Chapter 25: Taking Advantage of an Opportunity, Escaped!

  When Zuo Xiaoyao was finally relieved from the mountainous pile of documents on her desk, Jin Hui's group annual meeting officially kicked off. After a grand dinner party for important cooperative partners and some big shots in S city, the company's internal employee celebration banquet also officially began.

  The hotel wrapped up is not only high-end, but also has nearly two hundred tables for banquets, enough to accommodate nearly two thousand people dining at the same time, including all senior executives and employees of the Asia-Hui Group headquarters, as well as the principals of various subsidiaries and stores.

  Zheng was chatting with several colleagues at the same table, but saw other colleagues looking at her with some confusion towards the hotel corridor behind her. Zuo Xiaoyao couldn't help but curiously turn her head to look back along the crowd's line of sight. At the same time as she saw the middle-aged woman following the waiter, her hand holding a glass of fruit juice trembled slightly before returning to normal, without any abnormality, even when the middle-aged woman saw her and immediately quickly passed the waiter and knelt down beside her!

  Everyone was shocked by this sudden scene, and the hotel lobby, which had just been bustling with activity, fell silent. Then, the middle-aged woman's voice rang out: "Xiaoyao... no matter what, you are my daughter, born after ten months of pregnancy! Zhao Nan is your sister, born to the same mother as you. You got her fired from her job before... we didn't blame you for that, but now... now you can't just ignore her, can you? She's still lying in the hospital right now... I... I really have no other choice but to come find you... Waaah, waaah... even if Mom is begging you, please go see your sister..."

  "This is our Jin Hui's annual meeting, who let outsiders in?"

  At some point, Fang Rui, who was sitting at another table, stood up in the middle of the hallway and said coldly.

  "I'm sorry, Director Fang. This lady said she needed to come in and find her daughter, it's a matter of life and death. I've checked with your company's employees and confirmed that the Miss Zuo mentioned by this lady is indeed an employee of your company before bringing her in!"

  The hotel staff hastily explained in a flurry.

  "You..."

  "Thank you, Director Fang. Since she chose to come at this time, there are some things that I can clarify with her in person. As I said before, I've never done anything that would make me lose face and suffer..."

  Zuo Xiaoyao put down the cup in her hand and stood up, saying that the smile on her face was still warm, but some employees in the scene felt a coldness and determination behind the smile. The small discussion caused by Fang Rui's sudden appearance also stopped abruptly!

  "Ugh... Xiaoyao, I'm your mom, your real mom. Although I didn't take care of you when you were little, I really love you... Otherwise, I wouldn't have treated you that way back then, would I? You clearly also liked being with me, it's the nature of a mother and daughter..."

  Noticing the determination in Zuo Xiaoyao's tone, she thought of how she was treated at her doorstep and hurriedly interrupted her, trying to remind her with reason and emotion of the happy times they had spent together, blocking what Zuo Xiaoyao might say next, while also attempting to mislead everyone present and gain their support.

  Unfortunately, this middle-aged woman apparently had some miscalculations. Without mentioning that episode, she would have been fine, but now she has reopened the wound in Zuo Xiaoyao's heart, reminding her of the humiliation and great pain of being abandoned twice, or rather, being sold. Her voice became even colder.

  "I certainly believe you love me, otherwise why would you come all the way here to put on this show after making a scene at my doorstep, trying every means to remind everyone around me how heartless and ungrateful I am? Unfortunately, having been abandoned at birth and sold by you who claim to be my biological parents when I was about to come of age, I don't have the fortune of having any mother or sister. Do you have the right to defend yourself? You always think I will have some scruples, that I'm too embarrassed to tell others the truth about being abandoned and sold. It's true that I don't want to make this known to everyone, but why do you keep pushing me like this? Or do you think that by kneeling down like this, everyone should take your side and all the things you've done can be erased?"

  "Xiao...Xiao Yao, those things were all your father's decisions, I never agreed with them. Moreover, your sister is innocent, you can't just watch her walk into a dead end! ...The palm and back of the hand are both flesh, as long as you're willing to save her, whatever I do, I'm willing!"

  Still, the middle-aged woman knelt there with tears streaming down her face, looking quite righteous and selfless, as if she would sacrifice everything to save her seriously ill daughter in the hospital. This sight evoked sympathy from onlookers, while some people's gazes at Xue Xiao Yao also turned somewhat unfriendly.

  "In order to marry your eldest daughter into a good family, as parents, you have used all your heart and mind. But why do you want me, someone who has nothing to do with you, to foot the bill? Using suicide to coerce me, ha! This is really a great play, but unfortunately, what you don't know is that the house has already been applied for inheritance, it's the legacy left by my grandparents, and it should be inherited by their direct descendants!"

  She forced a smile, and Zuo Xiao Yao said somewhat listlessly. Her youthful face looked pale and desolate at this moment, but her slender yet straight figure revealed an unusual stubbornness and strength. As she spoke of her unfortunate experiences, the people present couldn't help but feel moved to sighs and lamentations. Who would have thought...

  The middle-aged woman's attention was apparently focused on the house, and when Zuo Xiaoyao mentioned the transfer of property and inheritance, she suddenly forgot to cry and subconsciously exclaimed loudly, "What! That is your house, isn't that old lady childless? Where did this come from, what kind of relatives...?"

  "Shut up! No matter what my grandmother is like, or who the house belongs to, I just want to emphasize one more thing: it has nothing to do with you. From now on, don't waste your minds thinking about it anymore. Go back and tell Wang Zhaonan that if she wants dowry, if she wants to marry a rich man, let her rely on her own abilities to mix in. If she wants to die, please hurry up! Don't remember me again, the blood relationship between us, even if it wasn't abandoned by you twenty-three years ago, was sold out by you five years ago! I am myself, and I have nothing to do with you!"

  When she heard the disrespectful woman call her grandmother an "old hag", Zuo Xiao Yao's last thread of rationality snapped, and with a stern voice, she said something that sent a powerful aura sweeping across the room, leaving everyone in shock. The middle-aged woman who was most affected by this aura was so startled that she involuntarily fell to the ground, trembling uncontrollably.

  Realizing the awkwardness on the scene, Zuo Xiao Yao finally noticed what she had just done. Saying it was nothing, perhaps the resentment in her heart still existed deep down. Now that she had vented, she felt refreshed and clear-headed!

  She suddenly turned pale, without explaining more, quickly took out an envelope and a document from her handbag, handed them to Fang Rui with a serious expression "This letter contains the transfer documents, please help me deliver it, this is my resignation letter, thank you, I'm leaving the city now, don't know when I'll be back, take care of yourselves!"

  As soon as the words fell, Zuo Xiaoyao had already quickly run to the location of the hotel's back door that she had previously explored. In less than twenty-five minutes, after the middle-aged woman heard Zuo Xiaoyao tell Fang Rui something and confirmed that she could no longer count on getting that house, she left with a disappointed face under the strange gaze of the crowd. Not long after, the hotel lobby, which was still buzzing with heated discussions, was suddenly stormed by two people dressed in Tang suits - a sixty-year-old old man and a young man in his twenties, whom the hotel staff could not stop.

  After scanning the crowd, the young man grabbed a male staff member's collar and asked, "Where is Zuo Xiao Yao?"

  "He...he's gone! He went that way!" The panicked employee immediately volunteered.

  Release that staff member, the young man respectfully looked at the old man who was slightly closing his eyes as if sensing something and said with some regret "Master, what to do? Is she also a cultivator and discovered me? She actually let her slip away!"

  "Hmph! She won't be able to escape for much longer!"

  The old man suddenly opened his eyes, and a flash of unwillingness and severity passed through them. He then lifted his foot and quickly walked towards the location of the hotel's back door!

  Everyone in the hotel was left looking at each other in confusion, unable to figure out what had just happened!

  PS: Thanks for the support from Jin Mo, will update chapter 2 around 7 o'clock!