Chapter 3223 — Mother...
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Yu Xiaoke, however, stared at Xu Shilan in disbelief, then at the old director, an expression of utter absurdity spreading across her face.
Wei Zhao's brows were tightly knit. He had thought before that the old director resembled someone, and now, turning to look at Xu Shilan, he realized that the old director before him was none other than a mature version of Xu Shilan!
The two were simply too alike! Their face shape and features might have been carved from the same mold... Could it be that the old director was Xu Shilan's mother? The moment the thought came to him, Wei Zhao felt it was highly likely!
In Xu Shilan's childhood, her mother had been gravely wounded by attackers and vanished without a trace; and the old director, too, had been wounded in her youth, then hidden her name and lived in an orphanage. The two had so much in common that, by now, they must surely be one and the same.
The old director trembled from head to foot. She did not know how Xu Shilan had recognized her! Wei Zhao's guess was right: the old director was indeed Xu Shilan's mother, once the beloved of Feng Tianqi, gravely injured by Dongfang Xiaocui and the Dongfang family's people, and driven to flee for her life to the ends of the earth!
Though she had been separated from her daughter, she dared not search for her openly, lest she be marked by the Dongfang family. So she had opened an orphanage, hoping that among the orphans she might somehow come across Xu Shilan!
Of course, the result had disappointed her. In the vast sea of people, how easy was such a meeting? And hers was not the only orphanage. In the end, the old director never found her daughter...
Until one day, the old director suddenly saw a report in the newspaper about the rising star Xu Shilan, and tears welled in her eyes! For Xu Shilan was her daughter! That name had been chosen for her by Feng Tianqi himself!
Xu Shilan's original name had been Feng Shihan, and "Xu" was the old director's own surname! Of course, a name proved nothing by itself; what convinced the old director most was that Xu Shilan's appearance was identical to her own in her youth!
She could be a hundred percent certain that Xu Shilan was the daughter she had lost for so many years! Yet even knowing this, the old director had not dared to contact Xu Shilan or reveal herself! For she knew Dongfang Xiaocui was a jealous woman—back then, Xiaocui had brought her brother's four great enforcers, Dongfang Jian, Dongfang Ying, Dongfang Cha, and Dongfang Song, and had nearly beaten her to death!
Any one of those four could have killed her. Had Feng Tianqi not rushed over and fought desperately to shield her, she would never have escaped! But Xu Shilan had vanished—no doubt Feng Tianqi had secretly protected her and raised her to adulthood afterward!
Thinking that Feng Tianqi was, after all, a man of feeling and honor, the old director felt comforted. So long as she could see that her daughter was well, her heart was at ease!