Chapitre 16: Chapter 16: In Dire Straits
Yin Hehe returned to Shengfei Bay.
"Baby, go play by yourself for a while, Mommy needs some quiet time to think about your great-grandmother's situation."
"Okay, Mommy."
Cen Bao immediately agreed.
After that, Yin Hehe locked herself in the room and took out her phone.
"Hello? Caicai, it's Hehe. I ran into my grandmother at the hospital today, can you help me look into what exactly is going on? Why hasn't that bitch He Wanqiu even hired a caretaker for my grandmother?"
She called her best friend furiously.
Caicai was stunned when she heard it.
"I didn't know, Big Brother Song didn't mention it, I'm going to call him right now."
Then she hung up and started calling Song Wenjing.
Song Wenjing was a friend of Yin Hehe's older brother, who had been helping her over the years and was one of the few people who knew her whereabouts.
Yin Hehe waited anxiously.
Fortunately, it wasn't long before Caicai called back.
"Hehe, I found out. They said your grandmother fell half a year ago and her health has been bad since. She was originally living in a nursing home, but then your stepmother said the family business wasn't doing well, so she just carelessly tossed her into the hospital."
"..."
That bitch!!
Yin Hehe felt like her lungs were about to explode with anger.
"Don't worry, Big Brother Song said he's going to arrange it right now. He wasn't in the country recently, so he didn't get the news about your grandmother in time."
Caicai on the other end guessed that Hehe was angry when she heard no response, just the sound of hurried breathing.
She quickly added another sentence.
After hearing this, something suddenly flashed through Yin Hehe's mind.
"Wait, tell him not to do anything!" she immediately interrupted.
Caicai was terrified.
"What's wrong? Why shouldn't he do anything? You need his help right now."
"No, no."
Yin Hehe immediately waved her hands over the phone to indicate that wasn't what she meant.
"Today when I went to see my grandmother, Sheng Siyuan found me. He questioned me for a long time. If Big Brother Song immediately arranges this matter, the suspicion I've worked so hard to wash away will definitely be targeted by him again."
Sure enough, as a lawyer, her response was very quick, immediately thinking of this possibility.
When Caicai heard this, she could only nod in agreement: "Well okay, that bastard, calling him a dog is not even an insult, he can sniff out anything."
"..."
"So, what are you planning to do next? Your grandmother is very ill; you can't just ignore it, can you?"
"I will figure something out."
Yin Hehe furrowed her brows tightly and could only leave her best friend with that sentence in the end.
She had no choice; to be safe now, she really could only rely on herself.
She hung up the phone, walked over to the small table, and was about to plan out how to rescue her grandmother.
"Xiaohan! Xiaohan!!"
Suddenly, Aunt Ke's frantic shouting came from outside.
Upon hearing this, Yin Hehe immediately stood up and opened the door.
"Aunt Ke, what happened?"
"It's terrible, Young Master Cen Bao broke Young Master Sheng Xi's toy, and Miss Lin just came back and saw it, she's scolding him now."
"What?"
Yin Hehe turned pale with shock and dashed down the stairs of the small courtyard.
How could something go wrong so quickly?
Cen Bao had just left.
Yin Hehe and Aunt Ke rushed to the main building and as soon as they entered the living room, they indeed heard a woman's uncontrollable scolding coming from upstairs.
"You just broke this toy; do you know how important it is to Sheng Xi? It was his birthday present!"
"..."
Yin Hehe ran upstairs like a madwoman.
"Cen Bao!"
She finally reached the second floor.
But her heart sank when she saw her son, who had just left her sight, standing helplessly in Sheng Xi's room.
Beside him were the shattered pieces of a toy.
"What happened? Cen Bao, are you okay?"
Yin Hehe immediately rushed in, first asking if her son was injured.
He had a blood disease, and any injury could be serious.
Fortunately, Cen Bao's pale little face relaxed when he saw his mommy had come, and he shook his head while pitifully hurling himself into her arms.
"You still dare to walk?"
To her surprise, the little boy had only taken two steps before the woman in the room viciously grabbed him.
"What? Thinking you won't have to take responsibility just because your nanny is here? You're dreaming!"
Lin Shuang gripped the child, her face twisted as if she wanted to flay him alive.
Cen Bao's little eyes turned red with anger.
"Auntie..."
"Miss Lin, what are you doing?"
Yin Hehe immediately charged over.
Seeing her son so frightened, her anger flared, and she forcibly snatched the child from the woman's grip.
"Miss Lin, it's just a toy. Do you have to scare him like this? If it's broken, buy another one. But if you hurt him, money won't solve the problem!"
She reminded the woman unapologetically and with a tone full of anger.
But upon hearing this, the woman didn't back down; instead, she became more arrogant: "Buy another one? Han Lina, do you even know what toy it is?"
"?"
"It's a limited-edition KTR figurine from around the world. Sheng Chenhao's father spent a long time finding it for his birthday last year, and it's now worth over five million US dollars!"
She crossed her arms and haughtily disclosed the origins of the figurine.
Yin Hehe felt a tightness in her chest.
A toy, so expensive?
She looked at her son cradled in her arms and noticed his little face turning even paler upon hearing those figures.
"Miss Lin, calm down, please. I don't yet understand the whole situation. Let me ask my child first."
Yin Hehe decided to clarify the truth first.
But as soon as she had spoken, the woman scoffed coldly: "What do you need to ask? You think I'm slandering him?"
"No, I just want to ask him how he ended up breaking this."
"Isn't it because he's never seen anything like it before? Sheng Chenhao, your mother has never bought you such nice things, has she? That's why you wanted to take Sheng Xi's for yourself, right?"
In less than two sentences, the woman had thrown another accusation, this time targeting Yin Hehe directly.
In an instant, before Yin Hehe could even respond, the little boy in her arms was so angry that his small chest heaved dramatically, and he clenched his little fists tightly.
"I didn't! I just wanted to look at it!"
"Just wanted to look at it? So you just ran straight into someone else's room? What kind of manners is that, something else your mother taught you? She really raised you well, didn't she?"
"You—"
Cen Bao's little eyes reddened with anger.
Yet he was such a cheerful child, who rarely cried, even when he was ill.
Yin Hehe felt her heart being torn apart, and she found it hard to breathe.
Over the years, she indeed hadn't been very rich. Her professional income wasn't low, but because she had to pay for her child's medical bills, she dared not spend extravagantly.
With toys costing millions, there was no way she could afford one.
"I'm sorry, baby, it's all mommy's fault. Don't be angry, I believe you didn't mean it."
She hugged her son and reassured him firmly by his ear.
The little guy's mood eased slightly.
"Miss Lin, children accidentally breaking things doesn't mean you have to implicate their mothers."
She calmed down and started to retort.
"As for your comments about Miss Yin's poverty, yes, her life has been modest since her divorce. But don't forget, that's because she didn't ask Mr. Sheng to fulfill his duties to support their child. Do you think, if she had asked Mr. Sheng, this child couldn't afford a toy?"
"What are you saying?"
One sentence had turned the haughty woman's face sour.
That was her Achilles' heel!
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