Chapter 82

After Zhang Tezhu went out, he said directly to Shu Xia, "Chairman Lin and Lin Miao are inside."

Shu Xia was somewhat surprised.

She hadn't seen Lin Guanda since she left the hospital on the day of her rebirth, and she hadn't expected him to come to the Qiao Group today.

Just as she was about to say something more to Zhang Tezhu, Lin Guanda and Lin Miao had already come out of the building.

At first, the two were a bit uncertain if it was Shu Xia.

Now that they were sure it was Shu Xia, Lin Miao was clearly a bit shocked, "Sister, you..."

Could Shu Xia's benefactor be Zhang Tezhu?

After all, Zhang Tezhu was Qiao Muting's special assistant, and many people in Jing City gave Zhang Tezhu face; she hadn't expected Shu Xia to have found a benefactor like Zhang Tezhu—although he wasn't an old man, but...

But no matter how much face others gave Zhang Tezhu, he was still just an employee.

"Xia Xia, how could you..." Lin Guanda had just wanted to question her, but the words reached his lips, and seeing the lunch box in Zhang Tezhu's hand, he restrained himself.

Seeing this situation, the smooth and tactful Zhang Tezhu was a little at a loss, "Shu..."

"You go ahead and get busy," Shu Xia said to Zhang Tezhu.

Zhang Tezhu nodded and left.

He still looked very cold and aloof.

But after turning around and with his back to Lin Guanda and the others, he immediately took out his phone and sent a WeChat message to Qiao Muting.

"Qiao, when Miss Shu came to bring you soup, she happened to run into Lin Guanda and that Lin Miao who came to look for you."

Seeing that Zhang Tezhu had left and entered the elevator in the building, Lin Guanda put on the appearance of a stern father, "Xia Xia, what is going on with you lately? Not answering your family's calls and even moving out? You are truly too disobedient and unreasonable."

"Sister, we are all very worried about you. Those things on the internet aren't true. How could I possibly be with your boyfriend? Please don't misunderstand me, okay?" Lin Miao displayed her usual "tea" behavior.

Looking at their familiar faces, Shu Xia sneered in her heart.

In the past, she really cared about how they viewed her.

She would reflect on whether she had done anything wrong, otherwise Lin Guanda wouldn't start off by accusing her of all sorts of things.

Clearly she hadn't done anything wrong, yet it seemed like everything she did was wrong.

"How can you not even say a word? I heard from your mother that you moved out to live with someone? Was the Zhang Tezhu from just now your benefactor? Have you gone crazy, going to be someone's mistress?" Lin Guanda's voice rose slightly.

After all, this was the Qiao Group building, so he didn't dare to be too loud.

Lin Miao sighed softly, "Zhang Tezhu is indeed better than Fu Chenyan in some aspects, but Fu Chenyan didn't cheat, nor did he wrong you. Sister, is it because you are with Zhang Tezhu that you slandered me and Fu Chenyan on your social media?"

"You know very well what is going on between you and Fu Chenyan. Lin Miao, this 'tea art' of yours is useless in front of me," Shu Xia said to Lin Miao first.

Then she looked at Lin Guanda, "You and I only have a biological father-daughter relationship; other than that, you are not worthy of being my father."

"You!" Lin Guanda widened his eyes, provoked to anger, and coupled with the disregard he had received inside the building, the two streams of anger condensed together, making him wish he could slap some sense into Shu Xia.

His hand was raised high.

He was about to strike at Shu Xia.

Shu Xia glanced at Lin Guanda's hand, the chill in her heart grew, and the faint pain of being hurt still surfaced from the place she had suppressed in her heart, her complexion turning somewhat cold and pale, "I advise you to watch your hand."

Although she had no impression of her adoptive father, her eldest brother said that her adoptive father was a very gentle person.

He was very gentle and patient with all of them, the children, and never hit them.

But when Lin Guanda faced her, it was almost never verbal reprimands, but rather him wanting to slap her.

Lin Guanda's hand trembled slightly; if it were before, he certainly would have swung it down without hesitation, but now, seeing that Shu Xia did not look at him with the fearful and fawning gaze she had in the past, an incredible thought inexplicably emerged in his heart.