"What did you say, Jiaqi? What did you do to her?" Lin Su Yi almost staggered on her footing. She couldn't believe her ears. Although she hated Yun Meiyi to her core, still killing her has never struck her thoughts. She would have been too audacious to think that, especially after knowing how dear the Old Master held the girl.
Seeing her mother's expression change like that, Yun Jiaqi felt her confidence also thinning inside. If the reaction of her mother was like this, she couldn't dare to think how others would react to it.
"Mama, I don't know why I did that but at that time I felt that YiYi would take it all staying low. I never thought suddenly she would have the courage to stand against you and disregard us and the family like this. Hasn't she always loved to maintain the peace in the family? How do you think that I could have speculated her going other ways?" Jiaqi cried and Lin Su Yi didn't know how she should comfort her.
Comforting her wasn't her concern now, rather she was more scared to think if Ye Xuan or the Old Master came to know then what would happen? She couldn't dare to think that. Furrowing her brows, she shook her head and immediately chided her daughter, "You shouldn't have done that Jiaqi. How can you choose such a heinous move? You know you have committed a mistake that would swallow you whole. Luckily, your father is out of the city otherwise …"
Before she could complete her words, Jiaqi's expression changed. Even though Su Yi was thinking about her best, she felt like she was siding with Meiyi. "Ma, do you still have to look down at me? If it had not been for you, do you think I would have done this to her? Even though you never praised her on my face, I can read that in your eyes. You have always been envious of her capabilities and wanted them to see in me."
"But I was never able to fulfill then. If you are feeling bad for her then say it, Ma. You don't have to bring Dad into this. He hates her. Even if he sees her dying tomorrow, he won't say anything." She said and Lin Su Yi doesn't know whether to laugh or cry.
She must have remained incompetent in teaching her daughter to see through people's façades, otherwise how else could she believe that her father wouldn't be affected seeing his eldest daughter die.
Sighing in her heart, she let a deep breath out to say, "Jiaqi, do you really think your father would be at ease seeing her die? If you think like that then believe me, you have not yet known your father. At the front, he might show that he doesn't like her, but believe me he likes her more than anything. Or else how do you think the servant in the house looks after her so much?"
"Ma, but Dad …"
Before Jiaqi could even say anything, Lin Su Yi gave out a mocking chuckle. Then shaking her head, she sneered, "Your father has been pulling up a mask of hatred, Jiaqi. Meiyi is his daughter and the sole memory of his first love and ex-wife. There could be no way he could hate her. Although I don't know why he pulls that mask in front of us but believe me if he comes to know what you have done to her, I don't even know what he would do to you."
Jiaqi was more than alarmed at those words of the mother. To her, her father has always been loving and doting towards her while towards Meiyi, he has always shunned her away. How could she have known his love for her before?
"Ma, now what should I do? We can still keep grandpa in the dark. But how would we be able to hide the truth from Dad? If Yun Meiyi said it to him then we wouldn't be able to hold her back. Ma, what will I do now?" Jiaqi only trembled at that thought.
Lin Su Yi was no less concerned. Even though there was a lot in her daughter that she was unsatisfied with, still she was the girl that she had birthed after holding in her womb for nine months. There could be no way she couldn't leave her on her own. She was her treasure and she had to protect her at any cost.
Thinking it that way, Su Yi took a deep breath in and then said, "To keep an eye on Meiyi, it's necessary to keep her here in front of our eyes all the time. If she stays on her own, we won't be able to know what she is up to. So, it's necessary to keep her here in the Yun Mansion itself."
She said and Jiaqi looked a bit hesitant about this plan. "But Ma, isn't she already leaving the house? How will we be able to keep her here?" She said and before the mother could say anything, the butler appeared in brisk steps to plead.
"Madam, Elder Miss has already made up her mind to leave the house. Please stop her from doing so. Old Master won't like it furthermore how will she be able to survive moving out of the Yun Mansion. After all, she is still a young girl. Life would get tough for her."
He said and if it had been any other time, Yun Su Yi would have been irked with that pleading as well. But since the stay of Yun Meiyi has also become important to them, she felt that it was only better to see it through the point of view of the butler. As long as she could threaten Yun Meiyi with the thought of how tough and uncomfortable her life would become outside Yun Mansion, she believed that she would stay back.
After all, who would want to live an uncomfortable life when their number of days remaining could be counted on fingers.
"Don't worry, Mr. Qin. I will try my best to keep her here. After all, she is the elder daughter of the family, it's only better if she lives with us." She said and her words for a moment even surprised the butler.