Chapter 109 The Leng Family Faces Bankruptcy Crisis
The Leng family's old house.
Leng Qixian came out of Old Madam Leng's room and walked into the living room. She looked at Leng Qiyi sitting on the sofa and the different supplements and health products she brought every day. "You've come for three days in a row. I've made it very clear to you that Mom doesn't want to see you. You don't need to come anymore. Mom knows that I notified you, and she hasn't said a word to me for three whole days."
When Leng Qiyi heard that her mother did not want to see her, she put down her teacup and said, "I will come again tomorrow."
Leng Qixian forced herself to stay awake, looked at her sister who didn't have much to say to her, and poured herself a cup of tea.
"What can you change even if you come here every day?"
Leng Qiyi paused slightly as she carried her bag. "My mother not seeing me doesn't conflict with my coming here."
As soon as the tea entered her mouth, Leng Qixian frowned.
"The tea's gone cold. Don't you know to ask the servant to get a hot pot? When did you become so easygoing?"
Leng Qiyi picked up her bag and stood up. "I came here not to have tea."
When my mother was diagnosed, it was already late-stage cancer.
In just one week, the cancer cells had spread throughout his body.
Doctors both domestically and internationally have given the same diagnosis. They advise her to discontinue treatment to lessen the elderly woman's suffering.
Leng Qiyi smelled the lingering incense scent in the air and looked towards the Buddhist shrine.
The Guanyin statue above the incense burner is solemn and compassionate.
“Leng Qiyi, you are always so selfish. You never consider others and only care about yourself.”
Leng Qiyi looked at the weariness in her sister's eyes, but still forced herself to grab the car keys and leave. She reminded her, "If you're tired, go and rest. Don't exhaust yourself before taking care of others."
A nameless fire flared up in Leng Qixian's heart at her calm words.
What gives Leng Qiyi the right to make arrangements for her and teach her how to do things?
"Leng Qiyi, if you hadn't insisted on marrying Fang Zeheng, how could our Leng family have fallen to this state? If you hadn't broken your contract and refused to divorce Fang Zeheng, Dad wouldn't have died. You killed Dad!"
"Over the years, the Leng family's business has plummeted, and now they are facing bankruptcy."
"All of this is because of you."
Leng Qixian's words made Leng Qiyi stop in her tracks. "If you listen to my advice, don't trust Xiao Yumo in everything, and don't hand over the company seal to him, the group's cash flow will never be cut off."
Leng Qixian's eyes were bloodshot. "He is my husband. If I don't trust him, who can I trust? Do you think I will be grateful to you for managing the Leng family business for me all these years? You just want to atone for your sins. You just want to put your conscience at ease."
She failed to preserve the family business that generations had worked so hard to build.
From a young age, she was always her older sister's shadow.
She both envies her older sister, who is the hope of the family, and is jealous of her sister being favored by her parents in every way.
She never understood what she lacked compared to Leng Qiyi.
She's just not as pretty as her.
But now, the vast Leng family business is about to be ruined in her hands.
She then realized that she could never compare to her sister.
She was the most mediocre, ordinary, and useless child in the Leng family.
Leng Qixian clenched her fists. Even so, so what?
Leng Qiyi will cover for her.
Leng Qixian loosened her clenched fingers. Ever since Leng Qiyi indirectly caused her father's death, she had stopped calling her "sister." She even dared to order her around.
As always, she ordered her to clean up her mess, "Leng Qiyi, you have to help me. Mom can't take any more stress..."
If her mother found out that the Leng family was going bankrupt, she was afraid her mother would be so angry that she would die.
She couldn't bear the disappointed look in her mother's eyes.
She was afraid of disappointing her parents since she was a child.
Leng Qiyi stared at her younger sister, who had been useless, timid, and indecisive since childhood, and said, "Tomorrow, I will move back to the Leng family home to take care of Mom."
Leng Qiyi was making a deal with her.
She was going back to the Leng family home to take care of her mother.
What she needed to do was to get her mother to meet Leng Qiyi.
Leng Qiyi will help her plug the company's funding gap.
This amount of money is nothing to the other family.
The fear and dread that had been weighing on Leng Qixian's heart these past few days disappeared.
Watching Leng Qiyi's retreating figure, she sank into the sofa, covered her face, and suppressed a sob.
She couldn't understand how her husband, who doted on her and cherished her and their daughter like the apple of his eye, could just abandon the family like that.
Leng Xiaohan came downstairs and saw her mother crying. She rushed to her mother and asked, "Mom, did Auntie bully you again?"
Leng Qixian hugged her daughter and wiped away her tears, "Auntie wouldn't dare to bully Mom."
Leng Xiaohan lowered her voice, "Is there news about Dad?"
Leng Qixian didn't want her daughter to worry, so she nodded. "This ordeal will pass. Xiaohan doesn't need to worry about adult matters."
Xiao Xiaohan sat next to her mother, not wanting to be treated like a child. "I'm almost sixteen, I'm an adult now..."
Leng Qixian coaxed her daughter to her mother's room, "I've arranged for you to take half a month off from school. You overslept today, go see Grandma first."
After watching her daughter enter her mother's room, she went back to her room and washed her face.
I looked so haggard in the mirror that I couldn't bear to look at myself.
The thought of her husband's disappearance and betrayal brought tears to her eyes.
The older sister, whom her parents were so proud of, is now a resentful wife in a wealthy family. Even so, she is still better than her in every way.
She always felt that she had better taste in men than Leng Qiyi, and the children she had even had took her surname.
This is the only area where she can beat Leng Qiyi.
But now, the man she chose has abandoned her and her daughter, and is embezzling a huge amount of company funds in her name.
She used all the connections the Leng family had, but still couldn't find her husband.
Even more fatal was her erroneous investment and decision-making two weeks prior, which plunged the Leng family's businesses into a huge crisis.
The Leng family home is now empty inside.
Over the years, Leng Qiyi has been secretly using the Fang family's connections to help her manage her business and handle all matters, big and small, for the company.
Both the Leng family and she need Leng Qiyi's help.
Her hurtful words to Leng Qiyi were just an attempt to cover up her own incompetence.
She tried to use these words to make Leng Qiyi feel guilty and remorseful.
It was very useful every time.
Over the years, Leng Qiyi only dared to secretly help the Leng family, never daring to let Old Madam Leng find out.
Everything Leng Qiyi did for the Leng family was used by her to demonstrate her own abilities.
She and Leng Qiyi never talk on the phone unless there's something to discuss.
Whenever Leng Qiyi returned to the Leng family during holidays, the old lady would inevitably get angry.
After that, Leng Qiyi stopped going back to the Leng family home and only sent her son over.
She could tell that her mother preferred Fang Qibai to her daughter, Leng Xiaohan.
Leng Qixian sat back down on the sofa.
She threw the car keys from her clothes onto the bed.
She didn't want to go back to the company at all; she hated the endless meetings and social engagements.
The most urgent task now is to figure out how to get my mother to see Leng Qiyi.
The mother may not see Leng Qiyi, but she will not refuse to see her grandson, Fang Qibai.
With both her and Fang Qibai speaking up for Leng Qiyi, perhaps her mother would soften her heart.
Leng Qixian took out her phone from her bag and called Fang Qibai.
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