Chen Nan chuckled, "Alright, don't you worry about this matter."
"What you need to do is simple: act more like a man, more manly, in front of Mom."
"Eat lunch by yourself, I'm going out for a bit."
With that, Chen Nan left home.
He took a car to Yingcai International School.
The Qi Ling Pill had been refined.
It was time to give it to Chen Xiazhi.
Since Yingcai International was a boarding school, students couldn't leave to eat lunch.
However.
He was surprised to see Chen Xiazhi standing at the school gate.
Beside her was a black Rolls-Royce Phantom, and a stern-faced middle-aged man in a suit.
Without a doubt.
This must be her biological father, Luo Guangyao.
Thinking of this, he quickened his pace, seeing a look of impatience on Chen Xiazhi's face.
She seemed to dislike this father very much.
"Brother."
Chen Nan's appearance brought a look of surprise to Chen Xiazhi, who affectionately linked her arm with his, "Why are you here? Did you miss me?"
Luo Guangyao frowned slightly, seemingly displeased by his daughter's closeness with another man. "Xiazhi, who is this?"
Chen Xiazhi held Chen Nan's arm tightly and raised her chin, "He's my brother, Chen Nan!"
Chen Nan greeted him, "Hello, Uncle Luo."
"Are you the one who caused trouble and spent three years in prison?" Luo Guangyao's face was unreadable, but a flicker of disgust flashed in his eyes.
Before Chen Nan could speak, Chen Xiazhi said angrily, "Brother was clearly acting for justice, he was framed! I won't allow you to look down on him!"
Luo Guangyao made no secret of his disdain for Chen Nan. "Xiazhi, I know you and your brother have a deep bond, but I still hope you can come back to the provincial capital to live with me."
"You are my daughter, Luo Guangyao's daughter. You deserve a good living environment, not to live with an ex-convict!"
"Listen to Dad and come back with me."
"I will definitely make up for you and your sister, and let you live a good life, without worrying about money."
"Listening to Uncle Luo, it seems you've known for a long time that Xiazhi has suffered a lot, right?"
Chen Nan had no intention of getting into conflict with Luo Guangyao.
But now.
A surge of anger rose in his heart. "If that's the case, why did you stand by and watch Xiazhi suffer outside without doing anything?"
"If you truly cared about her, why didn't you help her back then?"
"If you truly considered her your daughter, why didn't you help her pay back the two hundred million debt when she was framed?"
"Doesn't your Luo family have a very prosperous background in the provincial capital? Could it be that you couldn't even come up with two hundred million?"
"Yes, you are the biological father of the second and third."
"But, in the past decade, have you fulfilled your duty as a father?"
"Not only did you not fulfill your paternal obligations, but you never even visited them!"
"What I don't understand is, you never raised them, so why do you want them to return to the provincial capital with you now that they are adults?"
"Do you really think they care about your wealth and status?"
Chen Nan's tone was cold.
His words were like silent slaps.
Ruthlessly striking Luo Guangyao's face.
"Brother is right, do you think we care about your meager possessions?" Chen Xiazhi's face was frosty.
She already disliked this suddenly appearing father.
Even more so now that he had ignored her suffering despite knowing about it.
Her dislike for him deepened considerably.
Luo Guangyao was infuriated, "Xiazhi, don't listen to his instigation. He's deliberately trying to sow discord between us father and daughter. I had no idea about your situation. If I had, I would never have let you suffer."
"Alright, alright, hurry up and leave!" Chen Xiazhi said impatiently, "Don't think about using money as bait to get us to return to the provincial capital with you."
"Even if you are our biological father, we know the principle that upbringing is more important than birth."
"Yes."
"Han Lu and I only have one father."
"His name is Chen Shan."
"A retired steel worker."
"He didn't give us a life of luxury, but he gave us endless care."
"To have such care in this life is enough!"
"Goodbye!"
With that, she linked arms with Chen Nan and entered the school.
Luo Guangyao's face turned grim.
He hadn't expected Chen Xiazhi to detest him so much.
Taking a deep breath, he got into the car. "Go to No. 1 Middle School!"
Since he couldn't get Chen Xiazhi to return to the provincial capital with him, he would make Chen Hanlu go.
As long as one of the sisters returned with him, it would be enough.
According to his information, Chen Hanlu disliked Chen Nan.
Therefore.
She would definitely go back with him!!!
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"I'm truly sorry, Grandpa wasn't here just now. If he had heard your heartfelt words, he would have been too happy to sleep."
"Yes, you've won a round for him against this man!" Chen Nan affectionately ruffled Chen Xiazhi's head.
Chen Xiazhi smiled, "I was just speaking the truth!"
Chen Nan took out the Qi Ling Pill. "Here, take this, and I guarantee you'll ace your college entrance exams."
Chen Xiazhi didn't doubt Chen Nan's words and closed her eyes with a smile. "I'll eat it if you feed it to me."
Chen Nan shook his head helplessly and then put the pill into her mouth.
"Brother, let's go, I'll show you around my school. The food in our cafeteria is really good..." Chen Xiazhi excitedly led Chen Nan on a tour of the school.
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Meanwhile.
Chen Hanlu arrived at the coffee shop at the school gate with a blank expression.
"You were looking for me?" Chen Hanlu looked at Luo Guangyao.
Luo Guangyao stood up nervously, "Hanlu, I am your..."
"I know, you are my biological father."
Chen Hanlu glanced at her watch and said faintly, "You have one minute to state your purpose for finding me, and only one minute."
"Alright, the clock starts now!"
Luo Guangyao was stunned.
He had heard that his younger daughter was cold-tempered, but he hadn't expected her to be this cold.
Chen Hanlu: "You have fifty seconds left!"
Luo Guangyao snapped back to reality and said, "Hanlu, I came to take you back to the provincial capital to live."
Chen Hanlu asked, "Why would you think we would go back with you?"
Luo Guangyao said, "I can give you a better life!"
Chen Hanlu replied, "I don't think our current life is bad!"
Luo Guangyao said unyieldingly, "I can give you fatherly love!"
Chen Hanlu said, "What I lack the least is fatherly love!"
Luo Guangyao almost spat out blood.
Chen Hanlu's words hurt him far more than Chen Nan's words.
Unwilling to accept defeat, he brought up Chen Nan. "Hanlu, don't you dislike Chen Nan? If you come back to the provincial capital with me, you'll never see him again in this life. Isn't that good?"
Chen Hanlu's face was filled with disgust, "Compared to Chen Nan, I dislike you even more!"
Luo Guangyao gritted his teeth, furious. "Why? Why is it that all of you are unwilling to come back with me?"