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"Mom, why did you invite Ye Bai and Qin Wanqing to this perfectly good family dinner? Don't you think they've already brought enough trouble to our family?"

At the Ye family villa, Ye Xuanyuan, with bandages wrapped around his head, sat in a wheelchair and looked at Yang Fenglan with dissatisfaction, complaining.

This young master of the Ye family was seriously injured when Zhao Wuyai hit him with a bottle at the bar last time. He not only needed stitches but also suffered a concussion.

Logically, he should have stayed in the hospital for a longer period of time before being discharged, but because Ye Ruyan returned, Ye Xuanyuan also completed the discharge procedures ahead of schedule.

As long as you avoid strenuous exercise and impacts, there shouldn't be any major problems; you can simply rest and recover gradually.

However, Ye Xuanyuan's good mood, which stemmed from being discharged from the hospital and returning home, vanished instantly upon hearing that Ye Bai and Qin Wanqing had also come to eat.

The Ye family, being large and wealthy, certainly didn't mind having two more pairs of chopsticks; Ye Xuanyuan simply loathed these two people.

Especially towards Ye Bai, after the two sides tore away the last layer of false kinship, Ye Xuanyuan felt almost as if he hated him to the bone.

These past few days, lying in his hospital bed with nothing to do, he naturally recalled his unfortunate experiences over the past few days.

Finally, he came to a conclusion that shocked and enraged him.

All his bad luck started after Ye Bai came back!

Before Ye Bai returned, he had always had a smooth and successful life, a classic example of being riding high.

Whatever I want to do, I almost never fail.

But ever since Ye Bai went to the Qin family to stand in for the marriage, his luck has plummeted.

Not only does he fail at everything he does, but he also encounters various accidents and is constantly in the hospital. Now even the nurses in the inpatient department know him.

Ye Xuanyuan is essentially superstitious; otherwise, he wouldn't have chosen to break off the engagement out of fear of being cursed by Qin Wanqing.

Therefore, he felt that Ye Bai and Qin Wanqing were the instigators of all these misfortunes!

It was because Ye Bai married Qin Wanqing that her curse of bringing misfortune to her husband was passed on to the Ye family!

As for why Ye Bai married Qin Wanqing, whether it was to shield himself and the Ye family from disaster, the selfish young master of the Ye family naturally wouldn't think about it.

His guiding principle has always been that good things are due to himself, while bad things are always the fault of others.

So now, whenever he hears Ye Bai and Qin Wanqing's names, he gets a headache and feels incredibly annoyed, let alone having to eat at the same table with them.

Of course, it's also because I look so disheveled right now.

He still had feelings for Qin Wanqing. Although he didn't want to marry a woman who was considered unlucky for her husband, he still longed to be intimate with her.

"Shut up! It's fine to say such things now, but if you dare to say them again when Xiaobai and the others arrive, don't blame your dad for dealing with you!"

Upon hearing this, Yang Fenglan's face darkened, and she reprimanded her unhappily.

"Mom, you're getting more and more biased! Don't forget, I'm your biological son! Ye Bai is a bastard you picked up from an orphanage!"

Ye Xuanyuan was so angry that his vision blurred, and he pounded on his wheelchair and roared.

I don't know if it's just my imagination, but after he's been having a lot of bad luck lately, his status in the family has also dropped a lot.

Yang Fenglan used to dote on him the most, and she almost always listened to his every word.

They treat them with utmost care, afraid they might melt in their mouths or break in their hands.

But now, he was being reprimanded by Ye Bai, an outsider, which he found unacceptable.

If Ye Ruyan were to return, Yang Fenglan's attitude wouldn't be a problem, since she was her sister Qin.

But what exactly is Ye Bai?

"Sis, do you and my brother-in-law need Xiaobai and Wanqing for something?"

Yang Guangyao suddenly asked from the side.

Although he wasn't from a wealthy family, he was clearly more intelligent than his nephew.

Yang Fenglan's sudden attention to Ye Bai and Qin Wanqing must have a reason.

"Second Uncle, what are you talking about? They would help the Ye family! They'd be happy if the Ye family suffered! That Mingtaishan Resort clearly belongs to the Ye family, but they swindled it all away and refuse to give it back to us!"

"And that piece of land we wanted to buy but Cao Yuanhu snatched away. Qin Wanqing only needed to agree to have a meal with Cao Lao Er, and the land would be ours. But Ye Bai and that woman just wouldn't agree no matter what we said!"

"I finally managed to get in touch with Zhao Wuyai, hoping he could help me make peace with Cao Yuanhu, but in the end, because of Ye Bai, not only did things fall apart, but I almost got smashed to death with a bottle..."

Upon hearing his second uncle's question, Ye Xuanyuan stopped arguing with Yang Fenglan, but his hatred grew even stronger, and the resentment in his eyes almost materialized.

"Actually, it was Ruyan's idea to invite Xiaobai and Wanqing over today. But I think it might be related to David Chiang..."

Yang Fenglan sighed helplessly, gently rubbing her temples to relieve the occasional pain.

During this period, she felt that she had aged a lot all of a sudden, and her migraines, which she hadn't had for many years, recurred.

Neither of her children could truly give her peace of mind.

Needless to say, my son used to be alright, but lately I don't know what's gotten into him, he's become increasingly unreliable.

He was the one who cried and begged to marry Qin Wanqing, but later he was also the one who wanted to break off the engagement because he was afraid she would bring bad luck to her husband.

If that were all, it wouldn't be so bad. What really gave me a headache was the affair with Zhu Daji, the eldest daughter of the Zhu family.

To actually try to drug and rape someone—how much water must be in your brain to do something like that!

Although the matter was eventually resolved, the price paid by the Ye family was enormous.

A full 500 million in cash!

Even if the Ye family is wealthy enough that this is not a major financial blow, it is still a considerable sum of money.

After talking about the son, let's talk about the daughter.

Compared to Ye Xuanyuan, Ye Ruyan is much stronger, and can even be called the pride of the Ye family.

She possesses a variety of virtues and doesn't usually cause her and her husband any worry.

But she's already twenty-nine and still not married. This time when she came back, she brought along a foreign traitor, claiming he was her boyfriend, but it doesn't seem like that at all.

As the matriarch of a wealthy family, Yang Fenglan wouldn't be so disgusted by someone just because they have foreign blood.

But she always felt that David Chiang wasn't a good person. Although he was handsome and refined, and dressed very tastefully, like a successful elite, she always had an uncomfortable feeling about him.

I wanted to ask these two what was going on, but Ye Ruyan refused to say anything, only telling me not to get involved, since we're not children anymore.

As a result, with all these things piling up, it was hard for Yang Fenglan's temper not to worsen.

More importantly, she didn't know what Ye Ruyan and Jiang Dawei wanted to do by suddenly returning to China and trying to contact Qin Wanqing.

But their motives are definitely not pure!

She once overheard David Chiang and Yeh Ju-yen saying something:

The Qin family is the company's first target...