151: Chapter 151 This isn't a biological mother at all! It's a leech with a human face!

Jiang City, the core of the CBD.

On the top floor of a skyscraper reaching into the clouds, the atmosphere in the spacious and bright conference room was solemn.

Men and women in business suits sat on both sides of the long conference table, sitting upright and hardly daring to breathe.

Sitting at the head of the table was a woman who was excessively young.

She wore a well-tailored white professional suit, her long hair pinned behind her head, revealing a slender neck.

Her face was as exquisite as a porcelain doll, but her eyes were as cold as ice.

She was Ye Yuxi.

"Is this the market research you've done?"

Ye Yuxi threw the folder in her hand onto the table with a sharp "snap."

"Falsified data and muddled logic—you dare to show me this kind of trash?"

"Redo it. If you can't hand it in by eight o'clock tomorrow morning, your entire department can resign collectively."

Her voice wasn't loud, but it carried an unquestionable authority.

Just as everyone was shivering with fear—

"Ding-dong."

The private cell phone placed by her hand suddenly chimed.

Ye Yuxi frowned.

This was her private number, known by no more than five people. Unless it was a matter of extreme urgency, no one would dare disturb her at this time.

She picked up the phone and glanced at it.

With just one look, her eyes, which had been as calm as an ancient well, suddenly constricted.

The fingers gripping the phone turned white from excessive force.

Everyone in the conference room was stunned.

They had never seen this iron-blooded female CEO show such an expression.

Shock, anger, disbelief, and... a hint of imperceptible sorrow.

"Meeting adjourned for ten minutes."

Ye Yuxi stood up, grabbed her phone, and walked quickly out of the conference room.

Coming to a deserted floor-to-ceiling window, she took a deep breath and dialed an overseas number.

The call was answered quickly, and a gentle female voice came from the other end: "Yuxi? Why are you calling at this time? It should be evening back home, right?"

"Mom."

Ye Yuxi's voice trembled slightly. "I want to ask you something. Back then... which orphanage did you adopt me from?"

The other end of the phone was silent for a few seconds.

"It was at the Jiang City Orphanage. You were only five years old then, covered in injuries, and didn't like to talk..."

Her adoptive mother sighed. "Why are you suddenly asking about this?"

"Nothing, I just... suddenly remembered."

Ye Yuxi hung up the phone and looked at the bright neon lights outside the window, tears sliding down silently.

As it turned out, the text message from that unknown number was all true.

She wasn't an abandoned orphan.

She had been kidnapped by human traffickers.

And the people who had personally sold her to the traffickers were actually her biological parents!

Twenty thousand yuan.

For a mere twenty thousand yuan, they had ruined her life.

If she hadn't been lucky enough to escape from the mountains, and if she hadn't met her current adoptive parents, she might still be in those dark, sunless mountains, bearing children for someone else!

Ye Yuxi wiped away her tears, her eyes becoming cold and hard once again.

She looked at the unknown number in the text message.

The number belonging to her so-called "biological mother."

"Fine, since you want to find me, I'll fulfill your wish."

Ye Yuxi pressed the call button.

"Ring, ring, ring!"

The off-brand phone sitting on the dilapidated wooden table suddenly erupted with a piercing ringtone.

The sound seemed particularly jarring in the quiet live stream room.

Qin Peifen jumped up from the ground as if she had been electric-shocked.

In her red and swollen eyes, a frightening light now shot out.

It was greed, the sheer ecstasy of seeing a mountain of gold and silver.

"It's here! It must be Xiao Ya calling!"

Qin Peifen's hands were shaking so much that she failed to grab the phone several times.

Ding Lang, beside her, didn't care about the pain in his face anymore. He scrambled over, his eyes fixed on the screen.

"Answer it! Answer it quickly! See if it's that big boss daughter!"

Su Yun sat on his side of the screen and took a sip from the teacup next to him.

Watching these two characters, who looked like hungry wolves seeing fat meat, only one word came to his mind.

Disgusting.

Truly disgusting to the core.

Even if such people wore human skin, black water flowed in their bones.

Qin Peifen finally pressed the answer button and even turned on the speakerphone.

She wanted the whole world to know that she had a CEO daughter with an annual salary of ten million.

"Hello... Hello? Is it Xiao Ya?"

Qin Peifen's voice trembled violently, carrying a deliberate fawning and flattery.

On the other end of the phone, there was a long silence.

That silence was enough to make one feel a bone-chilling coldness through the screen.

After a few seconds, a cold, professional, and emotionless female voice came through.

"Are you Qin Peifen?"

The voice was beautiful, like the tinkling of spring water on a snow-capped mountain.

But to Qin Peifen's ears, it was simply the sound of money hitting the ground.

"Yes! I am your mother! Xiao Ya, I really am your biological mother!"

Qin Peifen shouted at the top of her lungs, tears falling on command. Her acting was simply superb.

"Mother has had such a hard time looking for you! In these fifteen years, not a day has gone by that I haven't missed you. I haven't had a single peaceful meal or a single night of sound sleep!"

"The heavens have opened their eyes and finally let you come back!"

Ding Lang also howled at the top of his lungs beside her: "Daughter! I'm your father! Do you still remember me? Your father even bought you candied haws back then!"

When the viewers in the live stream room heard the performance of these two, they almost threw up their dinner from the night before.

[I have never seen anyone so thick-skinned and shameless!]

[What the hell kind of candied haws? That was probably the last meal before selling her off, right?]

[This female CEO's voice is so cool. I hope she isn't fooled by these two vampires!]

On the other end of the phone, Ye Yuxi was currently standing before the floor-to-ceiling window of Jiang City's tallest building.

She listened to those two strange and disgusting voices on the phone, her face devoid of any expression.

If she had held onto a tiny bit of fantasy before, thinking that there might have been some misunderstanding about what happened back then...

...then now, after hearing these two people's impatient voices claiming kinship, that bit of fantasy had completely shattered into dust.

These were her biological parents.

These were the beasts who had sold her for twenty thousand yuan.

"Miss me?"

Ye Yuxi let out a cold laugh, her tone terrifyingly calm.

"Since you missed me, why did you sell me to that human trafficker at the Ping'an Hotel fifteen years ago?"

"Why did you count those twenty thousand yuan and smile without even looking back?"

Qin Peifen's crying suddenly got stuck in her throat.

Her face instantly turned pale, as if she had been slapped loudly in public.

"Xiao Ya... you, who did you hear that from? That was a misunderstanding! It was because your mother was incompetent and couldn't afford to raise you. I wanted to find a good family for you!"

Qin Peifen was still making excuses, her voice trembling with guilt.

"Enough."

Ye Yuxi directly interrupted her, not wanting to hear any more of these filthy lies.

"Tell me, after going to such great lengths to put on this show in the live stream room, what exactly do you want?"

Qin Peifen was stunned.

She didn't expect this daughter to be so direct, not giving her any chance to reminisce at all.

She looked at Ding Lang beside her. Ding Lang was winking frantically and mouthing "800,000."

Qin Peifen gritted her teeth, hardened her heart, and laid her cards on the table.

"Xiao Ya, Mother knows you're successful now, a big boss with plenty of money."

"Your brother... your biological brother Ding Bao, he's in trouble now!"

"He was tricked by those bad people and owes 800,000 in high-interest loans. They're going to chop off his hand tonight!"

As Qin Peifen spoke, she began to wail again.

"He's the only male heir of the Ding family! He's your biological brother! You can't just stand by and watch him die!"

"Whatever little bit leaks through your fingers would be enough to save his life!"

"As long as you give us this 800,000, you'll be the savior of our whole family. Mother will burn incense and pray to Buddha for you every day!"

Hearing this, the live stream room had completely exploded.

Even the few people who had previously felt that "after all, they are blood-related" now all shut their mouths.

What kind of biological mother is this?

This is just a leech with a human face!

As if sucking her daughter's blood wasn't enough, she even wanted to treat her daughter as an ATM to save her son.