C25 Zong Jinghao Is Lame

When Lin Xinyan saw the pair, she stopped dead in her tracks. Shen Xiuqing spotted her frowning.

"Mom, isn't that Lin Xinyan? Why is she here?" Lin Yuhan couldn't hold back her anger. "She came here to eat?"

The food and the taste were of the highest quality, so the place wasn't something that ordinary people could afford normally.

Lin Xinyan came to this kind of place to eat?

Shen Xiuqing sneered. "She married into the Zong family. He might be a cripple, but his social status and wealth are not fake. It's not surprising that she can go in and out of this place."

Lin Xinyan didn't want to get entangled with them. Just as she was about to leave, she was stopped by Lin Yuhan.

"You're only married to a cripple. Entering such a high-class restaurant, you're still a bumpkin who can't get to the top." As she spoke, she sized up Lin Xinyan's clothes and couldn't help but wrinkle her nose.

"Out of the way!" Lin Xinyan said coldly.

Lin Yuhan didn't move away. "Why are you in such a hurry? If I say that you're married to a lame man, you get angry out of embarrassment?"

Guan Jin frowned. Just as he was about to stop Lin Yuhan from talking, he saw Zong Jinghao walking toward them.

He took back his hand that was about to reach out.

"Lin Xinyan, you married into a wealthy family from the Wealthy Class, the Zong family. Why are you still so poor? Is it because even that cripple doesn't like you?" As she spoke, Lin Yuhan covered her lips and giggled. "You're just imitating your mother now. You can't even control a man."

At this moment, Lin Xinyan too noticed Zong Jinghao walking toward them. She couldn't help but widen her eyes.

Seeing the strange expression on Lin Xinyan's face, Lin Yuhan thought that Lin Xinyan was angry and became even more impudent. "Lin Xinyan, that's all you have in your life. Earlier, you were abandoned by Father and sent to a foreign land, leaving you to fend for yourself. In future, you are destined to serve a cripple and live your entire life like you're a widow..."

"I'm afraid she's going to let you down," a deep and vigorous male voice filled the air.

It was silent but impressive, not to be underestimated.

"Who are you?" the question was on Lin Yuhan's lips, but as she turned around, she saw a man standing not too far away from her. The words died on her lips. He wore a straight suit, his tall and well-built figure exceptionally straight. His long and slender legs were wrapped in a pair of western pants.

His nose was high and straight, his lips sensual, his facial features clear and striking, and his pair of deep-set eyes exuded coldness.

His walk was calm and steady. With every step he took, he caused others to shrink back.

His indifference and his silent profundity only served to accentuate his noble temperament. He looked positively untouchable.

He made everyone's gazes tremble.

Lin Yuhan's jaw almost dropped from shock.

Wasn't he supposed to be a cripple?

Shock. Disbelief.

How could this be?

Under the gazes of Lin Yuhan and Shen Xiuqing, he put his arm around Lin Xinyan's shoulders and said, "We should leave now."

Lin Xinyan was stunned for a couple of moments. She raised her head. "You—"

His gaze turned deep, then was followed by a faint but pampering smile. "What, you can't speak properly now?"

Lin Yuhan stared at his legs, her eyes almost popping out. "Aren't you supposed to be a cripple?" she voiced her thought out loud.

She quickly covered her mouth, realizing that she had said the wrong thing.

Shen Xiuqing was dazed for a long time.

This was unbelievable.

Zong Jinghao felt disgusted and left right away with Lin Xinyan.

Guan Jin sneered at them. "Shallow."

He turned away from their shocked, twisted, and ugly faces.

Guan Jin walked over quickly to the car.

Shen Xiuqing's eyes were blank as she muttered to herself. She was scared and frightened. Her legs trembled uncontrollably. "How is this possible? Zong Jinghao doesn't have a limp?"

"How could this be?" Lin Yuhan grabbed onto Shen Xiuqing's arm, almost losing control of herself. "Why isn't Zong Jinghao's a cripple?"

Only after some time did Shen Xiuqing come back to her senses.

"Didn't you say that he can't be cured?

Mom!"

"All right!" Shen Xiuqing felt her head buzz in annoyance. "I don't know if your father knows about this either."

She found it hard to believe that Zong Jinghao did not actually have a limp. She was no longer in the mood to eat and dragged her daughter to Lin's company.

Lin Guoan was angry.

The building that Lin's company had invested in collapsed, and now the company was currently facing a lawsuit.

Lin Guoan frowned.

Somebody knocked on his door.

Lin Guoan was about to get angry on whoever had decided to come and annoy him. He was about to start cursing when the office door was pushed open. Shen Xiuqing saw the hard expression on Lin Guoan's face and wondered what was wrong with him.

Lin Guoan was in a bad mood and sunk deeper into his chair. "What are you two doing here?"

Shen Xiuqing didn't have time to care about Lin Guoan's surly mood. She walked over to him. "Did you know that Zong Jinghao can walk?"

Lin Guoan was stunned for a moment. He frowned and looked at Shen Xiuqing. "He was poisoned by the snake poison. Didn't you say that he can't be cured? How can he even stand up then?"

Sure enough, Lin Guoan hadn't known about it either. Lin Xiuqing's expression turned more serious. "He can stand up—"

"Who told you that?" Before Shen Xiuqing could finish her words, she was cut off by Lin Guoan.

"We saw it with our very own eyes." Lin Yuhan answered ahead of her mother.

With the buffer of time, she had calmed down a little. She walked to the desk and looked at her father. "Dad, we must have been tricked."

Others clearly said that they couldn't cure him, but now he was able to walk!

Lin Guoan frowned. This had indeed shocked him. At the same time, he was confused. "But then why did Zong Jinghao tell everyone that he can't stand up?"

Shen Xiuqing was also unable to determine why Zong Jinghao would do that, so she made a guess. "Could it be that he wasn't satisfied with the marriage agreement with the Lin family, but he didn't want to break it. outright So he released such a piece of news, hoping he could dissuade us?"

Silence. The entire office fell silent.

It was quiet enough to hear a needle drop.

"That must be it. What other reason would there be?" Lin Yuhan was sure of Shen Xiuqing's conjecture. She sat down on the sofa, upset. "If we had thought it through earlier, we wouldn't have needed to get Lin Xinyan and the others back."

She could have married Zong Jinghao herself.

Lin Guoan felt a headache come on. He could not have imagined that this would happen.

He had wanted to use his daughter to establish a relationship with the Zong family. If the truth was really like Shen Xiuqing said, then marrying his daughter to Zong Jinghao not only displeased him, but it also angered him.

Now that the company was in trouble, he wanted to visit Zong Jinghao to help, but it seemed like that was not an option.

Lin Guoan's face was sullen. No wonder when he went to Wanyue last time, Zong Jinghao didn't even bother to see him.

"Mom." Lin Yuhan tightly held onto Shen Xiuqing's arm. "Mom, why didn't I marry Zong Jinghao?"

She liked that man. It was the first time in her life that she liked a man.

She was the one who had a chance to marry him, but she missed it.

Regret made her intestines churn. If she had not cared that Zong Jinghao was a cripple and married into the family, perhaps he would have fallen in love with her. More so when she showed him that she didn't even mind that he was a cripple.

Now, all of this had happened to Lin Xinyan.

Her heart couldn't take it!

"Now that things have come to this, we must replan." Shen Xiuqing was not willing to give up yet. She could have established a relationship with the Zong family, and she missed out for no reason.

Lin Guoan felt his headache worsen. The situation had developed to the point where he was at a loss as to what to do.

How could Zong Jinghao pretend to be a cripple?

Elsewhere, Lin Xinyan followed Zong Jinghao into the car and slid into her seat obediently.

Zong Jinghao seemed to be very busy. He had papers in his lap. With his eyes lowered, he tugged at his collar, which was not too tight anyway.

Lin Xinyan remained silent and did not disturb him.

Guan Jin was about to turn the car toward the Wanyue Building, but Lin Xinyan told him to stop.

"What's the matter?"

"I can't go in with you guys. It won't do to be seen by others." After all, her marriage with Zong Jinghao couldn't be made public.

She wanted to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings as much as possible.

Guan Jin was utterly unable to understand her actions.

She had obviously been trying to ruin Zong Jinghao's reputation earlier, but now—

Lin Xinyan got out of the car quickly. Guan Jin drove to the company's underground parking lot, shaking his head.

Zong Jinghao got off the car and went into the elevator. Guan Jin followed him, suddenly very curious about Zong Jinghao's thoughts about Lin Xinyan. He tentatively asked the director, "Mr. Zong, do you think you like Miss Lin a little more, or Miss Bai?"