Quick Transmigration: Drama Queen's Daily Life Chapter 1648 - 1637: The Villain’s Foster Mother

"Honey." Liu Meiqing looked at Zhou Wanghui with some unease, clearly unwilling to let Ye Qiu—the woman who had bought her daughter from human traffickers—have any more contact with her daughter.

Zhou Wanghui patted her hand to comfort her. "Relax, it’s fine. Besides, for Qingqing, she needs time to accept all of this. No matter what, she’s been the mom Qingqing relied on for over ten years. The Emotion is different."

"Then we’ll do as you say for now. I’m just too impatient to have Qingqing come back with us."

Ye Qiu silently looked at this family. She couldn’t deny that they truly loved Ye Chuqing now. But then why, in the previous life, had they been able to let Chuqing get hurt over and over again? Was it because, compared to Chuqing, this daughter who hadn’t grown up by their side, they clearly loved their all?around perfect Zhou Linxia more?

After seeing the Zhou Family off, Ye Qiu first called Ye Chuqing’s best friend, Li Xinhe. Learning that her daughter hadn’t gone to the Li family, she thought for a moment and headed to the park Ye Chuqing had used to love most.

Sure enough, when she got there, Ye Chuqing was by the lake, absentmindedly feeding the fish.

Night was slowly falling. Ye Chuqing was too restless to want to go home, but when she turned around she saw Ye Qiu standing behind her, not knowing when she had arrived.

Her expression instantly turned furious. "How did you find me? What are you doing here?"

Ye Qiu spoke calmly. "I know you hate me right now."

"Am I not supposed to hate you?" Ye Chuqing shouted. "Even if you’d picked me up off the streets, that would’ve been better. Why did you buy me? Tell me, why were you so selfish that you bought me but never called the police? Didn’t you know buying and selling people is against the law?"

"Chuqing, about this, I’m really sorry. I know I was wrong."

"You still know what ’wrong’ is?" Ye Chuqing let out a bitter laugh through her tears. "You never understood. You treating me badly when I was little wasn’t to ’toughen me up’, it was because I’m not your biological daughter, wasn’t it?"

"I..." Ye Qiu was rendered speechless by her questioning, because that had indeed been the original Ye Qiu’s thinking.

But seeing her like this only made Ye Chuqing even more heartsick. She had thought their mother?daughter relationship was finally softening, that their days together would get better and better. She hadn’t expected it had all been a lie from beginning to end.

She wasn’t Mom’s biological daughter. What a ridiculous truth.

"Since you treated me badly before, why are you so good to me now? Are you regretting it, or are you scared?" Ye Chuqing asked again, and Ye Qiu still didn’t offer any explanation.

Ye Chuqing screamed, "Say something! Why won’t you talk?"

Right now she so desperately wanted Ye Qiu to deny it, to tell her she didn’t not love her, that buying her had been out of helplessness. But no—Ye Qiu didn’t explain a thing, and Ye Chuqing’s heart gradually went cold.

"Come back with me. Your real parents are very worried. I promised them I’d bring you home safe and sound."

"And you? You’re not worried?"

"Of course, of course I’m worried, but I..."

"You want to drive me out, don’t you?"

"Chuqing, they’re your biological parents."

"Since you know they’re my biological parents, why didn’t you call the police when you bought me?"

Ye Qiu didn’t answer that. Instead she said on her own, "I’ve looked into it. Your biological parents are very rich. If you go with them, you’ll get a better education. When you enter the entertainment industry, you’ll also have more resources."

"So what you mean is, you bought me back then, and now you’re giving up on me?" Right now Ye Chuqing was like a hedgehog—whatever Ye Qiu said, she would stab back.

"If you go back with the Zhou Family, you’ll have a better life."

"What benefits did they give you to make you work this hard at persuading me? How much money did you take from them?" Ye Chuqing’s eyes were bloodshot, her fists clenched tight, like a little lion gone mad.

Ye Qiu answered honestly, "They said as long as you return safely, they won’t hold me legally responsible, and they’ll also give me a sum as compensation for raising you all these years."

"My biological parents are really rich, huh? And you just sold me like this?"

"Chuqing..." At this point Ye Qiu no longer knew what to say. Seeing her, she seemed to make up her mind and said, "Come back with me. Your real mom and dad are very worried about you. They didn’t lose you on purpose; they’ve been searching for you for over ten years."

Ye Chuqing only laughed bitterly. "I thought, after raising me all these years, you’d have some feelings for me. You bought me, and now that they’ve offered you a suitable price, you’re selling me back, is that it?"

Without waiting for Ye Qiu to answer, she wiped away her tears and said, "Fine, I’ll go back with you—go be someone else’s daughter."

Ye Qiu opened her mouth, but in the end still didn’t offer any explanation. In fact, she hadn’t taken the Zhou Family’s money, but telling her daughter that now would clearly be pointless.

Besides, even if she said it, would that make her daughter stay? Not only would the Zhou Family not agree, she herself wouldn’t either.

No matter what, this daughter belonged to the Zhou Family. The Zhou Family also had assets that were hers by right. Even if the Zhou Family’s Parents currently favored their elder daughter Zhou Linxia more, the Ye Chuqing of today was no longer the timid, useless Ye Chuqing of the previous life.

Now she should find it easier than in the previous life to integrate into the Zhou Family. And as long as she dared to speak up, with the Zhou Family’s guilt over her all these years, it wasn’t impossible for her to get the same resources as Zhou Linxia. Even if her resources weren’t as good as Zhou Linxia’s, she was outstanding herself and wouldn’t have to live under Zhou Linxia’s light like before.

The park wasn’t far from home. Mother and daughter walked back in silence the whole way—in truth, it was Ye Chuqing striding ahead, Ye Qiu trailing slowly behind.

After closing the door, Ye Qiu looked at Ye Chuqing sitting on the sofa and spoke evenly, "You’re leaving with the Zhou Family tomorrow. Aren’t you going to pack?"

After a pause she added, "Then again, the Zhou Family has money, they’ll definitely prepare better things for you. It doesn’t matter if you don’t pack."

"You’re really that eager to shove me out?" Ye Chuqing sneered. "How do you manage to be this heartless?"

With that, she didn’t wait for Ye Qiu’s response, stormed back to her room, and slammed the door shut. Inside came the clatter of frantic packing, making a huge racket.

Ye Qiu stood at the door. She thought for a moment, then decided not to knock, and left in silence.

Inside, Ye Chuqing watched the shadow in the crack of the door retreat. Her expression grew even colder, tinged with confusion and pain. She thought, as long as Mom said she loved her, as long as Mom said buying her had been a last resort, as long as Mom asked her to stay, she wouldn’t go with the Zhou Family. She wasn’t some vain girl hungry for wealth; she didn’t care about the Zhou Family’s money. If Mom loved money, she could earn it for her later.

But from beginning to end, Mom had never said any of that, and that made Ye Chuqing more and more heartsick.