Lin Wanyi never expected to run into Zhou Chenyu and Nanny Wu here.
She immediately pushed Liu Renzhi away and took off the necklace.
Zhou Chenyu was boiling with anger inside.
She had seen from a distance that Liu Renzhi was putting a necklace on Lin Wanyi.
The posture was unbearably intimate.
Why her?
She was fiercely jealous.
That necklace was obviously worth a fortune at first glance.
What was Lin Wanyi?
A thirty-year-old divorced woman with a child in tow.
What right did she have to make Liu Renzhi buy her something so expensive?
It was ridiculous.
It was shameless.
Lin Wanyi must have used some trick—otherwise, how could Liu Renzhi be so generous to her?
After all, she had grown up with Liu Renzhi for so many years, yet she had never received such an expensive gift from him.
Lin Wanyi—who did she think she was?
Seeing that Lin Wanyi didn’t respond, she grew bolder:
"Lin Wanyi, I think you really have no shame.
"You don’t even do your job properly at the company, and all you think about every day is scheming like this.
"Do you really think the company should keep a useless person like you?
"I think you should just quit as soon as possible instead of dragging down your colleagues."
"Zhou Chenyu."
Lin Wanyi didn’t speak, but Liu Renzhi’s face darkened as he cut in:
"The company is mine, if I recall correctly. You’re just a junior secretary in the secretarial office. Don’t you think you’re overstepping?"
"Renzhi..."
Zhou Chenyu stomped her foot:
"I’m just upset that you work so hard to keep the company running.
"I’m only thinking about the company."
Liu Renzhi was merciless:
"I’ve told you not to call me Renzhi. Either call me President Liu or big brother.
"My name is not for you to use."
Zhou Chenyu’s face was slapped red by Liu Renzhi’s words. She turned to look at Nanny Wu.
Nanny Wu immediately forced a smile and said:
"Renzhi, you’re overthinking it. It’s just a name. Doesn’t everyone call you that?"
"No."
Liu Renzhi continued:
"Everyone has their place, Nanny Wu. I’ve always seen Chenyu as a little sister.
"Have you ever heard Siyue call me Renzhi?
"Doesn’t it seem out of line?"
The word "sister" nearly made Zhou Chenyu cry on the spot:
"No, I don’t want to be your sister. I told you, I don’t want to be your little sister forever.
"Back then, I was young, so I kept calling you big brother.
"But now I’m grown up. I don’t want to be your sister anymore."
"Zhou Chenyu."
Liu Renzhi’s voice turned even colder:
"I’m telling you this right now, in front of Nanny Wu. Wanyi is my girlfriend.
"She is the only one who has the right to call me by my name.
"From now on, when you see Wanyi, you should address her respectfully as big sister-in-law, understand?
"Don’t say anything that might make her misunderstand, or don’t blame me for ignoring our past ties."
Zhou Chenyu’s face was completely lost.
Tears streamed down her face.
She turned and ran off.
Nanny Wu looked at Liu Renzhi and let out a tear herself.
She said:
"Renzhi, for the sake of this old woman who has served you so hard all these years, please don’t hold it against Chenyu.
"Love isn’t something she can control.
"I’m old, Nanny Wu. She’s my only daughter.
"If something happens to her, what will I do?"
Seeing Nanny Wu’s tears, Liu Renzhi’s heart twitched despite himself.
Yes.
Zhou Chenyu was immature, but Nanny Wu was the only one who had treated him well during those five years.
He couldn’t bear to see Nanny Wu hurt.
Finally, he sighed:
"Don’t worry. I’ll find a proper opportunity to have a good talk with her.
"I’ll also keep an eye out for some good young men for her. Nanny Wu, I won’t abandon her."
Nanny Wu’s tears finally stopped. Before she left, she added:
"Renzhi, I know you’re very capable now and make a lot of money.
"But money and rice don’t last forever. You should still live frugally.
"Jewelry this expensive isn’t necessary, and..."
She deliberately glanced at Lin Wanyi before continuing:
"And it’s not appropriate."
Lin Wanyi understood her meaning.
Liu Renzhi understood it even better.
But he only understood—he didn’t take it to heart.
Instead, he browsed more jewelry.
Lin Wanyi thought he was being childish:
"Are you trying to spite Nanny Wu?"
Liu Renzhi swiped his card:
"No. I just think she’s wrong.
"My girlfriend isn’t her daughter-in-law. She’s overstepping."
Hiding not far away, Nanny Wu saw Liu Renzhi pay.
She was so furious her teeth chattered.
Zhou Chenyu was even more devastated:
"Mom, why?
"All these years, Liu Renzhi has never given me a decent gift.
"At most, a bracelet worth just a few tens of thousands.
"I guess I can let that slide, but what about you?
"You’ve taken care of him like his own mother for so many years. What has he ever given you?
"Some cheap clothes and bags?
"But look at how he treats Lin Wanyi!
"He spends at least several hundred thousand on her at once. I can’t accept this, I really can’t."
Nanny Wu couldn’t accept it either.
Zhou Chenyu was right.
She had been Liu Renzhi’s nanny for so many years—she deserved some credit.
The reason Liu Renzhi was so successful today was all thanks to her decades of meticulous care and upbringing.
But what did she get in return?
A villa in the suburbs, and that was it.
It made her heart feel cold.
It made her deeply disappointed.
After thinking it over, she finally filmed a video of Lin Wanyi and sent it to Huang Chunlian, along with a message:
"Ma’am, you need to talk to Renzhi right away.
"He’s found a gold-digging woman who’s divorced with a child.
"His money is about to be drained by this wicked woman."
Upon receiving the message, Huang Chunlian curled her lips.
She had already obtained Lin Wanyi’s information hours earlier.
Divorced, with a child, thirty years old.
A completely ordinary rural housewife.
What right did she have to get her hands on Liu Renzhi’s money?
Liu Renzhi’s money should belong to her alone—his own mother.
No one else could take it.
Just like how she had taken all of Liu Renzhi’s father’s property back then, without leaving Liu Renzhi a single cent.
On the way back, Lin Wanyi told Liu Renzhi:
"Our whole family plans to take Keke on a trip during summer vacation."
"Oh, where to?"
"We haven’t decided yet. We’re still looking at places."
Liu Renzhi nodded thoughtfully, but instead of taking Lin Wanyi back to the Lin family home, he drove to a place she had never been before.
His own private villa.
It was given to him by Su Jing on her eighteenth birthday, originally intended as their future marital home. But she had waited until Liu Renzhi turned thirty-five without ever becoming its mistress.
Liu Renzhi hated loneliness, so he still lived with his family in the old Liu mansion. The villa was regularly cleaned, though no one lived there, it was still spotless everywhere.
Lin Wanyi stood in the hall and asked Liu Renzhi:
"Why did you bring me here?"
Liu Renzhi finally opened the clothes he had been hiding in the bag behind his back:
"Here, put this on for me to see."
