"What happened? What exactly happened?" she demanded immediately.
"If you want to know, why don't you ask your husband?" Yun Wanqing turned away, too lazy to pay attention to her.
Chen Lizhen quickly chased after her, "Daughter, Yunqing, tell me clearly, what exactly happened? Didn't you go to Lin Zhibai? Didn't you ask him why?"
Yun Wanqing did not answer and walked forward even faster.
The two rushed back to the Huo family's old house overnight.
The villa was still the same villa as before, but it inexplicably exuded a sense of desolation...
Chen Lizhen couldn't help but shudder; her intuition told her that she shouldn't be back here now.
But Yun Wanqing had already pressed the doorbell.
Yun Wanqing needs to see Huo's father to understand the true situation.
However, after waiting for a while, no one came to open the door.
Yun Wanqing suddenly thought, "Mom, you should be able to open this door, right?"
A hint of panic flashed across Chen Lizhen's face. "Wanqing, maybe we shouldn't go in. I have a feeling something's off in there..."
Before she could finish speaking, Yun Wanqing forcefully pulled her hand up and pressed it onto the fingerprint recognition area of the door lock.
The door lock clicked open.
"You want to run away now?" Yun Wanqing asked. "I have no objection if you want to run away, but at the very least you need to understand what's going on."
She pulled Chen Lizhen into the garden.
Not long after they entered, they spotted a tall, luxurious SUV.
Judging from the license plate, it's definitely Huo Beichen's car.
Chen Lizhen immediately trembled all over. "Wanqing, Huo Beichen is inside. Don't go in."
"Why?" Yun Wanqing thought that with Huo Beichen around, things would be clearer.
But Chen Lizhen grabbed her arm and shook her head vigorously.
Yun Wanqing sensed something was wrong and asked, "What exactly happened?"
Chen Lizhen had no choice but to reply, "I rarely live in this house. Even in City C, I live in an apartment more often."
When she first married Huo, she moved into this luxurious villa with great joy.
In her mind, wealthy women didn't all live in villas with walk-in closets bigger than the living rooms of ordinary people.
When he has nothing to do, he sits in the garden drinking tea and sunbathing, surrounded by several expensive dogs.
However, strange things kept happening to her while she lived there.
A doll would mysteriously appear in her walk-in closet.
The doll's mouth was sewn shut.
Suddenly, a human finger appeared in the bread she was eating... It turned out to be a plastic toy.
She would hear strange voices outside her window in the middle of the night when she was sleeping alone.
But when she opened the window and had the housekeeper and all the maids search thoroughly, they couldn't find the voice.
...
She set her sights on Huo Beichen, who was not quite young.
But there was never any evidence.
There are so many stories like this that we could talk about them for three days and three nights and still not finish.
Therefore, she didn't want to go back here, and she was afraid to go back here.
When Yun Wanqing first heard Chen Lizhen talk about these things, she was quite surprised.
She knew that Huo Beichen and Chen Lizhen were fiercely competing for the Huo family's business.
But she never expected that Huo Beichen was such a scheming person.
“What’s the use of being afraid?” Yun Wanqing scolded Chen Lizhen. “It’s precisely because you’re afraid that Huo Beichen is able to exploit your weakness.”
"I'm not afraid at all. I'm going to listen to what the father and son have to say today."
Chen Lizhen couldn't persuade Yun Wanqing otherwise, so she thought for a moment and said, "I know a small path that leads to the back of the study."
Mr. Huo designed the study in the inner room on the side of the house, with the window facing the back garden.
He found it peaceful this way.
At this moment, Yun Wanqing and Chen Lizhen had the opportunity to quietly sneak to the window and hear the father and son's conversation clearly.
"...He would never sell his shares to you!" Mr. Huo was extremely agitated. "He's my brother for life, he would never betray me!"
Huo Beichen gave a cold laugh: "But that is betrayal."
"After signing the contract, he congratulated me on winning."
These two sentences are truly devastating.
Overwhelmed with anger, Mr. Huo clutched his chest and slumped back in his chair. “Tell me, why did he…” Despite the pain, he managed to force out those words.
Huo Beichen laughed: "It's no trouble to tell you. Actually, we should thank that daughter you got for nothing. She went to the Lin family to make trouble, thinking she could get some benefits, but instead she was ridiculed by the Lin family. When they saw that the Huo family was beyond saving, they quickly cashed out and ran away, wasn't that better?"
Yun Wanqing was stunned. What did that mean?
Was it all arranged by Huo Beichen that she caused trouble at the Lin family's house?
He knew all along that she couldn't make any progress; he just wanted to further confirm with Huo's shareholders that Huo was completely beyond saving under Lin Zhibai's suppression!
She was outmaneuvered by Huo Beichen!
Yun Wanqing bit her lip angrily!
"Dad," Huo Beichen said with a sneer, "Don't be too upset. You've spent half your life wandering among women, and what you've always wanted most is a romantic life under the moon and flowers, right? Now that the company is gone, you can live the life you've always dreamed of every day."
It's full of irony.
Mr. Huo understood: "You... have always held a grudge about your mother... I admit I was wrong back then, but you didn't deserve to ruin my company. This is the hard work of three generations of the Huo family, and it will be your company in the future!"
Huo Beichen chuckled: "In your heart, am I still a member of the Huo family? Will this company be left to me?"
Mr. Huo turned pale when his secret was exposed.
Huo Beichen continued, "Since they won't leave it for me, I'll just have to take it myself."
“I’m here to tell you,” Huo Beichen continued, “that I am now the largest shareholder of Huo’s Group. You’d better sell your Huo’s Group shares to me as well, otherwise your dream of living out your old age in peace will not come true.”
"You...you..." Mr. Huo's lips trembled, "I will absolutely not give you the shares..."
Huo Beichen shrugged, looking indifferent: "You can keep it. When the Huo family disappears, you'll still get a pension."
"What!" Mr. Huo exclaimed in surprise, standing up abruptly. "You want to sell the Huo family business?"
Huo Beichen smiled: "Of course, otherwise how would it become mine?"
Mr. Huo felt as if all his strength had been drained away, and he clutched his chest in pain.
"It must have been very painful, right?" Huo Beichen asked. "Back then, my mother suffered a thousand times, ten thousand times more than you did!"
After saying that, he didn't look at her again and turned to leave.
The father was left to struggle alone.
He drove his car out of the garden.
He vaguely saw his mother from many years ago, standing in the most conspicuous place in the garden, smiling at him.
Back then, his mother would often stand in the afterglow of the setting sun to greet him after school.
Those times will never come back.
His vision gradually blurred, his eyes filled with tears.
He fulfilled his greatest wish.
Why doesn't he feel happy?
Outside the study window, Yun Wanqing could clearly hear Old Huo clutching his chest and groaning in pain.
She nudged Chen Lizhen.
What should they do now?
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