Chapter 517 Song Lanyin's Background (2)
Mrs. Yu's real name was Zhao Sini. She was born into a poor family in a village within the city of Gangcheng. Her parents had five children; the first four were daughters, and the fifth was finally a son. Mrs. Yu was the fourth daughter.
Like all families that favor sons over daughters, Mrs. Yu was told from a young age that she had to take care of her younger brother and give in to him in everything. As she grew older, she was told that she had to go out to work early, just like her three older sisters, to help her parents support her brother’s university education.
Like most brothers who favor sons over daughters, the younger brother was ungrateful and believed that his four older sisters' sacrifices for him were a given.
After my eldest sister got married, she died in childbirth during her third pregnancy in order to have a son; my second sister went out to work, but died of the flu in a foreign land, and my parents couldn't even afford to spend money to bring her home for a proper burial; my third sister is mute, and no one wanted her when she went out to work, so she stayed at home, cooking and doing chores for the family, like a silent robot, enduring beatings and scoldings without ever knowing how to fight back.
Madam Yu was a woman who refused to accept her fate. From the time she could remember, she had witnessed the unfair treatment her three older sisters received at home and their tragic fates. At a young age, her heart had already turned cold. Therefore, she learned from a young age to read people's expressions and calculate gains and losses.
She was the most beautiful of the four daughters, and probably the most intelligent. At the age of fourteen, on a muddy path after the rain, she wrote with a broken branch: I want to get rid of them, fly out of this dirty and smelly house, live in a big house, and live a life that belongs only to me!
In the alleys of the urban village, there's an old shop selling malt candy. An old woman's dilapidated television is playing a TV drama. In the drama, young and beautiful women make a living by pleasing rich men in the brightly lit nightclubs, and some people have their fates changed because of it.
Zhao Sini seemed to see the turning point in her destiny!
But wealthy men are not people like her who live in an urban village.
She started looking for work in the city center, but she was too young and no one was willing to hire her. She had no choice but to return to the urban village to do odd jobs, working her way up until she turned 18. After she turned 18, she went to work as a hostess at the largest nightclub in the port city.
Every day on her way to work, she would stuff several thick books into her bag, which were filled with notes.
She spent three months searching and set her sights on Devia, a man in his forties who already had a wife and children.
De Vian was her first sugar daddy. The night he took her away, De Vian 'accidentally' saw the books in her tattered canvas bag. Those notes touched this man who already had a wife and children but was still having affairs.
Most chauvinistic men have a redemptive spirit; when they see a young, beautiful girl suffering, they always think they will be the great hero who rescues her.
Devia was one of those 'great heroes'.
Diweian took Zhao Sini under his wing and used his connections to get her into the same university as his sister, Di Keman.
Since Zhao Sini and Di Keman became classmates, her relationship with Di Weian has been kept secret, and even Di Keman is unaware of it.
Zhao Sini's second target was Di Keman. She tried every means to become best friends with Di Keman and used Di Keman's status as a rich heiress to get to know many wealthy young men in Hong Kong's high society. However, those wealthy young men were too promiscuous, and neither Di Keman nor Zhao Sini were interested in them.
What she wants is a man who can truly help her reach great heights, a man who allows her to be admired openly and honestly.
It wasn't until she was 20 years old that Yu Shang, the heir of the Yu family, returned from studying abroad and officially took over the company, thus formally establishing a marriage alliance between the Di and Yu families. Zhao Sini saw Yu Shang at Di Keman and Yu Shang's engagement banquet, and at that moment, she set her sights on him.
During her university internship, Zhao Sini subtly hinted to Di Keman, who was naive by nature, that she should intern at Yu's company. She even directly recommended Zhao Sini to be Yu Shang's secretary, saying that Zhao Sini should keep an eye out for any women trying to seduce Yu Shang.
Zhao Sini smiled and said okay.
Three years passed in a flash. Yu Shang and Di Keman were about to get married when Di Keman was diagnosed with leukemia. Madam Yu, unwilling to accept a sickly man into the Yu family, disregarded the relationship between the two families and directly called off the engagement. At this time, Zhao Sini also resigned from her job. She told Yu Shang that she felt sorry for Di Keman, that Di Keman had already suffered enough, and that she could no longer be with Yu Shang. Yu Shang loved her and respected her choice.
On the day she left, Zhao Sini deliberately left her pregnancy test results in the apartment where she and Yu Shang usually went on dates.
The rest of the story, as reported by Hong Kong media, is that Madam Yu's secretary rose to power and gave birth to a son as her first child. Even though Madam Yu looked down on her background, she had no choice but to accept her for the sake of her eldest grandson.
"The winter that Mrs. Yu gave birth to her eldest son, her family members were diagnosed with leukemia one after another. Mrs. Yu was extremely kind and devoted. She stayed by her family members' side while they were being treated in the hospital. Within just two years, her family members passed away one after another. Her only mute sister, the third sister, suffered a mental breakdown and is still being cared for in a mental hospital."
Song Lanyin looked at Yu Changze and said, "Isn't it a coincidence that Di Keman and Madam Yu's family members all died of leukemia?"
Yu Changze gripped his phone. "You suspect she did it?"
“Di Keman is dead, but her SIM card hasn’t been cancelled.” Song Lanyin looked at Yu Changze. “I once thought Di Keman was my biological mother, but the truth tells me that Di Keman is not my biological mother. She and Di Weian were both stepping stones for Madam Yu to climb up the social ladder. Di Weian later died of a myocardial infarction, his wife and children went abroad to settle down, and the Di family was acquired by the Yu family. All these changes were the work of Madam Yu.”
Thirty or forty years ago, the times were developing rapidly, and fierce competition and constant change in the business world were quite normal. At that time, Hong Kong was still a golden special zone where both the legitimate and criminal worlds could operate. The decline and fall of a company would not attract much attention.
In those days, there were countless women from ordinary backgrounds who rose to power through men, but Madam Yu was the only one who reached the very top, and to this day, no one can shake her position.
"Even if you find these things now, it's been too long. The court won't recognize them. Dickman and the Zhao family are all dead. More than 30 years have passed. It's too late."
"I know." Song Lanyin stood up. "I came to see you because I wanted to see just how outstanding you really are?"
Yu Changze looked at her, his brow furrowed slightly. "Are you planning to go find her?"
“I didn’t want to find her, but she did.” Song Lanyin smiled coldly. “Someone called me using Di Keman’s number and played a song I heard as a child. I guess that person knows all of Madam Yu’s secrets, and that person wants to use me to help him deal with Madam Yu.”
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