half thorns, half joy

Xiao Group, in the big conference room.

A moment ago, Xiao Zihan was still in the Xiao residence, inquiring about his mother's whereabouts.Immediately afterwards he received a call, and several key directors requested an emergency meeting.

Xiao Zihan asked for a meeting at this juncture, and Xiao Zihan knew nothing good without guessing.

But what he didn't expect was that the Lin family was so bold to confront him head-on.

Xiao Zihan stared at a group of directors led by Lin Qiaoer's father, and said expressionlessly, "So what do you mean, forcing me to step aside?"

"Zihan, what you said is ugly. The few of us came here specially to talk about the big projects you led recently. There is no other meaning." Father Lin said falsely.

"Really? Haven't the materials related to those projects been sent to you? You must have read them. Is there anything you are not satisfied with?"

Father Lin smiled, "I have some doubts, nephew, we think that you have started these projects too impulsively, and your steps are too big, and there are risks."

Xiao Zihan sneered, "Uncle Lin, which business project is risk-free? Before the launch of these projects, the board of directors voted to approve them. Now that the projects have just made progress, you jump out to find fault. What do you mean?"

Xiao Zihan was obviously a junior, but he was not polite at all, and the faces of the several elderly directors present were a little uncomfortable.

Father Lin also became serious, put on an air of an elder and scolded Xiao Zihan, "Zihan! What are you talking about! We are all of the same generation as your father! We are your father's friends!"

"..." Xiao Zihan suppressed his anger, and said lightly, "Uncle Lin, you don't mean to say that you will be my father next time, right?"

Father Lin's thoughts were exposed, and he narrowed his eyes and looked at Xiao Zihan.

"Hehe, it seems that he is really ready to be my father." Xiao Zihan changed the subject and asked Lin's father directly, "Uncle Lin, I'm curious, how did you unite with my mother? ?”

"Zihan, we are discussing business affairs now, don't talk about these private matters to confuse the public!"

Xiao Zihan leaned back in his chair, "Really, but I see your posture, the time I picked with you is for your daughter's private affairs."

Father Lin was silent.

Xiao Zihan said again: "I don't know what you mean by calling a few directors. You are indeed my elders, but I also want to tell you that I own the most shares in the Xiao Group. I am now the person in charge of the Xiao Group. , stop making senseless calculations."

Hearing Xiao Zihan's words, Father Lin burst out laughing.

Xiao Zihan was puzzled and looked at Father Lin.

"Have the most shares." Father Lin raised his eyebrows, "Did you discuss this with your mother when you said this? If she gave her part of the shares to others, you would not be considered as the owner of the most shares." Bar."

Xiao Zihan gritted his teeth immediately, and looked at Father Lin bitterly, "How dare you make an idea of ​​my mother's shares."

Father Lin raised his hand, "I didn't. If you insist, it was your mother who found me. If you want to know why, just ask her."

"..." Xiao Zihan stared at Father Lin without saying a word.

The current situation is that he can't find where his mother is, so he is very passive right now.

"Zihan!" Cai Jinyu ignored the assistant's obstruction, pushed open the door of the conference room and rushed in.

Xiao Zihan looked at Cai Jinyu, feeling a little relieved for no reason.

Father Lin saw an outsider coming in, so he didn't intend to continue talking. Anyway, his purpose of deterring Xiao Zihan has been achieved when he came here, so there is no need to stay any longer.

"Nephew, think about it carefully, I have other things to do, let's go first." Father Lin still had a kind smile on his face, but in Xiao Zihan's eyes, there was only indescribable sarcasm in that smile .

Just when Father Lin walked to the door of the conference room, Xiao Zihan suddenly got up and spoke.

"You do this kind of thing suddenly, you don't hesitate to tear your face, just because you want me to marry Lin Qiaoer, right?"

Father Lin stopped, turned to look at Xiao Zihan, was silent for dozens of seconds, and then slowly said: "If you are with Qiaoer, it will be very good for both of us. I am just such a precious daughter, Of course it's for her happiness. But, look at you, I won't force you to do this kind of thing, you have to figure out how to choose, and it's good that you can bear the consequences."

After finishing speaking, Father Lin left the conference room.

The few directors who came with him also left one after another.

Cai Jinyu came late and didn't hear Father Lin's threat, but seeing Father Lin's attitude, he guessed something.

After Father Lin's group left, Cai Jinyu walked up to Xiao Zihan and asked anxiously, "What's the situation now? Is he forcing you to be with Lin Qiaoer?"

"It's not just that." Xiao Zihan sat back in his seat and said in a deep voice, "He also plans to carve up the Xiao family."

"What?" Cai Jinyu cursed, "This old fox is too shameless."

Xiao Zihan said lightly: "In the business field, intrigue is the norm. I'm not so worried about his bright intentions. If he said that he came purely for Lin Qiaoer, I wouldn't believe it."

"That's right. They're all old foxes who have been around for so long. How could they go to war over the matter of their daughter getting married?"

Speaking of Lin Qiaoer, Cai Jinyu told Xiao Zihan that Lin Qiaoer went to Cai's house to force Cai Lin to speak out to the media.

Of course, he omitted the reason why Cai Lin listened to Lin Qiaoer.

Even though he knew that Xiao Zihan would not look down on Cai Lin because of this, he was still unwilling to smear his sister a little bit and say anything bad.

Xiao Zihan listened, and sneered, "This Lin Qiaoer is really boring, doing so many things, it's boring to death."

"Eh... people made things so big, it's not all for the purpose of marrying you." Cai Jinyu showed a depressed expression, "Do you think Lin Qiaoer loves you to death or what is going on? This kind of forced marriage The method, I thought it was all done by the girls in the entertainment industry, and she did it before it happened."

Xiao Zihan looked sleepy, "Then her calculation is wrong. I have no affair with her, and I have no ambiguity with her. She can't force me."

Cai Jinyu nodded, "I know that. What I want to ask is, what should I do now, with Lin Qiaoer and her father, how should you deal with it?"

"Hey..." Xiao Zihan sighed for a long time and closed his eyes, "I'm not worried about these two people. What I'm more worried about now is my mother."

"Auntie? What's wrong with Auntie?" Cai Jinyu ran around all morning without knowing the inside story.

Xiao Zihan said wearily: "My mother and the Lin family have teamed up. My mother asked that website to publish the report this morning."

"Ah? What?" Cai Jinyu was shocked.

"I don't understand why my mother suddenly cooperates with the Lin family. She has never forced me to associate with anyone. Besides, after my father came in, she was all focused on my father and didn't care about my affairs at all. Now she suddenly jumps It's really weird to come out and ask me to marry Lin Qiaoer."

Cai Jinyu listened carefully to Xiao Zihan's words, pondered over it several times, and tried to analyze: "According to what you said, the only one who can make auntie come forward is uncle. Could it be that the Lin family..."

Cai Jinyu didn't dare finish speaking, he realized something was wrong, and raised his eyes to look at Xiao Zihan, and Xiao Zihan also stared at Cai Jinyu with a serious face.

In all likelihood, this matter is related to Xiao Mingyuan.

After Xiao Zihan and Cai Jinyu thought of this level, they immediately acted and started to mobilize all the relationships, and checked the people who had placed Xiao Mingyuan in the prison in the recent period, as well as Zhao Suizhi's activities.

Now, Xiao Zihan is already the person in charge of the Xiao Group, and Cai Jinyu has also gained a firm foothold in his family's business. Compared with a year ago, the two people's connections are completely different.

After searching all afternoon, Xiao Zihan figured out the ins and outs.

It turned out that one of the Lin family's subordinates was arrested, and the Lin family released the news that they had someone in the prison who could cover part of the crime for Xiao Mingyuan, so that Xiao Mingyuan's sentence could be commuted.

After Zhao Suizhi learned about this, he took the initiative to find the Lin family, and after communicating with the Lin family, he planned to cooperate with the Lin family.

Zhao Suizhi has been Xiao Mingyuan's wife for so many years, although she has been swallowing her anger and pretending that the years are peaceful on the surface, but she is not stupid and sweet, knowing that the Lin family will definitely not help this favor in vain.

After several negotiations, after Lin Qiaoer expressed her feelings for Xiao Zihan, Zhao Suizhi decided to sacrifice her son's marriage to achieve this cooperation.

Zhao Suizhi was also worried. She didn't dare to fully trust the Lin family, but she didn't want to let go of this opportunity.

She simply made a bold decision, that is to tie the two families together. She thought that even if the Lin family had second thoughts, they would be willing to give up for Lin Qiaoer.

Of course, Zhao Suizhi knew her son well and knew that Xiao Zihan would definitely not agree to this approach, so she and Lin Qiaoer designed this situation to force Xiao Zihan to the point where he had no way to say no.

With the knife resting on his neck, he was not afraid that Xiao Zihan would disagree.

"My mother really has a deep affection for my father." Xiao Zihan stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows of the office, looked at the dark clouds in the distance, and smiled sadly.

Cai Jinyu stepped forward and patted Xiao Zihan on the shoulder, "Auntie... also has difficulties with Auntie."

Xiao Zihan said lightly: "I know she has difficulties, but... who has no difficulties. She has been asking me to find a way to commute my father's sentence and get my father out. Now that I haven't done what she wants, she will go It’s a lot of perseverance to work with others.”

"..." Cai Jinyu was silent, this was Xiao Zihan's family matter, even though he knew in his heart that Xiao Zihan's mother was wrong, he still couldn't comment.

"I really can't understand, my dad is so sorry to her, why does she have to pay so much for my dad, even at the expense of me." Xiao Zihan thought of the way his mother and father got along, and thought of his father's illegitimate child , full of incomprehension, "I can understand that a person loves another person deeply, but there must be right and wrong, and there must be a bottom line."

Looking at Xiao Zihan's sad face, Cai Jinyu thought of Tang Xuan for some reason.He didn't dare to say it, but he couldn't help but wonder, if one day Xiao Zihan and Tang Xuan came to the same point, would Xiao Zihan do anything for Tang Xuan regardless of morality?
Maybe... will it?
"Zihan, what should we do now." Cai Jinyu thought for a while and asked Xiao Zihan.

Xiao Zihan took a deep breath, pursed his lips, and said seriously, "Find my mother first, this matter must stop here, no matter whether the bait released by the Lin family is real or a trap, I will not allow my mother to take this step. I love My mom loves my dad too, but this is an insult to the lives lost and I cannot take it."

Cai Jinyu showed a surprised look, because of the awe-inspiring expression on Xiao Zihan's face, and because of Xiao Zihan's integrity.

He once thought that Xiao Zihan had changed. After Xiao Zihan took over the Xiao family, many good and human aspects were wiped out.

But at this moment, Cai Jinyu discovered that Xiao Zihan was still the same Xiao Zihan from before, and Xiao Zihan hadn't changed at all.

"Okay, I'll accompany you."

Cai Jinyu showed a gratified smile, he thought, he was wrong in the assumption just now.

If one day, Xiao Zihan and Tang Xuan were in the same situation as Xiao Zihan's parents, Xiao Zihan would never make the same decision as his mother.

Xiao Zihan might take the blame for Tang Xuan himself, or he might personally send Tang Xuan to the police station, and then love Tang Xuan alone for the rest of his life. He would never break the law or the bottom line of human nature because of Tang Xuan. This is Xiao Zihan and his parents. different place.

Such Xiao Zihan made Cai Jinyu admire.