The True Heiress Is an All-Powerful Bigshot - Chapter 21

Chapter 21: The World’s Number One University

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

A young man with broad shoulders and long legs was standing at the entrance of the courtyard. He froze for a few seconds before suddenly turning around and running away.

Stunned, Wen Fengmian raised his voice and shouted, “Yueyue, why are you running?”

Meanwhile, the young man had already disappeared.

“Cough, cough, cough…” Wen Fengmian was so angry that he couldn’t help but cough again. “Why did he run away as soon as you came back?”

“You’re not feeling well, so let’s go in first.” Ying Zijin patted his back as she said, “I’ll go take a look.”

Yueyue was Wen Fengmian’s biological son and his full name was Wen Tinglan. Because he was sickly when he was young, he had such a nickname.

They weren’t biological siblings, but their kinship was deeper than that of biological siblings.

“Yaoyao…” Wen Fengmian wanted to say something but hesitated. After a long while, he sighed as he said, “Alright.”

He smiled again with a gentle look in his eyes. “I’ll cook for you. It’ll be ready to eat when you get back.”

Ying Zijin nodded. “Just cook glutinous rice balls.”

He couldn’t cook with oil.

The medicinal herbs here were too young. She needed to nurse Wen Fengmian’s health in various other aspects.

Feeling a little awkward, Wen Fengmian coughed lightly. “I know. Hurry up and find Yueyue.”

He looked like he was chasing her away.

“If I come back and find—” After Ying Zijin glanced at the kitchen, she said in a gentle tone, “You know what to do.”

Wen Fengmian suddenly felt that his daughter seemed to have become fiercer after she came back this time.

He said with exasperation and amusement, “Okay, I will do as you say.”

Ying Zijin nodded and left.

As he watched the girl leave, Wen Fengmian sighed softly with complicated emotions, and there was redness in his eyes.

He could tell that she had lost a lot of weight.

In the past, their family was poor, but at least the two children had enough food to eat.

What happened after Yaoyao returned to the Ying family?

Didn’t the Ying family say that they would bring her back to let her live a good life?

Wen Fengmian frowned with worry. Then, he pressed his chest and coughed again.

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When Ying Zijin found Wen Tinglan, he was standing alone by the river while watching the fireworks in the distance. His dark eyes looked very calm.

A cool night breeze blew.

There was a thin layer of ice on the river’s surface, reflecting the full moon.

The young man’s back figure was straight.

With a white shirt and black pants on, he gave off an aloof aura.

He was the type of guy that girls in school would be attracted to.

After Ying Zijin walked forward, she took out a lollipop from her pocket and handed it to him. “It’s peach-flavored.”

However, Wen Tinglan didn’t take it. He didn’t even move.

He was laughed very coldly as he said, “I thought you’d never come back. What are you doing back here?”

He didn’t get an answer.

After waiting for a full ten minutes, the young man turned around, his gaze cold.

However, upon seeing her at such a close distance, his gaze suddenly changed.

The girl’s body was obviously thinner than when they parted a year ago. Under the moonlight, he could see the needle marks on her arm.

There were so many of them that they were impossible to count.

They weren’t obvious at first, but because her skin was sickly pale, they looked very conspicuous.

It was a ghastly sight.

Wen Tinglan’s body froze and he stared at the needle holes in a daze. When he opened his mouth, his voice was hoarse. “Sister, are you… sick?”

She hadn’t been back for a year because she was sick?

Ying Zijin didn’t answer. After she took out the lollipop again, she raised her eyebrows and asked, “You’re not angry anymore?”

Her younger brother developed a serious personality disorder because of some incident and refused to communicate with the outside world.

His condition only improved after he was ten years old, but it also resulted in him having a cold and reserved personality.

For the first few days, Wen Fengmian couldn’t get close to him.

The year that she had disappeared without a trace had caused him a lot of mental damage.

Ambitious student who had achieved great success.

From Wen Tinglan’s name, it could be seen that his parents placed great hopes on him.

“What’s going on?” Wen Tinglan still didn’t take it. He asked with a dark expression, “Sister, the Ying family doesn’t treat you well? What did they do to you?”

“I’m fine. I’m fine.” Ying Zijin kicked the stones on the ground and said with a smile, “Study hard. Don’t worry about anything else.”

Wen Tinglan had been a genius since he was young, but because of his weak body, he only started school at the age of 13. Even so, he skipped several grades consecutively.

He was a year younger than her, but was already in her third year of high school and would be taking the college entrance examination in June.

Upon hearing this, Wen Tinglan pursed his lips tightly and his arm trembled as he took the lollipop.

He tore open the candy wrapper, put it in his mouth, and bit it.

It was very sweet, just like before, but he felt a sense of suffocation.

Even after so long, he would never forget the mean faces of those people from a year ago.

“What Wen Zijin? Zijin is the daughter of our family, so her surname is naturally Ying. Don’t try to ride on her coattails.”

“What will Qingzhi’s students think of her if they find out that she has a peasant father and brother?”

“This is 100,000 yuan. Forget that you have a daughter. She will never see you guys again. You guys will only drag her down, understand?”

Then, his sister really didn’t come back for a year. She didn’t even call.

He waited and waited until he finally gave up.

He thought that she had forgotten about them after she went to Hucheng.

From the looks of it, the Ying family had done something. Moreover, she wasn’t doing well at all.

Wen Tinglan pursed his lips again and said in a low voice, “Sister, I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have complained about you.”

He knew that he had a mental illness and was quite cranky, but he couldn’t control himself.

The young man lowered his head slightly and clenched his fists.

He was trying his best to change himself.

He really, really wanted to become a normal person.

“It’s not your fault.” Ying Zijin put her hands in her pockets and said, “Let’s go back. Dad must be anxious from waiting.”

Wen Tinglan’s tense body relaxed. Just like ten years ago, he chatted with her, “I actually didn’t have class this afternoon and took leave.”

Ying Zijin nodded slightly. “You went to the market downtown to buy meat?”

“Yes.” After Wen Tinglan fell silent for a moment, he said calmly, “Dad’s health is getting worse and worse, so I want to nourish him.”

Usually, even if there was meat to eat, Wen Fengmian wouldn’t touch it.

Ying Zijin thought for a moment and asked, “Have you thought about which university you want to go to?”

“Yes.” At the mention of this, the young man’s dark eyes flickered brightly. “Sister, I want to get into the Imperial Capital University.”

Imperial Capital University was the number one university in the country and almost every student wanted to enter it.

Ying Zijin wasn’t surprised by this answer. With Wen Tinglan’s abilities, even if he didn’t have enough learning resources, he could easily get in.

Wen Tinglan continued, “Actually, the one I want to go to the most is still Norton University. However, without a recommendation letter personally written by the principal, I can’t get in at all.”

Ying Zijin’s expression froze. “What university?”

“Norton University.” Wen Tinglan thought that she didn’t know, so he took out her phone and searched for its encyclopedia for her to see. “This is it. It’s ranked first on the QS World University ranking list. It hasn’t changed at all.”

As Ying Zijin looked at the screen, she fell silent.

She felt that there were many fishy things after she came back this time.

It was one thing for the Laurent family to open banks all over the world. After all, stingy people made money quickly.

How could a lunatic who only studied theology create a university that became number one in the world?