"A fly won't bite a rotten egg without a crack. Perhaps there's a hidden secret between them. As for where things will develop, that's none of our business. We've paved the way for Zheng Enxi. Whether she can succeed depends on her own luck. Since she was chosen as a chess piece, she must have some extraordinary qualities."

"Mom, I understand. Are you feeling okay? Otherwise, I'll go back and stay with you."

The woman on the other end of the phone said coldly, "You don't have to come back. I won't die for a while. Just do as I tell you."

Li Qin had never heard her adoptive mother mention Shencheng, nor had she ever heard her adoptive mother mention the Jiang family. Her adoptive mother suddenly asked her to return to China to mediate between Jiang Yu and Zheng Enxi, trying to destroy Jiang Yu's marriage and stir up some trouble. Li Qin really didn't understand why her adoptive mother did this.

After hesitating for a few seconds, Li Qin asked cautiously, "Mom, who told you to do this? Why do you want to deal with Jiang Yu? Jiang Yu is a very tough nut to crack. He's extremely shrewd. Provoking him won't do us any good."

In an instant, a sharp and piercing voice came from the phone.

Li Qin felt a slight pain in her eardrum.

"Why, you're not willing to do something when I ask you to? Don't forget, I was the one who took you away from the orphanage, and I gave you everything you have today. Don't forget your roots. Just because Jiang Yu threatened you a few times, you're afraid of him?"

Li Qin's expression changed slightly, suppressing her displeasure, "Mom, that's not what I meant."

"Don't ask so many questions, just do what I tell you to do."

"I see."

"I'm tired and need to rest."

Suddenly, there was no sound on the phone. Li Qin pursed her lips and frowned slightly.

Unconsciously, Li Qin's thoughts drifted away, falling into distant memories.

When she was 5 years old, she was very well behaved in the orphanage.

The mother came and was attracted by her well-behaved appearance at first sight, so she adopted her and took her abroad.

In Li Qin's memory, her mother often appeared in a daze.

She wasn't very nice to her and would give her a hard time, but because she was very well behaved, the two of them got along well and she didn't get beaten.

When she was a child, she listened to her mother talking on the phone and accidentally heard that her mother had a son, but she had no way to meet him.

So, she adopted a child to make up for the missing feeling of missing her.

Although many years have passed, Li Qin is not sure whether her mother has any relationship with the Jiang family. However, Li Qin vaguely feels that her mother seems to have some connection with the Jiang family.

Her mother never asked her for help. Her mother, who had always been arrogant, had long since stopped caring about worldly affairs. But this time, she took the initiative to ask her to go back to Shencheng and do what she told her to do.

My mother's behavior was very unusual, as if she was protecting something she cared about.

Li Qin came back to her senses from her past thoughts and immediately booked a flight back to Shanghai.

She would not delve into other matters, she was willing to follow orders just to repay the kindness of raising her.

Besides, her adoptive mother has cancer and doesn't have much time left. She just wants to do her best to fulfill her only wish.

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Chen Si underwent a detailed postoperative examination and the wound on the femur where the surgery was performed was recovering well.

Five days later, she was discharged from the hospital.

She couldn't delay her daughter's work, and she was afraid that her boss would have opinions if she took too long a leave and might fire Enxi. Chen Si persuaded Enxi to go back to work, and she promised that she could take care of herself.

After thinking for a while, Zheng Enxi said, "Mom, let me take care of you for a while longer. You just got out of the hospital and your movements are still inconvenient. Don't try to be stubborn, I'm worried you'll fall. You can't open the leek box shop until you recover."