Damn capitalist vampires always threaten people with their salaries. It's so shameless!
Unfortunately, this is also her Achilles' heel. She felt like crying but had no tears.
Finally, Ye Yanxi and Xu Bei obediently stopped talking. They were extremely aggrieved inside. Clearly, it was his doing, but in the end, they were the victims. Was there any justice left?
Because Ye Yanxi's foot hurt, she didn't get off the bus halfway. Instead, she rode all the way to the underground parking lot.
At this time, there were other colleagues in the parking lot.
However, Ye Yanxi had already thought up an excuse in advance, so she didn't bother to hide.
After the car stopped, Ye Yanxi picked up her bag and pretended to bow to Xiao Yu in the car.
"Thank you, President, for giving me a ride on your way. I'll be leaving now."
After saying that, Ye Yanxi didn't care about Xiao Yu's expression and walked straight towards the elevator. Coincidentally, other colleagues were also walking there to wait for the elevator.
Several colleagues saw Ye Yanxi getting out of Xiao Yu's car and immediately quickened their steps to catch up.
"Hey, why did you get out of the President's car? You and the President, aren't you..."
Ye Yanxi immediately pointed to her ankle and stared back unflinchingly into the inquiring eyes of others. "I accidentally sprained my foot last night. Just as I got out of the subway station, I happened to see the President's car passing by. Since the President knows me from that previous project, he gave me a ride."
The colleague looked at her swollen ankle and believed her story. There was a hint of envy and excitement in their voice.
"Wow, you're so lucky! You actually got to ride in the same car as the President."
Ye Yanxi pouted and said somewhat dejectedly, "What's so lucky about that? I didn't want to ride in the President's car at first, but the President said he was giving me a ride so that I could get to the meeting room earlier to prepare for work."
"Sure enough, this is the style of our President. So cold-blooded." the colleague sighed.
"Right." Ye Yanxi nodded in agreement, not sparing any effort to slander Xiao Yu's reputation. "The President is just like a vampire who wants to make the best use of everything and squeeze out every last drop of blood from his employees."
At this moment, Xiao Yu walked over and was standing in front of the exclusive elevator without going in. He happened to hear every word Ye Yanxi said.
The security guard patrolling outside the elevator also heard Ye Yanxi's words. He nervously watched as Xiao Yu entered the elevator with a gloomy face.
After the elevator door closed, the security guard still thought awkwardly.
Which employee is so bold? How dare they scold the President to his face? She's probably going to be in trouble next.
He Group Building.
In the President's office, He Zhenhua was dealing with company affairs when his assistant suddenly knocked on the door and came in.
"How did the thing I asked you to do last night go?" Hearing the noise, He Zhenhua asked without looking up.
"Reporting to the President, it's done. This is the report. Please take a look."
He Zhenhua took the document handed over by his assistant, flipped through it briefly, and nodded in satisfaction. "Well, good. You can go and do other things."
However, the assistant didn't leave. Instead, he placed another piece of information on He Zhenhua's desk. "President, this is from the Pharmaceutical Department. Please take a look too."
The R & D Department?
Hearing these words, He Zhenhua's gaze paused as he was looking at the information. His eyes fell on the cover of the document. It was an experiment report.
He picked up the information and flipped through it. He found that the first part mainly introduced the drug ingredients and the detailed recorded data after taking the medicine.
But these weren't important. He directly flipped to the last page.
The words "Experimental Results" came into He Zhenhua's eyes. He read them word by word.
The experimental result in that line clearly stated that this drug had the effect of changing human DNA genes, and the effect lasted from one to ten years.
He Zhenhua stared at that line of words over and over again. His gaze seemed to be glued to it. He couldn't believe that the comparison result of this re-experiment was still exactly the same as before.
"And..." The assistant hesitated for a moment but still took out another piece of information from his bosom and placed it in front of He Zhenhua. "I think, President... you'd better take a look at this."
In black and white, the words "Paternity Test" were there.
He Zhenhua only glanced at it and knew whose report this was.
He Zhenhua reached out his trembling hand and touched the cover but hesitated to open it. Clearly, the paper had no temperature, but just by touching it, He Zhenhua withdrew his hand as if it was scalding hot.
He was still afraid in his heart.
After hesitating for a long time, He Zhenhua finally made up his mind to open the document.
It was the DNA identification report of him and Ye Yanxi.
He didn't look at the first few pages but directly flipped to the last page. The result showed that the two were in a parent-child relationship medically.
Parent-child relationship!
These words seemed to make He Zhenhua unable to catch his breath. For a moment, his body trembled too. His excited fingers swept across the document and knocked it to the ground.
He couldn't believe this fact.
Sixteen years! He had been wrong for a full sixteen years. Back then, he had just gone along with the mistake and brought He Man back to the He family. All the resentment of these sixteen years had turned out to be just a medical accident. It was so absurd and ridiculous.
The assistant sensed He Zhenhua's emotions. He knew a bit about this matter. He anxiously advised, "President, Ye Yanxi is your biological daughter. So... should you bring the young lady back home now?"
Bring her back home?
For a moment, He Zhenhua only felt ironic and helpless.
Since he first saw Ye Yanxi, he had been deliberately making things difficult for her and had carried a strange hostility towards her. Maybe the things he had done and the words he had said to her had already pushed her far away. Would she still be willing to return to the He family?
"I'm afraid... even if I go to pick her up, she won't come back."
It was all his own fault. He had to bear the bitter fruit he had sown.
Sixteen years ago, if he hadn't suspected Jiang Pinzhen after seeing that report but had brought Ye Yanxi back, things wouldn't have ended up like this. Jiang Pinzhen had returned to the Jiang family, and Ye Yanxi was even at odds with him.
He had seen Ye Yanxi after that and clearly felt her attitude towards him. It was full of hatred.
"President, no matter what, she's still your daughter. Blood is thicker than water. Even the deepest hatred will be resolved." the assistant advised him.
He Zhenhua's face looked a bit tired. He closed his eyes and when he opened them again, there was a new light in them.
"You're right. We're father and daughter. Even if she hates me, this fact can't be changed." He Zhenhua cheered up and thought for a moment before saying, "You go and make arrangements. I want to see Xiao Yu."
"Yes, President."
In the afternoon, He Zhenhua went to the Xiao Group again.
Xiao Yu was just in the meeting room, sitting in on the plan that was being re - revised with the Italian clients. When he heard from the secretary that He Zhenhua had come, he got up and returned to his office.
He Zhenhua had already been waiting in Xiao Yu's office for a long time when he finally saw Xiao Yu come up.
"So it's President He. I've really made you wait so long." Xiao Yu saw him as soon as he entered the door and still greeted him indifferently.
This time, He Zhenhua didn't plan to beat around the bush. He stared straight into Xiao Yu's eyes. "Ye Yanxi is living with you, right?"
"Did President He come here for this matter?" A hint of a smile played on the corner of Xiao Yu's mouth. "Didn't President He already know this? Why did you come here specially to ask? I wonder what else President He has in mind?"
He Zhenhua said straightforwardly, "I know that you've always sent people to protect Ye Yanxi. And if I want to bring her back, I can only come to you."
Xiao Yu's expression remained unchanged. "I've already told you my answer, and I still won't change it now. I won't let you take Xiaoxi back. Moreover... Xiaoxi isn't your daughter, right?"
"You should know about the recent high - profile lawsuit against the pharmaceutical group under the He Group, right?" He Zhenhua was silent for a while before opening his mouth.
"I've heard something about it." Indeed, such big news was hard to ignore. Even if one didn't pay attention, they would still be influenced by it. But he really didn't know the specific content and wasn't interested in knowing either.
Seeing Xiao Yu's calm appearance, He Zhenhua directly threw out the document that his assistant had given him and placed it in front of Xiao Yu.
"Then take a look at this."
Xiao Yu glanced at the information in front of him. One was a paternity test report, and the other was an experiment result report.
His brows furrowed slightly. What did this mean? Xiao Yu wondered in his heart. He first opened the paternity test report.
Undoubtedly, the two people on it were He Zhenhua and Ye Yanxi. Xiao Yu directly flipped to the last page and frowned as he looked at the report result. Ye Yanxi and He Zhenhua were actually in a parent - child relationship medically.
Xiao Yu raised his eyebrows and looked at He Zhenhua in confusion.
The latter thought for a moment and explained, "I'm also very shocked by this result. Seventeen years ago, the pharmaceutical company under the He Group did develop a kind of drug, and the problem also occurred with that batch of drugs. At that time, I was also one of the people in the clinical trial."
After listening to He Zhenhua's words, Xiao Yu opened the experiment report.
After reading it, a hint of sarcasm appeared on the corner of Xiao Yu's mouth. "So, Xiaoxi is actually your biological daughter, and you came here today for this matter?"
"Sixteen years ago, I made a mistake, so I didn't fulfill the responsibilities that a father should have. But now the truth is out, and she... after all, is my biological daughter."
Xiao Yu snorted coldly and threw the information back on the table heavily. "With just this light - hearted sentence that you didn't fulfill your responsibilities as a father for the past sixteen years, do you know that you almost pushed her to the brink of despair and even put her in danger several times? Can you just brush it off with just this one sentence?"
He Zhenhua's face suddenly changed, and then he calmed down again.
"I did do something wrong, but Ye Yanxi is my daughter. This is an unchangeable fact. Now... I just want to make up for this mistake." He Zhenhua stated his purpose for coming. "I'm here to take Ye Yanxi back to the He family."
Xiao Yu sneered again. "My answer is the same as last time. It won't change!"
"Xiao Yu, as Ye Yanxi's father, I have the right to take back my own daughter. Moreover... you have no right to keep her by your side forcefully." He Zhenhua's face looked unpleasant.
"President He, you seem to have made a mistake." Xiao Yu reminded him coldly. "It's true that you're Xiaoxi's father, but when you brought a fake into the He family sixteen years ago, you had already given up on Xiaoxi. Now you have no right to ask her to go back either."
After a pause, Xiao Yu added, "Not to mention, Xiaoxi herself doesn't want to go back to the He family now. President He seems to have come to the wrong person this time."
"As long as she goes back to the He family, she will have a noble status and endless wealth." He Zhenhua said urgently word by word. "I will make it up to her well in the future, as long as she goes back to the He family."
"Since President He has said so, why don't you go directly to Xiaoxi instead of coming to me? Don't look for such a high - sounding reason. You probably know in your heart that Xiaoxi won't recognize you, let alone go back to the He family with you."
Xiao Yu's words hit the nail on the head, and He Zhenhua couldn't find anything to refute.
Yes, he wasn't sure if Ye Yanxi would still be willing to recognize him, so he came to Xiao Yu.
He thought that as long as Xiao Yu was willing to let go, Ye Yanxi would naturally go back with him.
"Are you really not going to let Ye Yanxi go back to the He family?"
"It's not a matter of whether I'm willing or not. I've said that you've asked the wrong person." Xiao Yu simply laid it out. "Anyway, I'll respect Xiaoxi's choice. As long as you can convince her to go back to the He family, I won't stop you."
"Are you serious?"
"Absolutely."
Hearing this, He Zhenhua let out a sigh of relief.
As long as Xiao Yu wouldn't stop him, that was fine. For now, he could only wait for Ye Yanxi to agree.
"Also..." Xiao Yu paused. "Since President He is here, I just remembered something I want to ask President He."