Chapter 1270: The Most Loyal Ally 2

“All I can say is, Huang Xiaojue didn’t lose to me—he lost to fate and missed chances!! He actually had plenty of good opportunities, but maybe destiny thought the two of them weren’t a match, so time after time it forcibly pulled them apart…”

“And as for me, the only reason I could win in the end was simply because heaven was especially kind to me!”

These words had always been a secret buried deep in his heart.

And also an old hidden pain.

Because he understood: if Yan Xixi had found Huang Xiaojue, even just gotten the slightest confirmed news of him, there was no way she would turn back, and certainly no way she would marry him.

But today, he was being astonishingly honest.

He laid out everything a man least wants to admit.

Old Zhang fell into thought.

Wan Donglin didn’t go on.

Old Zhang suddenly stood up smiling: “Donglin, do you know what I appreciate most about you?”

“…”

“Frankness! Pure frankness!”

He walked a few steps with his hands behind his back: “Modern people, especially people in the business world of A Country, are most lacking in frankness. Their hearts are full of a thousand excuses and little schemes, but they always talk in circles, use other ways to say things gently and indirectly. Donglin, you’re different from them—you can be startlingly frank at times!”

Wan Donglin also smiled: “I just feel there’s no need to talk in riddles in front of you, Uncle.”

Old Zhang waved his big hand: “Don’t worry. Back when I gave that banquet for you and your wife, I already made my position clear: Xixi is talented, and we ought to cherish talented people. Even if she was saved by Huang Xiaojue, that only shows Huang Xiaojue did the right thing, nothing more. As for anything else, it has absolutely nothing to do with her, Yan Xixi.”

Wan Donglin felt as if a weight had been lifted.

All the way, the car sped along, but a faint layer of clammy sweat still coated his forehead.

Truly, the business world is like a battlefield.

Especially once you’ve reached this stage, this level—one careless word, one lapse in conduct, can bring disaster down on you. Stay or leave? This time, he was utterly exhausted, as if he’d walked a very long road, seen far too many scenes; when he turned back and looked at the peak below the mountain, he found it not magnificent and beautiful at all, but perilous and unsettling.

Yan Xixi noticed that lately Empress Dowager Liu was showing up very frequently.

Sometimes she came every day—at most every two days, she would definitely come once.

Yan Xixi actually felt a bit embarrassed: “Empress Dowager, I haven’t gone to see you, and instead I’m making you go to all this trouble coming over every day—how is that right?”

Liu Daqing dismissed it: “I’ve been feeling much better lately, and I’ve got nothing to do anyway. You’re lying around at home every day with nothing to keep you busy—coming over, I can at least keep you company and chat a bit. Actually, I even wanted to try making you some milk coffee…”

Yan Xixi burst out laughing: “I really can’t eat anything these days. Never mind milk—just smelling coffee makes me want to throw up…”

Liu Daqing was all enthusiasm: “Other people’s mothers-in-law all wait on their pregnant daughters-in-law. I can’t really wait on you, and I’m not much good at it, but I can at least keep you company and talk. Dongmei’s had several kids, all taken care of by her in-laws; there was never any need for me to say a word. Now, finally, it’s my own daughter-in-law having a baby—no matter what, I have to come see how things are going… Haha, Xixi, you’re actually doing quite well. You’re nauseous, but you’re not throwing up all that badly. Looks like the child will definitely be very healthy… Let me think, when Donglin was little, he was very strong the moment he was born…”