“Cough, cough!” Nan Sheng was drinking water when she choked hard upon hearing those words.
“Grandma, what are you talking about?!” Nan Sheng coughed until a faint blush spread across her cheeks.
Old Madam Fu laughed heartily, giving Nan Sheng a meaningful look. “I understand, I understand! You young people always say one thing but mean another!”
Nan Sheng: “…”
Fu Moyan stood by the corridor window, a cigarette between his thin lips as he clicked the lighter.
With a flicker, a bright blue flame leaped up, dancing across Fu Moyan’s sharply defined profile.
He wasn’t deaf – he had heard the conversation between his grandmother and Nan Sheng after stepping out.
The warm, soft sensation in his palm lingered, the spot where he had held Nan Sheng’s fingertips still feeling somewhat feverish.
Even though Fu Moyan was a straight-as-steel man, he realized that the heat was unusually intense.
He took a shallow puff, white smoke enveloping his handsome, upright face as his usual cold, rigid aura gradually dissipated.
It seemed… he felt something different toward this Third Young Miss of the Nan Family?
Realizing this, Fu Moyan choked on the smoke and started coughing dryly.
Impossible!
He instinctively denied the thought.
Perhaps he had just been too long without female company – it would have been the same with anyone else!
…
After changing the dressing this time, Old Madam Fu wasn’t in a hurry to leave.
Noticing she had something to say, Nan Sheng wisely dismissed the caregiver.
“Grandma, is there something you want to tell me?”
Old Madam Fu also felt somewhat awkward. What she was about to discuss involved the Fu Family’s shameful secret, something embarrassing to mention.
But she had no choice.
“Xiao Sheng, it’s been some time since you and Mo Yan registered your marriage, but you haven’t met Mo Yan’s father yet, have you?”
Fu Moyan’s father?
Nan Sheng had long heard of this man’s reputation.
No, it should be said that among Shen City’s wealthy families, there wasn’t a single person who hadn’t heard of Fu Zhenglin’s name.
This man could be considered… a romantic and passionate soul, dominating the gossip headlines about romantic affairs across four generations of the Fu Family.
Counting back four generations, the Fu Family had all been passionate souls, but Fu Zhenglin was the only one who combined passion with philandering.
Twenty-eight years ago, Fu Zhenglin had taken a liking to Yiya, the rising star and number one beauty in the entertainment industry. Despite being already engaged, he was willing to break with his family to marry Yiya.
Their affair caused a huge sensation. Fu Zhenglin threatened the Fu Family with hunger strikes, wrist-cutting, and jumping from moving vehicles until the family reluctantly agreed to the marriage.
After marriage, the couple were inseparable, and two years later they welcomed their first son, Fu Moyan.
Just as people were about to marvel at their steadfast love, Fu Zhenglin was exposed for cheating on his wife Yiya during her pregnancy.
Less than a month after giving birth to Fu Moyan, Yiya committed suicide due to postpartum depression.
The once passionate feelings vanished like smoke. Fu Zhenglin didn’t even bother pretending in front of cameras, hastily marrying his returned first love Yin Nan just one month later.
Yin Nan was precisely the woman Fu Zhenglin had cheated with.
At that time, the two were mired in social controversy, even causing fluctuations in the Fu Corporation’s stock prices. This so enraged Old Master Fu that he expelled Fu Zhenglin from the family and refused to acknowledge Yin Nan’s status until his dying day.
The two fought for their love and truly never set foot in the Fu Family again, starting from scratch to establish a new conglomerate.
Ten years later, just as media sentiment was shifting to praise them as true love, Fu Zhenglin was exposed again for having found new true love.
He and Yin Nan engaged in a tumultuous divorce battle, willingly leaving with nothing and not taking a single cent, all to be with his one true love.
The term “true love” had its origins here.
Before the divorce ruling was even finalized, Fu Zhenglin gave an interview to the media at the courthouse entrance, completely ignoring Yin Nan who had just stepped out. He repeatedly referred to his current partner as his lifelong true love, claiming that past relationships were merely youthful indiscretions, and only upon meeting this true love did he understand what real love meant.
As Yin Nan descended the stairs with her team of lawyers, her heart felt pierced by countless arrows. Overwhelmed with grief, she missed a step and tumbled down the staircase, accidentally miscarrying her four-month-old fetus.
Under dozens of camera lenses, Fu Zhenglin merely glanced at the scene before leaving without hesitation.
The term “true love” instantly trended on social media.
Fu Zhenglin and his true love became the subject of public ridicule for three full days.
It was only when Old Master Fu could no longer stand the disgrace that he personally used his connections to suppress the controversy.
Even after being disowned, Fu Zhenglin still bore the Fu family name – the ultimate humiliation fell upon the Fu family!
The power of netizens proved immense and terrifying.
Within three days, Fu Zhenglin’s true love had her background thoroughly exposed.
From being a returned overseas rich girl to a graduate of socialite training classes, then a top hostess at a certain club, simultaneously maintaining ten relationships while being a regular casino patron known for extravagant spending… and more.
With evidence staring him in the face, all nine of his true love’s other relationships sank, yet Fu Zhenglin refused to believe any of it, steadfastly following his true love’s path.
He even bankrupted himself to help his true love deal with retaliation from her other partners, suffering a broken leg in the process, but ultimately winning the beauty’s heart.
This time, not just various media outlets, but even the true love herself became convinced she was indeed Fu Zhenglin’s one and only.
What she didn’t know was that Fu Zhenglin’s true love had an expiration date.
Eight years later, the now-reformed true love threatened to jump into the sea to force Fu Zhenglin to change his mind.
Fu Zhenglin didn’t even bother showing up, merely sending a message:
“Don’t worry, we were married after all. If you die, I’ll make sure to collect your body.”
The true love leaped into the ocean, was later rescued by firefighters, and subsequently disappeared from public view.
Fu Zhenglin single-handedly topped the trending searches again.
Prominent families in Shen City strictly disciplined their descendants, fearing another Fu Zhenglin might emerge to bring disgrace upon their clans.
By this time, Fu Moyan had turned eighteen.
This time, Fu Zhenglin wasn’t chasing new love but rather returning as a prodigal son, determined to become a good son and father.
He found ways to join Fu Corporation as a low-level employee, showering his parents with attention and showing extreme concern for his son, repeatedly kneeling at the Fu family entrance begging for forgiveness.
Had Fu Moyan still been in school, he would likely have stationed himself at the school gates playing the devoted father.
Through sheer determination, he managed to climb from a minor employee to the position of General Manager at Fu Corporation’s headquarters.
Another year passed, and Fu Zhenglin’s grandfather passed away, leaving him ten percent of Fu Corporation’s shares in his will.
Coincidentally, Fu Moyan was entering Fu Corporation at this time, with shareholders banding together to make things difficult for him, even attempting to dilute the Fu family’s shares and oust them from the company.
In this critical situation, Fu Zhenglin stepped forward to shoulder all responsibilities and even gifted his ten percent shares to Fu Moyan.
After all, they were blood relatives – when the bone breaks, the tendons remain connected.
After careful consideration, Old Master Fu and Old Madam concluded that Fu Zhenglin had genuinely reformed and finally permitted him to reenter the Fu household.
Fu Moyan, then only eighteen, had little say in the matter and passively accepted the arranged share transfer.