They were being too much of a bully.
"He's not home, come back another time."
Zhao Ruolan didn't want to waste words with her and closed the door directly.
Meng Jingwei seemed to anticipate this and pushed the door open before her, walking in.
"Meng Jingwei, what are you doing? Get out of here immediately!"
Zhao Ruolan was furious.
"Mom, who is it?"
Just then, Li Yun'er came downstairs. Seeing Meng Jingwei, she couldn't help but be annoyed. "Meng Jingwei, this is my home, what are you doing here?"
They were blood relatives, yet they hated her so much.
Meng Jingwei's heart ached, but her expression remained calm and composed. "It's nothing, I just want to get the reward money for saving Young Master Qing."
Her words drew a sneer from Zhao Ruolan. "Yun'er saved Young Master Qing, what does it have to do with you?"
Although the person sitting in front of her was also her biological daughter, Zhao Ruolan, who had lived a life of privilege, deeply despised Meng Jingwei, who came from a remote and impoverished area.
She always felt that this wild girl was unreasonable, lacked decorum, and was not presentable.
If outsiders knew of Meng Jingwei's existence, it would likely ruin the perfect image she and Yun'er had cultivated in public.
Meng Jingwei glanced at Zhao Ruolan, then at Li Yun'er, and smiled. "You truly are mother and daughter, capable of lying with a straight face. I doubt even the Great Wall is as thick-skinned as you two."
"Meng Jingwei, shut up!"
Li Yun'er sharply rebuked, unable to bear looking at Meng Jingwei. She said to Zhao Ruolan, "Mommy, she's just here for money. Give her fifty thousand yuan and let her leave quickly."
"Yes, Yun'er is right." Zhao Ruolan nodded. "Mom will go upstairs and get it for her now."
"Since your Li family isn't short of money, then give me the one hundred million for saving Young Master Qing. Then we'll be even." Meng Jingwei's statement was stunning.
"Meng Jingwei, don't be so greedy."
Li Yun'er glared at her. "We'll give you a maximum of one hundred thousand."
"Here's one hundred thousand, take the money and leave Lan City immediately. As for the Qing family, they only recognize Yun'er as their savior. Besides, you claim you saved Young Master Qing, do you have any proof?" Zhao Ruolan asked.
"Do you think I have no way to prove it just because you deleted the video and stole the ring? Don't forget that the food delivery app recorded my passing by that intersection that day."
Meng Jingwei shook her phone. "While the delivery record can't prove 100% that I saved Qing Muye, Li Yun'er doesn't even have the delivery order for that day. Wouldn't Qing Muye be suspicious? However, rather than get into trouble and possibly not receive Young Master Qing's reward, I might as well fulfill Li Yun'er's wish."
In reality, Meng Jingwei's delivery order was never delivered to the customer, so there was no way to prove she had passed by that road.
This was why she hadn't stepped forward to refute Li Yun'er when she lied to Qing Muye.
While the food delivery app wasn't strong evidence, it could be used to scare the guilty Li family.
"You..."
Li Yun'er hadn't expected Meng Jingwei to have a backup plan. Fearing that Meng Jingwei might expose her to Qing Muye, she asked, "How much do you want?"
"Considering Mrs. Li raised me, I'll give you a discount of one-tenth. That would be ten million."
Zhao Ruolan: "Ten million? That's pure wishful thinking."
Li Yun'er: "Meng Jingwei, you're insane."
Coming from a poor village, she dared to demand such an exorbitant amount. Of course, she and her mother could not accept Meng Jingwei's threat.
Meng Jingwei didn't waste any more words. She got up as if to leave. "Since you won't agree, I'll go find Madam Qing. She is the matriarch of the Qing family, and she will decide."
Li Yun'er still hadn't figured out how Madam Qing knew Meng Jingwei and doted on her so much.
She couldn't help but feel that Meng Jingwei's existence was a huge threat to her.
"Wait."
Li Yun'er called out, "Mommy and I need to discuss this with Daddy. You wait here."
Saying that, Li Yun'er pulled Zhao Ruolan. "Mommy, let's go upstairs and call Daddy."
The mother and daughter went upstairs, and Meng Jingwei waited downstairs.
However, the Li family was too despicable. Meng Jingwei feared they were plotting some underhanded scheme upstairs, so she went upstairs, uneasy.
As Longxi Villa was an older villa, the soundproofing wasn't very good.
Meng Jingwei could vaguely hear their conversation standing at the door.
After listening for a while, she didn't hear any sinister plans to deal with her or her adoptive parents from their conversation.
She couldn't help but mock herself for being too guarded, thinking she was being overly suspicious.
She decided to go downstairs.
Unexpectedly, she suddenly heard the words "adoptive parents... car accident."
Meng Jingwei couldn't hear clearly, so she became curious and pressed her ear against the door to listen carefully...
"Meng Jingwei is greedy and looks exactly like me. Keeping her is a threat. Moreover, Madam Qing likes her so much, how can I marry Qing Muye if she's around?"
"Yun'er, having said that, we crippled your adoptive father when we forced Meng Jingwei to donate bone marrow to your brother. Are you going to harm her too?"
"Mom, are you confused? As long as Meng Jingwei is alive, she is an obstacle to me marrying into the Qing family. Unless... unless you can also turn her into a vegetable!"
At this point, Li Yun'er's voice suddenly rose in volume, sounding agitated.
Meng Jingwei, standing outside the door, heard every word. A chill ran down her spine, and she felt her blood surge.
More than two months ago, the Li Fu'an couple had suddenly appeared before Meng Jingwei, saying they could take her back to the Li family, but only if she donated bone marrow to her brother, who had leukemia.
Because Li Yun'er's bone marrow did not match her brother's, they had no choice but to find Meng Jingwei.
Meng Jingwei had naturally refused.
Thus, a month ago, her adoptive parents had suddenly been in a car accident. After her adoptive parents were seriously injured and hospitalized, the Li Fu'an couple reappeared, saying that if she was willing to donate bone marrow to the Li family's youngest son, they would treat her adoptive parents for free.
At that time, Meng Jingwei had some doubts about the sudden car accident and the Li Fu'an couple.
But in the end, she felt that they were her biological parents and wouldn't be so cruel.
As it turned out...
She had been too naive.
Meng Jingwei was enraged, trembling all over. She gripped the doorknob tightly, wanting to rush in and confront them!