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Chapter 47: Chapter 47: The Neglected Details Through Years of Convalescence

“I’m curious, if I cared, would you really spare Sang Nanfeng out of kindness, breaking your record of never losing?” Sang Qiao lifted her eyelids, her gaze landing on his face.

“If you care, I can make him lose more slowly,” Shangguan Yuan said with a light smile.

He leaned back in his chair and elegantly picked up the wine glass from the table.

“Pfft.” Sang Qiao couldn’t help but let out a light chuckle, indeed just like the rumors on the internet, he showed no mercy.

While the two were conversing, suddenly footsteps approached from the entrance, getting closer and closer.

Sang Nanfeng walked in and, upon seeing Sang Qiao on the couch, exclaimed in shock, “Sang Qiao? What are you doing here?”

“Did you arrange this?” Shangguan Yuan turned around at the newcomer, his eyebrows lifting slightly.

Sang Qiao was also surprised by his arrival, “No.”

“I came for you, Lawyer Shangguan.” Sang Nanfeng always felt that Sang Qiao and this lawyer seemed very familiar with each other, considering that the other party had refused his case but taken his adversaries’.

And… Shangguan Yuan had once been Sang Qiao’s representative; a suspicion crept into Sang Nanfeng’s mind.

Shangguan Yuan was Sang Qiao’s man, and he was deliberately opposing them at her behest.

“Qiaoqiao, it’s you, isn’t it? You purposefully stopped Lawyer Shangguan from taking my case. You think that will be enough to bring down Starlight Entertainment? You really surprise me. I haven’t made a move against your lousy company yet, and here you are acting immorally first. Very good.”

“Your case is something I personally do not wish to take; it has nothing to do with Qiao.”

Shangguan Yuan’s eyes showed complexity; he had heard a bit about the Sang Family but hadn’t expected them to be more foolish than the rumors suggested.

Just jumping to conclusions and you’re sentencing Sang Qiao to death?

“You both can appear together in a bar, calling each other so intimately. How could it be a personal matter? Since you, Lawyer Shangguan, would rather help some no-name company than choose me, I’m not desperate for your service either. I’ll be looking forward to a defeat in your record of victories!”

Sang Nanfeng felt his chest fill with anger. He had wondered if Shangguan Yuan took the opponent’s case because they didn’t offer enough payment or the company’s representative wasn’t sincere enough.

He had ordered a location check and personally hurried over, only to witness this scene.

Sang Qiao sat on the couch without moving a muscle, waiting for him to finish his tirade, only to glance at him leisurely.

“If that’s what you think, why are you still shouting here? Does it prove your superior deductive skills?”

“Pfft.” Shangguan Yuan couldn’t hold back a laugh. He had been worried Sang Qiao would be hurt by her eldest brother’s words, but now it seemed he had worried for nothing.

“Sang… Qiao, are you declaring war on me?” Sang Nanfeng’s face darkened.

In his mind, Sang Qiao, if innocent, would have continually explained her side and provided evidence to prove it. Now, her indifference signified guilt and an unwillingness to admit it.

But what Sang Nanfeng didn’t consider was that even if Sang Qiao had explained and provided evidence in the past, they might not have believed her. Even if they did, they wouldn’t have felt guilty, only that bygones were bygones.

“If that’s what you think, then it is,” Sang Qiao simply threw the problem back to him.

Sang Nanfeng didn’t hear her admit any fault, and his anger was hard to dissipate. Clenching his fist, he slammed it against the nearby wall, “Fine, next time we meet, I won’t go easy on you.”

“A big man with a small brain,” said Shangguan Yuan, making no effort to conceal his contempt.

Sang Nanfeng, just a few steps out, of course, heard it but didn’t stop.

Only when his figure had completely vanished did Shangguan Yuan speak at a leisurely pace, “Your big brother seems rather foolish, not giving you even a chance to explain. If one didn’t know better, they might think you two are sworn enemies, as if you had killed someone in his family.”

“It wasn’t like this when we were kids. Ever since I came back from studying abroad, they’ve treated anything related to me like this.”

Sang Qiao couldn’t figure it out; could three years really change a person that much? Her brothers weren’t like that before. Quite the opposite, even if she really did something wrong, they would scold her then forgive her.

“Have you never wondered if something strange happened halfway through?” Shangguan Yuan’s hand, holding the wine glass, paused for a moment.

After all, three years were enough for the adopted daughter to replace the biological daughter in gaining a foothold in a family, no easy feat.

At his words, Sang Qiao also recalled those weird feelings she had deliberately ignored. When she just returned to the country, not a soul came to pick her up from the airport; even when she got home, they all seemed reluctant to even talk to her, as if she had committed some grievous crime.

Back then, Sang Shen had even asked her outright if she had nothing to explain.

She replied, “No.”

Disappointment filled the eyes of her four brothers. During her years abroad, she was unable to reach them by phone, and they never called her either.

All contact details were added only after she came back, which shouldn’t have been the case.

“There definitely is something fishy. I need to go back to the Sang Mansion for a while. Let’s meet up another time.” @@novelbin@@

“My car is just outside. I can take you there. Coincidentally, I need to return too,” Shangguan Yuan said as he picked up the car keys from the table and followed her out.

“Then, thanks for the trouble.”

“Don’t mention it.”

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Sang Mansion

When Sang Qiao showed up at the entrance, even though she had moved away, the security didn’t stop her.

She made her way to the hall, and just as she entered, she saw Mrs. Sang holding a jade pendant. Upon seeing her, Mrs. Sang hastily hid it behind her.

Mrs. Sang glared at her, raising her voice, “Weren’t you going to sever ties with us? What are you doing back here? Have you regretted it? Let me tell you, it’s impossible; there’s no place for you in this family anymore!”

“Why were you so insistent on sending me abroad for treatment, changing all my contact details?”

Sang Qiao questioned her, her gaze calmly sweeping over Mrs. Sang’s clumsily concealed jade pendant, showing no interest.

The jade pendant in Mrs. Sang’s hand clattered to the floor. Her face turned pale, and then, realizing something, she quickly bent over to pick it up, forcibly maintaining her composure.

“Why are you asking these things? It’s all in the past; wasn’t it to facilitate your treatment abroad!”

“You’re coaxing me, deliberately keeping my brothers from contacting me so that Sang Jiao could replace me, right?” Sang Qiao’s emotions were indescribably complex.

She knew her mother had always despised her, but she never imagined it to be to this extent.

What sort of mother plots and schemes to pave the way for an outsider at her biological daughter’s expense?

“What does it have to do with me! It was clearly they who didn’t care, who didn’t want to contact you,” Mrs. Sang’s heart thumped rapidly, her palms breaking out in a cold sweat.

Compared to her, Sang Qiao was much calmer, standing tall, looking down at her.

Mrs. Sang’s inner turmoil was unbearable, and with pain, she closed her eyes, “Sang Qiao, even if I intentionally caused you to lose contact with them during those years, your estrangement with them happened after you returned to the country; you disappointed them yourself! Now, what’s done is done; there’s no point in pursuing it. Please leave, I beg you, don’t come back to disrupt the peace of the Sang Family. No matter how badly I’ve treated you, I am still the mother who gave birth to you and raised you; you should be grateful to me!”