After being reborn, I'm no longer going to play the role of a spoiled rich kid.

Chapter 128 Conflict

You Sijia didn't bother to hide her emotions in front of Jiang Lingyu.

"Yeah." She nodded.

"regret?"

“How could that be?” Yustia said. “I just feel a little uncomfortable.”

She felt she hadn't done anything wrong, but if Meng Weiyuan was truly holding a grudge about yesterday's slap, she would naturally feel unhappy.

At this moment, Jiang Lingyu did not offer any suggestions to You Sijia, but simply peeled an orange that was almost cooked.

The green-skinned tangerine has an exceptionally refreshing flavor, a sweet and sour taste.

To refresh the mind.

At that moment, both Jiang Lingyu and You Sijia's phones rang. It was a video sent by Ling Shuangyue showing them on the ice.

Several people, who were clearly not young, found some plastic boards from somewhere and were "pulling carts" on the ice, having a blast.

At the end of the video, Ling Shuangyue also provided You Sijia with firsthand intelligence from her side.

[Ling Shuangyue: Yuan-ge didn't go out this morning; he stayed in his room alone. Wei Ning actually left on his own yesterday afternoon; he's probably quite angry.]

Yu Sijia had not received any news from Meng Weiyuan by evening.

Jiang Lingyu, who had initially wanted to comfort You Sijia, suddenly didn't know what to say.

Watching Yusjia scribble on her tablet, even though she didn't know much about drawing, she could tell from the sound of the stylus touching the tablet that Yusjia was annoyed.

She walked over and handed Yuska a glass of warm water. "Would you like me to take you there?"

They escorted Yusjia back to the cabin she shared with Meng Weiyuan.

Yuska reacted strongly to these words. She suddenly looked up, her eyes full of stubbornness, "Why should I go there on my own initiative?"

She didn't marry to suffer.

There was an "uninvited guest" in the living room on the second floor where Meng Weiyuan was.

He hadn't appeared in public all day, so even if Wang Xingzhi and Ling Yumang were oblivious, they couldn't possibly think that nothing had happened.

Ling Yumang sat opposite Meng Weiyuan, looking somewhat embarrassed.

After Wei Ning left yesterday, Ling Shuangyue went to see him in the evening.

Ling Shuangyue wasn't so gentle with her own brother; she threw the video she had obtained that afternoon in front of Ling Yumang.

"...Was our family not good enough to her? Otherwise, with Aunt Wei's connections, how could she have gone to school with us since she was little? And now she's studying abroad? She's not younger than Jiajia, is she? Jiajia graduated a long time ago, while she's only doing her undergraduate studies abroad, and she's been delaying her graduation for so many years! I feel ashamed when I hear about it!"

Ling Shuangyue has many friends in the circle, all from similar backgrounds and of similar age, and all destined to inherit their family businesses. The wealthier they are, the less they dare to slack off in their studies.

Otherwise, Yanbi would be a disgrace to the entire family.

Wei Ning, on the other hand, is already twenty-four or twenty-five years old and hasn't even managed to get a bachelor's degree.

The tuition and living expenses of over a million yuan a year are just a drop in the ocean for the Ling family, but for an ordinary family, it is a huge sum of money.

What gives Wei Ning the right to live such a privileged life?

"If you're going to fawn over your 'good sister,' then you'd better sever all ties with me when you get back. Also, I don't trust someone as muddle-headed as you to handle the family business in the future," Ling Shuangyue said bluntly. Her meaning was clear: as long as Ling Yumang continued to be used like an idiot, she wouldn't mind handling both research and management.

When that time comes, the brother and sister will inevitably have a contest.

Although Ling Shuangyue wasn't particularly ambitious, she wasn't without ambition either.

What else could Ling Yumang do?
Moreover, Ling Shuangyue's words did indeed make sense.

He didn't know how Wei Ning had become like this; she used to be just a well-behaved little girl who would follow him around calling him "brother."

If Meng Weiyuan and You Sijia really had a falling out because of Wei Ning, given You Saide's doting on his eldest daughter, Ling Yumang didn't know what the other party would do.

Then, wouldn't the Meng and You families blame the Ling family for this?

This is simply an undeserved disaster.

"...You can try to coax her, but if you do that without considering the future of the family, then Ling Yumang, I won't let you get away with it."

Ling Shuangyue's voice still seemed to echo in Ling Yumang's ears. He couldn't even remember how he and his biological sister, who shared the same father and mother, had become so distant from how they were when they were children.

"Why haven't you gone out all day?" Ling Yumang spoke first, looking at Meng Weiyuan who was holding his laptop and hadn't moved, so he had to bite the bullet and ask, "Where's your wife? Why haven't you gone to pick her up yet?"

When Meng Weiyuan heard Ling Yumang mention You Sijia, he finally looked up and saw the two people sitting opposite him, staring intently at him.

"You guys have a lot of free time?" he frowned.

Seeing that things were getting out of hand, Wang Xingzhi stepped in to smooth things over, "Haha, we just came to see you since you didn't come to eat with us, and your sister-in-law didn't show up either."

Wang Xingzhi's questioning was so obvious that Meng Weiyuan didn't respond at all.

An eerie silence seemed to fall over the room.

Meng Weiyuan was never a talkative person, and he is still the same now.

He seemed oblivious to the unsettling silence in the room, still staring at his laptop screen without making a sound.

But perhaps only he knows that even if he stares intently at the screen until he sees through it, the content on it doesn't even register in his mind.

“Old Meng, I’m really sorry for what happened yesterday to you and your sister-in-law.” Ling Yumang spoke again. “Shuangyue also came to see me later. Wei Ning acted without thinking. She’s an adult and should be punished. This time she came back from abroad, and our family will no longer provide her with tuition and living expenses for studying abroad next year.”

This was not a request made by Ling Shuangyue, but a remedial measure that Ling Yumang came up with on his own at this moment.

If Wei Ning didn't have the fact that she was his god-sister, Meng Weiyuan probably wouldn't have known who she was at all.

To suggest that Meng Weiyuan and You Sijia forgive Wei Ning now would be giving Wei Ning face.

Meng Weiyuan remained unmoved.

He never took Wei Ning seriously, and he wasn't interested in what Ling Yumang was going to do.

“…I won’t go near my sister-in-law. You should deliver this message to her yourself.” Ling Yumang finished his sentence.

In his opinion, once Yusijia heard the good news brought by Meng Weiyuan, she should stop throwing a tantrum at Meng Weiyuan.

But now, Ling Yumang probably didn't expect that Meng Weiyuan had no intention of conveying these words at all.

"You want me to go and claim credit?" Meng Weiyuan finally shifted his attention from the computer screen, looked up, and asked Ling Yumang with a half-smile.

(End of this chapter)