Spring 2004, Xiao Zhai, Taipei

"Xiao Zhuo, come to my study." After dinner, Xiao Tianhao stopped his eldest daughter who was about to go back to her room and walked to the study first.

Xiao Zhuo, who had originally reached the stairs, turned around and followed his father into the study.

"Do you still remember how many years you have been at Xiao's house?" After sitting down, Xiao Tianhao lit a cigarette, his tone as unfamiliar as usual.

After taking a sip of tea, Xiao Zhuo just raised his eyebrows at his father expressionlessly.

"Eighteen years!" Seeing that Xiao Zhuo had no intention of answering, Xiao Tianhao had no choice but to cough twice to relieve his embarrassment, "Have I ever treated you badly in the past eighteen years?" This child is so uneducated. If he hadn't looked at Zhuo Xi back then,

Literally speaking, he would not adopt her!

Xiao Zhuo still raised his eyebrows in reply, looking at his father sitting opposite with a mocking look.

"What is your attitude!? After all, I am also your father. I have raised you for more than ten years..."

"What's the theme?" Xiao Zhuo coldly interrupted his chattering father.

"You..." Xiao Tianhao's self-esteem was obviously damaged. He blushed and pointed at the ungrateful Xiao Zhuo and shouted: "Your wings are stiff, aren't you? If I hadn't adopted you and raised you from the age of eight to now, you

A long time ago..." Xiao Tianhao, furious and frothing at the mouth, turned over old accounts, as if he had completely forgotten that Xiao Zhuo had been completely independent since high school and had never asked for a penny from him.

"If you don't get to the point, I will have to go back to my room and do business. After all, as you said, my wings are stiff." Xiao Zhuo stood up and planned to leave. The "Zichen Clothing" he founded during college has now developed.

As a medium-sized clothing company, she is always busy with official business every day, and she has no time to listen to the "account books" here.

"Sit down!" Xiao Tianhao yelled angrily. He stubbed out the cigarette in his hand and looked up at Xiao Zhuo who was sitting back. After a long time, he finally gave an order with the majesty of a parent: "I want you to marry me."

To the person in charge of the Leng Group - Leng Yuxuan!"

"Oh? You want me to marry you?" Xiao Zhuo winked at his father "innocently" while playing with the teacup.

"Ahem -" He knew that Xiao Zhuo's cuteness at the moment was full of ridicule: "I know you never regard me as a father." Just as he did not regard her as a daughter: "You rarely listen to my words. But this time you

You must marry Leng Yuxuan no matter what! Take it as an order or a request, in short you must go to Hong Kong to marry Leng Yuxuan at the end of this month!"

"That's why you asked your mother to go to the United States alone to see Qiqi!" Xiao Zhuo smiled coldly. Because he was afraid of the opposition of Xiuzhong's mother, he sent Yu Xiuzhong, who was most protective of her, to live with his sister who was studying abroad.

go.

Unconscious of Xiao Zhuo's ridicule, Xiao Tianhao lit another cigarette and told the whole story: "I have some grudges with Leng Yuxuan's parents. In fact, I don't remember it for a long time. Until not long ago, I found out that he asked the Detective Agency to investigate me.

I also investigated him in turn and remembered that old incident." Xiao Tianhao deliberately avoided talking about his grievances with the Leng family, and said irritably: "I have heard about the strength of the Leng family, and I have taken a lot of precautions.

But after all, the other party is a large company in the top 500 companies in the world..." Sighing, he said helplessly: "Now, he has controlled Xiao's shares, and all movable and immovable properties have been frozen by him. He gave me two

One way to go: Either throw away Mrs. Xiao, or marry her daughter to him. If Mrs. Xiao is lost, the Xiao family will live on the streets; if Mrs. Xiao is kept, Qiqi will marry Leng Yuxuan. She has just turned twenty.

Yeah!" After wiping out the cigarette butt, Xiao Tianhao looked at Xiao Zhuo almost begging: "But you are different, you are smarter than Qiqi, and you still have your own career. With your calmness and intelligence, Leng Yuxuan cannot hurt you.

Yes! I know I'm not good to you, but Xiuzhong has always regarded you as his own, and Qiqi also regards you as her sister. Can you bear to see them suffer? "

"Aren't you afraid that Leng Yuxuan will find out that I'm just the daughter of your adopted 'old friend'?" Xiao Zhuo's eyes became less mocking and more contradictory. He was right, she couldn't sit back and watch Xiuzhong's mother and Qiqi suffer.

"You can rest assured about this. Although you came to the Xiao family when you were eight years old, the outside world has always thought that you are Xiuzhong and I's biological daughter who was separated. And the detective agency that Leng Yuxuan hired this time happened to be opened by my old friend."

Seeing Xiao Zhuo begin to compromise, Xiao Tianhao quickly tried to persuade him, everything is ready now, all he needs is the east wind!

"It seems that all you lack now is my promise." Looking at Xiao Tianhao across from him sarcastically, Xiao Zhuo put down the cup in his hand: "I can agree, provided you agree to my conditions."

"Say!" As long as Xiao Zhuoken agrees, he is willing to get a gold mountain.

"I want Hong Kong's Luo Lan Clothing" Finally, she has a chance to get back her mother's relics!

"No, no!" Xiao Tianhao refused.

"Then there's no need for us to continue talking." Xiao Zhuo curled his red lips and stood up gracefully, preparing to leave.

"Wait!" Xiao Tianhao hurriedly stopped Xiao Zhuo: "I will give you the same amount of Xiao's stock or cash, and give up Luo Lan."

"Give me Luo Lan from Hong Kong, and I will not only marry Leng Yuxuan, but also give you 24 million Hong Kong dollars, which is equivalent to double Luo Lan's total assets." Xiao Zhuo sat down again and said seriously.

"Why do you insist on Luo Lan?" Xiao Tianhao asked puzzledly. Xiao's main business is real estate, so the operation of Luo Lan Clothing in Hong Kong is not improving. It is just a small business that barely survives bankruptcy.

"Because that's the only thing my mother left, and you don't deserve it!" The cold tone was as sharp as a blade.

"...Give me some time..." Xiao Tianhao smoked a cigarette dejectedly, and it took him a long time to give his answer.

"I'm glad we reached a consensus." Xiao Zhuo stood up elegantly again and walked to the study door. Before leaving, she suddenly smiled at Xiao Tianhao: "Dear father, you'd better show that you would rather lose everything in front of Leng Yuxuan.

Let me, the 'eldest daughter', pretend to marry him, so that you can get what you want."

Looking at the background of Xiao Zhuo's departure, Xiao Tianhao couldn't help but be stunned. This was not the first time. This girl could always understand his thoughts. In some ways, she really looked like him, even more so than Qiqi.

Like! What a pity... "Forgive me, Xiwen. After all, she is not my biological daughter."

Back in the room, Xiao Zhuo leaned silently against the floor-to-ceiling window. The stars in the night sky were reflected in her stubborn black eyes, making the lonely Xiao Zhuo even more condensed. She looked at the long black brocade sky, her mother's appearance

Appeared among the stars again: "Mom, I got Roland back..." She hugged her arms tightly in order to drive away the helplessness and loneliness in her heart. She didn't care about the price she would pay for it. She didn't mind being there...

In her boring life, coupled with the failure of marriage, she has never had too much affection or possessiveness about the things around her. Unlike her father, who is over fifty but still obsessed with fame, fortune and money, he is willing to use his relatives as pawns in order to keep the family wealth.

.Oh, no! She is too sentimental. In Xiao Tianhao's eyes, she is at best just the illegitimate daughter that one of his bedmates entrusted him to raise when he died.
Chapter completed!