Lin Haitao will return to China after taking care of everything for his daughter in France.
Although he had the help of his business partner Wang Handong, making overseas purchases involving large sums of money was not an easy task.
In recent years, China has strictly controlled the outflow of funds to prevent corrupt officials from absconding with their assets. It's thanks to the ongoing business dealings between Lin Haitao and Wang Handong that the flow of funds has been relatively easier.
He also plans to invest in Wang Handong's company, supposedly to help his daughter obtain "status".
Lin Xiao doesn't look forward to this investment immigration status. If she doesn't plan to live in France long-term, this "green card" is not very meaningful to her.
But what her father said to her before he left gave her a strange feeling. Perhaps his decision to buy her a house in France and change her citizenship wasn't simply because she wasn't living well, but rather because he had a longer-term plan.
On the night before he flew back to China, Lin Haitao told Lin Xiao that he had heard that the medical industry in China was going to be rectified and that hospitals would be the first to be affected. The main leaders, directors, and chief physicians of major hospitals were all feeling uneasy.
Lin Xiao was startled upon hearing this and asked his father, "Will the Feng family be implicated? His grandfather and his father?"
As a family with a long history in the medical field, the Feng family's grandfather served as the president of a top-tier hospital for many years, and the Feng father became the director of an important department at a very young age. If there has been any corruption in their work over the years, they are likely to be among the first to be implicated.
She and Feng Jinglin were childhood sweethearts, but she knew very little about the adults' affairs. She only knew that her father was on good terms with the Feng family, and that the Feng family had taken good care of her father's business. However, she didn't know what roles personal relationships and money played in this process, or what proportion each accounted for.
Lin Xiao had only vaguely heard that in the business world, ability alone was not enough to make a name for oneself; connections were especially important. And connections were often built up with money.
So when her father mentioned the potential major overhaul of the medical industry, the first person she thought of was the Feng family. If the Feng family had problems, wouldn't her father be implicated to some extent?
Lin Haitao did not directly answer his daughter's question, or perhaps he didn't know the specifics, since these reports are currently just rumors without any reliable source.
He paused for a moment, then said to his daughter, "We don't know yet; it's all just hearsay. Old Master Feng has been retired for a long time, and if he were to be rehired, it would be as a mentoring expert. Logically, there shouldn't be any problem."
"Dad, will there be problems with our family?" Lin Xiao hesitated for a long time before deciding to ask his concerns directly.
Lin Haitao looked at Lin Xiao, patted her head and said, "Don't worry, your dad does business very cleanly, there won't be any problems. Don't worry unnecessarily, I knew I shouldn't have told you all this."
Lin Xiao didn't know if her father was telling the truth or just making excuses for her. Could someone who was so clean in business really make such a big name for himself in the market?
Seeing that his daughter didn't seem to believe him, Lin Haitao continued, "The reason I'm telling you this is to tell you that Jinglin's family might not be the best choice. Maybe it was the right thing to miss out on them back then. I've always felt sorry for you about this."
Lin Xiao lowered his head and said softly, "It's Feng Jinglin who fell in love with someone else, what does it have to do with Dad?"
"Dad officiated at his engagement ceremony with Xiaoxue, even though he knew he was my precious eldest daughter's first love. This has always been a knot in my heart. But back then, if I didn't hold the ceremony for her, Xiaoxue would cry and make a scene, threatening to kill herself, so Dad softened. But thinking about it later, I really feel sorry for you."
Tears were already welling up in Lin Xiao's eyes. The hurt caused by Feng Jinglin's betrayal had been lessened by the passage of time and the appearance of Wei Changfeng, but her father's confession reminded her of the heartbreaking scene back then.
She had some complaints about her father, Lin Haitao, at the time. Although they were both daughters, her father seemed to favor Lin Xue more.
He didn't care when his sister stole his love, and he didn't scold his future son-in-law for falling in love with someone else. In order to maintain the harmony of the whole family, only Lin Xiao sacrificed himself.
However, after hearing Lin Haitao's heartfelt apology, Lin Xiao understood a little better about his father's actions back then. His younger sister, Lin Xue, had always been willful. If she had made a scene every day, his doting stepmother would have certainly been relentless and made things difficult for their father.
So even though Mr. Lin was not happy about it, he still held a grand engagement ceremony for his youngest daughter and personally presided over the entire event.
She didn't see her sister throwing a tantrum at the time. Perhaps Lin Xue had stolen her love, so she didn't dare to reveal too much in front of her and was still somewhat wary of her?
The mother and daughter had probably been nagging the father for a long time, but they had kept it well hidden from her until a few days before the engagement. They then informed her at the last minute and insisted that she not be absent because many relatives and acquaintances would be attending.
Perhaps the last-minute notification was to prevent her from knowing too much in advance and going to Feng Jinglin to beg for reconciliation.
Lin Xue is extremely infatuated with Feng Jinglin. Even though she has already seduced him, she still worries every day that he will one day return to his childhood sweetheart, Lin Xiao.
Lin Xue didn't really understand her sister Lin Xiao's personality at all. If she had paid more attention to her sister and understood her a little more, she would have known that, despite Lin Xiao's outwardly calm but inwardly strong personality, there would be no further entanglement between them after Feng Jinglin broke up with her the day she did.
Lin Xiao would not accept the repentance and return of a betrayer. No matter how much she loved him, she would not stoop so low as to beg someone who had abandoned her to get back together.
Therefore, all of Lin Xue's worries and precautions against her were actually unfounded and self-inflicted troubles.
Hearing his father's words, Lin Xiao seemed to have resolved some of the knots in his heart from back then, and no longer harbored any resentment towards his father's favoritism.
Not long after Lin Haitao presided over his second daughter's engagement ceremony, his eldest daughter restarted her study abroad plans.
He certainly supported her. He knew Lin Xiao's personality well and was worried that she would be too heartbroken and never say anything, so he hoped that she could change her environment and perhaps recover faster.
Moreover, life and study in a foreign country are likely to be quite busy, and sometimes being busy can be a good remedy for heartache.
But ever since his daughter left, Lin Haitao feels heartbroken at the thought of her being all alone at such a young age, even spending the Spring Festival by herself, and his guilt towards Lin Xiao grows stronger every day.
So after six months, he decided he had to come to France to visit his daughter, even though Lin Xiao was going home in a month.
He would feel better if he could compensate his daughter materially.
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