My father's inheritance is my mortal enemy.

Li Bo stayed at the welfare home for half a year. A professor couple came to adopt a child. They were going to adopt a girl, but when they saw Li Bo, they suddenly stopped.

It's so similar, so incredibly similar.

The dean looked at young Li Bo and said, "Jian Yue is a boy. He's too pretty and is often mistaken for a girl. Besides, he's a bit too old..."

"It's okay."

The professor adopted Li Jianyue, completed all the formalities, and as he left the orphanage, the director hugged Li Bo: "Jianyue, you must live well abroad, be good to your new parents, and be obedient, okay?"

The professor's adopted child is going abroad.

However, Li Bo was sent to a remote village in Guizhou. His original professor parents disappeared, leaving him with only a new mother—Mother Lin.

The environment here is not much better than the home he stayed at six months ago.

But Lin's mother was not kind to him.

Li Bo was still in the wooden attic on the second floor when he saw a corpse—a seven-year-old girl. This was a huge shock to him.

Li Bo was so frightened that he ran away.

That evening, he was taken back and met a strange but very distinguished-looking man. The man patted Li Bo's head and said that from now on, his name would be Lin Yi'an.

The real Lin Yi-an is a little girl.

Lin's mother comes from a single-parent family and was almost assaulted by an older man when she was a child. Therefore, she begged the doctor to conceal Lin Yi'an's gender and even prevented Lin Yi'an from leaving the house.

Lin's mother was in poor health, and Lin Yi'an stayed at home all year round. The villagers were not familiar with this isolated "mother and son". Li Bo became Lin Yi'an very well.

For the first time, young Li Bo understood what his mother had said: stealing things would get you beaten, and so would stealing your mother.

As Li Bo grew older, he realized that he wasn't beaten because he stole from Lin Yi'an's mother; it was his appearance and substitution that drove a mother who had lost her daughter insane.

……

Li Bo was having another dream. Even though five years had passed, he kept thinking about the past. He rubbed his eyes and got up from the bed in the cubicle of the CEO's office. There was a knock at the door. Li Bo took a sip of water and said, "Come in."

"See you, Mr. Yue." The secretary placed a document on the table and instructed, "There's a meeting at headquarters next week, so you'll need to go to Beijing."

Li Bo has been in Haicheng for almost five years, rising from planning director to his current position at an astonishingly fast pace. Besides his abilities, there is another external reason—Li Bo is highly regarded by the head office manager.

The head office manager admired Li Bo and had always wanted him to develop his career in Beijing. However, a year ago, Li Bo openly rejected the general manager's invitation at the annual meeting.

Li Bo put it tactfully, saying he lacked ambition and preferred the tranquility of a small city, and thanked the general manager for his kindness.

The general manager turned pale with anger.

Who doesn't have ambition to sit in this position?

Li Bo was just making excuses.

The secretary had always found it strange that Mr. Li was such an odd person.

A graduate from an ordinary university with a completely blank work resume is not just unremarkable among thirty-year-old job seekers, but truly mediocre.

Not only is the resume strange, but the person is strange too.

Despite lacking work experience, she possessed an exceptionally silver tongue, speaking with remarkable professionalism about the market. Her insights were not merely academic rhetoric; she cited data, analyzed the reasons behind them, and offered unique and incisive observations, setting her apart from other job seekers of similar age who were graduates of prestigious universities.

He impressed the headquarters manager, who was then the president of a branch office, and was highly valued and promoted exceptionally.

At first, no one took Li Bo seriously, assuming that some high-level executive had just put one of their good-for-nothing, unambitious relatives into the company.

Li Bo's work ability and interpersonal skills were a slap in the face to everyone.

This is hardly a case of having no work experience.

I guess it was some big family that sent a junior member to inspect the place?

While everyone else thought so, Li Bo was very content with the status quo and unwilling to be promoted, which was very strange.

The secretary, who had followed Li Bo for many years, discovered something even stranger—Li Bo never went to the capital.

Whenever Li Bo had to go to Beijing on a business trip, he would always ask the vice president to go with him.

People in the company are saying that the refined and elegant CEO Jian Yue was quite the womanizer in his youth.

Li Bo is young and promising, handsome and refined, sharp and decisive in his career. He's clearly someone who's made his way up from the big city. Why doesn't he want to go to the capital? Could it be that he's gotten himself into a mess of romantic entanglements there and is afraid to go back?

Li Bo was about to refuse: "You want the vice president to handle the meeting in Beijing..."

The secretary reminded her, "The general manager specifically requested to see Ms. Yue, and it's impossible to refuse. Besides... the vice president is currently on maternity leave."

Li Bo rubbed his eyelids, his emotions slightly conflicted behind his gold-rimmed glasses.

The secretary said, "Mr. Yue, it's almost Chinese New Year, so I need to buy tickets as soon as possible. Students will be out on holiday later, and since it's a third-tier city, there aren't many tickets available, and they might not be sold out if we wait."

Li Bo knew that he had been hiding for five years, but this time he really couldn't escape it anymore.

He nodded slightly, indicating to his secretary to go and buy it.

The secretary breathed a sigh of relief and left the president's office. He had guessed that Li Bo would refuse, but the situation was special. At the end of last month, the vice president gave birth and was still in the hospital on maternity leave.

The vice president is already thirty-five years old. She worked too hard when she was young and ruined her health. It is said that she had been trying to conceive for a long time and finally got pregnant. Li Bo gave her a long maternity leave. It wouldn't be right to call her back for a meeting immediately and make the new mother run around.

This time, Li Bo absolutely had to go to the capital.

After get off work, Li Bo drove to the hospital with a fruit basket to visit the vice president.

The vice president looked at her sleeping child with a gentle smile, her face full of happiness. Her husband peeled an orange for her beside her. The family was enjoying a harmonious time together.

When Li Bo entered, her husband, the vice president, immediately stood up. Li Bo gestured for him to sit down and said softly, "Don't disturb the child."

The vice president's husband took the fruit basket from Li Bo's hands.

The vice president laughed and said, "What's all the noise about? If you go to sleep now, I'll be in trouble tonight."

Li Bo smiled and glanced at the child: "Is it a boy?"

"Yes, my husband and I always wanted a girl, but we ended up with a troublesome son."

"It's better to have a son; there's less to worry about, so it's safer." Li Bo took out a red envelope from his pocket and handed it to the vice president: "Congratulations."

The vice president accepted it with a smile: "Since President Yue is so generous, I won't stand on ceremony with you."

"You are welcome."

The vice president's husband offered an orange to Li Bo, but Li Bo politely declined, saying, "No need."

The vice president gestured for Li Bo to sit down and asked with a smile, "After meeting President Yue, have you realized you can't do without me, your right-hand man?"

The vice president is a woman with a very strong career drive.

Li Bo responded with an "Eh," and said, "That's true."

"The children need you more now, so take good care of yourself. You can't suddenly come back to work; you promised to take every day of your vacation. Coming back early will make me lose my authority."

The vice president smiled and said, "Okay."

Li Bo didn't sit for long before standing up. "I won't bother you any longer. I have to go to the capital next week. I'll go back and pack. You should get some rest."

Li Bo looked at her vice president husband: "You'd better take good care of my right-hand men."

The vice president seemed about to say something more: "See you next week, President Yue. Actually, I..."

Li Bo turned back and said, "Get some rest, my great mother."

Li Bo closed the door and left. On his way home, his palms were sweaty. Even though there were still two days before he went to the capital, he was inexplicably nervous. Even the usually mature and calm Li Bo had moments of fear and panic.

The capital city is so big, we won't run into each other.