The Ran family has been going through a lot of decline after Ran Xueyi ruined Ran Yue's birthday party with that recording she showed publicly. It was quite a grand show that everyone unwillingly and willingly watched as if they were watching some kind of dog-blooded TV drama.
The Yang family also shared some of their misfortunes starting with Ran Yiqing's intervention and not allowing them to be partnered into any business proposals and ventures in City A. Although they weren't able to achieve what they wanted in City A, a second-tier city in the country, they still found some way out and became business partners with other companies outside of the city.
During those three years of Ran Xueyi's disappearance from their lives, they weren't livingly so grandly anymore.
In any case, both the Ran family and Yang family hated Ran Xueyi so much, but can't do anything against her now that she's one of the most popular and sought-after actresses internationally and domestically.
Ran Yue returned home late that night. Her role in the film was not without any importance and the scenes were less than twenty, but due to Steffanie's repetitive mistakes on set and also hers, she had to do it countless of times, draining all her energy.
As soon as she stepped into the darkened entrance of their family home, Ran Yue saw a dark shadow standing in the corner and almost gave her a fright.
"Mother! What are you doing? Are you trying to scare me to death?!" Ran Yue's body was too tired to care about showing any respect to her mother.
"You... are you working with Ran Xueyi in the same film?" Li Jing hurriedly approached her. Under the lights coming from the entrance, Ran Yue could see the dark bags under her mother's eyes.
With the Ran family's current situation, her mother hasn't been doing well. She became more and more haggard as time passed.
Thinking of Ran Xueyi, who still hasn't appeared to film after the news with Steffanie broke out, Ran Yue wished she wouldn't appear forever!
But things weren't up to her anyway, so what was the use of praying for Ran Xueyi to not appear in front of her?
Ran Yue was about to respond to her mother with a lie, but Li Jing looked like she was possessed and latched on her arms.
"Yue'er, she's in your film, right? I saw the news this morning, her name was mentioned together that young lady from the Chang family!"
Feeling the pain from being suddenly grabbed by her mother, Ran Yue was slightly annoyed with her endless pestering. "Mom! Stop this, you're hurting me!"
At her daughter's scream, Li Jing slowly looked down at her own hands and saw her hands forcefully holding her arms. She reluctantly let Ran Yue and said, "I'm sorry... Mommy is a bit worried about you so I acted a little rough."
Ran Yue looked at her with a complicated expression and sighed, "Don't say anymore. I know I have no value in your eyes after Yang Baihua decided to keep his mistress' child."
Three years ago, she was still her mother's favorite daughter and went along with all her wishes. Ran Mo Zheng even forced the Yang family to accept her as their daughter-in-law in place of Ran Xueyi. However, everything soon changed when Yang Baihua's mistresses came out to demand him to take responsibility.
And it wasn't just one woman who came out to cause trouble for Ran Yue.
There were four women!
And one of them was even pregnant.
How could she not lose her mind from this?
She thought Yang Baihua was only playing with Song Qian because she was pretty and they worked side by side, but who knew that Song Qian actually revealed that she was pregnant with Yang Baihua's child on the same night as her wedding with Yang Baihua!
Ran Yue suffered from the humiliation after finding out the truth. How could she take it? She deceived and played along with her sister's fiance to cheat with another woman. She even stole Yang Baihua for herself. But in the end, the one who benefited from this all was Song Qian all along!
But that wasn't the worst of it all.
Ran Yue thought that even after her marriage had failed after the arrival of Song Qian in their lives, her parents would still hold onto her and put all their dreams on her, but who could have thought that Ran Mo Zheng was more ruthless than she thought.
A week later Song Qian appeared, Ran Mo Zheng brought along his mistress one day. That mistress brought along her two children from her previous marriage, and the two children just had to be somewhat highly educated and with several achievements under their names. Ran Mo Zheng threw out a welcoming party for the two children and announced that they will be his children as well. He even changed their names to match his, completely forgetting about the existence of his current wife and real daughter.
Ran Yue was going to continue speaking when she saw the red marks on her mother's face. The five lines marking her face were startling red compared to her pale skin.
"Mother, what happened to your face?" Ran Yue held her mother's chin and turned her to the side to get a better look at it.
Li Jing finally showed a glint in her eyes and resentfully said, "It was that mistress!"
"What?! How could she do this to you? What did father do? Did they at least punish them?" It had been a while since she came home and so she didn't know the situation in the Ran family's mansion. But seeing her mother like this, it could be far worse than she expected.
"Let's go and find father. He should at least do something if they act rudely like this towards you!"
Li Jing happily followed her daughter to her husband's study. She couldn't wait to see that mistress's tears on her face as she apologized to her.
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