Ch 10: Wen Li: “I am the Eldest Miss of the Wen Family”; Does Wen Li know a Peking University Professor?
“Why are you here? How did you get in? Dad clearly arranged for you to go to No.6 Middle School.”
Around the corner, Wen Xin bombarded her with questions, occasionally checking if anyone was around to notice them.
Wen Li showed no emotion: “Naturally, I came for you. As for how I got in…” She lifted her eyelids slightly: “You guess?”
This was infuriating, and Wen Xin was successfully provoked: “I’ll call Dad in a minute, just you wait.”
As she turned to leave, she turned back, pointed at Wen Li’s nose, and threatened: “If you dare let others know you’re a member of the Wen family, if you dare to embarrass the Wen family and Dad, you’re dead!”
Wen Li stared at her fingers in front of her, her expression indifferent.
Wen Xin was anxious to leave, and quickly retracted her hand, unaware that she had narrowly avoided danger, and unaware that their conversation had been overheard.
“Big genius, that’s a bit too much. Although she’s your dad’s illegitimate daughter, she didn’t choose her birth.”
“Your dad has taken her home and acknowledged her. I advise you to just let it go, so you don’t upset your dad.”
Wen Li heard these two sentences just as she reached the classroom door.
“But your dad is really a role model for modern men. Three wives aren’t enough, and he still has one outside. I really suggest you check it out. I bet you have brothers and sisters out there.”
Wen Xin sat in her seat, her face flushed, staring at Tan Shiyin. She didn’t expect her words to be overheard by Tan Shiyin, and then revealed in front of the whole class.
“Shut up!” Wen Xin gritted her teeth and lowered her voice.
Tan Shiyin had finally caught some dirt on this so-called genius, and how could she easily let it go? “Why are you so angry? If you don’t curb your self-righteous arrogance, be careful that your dad won’t love you anymore, haha.”
Wen Xin, who had skipped a grade, was three years younger than Tan Shiyin. Tan Shiyin teased Wen Xin with the malicious amusement of a child.
“So she’s an illegitimate daughter. No wonder Wen Xin reacted like that before.”
“It’s no wonder about Wen Xin’s father. Looking at Wen Li, you can tell her mother was a beauty. Which official could resist that temptation? Her father is willing to send her illegitimate daughter to No.1 Middle School, it seems he truly loves her mother.”
“An illegitimate daughter? Suddenly, it’s a bit off-putting.”
Most of these students came from prominent families, and having grown up in a highly competitive environment, their aversion and resistance to illegitimate children were stronger than ordinary people.
“Shh… she’s coming…”
In just a few minutes, their look at Wen Li had changed.
Tan Shiyin folded her arms across her chest, watching Wen Li leisurely, saying to Wen Xin: “Hey, your sister is back.”
Wen Li understood; it was this person who had been eavesdropping at the corner earlier.
Tan Shiyin met Wen Li’s gaze triumphantly, expecting Wen Li to erupt in rage, or to retreat to her seat in shame and cry.
What she most wanted to see was Wen Li and Wen Xin having a big fight, preferably a physical one, so that she could kill two birds with one stone and see Wen Xin make a fool of herself.
Unexpectedly, the other party was exceptionally calm, and with the bearing of a legitimate daughter, she corrected her: “To clarify, I am not an illegitimate daughter. The eldest Miss Wen in the Wen family, Wen Yan, is adopted. I am the real one.” She glanced at Wen Xin. “She is the later one. Don’t believe me? Ask her.”
This bombshell was unexpected.
Tan Shiyin was stunned, clearly not expecting this, and then exaggeratedly covered her mouth and asked Wen Xin: “Later? Is what your sister said true?”
Wen Xin was now furious.
She glared at Wen Li, wishing she could tear Wen Li’s mouth apart.
Wen Li calmly returned to her seat amidst the expressions of everyone eating a big melon.
“The eldest Miss Wen is adopted? Is that true or false?”
“I think I heard my parents talk about this.”
“So she means she’s the real eldest Miss Wen? Why haven’t we ever seen her before? Since she’s not an illegitimate daughter, and she’s prettier than Wen Yan and Wen Xin, she should have received more family cultivation.”
“Looking at Wen Xin’s silent expression, you know Wen Li is telling the truth.”
Everyone was chattering away.
As soon as school was dismissed at noon, Wen Xin was the first to run out of the classroom.
After the first class, she called her father, but no one answered. She made over a dozen calls during the three breaks, and only now did she finally get through.
“Wen Li is in No.1 Middle School? In the same class as you?” Wen Baixiang stopped pinching his eyebrows, having been in a meeting all morning.
He couldn’t help but be puzzled. He hadn’t said anything, so how did Wen Li get into No.1 Middle School?
Hearing her father’s words, Wen Xin immediately felt relieved: “It wasn’t you who sent her there? Then how did she get in? Dad, quickly send her to No.6 Middle School. She revealed that her sister is adopted, and now the whole class is talking about our family. It’s so embarrassing.”
Wen Xin wasn’t defending Wen Yan. In her heart, Wen Yan, an outsider, was inferior to Wen Li. She was purely trying to get Wen Li out of No.1 Middle School and out of the Wen family.
“I understand. Go eat first.”
After comforting his daughter, Wen Baixiang hung up the phone.
Unable to figure out how Wen Li got into No.1 Middle School, and even into the key class, Wen Baixiang called his assistant, found the principal of No.1 Middle School’s phone number, and called him.
“Principal Liu, hello, I’m Wen Baixiang, Chairman of Wen Group, and the father of Wen Xin in Class 1, Grade 3.”
Hearing that it was Wen Baixiang, the principal was very enthusiastic.
“Principal Liu, I want to ask if a transfer student named Wen Li transferred to Class 1, Grade 3 today?”
“Yes, she just registered this morning. What’s wrong?”
Wen Baixiang hesitated for a moment, not knowing how to ask: “I want to know how she got into No.1 Middle School.”
Principal Liu was stunned. Obviously, Wen Baixiang’s question was still inappropriate after thinking for so long, and he couldn’t help but guess their relationship.
“Wen Li’s academic performance is excellent, so it’s reasonable for her to transfer to No.1 Middle School. Chairman Wen, do you think there’s something wrong?”
Seeing that Principal Liu was unwilling to tell the truth, Wen Baixiang had to tell the truth: “I am Wen Li’s father.”
Principal Liu: “So you’re Wen’s father.”
He thought: Your own daughter, you ask me how she got into No.1 Middle School? Shouldn’t you have sent her here yourself?
It sounds like your daughter shouldn’t be in No.1 Middle School.
Wen Baixiang: “So…”
Principal Liu: “A friend of mine sent her in.”
Wen Baixiang cursed inwardly: Talking like farting! Your friend? Who knows which friend you’re talking about?
Principal Liu also realized that he had been too cautious, so he added: “It’s a professor from Peking University.”
Wen Baixiang was curious: “A Peking University professor? I wonder which professor from Peking University?”
Wen Li came to Beijing for the first time, how could she know any professors from Peking University? And to help her so much.
Principal Liu apologized: “This… Chairman Wen, I’m really sorry, it’s not convenient for me to disclose this.”
Sensing that something was wrong, Principal Liu dared not say more. Compared to the Wen family, the Song family was clearly more difficult to offend.
