"Hey, don't move!" Yin Wenxi patted the back of her hand.
"There are only two pieces in this box. If you break them, I'll have to make them all over again!"
"Mom..." Jiang Can looked at her in confusion, "Why would I bring this to Grandpa Huo? I've hardly ever even eaten it myself!"
"Silly child!" Yin Wenxi laughed, "This is what we use to show respect to our elders where we're from!"
"Over there?" Jiang Can stared at her with wide eyes.
From childhood to adulthood, she always thought her hometown was Jiangzhou.
Yin Wenxi's expression changed, and she realized that she had said too much.
"If you... you don't want to bring it, that's fine," she said softly. "The other gifts are quite valuable too; the Huo family won't look down on you!"
After saying that, she silently turned around and went back to her room.
Jiang Can stood there in the living room for a long while, her brows furrowing slightly.
...
On the very day they met, Fu Xiuyu, who had planned to work overtime, canceled two meetings and sped off to the Huo family manor.
On the way, he didn't forget to make a phone call and scold Huo Zhixing.
"You brat! Why didn't you tell me that Can Can met with the old man today?"
Huo Zhixing was completely confused. "Mom, why did I call you? Did you send me here to cause trouble?"
"You unfilial son!" Fu Xiuyu suddenly accelerated and crossed the line at the yellow light.
"Don't you know what kind of person your grandfather is? Don't you know he's been trying to match you up with Yao Manning? Now that the Yao family is in trouble, he wants to see Can Can... I think there's definitely a conspiracy involved!"
"Huo Zhixing, is your grandfather planning a trap to threaten Cancan and then help the Yao family make a comeback?"
Huo Zhixing covered his face, marveling at his mother's rich imagination while struggling to explain:
"Mom, my grandpa isn't stupid. Yao Manning has already been kicked out of Yangcheng, how could he possibly..."
"Ha, that old man had the potential for Alzheimer's disease when he was young!"
Huo Zhixing was silent for a moment, then said solemnly, "Mom, I will stay with Can Can."
"I don't feel comfortable leaving you alone with me!" Fu Xiuyu immediately objected. "When have you ever not listened to your grandfather? What if you switch sides at the last minute? Wouldn't it be our Cancan who suffers?"
"Mom, you don't even trust your own son?"
"I'm almost there anyway!" Fu Xiuyu said forcefully. "Hurry up and open the door for me!"
"..." Huo Zhixing didn't have time to say a word before the phone was disconnected.
He quickly told Uncle Cen to wait at the gate, but after thinking about it, he felt that it was too casual to let Uncle Cen go. Given his mother's temper, he would insist that she open the manor gate herself.
Huo Zhixing sighed, quickly changed his clothes, and hurried to the front gate.
On the way, he was still thinking that he could make it in time to pick up Jiang Can after calming down his mother. The key was to make sure Fu Xiuyu didn't show her face in the main hall and that she could be settled in the Xingyuan Garden...
It takes five or six minutes to drive from Xingyuan to the entrance of the manor.
Before Huo Zhixing arrived, Fu Xiuyu had already arrived. She parked her car wherever she could find a spot and was about to call Huo Zhixing when she suddenly heard a sharp screech of brakes from behind.
When she turned around, she almost froze, her soul nearly flying out of her body.
She saw the middle-aged man getting out of the black Maybach. She hadn't seen him for over twenty years. He had aged, but his demeanor and mannerisms remained unchanged.
Especially that refined scoundrel look, it's infuriating just looking at him!
Yin Ruohong hurried towards the manor, and when she looked up, she met Fu Xiuyu's cold and sharp gaze.
He was stunned, and the two stared at each other for more than ten seconds, as if in a dream.
"Yin...Yin Ruohong?!"
"You are... Fu Xiuyu?!"
After they finished recognizing each other, they both turned their faces away at the same time, looking as if they had seen a ghost in broad daylight.
What are you doing here?
And why are you here?
"Ha, my son lives here, why can't I come?"
"Your son..." Yin Ruohong stopped mid-sentence. After thinking carefully and considering the medical assessment of kinship and appearance, she suddenly realized, "Your son could be Huo Zhixing?"
Fu Xiuyu sneered and rolled her eyes at him.
Yin Ruohong only knew that Huo Zhixing was the third young master of the Huo family and Huo Wenyuan's favorite heir, but she didn't know who his parents were.
I used to think that his parents were an honest and unassuming couple who didn't have much of a presence in the Huo family, which is why the outside world never mentioned them.
Unexpectedly...
"It's that little brat!" Yin Ruohong raised her voice, what a small world!
"No, no," he shook his head with his eyes closed, then suddenly opened them wide. "I must, right now, make my Can Can break up with this little brat!"
"Who are you calling 'little brat' all the time!" Fu Xiuyu put her hands on her hips. "Yin Ruohong, can't you have any shame? And your Cancan... haha, does Cancan even know who you are?"
"you……"
"From what I know of you, you haven't acknowledged her as her father yet, have you?"
Yin Ruohong was caught off guard, her face flushed red, and she stared at her without saying a word.
“I knew it,” Fu Xiuyu finally put the whole story together. “Cancan was so busy the other day, saying there was some joint hospital project going to be launched, and it was a collaboration with a famous doctor from Southeast Asia… Turns out it was you, you scoundrel!”
"Fu Xiuyu, watch your mouth!"
"For a scumbag like him, this is already considered very lenient!"
Yin Ruohong took several deep breaths to calm herself down.
When he was young, he couldn't win an argument with Fu Xiuyu, but at least Yin Wenxi was there to mediate.
I never imagined that I would have to fight Fu Xiuyu alone in my old age!
“Xiuyu,” Yin Ruohong tried her best to remain calm, “I don’t have time to argue with you right now. Since your son is Huo Zhixing, I’ll be frank with you. Today, Old Master Huo wants to see Cancan, but I heard beforehand that he’s very dissatisfied with her…”
"That's why I'm here today to stand up for my daughter!"
"Ha," Fu Xiuyu looked at him with disdain several times, "You don't even have a proper title in front of your daughter, what makes you think you can stand up for yourself?"
"Yin Ruohong, if Cancan knew how you wronged her mother in the past, do you think you would still have any hope in front of her?"
A deep look flashed in Yin Ruohong's eyes, and he remained silent.
The wind rustled the fallen leaves of the sycamore trees, lifted a corner of his trench coat, and ruffled his hair.
The world seemed to have suddenly entered a vacuum, the silence unsettling.
Just then, Huo Zhixing opened the manor gate and was shocked to see Fu Xiuyu and Yin Ruohong standing face to face, neither of them looking too happy.
He paused, then asked, "Mom, Chairman Yin?"
Why did you all come together?
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