On the day of the divorce, I became Qin Shao's darling.

"No, no, Senior Brother Feng, it's my treat today." Lin Xiwei quickly took the menu. "President Sheng has come all this way, and it's because of me, so of course it should be my treat."

After much polite back and forth, it was Feng Zheqian who ultimately ordered the food.

Lin Xiwei thought she would make an excuse to go to the restroom later and pay the bill in advance.

After ordering, the waiter left, and the atmosphere at the table suddenly froze.

Zhao Xingfen was preoccupied with how to please Lin Xiwei and salvage the broken family relationship, so she didn't bring up what she had just said.

Fortunately, Feng Zheqian, the middleman, was very perceptive.

As he stood up to pour tea for everyone, he looked around and said with a smile, "Why isn't anyone saying anything? Did things already come to an end before I arrived?"

Upon hearing this, Zhao Xingfen snapped out of her reverie and remembered the purpose of her trip.

"We've really reached an agreement. It's just that Mr. Sheng made a mistake. Weiwei is my daughter. I carried her for ten months and gave birth to her. She couldn't possibly be someone else's lost child," she emphasized again.

Lin Xiwei took a sip of tea and followed up, "I also grew up here since I was a child, and I've never heard any relatives or neighbors say that I was adopted."

"Oh, then maybe... it really was a mistake." Sheng Ruichen smiled awkwardly, but still unwilling to give up, he suddenly opened his phone and took it out.

"Auntie, look, this is a picture of my aunt and uncle. Miss Lin looks like..."

He took the phone, intending to prove how much Lin Xiwei resembled his aunt and uncle.

But Zhao Xingfen only glanced at it, then flicked her hand and said, "How is it similar? The face shape is somewhat similar, but the nose is not similar at all. Look at their noses, none of them have a high and straight nose like my Weiwei's."

Lin Xiwei almost burst out laughing as she sipped her tea.

Sheng Ruichen glanced at the mother and daughter, and boldly said directly, "But I don't think Miss Lin looks much like you."

"What are you saying!" Zhao Xingfen slammed her hand on the table, pointing angrily at her own face.

"I fell and got injured, my face is all bruised and swollen, that's why I look like this. When I was young, I was a famous beauty in the surrounding area. My Weiwei is just like me when I was young."

Seeing that his elders were unhappy, Feng Zheqian quickly tried to smooth things over, "Auntie, please don't get upset, we were just chatting casually."

"You can't just chat like that! Who would be so rude as to come all this way just because someone looks alike, and then suddenly claim kinship with them out of the blue!"

"If I pointed at you two and said, 'You are my sons who have been lost for many years, and asked you to reunite with me, what would you do?'"

Zhao Xingfen played herself, and with just a few words, she left Feng Zheqian and Sheng Ruichen speechless.

Seeing that neither of them dared to respond, Lin Xiwei put down her teacup and tugged at Zhao Xingfen's clothes. "Mom, don't be like this. Since it's a misunderstanding, it's fine as long as we explain it clearly."

"Yes, actually, President Sheng only suspected it; he didn't say that Xi Wei was definitely his aunt's daughter. President Sheng's real intention was that his aunt and uncle were sick and getting old, and who knows when they might..."

Feng Zheqian paused, not saying the word aloud, but everyone present understood.

"Auntie, you'll understand. When people reach that point, they always want to fulfill their wishes. It just so happens that we went to Shenzhen on a business trip, and when President Sheng saw that Xiwei looked like his aunt, he started to overthink things."

Sheng Ruichen immediately continued, "Yes, actually my aunt didn't know about this; I made the decision on my own. I thought that even if we couldn't find my cousin, if Miss Lin could help us go and see my aunt and uncle, they would feel much better."

Zhao Xingfen frowned after hearing this: "Your aunt doesn't have any children? Why should you, her nephew, worry about these things?"

"My aunt and uncle had twins, a boy and a girl. When the girl was six months old, she was lost, and the boy died in a car accident when he was ten years old," Sheng Ruichen explained.

"Mom!" Zhao Xingfen exclaimed in surprise and turned to look at Lin Xiwei.

Lin Xiwei frowned slightly. "That is indeed quite pitiful."

Zhao Xingfen also looked puzzled, her gossip-loving nature piqued. She looked at Sheng Ruichen and asked, "A six-month-old baby can't walk on his own, how could he get lost?"

"Well... I don't really know either. I asked my family, and they all said it was an accident." Sheng Ruichen looked at Lin Xiwei, his expression somewhat concealed.

Lin Xiwei is good at reading people's expressions and moods.

She felt that Sheng Ruichen knew the reason, but was unwilling to say it directly because he would be criticized if he did.

But Zhao Xingfen was quite clever at this moment.

She stared at Sheng Ruichen for a moment, then said bluntly, "Could it be that your aunt doesn't like her daughter and deliberately threw her away?"

That's what the fellow villager said when she bought Lin Xiwei.

It's said that the original owner didn't want the maid, so once she was lost, she wouldn't look for her again, and there wouldn't be any trouble.

"Impossible! They didn't discriminate against girls. They searched for a long time after the child went missing," Sheng Ruichen firmly retorted.

Lin Xiwei remained silent, pondering various possibilities in her mind.

The atmosphere suddenly became somewhat tense.

Just then, the waiter started serving the dishes.

Feng Zheqian then smoothed things over, saying, "Let's eat first, and talk while we eat."

Lin Xiwei didn't have much of an appetite, but Zhao Xingfen was very happy and picked up her chopsticks to start eating.

Sheng Ruichen looked at Lin Xiwei, and after some consideration, said, "Ms. Lin, I'm sorry, I was too abrupt and caused you trouble these past few days."

Lin Xiwei smiled and said, "It's alright. It's a touching expression of your filial piety."

Sheng Ruichen smiled bitterly: "Sigh... I have no choice. They don't have children, and my mother has taken care of everything for them all these years."

Zhao Xingfen looked up and said, "So you're in such a hurry to find that daughter because you want her to take care of your aunt in her old age and ease your mother's burden, right?"

"No." Sheng Ruichen shook his head without hesitation and explained, "My aunt and uncle went into business many years ago and were very successful. They still have several companies under their names and are not short of money at all. They also have people to take care of them."

Zhao Xingfen was taken aback; it turned out he was a rich man!

Lin Xiwei still doesn't want to acknowledge him; is she just throwing money away?

She almost couldn't hold back the words, so she had to continue eating.

Lin Xiwei had already heard Qin Jiamo say these things yesterday, so she was no longer surprised to hear them again.

When Sheng Ruichen saw that she had no reaction at all after hearing these words, he was even more disappointed.

Normally, if you hear that your long-lost biological parents are wealthy and suffering from illness, and are about to die, you would feel a little excited and secretly pleased.

After all, recognizing each other means inheriting a substantial family fortune.

Lin Xiwei, however, couldn't detect anything amiss and didn't think that the family fortune had anything to do with her.

It seems he was indeed mistaken.

They just look alike.

Sheng Ruichen sighed, his expression revealing disappointment and dejection.

After the meal, Lin Xiwei still found an opportunity to pay the bill.

"President Sheng, I'm sorry to have made you come all this way only to return empty-handed," Lin Xiwei said apologetically as she left the restaurant.

Sheng Ruichen stared at her, still unwilling to give up.

Thinking of his aunt and uncle's tragic lives, he hesitated for a moment and couldn't help but say, "Next time you go to Shenzhen on a business trip, if you have time, could you go and see my aunt and uncle? If my cousin is still alive, she should be about your age. Let your aunt and uncle meet you, as if they've seen their daughter."