Yu Yao heard that Song Yansheng had come, and quickly turned her head to look. Sure enough, she saw her son walking over.

Shi Nuan didn’t come over. It seems that her son guessed that this trip wasn’t on a whim.

Yu Yao said to Aunt Hui, "You may go now. Instruct the kitchen to make soup with the grass carp I brought, and send it to Nuannuan later!"

Aunt Hui responded, bowed slightly to Yu Yao, and then turned to leave.

Song Yansheng quickly walked up to Yu Yao. He reached out to support her and said, "Mom, I’ll accompany you for a walk!"

Yu Yao nodded her head and continued walking along the path with Song Yansheng.

Upstairs, after Shi Nuan returned to the bedroom, she didn’t go to rest as Song Yansheng suggested. Instead, she turned on the computer to look up some information about the Yao Family and T City department stores.

Since Song Yansheng wanted to invest in her and even asked her to visit the Yao Family, she had to do some preparation work.

Shi Nuan didn’t know much about the Yao Family in T City. Although she had been paying attention to the business world there for years, it was primarily focused on the Shi Family, TK, and the Song Family.

The first time she truly paid attention to the Yao Family was due to Yao Ziwan joining TK and the rumors with Song Yansheng.

Before she had contact with Yao Ziwan, Shi Nuan was skeptical of the rumors.

Yao Ziwan is the eldest daughter of the Yao Family. Although her father remarried, he only had one daughter with his second wife, who is still young.

Yao Shuyan was indeed strong in business, but since he wasn’t Mr. Yao’s biological son, Mr. Yao had high expectations for Yao Ziwan.

Unexpectedly, Yao Ziwan gave up on the Yao Family and proactively went to TK to become Song Yansheng’s secretary.

If not for some reason, it’s truly hard for people to believe.

At that time, Shi Nuan, actually seeing pictures of the two together in the newspapers, thought they looked quite well-matched.

And everything that followed indicated that Yao Ziwan did have her reasons for going to TK.

But her intention wasn’t Song Yansheng, but rather something related to him, namely K.

Shi Nuan thought that fate was something very peculiar. She had known Song Yichuan for many years and even had been engaged to him for three years.

But because of Song Yichuan, she didn’t gain any insights about the Song Family, TK, or anyone related to them.

Now, after interacting with Song Yansheng for merely a few months, she had encountered various types of people and matters.

What touched Shi Nuan the most was the trip they took to America.

Shi Nuan, having studied finance, had long heard of the cutthroat nature of the business world, especially the stock market.

That time, what seemed like a joke, Song Yansheng let her earn several million in just a few minutes. She knew very well that he wasn’t just having fun but wanted to ease the pressure in her heart.

Song Yansheng’s care was meticulous on the surface and equally comprehensive internally.

If she didn’t love such a man, then truly, in this lifetime, she might never fall in love with any other man.

The information available online was limited, and there wasn’t much to find. But it didn’t matter, Shi Nuan hadn’t planned to find much anyway.

After all, most of the materials were already prepared for her by Song Yansheng.

What she really wanted to investigate was about Yao Shuyan, especially since the main person the Yao Family relied on and whom she needed to meet was Yao Shuyan.

Yet Shi Nuan didn’t expect that right after she entered Yao Shuyan’s name, a sensational gossip piece popped up.

A reporter captured Yao Shuyan entering and leaving a certain restaurant with a mysterious woman. They walked one after the other, and Yao Shuyan was quite attentive to the woman.

Some speculated that this was the mysterious girlfriend Yao Shuyan had been hiding.

After all, Yao Shuyan was twenty-seven or twenty-eight this year, and even with a busy business, the subject of love should have some clues by now.

Others guessed she was his fiancée-to-be, especially since rumors about Yao Shuyan’s impending engagement had been circulating for a long time.

But Shi Nuan wasn’t familiar with Yao Shuyan — in fact, she didn’t know him at all. Thus, she hadn’t paid attention all along.

In the photos, there was a blurry silhouette of Yao Shuyan, faintly confirming it was indeed him, but the woman had only a back view.

Others couldn’t tell much from this back view, but Shi Nuan immediately recognized who the person was.

It was none other than her half-sister, Shi Jiaojiao.

...

In the Song Mansion’s garden, Song Yansheng was accompanying Yu Yao for a walk when they happened to reach the southwest corner’s gardenia forest.

Yu Yao paused to gaze at the clusters of gardenias and couldn’t help but say, "I’ve always felt that while Nuannuan might like gardenias, the one truly captivated and unable to extricate themselves from them is actually you!"