"Is this what you came here to talk about today?"

Li Yongtai put on a flattering smile and said, "Dad wanted to come see you too. How's your business been lately? Is everything okay?"

"fine."

Li Yongtai nodded. "That's good. Knowing that your business is on the right track, Dad is relieved. Dad's business will also get better and better."

"Are Xiaoyan and Ming okay?"

Li Yongtai rarely saw his youngest daughter and son. The two children were young and could not control their resentment towards him. They always showed it on their faces. When he saw it, he felt very upset.

Everyone is having a hard time, so it's just less common.

However, every weekend, Li Yongtai would still wait at the school gate and look at his little daughter and son from afar.

"They are all very good."

Li Yongtai didn't know what to say again.

After sitting for a while, he got up and left.

Li Ke did not see his father off.

I just turned my head and watched my father's figure gradually walking away, feeling very complicated.

Not long after Li Yongtai left, Li Ke's stepmother came.

She walked into the beauty salon and looked at its decoration with jealousy and hatred in her eyes.

Li Ke’s beauty salon is no less beautiful than the one she used to go to when she was a rich wife, and is even better.

Li Yongtai gave Li Ke hundreds of thousands of yuan as start-up capital for his business, so of course he could decorate the beauty salon in a high-end manner.

In addition, Li Ke was lucky enough to have climbed up the social ladder and got help from the young ladies of the top wealthy families to advertise her beauty salon and recommend it to the wives and daughters of the wealthy circle. After Li Ke's beauty salon opened for business, it gradually became a more famous beauty salon in City A.

Mrs. Li believes that Li Ke is making a fortune now.

She has made so much money but doesn't help her old father pay off his debts. What's the point of having a daughter like this?

Mrs. Li cursed Li Ke thousands of times in her heart.

But he had a smile on his face and greeted Li Ke in a flattering manner.

"Did you two make an appointment? Come over here one after the other."

Li Ke's attitude towards his biological father was always cold and indifferent, not to mention his stepmother. She didn't even ask Mrs. Li to sit down and have a drink of water.

Mrs. Li was stunned for a moment, then asked, "Has your father been here?"

"He just left. If you want to find him, you might be able to catch up with him if you chase him now."

Mrs. Li hurriedly said, "I'm here to see you. Li Ke, can you please talk for a moment?"

Li Ke looked at the situation in the store. There were customers there, so it was not convenient to chat with his stepmother in the store.

She said coldly, "Let's talk outside."

Mrs. Li nodded and turned to walk out.

Then stop on the street.

After Li Ke came out, Mrs. Li asked, "Li Ke, is your business doing well?"

Li Ke said with a cold face: "If you have something to say, just say it directly."

"I see your beauty salon is doing very well and making a lot of money. Could you help me pay off some of the debt? Your father and I are getting older. If we rely on the two of us to pay off the debt, I don't know how long it will take."

Mrs. Li won the favor of a boss, who was willing to support her but required her to divorce Li Yongtai.

Mrs. Li wanted to divorce. When the Li family got into trouble, she wanted to leave, but unfortunately she couldn't leave.

Li Yongtai refused to divorce her, saying that it was because of her instigation that he became addicted to gambling, lost all his family property and owed huge debts.

Li Yongtai would not divorce her until the debt was paid off.

The couple now has no feelings for each other.

Mrs. Li realized that Li Yongtai was deeply regretful and no longer had any love for her, only resentment.

The debt was so huge, and she and Li Yongtai worked day and night to make money to pay it off, but it was just a drop in the bucket.

It depends on them, by the time they pay off their debts, she will be old and frail, so who will be willing to support her?

Mrs. Li wanted Li Ke to help her pay off the debt.

"That's the debt you two owe. As your children, I didn't inherit your property, so I won't inherit your debt. I heard from my father that you want a divorce, but he won't divorce you until the debt is paid off, right? Are you anxious?"

When Li Ke saw Mrs. Li with other old men, he knew that this woman was trying every means to get a divorce.

"Li Ke..."

"Don't tell me. It's useless. You have to pay your debts yourselves. I won't help you pay your debts even if I have money. As for you cheating on my father, he doesn't care now, so I don't care either."

Mrs. Li's face was dark.

Li Ke ignored her and turned back to the store after he finished speaking.

Mrs. Li glared at her back and said bitterly, "Unfilial daughter."

If Li Yongtai had been more ruthless at the beginning, he would have sold the Li Ke sisters immediately after the Li family got into trouble. Perhaps all the debts would have been paid off by now.

Mrs. Li thought about the men she met in the nightclub. If anyone was willing to pay a high price for Li Ke, she could act as a middleman and use the money she got to pay off her debts.

Li Ke is beautiful and has a good temperament. She is almost blank in terms of emotions and can be sold at a good price.

On second thought, he remembered that Li Ke had a backer, and that backer was the eldest lady of the Jun family, so he couldn't touch her.

Mrs. Li could only leave angrily.

After that day, Li Yongtai and his wife did not come to see Li Ke for a long time.

Winter comes after late autumn.

The winter in City A is not that cold. The temperature will only drop when cold air moves south. Otherwise, the temperature can sometimes reach over 20 degrees Celsius during the day.

Junli returned on the coldest day since the beginning of winter.

When he came back, he didn't tell his family to pick him up at the airport, but called Li Ke after getting off the plane.

Li Ke suddenly received his call and was a little nervous, but soon returned to normal and answered his call calmly.

After Jun Li had been on a business trip for more than two months, he finally took the initiative to call her.

"Third Young Master."

Jun Li jokingly said, "I thought you'd forgotten who I was again. Did you buy a car?"

Li Ke bought a new car just half a month ago. It was not expensive, just over 100,000 yuan.

"Third Young Master knows that I bought a car?"

"I knew it when you posted it on WeChat Moments."

Li Ke: "... Third Young Master is not busy today? How come you have time to call me?"

"I just got back from a business trip abroad. If you're free, come pick me up. I'm at City A International Airport."

"The Third Young Master is back?"

It was through Mu Qing that Li Ke learned that Jun Li would be traveling to several places on this business trip, and unexpectedly he would be going abroad.

"Well, I'm back. Come pick me up now."

"good."

Jun Li would contact her whenever he came back from a business trip, even if it meant asking her to pick him up at the airport. Li Ke always had an indescribable feeling in her heart, feeling that she seemed to have a tiny place in Jun Li's heart.

"I'll find a place to eat first. Please drive slowly. There's no need to rush."

Jun Li reminded Li Ke to drive slower.

He went to find a restaurant to eat something first.

"Got it. Third Young Master, go eat something first. I'll contact you when I get to the airport."

Jun Li nodded and hung up the phone.