"This is how you dress for a blind date?"
Li Fangyu's sharp voice gave Su Ran quite a startle.
"I told you to go on a blind date, not to a funeral. You look inappropriate in this outfit!"
Su Ran lightly knitted her brows, looking down at her black dress with 3/4 sleeves and high-waisted, loose black trousers, and then gave a slight smile.
Li Fangyu, her stepmother, arranged a blind date for her at the Wanhua Business Tower, saying that the man was an ultra-rich tycoon, and in all respects, not bad at all.
Li Fangyu was the daughter adopted by Su Ran's grandparents. When Su was young, she was very close to and fond of this gentle and beautiful auntie.
However, later on, her mother, Li FangQi fell ill, and this auntie whom she was very fond of came to the hospital with a girl two years younger than her, and victoriously told Li FangQi, who was lying on the bed, that the girl was the child she and her big sister's legitimate husband had.
One could say that Li FangQi was literally angered to death by the affair between her own sister and husband.
If you ask how much Su Ran loved her aunt back then, equal would be the present intensity of her desire to rip her apart and take revenge for her mother.
Humph.
She spent every day racking her brains about how to oust her, and every partner Li Fangyu introduced to her invariably came from well-to-do families, but were either too old or just plain reprehensible in looks.
"Auntie Yu, you seem to be particularly showily dressed and resplendent; then how about having you in my place for today's blind date?"
Su Ran inherited all her mother's looks: delicate facial features, bright but not flirtatious, and large dewy eyes that appeared both innocent and pure. At this moment, with such a curve of a smile raising the corners of her mouth, her oval face bore a striking resemblance to her mother, Li FangQi.
"You insolent child, what nonsense are you talking about?!"
As Li Fangyu was about to fly into a rage, she spotted her husband returning home out of the corner of her eye. She had to suppress her temper, putting on a benevolent mother's front, and started to ‘advise earnestly’.
"Ran Ran, I am only doing this for your own good. Mr. Liu is the only son of his family, although he's slightly older than you. But I've checked, he's a very good person. After you marry him, you will definitely not be wronged, and moreover—"
Suzi Ran looked at the well-maintained face of Li Fangyu, witnessing her seeming resentment towards wanting to kick her out of the house yet needing to consider her father, Suzi Chengshan, and pretending to be a 'virtuous wife and good mother'. She really admired Li Fangyu's acting.
"What's all this about so early in the morning?"
Suzi Chengshan had been working overtime in the company until midnight the day before and had slept less than three hours in the office. He was very tired and his tone was not so good.
"No worries, dad."
Suzi Ran smiled faintly, speaking before Li Fangyu could open her mouth, "Just now, Aunt Yu said that the outfit I'm wearing is ill-omened, as if someone in the house had died. But I think it’s pretty good. Don’t you agree, dad?"
Without waiting for Chengshan's response, she pursed her lips, her tone composed yet containing a trace of defiance, "I have to go to a blind date, I'll leave first. Goodbye, dad, good bye Aunt Yu."
Chengshan watched as his eldest daughter gracefully walked out of the room, a momentary shadow flickering in his eyes.
"Chengshan, look at Ran Ran, I am also speaking out for her good. I really don't mean anything else."
Li Fangyu swallowed her anger as she watched Suzi Ran's retreating figure. She lifted her head gently to look at Chengshan, her tone filled with unspeakable grievance, "Is Ran Ran still blaming me for taking her sister’s position…"