Long time no see, Xia Lan, do you still remember me?
When Yu Shaoting received Bai Xiao's call again, he was sitting in the conference room, listening to the partner's explanation of the relevant terms of the contract. He took the phone and stood up directly. Regardless of the other party's expression at the moment, he said "Sorry" directly.
Opened the door and went out.
Walking outside the conference room, Yu Shaoting answered the phone and stopped Yang Xi who was passing by: "Mr. Xu has always been responsible for this case. Ask him to come to the conference room."
Yang Xi noticed the ringing cell phone in his hand and nodded in understanding: "I'll ask Mr. Xu to come up and talk to the customer right away."
When entering the elevator, Yu Shaoting answered the phone. On the other end was Bai Xiao's slightly panting breath: "Are you still in the meeting? When will it end?"
"Where are you?" When Yu Shaoting pressed the number '1', she heard the horn of a car near her.
"...I'm just planning to go out, so keep busy and I'll find you later."
While Bai Xiao was worried about him, she was also afraid of disturbing his work. Although she also knew that it was inappropriate for her to call him at the moment, she still called him uncontrollably.
Yu Shaoting hung up the phone and came out of the elevator. What he saw was Bai Xiao standing outside the door with his back turned.
She was wearing a set of very ordinary home clothes, with a ponytail, maybe she came out in a hurry, and she was also wearing indoor slippers on her feet.
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Bai Xiao asked Ye Hehuan to take her to the Donglin gate, but did not let Hehuan accompany her to wait for Yu Shaoting to finish the meeting. She stood there watching the cars go by, and she thought a lot.
When someone put a hand on her shoulder, Bai Xiao immediately turned around and saw Yu Shaoting standing behind her at some point.
"Why do people who plan to go out stand in front of my company?"
Bai Xiao caught sight of him unexpectedly and was a little dazed: "Aren't you in a meeting? Why -"
Yu Shaoting looked at her dumbfounded look and stretched out his right index and middle fingers to pinch her nose: "Why are you acting like a stupid lady?"
Bai Xiao looked at the faint smile in his eyes and the softened lines on his face. He was in a daze for a moment, then took his hands and said, "He Huan came to the house just now and showed me a magazine report. It said
There are many things involved, including that I am that person’s daughter, and what happened between you and me...did you see that?”
Bai Xiao became more worried as he spoke: "Will it have a bad impact on you? And the Yu family, will there be reporters to bother them?"
Yu Shaoting pulled her back and said: "What impact can it have? In today's society, who doesn't have one or two bad news behind their backs?"
He didn't care much about the tone of his words, but she didn't really think that those public opinions didn't matter. Bai Xiao had a lot to say, but couldn't express it. Standing at the door of the company, people came and went, she looked at him,
He frowned and opened his mouth: "I——"
Yu Shaoting suddenly reached out and hugged her into his arms. His deep voice sounded in her ears: "With me here, there is nothing to be afraid of."
"I'm just worried about you..." Jing Xi and Yu Jia are also worried that anyone who has anything to do with me will be implicated.
"It's just a false report."
Bai Xiao ignored the curious eyes around her and hugged him tightly. The familiar embrace eased her anxiety slightly.
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"Mr. Yu?" Behind him, someone called Yu Shaoting. Bai Xiao subconsciously left his arms and turned to look over.
He was a middle-aged man who looked like a boss, and he was accompanied by two or three subordinates carrying briefcases.
The middle-aged man came over and said, "I just asked you where Mr. Yu went. It turns out he is downstairs..." As he said this, he looked at Bai Xiao with an ambiguous smile.
Bai Xiao guessed that this boss had business dealings with Dong Lin, so when the other party looked over, she nodded in a friendly manner.
On the other hand, Yu Shaoting looked as usual, with one hand in his pocket and the other hand hanging naturally by his side. He greeted the other party and the conversation was nothing more than business.
It is not difficult to judge from the content that Yu Shaoting was having a meeting with him upstairs just now.
The two men talked for a while, and Yu Shaoting suddenly turned around and introduced to Bai Xiao: "This is Mr. Huang from Haijian Group."
Bai Xiao stretched out his hand toward Mr. Huang: "Mr. Huang, hello."
Mr. Huang smiled and shook Bai Xiao's hand, and looked at Yu Shaoting: "My child's birthday party will be in a few days, and Mr. Yu will bring his family to attend."
"Definitely." Yu Shaoting had a polite smile on his face.
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When Yu Shaoting took Bai Xiao to the parking lot, Mr. Huang was still standing at the east door, squinting at the backs of the two of them, and sighed: "I'm getting old!"
"Mr. Huang, you are only in your prime, how old are you?" the assistant next to him said flatteringly.
"My heart is getting old, and I can no longer do things like being angry for beauty. The older I get, the more timid I become in doing things."
The assistant looked at the direction where Yu Shaoting and Bai Xiao were leaving: "Could it be that the person just now was the one written in the magazine -"
In large companies, the most common thing for office workers to read is magazines. There are fashion magazines, financial magazines, and of course there is no shortage of gossip magazines. When a person sees a surprising piece of news, it will often spread to others, so assistants
Before coming to Donglin, I also read some reports from my colleagues.
Although the report did not name the man who secretly communicated with his wife's cousin about the song, but in this era of national gossip, if you just ask around, you can immediately know who Xu Shuyuan mentioned in the report is.
Who married the only eldest daughter of the Xu family?
"I really can't tell, but at this age, I thought I was already twenty-seven or eighty-years-old anyway." The assistant muttered.
"When a man looks at a woman, it's all about his eyesight. Besides, the girl's family background is very good. Yu San's eye for selecting women is so accurate. Just before the meeting, he asked me if I knew the publisher of Yuansheng News.
As a shareholder of the group, I accidentally mentioned him during a previous dinner, and he became interested in me."
As Mr. Huang said, he glanced at the inexperienced assistant: "The magazine you passed around in the office area this morning is under the Yuansheng Group."
The assistant seemed to understand something, but felt that it was impossible. Mr. Huang chuckled, put his hands behind his back, and turned around slowly, "It is not easy to open a newspaper these days. If you are not careful, you will offend some powerful person. The most unlucky one.
The situation is that if you offend a large group of people all at once, you will be left with nothing to eat."
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Xia Lan saw the report in the magazine because her sister-in-law came to the hospital excitedly to find her and threw the magazine on her quilt.
"Alan, our Xia family doesn't have the background of the Xu family or the Yu family, so we can only help you get here."
The grand hall lady's proud look gave Xia Lan a bad premonition. She flipped through the magazine and finally saw something that gave her a headache on page 18. The half-true and half-false report made her look ugly and pointed.
The photo in the magazine asked the receptionist: "Where did this come from?"
"This is what Zhen Ning and I want." The lady-in-law sat down beside the bed and patted Xia Lan's hand: "The article was also written by the magazine's best writer."
Xia Lan's brain buzzed. When she heard the receptionist's smug words, she almost burst out: "Who asked you to help?!"
"Two days ago, a reporter came to Yizhou Weekly for an interview and said that she was fired because of pressure from the Xu family and her insistence on publishing a report about Xu Liu. Otherwise, I wouldn't have thought of this idea."
Yizhou Weekly was founded by one of Xia Lan's cousins. She was already married to Xu Jingyan at the time, and the Xu family helped a lot behind the scenes.
But now, this weekly magazine has exposed the Xu family's family scandal...
"Xu Liu is now clamoring to divorce you because of that mother and daughter. We might as well expose the matter first and let the public see what their son of the Xu family has done. Also, let the Yu family see clearly what they
What kind of character is the new daughter-in-law like?"
Xia Lan stared at the pictures in the report, and in her ears she heard the triumphant voice of the lobby sister-in-law: "And your sister-in-law, it's too hard to understand! She was the mistress who forced her daughter to death and snatched away her son-in-law's position.
It would be better for her to help her mother and daughter deal with you. This time, let her wake up!"
"That's enough." The receptionist's sister-in-law was stunned when she heard Xia Lan speak. She thought she heard wrongly, but Xia Lan said again: "Are you sure you are helping me?"
"What... happened?"
Xia Lan held the magazine and smiled bitterly: "Sister-in-law, why didn't you check it out before you found someone to write this report?"
"What to check?"
"Do you know where Bai Ningxuan is now?"
The hall sister-in-law looked confused, and Xia Lan said word by word: "She changed her name to Su Manrong, and she is the eldest daughter-in-law of the Yu family. Do you think her father-in-law will let go of the Xia family after seeing this report?!"
, the magazine was thrown to the ground by her.
"Isn't there still the Xu family?" The hall's sister-in-law advised Xia Lan, who was in a hurry: "In order to save your mother-in-law, you even lost your child. Your father-in-law—"
"Do you think Xu Hongyang is on my side by not expressing his stance?"
Xia Lan shook his head: "He felt like a mirror in his heart. He believed Liang Huizhen's words! Otherwise, how could he not say a word when Xu Jingyan wanted to divorce me? With his temperament, if he really wanted to help me,
The measures taken are definitely tough, just like when we chased Bai Ningxuan away, how ruthless."
"His current attitude is just because he cares about my affection for the old lady, and also to stabilize the entire Xu family and wants me to leave on my own. His two good daughters-in-law also had a hand in what happened back then, but he
They turned a blind eye, even though they warned them privately, they said nothing openly, hoping to make everything "happy at home and in peace"."
That way, if Xu Jingyan wants to hate her in the future, he will only hate her and Xia Lan. There won't be a big gap between him and those brothers.
Xia Lan closed her eyes. Xu Hongyang was scheming. If she had room for maneuver before, now, it was almost destroyed by the Xia family!
"Then what should we do now?" The receptionist's sister-in-law panicked after hearing Xia Lan's analysis.
Xia Lan sneered at herself: "We have come to this point, what else can we do?"
The lobby sister-in-law wanted to slap herself a few times, but she heard Xia Lan say: "Go back first and let me think about how to deal with it. I will contact you then."
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When Xu Zhenning came, she saw Xia Lan standing by the window, lost in thought. She didn't know what she was thinking. She also discovered the magazine on the ground.
"Mom -" Xu Zhenning just shouted out, Xia Lan suddenly turned around and said sternly: "You still know that I am your mother?"
"Who asked you to give those photos to the Xia family? Do you know what consequences I, a mother, will have to bear because of your recklessness?!"
Xu Zhenning was stunned: "Mom, isn't it right for me to do this? Dad is going to divorce you. If we take advantage of the pressure of public opinion first and make everyone think that Bai Xiao and her daughter are the third parties who destroyed other families, the Xu family has a good reputation.
How come the family wants Bai Xiao to come back? I don’t understand, what are you afraid of?"
"..."
Xia Lan felt a sigh in her chest and couldn't lift it up. Just when she was about to scold her daughter, the cell phone placed on the bed cabinet suddenly rang. It was the number from the Xu family's old residence.
After she calmed down, she answered: "Hello?"
"..."
When Xia Lan hung up the phone, Xu Zhenning couldn't wait to ask: "Is it Grandpa's call? What did Grandpa say?"
"What else can I say? If it were you, if someone exposed the ugliness of your family, would you still greet them with a smile?" Xia Lan didn't want to say more to her: "You clean up yourself, your grandfather asked us
Go home and say you have something to say."
Xu Zhenning and Xia Lan were still recovering. The doctor advised them not to go out, but Xia Lan still asked for a wheelchair and went to Xu's house.
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On the way, Xu Zhenning was still nervous and asked Xia Lan: "Grandpa called us back in a hurry. What happened?"
Xia Lan glanced at her daughter out of the corner of her eye. She wasn't sure why, but at least she wouldn't panic: "Why are you panicking?"
With Xia Lan by her side, Xu Zhenning felt a lot more at ease. Even though she was twenty-nine years old, her wisdom was indeed nothing compared to her mother's.
At that time, Liang Huizhen insisted that her mother wanted to kill her in order to hide the truth, but Xia Lan had a way to make most people believe that it was Liang Huizhen who had misunderstood her. In order to persuade the impulsive Liang Huizhen, she
He accidentally moved the steering wheel, causing the car to crash into the truck.
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When they arrived at Xu Zhai, Xia Lan and Xu Zhenning got off the bus.
The person who came to pick them up at the door was a nanny who had worked in the Xu family for more than ten years. The nanny was still very respectful when she saw Xia Lan: "Dean Xia, you are here. The Sixth Young Master has just arrived."
Hearing what the nanny said, Xia Lan suddenly remembered that she hadn't seen Xu Jingyan for several days, and the divorce agreement was still lying on her head.
After being married for so many years, she didn't expect that he would become cruel and not care about any affection at all.
Or is it because he doesn't have much affection for himself in the first place?
Xia Lan took a deep breath, found several cars in the yard, and asked the nanny: "Who is at home today?"
"They are all here. There may be some happy event. The young masters are back, and the young mistress is drinking tea in the house. By the way, there is also a guest."
Xia Lan's forehead and temples twitched. Even those who worked and did business in other places had returned to the capital. For some reason, she had a vague feeling...
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Xia Lan's premonition was fully confirmed when she entered the room and saw a middle-aged woman with an elegant smile on the sofa.
After Xia Lan and Xu Zhenning came in, everyone in the living room stopped talking and looked towards the door, including the middle-aged woman holding a tea cup.
When Xu Zhenning saw the other party's appearance clearly, the color on her face faded, and she whispered the other party's name with her lips: "Aunt Xu, why is she here?"
Xu Xinghua had already stood up and smiled at Xia Lan: "Xia Lan, long time no see, do you still remember me?"
Footsteps were heard on the stairs. Xia Lan turned her head and saw Xu Jingyan. His body was dusty, as if he had just come back from a distant place, and his face had not yet washed away the fatigue.
"Is the sixth one down?" Fu Min poured a cup of tea and said politely: "You just got off the plane, haven't you had a good drink of water yet?"
"I'm not thirsty." Xu Jingyan had no expression on his face. He went downstairs and passed Xia Lan and his daughter without any pause in his steps.
"Mom..." If Xu Zhenning was nervous on the way here, then now she is panicked.
Xia Lan suddenly said: "I want to go to the bathroom."
"I'll push you." Xu Xinghua stood up and offered to push Xia Lan over, with a gentle smile on his face.
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After entering the bathroom, Xia Lan didn't have time to beat around the bush and asked Xu Xinghua directly: "Didn't you go abroad with your husband? Why are you back again?"
"It was Xu Liu who came to find me. He said that there was something very important that required me to return to China. For your sake, I came back." Xu Xinghua said casually while washing his hands. When he turned off the faucet, he looked at Xia Lan, who had a complicated expression.
: "Didn't he tell you?"
For her sake? Xia Lan thought this sentence was extremely ironic. She calmed down and asked again: "Did he say what it was about?"
"It was said that more than 20 years ago, he came to the hospital with a sample for DNA testing and asked me if I had made any mistakes in the test. He said that this was related to his biological daughter. He hoped that I would think carefully about it," Xu Xinghua said, suddenly as if
Looking at Xia Lan thoughtfully: "I remember that at that time, you seemed to have come to chat with me..."
