Looking at Luo Yan's calm expression, Luo Shu's eyes darkened, "...Have you seen her?"
"No, I just heard my husband mention it."
Luo Shu still looked at her with complicated eyes, filled with some inexplicable nervousness and expectation, "How old...is Miss Xu this year?"
Hearing this, Luo Yan looked at her deeply, with a clear smile in his eyes, "Mrs. Nie seems to be particularly interested in my affairs? Are you looking at someone through me?"
"Have you ever felt..." Luo Shu swallowed hard, his voice hoarse, "Our facial features are somewhat similar?"
Luo Yan still smiled like that, soft but distant.
She looked at Luo Shu, whose emotions were slowly collapsing, and just smiled and watched.
Not speaking is already the answer.
"If you guessed correctly, the little girl you mentioned is your child, right? Mrs. Nie looks gentle and decent, and she is also a person of status. How could she not be able to raise a little girl? There must be some last resort.
The reason for that, right?"
She looked calm and even "understanding" to excuse Luo Shu.
"Sorry, I have never met Mrs. Nie, and I really don't know that poor little girl."
Lin Yan, who was shopping here, saw two people talking not far away and hurriedly pulled Mrs. Lin.
Mrs. Lin felt bad the moment she saw Luo Shu.
That woman...
"Mom, what's wrong with you?" Seeing Mrs. Lin looking at that person, Lin Yan asked.
Mrs. Lin pinched her fingernails and looked angrily, "It turns out it's her, that vixen."
"What?"
"Your father was seduced by that woman during his extramarital affair back then! She was pregnant back then. I don't know if the evildoer died in infancy later."
The little woman who had once been in decline was seen again after so many years. She was actually well-dressed and well-dressed, and she seemed to have climbed to a high level. However, she herself became a joke to the entire upper class because of her husband's bankruptcy. Mrs. Lin became more and more angry as she watched.
"Oh, I don't know where I went to be a mistress again."
Lin Yan looked at the beautifully dressed woman over there and Luo Yan beside her, thinking about something in her eyes.
Just as he was thinking this, he saw Luo Shu reaching out to pull Luo Yan, but the other party calmly avoided him.
"My friend is still waiting for me, so I won't spend more time with Mrs. Nie."
Luo Shu stared at Luo Yan's walking back, tears rolled down from the corners of his eyes, and he sat slumped on the sofa, covering his aching heart.
Ever since she heard that the child had been washed away by the flood, she couldn't hold back her emotions. When she thought of that little child, the years of regret and heartache almost made her breathless.
When Nie Yongkang's mother didn't agree with her bringing her child in, she really gave in without resisting. Later, Mrs. Nie died of illness a year after she entered the house, even though Nie Yongkang agreed with her to bring Yan'er back.
, but no one can be found anymore.
Gains and losses depend on one's thoughts.
She was too cowardly when she was young and made the wrong decision, and she will live in endless regret and pain for the rest of her life.
"My smoke..."
Luo Shu broke down crying. Recently, she kept dreaming of that child, chasing her behind and begging her not to abandon her.
In her dream, she wanted to go back and hug Yan'er, but her steps were not in control and she couldn't get close to her no matter what.
"Mom, what are you doing?" Seeing Mrs. Lin walking towards that person, Lin Yan had a bad feeling in her heart. According to her mother's temper...
Sure enough, before they even got closer, Mrs. Lin's sharp voice sounded.
"Hey, I haven't seen you for more than ten years. It's really fate that I can meet you here today."
Looking down at Luo Shu, who was crying with tears in her eyes, Mrs. Lin smiled disdainfully, "Looking at how you are now, you are living a pretty good life. Which upstart did you fall in love with later?"
"Mom..." Lin Yan pulled Mrs. Lin. Most people could see that the other party's appearance and temperament were not kept in an outer room by ordinary nouveau riche. They were now in a quiet time and it was hard to cause trouble again.
Luo Shu raised his eyes and slowly wiped away the tears on his face with an elegant gesture, "Do I know you?"
"It's true that noble people forget things. You were not like this when you seduced other people's husbands."
Luo Shu didn't even frown. He looked at Mrs. Lin with clear eyes for a few seconds and said, "It turns out to be Mrs. Lin. I haven't seen you for more than ten years and I don't even recognize you. You have changed a lot over the years."
This was a roundabout way of saying she was old, and Mrs. Lin glared at her angrily.
"It's not that you have the mouth to speak the truth. It was Lin Yousheng who tried to please me, expressed his loyalty and said that he was single in front of me, so I was temporarily confused and followed him. After all these years, Mrs. Lin still refuses to admit that she can't see him.
Anyone who lives with his own man or deceives himself into thinking he is a woman has impure intentions towards your husband."
Luo Shu shook his head, "I've seen clearly what Lin Yousheng is back then. He was playing outside behind your back, and when he was discovered, he didn't dare to admit it and was irresponsible. Such a man... you are the only one who has been acting like this for so many years.
Bao. I heard that the Lin family is bankrupt? What a pity. When Mr. Lin was here, the Lin family was considered a powerful family in Beijing. In less than twenty years, it collapsed like this... Mrs. Lin is used to being petty and delicate. Thinking about it, she is quite
Don’t you adapt to a life of poverty?”
These words touched upon Mrs. Lin's sore spot. She was so angry that she grabbed the water next to her and poured it on Luo Shu's face.
"A vixen is a vixen, and she dares to show off even though she can't stand on the stage!"
The Nie family's bodyguards came very quickly. Two tall and strong men subdued Lin and her daughter in just a few strokes. They made a big fuss and alerted the mall manager.
The mother and daughter were thrown out of the venue by some rough and tumble men. When had Mrs. Lin been treated so badly? Many passers-by laughed at her during this period.
Mrs. Lin, who was used to being pampered, was furious, and was finally pulled away by Lin Yan with a cold face.
"Mom, stop making trouble! You can tell by looking at the aura of the other party that she is not an ordinary person. No matter how she was in the past, her status and power are higher than yours now. Dad and I have worked hard to support this family. You know that you have no money and no power in the imperial capital.
Isn't it easy to live a decent life? If I hadn't worked so hard to find cooperation, we wouldn't even be qualified to stay in the imperial capital now. Those debt collectors stared at each other like jackals, tigers and leopards, and I used all the favors I could use.
I borrowed money so much that I can no longer hold my head up in front of those friends in the past. I have worked hard to preserve your dignity, can you calm down for a while and stop causing trouble to me?" Lin Yan's temples hurt suddenly, and her face was tired, "I
I'm really tired. Now I just want to live a stable life. We are bankrupt and abject. It is an unchangeable fact. No matter how you deceive yourself and others, our Lin family is not the Lin family before. If you always do this, others will only treat us as a joke.
"
Having been under the control of Mrs. Lin since she was a child, it was the first time for her to say such serious words to her mother, but she felt a lot more relaxed after saying it.
"You can go home by yourself, I want to walk alone."
Looking at Lin Yan's back, Mrs. Lin froze in place for a long time without blinking.
The winter wind was strong at night, and the dim light from the street lamps did not bring any warmth.
Lin Yan walked along the path along the river for a while, stopped and sat down on a bench by the roadside. She was just staring at the river in a daze when she heard the sound of a car not far behind her.
Looking back, the man in the driver's seat had a tough face. He parked the car on the side of the road and looked at his mobile phone. The emerald dial on his wrist reflected the light of the streetlight, and his fingers were too beautiful.