AMRWFA -Chapter 190 My Sister Is Sick

“What am I doing? I’m saving your illness!” Liao Jingna shouted as she turned him around.

Liao Minghai turned back and saw several people dressed like bodyguards. But judging from their straight backs and standing posture, they seemed to be from the military.

Sure enough, someone took out identification documents to prove their identity and even asked him to sign a confidentiality agreement.

Liao Minghai: “……”

I’ve gone crazy!

Or has the world gone crazy?!

What inner voice?

What premonition?

Am I dreaming?

However, when he was dragged back to sit in front of Ruan Yaoyao again, he realized things were not that simple.

The national team… shouldn’t be this free, right?

As for Ruan Yaoyao, she knew nothing about all this. Seeing Liao Minghai return, she didn’t care about anything else. She called her daughter Xu Nannan down to “keep him company,” while she herself frantically went through information, trying to dig up everything about Liao Minghai before he left.

Compared to his sister Liao Jingna, Liao Minghai’s information was much more detailed.

【How should I put it?】

【His sister Liao Jingna and Xu Nannan were similar—mostly female perspectives, as if the heavens had reduced women’s intelligence, leaving their world filled only with romance and love.】

【Even if there were conspiracies, they were still tied to romance.】

【But men were different. Even though Liao Minghai’s perspective also centered on love, because he had to compete with his younger brother Liao Xuwei for a woman, and also ran into the harem-style male protagonist Ma Aotian, there were more business-related elements involved.】

Therefore, Ruan Yaoyao could extract more valuable information from it.

【Ma Aotian, huh?】

【I’ll remember that!】

After signing the confidentiality agreement, Liao Minghai was very cooperative. He not only stayed to “chat,” but also had dinner there and didn’t leave until very late.

If it weren’t for the fact that an adult man shouldn’t stay overnight, he might have even stayed.

“Brother, you should go. If you stay here as a grown man and Aunt Xu misunderstands and really believes I’m trying to match you with Nannan, it’ll be troublesome.”

Although Aunt Xu’s attitude was firm, Liao Jingna didn’t dare gamble. She didn’t want to be disliked by her, because she still hoped to rely on her help to save their family.

Liao Minghai was sent to the door, rubbing his slightly aching temples.

“This matter—you’re going to tell Mom, Dad, and little brother?”

“Confidentiality agreement.”

Liao Minghai: “……”

Then why did you even call me over?

Liao Jingna crossed her arms.

“Didn’t you send me here? Since you already came to the door, not greeting Aunt Xu would be rude.”

After saying that, she left.

Liao Minghai stood there for a long time before finally reacting.

So this matter—he couldn’t initiate it directly, but he could…

He looked up and saw a bodyguard staring at him intently.

Liao Minghai decided it was better to restrain himself. He was not his sister. The Xu family would take care of his sister because of Xu Nannan, but that didn’t mean they would extend the same care to her brother.

Or rather… the fact he was allowed to stand here at all was already a kind of “care.”

“Ha…”

He sighed softly.

He had always thought that there was just an extra pair of chopsticks in the family, and even if Liao Shumei had something going on, it wasn’t a big deal.

Their family could afford to raise one more person. After she graduated and started working or got married, his parents would have repaid that “favor.”

He never expected…

Her ambition was so great—she actually wanted to “take revenge” on the Liao family.

When Liao Minghai returned, it was already late, so his parents naturally asked about it.

He said there was something at the company and he worked overtime. He noticed that Liao Shumei was sitting in the living room, while his usually flirtatious younger brother Liao Xuwei was unusually quiet, watching Liao Shumei from the corner of his eye before pretending to look elsewhere.

Liao Minghai: “……”

So… has everyone already been controlled?

“Dad, there’s something going on at the company. I want to talk to you.”

His father didn’t think much of it.

“Alright, let’s go to the study.”

Once inside, Liao Minghai asked directly: “Dad, why did you adopt Liao Shumei back then?”

His father was stunned, not expecting this question.

“Didn’t I tell you? Her father was my good brother, and he died because of me. Her mother couldn’t raise her alone, so your mother and I discussed it and brought her home.”

Because of this, his wife had once suspected Liao Shumei was his illegitimate daughter and stayed angry for a long time.

Later, when DNA testing became available, he proved his innocence with a paternity test.

“Then… how did her father actually die?”

His father frowned.

“Why are you asking about this? It’s been so many years.”

“I know, but this matter might be related to the company. I need to be mentally prepared.”

“What exactly is wrong with the company?”

Liao Minghai shook his head.

“I’m not sure yet. Dad, just tell me what happened first. I’ll investigate after that.”

That was only what Aunt Xu’s “inner voice” revealed. He still needed to verify it.

What if there were discrepancies?

His father looked at his son’s determined face. Thinking about how diligently he had been running the company and how he had allowed him to retire early in peace, he felt proud.

After thinking for a moment, he told him everything.

It wasn’t complicated.

Back then, both men were poor but close friends, and they started a business together. Just when the company was starting to improve, someone who had lost market share to them was unwilling to accept it and hired gangsters to target them.

Liao Minghai’s father escaped first, while Shentu Xianwen, Liao Shumei’s father, fell behind and died.

Liao Minghai frowned slightly.

“You ran away on purpose?”

“Of course not!” his father raised his voice. “Xianwen told me he ran faster and asked me to run first. I didn’t know it was only a few steps away. By the time I brought people back, he was already gone.”

“And Aunt Hui knows about this?”

Aunt Hui—Hui Cuihong, Liao Shumei’s biological mother. After handing Liao Shumei to them, she remarried a few years later and started a new family.

Over the years, the two families still kept contact and never stopped Liao Shumei from meeting her biological mother.

If Liao Shumei truly hated them and wanted revenge, Liao Minghai suspected she might have been influenced by her mother.

“That… I’m not sure,” his father said uncertainly. “When I told her about Xianwen’s death back then, she reacted very strongly and said I killed him, then kicked me out. For a long time, she didn’t contact us. Only after Shumei was born and she couldn’t support her did she come back to us, and by then we clarified everything…”

Well, that should be clear enough.

After all, Hui Cuihong had already given the child to them—she must have understood.

Although they rarely met over the years, whenever they contacted each other because of the child, she was always polite.

The reason his father sounded uncertain was because Liao Minghai suddenly brought it up, and also because Hui Cuihong had originally returned only because she couldn’t raise the child anymore.

If she could have raised her, then the matter might not have been so simple.