Chapter 102: Chapter 102

Ye Ling followed her father to the closest market from the courtyard, bought a pound of pork belly, and a bunch of celery. The two of them were carrying them home when Ye He Ping met some familiar people, greeted them with a smile, but couldn’t conceal a trace of embarrassment when everyone’s eyes landed on his eldest daughter.

With a forced smile, Ye He Ping brought his daughter into the house, exhaled deeply, and looked up to see his wife coming out from the West Room after hearing the commotion, her face not showing but her eyes revealing happiness. However, when she saw the daughter behind her husband, her eyes immediately turned cold.

Ye He Ping ignored his silent wife standing there, changed his slippers, and turned back to his eldest daughter behind him, "Go wash your hands, come over and help me make dumplings."

Ye Ling nodded, went straight into the bathroom, and when she came out after washing her hands, she ignored her mother standing there and went directly to the kitchen to help. Ye He Ping, being a child from the countryside and having worked in a company for years, was good at cooking. With Ye Ling’s help, two of them made the dough and filling quickly. Ye He Ping placed everything on the table in the living room, and only then did he pull out the curtain from home, with Ye Ling sitting by the table ready to start making dumplings.

Ye Qian had been in the West Room all along, but seeing her mother go out and come back in, she questioned, "Mom, you should have a proper talk with Dad."

"No need for me to talk to him; he’s in a good mood making dumplings." He even brought that girl back.

Didn’t she say she wasn’t coming back? Now she has the nerve to come back as if nothing happened, shameless indeed.

Ye Qian knew her mother couldn’t be mad at her father at this time. She realized, "Dad must have brought sister back, right? Making dumplings with two people will take forever. Mom, let’s go out and help too."

"No, let them make." Thinking of her husband giving that damned girl face, Bai Xue was full of anger.

Ye Qian got off the bed, held her mother’s hand, and pleaded, "Mom, you went too far with this matter. I know you only did it because you love me. It’s because of this that seeing everyone at home act like strangers makes me feel bad. Mom, please, just humble yourself to Dad first."

Bai Xue’s eyes reddened, and she nodded at her daughter’s pleading, "Good child, I worried you. For you, Mom is willing to humble herself."

Ye Qian’s eyes also reddened as she nodded, "Mom, I knew you’re the best mom in the world."

When Ye Qian dragged her mother out from the room, they saw Father and Sister already making dumplings. Seeing that her mother couldn’t swallow her pride, Ye Qian pulled her mother towards them, "Dad, let’s help too."

"No need." Ye He Ping’s words stunned the other three people present.

Ye Ling also didn’t expect her father to refuse. Not to mention anything else, her father had always favored Ye Qian or never refused her, yet this time he bluntly turned her away, effectively a slap in the face.

Ye Qian’s sweet smile froze on her face. Already appearing delicate, like a leaf in the cold wind, she seemed as if she could fall at any moment.

Bai Xue, originally thinking of enduring and humbling herself first, exploded seeing her younger daughter being blocked so rudely by her husband, "Ye He Ping, don’t go too far. What did we mother and daughter do wrong? You disgrace us in front of this unfilial daughter. You came back, asked nothing, and directly condemned us, siding with this unfilial girl, right? Do you know how she embarrassed me in the courtyard that day? This isn’t a daughter, but a debt collector. I don’t know what sin I committed in a past life to raise her only to suffer this much disdain now."

Bai Xue also felt wronged, "You only know how to blame me. Why don’t you see what this unfilial daughter did? Mixing with boys all day, I tried to discipline her she ran away from home. I didn’t even scold her this time, only asked her to tutor Ye Qian during her vacation, and she accused me of harboring ill intentions, making her too sick to take exams. How could I not hit her?"

Talking about it, Bai Xue seemed to return to that day. If her husband hadn’t been there, she might have hit her again, "She doesn’t acknowledge me as her mother, doesn’t want this family, so I treat it as if I never gave birth to such a daughter."

"Enough." Ye He Ping slapped the rolling pin on the table, "Bai Xue, are you still making a fuss?"

"Am I making a fuss? How dare you say I’m making a fuss? Ye Qian persuaded me to humble myself before you, and this is what you do? Now you blame me for making a fuss? What do you mean by that?" Bai Xue retorted.

Ye He Ping’s face showed a harsh look, and Ye Qian began to cry, "Dad, stop arguing with Mom; it’s all my fault. If I hadn’t asked for Sister to tutor me, none of this would have happened."

Ye Qian turned to pull Ye Ling, "Sis, I’m sorry, Mom was just upset that day because of your words and acted out. Mom didn’t mean it. Can you forgive her once, direct any anger at me instead?"

Ye Qian cried, and Bai Xue followed. For a while, the living room was filled with crying.

Ye He Ping had a grim face, and Ye Ling sat with her head down on the chair, the atmosphere in the home was particularly strange. Ye Qian cried while pleading with Ye Ling, who took a long time before slowly raising her head. She looked at Ye Qian, not with hatred, but with disdain.

She could stir things up but couldn’t resolve them. Ye Qian was just so.

"Dad, forget it." Ye Ling didn’t want to chill Ye He Ping’s heart either, "Didn’t you say you’d take me to the company for some days after the high school entrance exam? Let’s just make dumplings; I have an exam tomorrow."

Ye He Ping nodded, his face still unpleasant, but he didn’t say anything more and didn’t look at his wife again. Ye Qian, seeing the situation, didn’t escalate like last time and sighed in relief. She didn’t mind that Ye Ling witnessed this joke, once again pleading with her mother silently, biting her lip and gazing hopefully at her mother.

Bai Xue’s fire, slowly extinguished by her daughter’s plea, didn’t just want to humble herself to her husband, so she turned and went into the West Room.

"Dad, I’ll go talk to Mom." Ye Qian cautiously looked at her father, seeking his opinion.

Ye He Ping didn’t want the situation to worsen, nodded to his younger daughter, "Go ahead."

Ye Qian, feeling as if she’d been praised, managed to smile through her tears. As she turned towards the West Room, she recalled Ye Ling’s words about Father taking Ye Ling to the company, and she hadn’t forgotten it. It seemed like Father still favored Ye Ling.

Her eyes flickered with a hint of coldness. Ye Ling, using a fuss to make Father humble himself, indeed that was a clever tactic.

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