Chapter 1722: There Is No Charity without Reason

Shen Dapeng blinked his eyes, thought about what Cao Mengyuan said, and just as he was about to speak, he suddenly saw two crystal tears rolling out of Cao Mengyuan's eyes, sliding down her white and smooth cheeks, and two clear tear marks appeared on Cao Mengyuan's beautiful face.

"Mengyuan, what's wrong with you? Don't be excited, talk slowly, okay?"

Girls' tears can move people's hearts the most, especially the girls you love the most.

Seeing Cao Mengyuan sad, Shen Dapeng felt a pain in his heart, and hurriedly comforted her, raising his hand to wipe away the tears on Cao Mengyuan's face.

Unexpectedly, Shen Dapeng's hand just raised to approach Cao Mengyuan's face, was pushed away by Cao Mengyuan, staring at Shen Dapeng stubbornly.

"What else can I say? Dapeng, I just want to ask you one question, do you still have me in your heart?"

"If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have worked so hard in the past few years. I swore that I would definitely get you in this life!"

After a short silence, Shen Dapeng sighed softly, with a hint of determination in his eyes.

Cao Mengyuan didn't speak for a while, but a hint of tenderness reappeared in her eyes, and the stubbornness just now disappeared.

"Although you have never said such words to me, when we kept this promise at the beginning, I knew that you always had me in your heart, right? Including until now, you have never given up on me, right?"

Shen Dapeng could see from Cao Mengyuan's eyes that she always had him in her heart, otherwise, she wouldn't shed tears in front of him.

Cao Mengyuan nodded gently, bit her lip and said softly: "Otherwise, I wouldn't have dragged it on."

Drag it on?

What does this mean? Shen Dapeng couldn't help but frowned.

"Actually, there is something I have always wanted to tell you, but I just don't know how to start. But now that we are together, I have nothing to hide."

Cao Mengyuan sighed softly, adjusted her mood and continued: "If I don't have you in my heart, there is no need to tell you this."

"What happened?"

Shen Dapeng listened to Cao Mengyuan's strange words and suddenly became suspicious. He hurriedly moved closer to Cao Mengyuan, held her hand again and asked softly.

Cao Mengyuan raised her head calmly, looked at Shen Dapeng quietly, let her hands be held by Shen Dapeng, and felt the warmth from Shen Dapeng's palms.

"It was not long ago!" Cao Mengyuan sighed, "Our Cao family has always relied on the Huang family to survive until today. Although in the eyes of outsiders, the strength of our Cao family should not be underestimated, but those who know the inside story, who doesn't know that if the Huang family hadn't given us some business, our Cao family would not be what it is today?"

"There is no love without reason in this world, and there is no charity without reason, especially in business competition, everything is conditional."

"I told you at the beginning that this condition is me! The reason why the Huang family helped our Cao family so much was not for Huang Bin's personal affairs. Huang Bin has always liked me, and his father Huang Zhiwen and my father only made a verbal agreement on my marriage with Huang Bin. After I graduated from college, their Huang family officially proposed marriage."

"However, as time went by, not only me, but also my parents, felt that Huang Bin was too unreliable, so I always resisted this verbal agreement in my heart, but I couldn't refuse it directly."

Cao Mengyuan said here, with a trace of helplessness in her eyes.

Shen Dapeng also nodded gently. How could he not know what Cao Mengyuan said?

Huang Bin's character was not only problematic for him, but now even Cao Xinmin could feel it.

The words Cao Xinmin said to him on the night when he met Cao Xinmin in Honglin City were very clear. Cao Xinmin was not satisfied with Huang Bin, but admired him very much, but he had no choice.

And in his previous life, he clearly remembered that

Cao Mengyuan and Huang Bin had been very unhappy after they got married.

So, he made up his mind in this life to get Cao Mengyuan, to give her all the happiness, and not let her suffer any grievances.

"Now, I have finally graduated from college. The Huang family naturally did not forget this matter. A few days ago, they sent someone to our house to talk about this matter."

At the end of Cao Mengyuan's speech, her voice became lower and lower, and she sounded very sad. She slowly lowered her head, and tears flowed out of her eyes again.

"Then what?" Shen Dapeng asked closely.

He didn't expect that Cao Mengyuan would tell him about this matter, and he didn't expect such an episode to happen. The Huang family finally showed their cards to the Cao family.

And how will the Cao family deal with this matter?

What is the attitude of the Cao family? What should Cao Mengyuan do? Is she capable of rejecting this?

Even if Cao Mengyuan is unwilling in her heart, I'm afraid that her words alone will not count. Moreover, she doesn't want to see the whole family being hit by the Huang family because of her personal affairs.

"What else?"

Seeing Shen Dapeng's anxious look, Cao Mengyuan smiled bitterly, "Of course the second grandfather urged my father."

Shen Dapeng was shocked. The second grandfather mentioned by Cao Mengyuan was of course Cao Zhongxiao, the current head of the Cao family, that is, Cao Xinmin's uncle, who was in charge of most of the Cao family's economic lifeline and political relations. It can be said that he was able to lift a heavy weight with ease.

But Cao Zhongxiao understood that it would be impossible for the Cao family to reach this point today without the support of the Huang family over the years. On the surface, the Cao family was also very powerful in the capital, but in fact, it was just an appendage of the Huang family.

So over the years, the Cao family has been cautious and meticulous in doing things, for fear of offending the Huang family.

As long as the Huang family was unhappy, any action could make the Cao family, which was now extremely prosperous, fall into the abyss and quickly decline from then on. As the head of the family, Cao Zhongxiao knew this very well.

He knew the consequences of offending the Huang family, so he urged Cao Xinmin to mention this matter again in front of Cao Mengyuan.

"Your father won't agree!"

Shen Dapeng suddenly replied firmly.

Cao Mengyuan was stunned and stared at Shen Dapeng, "Why are you so sure?"

"I have dealt with Secretary Cao several times and our relationship is pretty good. From what I know about him, he will not hand over his most beloved daughter to a useless second-rate Huang family member!"

Shen Dapeng remembered the night a few years ago when Cao Xinmin and he stood on the street under the dim street lights and said to him with deep emotion.