Chapter 267 - Shen Mengting Is Madam X's Niece

Translator: Atlas Studios  Editor: Atlas Studios

On the second day, a newspaper and magazine publishing company reported on the relationship between Shen Mengting and Ning Shuqian.

On the papers was a gigantic photo of a disguised Ning Shuqian coming out of the police center. The report beside it read: “Seeing that a certain wealthy Madam X went to the police, I thought there was some big news. After both public and private investigations, it was found out that Shen Mengting is Madam X’s niece.”

“Shen Mengting’s mother, Madam Zhang, was a former acquaintance of Madam X. Madam Zhang’s elder brother was also Madam X’s old lover, and the two of them had given birth to a daughter—everyone should know who is it!”

“As Madam Zhang has depression, she’s currently rehabilitating in a sanitarium. According to investigations, Madam Zhang’s husband passed away at a young age. She had raised her daughter up on her own, sustaining their lifestyles through working at a hotel. Shen Mengting had excellent results in school, but due to her mother’s sudden depression, she had dropped out of school and stayed at home before finishing her Secondary Three studies!”

“The question is, how did Shen Mengting manage to get into Lan Feng Institute, such a high-end school with expensive school fees?”

“How can Madam Zhang stay in such a sanitarium with acceptable conditions and substantial fees?”

“Where did Shen Mengting get the money to go to bars and take drugs?”

“Could it be that a certain Madam X is still deeply attached to her old lover, and hence took special care of them?”

The exposure of many youths taking drugs in the Birds of Paradise Bar had already attracted the society and the government’s attention—where did the money come from? This statement pointed at Ning Shuqian. Even if it wasn’t Ning Shuqian who asked Shen Mengting to take drugs, she was implicated. Naturally, society did not have a good impression of Ning Shuqian.

And the last statement was even more deadly, openly saying that Ning Shuqian was still deeply attached to her old lover and so extended her love to take care of Madam Zhang and her daughter. Wonder how would Wen Haowen’s reaction to this piece of news be?

The edge of Wen Xinya’s lips curled up into a cold smile. Ning Shuqian manipulated Shen Mengting against her—she definitely wouldn’t take it lying down. She had long ago decided to make use of Shen Mengting’s drug-taking to implicate Ning Shuqian. However, the results of the investigations by the Celestial Detective Agency was beyond her expectations, making it possible for her to drive a wedge between Ning Shuqian and Wen Haowen at the same time.

Wen Xinya opened up the documents that the Celestial Detective Agency had sent her regarding Ning Shuqian’s past. The information contained the past relationship between Ning Shuqian and Madam Zhang’s elder brother. With a few light strokes of her fingers on the screen of her phone, she sent an email to the Celestial Detective Agency, requesting to look for a person.

The Celestial Detective Agency replied very quickly.

Wen Xinya sighed slightly. Ning Shuqian, so you’re not without any weakness.

There was a knock on the ward’s door. Zhong Rufeng strolled into the ward, holding a bouquet of exquisitely packaged crepe myrtle flowers—the combination of white, purple, and blue was extremely gorgeous.

Wen Xinya was stunned, obviously not expecting that Zhong Rufeng would visit her. “Why are you here?”

“I heard Old Mr. Mo mentioning to my Grandpa that you’re wounded, hospitalized, and will be discharged today. So, I came to visit you.” Zhong Rufeng explained with a smile and passed the fresh flowers that he was hugging over to her. “Congratulations on your discharge from the hospital today.”

Wen Xinya received the bouquet of crepe myrtle flowers. Seeing the extremely radiant and pretty crepe myrtle flowers, she couldn’t help but feel joy in her heart. “Thank you. I like them very much.”

Seeing that she accepted the bouquet, Zhong Rufeng’s uneasy heart instantly went back to normal. Previously, he had not placed the crepe myrtle flowers in his hands into her hair purely because the act was too abrupt. However, that had always been his regret. Now, to gift her his bouquet of crepe myrtle flowers was also not impolite and completed his own thoughts.

“Oh yes, that girl, Ruo Ruo, asked me to bring you something.” Zhong Rufeng passed a plastic bag to Wen Xinya.

Wen Xinya stretched her hand and received it. It contained medication prescribed by Du Ruo for scar removal with clear instructions on usage method and quantity.

Zhong Rufeng smiled and said, “Previously, that girl has been saying that she wanted to come over. However, she seems to have something on and didn’t come over together.”

Wen Xinya naturally knew that since the confirmation of the opening of the cosmetics company and storefront, Ruo Ruo had recently been busy with the deconstruction of some of the formulas on hand, and was extremely busy.

“As you know, there are more males than females in my family. Not having a caring little cotton candy has always been my Grandpa’s regret, and you happen to get along very well with him. Recently, my Grandpa has always been talking about you—if you have time, you can go over and visit him.” Only when Wen Xinya got on closer terms with the Zhong Family could he take the relationship between him and Wen Xinya to the next level.

“I’ve been busy recently and didn’t have much time. I’ll go and visit Grandfather Zhong in a few days.” Only after Zhong Rufeng mentioned it did Wen Xinya realize that previously, she had been busy with returning to school, then with the opening of the company and storefront, and had indeed not been to the Zhong Family to visit Grandfather Zhong in a long time. She felt even more guilty towards Grandfather Zhong in her heart. Grandfather Zhong was truly fond of her—not only did he guide her sincerely in Liu-calligraphy, but he had also given her tips on history and literature.

“I don’t mean anything else. I know that things haven’t been smooth for you since you entered Lan Feng Institute.” Zhong Rufeng secretly sighed. He was ultimately still slightly impatient—it was rumored that she had indeed been in a bad shape recently, and that was normal. Now that she had officially returned to school and rescheduled her learning of chess, calligraphy, and music to nighttime, under such immense stress, he was being a little difficult.

He struggled to warn himself that she was only fifteen-years-old, not twenty-five-years-old, there was no need to rush things, and quickly changed the topic. “Oh yes, how’s the High School’s syllabus—are you finding it tough?”

“Still alright!” Her foundation was after all slightly weaker, and the High School’s syllabus had rather high expectations of foundational knowledge. While she didn’t find it too tough at the moment, she had a feeling that she would be under greater stress moving forward.

“I’ve always kept my notes from my three years of secondary school and three years of high school previously—not sure if they’ll be of any use to you?” Zhong Rufeng had known long ago that although she had studied the three years of secondary school syllabus and obtained pretty good results in the examination of the Institute, she had after all not been through formal education. With the Achilles’ heel of weak foundational knowledge, she would slowly fall behind others’ learning progress. Thus, he had suggested so.

“Of course I’ll need them.” Wen Xinya’s eyes lit up—with the notes of the ex-President Zhong of the student union, her learning would definitely be accelerated.

Zhong Rufeng’s smile became even more radiant. “Okay, I’ll pass them to you tomorrow.”

“Thank you!” Wen Xinya felt like she was dozing off and suddenly met with a pillow. Just like this, she felt a huge load off her shoulders.

Zhong Rufeng took out the fountain pen he carried with him, pulled out a piece of sticky note, wrote down his webchat ID and his phone number, and passed it to Wen Xinya. “If there’s anything you don’t understand about your studies, you can ask me directly. Now that I’ve entered university, my learning schedule isn’t that packed and lessons are relatively more relaxed.”

Naturally, it was just what Wen Xinya was looking for. She received the sticky note unabashedly and said, “I won’t stand on ceremony then!”

“We’re friends, so there’s no need to stand on ceremony.” Zhong Rufeng replied with a calm smile.