When Jiang Chen got out of the car, he saw Professor Xiang waiting at the street corner.

Professor Xiang raised his hand to signal him over. But before he could smile, he saw Shi Fengyue who was following Jiang Chen out of the car. His face darkened instantly, “Why is he here?”

Jiang Chen walked up to Professor Xiang in quick steps, and Shi Fengyue followed behind him unhurriedly. Hearing this, he paused slightly, slightly lowered his head, and lowered his voice, “If you don’t want to see me, then I’ll go.”

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Professor Xiang’s expression changed. Seeing that Shi Fengyue seemed to be really about to turn around, he gritted his teeth and said, “You’re already here, where are you going?”

Jiang Chen saw that Shi Fengyue’s body, which hadn’t turned much at all, immediately turned around, smiling wide and bright, as if that pitiful appearance just now was an illusion.

Professor Xiang snorted coldly, turned his head and left.

Jiang Chen followed Professor Xiang, and asked, “What are we doing here?”

Professor Xiang seemed to have transferred his anger to Jiang Chen, and said angrily, “Go and ask the one you brought.”

Jiang Chen told Professor Xiang: “I didn’t bring him here, he came here by himself.”

“You don’t know how to shoo him out of the car?” Professor Xiang asked.

Jiang Chen didn’t think about it before, but when Professor Xiang said this, he regretted not shooing Shi Fengyue out of the car.

Seeing that Jiang Chen didn’t answer, Professor Xiang took a look at him. Suddenly his eyes landed somewhere, and he frowned and said, “Did you bump yourself somewhere?”

Jiang Chen said inexplicably, “No.”

Professor Xiang: “Then what’s the matter with your mouth?”

“My mouth…” Jiang Chen subconsciously raised his hand and touched his lower lip. A slight tingling pain was aroused by his fingertips, and the memory in the car also came back instantly. His ears instantly reddened and his clothing eyes looked in another direction: “The road in front of the scientific research institute is too bumpy, I bumped myself by accident.”

“You just said you didn’t bump yourself.” Professor Xiang scolded him, frowned and said: “It’s indeed really not easy to drive on the road from the Military Research Institute. Xiao Wu reported it several times but has not been approved even now, the efficiency is too low.”

Jiang Chen smiled awkwardly, but didn’t answer.

Shi Fengyue said with a smile: “I think it’s better not to repair that road.”

Professor Xiang glared at him. He didn’t want to talk to him at first, but he couldn’t hold back the words: “You hardly go to the research institute once a year, and other researchers who come and go drive around there every day. Easier said than done.”

Shi Fengyue walked on the other side of Professor Xiang. With a rare good temper, he obediently bowed his head to be scolded: “You are right.”

Professor Xiang snorted, turned his head away and ignored him.

Jiang Chen glanced at him, and said to Professor Xiang: “Is the road not being repaired over there for concealment?”

“In the past, one or two projects indeed needed to be carried out in secret, but now…” Professor Xiang thought of something, frowned and said: “With the start of your project, it will now take a few years to start construction on that road.”

Jiang Chen smiled, “There are too many people involved in the construction. It’s really inappropriate to come and go at the entrance of the research institute, and the road is only a bit bumpy in that section. It’s been like that for so many years, it’ll be no different waiting some more time to repair it.”

Shi Fengyue answered: “With that road, the research institute is even more hidden.”

Professor Xiang naturally knew about this, but when he heard Shi Fengyue’s words, he had the urge to be contrary, and he said coldly: “Does giddiness depend on that road? Its depends on the woods outside and the army stationed on the edge of the woods.”

Shi Fengyue was bullied again and again, but he accepted all scathing remarks in a good-tempered manner, not angry at all, and even curled his lips and said modestly: “Then why do you think that road has not been repaired?”

Professor Xiang didn’t want to talk to him at all, so he quickened his pace, and Shi Fengyue followed suit, with a smile on his face. Jiang Chen observed the old and the young from the corner of his eye, this was the first time he saw Professor Xiang looking so “lively”. He now had new considerations about the relationship between Professor Xiang and Shi Fengyue in his heart.

The main street of Antique Street was very lively, and it was also one of the tourist attractions in Yan City. It was very crowded with people coming and going.

Professor Xiang was a skinny old man, but he walked faster than anyone else. When Jiang Chen was distracted, he could only see the backs of unfamiliar heads.

Shi Feng Yue was still there.

Jiang Chen was tall, and being caught in the crowd didn’t block his sight too much. He searched around but failed, so he could only ask Shi Fengyue, “Did you see where Professor Xiang went?”

“Nope.”

Just as Jiang Chen was about to take out his cell phone, he realized that before entering the main street, Professor Xiang had given his cell phone to Qian Yi and the others, asking them to help find a place to charge it. At this time, he couldn’t reach anyone even if he called.

“Let’s look separately.” The crowd kept moving, and Jiang Chen was worried that the longer it dragged on, the harder it would be to find someone, so he said decisively, “Call when we find him.”

Shi Fengyue said unhurriedly: “No need.”

Jiang Chen tilted his head, thinking that Shi Fengyue had already found Professor Xiang.

Shi Fengyue: “I know where he went.”

Jiang Chen paused, remembering that Professor Xiang and Shi Fengyue had known each other for a long time, and just now he said he wanted to ask Shi Fengyue what he was doing here. Thinking about it, Shi Fengyue should know exactly where Professor Xiang was going.

He glanced at the time and said, “Then let’s go there.”

After walking a few steps, he turned around and wanted to ask Shi Fengyue which direction to go, but he saw that Shi Fengyue was moving with the crowd at a leisurely pace, with a calm and lazy expression, as if he was visiting his back garden. In such a crowded and noisy environment, he could still make the crowd move in line with his steps.

“Can you walk quicker?” Jiang Chen said in annoyance.

Shi Fengyue said naturally: “I can’t walk because of people crowding me.”

“Aren’t people squeezing you just to tell you to move quicker?”

Shi Fengyue stood on the spot: “Are you in a hurry?”

“Of course.” Today was the day for the He family to have dinner together, and he had to rush back later.

When Shi Fengyue stretched out his hand, Jiang Chen was puzzled.

Shi Fengyue raised his eyebrows and shook his hand meaningfully.

Jiang Chen thought of something, and he couldn’t believe it: “You want me to hold your hand?”

“I just want you to take my hand.” Shi Fengyue looked as if it was for Jiang Chen’s sake: “But if you want to hold my hand, it’s not that I can’t agree.”

Jiang Chen rolled his eyes at him and grabbed his arm: “Let’s go over there.”

“Let’s go ahead first.”

Shi Fengyue let him pull him. He followed his footsteps, walking behind while directing the way.

There were many people on the main street of Antique Street, but the side alleys were deeper, which was the residential area, and there were fewer tourists. Jiang Chen let go of Shi Fengyue’s hand, and said, “You said Professor Xiang always came here to visit friends, but why call me over?”

Shi Fengyue touched his fingers on the hand that Jiang Chen had just held, rubbed it lightly twice, and the corners of his lips curled up: “Professor Zhang Zhizhou.”

“Zhang Zhi…” Jiang Chen paused, turned his head and said, “Professor Zhang Zhizhou, the main researcher of the high-performance computer with a peak computing speed of 233.5 trillion times and a linpack value of 18.06 billion times?”

“It’s him.”

Jiang Chen thought of many things in an instant. He was used to discussing everything about work with Shi Fengyue, and he immediately forgot about the previous “conflict and annoyance” and went straight to business mode.

“Does Professor Xiang want to ask Professor Zhang Zhizhou to come out of retirement or just bring me to meet him. If it is the former, it will be a given that he’ll be the hardware guide on our side. If it is just to meet, it is not necessary to bring me here, so he probably does want to invite Professor Zhang Zhizhou to guide our team?”

The smile in Shi Fengyue’s eyes deepened: “Very happy?”

“Of course.” Jiang Chen said again: “If Professor Zhang joins our team, we can speed up the project. Remember the project brief I showed you before? In fact, the development of software is mainly from the expansion of the Changjiang system’s other applications, as well as more upgrades to it. If the team has a short breaking in time and cooperates tacitly, the project completion time can definitely be faster, but the hardware…”

Shi Fengyue lowered his eyes and smiled slightly, quietly listening to him, only inserting a few words from time to time. The afternoon sun elongated their figures as the two walked unhurriedly, the shadows sometimes overlapping and sometimes jumping.

Professor Xiang was waiting at the door of his old friend’s house, and this was what he saw. His eyebrows twitched, and he somehow felt that something was weird, but until Jiang Chen and Shi Fengyue came close and ended the conversation just now, he still couldn’t figure out what was weird.

It was getting late, so he put aside his doubts. He motioned for the two to stand behind him, raised his hand and knocked on the door.

…

The conversation with Professor Zhang was very pleasant. Just as Jiang Chen guessed, Professor Zhang would join their team as a hardware consultant, and he would come to work after the team members were assembled.

Although he had guessed it already, the fact that he would be able to gather a group of the best scientists of this era into his team, and two of them were even representatives of the computing technology research field that he highly respected in both this life and his life in the interstellar era. His excited mood was still difficult to calm down in a short time.

Walking into the long alley from the alley entrance, Jiang Chen’s eyes were still bright, and the smile on the corner of his mouth was very attractive.

After Fang Yuan was squeezed within an inch of his life around the main street for his interviews, he finally found a clean alley to rest. But before he could sit down on the floor, he was instantly caught by this smile.

Some distance away, he didn’t recognize Jiang Chen, but subconsciously said to his colleague: “Don’t close it, don’t close it, I’m going to interview another one.”

The cameraman followed Fang Yuan’s line of sight. At this moment, Jiang Chen and the others had come a little closer. He was slightly taken aback, with the camera facing them, he couldn’t help but say, “What a coincidence.”

When Fang Yuan saw Jiang Chen he also thought the same way. He immediately greeted him with the microphone in his hand, and said with a smile, “Student, please wait a moment. We are interviewing on the streets. Can I ask you a few questions?”

Jiang Chen recognized Fang Yuan as the reporter who came to the door a few days ago. Seeing that he was sweating profusely and smiling, he couldn’t refuse. He glanced at Professor Xiang and Shi Fengyue, and saw that they didn’t seem to care about being on camera, so he nodded: “About what?”

“Our Xinsheng newspaper is doing a survey on the time and future plans of students in different grades from elementary school to university.” Fang Yuan smiled and said, “Can I ask if you are currently in high school or university?”

Jiang Chen answered readily: “Soon to be a college freshman.”

“Then this student took the college entrance examination this year.” Fang Yuan’s eyes were bright, and he moved the microphone forward a little: “The scores of the college entrance examination came out a few days ago, can I ask how you did on the exam?” 

Jiang Chen raised his eyebrows slightly, and the corners of his mouth curled up. The smile just now hadn’t faded away, but now it deepened: “Not bad.”

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“Since it’s not bad, can I ask for your college entrance examination score this time?”

“748.”

Fang Yuan’s eyes were about to bug out of their sockets, and he suppressed his excitement before continuing the interview, but his voice still trembled a bit: “748, I remember that the highest score in previous years did not exceed 740, student, you wouldn’t happen to be Yan City’s legendary number one top scorer in sciences, would you?!”

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Every year in late June, students and their parents were most concerned about the results of the college entrance examination.

The results of the college entrance examination were released at the same time as in previous years. After checking the scores, it didn’t take long for the fast news media to find out the number one in the college entrance examination, and then strive to get an interview and report on it as soon as possible.

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Fang Yuan was one of the people who got the first-hand information. He pushed open the van door, jumped out and said to the camera behind him: “This year’s college entrance examination top scorer in sciences and liberal arts is not the same school, and we can be regarded as having good luck to have gotten the top scorer in science.”

Most times, the top scorer in sciences and liberal arts were not from the same school, and interviewing either was the same, but this time the liberal arts top scorer came from an unknown school in the most remote suburb of Yan City. Since both were interviews not much different from the other, naturally the one with a short and convenient location was more popular.

“I heard that the No. 97 High School liberal arts top scorer’s family is not well-off. Group B is going to create a sensational story, using this to compare ratings with ours.” Fang Yuan looked at the map while complaining: “How immoral.”

The cameraman captured the environment of the community with his camera. Nolding the camera steadily, he said with a smile: “If you got the liberal arts top scorer, as if you won’t go that way as well.”

Fang Yuan walked into the unit building and said triumphantly, “So I’m lucky.”

The two found the house number given by the school, and Fang Yuan knocked on the door with a microphone in front of him.

After a while, a middle-aged woman in simple and comfortable clothes opened the door, and was a little surprised to see them: “Who are you?”

“Hello, we are reporters from Xinsheng Daily.” Fang Yuan showed his press card and was very friendly: “Are you the parent of Jiang Chen, the top scorer in sciences? We want to interview him.”

Yang Si frowned slightly: “Didn’t our family reject the interview?”

Indeed.

Fang Yuan had heard this from the leader of the station before he came here, but he had already drawn the top scorer in sciences, and when he went to the school to interview the teachers, the information he got about this year’s top scorer in sciences was all very good materials, he was not willing to let this go interview, so here he was.

“Sorry.” Fang Yuan said with a smile: “We did know from the school that you are unwilling to accept the interview, but I still want to fight for an opportunity. Auntie, let’s not turn on the camera for now. Can you listen to what we will ask before making a decision?”

The refusal of the interview was directly rejected by Jiang Chen. Yang Si always respected her son’s decision, so naturally she didn’t want to say more.

“Sorry, our family doesn’t want to be interviewed.”

Yang Si put her hand on the door and was about to close it when Jiang Chen, who heard the noise from the study, came out: “Mom? Who is it?”

“It’s you!” Fang Yuan was taken aback. After seeing Jiang Chen clearly, the first thought in his mind was: no matter what, this interview must be done! Then he immediately thought of the waves caused by the previous interview on the Internet. If today’s interview was broadcast, the degree of topicality could be imagined.

“Student, do you still remember me?” Fang Yuan poked his head in, pointed to his face and said to Jiang Chen, “I interviewed you at the gate of Chenghua Academy before, and it happened to be just after the comprehensive science exam. Do you remember?”

Jiang Chen paused, and the relaxed expression on his face smoothed away: “Hello.”

Seeing Jiang Chen approaching him, Fang Yuan thought that he had easily agreed to the interview before, and immediately felt hopeful in his heart, and said to Jiang Chen, “I didn’t expect you to be the number one student in the sciences this year. I was so blind during the interview before, now our station has sent me to interview you, student, since we interviewed you last time, let me interview you again.”

Jiang Chen smiled, but didn’t let go: “Sorry, I don’t accept interviews.”

“But……”

“I have already called the school, and you should have received the notification.”

He didn’t issue an order to evict the guest, but when the young man’s eyes swept over Fang Yuan mildly, it blocked Fang Yuan’s words in his throat. He had been a reporter for several years. From an intern to now becoming a team leader, he had interviewed quite a few people. Among them were some big figures, but there was really no other person who made him speechless at a glance like this.

Fang Yuan felt strange, but he didn’t know why he didn’t dare to persuade him anymore, and he was worried about leaving a bad impression on Jiang Chen’s family, so he stopped pestering him immediately, apologized sincerely, and took the cameraman away.

After coming out of the unit building, the cameraman said, “This interview is a no-go, what a big loss.”

Fang Yuan agreed very much: “That’s right, this boy’s looks are more than enough to enter the entertainment industry, and he has such academic abilities as well. If I can interview him, I believe this year’s spot as deputy editor must be mine.”

The cameraman said: “You just gave up like that? This is not like you.”

“What else can I do?” Fang Yuan recalled the look in the boy’s eyes just now, and sighed: “The children nowadays are too impressive. I dare not say a word with just a single glance from them. It’s worse than when our editor-in-chief is yelling at people at the station.”

The two got into the van and discussed how to deal with the task this time, with a very disappointed tone.

Back in the station, the other group of interviewers hadn’t come back yet. Fang Yuan took the initiative to explain to the chief editor that the interview could not be completed, but his heart was itchy. He had a hunch that this interview was really important to him. There was so much to dig.

Just because of that face and that achievement, the topic of this summer vacation was already reserved.

But he was unwilling to accept interviews, and his attitude seemed to be quite gentle, but the effect was stronger than the countless times he had been rejected before. He didn’t dare to stalk him anymore. Besides, this was not society news in which courage and passion was enough.

Not long after, the people in Group B came back, and they seemed to have gained a lot. They were mocked by the leader of Group B and his biggest competitor. Fang Yuan couldn’t sit still anymore. He found the camera and left the station.

…

For three consecutive days, Fang Yuan, who had been squatting outside the whole time, still didn’t want to give up, but the leaders in the station didn’t allow him to waste his working hours like this. A phone call sent him to the old streets of Yan City to interview passers-by.

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Jiang Chen stayed in the research institute for three days, brought Shi Fengyue into the job, completed all the formalities, and introduced him to a partner who would work with him in the future. He was then called out by Professor Xiang. The place was the antiquity old street.

“Professor Xiang called me, let’s finish for now.” Jiang Chen glanced at the time and said, “Do you want to familiarize yourself with the laboratory or go back?”

“Where are you going?”

“I’m going to visit the antique street.” Jiang Chen said truthfully, “Professor Xiang asked me to go there.”

“He knows that I’ve come to the institute?”

“He does.”

“He knows that you are with me today?”

Jiang Chen paused, glanced at Shi Fengyue: “What do you mean?”

“I have an auction house over there, I’ll go there with you.”

Jiang Chen turned it over in his mind a few times, and took Shi Fengyue into his special car.

When getting in the car, Shi Fengyue swept his eyes over the interior of the off-road vehicle, tapped the glass twice with his knuckles, and lightly curved up the corner of his mouth: “This project is quite big.”

Jiang Chen raised his eyebrows and looked at him: “What you’ve got now is only a part of the data. You won’t see the complete experiment until all the researchers have gathered and signed the confidentiality agreement. It will scare you to death.”

Shi Fengyue sat slouching, with his chin propped on one hand, and his crossed leg touched Jiang Chen: “How scary?”

Jiang Chen kicked his leg that was on the ground, and wiped off the dust on his pants: “You will know when the time comes.”

Shi Fengyue seemed to be smiling but not smiling. He put away his elbows, and approached him: “Still keeping it secret?”

“Of course.” Jiang Chen didn’t move, letting the other’s face approach him, his breath blowing on his face: “The research institute requires confidentiality.”

“Even with our relationship it must be kept secret?”

Jiang Chen was as motionless as a mountain, but his hand leaned on the back of the seat in front of him without a trace: “What’s the relationship between us?”

“We——”

The car jolted violently, Shi Fengyue who didn’t manage to catch his balance, staggered, and hit his head on the side of the front seat.

Hearing Jiang Chen’s loud laughter, Shi Fengyue placed a hand on his head and raised it to look up. He had black hair and deep eyes, with sharp brows and eyes behind his jet-black bangs, and when slightly pursing the corners of his mouth it could be very scary.

Jiang Chen didn’t feel guilty at all. He tilted his head and smiled at him, and raised his eyebrows provocatively after laughing.

Shi Fengyue put down his hand. The corners of his mouth twitched, and he didn’t know whether it was from a smile or from anger: “You’re done?” 

Jiang Chen nodded, without hiding his bright smile, and by the way, he did not forget to lecture: “Sitting should be done properly, Dr. Shi, you’d better sit properly from now on, lest the situation just now happen again later, and the time may come when you don’t just knock your head, maybe you’ll knock your mouth and teeth.”

“What if I don’t sit properly?” Shi Fengyue turned his head slightly, and leaned over to look at him. He put one hand on the back of Jiang Chen’s chair, and the other on the back of the front seat, confining Jiang Chen in a space made by his arms.

Jiang Chen didn’t feel cramped at all, as if he didn’t notice the crampedness at all, he smiled slightly, his innocent eyes slightly curving: “Then you just wait for another collision.”

When these words were finished being uttered, the car bumped again.

Jiang Chen had been prepared for a long time, so he sat firmly, and turned his head to have a good laugh at Shi Fengyue, but before he turned his head, he felt that the back of his neck was suddenly grabbed. The bump brought forward force, but that hand controlled him to the right, and the touch of soft, cool lips were fleeting but obvious. Before he could be shocked, a passionate and rampant kiss overtook him.

Shi Fengyue grabbed the back of the front seat with one hand, and clasped the back of Jiang Chen’s neck with the other. He controlled his strength very well. During such a long period of bumps, the two of them seldom bumped their lips and teeth, but for some reason, whether inertia or deliberation, whenever the rear wheel fell from height to height, he would always bite his lower lip lightly or hard, and when he frowned or glared in response, he would smile lightly and gently suck it softly, tenderly and comfortingly.

After the bumpy road passed, Jiang Chen’s lower lip was slightly swollen.

He wiped his lower lip lightly with his fingers, and made a hissing sound. As expected, the skin had broken.

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Jiang Chen lowered his voice: “Did you do it on purpose?”

Shi Fengyue had a faint half-smile: “Didn’t you do it on purpose?”

There was nothing to say, he was indeed the one who dug a pit for Shi Fengyue first.

Jiang Chen withdrew his gaze and glanced at the screen blocking the front and rear seats. He couldn’t help but feel a little grateful in his heart. Fortunately, the screen was installed to ensure privacy and safety.

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“What do you mean?” Jiang Zhuo asked, “How could the matter in Chengyang Square have something to do with him?”

“The police station didn’t give me accurate information about this matter, and the reason they notified me is because they have applied for a ban on leaving the country, so I don’t know the details.”

“If the police don’t have any evidence, how can he be restricted from leaving the country.” When it came to Jiang Chen, Yang Si was particularly keen: “It’s definitely because something was found.”

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Just as Yang Si and Jiang Zhuo were talking to He Yanfeng, He Qianyu waved her hand quietly, signaling He Qianmin to bow his head.

He Qianmin was in shock and didn’t pay attention to his sister’s movements at all. He didn’t lower his head and only asked her when she tugged hard on the corner of his shirt, “What are you doing?”

He Qianyu covered her mouth, tiptoed to his ear and wanted to speak, causing He Qianmin to lower his head a little.

“Do you still remember the last time, two police uncles came to the house and asked Brother and Brother Qian Jian a lot of questions.”

He Qianmin paused for a moment, then suddenly remembered that there really seemed to be such a thing.

At that time in the old family house, when the police came to the door, they asked He Qianjian if he had any conflicts with his brother. At that time, He Qianjian denied it, and he even spoke up, but the police did not say anything afterwards, as if it was just a routine questioning, and were just asking casually. But after so long of no follow-up, he forgot about it.

Thinking about it this way, it was very likely that the two policemen had already been eyeing He Qianjian at that time.

And until now, they had only apploed for He Qianjian’s restriction on leaving the country. It must be that something had been found out.

From here, He Qianmin couldn’t help thinking of what He Qianjian’s toady had said to them when they were at the gate of the Jiangs’ gated community. Although he was sure that He Qianjian must have known his brother’s and his identity a long time ago, and did a lot of things to persecute his brother, he didn’t expect that he was responsible for that car accident.

No, it waa not just a car accident.

He Qianmin recalled that time when Yang Si inadvertently spoke in the Jiang family’s house. It was too coincidental, he could almost be sure that He Qianjian must have kidnapped Jiang Chen at that time with 80% certainty.

New and old hatred welled up in his heart, and He Qianmin looked at He Qianjian suddenly, his hands clenched into fists.

“Brother?”

Seeing that He Qianmin hadn’t spoken for a long time, He Qianyu turned her head to see his expression clearly. A thought flashed in her mind, and she asked him, “Brother Qian Jian really wants to kill our brother?”

Before He Qianmin pushed her away, he warned her in a low voice: “If you see He Qianjian in the future turn the other way, don’t stay alone with him.”

He Qianyu hadn’t been alone with He Qianjian for a long time, but she nodded obediently when she heard He Qianmin’s warning. She already knew the answer from He Qianmin’s words.

The interaction between the two siblings here did not attract much attention. The four adults were all staring at He Qianjian. Only Jiang Chen knew all the truth. After leisurely looking at He Qianjian, his eyes turned to his siblings.

Seeing that He Qianyu acting obediently towards He Qianmin for once, he raised his eyebrows with interest, wondering how He Qianmin made her be so obedient to him, but before he had time to ask, he saw He Qianmin’s undisguised gaze of hatred directed towards He Qianjian, as if he was about to pounce on He Qianjian and beat him up in the next second.

Jiang Chen coughed lowly, attracting everyone in the study to look over.

“Dad, is He Qianjian really related to that car accident?”

Facing the calm gaze of his biological son, He Yanfeng couldn’t help feeling guilty in his heart. In fact, he could expel He Qianjian from the He family immediately, or even go further and directly let the police detain He Qianjian first, but he kept him all this time, although there were his reasons, but he was even more unwilling to deceive Jiang Chen.

He Yanfeng: “The result of the current investigation by the police is this.”

Jiang Chen: “So there is no conclusive evidence yet?”

He Yanfeng nodded.

Jiang Chen: “Then wait for the police to find evidence before convicting him. Aren’t we discussing achievements and future aspirations now?”

With his current ability, he didn’t need the He family to be able to expose He Qianjian’s actions, but he didn’t take action this whole time and instead let He Qianjian run free, the reason was of course to completely solve the System, and figure out the purpose of the System.

Since it was necessary to figure out the System and research it, it would be more helpful for He Qianjian to stay in the country and avoid being locked up in prison for the time being.

He Yanfeng thought that he wouldn’t be surprised if anyone here might want to change the topic, including He Qianjian’s biological mother Yang Si, but he did not expect Jiang Chen to be the first.

Yang Si even turned her head and patted Jiang Chen, motioning him not to speak.

“Mr. He.” Yang Si said: “If He Qianjian is really involved in the attempted murder of my son, I hope you will not cover him up.”

He Yanfeng was silent for a while, feeling a little helpless and speechless in his heart. He Qianjian was not his biological son at all, but his biological mother told him not to cover him, this caused him to really not know what to say.

But judging from the current situation, he and his wife were indeed more likely to shield He Qianjian than Jiang Zhuo and his wife, and the fact that he did not tell them that He Qianjian was restricted from leaving the country until today, which seemed to confirm his intention to cover him.

He Yanfeng knew the possible impact of what revealing this matter would have, and also guessed the possible questioning and doubts of Jiang Zhuo and his wife, but at this moment, he only got little information, and the police did not come up with anything to convict He Qianjian. Naturally, he couldn’t make a final conviction of He Qianjian directly.

During this period of time, the more things he found out about He Qianjian, the more he was disgusted. After learning that He Qianjian might have participated in the attempted murder of Jiang Chen, his last feelings for He Qianjian were erased.

However, currently he hadn’t found out who waa behind He Qianjian, and he didn’t know where his weird methods come from, so he had remained unmoving so as not to startle the enemy, and even left He Qianjian in the He family. Because he knew the danger of He Qianjian, if he really wanted to do something to the unsuspecting Jiang couple, they would definitely suffer a big loss because they were defenseless and with a baby.

It was just that he couldn’t explain these things clearly.

He Yanfeng could only vaguely say, “Wait for the police’s investigation results.”

Yang Si was obviously dissatisfied with his answer, but She didn’t say much more. Instead, she pulled Jiang Chen up, and told her husband to carry their daughter: “Let’s go home.”

Yang Yun got up: “Sister Yang Si, didn’t we agree you’d stay over for two days?”

Yang Si’s footsteps paused slightly, she was angry and wanted to say something unpleasant, but she and Yang Yun got along pretty well during this time, and she didn’t want Jiang Chen to feel sad because of the quarrel between the two mothers, so she could only hold back her fury. She turned around and said, “This matter has had a big impact on our family. We want to go back and discuss it.”

Yang Yun wanted to persuade her to stay, but thinking of what her husband said just now, she swallowed the words again, and could only say: “I’ll see you out.”

He Qianmin followed behind, and suddenly said, “I want to stay at my brother’s house for a few days and bring He Qianyu with me.”

Without waiting for He Yanfeng and the others to agree or not, he directly said to Jiang Chen, “Brother, is that okay?”

His younger siblings looked at him expectantly. Jiang Chen wanted to refuse because there was no place for them to sleep at home, but he couldn’t say anything.

Although Yang Si rejected He Yanfeng and his wife before, she had always liked children and treated He Qianmin and He Qianyu very well, especially He Qianmin came to the Jiangs’ house several times before even learning of Jiang Chen’s identity.

At this time, when He Qianmin spoke, she actually didn’t want to refuse, but He Qianmin and He Qianyu were not her children after all, and she could be justified in taking Jiang Chen away, but it would be very bad to take all the children away.

“Mom.” He Qianyu took Yang Yun’s arm, “I haven’t been to my brother’s house yet, I really want to visit.”

Yang Yun frowned slightly. Where would the Jiang family have a place for them to sleep? She refused without even thinking about it, but He Yanfeng directly agreed: “Then these two children will trouble you.”

Yang Si was stunned for a moment and then agreed. She didn’t expect that He Yanfeng would agree, but when she thought about the danger of He Qianjian, she felt that it was not surprising that He Yanfeng would agree. After all, she dared not let her Jiang Chen stay together with He Qianjian now. He Yanfeng must also be worried about what He Qianjian would do to He Qianmin and He Qianyu.

Yang Yun saw Jiang Zhuo, Yang Si and the children off, and He Yanfeng called He Qianjian to speak in the study.

After seeing them off, Yang Yun didn’t go up. She was sitting in the living room, looking sideways at a piece of cactus under the corner of the window, lost in thought.

When He Yanfeng and He Qianjian finished talking, Yang Yun still maintained a trance-like state.

“What are you thinking about?” He Yanfeng put his hand lightly on his wife’s shoulder.

Yang Yun came back to her senses, raised her eyes to look at him, and then looked away.

Knowing that not telling his wife about this would cause her to be unhappy, He Yanfeng sat next to her and explained: “It’s not that I didn’t tell you on purpose, I wanted to talk about it last night, but you went to bed first, so I thought to wait until today to talk about it, but…”

Yang Yun raised her hand and interrupted He Yanfeng’s words. She was silent for a while before speaking: “I don’t blame you, it just takes some time to digest these things.”

He Yanfeng embraced his wife and said in a low voice, “Our family will get through this difficulty.”

Yang Yun twitched the corner of her mouth. She suddenly covered her face, her elbows resting on her knee trembled slightly, but her voice was very calm: “What did I do wrong, why was I separated from my child? Things had been developing in a good direction, but now it has become like this again.”

He Yanfeng hugged her in distress, wanting to comfort her, but he couldn’t say what was on his tongue.

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In fact, he also wanted to ask, what did he do wrong to have his own son exchanged with someone else’s, to have He Qianjian deceive them for so many years, during which time he hurt his own son countless times.

He hugged his wife tightly, and whispered in her ear: “When I find out everything, I will never let He Qianjian and the people behind him go, I promise.”

Yang Yun nodded her head lightly, tears finally flowing down.

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He Qianjian’s unexpected results left the two families in the study at a loss as to what to say.

The corner of Jiang Zhuo’s mouth twitched, he glanced at He Yanfeng and Yang Yun and his wife, and felt that he was not suitable to speak. But Yang Si didn’t care much about He Qianjian’s grades at all, after seeing it, it left no trace behind, and she was still very happy for her son’s achievements.

He Yanfeng wanted to talk, but one question after another popped up in his heart. He wanted to ask too much and didn’t know where to start. Moreover, He Qianjian’s achievement was actually a blow to him. No matter from which aspect, every new thing that emerged from He Qianjian proved that he failed in his education.

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In the end, it was Yang Yun who spoke first. She stood up and walked in front of He Qianjian who was standing alone. Her tone was somewhat comforting but also full of doubts: “Qian Jian, is it possible that the results of this exam were entered incorrectly?”

He Qianjian thought of this method when he knew that he had messed up on the day of the college entrance examination——have the System help to directly change the scores entered into the school system for the college entrance examination. Changing grades covertly and without anyone finding out was a trivial matter for the System.

However, not long after the System promised to do so, the code it had been analyzing and dismantling since the college entrance examination finally yielded in results, and the results pointed to Jiang Chen. With its ability at analysis, the System naturally quickly realized that the interceptor in the mathematics competition at that time and the interceptor in the college entrance examination were definitely the same person.

When this result was obtained, the System directly told He Qianjian that it could not change the results of the college entrance examination.

He Qianjian was already full of confidence, and was full of expectations for his future life and Jiang Chen knowing that he could only be second in the ranks, but at this moment the System reneged at the last minute. When the System failed to solve He Qianjian’s problems in a timely manner, and between doubts and quarrels, the relationship between the System and He Qianjian was no longer as strong as before, and there were often situations where the System lost contact with He Qianjian. This time, it was even during the college entrance examination that he paid special attention to.

So, when he heard the System tell him coldly and directly in an irrefutable tone that the college entrance examination scores could not be changed, and that he was stuck with the scores he got, He Qianjian almost went crazy at that time.

And this was not the first time the System has broken its promise. Thinking of the System disappearing at the most important moments for him, He Qianjian was full of complaints and even resentment towards the System bound to him. He repeatedly questioned and verbally abused the System in the privacy of his room, and demanded it to help him change his scores.

The System had long grown impatient with him. At first it just didn’t answer him, and later it even blocked him. Just when He Qianjian went from resentment to fear, thinking that he would be completely abandoned by the System, going from abuse to flattery to pleading, the System once again appeared.

This time, the System directly told him the reason why he couldn’t modify his scores——someone knew his real scores, and it was very likely that this person chose to block the System’s signal at the two times of the math competition and the college entrance examination. It was not accidental, but intentional.

Regarding the ability of the System, no one in this world knew it better than He Qianjian. It was precisely because of this that He Qianjian was even more disbelieving that Jiang Chen had the strength to create technology that could compete with the System. He was dubious at the beginning, and if not for the System showing him the monitoring of the meeting between Jiang Chen and several national leaders who could only be seen on TV. He still couldn’t believe that a child under the age of twenty could have such a high achievement.

So, knowing that Jiang Chen might have developed a system that could compete with the System, He Qianjian fell into extreme panic and resentment, but at the same time, he was more afraid.

He was very afraid. If Jiang Chen knew about the existence of the System, if Jiang Chen deliberately affected his exam, would Jiang Chen already know the real situation behind the two of them being switched at birth?

If Jiang Chen knew everything and he possessed such a powerful ability, how would he choose to take revenge on him?

This unknown possibility hung like a dark cloud in He Qianjian’s mind. He began thinking and guessing in paranoia all the time. He couldn’t sleep peacefully at night. He was afraid that when he opened his eyes, Jiang Chen would expose all his lies. At that time, he would not only lose the He familyx he would also attract their resentment and suppression. Or it would be even more serious, directly defeating the System and leaving him with nothing.

It wasn’t until the System couldn’t stand He Qianjian’s panic all day long, and told him that it had a way to destroy the system created by Jiang Chen, and that it would make Jiang Chen pay the price, that He Qianjian finally felt relieved, if barely.

But the threat and pressure Jiang Chen brought to him still existed. For example, when Yang Yun spoke, everyone looked in this direction, and Jiang Chen did the same, but He Qianjian ignored everyone’s expressions. He could only see Jiang Chen’s gloating and ridicule.

“I…” He Qianjian couldn’t suppress the hatred in his heart, and he clenched his teeth. In fact, he had clenched his teeth since he entered the study. At this time, being watched by everyone, he was so embarrassed he seemed to even smell the blood in his mouth. His hand by his side trembled slightly, and his voice trembled along with it: “I was not feeling well at the time, maybe due to the dizziness, I couldn’t read the questions clearly, so I finished the exam like this.”

Yang Yun frowned slightly, not quite believing it: “You also said that you were uncomfortable that day, but when you were at your grandpa’s house, didn’t you say that you did well in the exam?”

“I said the first two were fine.” He Qianjian said, “The second day’s exams were not very good.”

Yang Yun didn’t know whether to believe it or not, and it was useless to talk about it now. She pondered: “With your score…there are not many schools you can go to. Are you going to repeat a year or something else?”

He Qianjian was absolutely unwilling to repeat a year and retake the exam. Who knew if Jiang Chen would repeat the old tricks again next time.

He glanced at He Yanfeng, paused for a moment, and said his plan since he knew that Jiang Chen was the mastermind behind it: “I want to go abroad.”

Yang Yun was taken aback, even Jiang Zhuo and Yang Si looked over, and He Yanfeng confirmed, “You want to go abroad?”

“Yes.” He Qianjian gathered up his courage and nodded.

This was the best result after his deliberation. Even though the System said there was a way to deal with Jiang Chen, and he wanted to take revenge on Jiang Chen, but he was more afraid of losing everything, and he didn’t want to face those former classmates and the rich second generation in the same circle after knowing his college entrance examination results. He knew just what kind of mocking faces they would reveal.

After much deliberation, going abroad was his best way out.

With the existence of the System, he didn’t have to worry about not being able to make money at all. Without the existence of Jiang Chen, it would not be a problem for him to use the System to obtain a high diploma. As the System said, with it, he didn’t have to waste time on the He family at all. Before, he couldn’t give up the He family because he wanted a good family background too much, but the System said that the He family had now begun to investigate what he did in the past, and even a lot of things were found out. The more things the He family found out, the worse it would be for him. It was better to leave early.

After he became successive and earned enough money, he would have a better chance of winning when he came back to deal with Jiang Chen or even the He family.

After He Qianjian experienced repeated blows, he finally regained his senses, but the System who didn’t care about the relationship between He Qianjian and the He family, and always urged him to go out in the world before, now didn’t want him to leave the He family.

The reason for this was simple. The Changjiang system was the only existence in the entire world that could compete with it. It must figure out everything about it and upgrade itself by attacking Jiang Chen’s system.

In order to convince He Qianjian, the System assured He Qianjian that it would definitely take back everything for him, and help He Qianjian take revenge on Jiang Chen in the way he wanted.

But He Qianjian didn’t agree with the System. At this moment, when Yang Yun asked him about his plans for the future, he just blurted it out.

He Yanfeng never thought that He Qianjian would want to go abroad, but after hearing what he said, he rejected the possibility without even thinking about it. Putting aside the fact that the He family did not allow their children and grandchildren to study abroad, or whether He Qianjian was still considered a member of the He family. What He Qianjian did before had not been investigated clearly, so it was impossible for him to let him go at this time.

“Why?” He Qianjian thought that He Yanfeng might not agree, but when the plan came to nothing, he was inevitably a little anxious and dissatisfied, but it didn’t show on his face: “I’m no longer a descendant of the He family, and the family rule about not going abroad can’t limit me.”

He Yanfeng said indifferently: “The serious crime team suspects that you are related to Jiang Chen’s attempted hit and run case in Chengyang Square, so they applied for an exit restriction order. Even if we agreed, you would not be allowed to go abroad.”

When the words fell to the ground, almost everyone showed a look of surprise.

Yang Si was the most serious. She stood up straight away and walked to He Yanfeng and He Qianjian in three big steps. “He Qianjian is related to that incident?”

He Yanfeng sighed in his heart. In fact, when he got the story from the police officer who investigated the case two days ago, he didn’t want to expose it. Firstly, there was no real evidence for the matter. The second was that now was not a good time to say this.

However, instead of waiting until He Qianjian refused to listen to dissuasion and was intercepted at the airport when he tried to exit the country and lost all face and then made it known to everyone, it was better to tell him now, and He Yanfeng also wanted to use this matter to test He Qianjian, whether he was really involved in that incident or not.

He Yanfeng spoke calmly, but Yang Si was not calm at all. Jiang Chen had always been her bottom line. The previous kidnapping incident had already made her extremely nervous about Jiang Chen’s safety, and the chasing and attempted run over by the van made her even more nervous for a while. She was in a state of extreme nervousness all the time. The police had yet to find out the truth, so she was even more worried about Jiang Chen’s safety, though she didn’t show it because she didn’t want Jiang Chen to worry.

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At this time, hearing that He Qianjian might have been involved in the incident back then, her whole body tensed up like a taut string. After asking, she immediately walked in front of Jiang Chen, with a protective and vigilant attitude that was obvious to all beyond words.

Not only was she wary of He Qianjian, but also of the He family.

Jiang Zhuo was also shocked, but he was not as nervous as his wife, and kept calm. He knew very well that the He family could not be involved in this matter, but He Yanfeng’s words made him think of a possibility——did He Qianjian know his own identity from the beginning?

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Thinking of this, He Qianjian’s eyes filled with bottomless gloom and resentment, but underneath that, there was deep fear.

He never thought that in this world, there would be an existence that could fight against the System or even possibly defeat it. Before, he thought the System was lying to him, but during this time, the System allowed him to see Jiang Chen’s laboratory and see the things made by Jiang Chen, letting him know that what the System said was true.

But why?!

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Why was it that Jiang Chen could have a good family background from birth?!

Why was it that Jiang Chen could have biological parents and adoptive parents who love him without any effort?!

Why was it that Jiang Chen, who already have what ordinary people have been pursuing all their life, yet God still gave him such a smart head and talent without the need for hard work as well as his doting favor on top of it all!

Just why! ! !

He Qianjian was going crazy with jealousy. He hated this unfair world. He hated that there were people like Jiang Chen in this world. He hated that Jiang Chen had so many things. He was already at the top of the pyramid but still wanted to snatch away everything that should have belonged to him!

Why was such a greedy and selfish person like Jiang Chen so lucky?

He Qianjian had countless questions in his heart, resentment and jealousy that could not be quelled by thousands of mountains and seas. His eyes turned red when he looked at Jiang Chen. If the System hadn’t told him that there was a way to fight back, and thay Jiang Chen could be ruined, he would have wanted nothing more than to simply chop him up with a knife when Jiang Chen was sleeping here last night, and ventall his hatred! 

Jiang Chen didn’t know what He Qianjian was thinking, but he felt a strong malicious gaze, and he didn’t need to turn his head to know who it was from. He knew just who the person in this room would be so hostile to him.

However, he didn’t care. The research and development of Changjiang had already begun to be implemented. Before that, he also strengthened the security protection of Changjiang. Moreover, when Changjiang entered the laboratory, it was already connected to a part of the national security network. Even if the System detected the existence of him and Changjiang, it couldn’t do anything to them at all.

If the System ignored this and broke into a country’s security network and sabotaged it, Jiang Chen believed that the entire country and government would become interested in such a high-tech foreign system, and the consequences would definitely be much worse than if the System attacked him alone.

But Jiang Chen also knew that the System had been dormant for so many years, and every time He Qianjian’s work revealed flaws or may leave loopholes, it would wipe his ass clean, which proved that the System did not want more people to know its existence.

Jiang Chen had never really attacked the System outright, and had always left room for it. Apart from the fact that Changjiang was not very sure about going against the System at this time, it was also because he wanted to know what the System was afraid of or what it was waiting for.

He had a hunch that this answer was very important.

Just as Jiang Chen was thinking, other subject scores were also refreshed one after another.

He Qianmin and He Qianyu rushed to report the results as if they were in a competition:

He Qianmin: “Foreign language 150!”

He Qianyu: “Brother is also a perfect score in comprehensive science!”

He Qianmin: “The total score is 748!”

He Qianyu: “The top scorer in this year’s college entrance examination!”

When the total score came out, everyone’s hearts fell back in place, and Jiang Chen also laughed. Although he had already estimated the score, when he really heard and saw his score, his mood was different.

In the first life, due to various reasons, his results in the college entrance examination had always been a knot in Jiang Chen’s heart. Now this knot had been untied and dissipated so quietly that no one even knew that it had appeared. The only hint was the brighter smile Jiang Chen revealed now compared to before.

After seeing Jiang Chen’s scores here, He Qianjian’s scores on the other side were finally slowly showing up. The people standing in front of the computer desk naturally looked at the other computer.

He Qianmin pursed his lips, and wanted to leave, but thought that He Qianjian could not be better than his brother in the exam, so he stopped immediately and looked at the computer.

Yang Yun’s tone was slightly relieved: “Mathematics is also 150.”

Yang Si and Jiang Zhuo knew that He Qianjian’s grades were good, so it wasn’t surprising to hear that at this moment, they just looked at the computer.

“Foreign language… 62?” The change in Yang Yun’s tone was hard to conceal. Even He Yanfeng frowned, and walked around to the other side of the desk to confirm it.

He frowned: “How is this possible?”

Even when He Qianjian had his lowest grades, his scores were definitely not so ridiculously low.

That’s right, from He Yanfeng’s point of view, this score was so outrageous that it was hard to believe.

Not only He Yanfeng couldn’t believe it, but Yang Yun and the Jiang couple also couldn’t believe it. Yang Yun, like He Yanfeng, couldn’t believe it because she knew He Qianjian’s past achievements, while Yang Si and Jiang Zhuo couldn’t believe it because they also knew He Qianjian’s past achievements. From what they had heard about He Qianjian’s past during this period of time, they knew that he had good academic performance.

That’s right, even though Yang Yun had practically told them everything about He Qianjian’s growth, Yang Si could still hear some biased and contradictory things in her words, for example, when Yang Yun said that He Qianjian was very sensible and very mature, there was an inexplicable emotion in her eyes, and when she talked about how he got along with He Qianmin and He Qianyu, she always brushed over it in one sentence.

Yang Si was not very sharp, but because she had a bad impression of He Qianjian at first glance, she had always maintained a skeptical attitude towards what Yang Yun said. It was not that she thought Yang Yun was lying, but from their recent contact, she knew that the other woman was always leaning in an optimistic direction when doing things and speaking. Perhaps because she hoped that He Qianjian could get along with them better, so she always talks about He Qianjian’s positive side.

However, Yang Si saw with her own eyes the bullying nature of He Qianjian, so naturally she didn’t just believe what Yang Yun said. Yang Si didn’t like He Qianjian, nor did she think that he would live under the same roof with them in the future, but Jiang Zhuo was right, He Qianjian would always be in their lives in the future, and only by getting to know him better in advance could they prepare themselves mentally.

Jiang Zhuo and his wife didn’t have special investigative methods, they would only occasionally ask He Qianmin and He Qianyu what they think of He Qianjian as an elder brother. In his opinion, He Qianmin was familiar with him, and he was not a kid who could lie. And for a girl as small and sweet as He Qianyu, it was even more impossible for her to lie.

Therefore, every time He Qianjian was asked about, He Qianmin’s undisguised disgust and He Qianyu’s expression of not being able to hide her thoughts all explained some things.

Jiang Zhuo was more able to accept He Qianjian than Yang Si, and he didn’t want to know a person only from other people’s mouths. Although there were many things that happened before that influenced how he felt when judging He Qianjian objectively, he still hoped to make a conclusion after being able to really get to know He Qianjian.

At that time, when Jiang Zhuo persuaded Yang Si, he mentioned that He Qianjian had good grades regardless of other aspects.

They have heard too many outsiders saying that Jiang Chen was smart and that’s why his grades were so good. It was undeniable that Jiang Chen was indeed smart, but it was not easy to maintain the top rank in the city’s top high schools. As parents, they knew their child’s hard work and tiring efforts. So it was only natural that they believed He Qianjian was at least willing to work hard in his studies.

It had nothing to do with grades, hard work itself was also a good quality.

With such thoughts in mind, Jiang Zhuo and his wife were a little disbelieving when they saw the score in front of them.

He Yanfeng subconsciously turned his head to look at He Qianjian, and saw that his face was pale and calm, but his eyes were a little dazed, thinking of who knows what, and he was also trembling slightly.

“Qian Jian.” He Yanfeng straightened up, and was just about to walk towards He Qianjian when he heard his wife’s voice, so soft it was hard to hear: “48 in comprehensive science… 408 in total.”

“4, 408?” He Yanfeng turned around to confirm the number on the screen, and frowned after seeing it clearly: “Did they make a mistake?”

Even though He Yanfeng had confirmed that He Qianjian’s character was not good, and found out that he had indeed done many things that he thought could not be easily forgiven, he never doubted He Qianjian’s achievements.

It was precisely because he knew that He Qianjian had good grades that he could accept the identities of the two children relatively quickly and calmly before he knew what He Qianjian had done at the beginning, because in his opinion, a person’s birth and family background didn’t mean anything, only the strength that person possesses could determine their future.

In his opinion at the time, He Qianjian was a good person, with good grades since he was a child. A person who was both capable and sociable would never have a bad life in the future. He Yanfeng didn’t even think about letting He Qianjian leave the He family. When the two children grow up, there would not be a lack of support, whether financial or otherwise, from him on either side.

It was also this level of certainty and this excellent shell that made He Yanfeng still think that He Qianjian had at least some merits. He was smart enough, but he might have been led astray by people with ulterior motives when he was a child.

At this time, the obvious score in front of him was like a slap to the face, causing He Yanfeng to doubt the past certainty in his mind. Could it be that He Qianjian was not just a bad character who concealed many things from them, even his previous grades were fake?

But how was that possible?

He Yanfeng couldn’t figure it out. It was not that He Qianjian’s grades fluctuated from good to bad, and it was not that his grades suddenly improved after he was ordinary. His grades had always been very stable. He was number one from elementary school to high school until he met Jiang Chen. If it was cheating he couldn’t think of any way to make He Qianjian cheat from elementary school to the college entrance examination.

What’s more, his results in the first two subjects were the same as usual, only the latter two subjects suffered a nosedive, which was really a bit strange. And judging from He Qianjian’s previous achievements, even if it took a nosedive, it was absolutely impossible to slip to this level.

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If there was a problem with one test result, it could be said that there might be missed questions or part of the answer sheet was missing, but now it was the same for both subjects. Could it be that both answer sheets have been filled in incorrectly?

After Yang Yun reported He Qianjian’s score, there was no sound in the study room. Even He Qianmin was a little disbelieving. He glanced at He Qianjian and looked at him in surprise, but thinking of something, he suddenly frowned again, thoughtful.

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“Is it time?”

“There is still one minute.”

There were two computers side by side on the computer desk, and there was a page on the screen, on which the account number and password had been entered.

Yang Si was standing by the computer, bending over to look at the computer screen. Yang Yun, who was sitting by the computer desk, was also staring at the change of the second hand on the clock with a nervous expression.

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He Yanfeng looked at the two women amusedly, and raised his eyebrows at Jiang Zhuo and Jiang Chen. Jiang Zhuo shook his head, Jiang Chen was also a little exasperated when he saw this, but even more he felt moved.

He hadn’t thought that his two families would gather together on the day when the score was posted. Yesterday, when he received a call from his parents while in the research institute asking him to go directly to the He family that night, he was still a little surprised. After careful questioning, he found out that during this time, Yang Yun often went to the Jiang’s house to talk to Yang Si.

Because of family reasons, Yang Si didn’t have many friends from childhood, and even fewer friends after marrying Jiang Zhuo, having put all her energy on their small family. Later, when Jiang Chen was in elementary school, she was let go from her job. So she just focus on their small family, and gradually lost contact with her former friends, and became not much different from a full-time mother.

Yang Yun’s situation was actually very similar to Yang Si’s. Although she was born in a well-off family, her family was also patriarchal. She didn’t get much care and love except for money, but different from Yang Si was that she left her family completely on the day she became legal, and never contacted her family again.

She made money by herself to go to college, met He Yanfeng at school, and they broke up and got back together many times before they eventually married. When they finally got together, her family came to her because they coveted the power and interests of the He family. She drove away her family without hesitation, and because of this, old Mr. He, who happened to see that scene, had a very bad impression of her.

So much so that her marriage to He Yanfeng was not approved by the He family. It was not until He Qianjian was born that the situation gradually improved. But because of the hard-won happiness of this family, she cherished it even more and wanted to maintain the harmony of the whole family.

After He Qianmin and He Qianyu were born, she swore that she would not be partial to any child like her original family. She tried her best to be as fair as possible, and gave all that she didn’t get to her three children.

She thought she had done a good job, but she didn’t expect that it might be because she was too afraid that this rare peace of happiness would be broken, and she was too dependent on the satisfaction given to her by her husband and children, resulting in an indecisiveness that only caused her to miss out on more.

Yang Si never had the courage to muster up when she was young, but after she became an adult and had her own family, she had the courage to break the status quo. On the other hand, Yang Yun was decisive and assertive as a young woman, but after being pampered and living a peaceful life for 20 years, on the contrary, she lost the vigor of her youth.

The two mothers had the same circumstances, but their later lives changed greatly due to some small deviations.

These memories were opened little by little in their chats, and they learned about each other’s pasts, which made them understand each other’s difficulties better, and gradually let go of their prejudice against each other. And because of this, the scene in front of them now came about.

This was the most harmonious and happiest way Jiang Chen could think of to get along with each other. Before the parents of the two families met for the first time, Jiang Chen had a plan to work hard for acceptance and harmony, but he had been too busy recently, and he also wanted to give the two families time to cool off, so what he thought was to wait for a while, then slowly ease the relationship between the two.

He had thought a long time ago that if he wanted to have the two families completely let go of their estrangement and get closer to each other, he would have to make more efforts, spend more time and exert subtle influence to achieve it. Unexpectedly, before all his plans even began, his two mothers solved his problems by themselves.

Jiang Chen knew very well whose sake it was for that Yang Yun would visit again and again when she knew that Yang Si didn’t want to see her at all, and tried to open up conversations with her. He was even more clear for whose sake Yang Si did the many things she did despite not being in a good mood, when sometimes she didn’t even want to see him and Jiang Zhuo either, locking herself in the room alone. Yet she let Yang Yun come into the house to chat with her, and in the end they were even willing to gradually become less defensive and sad, and have a good heart-to-heart with her.

It was all for him, and maybe some of it was also for He Qianjian, but Jiang Chen didn’t care, he didn’t know how to express how moved he was and how grateful, so he could only say thank you countless times from the bottom of his heart, thankful for having such two mothers, for having such adoptive parents and biological parents, as well as for being their child.

Thinking back on this, Jiang Chen lowered his eyes to hide the softness in them, and the faint smile on the corner of his mouth was pure and warm.

He Yanfeng glanced at the time as if casually, sat up straight and said, “Only twenty seconds left.”

Jiang Zhuo also sat up straight immediately, and turned his head to look at the computer desk. Yang Yun and Yang Si were already sitting in front of the computer, staring at the time without blinking, their expressions hard to hide their nervousness.

“Brother, what’s your estimated score?” He Qianmin appeared even more anxious than the two mothers. He glanced at his watch from time to time, feeling that every minute and every second was extremely long, so he couldn’t help asking Jiang Chen.

Jiang Chen came back to his senses: “Seven hundred and four or more.”

After each exam, Jiang Chen’s estimate of his grades for several subjects other than Chinese were generally very accurate, but the variable of Chinese composition was difficult to estimate accurately, and sometimes the teacher’s personal preference would also play a big role. Fortunately, the subject matter of this composition was quite favorable to Jiang Chen, but he was not sure that his composition could get a high score.

“Wow!” He Qianmin exclaimed, his eyes lighting up immediately.

He Qianyu immediately rushed over and hugged Jiang Chen and asked, “Is that number one?”

Jiang Chen grinned slightly, on this he was sure of.

“Of course.”

He Qianyu hugged Jiang Chen tightly, with a look of pride on her face: “Then my brother is the top scorer in the sciences! I will be the top scorer in the future too! Second Brother, you must be the top scorer too!”

Jiang Chen saw that she had set a goal by herself and didn’t forget to spur He Qianmin on the side. He couldn’t help being a little amused. He tapped her nose and said, “If you want to be the top scorer, you have to work hard.”

“Of course!” He Qianyu raised her chin as a matter of course and said, “Anything in return must be paid, and I will definitely work as hard as you, Brother!”

The girl’s adult-like tone caused the several adults in the room to smile. Even Yang Si couldn’t hold back a slight smile. Glancing at the soundly sleeping babe on the side, her smile became more gentle, and she hoped her daughter could be like this when she grew up, generous and lively.

Amidst the laughter, only He Qianjian who was sitting on the other side looked dazed, lost in unknown thoughts.

He Qianmin noticed his expression and narrowed his eyes slightly, feeling a little strange.

He Qianjian’s expression now seemed to be a little flustered, but it shouldn’t be. Even if his score was not comparable to his brother’s it should not be that much less, was it because he might be less than his brother’s score that he was unhappy?

Before He Qianmin had time to think about it, he heard Yang Yun’s voice: “Time’s up!”

Twenty seconds flew by. Yang Yun logged into the interface immediately, and at the same time reminded Yang Si who was looking somewhere else.

He Qianmin immediately came back to his senses, and saw Yang Si and Yang Yun performing the same operation.

The two fathers, who were sitting on the sofa not far away and watching the web pages jump, were sitting calmly at first. At this time, one inadvertently stretched his neck, and the other pretended that his legs and feet were uncomfortable after sitting for a long time, and stood up and moved around the computer desk.

Jiang Zhuo approached his wife, staring at the screen: “How is it?”

Yang Si didn’t have the mind to pay attention to him at all. She stared at the interface that kept loading but couldn’t load at all, and said in a bad mood: “You don’t know how to see for yourself?”

Jiang Zhuo wasn’t upset at the sarcastic shot, he just touched his nose sheepishly and moved closer.

He Yanfeng also coughed and stood up, not forgetting to tell Jiang Chen and He Qianjian: “You two’s college entrance examination results, why aren’t you more concerned yourselves, let’s go, come with me to have a look.”

Jiang Chen was pulled to stand up by He Qianyu. Out of the corner of his eye, he glanced at He Qianjian who had been expressionless from beginning to end. Recalling that he seemed to have not spoken to the System since last night, he was a little surprised, but he didn’t think much about it. Surrounded by his younger siblings, he walked forward.

“Here it comes!” Jiang Zhuo craned his neck, and the web pages on the screen were being displayed layer by layer like a venetian blind.

The candidate’s name was displayed first. Jiang Chen’s name appeared on the computer screen in front of Yang Si. Within a few seconds, He Qianjian’s name was also displayed on the computer screen in front of Yang Yun.

Then there was the candidate number and the exam admission ticket number. The four parents waited anxiously. They only felt that the internet speed of this computer was too slow, and the page was also frozen, which practically dragged their hearts out of their throats.

“Chinese! 148!”

He Qianmin yelled, Jiang Chen was not surprised by the score, and now he also knew his final score, but the others didn’t. On He Qianjian’s side, don’t know whether it was a problem with the web page or the speed of the network but the page was running very slowly, and the candidate number didn’t appear until now. It seemed that it would take a while for the score to appear, so the two pairs of parents kept their eyes on the computer with Jiang Chen’s score, waiting for the next subject.

“Mathematics is out!” He Qianyu squeezed to Yang Si’s side because of her small stature. She pressed close to Yang Si and when she saw the result, she immediately hugged the people next to her. She excitedly turned her head to look for Jiang Chen, not forgetting to announce: “150! Brother, your math score is perfect!”

Jiang Chen smiled and nodded to her.

“Qian Jian’s score is also out!” Yang Yun smiled and said, “Chinese is also 148, the same as Chen Chen.”

Jiang Zhuo turned his head, glanced at He Qianjian behind him, and praised him, “Very good.”

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From the time when the scores were refreshed, He Qianjian’s hands beside him trembled more and more, and finally he put them in his pockets nervously. When he saw Jiang Zhuo turn towards him, he managed to force a smile. The smile fell immediately.

He knew that his Chinese and math scores would definitely not be bad, but no matter how good he was on these exams, there was no help from the System in the latter two exams, and it was all up to him to guess. So he knew just how absolutely horrible the total score would be.

And all of this——was Jiang Chen’s fault!

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