Chapter 675 - 673: Not Getting Along
Ye Xinyan regarded the three of them with a smirk that wasn’t quite a smile, twisted the corner of her mouth, and said, "Is that necessary? For so many years, the task of surrounding the knees of our Duke’s Mansion with children has always been done by the Second Miss and her two good brothers, has it not? I am well aware that I don’t possess the cleverness to deal with the Second Miss, so it is better for me to stay away and avoid carelessly falling into her traps, lest I inadvertently anger Grandmother during the New Year’s celebration."
It seems that Ji Chengru must have admired Ye Xinyi back in the day, or perhaps knowing that her mother, Madam Yin, held little standing with Ye Hongyang, he allowed Ye Xinyi’s consistent disrespect toward her mother to go unchecked after their marriage. Hearing a couple of her pointed remarks now should be expected, right?
However, Ye Xinyan seemed to have forgotten that they had brought a child along.
Ji Chengru felt displeased, but said little. He had always looked down upon this wife’s sister and did not deign to pay her any attention. It wasn’t because of her status or anything, but simply because he truly looked down on her behavior and character.
As for the young Ji Sheng, he was not willing to let it pass. The five-year-old child could already read adults’ expressions, and he clenched his little fists, glaring at Ye Xinyan. "You are a bad person. My mother was speaking nicely to you, and yet you are so rude to her!"
Ye Xinyan blinked her eyes. What in the world was this? She had actually been rebuked by a bratty kid.
Yet... she couldn’t just not swallow this loss, could she? What else was she to do? Was she, an adult, really going to get into a serious argument with a child, telling him that his mother wasn’t a decent bird, filled with nothing but bad intentions, and that even though he thought his mother was speaking nicely, she was actually ulteriorly motivated? And that her response was merely appropriate retaliation?
Ye Xinyan felt utterly disheartened. Had she known something like this would happen, she should have fetched Qi Jiaer much earlier, rather than agreeing to meet Qi Sanshun and Qi Jiaer at the alley entrance.