Chapter 346 Let Huo Sinian deal with Huo Zhizhou

Chapter 346 Let Huo Sinian deal with Huo Zhizhou

"Do you need to go see her every day just to pass the time?" Huo Cheng's words were scrutinizing, clearly indicating that he didn't quite trust her.

“He already said it has nothing to do with marriage, why are you meddling so much?” Huo’s mother spoke up promptly. “Don’t you know what kind of person Si Nian is? He’s never caused us any worry since he was a child.”

"Don't forget you're still negotiating a marriage alliance with the Wen family," Huo Cheng reminded him.

Huo Sinian: "I know."

Huo Cheng asked, "Do you like that girl from the Wen family?"

Huo Sinian remained calm and spoke slowly: "I can't say I like someone since we haven't had much contact. But don't worry, I will handle all the relationships well."

"I have something I need you to do," Huo Cheng got to the point. "If you can do it, I won't interfere in your love life, and I won't meddle in your relationship with that minor celebrity."

Huo Sinian remained unmoved.

Staying in this house for too long reveals verbal traps everywhere.

"It's my duty to serve my family." His words were impeccable. "Just say it directly."

"I want you to take back the property that Zhizhou gave to Jiang Ruan when they divorced." Huo Cheng felt suffocated at the thought of so many things being given away so easily. "And the custody of Sui Sui should also go to the Huo family."

He heard too much gossip during this time.

Sui Sui has been groomed as the future heir of the Huo Group since childhood, to the point that most people in the industry know his importance to the Huo family. Now many people are saying that the Huo family can't even get custody of their child.

Where does that leave him to save face?

Regardless, those properties and custody of the children must be obtained.

"This is Zhizhou and the others' own business, and I shouldn't interfere." Huo Sinian didn't forget Huo Zhizhou's reminder, and he tried his best to avoid dealing with or clashing with him unless absolutely necessary.

"This isn't just their problem," Huo Cheng brainwashed him. "This matter has already affected the Huo family's reputation."

Huo Sinian did not speak.

He didn't want to go against Huo Zhizhou.

It does him no good.

"If you can do that, I'll have your uncles and elders nominate you for the company's CEO at the next shareholders' meeting," Huo Cheng said, offering an enticing deal. "Their shares are enough to compete with your brother's."

Huo Sinian was weighing the options.

Huo Cheng added, "You should know that the company's senior management has been quite critical of Zhi Zhou's impulsive trip to Haicheng lately. Your abilities are no less than his, but you just didn't have the right timing. Otherwise, you would be the president of Huo Group now."

"I'll think about it when I get back." Huo Sinian didn't give an immediate answer.

"Okay." Huo Cheng breathed a slight sigh of relief. "I hope you can give me an answer soon after the New Year."

Huo Sinian hummed in agreement.

That year's Lunar New Year's Eve was unusually quiet for the Huo family.

Aside from eating their own meals, there was no lively atmosphere at the dinner table.

This reminded Huo Sinian of the time when Zhi Zhou brought Jiang Ruan back for New Year's Eve dinner. He took care of Jiang Ruan the whole time, ignoring his parents' air conditioning, talking to her, and serving her food, treating her like a porcelain doll.

At that time, he thought that Zhizhou was still too young, and that such a behavior would definitely be targeted by his parents.

But in the years that followed, he protected Jiang Ruan very well.

They were so close that even he rarely interacted with her.

How did he manage to do that?

Returning to the villa that evening, looking at the empty rooms, Huo Sinian felt a strange sensation for the first time. He suddenly thought that it wouldn't be bad to marry someone he loved, like Zhizhou, have a child, and have a warm little home that belonged only to the three of them.

Subconsciously.

Lin Tan's image appeared in his mind.

She's so gentle; she'd make a great mother.

With that thought in mind, he took out his phone, opened Lin Tan's chat window, and sent her a message: 【Where are you?】

Lin Tan was having dinner and watching a show at home with her friends when she received the message. She paused for a moment after seeing the message, then quickly turned off the screen and continued eating.

"Who sent the message?" my friend asked.

Lin Tan smiled and said, "Nobody, it was a New Year's Eve greeting sent by 10086."

Friend #1: "??"

Friend #2: "??"

Who sends New Year's greetings via chat software using 10086 (China Mobile's customer service hotline)?

Seeing that she didn't want to talk, the two started to speak sarcastically: "Our Tan'er has a secret too. We agreed to be sisters for life, and whoever gets a boyfriend first is a dog. But on New Year's Eve, some guy named H asked her where she was."

"I don't believe it unless there's something going on," said Friend Number Two.

Friend #1 repeated, "I don't believe it either."

A string of question marks appeared on Lin Tan's forehead.

How can you see that?

"Tell me, who is H?" They grabbed her neck with one arm and reached out with the other, their hands outstretched and menacing. "If you don't tell me, hmph hmph hmph."

“A difficult and hard-to-reach client.” Lin Tan replied, based on what Jiang Ruan had told her before, “We can’t afford to offend them, we dare not offend them, so we’re forced to do business with them.”

Ding-dong.

The phone rang again.

It was another message from Huo Sinian: "I know you haven't gone back. Come here, I have something to tell you."

Lin Tan unconsciously tightened her grip on her phone.

My friends frowned.

That tone.

I really hate clients who have no boundaries and are self-righteous.

"Ignore him! Doing this on New Year's Eve, does he think working people have no temper?"

"that is!"

"Let's drink."

"We're drinking until we drop tonight!"

"You guys drink, and lock the door for me when you leave." Lin Tan didn't dare to take any risks, picked up her phone and bag, and stood up. "I probably won't be back for the next few days, so don't wait for me."

She understands Huo Sinian.

If she didn't go, and he later found out it was because she spent New Year's Eve with her friends and ignored him, he would definitely do everything he could to make things difficult for her friends.

I don't want to upset him anymore until I've figured out how to get out of this situation.

"What's going on? She wasn't like this before."

"After her drama aired a while ago, there were rumors that she was being kept by a sugar daddy. Was it that H...?"

"Don't talk nonsense, those are all rumors deliberately spread by trolls and marketing accounts."

"What I mean is, is she being manipulated or threatened? Normally, who would save a client's contact information as a single letter? Besides, given Lin Tan's personality, how could she possibly go to the other party's place on New Year's Eve just because of a few words from them?"

"What you said isn't entirely unreasonable."

"Shall we check it out? If nothing's wrong, that would be great, but if something is wrong, as friends we should do something for her."

Lin Tan knew they would become suspicious, but she didn't expect them to become suspicious so quickly.

On the way to Huo Sinian's villa, she felt a tightness in her chest and a sense of unease. Her phone rang several times along the way; it was a message from her younger sister, Lin Ling.

Lin Ling: "Sister! Happy New Year's Eve!"

Lin Ling: "I'll come find you tomorrow afternoon."

Lin Ling: "What are you having for dinner tonight? Are you having dinner with those two older sisters?"

Lin Tan only replied to the message after parking the car.

She has a bad relationship with her parents. She has been sensible and obedient since she was a child and has excellent grades, but they just don't like her. No matter what bad things happen in the family, they blame it all on her and call her a jinx.

So much so that she didn't go home for the Chinese New Year.

But her younger sister has always been attached to her since she was little, and she always takes her side whenever her parents criticize her.

This is why she dared not go against Huo Sinian. She didn't want anything to happen to the only family member who loved and cared about her, and she didn't want her image as a good older sister in his heart to collapse.

With that thought in mind, she opened the car door and got out.

Adjust your mindset before moving forward.

She had to be on high alert every time she faced Huo Sinian, otherwise he would easily notice something was wrong and suppress her.