Chapter 1124: The Flash Marriage Heiress (108)

Niu Jinlan accused Qian Beibei of being unfilial, saying that she lived the life of a rich wife yet couldn't spare even a little money to help her own family.

Qian Beibei didn't dare admit that she was broke. Even trying to keep up appearances had reached its limit.

By chance, she came across online loans.

She borrowed a huge sum over the internet and handed it to Niu Jinlan, firmly telling her that this would be the last time.

She had planned to repay the debt little by little, but she hadn't expected the loan company to begin calling and demanding repayment so quickly. When she couldn't pay, the calls reached Luo Yicheng's company.

The looks people at the company gave him were particularly strange.

When Luo Yicheng learned that Qian Beibei had borrowed several million online and given it all to Niu Jinlan, he was so furious he nearly fainted. With the accumulated interest, the amount due had already swelled to tens of millions.

“Call the police,” Mother Luo finally said. “Recover the money the Qian family took from Beibei first. We can discuss the rest later.”

Looking at the disappointment in Luo Yicheng's eyes, Qian Beibei's face turned deathly pale. Her lips moved slightly, but in the end she said nothing.

Niu Jinlan was shameless, but Mother Luo wasn't someone easy to deal with either. She produced all the transfer records and confronted Qian Beibei directly, asking whether the money had been loaned to Niu Jinlan or given to her outright.

With Luo Yicheng watching her, Qian Beibei lowered her head and answered, “It was a loan.”

She knew exactly what kind of person her mother was.

Yicheng was already disappointed in her. She couldn't afford to make another mistake.

After the money was recovered and the police intervened, only the principal and legitimate interest had to be repaid. As for the online loan company itself, it was eventually shut down.

But Qian Beibei and Luo Yicheng could never return to how they had been before.

Luo Yicheng poured all his efforts into the company. Afraid of being abandoned by him, Qian Beibei neglected the child and devoted herself to work every day. Yet her heart wasn't truly in it, and she never bothered to keep improving herself. After a few years, she had reached her limit and could no longer advance.

She even began suspecting that as Luo Yicheng became more and more outstanding, some pretty female secretary might seduce him away. Whenever she had time, she would go to the company to check on him. If Luo Yicheng complained, her eyes would immediately fill with tears, leaving him unable to say much.

In the end, only after Luo Yicheng replaced all his secretaries with men did Qian Beibei stop showing up so frequently.

Without anyone noticing, the son of Qian Beibei and Luo Yicheng had grown into his teens.

Mother Luo had raised the child well, and he had never been close to Qian Beibei, who had shown him little affection. He had memories from the age of two and still remembered the look of disgust in her eyes when she held him.

Later, after learning about the things she had done, he looked down on her somewhat and even regarded her as a source of shame. But because of the values Mother Luo had instilled in him, he never openly expressed those feelings.

Nor was he particularly close to his father, Luo Yicheng.

The only people he truly felt close to were Mother Luo and Eldest Sister Luo's family.

By then, Luo Yicheng had built the company into the number one enterprise in the country, while Tang Guo had become the richest person in the nation.

The bitterness in Qian Beibei's heart was indescribable.

She always remembered what Luo Yicheng had once told her—that he had given her all his love, and so the only thing he could offer Tang Guo in compensation was wealth.

Now, whenever she recalled those words, she only found them laughable.

But she would never leave Luo Yicheng. She still loved him. One day, surely, he would give her everything he had.

She firmly believed that.

By the time Luo Yicheng's company had entered the world's rankings, Tang Guo's wealth had also become internationally renowned. She became a global celebrity and the first billionaire to rise to such heights purely through investment companies.

Qian Beibei kept her head down and refused to look at any of it.

Thirty years later, Mother Luo passed away.

Qian Beibei thought that after enduring for so long, her time had finally come.

She had never expected that Mother Luo's will would state that all her property was to be inherited by her grandson.