Chapter 45 - Cunning grandfather (2/2)

”Just like you. Back in those days, it was rare for women to take hold of the office. But she wouldn't listen to her father or me. She was a determined and confident woman. If I say that the current rank of our enterprise is because of her, it won't be wrong”

”Grandfather, I've seen the photos of grandmother. She didn't have green eyes. Where did my mother inherit her eye's from?” Jing Lihua said casually as she walked away to put her coat down.  All the while, she was intently looking at her grandfather's expressions through the corner of her eyes.

”Your great-grandmother. She had green eyes.” Tang Liuwei's voice was gruff, his answer was curt implying he didn't want to discuss this matter further.

Jing Lihua decided to press her luck and continued further cautiously. ”So my mother had them from her grandmother? Must be very rare.”

His face twitched for a second. If she wasn't so vigilant, she would have missed it.

”Xiao Lizi” Tang Liuwei's gaze looked reluctant ”You'll always be my granddaughter. No matter what you discover. Keep it in your heart that I've only one granddaughter and that is you”

”What are you implying, grandfather? Is there something I don't know”

Tang Liuwei looked away. He laughed and looked back at his granddaughter with sharp eyes. ”Good trick my little pear. You were trying to make me forget about your sneaking away by using your grandmother's name? Your grandmother would have been flattered if she knew that her name could be used as such after her death.”

Jing Lihua realized that her grandfather knew something that he was meticulously hiding. That was the reason he changed the topic. After that, Jing Lihua tried several angles to make him tell the truth; at least give her some hints. But he efficiently countered her with his 'smooth' responses. Frustrated, Jing Lihua gave up with a humph while her grandfather laughed at her silliness. Jing Lihua didn't want to go for it but she also wanted the truth. So she decided to ask Heng Bingwen to check her DNA; to see whether if she was a Tang or not.

She remembered in her last life Jing Tian had come up with the reports that Jing Lihua wasn't actually a Tang. With that proof, they had stirred up the trouble and conspired against her; making her deprive of her position as the President. Once the corporate had landed in Tang Huang's hands, the real decline started. After that, it just took two years for Su Liwei to make her empire go bankrupt and he emerged as the sole most powerful entity in Beijing. And the Su family; the most powerful family.

Jing Lihua's thoughts were interrupted when she heard multiple notification sounds from her phone. After placating her grandfather, she entered her room to make out what was happening. The internet population had gone into a frenzy when the video was released. The media had been kept in silence since this morning by Su Lanfen's father. But after the video, the media had broken its temporary silence. The Su family was incapable of controlling the media.

Jing Lihua traced down the source of all that frenzy. The video was shared countless times. Su Lanfen's account, that used to be full of praises and admiration, was now full of insults. Jing Lihua sighed and put away her phone. She wouldn't be that pathetic to read and laugh at those insults. She knew that those netizens could be very vicious when it came to insults.

Moreover, the slanders of celebrities were only a fleeting matter. In a week or two, t would become the fleeting memory of past; totally forgotten and meaningless.

The next day, her grandfather continued to nanny her. Only once their family doctor arrived from his farmhouse, checked Jing Lihua and told her grandfather that she was perfectly healthy; her grandfather stopped being her nanny. After that, she somehow managed to convince him to let her have a quick trip to her office with an entourage of bulky bodyguards.

After assigning the new task to Heng Bingwen, she proceeded to her office. But what she didn't know was that an unexpected news waited for her.

”President Jing, this morning I received a call from Mr. Li personal secretary”