The two colleagues beside Rong Ci stole glances at Lin Wu while hurriedly taking two steps back, pressing themselves against the wall.
Lin Wu had also seen Rong Ci.But she immediately shifted her gaze away coldly, clearly not regarding her as anything important.
She then walked into the elevator, surrounded by the executives.
After the elevator doors closed, Rong Ci’s two colleagues quickly let out a breath of relief, before excitedly resuming their gossip.
“That must be Mr.
Feng’s girlfriend, right?
Oh my god, she’s so gorgeous!
She’s wearing all designer brands.
They must be super expensive!
As expected of someone from a wealthy family, she’s so confident, poised, and commanding.
Her aura is just on a completely different level from us ordinary people!”
“Yes, yes, exactly!”
As they spoke, the two women softly asked Rong Ci, “Rong Ci, what do you think?”
Rong Ci lowered her eyes and said faintly, “Yes.”
Lin Wu was actually her father’s illegitimate daughter.
Perhaps “illegitimate daughter” wasn’t entirely accurate.
After all, when Lin Wu was eight, her father had insisted on divorcing Rong Ci’s mother so that Lin Wu and her mother wouldn’t have to endure any grievances, and he had married Lin Wu’s mother instead.
After the divorce, Rong Ci had lived with her maternal grandmother and uncle, accompanying her mentally unstable mother.
Over the years, her uncle’s business had been declining, while the Lin family’s business had been booming.
It was said that to make up for the grievances Lin Wu had suffered in her childhood, her father wanted to give her the best of everything, spending a fortune to raise her.
And Lin Wu had lived up to expectations; she was reportedly exceptionally outstanding.
So, the former illegitimate daughter, Lin Wu, had now become a legitimate heiress of a wealthy family.
Having been a wealthy young lady for over a decade, the aura of a true heiress on Lin Wu was now even stronger than it had been on Rong Ci, who was the legitimate daughter back then.
She had thought that after childhood, she and Lin Wu would never cross paths again.
Yet, it seemed that heaven was especially partial to Lin Wu.She and Feng Tingshen could be considered childhood sweethearts.
But no matter how hard she tried, Feng Tingshen had never seen her.
Instead, he had fallen completely in love with Lin Wu the moment he laid eyes on her—”Rong Ci, are you okay?
“Seeing Rong Ci’s somewhat pale face, her two colleagues looked worried.Rong Ci came back to her senses.
”
I’m fine.”She and Feng Tingshen would be getting a divorce soon.
Who Feng Tingshen loved would have nothing to do with her from now on.
For the rest of the day, Rong Ci paid no more attention to the matters between Feng Tingshen and Lin Wu.
She worked overtime until nearly nine o’clock.
Just as she was finishing up her work, her phone rang.
It was her best friend, Chu Zilan.Rong Ci answered, only to be told that Chu Zilan had drunk too much and was asking her to come to the restaurant to pick her up and take her home. You are reading on novelping(.)com, the official source.
Rong Ci quickly finished the documents at hand, grabbed her car keys, and left the company.
Twenty minutes later, Rong Ci arrived at the destination.
As she got out of the car and was about to walk toward the entrance, a little girl walked out from the parking lot on the other side.
Seeing the clear profile of the little girl, Rong Ci froze in her tracks.Xinxin?
Shouldn’t she be in school in Country A?
How could she…
Could it be that she had returned to the country with Feng Tingshen?
Although her position didn’t give her access to some of the company’s confidential documents, she knew that Feng Tingshen’s expansion work in Country A would take some time to fully complete.
She had assumed that Feng Tingshen was only returning to the country briefly to handle some matters.
She hadn’t expected that her daughter had actually come back with him…
She didn’t know exactly when they had returned, but judging by the fact that she had seen Feng Tingshen this morning, they must have been back for at least a day.
Yet, her daughter hadn’t called her once from start to finish to tell her that they had returned.
Thinking of this, Rong Ci gripped her bag tightly.
Watching the cheerful little figure bouncing ahead, Rong Ci quietly followed.
When she reached the corner of the lobby, Lin Wu and several of Feng Tingshen’s friends appeared at the end of the corridor.
Rong Ci immediately stepped aside to hide.
Then, she heard her daughter happily call out, “Auntie Wuwu!” and run quickly toward the front, throwing herself into Lin Wu’s arms.
Rong Ci sat down on a nearby sofa with her back to them, using the potted plants and the back of the chair to shield her body.
“Xinxin, you’ve returned to the country too?”
“Because you returned, Auntie Wuwu, Dad and I couldn’t bear to part with you.
So Dad finished his work early and brought me back!
Plus, we deliberately returned the day before your birthday so we wouldn’t miss it!”
“This is the necklace Dad and I made with our own hands.
Happy Birthday, Auntie Wuwu!”
“Wow, did Xinxin and Dad make this with their own hands?
That takes so much effort and care.
Xinxin, you’re so amazing!
Auntie loves it.
Thank you, Xinxin!”
“As long as you like it, Auntie Wuwu~”
Feng Jingxin hugged Lin Wu and acted spoiled.
“I haven’t seen you for a whole week, Auntie Wuwu.
I miss you so much.
If I couldn’t call you every day, I wouldn’t have been able to stay in Country A for these past few days…”
“I miss Xinxin too.”
It was Feng Tingshen.Even without seeing him, she could be certain just by the sound of his footsteps.
The reason she was so sure was that during the six or seven years of their marriage, she had basically waited for him every single day.
Feng Tingshen’s footsteps were just like him: unhurried, steady, and composed.
Even with his close family members, he was steady and seemingly casual, as if he wouldn’t even flinch if the sky were to fall.
She had once believed that no one and nothing in this world could disturb his peace of mind.
But then Lin Wu appeared.
And suddenly, there was an exception—Recalling the past, Rong Ci hadn’t even had time to dwell on it before she heard her daughter call out, “Dad.”
Feng Tingshen’s friends also greeted him one after another.
Feng Tingshen acknowledged them, then said to Lin Wu, “Happy Birthday.”
Lin Wu smiled.
“Mhm.”
“Dad, didn’t you prepare other birthday gifts for Auntie Wuwu?
Give them to her quickly!”
It suddenly went quiet on the other side.
Then, one of Feng Tingshen’s friends chuckled softly, leaning down to pinch Feng Jingxin’s cheek.
“That’s a private gift your dad prepared for your Auntie Wuwu.
He’ll probably give it to her in private.
Let’s not butt in, haha~”
The others also smiled ambiguously.
At that moment, Feng Tingshen said, “I’ve already given it.”
“Huh?
When?”
Feng Jingxin asked, then added, “Dad, you secretly went to see Auntie Wuwu again without taking me.
Humph!”
Feng Tingshen’s friends burst into laughter.Rong Ci, however, remembered that Lin Wu had come to Feng Group that morning.
It was probably given to her at that time.
Lin Wu smiled shyly and said, “Let’s not stand here.
Let’s go upstairs.”
The sound of their footsteps gradually faded.
Rong Ci’s mind went completely blank.A dense, suffocating pain spread through her heart.
Only after a long while did she come back to her senses.
She silently stepped into the elevator and went upstairs to help her friend down.
The private room where Chu Zilan was having dinner with Lin Wu’s group was actually on the same floor.
As Rong Ci supported Chu Zilan into the elevator, Qi Yuming, one of Feng Tingshen’s friends, suddenly paused in his steps.