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"Uncle An, why don't you take a look at the guest room at the very back?"
"What should I look for in that room? Who's inside?"
"My dad..."
Huo An nodded, "Then let your dad rest well and don't disturb him for now."
"It's impossible not to disturb them."
Huo An, "Why?"
"Because Xu Niannian is also inside."
Huo An's mind went blank. "What do you mean?"
Could it be what he's thinking?
Huo San's son said through gritted teeth with a mocking expression, "It's just that Xu Niannian wants to be my stepmother, no, I should say she's already become my stepmother."
Huo An's facial muscles began to tremble.
how so?
Didn't Xu Que say that Xu Niannian liked Huo Qizhen?
How did he end up sleeping with the third brother?
The others didn't care about the relationship between Xu Niannian and Huo San; they were only concerned about how they were implicated in the Chinese medicine issue.
"Huan, you have to give us an explanation."
"That's right. You usually spoil Xu Niannian and let her climb all over Tingzhen, but now that she's caused such a big mess, you're still protecting her. I'm the first to object."
"The Second Master is the most senior member of our Huo family. Even he has been drugged and is still sleeping in his room. If you don't give the Second Master an explanation, we won't stand for it."
Huo An was also flustered, but had to bite the bullet and explain, "That's not what I meant, I was just a little surprised."
"Surprised? We are even more surprised than you. Who would have thought that at the family banquet of the prestigious Huo Group, all the members of our Huo family would be knocked out by a little girl from another family?"
"This time it was just a sleeping pill. If next time it's a lethal drug, we won't be so lucky."
Huo An looked at Old Madam Huo, "Mom, are you alright? You seem fine?"
Grandma Huo's face darkened even more. "I'm fine. Are you disappointed?"
"No, no, I mean I'm glad you're alright."
"Come on!" Old Mrs. Huo was furious with him. "I'm fine because I drank the wine from the second wine cabinet."
The old butler seized the opportunity to speak, "Madam, according to the surveillance footage, all the wine in the first wine cabinet has been removed, leaving only twenty bottles. I personally took these wines for testing, and the medication inside is consistent with what's in everyone's bodies."
Huo San's son said, "Uncle An, don't you owe me an explanation? My mother has only been gone for less than a month. Isn't Xu Niannian going too far?"
Huo An said, "Give me some time, let me find out what happened. What if someone deliberately framed Niannian and your father?"
"Who would frame them? To be frank, everyone knows what kind of person my dad is! He's a womanizer, a dissolute playboy, and has caused countless embarrassing incidents. My mom even fell ill because of him. As for Xu Niannian, I believe her target is Qizhen. After all, she's been clinging to the Huo family for so many years, isn't it all for the sake of climbing the social ladder? Unfortunately, things just happened to be so coincidental. Qizhen got up to answer the phone, and Xu Niannian mistakenly thought he was being taken to a guest room by her newly hired security guard, so she rushed in, which benefited my dad. Uncle An, if you don't believe me, you can ask Xu Niannian's newly hired security guards. They were all kept in the building on the west side."
In the end, Huo An didn't ask.
Because Xu Niannian had come to her senses and realized that she had made a mistake.
Just as he was about to destroy the evidence and run away with the camera, he was blocked in the corridor by the bodyguards arranged by Huo Qizhen.
Xu Niannian initially thought it was a security guard she had hired, and was about to reprimand him when she heard him shout—
"Madam, Miss Xu is awake! She's the only one awake."
The loud voice startled the people who were discussing the matter.
Xu Niannian's face turned pale. These were not the people she had hired, and Old Madam Huo had found out about her affair with Huo Laosan.
Huo's third son's voice followed closely, "Bring her here."
Xu Niannian lifted her foot and tried to run away.
He was held down by the bodyguards and escorted to Old Mrs. Huo.
Looking into her eyes, where the lust had not completely subsided, Old Mrs. Huo found it extremely irritating and turned her head away, saying, "Take it easy on you."
Xu Niannian lowered her eyes, her voice trembling slightly, and said with a sob in her voice, "Grandma, I don't know what happened. I only remember feeling a little dizzy after drinking, and I wanted to go back to my room to rest. When I woke up, I found... Waaah..."
She threw herself onto Grandma Huo's lap, crying, "Grandma, what should I do? I've kept my virginity for so many years, and now it's all gone. My aunt will kill me if she finds out. Waaah..."
Mrs. Huo showed a disgusted expression, and the old housekeeper immediately gave her a wink, and two maids stepped forward and pulled her away.
Grandma Huo asked, "Whose idea was it to drug everyone?"
Xu Niannian's heart skipped a beat, but then she remembered that the surveillance cameras hadn't captured anything, and she became bolder again.
"What is Grandma saying? I don't understand."
For the first time, Mrs. Huo felt that Xu Niannian was a bit shameless. "Show her the surveillance footage."
Xu Niannian almost fainted after watching only the first few seconds.
Didn't they say the surveillance cameras were turned off?
Why are there still more?
Didn't my aunt say that Xiao Zhang in the monitoring room has something on her?
How dare you outwardly comply while inwardly defying me?
Huo's third son said, "Miss Xu, you have some skills. You can even get your hands on sleeping pills. Unlike me, I'm only seeing this for the first time in my life, thanks to you."
Xu Niannian was about to say that she had been injected with a health-preserving liquid when Huo Yunzhen, who had just arrived, interrupted her, "Niannian, even if you admire your third uncle, you can't use extreme methods!"
Xu Niannian spat inwardly. What was there about that old lecher that she could admire?
The thought of her just sleeping with him made her nauseous. She should have woken up in high spirits, received everyone's congratulations, and, under the arrangement of her aunt and Old Madam Huo, set a wedding date with Huo Qizhen.
How did things turn out like this?
Inform her that Huo Qizhen has been taken to the innermost guest room.
Why is Huo Laosan inside?
That old man, who was older than his uncle and had just lost his wife.
And the medicine in the aromatherapy, how come it's so much more effective than advertised?
This made her lose her temper.
Xu Niannian secretly cursed Huo Laosan to the point of being a complete idiot.
After scolding Huo Laosan, he began to blame Jian Yu.
It's all her fault for not coming. If she had come, this whole mess wouldn't have happened.
Xu Niannian racked her brains, but couldn't come up with a suitable way to change the current situation.
She slowly squatted down on the ground, forced to accept the reality that she and Huo Qizhen were completely out of the running.
Not only would Old Mrs. Huo not agree to their marriage, but Huo An himself would also no longer approve of it.
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