The photo was taken by Lu Shifeng when Meng Qing wasn't paying attention. The angle wasn't very good, and Meng Qing's head was slightly lowered, but it was enough to see his face clearly.
When Meng Pang saw the photo, he was also stunned, thinking it was a photo of Meng Tianqing when he was young, but upon closer inspection, he found some differences.
Meng Qing looked colder, while Meng Tianqing had a good personality, was gentle and kind, and always had a polite smile on his face. Although he was the head of the Meng family, he never put on airs.
The person in the photo has a cold expression, and the photo alone conveys a sense of being difficult to get along with. However, this is exactly the kind of temperament that Meng Pang hopes Meng Tianqing will have.
But no matter how Meng Tianqing tried to teach him, he couldn't learn. He wasn't very interested in business management and was always glued to his computer, coding all day long.
Although he naturally took over as the head of the Meng family after graduation, Meng Tianqing's temper did not change much. Even when other members of the collateral branches made sarcastic remarks about him, he would always say that as long as things were done well, Meng Tianqing would rarely lose his temper.
Meng Pang felt helpless, but every time he returned home and saw his son and daughter-in-law looking peaceful and content, he couldn't bear to scold them too much.
Both were gentle people. Meng Pang sighed. He could only try to be more attentive in the future, or at worst, let his grandson take over.
A year after their marriage, their daughter-in-law became pregnant and soon gave birth to a boy, which made Meng Pang extremely happy, as he felt that the Meng family would finally have an heir.
However, their happiness was short-lived. When the child was two years old, it was discovered that he was not the son's biological child. Despite searching everywhere, they could not find any trace of the child. The daughter-in-law also fell ill due to excessive anxiety over the fact that her grandson had been switched and disappeared. Holding onto the belief that she would find the child, she persevered for several years, but eventually passed away.
The son, Meng Tianqing, was a sentimental person. When he learned that the child had been switched, he immediately comforted his daughter-in-law and then mobilized various channels to search for the child, but they still couldn't find him.
Although Meng Tianqing was also anxious about the child, as the head of the family, he couldn't afford to collapse when his wife had fallen ill; he had to stay calm.
He had to calm his wife down first, but the child was still missing. Seeing his wife getting thinner and thinner every day, Meng Tianqing was at his wit's end.
His wife eventually fell ill and passed away due to excessive worry. Meng Tianqing aged ten years overnight, and his once black hair turned completely white.
Not long after, he followed suit.
Meng Pang, an elderly man, had lost two of his closest relatives within a year, a tragedy that grieved him deeply. But he could not afford to collapse; he had to hold on no matter what, in case his grandson returned, he would still have something to leave him.
With this belief, Meng Pang endured for several more years at an age when he should have retired behind the scenes, all in order to wait for his grandson.
Looking at the photo, Meng Pang's eyes immediately reddened, and tears flowed down his face involuntarily.
When Meng Xu saw his grandfather suddenly stand up abruptly with a tantrum, his eyes red and his breathing rapid, he immediately helped Meng Pang sit back down and called a doctor.
After examining me, the doctor said there was nothing wrong, just advised me not to have too many emotional fluctuations, and prescribed some medication.
Meng Xu breathed a sigh of relief and gently patted Meng Pang's back to help him catch his breath.
"Grandpa, what happened?" Meng Xu asked worriedly.
"It's alright, you go home first, Grandpa still has things to take care of."
Meng Pang told Meng Xu to go home first, as he needed to handle this matter himself and didn't want more people to know.
Although she knew Meng Xu meant no harm, she couldn't guarantee that no one would take advantage of the child's naivety to extract information, which could put her own grandson in danger.
He knew he had to handle this personally, so Meng Pang called his assistant in and gave him a few instructions.
He looked at the photo Lu Shifeng posted again, reached out and touched the screen. "Grandson, Grandpa has finally found you."
Meng Pang decided to go to Yan City in person.
Meanwhile, Meng Qing and Fu Xiuhan had both returned to school, and the rumors about Shi Qian on the forum gradually subsided.
When Shi Yan learned that Zhang Ming had been arrested, he cursed Zhang Ming as a good-for-nothing. He felt disgusted just thinking about how Zhang Ming had touched his hand.
Shi Yan knew that Zhang Ming was a playboy, and when he used Zhang Ming, he thought that Zhang Ming would treat Shi Qian the same way he treated his playthings.
Let Shi Qian experience imprisonment and abuse. Once Shi Qian is thoroughly hurt, he will pretend to be a savior and try to salvage his image in the eyes of this tool-like person. After all, he still has a great use for Shi Qian as a pawn.
But who would have thought that Zhang Ming would backfire so quickly? Shi Yan thought the plastic surgery post was just the beginning, and the sugar daddy post was just to put Shi Qian in a helpless situation so that he would take action.
Unexpectedly, it was Zhang Ming himself who suffered the consequences.
Useless, utterly useless, more trouble than good.
Even the posts that slandered Shi Qianfa were dug up before. Why didn't they use a more private account?
Now that Zhang Ming's reputation is ruined, it's no wonder that no one will believe his posts anymore.
Zhang Ming is a completely ruined pawn, and the damage to Shi Qian was not as great as expected. The only good thing about this is that he wasn't involved.
It was fortunate that Shi Yan's secret instigation of Zhang Ming had not been discovered. He had already deleted all the chat history with Zhang Ming from his phone on the day Zhang Ming had the accident.
In order to incite Zhang Ming, Shi Yan would often make some pitiful remarks to gain Zhang Ming's sympathy. He also subtly implied that Shi Qian was weak-willed and that the Shi family did not value Shi Qian. The implication was very clear: even if something really happened, Shi Qian would have no way to retaliate.
Shi Yan sensed that Zhang Ming had hesitated at times, but how could he let this piece become useless halfway through? Shi Yan had his own way of encouraging him, and he understood Zhang Ming.
Sure enough, at Shi Yan's urging, Zhang Ming happened to witness Shi Qian going to a hotel with someone. He immediately thought of Shi Qian being kept by someone, which further confirmed the view that Shi Qian was not valued in the Shi family.
If the Shi family were truly wealthy and valued this relative, how could they possibly allow Shi Qian to resort to selling her body for money?
However, things didn't turn out as expected. Shi Yan didn't feel sorry for Zhang Ming's accident; he deserved it. He was a scoundrel who should have been dealt with long ago. What angered Shi Yan the most was that this scoundrel hadn't dragged Shi Qian down with him.
Fortunately, no one associated Zhang Ming with him, since Shi Yan and Zhang Ming were not particularly close at school.
After deleting his chat history with Zhang Ming, Shi Yan still felt it wasn't safe enough, so he finally deleted all of Zhang Ming's contact information.
Zhang Ming's interest in Shi Qian was entirely due to his own lustful desires; it had nothing to do with him.
Shi Yan held his phone and saw the pinned chat box with Fu Xiuhan, realizing that Fu Xiuhan had stopped replying to his messages at some point.
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