Chapter 420

Her things? Ji Yinfeng furrowed his brows even deeper. "Uncle Chen, what's going on here?" Gu Ruoruo raised her voice as she questioned the butler by her side. Why were her things piled up in a disorderly mess there? She hadn't said that she was moving. "Um... " Uncle Chen looked at Ji Yinfeng. His expression was awkward, as if he did not know how to answer. At this moment, a cold voice rang out. "It was I who asked the servants to move them here." Ji Yinfeng and Gu Ruoruo looked in the direction of the voice. They saw the mistress of the Ji family, Qin Silian, walk down the stairs slowly and stop before them. "Auntie, what do you mean by this?" Gu Ruoruo pointed at the pile and asked. "What do I mean?" Qin Silian glanced at her coldly and said with an icy snort. "Our Ji family is too small for you. We can't keep you here." Qin Silian had lost all her gentleness and the affection she had had two days ago. She had become cold and harsh. Gu Ruoruo was no fool. In a moment, she understood why her attitude had changed. But she was no doormat either. She leaned to one side, grabbing Ji Yinfeng's hand and shaking it. She said in a very aggrieved tone, "Yinfeng, look at Auntie. How can she move my things and throw them here?" Ji Yinfeng gave her a sidelong glance before turning to look at his mother. There was a look of disapproval on his face. "Mom, you shouldn't have moved Ruoruo's things without her consent." Although his feelings for Gu Ruoruo had waned, he did not want to have an acrimonious falling-out with her. It would be too ugly a scene. But his mother seemed to have given it little thought. She was set on throwing Gu Ruoruo out. "So what if I touched her stuff?" Qin Silian glared at her hatefully and said in a tone of contempt, "I even think touching her stuff would dirty my hands." "Mom!" Ji Yinfeng looked at her, very displeased. "Why? Did I say something wrong? She doesn't realize she's just a third party with loose baggage from the Tang family. What right does she have to be our Ji family's daughter-in-law? I don't know what you were thinking then. Tang Ruochu will always be the real daughter of the Tang family, their true heiress. Had you married her, the Tang Group would have been yours eventually." As she said this, Qin Silian became really angry. The more she thought of Gu Ruoruo, the more she found her an eyesore. Gu Ruoruo had finally heard Qin Silian's real thoughts. Since she was already being so candid, why would she need to swallow her pride and suffer in silence? She shook off Ji Yinfeng's hand and shot an icy glare at Qin Silian. Her lips curled into a cold smile. "Auntie, you're Yinfeng's mother. That was why I respected you. But now, it seems I no longer need to. "From the very beginning, I knew you and Uncle agreed to my marriage with Yinfeng because my father had promised 20% of the Tang Group's shares after our marriage. "The two of you agreed to our wedding because I told you I would inherit the Tang Group. In your eyes, I am nothing more than a pawn for your family to use to take over the group." Gu Ruoruo had said so much in one breath. Ji Yinfeng's face turned dark after listening to her. The expression in his eyes as he watched her turned complicated. As for Qin Silian, her expression alternated between green and white. She clearly had not been expecting her to understand everything. Gu Ruoruo had said everything that had long been stifling her. She could not help feeling comfortable after that. Since everything had been said so candidly... Her eyes swept over the pile of things and she said to the butler, "Uncle Chen, get a few men to move my things upstairs. I'm engaged to Yinfeng and will always be a daughter-in-law of the Ji family, whether alive or dead." Then she turned to smile at Qin Silain. "Don't you think so, Auntie?" Qin Silian narrowed her eyes and bellowed harshly, "No one moves her things." Then she stared coldly at Gu Ruoruo. "Your engagement with Yinfeng is canceled. Henceforth, you will no longer be Yinfeng's fiancée. Please get out of our home." "Canceled?" Gu Ruoruo could not help but raise her voice. "Did you ask me? Did I agree to call off the engagement?" "It will be canceled whether you agree to it or not. You're not worthy of Yinfeng." Qin Silian's words gave her no room to negotiate. "When I was pregnant back then, why didn't you say I was not worthy of this family?" Gu Ruoruo found her words to be totally absurd!