ebonymovies Chapter 1246 - 1035: Refusing to Be Oppressed
Chapter 1246 - 1035: Refusing to Be Oppressed
"Sweetheart, are you really going with Mom? What about your classes at school?" Lu Mei Juan asked hesitantly.
"The school is buzzing about me, how can I attend classes? Those people are probably waiting to see me make a fool of myself!" Ye Meng said impatiently.
Lu Mei Juan wanted to say more, but Ye Meng quickly interrupted her: "Enough, Mom, there’s no problem with the classes at school. I’ll take a leave of absence with the counselor. The issue with Dad is urgent now, I want to see just how ruthless Ye Qiu must be to send Dad to the police station."
Ye Meng has always looked down on Ye Qiu, seeing her as nothing more than a servant in the family, one who does whatever she’s told since childhood. Ye Meng used to take pride in this status, believing that Ye Qiu should always obey her.
But there’s one thing, Ye Qiu has always been prettier and smarter than her since childhood, loved by neighbors and teachers alike. Why should she? Without our family’s upbringing, Ye Qiu would just be an orphan.
And they talk about me learning from her, claiming that I brought her into this family, and that my birth has nothing to do with Ye Qiu. In these modern times, such feudal superstitions are ridiculous, how am I inferior to her?
The more outsiders praised Ye Qiu, the more Ye Meng would take it out on her at home. Seeing Ye Qiu endure silently made her feel pleased.
Ye Meng’s growing hatred for Ye Qiu started four years ago. She was aware of Ye Qiu’s good grades and feared that once Ye Qiu made a name for herself, she’d be out of her control. So, she forced Ye Qiu not to excel, and to achieve this she even deliberately made Ye Qiu catch a cold, and tore up her notebook, even damaged her pen.
But that wretched Ye Qiu had the nerve to pretend she hadn’t done well in front of me, only to get into A University after all. Do you know how much ridicule I’ve endured from relatives?
They say Ye Qiu works tirelessly and yet achieves such good grades, while I attend training classes daily and achieve nothing. This is all Ye Qiu’s fault, why doesn’t she just listen to me?
Throughout college, she’s been pressured by me to give more money. It was going smoothly until recently, when suddenly she went crazy and refused, causing a huge argument with Mom.
The chaos made Dad lose his job, and we had to pay a large sum to someone called Xie Lizzi. Mom said that money was meant for buying me a house, but Ye Qiu squandered it all!
It’s also because of her that I’m caught in a whirlpool of public opinion, and Dad ended up at the police station. Mom says it’s certain that Ye Qiu has drifted away from the family. This time, I’m going to set things straight and make sure Ye Qiu knows that being supported by this family means she owes us her entire life.
"Ye Qiu, don’t be afraid, we’re here to stand up for you." The mentor’s wife comforted Ye Qiu with a distressed look, "Your foster parents are too cruel, first your foster mother causes a scene, then your foster father even sends someone to rob you. Fortunately, no one was seriously hurt."
"No one seriously hurt, his hand nearly got broken." Professor An sneered, "It delayed my experiment, I must pursue legal responsibility for this. Don’t go soft, even if you do, I won’t let him off."
"Thank you, Professor, Mentor’s wife. I didn’t expect my foster father to act this way, I’m sorry for worrying you." Ye Qiu said apologetically.
"We’re fine, but you, what kind of life have you been living?"
"It’s alright, I’m used to it. It’s just that I’ve been too compliant with them in the past, so this time I decided to stand my ground."
Professor An snorted, "It seems reading those books wasn’t wasted."
Ye Qiu smiled lightly, "Professor, Mentor’s wife, please don’t worry too much about me. Actually, I might have had an attitude problem that day, which could have provoked my foster father to act so rashly."
"We know your character well enough, trust me, you should take this opportunity to break things off completely, dissolve the adoption relationship."
"But going to court isn’t easily resolved, and regardless of how poorly they treat me, they did raise me, and it would be seen as offering a considerable foster fee. However, where would I get so much money now?" Ye Qiu said reluctantly, "I know you both are willing to lend it to me, but I don’t want to take it. Right now, it seems I am the pitiable one, but if I really went to court, everyone would say I’m heartless, that now I’m grown and capable of earning money, I’m refusing to acknowledge my debts. I don’t want to face such accusations; clearly I’m not like that."
The mentor’s wife sighed, understanding the dread of public opinion. Just like Ye Qiu said, perceiving her as pitiable was one thing, but taking the case to court would be another.
"What have you decided to do? Your foster parents don’t seem like the ones who would let things go easily."
"The professor has given me a salary, I hope to exchange this money monthly for peace."
"But what about your living expenses?"
"The professor knows that I occasionally take on some freelance work." Ye Qiu glanced embarrassedly at Professor An.
Professor An snorted, "Smart enough not to hand over her freelance earnings to them."
Ye Qiu did not intentionally hide the freelance work. Their research project urgently needed computational programming support, and one day a fellow was unable to solve the problem, Ye Qiu calmly tackled it, astonishing everyone in the lab. That was when everyone discovered her other skill.
Everyone knew her to always be smart and diligent, but didn’t expect her to excel in every aspect. Since then, the tasks assigned to Ye Qiu became more demanding, which was also why Professor An claimed his experiment progress was delayed.
Furthermore, Ye Qiu didn’t restrain her usual spending, and had straightforwardly asked Professor An whether the house she lived in was for sale, which confirmed her freelance work.
At first, Professor An was worried about this, because the lab tasks are heavy, fearing it would slow her experimental progress, also concerned she couldn’t handle it. Later he realized he was overthinking.
Considering her as a young girl, whose foster parents were like that, he personally introduced her to some lucrative freelance projects, as her freelance earnings exceeded her salary. Thus, Professor An commented she was smart.
"If you encounter difficulties, speak to us. Don’t carry it alone." The mentor’s wife patted her hand.
Ye Qiu smiled at them, "Mentor’s wife, I’m not as weak as you imagine."
After seeing off the professor and mentor’s wife, guilt surged through Ye Qiu’s heart, as she indeed was not as good as they thought, nor was she repaying evil with kindness.
She decided, however, to step back for now. If her foster parents and Ye Meng ceased to harm her after this, then she wouldn’t deliberately seek revenge. But if they offended her again, they shouldn’t blame her for being unkind.