"Zhou Si?"
Ning Anmiao halted her steps and looked at Zhou Si sitting on the bench in the long corridor. She was a bit surprised. "Why are you here?"
Today, everyone in this villa was eagerly looking forward to seeing Zhou Si.
He was also the protagonist of this family dinner.
It seemed that he had been here for quite a while, yet he hadn't gone in.
As usual, Zhou Si was dressed in a casual white shirt and long trousers, but his mood was a bit down.
He looked up and was silent for a moment.
Zhou Si didn't expect that the person who would discover him would be Ning Anmiao.
He admitted that he had first approached Ning Anmiao to arouse Lu Yan's vigilance. However, during that period of getting along, he had indeed developed a bit of a fondness for her.
This bit of fondness made him want to chat with her for a while for no particular reason.
"I don't really want to go in," he said, with a hint of indescribable impatience in his voice. "There's no one I want to see, and I'm not in the mood."
Ning Anmiao was a bit startled.
She had known Zhou Si for a while, probably starting from the recruitment when she and Yanyan founded their studio. She wasn't a stranger to him, but they weren't particularly close either.
Lu Yan had told her that the reason Zhou Si had applied to their studio was to get close to her and attract Lu Yan's attention, so as to help him return to the Lin family.
But his current attitude seemed to suggest otherwise.
"Don't you want to return to the Lin family?" Ning Anmiao asked.
Hearing this, Zhou Si's eyes dimmed slightly. "Who would want to return to such a hypocritical place?"
"But this is your home..." Ning Anmiao stopped halfway through her sentence.
Yes, was this really his home?
A place he hadn't set foot in for over twenty years and had no feelings for at all. How could it be called a home?
But in the eyes of outsiders, this was his home.
Looking at Zhou Si in front of her, with his suppressed expression, she always felt that he was very conflicted at the moment.
If he didn't want to return to the Lin family, then why did he go to such great lengths to be discovered by Old Master Lin?
Ning Anmiao wasn't clear about the grievances of the Lin family. She just subconsciously asked, "Then why did you choose to come back?"
She had heard from Yanyan before that Zhou Si had founded a small company abroad, and its development prospects were quite good. If nothing unexpected happened, he could have a good life abroad.
"Do you think I want to come back?" Zhou Si looked up, his eyes filled with endless hatred. "I wish the entire Lin family would disappear!"
Ning Anmiao was shocked.
Saying this, he took a deep breath to calm his emotions, as if everything just now had been an illusion. "Scared you? I'm just joking."
Ning Anmiao didn't believe it. She always felt that she seemed to have glimpsed a secret that she shouldn't have known.
For example, Old Master Lin's smiling appearance just now clearly indicated that he intended to hand over the Lin family to Zhou Si. And for another example, Zhou Si had no intention of properly inheriting and managing the Lin family at all.
He wanted revenge.
Seeing that Ning Anmiao didn't seem to be leaving anytime soon, he suddenly had an idea. He lifted his chin slightly. "Sit down and chat? I'll tell you a story."
After thinking for a few seconds, Ning Anmiao still sat down opposite him.
Zhou Si smiled. Ning Anmiao thought that his facial features bore a bit of resemblance to Lin Chuluo's.
"Once upon a time, there was a silly woman who fell in love with a wealthy tycoon. Later, she got pregnant."
Ning Anmiao listened quietly. She knew that this was his own story.
"Later, when the tycoon found out that she was pregnant, he was overjoyed. He directly bought her a villa overseas and told her to take good care of herself during pregnancy and after giving birth. He said that he would take her back to China to get married in the future."
Hearing this, Ning Anmiao already felt that something was wrong.
He smiled as if the hostility and hatred that had surrounded him just now had been an illusion. "She gave birth to this child and took good care of him as he grew up, waiting for the tycoon to take her and the child home."
"One day, suddenly, someone found them. They said they were from the tycoon and had come in a private plane to take them back to China to live a good life."
His smile grew wider, but it didn't reach his eyes. "As a result, the plane had an accident. The mother and son crashed directly, and their bodies were never found."
Ning Anmiao's heart sank heavily. She looked at him in shock, her pupils contracting suddenly. "That mother and son..."
"Yeah, it was me and my mom," Zhou Si said, tugging at his lips. His voice was full of sarcasm. "But I didn't die. My mom did."
It turned out that the people who came to pick them up weren't from Old Master Lin, but from Lin Chuluo's mother, the real mistress of the Lin family.
After finding out that her husband had a woman overseas, she was furious. She sent people to secretly kill Zhou Si's mother but spared his life.
Even though he was lucky enough to survive, he wasn't free.
During his time in China, he was followed 24 hours a day, and everything he did was monitored.
All of this was because Mrs. Lin hadn't gotten pregnant yet.
Old Master Lin had always been very patriarchal. Before ensuring that she could give birth to a boy, Mrs. Lin intended to keep Zhou Si as a backup.
And later, the birth of Lin Chuluo pushed him to the brink of death.
Zhou Si would never forget that night for the rest of his life. A group of people rushed into his room, punched and kicked him, and beat him until he was covered in blood. The blood flowed all over the floor.
He almost thought he was going to die that night.
But fate gave him a chance, a chance to avenge his mother and himself.
"They've been living so comfortably on our blood. On what grounds?" Zhou Si said coldly, his eyes shooting out a cold light.
"So, you..." After hearing all this, Ning Anmiao felt short of breath, and her head buzzed continuously.
All of this was a conspiracy.
He had returned to the Lin family to take revenge on Lin Chuluo and Old Master Lin!
As long as he gained Old Master Lin's trust and favor, Zhou Si could rightfully obtain the Lin family's property and then gradually destroy it!
And the reason Lu Yan had helped Zhou Si was just to annex the Lin Corporation and reach a win - win cooperation with Zhou Si.
Businessmen didn't help each other out of kindness. It was all about interests.
Zhou Si closed his eyes. He felt that he had told Ning Anmiao too much.
If Ning Anmiao knew all this, she would probably be disappointed in him. After all, when they were getting along, he had seemed so harmless.
But he was an out - and - out devil.
A devil who was going to destroy everything.
The atmosphere between them turned cold, and there was a dead silence.
"Even if I didn't do this, Lin Chuluo would still push me to a dead end to protect his interests. I had no choice."
"Ning Anmiao, if you want to change all this, I advise you to give up. Now, Lu Yan and I are on the same side. If something goes wrong with the plan, Lu Yan will also..."
"I don't have that intention," Ning Anmiao said. Wearing a cheongsam, she sat opposite him gracefully. Her words were gentle and calm yet full of strength. "What you're going to do has nothing to do with me."