Chapter 131 Birthday Gift

Early the next morning, Yue Ning ran back and forth to the newspaper stand to buy a newspaper, went home to take a shower, change clothes, and read the newspaper while eating breakfast, flipping from the financial section to the entertainment section.

Half of the entertainment page was filled with photos of Zhang Yunying and Cai Zhiyuan's biological mother, Ms. Cai Qiao Shuyi, playing mahjong together.

It was written very prominently below: "Zhang Yunying is about to marry into the Cai family and become the eldest daughter-in-law of the Cai family."

It is said that Cai Zhiyuan took Zhang Yunying to play cards with Mrs. Cai yesterday.

According to Zhang Yunying, the two families have always been on good terms. She and Cai Zhiyuan are childhood sweethearts and have had a good relationship since they were young. She said that she is deeply loved by Mrs. Cai.

When the reporter asked her if she had any good news, she said it was very specific, saying that in order to make the dragon and phoenix gown and wedding dress, it would take a year to prepare, and the wedding would probably be in the winter of next year or the spring of the year after.

Yue Ning opened her mouth wide and couldn't eat breakfast. She quickly opened the address book, found Cai Zhiyuan's home phone number, and called Cai Zhiyuan.

After a long time of trying to get through, Cai Zhiyuan wouldn't get up so early, would he? Yue Ning remembered that Cai Zhiyuan usually came into the company around 10 o'clock. She was about to hang up when the call was connected. The voice on the other end of the line was half asleep and half awake: "Is Hengtong on fire? If there is a fire, call the fire department. Is that okay?"

"Brother, brother! It's me! Ningning." Yue Ning said hurriedly.

Cai Zhiyuan yawned: "Ningning, do you know what time your brother went to bed last night? Call me now?"

"Sorry!" Yue Ning apologized quickly.

"It's okay, it's okay. Just tell me what you want to say!" Cai Zhiyuan said.

"Brother Zhiyuan, are you going to marry Zhang Yunying?" Yue Ning asked her own question. Then why didn't he say a word about what she asked him to do last night?

There was a sound of a lighter on the other end of the phone, and after a pause, it should be Cai Zhiyuan lighting a cigarette. He said, "Didn't you say last night that you wanted to give Madam Zhang a birthday gift? Then I must build momentum first!"

"Creating momentum? You are using your marriage to create momentum?" Yue Ning asked in surprise.

Cai Zhiyuan laughed out loud: "Look carefully at the whole article. Did my mother answer the reporter's questions? Did I say a word? She was the one who did all the talking."

Yue Ning read the article again and found it was true. She asked, "Isn't this true?"

"Of course not. My parents don't care who I marry. If I marry Sophie, they will fully support me. They will definitely not let me marry Zhang Ankang's daughter."

"Why?" Yue Ning said with some disdain, "You are not a decent person yourself, and you still look down on others?"

"No. Zhang Ankang's biological mother is very similar to my great grandfather's concubine. My great grandmother, as well as my grandparents, suffered a lot at the hands of that concubine. Back then, Madam Zhang returned from studying abroad, married into the Zhang family, became Mrs. Zhang, and gave birth to a daughter. Her cousin came to visit her and ended up in her cousin's husband's bed." Cai Zhiyuan exhaled, "The two of them were together and got pregnant, so what could they do? Madam Zhang was forced by her husband's family to let this cousin come in. After this cousin came in, Madam Zhang stayed alone in the empty room, watching her cousin give birth to one child after another. That cousin didn't just give birth to three children. In that era, there were two who died young, a total of five! My great grandmother got divorced and felt relieved. Madam Zhang outlasted those two, but those two left her with three children. Are the children innocent? She can only raise them."

“I see!”

Cai Zhiyuan's laughter came over: "The photo in the newspaper was a card game between several wives. Zhang Yunying took the opportunity to take a photo with my mother. The newspaper called me and asked if they could publish it. I didn't want to give her a chance to hype it up, but you happened to call me. So I agreed. The one after the 7 o'clock news is called: "Hot Topics Everyone Talks About." Take a look. Brother is going to take a nap, don't be so startled."

Cai Zhiyuan hung up the phone, and Yue Ning read the newspaper again. Is this okay?

Since his brother had already made such a huge sacrifice, Yue Ning also gave up the fun of cooking at the dinner market and squatted in front of the TV early to watch the show.

At the beginning of the show, the host took out two photos.

Yu Wanmei's roar at Yue Ning in court and the photo of Yue Ning pressing Cui Huishu into the sea were put together.

The host said: "Let's look at two photos. Both of them are fierce. This one shows Yu Wanmei saying to Yue Ning after hearing the verdict: 'If I had known I would have strangled you to death.' This one shows Yue Ning dragging Yu Wanmei's son into the sea and pressing his head into the sea. Yue Ning said: 'As a person, you can't just think about yourself, you have to put yourself in other people's shoes.'"

One guest said: "One is about being unrepentant, and the other is about awakening others."

Another guest also said: "It is really a sharp contrast. In this simple case, we have felt the darkness of human nature again and again, and also felt the light of human nature again and again. And this light and darkness come from a mother and daughter, although they do not recognize each other."

Now all TV stations are trying to take advantage of the popularity of Yu Wanmei's trial and Cui Huishu's disturbance at Ningyan, and this program is no exception. They talked about everything from human nature to children's education, and mentioned Cui Huishu, Yue Ning, and the Cui sisters.

In the middle, an old story about a wealthy family was mentioned, saying that Cui Jiachang once wanted to give Cui Huishu to his original wife Xiang Caiying to raise.

They discussed, if Xiang Caiying had raised Cui Huishu back then, would Cui Huishu still be as cowardly, selfish and incompetent as she is today?

The discussion was very intense among the guests and the audience. At this time, an audience member stood up and said, "I also want to ask a question. What if Cui Huishu, who was raised by Xiang Caiying, is still as cowardly, selfish and incompetent as she is today. She is not as capable as Cui Huiwen and Cui Huiyi. At this time, Cui Ji has reached the moment to turn the tide. Cui Jiachang made the current arrangement and gave most of the shares to his two daughters. What would you think?"

This question brought the discussion to a halt. The viewer said, "Everyone would think that Xiang Caiying deliberately ruined her son in order to give the property to her two daughters. Hong Kong has a precedent. Moreover, when the family had already fallen on hard times and had almost no property, the original wife restored the family's fortune on her own and raised the three children born to the concubine. However, now some people say that she deliberately ruined her son in order not to give the property to the son born to the second wife. I can only say that fortunately, Xiang Caiying did not raise this child."

The original wife that the audience member mentioned was very famous in Hong Kong. In the early years, she was said to be the most virtuous woman in Hong Kong and people should marry someone like her. However, as she grew older, she gradually gave the management rights of the company to her biological daughter and did not let the son she raised take over.

Many people in Hong Kong said that she was very scheming. She trained her own daughter to be an heiress, and trained her cousin's two daughters to be ladies from wealthy families. However, she ruined the only son of the Zhang family just to avoid giving the property to this son.

Over the years, the conflict over the inheritance of the Zhang family has gradually surfaced. Not only has this rumor spread widely, but Zhang Ankang has also repeatedly expressed his dissatisfaction with his mother who raised him in public. He also said that when he was a child, his mother would force his sister to study, and if he refused to study, she would not force him. These statements can be regarded as evidence that Mrs. Zhang has raised her son to be useless.

Now the relationship between Zhang Ankang and Old Madam Zhang is very tense. Everyone is wondering whether her son and his family will attend Old Madam Zhang’s birthday party?

This topic was just a small episode, and the next topic was to be discussed again: the Cui family's affairs.

However, after watching the show, Yue Ning felt that it was just average. She didn't think that just mentioning this episode in the show would lead to a topic of discussion.

Thinking back to when he saw Zhang Yunying unilaterally announce the marriage news in the morning, Yue Ning couldn't guess what other plans Cai Zhiyuan had.

She called Cai Zhiyuan, who told her, "Keep it a secret. You can watch TV when you open your eyes tomorrow morning. Watch STV!"

Isn't STV a rival of Hengtong? Can they still cooperate with HTV?

Yue Ning was so intrigued by him that she opened her eyes at just after five o'clock. She turned on the TV, but the show hadn't started yet.

She could only run one more lap before going home, and turned on the TV to see the STV morning news report "Father and daughter cheated together and stayed in the same hotel. Zhang Ankang slept with Lu Ya, and Zhang Yunying cheated on someone else's husband"

On the TV screen, the paparazzi took two photos at the entrance of Junhao Hotel. One photo showed Zhang Ankang entering the hotel with a female star who was more than 20 years younger than him, and the other photo showed Zhang Ankang's daughter Zhang Yunying and a third-level film director who was more than 20 years older than her. The father and daughter entered the hotel less than half an hour apart.

The news said that Zhang Ankang and his wife Jin Miaoru just celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary last month. Zhang Ankang said personally that the couple are deeply in love and are still in love.

Yesterday, the newspapers and TV were still saying that Zhang Yunying was going to marry into the Cai family and become the eldest daughter-in-law of the Cai family. The person who was going to become the eldest daughter-in-law of the Cai family was revealed to have stayed overnight in a hotel with the director today? On the same day, in the same hotel with her father.

Father and daughter cheating together. This news is too explosive. No wonder STV released this news. It was just revealed that Tsai Chih-yuan was going to marry Chang Yun-ying. How could they not be happy if they cheated on Tsai Chih-yuan?

Yue Ning entered Ningyan, and everyone in the banquet was talking about this matter.

Yue Ning could only say that Brother Zhiyuan was really willing to take risks! But how could this be linked to the Zhang family's past?

Before lunchtime, Yue Ning saw Cai Zhiyuan come out to clarify on TV.

"Mrs. Zhang and the elders in my family are close friends. The younger generation of the Zhang family wants to enter the entertainment industry, and the elders asked me to take good care of him and give him more opportunities. The entertainment industry is relatively chaotic, and Hengtong has done everything in a more formal way. I have also done my best. Everyone is free to live how she wants. I can't interfere," Cai Zhiyuan said to the camera.

When asked by paparazzi about marriage rumors, Cai Zhiyuan laughed: "I have marriage rumors every year, even several times a year. If I take it seriously, I would have been married dozens of times. The only time I seriously proposed to someone in my life, I was rejected by the other party."

When the reporter asked him who rejected him, he said, "It's very embarrassing, I won't talk about it."

A lot of information was revealed in this interview.

Everyone can actually guess who Cai Zhiyuan proposed to and was rejected, after all, Mrs. Cai once called him a "bad boy."

There is another sentence, Cai Zhiyuan said that Mrs. Zhang asked him to take care of Zhang Yunying. In other words, Zhang Yunying had no shortage of opportunities to enter the entertainment industry, and Cai Zhiyuan was willing to cooperate with her hype, but Zhang Yunying was still with a married man.

The incident between the father and daughter was so serious that the Zhang family had to apologize. Zhang Yunying burst into tears and said that she was young and ignorant and let everyone down. Zhang Ankang said a few indifferent words, the most important of which was: "She can't speak for Yingying. Yingying can only rely on herself."