So what if she's a fake heiress? She's being pampered by a powerful figure in Beijing'

Holland was a little confused and was about to ask more questions, but the producer quickly brought the wine over to her side, so she had no choice but to give up.

The meal went on very late, so late that Huo Shen kept calling one after another.

She hung up a few times at first, but then the calls kept coming in. One of the producers, sensing the urgency on the other end of the line, kindly said:

"If you're in a hurry, Mr. Xie, please accept this call. We'll be waiting for you."

Xie Junfei smiled:

"It's okay, it's Huo Shen calling, don't worry about it."

The producer chuckled twice and complimented her:

"President Xie and Chairman Huo are such a perfect match, it's truly enviable."

Xie Junfei smiled faintly, but did not respond.

Huo Shen came to urge everyone, saying that the crew had to start work tomorrow and it was getting late, so the director suggested that everyone disperse first and get together again when they had time.

Holland's assistant had already paid the bill in advance, and Xie Junfei lagged behind, going to the restroom to wash her hands.

The bathroom lights were bright, and when she straightened up, there was someone standing behind her.

It is Shen Huaishan.

Xie Junfei raised an eyebrow and turned to look at him.

Shen Huaishan lowered his eyes, looking as if he wanted to say something but hesitated.

Xie Junfei waited for two minutes before becoming impatient and deliberately glanced at his watch:

"Speak your mind, or shut up. Someone's waiting for me downstairs."

Shen Huaishan then carefully considered his words and spoke:

"How did you and Huo Shen meet?"

Xie Junfei looked him up and down, then chuckled:

"What business is it of yours how I met him?"

After saying that, she was about to leave when, as if she had thought of something, a mischievous glint flashed in her eyes:

"But since you want to know, I'll tell you."

"He is my patron."

She looked up, and said with a half-joking tone:

"Thanks to you back then, the Qin family treated me very badly."

“I live in a basement at home, and I can’t have a good life at Tiancheng Private School either.”

“When I was kicked out of Tiancheng Private School, I was just a child. Private school tuition was too expensive, and I had no way to transfer schools. The Xie family, who adopted me, didn’t have much money either, so I had to find a way myself.”

"That's why I found Huo Shen."

As she spoke, Xie Junfei observed Shen Huaishan's expression and, as expected, saw a look of pain on his face.

But what's the difference between this and the saying "the rabbit mourns the fox's death"?

That wasn't enough; Xie Junfei continued to lie without batting an eye:

"Fortunately, Huo Shen liked me very much. He not only gave me a scholarship to continue my studies, but also developed real feelings for me."

"He even extended his affection to my brother, making him a rising star in Beijing's elite circles and helping me reclaim the Qin family's assets."

As she spoke, Xie Junfei's eyes crinkled into a smile, and she plunged a knife into Shen Huaishan's heart:

"You see, I'm still different from Yu Wei."

"You say you like my mother, but do you really love her?"

“When you were young, you made her get into your bed for tuition and humiliated her to the extreme.”

"Later, she got to my father's side on her own, but you used what happened back then to force her to have an affair with you."

"After your father found out, you were so enraged that you killed someone to avoid trouble, causing chaos in the family and destroying the love and family affection she had finally gained."

"Shen Huaishan, ask yourself honestly, do you really love her?"

Xie Junfei pressed on relentlessly, forcing Shen Huaishan into a series of retreats.

She raised her head, not letting his gaze escape:

"You say you love her, but you see her kneeling in front of you like a dog, begging for money to go to school, even though she has qualified for a scholarship, you still make things difficult for her."

"You say you love her, but in front of your brothers you call her a 'simp,' you imprison her to prevent her from going on a government-sponsored study abroad program, you cut off her right to be an independent woman, and force her to become a 'socialite' who only knows how to spend money."

"Later you said you loved her, but you destroyed the family she had worked so hard to build, killed your brothers, and forced her daughter to leave her hometown and be abused by her adoptive parents in the capital!"

"You, on the other hand, had so many chances to salvage your love but didn't cherish them. Now you've driven your lover to suicide and only now do you realize your regret. You hypocritically shed a couple of tears in your luxurious life, embracing one young lady after another, and claiming you'll never marry. Is this your idea of ​​love?"

"Stop fucking self-pity, okay?!"

After speaking, Xie Junfei took two steps back, looking at him with nothing but sarcasm:

"What you feel for your mother is not love at all. You are nothing but a debt collector on my life's journey, a slug. I feel disgusted even if I touch you. You are not worthy of mentioning her!"

The sound was firm and resonant, and the footsteps of leather shoes outside the door paused.

Shen Huaishan was completely stung and, disregarding all semblance of gentlemanly etiquette, retorted sharply:

"What do you know! Yu Wei loves me!"

"Everything I did was understandable. Although the process was wrong, the result was right, and that's enough!"

"She wanted to go to school, so I ended up giving her a scholarship, didn't I?"

"She was abused at home, so I gave her money and status, making her a socialite in Haicheng. Was I wrong?"

As if finally venting the resentment that had been building up in his heart for over a decade, Shen Huaishan stopped pretending:

"It's all her fault for not appreciating it. I've been so good to her, and she's the one who betrayed me!"

"What's so great about Shen Changfeng? He just says a few sweet words and makes her forget all the good I've done for her, making her marry him without hesitation. Why should she?!"

"And I, I'm willing to do anything for her!"

Before he could finish speaking, Xie Junfei slapped Shen Huaishan across the face!

Shen Huaishan had held a high position for so many years, and in all that time, no one had ever spoken a harsh word to him, let alone laid a hand on him. He was momentarily stunned and didn't react.

Xie Junfei sneered, his expression mocking.

She looks a lot like her mother, and when her almond-shaped eyes are slightly narrowed, she resembles Yu Wei even more.

Looking at her face, Shen Huaishan felt as if he had returned to the night he killed Shen Changfeng, when Yu Wei, in her early twenties, stood in front of him with a knife.

Yu Wei had just finished her postpartum confinement period. She was wearing her favorite pink dress and stood in front of him, her face streaked with tears, questioning him:

"Shen Huaishan, do you really love me?"

"This is not love, this is your obsession, your inner demons."

He has forgotten what he replied at the time.

But after he finished speaking, Yu Wei smiled through her tears, her eyes filled with the same mockery as Xie Junfei's.

Immediately afterwards, she threw away the knife in her hand and jumped off the balcony of the fourth floor of the villa, like a fragile butterfly that had lost its wings.

Xie Junfei's voice was still in his ears:

"Shen Huaishan, give up. You only love yourself."

"Just because you are an illegitimate child, you desperately torment Yu Wei, who has the same background as you, in order to prove that you are superior and gain that insignificant desire for control and possession."

"Later, you became jealous of your older brother Shen Changfeng's superiority, so you forced Yu Wei, who was already your sister-in-law, to have an affair with you. Did you enjoy conquering your sister-in-law?"

"Admit it, you don't love Yu Wei at all. Your current act of being so affectionate is just self-pity and it's useless."

"Not only do you not love her, you also hate her, you hate that she is just like you, unable to control her own destiny, and fawning over the powerful and wealthy."