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The birthday banquet was being held at the Kai Yuan Hotel, and the Xi Family had reserved the first three floors for themselves.

The hall was decorated magnificently. The crystal chandeliers on the ceiling added a sense of magnificence to the hall.

There were all sorts of celebrities and guests. The waiters were all wearing their uniforms, shuttling back and forth between the crowd. Occasionally, they would refill their cups with wine.

In these past few years, Jiang Linfan and Lin Chu had participated in many of these events, and they did not seem too different from each other.

As soon as the two of them arrived, they took their gifts to Miss Xi's side and sent her their blessings.

Only, Xi An did not immediately accept it, and glanced at the waiter beside him.

The waiter understood and took the box from Jiang Linfan's hands.

At this time, Jiang Linfan's face was full of awkwardness. She was already thinking of ways to blend into the circle, but she understood that even though everyone was respectfully addressing her, they were actually looking down on her in their hearts. With such an awkward position as her stepdaughter, she had no way to truly establish herself.

Although they seemed friendly on the surface, they still talked a lot of gossip behind his back.

"Where's Shuxia? Didn't you come over? " Xi An looked around but did not see any trace of Jiang Shuxia, so he asked puzzledly.

"She hasn't been home for the past few days, so we can't contact her." Jiang Linfan said with a smile.

Although the answer seemed to be simple and honest, but there were some hidden meanings behind the words, which expressed Jiang Linfan's intention. Because Jiang Shuxia had been splashed with too much dirty water during this period of time, when the surrounding people heard this reply, their eyes showed a trace of understanding, and also some contempt.

But right at that moment, Jiang Shuxia's voice sounded from behind him: "It's Sister Xi's birthday, how can I not come?"

Jiang Shuxia wore a long white dress and appeared in front of everyone.

Her voice allowed everyone to see, her gaze fixated on her body, and did not move away for a long time, but Jiang Shuxia did not panic at all.

The dress outlined her figure as tall and sexy, and her elegance as well. Her chestnut hair made her milky muscles look as if they could be blown away.

She held the gift box in her hands, smiled, and walked towards Xi An, giving him her blessings.

Xi An smiled and took it, and expressed his gratitude to her for his blessings, then continued: "You scared me to death, and I thought you didn't care about me, so you didn't prepare to come!"

Jiang Shuxia said gently: "How is that possible, I won't miss Elder Sister Xi's birthday. But don't you wonder what the gift is? "

Jiang Shuxia blinked her eyes, the way she spoke sounded extremely familiar.

Xi An and Jiang Shuxia's relationship was already very close, so she was not courteous and directly opened the box.

Fifteen centimeters of blue high-heeled shoes lay quietly in the gift box.

Jiang Linfan's eyes were filled with disdain. She had painstakingly prepared an expensive crystal necklace, but she had only given him broken shoes and was too embarrassed to let him open it.

Just at this time, Xi An suddenly exclaimed: "Heavens, you can buy this too! There are only 100 sets of this in the entire world, I have crippled such a huge matter and have not even seen the heel of my shoe!"

"Hehe, I knew Sister Xi would like it." Jiang Shuxia pulled on Xi An's arm like a spoiled child. The atmosphere was very harmonious.

Xi An's attitude from the start to the end seemed to have heavily slapped Lin Chu and Jiang Linfan.

As a young lady of the Jiang family, her treatment was completely different.

One was a true sole successor, and the other, no matter how hard she tried, was nothing more than a stepdaughter.