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"Liu, how could you talk about Huiran like that?" Zheng Yi shot Liu Mingkang a disapproving glance. "All you ever do is socialize outside. You never take care of the children, so you have no idea how hard it is. If you watched the kids for a few days, I think you'd grow a few more wrinkles too."

"I think you should be the one looking after the children. Huiran and I should go for beauty treatments more often, so when we get older, we can be like Chairwoman Shao and still look like we're barely over thirty."

Yu Huiran smiled. "That's right, Zheng Yi is right. When we have time someday, we should let you watch the children for a couple of days while Zheng Yi and I go for beauty treatments. I wonder which salon Chairwoman Shao goes to?"

"You're all just saying nice things to flatter me." Shao Suqiu smiled and touched her face, then named several beauty salons in a row. She seemed delighted by their compliments, but only those who knew her well understood that it was merely a polite smile.

She was sitting here only as the chairman's wife of the Lingyun Group, receiving the group's business partners. Beyond that, she had little intention of opening her heart to anyone.

Flattery was fine to listen to, nothing more.

Chu Xiyue could not get a word in edgewise, nor did she want to. Sitting to one side, she peeled and ate sugar tangerines one after another. Seeing no sign that they were about to finish, she began spacing out from boredom.

[Host, want some gossip?] The system invited Chu Xiyue.

Chu Xiyue's unfocused gaze immediately sharpened. "What gossip?"

The system chuckled. [The two couples in front of you—Zheng Yi and her husband look loving on