Huo Linsheng walked towards them, with Fang Chao following behind him.
Look, he's so punctual for work.
Those who had been watching the commotion between Ling Nuan and Zhao Shuting quickly made way for Huo Linsheng when they saw him coming.
When they saw Fang Chao, they shut their mouths even tighter.
One of the parties involved was here. They couldn't just talk nonsense.
Huo Linsheng walked up to Ling Nuan. His gaze swept across the crowd and finally landed on Zhao Shuting in front of him. He asked, "What's going on?"
Zhao Shuting was stunned when she saw Huo Linsheng.
She thought of her burned hair. She never expected that this man would be here.
What was his identity? Could he really be...
"Mr. Huo," Ling Nuan smiled sweetly at Huo Linsheng. "You know, it's the same old story. The mistress气死 my mom, and my good cousin was caught by the wife's original spouse and forced me to apologize. Just some family matters. I'm sorry for causing trouble to the company."
Hearing this, Huo Linsheng looked at Zhao Shuting and said indifferently, "Have you forgotten my warning?"
Just thinking about the fire made Zhao Shuting tremble with fear.
Of course, she remembered Huo Linsheng's warning.
But she never thought that this man was actually the president of the Huo Corporation!
She wanted to slip away, but it was too late.
The security guards, who had been absent all this time, had now blocked her way out.
The employees watching the show around were also completely confused. From the conversation between Ling Nuan and Mr. Huo, it seemed that Mr. Huo had known everything from the very beginning?
"Fang Chao," Huo Linsheng called out.
Fang Chao immediately stepped forward. Without waiting for Huo Linsheng's instructions, he said, "Mr. Huo, I've already called the police and contacted Lawyer Xue. The police are expected to arrive in ten minutes, and Lawyer Xue will take about half an hour."
Huo Linsheng gave a soft "hmm" and said, "You handle it."
Then, he glanced at Ling Nuan and said, "Follow me."
The farce seemed to disappear into thin air in an instant.
Ling Nuan followed Huo Linsheng away, while Fang Chao stayed behind to wait for the police and handle the aftermath.
It was obvious that Huo Linsheng intended to sue Zhao Shuting.
Ling Nuan followed Huo Linsheng into the elevator.
Huo Linsheng didn't take this matter to heart. Seeing Ling Nuan, he casually mentioned the things to be discussed in today's meeting.
"The initial appropriation has been made. The board members will also attend today's meeting. You'll be in charge of the introduction today. You..."
Huo Linsheng stopped halfway and turned to look at Ling Nuan. Then he was stunned.
Ling Nuan had her head down, and her eyes were a bit red.
Huo Linsheng let out a soft scoff and teased her, "What? Are you playing the poor little girl in front of me?"
Ling Nuan thought to herself that such a good opportunity to show weakness couldn't be missed.
She closed her eyes for a moment and then looked up at him with a smile as if nothing had happened. "You've seen through me, Mr. Huo."
Huo Linsheng reached out and covered Ling Nuan's face. "You look ugly when you smile. Stop smiling."
Hearing this, Ling Nuan stopped smiling.
She just lowered her head, neither crying nor smiling, expressionless, but she looked rather pitiful.
Although Huo Linsheng guessed that Ling Nuan was putting on an act to some extent, he still couldn't just sit back and ignore her.
"Because of those rumors?" Huo Linsheng asked.
Ling Nuan shook her head. The corners of her mouth curled up slightly, as if she was smiling. "I don't care about those. No matter how many rumors there are, as long as they don't reach my ears, what does it matter to me? Moreover, Mr. Huo, you know my situation in the company. Do you think I still care about these things?"
Huo Linsheng was suddenly taken aback by Ling Nuan's nonchalant words.
He knew Ling Nuan's situation, but he had never thought about helping her out of this predicament.
"Why are you unhappy?" Huo Linsheng asked her.
Ling Nuan looked at Huo Linsheng and asked, "Do you have any loved ones, Mr. Huo?"
"Yes," Huo Linsheng replied.
Ling Nuan's smile became wider, but it seemed more like she was about to cry. "They used to be my loved ones, too."
"My father passed away early. When I was a child, my uncle was like another father to me. He carried me on his back. When I was called a fatherless child at school, he rushed to the school and scolded those kids for me."
"My aunt used to be very kind to me, too. She would care about how I was doing and knew what I liked to eat. When I was sick, she was more worried than anyone else."
"I thought that although I didn't have a father, I had my loving grandmother, mother, uncle, and aunt. My life seemed no worse than others'. But I don't know why things have changed like this."
Ling Nuan didn't need to act in front of Huo Linsheng.
She knew that she couldn't deceive him with an act. So, these words were really from the bottom of her heart.
She was just baring her soul in front of Huo Linsheng.
Thinking of the past, Ling Nuan couldn't hold back her tears. They welled up in her eyes and kept falling.
She didn't want to cry, so she raised her head, as if she could hold back the tears like this.
"I really don't understand why things have changed so suddenly."
"My mother is gone. My grandmother is sick. My uncle and aunt have become so strange. It's as if my relatively good life in the past twenty-odd years was just a dream."
Huo Linsheng had seen Ling Nuan cry many times.
Most of the time, it was in bed.
She cried in a way that tugged at his heartstrings and made him want her to keep crying.
But now, Ling Nuan reminded him of the Ling Nuan he saw in front of her mother's tomb that day.
"Stop crying," Huo Linsheng stepped forward and wiped the tears from her cheeks with his fingertips.
The more he said that, the more sadly Ling Nuan cried.
She directly threw herself into Huo Linsheng's arms and let it all out.
"I don't understand why the people who used to love me so much can now say such malicious and dirty things to me."
Ling Nuan cried so sadly.
Huo Linsheng's heart ached.
He didn't care about whether she was acting or not. There were only two thoughts in his mind now.
He couldn't let Ling Nuan cry.
And he would make those who made Ling Nuan cry pay the price.
Actually, Ling Nuan knew very well why her uncle and aunt had changed.
Because Ling Nuan had been a well-behaved and good student since childhood. Xun Cong had never attended tutoring classes. It was Ling Nuan who had taught him.
Both Ling Nuan and her mother had been kind to them because there were benefits to be gained, so they had been kind to them in return.
But when Shen Shaoqing and Huo Xiao offered them such great benefits, family affection seemed to become a joke.
But knowing didn't mean accepting, and it didn't mean not being sad.
Ling Nuan cried in Huo Linsheng's arms for a long time.
The elevator opened and closed.
Fortunately, they were taking the president's private elevator, so no one else came in.
When Ling Nuan finally stopped crying, Huo Linsheng gently wiped the tears from her face.
"Do you feel better?"
Ling Nuan nodded.
Huo Linsheng looked at his phone and said, "If you keep crying, you'll miss the meeting."
Hearing this, Ling Nuan blushed a little in embarrassment.
Huo Linsheng leaned in and kissed the corner of her eye. "Let's go."
Saying that, Huo Linsheng pressed the door-open button.
The elevator opened again.
When Fang Chao saw the two of them appear one after the other, he didn't even want to ask why they had left earlier but showed up at this time.
He resigned himself to reporting the aftermath. "Zhao Shuting has been taken to the police station. Lawyer Xue will handle the litigation process directly later."
"Also, boss, everyone in the meeting room is waiting for you."