Reborn Aristocrat: Return of the Vicious Heiress

After Xia Ruya left, Old Mrs. Wen returned to her room angrily while Wen Haowen left.

A deafening silence filled the air in the living room.

Old Mr. Wen sat on the couch with deepened wrinkles which were much more obvious than usual. He was utterly dejected and seemed to be deep in thought.

Wen Xinya sat beside him quietly, filled with a mix of emotions.

She glanced at the majestic Wen Family mansion and found that the chandelier added to the emptiness of the room, casting sharp rays into every corner of the living room, giving off a cold and intimidating vibe.

This was a day that she had been looking forward to and was part of her plan.

Ning Shuqian would soon be chased out of the Wen Family and she would no longer pose a threat to Wen Xinya. Xia Ruya had also lost the favor of the Wen Family and she could no longer harm Wen Xinya using the twelve years of kinship that she had with the Wen Family.

She could not explain how she felt about the intertwining of the previous and present lifetime. She simply found everything to be cold and cruel.

Old Mr. Wen said, “Ruya may not be the biological child of the Wen Family, but I still treated her as my granddaughter. I didn’t expect that she would resent me this much.”

Her melancholic and shrilling voice of agony and her words of accusation seemed like daggers piercing through his heart.

Wen Xinya listened quietly without answering. At this moment, all Old Mr. Wen needed was someone to listen to him, not give him a solution.

Old Mr. Wen sounded rather forlorn and melancholic. “Xinya, was I really wrong?”

He thought that finding Xia Ruya’s family would be the best compensation to her. Yet, Xia Ruya was clearly telling him that he had been wrong right from the start. He did not expect that Xia Ruya would be so upset with him and blame him for doing so. As if he was the one who had caused her to commit those mistakes.

Wen Xinya raised her head slowly and stared at the elderly man in front of her whose eyes had already become glassed over. “Grandpa, you’re not wrong. The hypocrisy of the human heart is to blame.”

In some aspects, Xia Ruya indeed deserved sympathy and her predicament was indeed pitiful. Furthermore, Old Mr. Wen had indeed taken matters into his own hands and decided Xia Ruya’s life for her, causing it to be jeopardized. Hence, she was in no place to make any comments.

In her previous lifetime, Wen Xinya had also resented Old Mr. Wen and blamed Heaven for her fate.

Having been through a rebirth, Wen Xinya was well aware that the Wen Family used to pamper Xia Ruya and dote on her. However, the fact that she had become the illegitimate daughter of the Xia Family was just a change in her lifestyle and did not have a direct impact on her life.

However, Xia Ruya shouldn’t have been greedy or manipulated others to get what she wanted.

Old Mrs. Wen’s love for Xia Ruya had become a tool for her to use in order to gain sympathy from Old Mr. Wen. It had become her trump card, and there was no one whom she could blame for the predicament that she had landed herself in.

“Hypocrisy of the human heart?” Old Mr. Wen asked in bewilderment.

Wen Xinya said calmly, “Yeah! Ever since I returned to the Wen Family, Miss Xia has been getting up to so many tricks. Don’t you know that, Grandpa? You may have your guard up against her, but you chose to turn a blind eye to her actions and treat her with benevolence. That will only cause her to turn from bad to worse and her greed to get worse. She has slowly forgotten about the love and sympathy you used to show her.”

Old Mr. Wen shared a different kind of relationship with Xia Ruya and he would often look at her with love and affection, unlike the way he looked at Wen Xinya with awe and admiration. She had long recognized that fact and hence, she could never treat him as lovingly as she treated Old Mr. Mo.

Old Mr. Wen was at a loss for words. He could not rebut against her because she was telling the truth.

Wen Xinya chuckled and said, “She always thinks that I’ve snatched away what rightfully belongs to her and hence, resorted to every means to snatch them back. Actually… she failed to realize that no one can snatch anything from her if the things truly belonged to her. She can keep them effortlessly.”

She only realized in this lifetime that she was different from Xia Ruya.

She had gone through painstaking means to gain kinship, status, power and affirmation, all of which Xia Ruya had attained effortlessly. Xia Ruya was blaming her for no reason.

Her words made Old Mr. Wen feel slightly ashamed. “Xinya, I…”

Wen Xinya gently interrupted him and said, “Xia Ruya has done an unforgivable thing and yet, you’re still willing to continue letting her be your adopted granddaughter. Grandpa, you’ve already showed her enough kindness. Hence, you don’t have to feel guilty anymore.”

She was no longer the same Wen Xinya that she used to be in her previous lifetime. She was no longer blinded by kinship which caused her to end up in a pathetic state. In this lifetime, she decided to watch on coldly and grasp everything of hers. She had never harbored any designs on things that didn’t belong to her.

Old Mr. Wen was momentarily speechless. He looked into Wen Xinya’s sparkling eyes which glowed in a mesmerizing manner.

He did not expect that Wen Xinya would slowly showcase her abilities and shine bit by bit while remaining calm and aloof about everything that happened around her. She strove to do her best and excel in her own right, gradually earning his admiration and recognition.

She had inherited the genes of the Mo Family.

It’s little wonder Ruya did not manage to impress Old Mo, unlike Xinya who managed to do so right after she returned to the Mo Family home.

Old Mr. Wen asked, “Do you resent me?”

He could not help but feel a little terrified at the thought of Xia Ruya’s accusations, making him break out into cold sweat.

Wen Xinya chuckled and said, “I did resent you. I felt angry and sad because of you and felt hopeless in the past. However, I no longer feel that way now and some things just cannot be forced. What I’ve lost in those fifteen years, is much more than the kinship with the Wen Family. Since Xia Ruya has filled in for me, what’s there for me to complain about?”

After the hopelessness and despair that she felt in her previous lifetime where her life was ruined in the end, she realized that she only needed to be fit enough to be the successor of the Wen Family and gain their recognition.

Once she became a competent successor, she wouldn’t be abandoned and nothing Xia Ruya did would take her belongings away from her.