Qiao Zhen received a substantial deposit. She left the gold bars with the intermediary and wrote down the original owner's bank account number on a piece of paper. "The rest will be deposited into the account. If we need to cooperate long-term, don't reveal any information about me. The intermediary fee will be deducted from the account."

She was dressed in black and wore a mask, deliberately lowering her voice to make herself appear male. "If there's no problem, I'll be going now."

The real estate agent saw her off, saying, "Take care."

Qiao Zhen left with cash. She bought a lot of things before returning to Shengjing. Oh, she was stopped at the gate by security guards again. Later, the security guards called He Zhao and only then were Qiao Zhen allowed to enter.

That's incredibly embarrassing.

But Qiao Zhen still entered Shengjing. After all, the original owner was so poor that she only had one life left, and those cosmetics were obtained by the original owner from the makeup trial area by shamelessly begging.

As He Zhao had the driver leave Shengjing, he turned and looked out the window at Qiao Zhen's straight back. A dark thought roared in his mind: he wanted Qiao Zhen to bend down, he wanted to see her lower her head.

He also came across some methods of attacking people abroad, the best example being Ramika, a very sexy woman who was a womanizer for many years.

Lamica was initially an innocent girl, but after meeting the scumbag Fismo and being deeply hurt, she learned from the experienced womanizer and started flirting with men. In the end, she won Fismo's true love and then cruelly dumped him.

She said, "The most despairing thing in the world is when the thing you once cared about the least becomes the thing you care about the most. Just when you think you can have it, it pushes you away without mercy."

She added, "The most hurtful thing is love."

Finally, she concluded: "Therefore, the combination of the two can lead to the encounter of love and hate, and the inability to obtain what one desires."

There is no more painful thing in the world than this.

He Zhao seemed to be bewitched; he thought the idea was absolutely brilliant.

Qiao Zhen is not his biological sister. In fact, the original Qiao Zhen's parents were very wealthy. Later, the original Qiao Zhen's parents entrusted her to He Zhao's parents and left her a large sum of money. However, He Zhao's parents hid all that money and used it to support He Zhao's food, drink and schooling.

The original owner thought that her family only favored boys over girls, but that wasn't the case; she had no blood relation to the He family.

He Zhao was fully aware of this matter at the time, which is why the original owner's betrayal of him was never resolved.

Upon returning, He Zhao instructed his trusted aide to retrieve a strand of hair from Qiao Zhen for DNA testing. Once the results were available, he went to Shengjing to find Qiao Zhen.

At that time, Qiao was sitting cross-legged on the ground, eating potato chips and watching a brainless web series. He Zhao had a spare key, so he went in without knocking.

"Waaaaah..." Qiao Zhen cried her heart out because after the male lead hurt the female lead so badly, she suddenly realized, ah! So he liked the female lead, not the female supporting character. Oh my god, this is too painful.

He Zhao looked at Qiao Zhen, who was crying her heart out, and the atmosphere became somewhat awkward. He walked over and sat down next to Qiao Zhen, and inexplicably started watching a brainless web series with her.

After finishing watching the latest chapter, Qiao Zhen wiped away her tears with a tissue. When she turned around and saw He Zhao, she was so startled that she dropped the potato chips she was holding. She burst into tears, crying, "Potato chips!"

He Zhao frowned, looking troubled, and slammed the documents onto the coffee table with a loud thud.

Qiao Zhen was so frightened that she swallowed back her sobs. "Waaah, this useless system assistant! It didn't even warn me in time that He Zhao was right behind me!" Even though she had a power-up, He Zhao was still the chosen one. Don't fight against the chosen one; these are lessons learned the hard way.

She hastily wiped away her tears, picked up the documents on the coffee table, which contained a DNA test report showing that she and He Zhao were not related by blood.

He Zhao looked at her and said, "The He family has raised you for eighteen years. If anyone owes you anything, it's you. Plus what happened eight years ago, don't you want to pay off all these debts?"

Qiao Zhen stared blankly.

[System, what does this mean?]

[Hidden information triggered: The original owner was not the biological daughter of the He family parents, and the original owner's biological parents gave the He family a considerable sum of money, all of which was spent on He Zhao.]

[Well, this guy is so shameless, he probably doesn't realize how furious Qiao Zhenzhen is!]

Qiao Zhen lowered her head in embarrassment. "This is impossible! If I weren't their biological daughter, why didn't they send me to an orphanage? Don't tell me your parents are kind-hearted and have a soft spot for you. I know what kind of people they are better than you do."

He Zhao leisurely enjoyed watching Qiao Zhen's disheveled state. He twirled his wrist and said, "No matter what the reason is, it is an established fact that my parents raised you until you were eighteen."

Qiao Zhen smiled mischievously, "It's a given fact that your parents and I raised you until you were eighteen. Do you really think your startup fund came from your parents' savings? Now that you're all-powerful, why don't you investigate further? Calculate how much I've taken from the He family. Investigate how much I've made for the He family. Why can you choose to be selectively blind?"

He Zhao was speechless, unable to utter a single word because of Qiao Zhen's words. He made a phone call to his confidant to investigate, and half an hour later, the confidant came to the living room with a thick stack of papers.

"Mr. He." The confidant placed the documents on the coffee table.

He Zhao picked up the documents and skimmed through them. The facts were indeed as Qiao Zhen had said. What the He family gave her was just a drop in the ocean compared to what she gave back to the He family.

Qiao Zhen looked at He Zhao with sarcasm.

He Zhao closed the documents and tossed them back onto the coffee table. "Since that's the case, then I'll make it up to you?"

Qiao Zhen didn't stand on ceremony. "Sure." She looked up and around the house. "This is the house."

He Zhao smiled and shook his head, "No, I think this is too little. How about I compensate you with a partner?"

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