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Jun Yao looked at them calmly, raised an eyebrow, and asked, "Then I'll leave?"

"What are you doing, trying to leave! Is this the kind of attitude you should have when talking to your aunt?!"

Qiao Jiande entered from the backyard, looking aggressive, and immediately began to lecture:

"Look at the state you're in now!"

Where is your upbringing? Where is your manners?

"Ever since you recklessly entered the entertainment industry, I don't know how many bad habits you've picked up!"

"Always causing trouble and making a scene!"

"You're asking for trouble yourself, but how can you let it affect Yichuan?"

"Don't you realize how precious his time and energy are?"

"Stop dragging him into those worthless relationships!"

"Or I'll break your legs!"

Aunt Qiao chimed in, "Yes, Junyao, even if you don't think about yourself, you should at least think about Yangyang's future, right?"

Jun Yao sneered.

"Oh yes, I almost forgot. You specifically asked me to come back to see my brother. Where is he?"

Qiao Jiande huffed and puffed, putting his hands behind his back and arrogantly saying, "What right do you think you have to negotiate with us now!"

Jun Yao frowned slightly, her eyes full of confusion. "You're begging me to persuade Zhou Yichuan to return to the Linshui Mansion?"

The Qiao family members were all stunned, and then, like a pot of boiling water, they churned and bubbled incessantly.

Qiao Nianyu shrieked, "Qiao Junyao! I think you've really gotten too big for your britches! How dare you threaten your uncle!"

Aunt Qiao seemed to want to pounce on Jun Yao and slap him across the face.

"How dare you bring this up?!"

"If it weren't for your father protecting you, you would have been locked up by the Zhou family by now!"

"Who is Zhou Yichuan, and what are you?"

"We're letting you marry into that family so that you'll make positive contributions to the Zhou family and to our family as a whole!"

"Instead of being a troublemaker!"

Qiao Jiande chimed in, angrily retorting, "Your aunt is right! Qiao Junyao, I can't control whether you're courting death or not! But don't drag the entire Qiao family down with you!"

Jun Yao laughed loudly, "You've imprisoned my mother and are using my brother to control me, can't I at least find something to implicate the entire Qiao family?"

As she laughed, her voice suddenly turned as cold as ice.

"On what grounds?"

"I didn't choose my own background!"

"I shouldn't have to bear the consequences!"

"If it weren't for protecting my family, I wouldn't have had to endure so much hardship!"

"But I tolerated your suppression of me."

"You used me, and I accepted it."

"But now we're sitting at the same negotiating table."

"You're asking me for help; you should at least act like you're asking for a favor!"

"I want to see my brother and mother! Right now!"

"I won't grant you any more requests until I see them both!"

Qiao Jiande clenched his back teeth tightly.

How did he actually get manipulated by this brat?

It seems that she did learn something from following Zhou Yichuan.

This set of negotiation techniques...

That's infuriating!

But Qiao Jiande thought to himself:

How could I, as her father, lose face to that bastard?!

Qiao Jiande immediately put on a smug smile again.

"Look at you, what's the rush? I didn't say you couldn't see me."

As he spoke, he turned to call the nanny.

"Wang Ma, go wake Xinyang up! It's almost mealtime, and he's still sleeping, being so unruly!"

Not long after, Junyao actually saw a boy who looked to be thirteen or fourteen years old.

He seems to be going through an awkward developmental stage.

On his youthful, innocent face, hormonal changes had given rise to a bluish stubble that symbolized maturity.

But his height hasn't even reached the ground yet.

At 1.6 meters tall, he still looks very childlike.

In addition, he had a thin figure.

Standing next to the pot-bellied Qiao Jiande, he looked more like a fire poker.

Jun Yao scanned the Qiao family members once more.

Aunt Qiao has a round face.

Qiao Nianyu has a full figure.

Qiao Jiande became so fat that he developed a triple chin.

Even the nanny, Wang Ma, is plump and fleshy.

Only Qiao Xinyang.

Sunken cheeks, prominent cheekbones, and faint dark circles under the eyes.

His school uniform jacket, no longer quite white from washing, hung empty, making him look more like a clothes hanger struggling to stay upright.

Without saying a word, Jun Yao went over and grabbed Qiao Xinyang.

Before anyone could react, Junyao pulled up Qiao Xinyang's school uniform sleeve a bit.

Just as the original owner remembered.

Qiao Xinyang's exposed forearm was covered in bruises.

"Who hit him?" Jun Yao asked knowingly.

Qiao Xinyang was clearly terrified.

He cowered and tore off the sleeve of his school uniform, covering up the unspeakable scars once again.

"It's okay, sister, I just bumped into something by accident..."

Without saying a word, Junyao grabbed Qiao Xinyang's other arm, pulled it aside, and examined it carefully.

Unexpectedly, the scars on the left arm were more severe than those on the right arm.

The bruises were clearly visible, along with several old, creased scars that appeared to have been burned by something, all intertwined and overlapping.

It makes Qiao Xinyang's arm look like there's almost no good flesh on it!

He is Qiao Jiande's biological son.

After the original owner's background was exposed, the Qiao family forced Qiao Xinyang to undergo a paternity test as well.

The report clearly states this in black and white.

Qiao Xinyang is Qiao Jiande's son.

But what kind of beast could beat his own son like this?!

Junyao felt as if a hole had been torn in her heart, and the pain made her gasp for breath.

The accompanying doctor couldn't bear to watch any longer and quickly pulled Qiao Xinyang aside to treat the injuries on his hands and arms.

Suppressing the discomfort caused by the original owner's emotional turmoil, Jun Yao gritted her teeth and said coldly, "I can let Zhou Yichuan go back to Linshui Mansion... but on the condition that Xinyang will be under my care from now on!"

"Qiao Junyao, don't be ridiculous!" Aunt Qiao sneered. "Who doesn't know you've retired from the entertainment industry? From now on, you won't even have a stable income. Are you going to risk your life to support Xinyang?"

"You don't need to worry about that."

Jun Yao stood protectively in front of Qiao Xinyang, not allowing anyone to approach easily.

She's taking her younger brother away today.

We are determined to win!

Qiao Jiande sneered, "You think you can just take him away like that? You're just his sister. He still has a father and a mother."

He deliberately emphasized the last "Mom".

Qiao Xinyang, who was sitting on the sofa receiving care from the doctor, suddenly pushed the doctor away and ran back to Qiao Jiande's side.

"Dad, I know I was wrong."

Snapped!

Qiao Jiande slapped him hard across the face.

Qiao Xinyang was immediately knocked to the ground.

"Your sister's being silly, are you going to join in her silliness?"

"She wants to take you away, are you going to go back with her?"

"Speak up, Qiao Xinyang!"

Qiao Xinyang, who had fallen to the ground, raised his small face, which now bore five bright red handprints, and looked at Jun Yao with tears in his eyes.

"Sister, can you please stop going crazy?"

"Just listen to your father and aunt!"

"I...I won't go with you."

"Sister, give up."