137 Pei Yan assists
Huo Yanxi looked at her shocked expression and smiled slightly. "If I hadn't recognized you, were you planning to cut off all contact with me after the tutoring session ended?"
Knowing that he had guessed her thoughts, Xie Yaoyao took a French fry and stuffed it into her mouth to chew, trying to hide her embarrassment.
"The work is over...we shouldn't have any further contact anyway."
He is the head of the Huo Group, and they are no longer from the same world.
She was self-aware enough not to dream of marrying him.
Huo Yanxi guessed what she was thinking, but hearing her say that still made him feel very sad.
"Why?"
They grew up together and are now inseparable.
Why could she so easily say such a cruel thing as never having any contact with each other again?
Xie Yaoyao lowered her head, not daring to meet his gaze, afraid to see the disappointment in his eyes.
"Mr. Huo, we're doing very well now, aren't we?"
Huo Yanxi felt as if a fire had been thrown into his heart, burning him to the core.
"Oh no, Manman, I..."
Xie Ziyu suddenly put down the roast chicken and interrupted Huo Yanxi, "Mommy, I need to pee."
Xie Yaoyao quickly stood up. "Let's go, I'll take you there."
Huo Yanxi glanced at Xie Ziyu, then stopped Xie Yaoyao with a stern face, saying, "There are too many people here. I'll take him there."
Xie Yaoyao pursed her lips. "Thank you."
Huo Yanxi felt a pang of bitterness in his heart. "He is also my child. You don't need to thank me."
Watching Huo Yanxi carry Xie Ziyu away, Xie Yaoyao felt a mix of emotions.
It's all her fault for being too trusting and being tricked by Liang Zhen, which led her to unwittingly end up with Huo Yanxi.
If it weren't for that absurd night, their paths would never have crossed again.
Xie Yaoyao was filled with regret, and then suddenly remembered the day Liang Zhen plotted against her, how could Huo Yanxi have arrived so conveniently?
Did he keep track of her movements all along?
Xie Yaoyao couldn't confront Huo Yanxi directly, so she had no choice but to find Pei Yan as a compromise.
She added Secretary Pei on WeChat and asked about it there.
Pei Yan was quite the gossip; he had long wanted to confide in someone about Huo Yanxi's abnormal possessiveness.
Xie Yaoyao went looking for him, only to find herself right in the line of fire.
He poured out his messages like beans pouring from a bamboo tube, sending voice messages that were all 59 seconds long.
"Teacher Xie, you've come to the right person. With President Huo's reserved nature, he definitely hasn't told you anything."
Let me tell you, he has never forgotten you. In the first year, he was probably competing with you and didn't want to contact you. In the second year, he couldn't hold back anymore and felt that he couldn't save face, so he hinted several times that I should send someone to find out where you went.
Sigh, it's all tears when I talk about this. How were we supposed to know you changed your name? We searched and searched, and all we could find was the fire at the houseboat. Some people said they saw you leave, and others said they saw you didn't escape.
Anyway, there are all sorts of rumors, so how could I dare to tell Mr. Huo the truth, for fear that you really are gone? So I told him that you fell in love with a mainlander and went to Suzhou and Hangzhou with him.
Mr. Huo was depressed for a long time, and we thought he would disappear from the public eye. But a few days later, he reappeared in front of us, and he was a completely different person.
You know, the Huo Group truly entered the global market after he rallied and, with nowhere else to vent his resentment, he took it all out on his enemies.
Sigh, back then he was a complete workaholic, constantly traveling the world, so busy that he often only slept an hour a day.
Upon hearing this, Xie Yaoyao couldn't help but send him a message, "He only sleeps for one hour a day, won't he get sick?"
Pei Yan replied with several more voice messages.
"How could he not get sick? That's when he developed a mental illness, which would flare up frequently."
You know there's a small dark room at No. 22 Victoria Peak, right? Whenever he has an attack, he locks himself in that small dark room. Sometimes he comes out after a few hours, and sometimes he stays there for several days.
We don't know what he's doing, but every time he comes out of the dark room, he's bruised and battered.
Dr. Lu said that he was just using this method to relieve his longing for you. He couldn't bear it if he didn't vent it, which is why he hasn't gone insane all these years.
Xie Yaoyao's eyes instantly reddened.
She hadn't expected Huo Yanxi to care about her so much. She always felt that the Huo Yanxi described by Pei Yan was very different from the Huo Yanxi she knew.
Xie Yaoyao replied with a voice message, "Secretary Pei, if you want to help your boss, you don't have to make him sound so pitiful."
Pei Yan never expected that after all his earnest and heartfelt persuasion, the person involved wouldn't believe a word he said.
"Teacher Xie, I've been by Mr. Huo's side for five years. Would I lie to you? Sometimes I feel sorry for Mr. Huo. How could he fall in love with a heartless woman like you?"
Do you know how much he tormented himself? When you were tutoring at No. 22 Victoria Peak, didn't you notice anything unusual at all?
For example, the electric shock marks on his wrist—you're not going to tell me you didn't even see them, are you?
Upon hearing the words "electric shock injury," Xie Yaoyao suddenly recalled the bruises on Huo Yanxi's hand.
She asked him how he got there, but he tried his best to avoid the question.
It turned out to be an electric shock injury.
But how could it be an electric shock injury?
Huo Yanxi was unaware that Pei Yan had revealed all his secrets to Xie Yaoyao.
He carried Xie Ziyu to the bathroom.
The Harry Potter town is so crowded with tourists that you have to queue even to use the restroom.
Xie Ziyu looked at Huo Yanxi and thought to himself, "He's so tall, why is he so bad at talking?"
"Uncle, are you planning to pursue my mommy?"
Huo Yanxi pinched his cheek. "Dad is pursuing him right now."
Xie Ziyu wrinkled his nose and said arrogantly, "Don't think that just because you're my biological father, I have to call you Dad. As long as Mommy doesn't agree to your pursuit, you can't become my official father."
Huo Yanxi: "So, you don't object to me pursuing your mother?"
Xie Ziyu looked at the red line on Huo Yanxi's head, unlike the other people who had looked at him and had many profile pictures.
The red line on Huo Yanxi's head always featured only his mother's image.
And the same goes for mothers.
They were going in the same direction. Even if he was immature, he knew that the original spouse was the best.
He doesn't want a stepfather like Uncle Liang, who's like a rotten cucumber.
It's best if the father is the original.
Xie Ziyu grumbled, "Even if you pursue her, my mommy might not agree to be with you."
Huo Yanxi was stung by his words, "Then do you have any good suggestions?"
Why should I help you?
“Because you are the second in line to inherit my vast estate,” Huo Yanxi said.
Xie Ziyu wasn't a clueless child, and he asked, "Then who is the first heir?"
"Your mommy."
Xie Ziyu's eyes were shining. "Are you really willing to give all your assets to me and my mommy?"
Huo Yanxi nodded, his expression very sincere, "Yes, I'll give you all my property, how about you give me your mother?"
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