She rushed over hurriedly, almost stumbling along the way.
Seeing the photo in Ye Lirong’s hand, Yan Zhirou snatched it away imdiately.
"Rou, look! This is a picture of you and Yan Xinxin from years ago. Isn’t the little girl in this photo identical to the one shown on TV just now?"
Ye Lirong asked excitedly, a rare smile appearing on her face.
Yan Zhirou didn’t hesitate. She quickly opened her phone and started searching, and soon found the video recording from the news earlier.
She played the video, fast-forwarding to the part where the photo was shown. Then she compared the photo in her hand diligently. Before long, her face lit up with the sa joy as Ye Lirong!
"Mom! This ti, we’re really going to strike it rich!"
Yan Zhirou burst into laughter, her happiness overflowing. This was by far the most thrilling news she’d received in ages!
"Strike it rich?"
Yang Guoping looked baffled at what he was hearing, but the mother-daughter pair were already so ecstatic they seed to have lost all sense of direction.
"Rou, Ah Li, are you planning to..."
"Dad! You’re confused!"
Yan Zhirou composed herself, though her smile was uncontainable.
"You saved Yan Xinxin back then out of kindness. Isn’t it ti for her and her family to return the favor?"
"Exactly, exactly! Rou’s right!"
Ye Lirong agreed fervently, a greedy gleam flashing across her face.
"Old Yan, didn’t you hear what the lady host just said? A reward of tens of millions! Over ten million in cash! You wouldn’t even make one-tenth of that in a lifeti!"
As he listened to their words, Yang Guoping frowned and calmly sank back onto the sofa.
"I saved Xinxin back then purely by coincidence. I couldn’t just stand idly by when I saw her. I never expected any benefit from her family."
"Dad, I know you’re always the good guy, but we’re not asking for this money without reason!"
Yan Zhirou walked over, her face wearing a facade of righteousness and kindness.
"Dad, think about it. You saved her life, raised her, paid for her education, fed and clothed her. Five years ago, when she had a child out of wedlock, you sacrificed five years of your freedom and ti to protect her reputation. Now her family wants to grant you a hefty reward, and it’s fully deserved!"
"Old Yan, Rou’s right!"
Ye Lirong quickly chid in to support the persuasion.
"You saved her life. Are you telling the life of the daughter of the Mu family isn’t worth at least ten million?"
"Exactly!"
Yan Zhirou smiled in agreent, her eyes flickering with envy and jealousy.
"To think that Yan Xinxin’s real family background is this powerful and prestigious. I really misjudged her!"
Ye Lirong snickered alongside her.
"If I had known she was the daughter of such a wealthy family, I would have pampered her every single day!"
"Are you just now realizing that being kind to Xinxin might be too late?"
Yang Guoping’s words directly extinguished the mother-daughter duo’s zeal.
"You drove Xinxin and Xi away before. Five years ago, you sold her biological daughter Chun. During my absence over these five years, could you even count the tis you bullied her? And now you’re hoping the Mu family will give you ten million! Utterly delusional!"
His blunt and unforgiving words instantly wiped the smiles off their faces. Ye Lirong suddenly froze, as though jolted awake.
"This is bad!"
It was only then that she recalled the lie she had told Yan Xinxin not long ago! That lie was spun entirely in line with Mu Qianshui’s wishes, claiming that Yan Xinxin had been picked up from the garbage, and that her parents were drug addicts. But now...
Yan Xinxin was none other than Mu Qianshui’s sister!
"This cannot be revealed!"
Ye Lirong shouted abruptly, grabbing Yan Zhirou’s hand.
"Rou, we can’t disclose this secret for the ti being! Forget about the ten million for now!"
"Mom, what are you talking about?"
"I... I need to go sowhere now. Don’t ask questions. Rou, promise , absolutely don’t say anything!"
Ye Lirong finished her warning, then turned and dashed out the door in a panic!
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