Chapter 34

Li Sheng picked Ranran up. Ranran hugged her neck and nuzzled her warmly, saying with great longing, “Mommy, Ranran missed you so much.”

“Mommy missed you very much too.” Li Sheng held her and kissed her cheek. “Were you happy staying at Uncle’s place?”

Ranran tilted her little head and thought for a while. With a very confused little expression, she said, “Mommy, why does Uncle sometimes look strange, like he isn’t my uncle?”

The first time Ranran met Li Junhao was at Yutian Banquet, and the one who appeared that time had been Li Junhao’s secondary personality. Ranran did not know about any of this. This time, when she came to Li Junhao’s home, she faced the main personality: a tall, handsome, cold, and imposing man.

Li Sheng held Ranran and chuckled. “That is your uncle. It’s just that Uncle is like Auntie Mo. He can perform as different people. Can Ranran understand if Mommy says it like this?”

Ranran nodded thoughtfully. “Ranran understands.”

Ranran was afraid Li Sheng would get tired from holding her too long, so she moved a little. Li Sheng understood and put her down, then held her hand. “Baby Ranran, come home with Mommy, okay? Auntie Mo will be there tonight too.”

Hearing Mo Yueshuang’s name, Ranran’s eyes instantly lit up. She looked up at Li Sheng in surprise and delight. “Mommy, Ranran wants to go home.”

Although she knew Li Sheng was busy with serious matters and had obediently not made noise or caused trouble, she still missed Li Sheng very much in her heart.

“Then let’s go home now.” Li Sheng held Ranran’s hand and planned to take her away, but just then, a servant jogged over and said, “Miss, Master and Madam have arrived.”

The Master and Madam he mentioned were presumably “Li Sheng’s” parents.

The text Li Junhao sent last night had also said that Mom and Dad read the original at bailiantales.comwould come today, but Li Sheng had not expected it to be such a coincidence that they would run into each other.

“Since we happened to meet so coincidentally, let’s go see them.” Li Sheng squatted down and looked Ranran in the eye. “Ranran, let’s not go back yet, okay? Mommy’s dad and mom are here. Does Ranran want to meet them?”

Ranran clenched her little fists and began thinking. Li Sheng did not give her too much time to think. This time, she coaxed Ranran. “Mommy has been away from home for a long time. Can Ranran accompany Mommy to go see them?”

“Okay!” Ranran loosened her little fists and, under the butler’s guidance, accompanied Li Sheng to meet Father Li and Mother Li.

Father Li was named Li Xuke. He was a charming middle-aged man with a small mustache. He had married Mother Li, Yin Yuhui, early, so even though he had a granddaughter now, he still looked very young. In the eyes of outsiders, he was in his fifties, but looked like an outstanding uncle not yet forty.

He was also humorous and witty. In front of his two children, he did not put on the airs of a strict family patriarch. Toward younger relatives from collateral branches, he was also very amiable. It was hard to imagine that such a person, during his time in power, had stabilized the Li family’s status as the foremost among F Province’s aristocratic families. During his time in charge, he had also raised the Li family’s position on the international rich list by dozens of places, from forty-eighth back then to sixth now. Li Xuke had become a myth in the business world and turned the Li family into a legend in F Province.

As for him and his wife, Yin Yuhui, theirs was a love marriage. Back then, for the sake of love, he developed a rebellious streak. Although he did not directly oppose Old Master Li, his refusal to accept a business marriage no matter what caused the clan members to criticize him for a very long time. If he had not loved stirring things up when he was young, Second Master Li’s mind would not have become so active.

Although Yin Yuhui did not come from a super-wealthy household like the Li family, she was still upper class in F Province, a young lady from a scholarly family. That elegant temperament, more refined than orchids and more noble than winter plums, combined with the scholarly air she had been steeped in since childhood, made Yin Yuhui the famous young lady pursued by countless people back then, the proper wife wealthy young masters competed to marry.

Unfortunately, she had been lured away by rebellious youth Li Xuke with a few cups of milk tea and a bowl of plain noodles.

Their wedding that year was grand and powerful. It was not exaggerated to the point of being called the wedding of the century, but Li Xuke dared say that within fifty years, their wedding would definitely be top-tier, and their love would be the most intense.

Many media outlets had interviewed Li Xuke and asked what he was most proud of in his life. Li Xuke had seriously confessed his love through the camera and flaunted his affection, stuffing countless single dogs with a mouthful of dog food.

Li Xuke smiled and said that what he was most proud of was marrying the woman he loved most, and by coincidence, the person she loved most was also him.

When Li Sheng had read the novel, she had also envied this family. It was just that these unauthorized copysupporting characters did not appear much. They were only introduced to pave the way for the male and female leads’ plot, and only a few brief strokes were written to let readers know.

At the time, these details had been written to whitewash the male lead and female lead.

After Father Li and Mother Li had an accident, Li Junhao shouldered the burden of the Li family. At that time, the vicious female supporting character Li Sheng was already using the child to threaten Ji Ruodong, and her older brother doted on her with no bottom line. Li Junhao forcefully suppressed the Ji family’s industry, forcing Ji Ruodong to get engaged to Li Sheng.

However, not long after the engagement ceremony was held, internal chaos broke out in the Li family. Very soon, Ji Ruodong collaborated from inside and outside with people in the Li family and took control of it. Unfortunately, the male and female leads were destined to have excessive twists and turns between them. Although Li Junhao failed to protect the Li family, during the great chaos, the seriously ill Li Xuke regained consciousness. His body recovered day by day. Those old subordinates in the company who had fought beside him for half a lifetime were nostalgic and gave up their schemes, promising that as long as Li Xuke lived one day, the Li family would remain stable for one day.

Seeing that the Li family had revived from the ashes, Ji Ruodong was so furious he became violent as thunder. Because he and Li Sheng had gotten engaged and then canceled the engagement, Li Xuke became dissatisfied. Just as he was preparing to deal with the Ji family, the female lead Mo Yueshuang and male lead Ji Ruodong chose to meet Li Xuke. The two of them gave a long speech about freedom in love and rejecting commercial marriages, successfully persuading the old man.

Not only that, their spirit of daring to resist family-arranged commercial engagements and bravely pursue true love was even admired by the old man. The old man reprimanded his adopted son, Li Junhao, for making trouble while he was unconscious and randomly arranging his younger sister’s marriage. He also promised Ji Ruodong that he would absolutely not trouble the Ji family over this matter, and blessed their path of love to be smooth and unhindered.

When Li Sheng had read up to that point, she herself had been completely dumbfounded. She had even specially gone to Di Xue and asked about this plot, asking whether the old man’s actions were reasonable according to studies of human nature before the apocalypse.

Di Xue also did not understand this. At the time, she could not answer, so she took Li Sheng’s novel and studied it for an entire night. The next day, she found time to tell her: Stop reading it. Reading too much of this kind of thing is bad for your brain.

Now that Li Sheng had come to this novel world, she could finally understand what Di Xue meant by “bad for your brain.”

Li Sheng felt somewhat uneasy. She did not have the original owner’s memories, but since she had come to this world and replaced the original owner to live on, she inevitably had to interact with the original owner’s family and friends.

Although she had hidden for several years because of certain matters, now that she had returned and had run into them, she could only face them directly.

Li Xuke had indeed come this time because he heard that Li Junhao had brought back his little granddaughter. He could not wait to come and see her.

Although Li Sheng had gone abroad five years ago because of a conflict between them, and later blocked all communication with the ​Read on BaiLianTales​family out of anger, he knew Li Sheng had privately kept in touch with Li Junhao. This time, she had left her daughter with Li Junhao. Did this mean Li Sheng also felt some longing for home in her heart? Was it because she cared about face and refused to come back, so she sent her daughter to Li Junhao’s place to test the waters?

Li Xuke calculated things in his heart. Although Li Sheng still had not contacted them for now, and through that boy Guan Tai, he learned that Li Sheng not only did not want to see them, but even somewhat rejected them, this did not affect them secretly running over to see their little granddaughter.

But when they arrived at Li Junhao’s manor, they were regretfully informed that Li Sheng had also come and planned to take her daughter away immediately.

Yin Yuhui nervously held her husband’s hand. “Xuke, what should we do? Does Shengsheng still not want to see us? It’s all my fault. I shouldn’t have stopped her from pursuing that boy from the Ji family back then. Otherwise, five years ago, Shengsheng wouldn’t have cut ties with us.”

“Xiao Yu, don’t cry. Everyone was speaking in anger back then. Since Shengsheng came back this time and is in contact with Junhao, the anger in her heart must have faded, and she’s willing to be close to us again.” Li Xuke patiently coaxed his wife. He said optimistically, “Maybe Shengsheng knew we were coming, so she chose to come over today.”

They comforted each other in the car, but by the time they waited for Li Sheng in the hall, the two had already steadied their mindsets and sat calmly as they waited for Li Sheng to bring Ranran over.

Before this, Yin Yuhui had even worried whether Li Sheng would directly take Ranran away. Fortunately, she did not have time to let her imagination run wild for long before her daughter, whom she had not seen in five years, came before her.

Her daughter was holding a cute little girl’s hand. Yin Yuhui looked at that child and liked her terribly in her heart. It was just… why did this child not look like her daughter? There was not a single part of her facial features that seemed inherited from Li Sheng. Looking carefully, the only similar place between the two of them seemed to be their lips.

Li Sheng was no longer the Li Sheng from before. Facing Li Xuke and Yin Yuhui now, she did not have many expressions. Under the two of them’s gazes, she simply called, “Dad, Mom.”

After five years, hearing her child call out again, mother Yin Yuhui felt waves of joy and waves of aching pain in her heart.

“Shengsheng, my good daughter.” Yin Yuhui came over to hug her like before. Li Sheng felt somewhat resistant, but considering the current situation, she steadied her body and did not move, letting Yin Yuhui hug her. After all, if she avoided it here, it would truly hurt people too much.

Li Xuke was not quite that sentimental. Although Li Sheng had left home for five years, it was not as if they had no news at all. In reality, the bodyguards he arranged to go over would regularly report Li Sheng’s situation. They also had some collected photos and videos.

But no matter how much information they collected, it could not compare Read on BaiLianTales to the real satisfaction of their daughter personally standing before them.

“Shengsheng, come home.” Li Xuke stood up. He looked extremely dignified and intimidating. From sitting to standing, even this small movement carried the leadership posture of someone in a high position. But in reality, he was only a somewhat proud and stubborn father.

Li Sheng nodded lightly. “Dad, I will go home.”

Before Father Li and Mother Li could be happy, Li Sheng added, “But not recently.”

Li Xuke immediately interrupted her. “I know you’re working on set. The filming is underway right now, and you must also be very busy. You’re raising a child alone and running back and forth. You really don’t have time to come home. When you have time, come back during next month’s short holiday.”

This “coming home” did not simply mean coming home to talk and eat with her parents. It meant that Li Sheng had to go to the Li clan’s ancestral hall and be added back to the genealogy.

Back then, the matter had blown up too much. “Li Sheng” had a fierce personality and insisted on Ji Ruodong no matter what. The clan members kept being picky, and the old master loved his younger brother. So after listening to Second Master’s words, the old master threatened Li Sheng that if she did not obediently marry Guan Anru and cut off her obsession with Ji Ruodong, he would erase her name from the genealogy.

Unexpectedly, the original owner impulsively cursed a group of old fossils for using stale, rotten traditions to frighten people. Remove her name if they wanted to. She only wanted Brother Ruodong and did not care about anything else.

When Li Xuke heard this, he was stunned. Even I wasn’t as rebellious as you back then. Try walking away and see what happens?

As a result, the original owner burned the boats and arranged the hotel incident. After suddenly disappearing for a period of time and then returning, Li Sheng transmigrated over. She did not know there was still the threat of being removed from the genealogy if she left home. In order to avoid the main plot, she directly left with the child.

So after the clan members stirred things up together, her name was removed.

This was also why, after she came back, her return was practically known in every upper-class household in F Province, yet the Li family had not contacted her for so long. They only occasionally went to Guan Tai to test the waters.

Li Xuke felt that he was currently being very understanding and loving toward his child. Li Sheng must be afraid that she would be unused to suddenly coming home after five years, so she used being busy with the crew as an excuse to delay for a while. As her father, he did not bailiantales.com even need to wait for his daughter to explain and had taken the initiative to speak for her. Shengsheng must be very moved.

However, Li Sheng said apologetically, “It isn’t because work is busy. It’s just that during this time, I have to accompany my girlfriend.”

Mo Yueshuang still had treatment to receive. Li Sheng could not feel at ease leaving her for even one day. And from here to the Li family’s old ancestral hall, then being added back to the genealogy and acknowledging her ancestry, it would take at least four or five days no matter what. After that, there would have to be a banquet for the clan members and another banquet for acquaintances in the business world. Going back and forth would take several more days. It was unlikely to be finished without half a month.

Under these circumstances, how could she leave?

Meanwhile, Li Xuke had just been preparing to coax his little granddaughter and get closer to her when he suddenly heard his daughter say: the reason she would not go home was that she had to accompany her girlfriend.

Author’s Note:

Mo Yueshuang: Although I didn’t have a single shot, the main focus of this whole chapter was on me.

Ranran: Yay, I’m finally not the only one left crying bitterly at the end.