After Rebirth, the Celebrity Daughter is the Medical Expert!-Chapter 358 - 267: The Shi Family Sells Their House for Help (10,000-Word Update)_7

Chapter 358: Chapter 267: The Shi Family Sells Their House for Help (10,000-Word Update)_7

Zhuang Yijing said casually, "How would I know that?"

Zhuang Kaicheng pondered for a moment and asked tentatively, "Are you involved with that second young master?"

Zhuang Yijing replied, "I guess we’re friends."

"Friends, huh?" Zhuang Kaicheng continued to ponder, "Could it be that he is acquainted with some people you know?"

Zhuang Yijing shot a cautious look at the old sly fox, "I’ve told you everything I can."

Zhuang Kaicheng felt a slight regret in his heart, but he responded generously:

"Then let’s talk about what we want to eat next."

...

After dinner at the Xie family, Ning Youguang received a call from Zhuang Yijing.

"You’ve finished eating, right?" 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦

"I’m about to head back."

Zhuang Yijing looked at the snow falling harder outside the car window, "Shall I come to pick you up?"

"Is something wrong?" Ning Youguang asked gently.

"I’ve fallen in love and want to talk to you." Zhuang Yijing said.

Ning Youguang immediately sent her the address of the Xie family.

Only when she was sitting in her sports car did she realize in amusement that she wasn’t in love at all.

"I’m not in love," she said, "I came with Piao Xue to see you, so just pretend to be as surprised as seeing snow."

Ning Youguang rubbed her forehead, "Surprised, surprised, I’m truly surprised to see you!"

"I wanted to take a walk with you." After barely two minutes, Zhuang Yijing found herself awkwardly embarrassed, "Don’t worry about the cold; I have two long down coats in the car."

"You came prepared; are you planning to chat with me all night?"

"I do want to, but I’m afraid some people won’t agree." Zhuang Yijing sighed, "So, just keep me company into the night."

"Alright." Ning Youguang said, "I’ll just let the family know first."

She took out her phone and sent a WeChat message to the Xia family.

"Is there a place you want to go?"

"No, anywhere is fine!"

Then—

Zhuang Yijing drove the car to an open area and parked.

"Get out!"

"You really plan to take a snowy night stroll with me?" Ning Youguang laughed.

"Yes."

Zhuang Yijing pulled out two Prada down coats from a bag in the back seat, same style, different colors.

She gave the white one to Ning Youguang, "Bought it before coming to see you; this one’s yours."

"Thank you."

Ning Youguang took it and removed her coat to put it on.

The two put on their coats and got out of the car together.

...

In the snow-covered night of Jincheng near the New Year, there was neither moonlight nor starlight.

With the snow just beginning to fall, it wasn’t too cold outside.

Ning Youguang pulled up the hood of her down coat, covering her head.

Walking side by side with Zhuang Yijing, neither spoke for a while.

Looking at the street scene, Ning Youguang suddenly recalled a line written by Mr. Mu Xin in a book: "The light is thin, sounds on the street rare, people fear heights, panic on the road... all is vanity, all grasping at the wind."

They walked silently for quite a while.

Ning Youguang asked, "Did you have dinner?"

"Of course, I did," Zhuang Yijing said, "I got off work after five today."

Tomorrow is New Year’s Eve, and work finished in the afternoon after five today.

Listening to Zhuang Yijing, it was like she was on holiday, which showed how busy she normally was.

"Had dinner with Old Zhuang and the twins at Phoenix Bay." She laughed, "Old Zhuang treated."

Looking at her friend’s satisfied smile, Ning Youguang felt a warm feeling inside.

The "Old Zhuang" and "twins" her friend mentioned were people Ning Youguang occasionally heard about but hadn’t met yet.

But in the past life, she was quite familiar with them.

At that time,

People in the circle said, "The nouveau riche of the Zhuang family got lucky to build such a big business empire, but they lack depth after all, and the offspring aren’t talented or well-cultivated. Zhuang Kaicheng’s children are no good; the son is a lazy bum, and the daughter is a fool only obsessed with star-chasing."

But after getting to know them, she found the Zhuang family was truly full of interesting people.

Meeting them was her good fortune.

And meeting her was their good fortune.

They were each other’s benefactors.

The world often sees only one leaf, especially those with arrogance in their hearts.

Those who loved to belittle the ever-growing "Kaicheng Group" and Zhuang Kaicheng behind the scenes.

From a psychological perspective, wasn’t this belittling ultimately exposing their own envy and jealousy growing deep in their hearts?!

They first envied and resented Zhuang Kaicheng for his good fortune, running every business smoothly, building the billion-dollar "Kaicheng Group" from scratch.

Then they envied Zhuang Kaicheng for having a foster daughter with exceptional skills and business acumen dedicated to "Kaicheng Group," even though his own children were unremarkable.

What bothered them the most was that Zhuang Yijing, clearly an adopted daughter brought into the Zhuang family, was fiercely loyal and elevated "Kaicheng Group" to one peak after another.

Because of their jealousy of the Zhuang family and envy of their continuous prosperity,

There were always people trying to sow discord among the Zhuang siblings to achieve the goal of internally destroying "Kaicheng Group."

Occasionally someone would tell the Zhuang twins, "Why don’t you guys manage the company? You’re letting your sister, an outsider, take over your family’s property? Will you have anything to eat in the future?"

According to the usual behavior of wealthy families, being so manipulated and not being biological siblings, torn by huge properties, they would ultimately fall apart, ending in a dog-eat-dog scenario where outsiders benefit.

But the Zhuang family’s logic was different.

When faced with such malicious people, how did the Zhuang twins react?

The brother beat them up.

The sister ended friendships.

Once,

Ning Youguang curiously asked the twins, "Why do you trust your sister so much?"

The pair of beautiful twins, with expressions so cute that she couldn’t help but laugh when recalling it now.

The brother said, "Joke’s on them, do those idiots know how much my sister earns for us in a minute?"

The sister said, "These people just can’t have what they envy and say sour grapes aren’t sweet, divisive and nasty."

"Mom and Dad said if we listen to them and really drive our sister away..." the brother frowned. 1314