Chapter 54

Chapter 54: Aren’t You Still Waiting to Sell Your Daughter for Status

Jiang Shi Yue thought that if he claimed second place in face-changing, no one would dare claim first.

“I don’t care what you’ve been doing. Tonight, behave yourself. I’ll arrange for you to formally meet the Zhou Family’s Eldest Young Master. Don’t embarrass me.” Jiang Meng Qing sneered, his tone dripping with disgust. “If you really anger the Zhou Family’s Eldest Young Master this time, don’t blame me when I come home and break your legs.”

“If the Zhou Family’s Eldest Young Master doesn’t like me, there’s nothing I can do about it.” Jiang Shi Yue said with a smile. “I’m your daughter. This is just how I look. I can’t decide my genes.”

“You’ve learned to talk back now, haven’t you?” Jiang Meng Qing’s anger flared. He raised his hand and swung a slap at her. Under that ruthless, merciless strike, Jiang Shi Yue grabbed his wrist in one motion.

She narrowed her eyes slightly, looking troubled. “Don’t hit my face. If you swell it, the Zhou Family’s Eldest Young Master will like me even less. Aren’t you still waiting to sell your daughter for status?”

Her voice was soft, but her words stabbed like knives into Jiang Meng Qing’s chest.

Yet Jiang Meng Qing did not explode again, because the moment Jiang Shi Yue grabbed his wrist, he felt an extreme pain.

An unseen force crushed down on the bones in his hand, as if they would shatter in the next second.

Cold sweat burst out all over him. His sallow, sickly face turned even worse.

Jiang Shi Yue let go. She lowered her eyes to look at Jiang Meng Qing, whose face twisted from the pain, and smiled. “Dad, people don’t offend me and I don’t offend them. Back then you married my mom – it was a family arrangement, sure, but most of the Jiang Family’s business went to my Second Uncle. How much money did you have? Even this house was bought by my maternal grandfather. You ate from my maternal grandfather’s family and used my maternal grandfather’s family. I have a good temper, so I won’t argue with you, but if you provoke me, Dad, I won’t let it go so easily either.”

Jiang Meng Qing froze. His face went from pale to red, like he was so angry he couldn’t even catch his breath. His hand trembled uncontrollably, and at last he couldn’t hold it in anymore. “You unfilial daughter!”

“How am I not filial?” Jiang Shi Yue looked confused. “Tonight I’ll meet the Zhou Family’s Eldest Young Master. Why are you still unhappy?”

As she spoke, she reached out in concern, as if she was worried about him.

Jiang Meng Qing looked at that hand and instinctively flinched. He almost stumbled back a few steps. “Get out! I don’t want to see you!”

“If you don’t want to see me, then I’ll go upstairs.” Jiang Shi Yue sighed, looking as if she was hurt by her father’s misunderstanding. But she still couldn’t help warning him with concern. “Just don’t get angry. Anger hurts your body. Mom back then got sick from depression and died because you angered her, so I still want you to live a few more years. If a person dies, then nothing means anything at all.”

A smile hung on her lips, but the light in her eyes was ice-cold. Jiang Meng Qing jolted when he met that gaze, and a chill ran up his whole body.

Back then, his marriage to Jiang Shi Yue’s mother had been forced. He had never liked her. It was because her Eight Characters clashed with his that he had lost his father’s favor. He was clearly the eldest son, the one who should inherit the family business, but Old Master Jiang gave all his love to his brother.

It was all because of Jiang Shi Yue’s mother. Her fate was bad, and she ruined him.

It was her fault. It was best that she was dead.