Lin Yan paused, not knowing what to say for a moment. Liao Wen raised her eyes, her expression calm and without sadness.
"There's no ending for him and me. The Ji family won't allow him to have a wife whose family is bankrupt and in gambling debts, and..."
"Ji Mingyuan will probably start dating soon, and then get married to a wife of equal status. By then, my family's debts should be paid off, and I might quit my job and open a flower shop."
Liao Wen laughed.
Lin Yan fell silent for a moment, not knowing how to comfort Liao Wen, but Liao Wen still had a decent smile on her face, as if she didn't care about this matter.
Seeing that silence had fallen between the two, Liao Wen took the initiative to change the subject and asked, "How is your sister-in-law getting along with you?"
Lin Yan noticed that Liao Wen was unwilling to continue the topic she had started, and her eyes turned to Lu Yingqian who was talking to Liang Huo not far away.
"It's pretty good. The little girl is simple and has a good personality. She is closer to me than to Lu Jinghuai."
Liao Wen laughed and said, "That's good."
As the two were talking, Lu Yingqian and Liang Huo on the other side finished their words and walked towards Lin Yan.
"Sister-in-law." After greeting, Lu Yingqian looked at Lin Yan and then at Liao Wen.
She probably knew that Liao Wen was Lin Yan's friend. She saw the two of them chatting together for a while, but this was the first time they met, so she didn't know how to address each other.
"Liao Wen, my friend." Lin Yan also understood and took the initiative to introduce her.
"Hello, Miss Liao." Lu Yingqian greeted her obediently.
Lu Jinghuai and Ji Mingyuan on the other side saw that the two women on this side seemed to have finished their relationship. I walked over. When I got in front of them, Ji Mingyuan naturally took Liao Wen's hand, and Liao Wen did not resist at all.
Lin Yan's eyes fell on the two people's interlocked hands, and she thought of what Liao Wen had just said. Her eyes flickered slightly but she said nothing.
As if she understood something, Lu Yingqian lowered her voice and asked Lin Yan, "Sister-in-law, is Miss Liao Brother Mingyuan's girlfriend?"
Lin Yan didn't know how to answer for a moment, and after a while she said "hmm" vaguely.
At nine o'clock, after eating the birthday cake, the party was about to end successfully.
The guests had left, and Lu Jinghuai, Lin Yan and Lu Yingqian were seeing them off.
The bodyguard at the door started running with a nervous look on his face, his eyes locked on Lu Jinghuai, and he trotted over, lowering his voice.
"Mr. Lu, an old man suddenly appeared at the door from nowhere, claiming to be Madam's adoptive father. He called Madam an ungrateful person and said..."
The bodyguard hesitated for a moment, looked at Lin Yan but didn't know how to continue speaking.
Adoptive father? Lin Yan instantly thought of the Wang family in Jinquan Village. That was the only person she could call her adoptive father.
But the Wang family had accepted one million from the Lin family, so why would they come here? And what was there for the Wang family to make a fuss about? Even if they had already accepted the money, it would be pointless to make a fuss. She wasn't even the Wang family's daughter.
"Go out and take a look." Lu Jinghuai also looked at Lin Yan and asked. He didn't need to think to know how many people were watching the fun outside.
Lin Yan collected her messy thoughts and said "hmm". Lu Yingqian was a little worried. Seeing Lin Yan and Lu Jinghuai go out, she hurriedly trotted to catch up.
At the gate of Zhuangzi, many guests had not yet left, and they heard the accusation of a middle-aged man from afar.
"Wang Yan, Lin Yan, I've raised you for over twenty years. Don't you think you'll ever see me again?"
The Wang family man sat on the ground at the entrance to the manor and shouted at the top of his voice, "You found a rich father. It doesn't matter if he doesn't recognize an old man like me. You should at least recognize your man, right?"
"I'm here today to ask you about your husband. You agreed to the engagement. Our family didn't have money, so it was your husband's family who supported your education. But now you found your parents, who are rich, and you just left. What do you want your husband to do? Your husband's family helped you so much. All the money your in-laws have for their retirement was spent on you, and yet you just left. Now everyone in this town is saying that our Wang family is ungrateful."
When Lin Yan came out, she just heard this long passage and was stunned for a moment.
Those guests who didn't have time to leave also looked over, with inquiry and curiosity in their eyes.
They all understood what the man who claimed to be Lin Yan's adoptive father said. Lin Yan's adoptive parents were poor and had no money to go to school.
Someone in the town sponsored Lin Yan's schooling, and the two families discussed the marriage and the marriage was settled. As a result, the Lin family found Lin Yan and took her away directly.
Some people looked at Lin Yan with a bit more disdain and contempt in their eyes.
Lin Yan took a deep breath and looked at the middle-aged man sitting on the ground who was accusing her of being "Lin Yan's fiancé."
If I were not the person involved, every word would be true.
When Lu Jinghuai heard this, his body stiffened slightly, but he quickly recovered and looked at the middle-aged man on the ground with his dark eyes.
Lu Jinghuai held Lin Yan's hand beside him, and he chose to believe Lin Yan.
Lin Yan also sneered and asked the Wang family man sitting on the ground, "Who asked you to come here?"
The Wang family man froze, and when he looked up he met Lin Yan's cold gaze, and shrank his neck. How could this little girl be so imposing?
However, when he thought of the third girl who had never fought back when he beat and scolded her, he snorted coldly and puffed out his chest.
"Who asked me to come here? Who else asked me to come? I came here to fight for the Gu family. You've completely disgraced me and your mother, you ungrateful bastard."
Lin Yan smiled. The man from the Wang family stood up for the Gu family. She had the memories of the original owner and knew that the Wang couple were not such good people.
On the other side, Lu Jinghuai also caught a surname "Gu", and in an instant he thought of a name Gu Zhiyi.
In the end, Lu Jinghuai couldn't help but glance sideways at Lin Yan. Are Gu Zhiyi and Lin Yan engaged?
In an instant, Lu Jinghuai seemed to understand the source of the affection in Gu Zhiyi's eyes.
Lu Jinghuai felt a sudden surge of inexplicable bitterness in his chest, and he held Lin Yan's hand tightly, but he still didn't believe what the Wang family man said.
It must not be what the Wang family man said. Lu Jinghuai and others have investigated and found that Lin Yan did not have an easy life in her adoptive parents' home.
Sure enough, Lin Yan sneered.
"Your daughter and I were mistakenly adopted. You did raise me for more than 20 years, but the Lin family also raised your daughter for more than 20 years."
When the people around heard this, they looked at each other in confusion. Did they take the wrong child? The Lin family found Lin Yan and said that they had lost one of the twins.
If it was a mistake, then the second daughter of the Lin family, Lin Jiao...
Everyone fell silent and continued to look at Lin Yan, whose expression remained calm.
"As for what you said about the Gu family sponsoring me, I admit it. I had good grades in high school, but you stole the money I earned from working during the summer and forced me to drop out of school to work. I knelt outside your house for a whole day, but it was useless. It was Teacher Gu who paid my tuition and gave you some living expenses so that I could continue my studies."
After Lin Yan finished speaking, her eyes became particularly dark. The scene of the original owner kneeling in the yard appeared in her mind. School was about to start at the end of August. The Wang family did not agree to give living expenses and even stole the money the original owner earned from working.
The original owner knelt for a whole day and fainted in the yard. It was a little girl from the next-door neighbor who had a good relationship with the original owner who found Teacher Gu. Teacher Gu sent the original owner to the hospital and provided financial support.
Lin Yan felt the same way in every scene.
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