"Thank you for telling me this, Lawyer He."

Qiao Ruyi stood up and bowed slightly to the man in front of her. "If it weren't for you, some secrets might have been hidden forever."

He Qiyuan quickly stood up and helped her up. He sighed and shook his head, "Ms. Qiao, I don't know whether it's right or wrong to tell you this now. But I think the truth shouldn't be buried."

Qiao Ruyi curled the corners of her mouth bitterly, thanked him, and turned to leave.

After seeing her leave, He Qiyuan bent down to pick up the sealed document.

The sound of high heels came from the inner room to the tea table.

He Qiyuan looked up at the middle-aged woman who was dressed beautifully and wearing delicate makeup. "Ms. Li, why did you come all the way here and ask me to explain this to Miss Qiao?"

Li Ling smiled with the corners of her mouth curved. "As her stepmother, I feel that her life has been difficult. She has been neglected by her father since she was a child. Now that she has grown up, she should know the truth, right? Just like Lawyer He just said, the truth should not be buried."

He Qiyuan put the file away again and sighed, "Alas, this was seven or eight years ago."

Li Ling looked at the direction where Qiao Ruyi left, and the smile on her lips deepened.

Seven or eight years ago, wasn’t that just right?

The longer time goes, the more Qiao Ruyi feels how deeply Yin Rufang and she have been let down by Qiao He.

The more hatred she felt in her heart, the greater it became.

She would never have dreamed that her biological father had schemed against her and her mother so ruthlessly.

Only if she breaks up with Qiao He, Qiao He will not be stupid enough to leave Qiao Group to her!

......

The evening sun had already set, and its afterglow cast a shadow on the busy street, stretching a slender figure very long.

Qiao Ruyi walked on the street in a daze, her mind full of Qiao He's face, and tears rolled down her face unconsciously.

When she was a child, he would hug her lovingly whenever he came back from work, ask her what gift she wanted, and would buy her anything.

He would kiss her mother and he would kiss her too.

On his birthday, he wished that his family of three would be happy forever.

He said he loved his mother and loved her too.

She remembered him saying, "Ruyi, you are Daddy's sweetheart. Daddy loves Ruyi the most!"

He said, "Baby, you and mom are the most important people in dad's life. Our family of three should never be separated."

Later, he said, "Qiao Ruyi, how could you hit your sister! Go back to your room!"

He said, "Qiao Ruyi, apologize to Aunt Li Ling. If you don't apologize, you will have to kneel down and not eat today!"

Later, he said, "Ruyi, Dad supports you to study abroad, but Dad has a condition: you come back and sign this contract."

He said, "Ruyi, as long as you listen to Dad, you will have a share in Dad's future company."

Qiao Ruyi's ears were filled with all of Qiao He's words, and every frame was a reflection of all the expressions he had shown her over the years.

She had never cared about his company.

All she wants is a complete family.

Tears kept flowing from her eyes as Qiao Ruyi stumbled along the road. A woman sitting on the side of the road and talking on the phone caught her attention.

It was still a little chilly in the evening in late March.

A thinly dressed woman sat on the curb, holding a cell phone in her hand, speaking in a vicious tone, with tears on her face.

"Don't give me any fucking shit, I'm determined to have my daughter! We can just drag it out in court!" the woman yelled at the other end of the phone. "When my daughter was with me, she ate egg tart fillings and strawberry tops, and every meal had meat and milk! But with you, every day she had leftovers or cold steamed buns that even dogs wouldn't eat!"

"Yu Xiaoping, are you a human being? Are you and that mistress still human?" the woman screamed at the top of her lungs. "Tingting is only three years old! Isn't this abuse? You even abused your own daughter for that mistress. Go to hell! I curse you two, a pair of dogs, to be hit by a car and die as soon as you leave the house!"

Qiao Ruyi stood three or four meters away from the woman, watching her tears streaming down her face, her expression ferocious because of the screaming.

"Yu Xiaoping, give me your daughter. I won't ask for child support even if I have to beg for food with her. I only want my daughter!"

At this moment, the woman was so anxious and helpless that she could only threaten the other party by screaming.

The other party seemed to have hung up the phone. The woman tried to dial several times but couldn't get through. Finally, she burst into tears.

Qiao Ruyi sat down quietly beside her and handed her a tissue.

The woman raised her head. She looked no more than twenty years old, but her eyes were already filled with haggardness and fatigue.

The woman probably guessed that the beautiful girl next to her might have heard what she said on the phone.

She took the tissue and thanked him, choking back tears as she said, "Thank you."

She wiped her tears and cried helplessly, "There's an old saying that goes, I'd rather follow a beggar mother than a government official father."

At this point, the woman burst into tears. "We divorced because her father cheated on her. He refused to pay child support and insisted on fighting for custody. My three-year-old daughter lives a life worse than a dog's with him. She can't eat or sleep well, and that mistress uses her as a punching bag. I don't want anything but my daughter. My daughter is my life!"

Perhaps because the despair had been pent up for too long, the woman treated Qiao Ruyi as her confidant and said a lot.

Qiao Ruyi listened to her quietly, took out a business card from her bag and handed it to her, "Your daughter will come back to you. I will help you get her back."

The woman looked at her with tears in her eyes, her red eyes full of surprise.

She took the business card in disbelief and saw the words "GM Design Director, Qiao Ruyi" written on it. She trembled and asked, "Why are you helping me?"

Just by looking at the position on the business card and the way the beautiful girl was dressed, the woman knew that she must not be an ordinary person, but a big shot whom she would hardly come into contact with in her life.

She couldn't believe why this stranger she met on the roadside would help her.

But she saw the same sadness in the other person's eyes.

Qiao Ruyi curled the corners of her mouth, stood up and wiped the tears from her face.

Why help her?

She looked at the woman and said softly, "Because I am the little girl who followed her father, who was an official, and was never happy in her life."

The last word was almost choked with sobs. She turned her eyes away from the woman crying and walked away quickly.

The woman's voice of thanks came from behind. Qiao Ruyi didn't turn around, but just waved to the woman with his back to her.

If there were one less girl in this world who had a childhood like hers, it would be considered a good deed for her.

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