Daisy replied faintly, "I was walking on the second floor and didn't come down."
Without waiting for the two maids to ask in confusion, she walked into the room, closed the door forcefully, and said, "Don't disturb me, I need to rest."
Sister Fen, as usual, woke up after her half-hour nap feeling much refreshed. She went to the kitchen to prepare the tonics for Daisy's afternoon and evening meals.
Although she disliked this woman as much as Wu Xiufang did, she endured it, thinking that she was serving the future young master, not this woman.
As she entered the kitchen, she instinctively felt for the keys in her pocket and found nothing, which startled her.
Sister Fen hurried back to the room where she had napped and searched anxiously everywhere.
Finally, she spotted the two keys strung together at the corner outside the room. She quickly picked them up, thinking she must have dropped them at the door in her grogginess after waking from her nap.
Putting the keys away, she didn't think about it further and went back to the kitchen to prepare the nourishing tonics.
...
Daisy returned to her room, calmed her emotions, and gently locked the door. She then leaned on the bed and opened the notebook from the beginning.
The beginning was a record of a child's daily life written at an elementary school level, with only a few words here and there. The days were spent in the countryside and were very difficult.
She wanted to go to school, but her family had no money, and her grandmother and mother could not afford the tuition.
Her mother had also fallen ill and needed money for medical treatment and medicine.
The child's mother decided to teach her to read and write at home, and the child was also happy learning to write with her mother.
But good times did not last long; the child's mother's condition worsened and could not be cured.
Her grandmother was unable to raise her alone and sent the child to a distant relative's home.
This couple had no children of their own and treated her like their own daughter. However, both husband and wife were honest farmers who farmed the land. They only allowed the child to finish junior high school before discouraging her from further education.
Seeing this, Daisy thought that this couldn't possibly be Wu Xiufang's childhood. Could it be Sister Fen's diary?
Wu Xiufang's family background was naturally distinguished, as she married Huangfu Shaohua. She should have been a wealthy young lady and could not have had such a miserable childhood.
As Daisy read further, she increasingly felt that this was just Sister Fen's diary.
After finishing junior high school, the girl who wrote this diary was engaged to someone in the neighboring village by her family.
Although the girl still wanted to study, she had to accept her adoptive parents' arrangement and married a young man from the neighboring village. She lived quite happily after marriage.
The young man's father was a village doctor, and his family members were all educated.
Although the young man only graduated from a vocational school, he returned to the village and learned ancestral medical skills from his father. He was also respected by the villagers in the surrounding ten villages.
When the girl's life became good and smooth, she returned to the old house where she had lived with her grandmother and mother.
Her grandmother had passed away a few years ago. While clearing out things in the old house, she discovered something...
Daisy saw that the diary ended here. Several pages were torn out, followed by the handwriting of another person.
The other person wrote about the difficulties of adapting to life after returning to her birth father's side.
However, from the words of this person, one could tell that she had a very strong personality and was unwilling to admit defeat in anything, striving to become excellent. But living like this was also very tiring.
Daisy then realized that this diary was written by two different people.
And they should be two girls with completely different personalities. Could it be that Wu Xiufang took Sister Fen's diary and continued writing her own entries?
But it shouldn't be like this. She was a wealthy young lady; why would she share a diary with a family servant? Buying a new notebook would have been better. This was too illogical.
Daisy felt tired from reading and, moreover, the diary written by the person later was somewhat vague. The people and events she wrote about seemed to be alluding to someone, without directly expressing her feelings.
Even writing a diary so stifledly, her life must not have been happy.
Daisy felt the need to rest and adjust. She took out the photos tucked inside and looked at them.
The photos showed three young people, one man and two women. By today's standards, they were all handsome men and beautiful women.
They must have been playing and taking photos near a scenic spot in Lancheng, and they also took a group photo in front of a university.
This university was the best and most famous university in Lancheng. Judging by the smiles on each of their faces in every photo, it was clear they had a great time together.
Daisy stared at the photos and looked again carefully. One of the girls should be Wu Xiufang in her youth.
The other girl looked completely different from Sister Fen, so it shouldn't be Sister Fen's young photo. However, Daisy also recognized this girl, though she had never seen her before.
The young man's features in the photos seemed somewhat familiar to her. She couldn't recall where she had seen him before, but it was definitely not Huangfu Sisong.
This made her wonder if the girl in the photo she didn't recognize was the person who wrote the first part of the diary, but who was this young man?
Judging by the photos, the young man and the girl she didn't know at all seemed to have a closer relationship.
Daisy felt tired and couldn't resolve the doubts for the moment. She closed the notebook, hid it under the mattress, and fell asleep.
...
Tianyi returned to the conference room to continue the meeting, but he was thinking about where to start.
Was the house arrest of Daisy Wu Xiufang's own decision, or did Huangfu Sisong also know about it or instruct his wife to do it?
Fortunately, he still had enough time to resolve this matter. He suddenly thought that some things required him to send people to investigate Wu Xiufang's former hometown.
Based on the information he had found so far, the Wu family seemed too unlucky, with none of them meeting a good end. There must be something fishy going on.
"President Qin, President Qin." An Jing called him twice.
He then snapped back to attention and asked, "What is it?"
"Do you think the new internal system proposal we just discussed is okay?" An Jing asked. "Do you have any suggestions for improvement?"
"You decide, as long as you think it's feasible." Tianyi hadn't listened to what the supervisor had said earlier and simply handed everything over to An Jing.
An Jing replied, "Okay," and then stated his improvement suggestions.
After the meeting ended, An Jing followed him to the CEO's office. As soon as the door was closed, he asked, "What happened to you during the meeting? You seemed distracted after taking a phone call."
Tianyi sat down at his desk and leaned back, saying, "There is indeed something that, the more I investigate, the more I feel it's not simple. I suspect there's a big secret hidden behind it."
"Tell me about it," An Jing asked with interest.
Tianyi told him everything he had found out about the Wu family.
An Jing listened with a shudder, his hair standing on end, and asked, "It sounds like a ghost story. When Wu Xiufang was born, a fortune teller predicted she would bring misfortune to her family. As a result, her mother took her to the countryside, and she caused her mother's death. After her father brought her back to the Wu family, she caused the death of everyone in the Wu family, and now she has even caused the death of her own son. It's truly terrifying that someone could have such a fate."