CHAPTER 237: CHAPTER 235: WHAT EXACTLY DO YOU WANT?

The burning pain on her face seemed to drag her back overnight to that night in the hospital five years ago.

He hit her, called her dirty, and told her to get out of the Shi Family, not to stain it.

"Always remember who you are. Without me, where would you be? How dare you talk to me like that?" Shi Lingkang’s eyes showed no family warmth, his tone harsh: "Even though you’re not registered with the Shi Family now, the blood in your veins belongs to my family. Do I need to teach you about hierarchy and respect again?"

Shi Su suddenly turned her eyes away. Under the light, her face showed clearly the absence of fingerprints yet bore a flushed red.

"When did you ever teach me?" Fearlessly, she stared at the scumbag in front of her who dared to assume the posture of a father: "Don’t flatter yourself. We broke ties five years ago. My life was returned to your family in that fire. I have nothing to do with you!"

Shi Lingkang was about to raise his hand to slap her again, but Shi Su stood there coldly staring at him, not intending to dodge: "You are the one who told me to leave back then. I did as you wished. What now? Do you want to show some fatherly authority? What qualifies you?"

This slap didn’t land. For some reason, as if suddenly considering something, he lowered his hand and simultaneously gave a signal to the two bodyguards beside him.

Shi Su watched warily as the two bodyguards stepped toward her. Before she could retreat, they directly pressed on her shoulders and abruptly took her phone from her pocket, swiftly turned it off.

When she came up, she thought Shi Lingkang simply disliked her, wanted to warn her a few times not to mention the Shi Family outside, perhaps just to humiliate her a bit.

After all, the Shi Family always didn’t want her presence, especially Shi Lingkang, who only wished to keep a distance from her, would certainly not use any unnecessary means under normal circumstances.

But clearly, the situation now was different.

"What are you planning to do?" She warily glanced at Shi Lingkang, then turned her gaze to her already seized phone, looking down at the two hands firmly gripping her shoulders: "Let go!"

Shi Lingkang didn’t say a word, only again signaled the two men. Shi Su swept her gaze between them and could hear one of them say: "Apologies, young lady."

Young lady?

What does it mean?

In her nineteen years in the Shi Family, she had never heard this term!

Shi Su wanted to speak but was suddenly muffled by a man’s large hand, unable to make a sound, only staring in disbelief at Shi Lingkang who was turning away.

"Mmh! Mmh!" She struggled.

Earlier, she had stepped down from the car to the hotel banquet hall to film, and she hadn’t brought her bag, nor the pepper spray. Besides, with these two robust bodyguards here, even if she had it, it likely wouldn’t help.

Jun and Chiu must think her scenes hadn’t finished filming and wait in the trailer, they wouldn’t notice her missing so early.

Especially since Shi Lingkang is her biological father; if he indeed took her away, unless he’s up to something illegal, even if they called the police, in the end, it would likely just be brushed aside.

"Shi... Mmh! Mmh!" Shi Su tried to bite the hand holding her, but the force was strong, she felt her mouth tightly covered, almost unable to breathe, eventually suffocating until her vision blurred, and she suddenly found herself dragged to another elevator at the corridor’s end, forcibly taken away.

This side’s elevator led to the hotel’s underground parking lot direction, far from the banquet hall.

Shi Su was forcibly taken into a black business car, once inside, they continued pressing her on both sides, seemingly afraid she might actually suffocate to death, released her mouth soon after entering.

On the car’s rear seat, Shi Su struggled futilely, took a few deep breaths, then looked outside the window, seeing Shi Lingkang got into another car, both cars simultaneously drove out of the parking lot.

"Where are you taking me?" With struggles useless, she tried to stay calm, looking cautiously outside.

The two bodyguards remained silent, persistently pressing her shoulders, giving her no space to move, no chance of escape.

"In a law-abiding society, the Shi Hong Group so concerned with reputation, does Shi Lingkang even not want his integrity anymore? Him making you forcibly take me away, what’s he planning to do?" Shi Su squirmed her shoulders while lowering her gaze searching for her phone in which pocket of the bodyguard, looked for a long time but didn’t see it; whether it was casually thrown out or switched to another pocket was unknown.

The two bodyguards didn’t respond.

She suddenly took a deep breath, closed her eyes and said: "Shi Lingkang can’t be so heartless as to directly silence me? Am I such a threat to him? Or is he so ashamed of me still being alive, wishing for my immediate disappearance?"

"Young lady, Mr. Shi is just planning to take you back to the Shi Family." She kept babbling, one of the bodyguards suddenly spoke, but the tone was very distant, clearly not intending to explain more.

Shi Su immediately looked at him, clearly unconvinced.

A person who wished for her immediate departure from the Shi Family, how could he suddenly want to bring her back there?

However, after the car left the hotel, amidst the misty night, she indeed noticed the direction it headed toward was that of the Shi Family’s.

What are they really planning?

Bringing her back to the Shi Family without reason?

All the way, Shi Su quietly endured, having no way to unleash, these two bodyguards like mountains pressed on her, yet indeed did not harm her, just preventing her resistance alone.

The car parked at the Shi Family villa. Seeing the familiar door she hadn’t seen in five years up close, Shi Su closed her eyes momentarily, as she neared, feeling as if something weighed heavily upon her heart, not visible on the surface, but the childhood despair suffocation feeling reemerged.

Once shoved off the car, she couldn’t even bother to look at any changes in the Shi Family’s front yard, directly being roughly thrown inside the door by the two bodyguards.

Stumbling forward by two steps when pushed, the housekeepers inside the Shi Family reacted startled seeing Shi Su suddenly appear through the door, each one frozen in place, staring at her with astonishment like seeing a ghost.

Shi Su barely managed to steady herself, turned back to see Shi Lingkang coming in, the two bodyguards stood at the door, though they didn’t enter, clearly Shi Su couldn’t escape at all.

"What exactly do you want to do?" Standing in the Shi Family’s living room, Shi Su felt uncomfortable throughout, instinctively resisting from head to toe, the air here she found difficult to breathe.

"My own daughter gone missing for five years, found her with great effort, of course, it’s to bring you home, what else could it be?" As Shi Lingkang spoke, his tone and expression lacked sincerity matching the words, clearly half-hearted, like reciting lines.