Chapter 20 - Cold-blooded Birth Father

“You want to marry me to Liu Zhiyin?” Song Yixiao dropped the tea bowl on the ground, which was broken before her feet. The hot tea splashed on the back of her feet but she didn’t feel the scald at all. She stared at her father in anger, “Madam Liu’s nephew, Liu Zhiyin?”

Before she arrived, she had been well prepared but she never thought of that Song Yuan would marry her to someone of the Liu Family!

The man was Liu Zhiyin!

He was the man who caused her wrongful death in the previous life!

Song Yuan gave a look of annoyance to her emotional reaction, “How can you talk to a senior like this?”

“Please ease your anger!” Liu Zhenxi walked from behind the screen with a peaceful look, saying with a sigh, “As my sister has done that kind of thing, it is fair enough that your daughter dislikes my son!”

“Since you know yourself well, you may as well drop the thought of taking me as your daughter-in-law!” Song Yixiao glanced at him resentfully. This man was the father of Liu Zhiyin as well as the previous Director in the Ministry of Justice and the current Vice Director in the Ministry of Justice. The reason of his demotion went without saying. He must have spent a lot of effort in putting on such a fatherly look!

Staring at Liu Zhenxi’s confident look, she couldn’t help feeling worried, “Father, now it has been widespread all over the imperial capital how my stepmother treated me! Now you want to marry me to someone of the Liu Family. Let’s put aside what will happen to me when I marry him. What will others think of you if they know about the marriage?”

“The current plight of the Song Family and Liu Family lies in your inappropriate action. As a saying goes, family troubles are not a thing to be talked about in public. However, you didn’t cover the scandal but to cause a sensation!” Song Yuan put down the tea bowl with a poker face, “Now in order to whitewash our family’s reputation, what else can we do apart from forming an affinity?”

Seeing that Song Yixiao was struck dumb, Liu Zhenxi explained calmly, “I didn’t teach my sister well. I hope that you can accept my apology. Hence, if you are willing to marry my son, we will bury the hatchet, which will make a good deed! In this way, the reputation of your family and my family will be restored then!”

“Father, am I your blood daughter or your arch enemy?” How could Song Yuan be convinced to marry Song Yixiao to Liu Zhiyin with such a ridiculous reason?

Having been in a trance for a while, Song Yixiao looked at Song Yuan incredibly, “You don’t like me and I have been expelled from this home to annoy you. Why do you treat me so ruthlessly out of hatred?”

Her grievance in her previous life and this life suddenly flooded into her mind. Song Yixiao burst out crying uncontrollably, “Even though I am not a boy, I am your child regardless! I don’t dare to ask for your love. All I want is that you don’t be so ruthless to me!”

“You have misunderstood my family so severely, haven’t you?” Liu Zhenxi said in surprise, “In order to facilitate such a good deed, why will we treat you badly?”

“Shut up!” Song Yixiao wiped the tears off her face and yelled at him. Then she turned to Song Yuan imploringly, “Father! Don’t you love me at all? I am your only child!”

Song Yuan looked her in the eye for an instant and said, “One’s great affair of marriage must be arranged by parents!”

“So it is lucky for me that I still have my mother?” With her look becoming gloomier, Song Yixiao smiled with disdain, “My mother will never say yes to this marriage!”

“Your mother…” Song Yuan’s cold eyes turned fierce all of a sudden! He raised his hand to turn over the long table without any signs! The tea set on the table dropped on the ground. The tea spilled over Liu Zhenxi but Song Yuan had no time to apologize. He didn’t have his emotion under control until he closed his eyes for a while. Then he opened his eyes and stared at his daughter with a sneer, “That shameless woman is not one of the Song Family. Why does she have anything to do with my daughter’s marriage?”

Song Yixiao also sneered, “She is not one of the Song Family but she is my mother! Our blood ties always exist even after my mother has remarried! Moreover, in light of her current power and status, she can speak for me anyway!”

“Then ask her to talk to me!” Song Yuan shouted in a fierce voice, “I must see whether this annoying woman is thick-skinned enough to do that!”

“Now it is the Liu Family but not the Song Family who need to whitewash! Madam Liu has been married to you for only one year. How is it possible that the Song Family make her do such an evil thing?” Song Yixiao sensed his resolution in his words and felt desperate. Although Song Yuan has been dismissed, by the time when jade and stone were burned together, in light of Wei Mengying’s character, she would definitely give up Song Yixiao so as to avoid risk!

However, she would never give up struggling. She puckered her lips and asked in a deep voice, “Father, since you insist me on marrying Liu Zhiyin, I wonder what the Liu Family offers you.”

“My offer is quite simple.” It was Liu Zhenxi who answered. He said in an amiable tone, “But what I offer is exactly what your father needs. Yixiao, you are too young. Even if I tell you, you won’t understand! Yet, it’s fine. I will ask Zhiyin to accompany you frequently so that he can explain to you well!”

Song Yixiao looked at him coldly. She sneered in anger, “Mr. Liu, I am young but I am not stupid! After knowing what kind of woman your sister is, how is it possible that I will marry your son?”

“You must marry the one I designate!” Song Yuan yelled coldly, “Do you think I am discussing with you?”

“Since you trick me into coming back, you must intend to detain me until I am old enough to get married?” Song Yixiao bit her lips and raised her head, saying sneeringly, “But can you tie me up and force me to conduct the marriage ritual with Liu Zhiyin? If you do that, how can you regain the reputation for the Song Family and Liu Family?”

Liu Zhenxi clapped his hands, “You’ve asked a good question!”

He fixed his eyes on Song Yixiao’s ankle that just got recovered and gave a meaningful smile, “If you are healthy and well, of course marrying you to my son will lead to a lot of gossiping. However, if you become lame ‘accidentally’ and my boy, the legitimate son of the Vice Director is willing to take you as his legitimate wife, who can say that we are not sincere to resolve the hatred between the two families?”

Song Yixiao was completely dumbfounded!

She looked at Song Yuan only to find that her father appeared peaceful and severe, who seemed to acknowledge what Liu Zhenxi just said tacitly.

Liu Zhenxi added, “In particular, your daughter’s sprain has been left before she came back. If she becomes disabled afterwards, she cannot blame us for that!”