When Xing Zhaozhao arrived, Lin Wan personally came out to greet her.
Only after seeing Xing Zhaozhao get out of the car with her own eyes did she finally feel relieved.
"I'm sorry, ma'am, something came up at home and I was delayed. I'm late," Xing Zhaozhao said apologetically to Lin Wan.
Lin Wan nodded and said, "It's good that you're here."
After saying that, she turned to Chen Xiaxia, who had been following her, and instructed her: "Xiaxia, take her to her room, let her take a good bath, and change out of those tattered clothes."
She glanced at Xing Zhaozhao's clothes with a look of disgust.
Xing Zhaozhao was still unconvinced: "These clothes are fine, without a single patch, where are they torn?"
Lin Wan: "..."
Lin Wan couldn't bear to look anymore, so she quickly waved her hand, signaling Chen Xiaoxia to take the person away.
Two bodyguards in black walked over, looked at Lin Wan, and hesitated to speak.
Lin Wan asked, puzzled, "What's wrong?"
One of them pointed to the car behind him and mentioned that Xing Zhaozhao had slapped the car's hood, leaving a dent.
Lin Wan instinctively refused to believe it: "This is impossible, where did she get such strength?"
Then she remembered the rumors that her cousin was born with superhuman strength.
Lin Wan suddenly turned her head to look in the direction Xing Zhaozhao had just left, and her heart skipped a beat for no apparent reason.
What a coincidence! Can such a coincidence really exist in this world? But besides coincidence, are there any other possibilities? She couldn't think of any.
Lin Wan returned to the house, her brow furrowed, as if something was amiss.
When Xing Zhaozhao finished showering and changed her clothes, transforming from a country bumpkin into a fashionable urban woman, Lin Wan's eyes lit up immediately. She quickly put all her previous doubts to the back of her mind. Although she and her cousin did seem to look exactly alike, even sharing the same strength, if a comparison were to be made, her cousin was far inferior to the one in front of her.
Lin Wan quickly looked Xing Zhaozhao up and down, and nodded with satisfaction: "Not bad, not bad. Although you look exactly like Gao Mingcheng's dead wife, you are much better than her."
Xing Zhaozhao raised an eyebrow. Was it appropriate to slander her to her face?
"Oh?" Xing Zhaozhao asked, "If she's really that bad, would Mingcheng like her? I don't believe it."
Lin Wan scoffed dismissively, "Is Gao Mingcheng blind?"
Xing Zhaozhao: "..." She was a little frustrated. Was she really that bad?
“She’s an idiot,” Lin Wan continued.
Xing Zhaozhao: "..." That's too much.
"Want to know what she looked like when I first met her?" Lin Wan asked.
Xing Zhaozhao nodded. She was also very curious; she hadn't found Lin Wan in her memories of her past life, so when exactly had she met her?
Lin Wan thought about it carefully and said, "I remember the first time I saw her was when my husband and I moved to Lanyuan Town. I heard that she had married into Xiaogaozhuang, which was not far away, and that her husband was a battalion commander in the army. So I took my two children to visit her during the New Year..."
Xing Zhaozhao suddenly realized that Lin Wan had also come to visit her during the New Year in her previous life, but how could she not remember it?
"She married a good man and has strength that doesn't belong to men. Do you know what she's doing during the New Year when everyone else is celebrating?" Lin Wan said with a look of disdain.
Xing Zhaozhao's face darkened. She didn't want to recall those unbearable memories at all.
"That idiot, he's been worn down by the Gao family, working like a stupid donkey, and his three children are suffering too. He's an idiot, so stupid!" Lin Wan cursed without any politeness.
Xing Zhaozhao shrank her neck, her face gloomy. Yes, she really was a fool back then, and she deserved the scolding.
Chen Xiaoxia stood to the side, silently watching Xing Zhaozhao, a strange light flashing in her eyes at this moment.
“Compared to her, you are much better.” Lin Wan looked at Xing Zhaozhao with admiration. “You dared to talk back to me the first time we met. Although I don’t really like your temper, you are much better than her.”
Xing Zhaozhao: "..." She felt inexplicably guilty.
"However, when you're in front of the Gao family, especially Gao Hongfei, you'd better tone down your sharp temper a bit," Lin Wan advised her.
Upon hearing Gao Hongfei's name, Xing Zhaozhao's heart tightened, and a hint of concern unconsciously appeared on her face.
Chen Xiaoxia saw this and narrowed her eyes slightly.
"Why?" Xing Zhaozhao asked.
"Perhaps because he lost his mother at a young age, he has always had a deep longing for one. What is a mother like? Gentle and tolerant. Too sharp won't do, you know?" Lin Wan advised her with the air of someone who had been through it all.
Xing Zhaozhao doesn't think so. She always treats her children with love and discipline, and they still love her.
"I didn't expect the old lady to know so much about Chairman Gao." She looked at Lin Wan thoughtfully.
“That’s for sure.” Lin Wan’s lips curled up slightly, looking smug. “Back then, I used my face, which looked seven or eight parts like his mother’s, to make him treat me like his own mother.”
Xing Zhaozhao's eyes turned cold, and her face showed surprise. She said, "Grandma is amazing. But if you two used to be so close, why do you seem to have no contact with each other now?"
Lin Wan's smile froze instantly. She pouted, seemingly unwilling, and said, "Isn't it all because Gao Mingcheng is selfish and doesn't want anyone to take even a little bit of his dead wife's place, not even his son's place?"
Xing Zhaozhao: "..." Really? How could she not believe it?
Chen Xiaoxia, who was standing to the side, suddenly turned pale and began to tremble.
Xing Zhaozhao turned her head curiously, but before she could ask anything, Lin Wan turned her head and glared at her fiercely.
Chen Xiaoxia's body, which had been trembling violently, instantly stiffened, and she quickly turned and ran out.
"What's wrong with her?" Xing Zhaozhao asked.
Lin Wan didn't seem to care at all. She took a leisurely sip of tea and said, "Don't worry about her."
Then he instructed her, "Think carefully about what I just said. Take a day off, and we'll head to the capital tomorrow."
Xing Zhaozhao's eyes lit up with excitement, and she said, "Okay."
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