At this mont, Luo Ning was taking a walk with her husband and daughter in the neighborhood below.
She wasn’t in a great mood today; her whole being was sowhat gloomy.
"Mommy, have so ice cream."
Suddenly, her daughter Mo Xiaochen ca over holding a small ice cream cone, "This is Chen Chen’s favorite strawberry-flavored ice cream."
"Daddy said when you’re unhappy, eating sothing sweet will make it better."
Mo Han chuckled and joined in, "Ning’er, Chen Chen gave you her favorite ice cream, just give us a smile, huh?"
"I’m not going to smile at you!"
Luo Ning glanced at Mo Han with annoyance but then tenderly said to her daughter, "If I’m going to smile, it would be for my Chen Chen."
"Chen Chen, you eat it, Mommy doesn’t like ice cream..."
"Mommy, are you worried about getting fat?"
Mo Xiaochen pouted, holding the nearly lted cone, "It’s okay, Mommy isn’t fat, you can eat it."
As she pushed the cone into Luo Ning’s hand,
the ice cream was about to drip onto Luo Ning’s own hand. Luo Ning felt both annoyed and amused, and just as she was about to take a bite,
suddenly, her phone rang in her pocket.
"Mo Han, you eat it."
Luo Ning handed the ice cream to Mo Han and took out a phone from her pocket, noticing a call from an unknown number.
It was already seven o’clock. Who could be calling ?
Out of politeness, Luo Ning still answered the call, "Hello, this is Luo Ning."
"Ning’er, it’s Grandma!"
A hasty voice ca from the other end of the phone, belonging to Old Lady Luo.
As soon as Luo Ning heard Old Lady Luo’s voice, her smile instantly froze.
In the morning, in an effort to help Luo’s Group out of trouble, she had called Ling Yuzhu, the general manager of Shengtian Group, and had finally convinced Ling Yuzhu to lift the ban.
But in the afternoon, Gao Shou and others, representing Bank of Communications, arrived at her ho with loan docunts from Luo’s Group, demanding the repaynt of 165 million principal and interest.
At that ti, she called Grandma to question her about the debt; however, Grandma had bluntly told her over the phone that whoever signed the papers was responsible for them, leaving Luo Ning alone to shoulder the massive loan.
If not for Mo Han making a last-minute call to a friend at the police center, it would have been difficult for her family to get out of the situation.
It was also because of her anger toward Grandma that Luo Ning, in a fit of rage, had blocked Old Lady Luo’s phone number.
She hadn’t expected Grandma to call her using soone else’s phone to apologize.
"Oh, it’s Grandma. What’s up?"
Luo Ning spoke calmly, "I’m a bit busy right now, so if there’s nothing pressing, I’m going to hang up..."
"Don’t..."
Old Lady Luo hurriedly spoke, "Ning’er, don’t hang up just yet."
"Grandma knows you’re feeling very upset right now, all this is my fault."
"I want to confess to you, the docunts and agreents you signed, indeed, I had soone tamper with them."
"That 1.5 billion, it was also who hired soone to impersonate you to borrow the money from Gao Shou of Bank of Communications."
Even though Luo Ning had already guessed the truth, hearing Grandma confess made her tears uncontrollably fall, "Why? Grandma, why would you do this?"
"Isn’t what I did for Luo’s Group not enough?"
"Why do you keep on hurting , over and over again!!!"
Mo Han silently took out a tissue from his pocket and handed it over, and then slowly savored Chen Chen’s strawberry ice cream.
Old Lady Luo calling at this ti probably ant that she was backed into a corner by Gao Shou and his associates.
"Ning’er, I had no choice,"
Old Lady Luo’s tone was filled with defeat as she spoke, "At that ti, Luo’s Group was in dire straits, with seven or eight projects waiting for funding, suppliers constantly demanding paynts, and you were not willing to mortgage that villa worth 170 million."
"I had no choice but to look for loans outside..."
Luo Ning sobbed, "Then why did you borrow under my na?"
"Because your eldest uncle and I, along with others, were already on the credit blacklist at the bank, and could not borrow normally."
"Even so financial companies refused loans because of our credit records."
Old Lady Luo confessed, "And you, not only do you have excellent credit in the banking system, but the whole financial circles of Jiangling City know you have a good relationship with Ling Yuzhu of Shengtian Group."
"If you were to take the lead, financial companies like Bank of Communications would definitely lend the money."
"But at that ti, we had already fallen out with you, expecting you to borrow the funds was impossible, so we thought of impersonating you to get the loan first."
One has to admit, Old Lady Luo was indeed shrewd, divulging all that had to be said, and selectively keeping silent on things that should not be discussed.
But Luo Ning was no longer the naively kind person she used to be; after everything she had been through, she had seen through Grandma’s true face.
"Grandma, you don’t need to say any more."
"The fact that my uncle is using my signature and thumbprint, and that you hired soone to impersonate for the loan, I know all about it."
"In your eyes, I’m just a tool that can be discarded at any ti, useful when you need , and thrown away like trash when you don’t!"
"Rember the Luo family banquet a while ago? You said that whoever clinched the East City Comrcial Street project from Shengtian Group would beco the General Manager of Luo’s Group."
"But what happened afterward? Even though it was my achievent, you proclaid in front of all the guests that Luo Xuanran was the new General Manager of Luo’s Group!"
"It was from that mont on that I started to feel despair towards Luo’s Group, towards you."
"After that, you kept making things difficult for , trying to get to resign from the General Manager position."
"In the end, you even expelled my father’s lineage from the Luo family genealogy."
"Grandma, this is the last ti I will call you Grandma!"
"Let say this as well, my na is Luo, but I’m not the Luo from Luo’s Group, I’m my own Luo Ning!"
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