As Du Ruoxin’s words rang out, everyone rose to their feet.
The old Duke looked at his only daughter, wanting to scold her for leaving without a word, wanting to ask if she had been well all these years…
She must not have been!
The Rong family must have treated her poorly!
Otherwise, how could his precious daughter, whom he held in the palm of his hand, have experienced such a life regret as divorce!
He wanted to kill Rong Jingyang, that scumbag!
How dare he make his daughter sad!
The old Duke stared intently at his daughter, trying to see the changes in her over the years, but for some reason, his vision grew increasingly blurry.
He couldn’t see clearly.
“You finally know to come back!” the Duke boomed, accusingly.
Seeing her father’s tear-streaked face, Du Ruoxin’s throat couldn’t help but choke up.
She stepped forward and hugged her father, “This is my home, how could I not come back?”
Then, she looked up at her father’s handsome face and said playfully, “Doesn’t Daddy welcome me?”
The old Duke was amused by his daughter’s words, pinching her nose, feigning anger, “You’ve said all the good and bad things!”
Du Ruoxin quickly retreated, sticking out her tongue, “If you want to interrogate me, I’ll be interrogated later. I haven’t seen Mommy yet.”
She walked up to the Duchess and naturally opened her arms, giving her stepmother, Mona, a hug. She softly called out, “Mommy, long time no see.”
Mona: “——”
She was made a little stiff by this hug.
Du Ruoxin…
Hadn’t she always put on a show for her, saying one thing and doing another?
In this house, they only maintained superficial respect and courtesy for Francis’s sake.
It was as if an unbridgeable chasm lay between them.
Neither wanted to approach the other.
Neither could stand the sight of the other.
Although Mona and Du Ruoxin were outwardly in a stepmother-stepdaughter relationship, their actual interactions were more polite and distant than strangers.
When her husband wanted to groom Du Ruoxin to join the family committee and participate in group decisions, Mona had harbored murderous intent.
But fortunately, although Du Ruoxin possessed a high IQ, she disliked business and had clearly told Mona that she would never enter the core family management.
She had even agreed to disappear for three years to dissuade Francis from forcibly giving shares to Du Ruoxin.
More than three years had passed since they parted.
When Mona returned with her husband on a plane, the moment the cabin door opened, she saw that the outer wall of the Siheyuan standing on the manor had been dismantled, and she felt a slight shock.
Now, being held by Du Ruoxin, she felt even more uncomfortable.
After greeting her stepmother, Du Ruoxin turned to her second and third brothers.
Both brothers frowned at her, their eyes filled with worry and reluctance.
“It’s good that you’re back.”
The second son, Angus, said earnestly, “You won’t run off again, will you?”
The third son, Lenny, chimed in with a tease, “No, we need to put a tracker on you. If you run again, we’ll drag you back!”
Du Ruoxin smiled at her two brothers, “You guys are so cheeky.”
She did have a tracker on her, but it was hers and Cristiano’s.
And with this tracker, she could only be contacted if she activated it; if she didn’t, Cristiano couldn’t find her.
Lenny took his sister’s hand and quickly sat on the sofa, “Quick, quick, quick, tell me what you’ve been doing these past few years?”
“How did you get married?”
“And how did you get divorced?”
“Did they treat you badly? Did they think you had no one to back you up, so they abused you?”
“Didn’t you tell the Rong family that you are the apple of our eye?”
“…Blah blah blah…”
Du Ruoxin: Did Eldest Brother say not a single word?
Well, she had to explain this herself.
Du Ruoxin recounted everything that had happened in the years since she left, including her daughter Rong Doudou.
“What?!”
“I have a granddaughter?!”
Francis, upon hearing that a new life had been born into the family, stood up excitedly, slapping his thigh.
“No, how can the bloodline of my Rothschild family be left to wander outside!”
“Guards!”
“Go to the Rong family and bring Doudou back!”
“No, I’ll go personally!”
Du Ruoxin: “……”
Looking up at her father’s shocked and excited emotions, she was about to speak when the butler hurried in.
“Your Grace, the Rong family is here to visit.”