The Sweet Rival (Mango Shen and Nathaniel Ye)

"Mommy, are you in a bad mood?"

Zion looked at Mango obediently as he could tell from her expression that she was upset, and the look in Zion's eyes melted Mango's heart.

"Of course not, as I have you by my side as well as Wisdom and Rita. I feel lighthearted the moment I seethe three of you."

Mango picked Zion up.

However, Zion struggled for a moment.

"Mommy, you shouldn't carry me as I'm much heavier now and you aren't in good health."

"Silly boy, you'll always be my dearest boy no matter what. Don't argue and let me hug you... I haven't done this for a long time."

Mango put Zion on her lap and her attitude became much gentler and lighthearted because of her son.

Indeed, she couldn't even bear parting from her son for such a long time, so she wouldn't blame the Shen parents for looking for their own biological daughter. Perhaps she could hold back her anger for the sake of the Shen parents although Gisella was really annoying.

Mango felt much better deep down after she comforted herself.

She was still chattering with Zion when Susan came upstairs.

"Madam, the Shens are leaving, are you going to send them off?"

Mango was stunned.

"Alright, I'll go downstairs right away."

She put Zion on the bed and said in a low voice, "Have fun on your own while I go and send grandpa and grandma off."

"I'll go with you."

Zion was about to stand up as he spoke, but Mango stopped him.

"It's okay, they are just your grandparents and they can't bully me since they're not that aggressive, so don't worry."

"I'm just worried that Gisella might do something."

Zion's brows furrowed.

However, Mango stretched out his hand and scratched his nose before saying with a smile, "Don't be so impudent, you should call her auntie." "Humph! She doesn't deserve it."

Zion was extremely stubborn and Mango didn't want to force him either. She stood up and adjusted her clothes before leaving the room.

Gisella saw Mango walking out of the room and she said with disdain, "She's indeed a daughter from a wealthy family... You're coming out only when your parents are leaving and you didn't even spend some time with them. I can't believe my parents cherished someone like you."

"That's enough, stop your nonsense."

Mrs. Shen nudged Gisella before looking at Mango and said with a smile, "Mango, well go back first and I'll bring Gisella's stuff over tomorrow."

"Mom, why are you bringing those over? Those clothes are old, so just ask her to buy me a few sets of new clothes."

Gisella took it for granted.

Mango narrowed her eyes but she didn't say anything.

Mr. and Mrs. Shen knew Mango's personality, so they hurriedly said, "If that's so, we'll have to trouble you then, Mango. We have some money here if you don't have enough."

Mrs. Shen took out a bank card as she said that, but Gisella took it away in an instant.

"Why would she not have enough money when she's Mrs. Ye? I'll take this card as I've been planning on going for a beauty treatment recently anyway."

"Gisella..."

Mrs. Shen looked at her helplessly, but Gisella didn't take it seriously at all.

Mango crossed her arms and said in a low voice, "Dad, mom, you'd better take her back as we don't need another woman here. My kids aren't even as unruly as her and she doesn't even have simple manners. Insiders would know that she's part of the Shen family, but I'm sure the outsiders would never consider her as part of us."

"Mango, what do you mean? Aren't you aware that your first and last name are both endowed to you by my parents? They are my parents! What's the problem with you buying some clothes for me? Can you stop nagging? You're really asking for it... Let me warn you, you'd better listen to me from now, or else..."

"What?"

Gisella gritted her teeth in hatred while Mango looked at Mango as she felt extremely disgusted deep down. She wouldn't have talked to Gisella further if it weren't for the Shen parents' sake. However, Gisella wasn't afraid at all and she yelled, "What? How about this?"

She was about to slap Mango as she spoke.

"Gisella!"

Mrs. Shen was frightened to death and she wanted to stop Gisella but it was all too late.

As Mango saw Gisella's palm right in front of her, she narrowed her eyes before lifting her hand all of a sudden. She quickly grabbed onto Gisella's wrist while applying some pressure on it. "Ouch, d*mn! My hand, my hand! Mom! Mom!"

Gisella squealed.

At that instant, Mrs. Shen's heart ached.

"Mango, Gisella has never received proper education as she was raised outside and she doesn't have a sense of propriety when she speaks or acts, so please don't mind her." "Well, she'd better learn her manners at my place during this period of time. Also, she should know the etiquette well since she wants to be the Shen family's daughter."

Mango threw Gisella onto the sofa and her gaze was ice-cold.

At that moment, Mrs. Shen regretted it.

"I think we'd better take Gisella home with us."

"Aren't you going to prepare a room for her? Or is it that you think I'll beat her up, mom? Would you be able to clean up her mess if she returns with this attitude of hers and stir up trouble with the old master? Wouldn't you eventually ask me to help you solve the problem anyway? If that's so, you'd better let her learn the etiquette properly here. Mom, don't you remember that you have always told me since I was young that the Shen family members are all scholars and we should have proper manners? What now? Are you going to take back your words when it comes to Gisella?"

Mango's question left Mrs. Shen speechless, but she was about to say something else when Mr. Shen stopped her.

"Mango is right and we're too lenient with Gisella. It's good to let her learn the etiquette here."

Mr. Shen pulled Mrs. Shen away as soon as he said this.

However, Gisella shouted angrily from behind, "Are you going to leave me like this? You've already abandoned me once in the past and now you're abandoning me again? You don't deserve to be my parents at all! You guy are being inhuman!"

"Clap!" Mango's hand fanned straight towards Gisella's face and both Gisella and her parents were stunned.

"How dare you hit me?"

Gisella ran towards Mango as if she had gone mad.

However, Mango was skilled in martial arts. She caught Gisella's hand the moment she rushed over before shoving her back to the sofa. Mango exerted quite some strength, but it wasn't forceful enough to hur Gisella.

"You don't deserve to talk to me with your vulgar attitude. If dad and mom are worse than beasts, then what are you?"

Mrs. Shen halted her tracks when she heard Mango's words, but there was a hint of blame in her eyes.

Mango underestimated how much her mum doted on Gisella and she felt somewhat upset deep down, but she said faintly, "Mom and Dad, I asked Ned to send you off."

"You don't have to as we can go by ourselves."

Mrs. Shen left in anger.

Mango felt heartbroken at that instant.

"Haih..."

Mr. Shen sighed before leaving the house to chase after his wife.

Mango knew that they were definitely disappointed in her, but she didn't do anything wrong as this was her home and she wouldn't let Gisella act so impudently here.

The Shen parents brought Gisella to Mango's place without informing her beforehand and they were taking advantage of the fact that they had raised Mango in the past. They said that they wanted to make a room for Gisella, but Mango knew that the Shen parents wanted her to bring Gisella into the upper-class society. They thought that Mango should return them the favor of raising and taking care of her when she was young.

To be honest, Mango felt very upset deep down.

She was displeased to be taken advantage of by others, especially when the other party was her own parents who she cherished.

Gisella immediately sprang up when she saw her parents leaving before she pointed at Mango's nose and said, "Let me tell you, you owe me and the Shen family a debt of gratitude and I'm just giving you face for staying at your place. I'm giving you a chance to repay what you owe us, so don't be ungrateful, or else I'll expose your deeds on the internet!"

"Have you not learned your lesson? Should I beat you up again?"

Mango spoke blandly and Gisella was so frightened that she took a step back.

"A true lady would never use her fists when she argues... You're a hypocrite."

"I'm not a lady to begin with and I'm actually a villain, so you'd better not provoke me. Anyway, you can pick any room here as you like and live however you want, but keep in mind that we have a curfew here. If you don't come back by nine in the evening, you'll need to find elsewhere to spend the night."

Having said that, Mango turned around and went back to her bedroom.

She felt really upset because of her adoptive parents and she was in no mood to do anything.

She felt more relieved only after Zion made her a cup of rose tea.

"Mommy, have a rest."

Zion felt heartbroken for Mango, but he didn't know how to comfort her.

However, Mango smiled and said, "I'm fine. I'll make you something delicious later so that you can bring them to the military base with you tomorrow."

"It's okay as my hungry friends would finish them up regardless of how much you make, so you should just take a rest now instead. I'll go back to my room, but let me know when Mr. Ye returns so that I can tell him about it. Mommy, have a good night."

"Alright."

Mango didn't insist on it seeing that Zion was so sensible.

Then, Zion returned to his room, but Mango couldn't sleep because of her parents' matters, so she decided to draw the design plan on her iPad instead. However, she couldn't find it, and only then did she recall that she had left it at Brantley's house.

So, Mango had no choice but to use a pencil and draw it on A4 paper as some good ideas had popped up in her mind.

However, she wasn't satisfied with it although she had drawn a few versions of it.

She crushed the paper and threw it onto the floor before continuing her drawing.

All of a sudden, Mango was shocked as she heard blasting rock music coming from downstairs and it was deafening.

"What's going on?"

She got up and opened the bedroom door before she saw Gisella using the speaker to listen to music, and the volume was so high that the whole house was vibrating.

Mango's expression darkened at that instant.

"Gisella Shen!"

Mango shouted but Gisella couldn't hear it at all, or perhaps she was turning a deaf ear to Mango and continued to sing aloud.

At that moment, the design idea that Mango had in mind totally vanished without a trace.

Rage pulsed through her veins as she was furious at Gisella's behavior.

She went downstairs and turned off the speaker directly before pulling out the earphones on Gisella's ears and threw them out.

"Hey! What the hell are you doing!"

Gisella was very angry.

Then, Mango said coldly, "I'll shut you out in the basement if you put on such disturbing loud music again!"

"How dare you!"

"Do you want to give it a try?"

At this moment, Mango's cold and menacing gaze scared Gisella.

She suddenly realized that Mango wasn't as weak and gullible as Mrs. Shen as described.