547: Visit

"Since I'm already here, I should go up and sit for a bit first."

After hesitating for a moment, Zhang Xiuying carried her backpack full of clothes and followed the address Ye Su had given her. After entering the Splendid Mansion residential area, she found Room 2001 on the 20th floor of Building 3.

After gathering her thoughts, Zhang Xiuying raised her hand and pressed the doorbell on the digital lock.

Ding-dong—

"Oh, do we have a guest?"

In the living room, Ye Ru heard the noise and got up to open the door.

Seeing a strange woman standing at the door with a backpack, Ye Ru asked with a hint of wariness:

"Hello, who are you looking for?"

Realizing the person who opened the door wasn't Ye Su, Zhang Xiuying also seemed a bit nervous and gave a stiff smile:

"I am Zhang Xiuying. I'm here to see Ye Su. Is he home?"

"So you're Zhang Xiuying." Ye Ru quickly stepped aside to let Zhang Xiuying in. "Come in and sit. Ye Su is upstairs. I'll go call him."

"Okay, thank you." Zhang Xiuying was overwhelmed by Ye Ru's enthusiasm.

After entering, seeing the two floors connected with a six or seven-meter high ceiling in the living room, as well as the low-key yet slightly luxurious interior decoration, Zhang Xiuying—who knew the housing prices of Splendid Mansion well—felt particularly constrained.

"Dad, Mom, this is Zhang Xiuying. She's here to see my brother."

"So you're Xiuying. ASu mentioned you to us during dinner tonight." Su Wan stood up and greeted Zhang Xiuying warmly.

"Come and sit, have a cup of tea first. A'Ruo, go upstairs and call ASu."

"Okay."

Ye Ru nodded to Zhang Xiuying before trotting upstairs.

Su Wan kindly introduced everyone to Zhang Xiuying: "I'm Su Wan, this is Ye Su's father, Ye Jianguo. This is my eldest son, Ye Xin, and the one who just went upstairs is my second daughter, Ye Ru."

"Hello, Auntie. Hello, Uncle. Hello to you too." Zhang Xiuying greeted the three people in the living room one by one.

Ye Xin put down his phone and nodded politely to Zhang Xiuying: "Hello."

"Just put your things anywhere. Come, have some tea." Ye Jianguo smiled and placed a cup of tea in front of Zhang Xiuying.

"Thank you, Uncle."

As Zhang Xiuying picked up the teacup to drink, Ye Su followed Ye Ru downstairs.

"You're here."

Seeing Zhang Xiuying with her backpack, Ye Su guessed that things had likely gone as he expected—she had a total fallout after laying her cards on the table with her family and had now been kicked out.

"ASu already told us about your situation tonight. Have you told your current parents about this?"

It was only with Ye Su's help that she was able to learn about her origins.

Although the mess at home was embarrassing, facing Su Wan's concern, Zhang Xiuying still confessed to them:

"I told them tonight."

"Then... what did your parents say?"

Zhang Xiuying's eyes dimmed. "They said they raised me for thirty years. If I want to reunite with my sister, I have to give them a hundred thousand yuan first..."

"They actually said that? That's way too much!"

Before Ye Ru could finish, Su Wan glared at her, making her swallow the rest of her words.

Seeing Su Wan's angry look, Ye Ru had no choice but to shut up obediently.

However, it wasn't hard to see from her puffed-out cheeks that Ye Ru was still furious at the thick-skinned behavior of Zhang Xiuying's foster parents.

They had treated her like a blood bag and oppressed her for so many years, and now that she had finally found her biological sister, they actually had the face to say she had to give them a hundred thousand yuan!

"A hundred thousand yuan is a small matter. If it can stop them from harassing you in the future, then the money is worth giving. Of course, this depends on your own wishes."

Ye Su was also disgusted by the insatiable behavior of Yu Manzhu and her husband.

But he could guess with his eyes closed that once these people learned that the biological sister Zhang Xiuying had found was a billionaire with assets worth billions, they would definitely be relentless, trying every possible way to get benefits from Zhang Xiuying.

If a hundred thousand yuan could send Yu Manzhu's family away, that would naturally be the best outcome. Ye Su would just treat it as paying to avert disaster.

But if Yu Manzhu's family didn't know when to stop and continued to throw tantrums after taking the hundred thousand yuan, then they couldn't blame Ye Su for being ruthless.

With his and Yan Ran's connections in Guangzhou and Yang County, making it impossible for Yu Manzhu's family to survive in these two places wasn't a very difficult task.

On the side, Zhang Xiuying fell silent immediately upon hearing Ye Su say that a hundred thousand yuan was just a small matter.

A full hundred thousand yuan! She would have to work for two years without eating or drinking to earn that much!

"Let's talk about this later..."

Zhang Xiuying believed that she didn't owe her foster parents' family any gratitude at all.

Although they had adopted her through some unknown 'channel' and kept her from starving to death,

she had been doing the laundry and cooking since she was a child. She would work summer jobs during her breaks, and after growing up, most of the money she earned was handed over to them.

Whatever debt of gratitude there was should have been paid off after all these years.

Now, they were still trying to sell her out one last time, making her pay a hundred thousand yuan as a fee to sever ties.

Not to mention that Zhang Xiuying didn't have that much money, even if she did, she didn't want to give it to that family anymore.

"You are the one involved, so you can make your own decision. If you need any help, you can tell me, or you can tell your sister after you reunite with her tomorrow." Ye Su said with a smile:

"Let me give you some mental preparation first. Your sister opened a shopping center in Guangzhou and has a net worth of at least several billion. After you two reunite, your life will definitely get better."

"Ah!"

Hearing this, Zhang Xiuying opened her mouth in a daze.

The sister she had never met was actually a billionaire with assets worth billions!

No wonder Ye Su said that the hundred thousand yuan Yu Manzhu asked for was just small change!

Zhang Xiuying's heart was pounding at this moment, so shocked that she didn't know what to say.

To say she wasn't happy would definitely be a lie.

Any ordinary person who suddenly learned they had a billionaire sister couldn't possibly be unhappy.

But their status and positions were worlds apart, and Zhang Xiuying was also worried that she would be looked down upon by Yan Ran.

Seeing the concerns in Zhang Xiuying's heart, Ye Su comforted her:

"Don't feel so much pressure. Tomorrow, you two sisters can reunite."

"Mm." Zhang Xiuying gave a forced smile.

Seeing Zhang Xiuying's awkwardness, Su Wan changed the subject:

"Since things are so tense with your foster parents, you probably won't be going back tonight, right?"

"I'm not going back." Zhang Xiuying shook her head. "Going back will only lead to arguments. I'll go find a hotel to stay in later."

"No need for that trouble. There's still an empty room at home. I'll go tidy it up in a bit, and you can sleep here tonight."

"That wouldn't be right..."

"What's not right about it? We're practically half-family anyway."

Under Zhang Xiuying's puzzled gaze, Ye Ru pointed at Ye Su nonchalantly:

"He's with your sister now, so doesn't that make us half-family?"

"Ah, he's my brother-in-law?"

In her surprise, the phrase 'clinging to a rich woman' flashed through Zhang Xiuying's mind.

Although she hadn't met Yan Ran, she herself was 31 this year, so Yan Ran must be several years older than her.

Ye Su said last time that he hadn't graduated from university yet, so he was at most in his early 20s.

The two of them had an age gap of over ten years. Could Ye Su be with Yan Ran because he was after her wealth?