Chapter 9 009 Strange numbness.

William admitted that he was here today mostly to watch the fun.

After all, his cousin has been very scheming since he was a child, with a pair of deep blue eyes like a venomous snake.

Of course, he would not miss him pretending to be stupid.

William and Shi Chuan's grandmother was Danish and gave birth to two sons, Jiang Huaijin and Jiang Huaian. Jiang Huaijin grew up abroad since he was a child, yearning for freedom and not interested in the family business. At the age of 37, he fell in love with a British woman and entered the marriage hall and gave birth to him.

Jiang Huaian inherited the family business and never got married. He had three children with two women, Shi Chuan being the youngest.

On the day William came of age, his father handed over his position in the family to him and traveled around the world with his mother.

At that time, William had only met Shi Chuan once when he was a child, and only knew that he had a cousin who didn't like to smile much.

It was not until Shi Chuan was sixteen years old that Jiang Su sent people to the United States with the intention of making him disappear physically, and Shi Chuan contacted him.

In the video call, he said nothing, but after a long silence, he called him "cousin".

It has to be said that blood relationship is somewhat metaphysical.

What's more, when a person who everyone says is strange and indifferent shows his vulnerability in front of you alone, this sense of being needed will make people unconsciously take responsibility.

And Shi Chuan's deceptive face and the disguised fragile voice increase people's sympathy.

Shortly after this call, William investigated the reason for Shi Chuan's call and found out what Jiang Su had done.

But this kind of behavior, in the eyes of his uncle Jiang Huaian, is probably just a small fight between heirs, and he will not pay attention.

Later, William took the initiative to call Shi Chuan, told him his guess about Jiang Huaian's views, and took the initiative to mention that Jiang Su was impatient. If he failed this time, there would always be a next time. If he made a big fuss, Jiang Huaian would naturally take action.

Shi Chuan obediently agreed until the day he turned 18, the 36-hour kidnapping.

William told Jiang Huaian about the kidnapping.

It was about the family's reputation, which touched Jiang Huaian's bottom line. Shi Chuan was rescued in just one hour.

William suddenly figured out the whole story when Shi Chuan called him to express his gratitude after being rescued.

At that time, Shi Chuan said to him meaningfully on the phone: "Thank you, cousin."

William only felt that his tone became very strange. Just as he was about to say "no", in an instant, he suddenly figured out his two-year-old plan -

Jiang Su left a reckless and stupid impression in Jiang Huaian's heart. He even told Jiang Huaian about the kidnapping. Shi Chuan completely chose himself out.

Shi Chuan, who had just become an adult, was secretly taken back to China by Jiang Huaian soon after.

Thinking of being calculated by a seven-year-old boy, William couldn't help but be annoyed, but the two years of brotherly friendship and respect were not empty, and the huge family business was better handed over to Shi Chuan than to a fool, so the two got along.

Now, Shi Chuan is going to act silly again, how could he miss seeing his joke.

But when William really saw Tang Sijia foolishly believing this brat, he thought of himself back then, and a strange sense of connection rose in his heart, and his smile became much more sincere: "Miss Tang is so good to your brother, and she even specially let him come to study. This auditing quota is not easy to get."

While saying this, William glanced at Shi Chuan.

This glance surprised William.

Shi Chuan was staring at him holding Tang Sijia's hand, his eyes dark and cold.

This feeling reminded him of the first time he saw young Shi Chuan, a child snatched his Pokémon doll, and the little Shi Chuan looked at the doll with similar eyes.

In the afternoon, he saw the doll skin and scattered stuffing that were destroyed into rags in the trash can.

His cousin actually had a possessive desire for people.

William thought about it, and there was more playfulness in his eyes, and he couldn't help but hold Tang Sijia's hand hard.

Shi Chuan's eyes darkened for a moment, and he looked up at him, as if he saw his temptation, and smiled with a pure smile: "Mr. William, it's not a gentleman's behavior to take advantage of a lady."

Tang Sijia turned his head and scolded lightly: "Shi Chuan, Mr. William didn't mean that."

Shi Chuan frowned, and soon lowered his head obediently.

William looked at him like this, laughed heartily, and let go of Tang Sijia's hand: "Sorry, I feel a sense of intimacy when I see Miss Tang, I'm rude." As he said, he made way for the seat, "I'll take you two to get familiar with the environment, and get the class schedule by the way."

Tang Sijia nodded happily: "Thank you."

After that, William led the two of them to get the class schedule normally, but when he handed the class schedule to Shi Chuan, he smiled and left a sentence: "Student Shi Chuan should study hard."

Meeting Shi Chuan's glance, William shrugged and left in a good mood.

The class schedule showed that Shi Chuan had a class at 9:40 in the morning, and Tang Sijia didn't stay for long, but just reminded him of some precautions.

After all, although Shi Chuan loves to smile and speak sweetly at home, he is very introverted and taciturn outside.

But after talking for a long time, Shi Chuan kept his eyes down, as if looking at her hand.

"Did you hear what I just said?" Tang Sijia was helpless.

Shi Chuan finally raised his eyelids and nodded obediently.

Seeing that the class time was approaching, Tang Sijia watched him go to the classroom before leaving.

Tang Sijia was worried that Shi Chuan would not adapt, but when he went to the company in the afternoon, he didn't want to think about it.

During this period, half of the colleagues in the content center were preparing for the suspense theater, but they didn't expect this type of drama to explode.

The cause was that a suspense drama used a prototype villain as the main highlight of the publicity, which annoyed public opinion, resulting in the upper level to increase the review of this kind of script that heavily portrays the villain.

The script that the screenwriter team determined not long ago also had the problem of the villain being too prominent, so it had to be sent back for overhaul.

All afternoon, Tang Sijia was making appointments with the screenwriters, determining the precautions for online meetings, preparing relevant materials, and so on.

It was not until seven o'clock in the evening that Tang Sijia finally breathed a sigh of relief. She took her phone and found that Shi Chuan had sent her several messages in the afternoon:

[Sister, I have two classes in the afternoon.] [

Sister, I will go to the market directly after class. We will have fried prawns and blanched Chinese cabbage tonight [happy]]

[Sister, are you working overtime tonight? [Disappointed]]

Tang Sijia looked at the last little expression, as if through it, she saw the boy looking at the door waiting for her to go home.

Her body was not so tired anymore, and she hurriedly replied: [I'm done, going home now.]

When she got home, it was just after eight o'clock. When Shi Chuan saw her, his eyes immediately lit up and he took out the prepared dinner from the microwave.

Tang Sijia sat at the dining table and did not forget to ask: "How did you feel about class today? Were you able to keep up with the progress?"

Shi Chuan paused with his chopsticks and bowls. No one had ever asked him such a question. No, it should be said that no one cared about his studies. It was natural for him to get first place, and once he regressed, he would be greeted with various punishments.

Putting the chopsticks and bowls in front of her, Shi Chuan answered honestly: "I have learned relevant knowledge before, and I can understand most of it."

Tang Sijia heard him mention that he was very interested in computers, and he felt relieved: "How are the classmates?" Shi Chuan

answered honestly: "I didn't pay attention."

Tang Sijia was a little worried: "I think there will be some computer classes and group experiments later. You have to build good relationships with your classmates."

Shi Chuan sat opposite her, met her worried gaze, and smiled: "Okay, I will, sister."

Seeing that he was so obedient, Tang Sijia softened her heart and couldn't bear to say anything else, so she ate dinner quietly.

After taking a shower, Tang Sijia still sat in front of the coffee table, sorting out the materials for the short play project plan, while Shi Chuan sat on the sofa reading a professional book.

Except for the sound of turning pages and typing on the keyboard, the living room was exceptionally quiet.

Tang Sijia suddenly saw an inconspicuous folder in the hard drive data. When she opened it, it was a document from five years ago, only 22KB in size.

Five years ago, Nanshan Media had just been established.

Tang Sijia opened the document and found that it recorded the IPs that Nanshan Media was interested in at the time.

Tang Sijia was worried that there was no project name at the moment

. After looking through them one by one, she found that all the IPs had already been taken. Even if there were some that had not been sold, they were already outdated under the current value orientation. Just as she was about to close the document, the scroll wheel moved and the document turned the page.

"Li Ge?" Shi Chuan, who was reading a book just now, sat next to her at some point and read out the name on the document.

Tang Sijia was startled. She turned around and looked at the boy's enlarged face. She panicked and dodged before speaking: "Li Ge is a very famous writer. Almost every company related to the cultural industry wants to cooperate with him."

Shi Chuan pondered for a moment: "Sister, do you want to work with him too?"

Tang Sijia laughed: "Li Ge is the muse of all practitioners, but he didn't even take the copyright fee of 1 billion yuan into consideration at the beginning. How could he be interested in a small short play?"

As she said that, she closed the document. She was probably too busy this afternoon and felt sleepy at this moment. She went back to the bedroom without reading the information for a long time.

Shi Chuan listened to the sound of the bedroom door being locked.

It must be said that although she was stupid, she was also cautious.

It's a pity that this old-fashioned revolving door lock has no technical content.

A person sat quietly in the living room for an unknown period of time, and then he stood up and walked towards the bedroom. He

pressed the door handle lightly, rotated it counterclockwise for a circle, and carefully felt the lock clockwise until the door opened with a "click".

The bedroom was dim. Shi Chuan walked slowly to the bedside, his eyes following her lips and falling on her left hand.

All day today, he was thinking that this hand had the smell of someone else.

Just like the doll he had when he was a child.

He didn't actually like the doll, but he hated it when someone else touched his things.

Shi Chuan stretched out a finger and habitually stroked her lips, watching it slowly move down after being stained with bright red, landing on the scar on her wrist, and then on the delicate palm, covering the skin that others had touched little by little.

Just like William held her hand in the morning, he held her hand and let it be stained with his smell again.

I don't know how long they held it. Shi Chuan was about to let go, but for some reason, he slightly staggered his fingers, and instead, like a deadly vine, he clasped them tightly between her five fingers.

A strange numbness and trembling reached the brain through the fingertips, and then rushed down.

Shi Chuan looked down in confusion, frowning.

He didn't like this feeling of being out of control. Shi Chuan let go

of his hand, turned around and walked out quietly.