"Forget it. Your sister is going home today, so I don't want to argue with you." Qiao Ling was in a good mood today. "Since Xiaozhi is here, why don't you stay and have dinner together? I'll ask Aunt Wang to cook a few more dishes."

After Qiao Ling finished speaking, she left, leaving only Zhou Wanyi and the two people opposite.

Zhou Wan blinked, looked at Cui Qi and said softly, "Second brother."

Cui Qi has been around a lot of women and is good at dealing with them, but he still feels a little awkward facing his sister who just came home, "Hmm..."

Her eyelids jumped, and she cast her gaze towards the man next to Cui Qi. Should she say hello to him? But they didn't seem to know each other well, did they?

In her previous life, she had little contact with Jiang Zhi. She only knew that he was a good friend of her second brother, and they were just acquaintances when they met at the banquet. How come she and Jiang Zhi knew each other so early in this life?

Zhou Wanyi was in a dilemma, but her eyes were always on Jiang Zhi.

Jiang Zhi tilted his head slightly and looked at her. She felt a little uneasy when Jiang Zhi looked at her like that, and turned her eyes away in panic.

Seeing her looking around in an attempt to hide her guilt, Jiang Zhi's lips curved up and he said lazily, "Sister, why are you embarrassed to see me? You didn't even call me. Could it be that you don't remember me as your brother?"

Zhou Wanyi was caught off guard by the question and his voice was trembling: "No, no."

Seeing her helpless look, Cui Qi pulled Jiang Zhi over and pushed him towards the restaurant, "Stop bullying my sister."

Zhou Wanyi then breathed a sigh of relief and walked towards the restaurant.

"Come here, Yiyi, sit next to mom." Qiao Ling pulled her directly to the seat on her right.

Cui Wanning looked at Qiao Ling's meticulous care for Zhou Wan and felt as if her heart was being gnawing at by countless ants. The hem of her skirt was wrinkled badly.

She heard what Jiang Zhi said just now. Why? When she met Jiang Zhi before, she was very humble and polite, but there was one time when she called him "Brother Jiang Zhi".

Cui Wanning still remembers his look. Jiang Zhi's eyes were as sharp as a knife, cold to the bone. He said, "Stop trying to make connections. This is not the Cui family."

Jiang Zhi's words and actions were warning her not to forget who she was.

But now Jiang Zhi teased Zhou Wanyi directly in front of him, and the difference was immediately formed.

She took stiff steps and sat down on Qiao Ling's left.

"Young Master, you're back." Uncle Qi's voice sounded outside the door.

Cui Wanning's thoughts instantly became active again, "What a coincidence that big brother came back!"

She knew that Cui Yu was a meticulous person. She had been in this family for ten years, but he was still cold to her and hardly communicated with her.

She just didn't believe that Cui Yu would accept Zhou Wanyi without any hesitation!

The footsteps were getting closer. Cui Yu was wearing a neat dark suit, a simple white shirt, and gold-rimmed glasses. He looked noble and casual.

Cui Yu took off his coat, rolled up his sleeves and sat down at the dining table. He looked at Jiang Zhi and nodded as a greeting.

When Qiao Ling saw that everyone was present, she asked Aunt Wang to prepare dinner.

Cui Wanning was afraid that the world would not be in chaos, so he deliberately approached Cui Yu and said, "Brother, my sister has been taken home, don't you want to talk to her?"

Cui Yu stared at her with dark eyes, "Even so many dishes can't stop you from eating."

What Cui Wanning feared most was eye contact with Cui Yu. After being retorted to, she would bury her head in the bowl.

Qiao Ling didn't care about Cui Wanning. She felt distressed when she saw Yi Yi's thin little face and kept putting food into her bowl.

"Yiyi, eat more. Look at your face. There's not much flesh on it."

Zhou Wanyi was helpless: "Okay—"

After a short break, Cui Wanning's mind became active again. She picked up a boiled shrimp in front of her and put it in Zhou Wanyi's bowl.

"Mom is right, this is top-grade prawns, rich in nutrients, sister, you should eat more."

Zhou Wanyi's eyes fixed, he glanced at her quietly, then put the prawn into the bone dish beside him.

Cui Wanning noticed her movements and took the opportunity to ridicule her: "What's wrong with you, little sister? Could it be that you have never eaten it before and don't know how to eat it?"

As soon as she said this, the atmosphere at the table suddenly became much colder.

She was clearly mocking Zhou Wanyi. Cui Qi was not happy to hear this. "How do you talk like that? Are you being taught how to be sarcastic in school?"

Zhou Wanyi remained calm, "Sister, you're overthinking it. I'm just allergic to seafood."

Seafood allergy!

Cui Wanning never thought that Zhou Wanyi would be allergic to seafood! Then wasn't it a slap in the face that she had deliberately humiliated her for not having eaten such high-end shrimps?

Qiao Ling snorted coldly and handed her bone dish to Zhou Wanyi, "I forgot that your father and brothers are allergic to seafood. I didn't expect Yiyi is also allergic to seafood."

"Auntie Wang, Auntie Wang." Qiao Ling suddenly called Auntie Wang over.

Aunt Wang wiped her hands and came over, "What's wrong, Madam?"

Qiao Ling's tone was somewhat accusatory, "Auntie Wang, so many people in your family are allergic to seafood, why are you still making boiled shrimp?"

Aunt Wang was a little embarrassed, "Because we had guests at home, and Wan Ning likes to eat shrimp, so I made it."

"How can that be possible?" Qiao Ling's voice suddenly rose. "So many people in my family are allergic to seafood. We need to pay attention to the root cause. We can't just serve seafood to someone just because they like it."

"Okay, ma'am."

This "someone" specifically refers to Cui Wanning. Although it is not explicitly stated, apart from Jiang Zhi, she is the only one who is not allergic to seafood.

So Qiao Ling just doesn't care about her dignity?

Cui Wanning thought that her well-behaved and sensible appearance would satisfy Qiao Ling, but she didn't expect that as soon as Zhou Wanyi returned, she became a marginal figure in this family.

It turned out that she was an outsider in this family from the very beginning.

Besides, the Cui family never accepted her.

Cui Wanning clenched the chopsticks in his right hand, bit his lower lip tightly with his teeth, and held back his emotions.

Although Zhou Wanyi appeared calm on the surface at the moment, she was actually secretly happy, because she knew that Cui Wanning would continue to suppress her and would definitely not give up at the dinner table tonight.

As soon as she saw Cui Wanning's face turn purple, she felt much better.

Jiang Zhi stopped what he was doing and his eyes moved away from Zhou Wanyi's face without leaving a trace. Seeing her eyebrows relax, Jiang Zhi chuckled.

Today's drama was really exciting. Jiang Zhi's opinion of Zhou Wanyi had changed. He didn't expect that after more than ten years away from the Cui family, he thought that Zhou Wanyi would be a soft persimmon, but he played a trick of pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger.

Throughout the entire dinner, Cui Wanning was the only one who felt uninterested.

Jiang Zhi had already bothered him a lot today, so after dinner, he took the initiative to say goodbye and leave.

"Xiao Zhi is leaving?" Qiao Ling kicked Cui Qi who was lying on the sofa playing games, "Why are you still playing games? Go and see him off."

Cui Qi was so absorbed in the mobile game that he didn't even raise his head. "It's not like he doesn't know the way. Besides, his home isn't far away."

Qiao Ling didn't say anything either. She just stood there with her hands on her hips, staring at him with a look that made people shudder.

Cui Qi's hands were shaking as he was choosing the hero. He couldn't bear the look in his mother's eyes. "Send, send, send. I'll send now."

Cui Qi saw him watching the show from the side and gave him a veiled look, "You're her biological son, aren't you?"

Without waiting for Jiang Zhi to speak, he came closer and said, "I haven't asked you yet, why did you look at my sister like that before dinner? Didn't you say she was okay?"

Jiang Zhi narrowed his eyes slightly, and a low laugh escaped from the depths of his throat, "I was wrong, your sister is quite good."

Cui Qi: "Huh? Are you okay?"

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