Grandpa Wen's words made Xia Ruya feel cold all over. The tears that had been falling silently in her eyes stopped suddenly. She stared at him blankly, as if she had lost her soul.
Mr. Wen said calmly: "You..."
"Grandpa Wen, do you suspect that I helped Ning Shuqian conceal her fake pregnancy and lied to you?" Xia Ruya stared at Grandpa Wen in a daze as he interrupted him. Her pale face was a transparent bluish-white, her big almond-shaped eyes were filled with tears, and her delicate lips were a bleak color, interpreting her grievances, pity, and stubbornness to the extreme.
Mr. Wen's eyes suddenly turned to Xia Ruya. Even now, she was still being stubborn.
Xia Ruya smiled sadly, and the tears that had been accumulating in her eyes for a long time seemed to fall down with a sad gesture. She gently closed her lips, and a touch of enchanting color between her lips made her look even more weak and pitiful. "Just because I introduced Master Luo Le to diagnose Ning Shuqian, you suspect that I helped Ning Shuqian to plot against the Wen family?"
She seemed unwilling to defend herself, as if she was in deep sorrow, which made Old Man Wen frown. "What do you want to say?"
Xia Ruya laughed softly, her smile was somewhat sad: "Grandpa, you think too highly of me. What else can I say now? Grandpa has already determined my guilt. No matter what I say, it will sound like sophistry to you. Why should I make myself look so hateful?"
With just a few words, Mr. Wen hit the nail on the head, leaving her no room for rebuttal.
Old Master Wen looked at her, the wrinkles on his forehead were deep and dense: "Do you feel unwilling and resentful in your heart?"
The smile on Xia Ruya's face turned sad, with an unspeakable sadness: "Shouldn't I be unwilling and resentful?"
The ethereal voice, with a tone of self-mockery, was as gentle as a wisp of tea smoke.
Mr. Wen said coldly: "The Wen family has never done anything to let you down."
Xia Ruya seemed not to have heard him. Her voice was low and soft, with a heart-breaking sadness: "It's like this again. Grandpa is always like this, wantonly deciding the fate of others, not giving them room to refuse, and not giving them a chance to fight back."
Mr. Wen didn't know what to say for a moment.
Xia Ruya cried out in a very miserable way, without any beauty at all: "Grandpa, in your heart, who is Ruya? At the beginning, you believed that Ruya was the blood of the Wen family, so you took Ruya back to the Wen family and took good care of her. But when you found out that I was not the blood of the Wen family, you beat me back to my original form. You are so cold and heartless..."
Old Master Wen was completely stunned. He didn't expect Xia Ruya to bring up what happened back then.
Xia Ruya cried heartbrokenly: "You said I am the eldest daughter of the Wen family, the heir of the Wen family, and the only blood of the Wen family. I am. You said I am the adopted daughter of the Wen family and the illegitimate daughter of the Xia family. I am. You decide my life on your own. I am like a puppet in your hands, allowing you to manipulate me. You say... shouldn't I be resentful? Shouldn't I be angry?"
The cold and hard aura of Mr. Wen seemed to be drained away in an instant, and his straight back suddenly hunched: "I am not..."
Xia Ruya interrupted his defense, her voice piercing: "Have you ever considered my feelings? I am a person, not a toy. I have feelings too! In my heart, the Wen family is my family, and the Xia family who once abandoned me are not worthy of being my family. I just want to return to the Wen family, just want to be loved by you again, and enjoy the family love that I have enjoyed for twelve years. What have I done wrong?"
Maybe in Wen Xinya's eyes, she took away everything that should have belonged to her, but... in her heart, she had lived this kind of life for twelve years. Grandpa, grandma, dad, aunt, they all belonged to her. Wen Xinya was like an intruder, who took away everything that belonged to her, beat her back to her original form, and made her life extremely bleak.
What had she done wrong? She was just an abandoned child whose fate was manipulated by the Wen family.
Old Master Wen's lips trembled, and he seemed to have aged ten years in an instant. He had never thought about this problem before. When he found the bloodline of the Wen family, he was ecstatic. When he learned that Ruya was not of the Wen family, he was extremely disappointed. In the end, he naturally found relatives for Xia Ruya. Although he was reluctant to send her away, everything was natural.
However, Xia Ruya said she was unwilling and resentful...
Xia Ruya burst into tears and said sadly, "Do you think that helping me find my relatives is my compensation? What kind of life do you think I have led in the Xia family? Grandpa is cold and calculating, dad is cruel and uses me, stepmother is abusive and insulting, and my younger brother is arrogant and domineering. I must put aside all my pride and try to please them in order to earn a place for myself in the Xia family."
How could Mr. Wen not know what kind of character the Xia family had? He thought that since Ruya was the adopted daughter of the Wen family, the Xia family would always be a little wary of her, but he didn't expect...
Mr. Wen was speechless and looked very depressed.
Xia Ruya wiped the tears from her face with her sleeves. Her eyes seemed to have been drained of tears, leaving only dry cracks. "The Xia family is so cold-blooded and ruthless. I miss everything in the Wen family even more." She giggled, her heart was dead. "Grandpa, you are right. It was you who raised my heart and made me forget my duty and become jealous of Wen Wenya."
Faced with such a heart-wrenching accusation, Mr. Wen could not utter a word.
Xia Ruya looked at Wen Xinya with dry eyes. She sat upright on the sofa, and even the indifferent expression on her face was restrained, but her eyes, which were very bright, had their sharpness restrained. The light was faint and clear, as if reflecting her current embarrassment.
She took a step back and laughed sadly: "Wen Xinya, I lost. I lost to you, completely."
"You didn't lose to me, but to your own greed." She had clearly committed such a heinous crime that made the Wen family hate her, but she managed to turn the situation around, whitewashing what she had done and winning her grandfather's guilt.
Xia Ruya smiled and staggered back: "The winner is the king, the loser is the enemy."
Wen Xinya looked at Xia Ruya. She still underestimated Xia Ruya. She thought that in this situation, Xia Ruya would defend herself, cry bitterly, pretend to be innocent, weak, kind, and pure. But she didn't...
This moment was obviously the most embarrassing for her, but she made herself look more beautiful than anyone else, like a flower blooming on a cliff. Even though she was in a desperate situation, she still unyieldingly bloomed with her enchantment.
Xia Ruya stumbled out of the Wen family.