The butler walked up to Huo Yao and looked at the ground behind her. After he inhaled deeply, his voice sounded even colder than before. “Didn’t I give you a pair of slippers? Why didn’t you change into them?”


  Didn’t she know it was basic courtesy to change into slippers when she was a guest?

  “I don’t like slippers,” answered Huo Yao mildly.

  The butler rubbed his forehead. He did his utmost to suppress his fury before he put down his hand and said, “Don’t you have any manners to speak of?”


  Huo Yao tilted her head nonchalantly and looked at him profoundly with her deep eyes. Even though she did not say a word, she made the butler instantly incapable of speaking the moment he made eye contact with her.

  After going quiet for a couple of seconds, he recalled his mission for this day. The butler stopped harping on the slippers and turned to enter the living room.

  He said as he walked, “Young Master Zhi is your uncle. He is unable to make it back to the villa, but there will be other opportunities for you to meet later.”


  The family doctor was sitting on the couch looking at something in his hands.

  The butler nodded politely to the doctor before making introductions to Huo Yao. “This is Dr. Hu. We simply invited you here so that we can collect a blood sample from you.”


  Huo Yao smiled ambiguously at the butler. “You call this an invitation?”


  The butler automatically shifted his eyes and disregarded Huo Yao’s words. Instead, he continued. “Old Master Song is your grandfather. He is seriously ill and needs a bone marrow transplant. Only biological relatives will have a higher chance of success at being a match.”


  The moment Huo Yao heard what he said, she finally realized why the Song family was so insistent about seeing her.

  “Considering how rich you are, you should have plenty of people in the family, right? Were you unable to find a match? Did you have to stoop so low as to abduct an outsider? A blood sample?” asked Huo Yao teasingly.

  Since the Song family was in the wrong, the butler could not help feeling uneasy. A few seconds later, he pretended not to hear her and changed the subject. “Your mother is the eldest daughter of the family. She ran away from home years ago. Now that her father is gravely sick, isn’t it about time that she makes some contribution?”


  He paused before he added. “Since you are her daughter, that makes you half a Song.”


  Since she was a part of the family, this could not be considered an abduction.

  Huo Yao pursed her lips. Tsk. He was certainly a master of being shameless.

  No wonder her mother sounded faintly annoyed when she brought up the Song family over the phone.

  The butler did not even look at Huo Yao’s face and simply said, “Moreover, it is just a simple blood test, so there won’t be any complications to your health.”


  Huo Yao straightened her backpack straps nonchalantly as she asked. “What if I say no?”


  The moment the butler heard what she said, he smiled before his face turned entirely cold. His voice sounded incredibly frosty. “You have no choice.”


  He glanced at Dr. Hu after he was done talking to her.

  Dr. Hu was the Song family’s doctor, so he knew how rich families operated. The moment he caught the butler’s cue, he opened the medical kit on the table calmly.

  He retrieved a syringe and some antiseptic cotton swabs from the medical kit.

  The syringe glinted threateningly under the light as Dr. Hu held it in his hand.

  He raised his head to look at Huo Yao and spoke mildly. “Don’t be afraid. All I need is a syringe full of your blood. It will all be over in the blink of an eye.”