After five years on the run, she returns with two cute babies

Chapter 145: Negotiation

"Auntie, I wonder what you want to talk to me about?" Bai Yiran would be lying if he said he wasn't surprised. Although this future in-law had always been very nice to him, it was indeed a bit strange that she suddenly came to him.

Madam Xiao put down the photo frame in her hand, looked at Bai Yilin, and said softly, "Yilin, Auntie asked Aunt Liu to make your favorite pickled fish. Go and try it quickly."

Hearing this, Bai Yilin asked with surprise, "Really?"

Without waiting for Mrs. Xiao to answer, she turned around and ran downstairs to find Liu Ma to eat her pickled fish.

Her behavior made Bai Yiran even more confused. Looking at Bai Yilin's back as she left, Bai Yiran frowned slightly and asked softly, "Auntie, what's going on?"

Madam Xiao glanced at him, then glanced at the seat opposite indifferently: “Sit down.”

Bai Yiran sat down, really not understanding what she was up to.

"Auntie, why did you ask me to come here?"

"Yi Ran, don't be anxious, answer a few questions from Auntie first."

"Auntie, tell me."

"What is your relationship with Lin Yuqing?"

Hearing this, Bai Yiran was startled, a strange emotion flashed in his eyes, and he narrowed his eyes: "Auntie, what do you mean by asking this?"

Mrs. Xiao also decided to get straight to the point. She opened the drawer, took out the envelope and placed it in front of him.

"what is this?"

"You'll know just by looking at it."

Hearing this, Bai Yiran had no choice but to pick up the envelope and open it. When he saw the photos inside, he had a bad feeling. Sure enough, his hands trembled a little when he saw the first photo. The photo fell on the table, reflecting the faces of Xiao Mingyang and Lin Yuqing, and it was a photo of the two of them kissing.

He was stunned for a while, then looked up at Madam Xiao: "Madam Xiao, what do you mean by asking me to look at this photo?" There was already a hint of coldness in his tone.

Everyone said that Mrs. Xiao was kind and good-hearted, but he didn't think so. She actually sent people to follow her son and took these photos secretly.

"Aren't you pursuing that girl called Yuqing?" Madam Xiao pursed her lips. "You weren't surprised to see these photos, so you knew about their relationship a long time ago, right?"

Bai Yiran remained silent.

"By keeping silent, you've tacitly agreed. It seems you've known this for a long time, Bai Yiran. I really don't know what you're thinking. Regardless of whether you truly like Yuqing or not, Xiao Mingyang is your sister's fiancé. For both public and private reasons, you must help your sister instead of letting them be together like this, right?"

At the end of her speech, Mrs. Xiao's voice also became stern.

Bai Yiran kept pursing his lips and remained silent.

"I never thought that the Bai family has raised you for so many years, and this is how you repay them."

Everything else was fine, but this one point really opened up an old wound for Bai Yiran. His expression froze, and he stood up immediately, saying coldly, "Madam Xiao, I came to see you out of respect for you, but please don't use this as an excuse to expose my shortcomings. Even though I'm not a biological child of the Bai family, I'm their only eldest son, and my parents have been asking me to return to the company and take over. If I were to use this as a reason to ask for Yilin to not break off her engagement with you, do you think we'd still have a chance to talk here?"

"You..." Mrs. Xiao never expected that an adopted son would have the courage to speak to her so loudly and in a threatening manner.

Bai Yiran sneered, "If these photos were to become public, it would be perfectly normal for the Bai family to cancel your engagement. My sister is the apple of our family's eye. If they knew Xiao Mingyang had a woman outside, do you think they would let her marry him?"

Mrs. Xiao was speechless after hearing what he said. She looked at him for a long time, and then she was so angry that she slammed her hand on the table and her breathing became a little rapid.

Seeing this, Bai Yiran handed her a glass of water and said, "Auntie, please don't do that. You must take good care of yourself, because there will be a lot of things to come."

Madam Xiao was panting heavily and felt much better after drinking a glass of water. She said earnestly, "Yiran, I know that I was too much when I said those words just now. I apologize to you."

"But now, Auntie really can't bear to see them continue like this. My Xiao family is definitely not one that judges people by appearance, or looks down on others because of their family background. But if I want to marry, I have to marry a girl with a clean background. Look at Yuqing, her background is not clean, and she has two children. She is obviously a living widow. I absolutely cannot let her enter our Xiao family."

Hearing Madam Xiao say that Yuqing's background was not clean, Bai Yiran was a little angry and replied: "Auntie, you can't say that about Yuqing. She is not a girl with a clean background."

"If she were innocent, would she have two sons this old? Tsk tsk, she already has sons and yet she still wants to seduce someone else's fiancé."

"Her two children, her two children are not..." Bai Yiran's face changed with anger, but he immediately stopped talking, closed his eyes, and suppressed his rage. He almost blurted out the truth of the matter.

"It's nothing yet?" Mrs. Xiao stared at him suspiciously.

Bai Yiran felt a little uneasy when she looked at him, afraid that she would suspect something, so he could only say, "Those two children are so cute, don't you like them too, Auntie?"

"That's different. Before I knew she was seducing my son, I thought those two children were cute, good-looking, and polite. But that might just be a way for that woman to seduce me. She thought she could get into our Xiao family by pleasing me with those two children."

Bai Yiran frowned. "Auntie, are you overthinking it? The two children are only five years old. How could they have so many schemes and intrigues? Besides, Yuqing is not that kind of person. You keep saying that Yuqing seduced Mingyang, but as his mother, you should know exactly what kind of person Mingyang is."

"If Ming Yang didn't like her, one hand wouldn't clap!"

Hearing this, Madam Xiao was stunned. Bai Yiran was right. She was Mingyang's mother, so how could she not understand her son? But it was precisely because she understood him that she couldn't start with Xiao Mingyang at all. She could only start with Yuqing and make her leave.

"I don't care! Yiran, I came to you today just to ask for your help."

"How can I help? Yuqing doesn't like me. It's not that easy to break them up."

"Yiran, just tell your auntie, do you like Lin Yuqing?"

Bai Yiran was stunned and looked at Madam Xiao for a long time before nodding.

"Well, as long as you are willing, Auntie can help you."

"Help me?" Bai Yiran smiled bitterly, "How can you help me?" And he had already decided to be friends with Yuqing. If they couldn't be lovers, they could be friends. Watching her from afar could also be a kind of happiness.

Madam Xiao hooked her finger at him, motioning him to come over. Bai Yiran leaned over and listened to Madam Xiao talking in his ear.