To My Dear Mr. Huo

If Xiang Caiping was mentioned, even Huo Jinyao could only remain silent.

He would not be merciful to Su Peizhen, but he could only admit that their actions felt a bit sorry for Xiang Caiping.

"Okay. If you really feel sorry for her, go sit with her and have a chat if you have nothing to do in the future."

Su Qingsang didn't say anything, it seemed like this was all she could do.

"As for Su Peizhen's matter, you don't have to worry about it."

Even if Xiang Caiping really came to him to ask for help, he would not change his mind. People like Su Peizhen need to be taught a lesson.

He thought of what the other party had done to Su Qingsang before, and he didn't want to forgive Su Peizhen at all.

Su Peizhen is destined to go to jail this time.

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Because of Qi Xiwei's role in it, Caif Group had no intention of mediating with Huo Yifan and Su Peizhen in private. He insisted on suing Huo Yifan and Su Peizhen.

The evidence against Su Peizhen and Huo Yifan was conclusive, so after collecting evidence, the public prosecution set a trial date for this Saturday.

At that time, there will be a verdict against Huo Yifan and Su Peizhen. Until then, the two men are still in prison and have no freedom.

With Huo Jinyao's help, the prosecution hired a very powerful lawyer.

As long as he is here, Huo Yifan and Su Peizhen will not be able to escape from prison easily. But Huo Jinyao, who could have helped Huo Yifan, had no intention of helping Huo Yifan in this matter.

Whether it was Huo Mingguang coming to plead for mercy, or Mr. Huo coming to speak. Huo Jinyao didn't even come out to respond, nor did he plan to respond.

He was quite determined and insisted on sending Huo Yifan to prison.

Huo Jinyao's attitude made Huo Mingguang very dissatisfied. Even Mr. Huo had some complaints about Huo Jinyao.

But everyone knew that Huo Jinyao had made up his mind, and what he said would naturally not change.

What's more, the matter has reached this point, and even if Huo Jinyao wants to reduce the impact of the matter, it is already too late.

In the blink of an eye, there are only two days left before leaving court. On this day, before leaving get off work, Huo Jinyao saw an almost impossible figure in his office.

Huo Jinyao looked at Liu Tongjia in front of him. After the first two seconds of flashing, he regained his composure.

However, he didn't relax much. He looked slightly wary and didn't quite understand what she was doing here.

Liu Tongjia didn't miss the flash of precaution in Huo Jinyao's eyes, and felt a little chilled in her heart.

In front of him was his son, but he looked at her like that. She really failed.

"Jin Yao."

"What's up?"

Huo Jinyao was surprised to hear Liu Tongjia call his name so gently. After being surprised, the alertness in his eyes became even deeper.

He narrowed his eyes slightly and stared at Liu Tongjia's face, not intending to miss any expression on her face.

It wasn't like Liu Tongjia hadn't noticed the change in Huo Jinyao's expression, which made what she originally wanted to say suddenly get stuck.

"Jin Yao, the day after tomorrow, Yifan's case will go to court, right?"

When Huo Jinyao heard Huo Yifan's name, he suddenly relaxed a lot. I see.

Relaxing his body and leaning on the back of the chair, he raised his eyebrows slightly: "Mom, you don't want to come to plead for Huo Yifan, do you?"

Liu Tongjia's face looked a little unhappy. In fact, she came to Huo Jinyao not because of Huo Yifan's affairs.

Huo Jinyao didn't remember, but she did. Tomorrow, the day before the trial, is actually Huo Jinyao's birthday.

She wanted Huo Jinyao to go home and have a meal together. In fact, Mr. Huo means the same thing.

But Mr. Huo was still angry. For Mr. Huo, no matter what ambitions Huo Yifan had in the past or what he had done wrong, it was just a matter of making trouble at home.

Huo Jinyao just wanted to make such a big splash. Now, everyone knows that Tianyu Group has a vice president who keeps secrets and steals other people's business secrets.

Everyone knows that there is such a person in the Huo family. Not to mention Mr. Huo, even Huo Mingguang and Huo Mingliang's brothers are still dishonorable.

So Mr. Huo also knew that Huo Jinyao's birthday was coming, but he didn't say anything. He was still angry with Huo Jinyao.

When Liu Tongjia was dissatisfied with Huo Jinyao in the past, Mr. Huo would still stand by Huo Jinyao.

This time, Mr. Huo no longer sided with Huo Jinyao, but Liu Tongjia felt a little uncomfortable.

This is her son, but now he is almost betrayed by everyone.

She wanted to ease the relationship between Huo Jinyao and Mr. Huo. That's why I thought of coming to Huo Jinyao and asking him to go home.

Little did he know that Huo Jinyao would misunderstand him as soon as he opened his mouth.

"I'm not trying to plead for him."

Liu Tongjia knew that Huo Jinyao didn't like Huo Yifan. What the two brothers Huo Yifan and Huo Yiyang have done in recent years is indeed not very good. But she doesn't think it's a case of going to jail.

"I, I just don't think he really did anything to hurt you. Why do you bite him like this?"

Huo Jinyao almost laughed after hearing this.

"He really didn't do anything to really hurt me. He was just stumbling upon me overtly or covertly in the company. He tried every means to steal my credit and tried every means to oust me from the position of president. That’s all.”

These words left Liu Tongjia speechless. The atmosphere in the office suddenly dropped to freezing point.

On this issue, Huo Jinyao was too lazy to argue with the Huo family: "Speaking of it, his charges are not unjust at all. That plan belongs to me. It would be better for him to just get it without asking. I went to my father and grandfather to claim credit and take this opportunity to re-enter the Tianyu Group. Now that you are interceding for him one by one, why don't you think about how justified he was when he stole other people's plans?"

Liu Tongjia looked at Huo Jinyao and wanted to say that she actually didn't care much about Huo Yifan's ending now. But Huo Jinyao didn't give her a chance at all.

"Mom, if you are okay, I will continue to work."

This is a silent eviction order from me. Liu Tongjia's expression changed several times, and she didn't stand up in a hurry, but still sat still.

Huo Jinyao ignored him. Anyway, he had already made up his mind. No matter who asked for mercy, Huo Yifan would definitely pay the price.

Seriously speaking, he is a bit innocent. Su Peizhen gave him the plan, and he just used it like that.

But this was Huo Yifan's biggest mistake. How dare you offer something as a treasure without even asking its origin?

madness.

Huo Jinyao signed several documents in his hand and had other work at hand. There is also a big merger and acquisition to be carried out recently.

He was very busy, too busy to pay attention to why Liu Tongjia was sitting there and not leaving.

Liu Tongjia was on pins and needles for a while. She looked at Huo Jinyao. This was the first time she saw Huo Jinyao handling official business.

In her memory, Huo Jinyao looked so serious, as if he was in school at that time.

Although he is not like Huo Jinkai, who has carried family responsibilities on his shoulders since he was a child, he still has requirements for himself.

As a descendant of the Huo family, he pays great attention to maintaining the Huo family's reputation outside the country.

She remembered that his test scores had never fallen below the top three in grade, and he often even ranked first.

She remembers a time when he became obsessed with a video game and became less interested in studying. She didn't blame him at that time, after all, he always knew what he wanted.

Sure enough, within a few days, he lost interest after passing all the levels. She seemed to have seen him playing games after that, but rarely saw him addicted to it.

Huo Jinyao would not care about the surrounding environment when he was engaged in official business. After he read the plan in his hand and wrote down his opinions, he realized that Liu Tongjia was still sitting there.

The corners of his lips curled up silently in a mocking arc, and Huo Jinyao put down his pen.

"Mom, are you okay?"

Liu Tongjia came to her senses because of Huo Jinyao's words and realized that she had been sitting here for nearly an hour.

She tightened her grip on the strap of her bag and looked at Huo Jinyao: "Tomorrow is your birthday. Your grandpa wants you to go home and have a meal."

Is it his birthday? Huo Jinyao seemed to have just remembered it now. Squinting his eyes, he thought of something.

"Is it my birthday? Is it because it's my birthday, and grandpa wants me to go back, or is it because he wants to try again tomorrow to make me change my story and let Huo Yifan go?"

"Huo Jinyao." Liu Tongjia finally felt a little angry at this moment: "What do you think of your family? What's wrong with your grandpa caring about you on your birthday and letting you go home for a meal?"

"Not really, I just want to confirm with you. After all, you don't seem to be happy to see me now. Anyway, I have celebrated birthdays in the past many years, and this year is the same, but that's okay."

Speaking of which, Liu Tongjia hadn't cared much about him since that incident when he was twelve years old.

In the past ten years, I have not said that I specially celebrated his birthday. Every year on his birthday, his grandfather would ask Aunt Wang to cook him a bowl of longevity noodles.

As for Huo Mingguang and Liu Tongjia, in their hearts, they never think about which day is his birthday.

On the other hand, his childhood friends would get together with him every year to celebrate his birthday.

Liu Tongjia felt as if something had stabbed her heart slightly because of his words. Over the years, she admitted that she had neglected Huo Jinyao a lot.

She always thought that Huo Jinyao didn't care.

Because of Liu Tongjia's expression, Huo Jinyao became more and more convinced that they wanted him to go home just to get him to let go and save Huo Yifan.

His face didn't look very good, and the intercom rang just at this time.

"Mr. Huo, you have a meeting with Mr. An from Anshi in five minutes. Mr. An has arrived now."

"Ask him to wait in the conference room. I'll be there right away."

Huo Jinyao hung up the call and stood up. Seeing Liu Tongjia who was still sitting there, his expression was very calm.

"Please tell grandpa that I have a lot of things going on recently and am very busy. We'll see what happens tomorrow. If I don't have time, I won't go back."

Putting the documents on the table aside, he picked up one of the documents and walked outside.

When passing by Liu Tongjia, he said something very calmly.

"If you don't really want to celebrate my birthday, don't pretend like that. You obviously don't want to see me, so why force yourself? I'm tired for you."

Ever since Liu Tongjia drugged Zhang Yichen, Huo Jinyao was no longer willing to maintain a superficial peace with Liu Tongjia.

Obviously I don't like him, I obviously hate him, but I still come to see him for another person. This made Huo Jinyao even more disgusted.

Maybe Liu Tongjia prefers Huo Yifan to be her son. Who knows?

Liu Tongjia was stabbed by Huo Jinyao. She covered her heart and couldn't recover from the heartache for a long time.

She suddenly thought of what Huo Jinyao said that night.

He said, after all these years, would you rather it was me who died back then?

He also said, I’m not going to lie to you, I would rather it was me who died that year.

Her dreams that night were filled with these two sentences that Huo Jinyao kept questioning her about. It was even more so now, one voice after another, echoing in her mind.

Liu Tongjia's body slumped in the chair, and her whole heart hurt as if she had been stabbed by a needle.

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When Huo Jinyao entered the house, he smelled the aroma of food in the air.

Hearing the sound of him entering the door, Su Qingsang poked his head out of the kitchen: "Are you back? You can wash your hands and you can eat soon."

Huo Jinyao put down the car keys, took off his shoes and entered the door. I found that Su Qingsang was cooking.

"Why are you the one cooking? Where is Aunt Yu?"

"I'm taking Aunt Yu's day off today." Su Qingsang picked up the dishes and put them on the cooking table aside: "Okay, go wash your hands and get ready to eat."

"Why do you remember to cook by yourself?" Huo Jinyao put his arm around her waist and found a thin layer of sweat on her forehead.

When Huo Jinyao went out this morning, Su Qingsang asked him to go home early. He knew what day it was, but he pretended not to know.

"What do you think?"

Su Qingsang betrayed her. She patted his arm and asked him to let go. Tell him to wash his hands quickly. She herself picked up the plate of food and walked outside.

Huo Jinyao washed his hands and came out, taking a look at the table. There were six dishes and one soup in the middle. Just for two people, it was a bit much.

“Steamed sea bass, braised pork ribs, beer duck, crab meat and lion head...”

Huo Jinyao looked at Su Qingsang with some admiration in his eyes: "Not bad. It looks very good."

Su Qingsang poured a bowl of soup for Huo Jinyao and placed it in front of him: "That's wrong, not only does it look good, it also tastes pretty good."

Huo Jinyao glanced at the soup in his hand: "Is this Cordyceps Sinensis?"

"Yes." Su Qingsang nodded: "Authentic Cordyceps Sinensis. I specially asked Aunt Yu to buy a native chicken. I will stew it in the afternoon. You can try it."

Huo Jinyao took a sip and nodded: "Well, it's very good."

"Not bad, right? I only put two pieces of ginger to enhance the flavor, and no MSG at all."

Su Qingsang looked at Huo Jinyao as if he was taking credit: "How was it? I'm pretty good at my craft, right?"

"Yes. Not bad. But there are only two of us. Isn't it a waste to have so many dishes?"

"Don't waste it. Today is a special day."

Su Qingsang smiled. Huo Jinyao finished the soup and looked at her with smiling eyes: "What day is so special?"

"What do you think?" Su Qingsang smiled and filled a bowl of soup for herself. Seeing that Huo Jinyao's bowl was empty, he took it and served him rice.

"I will do it myself."

"No, you are the biggest today. So, I will do it."

Su Qingsang smiled and put the rice bowl in front of him: "The birthday boy. Happy birthday."

Huo Jinyao smiled: "I thought you didn't know."

"I didn't know that before." Su Qingsang blinked.

Speaking of which, when Huo Jinyao celebrated his birthday last year, they had just gotten married.

At that time, Su Qingsang just wanted to find a man to live with, so let alone Huo Jinyao's birthday, she didn't care at all about wedding anniversaries.

She never thought that one day she would have such a deep relationship with Huo Jinyao.

When you have feelings, you will use your heart. Get to know everything about this man with your heart. Whether it's his preferences or his mood.

When the two of them came back from Rongcheng that day, Su Qingsang saw Huo Jinyao's birthday and wrote it down at the time.

Today she deliberately left work more than an hour early just to prepare these dishes.

"But it's not the past. On our previous wedding anniversary, I almost failed and didn't celebrate it properly. It just happened to be your birthday. On the one hand, it was to celebrate our first wedding anniversary, and on the other hand, it was also your birthday."

After hearing what she said, Huo Jinyao suddenly leaned over and kissed her on the corner of the lips.

"Honey, thank you."

Su Qingsang smiled and was about to speak when the doorbell rang. She was stunned for a moment, not quite sure who would come at this time.

She glanced at Huo Jinyao and opened the door first.

The person standing outside the door made Su Qingsang stunned for a moment. She stayed for several seconds before she remembered to call someone.

"Aunt?"

Why is she here?

Liu Tongjia stood at the door, holding a big box in her hand. It looks like a birthday cake or something.

She seemed a little uncomfortable, and when she saw that the person opening the door was Su Qingsang, the discomfort on her face became even more obvious.

"Are you, um, Jin Yao here?"

"Yes." Su Qingsang glanced at the cake box in Liu Tongjia's hand and thought it couldn't be what she thought, right?

She took a step back and looked in the direction of the restaurant: "Jin Yao, your mother is here."

"Auntie, come in."

While speaking, Su Qingsang took a step back and motioned for Liu Tongjia to come in.

At the same time Liu Tongjia entered, Huo Jinyao happened to come out.

When the eyes of the two mother and son met, Huo Jinyao was stunned for a moment: "Mom?"

Liu Tongjia stood there awkwardly. In fact, she asked Huo Jinyao to go home yesterday, but Huo Jinyao refused.

She didn't sleep well last night and tossed and turned for a long time. I struggled for a long time today, but finally decided to come over.

When passing the cake shop, she remembered that she had never celebrated Huo Jinyao's birthday since she was twelve years old, and she began to feel guilty again. I bought a cake and came here without even thinking about it.

It was only after a while that I realized that her current behavior was a bit abrupt.

The three people stood together in the living room, like three pillars. Liu Tongjia should wish Huo Jinyao a happy birthday.

But she felt weird that she hadn't celebrated his birthday for so many years.

Huo Jinyao saw the box she was carrying, his eyebrows twisted slightly, and he stood there silently.

"Jin Yao?" Su Qingsang looked at Huo Jinyao and then at Liu Tongjia. After finding that neither of them had the intention to speak, Su Qingsang could only break the silence first.

"Auntie, have you eaten?"

"No." Liu Tongjia responded to Su Qingsang's words in a rare and gentle manner. She didn't eat, her original intention was to go back to her old house after delivering the cake.

Su Qingsang was a little flattered by his attitude.

"Since Auntie hasn't eaten, let's eat together."

"Huh?" Liu Tongjia was stunned for a moment because of Su Qingsang's words, as if he didn't expect that she would have such a suggestion.

"I'm the one who cooked the food. If Auntie doesn't mind, let's go together."

"good."

Liu Tongjia followed Su Qingsang into the restaurant. When Su Qingsang passed by Huo Jinyao, she glanced at him and motioned for him to follow him.

Huo Jinyao remained motionless, but finally followed the two people into the restaurant.

There was no one else in the house, so Liu Tongjia glanced at the table. They are all very homely dishes. She couldn't help but glance at Huo Jinyao again. Does he usually eat these?

"Auntie, put this down first." Su Qingsang pointed to the box in Liu Tongjia's hand.

The dining table is large and there is room for it. Liu Tongjia reacted, feeling uncomfortable again.

She put down the cake box, and Su Qingsang went inside and brought out a set of dishes and chopsticks for her.

First, he served Liu Tongjia a bowl of soup: "Auntie, drink a bowl of soup first. It's good for your stomach."

"Thanks."

This thank you shocked Su Qingsang. Who is Liu Tongjia?

In Su Qingsang's impression, she has always been aloof. Now he would actually say thank you to her?

Su Qingsang almost sat on the ground in shock. She couldn't help but go see Huo Jinyao.

Huo Jinyao was very normal, holding the rice and eating by himself.

Su Qingsang couldn't figure out Liu Tongjia's approach. After sitting down, he couldn't help but kicked Huo Jinyao. When Huo Jinyao raised his head, he gave him a silent look and asked Liu Tongjia what he meant.

Huo Jinyao also gave Su Qingsang a look, indicating that Su Qingsang should ignore Liu Tongjia.

How could it be ignored? So she is also her mother-in-law, right? Now that people are kind-hearted and come to celebrate your birthday, are you just going to show them a cold face like this?

Do you know that the prosecutor has good intentions? Maybe there is an ulterior motive?

She is your mother.

Yeah? She is my mother and someone else’s aunt.

Su Qingsang gave up eye contact with Huo Jinyao and smiled awkwardly after realizing that Liu Tongjia had been looking at them.

"Auntie, do you want me to help you serve food?"

"No need." Liu Tongjia shook his head: "I will do it myself."

After she refused, the atmosphere became awkward again. Su Qingsang ate very quietly, and so did Huo Jinyao.

Liu Tongjia felt a little uncomfortable, but forced herself to ignore the discomfort.

After tasting a few mouthfuls of the food on the table, she glanced at Su Qingsang: "Did you cook all these dishes?"

"Yes." Su Qingsang nodded, feeling a little flattered by Liu Tongjia's conversation: "I'm not good at my craftsmanship, and I made my aunt laugh."

Before Liu Tongjia spoke, Huo Jinyao spoke first.

He had already finished one bowl of rice and was about to add a second bowl when Liu Tongjia's question made him look at her.

"If you don't like it, you can go back to Huo's house and ask Aunt Wang and Zhou to cook it. If you want to find faults, there's no need. After all, these meals are not cooked for you."

These words were so rude that Su Qingsang couldn't help but want to kick Huo Jinyao.

"That's true." Huo Jinyao didn't think he was wrong. Liu Tongjia came uninvited. He didn't invite her.

Liu Tongjia's face turned pale. She was sitting there with a bowl in her hand, neither eating nor eating. She just sat there and stared at Huo Jinyao blankly.

One update, six thousand words. I'm a bit stuck today. Blowing kisses to all the little fairies. I have tried hard to repair the relationship between Huo Jinyao and his mother these days.