He Xia was startled by Nan Shiqing's demeanor and immediately said, "Look at yourself now!"
Nan Shiqing blinked, "What do you mean, what do I look like?"
He Xia frowned, looking at her daughter with a sense of disappointment, "Look at yourself now, do you look like my daughter at all? You are the heiress of our He family."
"Heiress?" Nan Shiqing couldn't help but sneer, "What heiress am I? The company is already in such a state under Mu Yinyin's targeting, and our new products are delayed. Who knows how we'll be bullied later!"
"Calm down! What you lack the most right now is the ability to stabilize your mindset!" He Xia said, shaking her head, clearly exasperated.
Nan Shiqing was so angry she chuckled, "Mom, don't you see what time it is? If it were before, and Fu Siye was always around me, everything would be fine. But look now, the situation is critical!"
"If you continue to be this agitated, he won't be yours sooner or later." He Xia looked at her daughter calmly and delivered the harshest words.
Nan Shiqing's heart skipped a beat, and she was thrown into a panic.
"What should I do? What should I do? If I continue to maintain my composure, act reserved, and say nothing, ask nothing, he won't contact me at all. In time, he might forget me!"
"Then find a way to let him know your worth, what you've done for him, instead of these empty words." He Xia's voice was cold but firm.
Nan Shiqing looked at her mother speechlessly, her eyes filled with intense frustration.
"I also want to know what kind of method it is that can make him focus on me, give me all his attention."
He Xia frowned again, looking at her daughter's seemingly diminished intelligence, and said sternly, "I told you, find a way to let him know how good you are to him."
Nan Shiqing immediately looked up at her, "Mom, you have a way, don't you? Just say it, don't keep me in suspense. I'm dying of anxiety. Every day is a torment for me, I'm in so much pain."
He Xia shook her head helplessly and sighed, "Alright, don't worry about what happens next, leave it to me."
"You'll do it?" Nan Shiqing looked at her mother with confusion and suspicion in her eyes. "How will you communicate with him? Or what other approach?"
She felt that she was the one with the appeal, and her mother was older, and their family wasn't as powerful, so she wouldn't earn Fu Siye's respect.
So, what use would her mother's words be? At least if she spoke, there would be some appeal.
Nan Shiqing was clearly suspicious about this matter but couldn't be sure.
He Xia obviously saw what her daughter was thinking and chuckled with exasperation, "Can't you think of something normal?"
"What's not normal about me?" Nan Shiqing became a little embarrassed, as if her thoughts had been exposed.
He Xia shook her head again in exasperation, sighing, "Alright, you just wait at home. Don't contact Fu Siye anymore. He clearly dislikes this approach, so don't do it. I'll make him contact you on his own."
"You... what method do you have?" Nan Shiqing looked at her mother anxiously, "Tell me! Why are you hiding it from me? If you tell me, I'll know what to expect."
He Xia looked at her daughter's inability to calm down and said helplessly, "If I tell you, I'm afraid you'll get even more anxious."
Nan Shiqing frowned, but before she could speak, He Xia interrupted, "Alright, just do as I say. Don't think too much about it. Leave everything to me."
Nan Shiqing: "..."
She knew that if her mother didn't want to say anything, she wouldn't be able to get anything out of her. Helplessly, she sat on the sofa and looked at her phone.
But she couldn't focus on anything on the phone.
After a pause, she couldn't help but look at her mother, "Are you sure I shouldn't contact him at all? How many days will this last?"
"Not long," He Xia said slowly. After a pause, she glanced at Nan Shiqing and said, "Alright, don't think too much about it. Although our main goal now is to make Fu Siye your husband, you also need to know that you can't rely on him completely. You need to find ways to improve yourself, rather than focusing all your attention on him every day."
Nan Shiqing: "?"
She looked at her mother in disbelief. Seeing that her mother seemed completely unconcerned, she was suddenly angered.
"At the Lu family elders' birthday banquet, you told me that we needed to go all out to marry Fu Siye. But now you're telling me not to revolve around him. What do you want me to do? Mom, do you think your daughter's happiness, her lifelong commitment, is insignificant?"
Nan Shiqing's voice trembled slightly, not from crying, but from anger, from being angered by her own mother.
He Xia immediately frowned again, looking at Nan Shiqing with exasperation, "Are you crazy?"
Nan Shiqing was amused by the accusation and pointed at herself, asking incredulously, "I'm crazy?"
He Xia's eyes narrowed, and she said sternly again, "The times have changed. Do you think you have any lifelong happiness? Is marrying the person you love considered lifelong happiness?"
Nan Shiqing looked at her mother in confusion, not knowing what to say. She didn't understand why her mother would talk to her like this.
However, before she could think further, He Xia spoke again in a deep voice, "You must remember, you can like him, but you cannot lose your reason because of your liking, nor can you do irrational things out of love. Our main goal now is to develop our industry, to make our He family better in the future, and for you to live a better life. Find a way to make him fall in love with you, instead of becoming a love-struck fool."
Nan Shiqing's eyelashes trembled, but she understood her mother's intentions and said irritably, "I know."
"Knowing is not enough, you must do it, so you must consider the future." Although He Xia was exasperated, she only had this one daughter, so she said again slowly, "Shiqing, control yourself. If he contacts you, you must tell me immediately. I'll teach you how to reply. Don't contact him rashly, understand!"