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On the day Qin Yue bid farewell, Shen Zhen and Qin Xing took time to see him off.

Qin Yue had exchanged his formal suits for casual clothes. There was still a haze between his brows, but his expression seemed to be much more relaxed. Zheng Xiao followed beside him, and just like Qin Yue, both of them had suitcases. They were practically going abroad without bringing anything with them, maybe they brought some money, but this money was not enough to support Qin Yue to open a company abroad.

It seemed that Qin Yue was really planning to give up everything from before and go abroad to start over.

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“I originally didn’t plan to take him with me.” Qin Yue was holding two cups of coffee. They were in the lounge in the airport. There were not many people at the moment, and the airport was very empty. Flights in the middle of the night were always like this, being much quieter and all.

Shen Zhen and Qin Xing accepted the coffee from Qin Yue.

After getting in a car accident, Qin Yue had psychological side effects remaining. He could barely sit in a car, except for the subway, not even a bus, let alone drive a car, and often suffered from cold sweats, insomnia, anxiety, nightmares, etc. He looked more haggard than before, seeming to look a few years older, but also appearing more mature.

Qin Xing and Qin Yue were talking at the side.

Shen Zhen sat on the other side, and Zheng Xiao sat next to him.

“After going abroad this time, have you ever thought about whether you would come back?” Shen Zhen saw Zheng Xiao’s nervousness in not saying a word, and took the initiative to start a conversation. After all, Qin Yue was leaving, and there would be no more intersection in their lives. Shen Zhen was finally able to calmly treat this completely different Qin Yue and Qin Yue’s new boyfriend.

Zheng Xiao smiled at Shen Zhen, as if he had become more cautious since he became a “boyfriend” instead of a “kept companion”, but it might just be like this in front of Shen Zhen and the others. Holding a coffee cup in his hand, his smile actually gave people a sense of naivety and innocence. He said softly: “I discussed it with Brother Qin. When we go over, our life has settled, and the company has gone on track, maybe we will come back and have a look.”

There was hope for a new life in the future in Zheng Xiao’s eyes: “We are even planning to have a child.”

Currently, 800,000 yuan was enough to hire a surrogate mother, and one could also guarantee the child’s gender and physical health.

Shen Zhen didn’t quite understand why one had to have a child, but he still expressed his respect for Zheng Xiao and Qin Yue’s decision.

Children were a problem that Shen Zhen had never considered.

In his opinion, if Qin Xing wanted to have children, no matter whether it was to find a woman or a surrogate mother, he would have already had one, and he could have as many as he wanted. There was no need to wait until now, so Shen Zhen was not worried at all about Qin Xing suddenly telling him one day that he wanted to have a child.

Shen Zhen himself didn’t like children very much.

He had no patience, and at the same time felt that it was already tiring being responsible for himself and Qin Xing, and he could no longer afford the energy for a third person.

Zheng Xiao whispered: “Brother Shen never thought about having a child?”

Shen Zhen shook his head: “No.”

Zheng Xiao suddenly felt a little envious: “Because you and Mr. Qin don’t need to rely on children to build a bond with each other.”

Shen Zhen asked strangely: “Can two men build a bond using children? It’s not like the child can come out of my or his stomach.”

The mother who could conceive life, and carry a little life in their belly. The child turns from a fertilized egg into a ball of unconscious flesh, and then gradually becomes conscious, every heartbeat, every fetal movement, the mother would accompany the child and experience the greatness of life. Moreover, the mother would also produce hormones during pregnancy, and the production of this hormone was the most primitive maternal love.

The father was different. To be precise, the father was just a bystander. He knew that it was his child, but other than that, there was nothing else.

A father’s love was cultivated. He needed to go through a long period of time and accompany his children to grow up before he could gradually develop fatherly love.

Shen Zhen couldn’t imagine his or Qin Xing’s child being conceived in the belly of an unknown woman.

Although it was said to be a monetary transaction, to that woman, even without her genes, it was still her child.

Shen Zhen felt that he couldn’t do it.

He also wouldn’t be able to face his child with another woman, or Qin Xing’s child with another woman without any psychological barrier.

It might even make him feel like he was robbing other people’s children.

But because he thought this way, it didn’t mean that Zheng Xiao and Qin Yue thought so. And Shen Zhen wouldn’t express any opinions on other people’s lives.

“As long as you two have considered it over yourselves.” Shen Zhen said to Zheng Xiao.

Zheng Xiao smiled with some difficulty. He had probably never had anyone to confide in, and he also knew that this was probably the last time he would see Shen Zhen for a long time, so he actually started to speak the truth. He lowered his head and said: ” Brother Qin and I are different from you and Mr. Qin, we were unequal at the beginning when we got together, and in an unequal relationship, it is difficult to produce anything related to love.”

Zheng Xiao: “I am very scared, so I took the initiative to suggest finding a surrogate mother. After we have a child, we can take care of them and accompany them together. Maybe we can build a new relationship in the process of raising the child.”

Shen Zhen looked at Zheng Xiao, it seemed that this was the first time Shen Zhen looked at Zheng Xiao squarely, and he said sincerely, “You are very smart.”

Zheng Xiao smiled wryly: “There is no other way.”

He could see that Qin Yue didn’t have deep feelings for him. Since the car accident, Qin Yue seemed to have changed. He was no longer so irritable. Although he was more calm, there was always an indelible sorrow. Zheng Xiao also didn’t know if he could erase this sorrow.

But he wanted to try.

Zheng Xiao said: “Life is very short. I just want to pursue the person I like within my limited years. No matter what the final result is, I can accept it, and I will not retreat just because he hypothetically may never fall in love with me.”

“Brother Shen, I really envy you.” Zheng Xiao said with a smile, “Sometimes I’m also a little jealous.”

He could see Qin Xing’s feelings for Shen Zhen. Qin Xing and Shen Zhen’s status had never been equal.

But unlike him and Qin Yue, Qin Xing would do everything possible to help Shen Zhen, and their relationship was based on equality.

Zheng Xiao sighed, feeling that today’s coffee was very bitter.

“Since you have decided to go abroad, live a good life abroad.” Shen Zhen said, “If you encounter any difficulties, you can also contact me.”

Shen Zhen didn’t know why, but felt that Zheng Xiao was very similar to himself in his previous life, and he made such a generous promise for the first time.

Zheng Xiao smiled and said, “Brother Shen, I have already troubled you a lot, and I will do my best in the days to come.”

Shen Zhen nodded at Zheng Xiao: “I’m going to go and have a look.”

Qin Xing and Qin Yue were sitting on the other side, Qin Xing was listening, and Qin Yue was talking. This uncle and nephew actually didn’t look much alike. Shen Zhen pulled out the chair on Qin Xing’s left, and Qin Yue glanced at Shen Zhen, with a very strange emotion in his eyes, before finally looking away.

The past seemed to have been too long ago.

“I will come back every year during the Chinese New Year.” Qin Yue sat upright in front of Qin Xing, reporting his future plans. Qin Yue said, “I will go out to find a job first, and then set up my own company after I become familiar with things. “

Qin Xing nodded: “Look after yourself.”

Qin Yue was very uncomfortable when facing Qin Xing. He had felt this way since he woke up and knew that Shen Zhen and Qin Xing were together. He had buried that ring in the Qin family manor’s garden.

He still remembered that it was a cloudy day, the air was foggy, and the whole sky seemed to be pressing down on them. When he returned to the Qin family manor, he felt that everything in the Qin family manor hadn’t changed, but it still gave people a feeling that things were different.

He had clearly planned everything, but in the end he couldn’t beat the arrangement of fate.

He still remembers that when he was still studying in school, he would discuss with Shen Zhen what they would do in the future.

He even made up his mind to go abroad together after he studied with his uncle for a while and felt he had prepared enough.

At that time, they could go to work together and create a company together. If Shen Zhen didn’t want to do that, he would support Shen Zhen to do whatever he wanted to do. Qin Yue even remembered what Shen Zhen said before, saying that he wanted to build a beach side villa and open a hotel.

Qin Yue buried the ring in the soil while recalling all this.

Zheng Xiao also persuaded him. Zheng Xiao knew the existence of this ring, and persuaded Qin Yue to give this ring to Shen Zhen as a way to signify the end of his youth.

Qin Yue said, “Is there any point in giving it to him now?”

“I don’t want to disturb his life anymore.”

Qin Yue and Zheng Xiao have never had any sexual relationship since the car accident.

Their whole relationship was very strange, like friends, but not like friends.

Qin Yue had laughed at himself and said: “He is moving forward, and I can’t keep walking in place, don’t you think so?”

“Uncle.” Qin Yue said to Qin Xing, “I will call you every New Year’s and holiday.”

Qin Xing: “You should also be careful outside. If you encounter difficulties, don’t hide them from me.”

Qin Yue smiled at Qin Xing, and nodded in agreement.

Before boarding the plane, Qin Yue took one last look at Qin Xing and Shen Zhen.

When it was finally time to say goodbye, he had a lot of feelings in his heart, but he didn’t say anything in the end.

When he turned around, he took Zheng Xiao’s hand. Zheng Xiao looked up at him in surprise, but saw his tightly pressed lips. Zheng Xiao lowered his head again. He knew that Qin Yue was doing it for Qin Xing and Shen Zhen to see.

Shen Zhen also took Qin Xing’s hand, and he said with some emotion: “I didn’t expect that I could get along with Qin Yue peacefully.”

Qin Xing smiled and said, “Do you still hate him?”

Shen Zhen shook his head: “I don’t hate him anymore.”

They were all pitiful people, they hadn’t been able to decide their own lives.

Shen Zhen: “Let’s not go home to eat today, shall we? What should we eat outside? I haven’t eaten barbecue for a long time.”

Qin Xing: “Then let’s go eat barbecue, and you can do the roasting. I have served you for so long, isn’t it your turn to serve me now?”

Shen Zhen hugged Qin Xing’s arm: “I will serve you well.”

Qin Xing pulled out his arm and wrapped it around Shen Zhen’s shoulders, and the two walked out the airport together.

They couldn’t find any open barbecue restaurant in the early morning hours, but they were really hungry, so Shen Zhen dragged Qin Xing to eat spicy hot pot together.

The spicy hot pot restaurant they found was still full of people even at this time, most of them were young couples who came out to eat late at night. Although the store was small, it was very clean.

Shen Zhen and Qin Xing were sitting on the outer seats. The waitress was a girl with dyed yellow hair. She had been rather tired working at such a late hour, but the moment she saw Shen Zhen and Qin Xing, she suddenly became energetic.

The waitress even felt that if every customer had this kind of appearance and quality looks, she could work twelve hours a day without taking a rest.

She even went to the front desk to change to a cleaner menu, walked up to Shen Zhen and Qin Xing with a smile on her face, and handed over the menu.

Of course, it was Shen Zhen who ordered. Qin Xing sat opposite Shen Zhen, and the two were chatting.

Qin Xing showed Shen Zhen the photos of the private island.

Shen Zhen was obviously more interested in the cabin built by the sea. It was a wooden villa, which was tastefully built. It was not too big and had a terrace. The inside of the cabin was the bedroom. The decorations were also handmade. Shen Zhen asked Qin Xing: “You aren’t going to use this island for development?”

Qin Xing raised his eyebrows: “What? You want to develop it to make money?”

Shen Zhen thought about it, and felt that this small island was a good love nest for the two of them. There was no need to develop it, and they had no shortage of money, so he said, “Forget it.”

Although the waitress was not standing close, she kept paying attention to the conversation between the two.

Damn, did rich people come to this kind of restaurant to eat?

Or were these two just bragging? If it’s bragging, this kind of brag was too big, maybe a thousand catties? It might even weigh a ton.

She waited in a daze for Shen Zhen to hand over the menu after ordering.

After she got to the back kitchen, she asked her friend who was helping in the back kitchen: “Do you think people who could afford a private island would come to eat here?”

The friend touched her forehead with a wet and fishy hand: “Are you awake? Or have you been daydreaming?”

The waitress waved away her friend’s hand, glared and said, “I’m serious.”

Her friend rolled her eyes: “If there is such a person, they would definitely be eating state banquets every day, retaining Chinese and Western chefs at home, eating all the high-end ingredients that we can’t afford, and travel by helicopter and private jets. Why would they come to a small restaurant like ours to eat?”

The waitress was dissatisfied: “What’s wrong with our small restaurant? Last time, there were people who drove Ferrari sport cars to eat here.”

Friend: “Maybe their sports car was rented.”

Waitress: “Tch, you are just envious and jealous, and you hate the rich.”

Friend: “Like you don’t hate them.”

The waitress thought about it seriously: “Maybe towards those a little bit better off than me, but not towards those that are much better than me.”

Friend: “You are too realistic!”

Waitress: “I call it pragmatic.”

The taste of the spicy hot pot was very good. Shen Zhen asked for an oil dish, not a dry dish, afraid of getting a stomach ache and diarrhea. Qin Xing just moved his chopsticks a bit to have a taste. compared to Shen Zhen, his tastes ran more mild and the kitchen at home was an open kitchen. Although the range hood was very powerful, if the cooking smell was strong, the house would be full of that smell.

Shen Zhen ate very well, and his mouth even became very red from the sauce and spiciness, but he couldn’t stop even if his lips became swollen.

Qin Xing found it funny, and took a picture of Shen Zhen with his mobile phone.

Shen Zhen looked up: “What?”

Qin Xing: “Very cute.”

Shen Zhen: “It’s really delicious, why don’t you eat more?”

Qin Xing smiled and said, “It’s enough to see you eat.”

When leaving, Shen Zhen gave the waitress a little tip. There was no habit of tipping in China, but Shen Zhen was in a good mood, so he left with Qin Xing after giving it.

Looking at the several hundred yuan in her hand, the expression on the waitress’s face gradually collapsed.

She said to her friend: “I hate the rich even more now.”

This tip was comparable to half a month’s salary for her. Ai, people just couldn’t compare.

Of course, it wasn’t possible to get a taxi at this point. When they came, Qin Xing drove the car. When the two sat in the car, Shen Zhen got into the co-passenger seat for once. While Qin Xing started the car he asked, “Where’s your driver’s license?”

Shen Zhen: “I didn’t take the test for the C1 driver’s license.”

Only then did Qin Xing realize that Shen Zhen seemed to have never driven a car except for that motorcycle, and asked curiously, “Afraid of driving?”

Shen Zhen smiled shyly: “Too lazy.”

When he graduated from high school, he was too lazy to take the driver’s exam, and he didn’t want to take it even more during university. And he didn’t have time after college graduation.

There was no opportunity that needed Shen Zhen to drive himself either.

Qin Xing said with a smile: “It seems that I have to be your exclusive driver in the future?”

Shen Zhen: “This proposal is very good. From now on, I will be the only one who can sit in your car.”

Qin Xing sighed, and said helplessly, “The possessiveness is really strong.”

Shen Zhen exaggerated very cooperatively: “What? You still want someone else to ride in your car?”

Qin Xing smiled dotingly and said, “How dare I?”

Shen Zhen: “Good.”

After returning home, the two fell asleep after washing up, and they didn’t have the energy to do other things. The main reason was that Shen Zhen didn’t have the energy. He even felt that even though he was much younger than Qin Xing, he was not as good as Qin Xing in some aspects. It seemed that among them, it was really him who needed to drink some tonics.

Towards men, how could you say that you can’t get it up!

When he woke in the morning, Qin Xing had already left, he still had a meeting today.

Because it was the weekend, Shen Zhen didn’t have to go to the company. He was lying on the bed and rubbing his belly. He was too lazy to even get up and eat a bowl of noodles. He turned over in bed, took out his mobile phone and started watching videos for entertainment.

At half past nine, Shen Zhen’s stomach growled and he had to get up to cook a bowl of noodles for himself.

As soon as he put on his slippers and walked to the living room, there was a knock on the door.

Shen Zhen looked in the eyehole, and saw Shen Li standing outside the door with an anxious expression on his face.

Shen Zhen opened the door. Shen Li grabbed Shen Zhen’s wrist, and said solemnly and anxiously, “Elder Brother! Shen Mu is back, Dad’s going to beat him to death.”

Shen Zhen didn’t have a clue. He hadn’t washed his face, brushed his teeth, or changed his clothes, so he could only say: “You sit in the living room and wait, I’ll go change and wash.”

Only then did Shen Li notice Shen Zhen’s attire, and no matter how anxious he was, he could only sit on the sofa and wait.

While waiting, he said: “Shen Mu spent all his money on gambling. He owes a large amount of debt so he was forced to come back because he had no choice. When he went to gamble before, he took a loan from a loan shark, and had a finger chopped off. His right thumb is gone, and this time they are saying that if he still does not pay it back, his entire right hand will be chopped off. So he came back.”

After brushing his teeth, Shen Zhen asked strangely, “He didn’t contact the Shen family before when his thumb was going to get chopped off?”

Shen Li’s voice was dry: “He contacted, my dad and I thought he was lying to us…..”

Shen Zhen said speechlessly: “You call me over now, what can I do? Stop Shen Fu from beating Shen Mu? How much does Shen Mu owe?”

Shen Li’s hands trembled a little: “I…I have no choice, I don’t know what to do, I can only come to you, Shen Mu owes more than 340 million.”

Shen Zhen was shocked: “More than 300 million?”

Shen Li nodded with difficulty: “He borrowed a lot, people know that he is from the Shen family, so they let him  borrow a lot, the interest is also higher, and the interest kept rolling…..”

Shen Zhen: “…..The Shen family should be able to pay it?”

Shen Li bit his lower lip: “The family doesn’t have a lot of liquidity in the first place. Recently, there were new projects, and they even had to get a bank loan. If this more than 300 million yuan is given, later…..”

Shen Fu had to make a choice between his son and the company.

But Shen Zhen still couldn’t even imagine that Shen Mu had the ability to owe so much money in just over a year.

Shen Li: “I heard from him that at the beginning, he directly borrowed a few million, and then it rolled over to more than 10 million. He wanted to get back his capital, so he then borrowed more than 10 million. At the beginning, he only had an ante of 10,000 yuan to gamble. In order to get back the capital, it was all big gambles, with a minimum betting amount of one million.”

Shen Li’s expression was very complicated, his brows furrowed and his lips trembled slightly: “At that time, he could lose tens of millions a day, and sometimes he won, but he still lost more. He…..he looks very bad now. Skinny as a skeleton, I suspect he’s also on drugs…..”

Shen Zhen felt that this was probably called self-inflicted evil.

Everyone at the gambling table was a loser, and the only winner was the casino.

Shen Zhen felt that he had no reason to help Shen Mu, so he just said to Shen Li: “I’ll take you back to the Shen’s, but I won’t be going in.”

Shen Li raised his head with surprise in his eyes: “Shen Mu is our brother after all…..”

Shen Zhen: “Brother?”

Shen Li lowered his head: “I know you never regarded him as a brother.”

Shen Zhen shook his head: “You are wrong.”

Shen Li’s eyes widened.

Shen Zhen smiled: “I don’t even consider you a brother.”

Shen Li: “……This…..I…..”

Shen Zhen: “Shen Mu is an adult, he should be responsible for his actions, I didn’t give birth to him or raise him, and he is not my responsibility. If the Shen family goes bankrupt, I don’t mind giving Shen Fu and Mrs. Shen a sum of money, just consider it as their payment for giving birth to me. Other than that, I won’t do anything else.”

Shen Li: “But, but…..”

Shen Zhen: “In your eyes, am I a person who is full of love and would give everyone a hand?”

Shen Li’s eyes were a little red. He knew that Shen Mu was not a good person, but they grew up together and were connected by blood. Now Shen Mu became like this…..

Shen Zhen: “You don’t have to worry about it, let Shen Fu worry about it.”

Although they all knew that in the end, Shen Fu would definitely choose to give up Shen Mu.

After all, he had two other sons, and now Shen Yun had also acquired the company that Qin Yue left in China.

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Shen Zhen looked at Shen Li with pity in his eyes.

Shen Mu was almost certainly going to die.

Besides, it was useless to call the police for this kind of thing, because it was impossible to waste manpower and resources to protect Shen Mu for the rest of his life.

Shen Mu walked to his own death, disaster was imminent, and no one could save him.

A person’s character could determine a person’s fate.

There was still some truth to this statement after all.

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