Chapter 2

The disgust in the man’s eyes did not lessen at all. Because he was standing there, the condescending feeling made Jiang Mi’s fingertips tremble uncontrollably.

She quickly put down the cup and called him cautiously, “Uncle San?” She swallowed her saliva and said, “I really spilled it by accident just now.”

Qi Huaizhou sneered. They had already completely fallen out just now. What tricks were he trying to play now?

He was too lazy to pay attention to her and left in a huff.

This doesn’t give anyone any chance to forgive or explain!

Jiang Mi hurriedly chased after him: “Third Uncle! Third Uncle, please listen to my explanation!”

Jiang Mi rushed out of the coffee shop and was hit by the December north wind. Her hair and shirt were wet and she shivered with cold. She chased after him shivering to explain.

Qi Huaizhou drove the foggy black off-road Hummer parked on the side of the road. When Jiang Mi saw him get in the car and start it, she was so scared that she rushed over and jumped onto the hood of the car.

“Uncle San, don’t leave yet and listen to what I have to say!”

Qi Huaizhou didn’t get out of the car. He looked at the woman outside through the windshield with a cold gaze: “Why, are you trying to frame me for hitting you and send me to jail?”

What?

How could he think that?

Jiang Mi climbed up tremblingly, her delicate face pressed against the windshield. She blinked and said solemnly, “No, no, no, Third Uncle, I don’t want to send you to jail, and you don’t want to send me to jail either, okay?”

Qi Huaizhou: “…Get out.”

The north wind made Jiang Mi shiver all over. She trembled and said, “Just listen to what I have to say and then I’ll get out of here.”

Passersby around have already started to watch, and many are holding up their phones to take pictures. Qi Huaizhou’s patience is almost at its limit. Is he going to go online and expose the matter?

His tone turned cold: “Get in the car and talk.”

“Alright!” Jiang Mi slid down, quickly opened the passenger seat and got in. She rubbed her hands and blew a few breaths of air out of the cold before speaking as quickly as she could, “You don’t think that just because I call you ‘Third Uncle’ you’re the heir to the Qi family, do you? My dad is the eldest son of the Qi family! If you know what’s good for you, pack up and leave. Otherwise, it won’t be so nice to be kicked out by us… Did you think I would say that? No, I won’t!”

“…”

Qi Huaizhou looked at Jiang Mi as if he were a fool and said, “You forgot to recite a few sentences.”

Jiang Mi: “?”

Qi Huaizhou helped her add: “You are just an illegitimate child. My father is the eldest son of the Qi family. Who do you think you are… How could you fire the one who scolded the most?”

Jiang Mi’s back was covered in sweat, and he tried his best to make amends: “Those are not important. The last two sentences are my true feelings, Uncle San!”

Qi Huaizhou tapped the steering wheel lightly with his slender fingers: “What tricks are you trying to play now?”

“I really didn’t, Third Uncle.” Jiang Mi wiped his face anxiously, deliberately widening his innocent eyes and looking at him very frankly. “I came here today to tell you that I have never had the idea of competing with you. You are the son of the Qi family. I am a little girl and I don’t understand the way of doing business, right? Everything in the Qi family is yours. I have only been in the Qi family for three months. After I have fulfilled my filial duties, I will go back to where I came from. What I said is true! So you really don’t have to treat me as an imaginary enemy, and there is no need to think of sending me to jail!”

Qi Huaizhou narrowed his eyes and said, “There’s no need to wait until later. Just go back to where you came from now.”

“Okay, Uncle San!”

Jiang Mi immediately opened the car door, jumped out, turned around and ran.

If the boss wants her to leave now, she will definitely not stay for another second!

Since she is expressing her loyalty, she must have a loyal attitude. Jiang Mi doesn’t care how she will live in the future. After all, if she wants to live, she must first be alive!

Let this cannon fodder female supporting role be isolated from the plot from this moment on, and let her figure out how to survive on her own!

As a result, as soon as Jiang Mi turned a corner, he was blocked by a man in a suit.

“Where are you going, Miss?”

“…I’m not your eldest daughter.”

–

“Snap—”

This slap made Jiang Mi dizzy and dazed. She covered her face for several seconds before she reacted.

“Try to tell me you’re not Qi Zhuyan?” The woman in front of him, dressed in a high-end business suit and with her hair neatly tied up, was Jiang Mi’s nominal mother, Su Rongbing. She looked at Jiang Mi coldly, “Don’t forget you took the money!”

Jiang Mi wanted to curse, saying that it was that idiot Xia Mi who took it, and it was none of her business!

Jiang Mi looked around. There were bodyguards guarding the door, and it was impossible for her to jump out of the window of this office on the 18th floor. After thinking about it, she temporarily gave in: “I will find a way to pay back the money.”

Hearing this, the anger in Su Rongbing’s eyes became even stronger.

Jiang Mi stepped back.

Su Rongbing didn’t hit her again, but sat down on the sofa with a cold face. She raised her eyelids and looked at Jiang Mi: “Do you think I look like I’m short of money?”

Damn it, you went to all this trouble to find a fake daughter just to fight for the Qi family’s fortune, aren’t you short of money?!

Jiang Mi didn’t dare to curse out loud. As a cannon fodder female supporting role, she didn’t dare to offend the male protagonist, and it was not easy to offend Su Rongbing, the rich and powerful female supporting role!

After all, this rich and powerful female supporting character can make her life a living hell with just a flick of her finger.

Seeing that Jiang Mi didn’t say anything, Su Rongbing thought she was scared, so she softened her tone: “Don’t be shameless, otherwise I will spread the news that you are pretending to be my daughter. You should know that after you return to the Qi family, many people in the Qi family will try every possible way to kill you!”

Jiang Mi was stunned. She opened her eyes wide and said, “It was you…you asked me to pretend to be Miss Qi!”

Su Rongbing smiled and said, “I can tamper with the appraisal certificate, and of course I can make people believe that even I was deceived by you. Don’t you believe I can do it?”

A thousand horses were running through Jiang Mi’s heart.

–

In the evening, the sun sets in the west.

The foggy black Hummer slowly drove through the leaf-covered sycamore road and into a garden-style estate.

This garden is the old house of the Qi family in Linjiang City. It was first built during the Republic of China period and was expanded on the original ancestral home of the Qi family. It imitated the ancient gardens of the Ming and Qing dynasties. It was originally designed by the ancestor of the Qi family to commemorate his original wife.

The dowry was gorgeous and the couple was deeply in love, so they took the homonym of “戚” (Qi) and named it “Qiyuan”.

The manor is filled with pavilions, towers, bridges, flowing water, and rockery, which, combined with the pure Jiangnan architecture with white walls and black tiles, look like a magnificent painting.

Later, when the Qi family’s business spread all over the world, they moved to a big city. But when Qi Zhenting became seriously ill, he resolutely moved back to this old house, wanting to return to his roots.

Qi Huaizhou walked through the corridor and headed towards the “Thatched Cottage in the Misty Rain” where Qi Zhenting lived.

After coming out of the coffee shop, he went back to the Linjiang branch to handle some business before coming here, which is why he was a little late.

He really wanted to see what his sister-in-law looked like at the moment when she had lost her daughter.

“Sir, are you back?” The maid, Aunt Zhang, greeted with a smile.

Qi Huaizhou nodded slightly, strode over the threshold and walked straight in.

Walking around the screen, he saw his eldest niece Qi Zhuyan, who had vowed two hours ago that she would go back to where she came from.

Jiang Mi, who had just finished acting out the affectionate relationship between grandfather and grandson under Su Rongbing’s coercion, said: “…”

Uncle San, please really listen to my explanation!!