"What a group of talents!" Ming Zicheng sighed.
Lan Yuxi glanced at him, "You're not thinking about my son again, are you?"
"...I wouldn't dare!" Caught in his thoughts, Ming Zicheng's face flushed slightly.
"Is there anything you wouldn't dare?"
Ming Zicheng knew she was seething with anger and didn't dare to say more, only nodding with a smile, "I'll never dare to upset you again!"
"Hmph!" Lan Yuxi stood up, "You keep Master company for a chat. I'm going to see that brat."
Old Hong quickly stopped her, "Don't go. You'll scare the child and disrupt his system. If you're worried, I'll go check on him for you."
Without giving her a chance to object, Old Hong was already outside in the blink of an eye.
Lan Yuxi's eyes widened. After a long pause, she asked suspiciously, "Er Wan, has Master's Qinggong reached another level?"
"Mm!"
Lan Yuxi sat back down, filled with envy, "When will I ever reach Master's level?"
"As long as you're not lazy. You're already China's no. 1."
"Annoying you! You knew I was lazy, yet you made me go to that place to pick someone up. You almost worked me to death!"
"I promise this is the last time!" Seeing that no one was around, Ming Zicheng whispered, "Are they all settled?"
"Mm."
"Did you see Ye then?"
"Don't mention him to me! He's more annoying than you! He calls me short, then he fights with me for people. Most infuriatingly, when I just asked if his girlfriend was dead..."
Lan Yuxi pointed to her chest, "He grabbed me and yelled at me, saying I wasn't allowed to curse his girlfriend. That old widower, he's a complete scoundrel!"
"Pfft—" Ming Zicheng couldn't hold back and spat out his drink.
It seemed neither of them recognized each other. If they knew who the other was later, the scene would surely be spectacular.
Lan Yuxi lightly tapped the armrest, glancing at him sideways, "Alright, stop laughing! Let's talk about something serious. The twenty people I brought back, although they are all elites, are still far behind the world's number one, Bing Yan. We need to strengthen their training if we want to surpass them."
"Are you training them? Or is Chao Chao training them?"
"Can you stop being so annoying!"
This damned Er Wan, he seemed to have given her a choice between two options.
But could she let her son train them?
It seemed not impossible!
"Sister..." Ming Zicheng cupped his hands towards her, "Please."
Lan Yuxi turned her eyes, a scheming look on her face, "Alright, alright! I'll be responsible for training them!"
...
Ye handed the people over to Nan Xiangxi and headed for the Nan Corporation building.
By the time he got out of the car, he had already changed back to his original face.
As Nan Xiao entered his office, Nan Xiangdong knocked and walked in.
Nan Xiao glanced at his arm, "It's not fully healed yet, why are you here?"
"You've been gone for several days, and I'm not at ease if you're not here to keep an eye on me." Nan Xiangdong placed a file bag on the desk, "This is what we just found, some information about the first madam."
Nan Xiao's gaze deepened as he took the file bag.
Knowing that Nan Xiao's mood wouldn't be good after reading it, Nan Xiangdong quietly withdrew.
In the evening, Nan Xiao returned to the old residence.
He didn't go to his father's courtyard but went straight to his elder brother's courtyard.
Qiu Shuying had just returned from the hospital and was resting on the sofa. Seeing Nan Xiao arrive suddenly, she was clearly taken aback.
Ever since Lan Yuxi jumped into the lake, he hadn't entered her courtyard. What was happening today?
Nan Xiao threw the file bag onto the coffee table and sat down on the sofa opposite Qiu Shuying.
"What is this?" Qiu Shuying didn't pick it up, raising her slightly weathered face and looking at him intently.
"Information about Doctor An, who performed your surgery back then."
Qiu Shuying's pupils contracted sharply.
Nan Xiao casually crossed his legs and simply watched her.
Qiu Shuying felt uneasy under his gaze and forced a dry smile.
"So many years have passed, I've forgotten about this person. Why are you still investigating him?"
"You haven't forgotten at all! If you had forgotten, you wouldn't have arranged for him to have a car accident years later, leaving him paralyzed and crippled. He should have died!"
Nan Xiao's fingers tapped rhythmically on his knee, striking Qiu Shuying's heart with each beat.
Qiu Shuying stopped pretending and said resentfully, "He was a quack doctor! He killed my child and made me unable to have children my entire life... He deserved to die!"
Nan Xiao sneered, "He's not the only one you wanted dead, is he? This Doctor An was the first madam's distant nephew. It was the first madam who ordered him to remove your uterus!
And Lan Yuxi, if she hadn't accidentally bumped into you, you wouldn't have had stomach pains, and the first madam wouldn't have had a reason to send you to the hospital."
Qiu Shuying looked at him in astonishment, "Nan Xiao, what nonsense are you talking about? Although the first madam did many things that wronged me, if she hadn't taken me from the orphanage, I don't know where I would be now. Mother is a benefactor to me. No matter how much I hate her, I wouldn't kill her. And Yuxi, she was so young then, she didn't know anything. How could I hate her..."
"If you didn't hate her, would you have cruelly provoked her into jumping into the lake?"
"If you didn't hate her, would you have knocked her out when Yun Siyan had already succeeded and then sent her to my bed?"
Nan Xiao shifted his posture, resting his hands on his knees, and said in a deep voice, "Actually, the person you hate the most is me! Your uterus was removed because the first madam wanted elder brother to help me guard the Nan Corporation, but she didn't want him to have his own child and become disloyal.
And you, having lived with the first madam since childhood, know her best. You know what she values, and you know Lan Yuxi's true identity. By doing this, you destroyed me and also struck a blow to the first madam's heart.
Lan Yuxi before, and the first madam after, killing with a poisoned pen—this is your usual tactic!"
Qiu Shuying's body trembled as she clenched her fists.
Her eyes, which had become peaceful from years of Buddhist practice, now rippled with emotion.
Nan Xiao pulled an A4 paper from the file bag and threw it in front of Qiu Shuying, "This is the article you had reporters publish back then, but your father intercepted it before it was sent out. Otherwise, my relationship with Lan Yuxi would have been known to everyone long ago. What a shame, you were just one step away from success."
Qiu Shuying snatched the A4 paper and tore it apart violently.
Nan Xiao scoffed, "You should be thankful it was your father who intercepted this article, otherwise, with the first madam's personality, she wouldn't have kept you around this long."
Qiu Shuying closed her eyes, forcing back the tears that threatened to fall.
"Father spoke to you, didn't he? Otherwise, you wouldn't have been so obedient and kept quiet about me and Lan Yuxi."
Qiu Shuying took a deep breath, "Believe it or not, the person I least want to hurt in this family is you, because you are the one Nan Yao cares about the most. Doctor An's matter was indeed my doing. I admit what I did, and I won't take the blame for what I didn't do."