Song Shicheng scrutinized Huo Qingyan. He knew that the young girl in front of him, who didn't look very old, was the adopted daughter of Li Lianqing, the legitimate wife of the Huo family. He also knew that she held no real power in the Huo family, only the title of the seventh young miss, and that she wouldn't inherit anything from Huo Lao's estate.
He had thought she was a weak little girl, but listening to her words and seeing her posture, she didn't seem weak at all. She was deep in thought.
Sensing Song Shicheng's gaze, Huo Qingyan looked at him calmly. "Is Chairman Song planning to kill me to silence me?"
Song Shicheng was taken aback, his face slightly changing.
Huo Qingyan smiled again. "Chairman Song, don't worry. I'm here to help you, not to expose you."
Her gaze made Song Shicheng uncomfortable, as if he had a bone stuck in his throat.
Huo Qingyan continued, "After all, among all the secrets I know, your little secret is the least significant."
"You..." Song Shicheng felt increasingly uncomfortable, but he couldn't explain why.
What was Huo Qingyan hiding beneath her delicate appearance?
"Don't think that just because you say so, I'll believe you," Dong Ru zhu glared at her angrily. "I won't believe anyone who has any connection with Shen Xingkong."
"But you've already been abandoned by Madam Huo. No one can save your precious daughter now," Huo Qingyan turned her eyes. "Or maybe you could try asking Shen Xinrou for help? After all, her fiancé is Qiao Shao."
"Qiao Shao, Qiao Yun."
Qiao Yun is the heir of the Qiao family, one of the four major families in Yun City.
"Oh, I seem to have forgotten, Qiao Shao and Xingkong have an engagement, right?"
"You!"
"Madam Shen, I said that only I can save Shen Xinai."
"What are your conditions? Miss Qingyan, just tell us what you want, as long as we can do it, we will definitely agree." Song Shicheng compromised. He had been running around these days, and no one dared to interfere in this matter.
First, the public opinion was too fierce, second, there were people pressing from above, and third, the evidence was conclusive.
Whoever intervened would be implicated.
He was curious about how Huo Qingyan, a person with no power and only a reputation, could have any means.
"It's simple. Let Shen Xingkong marry Song Yunfei."
"What? Marry Yunfei?" Song Shicheng was surprised. He never thought that this would be the exchange condition.
"Your own son's character, not only you know, but also the daughters of the famous families in Yun City. So, except for Shen Xingkong, no one will marry him."
"Shen Xingkong is not stupid. Will she obediently listen?" Dong Ru zhu sneered, "Do you think she is the easy-to-fool Shen Xingkong from before?"
"Oh, I see." Huo Qingyan smiled indifferently, "Then what does it have to do with me? Anyway, if she marries him, I will help you save your daughter. If she doesn't marry him... then forget it. After all, the one who goes to jail is not me."
Dong Ru zhu also sneered, "Why should I believe you? What if you are deceiving me? Who knows if you and Shen Xingkong are conspiring against me?"
"I said it's okay, it's not me who will go to jail anyway," said the speaker.
Dong Ru zhu remained silent.
"Don't even think about killing me, you can't handle the consequences," the Qingyan continued.
Dong Ru zhu's thoughts were exposed, her face stiffened and her words stuck in her throat.
"Remember, I am Miss Huo Qi," the she said.
Dong Ru zhu became even more stiff, feeling increasingly uncomfortable all over her body. She pointed to the door and told the her to leave.
"You have three days, and I won't wait if you're late," Huo Qingyan said, indifferent to Dong Ru zhu's attitude. She smiled and left.
Song Shicheng watched her leave and said, "This Miss Huo Qi is not simple."
"If she were simple, could she have been favored by Li Lianqing among hundreds of orphans?" Dong Ru zhu snorted. "Who knows what evil intentions she's hiding? I don't trust her."
"But what if..." Song Shicheng hesitated. What if Huo Qingyan was telling the truth? What if she really could save Xinai?
Dong Ru zhu wanted to take a gamble, but was afraid of losing.
"Even if we lose, there's not much to lose," Song Shicheng understood Dong Ru zhu's thoughts with just a glance.
"Yes, not only did you not lose anything, but you also gained a daughter-in-law for free!"
"But you can also kick her out of the Shen family with a clear conscience, right?"
Dong Ru zhu was stunned for a moment. "Although that's true, but you don't know what kind of person your son is. Even if Shen Xingkong doesn't have a brain, she won't jump into a fire pit."
Although his son was a scoundrel, he didn't like being humiliated in front of others. Song Shicheng's face didn't look good.
He whispered, "Yunfei is not as important as Xinai, the urgent matter is to save Xinai."
"But I'm afraid that Huo Qingyan is deceiving us." When she heard Song Shicheng say that Yunfei was not as important as Xinai, her face didn't look as bad.
"Let's take a gamble."
"...Okay."
Song Shicheng couldn't stay any longer. He left in less than an hour.
The next day, it was almost noon when Shen Lao brought Shen Zhizhou to the hospital.
"Daughter-in-law, what's wrong with you? How did you end up in the hospital? It breaks my heart as an old woman." Shen Lao came in and cried and screamed for a long time, but not a single tear fell.
Dong Ru zhu didn't expect her to genuinely care about her, but she couldn't stand her appearance.
Glancing at the pink diamond bracelet on the old lady's hand, Dong Ru zhu's mouth curled up.
Greedy old lady!
"Mom, I'm fine."
"Tell me who did this to you? I'll go find her and make her pay. How dare she bully my daughter-in-law? Let me see if I'll let her off!"
"Mom, I told you she went to Junsheng to find Huo Siye, and the air conditioner happened to be broken," Shen Zhizhou said. He didn't want to come, there were a lot of things waiting for him to deal with at the company, but he was dragged here by his grandmother, and he was not happy about it.
It was just a little hot wind blowing from a broken air conditioner. How serious could it be? Was it necessary to make such a fuss and come to the hospital?
Dong Ru zhu glared at Shen Zhizhou, then turned to his grandmother and said, "Mom, let's marry Xingkong off."
"What? Why are you suddenly saying this?" It was too sudden, and his grandmother didn't react for a moment.
"I consulted a master, and Xingkong's fate clashes with our Shen family."
"Clashes?"
"Yes, look, the school celebration was ruined for no reason, Xinai is like this now, and several projects that were about to be signed by the company have been cancelled. And Xinrou..."
"What happened to Xinrou?"
"She was supposed to attend a charity banquet in a few days, but it was suddenly cancelled."
As soon as his grandmother heard this, she widened her eyes like someone of her age, "The master said all of this was caused by Shen Xingkong?"
Dong Ru zhu nodded, "It was calculated a few years ago, but I didn't believe it. I thought our family already had a lucky star, and how much harder could Xingkong's fate be? But now, I have to believe it."