Translator: Henyee Editor: Henyee

Xiao Sa sent Tang Xi to the school gate. He thought that since it had been many days after the fake or real daughter matter, people would have forgotten about it. To his surprise, however, as soon as the car stopped at the school gate, a group of journalists swarmed over. Seeing so many journalists, Tang Xi frowned, took out and wore her mask and cap and remarked sullenly, “These paparazzi work really hard.”

Xiao Sa also looked slightly upset, but these journalists had already gathered and he couldn’t just drive them away, which would be rude. He opened the car door and got off, and the journalists immediately surrounded them and repeatedly took pictures of Xiao Sa with their cameras. “Mr. Xiao Sa, are you sending Xiao Rou to class?”

“Mr. Xiao Sa, is Xiao Rou still living at your home now?”

Xiao Sa frowned and stared at the journalist who asked that question, then he gave a cold smile, motioned for the crowd to be quiet and said seriously, “Xiao Rou is my sister, as well as my father and mother’s daughter. Of course she lives at our home. I think I made it clear when we acknowledged her. We will not be answering this question anymore.”

“Xiao Jinning’s scandal has been reported, so Xiao Rou is actually your uncle and aunt’s child. But you’re not going to return her to them, are you?”

Xiao Sa looked at the journalists with a frown and replied, “Xiao Rou is a person, not an object. They can’t take her when they want her and throw her away when they don’t! That’s impossible. Please get out of the way. She’s going to class.”

Protected by Xiao Sa, Tang Xi climbed off the passenger seat while keeping her head down. The journalists continued to take pictures of Tang Xi, and Xiao Sa tried to cover her face. A journalist suddenly shouted, “Miss Xiao Rou, why are you wearing a mask and a hat?”

“Miss Xiao Rou, how do you think of Xiao Jinning?”

“Miss Xiao Rou, is it because Xiao Hongli and his family are more powerful than your biological father and mother that you don’t want to go back to them?”

Xiao Sa suddenly stopped, looked back at the journalist who had asked that question and said coldly, “Listen. Neither my family nor my uncle and aunt are people you can mess with. If you dare to speak such nonsense any more, I’ll have your company shut down!”

His powerful aura was overwhelming.

Tang Xi turned to look at Xiao Sa and smiled at him. Then she looked back at the journalists, pulled her hat down to cover her face, only showing her bright eyes, and said with a smile, “I grew up in the mountains, so I don’t quite understand what you mean. What I know is that I want to live in an environment that I’m comfortable with. As long as my grandpa is alive, all the Xiao Family members are family, regardless of whether they be from my family or my uncle and aunt’s. We’re blood-related. Now the one who framed me has been driven out and I can go back to my biological parents, but I’m not an ungrateful person. When I was most helpless, my mom and dad held out their hands and helped me, so I will always be their daughter. When I was framed by Xiao Jinning and abandoned by my biological parents, my present parents took me by the hand and gave me hope. I won’t bite the hand that feeds me. If I do that, what would be the difference between me and Xiao Jinning? I, Xiao Rou, will never be the snake of The Farmer and the Snake.”

“Miss Xiao Rou, do you mean that Xiao Jinning is the snake of The Farmer and the Snake?”

Tang Xi smiled, looked at the journalist who spoke and asked, “Then shall I call her Snow White? I’m sorry, but I’m not that tolerant. Although I grew up in the countryside and I’m still a first-year student in high school despite already being 23, I’m not a sophisticated person and I won’t hypocritically say that she didn’t mean it, that I’ll forgive her or something like that. What Xiao Jinning did to me and my biological parents is exactly what that snake would have done.”

“Then Miss Xiao Rou, will you forgive your biological parents?” a female journalist asked. “I could see how remorseful President Xiao and President Lin were at the news conference. Will you choose to forgive or acknowledge them?”

“These are two different things. They were deceived into doing something wrong, but they repented and corrected their mistake after they realized they were wrong. I have no reason to continue to hate them, so I don’t blame them,” Tang Xi replied, looking deeply at the female journalist. “But I don’t think I’ll acknowledge them.”

Xiao Sa took a look at his watch and said, “My dear friends of the media, I’m sorry but my sister’s class is going to start. Please let her go. Thank you.”

One journalist asked, “Miss Xiao Rou, you look so elegant that you are not at all like a child who grew up in rural mountains. May I ask if you were trained by Ms. Yang Jingxian?”

Tang Xi nodded. “Sure, my mom taught me a lot.”

“You also performed perfectly in the press conference more than a month ago. However, it was reported recently that you and your brothers went to watch a movie, but you…”

Tang Xi interrupted the journalist. “If I’m not wrong, you’re referring to the incident where my brothers and I went to watch a movie, but a journalist came up to make trouble?”

As the journalist paused and was about to speak, Tang Xi added, “I didn’t feel well that day, so my brothers were worried about me. Those journalists rushed up and pulled my mask off, which angered my brothers, so Hongguang Entertainment… Oh, yes, Hongguang Entertainment doesn’t exist anymore, does it?” And then she said, “Do you know that the next day I was hospitalized, and that I was discharged just yesterday?”

“May I ask about Hongguang Entertainment…”

“No comment,” Tang Xi replied, starting to make her way into the school. “I have to go to class. I haven’t attended a class for more than a week. I’m afraid I’ll fall behind my classmates at this rate.”

Hearing his sister’s words, Xiao Sa was speechless. Come on, sister, you’re Tang Xi! The heiress to Empire Group! Empire Group invested so many resources in you. How would you fall behind your classmates?

Of course, Xiao Sa wouldn’t speak his thoughts out loud. He left after escorting Tang Xi into her classroom and ordering the security guards to do their work and not let any journalist enter.

As soon as Tang Xi sat down in her seat, Ning Ke came up to her. After standing in front of her for quite a while with a hint of shyness on his cool face, he asked, “Student Xiao Rou, I heard you fell ill. Do you feel better now?”

Tang Xi looked up at Ning Ke and thought it was funny—how was it that Ning Yan, that sharp-tongued man, had such a shy child-prodigy brother?!