In the lunar new year of 1993, He Wenjie accompanied Lingzi, who was already pregnant, on a trip back to her hometown. Although Lingzi had not been back in all these years, she had always sent money home on time every month. Her mother had died young, and her father had taken a stepmother for her. It was easy to imagine what kind of attitude a stepmother would have toward a child, so Lingzi had started living independently at a very early age. She rarely went back after that, and ever since she left for Japan, she had never returned. Her family didn't even know she had returned to Shanghai. This pregnancy suddenly stirred a touch of family sentiment in Lingzi, so she wanted He Wenjie to accompany her back for the New Year.
Lingzi's hometown was a small county town in the suburbs of Shanghai. Although they lived in the same Shanghai, her father hardly stepped out of the county town once from one year to the end of the next, so unless Lingzi came back, the two of them basically had a hard time running into each other.
This time when He Wenjie accompanied Lingzi back to her hometown, he only simply brought along some very ordinary gifts. Lingzi knew her father and stepmother all too well; if they were to find out about He Wenjie's wealth, they would undoubtedly latch onto her for the rest of their lives. She certainly didn't want to spend her future days dealing with this couple.
Chapter 387