Chapter Twenty-Two: Happy Clown

  Huamu Qing almost instinctively replied, but as soon as her mind calmed down, she started to feel a little panicked!

  How can it be three years, I still don't know how to do anything! Hanaki Kiyoshi, you're done for! Hanaki Kiyoshi wailed in her heart, noticing the probing gaze cast by Jiang Meiwen, and gave a brilliant smile back at Jiang Meiwen.

  "...Goodbye Spring..." A woman's sudden angry shout broke Jiang Meiwen's probing of Hua Muqing, she turned her head and looked towards the source of the sound.

  "Oh no, here we go again." Zeng Ling rubbed her temples, with a "here we go again" expression, speechless and wondering when these two sisters would ever calm down, she'd be eternally grateful.

  Hanaki Haru gazed at the reactions of the crowd with a puzzled expression, unable to understand why their faces were so... rich in emotion. This only piqued her curiosity further, and she followed their line of sight to see what they were looking at.

  Two figures suddenly rushed out of the doorway, one small and one large, one in front and one behind, playing a game of cat and mouse as if they hadn't seen the stranger in the living room, darting back and forth through the gap between Huamu Qing and Zeng Ling.

  Huā Mù Qíng was being tossed about by the two of them, but couldn't get up, could only slightly move his body to avoid suffering a miserable fate like the fish in the pond. Knowing that these two girls could behave so boisterously under Jiang Meiwen's nose, in the Kong family living room, in front of everyone, they must not be ordinary people.

  Just now I heard someone shouting 'Gong Li Chun', presumably these two should be the Gong family's young ladies. Huamu Qing wisely remained silent.

  Gong Li Chun ran to her mother Jiang Mei Wan's side, hiding in her arms and acting coquettishly, then looked at Jiang Jing Qi with a smug face.

  Jiang Jingqi stood between Huamu Qing and Zeng Ling, waving her arms, wanting to slap Kong Lixia's little face, but since her mother was present, she could only vent her anger, saying "Give it back to me, return my Chanel lip balm."

  Huā Mù Qíng only then seriously looked towards Gōng Lì Chūn, a girl about seven or eight years old, with a face as white as lime, thick black eyebrows, dark eye sockets, and bright red lips. Perhaps due to the heavy makeup, the originally radiant young face no longer existed.

  "No." Gong Li Chun showed her a gesture of refusal, bluntly rejecting her. In front of her mother, she had some confidence and spoke louder than usual.

  "Ah……” Jiang Jingqi let out a sharp cry. With her curly hair and light makeup, wearing a milky white dress that made her look particularly petite, Jiang Jingqi was so angry she was jumping up and down, doing actions completely unbecoming of an elder sister.

  Ling Jie covered her own ears, not wanting to get involved in their drama anymore.

  "Qie jie, you're so petty, disgusting, stinky..." The little kid didn't say anything as bad as what adults would say, but these were the only words she could think of, after all, she was only 7 or 8 years old.

  "Ah......" Jiang Jingqi screamed again, her voice loud and ear-piercing, similar to the sound of a pig being slaughtered.

  Jiang Jingqi's Huamu Qing and Zeng Ling covered their ears with both hands, desperately resisting the inexplicable, eardrum-shattering sonic force.

  Huamu Qing finally understood what "River East Lion's Roar" means today.

  "Today, I'll destroy you, or my name's not Jiang Jingqie..." As soon as she finished saying the word 'Jingqie', Jiang Jingqie let out a loud shout, her voice thundering and shaking the air, even disturbing Gong Tianyu and Zuo Chenan who were in the study.

  Gong Tianyou suddenly felt a bit thirsty while talking to his nephew, so he picked up a glass of water from the table and drank it all in one gulp. But just as he did, he was startled by the voice, and the water in his mouth sprayed out straight, with some of the droplets flying onto Lü Chen'an's body.

  Fortunately, Zuo Chen'an dodged in time and wasn't splashed by the water. Gong Tianyou gave his nephew an apologetic glance.

  Zuo Chen An was also 'shocked' by the sound, covering his ears which were suddenly attacked, and looked around in confusion trying to locate the source of the sound.

  Kong Tianyou, who lives in the Kong family mansion, naturally knows what happened. On the other hand, Zuo Chenan, who has just become Kong Tianyou's assistant, is confused as he has just arrived at the Kong family and doesn't know what's going on.

  "The farce is starting again." Gong Tianyou muttered to himself, then turned his head to look at his nephew in front of him and instructed, "Chen An, you wait here for me first, I'll be right back." He had to go and resolve the matter, or else the consequences might escalate into a third world war.

  After finishing speaking, Zuo Chen'an handed a paper towel to Gong Tianyou and then ran out.

  "Get away from Chun, go die!" Jiang Jingqi still didn't stop, and even raised her fist to pounce on Gong Lichun in Jiang Meiyuan's arms.

  Jiang Meiwen did not directly intervene because both were her daughters and it would be difficult to take sides, so she let them resolve the matter on their own.

  Gong Li Chun saw her mother and didn't say a word, immediately turned around and ran away. Like this, one person running in front, the other chasing behind, directly performing a cat-and-mouse game in the hall, in front of everyone.

  Until...

  Just as Gong Tianyou was about to enter the door, Gong Lichun saw his reinforcements arrive and hurriedly ran over to fling himself into Gong Tianyou's arms, grabbing his arm and pleading, "Dad, save me."

  Opening a pair of thick eyebrows and big eyes, Spring Qian pitifully said, "Dad save me, Sister Qi has gone mad, she wants to eat my liver."

  "Huh?... Gong Li Chun, I'm not a monster, why would I eat your liver?" Jiang Jing Qi retorted, looking at her half-sister with disdain.

  Kong Tianyou, who was not led astray by their words, asked the two quarreling daughters clearly, "What is it this time?"

  "Your precious daughter is a thief!" Jiang Jingqi stood with her hands on her hips, looking like a shrewish woman, and accused Gong Tianyu.

  She never cared about calling Gong Tianyou "Dad", in her eyes, he only had his biological daughter Gong Lichun, not even a little bit of affection for this drag oil bottle, no matter how she treated him, he didn't care, as long as she didn't bother her.

  "Dad, I'm not a thief and I didn't steal it. I asked Qiqi for it, but she wouldn't give it to me, so I just took it." She pulled out the Chanel lipstick from her bag and waved it in front of Jiang Jingqiu with an air of triumph, barely concealing her smugness.

  "How dare you talk back, you ill-mannered little brat..." Jiang Jingqi shouted again, but the words that came out were somewhat unreasonable.

  But then some people started disagreeing.

  She can let them do whatever they want, but at least there should be a bottom line. Now that her daughter has said something that even she finds offensive and scolds her for it, how can she just sit back and ignore it?

  "Jing Qi, are you scolding me?" Jiang Mei Wen stood up from the sofa, looking at her eldest daughter with a stern face and asked.