Xing Zhaozhao came out of the coffee shop and hadn't walked far when she saw Gao Yang standing by the roadside, his face deathly pale, as if he had lost his soul. She immediately went over and patted his shoulder: "Hey? Mr. Gao? Are you alright?"
Gao Yang slowly came to his senses and, seeing Xing Zhaozhao, said with some surprise, "Sister Xing? You're out?"
"ah."
"That debt?"
Xing Zhaozhao looked at Gao Yang with a pained expression: "You're really ruthless, leaving me there all alone. 250! Do you know how much rice that could buy?"
Seeing the vivid emotions on Xing Zhaozhao's face, Gao Yang couldn't help but laugh: "I'll make it up to you, but I don't have any cash on hand right now, so I'll have to wait until next time."
Xing Zhaozhao waved her hand generously, "Forget it, I've made so much money off you, consider this my treat."
"Thank you, Sister Xing," Gao Yang said with a smile.
"Mmm." Xing Zhaozhao responded casually, then noticed that Gao Yang's expression was a little off and asked, "What's wrong? Did you have a fight with your mother?"
Gao Yang gave a bitter smile.
He probably wouldn't even have the chance to argue with her.
"I guess so," he nodded and said.
Xing Zhaozhao patted him reassuringly: "It's okay. There's no such thing as a grudge that lasts overnight between a mother and son. I often worry that I might have beaten their butts raw the moment I finish beating them."
Gao Yang smiled: "After all, they are mother and son."
Xing Zhaozhao rolled her eyes: "Are you guys from the 'Empresses' generation?"
Gao Yang's smile froze.
Xing Zhaozhao: "..."
Something doesn't feel right.
Xing Zhaozhao looked at Gao Yang cautiously: "Is she really the empress?"
Gao Yang quickly shook his head: "No, that's not it."
Xing Zhaozhao breathed a sigh of relief: "I knew it..."
“But they’re not blood relatives…” Gao Yang said.
Xing Zhaozhao blinked: "Adopted?"
Gao Yang paused for a moment: "I am my father's biological son..."
Xing Zhaozhao blinked twice before realizing what was happening, and then her eyes widened in surprise: "You rich people really know how to have fun."
Gao Yang shook his head: "Actually, it's not his fault..."
Xing Zhaozhao rolled her eyes at him: "No matter what, you gave birth to him, so it's his fault."
Although she didn't like the way Gao Yang's mother looked at her, which carried a hint of inexplicable disgust, she still felt quite sorry for her. It was no easy feat for her to accept her husband's illegitimate child and raise him to adulthood; if she had any feelings for her husband at all, it wouldn't be an easy thing.
"If my little Hongling had a husband like that, I would definitely break his legs," Xing Zhaozhao said viciously.
Gao Yang stared at her expectantly, feeling somewhat at a loss.
Xing Zhaozhao looked at him and felt a pang of heartache for him. She patted him comfortingly and said, "You've had it pretty tough too."
Gao Yang smiled faintly: "Actually, I'm fine..."
From childhood to adulthood, apart from his father being exceptionally strict with him, no one else, including his grandfather, mother, older brother, and older sister, ever treated him differently. Much of the pressure was actually self-imposed. He always knew about his background; his family never hid it from him.
Thinking of the sorrowful expression on Ying Rongrong's face when she left, Gao Yang felt another pang of pain in his heart.
No, some things still need to be clarified.
"Sister Xing, I have to go now." He looked at Xing Zhaozhao.
Xing Zhaozhao nodded and waved to him.
Gao Yang jogged back to his car and immediately called his mother.
I don't know why, but it's already turned off.
He immediately called Aunt Zou, who had just been with his mother.
This time, the call was answered quickly.
"Aunt Zou, can my mom answer the phone? I tried calling her but couldn't get through," Gao Yang asked.
“Your mom isn’t with me right now; she just went to the company to see your dad,” Aunt Zou said.
Gao Yang immediately rushed to the company.
Ying Rongrong had scolded Gao Yang before leaving with her best friend. She originally planned to continue having fun, but when she thought of Xing Zhaozhao's face, she lost all interest and immediately went to the company to find her husband, Gao Hongfei.
What happened back then almost destroyed her happy family, and this time, she doesn't want to repeat the same mistake.
Her mother-in-law passed away early, and after she got married, many friends envied her for not having to deal with mother-in-law/daughter-in-law relationships. She had heard a lot about her mother-in-law from her father-in-law and husband, and she actually hoped that if she had the opportunity, she could get along well with her mother-in-law.
So when her cousin, who looked seven or eight parts like her mother-in-law, appeared, not only did her husband pour the maternal love he had lacked for many years and his longing for his own mother into her, but she also had some expectations for her.
They thought they had given her enough, but they never expected that she would still be unsatisfied and almost ruin her happy family.
Even now, she still remembers the scene when her father-in-law rushed back from the army, saw the house in complete disarray, and flew into a rage.
It was on that day that she truly understood what a ruthless man her father-in-law, who had crawled out of mountains of corpses and seas of blood and was known as an iron-blooded warrior, really was.
"You dare to show your face in front of me?"
One moment he was trying to use his face to elicit sympathy, the next he was lying on the ground with a look of terror on his face, which was covered in blood and gore.
The husband was severely beaten and spent a month in the hospital before recovering.
Thinking about it now, Ying Rongrong still couldn't help but shudder.
Upon arriving at Zhaohong Group, Ying Rongrong went straight to Gao Hongfei's office.
Gao Hongfei, leaning on his cane, got up and came to greet her: "Why did you come here?"
Ying Rongrong's expression was somewhat serious. She helped him to sit down on the sofa and said, "Today, I went shopping with Aying and we ran into Xiaoyang having coffee with someone at a coffee shop."
Gao Hongfei raised an eyebrow slightly: "What's wrong with that?"
Ying Rongrong said somewhat anxiously, "You haven't seen her, so you don't know how much she looks like that person from the Lin family."
Gao Hongfei's expression hardened, and he asked, "How similar are they?"
"Seven or eight points, I'd say," Ying Rongrong said.
Gao Hongfei recalled what Hao Xiuning had reminded him of before: "Is he also surnamed Lin?"
Ying Rongrong shook her head and said, "The one surnamed Xing, I heard Xiao Yang call her Sister Xing."
"Ah." Gao Hongfei quickly remembered the phone call he had made to Gao Yang earlier, "He also helped this Sister Xing investigate someone today."
Ying Rongrong looked at him in surprise: "How did you know?"
"The investigation is about Aunt Xiuning's ex-husband, Zhang Wenming. My assistant found out and notified us immediately," Gao Hongfei said.
Ying Rongrong frowned: "Why are we bringing Aunt Xiuning into this again?"
The couple exchanged a glance, sensing that something was amiss.
"How did they meet?" Gao Hongfei asked.
“He said he bought wild game from her, the kind he brought home yesterday,” Ying Rongrong said.
"Can wild game be cooked like this just from buying it once?" Gao Hongfei didn't believe it.
Ying Rongrong nodded, a hint of pain on her face: "I think so too. That child is definitely hiding something from us."
Gao Hongfei immediately grabbed his phone: "I'll call him over..."
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