Li Si looked up in surprise and said, "He wants to et you to discuss sothing? Why is he going through Mr. Jin? He seems to have a good relationship with Mr. Bai. Wouldn’t it be natural for him to reach you through that connection?"
She really couldn’t understand Lu Qilin’s approach.
Leng Mochen pinched her cheek. "Maybe he has his own considerations! He says he wants to et to talk, but it could be about sothing we can’t predict."
"Will you et him?" Worry flickered in Li Si’s eyes.
After all, that person was his father in his past life. Even though he sotis acted indifferent, she knew that deep down, he still felt differently about him.
Although he rarely talked about his past life and usually skimd over it.
She could still piece together so things.
To be honest, after being with him for a long ti, she’d realized he was soone who lacked a sense of security. At the sa ti, he yearned deeply for the warmth and affection of a family.
Leng Mochen let out a sneer. "Of course I’ll et him! Why wouldn’t I? But before the eting, I need to prepare—I won’t fight an unwinnable battle. And the ti and place must be on my terms!"
If Lu Qilin wanted to talk business, that would be straightforward—business is business. But if he had other motives, then Leng Mochen wouldn’t give any consideration to their past life. Thinking about it, his lips curled into a cold smile...
Leng Qianhan was still very surprised when the divorce paperwork with Zeng Qiuping was successfully finalized without incident. She hadn’t caused a huge scene or begged pitifully.
This was unlike her! He had already prepared himself for a drama, yet none of it was needed.
With her oversized sunglasses hiding her bruises, Zeng Qiuping left him with nothing but a resolute and carefree figure. Strangely, this left him feeling sowhat uneasy...
When Li Si learned about Leng Qianhan and Zeng Qiuping’s divorce, it was Mrs. Leng who ca to the house to tell her.
Regarding this, Mrs. Leng was still feeling unsettled. "Sisi, why do I still feel a bit uncomfortable about this? I didn’t expect the two of them to finalize the paperwork so quickly!
In the past, whenever I thought about the things Zeng Qiuping did, I was so angry I wanted to beat her up just to vent my frustration.
But now that the divorce is actually finalized, thinking back on all those mories, I can’t help but feel uneasy.
In the end, her divorce from your uncle is partly tied to . If I hadn’t called him in the heat of anger, maybe none of the subsequent events would have happened!"
At this point, Mrs. Leng sounded slightly regretful.
No matter what, after decades of being together, even with conflicts and grudges in between, such a sudden ending still left her with a sense of discomfort.
Yet when she thought of how Zeng Qiuping had ranted, cursed, and thrown tantrums at the door, blaming everything on their daughter and daughter-in-law—slandering Li Si—it still made her angry.
Back when Leng Mohao sched against Mochen, and after he faced his deserved punishnt, Mrs. Leng had decided not to hold a grudge against Zeng Qiuping anymore.
After all, in the eyes of outsiders, the biggest beneficiaries in the end were their own family.
So several tis when Mrs. Leng encountered Zeng Qiuping’s provocations, she swallowed her anger and let it go.
But this person kept testing her limits—once given an inch, she’d take a mile, and her behavior grew increasingly brazen.
Even Li Si hadn’t expected things to progress this quickly. With Zeng Qiuping’s personality, wouldn’t she have stirred things up and dragged things out?
That’s why Li Si also felt sothing was odd.
She couldn’t shake the feeling that there was sothing unusual about all this—had Zeng Qiuping suddenly co to her senses?
But when she thought about her personality, it didn’t seem like soone who would easily recognize or admit her mistakes.
Seeing Mrs. Leng’s conflicted expression, as the daughter-in-law who needed to maintain appearances, Li Si had to say a few words to comfort her.
She softly advised, "Mom, how can this be your fault? Even if you hadn’t said anything, Grandpa would have talked to Uncle anyway. That day Grandpa was resuscitated—if he hadn’t been, who would’ve taken responsibility for the consequences?"
Mr. Leng Sr. was already over eighty years old. Events like this could never be predicted—here one day, gone the next.
But naturally passing away and being angered to death were two entirely different things.
Mrs. Leng nodded and agreed, "That’s true! This incident even stressed out your dad—he grumbled to in private that if the old man had really passed because of her,
he wouldn’t just beat your uncle but would’ve given her a good beating too! Otherwise, when your uncle hit her that day, we wouldn’t have been so cold-hearted as to not stop him—it really was infuriating!"
"What about Leng Mo?" Li Si asked curiously.
Now that her parents were divorced, who would she stay with?
Thinking about Leng Mo, Li Si felt she must be feeling quite sad.
Mrs. Leng sighed, "She’s a good child—understanding and sensible, but unlucky. With a mother like that, is Zeng Qiuping truly stupid or just pretending to be? Just to spite us, she even sched against her own daughter.
In the end, it’s all co to this! Won like us, once we’re past nopause, what else can we do?
Your uncle, no matter his flaws, still holds real power in his hands. For all these years, she had plenty of people admiring her from the outside.
Now it’s all gone! But I guess your uncle wouldn’t be heartless—a financially generous settlent should still be given!"
Li Si listened quietly, occasionally chiming in.
As they chatted away, playing with Buding, the afternoon passed quickly.
When Leng Mochen returned, Mrs. Leng stayed for dinner before leaving.
After Mrs. Leng left, Li Si brought up Zeng Qiuping’s divorce to Leng Mochen.
Leng Mochen said flatly, "I already know! And I learned sothing else—do you want to hear it?"
"What is it?" Li Si asked curiously.
"Zeng Qiuping is going abroad to take care of that child!"
Li Si instantly thought of soone and blurted out, "John?"
This child truly hadn’t been heard from in a long ti—it seed like ever since Qian Rouxuan was arrested and he was sent back to his grandmother’s house and then to Zeng Qiuping’s house.
He hadn’t stayed for long before being sent abroad.
Li Si was genuinely surprised to hear Zeng Qiuping was planning to care for him.
That afternoon while chatting with Mrs. Leng, they had speculated about Zeng Qiuping’s future.
Maybe she’d live alone, or perhaps with Leng Mo.
Never had they expected she’d go abroad—and to take care of John.
Leng Mochen gave a small grunt. He hadn’t anticipated this either.
This ti, Leng Qianhan had steeled himself for the divorce, likely not expecting her to finalize it so decisively.
"Honey! Didn’t she dislike that child? Why is she suddenly going to care for him?"
Leng Mochen explained patiently, "After divorcing Leng Qianhan, she truly doesn’t have many places to go.
Staying here would be difficult, and wherever she goes, it’s better to be in a place where no one knows her."
There were so things Leng Mochen didn’t say—Leng Mohao’s sentence wasn’t life imprisonnt, so with good behavior and a bit of networking, an early release wasn’t impossible. He couldn’t believe Zeng Qiuping didn’t have other plans...
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