Chapter 124: Intuition Confirmed!

With tear-filled eyes, she nevertheless surged with an incomparably firm persistence.

Shen Huai did not speak, nor did he take the card.

He only looked at Tong Yue silently.

【Ding! ——】

The 15th floor arrived.

The elevator doors slowly opened to both sides.

Yet Tong Yue had no intention of turning around to walk out of the elevator.

She blocked Shen Huai entirely inside, and the two of them stood in a stalemate in the elevator with the doors open.

"Shall we go out first?"

"No!" Tong Yue gritted her teeth, looking at Shen Huai with teary eyes, "If you don't give me this answer today, I cannot let you go!"

"Tong Yue, we have already broken up," Shen Huai sighed and reminded her.

"I know, but so what?"

Tong Yue stubbornly took another step forward, hooking the elevator door to keep it from closing.

"..."

Shen Huai looked at Tong Yue's appearance of not giving up until she got an answer, and he swept a deep, dark gaze over her.

Finally, he shook his head helplessly, his tone low as he said, "Tong Yue, why do you still not understand even now?"

"The promises made when in love are only valid for the time spent in love."

"And now, they have long since ceased to count."

After speaking, Shen Huai picked up the card, tore it directly into two halves, and tossed them into the air right in front of Tong Yue.

The two fragments drifted down before Tong Yue's eyes, scattering lightly onto the elevator floor.

Tong Yue stared blankly at the fragments on the ground, her eyes full of shock and disbelief.

She had never expected that Shen Huai would refuse so decisively this time! In his eyes, there wasn't even a trace of hesitation! Could it be...

From beginning to end.

Was she the only one still immersed in the delusions of the past? "Team Leader Tong, it's time to go."

Shen Huai's cold, clear voice sounded from behind her.

Tong Yue turned around belatedly, only to discover that Shen Huai had already walked out of the elevator at some point.

He was standing behind her, reminding her.

Tong Yue gritted her teeth, looking down at the two fragments, a sudden dull pain stabbing at her heart.

Unreconciled, she quickly picked up the fragments, crouching on the ground, tears plopping onto the floor.

How embarrassing.

Truly, how embarrassing.

As proud as she was, how could she accept such a face-slapping outcome?

Shame and annoyance surged into her brain, intertwined.

Various complex emotions crossed Tong Yue's face.

"Can't get up? Do you want me to help you?"

Shen Huai extended a hand like a gentleman, his eyes remaining clear and distant, as if the scene of her begging to get back together in the elevator just now had never happened.

Looking at the hand extended beside her.

The nameless fire in Tong Yue's heart burned even brighter.

In her eyes, this hand was simply a public provocation to her dignity!

In an instant.

Tong Yue stood up with a swoosh, like an angry little deer, and indignantly brushed past Shen Huai's arm, wiped her tears with the back of her hand, and strode toward the Chairman's Office.

Watching the angry back in front of him, Shen Huai couldn't help but hook his lips into a smile.

This trick of goading really works every time.

The more people think highly of themselves, the easier it is for them to fall for it.

The two walked one after the other to the entrance of the Chairman's Office.

Before Tong Yue could raise her hand to knock, the office door opened with a "click" on its own.

Li Xinran rushed out from inside with a flustered expression, and as soon as she looked up, she bumped into Shen Huai's arms.

"... S-sorry...? Shen Huai?"

Li Xinran's mouth twitched.

"Big Star Li, why are you in such a rush?" Shen Huai quickly steadied Li Xinran with a playful tone.

Li Xinran's pretty face turned red with shame, and subconsciously confusing the identity of the Heir to the Shen Family with Shen Huai again, she blurted out: "Mr. Shen, Team Leader Tong, why are you here too..." Hearing this, Tong Yue let out a cold snort, taking in Li Xinran's flustered expression.

She scanned Shen Huai and Li Xinran with a suspicious look, certain of one thing in her heart.

Mr. Shen? They certainly call each other intimately.

There is definitely something fishy about the relationship between these two.

Otherwise, why would the way they address each other have changed?

"What, do we need to report to you to come to the Chairman's Office?" Tong Yue's tone was a bit sour, and her words were naturally not very kind.

"Team Leader Tong, you've misunderstood, I didn't mean that at all..." Li Xinran still had that extremely aggrieved expression, her eyes glancing toward the back as if there was something there, "It's just that it might be a bit inconvenient inside..."

"Move."

Tong Yue's patience had reached its limit.

Since when did the work of the Public Relations Department become something an artist could point fingers at? Besides, she had already caused so many messes for the Public Relations Department, and they hadn't even asked her for overtime pay yet; how dare she block people at the door of the Chairman's Office? She wasn't even famous yet, but she had certainly grown some nerve.

She was also acting under the Chairman's orders to call Shen Huai over; it wasn't as if she hadn't seen the woman inside before! She had no idea why Li Xinran was acting so aggrieved here!

After finishing the final warning.

Tong Yue pushed Li Xinran aside and walked straight into the office.

"Chairman, I have brought him here." Tong Yue led Shen Huai inside.

Only then did she discover that Chairman Yang Lan was currently sitting upright at the desk.

Lin Yeman stood beside Yang Lan, looking up and smiling gracefully at Tong Yue.

And at this moment.

Opposite the two of them, with her back to Tong Yue and Shen Huai, sat a well-maintained middle-aged woman.

Just from this graceful back, one could see the woman's elegance and nobility.

The instant he saw the woman's back.

Shen Huai's breathing suddenly tightened! He could not be more familiar with this back! It was his mother, Yang Shuqin!

Why had she come?

Wait a moment...

Didn't his mother say on the phone that she would arrange for someone to come and resolve the public opinion issue?

How did it become her coming in person? A series of questions collided in his mind, but Shen Huai could not ask a single word.

After all, Tong Yue was still standing beside him.

Some things, naturally, could not be said too clearly.

Thinking of this, Shen Huai quietly masked the complex emotions in his eyes, put on an indifferent expression, and spoke calmly.

"Chairman, Team Leader Tong said you were looking for me?"

As soon as the words left his mouth.

Before Yang Lan or Lin Yeman could speak, his mother Yang Shuqin turned around excitedly and rushed toward Shen Huai! "Huai'er, my Huai'er, you've finally returned!"

He saw his mother's eyes were slightly red, her voice trembling, as she wiped away tears and pulled Shen Huai into a tight embrace, nearly squeezing the breath out of him!

"All these years, you have truly suffered...! It's Mom, Mom is sorry for you..."

Feeling the dampness on his shoulder, Shen Huai felt somewhat speechless inside.

This mother of his was acting a bit too much.

He glanced at Tong Yue out of the corner of his eye.

He saw that Tong Yue was full of astonishment, watching the scene of the mother and son reuniting, her brain completely stunned.

Who was this middle-aged woman?

She had never seen her before...

Tong Yue quickly scanned the woman in front of her.

The luxury goods on her body, calculated roughly, were worth at least 8 million.

The diamond-encrusted snake-shaped watch on her wrist alone was worth 1.5 million!

Why would she hug Shen Huai?

Could it be...

For a moment, the various speculations from the internet earlier flooded back into Tong Yue's mind.

"... Mother... Shen Huai's biological mother..."

Tong Yue moved her throat dryly, and her tear-stained eyes suddenly felt sore again.

The last shred of wishful thinking in her mind was completely wiped out by this thought.

Had her intuition really been proven right? (End of chapter)