The Young Matriarch

Chapter 210: Chapter 210: Let’s Make Up the Four Hundred Million We Owe Her
 

But… how could this be possible?

Twenty years had passed, and Bai Chuwei not only hadn’t changed at all but had also taken a new name and gone back to high school?

This was too absurd and unbelievable.

“Auntie, what are you thinking about?” Seeing Tong Yunrou spacing out, Tong Qingyan nudged her.

Tong Yunrou snapped back to reality, her face filled with an awkward smile, “It’s nothing.”

Tong Yunrou subconsciously touched her own face, feeling increasingly restless inside.

If Bai Chuwei really was Bai Chu, didn’t that mean she had lost her last advantage?

Time hadn’t left any marks on Bai Chu; when one saw her again, she still looked like an eighteen-year-old girl.

No matter how well she took care of herself, she couldn’t compare to Bai Chuwei’s face, where a sense of youth and mystery blended together.

Tong Yunrou’s mind was in disarray, while her older brother Tong Yunliang was making a fuss, “Bai Chu? The one… the one who sent us a collection notice last month?”

“Isn’t she the poor student our mother used to sponsor? She…” Tong Yunliang’s voice stopped abruptly as his eyes widened.

Even the foolish Tong Yunliang realized, who the hell gives so much money to sponsor a poor student?

Panic ensued.

Tong Yunliang said, trembling, “Could it be that our mother used to do business with that Bai Chu? Is that why she sent her a collaboration fee every year?”

Tong Yunliang collapsed onto the ground, slapping his thighs and wailing, “But even if that was the case, she shouldn’t treat the Tong family this way! What do we do now?”

He never thought that he might have to face bankruptcy in middle age!

For an entire month… Bai Chu had sent an entire month’s worth of collection notices, even thoughtfully providing them with a countdown.

Everyone in the Tong family took this news as a joke, yet the other party played for real, more real than actual gold.

Tong Yunliang scrambled up from the ground, rushed to the trash can, and took out those collection notices; the words “assume the consequences” were extremely glaring as if to say, “I did warn you, but you didn’t take it seriously.”

Madness!

The old Tong Family patriarch, frustrated by his grandson’s incompetence, scolded Tong Yunliang, “What are you making a fuss about?”

This Tong Yunliang was the child Chen Meihua had been fooled into having with a farmer in the mountains, and sure enough, he made a scene at the slightest sign of trouble.

The old patriarch pondered for a moment, then looked at Tong Yunrou and said, “If this really is Bai Chu’s act of revenge, perhaps there’s still a chance to remedy it. We pay back the four billion we owe her and ask for her forgiveness.”

Everyone inhaled sharply. Pay back four billion?

Even for the Tong family in the past, four billion was no small amount.

Now with the company’s assets all frozen, where would they get these four billion from? Were they delusional?

Tong Yunrou suddenly understood, “Dad means, for me to… borrow money from the Duan family, pay Bai Chu back first, and have Qi Mo stop the economic sanctions?”

Once the Tong family’s business recovered, then earning back four billion wouldn’t be difficult.

“Exactly, Yunrou, you’re about to marry Duan Xiuqi, and he’s practically half a son to our Tong family, wouldn’t he help out?” Tong Yunliang’s eyes lit up, and he immediately said, “Besides, he’s been a star actor for twenty years; four billion should be nothing to him!”

Without further ado, Tong Yunrou, taking the scared Tong Qingyan with her, set out directly for the Bai family’s place.

To say something self-interested… as long as she successfully married into the Duan family, even if the Tong family went bankrupt, she would still be rich and powerful.

The key issue now was whether Bai Chuwei was indeed Bai Chu or not.

If so, Bai Chu’s appearance at this time… could it be to ruin her wedding?