The whole banquet was very lively and achieved the effect that the old man expected.
He led Zhao Hong and her daughter through the crowd with a smile on his face. Meng Qidi seemed to have been forgotten by him...
"Thank you, thank you all for coming to the banquet. I am so grateful to you all for finding my sister. Let me introduce you to my sister Zhao Hong and my niece Meng Yuzhen. We are siblings, as we have the same last name..."
The old man talked incessantly with tears in his eyes while Meng Yuzhen and Zhao Hong, mother and daughter, hugged each other and cried.
The stage was full of affection and the people below didn't care whether it was real or not and wiped away the non-existent tears from their eyes.
"Uncle, where is Xiaoqi? Why isn't she here? She is your student and also a member of the Zhao family!"
Zhao Youwei pushed away Ge Mei who was holding him and jumped up with an angry face. Xiaoqi was obviously also the daughter of the Meng family, why were they so unfair!
As if remembering something, he looked at Ling Xiao angrily, "As her man, you just watch her being bullied?"
Ling Xiao was puzzled. "You also said that our Xiaoqi is just the old man's student. She is not a member of the Meng family."
The people in the audience didn't care which family Meng Qidi came from. Instead, they looked at this outstanding person with curiosity. No wonder this kid from the Zhao family had followed Old Zhao for five or six years but still couldn't get close to him.
Zhao Dezhong's eyes flashed with pity, and he sighed, "Youwei, Xiaoqi is not my niece, but she will always be my student. Go down, today is a great day for me to recognize my sister, and our Zhao family has an heir."
The old man's last sentence was an acknowledgement that Meng Yuzhen was the heir to the Zhao family.
Everyone in the audience was surprised. No one expected that Old Zhao was so fast.
The people from the side branches of the Zhao family had gloomy faces and looked at Meng Yuzhen and her daughter, as if they wanted to kill them with their eyes.
Meng Yuzhen was completely immersed in joy. This was for her? The entire Zhao family was given to her?
Although she didn't know how powerful and wealthy the Zhao family was, judging by how much importance Qiu Cheng attached to them, she was afraid that...
Taking a deep breath, Meng Yuzhen forced herself to smile elegantly. She was the future head of the family and she couldn't afford to lose face.
Meng Yuzhen, who was already overwhelmed with joy, had completely forgotten about Zhao Dezhong who was still calling out to her a few days ago. Only he himself knew how poor the old man was...
Zhao Youwei looked at Meng Qidi in disbelief. Meng Qidi smiled at him politely. Without knowing it, he was the first one to speak up for her. No one's attention was on her.
Sighing, Meng Qidi gently pulled Ling Xiao, telling her not to stand here as it would only waste time.
As soon as the two left, Zhao Youwei was also pulled away by Ge Mei. Although she was a little uncomfortable with Meng Yuzhen's smug look on the stage, she still did not forget to pull Zhao Youwei away.
After pulling Zhao Youwei out of the restaurant, Ge Mei simply left him there, looking at him with disgust.
She just didn't understand. Wasn't this guy the male protagonist in the book? At this time in the book, he was already very close to Zhao Dezhong, and even had an ambiguous relationship with Meng Qidi.
And the old man didn't recognize his so-called sister. Is the butterfly effect so big now?
Meng Qidi did not choose Zhao Youwei, and Zhao Youwei did not follow the path in the book, so... is he still the male protagonist?
The more she thought about it, the more Ge Mei felt something was wrong. No, if Zhao Youwei wasn't the male lead, she didn't want to waste her time on him, but...
The thought that Ge Mei had just had was instantly suppressed. Not to mention that she couldn't defeat Meng Qidi, she was afraid that she wouldn't be able to touch Ling Xiao either. And what if Ling Xiao wasn't the male lead?
But it's definitely not Zhao Youwei...
Glancing at Zhao Youwei who was sitting on the ground, Ge Mei turned away in disdain. She would not look for him anymore. She might as well look for a rich man...
Zhao Youwei, who was originally in a daze, came back to his senses, turned his head to look at the hotel and smiled bitterly. The goal he had been pursuing for nearly ten years was gone just like that...
He thought that even if he wasn't the one supporting the Zhao family, they would still be able to protect them silently, but he didn't expect that it was...
That’s good, from now on he can focus on doing his own things, and the Zhao family doesn’t need him anymore.
Turning his head to look at the hotel behind him, he quickly got up and left without looking back.
Upstairs window.
"Do you think he has figured it out?"
"I think so." Ling Xiao gently squeezed Meng Qidi's hand, "Go back."
Meng Qidi turned around and said, "I really want to see how they will be in dire straits tomorrow."
No, I’m afraid we’ll be in dire straits soon.
"Stay?"
Meng Qidi pulled him and said, "Go back, you still have to train! Tell me clearly."
"I guess not. Let's look downstairs."
Meng Qidi looked down and saw Ling Jinyue and Wen Xi bringing a lot of food downstairs. She raised her eyebrows and felt relieved. "Let's go back."
She didn't believe that these two women were here to deliver food. She was afraid that they wanted to do business among this group of people?
Ling Xiao led his men to the back window, suddenly put Meng Qidi down, and climbed down swiftly.
Meng Qidi didn't expect him to be unusual, and she only poked her head out when she heard the voices below.
Ling Xiao stretched out his hand on the first floor, "Come down, I'll catch you."
Meng Qidi trusted him, she climbed up to the window swiftly, and jumped down without closing her eyes...
Ling Xiao held the man in his arms, feeling somewhat helpless, "Why don't you remind me? You're not afraid that I'll make a mistake."
Meng Qidi jumped down from his arms, "Don't blame me, it was you who said to jump down. I'm telling you, this is called trusting you, don't you understand?"
Ling Xiao pressed her forehead unhappily and said, "Let's go back to sleep."
Meng Qidi slapped his hand away, "Don't touch me."
Ling Xiao held her shoulders helplessly and said, "Okay, no need to touch me."
What difference does it make? Meng Qidi let him carry her back like this...
The two figures are getting farther and farther away...
In front of the window where the two people were staying upstairs, a figure was looking down at them.
The heroine? The world in the book? Tsk, I'm afraid the protagonist of this world has changed now?
Meng Qidi, who had walked a short distance, suddenly stopped, turned around and looked toward the window behind her, but there was no one there.
"What's wrong?"
"It's okay." Meng Qidi continued walking. Was it an illusion?
Meng Qidi heard about what happened in the restaurant from Jin Yue in the store after school.
The two of them are already preparing to open several branches in July.
"Xiao Qi, you don't know. Last night was really, so exciting that Sister Wen Xi and I almost laughed our heads off."
Meng Qidi raised her eyebrows, "Funny?"
"No, no, no, it's not that simple." Ling Jinyue raised her thumb and shook it. "I'm telling you, sister-in-law, there are so many twists and turns in this that you would never have imagined."
"It's still bizarre and tortuous?" Meng Qidi decided not to leave the story to Jin Yue. She looked at Wen Xi and asked, "You tell it?"
Wen Xi coughed lightly. "This is a little difficult for me. How about Jin Yue tell me? Ah, I'll go get you something to drink."
Wen Xi trotted away.
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