942 No One Is More Pitiful Than Cen Mo! (2/2)

”I think that you're misunderstanding my intention!” Zhong Moli cut Song Yao off. She smiled in a friendly manner at Song Yao, not appearing high-and-mighty or sarcastic like Song Yao had anticipated. She said, ”My engagement to Cen Mo was merely a trade that allowed each of us to get what we wanted. But Cen Mo and I are considered friends who get along rather well… That's why I came here today. I have some things to say to you! Regarding Cen Mo…”

Song Yao looked at Zhong Moli, confused.

”Right, I need to apologize to you first! I'm very sorry about having you beat up last time. It was because Cen Mo didn't tell me about you then. I didn't know that you were the woman he planned to spend the rest of his life with! That's why I got people to beat you up, in order to make the act complete, truly sorry!”

Song Yao shook her head. Her gaze toward Zhong Moli turned from apologetic to wary. From what Cen Mo had told her, she knew that Zhong Moli came from an influential triad family…

Towards people she didn't understand, Song Yao never let her guard down. The friendlier Zhong Moli appeared before her, the more Song Yao felt that she must be plotting something behind her back.

”I know that you might think I'm plotting something. That's normal… I was born in that kind of family. From an outsider's perspective, in families like that, even the pets are scheming by nature.” Zhong Moli smiled bitterly. ”So, people like us, who came from that kind of family, never have any friends!”

Zhong Moli looked up and smiled at Song Yao. ”I'm not acting pitifully in front of you… Speaking of pitiful, no one is more pitiful than Cen Mo! You'll never be able to guess the kind of life Cen Mo led before the age of twenty!”

Song Yao said nothing as she looked at Zhong Moli, increasingly unable to see through her.

”Cen Mo used to be a pretty boy who was sold like merchandise on the black market. Because he was sick, he was abandoned in a wet and cold basement to wait for death. It was Cen Mo's current adoptive mother who saw Cen Mo and took him away from the black market, adopting him.”

Song Yao only knew that Cen Mo was an adopted son of the Cen family. The married couple didn't have kids of their own, so they adopted nine sons and two daughters…

One adopted daughter had already passed away before Cen Mo was brought to the Cen family, whereas the other adopted daughter was the spoiled rotten Cen Ruo!

Song Yao had heard Cen Mo mention before that Cen Ruo was the biological daughter of Chu Wenjuan's younger sister. From the time she was born, she was brought to Chu Wenjuan's side and had addressed Chu Wenjuan as her mother. This was so Chu Wenjuan could have a blood-related child by her side and not be too lonely. Hence, Cen Ruo naturally had a higher status than the other kids in the Cen family!

As for the other nine adopted children, other than the first, third, sixth, and seventh sons, who had already passed away, Cen Mo said… that the Cens would be selecting a successor out of the remaining five boys.

Zhong Moli placed her bag on her lap and smiled gently at Song Yao. She tucked her hair behind her ear and said, ”You ought to have heard… that Cen Mo's adoptive father suffered from Azoospermia[1], and that he wouldn't have any children of his own during this lifetime. This was why he adopted a group of boys, wanting to select his successor from them!”

Song Yao nodded, indicating that she knew.

Before Song Yao got together with Cen Mo, Song Yao had heard about this from a veteran in the acting industry when she was filming…

It was said that the investor, Cen Mo, was actually an adopted son of the Cen family. The Cens adopted nine sons and had very early on announced to the outside world that they would be selecting the successor from the nine of them.

However, as the Cen couple became older and older, the competition for the rights to succession became more intense, and four out of the nine adopted sons died one after the other. All were accidents… It was either a car accident, a fire, or a drowning. In any case, none of the four died from illness!

[1] The medical condition of a man whose semen contains no sperm