"Don't you forget, if it weren't for my family taking you in, you wouldn't have survived to this age!"
"Let alone being found by the Fu family!"
Xia Anying spoke so impertinently that even Xia Sanghuan, who didn't care much about most things, couldn't help frowning tightly.
Looking around, sure enough, the butler and servants of the Fu family all cast their gazes in unison, their expressions either surprised or disgusted.
This was going to be a big trouble.
If it were just the two of them alone, no matter what stupid things Xia Anying said, she could just pretend not to hear.
But now they were in the Fu family's mansion.
Every word they said would be remembered by those present.
She walked forward in frustration, grabbed this stupid stepsister and pulled her upstairs.
Xia Anying shook off her hand and said with disgust on her face, "Don't touch me with your dirty hands!"
Looking at the distorted face in front of her, she slapped her across the face.
"Are you sober now?"
"If you're sober, follow me now!"
She frowned tightly and grabbed the stunned Xia Anying again.
When they got upstairs, she pushed her into her own room and locked the door behind her.
It was a cloudy day. Outside was gray, looking like it was about to rain soon.
Even though the room had good lighting, it was now pitch - black.
In such an environment, Xia Sanghuan, who already had a pale face, looked even a bit terrifying.
She looked cute when she smiled, but terrifying when she was angry.
Xia Anying, who had lived with her for eighteen years, was deeply aware of this.
She suddenly felt scared.
But her thick skin wouldn't allow her to show weakness in front of her younger sister.
"Xia Sanghuan, you dared to hit me. You..."
Before she could finish her sentence, she was interrupted.
"If I didn't hit you, you'd be thrown out of the Fu family tonight."
Half of her face was hidden in the shadow, looking somewhat eerie.
"Xia Anying, the Fu family will surely be grateful to your family for raising me for these eighteen years."
"But do you think the Fu family is grateful to you or our father?"
Her tone was cold, like the wind on a winter night, biting cold.
When she said those words, she was like a dangerous viper spitting its forked tongue at its prey.
She had never seen such an expression on her face before.
No matter how much she bullied her, she would only endure.
Occasionally, when she couldn't bear it anymore, she would fight back.
But those counter - attacks usually stopped at the initial stage.
Because she didn't want their father, Xia Laosi, to be sad.
It was precisely because she grasped this point that she could bully her without any scruples.
But she didn't expect that now their identities had changed completely.
Xia Sanghuan was now the beloved young miss of the Fu family, while she was an orphan living under someone else's roof.
She gritted her teeth.
She was so unwilling.
Why?
Why was it Xia Sanghuan who got this kind of treatment instead of herself?
Looking at her expression, she gritted her teeth and said brazenly, "Throw me out? Then where do you think the Fu family's face will go?"
"If you dare to drive me away, I'll make it known all over the city the next day that your Fu family has betrayed its kindness!"
Seeing that the thought process of the person in front of her was completely different from hers, Xia Sanghuan sighed and chose to stop communicating with her.
She said to her, "You stay in my bedroom first. I'll be back soon."
With that, she walked out and locked her in the room before Xia Anying could react.
She couldn't help but be grateful for the good sound - insulation effect of the Fu family's villa. Otherwise, her sister's howling in the bedroom would have attracted all the servants.
She tidied up the clothes that had been messed up when she was pulling Xia Anying, and calmed her emotions to make her expression look normal.
She walked downstairs slowly, looking as if nothing had happened just now, and found the butler.
"Uncle Wang, could you please bring me a bowl of sobering - up soup?"
"My sister is drunk and said a few nonsense words just now. I hope you don't mind."
She bowed politely, which made the butler, who had been angry just now, feel a bit embarrassed.
However, after she straightened up, her attitude did a complete 180 - degree turn.
She darkened her face and said in a voice that everyone could hear, "But if any of my father, elder brother, or my two elder sisters knows about what just happened, I'll make the person who told pay for it."
The maid who was about to hand her the sobering - up soup standing on one side trembled and almost dropped the bowl.
She put away the coldness on her face and took the sobering - up soup.
Before going upstairs, she stood at the stairway and repeated again, "I hope everyone can keep what I just said in mind."
After waiting for I don't know how long, Xia Anying finally heard the sound of the lock being turned at the door.
She rushed to the door eagerly, trying to get out, but was stopped by Xia Sanghuan.
She put the sobering - up soup on the small table in the bedroom and dragged over a chair.
"Tell me, what are you doing back this time?"
She sat down without any intention of letting Xia Anying sit.
"What I'm doing back has nothing to do with you!"
"This is my home. Do you think it has nothing to do with me?"
"I... I have no money left. I came back to see if I could get some."
Hearing this reason, Xia Sanghuan found it a bit funny. "I remember the living expenses the Fu family gave you should be quite a lot, right?"
"It's only the middle of this month, and you've already spent it all?"
She hadn't actually spent it all, but what was left wasn't enough for her.
But looking at the expression on the face of the person in front of her, she didn't dare to say this out loud.
Seeing that she didn't say a word, Xia Sanghuan let out a sigh.
She took out a card from her pocket. It was the card she had taken from under Xia Laosi's pillow before she left.
"There should still be tens of thousands of yuan in it. The password is our birthdays. Take it and use it first."
"If you spend it all again, I can't do anything about it. You can go wash dishes like you did at the Leng family!"
She threw the card to Xia Anying, with a hint of helplessness in her eyes.
Although she disliked this nominal elder sister very much, after all, she was the only blood - related daughter of Xia Laosi.
No matter how much she disliked her, she had to take good care of her.
Because this was Xia Laosi's only last wish.
Xia Laosi had sacrificed his own life to let her go back to Yuntan with her father just so that she could live a good life.
Rather than saying she was afraid that Xia Anying would tell others that she and the Fu family were ungrateful, it was more that she was afraid that she hadn't taken good care of Xia Laosi's only orphan.
So she made up an excuse that her sister was drunk and also bribed the servants at home to prevent them from exposing her sister's disrespectful behavior towards her.
She had to protect her for Xia Laosi.