Chapter 53: Playful and disdainful, completely ignored
Cheng Fenghao discovered that his second sister suddenly fell silent and looked at Cheng Ye blankly.
It was as if he was frozen in place by something and he didn't react for a long time.
All the energy in my body was like a balloon with the air sucked out of it, and I didn't even have the strength to continue questioning.
Cheng Fenghao had an unpleasant expression on his face, not knowing why his second sister was in such an inexplicable daze.
"Second sister!" The eldest sister Cheng Wei suddenly appeared in the classroom. She took Cheng Zhirou's hand and asked, "What are you doing?"
Cheng Zhirou came back to her senses in a daze, "I, I came here to ask Cheng Ye why he beat and bullied Brother Feng Hao again."
Cheng Wei had already guessed it, because when she entered the classroom, based on the noisy discussions of her classmates, she roughly guessed the answer.
Cheng Zhirou couldn't believe that Cheng Ye really didn't care about her at all.
That feeling made her feel suffocated.
"Ring ring ring——"
The class bell rang.
Because they couldn't disrupt classroom discipline, Cheng Wei pulled Cheng Zhirou out of the classroom.
Cheng Zhirou was shocked to find that Cheng Ye had not said a word to her from the beginning to now...
She was completely ignored by Cheng Ye...
With a playful and disdainful disregard...
Return to Cheng's house.
Cheng Wei brought Cheng Zhirou to the small storage room where Cheng Ye lived before.
Cheng Zhirou sat on the empty bed with a look of disgust on her face, and asked in confusion: "Sister, why did you bring me here?"
Cheng Wei also sat on the hard wooden bed, feeling heavy-hearted, "Second sister, we all know that Cheng Ye didn't take a penny from the Cheng family, right?"
"Ah, no way." Cheng Zhirou was shocked. "Cheng Ye has lived in the Cheng family for three years. How is it possible that he has not taken a penny from the Cheng family?!"
"Sister, don't be fooled by Cheng Ye!" Cheng Zhirou said angrily, "He said this on purpose to gain our sympathy! He is really scheming. We must not be fooled by Cheng Ye!!"
"That's not true!" Cheng Wei's voice was somewhat sad. "I asked my mother, and she confirmed with the finance department that no money was transferred to Cheng Ye's account every month!"
"Not a cent!" Cheng Wei frowned. "Mom has also confirmed with you and my third sister that none of us three sisters have ever bought anything for Cheng Ye! Neither have my parents!"
"I never bought anything, never gave him a penny, and never let Cheng Ye sit at the table for dinner." Cheng Wei became more and more serious as she spoke. "In the past three years, Cheng Ye really just lived in the bedroom converted from the storage room, that's all!!"
The second sister Cheng Zhirou was stunned, "Sister, what do you want to say? I don't understand what you mean."
Cheng Wei burst into tears, "Second sister, do you really not understand, or are you pretending not to understand?"
"I..." Cheng Zhirou was stunned and suddenly speechless, unable to utter a word.
"Second sister, you skipped a grade in high school and were admitted to a prestigious university. You are a top student, graduated early from undergraduate and graduate school, and currently work in a law firm." Cheng Wei straightened her expression, "Don't you understand?"
Cheng Zhirou pretended to be confused even though she knew the truth, and said angrily, "Sister, just tell me straight, I really don't understand."
"Cheng Ye's three years in the Cheng family were even harder than his time in the orphanage. Do you understand now?"
Cheng Zhirou was very surprised, and she subconsciously wanted to refute how it was possible.
But her elder sister Cheng Wei spoke before she could, "The orphanage provides food, but Cheng Ye is staying at the Cheng family, and we only provide him with a simple room that is so small that it can't be any smaller!!"
"We ignored him and never cared about his food and daily life."
"Is the Cheng family really short of money? Don't they even give Cheng Ye the monthly living expenses?"
Cheng Wei was trembling all over, tears welling up in her eyes, "After all, he is related to us by blood!"
"But what do we think of Cheng Ye?" Cheng Wei burst into tears, pulling out tissues to wipe away her tears. "The Cheng family's nannies and servants are provided with three meals a day, and the rooms they live in are more spacious and comfortable than Cheng Ye's."
"But Cheng Ye didn't!" Cheng Wei was extremely depressed. "Did he come to our Cheng family to experience the sufferings of life?"
Cheng Zhirou was stunned by the question. She opened her eyes wide in surprise. After a while, she stammered and answered, "Big sister, you know that Cheng Ye has a bad personality and always bullies brother Feng Hao."
"Really? Don't we know that many times, we covered up Feng Hao's careless mistakes and framed Cheng Ye? We know it very well, don't we?" Cheng Wei was heartbroken.
"Cheng Ye did nothing wrong, why do we all want to distance ourselves from him and hate him?"
Cheng Zhirou's eyes fluctuated and she suddenly became panicked.
The series of rhetorical questions left her speechless and unable to defend herself.
"Cheng Ye has parents and three sisters, but he grew up in an orphanage. He never enjoyed the love and care that comes from family!!"
"He finally found out that he had relatives, but after returning to the Cheng family, we always hated, teased, and ridiculed him."
"We treated him as an outsider! Yes, that's right, an outsider!!
"But isn't he our blood brother?!"
"Why? Why should he suffer our prejudice?!"
Cheng Zhirou was completely stunned.
If her elder sister hadn't said so much, she wouldn't have realized any of this.
Cheng Ye's quality of life in the Cheng family is not even as good as that in the orphanage.
A faint mist emerged silently in Cheng Zhirou's eyes.
"But sister, we didn't do anything excessive, right?" Cheng Zhirou sighed deeply.
"Have you forgotten how we teased and teased Cheng Ye in the WeChat group? Have you forgotten how we framed Cheng Ye several times? Have you forgotten how you threw away the jewelry gift that Cheng Ye gave you?"
"There are so many, so many, it's impossible to list them all!" Cheng Wei shouted with a choked voice.
"Or maybe, we know what kind of hellish life Cheng Ye is leading in the Cheng family! We know it very well, but no one stands up to help Cheng Ye!!"
Cheng Wei's emotions fluctuated violently, "Why should we be so cold-blooded and mean to Cheng Ye?!"
"We are all top students, aren't we? Why are we so cold-blooded and heartless?! We take pleasure in teasing and mocking Cheng Ye?! Why!!"
"Why didn't we feel any guilt when we hurt Cheng Ye?!"
"Without any financial support from the Cheng family, Cheng Ye worked hard to earn money to buy gifts for his parents and for us three sisters!"
"We can refuse, we can dislike it. But why should we accept his gift and then ruin his kindness?!"
"Remember when our family went out shopping, we deliberately left Cheng Ye on the road and ordered the driver to drive home?!"
Cheng Zhirou had mixed feelings in her heart, "Remember."
At that time, the place where they were shopping was very far away from the Cheng family.
Cheng Ye just watched them drive away silently right under his nose.
They didn't even pretend, and actually abandoned Cheng Ye in front of him...
After they returned to the Cheng family, they forgot that Cheng Ye had not come back yet and went about their own business.
No one knew how Cheng Ye came back.
All we know is that when Cheng Ye appeared at the gate of the Cheng family compound, his hair was soaked with sweat, his clothes and pants were wrinkled, and stained with a lot of dust and mud.
When Cheng Zhirou saw this, she laughed at it in the WeChat group.
Thinking of this, Cheng Zhirou suddenly felt that her behavior at that time was a bit of a jerk.
"Second sister, this is Cheng Ye's diary." Cheng Wei looked sad and handed it to Cheng Zhirou, "Some of the diaries are about you, take a look."
Cheng Zhirou was surprised. She pointed at herself hesitantly and asked, "About my diary?"