Chapter 7 An Unacceptable Fact 2
"What are you talking about ? We are still so young, and we are talking about wills!"
"I'm just making an analogy. I brought Shanshan to your house. If I don't consider her, who will?" Seeing Xi Zhengfeng's attitude, Xie Wanqiu couldn't help but redden her eyes. After marrying into the Xi family for so many years, she was still treated as an outsider in the end.
Seeing this, Xi Zhengfeng's tone softened. He took Xie Wanqiu's hand again and said, "Okay, go to sleep."
"No." Xie Wanqiu pulled her hand back, wiped her tears, and said, "I won't say anything if you don't give Shanshan the assets. After all, Shanshan is still young. But now, you have to take back your son's shares. Now that your son has depression, how can he manage the company?"
"We will manage it for him first."
"We manage it for him? Can we do it for a lifetime? What will the shareholders say? Have you ever thought about it?" Xie Wanqiu said with a determined heart, "I don't care. I have invested in our group after all, and I have the right to speak. I will never allow a depressed person to own 50% of the shares of a subsidiary."
Xi Zhengfeng's face turned pale and he said, "Don't forget, I am the largest shareholder of Xi Group."
"Oh, what? Are you going to distinguish the difference between you and me now? Xi Zhengfeng, even if you are the largest shareholder of Xi Group, you can't joke with the interests of the group!" Xie Wanqiu picked up a quilt with a pale face and left the bedroom, leaving Xi Zhengfeng alone in the bedroom, with thousands of thoughts occupying his mind.
"Do you really want something to happen to me?" A young man who heard all this said to himself coldly, and then a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.
He took off his headphones and saved the eavesdropped audio.
Since she's hoping something happens to him, then he should put on a good show with her.
It's just a show like this, and some things can no longer be hidden.
The boy picked up the phone on the bed and slid his finger across the screen, which showed a person's phone number.
——Tang Ai.
Tang Ai did not receive Xi Chen's call. Instead, Shen Ruoyun called her and asked her to have coffee.
The location was the best coffee shop in the city. Shen Ruoyun waited for Tang Ai at the door of the shop and then took her to the private room.
"So mysterious, do you have something important to tell me?" Tang Ai followed Shen Ruoyun into the private room in a daze, but saw a man sitting in the room with the brim of his baseball cap pulled down low.
"Xi Chen?" Tang Ai asked in surprise.
"You guys chat first. I'm outside. Call me if you need anything." Shen Ruoyun closed the door and found a secluded seat in the hall to sit down.
Tang Ai was a little confused. She hesitated and sat down opposite Xi Chen, and asked hesitantly, "Why did you come out?"
"I have something to tell you. " Xi Chen looked serious.
Tang Ai straightened her face and asked, "What's the matter?"
Xi Chen opened his lips slightly, but the words he had prepared in his heart were stuck in his throat, and he didn't know how to say them. As expected, after meeting someone, he couldn't say anything. Xi Chen sighed softly, lowered his head, and clenched his hands into fists.
"Xi Chen, just say whatever you want to say." Tang Ai saw Xi Chen's embarrassment and comforted him, "It's okay, is there anything we can't talk about?"
"Xiao Ai, do you think... that we have a good relationship?" Xi Chen raised his head, his eyes suddenly reddened.
Tang Ai didn't know why, and murmured, "No... isn't it good?"
"I don't know, because... because I don't know whether you have a better relationship with me or with him." Xi Chen's eyes became even redder, filled with moisture.
Tang Ai looked at him blankly and asked, "Who is he? What's wrong with you?"
Xi Chen suddenly became evasive and asked, "Xiao Ai, if, I mean if, if one day I have nothing and will be enemies with many people, if I deceive you and fall in love with you under someone else's name, are you still willing to stay by my side and experience the unknown hardships of the future?"
Tang Ai's body felt like it was struck by electricity, and she felt numb all over and couldn't muster any strength. What if? There is no if! What does it mean to have deceived her? He fell in love with her under someone else's name...
As expected, Tang Ai found the key point in the words and stared at Xi Chen steadily, her voice trembling slightly: "What do you mean... in someone else's name..."
Xi Chen felt a chill in his heart. It had finally come to this...
"What do you mean... calling someone else's name?" Tang Ai's vision became blurred, but she still looked at Xi Chen with a calm expression.
Xi Chen held his hands tightly together. He did not avoid the sight, but faced what he had to face. He said: "Because, I am not Xi Chen..."
Tang Ai's body seemed to be frozen, her mind was blank, and her thoughts were like being thrown into a blender and being crushed.
The boy opposite continued: "Xiao Ai, I'm not Xi Chen, I'm his twin brother - Xi Feng..."
Every word and every sentence of the boy named Xi Feng was like a sharp sword piercing Tang Ai's heart. Tang Ai looked dazed, as if her soul was no longer in her body. The person she came to a strange city with great expectations... the person she had been paying for for so long... turned out not to be the one she liked?
Why? Why didn’t you tell her earlier? Why did you lie to her… You were all lying to her! You were all lying!
"Then, what about Xichen..." Tang Ai's reaction seemed calm, but she was in a trance and was about to collapse.
"Xiao Ai..." Xi Feng stared at her anxiously.
"Xi Chen! Where's Xi Chen--" The girl in front of him suddenly stood up like crazy, slammed her hands heavily on the table, leaned forward, and shouted at him. Tears splashed from her eyes and fell on Xi Feng's face with a "pa" sound, burning his heart and causing a sharp pain.
Xi Feng will probably never forget Tang Ai at that time. Her pupils were trembling violently, and her tears were like beads that had broken off the string, sliding down her face drop by drop and hitting the table. Her eyes were full of fear and anger, and thin bloodshot veins stretched from the corners of her eyes, red enough to make people tremble with fear.
Xichen, Xichen...Xichen...he's dead...
Xi Chen died as early as the year Tang Ai entered school.
Yes, Zhu Yue gave birth to two children, twins.
The older brother is Xi Chen and the younger brother is Xi Feng, that’s me.
In fact, from the very beginning, my brother was a very sensible and gentle person.
My father likes my brother very much and he takes good care of me. After Xie Wanqiu and Xi Shanshan came to the Xi family, my brother always treated Xi Shanshan as his own sister and Xi Shanshan has a very close relationship with her brother.
However, I was a particularly introverted child. I had never been sociable and always rebelled against my father. My father was very troubled by me. He didn't understand why there was such a big gap between his two children?
When I was little, I didn’t get close to anyone and only trusted my brother. Many times, I didn’t understand why my brother had to act like a good boy in front of our father. Our father was not nice to our mother at all, so why did our brother still like our father?
I don't know, my brother was only a few minutes older than me, but at that time, his head was already filled with many things that children shouldn't have. Survival, future, interests, all the things I didn't consider, my brother considered them all, and he also considered them all for me.
When Xie Wanqiu brought Xi Shanshan here, my brother and I were only seven years old.
My brother and I both studied in the best school in Ancheng. My brother was the top student and I was the last. I always felt that my brother was far away from me and was blinded by fame and fortune. Therefore, I gradually became repulsive to his gentleness and care.
I began to fall into depression and silence, and no one could get close to me.
However, Xi Shanshan is an exception.
When Xi Shanshan was a child, she was not as pretty as she is now. She was chubby, with a shrewd look in her eyes and a singing voice more beautiful than that of an oriole. She liked to tease me when I was silent, and she liked to force me to run around in the back garden, chasing butterflies together, and collecting the morning dew on the petals into a glass bottle.
At that time, I liked Xi Shanshan very much, even though I particularly hated that stepmother who was sweet-mouthed but treacherous.
If my brother is the sunshine in my life, Xi Shanshan must be the gorgeous rainbow.
Gradually, I had something I wanted to protect. I wanted to protect Shanshan's smile until she no longer needed me.
But I didn’t expect that such a time would be broken by Xie Wanqiu not long after.
I heard Xie Wanqiu secretly teach Xi Shanshan that she should not associate with me. If she did, she would break her legs. I hated Xie Wanqiu more and more, until one time when I had a conflict with Xie Wanqiu, Xi Shanshan, who came rushing over after hearing the conflict, stood on her mother's side without hesitation, and blamed me without even asking the reason.
I stared at Xi Shanshan as she scolded me, and a bloody wound opened deep in my heart.
I turned and left as Xi Shanshan scolded me. That year, I was fourteen years old, and the most beautiful things in my heart were shattered in an instant.
From that time on, I never forgave Xi Shanshan again.
In the summer when I was eighteen, my brother went out traveling with his good friend Shen Ruoyun. When he came back, he seemed to be covered in the glow of the sunset, with a faint smile on his face.
I asked him what made him so happy, and he turned his head and said mysteriously, "I met someone I like very much."
I thought at that time, is it someone I like? Like I liked Shanshan before, that should be a very beautiful thing.
It’s just that I fell in love with the wrong person, and my brother seemed to fall in love with the right person.
Later, I found out that the girl my brother liked was named Tang Ai. I asked my brother, "Since her name is Tang Ai, she must know what love is, right?"
My brother looked at the blue sky, smiled and shook his head.
That was the first time I heard your name, and also the first time I touched the soft spot in my brother’s heart.
Not long after, you sent jasmine cuttings and lemon mint to your brother, and your brother took good care of them, better than he would take care of himself. He never shied away from me about you, and when you two chatted, he often mentioned your name in front of me, and he was very casual.
You are really important in your brother's heart.
When my brother heard that you were coming to Ancheng, he stood in front of the window for a long time, then turned to me and said, "Xiao Ai is coming."
I asked: "Are you ready for everything? Accept everything about her, and let her accept everything about you."
"Are you ready?" He stood there, the rosy sunlight shining through the thin gauze curtains on his brother's body. At that time, he was facing the light, as if he was not from the human world. "If you are not ready, how dare you let her come."
Since then, I have been waiting for the day to meet you.
But...but on the day when I was supposed to meet you, something happened to him.
Blame me……
If it weren't for me...
I will never forget that day.
Because that day was my and my brother's birthday, my 19th birthday. I asked my brother to come back and celebrate my birthday with me. We celebrate together every year.
But he always forgets that day is also his birthday.
That day, my brother came back from far away to celebrate my birthday with me. That day, he had two people in his heart, one was me and the other was you. He planned to go find you after celebrating my birthday...
But that day, I didn't wait for my brother to come back, I only received a call from the hospital. The doctor said... my brother had a car accident. Because he was in a hurry to get to his destination, he was hit by a large truck. The whole car body was sandwiched between the truck and the railing, and the car body was deformed.
I followed many people into the hospital in panic. My brother was being treated and had almost survived...
My brother was seriously injured and has been in the intensive care unit. He woke up on the fifth day in the hospital and had a difficult conversation with us. He said he was fine and everything would be fine. He also held my and Shen Ruoyun's hands and asked us to remember to go to school to see you. He was afraid that you would be alone in a strange place and helpless, so he asked Shen Ruoyun and I to do our best to help you and take care of you when you need us.
After he finished speaking, he smiled and said calmly, "What a pity! Will I never see her again?"
He also said that when he was being carried into the ambulance, he could vaguely see many buses carrying newborns rushing past, and he thought he would see you again.
But who would have known that the first time I saw you would be the last time I saw you in this life...
My brother died on the sixth day after the car accident. When he left, tears were in his eyes. I don’t know who he was crying for, but maybe, he was crying for himself.
Afterwards, the Xi family prepared a funeral for him. It rained heavily on the day of the funeral. The cemetery was dark and everyone stood there in silence. The faint cries were drowned out by the sound of rain.
