"Mr. Su's conditions have been stabilized. He will wake up soon."
"Ah, thanks for your hard work, Dr. Li."
Dr. Li chuckled, "This is what I should do. Well then, I won't be taking any more of your time, President Su."
The moment the sound of the call being hung up was heard, Su Gao's smile was immediately replaced by a sneer.
That old man's life is quite tough, huh?
Carelessly tossing the phone onto the coffee table, he poured some wine into an empty glass and downed the entire content into his throat.
"Why are you in such a foul mood?"
Su Gao glanced at his daughter who suddenly appeared in his study. Upon seeing her revealing getup, he frowned in dissatisfaction, "Are you going to the club again?"
Su Yunmo folded her arms on top of her chest and lazily leaned against the door frame, "Don't give me that look. It is Young Master Wen's birthday, aren't you trying to get him to invest in your company?"
Hearing this excuse, Su Gao scoffed, "I am already grateful enough if you don't offend that little ancestor. You think he would fall for that cheap trick of yours?"
Su Yunmo's lips which were painted with bold red lipstick stretched into a smile. She playfully twirled a lock of her wavy hair around her index finger. Her voice was full of mockery mixed with some anger, "Who knows? Didn't that b*tch Su Ming succeed and got together with President Xu?"
"Don't mention that ungrateful wench in front of me!"
Whenever Su Gao was reminded of this daughter's existence, it felt as if a fishbone was stuck in his throat, he could neither swallow nor spit it out.
Right as he thought that she finally had some use, she suddenly turned around and cut ties with him without a single shred of hesitation!
In the face of the Xu family's pressure, he couldn't even enjoy the benefits of being their in-laws.
Since the situation turned out this way, it would be better if he never had this daughter to begin with.
Su Yunmo noticed her father's dark face and boldly suggested with a mischievous grin on her beautifully makeup face, "Dad, how about I go to President Xu and expose that b*tch's real face?"
Su Gao immediately glared at her. He lowly warned, "Do you think the Xu family doesn't hate us enough yet? Who knows what that thing has been telling them behind our backs?"
Su Yunmo was still unrelenting and retorted in a loud voice, "With that b*tch's attitude, sooner or later she will be kicked out of the house! If not, why has she never appeared in public with President Xu? What are you so afraid of?"
Su Gao's head was starting to hurt due to her yelling. He irritatedly rubbed his temple, "Forget it. Don't do anything stupid behind my back, you hear me?"
Hearing his repeated warning, Su Yunmo angrily stomped her feet. She then harrumphed before walking away with a stormy face.
Her hatred against that b*tch Su Ming grew even higher.
Su Ming, I will never let you get the better of me!
The sound of the high heels hitting the floor was loud and unpleasant. Su Gao couldn't help but sigh at his daughter's willful personality.
Preventing his daughter from touching Su Ming was not due to his conscience as a father but merely a precaution.
Initially, he was afraid of Su Ming's retaliation with the help of her husband. However, Su Ming instead removed her name from the household register and remained quiet as a quail ever since.
His daughter's words were not wrong. He knew Su Ming's personality well and expected that this marriage wouldn't last long.
Since this is the case, let's not attract unwanted attention lest he end up provoking the Xu family.
It wouldn't be too late to deal with that ungrateful daughter once she divorced her husband and had no one to protect her.
With her gone, he only needed to wait for that old man to die before swallowing the entire Su family and making it into Lu!
As for that coward Su Ning, he only had himself to blame for stupidly running away from the house and abandoning the family business.
While Su Gao was reliving his dream, Su Yunmo drove her expensive sportscar and hit the road at high speed.
All of a sudden, a call from one of her good friends came through and she annoyingly connected the call.
"I am on the road, let's talk when we meet at the club."
Su Yunmo wanted to hang up the call but the other side hurriedly stopped her, "Hey, Don't hang up yet! Guess who I just saw?"
Knowing her friend's personality, it should be one of those high-profile people to make her this excited.
Intrigued, Su Yunmo raised an eyebrow and asked, "Who?"
The other side excitedly said, "It is President Xu!"
Su Yunmo immediately pulled over to the side of the road and harshly stepped on the brake. She asked with a sense of urgency, "You mean Xu Qin?!"
"Heh, who else but your one and beloved Eldest Young Master Xu?" Her friend mocked.
Su Yunmo's heartbeat started to accelerate due to excitement at the thought of that tall and handsome figure.
Due to their different social standings, she could only get a glimpse of him from afar at an evening party five years ago.
At that time, Xu Qin was still addressed as the Eldest Young Master Xu and hadn't taken over his family business yet.
Su Yunmo was born beautiful and had a lot of suitors since she was young. She never promised anyone but she enjoyed the attention she received from them.
After becoming the Eldest Miss of the Su family, her value increased and so did the quality of her suitors.
However, the spotlight didn't solely belong to her. Whenever Su Yunmo went socializing, she would always be labeled as a fake young lady behind her back.
Despite sharing the blood from the same father, Su Yunmo needed to bear the label of being an adopted daughter while Su Ming was known to be her father's only genuine child.
Su Yunmo swore never to let Su Ming get better things than her. Be it appearance, clothes, men, and their father's affections.
It was rather easy to provoke her to do bad things and trample on her self-esteem.
Su Ming thought she looked plain and tried to be better by dressing more provocatively and spending money like water.
Su Yunmo disdainfully laughed at her while looking at Su Ming who became more and more like a jumping clown.
Just as she thought that she was winning, Su Ming suddenly slapped her across the face by announcing her marriage to Xu Qin, her ideal lover.
On the same night that she fell in love at first sight with Xu Qin but felt unfair at her humble origin, Su Ming successfully climbed his bed and spent a whole night in his arms!
The one she has always been looking down on attaining something that she couldn't have! How could she stomach this?!
Once she heard that Su Ming was pregnant with his child, she almost went crazy due to jealousy.
It was not that she had never tried to sow discords between them but she didn't have any chance of encountering Xu Qin.
Su Ming mostly attended a private club or went shopping in a VIP store exclusively for those high-class elites and Su Yunmo couldn't even get a glimpse of her during these past five years.
In the end, she could only create rumors about Su Ming being a bad character and the couple argued with each other most of the time.
At this moment, God finally gave her the opportunity and Su Yunmo would be a fool to miss it.
"Where is he?"
Her friend, Ji Qing responded, "X Shopping mall, third floor but he is not alone."
Su Yunmo started the car engine and furrowed her brows, "Is he with his clients or his mother?"
Xu Qin was famous for being aloof and a workaholic. Su Yunmo guessed that it was either work or accompanying his mother to shopping.
However, Ji Qing's next words almost made her lose a tooth from grinding her teeth too much.
"He is with his daughter and another unknown woman!"
Su Yunmo stepped on the accelerator as if she was going to catch her cheating husband in action, "Keep an eye on them. I will be there soon."
Roughly 10 minutes later, Su Yunmo found Ji Qing beckoning to her behind a certain bookshelves.
Su Yunmo quickly scanned the place and hurriedly asked, "Where are they?"
Ji Qing dragged her over to another side and motioned with her chin, "Over there at the kid section."
Su Yunmo craned her neck from behind the bookshelves to look over.
Xu Qin became even more handsome and radiated a mature charm at the age of 30 years old. His angular face was hit by the soft light coming through the glass window creating a hazy image.
Unlike his usual stern face, at this moment, a light smile adorned his handsome face as he watched over his daughter causing Su Yunmo's face to become red as if she was the one on the receiving end of that gentle look.
While Su Yunmo was still immersed in her fantasy, another slender figure suddenly stepped into the same frame as the father-daughter pair.
Even though that woman didn't put on high heels she was still slightly taller than her and had a slender figure. She wore a long black coat reaching her knees and a pair of black pants empazhing her long beautiful legs.
Her long straight ink-like hair was loosely tied and it seemed to sparkle under the sunlight. Her black hair fell over her shoulder to the front revealing her pale and fragile neck prompting others to secretly glance over.
Despite not doing anything, her every gesture seemed casual but elegant and filled with incomparable grace.
At this moment, the woman was holding something in her right hand but Su Yunmo couldn't see it since she had her back toward her.
Su Yunmo would like to believe that she was a business partner but judging from the little girl's behavior, she should be a rather close acquaintance of Xu Qin.
"Has Miss Chen already come back to China?"
"That's not Chen Xin." Ji Qing confidently refused. Before Su Yunmo could ask why she was so sure, Ji Qing clicked on a picture on her phone and put it in front of her face.
The picture was taken from afar and it was a bit blurry from zooming in but Su Yunmo immediately recognized the woman's identity.
Her eyes widened in horror. She exclaimed in disbelief, "How can it be her?!"
Ji Qing was rather surprised by her reaction. She knew Su Yunmo's friend circle well, therefore, it threw her a bit off-guard when the other party recognized the woman beside President Xu.
"You know her?"
Su Yunmo snapped her head to glare at that slender back and spoke through grit teeth, "Who else but my only and good little sister, Su Ming?"
Ji Qing covered her mouth and asked in disbelief, "Didn't you say that she is ugly and vulgar? Not to mention, you also said that she and President Xu were on bad terms with each other! Does that look like the case to you?!"
Su Yunmo also would like to ask these questions. She had been holding in her anger well thinking that the two were on bad terms but if it was not the case, what would happen to her?
Her knuckles turned white and her long red nails dug into her palm but Su Yunmo could be careless about this pain.
Her heart was so suffocated that she wanted to rush in and scratch that pretty face of that b*tch.
"They are checking out."
Su Yunmo woke up due to her friend's words. Lifting her eyes, the trio was already at the counter. After the payment was done, they walked out of the bookstore.
Xu Qin carried several of the shopping bags with one hand and carried his daughter with another.
Su Yunmo and Ji Qing didn't dare to get close as they were secretly trailing after them.
At this moment, they were hiding behind a pot of plants. Su Yunmo carefully peeked out from behind only to see an incoming object flying in her direction!
She reflexively dodged but she momentarily forgot that she was wearing high heels. As a result, she slipped and her forehead hit the pillar right beside her.
"Ah!"
Sliding down to sit on the cold floor, Su Yunmo yelped in pain from being hit on her forehead and her ankle was painfully aching.
She could feel a huge bump on her forehead and it was easy to tell that her ankle got sprained.
Ji Qing nervously helped her to get up, "Are you okay?!"
Su Yunmo was about to curse but just as she lifted her head, her words got stuck in her throat when she saw so many people stopped to stare at her.
Previously, Su Yunmo's shouts were so loud that she attracted passersby to stop to look at two beautiful women at a certain corner.
At this realization, Su Yunmo abruptly turned to look in a certain direction in a fluster.
The moment she saw Xu Qin also looked in her direction, her face heated up due to embarrassment, and tears rapidly gathered in her eyes.
Lifting her handbag in an attempt to block her face, she hurriedly fled the scene while limping awkwardly.
One of the passersby clicked her tongue, "Tsk, tsk. Look how high those heels were, it would be strange if she didn't trip and fall!"
The crowd gradually dispersed but the small family of three didn't move away from their spot.
Xu Qin faintly glanced at the person beside him. He asked with a hint of sarcasm, "Rats?"
Xu Ming inserted his hands into his coat pockets and leisurely raised an eyebrow, "Otherwise? Your admirers?"
Xu Qin's temples jumped. He spoke in a righteous tone to protect his honor, "Maybe they are those stalking fans that mistook me for Ah Wei."
Amidst their bickering, Xu Mei suddenly spoke up, "But why do those aunties wear such little clothes, aren't they cold?"
Inside the shopping mall, the air conditioners were on full blast. Even Xu Mei couldn't help but burrow deeper into her Daddy's coat.
As if it was planned, Xu Qin and Xu Ming advised her at the same time.
Xu Qin softly reprimanded her, "Don't copy everything that adults do."
Xu Ming gave her a disapproved look, "Don't grow up too fast."
Xu Mei became a bit confused with their words. She scratched her head in confusion, "Does becoming an adult is a bad thing?"
Xu Qin gently replied with patience filled in his eyes, "It is not necessarily so."
Xu Ming, on the other hand, bluntly responded with a deadpan face, "It sucks."
Seeing her parents' reactions, Xu Mei concluded that being a cute child like her was the best and she shouldn't become like those aunties.