Defrosting The Cold Young Master
Chapter 1152: 1156 Too Naive

Chapter 1152: Chapter 1156 Too Naive

Ye Xingbei nodded. “Yes, I understand, old people always hope to carry on the family line, and since children are born of both parents, having one take the father’s surname and one take the mother’s surname isn’t objectionable.”

Gu Junzhu nodded slightly and continued, “After An Zhenglin and Lou Jiayao got married, they had a very good relationship. Lou Jiayao was a very gentle and wise woman, not a strong-willed character. After they had Lou Ning, seeing An Zhenglin loving his wife and cherishing his son, having good morals, her parents gradually let down their guard towards An Zhenglin, treating him like real family, and gradually handed over control of the Lou family’s company to him.”

Ye Xingbei frowned. “And then An Zhenglin had a change of heart?”

Gu Junzhu shook her head, “Even more cruel than that.”

“You can never imagine how evil someone can be,” Gu Junzhu’s lips curled into a faintly mocking smile as she continued, “Five years ago, Lou Ning’s mother died suddenly in a car crash. Lou Ning’s grandparents couldn’t bear their only beloved daughter’s unexpected death and soon passed away as well. Five years ago, Lou Ning was only fourteen, still too young. Though he inherited all the shares from his grandparents and his mother, due to his age, his father managed his shares for him. An Zhenglin became the sole authority of the Lou Group.”

Ye Xingbei was completely engrossed in Gu Junzhu’s narrative, listening intently without blinking.

“In the earlier years, it was fine. Many of Lou Ning’s grandparents’ trusted personnel were kept in the company, and An Zhenglin treated Lou Ning just as well,” Gu Junzhu said. “While being kind to Lou Ning, An Zhenglin also crafted an image of a man deeply in love with his late wife, scolding women who threw themselves at him. For four whole years, there wasn’t a single woman by his side. Everyone who knew him praised him, saying he was an extraordinary man. Although Lou Jiayao’s beauty was short-lived, having such a deeply loving husband, she had not lived in vain.”

“And then?” Ye Xingbei frowned and asked, “It was all an act?”

“Of course it was all an act,” Gu Junzhu’s lips curled in mockery as she squeezed his hand, “If it weren’t an act, you wouldn’t have seen Lou Ning at the Blue Moon Bar in Feng City.”

Ye Xingbei asked, “What happened later?”

“What happened later?” Gu Junzhu’s lips curled in scorn, “Just a year ago, when Lou Ning turned eighteen, An Zhenglin, under the guise of company needs, transferred all the shares under Lou Ning’s name to his own.”

Ye Xingbei let out a soft “ah,” and said regretfully, “Lou Ning was too trusting.”

“Last year, Lou Ning was only eighteen,” Gu Junzhu said. “An Zhenglin was his biological father, always putting on a good act, pretending to love him dearly in front of him. How could Lou Ning have any guard up against his own father, who had always cherished him?”

Ye Xingbei nodded. “That’s true.”

After a pause, she sighed and said, “Lou Ning is really unlucky, being deceived by his own biological father is much more painful than being deceived by strangers.”

“It’s more than just deception,” Gu Junzhu said. “Lou Ning told our people that after An Zhenglin got the shares, he quickly remarried. The person he remarried was the new finance manager he had hired, named Pang Xiangwen, who has a son and a daughter both older than Lou Ning.”

“No way?” Ye Xingbei widened his eyes in surprise, “Could it be that Pang Xiangwen’s son and daughter are also An Zhenglin’s?”