The Billionaire's New Wife in Chief

Chapter 1362: Chapter 723: Mo Han & Wanwan Arc – Her Mother’s Keepsake

Auntie Li also said it was a rich lady, looked about forty or fifty, very elegant.

Ning Wan thought carefully and felt she didn’t really know any ladies like that.

It wasn’t until early the next morning, just after breakfast when she was about to go upstairs to review the notes Song Qiao had given her last night, that a servant at the door came to tell her someone was here to see her, and that it was a rich lady. Ning Wan’s steps paused, but she still walked straight toward the entrance.

The person hadn’t come inside and was waiting outside the villa gates. When Ning Wan went out, she saw a stretched RV parked there. Just from looking at the car, she knew the other party’s status definitely wasn’t simple.

Her steps stopped right away. Ning Wan didn’t walk over immediately; instead she stood there, eyes fixed on the car. At that moment, the car door opened, and a very poised, elegant lady stepped down, a gentle smile on her face as she walked toward her.

When Ning Wan saw the lady’s face, she couldn’t help being stunned. For a moment she thought her own mother had appeared in front of her.

It wasn’t that this lady looked like her mother, but that the air she carried was the same, and most importantly, her hairstyle was just like her mother’s.

All at once, Ning Wan just froze there. For a long while she couldn’t come back to herself and could only stare blankly as the lady walked toward her.

Only when the lady stopped two steps in front of her did she hear that warm voice by her ear as the woman’s lips curved slightly. "You must be Ning Wan, right? I didn’t expect you to have grown so much."

Ning Wan subconsciously nodded. "You are...?"

"I’m your mother’s friend," the lady answered directly. The smile on her face slowly faded, and with a trace of regret she said, "I only recently found out about your mother’s passing. I was abroad all this time and didn’t make it back in time to attend your parents’ funeral."

Hearing that, Ning Wan couldn’t help but look a little desolate. She had thought she could already walk out of the pain of losing her parents, but now, hearing someone else mention it, the sadness in her heart only surged up stronger.

In Xi Mohan’s villa, everyone was very considerate and never mentioned a single word about her parents in front of her, so she wouldn’t think of them too often and instead chose to deliberately forget.

Seeing how sad and lost Ning Wan looked, the lady could tell she still hadn’t truly come out of it. She hurriedly said, "Child, things are already like this. Don’t keep making yourself so sad. Your parents wouldn’t want to see you like this."

Ning Wan felt her nose sting and forced back the tears that were about to spill, nodding. "I understand."

Yes, she couldn’t keep going on like this. Her parents definitely wouldn’t want her to stay miserable for the rest of her life.

The lady let out a barely audible sigh, then took a notebook from the bag she was carrying and handed it to Ning Wan. "This is the diary your mother left with me back then. There are some things recorded in it that I think you need to know."

Ning Wan took it, but lifted her head to look at the lady in front of her.

A diary...

Her mother’s diary...

The lady didn’t say anything more. She reached into her bag again and took out a bank card, handing it to Ning Wan. "Take this."

Seeing that it was a bank card, Ning Wan immediately shook her head and refused. "Auntie, I can’t take this."

Why was she giving her a bank card?

Even though this lady was her mother’s friend, she had never met her, and right now all she knew was that the woman had been close with her mother.

The lady took Ning Wan’s hand and put the bank card in it, saying, "This is just a little token from me. Your parents helped our family back then. If it hadn’t been for them, our family would’ve gone bankrupt already. Now that your parents are gone, your family’s affairs must have been taken over by that uncle of yours. No one knows what your days will be like in the future. Keep this card for now; maybe you’ll need it urgently someday."

This was all she could do within her ability. After thinking a moment, she added, "I’m flying back to Country M tomorrow."

This time Ning Wan didn’t refuse again, because she could see how insistent this auntie was. If she kept rejecting it, the two of them would probably just stand here all day pushing it back and forth.

Seeing Ning Wan accept it, the lady finally showed a gentle smile. She placed a business card in Ning Wan’s hand as well and said, "If you ever need my help in the future, you can call the number on here. I’ll help you as much as I can."

"Okay..."

Only after the lady left did Ning Wan look down at the diary in her hand, the business card, and the bank card, her mind still feeling a bit dazed.

Out of nowhere she had just met someone, and suddenly she had three more things in her hands.

Auntie Li came out to find her. Seeing Ning Wan standing there without moving, she quickly walked over. "Miss Ning Wan, why are you just standing here? The sun’s so strong. You should at least find some shade. Standing here like this isn’t good."

Ning Wan came back to her senses and looked at Auntie Li’s concerned face. She tugged at the corner of her lips into a smile. "I’m fine. Auntie Li, what are you doing out here?"

"You’d been gone so long I got a little worried," Auntie Li said. "But that lady just now looked quite kind. She didn’t seem like a bad person, so I waited until she left before coming out."

"..."

Kind-looking...

That auntie really did look very kind, almost like her mother.

Just now she had already heard the auntie introduce herself. Turned out she had been her mother’s good friend from university. After graduation she married into Country M. Even though she and her mother didn’t meet often, they still kept in frequent contact.

That was why the woman knew about her, but she had no idea who the woman was and had never seen her.

When she went back into the villa, Ning Wan saw the man sitting in the living room handling work. Probably hearing her footsteps, he tilted his head toward her, his gaze falling on the notebook in her hand. He frowned slightly and asked, "What’s that?"

Ning Wan glanced down and didn’t hide it. "It’s my mother’s diary."

This time, Xi Mohan didn’t say anything more. He just gave a faint "mm" and continued dealing with his work.

Ning Wan: "..."

He only asked a question, huh?

She pressed her lips together. She realized she actually had nothing else to say, so she lifted her feet and headed upstairs, planning to see what exactly was written in the diary her mother had left behind.