Chapter 172: Uninvited Guest
Andrei’s office door was knocked on. He casually said a few words to Grandfather Ji and hung up the telephone call.
He immediately sat back in his original position, cleared his throat, and said, “Please come in!!”
The door was gently pushed open, and a woman entered, dressed impeccably, very fittingly, and with a graceful, elegant demeanor. She walked with elegant steps to Andrei’s front, her red lips curving into a smile.
Andrei, tense all over, looked uneasily at the woman before him, their eyes meeting.
“What do you want with me?! Madam Ji~~~”
The woman casually shifted her posture, sitting at leisure. Her well-maintained, fair, slender hand took out a document bag from her handbag and placed it on the table, pushing it towards Andrei.
Only then did she slowly utter a few words: “I truly didn’t expect the illegitimate child of the Ji Family to have such a tough life, and now to have climbed to the position of General Manager of the Ji Family Hotel. What was the Old Master thinking, placing you, an illegitimate child, in the hotel? To help Xiao Yu smoothly take over the hotel, or is there another plan?”
Andrei frowned deeply. Why was this woman here saying these irrelevant things? He had no intention of opening that document to look.
But
“You should take out what’s inside and have a good look. Perhaps you can then clearly understand your own identity, at least, you won’t be a pawn in someone else’s hands for nothing!”
After speaking, the woman’s red lips immediately curved into a charming, wicked smile. She naturally brushed her hair aside. A woman in her forties, yet she looked as if she were thirty!
Andrei’s hands clenched tightly, opening and then closing again. Why did this woman have such a great influence on him?
Andrei let out a faint sigh. His stiff fingers opened the file and pulled out the first page. He saw a woman, a woman he was all too familiar with.
His mother!!
“Xia Yang, I just want you to clearly understand that, back then, your mother destroyed someone else’s family. You are a man, and you surely know there are so many temptations out there, it’s hard to resist sometimes. But to get someone pregnant and then have the child, that is a mistake. Knowing that this child could not grow up in a complete family, yet stubbornly giving birth to them, who do you think is to blame?”
Andrei did not reply. He knew that appearances could not deceive anyone. His identity no longer needed to be hidden, so some things needed to begin.
“You went to such great lengths to find me, is it to discuss who was right and who was wrong?”
The woman continued to gesture for Andrei to look at the contents: “Keep looking, you’ll find it more and more unbelievable. Don’t think the Old Master favors you so much; in reality, you are just a pawn, and coincidentally, a pawn that plays a very important role. For over twenty years, you have been living in a trap. Don’t you find this life interesting?”
Andrei continued to flip through, finding it more and more unbelievable.
When he saw a photograph, he instantly broke down. Holding the photograph with trembling hands, his voice quivered, “Is this real?”
The woman’s delicate eyebrows gently closed, acknowledging his question.
Andrei’s chest heaved violently. More than ten years ago, his mother didn’t die from suicide due to depression, but was drugged and killed. This truth crashed upon him like a surging tide, impossible to avoid!
He could not remain calm, no longer able to stay composed!!
“You thought your mother died for love, but you don’t know that the man who killed your mother was the one who claimed to love her, yet secretly drugged and killed her. How pathetic~~~~” the woman sighed proudly, without a trace of pity!!
Andrei’s hand gripped the document bag, contemplating the authenticity of this file!!
The woman didn’t linger, but offered a parting piece of advice: “What you see isn’t always the truth. Take care of yourself!”
Andrei watched the woman’s retreating back and immediately made a telephone call: “Bruce, help me investigate what really happened to my mother’s death!!”
Bruce was having dinner with Athena when he received the call. Hearing Andrei’s angry voice, he immediately walked to a quiet spot, holding the telephone, and said, “General Manager, what’s wrong?”
Andrei suppressed the urge to curse and said, “Go investigate and find out what kind of mess this is!!! Start with the doctor!!!”
Bruce immediately agreed: “Yes, General Manager!”
Athena watched from afar as Bruce answered the phone with a troubled expression. What did the General Manager say to him? Could it be that the matter of reselling hotels had run into trouble?
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