In the study, there was no strange expression on Zhou Yexuan's face, as if he had been waiting for her arrival.

He pointed to the sofa next to the desk and said, "Qingqing, sit down. I will tell you everything you want to ask."

Shen Qingqing knew that Zhou Yexuan would have the answer to the question she wanted to know, so she stopped beating around the bush and said directly, "I want to know about the Lin family and Lin Chuchao."

Zhou Yexuan had anticipated this. He picked up the tablet at hand, called up the information he had read before, and said to Shen Qingqing, "This is the information I asked Ma Li to organize today. Take a look for yourself."

Shen Qingqing took the tablet and saw the information about the Lin family on the screen.

The ancestors of the Lin family moved to Southeast Asia and other places for business as early as a hundred years ago, and then went all the way to Europe.

The family has been engaged in the jewelry business for hundreds of years and has its own gem mines in many countries. Although it is not as well-known as many international brands, it is also one of the giants in the jewelry industry and provides raw stones for many big-name jewelry.

Because the Lin family became wealthy very early, the family rules are very strict, which are more feudal and hierarchical than many wealthy families in the country.

It is said that the people in power throughout the ages were very old-fashioned, and it was only in recent years when the younger generation gradually came to power that they became more open-minded.

Lin Simiao, the current nominal head of the Lin family, is said to be a very old-fashioned person. He is meticulous in his work and very strict with his children.

And this person is Shen Qingqing's grandfather, Lin Chuyin's father.

Lin Simiao married two wives. His first wife gave birth to Lin Chuyin and Lin Chuchao, and his second wife gave birth to a son and a daughter for him.

However, because the two children were more than ten years older than Lin Chuyin and her brother and sister, they basically did not have much competitiveness, although this also caused a lot of trouble for Lin Chuchao to inherit the Lin family later.

Lin Chuchao and Lin Chuyin have a very good relationship. They are nearly ten years apart in age.

Lin Simiao is a conservative father, and their mother and Lin Simiao are in a business marriage, and she does not have much affection for her two children. It can be said that all the warmth between the two siblings in their youth came from each other, so the relationship between the two siblings is very good.

However, although the Lin family is old-fashioned, they do not necessarily require male heirs to inherit the family business, or perhaps Lin Simiao believes that the strong are respected.

According to the information, Lin Simiao values ​​his eldest daughter Lin Chuyin the most among his children. He sent her to the best business school and even parachuted her directly into the Lin Group's management team while she was in college, to be in charge of major projects.

The Lin family attaches great importance to matching families of equal status and strong alliances.

Lin Simiao naturally disagreed with Lin Chuyin, whom he regarded as his heir, marrying a poor boy. In his opinion, this was tantamount to poverty alleviation.

So Lin Simiao frantically opposed Lin Chuyin and Shen Hong being together, and even threatened that if Lin Chuyin insisted on having her own way, she would lose all the inheritance rights of the Lin family and would no longer have any relationship with the Lin family.

Both father and daughter are people with extremely strong personalities. Lin Chuyin is also a very confident girl who feels that she can live a good life even if she leaves the Lin family.

In addition, she firmly believed that Shen Hong was just poor temporarily, and was much better than those so-called good-for-nothings from wealthy families that her father liked. She believed that time would always prove her vision.

So Lin Chuyin resolutely broke away from the Lin family and followed Shen Hong back to China to start a business.

Time has proved that Lin Chuyin does have some vision, and Shen Hong does have some ability. With the help of Lin Chuyin, he quickly built up his business.

However, Lin Chuyin still made a mistake. She could tell whether a person was talented or not, but she couldn't tell the heart of a person.

She never thought that the man who once loved her so much had cheated on her a long time ago.

Shen Qingqing didn't know whether Lin Chuyin and Lin Simiao, father and daughter, had ever regretted their decision in the dead of night, but they never backed down, and they never contacted each other until Lin Chuyin died of cancer.

It was also from that time that Lin Simiao's health began to deteriorate.

Due to Lin Simiao's poor health, he gradually handed over the power to Lin Chuchao. In the past few years, Lin Chuchao has finally grown into a mature person and no longer relies on his father.

After reading all this information about the Lin family's past, Shen Qingqing could only sigh.

In this story, no one is completely without fault, but everyone except Shen Hong cannot be said to be bad people.

If her mother had been more rational and cut the Gordian knot after discovering that Shen Hong was a scumbag, she would not have been so angry during her cancer treatment that the effectiveness of the treatment was greatly reduced.

If Lin Simiao wasn't such a conservative father, he wouldn't have never seen Lin Chuyin until his death. If Lin Chuchao could grow up earlier, he could come back to help his beloved sister.

If they had known that Lin Chuyin would die so early, they might have given up long ago, but there are no ifs in this world...

Shen Qingqing was too lazy to pretend to be happy in front of Zhou Yexuan, so her face looked very heavy at this moment.

Zhou Yexuan sighed. He wanted to reach out and hold Shen Qingqing's hand to comfort her. However, considering their current relationship, he finally didn't reach out. "Qingqing, the world is unpredictable and cannot be predicted by human power. All we can do is cherish the present and take revenge on those who have hurt our important people. I will support you no matter what you do."

Shen Qingqing looked at Zhou Yexuan's serious face. She was actually touched after hearing these words, which was rare.

Now she seems to no longer be a person, but a person with a family, who will support and love her behind her back.

And looking at Zhou Yexuan, Shen Qingqing suddenly thought that, indeed, since Shen Hong gave birth to her and raised her, she couldn't take revenge directly, but Lin Chuchao was also Lin Chuyin's younger brother. Isn't this the relationship between Zhou Yexuan and Zhou Ruoyan?

He should seek justice for his sister.

Now it seems that Lin Chuchao really loves Lin Chuyin. Although he missed her when Lin Chuyin was alive due to various reasons, he wants to make up for it even more now.

If he really considered himself as Lin Chuyin's relative, he should be like Zhou Yexuan at the beginning.

Thinking of this, Shen Qingqing stood up suddenly, and this action directly scared Zhou Yexuan who was sitting opposite her.

What's going on?

Shen Qingqing felt that she was a genius for coming up with this idea. She ignored Zhou Yexuan's surprise and said, "Thank you. You made me figure out what to do. Just continue working. I won't bother you any more."

Having said that, he hurried out of the study.

Zhou Yexuan looked at Shen Qingqing's back and smiled silently. What a girl who would destroy the bridge after crossing the river! She ran away without saying anything.

But it doesn’t matter, no matter how she struggles, he is confident that he can help her deal with the follow-up actions.

After Shen Qingqing returned to the bedroom, she began to think about how to ask Lin Chuchao to come out and instigate him to deal with Shen Hong.

It's just that she had just ruthlessly rejected him during the day. Now that she's coming back to look for him so soon, doesn't it make her look like she's not very smart?

Just as Shen Qingqing was struggling, she saw her cell phone screen light up and a text message came from an unfamiliar number.

[Qingqing, I'm Lin Chuchao. I got your number from a friend. There's a jade exhibition going on recently. Are you interested in joining us? I want to give you a gift, but I'm worried you won't like it. If you're willing, you can go with me to choose.]

Shen Qingqing's eyes lit up. This was really like sending a pillow just when I was sleepy!

However, in order to show her modesty, she waited until the next day to reply coldly with a "hmm".

However, even though it was just a simple reply, Lin Chuchao was already happy enough. After all, he saw that Shen Qingqing had not replied for a long time, and thought that Shen Qingqing had simply ignored him.

Now that Shen Qingqing has accepted his invitation it is already a good start.

Of course, he ignored Zhou Yexuan and his son. He looked down on men with children. As for Zhou Jiayan, he was just a burden.

However, when he waited anxiously for Shen Qingqing the next day, he saw Shen Qingqing coming over with that little burden again.

Because it was her own personal matter, and the jade exhibition sounded boring and not a kid's cup of tea, Shen Qingqing didn't plan to bring Zhou Jiayan with her at first.

But because they had agreed to meet in the second half of the afternoon, when Shen Qingqing went out, she happened to see Zhou Jiayan coming back from kindergarten with a small schoolbag on his back.

As soon as Zhou Jiayan saw Shen Qingqing was about to go out, he started to make a fuss about wanting to know. After hearing that Shen Qingqing was going to see the grandfather who always made his mother sad when he came, he even made a fuss about going with her.

Although the grandfather looked kind, he was not as honest as he seemed. Otherwise, why would my mother cry? He must follow her to protect her!

Before leaving, Zhou Jiayan even insisted that Shen Qingqing change into parent-child outfits with him to highlight their mother-child relationship. That way, the grandfather would be cautious, right? Zhou Jiayan thought so.

Shen Qingqing felt helpless when she saw the child suddenly having a bad temper again, but when she thought that the child would be alone waiting for his parents to come home after she left, she sighed, did as Zhou Jiayan asked, and took him out.

Then Lin Chuchao saw Shen Qingqing, wearing a yellow cartoon-image T-shirt, and a child wearing a T-shirt with the same cartoon pattern, walking towards him together.

Shen Qingqing felt that children should be more polite, so she changed the address and patted Zhou Jiayan on the back and said, "Yanyan, call me grandpa uncle."

Zhou Jiayan was extremely wary of Lin Chuchao, so he didn't really want to call him grandpa. However, since his mother had spoken, he had no choice but to do as she said. After all, he was his mother's good boy.

But what is my uncle?

He called out somewhat stiffly, "Uncle."

When Lin Chuchao saw the child so stiff, he sighed in his heart that it was really difficult to raise people who were not related by blood.

Look at it, it’s so difficult for Qingqing to call him someone now, what will happen in the future!

However, he soon realized that Qingqing asked him to call her "Uncle Grandpa". Did this mean she acknowledged that he was her uncle?

This discovery made Lin Chuchao very excited. He no longer cared about whether a child without an academy could be raised. He just smiled and said to Shen Qingqing, "Qingqing, uncle is very happy that you can come today. Uncle is very familiar with the organizer of today's jade exhibition. You can choose whatever you want. Uncle will take care of it."

Shen Qingqing was still a little embarrassed towards Lin Chuchao, and naturally could not accept the gift he wanted to give her.

However, this was not the purpose of her coming today, so she didn't want to bother with Lin Chuchao any more. At worst, she could go in and pick out a cheap one, and then find a way to return the gift to Lin Chuchao later.

So the three of them entered the exhibition hall together, and Zhou Jiayan deliberately walked in the middle, separating Shen Qingqing and Lin Chuchao.

I have to say that there are indeed many good-quality jades in today's jade exhibition. There are even several pieces of jadeite that are as pure as glass. The prices are naturally not cheap, and the most expensive one is worth over 100 million.

Lin Chuchao is worthy of being in the jewelry business, and he is very knowledgeable about jade. Along the way, he introduced the color and texture of jade like the back of his hand, it was just like having a jewelry expert following him around.

Shen Qingqing was a little absent-minded because she was thinking about something, but Zhou Jiayan listened very seriously, sighing and nodding from time to time, and asking many strange questions.

Lin Chuchao was at a loss for words about Zhou Jiayan's reaction. This little burden really had no self-awareness at all. How could he be so familiar with others? He was not his real uncle.

However, facing the child's big round black eyes, Lin Chuchao couldn't say no and could only explain to Zhou Jiayan honestly.

Then he saw the child nodded, as if he suddenly understood something.

Gradually, Lin Chuchao also developed a sense of satisfaction. After all, it was a very fulfilling thing to have someone so supportive of his explanation.

And the child was indeed very smart. Although he was only five years old, he was able to understand most of his explanations.

Lin Chuchao even thought that it would be great if this child was Shen Qingqing's biological son, as he would be able to protect Shen Qingqing when he grew up.

It’s a pity that Shen Qingqing is the child’s stepmother. It’s a good thing that the child is smart, but it’s not a good thing for the stepmother.

Zhou Jiayan tirelessly absorbed knowledge from Lin Chuchao, and began to feel that this grandfather was quite capable. At least he knew these stones very well.

He rarely smiled at Lin Chuchao, "Thank you, Uncle. Yanyan learned a lot of knowledge today that he didn't know before."

The child looked at Lin Chuchao with a clear expression, without a trace of impurities. When Lin Chuchao felt this gaze, he was startled and suddenly felt a little ashamed in his heart.

The child was thanking him, and he had just guessed that about a five-year-old child.

Regardless of whether children will change in the future, at least now a five-year-old child is really innocent.

Thinking of this, he smiled gently at the child, "Your name is Yanyan. Since you call me uncle, I haven't given you a gift yet. How about this, whichever beautiful stone you like in the audience, I will buy it for you."

Lin Chuchao knew that Zhou Jiayan came from a wealthy family and was definitely not a greedy child, but children naturally liked these beautiful shiny stones, so he thought the child would not refuse.

However, unexpectedly, Zhou Jiayan hid behind Shen Qingqing in fear after hearing his words, with a look of alertness on his face, "Yanyan has her own parents. If I like it, they will buy it for me. Grandpa, why did you suddenly give me such a valuable stone? Do you have any bad ideas? Let me tell you, I am not one of those children who can be fooled by giving me a piece of candy."

After the jewelry auction that day, Zhou Jiayan already knew the prices of these beautiful stones. He also knew that these beautiful stones were very valuable and he would need to spend all of his New Year's money.

However, the reason why the child reacted so strongly was to remind Shen Qingqing that this somewhat young grandfather must have some intentions and she must be on guard.

Zhou Jiayan felt that he could control himself and not be fooled, but what if his mother was fooled?

Feeling the child pulling his clothes tightly and listening to the child's declaration, Shen Qingqing felt amused, but he was alert.

However, Shen Qingqing didn't think that Lin Chuchao had any bad intentions towards the child. She just watched their interaction, and Lin Chuchao was obviously a little displeased with the child at first. However, after the child thanked him, he was stunned for a moment, obviously reflecting on himself, and then he offered to give the child a gift, but was doubted by the child.

Lin Chuchao, who was suspected by the child of having ulterior motives, was stunned on the spot. How could things develop in this direction?

He was both angry and amused, but he couldn't say anything to blame. Indeed, he was just a strange grandfather to the child, and suddenly saying that he wanted to give him a gift was indeed suspicious.

Seeing this, Shen Qingqing could only step in to smooth things over. "Well, Yanyan didn't mean to target you. We just often told him to be wary of people he doesn't know well, especially those who want to give him gifts or treat him to snacks. They are likely to be human traffickers. The kid remembered this and has been very vigilant since then."

Lin Chuchao also reacted at this time and forced a smile, "Yanyan has been taught very well. She should indeed be wary of others."

Then he looked at the little kid behind Shen Qingqing, "Yanyan is very smart, keep it up. When we get to know each other better and you are willing to accept grandpa's gift, grandpa will give it to you again, okay?"

However, after Lin Chuchao made Shen Qingqing cry yesterday and suddenly said he wanted to give him an expensive gift today, Zhou Jiayan's vigilance towards Lin Chuchao had reached its peak. He looked at Lin Chuchao with the wary eyes of a little wolf, and he felt that this grandfather must be a man with ulterior motives.

It was not until Shen Qingqing patted his back that Zhou Jiayan reluctantly nodded and said, "Okay, we'll talk about it later."

After the child interrupted them and they had almost finished their shopping, they decided not to go any further.

However, Shen Qingqing still hasn't chosen a gift yet. Lin Chuchao is a little anxious. In his opinion, only if Shen Qingqing is willing to accept his gift can it mean that she has forgiven him.

So after thinking about it, he reminded her, "Qingqing, do you have any jade that you like? Your uncle promised to give it to you."

The man's tone was filled with trepidation and flattery. Shen Qingqing couldn't refuse for a moment. In addition, she had something important to discuss later, so she said, "How about this, I just saw a small pen holder that's quite cute, how about giving it to me?"

The material of the pen holder is not very good, but it is exquisitely made and has tall bamboo carved on it. However, the price is the lowest in this jade exhibition, about 700,000 or 800,000 yuan.

It was easy for her to accept such a price, and she would find an opportunity to return the gift later.

Lin Chuchao felt a little disappointed when he heard the gift chosen by Shen Qingqing. He understood that Shen Qingqing was concerned about his face but did not want to accept too much of a favor.

He sighed, realizing that this matter could not be forced or rushed. After all, the fact that she was willing to accept his gift was already progress.

Lin Chuchao nodded and said with a smile, "Qingqing's hobby is so elegant. Uncle will give it to you."

As he said that, he took Shen Qingqing to find the exhibition staff and bought it. He also left the Zhou family's address and asked the staff to deliver the pen holder directly to them.

Since she accepted Lin Chuchao's gift, Shen Qingqing also proposed to treat Lin Chuchao to a meal at an appropriate time.

Lin Chuchao was delighted when he heard this. He did not expect to have such an unexpected gain. He immediately nodded and said, "Okay, of course I am willing."

Taking into consideration the presence of a child named Zhou Jiayan, they did not choose French or Japanese food with a lot of raw and cold foods, but instead found a private Cantonese restaurant that serves light cuisine. It is said that the chef's ancestors were royal chefs in the palace.

This Cantonese restaurant is not very large, and only serves a few tables of people a day, so it is very difficult to make a reservation. However, Zhou Yexuan often comes here and is considered a famous one, so Shen Qingqing successfully booked a private room after reporting Zhou Yexuan's name.

The decoration of the Cantonese restaurant is also very elegant, the environment is very quiet, and the sound insulation between the private rooms is very good, which is very suitable for discussing things.

Of course, when Lin Chuchao saw the environment of the restaurant, he didn't think too much about it. He just thought that his niece really had good taste.

High-end means expensive, but it also means that the service is good most of the time, so children's meals suitable for children are specially prepared for Zhou Jiayan. Although the food here is already very light, it is no pressure for Zhou Jiayan now to eat it.

However, when Shen Qingqing saw the various small bowls and plates containing individual dishes placed in front of the child, and Zhou Jiayan waving chopsticks to feed his child, she thought it was still very cute.

In particular, the restaurant specially prepared small saliva bags with cartoon patterns for children. Although Zhou Jiayan looked awkward, he still put it on after being persuaded by the waiter.

Seeing the child's embarrassed look, Shen Qingqing took out her phone to take a picture of the scene, saying, "I think this saliva bag is really cute and practical. Yanyan, why don't you wear it at home in the future? This way, you don't have to worry about food falling on your chest when you eat."

Zhou Jiayan refused decisively, and even stretched out his hand to tear off the bib, "Yanyan is a big kid now, she won't leak food, Yanyan, don't wear it anymore."

Fearing that Zhou Jiayan would really pull the bib off, Shen Qingqing quickly comforted him, "Okay, okay, just listen to the auntie here and do it this time, okay? Mommy believes Yanyan won't leak food. I just praised you for being cute."

After hearing Shen Qingqing's assurance, Zhou Jiayan finally felt satisfied. He stopped pulling at the bag and started eating his own food, although he would feel greedy from time to time and ask Shen Qingqing to help him pick the food for the adults.

After making sure that the child could solve the problem of eating by himself, Shen Qingqing and Lin Chuchao concentrated on tasting the food on the table.

It has to be said that for a private restaurant like this, which is set up for wealthy people, to survive, it must have some skills. The food was very delicious and both of them were very satisfied with the meal.

When they were almost done with the meal, Shen Qingqing thought it was time to get down to business.

Shen Qingqing didn't want the child to hear these dirty things, so she tried to persuade him to follow the waiter to the specially set up play area. However, the child was too wary of Lin Chuchao, and no matter what Shen Qingqing said, he refused to leave.

She thought, maybe the child wasn't smart enough to understand such complicated things?

So Shen Qingqing could only discuss it with Lin Chuchao in front of the children.

When Shen Qingqing suggested that Zhou Jiayan go out and play by himself, Lin Chuchao knew that Shen Qingqing must have something to say to him, and he was very curious about what Shen Qingqing would say.

Then he heard Shen Qingqing say, "Mr. Lin...Uncle..., do you know why my mother, your sister, died?"

Lin Chuchao was stunned for a moment. He had also investigated the cause of his sister's death and found out that she died of cancer.

Cancer is common these days, and as far as he knows, his sister received the best treatment after she was diagnosed with cancer. He can only sigh that life is unpredictable.

But now that Shen Qingqing said this, could it be that there is some hidden secret that he doesn't know?

He asked tentatively, "Didn't your sister die of cancer?"

Shen Qingqing sighed, "It's true that my mother died of cancer, but her condition was not serious at first, and because of long-term physical examinations, the cancer was discovered in its early stages. Logically speaking, after careful treatment, she had a high chance of getting better. However, her condition worsened uncontrollably at that time. Do you know what happened?"

Lin Chuchao's expression became serious, "What's the matter?"

Shen Qingqing spoke slowly, "Because at that time she found out that the husband she had always thought was a good husband had already cheated on her and even had a daughter who was older than me. This proved that this man had cheated on her when they were in love, and she had completely misjudged him. You also know my mother's character, how could she bear it? So she was filled with anger and quarreled with my so-called father several times during that period. Her condition worsened every time she quarreled."

"Sometimes I wonder, if my mother hadn't found out about this, would she have been cured? Or if she had found out before she got sick, she should have divorced her husband with me."

“Everything should be much better than the current result.”

Lin Chuchao was stunned. He didn't expect that there was such a thing behind it. He thought Shen Hong was just a scumbag, but he didn't expect that his scumbag indirectly led to Lin Chuyin's death.

He looked at Shen Qingqing, his heart full of pity, wondering how his niece had survived the past few years.

She was the apple of her parents' eyes, but overnight her mother died, her father cheated on her, and her father's cheating even indirectly led to her mother's death. No wonder she blamed herself for showing up too late.

As for Shen Hong, he never thought that his always excellent sister would actually lose her life for such a man. In an instant, his fists clenched, and the thought of revenge grew wildly in his mind.

However, Shen Hong is also the father of his niece.

He hesitated and said, "Qingqing, tell me this. According to my personality, I will definitely not let Shen Hong go, but he is your father..."

Shen Qingqing smiled sadly, "So this is my tragedy. To be honest, he used to be nice to me. Before I found out he cheated on me, I couldn't say he wasn't a good father, so I couldn't take revenge on him. I could only stay away from him and pretend that I no longer had this father."

"But you are my mother's relative, you should seek justice for her."

Lin Chuchao has been in the business world for so many years, so he is naturally a very smart person. He quickly understood what Shen Qingqing meant.

"Qingqing, I understand. I should take responsibility for this matter. You don't have to worry about it. This has nothing to do with you. You just need to live your life well."

After hearing what Lin Chuchao said, Shen Qingqing knew that her goal had been achieved. She originally thought that she should be happy and relaxed, but she still felt a little heavy. She didn't know whether her choice today was the right one.

Until a pair of soft little hands held her hands, the child's face was very serious, "Mom, the teacher told us to do good things and not do bad things. If we do bad things, we will definitely be punished. Mom, don't be sad."

Although children's words are naive, they tell the most simple truths.

Shen Qingqing couldn't help but smile. Yes, she was thinking too much. She didn't do anything wrong. It was Shen Hong who was wrong from beginning to end. She just told a related person the truth. :,,