What to Do If I Become the Villain's Daughter

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Huo Xiaozheng's sudden question left Huo Guining bewildered.

Noticing his unusual expression, she cautiously asked, "Dad, what's wrong?"

Huo Xiaozheng repeated himself.

Huo Guining widened her eyes and replied sincerely, "If you weren't pressing so hard, it wouldn't hurt."

Huo Xiaozheng felt a bit agitated. He didn't respond further, silently finished applying the medicine, and then got up to go to the bathroom.

Huo Guining, still caught up in their cross-purposes conversation, looked slightly dazed.

Zheng Jinxiu cast a meaningful glance at Huo Xiaozheng's retreating figure. She wanted to say something but swallowed her words. Instead, she chose to sit down beside Huo Guining's bed.

She began pulling items out of the large and small packages the steward had brought:

Abalone porridge, shrimp dumplings, steamed chicken feet, pea pudding, Buddha's hand pastries, brown sugar cake, egg rolls, Chinese herbal bone broth, walnut and almond milk, cherries, sliced mangoes, strawberries...

The table was soon filled to overflowing.

"You must be starving, Ning-ning. Eat up!" Zheng Jinxiu urged.

Huo Guining's mouth formed an O shape. "This is amazing!"

She flashed Zheng Jinxiu a sugar-sweet smile and immediately dug in, almost burying herself in the food.

Old Master Huo, seeing the child eat so voraciously for the first time, grew a bit anxious. He kept mumbling, "Slow down, eat slowly..."

Zheng Jinxiu watched her with a benevolent expression, occasionally wiping her mouth.

By the time Huo Xiaozheng had composed himself and emerged from the bathroom, Huo Guining's stomach was already round and full.

Huo Xiaozheng said with resignation, "You shouldn't eat any more. Be careful not to get indigestion."

Huo Guining looked down at her belly blankly, realizing he was right.

She gave a shy smile and obeyed Huo Xiaozheng, stopping her feast.

The steward came forward with a smile to clear away the leftovers.

"Do the police have any results yet?" Old Master Huo inquired.

Huo Xiaozheng nodded.

The police had interrogated through the night, and their findings were similar to the initial investigation.

Years ago, after Xu Jin was fired from his company, he had intended to join the Huo Corporation.

Huo Xiaozheng had rebuffed him with a curt "We don't take Jiang Corporation's discarded trash."

In the midst of his dejection, Xu Jin's wife died in a car accident.

Under the weight of these compounded pressures, Xu Jin broke down.

One day, he accidentally learned that Huo Xiaozheng had a daughter. Blinded by hatred, he couldn't bear the fact that while he had lost his job and his wife had left him, Huo Xiaozheng still had a daughter to dote on.

Thus, he decided to take revenge on Huo Xiaozheng.

And the most heart-wrenching way to do so was to make Huo Xiaozheng experience the pain of losing a daughter.

"It's easier to dodge a spear than a hidden arrow," Old Master Huo sighed. "It seems not only I, but you too have security issues."

Huo Xiaozheng didn't argue.