"Thank you, Grandpa, for accepting me. I know my background is not good; I am just a very ordinary girl. However, Yu Sheng and I fell in love a long time ago, and I knew him many, many years before my sister did. Yu Sheng and I have finally achieved our happy ending. I especially want to thank my sister for finally being willing to return my lover to me!
After Huo Yanxue finished speaking, she raised her glass to toast Zhao Shuyao and was the first to drink her red wine.
Her words were a blatant provocation.
Everyone looked at Zhao Shuyao.
Zhao Shuyao should not have been present at this banquet today.
Zhao Shuyao slowly swirled the red wine in her glass, patiently waiting for Huo Yanxue to finish her performance.
Then, she smiled faintly.
"Thank you for your kind words and gratitude, my dear sister. However, I cannot drink this wine today."
The Qin family's relatives and friends widened their eyes in surprise.
What was Zhao Shuyao saying? Was she openly challenging her own sister?
"Is Sister unhappy?" Huo Yanxue immediately put on an expression of being greatly wronged.
Zhao Shuyao smiled, asked someone to replace her red wine with juice, and then raised her glass. "I am also here today to announce some good news."
Her hand rested on her lower abdomen.
At this stage of pregnancy, her belly was not yet showing and remained flat.
"I am pregnant. The father of the child is my ex-husband, Mr. Qin Yusheng. I am not here today to announce the birth of my child or to reclaim my position as Mrs. Qin. Instead, I am here to share this joyous news. This is my child, and I will raise it to adulthood!"
What?!
The entire room was stunned!
Huo Yanxue stumbled, almost falling to the ground.
Her face turned ashen.
How could this be!
"You and Qin Yusheng have been divorced for so long, your child should be showing by now! Why isn't your belly showing!"
Huo Yanxue shouted, unwilling to accept this reality.
"Of course, this is not a child conceived before the divorce. Remember that time I returned to the Qin family, Mrs. Qin? Mr. Qin is truly a sentimental man. Even though we were divorced, he still couldn't forget me and came to my bedroom late at night!"
Zhao Shuyao did not hide the mockery in her eyes, which could almost be described as brazen.
She looked at Huo Yanxue as if to say:
"Shocked? Angry? This is how I've felt for the past three years! The man I love most is entangled with my own sister, and I was like a clown!"
"Everything you are experiencing now is what I have endured thousands of times before! Enjoy this feeling right now!"
Huo Yanxue was going insane. She could no longer control her emotions and screamed hysterically, "Sister, how could you! You knew you were divorced from Yusheng, so how could you seduce Yusheng and get pregnant with his child..."
"When did I ever say this was Brother Yusheng's child? This is my child, and it has nothing to do with Qin Yusheng. I'm just letting you know, after all, you and your Brother Yusheng will not have children in the future!"
Hearing Zhao Shuyao's words, Huo Yanxue's eyes widened in horror. "Sister, are you cursing me?"
"Am I cursing you? Huo Yanxue, do you think you can get away with your abortion all those years ago? You can deceive everyone, but you can't deceive your own body!"
After speaking, Zhao Shuyao calmly sat down, picked up her chopsticks, took a piece of lotus root and minced meat, and put it into her mouth, chewing slowly and deliberately.
She was in a great mood.
The grievances of the past few years were finally released at this moment.
"What?!"
The Qin family's relatives and friends, especially Xu Ruyun, looked at Huo Yanxue in shock.
"Is it true? Is what Zhao Shuyao said true? You can't get pregnant?"
Xu Ruyun ran to Huo Yanxue's side, grabbed her shoulders, unable to hide her astonishment.
She never expected that Huo Yanxue would be a hen that couldn't lay eggs!
"Auntie, don't believe this woman. She clearly has ill intentions. She just doesn't want me to marry Yusheng, so she fabricated this lie!"
"Whether I'm lying or not, you can get a check-up to find out, so you don't say I'm framing you. Oh, right, make sure the doctor you choose isn't from Ren'ai Hospital. Private hospital doctors can be bribed."
Zhao Shuyao glanced meaningfully at the man beside Huo Yanxue.
Qin Yusheng's eyes darkened. As if recalling something, he lowered his gaze to Huo Yanxue. "You'll get checked tomorrow."
As soon as Qin Yusheng spoke, Huo Yanxue's legs went weak. "No... Yusheng, don't believe what Zhao Shuyao says. She just wants to drive a wedge between us. If you believe her, won't you fall into her trap!"
"If you say you're being framed and that I'm framing you, then go get a check-up to prove it to everyone and clear your name. Wouldn't that be a better way to prove yourself?" Zhao Shuyao's smile did not diminish.
Huo Yanxue hated Zhao Shuyao to the core. Her eyes could not hide the intense anger and resentment as she gritted her teeth.
"Zhao Shuyao, I have no enmity with you. I considered you my own sister. You stole the man I love and occupied him for so many years, and I never blamed you. Why do you still have to seduce my beloved man and get pregnant with Yusheng's child!
"The man you love?"
Zhao Shuyao lowered her head, trembling with laughter.
"I want to ask you, Huo Yanxue, was it really you who donated a kidney to Qin Yusheng back then?!"
Pet Market.
Jiang Shiyu held Ruoruo's little hand and led her into a pet store.
Ruoruo looked at the dazzling array of small animals, both kittens and puppies, her eyes wide with surprise, as if seeing these pets for the first time.
"Is this your first time at a pet store, darling?"
Jiang Shiyu was surprised by Ruoruo's astonishment, as if she had never seen these animals before.
"No, that woman doesn't like furry animals, doesn't like dirty, smelly animals. I've only seen kittens, and I've seen the puppy the neighbor uncle keeps." Ruoruo said, her eyes never leaving the animals in the pet store.
Jiang Shiyu carried Ruoruo to a small kitten.
It was a light golden kitten, only a little over a month old, small, and not even steady on its feet. It was plumply fed, like a furry caterpillar.
Let alone children, even Jiang Shiyu found it adorable.
"Wow, so cute! Mommy, can I pet this kitten?"
Ruoruo leaned against the glass door of the cabinet, gazing longingly at the milky little kitten inside.
"Of course. Come, Mommy will get it for you."
Jiang Shiyu opened the glass cabinet door, carefully took out the kitten, and placed it in Ruoruo's hands.
Ruoruo cautiously took the kitten and held it in her arms."