sjar Chapter 425 The Final Value
Chapter 425 The Final Value
After cleaning Bai Yisha up, he searched for painkillers for her.
Lu Jingyan prepared many kinds of medicine for Bai Yisha and asked Xi Yanchen to write them down.
Therefore, he easily found a suitable medicine bottle.
Looking at the medicine that was so rare and expensive on the market, Xi Yanchen shook the porcelain bottle.
For Bai Yisha, it's like a few cents' worth of candy.
After taking the medicine beans, Bai Yisha pestered Xi Yanchen to tell her stories.
She sat cross-legged on the sofa in the presidential suite, resting her elbows on her thighs, propping her chin up, and watching Xi Yanchen with great interest.
He muttered to himself, "I'm just curious about your story. If it's inconvenient to talk about it, you don't have to. You don't have to force yourself to tell me everything."
After packing her things, Xi Yanchen leaned lazily against the sofa.
He took Bai Yisha's hand, looked down and played with it, a slight smile playing on his lips: "There's nothing inconvenient about it. In Haicheng, I'm practically transparent."
He also wanted Bai Yisha to understand him better and get closer to him.
Seeing Bai Yisha's bright eyes, Xi Yanchen couldn't resist leaning forward and kissing her eyes.
"My mother is Yao Haiqing, the only daughter of the Yao Group in Haicheng. Twenty years ago, the Yao Group was practically all-powerful in Haicheng, and the Xi family was also a prominent family."
His father's name was Xi Simin, and he and Yao Haiqing were childhood sweethearts who later married and had children together.
The Yao Group was already powerful, and its marriage alliance with the Xi family propelled the Xi family to its peak.
Xi Simin gained control of the entire group's discourse power, becoming a rising star that no one dared to offend at the time.
Offending the Xi family is tantamount to not wanting to live in Haicheng.
For a time, the Xi family enjoyed immense prestige.
Originally destined to inherit the Yao family fortune, Yao Haiqing chose to step back from the limelight and raise her child, gradually transforming from the once-prominent heiress of the Yao family into the mysterious Mrs. Xi.
"Ah...why? He could have been the heir to the Yao family, and his future would have been incredibly bright."
How foolish!
Bai Yisha listened with great interest, but when she heard this part, she felt a little disappointed.
Xi Yanchen unconsciously tapped Bai Yisha's hand lightly, and his fingers paused when he heard Bai Yisha's words.
His fingertips caressed her alabaster skin as he let out a very soft, almost self-deprecating laugh.
The laugh was very light, as light as a sigh, yet it carried an indescribable emotion.
"Everyone says she is living a happy life and married for love, but actually she is sick."
Yao Haiqing fell ill after giving birth to Xi Yanchen.
Because of his illness, Yao Haiqing could not stay by his side all the time. Xi Simin also took over the affairs of Yao's family. Yao Haiqing was worried about Xi Yanchen at home.
So he was raised by his maternal grandfather from a young age.
Xi Simin was an extremely ambitious man, and his marriage to Yao Haiqing was also the result of his calculations.
He only learned this information a few years ago.
Yao Haiqing eventually passed away.
Xi Simin was ambitious, but incompetent.
The once-powerful Yao Group declined day by day after it came into Xi Simin's hands.
Enraged, Old Master Yao reclaimed most of the shares and announced that Xi Yanchen was the sole heir of the Yao family business, to take over the company after he came of age.
From a young age, he was raised as her successor, and she passed on all her knowledge to him.
Without the financial support of the Yao family, Xi Simin's company almost went bankrupt.
When Xi Yanchen was ten years old, Xi Simin suddenly brought back a five-year-old boy from outside, who was Xi Yanxian.
When Xi Yanchen was four years old, Yao Haiqing passed away. When he was five, Xi Simin had a new relationship and kept him outside the marriage.
It wasn't marital infidelity, but it was still premarital pregnancy.
Because Xi Yanxian's mother, An Huaizhen, is the daughter of the An Group, a prominent family in Haicheng, she demands that Xi Simin marry An Huaizhen in order to protect her daughter and the future of her family.
And he merged the Xi Group into the An Group.
"After they merged, they gradually swallowed up the Yao family. Later, the Yao Group was completely taken over, and my grandfather and I were forced to live in the countryside for a period of time."
This stay lasted for two years.
Bai Yisha frowned, her expression grave: "And then?"
She looked up at Xi Yanchen, whose smile was gone, and whose usually handsome eyes now held a hint of sorrow.
Seeing Bai Yisha looking over, Xi Yanchen managed a forced smile.
“When I was sixteen, I had a fight with my grandfather, and then Xi Simin suddenly appeared and said he would take me back to the Xi family. Since I was sulking at the time, I went back with him.”
"Three years later, my grandfather passed away, and I didn't even get to see him one last time."
"That little old man didn't like the darkness, but now he sleeps in the darkness."
Xi Yanchen's eyes slowly reddened, like peach petals soaked in water, and his long eyelashes drooped down, concealing most of his emotions.
Bai Yisha's heart trembled, her mouth slightly open as if she wanted to say something to comfort her, but the words stuck in her throat.
Her eyes were filled with shock and disbelief, which were then replaced by an overwhelming heartache.
Neither of them spoke for a moment.
After a long silence, Bai Yisha finally spoke, "Little Bai, can I hug you?"
Although Xi Yanchen's eyes were red-rimmed, he did not shed tears.
Upon hearing this, he pulled Bai Yisha into his arms and buried his face in her neck.
Bai Yisha reached out and hugged his waist, patting his back casually.
Why did Xi Simin suddenly appear when he was sixteen?
The Yao family was annexed, Yao Haiqing passed away, and the grandfather and grandson were left with neither money nor power...
Xi Yanchen inhaled the faint fragrance emanating from Bai Yisha, his gaze deep and unfathomable.
"Because the Xi family negotiated a big project worth over 100 million yuan back then, and the president of the other party was my mother's first love. He specifically asked me to sign the contract."
Let's consider it as taking care of him.
Bai Yisha nodded, a sudden urge to visit that kind uncle sprouted in her heart.
"Honey, would you like to hear my story with my grandfather? It might be a bit boring."
Seeing that she didn't speak, Xi Yanchen let go of her, changed his position, and hugged her in his arms, then pulled a small blanket over Bai Yisha.
The two of them snuggled up on the sofa.
"Thinking back, when we were downstairs just now, the ashes Xi Yanxian mentioned, were they your maternal grandfather's...?"
“Hmm.” Xi Yanchen nodded slightly: “They took my grandfather’s ashes, firstly to threaten me into obeying them, and secondly because my grandfather left an inheritance, requiring them to support me through university. Only by using the urn can they find a lawyer to open my grandfather’s safe.”
My maternal grandfather had no inheritance.
Xi Simin swallowed them all up in those years.
Ke Ximin was greedy, and An Huaizhen also coveted him.
They felt that their grandfather, who had once been the head of the renowned Yao Group, must have left behind some private savings.
“They squeezed out my last bit of value, using my lack of ambition and desire for pleasure as an excuse to kick me out of the house. My status as heir has become a mere formality. Now they are just waiting for me to graduate so they can take my grandfather’s inheritance.”