Blake Leaf’s mood improved even more, and his smile beca a bit more genuine.
Looking at this woman who was very likely his mother, Blake Leaf’s gaze held a bit more affection.
This look also affected Suzanne Sumrbreeze.
Seeing this handso young man from Yan University treating her with such respect, Suzanne even felt a surge of maternal emotion.
Her voice beca gentler and more humble: "Don’t be nervous, don’t hold back, ask anything you want. I’m just a regular business person who caught a lucky break, with the help of so friends, to have achieved a little success."
Blake Leaf coughed several tis before he found his voice and said, "You’re too modest. I’m very interested in your personal developnt story. May I ask where you’re from?"
Suzanne Sumrbreeze laughed and said casually, "Guess where I’m from?"
Blake Leaf squinted his eyes, smiled, and said, "Your accent sounds a bit like you’re from City Y. Are you from City Y?"
"Oh? You could tell?" Suzanne laughed, covering her mouth. "I thought I’d lost my accent, but you still figured it out..."
She nodded lightly and said cheerfully, "Yes, I’m from City Y. I grew up there, went to college there, and only after graduation did I co to City C to work, which led to the scale of my business today."
Blake Leaf pretended to flip through notes on his phone for a while before asking, "I heard that your Ride Wind Comrcial Properties Ltd. owns several very successful stores. Could you tell how you ca across those properties back then?"
Suzanne Sumrbreeze opened her mouth as if she wanted to say sothing, but at the last mont held back. Her smile faded slightly, and she said, "...That’s my business secret, I’m sorry I can’t disclose it."
Blake Leaf: "..."
How is that a business secret?
Weren’t those stores hers?
But the records at the neighborhood office were clear, weren’t they?
Thinking this, Blake Leaf rembered sothing else.
That was, more than twenty years ago, Suzanne Sumrbreeze was only in her early twenties, just out of college.
According to what she just said, she ca to City C only after graduating from City Y.
In just a year or two, how did a freshly graduated female student beco the owner of so much real estate?
The Sumrs Family in City Y didn’t seem wealthy.
Did Suzanne Sumrbreeze win the lottery?
Blake Leaf thought about it and decided to ask differently: "...Then could you please tell how you earned your first pot of gold?"
For self-made businesspeople, the first pot of gold is usually the hardest to earn and often involves chance and dramatic effect.
Suzanne Sumrbreeze’s gaze was sowhat evasive, seemingly reluctant to discuss the issue. She slightly furrowed her brow, looked at her wrist, and said gently, "You have eight minutes left."
Blake Leaf: "..."
Wasn’t she supposed to be open and honest?
He didn’t even ask anything inappropriate, did he?
Just wanted to probe into what happened more than twenty years ago that made this woman abandon her own son...
But she seed to be very wary of that ti, almost refusing to speak about it.
This wouldn’t do.
If she wouldn’t say anything, how could he get more clues?
Blake Leaf had a flash of inspiration and almost laid his cards on the table, saying, "I’ve been to Ms. Su’s hotown, City Y, and t so of your relatives there. May I ask, when did you get married?"
From the mont he ntioned her relatives in City Y, Suzanne Sumrbreeze’s expression visibly worsened.
She pursed her lips, her voice sowhat sharp: "Weren’t you going to do a series on female entrepreneurs? Why ask about my relatives and family? Are you digging into my privacy?"
"These are just standard questions. When reporting on a female entrepreneur, of course, it can’t be separated from her family, right?" Blake Leaf replied calmly, his smile less warm, more formal.
Suzanne Sumrbreeze was unwilling to talk about matters in City Y at all.
She coldly said, "I got married at twenty-eight. This is in many of my interviews and profiles. Didn’t you do your howork before interviewing ?"
Blake Leaf felt his heart sink.
If Suzanne Sumrbreeze married at twenty-eight, then he was either her illegitimate child or not her child at all...
Full of confidence monts ago, feeling almost like he had grasped the truth, Blake Leaf was suddenly struck hard.
His smile completely disappeared as he looked intently at Suzanne Sumrbreeze, undergoing an intense internal struggle.
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