Chapter 356 Blame it on your restless mother

Su Youling raised an eyebrow and tactfully took a step back. "You guys go ahead with your work, I..."

Before she could even lift her foot to leave, Li Tingxi grabbed her arm and pulled her into his arms. "You are the mistress of this place. They are the ones who should leave."

Karina's face tightened, and she looked like she was about to cry. "Tingxi, no matter how similar Miss Rebecca is, she's not her..."

Her implication was almost blatant.

If Su Youling were really Rebecca, she would definitely become suspicious upon hearing this, and might even be so heartbroken that she would have a huge fight with Li Tingxi.

She had experienced this kind of thing before.

Because she loves him so deeply, even the slightest movement in their relationship makes her extremely anxious and on high alert.

But now, Karina's plan has backfired.

Su Youling deliberately asked, "Her? Which 'her'? The one who disappeared?"

“You knew perfectly well…” Karina bit her lip, but before she could finish, Li Tingxi interrupted her sharply, “Karina, have you forgotten my warning?”

Karina's face paled, and she subconsciously took a step back, not daring to meet his cold gaze, but she didn't want to be completely defeated in front of Rebecca.

"Tingxi, I'm sorry. I got a little excited and said the wrong thing." Karina wisely admitted her mistake, blinking her red eyes and letting tears fall like rain. "I didn't mean to bother you, but it's a very important matter, and the chairman was in a hurry, so I brought him here without thinking."

"There's no need to talk about it." Li Tingxi looked at Old Master Li expressionlessly and said coldly, "I know everything about what happened at headquarters. There's nothing to talk about. They all deserved what they got, and I think you know that very well."

Karina bit her lip, wisely refraining from interrupting the father-son duel.

Su Youling calmly observed the man on the sofa who had aged considerably.

Li's father was gloomy and ruthless, and in the past, he always plotted against many people without revealing his true intentions: his bedmate, his illegitimate children, his adopted children...

Even the balance of power between Li Tingxi and Li Qidong over the years was partly orchestrated by the old man.

Tonight, although it was obvious that he was carrying Sheng

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Nu Yuan came from afar, but from the moment Li Tingxi entered the door, he only showed some emotional fluctuations at the beginning, and then remained calm and observed the situation.

He was observing Li Tingxi, observing Karina, and even more so, observing himself in every way.

Su Youling lowered her eyes, a sarcastic sneer on her face—it seemed that Karina had been trying to curry favor with the old man in the past, hoping to rise in rank.

Conversely, the old man's tacit approval of her flattery might be seen as him using Karina as a pawn and a spy placed beside Li Tingxi.

Seeing that Karina was no longer useful, did he intend to use her as leverage to blackmail Li Tingxi?

After a long pause, the old man calmly withdrew his gaze and said, "Come to my study to talk."

Li Tingxi stood still, frowning as he glanced at Karina. "You were responsible for bringing him here, so you're responsible for taking him back to the sanatorium. My father is getting old, and the company's affairs are complicated and not suitable for him to worry about. Don't let anyone gossip in front of him."

He said coldly, "If I find out who is gossiping about the old man, then get out of the Li family."

Karina's face paled, and she instinctively shook her head. "I didn't, it wasn't me."

Su Youling scoffed.

He confessed without being asked.

Karina realized her foolishness, her face turning pale and then red. She bit her lip, not daring to speak, but also not daring to take the old man away directly.

She's not qualified yet.

Old Master Li stared coldly at Li Tingxi for a long while. "Do you really think you've grown wings and can fly out of the Li family's shackles?"

Li Tingxi remained silent, his face cold and his expression gloomy.

Old Master Li suddenly frowned and said sternly, "Li Tingxi, don't forget. The 'Li' in the Li family name and the 'Li' in your surname are both given to you by me."

"Over the past few years, I've let you run wild only out of consideration for our father-son relationship. You've taken advantage of that."

"Father-son relationship?" Li Tingxi suddenly raised his eyes, his dark eyes filled with gloom. "When I first came to the Li family, how many schemes and assassination attempts did I suffer, both openly and secretly? Don't you know?"

"Especially Li Qidong and his seemingly kind and unassuming mother, they drugged my food, causing me to spend three days in the ICU! In the end, all you got out of your investigation was firing an innocent maid."

“Li Qidong pushed me into the water in the dead of winter. I almost drowned. I had a high fever that wouldn’t go down to 40 degrees Celsius. I was almost delirious from the fever, but Li Qidong didn’t even scold me.”

“When I was in school, everyone called me an illegitimate child, bullied and humiliated me, but you ignored it and even forbade the driver to help, claiming that you wanted to train my willpower and adaptability.”

"When I first joined the Li Group, the company attacked me from both inside and outside, making things difficult for me, the CEO whose background was questionable. There were countless open and covert attacks, but you watched them all with indifference. You even remained unmoved when your own son was plotted against by that old lecher."

"At this point, what's the point of talking to me about father-son affection?" Li Tingxi clenched his fists inch by inch, his eyes unconsciously filled with thick blood vessels, his ferocity surging, and he almost lost control of his killing intent.

In all these years, he had never spoken so much to the old man in one go.

The father and son had said more in the first half of their lives than they had said tonight combined.

Every word was filled with resentment, every sentence was icy cold.

But behind this cold-blooded and ruthless facade, what dark and painful history of growth does this man have from childhood to adulthood?

Su Youling's heart tightened, and she suddenly felt a deep sense of empathy and sadness.

Especially the last one—

She suddenly remembered when she first joined the company, she was also harassed and schemed against at a drinking party, and almost suffered a loss.

At that time, Li Tingxi still only considered her an insignificant substitute, and still hated Chen Xiyue.

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Du transferred his hatred to her.

So back then, she was just an insignificant tool. Apart from satisfying her desires, Li Tingxi never gave her a second glance.

Only that one time—

She witnessed Li Tingxi, with a gloomy expression, smash a bottle over the head of the pregnant CEO on the spot, and afterwards even made enemies of the other party's company without any mercy.

Until that person is completely ousted from the company.

That company was also severely damaged; although it didn't go bankrupt, it was completely removed from the stage of the elite.

Looking back now, perhaps that was the beginning of her feelings for Li Tingxi.

A woman trapped in a prison is rescued by a god-like man who appears out of nowhere. Who could resist being moved?

I see.

Li Tingxi had been caught in the rain before, so he was willing to hold an umbrella for her.

"You! You unfilial son, you were born out of wedlock, what's wrong with that you can't say anything about him or scold him?" Old Master Li was furious and embarrassed. He never expected that Li Tingxi, who was usually taciturn, would expose his selfish and cold-hearted true colors in front of outsiders.

His anger wasn't just because of Li Tingxi's rebellion, but more so because of the resentment of having his true colors exposed; he was selfish to the extreme.

"If you want to blame someone, blame your restless mother. Knowing I was married, she still tried every means to seduce me, thinking that if she got pregnant, she could marry into a wealthy family through her child!"

"Hmph! Over the years, have I lacked the fine clothes and sumptuous food that you and your son have enjoyed? A person should have a conscience and be content. Greed is like a snake trying to swallow an elephant. If it weren't for me, would you have reached this influential position? Would you still have the right to challenge me face to face?" Old Master Li's eyes were full of disdain and contempt.

Who could have known that the restless woman he spoke of was once his beloved lover, the one who stayed by his bedside all night, never leaving his side?