1 Specifically Chosen

"Oh, Yinyin, your father is sick and still in ICU, we can't even go in to see him..."

"Yinyin, they produced a batch of radioactive jewelry while your father was sick."

"Yinyin, your father acted as a guarantor for your Uncle Du, but he went bankrupt and his company has been frozen. The bank asked your father to pay back 300 million yuan."

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Each complaint on the phone grew more pitiful and desperate than the last.

But, the response on the other end of the phone was a steady 'clop-clop' sound against a chopping board.

The young woman's mobile phone was far away on the wooden dining table that was connected to the console. She wore an apron and her long black hair was tied into a high ponytail as her slender body stood in front of the chopping board. Her hand rose and her knife fell skillfully as she pounded some fish meat with the back of her knife.

On the other end of the phone, Fang Meixian continued to cry. When she didn't receive a response from her daughter, she stopped her sobbing and heard a familiar sound. Immediately, she burst into anger.

"Li Weiyin, do you have a conscience? Your father is in the ICU and about to go bankrupt while your mother and younger sister are about to end up on the street. How are you still in the mood to cook?"

The sharp complaint made Li Weiyin stop. She looked at the fish meat and put down her knife. She then grabbed a stainless steel spoon and pulled the phone closer to her.

"Mom, tell me what you want me to do."

Her voice was cold and clear, like the flowing water in a mountain stream that carried the loneliness of the mountains.

Li Weiyin understood her mother better than anyone else. In her mother and father's eyes, she was a good-for-nothing that only knew how to eat, drink, and play. Even when something huge happened, she never crossed their minds. Only when she was of value did they think of her.

At one point, she even suspected that she was adopted. So, when she saved up enough money, she took strands of her parents' hair to the lab for a DNA test.

Needless to say, the results proved, without a doubt, that she was their daughter; she simply couldn't please them.

She bent over and carefully scraped the pounded fish from its skin with her stainless steel spoon and behaved indifferently toward the fact that she was about to be sold.

The self-confident Fang Meixian suddenly felt guilty. Especially when the phone fell silent on the other end. It seemed, her daughter had stopped, and it made her even more nervous.

Sitting next to Fang Meixian, Li Weixin grabbed her mother's hand and gave her a look of support.

Fang Meixian's heart warmed up and she calmed down, "Yinyin, do you know Mrs. Xu? She came looking for me. She wants to join our families through marriage. If we become in-laws, the Xu Family will help us pay off the 300 million that we owe the bank."

Indeed. Li Weiyin's lips curved upwards slightly. She was born with a pair of soft and charming lips that made even a ridiculing smile look charismatic, "Mrs. Xu? She's from Jin City's richest family. What a good marriage. Xinxin's also an adult now."

"Your sister just turned 19. She's still studying!" Fang Meixian immediately raised her voice with displeasure. She then lowered it again, "How could you be so ignorant? Your family has provided you with a comfortable life. Now that we are in trouble, you're trying to make your sister do the work? She's still young!"

Sure, the 19-year-old Li Weixin was still young and the 22-year-old her was considered old.

"I simply think I'm too vulgar, rude, wild, and untamed. A prestigious family like the Xu's will probably like a well-behaved, socialite lady like Xinxin."

This was Fang Meixian's evaluation of her two daughters.

"Mrs. Xu personally said that she wants her son to marry you," Fang Meixian said without lying.

Mrs. Xu had specifically mentioned Li Weiyin's name and said that she wanted her. Besides, even if Li Weiyin's family wasn't going through a crisis and things were running smoothly, who dared to offend the most successful career woman in Hua Country?