novelraw Chapter 424: What Should I Do? Si Mingjing Wants to Hurt Me! 1
Chapter 424: What Should I Do? Si Mingjing Wants to Hurt Me! 1
He strode forward to catch up with her and grasped her hand. He adored her for being both beautiful and intelligent, but merely holding her hand like this in no way satisfied his possessive desire.
He switched from holding hands to wrapping his arm around her waist, pulling her tightly against him to protect her from the bustling crowd, his heart filled with tenderness.
The two of them had spent quite some time at the Ye Family’s place and returned to the palace when it was already half-past two in the morning.
After eating and drinking their fill, they slept until the sun was high in the sky.
Si Mingjing stretched languidly upon waking to find that Mo Yinhe had already left. After freshening up and seeing that the weather was nice, she decided to take Da Bai for a stroll to catch some fresh air in the palace.
The palace servants, having seen Da Bai, who resembled both a tiger and a lion, were no longer as frightened as they had been initially. Da Bai was gentle with its own people, and even the elderly Lady Ye sometimes fed it. Da Bai had virtually become the palace’s favorite.
With nothing else to do, Si Mingjing sat on the palace’s back courtyard lawn, basking in the sun with Da Bai.
Da Bai lay on the ground, lazily grooming its fur. Si Mingjing used Da Bai as a cushion, lying beside it and flipping through Weibo on her phone.
Her Weibo account, registered just yesterday, had already reached a staggering thirty million followers.
In just one day, the number of followers had grown so much.
To say she became an overnight sensation would not be an exaggeration.
Furthermore, the number of followers continued to grow.
Si Mingjing specifically checked the Weibo account that Bai Qingshui had taken over—five hundred million followers.
It seemed, then, that thirty million was quite ordinary?
Her new account still had room to grow.
Si Mingjing also looked at Mo Yinhe’s Weibo followers: one billion!
The top influencer of the political world was no joke.
She followed Mo Yinhe, Ye Siyuan, Ye Shen, and Ye Xinguang, and then went to look for Si Lisao’s Weibo account.
She clicked open the homepage and took a look. Good heavens! Follower count: two billion!
Suddenly, her thirty million didn’t seem so impressive!
Even Mo Yinhe’s one billion didn’t seem so impressive anymore!
It was clear that Mo Yinhe’s prestige in the Undersea World was no match for Si Lisao!
"Sister-in-law, so you are here. My mother is looking for you," Ye Shen called out as he approached, beginning to shout from five meters away. Once closer, he wiped the sweat from his forehead, saying, "Just now, my mother received a call from Bai Chuanfeng. She said she wanted to bring the whole family to Yecheng to see you. She was crying on the phone with my mother, expressing her longing to see her daughter."
Si Mingjing’s eyes narrowed slightly. Following Ye Shen, she went to the South Garden of the palace, where she found Ye Xinguang sitting in the living room discussing with Ye Junqing the numerous details of welcoming their relatives.
Upon seeing Si Mingjing, Ye Xinguang said, "Mingjing, you’ve come at the right time. Take a seat."
Si Mingjing nodded and sat down on the sofa, saying, "Ye Shen told me."
Ye Xinguang explained the details, "Your nominal mother just phoned. She said that after seeing your Weibo post, the whole family got very excited. Your parents and your maternal grandparents will all be coming to meet you. They claimed they didn’t have your mobile number, so they called me instead."
She glanced at the time and added, "Your parents will probably arrive tonight. Call your aunt and tell her to join us at the Undersea Royal Palace for dinner."
Si Mingjing’s gaze shifted slightly, and she nodded. Then she asked, "Why are we having dinner at the Undersea Royal Palace?"
Ye Xinguang seemed hesitant to explain.
Ye Shen plunked down beside her, crossing his legs nonchalantly, and said, "Sister-in-law, that’s something you don’t know. Your so-called mother, every time she comes to visit, demands that my mother treat her with the hospitality befitting the Queen of Atlantis. If she’s entertained here in the Yecheng palace, she considers it a slight, as if we’re looking down on her and, by extension, you!"
Speaking of which, Ye Shen was furious. "That mother of yours prides herself on being an oceanic person and looks down on land-dwellers! She feels that only being hosted in the Undersea Royal Palace is fitting. Anything else, in her view, means not giving due respect to your maternal family! In short, she’s always nitpicking, as if she could find bones in an egg."
Si Mingjing’s phoenix eyes lifted slightly. "There’s no need to indulge them. I think hosting them in the palace is quite fine."
After all, she wasn’t even her real mother!
Not to mention, the person coming might have ill intentions!
All that talk of longing for a mother-daughter reunion—how pretentious!
She’s been on Earth for half a year. Did Bai Chuanfeng only find out she was back because she posted on Weibo?
Si Mingjing scoffed. Unlikely.
Yet, Ye Junqing and Ye Xinguang had to consider her dignity, not letting anyone think that the in-laws were slighting her.
Ye Xinguang held her hand. "Mingjing, listen to me. Let’s have a family banquet at the Undersea Royal Palace tonight. I know you’re upset that woman isn’t your real mother, but your biological maternal grandparents are coming too. They are sea-dwellers with deep-rooted ways of thinking. They feel that entertaining them in the Undersea World is proper. This palace here is just an alternative residence, so it’s only natural they look down on it."
However, Si Mingjing disagreed. Those so-called relatives meant nothing in her eyes, not even close to the place Ye Junqing and Ye Xinguang held in her heart.
Besides...
Si Mingjing said, "My aunt just recovered from a serious illness. It’s not suitable for her to attend a banquet undersea; the environment there would be detrimental to her health. If I’m the one to call, she’ll likely feel too embarrassed to decline. I care more about her health."
"Is that so..." Ye Xinguang, of course, also genuinely cared for Bai Danfeng.
"Listen to me, let’s entertain them at the palace," Si Mingjing said, slightly assertive, adopting an attitude that clearly showed she would not indulge her nominal family’s bad temper.
Ye Xinguang couldn’t win the argument. "Alright then, let’s entertain them at the palace."
Si Mingjing felt relieved.
She called Bai Danfeng.
Bai Danfeng was actually delighted. "Your mother is coming? And your grandparents too? Very good, very good! Your uncle and I will definitely be there on time."
Si Mingjing said, "Around dusk, I will send someone to pick you and Uncle up."
"That’s wonderful! Ever since the last car accident, your uncle has been traumatized and dares not drive me anywhere. He’s such a coward," Bai Danfeng complained affectionately on the phone, her tone belying a deep affection.
"Then I’ll send a helicopter for you and Uncle tonight."
"Isn’t that too expensive? No need, no need."
"It’s just the cost of fuel. It will give Uncle peace of mind."
Si Mingjing chatted with Bai Danfeng, patient and filial. After hanging up the phone, she sat on the sofa, silently contemplating for a moment.
Since that person was coming for a mother-daughter reunion, how could she not prepare a significant gift for her?
「Around dusk.」
A flying saucer-shaped aircraft landed at the Ye Family palace, and a group of seven or eight people descended from it.
Si Mingjing stood beside Ye Junqing and Ye Xinguang at the foot of the aircraft to greet the guests. Although they were all her maternal family, she recognized none of them. The only one she had seen before was Bai Jiusi—no, she should now be called Bai Qingshui—who considered herself superior and whose eyes openly showed disdain for land-dwellers.
After Bai Qingshui disembarked from the aircraft, her gaze did not immediately fall on Si Mingjing, but instead darted a cold glance at Ye Siyuan.
That fleeting hostility was keenly caught by Si Mingjing.
Si Mingjing’s phoenix eyes lifted slightly. Logically, her own conflict with Bai Qingshui was more significant. So why was Bai Qingshui so hostile towards Siyuan?