Chapter 87: “Mom, You’ll Always Be the Most Important”
Li Mo arrived outside Liu Pingping’s door and knocked. At that moment, Liu Pingping, who was feeling a bit sleepy, had just been about to go to bed when she heard the knocking. She thought it was Su Qingyan.
“Mom, are you asleep?”
But then Li Mo’s voice sounded. For a moment, Liu Pingping was surprised, why had Li Mo come?
During this day and a half in Hangzhou, ever since Bai Lulu appeared, she had felt deeply unhappy. She was afraid Bai Lulu would steal her place in Li Mo’s heart.
The thought of how close Li Mo and Bai Lulu seemed had left her feeling jealous these past few days. Yet Li Mo seemed completely oblivious, which made her feel somewhat neglected. Still, she didn’t know how to bring it up.
“No, come in.”
Li Mo entered and closed the door behind him. He saw Liu Pingping sitting on the sofa. Though there were no obvious signs of her low spirits, he could still sense her mood.
“Mom, these past couple of days, you’ve seemed really upset.”
As soon as Li Mo said this, Liu Pingping’s unhappiness surged. Sometimes, if no one mentions a grievance, it might not feel like much. But once someone acknowledges it, the resentment can flood in all at once.
And that was exactly how Liu Pingping felt now.
“It’s nothing… I just haven’t been sleeping well.”
Of course, she couldn’t say she felt Bai Lulu was stealing her place as his mother, that would make her seem petty.
“I know. It’s about Aunt Bai, isn’t it?”
Li Mo’s words laid bare her thoughts, making her feel somewhat embarrassed.
“Don’t worry, Mom. We’ve been mother and son for so many years. You’ll always be my mom. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have let you stay here. As for Aunt Bai, she’s just a coincidence.”
His words warmed Liu Pingping’s heart, but she still felt uneasy. Bai Lulu’s presence made her unhappy. A woman her age who could rival her in beauty, that kind of instinctive hostility was impossible to shake off.
Seeing that Liu Pingping was still upset, Li Mo acted a little playfully. He gently took her hand and nuzzled his face against hers.
“Mom, don’t be angry.”
The childish gesture made Liu Pingping both amused and exasperated. She hugged him lightly, her heart full of tenderness.
“You… How old are you, acting like this? You’re such a kid.”
Though she said that, she felt deeply comforted. Li Mo’s affection for her was genuine, it had been that way since the day they became mother and son. It was a shame she used to think he was mediocre. A wave of guilt rose in her heart again.
“Mom, you should rest well.”
Li Mo spoke earnestly. He had decided to treat Liu Pingping wholeheartedly, after all, he needed her support for his relationship with Su Qingyan.
Meanwhile, in a high-end apartment near Shencheng University…
Yin Deli and his wife, Wu Lulu, a teacher at Shencheng University, were having a late-night snack. Despite the luxurious spread, Yin Deli found it tasteless. Ever since yesterday, he had felt utterly defeated.
That man was really Li Mo?
After some inquiries, he learned that Li Mo was a major shareholder in Ma Yun’s company, a businessman whose status was now incomparable to before. Yin Deli himself had little influence in front of Ma Yun. He wasn’t even qualified to befriend him. If not for clinging to Yan Feilei’s influence, he wouldn’t have had any presence at the West Lake Summit.
Even though most people saw him as a successful businessman with tens of millions in assets…
“Wife, there’s something I’ve been hesitating to tell you. I’m really conflicted.”
Wu Lulu had never seen Yin Deli like this before. She was puzzled.
“Husband, what’s wrong? Just tell me.”
“I saw Li Mo.”
“Isn’t seeing Li Mo normal?” Wu Lulu was confused. Li Mo was just an ordinary man her best friend had divorced and abandoned. Meanwhile, her husband was a business elite worth tens of millions.
Why would he be so hesitant over Li Mo? She was smart, she could guess something must have happened.
“Seeing Li Mo should be normal… But Li Mo isn’t the same Li Mo anymore. Do you know about Alibaba and Tencent?”
At the mention of Alibaba and Tencent, Wu Lulu froze. Internet companies had been booming recently, with wave after wave of hype. She knew about both, though Tencent wasn’t as famous as Alibaba yet.
Alibaba had recently secured hundreds of millions in funding and was now a rising star, growing more profitable by the day.
“At the West Lake Summit, I saw Li Mo. But he wasn’t the ordinary man I remembered, he was a major shareholder in Alibaba and an investor in Tencent. Tencent is now his wholly-owned company!”
“Do you know what that means? Li Mo’s net worth is now 300 million! 300 million!”
Yin Deli’s words left Wu Lulu completely stunned. She couldn’t believe what she was hearing.
300 million?