Oh no! Drunk last night, I accidentally wandered into my ex-boyfriend's room.

At the same time, Xia Jichuan hurriedly squeezed through the crowd, quickly helped Xia Tingshi up, and said with concern:

"What happened? Were you pushed over?"

His daughter is usually an elegant little princess, a poised and graceful socialite in high society, and would never make a fool of herself in such high-society settings.

"Dad..." Xia Tingshi's eyes were red, tears welling up in her eyes, as if she had suffered some great injustice. "I just said a few words to my sister, and then..."

Her pause was perfectly timed; she didn't need to finish her sentence, which naturally led people to infer the cause and effect.

Upon hearing the word "sister," Xia Jichuan immediately turned to look at Lin Qian.

The next second, he was stunned.

How could this face look so much like Lin Shuyao's...? Her clear yet stubborn eyes are so beautiful, it's as if they were carved from the same mold.

Xia Jichuan frowned deeply: "Lin Qian? What are you doing here?"

"Ouch!" Xia Tingshi immediately cried out in a soft voice, "Daddy, my foot hurts so much, I think I twisted it."

Xia Jichuan felt a pang of pain in his heart. His gaze towards Lin Qian shifted from astonishment to anger, and he demanded sharply:

"Why did you push Shishi? Doesn't she know she's your half-sister?!"

"Half-siblings?"

Lin Qian curled into a sarcastic smile. "Excuse me, firstly, I don't have a father. Secondly, I didn't push her."

Lin Qian has never seen her father since birth.

After learning the truth from her mother, she would occasionally search for Xia Jichuan's name and discovered that Xia Jichuan had a precious daughter.

For over twenty years, they have ignored it completely.

What right does a man like that have to be called her father?

Xia Jichuan stared at her with his deep eyes. "You didn't push her, so did Shishi fall down on her own and then try to frame you?"

"Slander?" Lin Qian met his gaze without flinching. "To slander others and distort the truth without any evidence, Mr. Xia, you really are a 'good' father."

Xia Jichuan's authority was challenged, and he immediately used his status to suppress Xia Jichuan: "No matter what, I am still your father!"

"I'll say it again, I don't have a father."

Lin Qian looked at him calmly.

She never received a penny from her father or ate a single grain of rice from him since she was a child, so how could there be any father-daughter relationship between them?

"Fine, fine," Xia Jichuan felt utterly humiliated. "You dare to do it but not admit it! You're not worthy of being my daughter, Xia Jichuan. Today, I'll teach you a lesson on behalf of your deceased mother!"

He suddenly raised his hand and slapped Lin Qian hard in her direction.

If that slap were to land, it would definitely be quite forceful!

Exclamations arose from the surrounding crowd.

Lin Qian's pupils contracted, and her body instinctively dodgeed to the right.

The expected pain did not come; instead, I fell into a warm embrace.

The man's large hand reached out from the right and tightly gripped Xia Jichuan's wrist as it was about to fall.

Lin Qian was slightly taken aback and subconsciously looked in the direction of the hand.

Lu Beiting stood beside her, steadying her body, his voice tinged with coldness:

"What are you doing?"

Lin Qian's consciousness was momentarily dazed.

Although she had given up hope for her biological father, she never expected that he would actually try to beat her in public.

Perhaps a little girl who has never received a father's love will still have a hidden expectation deep in her heart, even if it is just the slightest response or concern from the other party.

But cruel reality told her that she had nothing.

"Were you hurt just now?" Lu Beiting's deep voice sounded in her ear.

Lin Qian shook her head, her throat feeling a little dry.

Xia Jichuan didn't expect Lu Beiting to stop him, but after thinking about it carefully, he realized that his behavior just now was rather out of line, at least in front of a group of nobles, he seemed not to be composed enough.

"Bei Ting, what brings you here?"

Xia Tingshi looked at Lu Beiting with tears in her eyes, her voice soft and aggrieved:

"Brother Beiting... my legs hurt so much..."

She stammered and fell silent, a single, glistening tear sliding down her cheek, which made many of the men present feel sorry for her.

Beside her, one of her best friends immediately spoke up for her:

"That woman in blue deliberately pushed Shishi! We all saw it!"

Another close friend nodded repeatedly, adding fuel to the fire:

"Exactly! Pushing someone for no reason, they have absolutely no manners. How did someone like that get into the banquet?"

Immediately, murmurs arose from the surrounding area.

Lu Beiting: "Where are the security cameras?"

The general manager in charge of the banquet also rushed over upon hearing the commotion. He wiped the sweat from his brow and said respectfully:

"I apologize, esteemed guests... Unfortunately, only this one surveillance camera malfunctioned yesterday and hasn't been repaired yet..."

Xia Jichuan snorted coldly at Lin Qian, appearing magnanimous:

"Since everyone saw you deliberately push my daughter, what excuse do you have? Here's what we'll do: you bow 90 degrees to my daughter and sincerely apologize, then we'll consider this matter over and I won't hold it against you."

The general manager, naturally not daring to offend Xia Jichuan, turned to Lin Qian and said:

"Yes, ma'am, since there are so many witnesses here, you'd better apologize quickly!"

Several of Xia Tingshi's sisters around her also joined in the trend:

"Yeah, you bullied Sister Shishi, aren't you going to apologize right now?"

Lin Qian remained unusually calm, looking at Xia Tingshi and speaking slowly and deliberately:

"Are you sure I pushed you?"

Xia Tingshi's eyes reddened slightly, and she gave a kind and understanding smile, her tone gentle:

"It's okay if you don't want to admit that you pushed me. Just pretend I tripped and fell by accident. I won't blame you."

Lin Qian chuckled coldly and asked the baby-faced waitress not far away:

"Did you record the whole thing?"

The baby-faced waitress, who had been standing unnoticed in the corner, walked over holding Lin Qian's phone and nodded, saying:

"Yes, yes! I recorded it all. The girl in the black dress fell down on her own!"

As she spoke, she clicked to play the video and turned her phone screen towards the crowd.

When Xia Tingshi was still half a step away from Lin Qian, she suddenly lunged straight at the champagne tower without any external force.

A video is worth a thousand words.

After watching the video, Xia Jichuan's expression became very subtle, alternating between pale and flushed.

"this……"

The manager's expression was also not good, but he was unsure whether to offend the Xia family for the sake of a woman with no background.

'I...I...' Xia Tingshi stammered, never expecting Lin Qian to play along. 'Then I must have remembered it wrong...'

Her face was contorting in pain.

I was tricked by Lin Qian today. Not only am I soaked to the bone, but I also didn't get any benefits!

How will she survive in high society circles after this!

"You, come here." Lu Beiting suddenly spoke.

Tears welled up in Xia Tingshi's eyes again, and a sense of anticipation instantly rose in her heart, "Brother Beiting..."

The man's voice, however, was chillingly cold: "Apologize."

Xia Tingshi was stunned. A sharp pain shot through her heart, accompanied by resentment and jealousy.

"Bei Ting, it's all a misunderstanding," Xia Jichuan quickly said with a smile, waving his hand. "It's just an accident for a girl like you, there's no need to apologize, is there?"

"Accidentally?" Lin Qian smiled slightly, a hint of sarcasm in her eyes. "Yes, it just accidentally rushed towards me, accidentally said a bunch of provocative things, and then, without any apparent effort, accidentally ran towards the champagne tower. Even Newton couldn't explain this strange phenomenon. What a wonderful accident!"