Daddy! Come Home for Dinner!

"Look at her, does she seem like she’s been through any hardship?" Xu Huizhen angrily said, "She left without a word back then, didn’t even say goodbye to us. Does she consider us family?"

"She’s just an ingrate!" Xu Huizhen shouted angrily, "She’s always felt that I wasn’t good to her. But how was I not good to her? I fed her, clothed her, never let her want for anything. I even sent her to college. And yet she still thinks I wasn’t good to her?"

"Moreover, it’s one thing for her to think I wasn’t good to her, but weren’t you good to her? You groomed her as your successor, in everything, you placed her before Ning Ning."

"What do you mean by that?" Ye Dezhang frowned.

"Ha! Don’t think I don’t know, I just couldn’t be bothered to expose you." Xu Huizhen said coldly, "In private, how much have you given her that Ning Ning never had? I know you favor her over Ning Ning. It’s fine, you don’t love Ning Ning, I do!"

Ye Ning stood behind Xu Huizhen, tears falling in grievance.

What Xu Huizhen said suggested that because Ye Dezhang was unfair to the sisters, favoring Ye Fei, Xu Huizhen had to favor Ye Ning to maintain balance.

"You were so good to her, and this is how she repays you? She left without a word, not even a goodbye. Have you forgotten how you worried about her all these years? How you couldn’t find her then!"

"That’s why I call Ye Fei an ingrate. I gave birth to her, raised her, yet she left, just like that. Even if she didn’t think of me and Ning Ning, she should have thought about how worried you’d be, right?"

"When she was home, how good were you to her, how you loved her? She only saw you as the only good person in the family. And what happened? She ran away without saying a word to her beloved father."

"For so many years, she hasn’t reached out to you once. Knowing how anxious you must be, she still didn’t contact you." Xu Huizhen mocked.

"If she was suffering outside, that’d be one thing. She could at least say something nice, like she didn’t want to make you worry. But look at her now, does she look like she’s been through any hardship? She’s thriving out there, doing very well, not thinking of us at all."

"Yes, our family is doing well now. That’s because Ning Ning is capable, opened a big restaurant, and we don’t even need to work anymore, just enjoy life at home." Xu Huizhen said, "But Ye Fei doesn’t know any of this!"

"She’s cut off contact with Ye City, she doesn’t know our current situation. In her eyes, our family is still just scraping by with a small eatery. She’s living well in a big city and doesn’t think about bringing us to B City. Doesn’t even think of sending us some support."

"I think she’s made up her mind to completely sever ties with us, as if you aren’t her father, and I’m not her mother, as if she has nothing to do with our family anymore. She doesn’t want us to burden her or bask in her success."

"Now, you eagerly go to B City to find her, full of joy, but would she want you there? I’m afraid she doesn’t want you to come at all."

"Ye Fei wouldn’t do that." Ye Dezhang said.

But his tone had weakened significantly.

Xu Huizhen’s words hit him right in the heart.

Indeed.

He had been so good to Ye Fei.

He understood if Ye Fei didn’t care about Xu Huizhen.