Chapter 42: The Wang family is left with nothing left to lose after the King of Tianliang is defeated!
When Si Yuan received Wang Zhenbao's call for help, he was checking the accounts of Jueweixuan Kyoto branch with Li Guihua.
The newly opened Jueweixuan in Kyoto is doing very good business. After all, Jueweixuan was also a well-known restaurant in S City. The taste of its special dishes is even more unique, attracting a large number of diners from all over the country. In fact, there are quite a few diners from Kyoto who fly to taste Jueweixuan's dishes.
When these diners learned that Jueweixuan had opened a branch in Kyoto, they all called their friends to come and show their support.
People near the new store's opening saw the swarming customers and couldn't help but wonder why the restaurant was doing so well. After checking Jueweixuan's information online and learning a little bit, they realized that it was a top restaurant in S City that had opened a branch.
This new branch with guaranteed taste and service still makes new customers feel less likely to make mistakes than those newly opened restaurants. Those who have money will go in to try the flavor, and then all diners who have tasted Jueweixuan's dishes will be attracted by the deliciousness of Jueweixuan's dishes and become repeat customers.
After the Wang family's Jueweixuan Kyoto branch opened, customers came in an endless stream and business was booming. Si Yuan and Li Guihua worked in the store for a few months and then selected a store manager to manage the branch. The two of them were only responsible for occasional surprise inspections of the hygiene services and accounts.
Today was the day they came to check the accounts, but they didn't expect to receive a call for help from Wang Zhenbao, who was supposed to be working hard to start his own small company.
As soon as Wang Zhenbao called, he shouted with a choked voice: "Dad..."
Si Yuan quickly said, "What's wrong? Don't cry, Zhenbao. Tell daddy if you have anything. Daddy will definitely help you."
Li Guihua, who was browsing the account book, heard Si Yuan's words and her face changed. She came forward and asked anxiously, "What happened to Zhenbao? Why did she call you crying?"
Si Yuan made a gesture to Li Guihua and continued to answer the phone.
Wang Zhenbao actually didn't cry before making the call. No matter how worried she was about her good friend Tao Xiaoyu, she remained very strong. She knew that if something really happened to Tao Xiaoyu, she would be the only one she could count on, so she couldn't fall down cowardly.
But people can't help but reveal their most vulnerable side in front of their doting parents. After the call got through, Wang Zhenbao couldn't help but choked up. This was a purely physiological reaction and he couldn't control himself.
Wang Zhenbao sniffed, trying to make his voice less choked, but he still cried a little: "Dad, Xiaoyu is missing. She suddenly lost contact with me. I found her home and discovered that her villa had been sold. The guard said that her family went bankrupt and sold the villa to pay off their debts. Now I don't know where the Tao family has moved to. What should I do if Xiaoyu is in trouble? Why didn't she contact me?"
Wang Zhenbao thought about how he had no idea how to find Tao Xiaoyu among the millions of people in S City. He felt so confused that tears flowed down his face unconsciously.
After listening to Wang Zhenbao's words, Si Yuan sighed slightly and said it more coldly. In fact, Si Yuan didn't care about the heroine who had nothing to do with the mission. Tao Xiaoyu also had nothing to do with the original owner, so Si Yuan would not pay attention to Tao Xiaoyu's situation.
So he only remembered it now when he heard from Wang Zhenbao that Tao Xiaoyu was missing and had lost contact. The original plot also included the heroine's family going bankrupt, her father passing away, and her mother being seriously ill and hospitalized.
Before, Si Yuan only regarded the hardships that happened to the heroine before she met the hero as the heroine's background. After all, if the heroine was not in trouble, how could she be willing to sign that kind of contract with the hero and silently become his underground lover?
After all, the heroine is a noble person who does not seek money. She is not the kind of woman who worships money and is not here to lure the hero, a rich husband. She was only forced into a desperate situation, so she accepted the hero's keeping contract in order to save her mother. Hence the background setting of the heroine's family being broken up.
When Si Yuan was watching the plot, he only focused on the plot related to the supporting female character, and most of the plot related to the supporting female character was related to the male lead Ling Feng. The female lead Tao Xiaoyu had very few rival scenes with the supporting female character, so Si Yuan didn't pay much attention to the plot of the female lead, let alone the family background of the female lead at the beginning of the plot.
Later, when he learned that Tao Xiaoyu had become Wang Zhenbao's friend, Si Yuan was concerned about whether Wang Zhenbao had a good experience making friends, whether he would be cheated, and whether Wang Zhenbao was happy after making friends... He didn't care about Tao Xiaoyu. To him, Tao Xiaoyu's identity labels were "the heroine in the original plot" and "Wang Zhenbao's friend in high school", and that was all.
At this time, Wang Zhenbao came to him crying for help because he had lost contact with Tao Xiaoyu. Si Yuan had to use the system's search function to investigate Tao Xiaoyu's whereabouts.
While Si Yuan comforted Wang Zhenbao not to worry, he used the system to search for Tao Xiaoyu's whereabouts.
After searching, Si Yuan found out that Tao Xiaoyu had already started the plot when he and Li Guihua accompanied Wang Zhenbao to attend college and start a business in Kyoto.
When Tao Xiaoyu was a junior in college, the Tao family's business began to go downhill. It was not because they were squeezed out by others, but simply because the Tao family's business gradually failed to keep up with the development of the times and was slowly eliminated by the market, making it difficult to do business.
So Tao's father wanted to find another way to make money. He sold part of his business and cashed out a large sum of money. When he was planning to change his career and start over, people around him with bad intentions coveted the money in his hands. Then Tao's father was tricked into gambling by someone who set up an elaborate trap for him.
Gambling is something you should never get involved in. Once you get involved, it is difficult to quit and the outcome of your family being broken up is almost inevitable.
The same thing happened to Tao's father. He was originally a good husband and a good father who loved his wife and daughter. However, he was deceived and became addicted to gambling. He lost all the money he had on hand. In order to make up for his losses, he cashed out the rest of the family business, drained the cash flow, and sent it all to the casino. The result is predictable. He lost everything.
After losing everything, Tao's father realized that he had been tricked. Unfortunately, it was too late. His capital chain was broken and his business could no longer be continued. The Tao family went bankrupt completely and owed a huge debt.
Under tremendous pressure, Tao's father began to drown his sorrows in alcohol.
Mother Tao has always been spoiled by Father Tao. She knows nothing about business and doesn't know what to do. She can only shed tears every day, hoping that Father Tao can cheer up as soon as possible.
Even though the situation of the Tao family had become like this, the two of them still kept it a secret from Tao Xiaoyu so that Tao Xiaoyu could go to school with peace of mind. Tao's mother even borrowed money to give Tao Xiaoyu living expenses.
However, the truth could no longer be concealed until Tao Xiaoyu graduated from her senior year.
When Tao Xiaoyu returned home after graduation, she found that her villa was gone. Of course, it was impossible for her to know nothing about the affairs at home, so her mother had to tell Tao Xiaoyu everything.
Tao Xiaoyu never thought that her father would become addicted to gambling and ruin the family. Like her mother, she hoped that her father could pick himself up again and that she could work with her father to revive the Tao family.
But before Mr. Tao could regain his spirits with the comfort and support of mother and daughter, he drowned due to drunkenness, leaving mother Tao and mother Tao Xiaoyu to depend on each other.
Tao's father died, but the debts he owed during his lifetime were not cancelled.
Because the debts that Tao's father owed during his lifetime were not gambling debts. What he owed were money from business, including unpaid payments for goods to others and liquidated damages for failure to deliver goods... Because Tao's father withdrew all the cash flow from the business to gamble, the broken capital chain led to the debts.
Tao's father is a man who loves his wife and daughter, so even though his wife is just an ordinary full-time housewife and never interferes in his business, he also gave half of his company's shares to Tao's mother.
In other words, if the Tao family goes bankrupt, Tao's mother will have to bear the debt together with Tao's father.
After Tao's father passed away, she still had to bear the debt.
Tao's mother had been a full-time housewife for 20 to 30 years, so how could she afford to pay off so much debt? She fainted when frightened by the debt collectors. Tao Xiaoyu sent her to the hospital, and the doctor's diagnosis was very bad. Tao's mother needed to stay in the intensive care unit and spend a lot of money to stay alive all year round. It was a disease of the rich that required a lot of money to save her life.
If the Tao family had not gone bankrupt, they could still support Tao's mother's treatment. However, the Tao family has gone bankrupt and Tao's father has passed away. Tao's mother does not want to drag down her daughter who just graduated from college, and wants her daughter to give up treatment. However, Tao Xiaoyu has a very deep relationship with her parents. She has just experienced the pain of losing her father, so how could she be willing to give up her mother's life?
So she wanted to save her mother's life at all costs.
Because the debt belonged to Tao's father and mother, Tao's father passed away and Tao's mother was seriously ill and hospitalized, the creditors were helpless. They could not really force Tao's mother to die.
It’s not that they didn’t approach Tao Xiaoyu, but Tao Xiaoyu was a young girl who had just graduated from college. Even if she could work and earn money, how much could she earn? And there is also the bottomless pit of Tao's mother's medical expenses.
In modern society, there is no requirement for children to repay their parents' debts. When Tao's father died, he did not leave any inheritance for Tao Xiaoyu. Tao Xiaoyu did not inherit any inheritance, so naturally he did not inherit any debts. When a person dies, his debts are cleared.
As for the debts owed to Tao's mother, given her current condition, even if the creditors sued her in court, the court would not support their debt collection.
Therefore, the debts owed by the Tao family are not actually the biggest burden on Tao Xiaoyu. The biggest pressure on Tao Xiaoyu is still her mother's medical expenses.
Because Tao's father had been involved in gambling, the capital chain of Tao's business was broken. Tao's father had borrowed money to make ends meet, and Tao's mother had also lent money to Tao Xiaoyu for living expenses. So Tao's father and mother had borrowed money from all the relatives and friends they knew. If Tao Xiaoyu wanted to borrow money again, he could not borrow money from the Tao family's relatives and friends. After all, no one wanted to throw money into the bottomless pit of the Tao family.
Tao Xiaoyu thought of asking Wang Zhenbao for help, but she didn't know how to start. However, she still called Wang Zhenbao.
Wang Zhenbao didn't know what had happened in Tao Xiaoyu's family. She was busy starting her own business and had just borrowed several million from the bank to invest in the development of her company.
After receiving Tao Xiaoyu's call, when Tao Xiaoyu was still hesitating about how to start the conversation, Wang Zhenbao excitedly shared his entrepreneurial progress with her.
When Tao Xiaoyu heard that Wang Zhenbao had borrowed several million from the bank to invest in her business, she knew that she must not have much money on hand.
Tao Xiaoyu knew that Wang Zhenbao was a loyal friend. As long as she asked, she would definitely help. Even if she had to give up her business and all her hard work would go to waste, she would still raise money to help her.
But precisely because she knew this, Tao Xiaoyu couldn't open her mouth to ask for money. She didn't want to drag Wang Zhenbao down, so she couldn't open her mouth to borrow money.
In fact, it would be fine if Tao Xiaoyu just asked Wang Zhenbao to borrow tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands to temporarily relieve the pressure of medical expenses. However, Tao Xiaoyu knew that once she asked, Wang Zhenbao would definitely know that something had happened in her family. Otherwise, the Tao family could come up with tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands themselves, so why did Tao Xiaoyu need to borrow money from her?
Once Wang Zhenbao finds out what happened to the Tao family, she will definitely raise money to help her pay for her medical expenses and even pay off her debts.
Things will return to the point that Tao Xiaoyu worried about - she will drag Zhenzhen down to the point where she has nothing.
Tao Xiaoyu finally gave up asking for money and smiled and congratulated Wang Zhenbao on taking the first step towards realizing her dream and congratulated her on her career success.
This was the last call Tao Xiaoyu made to Wang Zhenbao. Tao Xiaoyu reluctantly talked to Wang Zhenbao about many happy memories of their past. She also racked her brains to make up many fictitious and interesting stories about her work after graduation. She kept calling until her phone's battery was low and then they both hung up.
Then Tao Xiaoyu cut off contact with Wang Zhenbao, because she knew that the Tao family's affairs could not be hidden from Wang Zhenbao for long. As long as Wang Zhenbao returned to S City and came to the Tao family to find her, the truth would be exposed to Wang Zhenbao.
She has already fallen into the mud, why drag Zhenzhen into it?
So Tao Xiaoyu disappeared from Wang Zhenbao's world.
The gears of Tao Xiaoyu's destiny also began to turn.
After changing her contact information, Tao Xiaoyu went to work in a bar where she could make money quickly. As long as she could sell enough drinks, she could get a high commission. Then, she met her destined male protagonist Ling Feng here.
Just like the development in the original plot, Tao Xiaoyu signed a sponsorship contract with Ling Feng. Ling Feng helped her pay for Tao's mother's medical expenses, and she became Ling Feng's underground lover.
When Si Yuan found Tao Xiaoyu's whereabouts through the system, she was already with the male protagonist Ling Feng.
Seeing this result, Si Yuan couldn't help but sigh at the stubbornness of the plot. The Ling's Group was severely damaged by his previous reports, and was besieged by other business rivals. The Ling's Group had shrunk by more than half. In the past, the Ling's Group could be regarded as the top group in S City, but now it has probably fallen to the third or fourth rate level.
Ling Feng's former pride as the crown prince of the Ling family was crushed to the point where there was not much left, and he became much more gloomy.
Now Ling Feng is looking for daughters of other groups to seek cooperation for the Ling Group. In particular, he wants to marry a woman like Wang Zhenbao, the only daughter of the group in the original plot, because in this way, the Ling Group can swallow up other groups through marriage and return to the top.
Perhaps Ling Feng, the male protagonist of the sadistic novel, is only capable of this, and only wants to gain benefits by stabbing women in the back.
Ling Feng had this idea in mind, but since Wang Zhenbao, the only daughter of Wang Group, did not come to him on his own initiative, he could only take the initiative to please those spoiled daughters who were willful and domineering.
A prince of a group who is so proud and arrogant that he becomes an outlaw, has suddenly fallen to the point where he needs to please the woman he once ignored. How could he bear this psychological gap?
So Ling Feng became mentally abnormal under this kind of psychological pressure. When he went to the bar to drown his sorrows in alcohol, he fell in love with Tao Xiaoyu, who created a pitiful persona in order to sell alcohol. He felt that she was weak and pitiful and needed his protection. She would depend on him and would always worship him. Losing him would be like a dodder losing its support.
Ling Feng, who took a fancy to Tao Xiaoyu, came to the bar to sell alcohol after learning that her seriously ill mother needed medical treatment. Ling Feng was very satisfied that she was a filial and self-disciplined girl. Unlike other women in the bar, she was more pure and barely qualified to be the underground lover of him, the eldest son of the Ling family.
So Ling Feng threw the sponsorship contract in front of Tao Xiaoyu and told her his plan in a condescending tone.
Tao Xiaoyu, who had put on a little white flower makeup, just thought that a pitiful character would make it easier for customers to buy wine. When she saw the contract and Ling Feng's condescending and arrogant attitude, she almost couldn't help but pick up the contract and slap him in the face. However, when she thought of her mother lying in the intensive care unit of the hospital and the huge pressure of medical expenses, Tao Xiaoyu suppressed her anger and endured it.
She intended to politely reject Ling Feng, the mentally ill and egomaniac, but she didn't expect that the bad news that followed made Tao Xiaoyu unable to refuse Ling Feng - Tao's mother's condition worsened and she needed an operation, and the cost of the operation was too high for her to afford.
So no matter how reluctant Tao Xiaoyu was, she still grabbed the life-saving straw handed to her by Ling Feng, signed the illegal keeping contract, and moved into the house where Ling Feng kept his mistress.
Tao Xiaoyu's purpose is very clear, which is to coax Ling Feng to pay for her mother's medical expenses. She pays with her beauty and Ling Feng pays with money. It is a fair deal.
What surprised Tao Xiaoyu was that Ling Feng not only treated her as a bed partner, but also as a spiritual trash can. He often came to her to complain that others were blind and looked down on people, and that he was a tiger in the open air being bullied by a dog... But listening to Ling Feng's complaints, Tao Xiaoyu just thought in her heart, is it possible that you were too arrogant and proud in the past and offended too many people, so now that your family has declined, so many people come to step on you?
But of course Tao Xiaoyu wouldn't be so stupid as to speak her true feelings. She even had to comfort him against her will that it was someone else's fault.
Then Ling Feng felt like he had found a soul mate. He would complain to Tao Xiaoyu whenever he had time. He even complained to Tao Xiaoyu when he was courting the daughter of a certain conglomerate but was rejected.
Tao Xiaoyu: “…” Judging from your arrogant look, when you say you’re going to pursue someone, you’re not going to say that kind of pursuit with the greasy, domineering boss line of “Woman, you’ve successfully caught my attention,” right? If it were me, I would slap you in the face too!
She silently reminded herself that this greasy and humble man was her financial sponsor and she had to endure it. Then she showed a gentle, soft and understanding smile and spoke to comfort him. To her, Ling Feng seemed like a god who could do everything.
Anyway, Ling Feng felt very comfortable with Tao Xiaoyu's flattery. However, as the medical expenses for Tao's mother increased, he became more and more reluctant to give money. In his heart, he hoped that Tao Xiaoyu would give up her mother, who had almost no chance of recovery, and concentrate on being his underground lover.
Tao Xiaoyu heard the hints in Ling Feng's words, and she had only one thought - damn, this greasy guy actually wants to have sex for free!
If she had a choice, she would not choose to be with Ling Feng. Ling Feng looks good, but unfortunately his personality is very different from her previous boyfriend!
Tao Xiaoyu had no other choice now. She could only pretend that she didn't understand Ling Feng's hint, showing an innocent and pure smile, looking at him with trust, making it impossible for Ling Feng to say that he didn't want to pay or couldn't afford Tao's mother's medical expenses.
While Tao Xiaoyu was fighting with Ling Feng, Si Yuan had already told Wang Zhenbao about Tao Xiaoyu's situation under the pretext of having found out Tao Xiaoyu's whereabouts through his friends' connections.
Wang Zhenbao felt extremely distressed. How could Xiaoyu be involved with Ling Feng, that scumbag, again?
Wang Zhenbao also remembered Tao Xiaoyu who was with Ling Feng in her previous life. However, even though she remembered things from her previous life, she only hated Ling Feng even more. She did not vent her anger on Tao Xiaoyu. Instead, she felt more pity for Tao Xiaoyu.
It turned out that Xiaoyu had to be forced to accept Ling Feng's humiliation for the sake of her mother. Presumably, it was the same for Xiaoyu in her previous life. Why didn't she discover Xiaoyu's predicament in time in her previous life and rescue Xiaoyu from Ling Feng's clutches?
However, in her previous life, she was a fool who was obsessed with love for Ling Feng. How could she care about saving Tao Xiaoyu who fell into Ling Feng's clutches? She even regarded Tao Xiaoyu as a love rival.
After her rebirth, she still misunderstood that Tao Xiaoyu and Ling Feng were in a deeply tragic relationship with each other.
Now that she knew the truth, Wang Zhenbao immediately rushed to the address of Ling Feng's hidden beauty given to her by Si Yuan.
The address of Ling Feng's mistress in this life is different from that in his previous life, because the power of the Ling Group has greatly declined, and Ling Feng no longer has the generosity he had in his previous life. In his previous life, he used a luxurious villa as the place to hide his mistress, but in this life, it is just an ordinary two-bedroom, one-living-room apartment with an elevator.
When Wang Zhenbao was about to go find Tao Xiaoyu, Si Yuan was still in Kyoto with Li Guihua and couldn't come back in time. Wang Zhenbao couldn't wait any longer and planned to go by herself.
Si Yuan asked her to bring her bodyguard with her.
Wang Zhenbao thought of Ling Feng's character as an outlaw in his previous life who dared to do anything. He couldn't guarantee that if he went to pick up Tao Xiaoyu, he wouldn't get angry and irritate him, and then something might happen. It would be safer to bring a bodyguard with him.
So Wang Zhenbao took the two bodyguards assigned to her by Si Yuan and went to Ling Feng's hidden residence to pick up Tao Xiaoyu.
Tao Xiaoyu lived in that house. Because of Ling Feng's perverted request, Tao Xiaoyu was not allowed to go out casually, so she could only stay in the house. Except for the time every month when Ling Feng allowed her to go to the hospital to visit Tao's mother, she could only stay in the house and wait for Ling Feng to come.
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