Chapter 319: Who Else Can You Rely On Besides Me

“How do you want me to address you?”

Chu Yao sat down, leaned forward with one hand supporting her cheek, smiling yet not smiling, “Should I still call you mother, would you dare to respond?”

Mrs.

Mo’s face instantly darkened to its limits, “You’re so out of line, what do you think this place is!”

Chu Yao lifted her gaze indifferently, “I know, the Mo Family, a distinguished household.”

She leaned back, raising her eyebrows, and with a sneering tone said, “You know better than I do how many sordid affairs happen in wealthy families, men can’t control their lower halves, women can’t control their men, gleaming on the outside but rotten on the inside.

This kind of person is commonplace in distinguished households, you’ve seen more than I have, right?”

“Chu Yao!”

Mrs.

Mo slammed the table, stood up, and pointed at her nose as if she was about to curse her out, but upon catching sight of Mo Tingshen entering from the doorway, her hand trembled and she held back.

“Tingshen, you bring back this ill-omened thing from prison just to anger me?”

Mo Tingshen’s cold gaze met hers, “Don’t make trouble where there is none.”

“Am I making trouble?

After all, I’m her elder.

She’s an orphan, if our Mo Family hadn’t taken her in back then, could she live as well as she does now?

She doesn’t even greet me properly, so arrogant and conceited, and I can’t even say a word?”

Chu Yao laughed, looking up at the enraged Mrs.

Mo, called out, “Auntie Mo.”

Everyone was stunned.

Including Mo Li, who had just come down from upstairs.

Chu Yao, as if oblivious to the suddenly tense atmosphere, still looked at Mrs.

Mo, her smile warm and light, “Are you satisfied now?”

Mrs.

Mo was fuming with nowhere to vent.

She glared at her for a long while, with cuss words hanging on the tip of her tongue, only to be scolded by Mo Li, “That’s enough, the child just came back and you’re giving her a hard time.

Elders should act like it, let’s have dinner!”

“How can I even eat now?”

Mrs.

Mo went upstairs with a cold face, clearly hearing her sarcastic words, “Now that she’s back, I wonder who is truly happy.

Disgusting!”

Mo Li instructed the servants to go upstairs to look after her, knowing she wouldn’t come back down for dinner, and then told the kitchen to prepare a portion to bring up to her room.

Chu Yao sat on the sofa without moving, Mo Tingshen stood beside her, and no words were exchanged between the two, the quiet living room was filled with an underlying tension.

“Is this what you wanted me to see by bringing me back?” she asked.

Mo Tingshen’s gaze softened slightly, “You’re not staying here, I’ll take you away after dinner.”

Chu Yao looked at him in surprise, “Grown a conscience, huh?”

He walked over, hands in the pockets of his dress pants, his gaze devoid of arrogance as he looked at her, calm and indifferent, “Xiao Yao, no need to be snide with me, who else can you rely on in this world?”

Chu Yao’s confrontational expression instantly stiffened.

“Go wash your hands, come eat.”

With that, Mo Tingshen turned and went toward the dining room.

Chu Yao came out of the restroom, the elevator reached this floor, with a ding, the sound of wheels on the floor was very soft.

She didn’t pay it any mind, and had just taken a few steps, when a surprised voice came from behind, “Xiao Yao?”

Mo Suizhi wasn’t quite sure, “Is it really you?

I went to visit you a while ago and didn’t hear you were getting out.”

“I got parole.”

Chu Yao looked at the wheelchair beneath him, her eyes widening slightly, “What happened to your legs?”

Mo Suizhi subconsciously pulled the blanket up over his legs, “It’s nothing, it can be healed.”

She guessed, “Is it from the car accident when you helped me escape three years ago?”

“No, don’t think too much about it, it wasn’t from that time, I was out driving for fun and got hit, I’ve been following the doctor’s orders, doing rehabilitation, it’s been going well.”