manipulate others' lives!" and blew it up, saying Ji Yan betrayed her fans' affection, which is trampling on everyone's sincere hearts!

If they weren't worried about her safety, why would they speak up online?

Some fans were led astray, unfollowed and attacked, and even implicated the Su Clan!

Su Xi wanted to call Qin Zhenzhong before taking action, but he didn't answer!

Therefore, Su Xi could only go find the person himself.

"Then why are you going to the Qin family?"

"Qin Yuanjun pushed your mom onto the Hot Search to shield him and Guan Xianxian from the heat. I want to go over and ask the Qin family exactly what's going on!"

Su Yu flung herself into Su Xi's arms, "I want to go too!"

【If it really doesn't work, I'll use Qin Yuanjun's matter to stimulate Grandfather Qin, making him give up Qin Yuanjun! That idiot is truly my mother's calamity!】

Su Xi's heart jolted—what else had Qin Yuanjun done to Ji Yan?

Su Xi sometimes feels bitter—his younger brother has a wife and forgets his older brother. But he knows how important Ji Yan is to Su Yi! If something happens to Ji Yan, Su Xi dare not imagine how his younger brother, who has just improved, would fare.

"Alright, let's go!"

Su Xi held Su Yu as they got into the car; this time, he had the butler drive.

"Why does the butler uncle have to come too?"

The butler was also bewildered; he didn't know! He was just standing there, routinely watching the Eldest Young Master leave, and then inexplicably got called into the car!

"If I go in to talk with someone, the butler uncle can look after you on the side!"

Su Yu knew Su Xi wasn't at ease leaving her alone, and she accepted this reason.

"Okay!"

The butler also thought it made sense. Su Yu sometimes is mischievous; an ordinary servant wouldn't dare to manage her.

Arriving at the Qin family villa, Su Xi held Su Yu as they got out of the car.

Only upon reaching the courtyard did they discover that the Qin family was also not peaceful today!

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