Chapter 608 - Are You Here To Blame Me (1/2)
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
Even if Xiang Caiping had mentioned it, even Huo Jinyao could only remain silent.
He wouldn’t show mercy to Su Peizhen, but he had no choice but to admit that their actions were somewhat unfair to Xiang Caiping.
“Alright. If you really feel sorry for her, go sit and have a chat with her when you have the spare time in the future.”
Su Qingsang didn’t speak. It seemed that this was the only way.
“As for Su Peizhen’s matter, you don’t have to worry about it.”
Even if Xiang Caiping really begged him, he wouldn’t change his mind. A person like Su Peizhen needed to be taught a lesson.
He thought of the things that Su Peizhen had done to Su Qingsang, and he didn’t want to forgive Su Peizhen in the slightest.
Su Peizhen was going to jail for sure this time.
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Because of Qi Xiwei’s influence, the Kav Corporation had no intention of settling things out of court with Huo Yifan and Su Peizhen. They were determined to sue both Huo Yifan and Su Peizhen.
Since there was irrefutable evidence against Su Peizhen and Huo Yifan, after collecting evidence, the Public Prosecution Office had scheduled a hearing for this Saturday.
At that time, there would be a verdict against Huo Yifan and Su Peizhen. Before that, the two of them would still be imprisoned without freedom.
With the help of Huo Jinyao, the public prosecutor’s office hired a very powerful lawyer.
With him around, Huo Yifan and Su Peizhen wouldn’t be able to get out of prison easily. Huo Jinyao, who could have helped Huo Yifan, had no intention of helping Huo Yifan at all in this matter.
It didn’t matter if Huo Mingguang came to plead for mercy, or if Old Master Huo came to speak up. Huo Jinyao didn’t waver, nor did he intend to.
He was quite determined to send Huo Yifan to prison.
Huo Mingguang was very dissatisfied with Huo Jinyao’s attitude. Even Old Master Huo had some complaints about Huo Jinyao.
But everyone knew that Huo Jinyao had made up his mind. Naturally, he wouldn’t change his stance.
Moreover, things had already escalated to this point. Even if Huo Jinyao wanted to minimize the impact of the matter, it was already too late.
In the blink of an eye, there were only two days left before the court date. On this day, before he got off work, Huo Jinyao saw an unlikely figure appear in his office.
Huo Jinyao looked at Liu Tongjia, who was in front of him. After the first two seconds, his expression recovered.
However, he didn’t relax too much. There was a hint of wariness on his face, and he didn’t quite understand why she came looking for him.
Liu Tongjia didn’t miss the hint of wariness in Huo Jinyao’s eyes. She felt a chill in her heart.
It was her son in front of her, yet he was looking at her like that. She had really failed as a mother.
“Jinyao.”
“What’s the matter?”
Huo Jinyao was surprised to hear Liu Tongjia call his name so gently, baliut the wariness in his eyes deepened after his initial surprise.
He narrowed his eyes and stared at Liu Tongjia’s face. He didn’t intend to miss a single expression on her face.
It wasn’t that Liu Tongjia didn’t notice the change in Huo Jinyao’s expression. This made the words that she wanted to say suddenly feel stuck in her throat.
“Jinyao, the day after tomorrow, Yifan’s case is going to be heard, right?”
When Huo Jinyao heard Huo Yifan’s name, he suddenly felt much more relaxed, and realization dawned upon him.
He leaned back in his chair and raised his eyebrows slightly. “Mom, you’re not here to plead for Huo Yifan, are you?”
Liu Tongjia’s expression didn’t look too good. Actually, she didn’t come to look for Huo Jinyao because of Huo Yifan.
Huo Jinyao didn’t remember, but she did remember. Tomorrow, the day before the court session, was actually Huo Jinyao’s birthday.
She wanted Huo Jinyao to come home and have dinner with her. Actually, Old Master Huo had the same idea.
However, Old Master Huo was still angry. To Old Master Huo, no matter what kind of motives Huo Yifan had in the past, or what he did wrong, he could have just fought it out at home.
Yet, Huo Jinyao insisted on making such a big public fuss. Now, all hell broke loose. Everyone knew that Tianyu Group had a vice president who was not only a traitor, but also stole other people’s business secrets.
Everyone knew that such a person had appeared in the Huo family. Even brothers Huo Mingguang and Huo Mingliang were also embarrassed, not to mention Old Master Huo.
Therefore, although Old Master Huo also knew that Huo Jinyao’s birthday was coming up, he didn’t say anything. He was still angry at Huo Jinyao.
Even when Liu Tongjia was unhappy with Huo Jinyao in the past, Old Master Huo would still stand on Huo Jinyao’s side.
This time, Old Master Huo didn’t stand on Huo Jinyao’s side anymore, but Liu Tongjia was actually a little unhappy about it.
This was her son, but now he was almost deserted by everyone.
She wanted to ease the relationship between Huo Jinyao and Old Master Huo. That was why she thought of looking for Huo Jinyao and asking him to go home.
Who knew that once she opened her mouth, Huo Jinyao would misunderstand.
“I don’t want to plead for him.”
Liu Tongjia knew that Huo Jinyao didn’t like Huo Yifan. The things that brothers Huo Yifan and Huo Yiyang had done in the past few years indeed weren’t good, but she didn’t think that it was to the point of him going to jail.
“I, I just feel that he didn’t really do anything to hurt you personally. Why do you have to be so willfully ruthless towards him?”
Huo Jinyao almost laughed when he heard this.
“He really didn’t do anything to really hurt me. He was just trying to trip me up in the company, openly and secretly. He tried every means to take credit from me and tried every means to take away my position as the President.”
Liu Tongjia was at a loss for words. The atmosphere in the office dropped to freezing point again.
On this issue, Huo Jinyao was too lazy to argue with the Huo family. “Speaking of which, the accusation against him wasn’t unjustified at all. That proposal belonged to me in the first place. Instead, he didn’t even ask and directly took it to his father and grandfather to claim credit. He used this opportunity to re-enter Tianyu Group. Now that you’re all here one by one to plead for him, why don’t any of you think about how righteous he was when he stole someone else’s proposal?”
Wanting to say that she wasn’t really concerned about Huo Yifan’s ending at the moment, Liu Tongjia looked at Huo Jinyao, but Huo Jinyao didn’t give her a chance at all.
“Mom, if you have nothing else, I have to continue with my work.”
He was implying that she should leave. Liu Tongjia’s expression changed a few times. She wasn’t in a hurry to stand up, and she remained seated.
Huo Jinyao ignored her. He had already made up his mind. No matter who pleaded for mercy, he would make Huo Yifan pay the price.
To be honest, he was a little innocent. Su Peizhen had given him the proposal, and he had merely used it.
However, this was Huo Yifan’s biggest mistake. He didn’t even ask where it came from, yet he dared to show it off as a treasure?
Stupid.
Huo Jinyao signed the documents in his hands. He still had other work to do. There was a big merger to be carried out recently.
He was very busy, so busy that he had no time to care about why Liu Tongjia was sitting there and not leaving.
Liu Tongjia was sitting on pins and needles. She looked at Huo Jinyao. This was the first time she had seen Huo Jinyao handling official business.
She remembered that in her memory, the last time Huo Jinyao looked so serious, he was in school at that time.
Although he wasn’t like Huo Jinkai, who shouldered the responsibility of his family since he was young, he still had his own demands.
As a descendant of the Huo family, he was very careful to protect the Huo family’s reputation outside.
She remembered that the ranking of his exam results had never fallen from top three in the grade, and he had even gotten first place frequently.
She also remembered that he was once obsessed with video games at one time, and neglected his studies as a result. At that time, she didn’t blame him. After all, he had always known what he wanted.
Sure enough, a few days later, after he cleared all the levels, and he lost interest. She seemed to have seen him playing games after that, but she rarely saw him addicted to it.
Huo Jinyao wouldn’t care about his surroundings when he was immersed in his work. After he finished reading the proposal in his hand and writing down his own opinions, he realized that Liu Tongjia was still sitting there.
The corners of his lips curled into a mocking smile. Huo Jinyao put down the pen.
“Mom, is there anything else?”
Liu Tongjia snapped back to reality after hearing Huo Jinyao’s words. She realized that she had been sitting there for almost an hour.
She tightened her grip on the strap of her bag and looked at Huo Jinyao. “Tomorrow is your birthday. Your grandfather wants you to go home for a meal.”
His birthday? Huo Jinyao seemed to only remember it now. He narrowed his eyes and thought of something.
“It’s my birthday? Is it because my grandfather wants me to go home for my birthday, or is it because he wants to try again tomorrow so that I can change my words and let Huo Yifan go?”
“Huo Jinyao.” Liu Tongjia was finally a little angry. “What do you think of your family? It’s your birthday, and grandfather cares about you. What’s wrong with letting you go home for a meal?”
“Nothing much. I just wanted to confirm it with you guys. After all, it seems like you guys aren’t too happy to see me now. No matter what, it’s been so many years since I celebrated my birthday, and it’s the same this year, but it doesn’t matter.”
Speaking of which, ever since that incident when he was 12, Liu Tongjia hadn’t been very concerned about him.
Over the past ten years, she hadn’t said anything about specially celebrating his birthday. Every year on his birthday, Grandpa would ask Auntie Wang to cook a bowl of noodles for him to wish him longevity.
As for Huo Mingguang and Liu Tongjia, in their hearts, they wouldn’t even think about which day was his birthday.
On the other hand, his childhood friends would gather with him every year to celebrate his birthday together.
Liu Tongjia felt as if her heart had been lightly stabbed by something because of his words. After all these years, she admitted that she had neglected Huo Jinyao.
She had always thought that Huo Jinyao didn’t care.
Because of Liu Tongjia’s expression, Huo Jinyao was even more convinced that they wanted him to go home because they wanted him to save Huo Yifan.
His expression didn’t look good, and a call came at that moment.
“President Huo, you have a meeting with president An of the An Corporation in five minutes. President An is here now.”
“Ask him to wait in the conference room. I’ll be there right away.”
Huo Jinyao hung up the call and stood up. He looked at Liu Tongjia, who was still sitting there motionlessly, and his expression was very calm.
“Please tell grandpa that I’ve been very busy recently. I’ll see how things go tomorrow. If I don’t have time, I won’t go back.”
He put the documents on the table aside, picked up one of the documents, and walked out.
As he walked past Liu Tongjia, he said in an extremely nonchalant tone.
“If you don’t really want to celebrate my birthday, then don’t pretend to be like that. You obviously don’t want to see me, so why force yourself? I feel tired for you.”
Ever since Liu Tongjia drugged Zhang Yichen, Huo Jinyao was no longer willing to even maintain the pretense of cordiality with Liu Tongjia.
She clearly didn’t like him and clearly loathed him, yet she still came to see him for another person. That made Huo Jinyao even more annoyed.
Perhaps Liu Tongjia preferred to let Huo Yifan be her son. Who knew?
Liu Tongjia felt as if she had been stabbed by Huo Jinyao. She held the spot where her heart was, and was unable to recover from the pain for a long time.
She suddenly thought of what Huo Jinyao said that night.
He said, “After all these years, would you rather it had been me who died that year?”
He also said, “Actually, to be honest. I would rather it had been me who died that year as well.”