Chapter 69: Good, You’ve Given Me a Reason to Hit You

Ye Bingyu was completely caught off guard.

“You hit me?”

“Yeah, so what?”

“How… how dare you hit me?”

“Why wouldn’t I dare?”

“On what basis do you hit me?”

“Because you called me a country bumpkin.”

Ye Bingyu: “…”

“You hit me just because I called you a country bumpkin?”

She was a bit overwhelmed, probably because she had been living too comfortably and couldn’t accept Lin Bingwei suddenly hitting her while they were talking.

Lin Bingwei scoffed, “Yeah, you called me a country bumpkin, so shouldn’t I hit you?”

“You… you illiterate bumpkin, you’re asking for it.”

This was the first time she encountered someone so direct, actually hitting people?

Furious, she raised her hand to hit back.

But she was pampered and delicate, and thin as a monkey; how could she be Lin Bingwei’s opponent?

Lin Bingwei grabbed her slender wrist and gave her two slaps on the face.

In the past few months, her mother-in-law, Li Yurong, had been preparing nourishing food for Zhang Tingyuan, also telling Lin Bingwei to eat more.

Zhang Tingyuan lay around and gained thirty pounds, while Lin Bingwei, busy every day, had gained at least twenty pounds.

Now she was no longer the skinny bamboo pole from when she first married into the Zhang family; she had gone from over seventy pounds to over ninety, and she still did physical work, so those ninety-plus pounds were not fake; she was strong.

After a few slaps, Ye Bingyu was completely sobered up.

She clearly knew she couldn’t beat Lin Bingwei.

Fuming, she distanced herself, tears streaming down her face as she complained.

“Why are you so rude? How can you hit someone? You’re simply a shrew.”

Lin Bingwei rolled up her sleeves, “You still dare to call me a shrew? Then I have a reason to hit you.”

Seeing the situation turn bad, Ye Bingyu tried to run, but Lin Bingwei grabbed her hair and pulled her back.

It hurt so much that she cried out.

Lin Bingwei recalled the memory of that little girl, not even ten years old, being bullied by her so-called sister—having her hair pulled, ears tugged, arms twisted, and all sorts of harm done to her. She quickly did the same to Ye Bingyu.

They were talking in a secluded little garden behind the hospital, originally with no one around.

But Ye Bingyu’s cries were loud, and soon attracted attention.

Seeing this, Lin Bingwei finally let go, and while Ye Bingyu was still crying, she shouted, “Sister, don’t think I’m still as easy to bully as I was when I was little. You can insult me, you can hit me, but I will fight back; I won’t let you bully me anymore.”

After scolding her, she ran away.

A few onlookers who had gathered listened to her words and understood the general situation.

The two sisters were fighting; it used to be the older sister bullying the younger one, but now the younger sister had started to resist.

Is that how it is?

Ye Bingyu was furious, her lips trembling as she struggled to speak.

Her hair was a mess, looking very disheveled.

“Lin Bingwei, you wait for me; you’ll regret this.”

The onlookers said, “You’re the older sister; you can’t always bully your younger sister. You can’t do this.”

“Are you blind? Can’t you see she hit me?”

“Yeah, but isn’t that because you bullied her first? You’re the older sister; shouldn’t you be more accommodating to your younger sister? Look at what you’ve done to her; she’s so upset she ran away.”

Ye Bingyu was about to go crazy; what kind of logic is this? Clearly, she hit me and then ran away!

“A bunch of barbarians, get out of the way! What are you looking at?”

She was very concerned about her image as a young lady, quickly turned her head to fix her appearance, and then left the scene in a hurry.

From a distance, she saw Lin Bingwei accompanying Ye Junsheng as they came out of the hospital, talking about something. She couldn’t hear them from too far away.

As she got closer, they stopped talking, as if deliberately avoiding her.

“Dad.” Ye Bingyu looked at Ye Junsheng with a wronged expression.

Ye Junsheng was taken aback, looking at her in surprise as he asked, “Xiaoyu, what happened to you?”

Ye Bingyu looked at Lin Bingwei, feeling wronged, and said, “Dad, I didn’t know my sister had become so rude; just a few words and she starts hitting people.”

Huh?

Ye Junsheng looked at Lin Bingwei in shock.

Lin Bingwei openly admitted, “Yes, I hit her because she called me a country bumpkin, said I’m uneducated, and called me a shrew.”

Ye Bingyu stared wide-eyed at Lin Bingwei.

Is she reporting me? How dare she?

In her memory, even when she bullied her, Lin Bingwei wouldn’t dare to report it; Mom and Dad would never back her up.

Right, it was because Lin Wangsheng and Bihua wouldn’t back her up, so she didn’t report it.

What about Ye Junsheng? Would he back her up?

At that moment, she heard Lin Bingwei say, “Is it my fault for being a country bumpkin? Is it my fault for being uneducated? Is it my fault for being a shrew? She takes advantage and then pretends to be innocent, deliberately saying those things to provoke me. How could I not be a shrew?”

After saying that, she turned and walked away, sitting in the passenger seat of the car to wait.

Ye Junsheng didn’t call her back but turned to Ye Bingyu and said, “Xiaoyu, if Weiwei were my biological daughter, do you know what your words mean to her?”

Ye Bingyu naturally understood what it meant.

She replied, “Dad, hasn’t the result come out yet? What if she isn’t?”

Ye Junsheng said angrily, “Even if she isn’t, you can’t say that about her. I’ve inquired; she didn’t go to school because the family had to support you. They couldn’t afford that much money. During those years you were studying, she got up every day to make breakfast, and she washed your clothes, even your schoolbag.

Even if she isn’t my biological daughter, she has done a lot for you. You don’t thank her, but instead, you call her an uneducated country bumpkin? Xiaoyu, we’ve raised you for so many years, and you don’t even have the most basic sense of right and wrong? If she were my biological daughter, then you…”

Ye Junsheng took a deep breath and sighed, “Forget it, since the result hasn’t come out yet, I won’t say more; just understand.”

Ye Bingyu was left speechless, unable to respond.

Ye Junsheng shook his head in disappointment and walked directly to the car.

Ye Bingyu followed, softly saying behind him, “Dad, I’m sorry; I was narrow-minded. I shouldn’t have said that about her.”

“You shouldn’t apologize to me; you should apologize to Weiwei.”

After saying that, he opened the car door and got in.

Lin Bingwei sat in the passenger seat, showing no sign of giving up her seat.

Ye Bingyu sat alone in the back seat.

This made her seem like an outsider.

“Weiwei, I’m sorry; I shouldn’t have called you a country bumpkin or said you were uneducated.”

Lin Bingwei smiled inexplicably.

Look, she lowered her head.

Is she bowing to me?

Not really; she was just bowing to capital, bowing to money.

Ye Junsheng also noticed that Lin Bingwei didn’t want to pay attention to Ye Bingyu and wouldn’t accept her apology.

He changed the subject.

“Weiwei, what do you want to eat? I’ll take you all out for a meal.”

They hadn’t eaten yet due to the blood draw.

However, while he said “you all,” he only asked Lin Bingwei what she wanted to eat.

Ye Bingyu felt like she had been pricked by a thorn in her heart.

Lin Bingwei said, “Anything is fine; I’m not picky.”

“Okay, there’s a hotel nearby with pretty good food. I’ll take you there.”

At this time, the Ye family was wealthy, very wealthy.

Gu Siyun’s parents and siblings had been abroad for a long time; her siblings had their own businesses overseas. That year, they went abroad to join Gu Siyun’s parents.

Later, they also started their own business abroad. Now that the country was gradually opening up, they wanted to return to develop.

And the companies abroad had professional CEOs managing them, with a few uncles watching over them, so nothing could go wrong.

Ye Bingyu clearly understood how many resources and connections they had.

She couldn’t bear to part with the Ye family, and she had been trying to find ways to make herself their sole heir.

So throughout the whole process, Ye Junsheng paid special attention to Lin Bingwei while ignoring her, and she endured it all.