After Black Moonlight revealed her true feelings, everyone panicked.

Lu Sijian glanced at Wang Ma, seemingly curious: "How did you conduct your assessment? Does Baolin know?"

Lou Xiao patiently explained, "If Bao Lin knew, she might help the other party."

He paused, then added, "I just set up some obstacles to make their company's development less smooth."

He spoke casually, assuming that Lu Sijian would understand his actions, since she didn't think Zhou Guyang was a good person either.

Wang Ma hesitated, not daring to speak.

[Does Wang Ma feel that doing this is a bit condescending? Oh, maybe she also wants to speak up for me.]

[After all, I had just been falsely accused of coercing the Zhang family's company, and Lou Xiao sympathized with the Zhang family; but when he did the same thing, it became a test.]

Little did she know, the main characters were inherently hypocritical. If the male lead did it, it meant he had good judgment; but since I didn't do it, I was already a capitalist abusing his power.

Lou Xiao was slightly surprised. How could she think of him like that?

Lu Sijian glanced at the door: "But I don't think this kind of investigation is necessary."

Lou Xiao: "What?"

"Since you've decided to test him, it means you really approve of him. But a capable person should be proud. Testing him like this will only make him feel ashamed and cause him to leave Baolin. If he endures the humiliation, passes the test, and marries Baolin, do you think he'll stay by your side?"

Yao Yao hurriedly turned back, heard these words, and stood at the door, lost in thought.

Ever since she discovered that her daughter seemed to be in a relationship, she has kept her temper in check and refrained from interfering.

After all, the daughter is an adult and should have her own judgment. Sometimes, her interference only provokes the other party's rebellious mentality, making the mother-daughter relationship increasingly tense.

Instead, Lou Xiao came to her door first, saying that the man came from a poor family, but he wasn't without merit. He was currently evaluating the man and told her not to worry.

Yao Yao was persuaded. Since his daughter liked him, and Lou Xiao said that the other party was indeed capable and could assist his daughter in the future, why not?

Now that Lu Sijian has said that, she suddenly feels that it is indeed a bit inappropriate.

Lou Xiao frowned: "I just want to give them a chance..."

"But the parties involved may not think so, or even feel that your self-righteous investigation is trampling on their self-esteem."

Lou Xiao was speechless; he had never seen Lu Sijian so aggressive.

She had always been gentle and considerate towards me, and even if we occasionally disagreed, we would never argue endlessly.

"You know, Zhou Guyang isn't a good person..."

"What did you say? Baolin's boyfriend is Zhou Guyang?" Yao Yao exclaimed in shock.

Lou Xiao was momentarily stunned before realizing that she had returned.

"Auntie, there's a misunderstanding here. Zhou Guyang isn't a bad person..." he hurriedly explained.

Yao Yao's temples were throbbing, and she couldn't listen to anything else. "No, those two absolutely cannot be together!"

Lu Sijian grabbed her and hurriedly took out her blood pressure medication from her bag and fed it to her. "Aunt Yao, please calm down."

Her eyes were calm, and as Yao Yao stared at her, his mood gradually calmed down.

Lou Xiao looked at the two of them with suspicion. He couldn't help but suspect that Lu Sijian was deliberately provoking him to mention Zhou Guyang.

She stood facing the door. She should have noticed Yao Yao's return immediately, but she didn't warn herself.

"Jian, thank goodness you're here." Yao Yao held Lu Sijian's hand, her emotions much calmer.

Back then, it was Lu Sijian who held her hand in the same way, pulling her back from the brink of losing control of her emotions.

She looked up at Lou Xiao and couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Lou Xiao, you are a good child. Although you haven't been very close to your aunt these past few years, you still think about your aunt."

"Are you trying to prove to me that Zhou Guyang is someone I can entrust my life to? Suppressing him is only temporary; what you really want to do is probably not this, is it?"

Now that things have come to this, Lou Xiao could no longer hide it: "I've discussed it with my uncle. Zhou Guyang is too loyal. He does have some talent, but his brothers are too much of a drag on the company. There's no need for that company to exist."

Lu Sijian suddenly realized.

So he wasn't really suppressing Zhou Guyang, but rather helping Zhou Guyang get rid of a burden... Is this his intention to groom Zhou Guyang as the successor of the Shen Group?

Yao Yao understood what he meant and asked with some difficulty, "Old Shen also agreed... Does he think Bao Lin can't manage the company?"

Lou Xiao didn't speak, but he had already given his answer silently.

Yao Yao sighed, forced to abandon his illusions.

If that's the case, then the husband and Lou Xiao's arrangement is the most suitable.

Find a man who can shoulder heavy responsibilities, train him well, and he can also inherit the family business for them.

But she was ultimately unwilling. The Shen Group had consumed her life's work, and she cared about its development even more than her husband did. How could she be willing to hand it over to outsiders?

Yao Yao suddenly remembered something and said, "No, no matter what, the Shen family and Bao Lin cannot be handed over to Zhou Guyang!"

Lou Xiao: "Auntie, you don't need to let past prejudices..."

“This isn’t prejudice!” Yao Yao said with a wry smile. “Lou Xiao, you don’t understand. If the Zhou family were just an ordinary family, I would have agreed.”

When she learned that her daughter had gone astray and was in a relationship early, she didn't condemn him outright, but believed that Zhou Guyang was leading her daughter astray.

She felt that Zhou Guyang was about to take the college entrance examination, and his parents must be more worried than she was, so she went to his parents' house to have a good talk with them.

By sheer coincidence, they stumbled upon Zhou's mother bragging to the neighbors that her son had started dating a rich man's daughter, and that the family was about to enjoy a good life.

The neighbors said that dating was not a valid relationship because the two were both young and underage.

Zhou's mother said, "So what? As long as my son finds a chance to sleep with her and get her pregnant, she'll be begging to marry into our family."

My son even said that since she's an only child and her family owns a big company, how could she possibly inherit the family business? She's definitely counting on her son-in-law.

Once my son becomes the CEO, won't he be the one calling the shots at home? The company will eventually have to be taken over by the Zhou family.

Having been in the business world for many years, Yao Yao had long since learned to keep his emotions in check, but upon hearing this, he still couldn't control his emotions.

“That Zhou’s mother is illiterate, yet she can say such things, which proves that this is exactly what her son told her.”

Yao Yao sneered, "What a brilliant plan of theirs! They're just waiting to skin the Shen family alive and devour them clean!"

She immediately stood up and scolded Zhou's mother for dreaming, saying that she would never let her daughter marry into the Zhou family, not even if Zhou Guyang married into the family.

She left right then and there, not wanting to get entangled with that kind of person.

The next day, she followed her daughter to Zhou's mother's stall and heard her daughter call Zhou's mother "Mom".

"Auntie, you are so gentle. Is this what it feels like to have a mother? I have never felt this before."

"I like you too. You're beautiful and smart. If I could have a daughter like you, I'd be laughing in my sleep." Zhou's mother's eyes were full of calculation.

Unaware of anything amiss, Shen Baolin affectionately hugged Zhou's mother's arm, saying, "Then I'll call you Mom!"