To Li Xiao's surprise, when she clicked on the hot search, she found that everyone was talking about Chan Ka-yin. Although Chan Ka-yin had long disappeared from the public, her unsurpassable legend was still circulating in the underworld.
[I've waited for so many months, and this day has finally come!]
[Congratulations to Chan Ka-yin for achieving quadruple kills! It's a pity that one of the four is dead, and the other three are in different prisons. Otherwise, they could get together to play mahjong or something. They must have a lot of common topics to talk about.]
[I'm dying of laughter. What a f * cking quadruple kill!]
[Chan Ka-yin is really poisonous. The men involved with her are all legal.]
[She's also a legal, so it's not strange that birds of a feather flock together.]
[Sigh, these people are not here, so there's no drama of the year to watch on the hot search. It's lonely. I miss Chan Ka-yin.]
[I miss Chan Ka-yin + 1. The hot search of celebrities now is not as interesting as their love and hate. I can eat three bowls of rice from their news!]
Li Xiao looked at these gloating comments and the corners of her mouth twitched slightly. However, this was probably the last time Chan Ka-yin was on the hot search. In just two years, Chan Ka-yin went from being the romantic heroine of the century that many people envied, to a legal celebrity that everyone ridiculed. She didn't know if she could withstand the ups and downs of life.
She didn't look at the comments anymore. Instead, she carried two pots of epiphyllum and prepared to send them to her mother's company. As for the remaining three pots, two were in the "Dream" company, and one was already given to Jiang Tiantian.
Li Xiao put the flowers in the back seat of the car, and the driver drove her to Xu Manqin's company, "Qin Dynasty". The two companies weren't far from each other, and it was only half an hour's drive.
After getting out of the car, the driver helped Li Xiao carry one of the pots.
Everyone in Qin Dynasty knew Li Xiao's identity, so naturally, no one stopped her. Except for the little girl at the front desk who reminded her that Chairman Xu had a guest.
A guest?
Li Xiao didn't care. She had just sent a text message to her mother. Her mother didn't mention this in the text, so it shouldn't be an important guest.
She got into the elevator and walked to Xu Manqin's office. Before she knocked on the door, she heard a sharp voice coming from inside.
"We are their elders. We can't just watch them do something wrong. We have to correct them! "
"What's wrong with Wei Ting? Wasn't everything that happened previously excusable? "
Li Xiao frowned and knocked on the door.
"Come in."
Hearing her mother's voice, Li Xiao pushed the door open. Her gaze fell on another person in the office. She recognized the other person — this so-called guest was her second aunt, Xu Yu. Li Xiao had always had a bad impression of her. Xu Yu was the illegitimate daughter of the second branch of the family. It was only because her second aunt had never given birth to a child that she was recognized. When she was in the Xu family, although she wasn't treated as well as her mother, Xu Manqin, she wasn't treated badly either.
When her grandfather was still alive and the Xu family was at its peak, Xu Yu diligently tried to curry favor with the direct descendants of the Xu family. When the Xu family went bankrupt, she ran away as fast as she could. She was afraid that the Xu family would implicate her, so she ran away with her husband's family and went abroad immediately. After that, Xu Yu relied on her status as an elder and insisted that Xu Rou help her arrange for her husband to enter the Wei family's business and become a supervisor.
When Xu Yu saw Li Xiao, she smiled in what she thought was an affectionate way. "Is this Xiao Xiao? I haven't seen Xiao Xiao in two years. You've grown up and become more beautiful. "
Li Xiao's lips curved as she gave her a rebuke. "If the Li Clan hadn't gone bankrupt, you wouldn't have dared to come back to China, right?"
The smile on Xu Yu's face froze. She couldn't maintain her composure.
Xu Manqin was already impatient with dealing with her. She added, "That's right. If I was still the lunatic from before, your second aunt wouldn't even have come to see me."
Xu Yu's face turned red. "I … I …"
Although Li Xiao had only heard a few words outside the door, she could roughly guess Xu Yu's motive for coming back to China. It was nothing more than the divorce between Xu Rou and Wei Ting, which made her husband's position in the Wei family awkward. She had rushed back to China to ask Xu Manqin to help persuade Xu Rou and Wei Ting to remarry.
As the saying goes, shameless people are invincible.
"I know I made some mistakes in the past, but I had my reasons." Xu Yu's expression changed. She looked like she was about to cry.
Li Xiao said coldly, "That wasn't just a mistake."
Xu Yu was being ridiculed by a junior. She was furious. "I'm your elder. Don't you know how to respect your elders?"
Before Li Xiao could say anything, Xu Manqin's face darkened. "Father acknowledged you because you were Second Uncle's only child. Since we can let you come back, we can also kick you out of the Xu family. Before you act like an elder, why don't you take a look at what you've done in the past? You still have the face to look for Rou 'er. "
Li Xiao said, "That's right. Aren't you afraid of being struck by lightning for saying such things?"
Just as Xu Yu was about to say something, she suddenly heard the rumbling of thunder, causing her to shiver. She looked guilty. She didn't dare to say anything and hurriedly left.
After she left, Xu Manqin rubbed her temples and said, "I'll tell the front desk not to let her in again."
She had completely lost her patience with this so-called second cousin.
Li Xiao walked to the window and saw Xu Yu's back as she left the building. With a thought, a bolt of lightning fell from the sky and struck Xu Yu, only a meter away from her. Her Second Aunt, Xu Yu, was so frightened that she fell to the ground. She looked flustered.
She struck again and narrowly missed her face.
Although the two consecutive bolts of lightning didn't injure Xu Yu, it gave her a huge scare. She scrambled away, her back showing that she was fleeing for her life.
Xu Manqin saw this and couldn't help but laugh. "You're too naughty."
Li Xiao said eloquently, "You should scare her so that she won't have the face to come back again. I'm going to let Second Granduncle enter her dream tonight. "
The Second Granduncle she was talking about was Xu Yu's biological father.
It would be best to scare her back to a foreign country so that she wouldn't stay in the country and cause trouble.
Xu Manqin naturally wouldn't stop her daughter. She knew that Li Xiao had a sense of propriety and that Xu Yu really needed to be taught a lesson. Just the fact that Xu Yu abandoned the Xu family and ran away when the Xu family was at its most difficult time was enough to erase all her feelings for her. She changed the topic. "You really sent these two pots of Epiphyllum here."
Li Xiao said, "I came to add to your joy."
Xu Manqin showed a gentle smile. She simply put down her work and chatted with her daughter. Halfway through the conversation, someone knocked on the door. It was Qin Chao's financial manager, Gu Yang, who came to ask for leave. Her eyes were slightly red as she said to Xu Manqin, "I'm sorry, Mr. Xu. Something happened at home. I have to go home."
Xu Manqin wasn't an unreasonable boss. Hearing this, she asked with concern, "What happened?"
Gu Yang sniffled. "My father's health is not good."
Xu Manqin approved her leave. Her father had passed away, so she could empathize with this matter.
After Gu Yang successfully got the leave, she left in a hurry.
Li Xiao didn't take this matter to heart. After all, it was normal to be born, grow old, get sick, and die. Moreover, looking at Gu Yang's face, her father should be fine in the past few years. In the end, it was probably just a false alarm.
*****
In a mental hospital in S City.
"I'm not sick. I'm really not sick. Let me out!"
Chan Ka-yin, who was caught again before she could sneak out, was desperate. She had enough of staying in the mental hospital. Every day, she was surrounded by real patients. If this continued, she was afraid that she, who was originally not sick, would become a real patient. Therefore, she was even more eager to escape.
Unfortunately, she failed again.
She regretted it. She really regretted it. If she had known it would be like this, she would have stayed in prison. It was better than staying in this place where people were neither ghosts nor ghosts. Li Xiao was so cruel. She wanted her to become a real mental patient.
Thinking of this, she completely forgot that in the beginning, she desperately pretended to be crazy in order to escape prison.
She struggled with all her might, but she was still forcibly brought in by the strong nurses.
The nurses dragged her into the room and looked at her with disgust. "Really, a patient like you can't be let out. It won't be good if something happens."
Chan Ka-yin was locked in the room for an entire day because she tried to escape. She was only released at night and was able to watch some TV with the other patients. Watching TV at night was their only form of entertainment throughout the day. If it was in the past, Chan Ka-yin certainly wouldn't be interested in TV. But now, although she was sad because of her failure to escape, she was unwilling to let go of the few times she could relax every day.
Only when she watched TV could she know a little about the outside world. Only then could she better remind herself that she was a normal person and was different from the mental patients around her.
The TV was broadcasting the local news of S City.
"… Dream Company has officially announced its opening. At the opening ceremony, there were even many pots of epiphyllum blooming at the same time. The scene was beautiful."
Chan Ka-yin stared blankly at Li Xiao on the TV screen. She looked bright, generous, and in high spirits.
The patients around her sighed with emotion.
"She opened a company at such a young age and even appeared on TV. She's really amazing."
"If my daughter could have 10% of her achievements, I would wake up laughing in my dreams."
These patients, when they were not ill, looked like normal people.
Zhan Jiayin revealed a pained expression. There was nothing more painful than seeing your enemy living such a blissful life. Li Xiao on TV was so glorious, but she had to stay in the mental hospital, suffering day after day, year after year. She didn't know what was going on with her Chien Fei, but she was afraid that she was not doing well. Otherwise, she would have come to see her.
"The former chairman of Lê Thị Company, Lê Nam Giệu, was sentenced to six years in prison for bribery …"
Chan Ka-yin, who had her head lowered, heard the familiar name and her body suddenly trembled. She raised her head and stared at the big screen. Lê Nam Giệu, who betrayed her, finally went to prison. He also had a day like this.
"This Lê Nam Giệu, I know! He abandoned his wife for a celebrity's mistress. His character is really bad. He deserves to go to prison. "
"What's the name of that female celebrity? What's her name again? "
She laughed out loud, and as she laughed, she began to cry. But how was her situation better than Lê Nam Giệu's? Her whole life would probably be like this.
She vaguely remembered her simple self from decades ago. At that time, she only wanted to be a big star. If she hadn't been with Lê Nam Giệu at that time, maybe she wouldn't have fallen to this point.
Tears flowed down her face, but she laughed. This laughter seemed to be mocking Lê Nam Giệu, but also seemed to be mocking herself.
The patients around her showed uneasy expressions.
"Is her illness acting up?"
"Go find a doctor!"
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