Taking the First Step (3)

Su Xiaofei knew how important it was for her to make a move before Ye Mingyu gained any advantage against her. If she were to sit back and let the course of events remain the same, Master Ouyang would be a problem she would need to deal with later. She didn't want to get beaten even before the fight started.

Three days left before New Year's Day. According to rumors, Ye Mingyu met the old man Ouyang Luo at Qiying City's Public Market. One afternoon, Master Ouyang, together with a young lieutenant, were mingling amongst the crowd of people who were busy shopping at the district because of the upcoming holiday.

The old man encountered a problem as his wallet had been stolen when he was separated from his companion, and it was Ye Mingyu who helped him settle the problem with the thief. Ye Mingyu had no idea who he was and helped him regardless. Thus, Master Ouyang held Ye Mingyu in high regards, giving her support when she decided to enter the show business as an actress.

If Su Xiaofei managed to earn Master Ouyang's favor this time, not only would she be able to halt Ye Mingyu in the future, she would also be able to use Master Ouyang's influence to get information about the elusive Yun family.

The Ouyang family was closely related to the Yuns. Coincidentally, the young lieutenant who was accompanying Master Ouyang that day was Yun Qingrong's nephew, Yun Xiang.

At the time when Ye Mingyu stood up for Master Ouyang, protecting the old man from being assaulted, Yun Xiang was then enamored with her. Yun Xiang had chased Ye Mingyu and assisted her several times in her schemes against Su Xiaofei, but in the end, Ye Mingyu still chose Mo Yuchen over him.

Su Xiaofei didn't care about Yun Xiang. However, it was important to her to not only earn the favor of the Ouyang family, but also gain the influence of the Yuns. Now that she was reborn, she would also try to make her mother's dream come true, and that was to be able to mend things with her family.

Su Xiaofei remembered when her mother lost her life due to that car accident, members of the Yun family came and Old Master Yun wept beside his daughter's remains.

"I shouldn't have chased you away when you came back to ask for forgiveness." Old Master Yun said in a broken voice as he knelt at Yun Qingrong's funeral.

If it wasn't for that sole encounter she had with her mother's family, Su Xiaofei wouldn't know that the Yun family still deeply cared about Yun Qingrong despite years of separation.

Even Yun Qingrong's brothers were devastated with her sudden passing, and although they cared about their sister, it was almost impossible to see her and meet her with their busy schedules at work.

Perhaps the old man and the rest of the Yun family knew that she wasn't Yun Qingrong's real daughter and had chosen to ignore her existence. Not that Su Xiaofei was bothered with it anyway. If anything, she also felt resentment towards them for not being there for her mother when Yun Qingrong needed help the most.

The knock on her door pulled Su Xiaofei out of her trance.

"Feifei, lunch is ready." She heard Aunty Liu outside her door.

"En, Aunty! I will be there in a moment." She replied, aware that she needed to make a decision as soon as possible.

Su Xiaofei tried to remember the details and decided to meet Master Ouyang at the eve of the New Year's Day. It should be the day when Ye Mingyu met him, considering that the pharmacy closes their doors at three in the afternoon on the eve of New Year's Day.

This was the same pharmacy which sold traditional medicine that Master Ouyang and Yun Xiang had visited before they encountered Ye Mingyu. Considering the time when they met and when Ye Mingyu arrived in the city with her mother, the eve of the New Year's Day was the only day she would be able to go and look around on her own.

Three days after the New Year's Day, Ye Mingyu and her mother would come to the Su Residence to beg Yun Qingrong to accept Ye Mingyu into their family. Because she wasn't home during their visit, Su Xiaofei could only imagine the shock Yun Qingrong had received that day, seeing her husband's real daughter with another woman.

Ye Xing had been diagnosed with an early stage of breast cancer and because she wouldn't be able to continue supporting Ye Mingyu's studies, along with her recent diagnosis, she thought that it was time for her to seek Su Haoran's help.

Su Xiaofei scoffed. As if she would allow them to bully her mother in front of her. It didn't matter if Su Haoran didn't see her as his own child, because she was, no doubt, Yun Qingrong's daughter. Even if she didn't have a single drop of the Su and Yun family's blood running through her veins, she was legally adopted as their daughter.

If it wasn't for Yun Qingrong's state of panic and confusion at the time, her mother wouldn't have easily accepted their pleading in their past lives. However, Su Xiaofei decided to change the course of the events in their lives, if it meant that she would be able to protect her mother.

Now that she had laid out her plans, it was time for her to deal with the pressing matters in their household. The first step in the effort to change her path was to weed out some pests that were living under their roof without them realising.

In her past life, she ignored them solely because they were related to Su Haoran, but thinking about it, their excessive and atrocious behavior stemmed from the fact that they knew that she wasn't Su Haoran's real daughter, Ye Mingyu was.

Su Xiaofei stepped out of her room, her eyes filled with viciousness, closing the door behind her.