After my divorce, I started to have good luck-Chapter 837 - 450: Breaking All the Rules

"It's not about that. My mom has run into some trouble and wants to discuss it with you. If you can help, please do."

Chen Feng found it strange and asked, "What trouble has your mom encountered? Can I be of any use? It can't be a financial issue, right? If that's the case, I can loan her a few million to tide over."

"It's not about finances; it's hard to explain over the phone. Just come over once. I'll send you the address right away."

With that, Guo Mengyao hung up the phone, and shortly after, she sent him the location and detailed home address on WeChat.

Chen Feng glanced at it, hesitated for a moment, but ultimately drove to the address shown on the location.

Guo Mengyao lived in a villa community in West City, with only a history of two or three years, but the occupancy rate was already quite high.

After registering at the villa entrance and confirming with Guo Mengyao, the security guard let him in.

The villas here were nice except they didn't have independent courtyards, only landscaped lawns. However, security was pretty good, with guards patrolling in electric carts.

He stopped the car in front of a villa with a prominent house number, and the villa door opened to reveal Guo Mengyao and her daughter, Qianqian.

Last time, when the mother and daughter traveled to Xiu Zhou, Chen Feng had met her daughter and they got along well.

This time, upon seeing Chen Feng again, little Qianqian was quite happy. As soon as Chen Feng got out of the car, she shouted "Uncle Chen" loudly.

Chen Feng quickly responded and only then realized he had come in a hurry and hadn't brought her a gift.

However, thinking quickly, he took the sesame oil duck and smoked chicken from the car and smiled at the little girl, saying, "Qianqian, I brought you some delicious food, sesame oil duck and smoked chicken, very tasty."

"Great, thank you, Uncle." The little girl looked easily satisfied, polite, and a bit greedy, her bright eyes already fixed on the bag in Chen Feng's hand.

Chen Feng naturally handed the bag to the little girl, who happily accepted it.

Chen Feng smiled broadly at Guo Mengyao, but she returned it with a roll of her eyes. Nonetheless, she stepped aside from the door and said, "Come in."

Inside the villa, the layout was quite Western style, with the ground floor being a combination of a living room and an open kitchen and dining area.

Guo Mengyao's mom was busy in the kitchen, seemingly brewing tea.

"Chen Feng, come on in and have a seat."

"Hello, Auntie."

After exchanging greetings, Chen Feng sat down on the sofa. Meanwhile, Qianqian went over to the kitchen to pester her grandma for some food, and Mrs. Guo cut her a duck leg, making the little girl's face light up with joy as she ate.

Only then did Mrs. Guo bring over the tea tray.

"Chen Feng, why don't you stay here this time you come back?"

Mrs. Guo asked Chen Feng while setting down the tea tray.

From Mrs. Guo's perspective, Chen Feng and Guo Mengyao were officially a couple. Since both had been divorced, living together seemed perfectly normal.

However, due to work reasons, the two were separated by distance, leaving Mrs. Guo uneasy, worried that her daughter might not hold onto a good catch like Chen Feng.

Her concerns were, in fact, quite accurate. Guo Mengyao indeed couldn't hold onto Chen Feng.

"I came back on short notice this time, and I already met with Mengyao the day before yesterday. Besides, since Qianqian is here, it's not appropriate for me to stay with Mengyao; it wouldn't be good for her."

Chen Feng spoke in the local dialect, which little Qianqian couldn't understand.

Mrs. Guo glanced at her silent daughter, then sighed and said, "Honestly, it's not good for you two to keep living apart like this. How about you think of a way to move your business over from Xiu Zhou?"

Chen Feng shook his head and said, "My business over there has just gotten on track; it's not easy to move it."

Mrs. Guo was about to say more when Guo Mengyao interrupted, "Alright, Mom. Didn't you have something important to discuss with Chen Feng? Just tell him quickly. He might be able to help."

"Alright, alright. Chen Feng, you're not an outsider. Let me be frank with you."

Mrs. Guo then talked to Chen Feng about what she needed to discuss: her stepson's issue. After divorcing Guo Mengyao's father, she was still relatively young, just over thirty, and remarried a rather honest state enterprise cadre, five years older than her, who already had two children, a son and a daughter, from a previous marriage whose wife had passed away, along with a pile of family debt.

At that time, Mrs. Guo took a shine to him, married him, helped pay off the debt, and together they raised the two children.

Now, the stepdaughter is married, with a dowry being the down payment on a house in their county, around six hundred thousand, which far exceeds the dowry money the man had given. This money was nominally from their couple but in reality, it was Mrs. Guo's because her husband's monthly salary was only a few thousand yuan with no gray income.

This time, it's not about the stepdaughter but the stepson.

Her stepson, who is twenty-six and has been working in Xiu Zhou since graduating from college, earns a monthly salary of five to six thousand. Last year, he started dating a girl, and they got engaged early this year, giving the girl a dowry of two hundred eighty thousand.

Now, her stepson and his fiancée have taken a liking to a house in Xiu Zhou and want her and her husband to help buy it, demanding a full payment of around three hundred sixty thousand, with the property deed solely in his fiancée's name.

Her stepson, however, agreed to it, saying it was to prove his true love for her. Mrs. Guo and her husband, of course, disagreed.

Then, her stepson and his fiancée had a falling out, with her stepson constantly calling and videoing to complain and urge them.

Yet, Mrs. Guo and her husband remained firm in their refusal.

Eventually, today, her stepson's fiancée finally compromised, saying they could put both names on the property deed, but still insisted on a full payment.

The three hundred thousand plus is an amount Mrs. Guo could afford and was willing to give. But the problem now is, she and her husband were highly suspicious of their future daughter-in-law's character.

"I heard from Mengyao that you have many connections, know some people with the relevant authorities, and happen to be in Xiu Zhou, so I'd like you to help us investigate this woman. If her character checks out, even with a colorful romantic history, we will accept it, as long as our son likes her. We're just afraid that her character is flawed and might be after money. If she has ill intentions, we can't risk bringing a wolf into the house."

After hearing her description, Chen Feng more or less concluded in his mind that the stepson's fiancée had ulterior motives, likely to marry and then divorce to split assets. A divorce after buying a marriage house valued over three hundred thousand, even if half, still equated to over a hundred thousand. Such a profitable scheme could outdo any side job; a single successful attempt could lead to financial freedom, with multiple attempts bringing even greater success.