Chapter 242: Settling This Account_1

"Xia Weiyi, I, Ye Che, have raised you for a full fourteen years. Don't you think about repaying this debt of gratitude? Or are you planning to leave like a parasite after having your fill?"

Her thin lips lacked much color, and her pale oval face gradually turned dim as Ye Che's words, each and every one of them, conjured a series of images in Xia Weiyi's mind...

After she was adopted by the Ye Family as a child, she remembered her grandmother's disdainful looks and cold words, and how the old couple chose not even to live in A City because of her, instead relocating to Europe.

When she first started socializing, many of the distinguished families that interacted with the Ye Family would secretly gossip about this orphan of unknown origin, and for a time, there was mockery and ridicule.

But Zhou Yun had always protected her, and although Ye Che would say mean things, he would immediately shield her whenever she was bullied, declaring with an authoritative tone,