After Bankruptcy, the Billionaire Asked Me to Marry Him!-Chapter 271: It’s All Because of Her!

The weather was overcast when we set out.

But as our group reached the cemetery, the weather began to clear up little by little.

The sky was azure blue, dotted with white clouds; it turned out to be the best weather we’d had in days.

Leaning lazily against Fu Yanci, Ye Li gazed absentmindedly at the clouds before her.

When the sound of conversation arose, Ye Li turned her head and saw Li Xueqing and Aunt Lan, supporting each other as they exited the cemetery.

"Mom..."

Ye Li straightened up and walked over to greet them.

Li Xueqing saw that not only had Ye Li not left, but her eyes were even more swollen than her own.

Li Xueqing smiled and shook her head, then turned to Fu Yanci with a playful scolding look in her eyes, "Ah Li is disobedient, and you just indulge her!"

"Mom, you know what Ah Li is like, don’t you?"

Fu Yanci spoke with a pampering tone, "If I didn’t let her have her way, she would have flooded my car."

Li Xueqing’s face, already smiling, softened even more.

Looking at Fu Yanci, then at Ye Li, Li Xueqing changed what she had been about to say, "Let’s go home!"

"Mom..."

Fu Yanci spoke up, "When Dad passed away, you were ill, and Ah Li was busy, so we made the funeral arrangements as simple as possible. Now that you’re better, and it just so happens that today we’re here to pay respects to Dad, I took the initiative and arranged a memorial service for him at the funeral home. Let’s go there."

"Yanci!"

Li Xueqing exclaimed in shock, her emotions, which had finally settled, stirred up once again.

And Ye Li suddenly turned her head back as well.

It was as if she had realized only then the reason for the significant preparations before the visit.

From start to finish, she and her mother had been completely unaware.

"Ah Li, don’t cry..."

Seeing that the girl was about to cry again, Fu Yanci raised his hand to gently rub her head, "Didn’t you tell me to behave myself?"

She wanted to say that he had always behaved well.

But with her throat feeling so choked up, fearful that she would start sobbing the moment she opened her mouth, Ye Li just nodded and remained silent.

The group made their way straight to the funeral home.

Before they even reached the entrance, Li Xueqing and Ye Li both instinctively slowed their pace.

They had thought it would just be a few of them, but judging from the noise in the hall, it seemed as if other people had also come.

As they arrived at the entrance, the mother and daughter exchanged a glance and simultaneously paused.

If the previous night’s gathering at Yunjing Hotel’s rooftop restaurant had assembled half of Imperial City’s high society, then today, almost the entirety of the Imperial City’s rich elite seemed to have turned out.

Only the ancestors of Old Mrs. Fu’s generation were absent.

Everyone else, whether they were relatives and friends connected to the Ye Family, clients and partners of the Ye Group, or even those who had merely heard of Ye Mushen but had never met him, all were present.

At a glance, the crowd appeared as a dark mass.

Surrounded by snow-white banners of condolence, the atmosphere was particularly solemn.

"Mrs. Ye has arrived!"

"Mr. Ye for eternity! Mrs. Ye, please accept our condolences!"

"..."

A moment of silence, eulogies, acknowledgments of thanks.

The memorial service progressed smoothly and orderly.

Throughout the entire event, Fu Yanci stood by Ye Li’s side, bowing with her each time someone approached to offer their respects.

At the back of the crowd, Fu Minghui glared fixedly at Li Xueqing, then turned her gaze to Fu Yanci, her hatred making her teeth clench.

He was her own brother!

For her own birthday, he hadn’t shown the slightest intention to attend, and it was only after she had humbled herself and begged him that he agreed to make an appearance.

Yet for a dead man’s memorial service, he was on the phone and personally making arrangements, as if the man who had died wasn’t Ye Mushen but his own father.

Her gaze fell on Ye Li, and Fu Minghui’s eyes filled with bitter resentment.

If it hadn’t been for her, her son wouldn’t be living such a dissipated life, subjected to ridicule and mockery.

If it hadn’t been for her, Fu Yanci wouldn’t be acting so madly out of grief.

A destructive beauty!

It was all because of her!!!