Chapter 23
Not only Xu Yanwen was shocked, Zhou Xinyi was also surprised.
No, it should be said that she was surprised. She never expected to meet Xu Yanwen here.
This was not part of their plan.
All actions should be carried out under the premise of keeping the Xu family a secret, so as to catch them off guard.
They tried desperately to seize the initiative, taking advantage of the jealousy and resentment of the real daughter, and instigated Xu Yao to rebel as quickly as possible, just to see the ridiculous expressions of shock and anger on the faces of the Xu family at the moment of success.
But now, Xu Yao suddenly wanted to go with her, and Xu Yanwen also appeared here at an inappropriate time, which completely disrupted their plans. It was outrageous!
But the current situation did not allow her to hesitate, so she could only go with the flow.
She covered her mouth in pretended surprise, tears welling up in her eyes quickly, lingering in her amorous eyes, adding a bit of helplessness and sadness.
"Yan Wen, why is it you?"
When Xu Yanwen saw her charming face, he didn't show any sympathy at all.
He just wondered how this guy's acting was so good? Was he blind before?
He sneered and said, "I should be the one asking you this. Why are you here? Why did you mess with my Yaoyao? What do you want to do with her?"
Before Zhou Xinyi could think of an excuse, Xu Yao spoke up first, "She is my biological mother. We got in touch five days ago. Dad, do you know her?"
Xu Yao asked the last question while looking at Xu Yanwen, with deep surprise in his eyes.
Xu Yanwen's attention was completely attracted by "5 days".
He calculated silently, wasn't that the day he brought Yin Yin back home?
After comparing the before and after, Xu Yanwen became more convinced of the truthfulness of Yinyin's thoughts and the incredibleness of her foresight.
Maybe even the return of his biological daughter was part of the conspiracy.
Thinking of this, Xu Yanwen laughed in anger, with a strong mockery in his tone: "Not only do we know each other, we are also very familiar with each other. Now we have an additional bad fate. Yaoyao's biological mother, right?"
Zhou Xinyi felt that Xu Yanwen in front of her was so strange, far from the gentle and elegant man in her impression. Especially when he said the word "biological mother", the sarcasm in his tone and the restrained anger in his eyes made her inexplicably uneasy.
It was as if he had seen through all the conspiracies.
Zhou Xinyi continued to act, she nodded with difficulty, and her tears finally burst out.
"I know this is unbelievable. We shouldn't have had any contact with each other again, but sometimes fate is so helpless. After going around in circles, we are back to the starting point. This is just the way fate plays tricks on us."
Xu Yanwen really had to kneel down in admiration of her acting skills. She looked so pitiful and hesitant that people who didn't know the truth would think that he had bullied her.
What a trick of fate! I think you are like a daffodil that doesn't bloom - you are just pretending!
"Yes, there are billions of people in the world, I could have met anyone else, but I had to meet you. We had agreed not to see each other again in this life, but I still met you. Even if Yaoyao is your daughter, so what? As a mother, you are stupid enough to not be able to take care of a child. Yaoyao has already entered the family tree of my Xu family. She is a member of my Xu family. I will never allow her to go with you even if I die. You'd better give up this idea as soon as possible!"
Zhou Xinyi listened to Xu Yanwen's words and suddenly had an idea. Her daughter wanted to leave, but her adoptive father wouldn't allow her. Isn't this exactly what she wants?
"Why can't I take Yaoyao away? She was originally my child. When I gave birth to her, I fainted due to heavy bleeding. My mother told me that the child was dead, but she sent Yaoyao away without telling me. If she hadn't felt guilty in her last moments, I would never have known about Yaoyao's existence. Now that I have finally found her, of course I have to take her away. No one can stop me."
"Don't even think about it! So what if you are her biological mother? You have never raised her for a single day. You have never given her anything except life. Even if this matter goes to court, our chances of winning are 100%."
"I don't want to yell at you, that would be disgraceful. Yaoyao is an adult now, she has the right to choose who to go with, and I respect her choice."
Zhou Xinyi raised her hand to wipe away her tears, changing her previous sad expression and looking at Xu Yao confidently.
Xu Yanwenton felt something was wrong and looked at Xu Yao anxiously, "Yaoyao, you won't let your father down, right?"
Although he was smiling, his eyes revealed a deep sense of uneasiness, and his hands hanging at his sides were curled up nervously.
According to Yinyin's thoughts, Yaoyao would collude with her biological parents to steal the house. He really didn't want to see that outcome, but the current situation was clearly pushing things towards that truth.
Xu Yao's heart suddenly tightened, and now she could only choose to temporarily hurt her father.
She pretended to be guilty and avoided Xu Yanwen's sight. She lowered her eyes to look at her feet and said weakly: "I want to go with her. She is my relative!"
Xu Yanwen's eyes went dark and he fell backwards onto the sofa.
Xu Yao rushed forward to support him, but was gently pulled away by Xu Yan.
His lips trembled, and he questioned with grief and anger: "Do you know what you are saying? Do you really have the heart to abandon me and your mother? Are we not good to you? Your mother and I have almost exhausted all our energy and efforts to raise you. When you say such heartless words, doesn't it hurt your heart? Huh?!"
This was the first time Xu Yanwen got angry with Xu Yao, and also the first time he spoke such harsh words to her.
Xu Yao shook her head, "No, you and mom are very good to me, it's just me who can't get over it. I shouldn't have taken my sister's place, it's wrong, I'm very grateful for your kindness in raising me, but after all, I'm not your biological child, what if one day you suddenly don't love me anymore, will you chase me away like my aunt did to my uncle, my aunt used to love him so much, some people used to say that wealthy families are ruthless, I didn't believe it, but now, I've witnessed my uncle's fate with my own eyes, I believe it."
Xu Yanwen was stunned by her argument and immediately cursed: "Bullshit! Guo Cheng deserved it. You only saw Awen chase him away, but didn't you see how he pushed his way further? He, he--"
Xu Yanwen glanced at the outsider Zhou Xinyi and stopped the family embarrassment in time.
But he really wanted to tell Xu Yao, can't you also hear Yinyin's thoughts? You have clearly witnessed it all the way, why did you suddenly confuse right and wrong? !
Thinking of Xu Yinyin's thoughts, he suddenly glared at Zhou Xinyi and questioned, "What kind of magic potion did you feed my Yaoyao? What did you tell her? Why did she follow you without hesitation just after you two got in touch? Do you have a conspiracy? Do you want to use her to achieve your ulterior motives?"
Xu Yanwen felt that he needed to use the excuse of punishment to remind Xu Yao not to be bewitched by evil spirits.
Zhou Xinyi was speechless. She wanted to ask Xu Yao, why did he suddenly change his attitude and want to go with her when he was avoiding her like a snake the last time they met? She was still full of questions!
"No matter how good the adoptive parents are, they are still someone else's parents. I am the closest person to Yaoyao. I had no choice before, but now I can protect Yaoyao. Mother and child are one and the same, neither of them can be missing." She continued to bite the bullet and provoke Xu Yanwen.
Only if she worked hard to stimulate Xu Yanwen could he make up his mind to take Xu Yao away.
Doing so not only demonstrates her strong desire to retain Xu Yao, but also makes Xu Yanwen wary of his daughter's instability and keep a closer watch on her. In a short period of time, Xu Yao will not be able to leave.
But she had already begun to think about leaving, which was exactly what they wanted. They only needed to guide her according to the original plan and she would become a good helper.
Although there were deviations in the early stages, things have been put right now.
Xu Yanwen, ah Xu Yanwen, why are you still as stupid as ever!
Xu Yanwen listened to Zhou Xinyi's boastful words and sneered, "If you really treasure your own flesh and blood so much, how could you believe everything your mother said? Why are you so naive? Your mother said that the person was dead, didn't you investigate it yourself? Didn't the doctors and nurses who handled the case check one by one? At the very least, you could call the police. Since you care about Yaoyao so much, you didn't even open the coffin for an autopsy or do a DNA comparison, and just accepted the fact? Forget it, you only love yourself!"
"You are slandering me!" Zhou Xinyi was so angry that he was shaking all over.
Xu Yanwen might have been possessed by evil spirits. Why is he so hostile to her? She hasn't even stolen anything yet, so why is he so vicious to her?
"What do you mean by 'I'? And what else? Have you never read the social news? Many parents whose children are missing will spend their entire lives searching for them, even if it means losing everything they have. They blame themselves for their children's disappearance, and live in constant fear, carrying the guilt of their failure to do their job, and living like neither human nor ghost."
"What about you? Your child died, you accepted it, and then continued to live your life. One day, you found out that your child was still alive, and you came back, all glamorous and pampered, and said, 'Child, I am your mother. The reason I didn't know you existed was because my old mother cheated me. I am also a victim, but I will make it up to you. Come with me.'"
"Hehe, next time you lose your child, please put on some miserable makeup and find some tattered clothes to pretend. Don't always treat people as fools. Are you insulting your own IQ or Yaoyao's? Don't you see that you look like a mother who has lost her child and is in a trance? You are wearing gold and silver and looking down on others. What are you trying to show off your superiority? Do you think our Xu family is not as rich as you?"
"You, you--" Zhou Xinyi couldn't even reply to Xu Yanwen's scolding. She stammered and couldn't utter a complete sentence.
"You, you, you, you are hesitating, you are guilty. You want to take my Yaoyao away, but you don't even check your bank card balance to see if you are qualified to raise a child. If we add up all the assets of our Xu family and convert them into cash, the balance is longer than your life even if you were to go back to the furnace and rebuild tens of thousands of times. Are you worthy of showing off in front of me?"
"Xu Yanwen! You--" Zhou Xinyi covered her heart with a face full of pain, feeling pain in her heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys.
"If I were you, I'd hurry home and tell your irresponsible, stupid husband who wasn't around to give birth to a child and let his mother-in-law manipulate him to eat more supplements so that he can live a few more years and protect the pitiful little property. Otherwise, if I get unhappy one day, I'll cut him off and leave you two to sleep in a bridge hole and compete with dogs for food."
"Xu Yanwen!" Zhou Xinyi shouted angrily, "How can you be so vicious? You don't have any gentlemanly manners at all. Are you a man?"
"Gentlemanly manners are used to treat ladies. You are an ambitious, heartless, vicious woman who doesn't deserve my gentle treatment. I'm making this clear today. If you want to take Yaoyao away, you have to die!"
After saying this, Xu Yanwen took the stunned Xu Yao away, leaving Zhou Xinyi filled with anger and frustration with nowhere to vent.
"ah!!!!!!"
A roar of anger revealed her resentment and unwillingness.
Damn, it might be Mercury retrograde today. I’m so pissed off!
Xu Yao hadn't recovered from the scene of his father's unlimited output and precise strikes until he sat in the passenger seat and watched the car pull into the main road.
In her impression, her father was always gentle, with a soft voice and a kind attitude. Even if she made a mistake, he would never scold her loudly, not even in a harsh tone.
But today, her father completely overturned her limited understanding of him.
She quietly glanced at Xu Yanwen who was concentrating on driving.
His brows were furrowed, his thin lips were tightly pursed, and his heaving chest seemed to still retain some residual anger.
"You'd better not say anything, otherwise I will not be able to help but scold you and throw you out of the car. I will deal with you when I get back!" Xu Yan was still furious.
Xu Yao hunched her shoulders, and then changed from sneaking glances to looking openly, scanning her father's handsome eyebrows, straight nose, and the face that could never stop scolding him, and then she exclaimed sincerely: "My father is not only handsome, but he also scolds people without hiding his elegance."
Xu Yanwen glanced at her unhappily and said in a cold voice, "Put away your little thoughts of trying to please me. I am not done with you. You should hurry up and think of a way to convince me that you understand your absurd behavior today. Otherwise, I will confine you when I return. You will not be able to see the light of day for ten days or half a month. I am too used to you, so I made a big mistake today. Fortunately, I pulled you back in time, otherwise I would really die with regrets."
If the manager hadn't mentioned Xu Yao in the club today, he would have missed Xu Yao's secret meeting with her biological mother.
Whenever he thought about how they used Xu Yao to steal the house, he felt a chill down his spine.
No one could have imagined that two children who had nothing to do with each other would actually be pawns for each other's revenge. And who could have imagined that two lovers who once loved each other would develop such a great hatred because of separation that she would not hesitate to drag the entire Xu family down with her.
How shocked he was when he first heard this from Yin Yin's inner voice, and how angry he was now after verifying it.
He asked himself if he had done anything wrong to Zhou Xinyi, as they had always been the ones taking the initiative since they started dating.
It was she who said they were together, and it was also she who said they were breaking up. Even though he tried his best to win her back, even going against his father's will, he was unable to change her mind.
In this relationship, he really didn't know what he did wrong. If it was really his fault, why did she bury his entire family with him? Why couldn't she just take revenge on him?
What's even more hateful is that she was willing to sacrifice her own flesh and blood for revenge. Is this what a human being should do?
It wasn't that he wanted to scold her, it was just that her behavior was too insulting. If she wasn't a woman, he would have wanted to beat her to a pulp today.
His family will always be his untouchable taboo, no matter if they are related by blood or not, once they enter the Xu family, they are members of the Xu family and are the ones he will protect at all costs.
If anyone dares to commit a crime knowingly, he will never show mercy, even if he has to drag the other person to hell, he will have no regrets.
"I'm sorry, Dad. I was wrong."
"Wrong?" Xu Yan smiled and turned to glance at her. "What's wrong?"
"My mistake was that I didn't let you scold her for a while, so that you could vent your anger and turn all the grievances and resentment in your heart into bad words and return them to her."
"Hmm?" Xu Yanwen's eyes widened slightly, "What do you mean by that?"
"Dad, don't be angry. I didn't really want to go with her. In fact, I was outside the door when you went to see my sister that day. I overheard your conversation and heard my sister's thoughts. There was a reason for everything I did today."
"Wait, you've got me confused. You mean, you were acting? You were well prepared for your date with her, but then your encounter with me--"
Xu Yanwen suddenly stopped.
Yes, if the daughter really wanted to have a secret meeting with her mother, she would never choose a store that she often visited.
Moreover, she knew that this was her first choice for meeting someone to discuss matters, and his schedule could be easily checked. After all, she was her daughter.
After figuring out the whole story, Xu Yanwen suddenly laughed, "Okay, now even you are lying to me, is it fun to lie to your dad?"
Xu Yao shook her head guiltily: "It's not fun. I was really worried for you just now, afraid that I would say too much and make you angry. Then not only would the show fail, but the bait I threw down earlier would also be wasted."
She concealed the truth intentionally because she was afraid that her father would not perform well in the battle. As it turned out, her father, who was unaware of the situation, performed beyond her expectations and scolded Zhou Xinyi so hard that she was stunned. It was obvious that he was venting his feelings from the bottom of his heart.
With this wave of output, Dad's depressed mood will definitely be relieved. As for the opponent's collapse, it is not within her consideration.
Since they are unkind, don't blame her for being unjust!
"My dear daughter, you put out bait in advance. It seems that you are well prepared. Now that you have revealed the secret to me, shouldn't you tell me what you are planning? Do you want your father to help you, or do you need the whole family to cooperate with you?"
"Let's find a place to sit down and talk."
"OK."
Xu Yanwen seized the last five seconds of the green light, crossed the road, then quickly turned around and merged into the national highway leading to the suburbs.
The sudden sharp turn made Xu Yao, who had been following the two of them, slap his thigh in regret.
Damn, I lost it.
He quickly ordered the driver to go to Fengyi headquarters and prepare to give Xu Yinyin timely feedback.
He had planned everything well. He was going to follow the mother and daughter as soon as they left the place, pretending that they met by chance while shopping in the mall. He even thought of the words for the meeting. However, he was caught off guard by the sudden appearance of his uncle.
Through the telescope he only saw that there seemed to be an argument on the opposite side. The uncle glared at the woman for a while, then looked at his cousin, and then suddenly fell backwards on the sofa. His heart went up and down with the movements on the opposite side. Even riding a roller coaster was not as exciting as this.
At that moment, he wished he could take off his ears and throw them to the other side to use as a receiver, which would be better than scratching his ears and jumping up and down in anxiety through the glass.
He had never longed for Xu Yinyin's melon-eating partner so much. It would be great if that thing was there.
Although it was unexpected, he still followed, wanting to see if his cousin would be caught red-handed and whether she would be beaten by her uncle.
But within a few minutes, the other party disappeared.
After weighing the pros and cons, he wanted to go back and tell Xu Yinyin to see if her magical partner could provide any clues, otherwise, he would really have sleepless nights today.
The front desk of Feng Yi Building.
Xu Yinyin is working on the task assigned to her by Sun Min in front of the computer.
Xu Yinyin looked at it seriously, but her mind had already flown to the meeting between Xu Yao and her mother.
[Xiao Qi, do you think Yaoyao will be persuaded by her mother? ]
[I don't think so. Although I don't have much contact with her, from her attitude towards you, it doesn't seem like she is faking it. She really wants to honor your parents with you.]
[I also think that Yaoyao was well educated by her wealthy parents, who are sincere and kind. However, her biological parents are too despicable. Who knows what they will do to persuade Yaoyao? Yaoyao would definitely not be able to face them alone. Alas, I don’t know if Xu Yao has met them.]
[Why didn't I leave his contact information? Tsk! ]
Xu Yinyin was filled with remorse and self-blame, and was also restless. She would not be able to live in peace until the conspiracy of Xu Yao's biological parents was resolved.
Since she replaced her predecessor and snatched away the parents and family background that she should have, she has the obligation to help the Xu family stay away from the villain's conspiracy, just as a reward for this God-given good luck.
"Hey, why is Xu Yao here?"
Xue Weiwei's puzzled voice came from the side. Xu Yinyin looked over and saw Xu Yao was also looking for her, walking towards her quickly.
"Come out with me, I have something to say." Xu Yao gave her a look.
After Xu Yinyin understood, she quickly followed him to an empty office.
After Xu Yinyin locked the door, she couldn't wait to ask, "How was it, did you meet by chance?"
Xu Yao shook his head: "My uncle showed up in the middle of their secret meeting."
"Huh?!" Xu Yinyin exclaimed in surprise, then quickly covered her mouth and looked around in fear.
Xu Yao pressed the remote control and closed the curtains around him, then told her what he had seen.
Finally, he added, "I wanted to continue following my uncle and cousin, but they suddenly turned around and headed for the suburbs. I thought it would be useless to follow them. If I were to be discovered, I would be in trouble. So I came back to tell you."
Xu Yao added in his mind: You can also ask your friends.
[What's the point of telling me? Xiao Qi is just a melon eater. He doesn't have a God's perspective. Hey, what's the use of you? 】
Xu Yinyin glanced at Xu Yao lightly, and the latter touched his nose uncomfortably. Could she blame him? He didn't have a good ear.
She sighed, "It's lost, it's lost. You did the best you could."
"So what do we do next?"
Xu Yinyin shook her head. She hadn't thought of a solution yet. She had to meet them first to see if Xiaoqi had accepted their new idea.
Xu Yao suddenly had an idea, "Who said we have to meet by chance? Can't I just see them unilaterally? When it comes to testing things like this, only the guilty ones know."
Xu Yinyin was stunned for a moment, then suddenly said: "Yes, why am I so stubborn? Then you come back with me later. Anyway, it's no secret that Second Aunt asked me to go to school. Let's do it today."
"No problem, I'll wait for you to get off work."
"Well, I'm going to go out to work first, you can do whatever you want."
As soon as Xu Yinyin left, Tang Wan came in.
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