"I understand, Miss. Don't worry, I will definitely find a way to get the results you need."
"Yes, thank you for your hard work, Aunt Wen."
"By the way, did the Huo family make things difficult for Miss?"
Ye Xinning shook her head. "What can they do to me? Even if they want to do something, they have to consider the Shen family's reputation."
Hearing her say that, Wen Yu felt much relieved. "That's good, that's good."
Ye Xinning and Wen Yu sat together until evening. She originally wanted to take Aunt Wen to her place, but Wen Yu refused.
"No need. I haven't been back to Nancheng for a long time. I want to travel around. Miss, you should go back soon."
Seeing her persistence, Ye Xinning didn't press the issue. "We'll keep in touch after that if there's any news."
"good."
...
After parting ways with Wen Yu, Ye Xinning originally intended to go straight back to the Shen family, but as soon as she stepped out of the restaurant, she received a call from Ye Rouxin.
Ye Xinning was surprised that Ye Rouxin would call, and her first reaction was to hang up, which is exactly what she did.
But Ye Rouxin was incredibly patient. Every time she hung up, Ye Rouxin would call again, as if she wouldn't give up until she answered the call tonight.
Ye Xinning had no choice but to answer the phone. She couldn't just block Ye Rouxin's number, after all, Ye Rouxin was her mother.
"You finally answered the phone?"
Feeling irritated, Ye Xinning walked along the street, her tone less than friendly, "Didn't you keep calling because you knew I'd eventually answer?"
Do you have to talk to me like that?
"If I remember correctly, you slapped me just a few days ago. You can't have forgotten the wound so quickly, can you?"
When the incident was brought up, Ye Rouxin's tone softened. She sincerely apologized to Ye Xinning, "I'm sorry, Ningning. I was too impulsive last time, which is why that happened. I promise it won't happen again."
Ye Xinning's heart seemed to have gone numb; she wouldn't believe anything Ye Rouxin said.
Perhaps it's because I've been disappointed too many times.
"Just get to the point. What do you want to say this time? Do you want me to help you get some project from the Shen Group again?" Ye Xinning said this with a hint of sarcasm.
She was sulking, and Ye Rouxin was no better off. Having reached this point, the mother and daughter were best at communicating through emotions—to put it bluntly…
quarrel.
"When you talk to me like that, do you still have even a shred of regard for me as your mother? Or have you long wished that woman surnamed Wen could be your mother?"
Ye Xinning stopped in her tracks, her voice a few degrees colder than before, "So you called just because you knew Aunt Wen was here?"
"Yes, I know she's here. What, Song Zhengchu is no longer in Nancheng, he's disappeared without a trace, why is she still coming to Nancheng to bother you?"
Ye Xinning clenched her hands and closed her eyes, suppressing her emotions in this way.
Song Zhengchu, her father, disappeared in Nancheng after divorcing her mother years ago. He has deliberately concealed his whereabouts ever since, and there has been no news of him since.
"How does Mom feel when she mentions Father now?"
"I'm not in the mood?"
"Heh." Ye Xinning sneered, "I wonder if Huo Qijun is with you right now? I think he probably isn't. If he were, why would you bring up my father?"
"Ye Xinning." Ye Rouxin was furious.
Ye Xinning held the phone further away; without even thinking, she knew that Ye Rouxin was about to say those nasty things again.
“Let me tell you, Ye Xinning, that woman had ill intentions from the very beginning. Why do you think she’s been nice to you? It’s all because of Song Zhengchu. She’s always wanted to destroy our family.”
To Ye Xinning at that moment, these words sounded somewhat amusing.
What does it mean to destroy their family? Anyone who doesn't know the situation would think their family was so happy.
"Do I need to remind you? Our family ceased to exist long before you got together with Kenneth Fok."
"If Song Zhengchu hadn't been flirting with that woman first, how could I have..."
There was no need for her to finish speaking; Ye Xinning already knew what she was going to say.
It's simply shifting the blame for being with Kenneth Fok onto his father.
"Whether you believe it or not, your father has only ever loved you. The betrayal you think you've experienced never happened," Ye Xinning explained, pausing slightly before continuing.
"As for Aunt Wen's return this time, I asked her to come back because I need her help with something."
Is there anything you need her help with?
"Even if I told you, you wouldn't believe me. So be it. If there's nothing else, I'm hanging up."
After saying that, Ye Xinning hung up the phone. She had tried to tell Ye Rouxin about how Huo Yanzhi had imprisoned her and erased all traces of her back then, but Ye Rouxin had never believed her.
After this happened many times, she gradually became extremely disappointed and no longer wanted to explain anything. As for her feelings for Aunt Wen, they were just out of respect for an elder, while Aunt Wen had always only taken care of her.
They know these things.
Ye Xinning was walking along the roadside when her phone rang again, just as she was troubled by these very things.
She picked up her phone and glanced at it; it was a call from Shen Lin.
"Hello," she said softly, her tone somewhat languid.
"What are you doing?"
"Nothing," she replied absentmindedly. When did Shen Lin start asking such pointless questions?
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