Defrosting The Cold Young Master

The call connected and he asked his mother if Ye Xingbei had been sent to the Shi family by her.

His mother categorically denied it.

He wanted to tell his mother that Ye Xingbei was not Jiang Zhengxing’s daughter, but his uncle’s daughter.

But he feared that if something untoward had already happened to Ye Xingbei, revealing the truth to his parents now could drive his father to death.

He couldn’t bring himself to say it, and his mother adamantly refused to admit anything.

Helpless, he hung up the phone, dispatched all the people he could send out, and started searching personally.

After running around with no direction, he figured that aimlessly searched was pointless. He went to the Shi family and found Shi Qianling.

After explaining the situation to Shi Qianling, she appeared utterly shocked.

Shi Qianling advised him to stay calm and took him to see her mother.

Wu Qizhen also denied ever meeting Ye Xingbei.

Just as he was trying to coax the truth out of Wu Qizhen, his phone rang. The butler told him that Gu Junzhu had arrived at his house.

He had yet to tell his father the secret of Ye Xingbei’s identity. If Gu Junzhu revealed it at this point, it could cost his father his life.

He rushed out of the Shi family residence without extracting the truth from Wu Qizhen and hurried home to meet Gu Junzhu.

Seeing his father sitting on the sofa with a calm appearance, it was clear that Gu Junzhu hadn’t revealed Ye Xingbei’s real identity to him.

He breathed a sigh of relief and begged his mother to tell the truth.

They had to rescue Ye Xingbei.

Otherwise, if the truth came out someday, the first person who wouldn’t be able to bear it would be his father.

With his father’s state of health, he didn’t dare to imagine his reaction once he learned the truth.

Although there was no evidence, Ye Zhitong and her husband Ye Wuwei firmly believed that Jiang Zhengxing had ruined Ye Wuwei’s life back then.

Ye Wuwei had been bedridden for several years, suffering from illness and torment, and had come to despise Jiang Zhengxing.

If Ye Xingli hadn’t insisted on keeping Ye Xingbei, they would never have raised the daughter of their enemy at home.

After all these years, although Ye Xingbei remained polite and dutiful, they merely treated her as a servant, never as a family member.

Seeing Ye Xinglan’s anxious look which he had never shown before for Ye Xingbei, Ye Zhitong angrily admonished: “Ye Xinglan, have you forgotten who her father is? We, the Ye family, have done more than enough by taking her in. Am I supposed to take care of her for life, even when she disappears?”

“Whose daughter is she?” Gu Junzhu walked up to Ye Wuwei and knocked the teacup from his hand. “Listen carefully. I’ll tell you who Ye Xiaobei really is!”

“Don’t say it!” A scared Ye Xinglan rushed over, attempting to stop him: “Fifth Brother, this isn’t the time. I beg you, don’t say it now… ”

Gu Junzhu kicked him away, grabbed Ye Wuwei by the collar, yanked him off the sofa, and stared into his eyes: “Listen to me closely, Ye Xiaobei is not Jiang Zhengxing’s daughter, she is Jiang Zhengwei’s daughter!”

He gripped Ye Wuwei’s clothes tightly, mocking him with a cold sneer: “Didn’t you always claim to love your older brother? Didn’t you always say that he brought you up? Well, congratulations, you are the most heartless beast in the world, you sent your older brother’s only daughter straight to hell! Your older brother, who lost his life searching for you, must be shedding tears in the underworld now. Crying because he brought up an ingrate like you, who caused the downfall of his only child!”