Ch. 185..190: Mr CEO Ex-wife Escapes Again Chapter 185-190
Chapter 186: Chapter 186: She Shows Off His Child Chapter 186: Chapter 186: She Shows Off His Child Yin Hehe had taken the three children and left Jiangbei that evening.
Initially, she only intended to take Xi Bao with her, but Youyou insisted on coming along when she heard her brother was going to a competition.
In the end, having no other choice, she simply took all three with her.
Before dawn.
When she arrived in the bustling metropolis of Modu, it was still dark, and she could only take the children to a hotel first.
“Hello, I’ve booked a room.”
Finally at the hotel, she took out her documents and handed them over.
Unexpectedly, the hotel staff’s attitude became very respectful and enthusiastic after seeing her credentials.
“It turns out you’re a family member of President Sheng, your room has been prepared, it’s the presidential suite on the top floor.”
“???”
The presidential suite?
Surely not!
Yin Hehe was a bit slow to react, but Sheng Xi was used to it. Hearing they were on the top floor again, he dragged his little suitcase with one hand while holding his sister’s with the other, and strode off toward the elevator with an imposing, cool demeanor.
Seeing this, Cen Bao followed on his scooter behind his brother.
“Mommy, hurry up, we’re going up now.”
“…Alright.”
Yin Hehe could only follow these little ones into the elevator.
Before long, when mother and sons reached the top floor of the five-star hotel and opened the door, the sight of the palace-like splendor inside left Little Bun and Cen Bao with expressions of sheer amazement.
“Mommy, it’s so big and beautiful here, Youyou has never seen such a large house before.”
“Me neither…”
The two little ones dashed over, rolling happily on the luxuriously carpeted floor.
Yin Hehe found it quite amusing.
But as she laughed, she felt a twinge of sourness in her heart, thinking about these children who were also born with a golden key in their mouths.
Yet, because she’d taken them away, they hadn’t even seen such things.
“What’s that supposed to mean? We have an aerial hotel and an island resort too, I’ll take you to those later.”
Suddenly, the quiet Sheng Xi who had been standing aside walked over.
Dressed in an expensive little suit, he saw his brother and sister rolling on the floor and coolly said quite a long sentence.
Yin Hehe was stunned.
Cen Bao immediately got up from the ground as well.
“Really? Are those all ours?”
“Mhm.”
The little guy nodded again.
His domineering yet cool demeanor was just like his father’s.
Suddenly, Little Bun and Cen Bao were even more excited in the room, climbing up from the floor, running over and hugging their brother, jumping and shouting with joy.
Such a wealthy daddy.
Indeed, anyone would be happy.
Yin Hehe had processed it as well, and unsure how to describe her feelings, she only went to organize the luggage.
It was actually a bit heartwarming.
The trip had been so rushed, and with the company in turmoil, that man still managed to arrange things so meticulously for her.
She was very satisfied.
Yin Hehe and the children managed to get some rest.
After daylight broke, she was awakened by the alarm clock and hurried out of bed.
“Xi Bao, get up quickly, we have to leave.”
She rushed to wake her eldest son, searching for his clothes while quickly heading to the bathroom.
As for the younger two, they were still sleeping and, since they were in their own hotel, she decided to let them stay in the room.
It wasn’t long before mother and son left the hotel.
“Xi Bao, do you know where the competition is? Have you been there before?”
As they arrived at the curb to hail a taxi, Yin Hehe casually asked her son.
But the little one beside her fell silent.
“Xi Bao?”
“…we need to go to the school first.”
Finally, the little guy muttered under his breath.
School?
Yin Hehe was a bit puzzled. Weren’t they here for a competition? Why go to a school? What school?
She was full of questions.
It wasn’t until she followed the little guy to a very famous international bilingual school here that she understood.
“Wow, little angel, why are you here? Are you here to see your teacher?”
The moment they entered the school, the teacher whom the little guy had specifically asked to see came out. Seeing him, she indeed looked very surprised.
However, what she said left Yin Hehe somewhat confused.
The teacher didn’t know he was coming?
“Mm-hmm.”
The little guy nodded.
At the same time, he made a gesture to the teacher.
Yin Hehe didn’t understand what it was, but she saw the teacher’s face light up with a sudden realization.
“OK, let’s go inside and talk.”
The teacher affectionately took his little hand.
Yin Hehe: “…”
“Sorry, ma’am, Teacher Mary is going to talk to the child. Please wait for her here,” the teacher’s assistant came over and very politely asked Yin Hehe to wait in the nearby lounge.
Seeing this, Yin Hehe didn’t know what to say.
She sat down in the lounge, intending to send a message to ask Jiangbei what exactly was going on?
But in the end, she decided against it.
The company was very busy right now. If she couldn’t handle such a small matter and kept bothering him,
He would probably mock her again.
She calmed down.
About twenty minutes later, she finally heard the teacher’s familiar laugh and immediately looked up.
“Mommy…”
Indeed, it was her son coming out.
Yin Hehe immediately stood up and went over to meet them.
“How did it go? Can he compete now?”
“Sorry, Sheng Xi’s mom, about the competition, I just confirmed with the organizers that our registration was actually yesterday. But I asked Mr. Sheng, and he said he forgot, so now he can’t participate.”
She never expected the teacher to give such a reply.
Yin Hehe was suddenly anxious.
“Teacher Mary, I’m so sorry, the child’s father has been very busy recently. It wasn’t intentional. Is there any way he can still participate? We’ve traveled all the way from Jiangbei.”
She began to plead.
Her aim, of course, was not to let her child be disappointed and, even more, did not want to fail at her first time accompanying her child to an event as a mommy.
“I understand, so I just had a good talk with them, and they have agreed, but it will be in a week. Sheng Xi’s mom, is that a problem for you?”
“No problem!”
Upon hearing this, Yin Hehe almost immediately agreed without even thinking about it.
Worst comes to worst, she would just bring her child over again in a week.
But then, the teacher immediately proposed a condition.
“In that case, the child will need to train here for a week. The competition in a week is for the youth category. I’ve seen your child’s intelligence; the children’s group will be no problem, but for the youth category, it would be better to have some training.”
“…”
Yin Hehe was stunned.
The youth category?
My goodness!
Is her son really that amazing? At just four years old, he could already compete in math competitions with the youth category?
Yin Hehe was ecstatic.
Once again, without any hesitation, she agreed.
Chapter 187: Chapter 187 Desperate Battle Chapter 187: Chapter 187 Desperate Battle Yin Hehe returned to the hotel.
After asking hotel staff to handle a seven-day stay, she sent a message back home.
[Mr. Sheng, are you busy? I have something I want to talk to you about.]
[What is it?]
It was the busiest time of work in the morning, but his reply came instantly.
Yin Hehe glanced at the little ones playing in the room and immediately took her phone out to the balcony.
[Xi Bao’s competition situation has changed. The original competition started with sign-ups yesterday, and we missed it. So, I talked to the teacher today and got him into the next group.]
[What does that mean?]
[It means the junior group. Mr. Sheng, he’s really amazing. He’s only four, but the teacher said he could compete with the juniors!!]
When Yin Hehe sent this message, she completely failed to notice the joy and pride on her face.
It was as if she was boasting to someone else.
The man on the other side of the phone, in fact, was in the middle of an emergency executive meeting.
Yao Zhonghua had been taken to the Bureau of Justice.
Of course, he had to arrange things well in the company to avoid the board members causing trouble during this time.
Yet, even in such a meeting, when he saw this message, he paused.
“President?”
The others exchanged puzzled looks.
But the man seemed not to hear at all; he glanced at his phone screen and quickly began tapping with his slender fingers.
[Is it that strange? Don’t you see whose seed it is!]
[…]
With just one sentence, Yin Hehe was stopped in her tracks in the hotel, her ears quickly flushing with a surge of red.
It was his seed.
But she was the one who had given birth to it.
Her mind suddenly flooded with the memory of that night five years ago, causing her heart to beat much faster.
[Then what?]
Fortunately, at this time, another text came in on her phone.
She snapped out of it.
[Then there’s a week of training to understand the rules, so I decided to stay. Mr. Sheng, you don’t mind, do you?]
[Whatever, just stay there with him. But, Lawyer Lan, don’t think this counts as a business travel expense.]
Suddenly, this man sent such a message through the phone.
Was he so petty?
The man worth tens of billions, why was he so stingy when it came to her? Would it kill him to be a bit more generous?
Yin Hehe didn’t want to waste her words with him anymore.
She even lost all interest in asking how things were going at the company.
“Kids, let’s go, we’re going to eat. After that, we need to buy a backpack and school supplies for your brother.”
“Okay!”
The little ones immediately ran over like swallows.
Soon, the mother and children went downstairs.
Back at the company, the man put his phone aside when there were no more messages and continued with the meeting.
“Manager Fan, is there any news from the Legal Department today?”
“Ah?”
The still gaping sales manager heard his name and barely reacted.
“The Legal Department… there doesn’t seem to be any news today. Both Huang Qin and Xiao Feng came to work.”
“Keep an eye on them,”
The man simply issued a cold instruction.
“As for the others, just maintain the normal work conditions and let me know immediately if anything happens.”
He briefly instructed and was ready to dismiss the meeting.
However, the Finance Director, upon hearing this, suddenly asked, “President, now that Director Yao has been taken away for investigation by the Judicial Bureau, what should we do if the other three shareholders cause a commotion?”
“…”
The conference room fell into silence so profound that the drop of a pin on the floor would have been audible for a few short seconds.
Because everyone could feel the temperature in the air suddenly drop, cold enough to almost solidify.
“What do you think?”
After about ten seconds, Sheng Siyuan finally let out a few words from between his thin lips.
His voice was still cool and detached.
But at that moment, the Finance Director felt a bone-chilling cold down his spine as he looked into those emotionless dark eyes behind glasses, and in an instant, his palms were soaked with sweat.
“I’m sorry, President Sheng, I was overthinking it. Those three shareholders, they’re not reckless people; they wouldn’t do such a thing,” he quickly bowed his head and apologized.
The surrounding executives were completely baffled by his reaction.
But in reality, if they knew that this Finance Director was actually trying to gauge the President’s response regarding the other three shareholders, who had vanished without a trace as noticed by the board of directors,
Then they would understand the gravity of the situation.
Indeed, Sheng Siyuan had not revealed to them that he had also placed those three troublemakers under house arrest.
How many hours had it been since then? And yet the Finance Director had already come to test the waters.
In Sheng Siyuan’s slightly narrowed pupils, a hint of ruthlessness finally emerged!
“No, I think your concerns are valid. So, Director Hu, starting from today, you will be responsible for keeping an eye on these three people. As for the company affairs, just delegate them to Manager Jiang,” he said.
“President Sheng!!”
On the spot, the Finance Director cried out in alarm, losing control.
He stumbled out, wanting to make a few more pleas on his own behalf, but the man had already stood up and walked away, leaving an unrelenting figure that made the director collapse to the ground on the spot.
He was done for.
A few minutes later, in the President’s office.
“President, are we certain that Hu Cheng is the board’s man?”
“What do you think?”
The man who had just sat down at his desk let out a cruel cold smirk.
Xu Guannan immediately understood.
“This makes it even better. With those three old fools locked up by us, I was worried the board would find out they’re missing and we’d need a scapegoat. Let’s have Hu Cheng take the blame,” he quickly thought of a plan.
Sheng Siyuan nodded.
“How are things going with Old Yang? Have there been any updates?” he quickly inquired about another matter.
Xu Guannan promptly took out some videos he had filmed.
“I’ve made contact with his former student, who is now managing public notarization in Jiangbei. President, I always feel that after retirement, many things are beyond one’s capabilities. If he were still in power, would we need to expend so much effort?” Xu Guannan complained.
The man didn’t make a sound.
He knew all too well, and moreover, he understood that if he truly took ruthless measures, with his current financial resources and abilities, he could settle everything himself.
But he didn’t do that.
Because he always believed that business should be kept pure, and if it became too entangled with power and collusion, he would become a target for others.
Hence, he preferred to approach this retired former leader.
“You don’t need to concern yourself with all that. If he has promised to take care of things within a week, then we’ll give him a week. Your only job now is to keep an eye on the family members of those three individuals,” he said.
“Understood,” Xu Guannan promptly left.
The man went back to his busy work, but before long, he would glance at his phone occasionally,
As if expecting something to show up.
Chapter 188: Chapter 188 He’s Too Arrogant Chapter 188: Chapter 188 He’s Too Arrogant Modu.
Yin Hehe had been staying here with her three children for three days now.
During these three days, she took Xi Bao to school for training classes in the morning, then returned to the hotel to take care of the other two little ones until the afternoon when she would go and pick up her eldest son.
In just three days, she had fallen into a kind of routine.
But it was fulfilling.
“Baby, how was school today? Did you learn everything the teacher taught?”
That day, as she picked up her son, she asked the usual question in the car.
“Hmm.”
Sheng Xi also coolly nodded his little head as usual.
Yin Hehe then stopped asking, seeing that he was still carrying his little backpack, she immediately took it from him feeling sorry for him.
“Huh? Why didn’t you use your pencil?”
Suddenly, she noticed a perfectly sharpened, yet untouched pencil inside the opened backpack.
The little guy immediately stopped playing the game in his hands.
“…Didn’t use it,” he took a few seconds before stiffly answering the question.
Yin Hehe became even more puzzled upon hearing this.
A sharpened pencil, yet unused? Whose pencil was he using at school then?
She took out her phone, intending to call the school teacher to ask about it.
“Mommy, I’m hungry!”
“Ah?”
At that utterance, the phone she had just taken out was put back again.
“Hungry? Mommy has some snacks in her bag, have a little to fill your tummy for now, Mommy will cook for you when we get back, okay?”
She took out the snacks she had brought, and the matter of the pencil was thrown out of her mind.
Time flew quickly, and another two days passed.
“Mommy, baby’s tummy hurts, wuwu~”
That morning, Yin Hehe got up, planning to take her son to school.
But Little Bun suddenly climbed groggily onto her, complaining of a stomach ache.
Was it a cold?
Yin Hehe had no choice but to quickly pick up the child.
Shortly after, a hotel attendant arrived.
“Sorry, my daughter is sick. Could you please take my son to xx school?”
“No problem, Miss Han.”
The attendant agreed enthusiastically.
So, that morning, Yin Hehe took her daughter to the hospital, and by the time they saw the doctor and returned, the hotel attendant had also come back.
“Thank you.”
“You’re welcome. However, Miss Han, why did you send the young master there to play? Our hotel has a big children’s playground, which is more suitable for kids than the school’s.”
Suddenly, the attendant made such a remark.
Yin Hehe was stunned.
“Play? You misunderstood, I sent my child there to study, not to play.”
“Ah?”
The attendant immediately realized her mistake.
“Then… I might have seen it wrong, sorry, Miss Han.”
Then she hurried off.
Yin Hehe watched her leaving, and suddenly, the pencil she had found in the child’s backpack two days ago flashed through her mind.
Yin Hehe became suspicious.
However, she didn’t mention it to the child. Instead, the next day when she personally took the child there, she was extra vigilant.
And at this time, there was only one day left until the promised competition.
“Teacher Mary, the competition is just one day away, may I go in and see how my child is doing?”
“Ah?”
The teacher changed her expression immediately upon hearing this.
“That’s not really a good idea, it will distract the child. You better wait here.”
She indeed refused.
Yin Hehe’s elegant eyebrows slightly furrowed as she watched the teacher lead the child inside. She was reluctant to admit that something was amiss here, but she simply could not stay calm any longer.
Yin Hehe came out.
A moment later, from an office building diagonally across from the school, Yin Hehe stood on the top floor with a pair of binoculars, looking down.
“Little Angel, has your mother discovered something? In just a week, how will you explain to her?”
On the spacious school lawn, a small child sat among a pile of toys. The blonde and blue-eyed teacher was squatting in front of him, saying something.
Yin Hehe’s chest began to rise and fall slightly.
Clutching the binoculars, her eyes fixed on the scene inside the school. In that instant, the anger that came from being deceived burst forth like a volcano erupting in her chest!
Her hands were trembling with anger.
Why deceive her?
Why did they make her stay here with the child for a week? What was the purpose?
She was so angry that she initially couldn’t think straight.
Then, her phone rang in her pocket.
“Hello?”
“Xiaohe, why has your phone been unreachable lately? Where have you been? Are you not at the company?”
It turned out to be her brother, Yin Beixiao.
But he said her phone had been unreachable.
Yin Hehe lowered her phone, glanced at the full signal on the screen, paused, and then put it back to her ear, “I’m in Modu, what’s wrong? Brother?”
“Why did you suddenly go there? No wonder, I thought it was strange that you weren’t around when such a big scandal broke out at Shengshi Group.”
“…”
At those words, a chill climbed up from the soles of her feet, and she almost couldn’t hold onto the binoculars firmly.
“What happened?”
“Shengshi Group’s Chief Financial Officer suddenly committed suicide by jumping off the building, from the top floor no less. The police took the body away and said he left a suicide note claiming that the three elders of the board had been illegally imprisoned by Sheng Siyuan.”
Yin Beixiao briefly recounted what was happening at Shengshi Group.
Yin Hehe was so shocked that she couldn’t calm the raging waves in her mind for a long time.
So, this was the real reason she had been lured here.
But didn’t that bastard say everything was resolved back in Jingshan?
Why was there such a big issue now?
Yin Hehe was shaking all over with rage.
“Was that person really imprisoned by him?”
“Who knows, he’s holding a press conference right now. You can watch it; he flat out denied everything. Moreover, he has released evidence of the CFO embezzling company funds.”
Yin Beixiao reminded her.
In an instant, Yin Hehe hung up the phone and immediately opened a webpage.
At that moment, even she didn’t notice how her trembling fingers were moving unconsciously.
“Ladies and gentlemen, as I just said clearly, I have not engaged in any illegal activities, and my relationship with the company’s board has always been very harmonious.”
Sure enough, once she opened the webpage, there was a familiar man’s figure sitting in front of the camera in the video hanging on the front page.
He was still calm and composed, his handsome features and noble and elegant bearing made it seem as though this was not a press conference but his personal show.
Yin Hehe clenched her fingers so hard that the veins stood out!
He didn’t do it?
Bullshit!
Based on her knowledge of him, those three old men must have been confined by him.
This man was truly audacious and daring.
But, had he really made foolproof preparations for this? Why was there a death along the way? Was this also part of his plan?
Yin Hehe was struggling to hold back her fury!
“Mr. Sheng, your statement seems to differ from what I’ve heard. I heard there were troubles in your company involving shadow contracts, and some people saw those three shareholders getting beaten up inside the company.”
“That’s right, I’ve also heard rumors. So, Mr. Sheng, now that the CFO named Hu has left a suicide note and it has attracted widespread public attention, even alarming the Provincial City, do you think you should provide some compelling evidence to prove your innocence?”
“…”
Several media reporters asked incisive questions in turn.
Yin Hehe, with her sharp eyes, noticed that the man’s expression finally changed.
Chapter 189: Chapter 189: Daring to Deceive Her Chapter 189: Chapter 189: Daring to Deceive Her “I don’t understand what you’re talking about? I’m the victim, why do I have to provide evidence to prove my innocence?”
This was the last thing Yin Hehe saw Siyuan leave for the reporters in the video before she turned off her phone.
After that, she didn’t watch it anymore.
She came down from the office building and went straight to the school.
A few minutes later, when Sheng Xi, who was playing on the lawn, saw the furious secret figure appear before him.
His little face turned pale.
“Mommy, I…”
“Alright, Mommy knows everything. Let’s go back now. Daddy has got into big trouble.”
Yin Hehe didn’t blame her son; instead, she picked him up from the lawn and left the school immediately.
The little guy had a tense face all the way as Mommy took him back.
He was actually clueless about the matter at first; it was later when Daddy called him and taught him what to do.
He even said it was to protect Mommy.
Then, he just did it.
But why did Daddy encounter trouble again?
That afternoon, Yin Hehe took the three children and boarded a plane back to Jiangbei, and until the moment before she boarded the plane, she was still inquiring about the news from there.
“Ma’am, Hu Cheng’s suicide by jumping off the building was really unexpected. None of us saw it coming?”
Chen Xiaosen cursed angrily on the phone.
Yin Hehe breathed a sigh of relief.
As long as it wasn’t that man’s doing, she thought, he could be wild and unpredictable.
But, murder was something she could never accept.
“Then why did he jump? When I left, he was fine. How could he have jumped?”
“Ma’am, you don’t know, this Hu Cheng was actually one of the board members. The president found out and deliberately had him watch over those three shareholders, but somehow, he went crazy yesterday and ran to the top floor of the company and jumped.”
Chen Xiaosen conveyed the whole sequence of events from the company one by one through the phone.
Yin Hehe fell silent.
She obviously knew that this financial director was one of the board members; she had found out when she went to the archives to look for contracts.
But had Siyuan really set him to watch over those three people? Weren’t they already under house arrest by him?
Was it deliberate?
Yin Hehe, sharp as frost, immediately thought of these points, and her brows furrowed even more tightly.
Because she had come to a very bad possibility.
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Jiangbei.
Shengshi Building’s top floor.
After Siyuan returned to the company, his demeanor was indeed a stark contrast to the nonchalance he displayed at the reception, with a very grim expression on his face.
“President, this Hu Cheng’s sudden suicide must be a move by the board, right? Their goal is to disrupt your plans,” Xu Guannan said as he followed into the office.
At the end of his words, the man who had just lit a cigarette took a harsh drag, and the hostility surrounding him intensified.
“Who else could it be but them?”
“Those beasts!” Xu Guannan raged, veins popping on his forehead.
“If that’s the case, we can only release those three old men now. Luckily, the matter with Old Yang is also nearly settled.”
“Yeah, let them go,” the man finally agreed.
Xu Guannan immediately left.
Two hours later, just as Yin Hehe arrived in the city with the children, she overheard people discussing the reappearing missing shareholders of Shengshi Group.
“They’ve come out now, haven’t they? Why blame everything on the president of Shengshi?”
“Exactly. Clearly, they ran off to Haogang Casino to play and lost everything; they couldn’t even come back and now they’re blaming the president for putting them under house arrest.”
“…”
Yin Hehe took out her phone and scrolled through it.
Indeed, the moment she opened the page, she saw a familiar group of old men right on the front-page headline being led out of the famous gambling city. They were ragged and unkempt…
Their entire image was just indescribably wretched.
Gambling city?
She marvelled at the idea he had come up with.
Yin Hehe’s expression relaxed again as she put away her phone and returned to Shengfei Bay with the children.
She wasn’t quite ready to return to the company yet.
Because she had snuck back home, and she hadn’t thought of a good excuse to explain it to that man.
She surely couldn’t say that she rushed back because she was worried about this matter.
If she did, he would definitely mock her again, and perhaps, he would even think she was deliberately trying to please him and had a motive for getting close to him.
On the way back, Yin Hehe regretted her decision for a moment.
“Xiaohan? Why have you come back? Isn’t it supposed to be tomorrow?”
Just as expected, upon her return to Shengfei Bay, the first thing Aunty Ke asked was this.
Yin Hehe glanced awkwardly at her son.
“No, it’s finished already, right, Xi Bao?”
“Hmm.”
The little fellow was very cooperative with Mommy.
Aunty Ke entered bustling with bags, the children followed, and seeing this, Yin Hehe dragged her luggage in as well.
“Aunty Ke, what’s for dinner tonight? Let me cook.”
“Sure, you can have whatever you want. However, the young master has been very busy these days; he might not come back, so you don’t need to prepare his portion.”
As Aunty Ke was going upstairs with the little ones, she didn’t forget to remind her.
Yin Hehe agreed.
When she arrived at the kitchen, she opened the refrigerator door and saw a fresh piece of meat inside, so she took a big bowl and filled it with most of a basin of flour.
Kneading dough, chopping filling…
She went about her tasks methodically, and by the time night was about to fall, a pot of steaming hot dumplings was also on the table.
“Aunty Ke, the dumplings are ready, ask the children to come down to eat.”
“Did you make dumplings?”
Aunty Ke, who was working outside, was overjoyed to hear this.
Yin Hehe smiled.
It had been a long time since she had prepared such a refined meal.
That evening, the little ones ate very happily, and after filling herself up, Yin Hehe decided to retire and rest.
“Ding ding——”
Coincidentally, just at that moment, the sound of a car horn came from outside.
“Is the young master back? I’ll go open the door.” Aunty Ke, who was washing dishes in the kitchen, heard it and immediately rushed out excitedly.
Yin Hehe: “…”
In just an instant, a surge of guilt swelled within her, and she felt an urge to flee.
“Xiaohan, the young master is back. Go warm up the rest of the dumplings, he might not have eaten yet.”
Suddenly, Aunty Ke who had gone out, came back and instructed her to heat the dumplings.
Yin Hehe: “…”
In the end, she obediently went back to the kitchen.
About ten minutes later, when she finally had the dumplings warmed up and brought them out, in the living room, the man who had taken off his suit was already waiting there.
“Why didn’t you tell me when you came back?”
He approached, his shirt sleeves rolled up, revealing his muscular arms. As he reached the dining table, his handsome, though visibly exhausted face was, as Yin Hehe had predicted, not so pleased.
From the first glance he saw her, his brows were shrouded in gloom.
Yin Hehe’s gaze dimmed a little.
“It was a last-minute notification that the competition was over. I thought Mr. Sheng was busy, so I didn’t disturb you.”
She placed the dumplings on the table. All the turmoil in her chest quieted down, and her tone was much more subdued.
Chapter 190: Chapter 190: The Attitude is Very Cold Chapter 190: Chapter 190: The Attitude is Very Cold Sheng Siyuan was stunned for a moment.
There really was a competition?
“Then, Mr. Sheng, please enjoy your meal while it’s hot, I’ll go back to rest,” Yin Hehe didn’t intend to stay any longer.
She picked up her bowl and chopsticks and prepared to leave.
The man’s expression finally turned ugly.
“Wait a moment,” he called after her. “Since you’re back, go do something for me tomorrow.”
“…”
Yin Hehe turned back to look at him.
In that instant, it was as if something in her chest jumped again; she couldn’t help but feel a faint glimmer of hope.
“My mother accidentally twisted her ankle a few days ago, you go take care of her at the old house for a few days.”
“????”
Yin Hehe wondered if she had heard wrong?
At this critical moment, instead of asking her to help with important matters, he was asking her to look after his mother?
Did he not know how much his mother disliked her? Was he doing this on purpose?
Yin Hehe finally lost all hope.
“I’m sorry, Mr. Sheng, but Mr. Yin had called me when I was coming back. He said there was something I need to help with, so I won’t have time to take care of your mother.”
“…”
Yin Beixiao?
As soon as this name came up, the man in front of her was suddenly engulfed with anger in his eyes.
But in just a few seconds, he seemed to suppress it again.
“Suit yourself, just remember to pick up the kids.”
Then he went upstairs, not even touching the plate of dumplings Yin Hehe had warmed for him on the table.
Yin Hehe watched his retreating figure, her slender fingers gradually clenching tightly in the palm of her hand.
In the end, there were only deep nail marks in the center of her palm.
She was really so pathetic!
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The next morning, after getting up, Yin Hehe sent Xi Bao to kindergarten, she indeed took the other two little ones to her brother’s house as she had planned.
“Why are you here? Don’t you need to help him at the company?”
See, even her brother, upon seeing her, asked this as the first question.
Yin Hehe stretched her mouth into a smile.
“Help with what? For the mighty tycoon CEO, those things are just a piece of cake, aren’t they?”
“…”
“Oh by the way, brother, I heard that for the Baiqing Building business, you’ve even started an organic vegetable farm, is it fun there?”
Suddenly, Yin Hehe asked with considerable interest.
Seeing her like this, Yin Beixiao didn’t continue asking and waved his hand. Soon, Aunt Jin, whom they had not seen for a long time, came over.
“Xiaohan, it’s you? I haven’t seen you for so long.”
Aunt Jin was very surprised to see her.
Yin Hehe smiled and was about to make small talk when she noticed Little Bun, who was crawling all over her great uncle, suddenly fix his watery big eyes on the beautiful aunt.
“Wow~~ I know now, great uncle, the beautiful sister hiding in your books, it’s her, oh.”
“!!!!!”
A storm was stirred up by a single statement.
Everyone in the office turned to stone.
“Little… Little Bun, what are you talking about? You shouldn’t speak nonsense, okay?”
In the end, it was Aunt Jin who came to her senses first and hurriedly, in a fluster, corrected Little Bun.
Yin Hehe: “…”
Yin Beixiao: “…Youyou, if you talk nonsense again, I’ll spank your little butt.”
The annoyed man picked up his niece and walked away shortly after.
Only Yin Hehe and Aunt Jin remained in the office, and the atmosphere couldn’t have been more awkward.
“Xiaohan, you… don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing like that. Oh right, did you just say you were going to take the kids to the farm? Let’s go, I’ll take you there.”
“…Okay.”
Yin Hehe gave this Aunt Jin a serious look and after a long while, she stood up from the chair.
It seemed like she had really overlooked some things.
For instance, this aunt was almost forty by now, yet she never seemed to intend to marry.
Moreover, before her mother’s death, she proposed bringing in stepmother He Wanqiu to ensure Aunt Jin’s freedom.
So, if Aunt Jin was indeed free, why did she still choose to stay with the Yin Family? And for so many years at that.
Yin Hehe was very puzzled.
“Xiaohan, I heard that it was you who helped again last time, turning that new Mrs. Tang into a regular at Baiqing Building. Thank you so much.”
On the way to the farm, Aunt Jin in the car expressed her gratitude for this matter again.
Yin Hehe smiled silently.
“It’s nothing; that’s what I should do. You all are Miss Yin’s family members. By the way, Aunt Jin, Yin Rong and the others haven’t been troubling you anymore, have they?”
“No, I’m now with the young master of the Yin Family, they don’t dare to mess around.”
Aunt Jin was driving ahead.
Even she hadn’t noticed the smile creeping up at the corner of her mouth while she spoke these words.
Yin Hehe also smiled.
She turned to look outside the window.
“Buzz… Buzz…”
“Hello?”
Yin Hehe put the phone to her ear.
But as soon as she answered, an old man’s voice bellowed through the phone.
“Xiaohan, what’s the matter with you? You’ve returned, so why aren’t you going to the company to help my son? You don’t need to put on such airs.”
It was the voice of the Sheng Family’s old patriarch.
Hearing this, Yin Hehe’s eyes, previously filled with laughter, lost all their mirth as though blown away by the wind.
“Mr. Sheng, what you’re saying… I’ve never heard your son mention needing any help. Why are you blaming me now?”
“This…”
“Alright, Mr. Sheng, I’m currently taking the kids out for fun, so I won’t talk much.”
Yin Hehe said the last sentence patiently before she prepared to hang up.
The old patriarch panicked.
“This scourge, having such good resources at hand and not using them, but thinking of all sorts of nonsense instead. Alright, Xiaohan, I’m the old man asking you this favor, please help him, can you?”
Unexpectedly, the old man actually pleaded personally.
He was both angry and anxious, first furiously berating his son, and then forsaking his own pride.
But Yin Hehe remained unmoved.
“Mr. Sheng, I really can’t help you. I’m just a nanny; I really can’t help your son.”
“So you’ll just watch him get sent to jail again? I’m telling you, Yao Zhonghua and others have even brought the National Counselor this time. How will he deal with them?”
The old man’s voice trembled with excitement, audible even through the phone screen.
The National Counselor?
Could he be referring to that renowned professor of law in the country? It was said that in the entire legal community, two-thirds of the prominent lawyers were his students, and not to mention the impeccable record of cases he personally handled.
Yin Hehe’s expression finally changed.
“Why would they suddenly bring this person in? Did your son leave them any evidence while he had them under house arrest?”
She couldn’t help asking.
The old man perked up upon hearing this.
“That’s not the case. Now they’re using Hu Cheng’s death as leverage. As long as those three old men admit in court that Hu Cheng was their man, my son won’t be able to dissociate from his death, and if they go down that path, the matter of them being under house arrest could also come to light!”
“…”
Yin Hehe was left speechless…