Lan Yi was indeed very famous.
He was the chief lawyer of Landun Law Firm, unbeaten in his career, and he was especially adept at taking the initiative to attack. In other words, when clients came to him, needing to corner their opponents, he always managed to successfully target their Achilles' heel.
Subsequently, he annihilated them in one fell swoop!
Therefore, Lan Yi also earned the international title of "Madman Lan Yi."
Sheng Siyuan had certainly heard of him.
He stared at the dossier, and when he saw the page belonging to this man named Lan Yi—lacking a photo but displaying his age as merely 26 yet sprawling across three pages documenting his impressive feats—he finally crumpled the papers into a ball with a steely-faced grimace and slammed them down on the table.
"Clang!"
"A bunch of incompetents!"
"Yes," Chen Sen dared not deny.
"So... does the president plan to make a trip there? If so, legal affairs has said that you need to arrange your current matters first, such as the surgery for young master Cen Bao. Otherwise, you... might not have time to deal with these later."
"Scram!"
As soon as the words fell, an ashtray came hurtling at him.
At that moment, the man's patience had reached its limit, and his entire body exuded an aura so chilling and menacing, it was as if he were about to kill someone.
Too terrifying...
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Yin Hehe was quite calm in Shengfei Bay at the moment.
She wasn't paying attention to her son's surgery; instead, after learning about Sheng Xi's experiences, she began to consider how to help this child.
"Mommy, why do you want to help him? Isn't he the child of that bad woman?"
In the room, Cen Bao was busy upgrading his game account on the tablet.
Seeing that Mommy was still trying to find ways to help that annoying guy, he pouted, feeling a bit aggrieved.
"Huh?"
Yin Hehe had just turned her attention to him.
"Sorry, baby, Mommy's been neglecting you. Here's the thing, even though Xi Bao is the child of a bad woman, he's your brother. Adult affairs have nothing to do with children. Don't you want to help him?"
Yin Hehe gently rubbed her son's head as she spoke.
The little guy shook his head.
"It's not that, it's just that guy is kind of annoying. You don't know, but last night I stayed opposite him, and he didn't even speak a word to me."
He was very disheartened...
Perhaps, for the first time, the little sun felt utterly rejected by someone.
Yin Hehe found it somewhat amusing.
She continued to explain, "I know, Mommy found out today, brother Xi Bao has been this way because he's sick."
"Sick?"
As soon as these words were spoken, the good-natured little one's beautiful, curved eyes immediately widened.
"What illness does he have? Is it serious?"
"Quite serious. He's ill for the same reason you were—he came into this world prematurely. But, you had Mommy's meticulous care, and he didn't. His mommy and the people around him never took good care of him, and that's why he's turned out this way."
As Yin Hehe said this, the thought of that poor child once again stirred a pang of sympathy in her heart.
That child, if he had followed her, would certainly not have ended up like this.
Cen Bao was also stunned.
So it turned out that the annoying guy was so pitiful.
Alright then, from now on, he'd share Mommy with him half and half, considering he was a brother related by blood anyway.
The little guy then cheerfully stopped bothering Mommy any further.
Yin Hehe looked through the photo albums given by Aunt Ke again and then decided to go check out the storage room for the child's things.
"Cen Bao, Mommy is going to find some things your brother used when he was little. Don't run around, okay?"
"Got it, Mommy."
Cen Bao nodded obediently.
Yin Hehe got up and walked toward the second floor.
According to Aunt Ke, ever since Lin Shuang moved in with the child five years ago, that woman took over the entire main building, so they put all the miscellaneous items, including the things Sheng Xi used as a child, into the secondary building behind it.
Yin Hehe arrived there.
Yet upon pushing the door open, she found the decoration style and furniture arrangement eerily familiar. What baffled her was that the building seemed exceptionally clean, even the large wall clock in the lobby was ticking away.
Shouldn't it have been abandoned?
After all, this was a place where Yin Hehe had once lived.
Unable to make sense of it, she stepped inside, surveying the surroundings as she made her way to the storeroom Ke Ayi had mentioned, as if she'd been there many times before.
But at that moment...
"Click-clack, click-clack—"
In the tranquil corridor, suddenly there came the sound of footsteps, steady and brisk—distinctly a man's.
Yin Hehe: "..."
"Why are you here?"
It was as if a thunderclap had exploded out of thin air.
The moment Yin Hehe turned around, she saw a tall and upright figure appearing in the hallway.
Dressed in a fitted black suit with a white shirt, he emerged like the Grim Reaper out of the darkness, and although an air of natural elegance and clarity emanated from him, Yin Hehe still felt a chilling terror.
How had he returned?
Wasn't he supposed to be at the company? And why would he come to this floor? She remembered that he never set foot here before.
"I... I came to look for Xi Bao's belongings, Mr. Sheng, why did you suddenly come back? Is something the matter?" she quickly steadied her mind and asked.
Xi Bao?
However, upon hearing this nickname, the man in the hallway, behind his rimless glasses, his handsome face darkened further in the dim light.
"Who allowed you to call him that? What are you scheming?"
"??"
Now Yin Hehe was truly bewildered.
Assigning an affectionate nickname to the child, and this bastard man still questioned her intentions?
Sick!
"Mr. Sheng, are you aware that your child is sick?"
"What did you say?"
"Sheng Xi." Yin Hehe took a deep breath and began to explain.
"Today, he didn't want to go to school. He destroyed many things at home and wouldn't listen to anyone. If I'm not wrong, he might be showing signs of autism."
She looked quietly at the man, reminding him of the severity of the matter.
She was truly puzzled.
This man is the child's father, yet he seemed to be unaware that the child was sick, allowing that woman to beat and scold the child.
What in the world was he doing?
Sheng Siyuan, indeed, was taken aback for a moment.
"Autism? What nonsense are you spouting? He's only four years old. His volatile temperament is due to excessive medication at the age of two, which stimulated his pituitary gland. He'll grow out of it gradually."
Surprisingly, the man snapped out of it and immediately retaliated, his voice quite harsh.
This left Yin Hehe stunned.
Is that so?
She felt a little embarrassed but then quickly thought of Lin Shuang.
If he knew the child's issues were medication-related, why did that woman repeatedly say she wanted to send the child to a psychiatric hospital?
And why was she so cruel in hitting him?
"Mr. Sheng, that Lin..."
"Enough, I came back to tell you that I will go to the hospital for a compatibility test tomorrow. Remember to prepare the child," the man with the cold eyes and handsome brows interrupted her, speaking indifferently in the dimly lit corridor.
And his gaze, unnoticed by anyone, was fixed like a hawk's on the hallway behind the woman.
That was the most secluded part of the building.
If one didn't know the place well, they would never find it, and ever since that damned woman ran away, this building had become a restricted area in Shengfei Bay. Without Sheng Siyuan's permission, no one dared approach it.
So, how did this woman find it?
Moreover, when she passed the large pendulum clock in the lobby downstairs, she showed no surprise, but a distracted gaze instead.
The already profound eyes of the man grew alarmingly darker…