a change of heart

Following the toast. Yu Xiao Yan held unto Yu Zhiruo's arm and lead her round the room greeting every of their extended family with a smile on her face. No matter the excuse Yu Zhiruo gave to walk away, Yu Xiao Yan always came up with a reply to make people make her stay.

They kept making round from one person to another till they got to Grandma Yu's sit. Seeing Yu Xiao Yan act so fondly with Yu Zhiruo, the Old woman was suspicious. She of all people knew how much Yu Xiao Yan hated the Yu Family, so there was no way one toast would make her forget her pent up resentment. She knew there was something to it but she couldn't place her hands on what it was.

"grandma see you don't have to worry about your granddaughters again, We have reconciled and nothing can tear us apart. Am I right sister Zhiruo?" Yu Xiao Yan asked Yu Zhiruo as she hooked hands with her. The girls eyes were dazed and slightly uncomfortable, seeing this brought a sweet smile to Yu Xiao Yan's lips. Any moment from now the drama would begin.

Everybody admired how the two girls displayed their sisterly affection but what they heard next shocked them out off their skins.

"hmph reconcile? I'll never reconcile with a bitch like you!" Yu Zhiruo yelled and pushed Yu Xiao Yan away from her.

"I grew up feeling and thinking I was the one and only heiress to the Yu Family but everything changed when you were brought back as the real heiress when I was just a fake all along!" Yu Zhiruo yelled again.

"Zhiruo!" Gao Ling exclaimed trying to stop her but she didn't seem to be able to stop her.

"Not only did you steal my identity, you also stole my love away! You came and Mo Zhou had only you in his eyes, I had to sell my body to him in other to get back his attention_"

"Zhiruo!" this time it was Mo Zhou who ended up screaming, he couldn't believe those words were coming out of the lips of the girl he loved. Was he dreaming or was she possessed?

He marched towards Yu Zhiruo but Yu Xiao Yan was quick to black the girl with her body. How can it be over yet? Yu Zhiruo was yet to disgrace herself to the fullest so she would stall for time as much as she could.

"sister how could you say that? I never complain when you bullied me in the past, or when you disgraced me in public neither did I complain when my fiance began having an affair with you so how could you say this?" Yu Xiao Yan began crying and trembling. Everyone could see how pitiful she was. People even began looking at Yu Zhiruo with contempt and disdain.

Yu Zhiruo laughed crazily as she staggered "You were just so naive and stupid to compete with me. I could even get you_" she felt a burning sensation on her cheek that sent her remaining words away as well as a loud sound across the room.

PAK!

Yu Xiao Yan had slapped her to stop her from saying the remaining part of her sentence cause she suspected her sister was going to bring up her pregnancy and she didn't want anyone to know about that but before she could relax, a slap was thrown across her own cheeks too.

"How dare you slap my daughter you slut!" Gao Ling queried as she slapped Yu Xiao Yan then went on to hold into the intoxicated Yu Zhiruo.

"mom!" Yu Xiao Yan held her burning cheek and looked at the woman she called her mother in shock.

She asked in disbelief "even after hearing all the Injustice your daughter suffered all you could do was slap her and defend the outsider? are you even my mother?"

A guilty look flashed past Gao Ling eyes and although it didn't last long for more than a split second, it was still clear enough to be noticed by Yu Xiao Yan.

"You truly are not my mother if not why do you hate me so much?" Yu Xiao Yan repeated her accusations because she wanted to clearly understand if she saw correctly and this time Gao Ling's reaction proved every of her assumption.

"You says I'm not your mother! Stop slandering me you hateful child!" She defended hurriedly as she stuttered trying to come up with a plausible excuse "How can I not hate such an Unfilial, unruly and unethical child like you. All you have ever done is bring me shame and disgrace" She complained after being able to stabilize her emotions.

"That's enough! Gao Ling you are the disgrace!" Tan ya-ting refuted in anger.

"mom!" Yu Shufen tried to stop his mother only to end up getting slapped by her.

"Both of you disgust me!" she spat on the floor "you both had been tricked into bringing the wrong daughter home and only after 16 years did you realize it and was able to bring your daughter back home but what did you do after that, you treated her like an adopted child and made life difficult for her. never for once did you behave like she was truly your daughter instead you kept pampering and doting on the fake daughter and abusing your real daughter. What kind of parents are you?"

Not only Grandma Yu but everyother person that heard as she narrated it was boiling in anger towards Yu Shufen and his wife, people looked at them with disgust and disbelief. The girl was right to ask if they truly were her parents. What kind of parents acted that way?

Even Grandpa Yu was starting to question himself how he had supported them all these years and why he would always go against the innocent girl, he tried remembering what even had got him to dislike the young Yu Xiao Yan but all he remembered was that Yu Zhiruo constant whining and complaining had been his major reason to dislike the girl. He looked at the girl as she stood dejectedly at one side looking so pitiful and felt they had really been partial to her.

"Grandma it's okay, let's not fight over this, I'm not asking for anything I'm already use to this treatment"

Mo Zhou didn't know why but his heart ached as he watched her try to comfort Grandma Yu but yet still drop from her own eyes. He remembered the way she looked at him when she was being bullied, she looked so hurt and dejected just like she was looking now.

"I don't want mum to remain angry at me, or dad to keep blaming me nor Grandpa to dislike me more, I promise I won't ever step a feet in the Yu Family Manor again, I don't want anything from you people I just want sister to stop calling me a homewrecker or a thief. I really don't want anything that belongs to her" She wept bitterly totally breaking the heart of everyone that saw her.

"I don't believe it that's why I'll keep scheming against you just like I did six years ago and everybody believed me. Even Mo Zhou not hates you because you gave your_" Yu Shufen slapped her to cut her words off. Apart from themselves no one understood what she was talking of and he wanted it to remaining that way especially after her shocking confession. Grandpa Yu, Tan ya-ting, Mo Zhou and even Gao Ling was shocked by what she just revealed.

Yu Xiao Yan chuckled bitterly. "I should have known better." She wiped the tears off her face and stared all of them in their eyes "I think I've had enough. I've never been part of this family so I would leave. Don't expect to see me again" She said and turned and walked away. To everyone she was walking away heartbroken but in truth she was walking away fulfilled, leaving everyone with so much to discuss about. Yu Zhiruo had ended up leaving a deep impression of everybodies mind even Mo Zhou had listlessly left the building thinking about everything he had heard.

No doubt he was bound to have a change of heart after this night.