Morning, the Heir

Chapter 25: Apathetic Kinship
Translator: 安贝-Peggyan
“You!!” Lin Xiaomi’s face turned blushed after he hit her, but she was too embarrassed to block it with her hand.

“I? Will you beat me again if I don’t let you go?” asked he expressionlessly, deliberately pretending to be angry.

She abided by the rule that a wise man knew when to retreat, so she said with a forced smile, “Okay, I apologize to you, okay? I’m sorry for wronging you just now. Now, can you let me go?”

Leng Yihuang said with a sneer, “You have no sincerity.”

“You!!” She was almost choked to death by the anger in her chest.

Right at the moment, her cellphone rang. She felt overjoyed and impatiently shook his hand. “Don’t you hear that? Remove your hand!”

Having glanced at her cellphone, he removed his hand.

However, when she turned around, she stomped on the back of his foot with force. With a painful scream, he felt his entire sole was numbed.

She had expected him to make a dodge, so she didn’t control her power. Thus, she was so frightened that she bolted out to answer the cellphone.

She frowned upon seeing that her mother called her.

Not until she took several deep breaths did she answer the phone.

“Mom,” said she.

“What takes you so long to answer my phone?” Jiang Hui was a little unhappy.

“I was using the bathroom just now! What’s up?”

Jiang Hui said indifferently as usual, “You should remember, Xin’er’s birthday falls on the next Wednesday. We’ll throw her a birthday party by then, and all the family members will be there, so will you. Don’t forget to buy her a present.”

She was shocked and said, “Do I need to be there? After all, I’m an outsider.”

Jiang Hui said in a sharper voice, “How can you say that? What do you mean by saying the outsider? Since the Lin Family had raised you so many years, you can’t be so ungrateful.”

She couldn’t help feeling sour. She had lived with her grandmother before graduating from junior high school, worked her way through high school, and worked part-time to pay for her college tuition fee and living expenses. Why could she not recall that the Lin Family raised her?

Of course, the Lin Family didn’t need to raise her, a child of her mother’s previous marriage, but they covered her grandmother’s medical fee.

“I’m sorry just now, but I’m quite busy with my work. You should know, as a reporter, I run around to gather news each day, so I might not attend the party, but my present will be sent there.”

“No, you have to come. Xin’er said she missed you. How long has it been since you came back last time?”

Hearing this, she really wanted to laugh. Lin Xin’er wouldn’t miss her unless the sun arose from the west. Each time she showed up at the Lin Family, Lin Xin’er privately asked her to get out.

However, she couldn’t confide in anyone.

“Let’s talk about it by then.” She had to go through the motions first.

“The party will be held at night. How could you still work at night,” Jiang Hui scolded her, and then she heard Lin Xin’er’s voice on the phone in the halfway. “Aunt.”

Jiang Hui softly replied, “I’m here.” However, Jiang Hui spoke to her coldly, “Since Xin’er calls me, I’ll hang up the phone. Remember to buy a present.”

Her heart was full of mixed feelings upon hearing the beeping sound on the phone.

She had thought she got used to it, but she still felt hurtful.

She opened the cellphone calendar and fixed her eyes on the next Wednesday.

It was Lin Xin’er’s lunar birthday, but it happened to be her birthday of the solar calendar.

However, no one would remember it, did they? Jiang Hui never remembered her birthday.