"If Bai Rongran calls back later, do I need to avoid it?" Chu Hengyuan clapped his hands after finishing the last few sunflower seeds.
Rong Lan placed her hand on his arm. "Of course not. You're my partner, and there's nothing particularly private between Bai Rongran and me."
Moreover, she didn't think Bai Rongran would call her directly. Most likely, she would send a text message asking what the audio she sent meant.
Ten minutes later, when Rong Lan received a voice call from Bai Rongran, she covered her face, feeling as if her face was stinging. Bai Rongran actually called directly? It was really... beyond the fox's expectation.
She answered the call, and Bai Rongran's first words were, "So here's the question, sister. Is Chu Hengyuan good in bed?"
Rong Lan: "???" She glanced at the man sitting right next to her and covered her face, wishing she could chop off the hand that had pressed the speakerphone button just seconds ago. She had wanted to prove that there was nothing private between her and Bai Rongran, so she had chosen to put it on speaker. She never expected Bai Rongran to be so bad at grasping the key points. In such a long audio, Bai Rongran only caught such an unimportant point.
Chu Hengyuan let out a laugh and averted his gaze, pretending not to see the little girl's blushing cheeks.
Rong Lan gritted her teeth. "Rongran, your ability to grasp the key points is even worse than that of a three - year - old child!"
The person on the other end scoffed. "Rong Lan, you don't dare to answer my question directly, which proves that Young Master Chu is really not that good. Well, it's understandable. A person who has been lingering in bars all night for years must be in very poor physical condition."
Rong Lan had thought that by provoking Bai Rongran, she wouldn't keep dwelling on this unimportant topic. She never expected Bai Rongran to get carried away. She should have turned off the speakerphone earlier so that Chu Hengyuan wouldn't have heard such controversial remarks about him being "incompetent".
Chu Hengyuan, who was said to be in "very poor physical condition", looked at his little wife innocently and tried his best to explain to her with his eyes without saying a word. He could admit that he had loved lingering in bars when he was young and impulsive, but he only went there to drink and didn't do anything messy. Moreover, he would definitely not go to bars again after marriage.
As for the matter of whether his body was in poor condition, they could discuss it slowly when they got home.
Rong Lan understood the meaning in Chu Hengyuan's eyes. Her face flushed red, and she slapped his arm fiercely. "Rongran! The key point! The way you can't grasp the key point makes me feel like I didn't record the audio completely!"
The person on the other end was silent for a while. "Rong Lan, why do both of Aunt's children have the surname Bai? Uncle didn't marry into the Bai family. Won't Uncle have any objections to both children having the surname Bai? Even if Uncle has no objections, his family will probably be unhappy, right?"
Bai Rongran had never met this large group of relatives in real life, but Mother Bai had taken her to make video calls with these relatives to get to know them. When making a video call with Aunt's family and hearing them introduce the twin siblings Bai Xiju and Bai Xirong, her first reaction was that it was very strange. After all, their surnames were easy to make people think too much.
Rong Lan's eyes lit up. She hadn't paid attention to the surname because in her clan, they never judged closeness by surname. If Bai Rongran hadn't reminded her, she really wouldn't have noticed this point.
The little fox made a reasonable speculation. "Because they want the Bai family's enterprise, so—they need to have the surname Bai to make it more convenient, don't they?"
"That's true, but why should Dad's company be inherited by them? Rong Lan, didn't you study finance in college? Your grades weren't that bad, right? Even if I didn't return to the Bai family, Dad should have chosen to train you instead of his nephew and niece. Listening to their tone as if the Bai family's enterprise already belongs to them, where did they get their confidence?" Bai Rongran had been unable to figure this out, so she had started with other topics at first.
"To be honest, I was working in the Bai Group before picking you up and bringing you back to the Bai family. But later, to avoid suspicion, I voluntarily resigned." Before Father Bai and Mother Bai knew about Bai Rongran, their own daughter, they seemed to have planned to train her as the heir.
Although they gave up the idea of training her after Bai Rongran returned to the Bai family, they would definitely think about training Bai Rongran. In any case, the Bai family couldn't fall into the hands of those twin siblings.
"So? What were they thinking?" Bai Rongran's tone was full of dissatisfaction. Although she also disliked Rong Lan, she disliked other people who coveted the Bai family's property even more. Rong Lan had at least lived in the Bai family for more than twenty years. How dare those relatives who only met once a year?
Rong Lan lowered her eyes to hide the meaning in them. "Rongran, I have a speculation, but there is no actual evidence to support this speculation, so you don't need to take it seriously."
Chu Hengyuan looked at the little girl in surprise, who seemed to have changed into a different person in an instant.
"Tell me."
Rong Lan hooked the corner of her mouth slightly. "The matter of the two families' children being swapped was related to Aunt."
"You!" Bai Rongran was eager to refute, but Rong Lan didn't give her a chance. She then explained the origin of this speculation. "Think about it. The twin siblings implied that I would definitely fall out with the Bai family, and you, Rongran, would never achieve anything. So they could take the opportunity to take over. Where did they get such an outrageous idea? Because they already knew that I wasn't a child of the Bai family, and they thought you, Rongran, would be spoiled by an ordinary family."
"If it was Aunt who did it, she only needed to ensure that she could have a normal pregnancy. Then when her children were born, she could give them the surname Bai and train their business - management abilities from childhood. When we all grew up, she could use some small tricks to let Mom and Dad know the truth that I wasn't a child of the Bai family. As a non - biological child, I couldn't inherit the Bai family's enterprise. And you, the biological child who had been living outside, were of average ability. If she said some bad things about us in front of Mom and Dad, wouldn't her children be just right to take over?"
Bai Rongran was silent for a long time. "Your speculation is really outrageous... But! How do you know that Aunt's family didn't come up with the idea of inheriting the Bai Group until after they knew about the children being swapped? And the children having the surname Bai might just be Aunt's idea. Aunt marrying Uncle was like a step - down. It's not surprising that Uncle was willing to listen to Aunt."
Rong Lan recalled the causal lines entangled around Aunt Bai. She thought Bai Rongran's words made some sense, but that family still gave her a very strange feeling. "I guessed that they knew I wasn't a child of the Bai family a long time ago because in my memory, every time I saw them, they never had a good look on their faces."