This counted as returning home in glory, didn't it?
Unfortunately, his parents were already gone.
Otherwise, they would surely have been immensely gratified!
The more Tang Chen recalled those warm memories, the emptier he felt inside.
Suddenly.
The little girl's delicately carved face appeared in Tang Chen's mind.
Her voice seemed to still echo endlessly in his ears. "Big brother, are you my daddy?"
Along with it came...
Shen Qingyan's exquisite, captivating face from earlier...
Fragments of memories from five years ago flashed through Tang Chen's mind.
It was the day before he left Magic City.
He had gotten completely drunk, roaring into the rainy night as he vented his emotions. In the end, his consciousness gradually blurred, and he collapsed by the roadside.
After that.
He vaguely remembered.
A woman who was also soaked by the rain had found him and struggled to carry him to somewhere warm.
And that night...
The next day.
Tang Chen woke up.
Memories of the previous night surfaced, but the woman was gone, and so were the bedsheets.
He went to the hotel front desk to ask, but he could not find any contact information. He only got a name.
Shen Qingyan...
After that.
He left Magic City, crossed the ocean, and went overseas...
"Knock, knock, knock..."
At that moment.
There was a knock on the door.
"Come in."
"Boss!"
Liu An walked in.
He carried a thick stack of documents in his hands.
"The results of the investigation you asked for are out."
Tang Chen looked at him. "What are the results?"
Liu An swallowed and handed the documents to Tang Chen. "You should see for yourself."
Tang Chen frowned slightly, then opened the documents.
The first page was a paternity test report.
Tang Chen, Tang Yao.
DNA match rate: 99.99%... confirmed biological relationship!
Shen Qingyan's profile! Pregnant out of wedlock, still unmarried! Please bookmark!
Excitement was impossible to hide in Tang Chen's eyes, though his emotions were complicated.
Tang Yao really was his daughter.
He really had a daughter!
He stood there in a daze for a long while.
Only then did Tang Chen continue flipping through the documents and look at the next page.
Further on was Shen Qingyan's detailed personal profile.
Shen Qingyan.
Years old.
Daughter of Shen Fei, founder of Shen Group. She graduated early from Magic City University at the age of twenty, a genius girl known to everyone.
After Shen Fei died unexpectedly and Shen Group fell into turmoil, she had just graduated when she was entrusted with the company in its hour of crisis. She took over Shen Group, later became pregnant out of wedlock and gave birth to a daughter. She remained unmarried and had never associated with any man...
Before Shen Fei's death, Shen Group had already rotted to the core.
Even though Shen Qingyan had turned the tide, it was still beset by troubles and on the verge of bankruptcy...
"Prepare a report on Shen Group's situation for me."
Tang Chen put down the documents.
He spoke in a deep voice.
"I've already prepared it. It's here."
Liu An handed Tang Chen a tablet.
This was what made Liu An uniquely suited to be Tang Chen's assistant.
He would prepare in advance everything that might possibly be needed.
Tang Chen took the tablet and reviewed it. A deep look of admiration flashed in his eyes.
To have brought the teetering Shen Group this far in five years was truly remarkable!
If not for the broken funding chain.
Given her more time, Shen Group would surely rise from the ashes!
"Liu An, contact her. Represent Sheng Tang and discuss financing with Shen Group."
Tang Chen put down the tablet and said to Liu An, "You know what to do!"
Liu An nodded and turned to leave.
Of course he knew what to do.
He did not know whether that woman would become the future boss's wife, but regardless of whether it worked out, she was the biological mother of Tang Chen's daughter.
Watching Liu An's departing figure.
Tang Chen interlaced his fingers, his eyes, as deep as a sea of stardust, growing even more profound.
The moment he saw the number 99.99%.
His once aimless life seemed to have suddenly found a direction...
Magic City.
Linhai Villa.
Tang Yao had already fallen soundly asleep.
Shen Qingyan sat curled up by the window with her arms around her legs. Tears covered her naturally beautiful, makeup-free face...
The crisis at Shen Group was nearly crushing her to the point that she could not breathe.
And today, she had run into Tang Chen, the man who had changed her life...
She did not hate Tang Chen.
It was only that Tang Chen's appearance had made her recall once again the darkest days of her life...
Five years ago.
Her father Shen Fei's death had filled her with grief, yet even in her sorrow, she had no choice but to use her delicate shoulders to bear burdens someone her age should never have had to bear.
The exhaustion had nearly driven her to collapse.
One rainy night.
She drank alone and wandered aimlessly through the rain.
Then, she came across Tang Chen, drunk and collapsed by the roadside.
The rain was so heavy.
Lying there like that, Tang Chen might have been in mortal danger.
The kindness in Shen Qingyan's heart would not allow her to turn a blind eye, so she chose to save him.
But that one act of kindness changed her life...
After learning that she was pregnant,
Shen Qingyan resolutely decided to give birth to the child...
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