Deliberately Approaching-Chapter 561 - 523: Misunderstood the Meaning
Not long after, Ye Wanhua brought the delicious food back to Tang Xiaowan’s bedroom.
"Come on, have a little bite to eat."
"It looks so appetizing!"
"Don’t eat too much, your dad is making soup right now, and some fresh seafood just arrived, he said he wants to cook himself to let you taste his cooking."
"Wow, I hope it’s not too bad!"
"Okay, okay, it’s almost ten o’clock, hurry up and eat a few bites, you can’t attend a meeting on an empty stomach."
Tang Xiaowan nodded happily.
Having her mom by her side during the meeting, that thought alone made her feel warm.
But once the video meeting was over, and Tang Xiaowan closed her laptop, she realized that Ye Wanhua had fallen asleep on the sofa, still with a smile on her lips.
It was strange that she wasn’t tired after staying up all night.
Tang Xiaowan crouched down and carefully examined Ye Wanhua from head to toe.
She was upset that she had only inherited her grandfather’s looks, though her large eyes and high nose were similar, she lacked her mother’s grace and elegance.
At least their skin tones were quite similar!
Hmm, they were both quite fair.
After comparing silently in her mind, Tang Xiaowan gently touched Ye Wanhua’s belly.
Baby, you have to be good.
Don’t trouble mom, don’t kick.
I am your dearest big sister.
Actually, Ye Wanhua had been pregnant for just over a month, and the fetus was only a few millimeters long, it wouldn’t be able to kick.
Tang Xiaowan hadn’t experienced it and naturally didn’t know these things, but thinking about having a little brother or sister made her very excited.
...
Meanwhile, in Jin City Li Garden.
When Lai Jingshan got out of the car and walked into the dining room, Li Zihan was blankly staring with a spoon in hand.
Not being able to publicly announce his mother’s death was very painful for Li Zihan. He thought his mother had suffered too much; his father hadn’t even managed to provide her with a wedding when he was alive, and now she had tragically fallen at his uncle’s hands, leaving him without even a memorial to offer as her son.
He had to learn to endure, after all, his mother’s body hadn’t been found yet, and the situation was completely confusing.
This was his first meal of the day.
There was no meat, just plain vegetables, and Uncle Cai had specially made some millet porridge fearing he wouldn’t have an appetite.
Nanny Chen had wanted to add another set of tableware, but seeing Lai Jingshan’s gesture, she signaled the servant to follow her, quietly leaving the dining room.
"Where’s your brother, why are you alone?" Lai Jingshan sat down close to Li Zihan.
"He’s with Bai Long in the study."
Li Zihan’s tone was noticeably cold, causing Lai Jingshan’s heart to tighten with pain.
"Don’t blame your brother, he’s in such a position where some decisions can’t just be based on impulse; I believe things will settle down after this period..."
Lai Jingshan had already decided; he would personally take action to make his second brother Li Wanshan pay a blood debt.
He regretted his past too much leniency.
"Hmm, I know."
Tears swirled in Li Zihan’s eyes, but he never let them fall.
Sorrow and anger filled his heart.
I don’t have a mother anymore!
"Stay strong, Zihan, you still have..."
The words were at the tip of his tongue, but Lai Jingshan swallowed them back; now wasn’t the time to acknowledge his son.
Luckily, Li Zihan was still immersed in the grief of losing his mother; after saying "I know," he picked up his spoon and began to stir the millet porridge, failing to hear Lai Jingshan’s incomplete remark.
"I’ll go upstairs to check on your brother."
After speaking, Lai Jingshan got up and left.
When he reached the study, Bai Long coincidentally came out, holding a file bag in his hand.
The two exchanged a glance and greeted each other.
Seeing Lai Jingshan approaching slowly, Li Zishen was genuinely surprised, after all, he had just come back from the brink of death and should have been resting in the hospital for a few days.
"Uncle, why have you been discharged?"
"It’s just some superficial wounds, nothing serious."
Li Zishen quickly walked up to Lai Jingshan and gestured for him to sit on the sofa, then he began to make tea without saying a word throughout the process.
Both uncle and nephew harbored their own thoughts.
"Zishen, your second uncle and his people should have arrived, right? Send me the address, I want to go see him."
"Do you want to catch up," Li Zishen started to say, then glanced at the fine red sandalwood beads on Lai Jingshan’s wrist, "or seek revenge?"
"It’s been two days, I can’t let your mother stay out there any longer... Yes, I want revenge, I can’t..."
"Because you love her, right?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Lai Jingshan was visibly flustered; he dared not look Li Zishen in the eye and even his hands began to tremble slightly.
"Uncle." Li Zishen respectfully brought the cup of tea to Lai Jingshan, "Have some water."
He still deeply respected him.
"Did your second uncle tell you? What all did he say?" Lai Jingshan asked, tremblingly taking the teacup. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶
"To barter for his family’s freedom of three, he disclosed everything he knew about you, my mother, and Zihan."
"Including Zihan?"
"Yes!"
The teacup clattered to the ground, and Lai Jingshan instantly looked utterly lost.
"Uncle, didn’t you already know?"
"No, not...," Lai Jingshan, head bowed and mind somewhat muddled, tried to explain, "Don’t listen to your second uncle’s nonsense; I had no idea Zihan was mine. If your mother hadn’t planned to join forces with me against Wang Junchen, she might never have told me Zihan is my son, that he is my child."
His words struck like a thunderbolt.
Li Zishen clenched his teeth, his calm demeanor hiding a trace of breaking, the breakdown concealing a hint of forbearance.
Clearly, the two were not talking about the same thing.
Lai Jingshan mistakenly thought the matter about Zihan was: himself and Yuan Min had Li Zihan.
But in fact, what Li Zishen meant was: his brother had formed a hacking team specifically to deal with their second uncle Lai Wanshan, hacking into Lai Wanshan’s parts company multiple times and causing considerable damage.
Li Zishen never expected that letting Lai Wanshan leave Jin City would lead to such an incident.
He could understand the secret affection between his mother and his uncle, after all, his mother had been a widow for 15 years, and his uncle had always looked after them, but he could not accept that his brother was not his father’s child.
It was more than just betrayal; it was a disgrace to the entire family, leaving his brother unable to cope.
"So yesterday, you had agreed beforehand?"
Seeing Lai Jingshan puzzled, Li Zishen took a sip of tea and reminded him, "Jinyuan Mountain."
Lai Jingshan then frowned and nodded.
However, Li Zishen still couldn’t understand one thing: why those people decided to throw his uncle into Jinyuan River ahead of time, instead of waiting until after the video shoot was confirmed and the money secured before dealing with him and his mother.
But on second thought, maybe the second uncle was telling the truth: his initial target was only the mother.
His uncle happened to be implicated by chance.
For a while, the uncle and nephew didn’t know what to say and just sat there quietly.
Finally, Li Zishen broke the silence.
"Uncle, if it’s convenient, could you accompany me to the company this afternoon? With the second uncle gone, some positions may need to be replaced, and about the board of directors... I wonder if you could, Uncle?"
"Convenient, what’s inconvenient about that." Lai Jingshan agreed very readily.
At that moment, he was filled with remorse.
"How about three o’clock?"
"Good, then... see you at the company."
As he left Jin City Li Garden, Lai Jingshan took off the red sandalwood beads from his hand, but as he looked at them, the image of Yuan Min smiling uncontrollably appeared before his eyes.
His hatred for his elder brother, Lai Wanshan, grew more intense, and he couldn’t help but clench his fists.
