Chapter 746: Chapter 746: Never Forgiven Himself
Liang Yin was slightly taken aback, just because this man was extraordinarily tall. At a glance, the top of his head was only a few centimeters from the doorframe. When he stepped through the door, the light from the corridor outside was completely blocked by his figure.
Huo Tinghan walked into the private room, and Lin Jinmo immediately patted the spot beside him: “Tinghan, here.”
Huo Tinghan walked over to him expressionlessly and slowly sat down.
He didn’t notice the extra stranger in the room and seemed disinterested in the surrounding environment.
He gave Li Junyan a glance: “When did you get back?”
Li Junyan: “This afternoon. As soon as I returned to the country, I contacted Jinmo.”
Huo Tinghan: “Oh.”
He lowered his head, lighting a cigarette, allowing his neck and spine to form an elegant angle.
As a wisp of smoke drifted away.
He lazily leaned back on the sofa, closed his eyes, and didn’t engage in any extra conversation.
Soon, the smell of smoke wafted to the corner where Liang Yin was sitting.
She instinctively covered her nose; it was obvious she didn’t like the smell of smoke.
Seeing that she seemed sensitive to the smoke, Rong Yin said to Huo Tinghan: “Tinghan, my girlfriend is allergic to smoke.”
“Girlfriend!?”
The brothers looked at Rong Yin in surprise.
Liang Yin was instantly annoyed and couldn’t help but punch his shoulder: “Hey, you keep talking nonsense, I’ll pull out your tongue!”
Rong Yin: “You’re really violent! But I don’t believe you can pull out my tongue, go ahead and give it a try!”
After speaking, he provocatively raised his eyebrows, parted his lips slightly, and stuck out his tongue.
Liang Yin clenched her fist; this Rong Yin was starting his antics again!
Huo Tinghan couldn’t help but look over, and when his gaze landed on Liang Yin, his fingers holding the cigarette stiffened slightly, and he unconsciously began to stand up. But in the next second, he was pressed down by Li Junyan’s hand.
“Tinghan, it’s not her.”
Huo Tinghan seemed not to have heard Li Junyan’s voice, still staring directly at Liang Yin.
Liang Yin suddenly met Huo Tinghan’s deep and intense gaze, and couldn’t help but shift her body behind Rong Yin, avoiding his scrutiny.
“Tinghan?”
Li Junyan grabbed Huo Tinghan’s stiff wrist: “She’s Ah Yin’s home tutor, Liang Yin.”
After speaking, he pressed down on Huo Tinghan’s hand, gently moving his cigarette to the ashtray: “The young girl seems allergic to smoke, put it out.”
Only then did Huo Tinghan retract his gaze, casually extinguishing the cigarette in the ashtray.
Lin Jinmo saw Huo Tinghan’s reaction and knew he had thought of Yinyin again.
He gently squeezed his shoulder: “Tinghan, don’t worry, one day, we’ll find her.”
Huo Tinghan said nothing, only looked thoughtfully at the barely smoking cigarette butt in the ashtray. He reached for a glass and poured it on the cigarette, extinguishing it completely.
Lin Jinmo looked at the cold side profile of Huo Tinghan and let out a helpless sigh.
Since Yinyin disappeared, Huo Tinghan has seemed like a different person.
When he was little, he was the family’s little treasure. With him around, there was always laughter; he was Daddy and Mommy’s joy, and also a lovely brother.
However, after that day’s incident, he suffered a huge shock and was completely different, becoming taciturn.
Since then, he no longer loved to smile or make people laugh, overnight becoming more mature and understanding.
After all, it was his sister he lost. Until now, everyone has forgiven him; only he has never forgiven himself.
As for Yinyin, they rarely mentioned her name, because they didn’t dare.
After Yinyin disappeared, Lin Qi was also excessively saddened, unable to recover, and Huo Tingdong feared she would be reminded by seeing her belongings, so he packed all Yinyin’s things into a room and locked it up.
Zhouzhou also suffered considerable psychological trauma.
He was inseparable from Yinyin since childhood and had the closest relationship with his sister.
Once his sister disappeared, he cried for her every day. Without finding her, he cried with heart-wrenching sobs, and no one could comfort him.
One night, he suddenly had a high fever, even when burned to confusion, he kept murmuring Yinyin’s name. After being sent to the hospital and getting injections and infusions, it still developed into meningitis.
Lin Qi was greatly puzzled by this; Zhouzhou had always had strong resistance since childhood; the sudden fever worried her.
Later, it was understood that Zhouzhou would cry every night, sometimes waking up in the middle and, not finding his sister, would cry and walk out of the room, searching upstairs and downstairs, unable to find her, hiding in corners to cry. A child crying consumes a lot of energy, leading to a weakened immune system and easier colds, causing the fever.
After the fever subsided, he was confused for a while, and once he fully recovered, he never mentioned Yinyin again; even Daddy, Mommy, and his two brothers were barely recognizable.
The doctor said children with meningitis can have some memory impairment. Couple that with Zhouzhou being too young, this was the result.
Since then, Zhouzhou gradually forgot he once had a lovely sister.
For many years, the Huo Family has never given up on finding Yinyin’s whereabouts.
Originally, when Liang Yin went to the Rong Family to interview for a tutoring job, Li Yufei was stunned at the sight of her just because she looked so much like Yinyin. But after inquiring about her family background, she realized it was just a coincidence.
Lin Jinmo said: “Tinghan, are you okay?”
He looked at Huo Tinghan’s somewhat dazed expression.
Huo Tinghan shook his head: “I’m fine.”
Over the past seventeen years, many things have happened.
After graduating from university, Huo Tinghan studied abroad for three years and, upon returning, naturally inherited Huace as the eldest son.
The entire board of directors held great expectations for him but also filled with concerns.
After all, few family-owned groups continue into the third generation.
But Huo Tinghan demonstrated that he absolutely had the power to rule Huace.
Over the past three years, Huace’s various businesses have remained stable and steadily rising.
And Lin Jinmo served as vice-president, assisting Huo Tinghan primarily.
Li Junyan returned from studying abroad with Huo Tinghan and joined the Li Family. In the same year, Li Family split the business of the wholly-owned Huake Group, transferring it to Rongfeng Group.
Back then, after Li Yufei acquired Huake, Huake had almost thrown all its effort into researching Neuroregeneration, which led to serious operational losses in other industrial chains.
Meanwhile, Rong Ling’s established Rongfeng Group had achieved a revenue of 300 billion annually, expanded further through three rounds of financing, acquired Huake, and renamed it Yabang. The following year, Neuroregeneration was launched, and the transformed Yabang finally reversed the losses, aiming for stable profitability. Until now, Yabang, under Rongfeng’s operation, still occupies one-fourth of Sha Country’s market size.
Afterward, Li Junyan received Li Family from Li Yanzhou, officially taking over Dishen.