Quick Transmigration: Drama Queen's Daily Life-Chapter 847 - 836: A Dog-Blood Substitute Life

"I wonder what you all enjoy eating? Any dietary restrictions? The dishes from our restaurant are fairly decent, please don’t find them lacking," Wenyin, worried that Shen Mingcheng might say something offensive again, almost fawningly looked at Ye Qiu and Jiang Xiuqing as she spoke.

"We can already guess your intentions for coming here, so we’re probably not in the mood to eat much; just bring out a few dishes," Jiang Xiuqing said with a somewhat indifferent expression, but her tone was gentle, showing she had softened.

Wenyin, whose mood had finally calmed down, found her eyes tearing up again. She quickly said, "Alright," and instructed the manager to serve some of the restaurant’s signature dishes.

After unrelated people had left, she looked at Ye Qiu, filled with a myriad of emotions, wanting to speak yet stopping herself. Though she was her biological daughter, how could she just accept her back like that? Especially when it seemed the Ye Family genuinely cherished their daughter.

"If there’s anything to say, say it now; after all, it’s something related to food," Jiang Xiuqing held Ye Qiu’s hand, deeply exhaling as she spoke.

Wenyin quickly wiped her tears, and seriously looked at them: "To be frank, eighteen years ago, my daughter was taken by our enemies. Just a few days ago, someone noticed Ye Qiu looked similar to me, raising suspicions. We couldn’t help but check, and found that Ye Qiu might indeed be my biological daughter."

Ye Yuejin laughed sarcastically, "Then why didn’t you search for eighteen years? It’s not far from your province C to province F."

Shen Mingcheng looked apologetically at Ye Qiu, "This is my fault. Back then, the Shen Family was under attack from enemies, and I truly couldn’t leave. And Wenyin, because she lost her daughter, her health was fragile, and she had some mental issues, so we just reported it and didn’t search personally."

"Under attack for eighteen years?" Ye Yuejin looked at him disdainfully, "Or perhaps in Mr. Shen’s heart, the family’s assets are more important than your biological daughter?"

"I..." Facing such blatant sarcasm, Shen Mingcheng found it hard not to get angry, but for his wife and to recognize their daughter, he had to lower his head, "Mr. Ye, you don’t understand our situation then; if the assets were lost, my wife, son, and I wouldn’t have a way to live." 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

"It sounds serious, but you still abandoned Qiu’er, didn’t you? As far as I know, the Shen Family has another daughter the same age as Qiu’er, and she doesn’t seem to look much like Mr. Shen or Mrs. Li?"

"She is adopted. At that time, my wife’s health had severely deteriorated due to the loss of our daughter, and I had no choice but to go to the orphanage."

"So in Mr. Shen’s mind, you’d rather find someone to replace Qiu’er than search for her? Can I assume your actions mean you’ve already abandoned her?" Jiang Xiuqing spoke with reddened eyes, unaware of such a backstory; losing one’s daughter and not searching, yet adopting another child as a replacement—what an enormous joke!

Shen Mingcheng dared not look into Ye Qiu’s eyes, lowering his head and speaking in a deep voice, "I was wrong, but my wife was unaware."

"Are there mothers in this world who don’t recognize their own daughters?" Jiang Xiuqing sneered, but seeing Wenyin’s eyes full of guilty sorrow, she swallowed more words.

"I’m sorry, really sorry." Wenyin wept into her hands, "It’s all my fault; I didn’t even recognize who my daughter was."

Seeing her like this, the Ye Family couldn’t bear to say harsher words, realizing she was also a pitiable person. After all these years, she didn’t know who her daughter was, and worse, it was her husband who caused this.

"When I found Qiu’er, it was a bitter winter. She was abandoned in a straw pile, her little face red from the cold. If I hadn’t passed by that day, if she hadn’t coincidentally cried out, she might not have survived that snowy night," Han Mei’e calmly recounted, but Wenyin felt even more sorrowful hearing it.

Her daughter was so close, so close to not making it, all because of her. Why couldn’t she have been stronger? Why back then, could she only wallow in self-pity?

Shen Mingcheng, hearing this, was also filled with unbearable guilt. After all, she was his biological daughter! No matter how many reasons, he was wrong, and it was his actions that caused the current hurt.

"We will do our best to make it up to her," he said to Ye Qiu, his face full of guilt.

"Compensate? What do you intend to use? Money? To be blunt, our family is not short of money," Ye Yuejin spoke without reservation.

"I understand that no matter what we say now, we may seem insincere, but we genuinely apologize and sincerely want to reunite with Qiu’er," Shen Mingcheng set aside his pride and bowed to the Ye Family.

Ye Qiu’s eyebrows slightly furrowed imperceptibly. In her past life, when acknowledging kinship, he hadn’t put down his status like today. Was it because this life, the Ye Family was already different from their past life?

Shen Mingcheng was like that; whether it was his biological daughter or adopted daughter, in his eyes, nothing compared to the family business. Yet calling him heartless wasn’t accurate either, as he treated his wife, Wenyin, and son, Shen Jing’an, sincerely well. Ultimately, he had a chauvinistic streak and favored sons over daughters.

"Why are you so sure that Ye Qiu is your long-lost biological daughter? Just because they look alike? There are plenty of people in this world who resemble each other," Jiang Xiuqing, being a woman, softened her heart and gave him a way out.

Shen Mingcheng seized the opportunity to take out a paternity report: "Please forgive our presumptuousness; we really didn’t want to miss her again, so we used some means to acquire her blood sample during a health check."

Even though the other party had privately conducted a paternity test, the Ye Family faced with anger had no recourse.

"Qiu’er will always be our daughter. A paternity test alone won’t take her away. I hope Mr. Shen understands this," Ye Yuejin expressed his dissatisfaction.

"I certainly understand that. Finding Qiu’er is already an immense fortune for us. We don’t ask for her forgiveness, only that she accepts our compensation and allows us to visit her occasionally," Wenyin almost pleaded in a low voice.

Seeing them like this, Ye Yuejin and Jiang Xiuqing couldn’t make decisions on behalf of Ye Qiu. After all, these were her biological parents.

"Don’t worry; do whatever you want. Grandma is here to support you," Han Xiu’e caressed Ye Qiu’s head lovingly.

"Grandma," Ye Qiu, eyes red, nestled into the old woman’s embrace, filled with reliance.

"I will always bear the surname Ye," Ye Qiu’s words completely reassured the Ye Family.

While Wenyin was overwhelmed with pain, she added, "But perhaps they didn’t do it on purpose; can I acknowledge them as a distant relative?"