"What did you say?"
At nine o'clock in the morning, Lin Kerou, dressed in new clothes and with a gentle smile, was stopped by the old housekeeper at the gate of the Fu family's old mansion.
"Miss Lin, I'm sorry, the old lady is taking a nap and won't be awake for a while. Besides, she said she won't be receiving guests for the next few days. Please leave."
The old butler spoke in a businesslike manner.
She knew that what happened back then had angered Fu Yanci and made Old Madam Fu dislike her, but she had come all the way back, so how could she give up so easily?
"Uncle Ning, then, may I just go in and take a look at Xiaobao? Don't worry, I absolutely won't show my face in front of Xiaobao until Yanci agrees. Really, I promise!"
Lin Kerou said sincerely.
"Then I'm even more helpless."
The old butler shrugged unhurriedly, "Young Master has gone out to play. I don't know when he'll be back. You're not his mother, yet you rushed back for his birthday. You don't even have his phone number? I certainly won't tell you!"
Ignoring Lin Kerou's changing expression, the old butler turned and left.
The door was almost closed when the old butler poked his head out again.
Lin Kerou's face lit up with joy.
The old housekeeper then said, "Stop knocking! If you knock again, I'll call the police. It won't look good if we end up in the police station!"
Clang!
Lin Kerou's face turned from pale to black, and she could barely contain her anger.
Staring blankly at the door for a long time, Lin Kerou took a deep breath, and dialed a number as she walked out, "Aunt Yun, it's Kerou, I'm back..."
When Du Yunshuang arrived at the coffee shop in the city center, Lin Kerou was leisurely sipping her coffee.
Three years have passed since we last met, and the once haggard and pale Miss Lin has transformed into a gentle and dignified lady.
Without close inspection, it's almost impossible to tell that she has given birth.
"Ke Rou, back when you were in the Fu family, Aunt Yun was probably the kindest person to you in the entire Fu family, right?"
Du Yunshuang cut to the chase, "Today, with the gods above, tell Aunt Yun the truth: is Xiaobao your child with Mingzhen, or your child with Yanci?"
Throughout the capital, including the vast majority of the Fu family, everyone knew that Xiao Bao was the posthumous son of Fu Mingzhen, the eldest son of the Fu family, and that his birth mother was unknown.
But only Fu Jingzhong and Du Yunshuang received a cryptic remark from Lin Kerou back then.
Because of that one sentence, Lin Kerou has been able to know immediately about any moves the Fu family makes, even when she is abroad.
However, as one of the very few people who knew the truth, Fu Jingzhong and Du Yunshuang often felt uneasy in the middle of the night, fearing that they had misunderstood.
Or perhaps, he was outmaneuvered by Lin Kerou.
A fleeting glint of light flashed in her lowered eyes, but when she looked up again, it transformed into unspeakable pain. Lin Kerou said softly, "Aunt Yun, how could I, a woman, lie about my own innocence?"
“I know you and my uncle won’t believe me if I say that. But I don’t believe you didn’t check. If you did check, you should know that what I’m saying isn’t false.”
Du Yunshuang looked embarrassed.
She and her husband did indeed check.
The day Lin Kerou mentioned was the Fu Group's celebratory banquet.
The brothers Fu Mingzhen and Fu Yanci were both in that hotel, and their rooms were directly opposite each other.
The power went out when Lin Kerou followed Fu Yanci into the hotel room, but the circuit breaker tripped and the power went out on the floor. This wasn't captured on the security camera footage.
But the next morning, Lin Kerou did indeed come out of Fu Yanci's room.
In the surveillance footage, Lin Kerou walked out of the room with tears streaming down her face and went straight down the elevator.
Not long after, the door opened and Fu Yanci walked out of the room.
Fu Mingzhen lived in the adjacent room.
Fu Yan resigned and returned to the Fu Group.
Fu Mingzhen went straight to the airport to handle the Fu family's overseas projects.
Two months later, Fu Mingzhen died in a car accident on his way to Miami Airport to catch a flight back to China.
When the devastating news reached China, Lin Kerou fainted.
When she woke up again, she learned that she was two months pregnant.
Then came the incident where Fu Mingzhen's parents tearfully begged Lin Kerou to give birth to the child.
Du Yunshuang and Fu Jingzhong checked and calculated the entire timeline countless times, including the hotel's surveillance footage.
Not to mention, Xiao Bao's face is almost a carbon copy of Fu Yanci's when he was a child.
Even though Lin Kerou didn't give her a clear and firm affirmation at this moment, Du Yunshuang's heart felt at ease, and she gently exhaled while drinking coffee.
Lin Kerou's eyes flickered slightly, and she breathed a sigh of relief. "What's going on with Ye Li? Isn't she Zhou Hechen's fiancée? How come she suddenly married Yan Ci?"
"Who knows..."
Mentioning Ye Li reminds me of the time before the New Year when she talked back to me at the Fu family home, and Fu Yanci defended her and retorted with cold words.
Originally, Du Yunshuang thought that since there would be many people in the family during the New Year, even though Ye Li was Madam Fu, she should still show some respect to the elders of the Fu family. She went there with a lot of resentment.
Unexpectedly, he only showed up briefly at the lunch table on New Year's Eve, and before we could even exchange a word, he left.
The family dinner on New Year's Eve.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, people worship their ancestors at the ancestral hall.
They didn't even show their faces.
It's not that no one has questioned it.
The younger generation dared not, but there were still several elders in the Fu family.
An elderly man asked Fu Yanci with dissatisfaction, saying that since Ye Li, the new wife, had just gotten married this year, she hadn't even shown up at the family banquet to pay respects to their ancestors, which was really outrageous.
Fu Yanci sneered, "If Third Uncle is not satisfied with the year-end bonus, I can call the finance department to recalculate it. Don't take your anger out on Ye Li's absence. If you're angry, take it out on me!"
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