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Lin Tingyue stood beside Cai Wenchuan, watching him carefully examine the photo. For a moment, she was lost in thought, and her heart ached inexplicably. She thought wistfully that the person she had originally wanted to marry was not the man beside her.
Her gaze passed through Cai Wenchuan's body, looking into the far distance. She thought painfully of the man she had originally intended to marry—
He had abandoned her and left her behind. The image of that person flashed into her mind: tall and slender, with large eyes—it was Zhiming, the only man she had ever loved in her life!
She doesn't know where he is, what he's doing, or if he's thinking of her as much as she's thinking of him.
My heart is like an eggshell, making a hollow sound, as if every pore in my body is bleeding.
Lin Tingyue thought painfully. When they first broke up, she had thought that once she regained everything that belonged to her and became a truly wealthy young lady of the Lin family, she would go to Zhiming, pursue him again, and reconcile with him. But now it seemed too late. Everything had already been settled. She had married Cai Wenchuan, the man she had always bossed around and never respected since childhood!
Although he is not what he used to be, in her eyes he will always be the son of her family's housekeeper.
The three of them, each lost in their own thoughts, stood there pondering. Time passed, and the weather grew cooler; the wind felt chilly. Finally, Madam Zi closed the marriage certificate, looked up, and smiled at Cai Wenchuan. She returned the certificate to Lin Tingyue, and seeing Cai Wenchuan still staring at it in a daze, she cleared her throat with a slight smile and said to him gently and affectionately, "Wenchuan—"
Cai Wenchuan then raised his head, smiled at Madam Zi, and respectfully asked, "Madam, what is it?"
Madam Zi smiled and said with concern, "Wen Chuan, you and Xiao Yue have already registered your marriage. We are now family. So, you should address me as Madam, right?"
Cai Wenchuan blushed, mustered his courage, and softly called out, "Mom—"
"Yes!" Madam Zi replied emphatically and smiled happily. Cai Wenchuan also smiled slightly, feeling as if he were nestled in a warm winter fire. He reached out and took Lin Tingyue's hand, who was standing beside him. However, Lin Tingyue remained like a wooden figure, as if her soul had left her body, and did not react to Cai Wenchuan's enthusiasm.
Madam Zi said to Cai Wenchuan, "Thank you, Wenchuan. If you hadn't married Xiaoyue, we would have really been killed by Lin Tingfeng." She breathed a long sigh of relief. Now that they were married, a huge weight had been lifted from her heart. She had succeeded, and therefore, she was filled with gratitude towards Cai Wenchuan.
Cai Wenchuan was stunned for a moment before smiling and saying, "Of course."
Lady Zi thought for a moment and said to him, "Then, Wen Chuan, you don't need to worry about what I do next, okay?"
Cai Wenchuan was taken aback and looked up in confusion.
A fog of confusion rose in my mind again, as if I were walking deep in a maze, and that feeling of being deceived and used returned.
Lady Zi smiled and said, "I assure you, I will not hurt anyone. I am only protecting myself and my daughter."
Hearing that he wouldn't hurt anyone, Cai Wenchuan finally breathed a sigh of relief. He disliked Lin Tingfeng, but he also didn't want him to be in any danger.
Cai Wenchuan knew she wanted to join forces with him to deal with Lin Tingfeng. Now that he was married to Lin Tingyue, his shares and Madam Zi's shares were combined, so Lin Tingfeng was naturally no match for them.
After thinking it over, he finally nodded.
As long as the shopping mall doesn't actually become a bloodthirsty battlefield, that's fine.
Madam Zi smiled, a huge weight lifted from her heart. She said to him, "Then, I'll contact a lawyer later. Tomorrow, you'll come with me to the Lin Group's shareholders' meeting!" As she spoke, she couldn't help but raise her voice, appearing full of fighting spirit.
Cai Wenchuan felt heavy-hearted, as if a huge lead plate was pressing on his chest. He knew that Madam Zi was about to embark on her path of revenge, but things had come to this point, and it was all her own choice. He nodded heavily again.
That night was Cai Wenchuan and Lin Tingyue's wedding night, and Madam Zi specially arranged a room for them as their bridal chamber.
Cai Wenchuan felt it was worth celebrating, but Lin Tingyue seemed to be acting strangely, always lacking energy.
Early in the morning, she claimed she wasn't feeling well and went to bed early.
Therefore, Cai Wenchuan could only respect her wishes and slept on the other side, and the night passed peacefully. However, doubts and worries had begun to creep into his heart: who did Lin Tingyue truly love?
Lin Tingfeng knew that bad things would happen sooner or later, and he had been waiting for them to happen, but he did not expect things to happen so quickly.
The next day, following his usual schedule, he took a car to work at the group company. He had just sat down in his president's office to deal with the work that had piled up the day before when he was informed by phone that the other shareholders were going to hold a shareholders' meeting and that he had to attend.
This was the first time in his life that he had been notified to convene a shareholders' meeting; previously, he was the one who convened the shareholders' meetings.
Lin Tingfeng's heart sank, knowing that something bad was about to happen. However, at the same time, it had only been less than two days since he decided to buy Cai Wenchuan's contract. He couldn't believe that Madam Zi's actions would be so swift. Even now, he was still waiting for news from Cai Wenchuan. After all, Cai Wenchuan had promised him three days to consider, and only two days had passed.
However, he was greeted by all the shareholders of the Lin Group. His secretary informed him to attend the shareholders' meeting. Lin Tingfeng had no choice but to stand up, straighten his clothes, and then rouse himself to go to the shareholders' meeting.
The room felt like it could catch fire at any moment; the air was almost frozen.
He is the general manager of the Lin Group and owns one-third of the shares. When his father was alive, his father was the chairman and his father's shares accounted for the majority of the Lin Group. Therefore, in the past, he was the one who made the decisions in the Lin Group. After his father passed away, his shares were divided into three.
If all the shares held by his father were given to him, Lin Tingfeng would definitely be in charge of the Lin Group. However, if the shares were divided into three and other shareholders were added, then Lin Tingfeng would no longer be the most powerful person in the Lin Group. If any individual's shareholding exceeded his, or if other shareholders united in their dissatisfaction with him, they could potentially remove him from his position as general manager.
After his father passed away, the position of chairman of the Lin Group remained vacant, and a new chairman was not elected.
All of this was caused by his father's muddled will! Lin Tingfeng thought to himself that the reason he had ended up in this situation was because after he met Ye Wenyu, he gradually became less cold-blooded and decisive than he had been in his youth, and he kept putting things off, which eventually led to trouble!
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