Chapter 23
Not only Xu Yanwen was shocked, but Zhou Xinyi was also surprised.
No, it should be said that she was shocked. She never expected to meet Xu Yanwen here.
This was not in 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 incited 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 appeared here at an inappropriate time, completely disrupting 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 quickly welling up in her eyes, lingering in her amorous eyes, adding a touch 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 with a serious face: "I should ask you this question. Why are you here? Why are you provoking my Yaoyao? What do you want to do with her?"
Before Zhou Xinyi could come up with an excuse, Xu Yao spoke up first, "She's 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 her 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 authenticity of Yin Yin's thoughts and her incredible foresight.
Maybe even the return of his own daughter is part of the conspiracy.
Thinking of this, Xu Yanwen laughed in anger, his tone full of mockery: "Not only do we know each other, we are also very familiar with each other. Now there is an additional evil fate. She is Yaoyao's biological mother, right?"
Zhou Xinyi felt that Xu Yanwen in front of her was so unfamiliar, far from the gentle and elegant man in her impression. Especially when he mentioned 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 just so helpless. After going around in circles, we're back to the starting point. It's just fate that plays tricks on us."
Xu Yanwen was really impressed by her acting skills. She looked so pitiful and hesitant that people who didn't know the truth would think he was bullying her.
What a cruel fate! I think you are like a daffodil that just refuses to bloom - you are just pretending!
"Yes, there are billions of people in the world, I could have met anyone else, but you. We had agreed not to see each other in this life, but we still met. Even if Yaoyao is your daughter, it doesn't matter. As a mother, you can't even take care of your own child. You are stupid enough. Yaoyao has been included in 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 suddenly had an inspiration when she listened to Xu Yanwen's words. Her daughter wanted to leave, but her adoptive father didn't allow her. Isn't this exactly what she wanted?
"Why can't I take Yaoyao away? She is my child. When I gave birth to her, I fainted from heavy bleeding. It was my mother who told me the child was dead, but she sent Yaoyao away without telling me. If it weren't for her guilty conscience on her deathbed, I would never have known of 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're her biological mother? You never raised her for a single day. You gave her nothing but 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 undignified. Yaoyao is an adult now. She has the right to choose who to go with. 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 Yanwen suddenly 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 were filled with deep anxiety, and his hands hanging at his sides were curled up nervously.
According to Yin Yin's thoughts, Yaoyao would collude with her biological parents to steal the house. He really didn't want to see that result, 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 hurried forward to help, but was pulled away by Xu Yanwen.
His lips trembled as he asked in grief and anger, "Do you know what you are saying? Do you really have the heart to abandon me and your mother? Have we been bad to you? Your mother and I have almost put all our energy and efforts into raising you. Doesn't it hurt when you say such heartless words? Huh?!"
This was the first time Xu Yanwen got angry with Xu Yao, and the first time he said such harsh words to her.
Xu Yao shook her head. "No, you and mom are so good to me. It's me who can't get over it. I shouldn't have usurped my sister's place. It's wrong. I'm very grateful for your kindness in raising me, but I'm not your biological child after all. What if one day you suddenly stop loving me? Will you drive 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, but I didn't believe it. But now, I've witnessed my uncle's fate with my own eyes, and I believe it."
Xu Yanwen was stunned by her unreasonable arguments and immediately cursed: "Bullshit! Guo Cheng deserved it. You only saw Awen chase him away, but didn't you see how he pushed his limits? He, he--"
Xu Yanwen glanced at the outsider Zhou Xinyi and stopped the family scandal in time.
But he really wanted to tell Xu Yao, "Can't you also hear Yin Yin's inner voice? You've been witnessing everything the whole time, so why are you suddenly confusing right and wrong?"
Thinking of Xu Yinyin's thoughts, he suddenly glared at Zhou Xinyi and demanded, "What kind of magic potion did you give my Yaoyao? What did you tell her? You two just got in touch, why did she go with you without hesitation? Do you have a conspiracy? Are you trying to use her to achieve your ulterior motives?"
Xu Yanwen felt that he needed to use the excuse of criticism to remind Xu Yao not to be possessed by evil spirits.
Zhou Xinyi was speechless. She wanted to ask Xu Yao, why did he avoid her like the plague when they met last time, but suddenly he suddenly changed his attitude and wanted to go with her? 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, and neither can be missing." She continued to bite the bullet and provoke Xu Yanwen.
Only if she worked hard to stimulate Xu Yanwen could he be determined to take Xu Yao away.
Doing so not only demonstrates her strong desire to retain her, but also makes Xu Yanwen wary of his daughter's indecision and tighten his supervision over her. In the short term, Xu Yao will not be able to leave.
But she had already begun to think about leaving, which was exactly what they wanted. They just needed to guide her according to the original plan and she would become a great helper.
Although there were deviations in the early stages, things have been put back on track now.
Xu Yanwen, ah Xu Yanwen, why are you still as stupid as ever!
Xu Yanwen listened to Zhou Xinyi's brazen words and sneered, "If you really cherish your own flesh and blood so much, how could you believe everything your mother says? How can you be so naive? Your mother said someone was dead, and you didn't even investigate it yourself? Didn't you check each of the doctors and nurses who handled the case? 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 test, and just accepted the facts like that? Come on, you only love yourself!"
"You are slandering me!" Zhou Xinyi was so angry that he was shaking all over.
Xu Yanwen must have been possessed by an evil spirit. Why was he so hostile to her? She hadn't even stolen the house yet, so why was he so vicious to her?
"What do you mean by 'I'? And what's more, don't you ever 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 blame themselves for their children's disappearance, living in constant fear and worry, burdened by the guilt of dereliction of duty, and living like a ghost."
"What about you? Your child died, and you accepted it, then went on with your life. One day, you discovered your child was still alive, and you came back, all glamorous and pampered, saying, 'Child, I'm your mother. The reason I didn't know you existed was because my mother cheated me. I'm a victim too, but I'll make it up to you. Come with me.'"
"Hehe, next time you lose your child, could you please put on some miserable makeup and find some tattered clothes to disguise yourself? Don't always treat people like fools. Are you insulting your own intelligence, or Yaoyao's? Don't you see that you look like a mother who has lost her child and is in a state of disarray? You are wearing gold and silver and looking down on others. What are you trying to show off your superiority over? Do you think our Xu family is not as rich as you?"
"You, you--" Zhou Xinyi was so scolded by Xu Yanwen that she couldn't even utter a complete sentence.
"You, you, you, look at the way you're hesitating, you're obviously guilty. You want to take my Yaoyao away, but you don't even check your bank account balance to see if you're qualified to raise a child. The total assets of our Xu family converted into cash, the balance is longer than your life if you were to reinvent yourself tens of thousands of times. Do you deserve to be so arrogant as to pretend to be rich?
"Xu Yanwen! You--" Zhou Xinyi covered her heart with her hands with a look of pain on her face, feeling pain in her heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys.
"If I were you, I'd hurry home and tell your irresponsible, idiotic husband, who wasn't around even when he had children and whose mother-in-law was a hindrance to him, to eat more supplements so he can live a few more years and protect his meager assets. Otherwise, if I get mad one day, I'll cut him off and leave you two sleeping under a bridge, fighting for food with dogs."
"Xu Yanwen!" Zhou Xinyi shouted without regard for her dignity. "How can you be so vicious? You have no gentlemanly manners at all. Are you a man?"
"Gentlemanly manners are used to treat ladies. A vicious woman like you with wolfish ambitions and no conscience deserves my gentle treatment. I'm putting this on the line today. If you want to take Yaoyao away, you must die!"
After saying this, Xu Yanwen pulled the stunned Xu Yao away, leaving Zhou Xinyi with a heart full of anger and frustration with nowhere to vent.
"ah!!!!!!"
A roar of anger revealed her resentment and unwillingness.
Damn, I’m afraid it’s Mercury retrograde today. I’m so pissed off!
Xu Yao hadn't recovered from the scene of her father's endless output and precise strikes until she sat in the passenger seat and watched the car merge into the main road.
In her impression, her father has always been gentle, with a soft voice and a kind attitude. Even if she made a mistake, he never scolded her loudly, and he never even spoke 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 lips were tightly pursed, and his chest heaving with anger seemed to still linger.
"You'd better not say anything, otherwise I won't be able to help but scold you and throw you out of the car. I'll deal with you when we get back!" Xu Yanwen was still furious.
Xu Yao shrugged, then changed from stealing glances to looking openly, scanning her father's handsome eyebrows, straight nose, and then the face that could curse at people without saying a word. Then she exclaimed sincerely: "My father is not only handsome, but also has a charming demeanor even when he curses."
Xu Yanwen glanced at her unhappily and said in a cold voice, "Put aside your little thoughts of trying to please me. I'm not done with you. Hurry up and think of a way to convince me that you understand your ridiculous behavior today. Otherwise, I'll confine you when I get back. You won't be able to see the light of day for ten days or half a month. I usually spoiled you too much, which led to your big mistake today. Fortunately, I pulled you back in time, otherwise I really would die with regrets."
If the manager hadn't mentioned today that Xu Yao was in the club, 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 were actually pawns in each other's revenge. Who could have imagined that lovers who once loved each other would develop such great hatred because of separation that she would not hesitate to drag the entire Xu family down with her.
Just as he was shocked when he first heard this from Yin Yin's heart, he was just as angry now that he had verified it.
He asked himself if he had done anything wrong to Zhou Xinyi. Since they started dating, she had always been the one in control.
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 disobeying his father for this, he was unable to change her mind.
In this relationship, he really didn't know what he had done wrong. If it was really his fault, why would she bury his entire family with her? 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's not that he wants to curse, it's just that the other person's behavior is too worthy of scolding. If she wasn't a woman, he would have wanted to beat her to a pulp today.
Family members will always be his untouchable taboo. No matter whether 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 must protect at all costs.
He will never let anyone off easily if they dare to knowingly commit a crime, even if it means dragging the other person to hell with him, he will have no regrets.
"I'm sorry, Dad. I was wrong."
"Wrong?" Xu Yanwen chuckled, turning his head to glance at her, "What's wrong?"
"My mistake was not letting you scold me a little longer, letting me vent my anger and vent all the grievances and resentment in my heart into vicious words."
"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, when you went to see my sister that day, I was outside the door. I overheard your conversation and heard my sister's inner thoughts. Everything I did today had a reason."
"Wait, you've got me confused. You mean, were you acting just now? You were well prepared for your meeting with her, so 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 he often visited.
Moreover, she knew that her first choice for meeting someone to discuss things was there, and his schedule was easy to find out, after all, she was her daughter.
After figuring out the whole story, Xu Yanwen suddenly laughed, "Okay, now even you're lying to me. Is it fun to lie to 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 faint. If that happens, not only will the show fall apart, but all the bait I threw down earlier will be wasted."
She concealed the truth on purpose because she was afraid that her father would not perform well in the face of danger. However, it turned out that her father's performance was beyond her expectations. He scolded Zhou Xinyi so much that she was stunned. It was obvious that he was venting from the bottom of his heart.
With this wave of output, Dad’s depressed mood will definitely be relieved. As for the other party’s collapse, it is not within her consideration.
Since they are unkind, don't blame her for being unjust!
"My dear daughter, you even laid out the bait in advance. It seems you're well prepared. Now that you've revealed the secret to me, shouldn't you tell me what your plan is? Do you want Dad's help, or do you need the whole family's cooperation?"
"Let's find a place to sit down and talk."
"OK."
Xu Yanwen took advantage of the last five seconds of the green light, crossed the road, and 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 him.
He quickly ordered the driver to go to Fengyi headquarters and prepare to give Xu Yinyin timely feedback.
He had a good plan. He planned to catch up with the mother and daughter as soon as they left, pretending that they met by chance while shopping in the mall. He even had his lines ready 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 a dispute 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 movement on the opposite side. It was not as exciting as riding a roller coaster.
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 anxiously 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 continued to follow, wanting to see if his cousin would be caught red-handed and whether she would be beaten by her uncle.
But before I could even follow him for a few minutes, he 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 insomnia today.
Front desk of Fengyi Building.
Xu Yinyin was 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 biological mother.
[Xiao Qi, do you think Yaoyao will be persuaded by her mother?]
I don't think so. Although I haven't had much contact with her, judging by her attitude towards you, it doesn't seem like she's faking it. She genuinely wants to honor her parents with you.
I also think Yaoyao's wealthy parents have raised her well, and they're sincere and kind. But her biological parents are so despicable. Who knows what they'll do to persuade Yaoyao? Yaoyao definitely can't handle it alone. Oh, I wonder if Xu Yao has encountered them.
[Why didn't I leave his contact information? Tsk!]
Xu Yinyin was feeling remorseful and blamed herself, and she was restless. As long as the conspiracy of Xu Yao's biological parents was not resolved, she would not be able to rest in peace.
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: "Uncle showed up in the middle of their secret meeting."
"Huh?!" Xu Yinyin exclaimed, then quickly covered her mouth and looked around fearfully.
Xu Yao pressed the remote control, closed the curtains around him, and then told her everything he saw.
Finally, he added, "I wanted to continue following my uncle and cousin, but they suddenly turned around and headed for the suburbs. I figured it would be pointless to follow them. If we were exposed, we'd be in a disadvantageous position. So I came back to tell you."
Xu Yao added in his mind: You can also ask your partner.
What's the point of telling me? Xiaoqi is just a melon-eating system, without 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 he be blamed for this? He didn't have a sharp hearing.
She sighed and said, "It's lost, so it's lost. You did your best."
"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 melon.
Xu Yao suddenly had an idea, "Who said we have to meet by chance? Can't I just see them unilaterally? If we try something like this, whoever feels guilty will know."
Xu Yinyin was stunned for a moment, then suddenly said, "Yeah, why am I so stubborn? Then you can 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 out to work first, you can do whatever you want."
As soon as Xu Yinyin left, Tang Wan came in.
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