Their many years of friendship would have been in vain if Nie Yunfan had failed to notice that Han Yichen was not in a good mood at that moment.
“Chen, are you really angry?” Nie Yunfan’s expression turned stiff. He knew he was at fault. So, he probed him awkwardly.
He cried bitterly in his heart. “What’s going on with you guys today? Are you crazy? You two usually are not narrow-minded people and could joke around!”
Upon hearing Nie Yunfan’s straightforward question, Han Yichen turned stiff for a moment. He subconsciously clenched his hands that were dangling at the side and after a while, he let go of it.
Nie Yunfan had failed to notice Han Yichen’s subtle changes. Han Yichen did not reply to him after some time and Nie Yunfan assumed his silence as his consent. He said in frustration, “Chen, you’re not so narrow-minded, aren’t you? Feng… He doesn’t really have ill intentions. But… ahem… as long as the matters are related to Ms. Zhao, sometimes the way he speaks can be… It’s human nature, after all. You could put up with this, right? Or, do you really have feelings for Ms. Zhao?”
“I don’t!” Nie Yunfan’s shocking remark was truly unacceptable. Before he had finished his ludicrous statements, Han Yichen could no longer hold himself back and interrupted him.
Nie Yunfan was rendered speechless. The next moment, he heaved a sigh of relief and said, “Since you have no feelings for Ms. Zhao, why did you get into a fight with Feng just now? I know you didn’t do it out of a spur of a moment. You are not a reckless person.”
Han Yichen fell silent once again. He hesitated for a while before he blurted out under Nie Yun’s curious and impatient stare, “Ms. Zhao… could be my sister.”
“What did you say?!” Nie Yunfan screamed. His expression abruptly changed. “Which type of sister? Biological sister or sister lover? You just told me you show no interest in Ms. Zhao. How could you overturn your statements so soon? How should I explain this to my good buddy…”
Before Nie Yunfan finished speaking, Han Yichen had already shot a disdainful glance at him. He blurted out disdainfully, “Can you get your mind straight and stop thinking of such crap?! I mean, she could be my biological younger sister.”
“Biological younger sister?” Nie Yunfan stopped his banshee-like cries. A hint of puzzlement unusually showed up on his handsome face.
“It can’t be… Chen, aren’t you an orphan? How did you get your biological younger sister, more so, your younger sister is the eldest lady of the Zhao family?!”
Nie Yunfan and Han Yichen had shared many years of friendship. He had long learned about Han Yichen’s background. He knew that Han Yichen had grown up in an orphanage. Therefore, he did not believe he actually had a biological younger sister. Besides, he was even told that his so-called biological sister was…
“Chen, this joke is not funny at all.”
Han Yichen cast a cool glance at him. His gaze was akin to saying that did he look like someone who would make fun with something like that?
The smile on Nie Yunfan’s face turned stiff. After some time, he schooled his face and cynical smile. He said solemnly, “What’s going on?”
Han Yichen hesitated for a moment before he briefly told him everything that he had seen and heard at Zhao Enterprise not long ago.
Nie Yunfan was not only Han Yichen’s business partner. Nie Yunfan was also his good buddy who had been through ups and downs with him.
If there was still someone whom he could put his trust on in this world, Nie Yunfan was certainly the first in line.
As such, Han Yichen had left Sheng Huang Group for three months to go into hiding and let Nie Yunfan handle everything.
After Nie Yunfan finished hearing Han Yichen’s explanation, Nie Yunfan’s jaw dropped to the point that Han Yichen could even stuff an egg into his mouth.
“You are saying that you’re the president of Zhao Enterprise’s biological son, and you were swapped due to an accident which had caused you to be in exile for so many years. Now, your family has found you and even arranged a paternity test to confirm your identity, right?”
Han Yichen paused for a short moment before he nodded his head.
“Oh my god!” Nie Yunfan cried out depressively. He reached out for his forehead, leaned back, and collapsed on the couch. “This is simply the real-life version of exchanging a civet cat for a crowned prince. How can such a dramatic act happen in…”
Nie Yunfan could not come up with a phrase to describe his current feeling after thinking for some time. A hint of dilemma appeared on his handsome face.
He heaved a sigh and decided to give up. The next moment, he shifted his focus to Han Yichen.
“Chen, regarding this incident… What are your thoughts about this?”
Han Yichen furrowed his eyebrows. Why did everyone ask about his thoughts? He was very confused right now.
Before today, he had no family members. However, after today, he not only had his parents, but also his grandfather and younger sister.
“Do you… know much about the Zhao family?”
Nie Yunfan schooled his face. He finally understood what Han Yichen had wanted the most now. He no longer kept the matter in suspense and said in a low voice, “To be precise, Ms. Zhao is not your actual younger sister. She is only your cousin.”
Right after Nie Yunfan spoke, Han Yichen looked at him and asked in puzzlement, “My cousin?”
“Yes. Ms. Zhao is not the president of Zhao Enterprise’s biological daughter. In fact, President Zhao and Madam Zhao did not have a child. The former master of the Zhao family adored his son and his daughter-in-law and so, he had passed on Ms. Zhao to them. They did not open this matter to the public. The outsiders have always thought that Ms. Zhao is President Zhao’s daughter. However, this is no longer a secret among the upper-class society.”
Han Yichen did not continue the conversation. He had thought that Zhao Youlin was Zhao Shunrong and Duan Yarong’s own flesh and blood. He had never thought that his younger sister had been adopted.
After he fell silent for a while, he asked with some difficulty, “Why didn’t they have a child of their own?”
Nie Yunfan heaved a sigh. “To be honest, I’m not very clear with this matter either. I occasionally heard from the elders that the couple had conceived a child before. However, she had a miscarriage due to carelessness. After a few years, she finally conceived a second child. Unfortunately, at that time, the Zhao family wanted to gain a foothold in Shalnork and put someone else’s interests at stake.”
Nie Yunfan looked up and cast a glance at Han Yichen. “You also know well about the business arena. When some people could not win the war, they would resort to something behind the public curtains discreetly for the sake of benefits. At that time, I heard that Madam Zhao had been pregnant for more than nine months and was about to deliver the baby. The Zhao family had been competing fiercely with another company. That company had failed in a tender with the Zhao family. They refused to accept it and had instead gone after Madam Zhao who was pregnant with the child back then.”
Han Yichen’s heart clenched. He belatedly felt a trace of complexity and fear. The gentle and dignified-looking woman once became a target of those people who were driven by self-interests!
