I Refused to Be a Substitute, and Shot to Fame on a Variety Show With My Mother-In-Law

176 Her Impressive Family

Just as her heart ached, Han Qianye, who had put away the cheque, suddenly said, “I’m not very good at taking care of people, and I don’t know how to treat people well, because it’s always been others who please me. I’ve always thought that anything that can be solved with money, I usually solve it with money. Later, I’ll transfer 20 million yuan to your account. Go buy whatever you want to eat.”

Li Xiwu politely declined. “No need.”

Han Qianye was very insistent. “I’ll transfer it to you later. Tell me when it’s not enough.”

Li Xiwu asked hesitantly, “Is it included in the 400 million?”

Han Qianye thought for a moment. “No.” Worried that Li Xiwu would not be able to take it standing outside like this, she reminded her, “Hurry up and go in. I should go back.”

Li Xiwu did not refuse again and nodded. “Take care.”

When Han Qianye left, she was still very worried. “You have to rest well. Spend the money if you have to, remember?”

Li Xiwu agreed. “Okay.”

Li Xiwu watched Han Qianye enter the elevator and heaved a sigh of relief when the elevator door closed.

Meanwhile, Qiao Qiao was lying on the sofa and eating potato chips with a satisfied expression. The crisp sound filled the entire living room.

Suddenly, the crisp sound disappeared—

Qiao Qiao looked at the man standing outside the sofa in horror and trembled in fear. The potato chips in her hand fell to the ground. “P-President Pei.”

Pei Jingzhou’s cold gaze swept past Qiao Qiao and finally stopped on the potato chips that had fallen to the ground. He frowned.

Qiao Qiao immediately squatted down. “I’ll pick it up. Right away.”

Pei Jingzhou asked, “Where is she?”

Qiao Qiao pointed at the door. “Your mother… Auntie was here just now. Xiwu sent Auntie out. She should be back soon.”

Pei Jingzhou lowered his eyes and looked at Qiao Qiao.

Qiao Qiao quickly lowered her head. “I-I-I-I’ll pick it up right away.”

Li Xiwu opened the door and entered. She saw Pei Jingzhou standing there elegantly while Qiao Qiao squatted on the ground anxiously picking up things. At first glance, Qiao Qiao’s face was pale. She was clearly frightened by Pei Jingzhou.

She walked over and Pei Jingzhou looked up. “You’re back.”

Li Xiwu said, “Yeah.” She walked past Pei Jingzhou and squatted down in front of Qiao Qiao to help her up. “There’s no need to pick up the dirt on the ground. A part-timer will come and clean it later.”

After a pause, Li Xiwu reminded Qiao Qiao, “Qiao’er, you’re here as a guest.”

Qiao Qiao also realized that she had been a good slave just now. She reacted and stood up. “Yes, why should I pick it up?!”

With that, Qiao Qiao stole a glance at Pei Jingzhou’s expression. Not long after she said that, she immediately changed it to, “Actually, I still have to pick it up. It’s only comfortable to look at the clean ground.”

Li Xiwu suppressed her smile and turned to look at Pei Jingzhou.

Pei Jingzhou said calmly, “I didn’t say anything.”

Li Xiwu said, “Fourth Brother is here. Qiao Qiao doesn’t feel comfortable talking to me, so Fourth Brother, you should go inside and work.”

Pei Jingzhou was unhappy. He glanced sideways at the culprit, Qiao Qiao. What an undeserved calamity.

Qiao Qiao moved behind Li Xiwu and laughed dryly. “Hehe.”

Pei Jingzhou was a little speechless.

When Pei Jingzhou returned to the study, Qiao Qiao suddenly heaved a sigh of relief. “This Pei Jingzhou is unpredictable. I was almost scared to death just now.”

Li Xiwu smiled and asked, “Are you that afraid of him?”

Qiao Qiao confided, “A large part of the reason why I’m afraid of Pei Jingzhou is because our family has someone like Pei Jingzhou, who is expressionless like a living King of Hell.”

Li Xiwu raised her eyebrows in amusement. “Your brother?”

Qiao Qiao whispered, “My little uncle.”

Li Xiwu asked, “Is your father strict?”

Qiao Qiao shook her head. “Don’t mention my father. He’s a coward.”

Li Xiwu expressed her understanding. “Most brothers have opposite personalities.”

“It’s more than the opposite.” Qiao Qiao placed her hands on her hips and shrugged. “If my father had been more promising, our Qiao family wouldn’t have fallen into the hands of an outsider.”

Li Xiwu wasn’t too sure about Qiao Qiao’s family members yet, because Qiao Qiao had never fully said it.

But Qiao Qiao’s family background was very prominent. There was no doubt about that. As for the outsider Qiao Qiao had just blurted out, Li Xiwu was quite curious. “Do you mean the little uncle you just mentioned?”

Qiao Qiao’s eyes widened. “I haven’t even said anything and you already guessed.”

Li Xiwu smiled. “You have to suppress your desires first. I guess what you just said must be connected.”

Qiao Qiao gave Li Xiwu a thumbs up. Li Xiwu gestured for Qiao Qiao to sit down and speak slowly.

Qiao Qiao didn’t sit down. She took the cake she’d brought first. The cake was small. Qiao Qiao had made it herself. Li Xiwu could tell at a glance.

Because the cream wasn’t evenly smeared, the small cookies on the cake were scattered in all directions. They didn’t look good, but they definitely didn’t taste bad, because Li Xiwu had eaten cakes like this many times. Qiao Qiao made them.

Li Xiwu listened to Qiao Qiao talk about the Qiao family as she ate the cake Qiao Qiao had made for her.

It turned out that the Qiao family’s foundation was in Xingzhou.

Qiao Qiao’s grandmother had two sons and a daughter. The eldest son was Qiao Qiao’s father. Her aunt’s husband’s family was in the capital. Qiao Qiao did not say who it was exactly. The other son was the third son, but he was not Grandma Qiao’s biological son. He was the son of Grandpa Qiao’s comrade.

Grandma Qiao and Grandpa Qiao doted on this adopted son so much that the entire Qiao family was almost in the hands of this adopted son. He was only short of real power.

Qiao Qiao was quite indignant.

Why should the Qiao family’s foundation be handed over to an outsider? On what grounds?

Seeing that that person was getting more and more high-spirited in the Qiao family, Qiao Qiao looked at her biological father again. He raised flowers and fed fish every day, making Qiao Qiao extremely anxious. Later on, Qiao Qiao, who couldn’t hold it in anymore, began to encourage her father to seize power. If her father didn’t seize it, she would seize it herself.

In the end, she failed and was reprimanded by Grandpa Qiao.

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In a fit of anger, Qiao Qiao drove the only Maybach under her name away from home. She left for more than three years. She did not go back to the Qiao family once, and no one came to look for her.

When she first arrived in the capital, she had no relatives or friends, so it was difficult for her.

It was quite difficult at first. After all, only she knew what she had experienced in the past. In any case, she did not expect to survive in the capital.

After hearing this, Li Xiwu asked, “You’ve been in the capital for three years, but the Qiao family hasn’t contacted you for three years?”

Qiao Qiao sighed. “They did, my parents asked me to go back, but I’m stubborn. I said I’d go back when the old man was dying. In the end, the old man became stronger and stronger. He’s only in his early eighties. I heard from my mother that he can probably live to be a hundred years old.”

Li Xiwu’s heart ached a second ago.

The next second: “…”