He clearly knew that he was dreaming, and vaguely guessed why the “Tao Mu” in this life turned into Shen Yu. Tao Mu, who was even more curious about what would happen next, calmed down and watched the development of the dream patiently.

“Tao Mu” cried for a long time in the bathroom, and when he finally returned to the set with red and swollen eyes, everyone had almost finished their lunch. “Tao Mu” missed the time to get the boxed lunch, and it was the unit manager who scolded him just now who kindly helped “Tao Mu” get a boxed lunch. It was just that “Tao Mu” stayed in the bathroom for too long, and the boxed lunch was already cold. In order to please his childhood friend, Yao Wenxiao ordered all the dishes according to Shen Er’s taste. Shen Er was from Shanghai, so he was more used to eating Shanghainese food. Shanghainese food was originally in the style of thick oily red sauce, and so the taste was a bit greasy when it was cold. Of course, the chef’s skills were extraordinary, “Tao Mu” still gobbled down the boxed lunch. He could also hear the other staff members of the production team flattering Yao Wenxiao and the Second Young Master Shen. Saying that Yao Wenxiao was straightforward and generous, and said that although Second Young Master Shen came from a wealthy family, he was able to endure hardships. He didn’t even need a stand-in for filming wire and fight scenes, and he could even ride horses and shoot arrows. He was indeed a noble son from a true wealthy family. The foundation was simply stronger than those idol stars who just rely on their faces to make a living.

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“Tao Mu” curled his lips, disapproving. He felt that Shen Er was just born well, knew how to reincarnate, and had such a pair of rich and powerful parents, so he had the time to learn so many things. For someone like him with a bad fate who was born as an orphan, he had to work hard to survive. The reason he could even complete the nine-year compulsory education was by relying on national policies. And it was a luxury to even go to high school, let alone go to university.

It was obvious that they looked down on people from above, and because they had money to buy people’s hearts, everyone flattered them like they were blind. They didn’t even care about what was right or wrong. It was clearly not his fault, but he was forced to apologize. And he was almost kicked out of the crew just to please them. “Tao Mu” became more and more sad and indignant as he thought about it. He ate the last mouthful of the boxed lunch, but before he had time to even drink a sip of water, he was called to work by the props team.

“Tao Mu” accidentally got a side stitch. Clutching his stomach, he complained of pain, and his face even turned pale from the pain. Seeing this, the assistant director in charge of props and scenery stopped “Tao Mu” from working, and told him to find a corner to rest and come back later.

“Tao Mu” nodded again and again, expressing his thanks, but even more disapproving in his heart. He felt that it was the prop master’s fault that he would get a stitch in his side. Who would force someone to do work while they were still chewing rice grains right after eating? It was simply oppressive child labor.

“Tao Mu” continued to be aggrieved, completely forgetting that the reason why he ate later than others was all because he stayed too long in the bathroom. Besides, the crew had a schedule for filming. When to shoot and what scene to shoot, the prop team must drive out the set props first, so as to ensure the smooth progress of the follow-up shooting work. When one was in a hurry, it was not uncommon for one to work all day hungry, let alone work immediately after eating.

Of course “Tao Mu” would not consider these things. Holding his stomach and hiding in the corner to be lazy. In fact, when the prop master asked him to rest, “Tao Mu” didn’t hurt so much anymore. But it was a fool who would not rest when they were able to. “Tao Mu” was a self-proclaimed smart person, how could he do such a stupid thing.

So this afternoon, “Tao Mu” leisurely shirked his work. Seeing Second Young Master Shen, who was praised and flattered by the entire crew, exchanging moves with the martial arts director and martial arts stand-ins until late into the night, more and more he felt that there was something wrong with Second Young Master Shen.

When obviously he could use a stand-in to film and it was fine to just pose for a few camera takes in front of the camera, but that Second Young Master Shen had to go battle in person, so he was covered in bruises and rub medicine every day. He heard that when the medicine was applied to him, he lost his temper with his assistant because it hurt too much. Wasn’t this the act of an idle person with nothing better to do? He caused the injuries to himself, what right did he have to lose his temper with his assistant? Were assistants not human? Was it wrong to help him apply the medicine with a kind heart?

“Tao Mu” commiserated with Shen Er’s assistant in private, and even found opportunities to try and get close to Shen Er’s assistant. When he learned that Second Master Shen’s assistant was actually a classmate of his at the same school, but because his family was short of money, so he came to work as an assistant for Shen Er temporarily, he became even more indignant.

“How can he do this? Since you are classmates, why didn’t he just lend you money if you are short of money? He also asked you to be his assistant. Isn’t he bullying people?”

“Why do you think this?” The little assistant looked at “Tao Mu” strangely, and couldn’t help but defend Shen Er: “Don’t you have to pay back the borrowed money? Besides, how can this be about money? I am studying advertising planning. It is very helpful for my profession to have the opportunity to personally experience how a film crew shoots. As the saying goes, it is better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish, and I have to thank Shen Yu for giving me this opportunity.”

Shen Er’s classmate was named Fu Ran, and like Shen Er, he was a top student of Fudan University. It was just that Shen Er was from the Economics Department, and Fu Ran was from the Advertising Department of the School of Journalism. The two were even roommates. Because of his family relationship, Shen Er had been pampered since he was a child and had never suffered much. His temper was a bit arrogant, but he was still easy to get along with in front of family and friends.

Fu Ran’s family was poor, and when he first knew that there was such a big Buddha as Shen Er living in his dormitory, he was very worried. He was afraid that if he accidentally offended the rich young master, or accidentally damaged Shen Er’s things, he wouldn’t be able to pay for it. At that time, he literally trembled over even taking a breath in the dormitory. But as a result, after getting along day and night, Fu Ran found that although Shen Er’s temper was not very good, there was nothing to complain about his character.

He never looked down on others just because his family was rich, let alone show off his wealth deliberately in the dormitory. Just like ordinary people, he skipped classes and stayed up late to play games, and rushed to cram before exams. And his personality was very attentive and considerate, he looked cool and domineering, but his heart was actually very soft. Take Fu Ran becoming his assistant for example, it was because Shen Er accidentally learned that Fu Ran didn’t plan to go back to his hometown during the summer vacation, and instead wanted to distribute flyers outside or work as a cashier to earn tuition and living expenses, so he took the initiative to ask.

“Since you want to take a summer job, come and be my assistant. I’m going to make a drama in the summer vacation, and I just need a life assistant. I’ll give you 8,000 yuan a month, and you join me in the crew. Aren’t you studying advertising? You will have a chance to discuss with the director how to shoot.” When Shen Er said these words, Fu Ran was very embarrassed. It was nothing else, he just didn’t think he was worth 8,000 yuan. One must know that many seniors who graduated from senior year found their first job with a monthly salary of only three or four thousand yuan. What virtue and ability did he, Fu Ran, have to actually make that much money right off the bat.

Fu Ran knew that Shen Yu gave this salary because he had already calculated the total cost of his tuition and living expenses, but Fu Ran felt that he could not agree.

Then Shen Er said again: “You don’t have to feel embarrassed. There must be a reason for me to give this number. You will know when the time comes. As the boss, I have a lot of peculiarities. I will be the one embarrassed if I give less.”

Hearing what Shen Er said, Fu Ran had no choice but to accept the job for now. So he came to H Town with doubts, and secretly thought that if the job was particularly easy and he could also learn something, he would definitely not be able to ask for so much money. In the end, it was not until he got to work officially that he found that Shen Er wasn’t lying at all. After work at two o’clock in the middle of the night, he still dragged Fu Ran to practice lines with him, and then at five o’clock in the morning he had to drive to the breakfast shop to buy a breakfast that matched Shen Er’s taste. And that was just the easiest of his work responsibilities.

The most important thing was that Shen Er, who was addicted to filming, was particularly emotionally unstable. He was not professionally trained, and he had no acting experience. It was the first time he had acted as a male lead, so he was naturally under great pressure. Because Shen Er was the kind of character who must win even if he played a children’s game. So even if he entered the entertainment circle to play around, he must still play above the standard line.

So in this case, in order to relieve the pressure, Shen Er sometimes “tormented” the people around him——for example, when he couldn’t sleep in the middle of the night he would suddenly call the director to see the film footage. When Fu Ran brought the film footage over, he would look through it frame by frame, and retake the parts he was not satisfied with the next day. So much so that the entire crew kept reworking the same scenes. At the beginning, everyone complained, but once they got used to Shen Er’s behavior, they would feel that this kind of person was actually very pure and rare.

One didn’t need to think about financial pressure, life pressure, and messy things like interpersonal relationships. One just had to make sure to do the thing at hand well. Fu Ran felt that “the heart of a child” was the most appropriate way to describe Shen Yu.

Just like a large beast that looked very lethal, it might be scary at the beginning and you dared not approach it, but once you got used to it and looked at it for a long time, you would feel admiration and even dependence in your heart. Feeling very lucky to be able to walk behind this kind of person. Because all the wind and frost on the way forward were endured by him alone, you only need to stare at his back and walk forward with one heart and one mind. When you suddenly come back to your senses, you would be surprised to find that you have already climbed to the top. And you could see more beautiful and magnificent scenery.

Fu Ran also heard about the conflict between “Tao Mu” and Yao Wenxiao. He knew that “Tao Mu” was an orphan. He was only seventeen or eighteen years old this year. He was about the same age as them but he couldn’t go to college but had to go out to make a living. He felt that it was not easy for this child, so he kindly advised him: “Don’t treat Shen Yu with prejudice, he’s actually a really nice guy.”

“Tao Mu” sneered secretly. He felt that Fu Ran was also the kind of superficial person who “gained benefits so had to return the favor”. Because he took Shen Er’s eight thousand yuan, he felt that Shen Er was a good person. But in fact, for a person like Shen Er, what was eight thousand yuan? It was just a single meal’s money. It sounded so good on the surface, but it was just enslaving his classmate. Only a person like Fu Ran would be grateful. Perhaps in Shen Er’s mind, that he could spend money to hire a top student from Fudan University to be his assistant and be able to boss him around was actually a point of pride!

Thinking of this, “Tao Mu” suddenly felt something was off: “I heard from other crew members that the Second Young Master Shen is only 18 years old this year, why is he already in college?”

“He is actually not yet eighteen! Shen Yu’s birthday is on July 7th. Speaking of which, he will celebrate his birthday this year with the crew.” Fu Ran smiled before answering “Tao Mu”: “I heard that Shen Yu went to school two years earlier. Because the eldest son of the Shen family is a child prodigy who skipped grades all throughout school, graduating from a well-known foreign university when he was less than twenty years old. Then he returned to China to formally take over the business of the Shen Group. Shen Yu admired his elder brother very much, it’s just that in his own words, his brain is not as smart as his elder brother’s. So he went to school two years earlier to try to follow in his elder brother’s footsteps.”

“Tao Mu” didn’t hear what Fu Ran said afterwards, and asked in a daze: “The Second Young Master Shen’s birthday is on July 7?”

“Yeah!” Fu Ran nodded and asked curiously, “What’s wrong?”

“Nothing!” “Tao Mu” shook his head absentmindedly. He just didn’t expect such a coincidence. That Second Young Master Shen’s birthday was actually exactly the same as his birthday.

He heard from the director of the orphanage that when he was picked up, he was wearing a bracelet on his arm with his date of birth on it, which was also July 7th!

“Tao Mu” looked at the film set with a complicated face. At Second Young Master Shen who was so tired that he was sweating profusely, and even his makeup was worn off. And after applying his makeup, he still went back to exchange moves with the martial arts instructor.

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The two people were born on the same day in the same year, one was an orphan who was tragically abandoned by his biological parents, and the other was the noble young master of a wealthy family. One was a pitiful person who had to step into society after graduating from junior high school and struggled to survive after experiencing the indifference and disdain of the world. The other was a lucky guy who could enter school two years early, study at a prestigious university, and play the leading role so easily after first stepping into the entertainment circle to play around.

Why was God so unfair? That the ranks between people should be so clearly divided!

“Tao Mu” tightly clenched his fists, feeling as if a seasoning box had been spilled in his heart, all kinds of flavors exploded, sour, salty, bitter, spicy, except that there was no sweetness.

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Dazedly, Tao Mu knew that he had a dream. The dream unfolded with “Tao Mu” as the main viewpoint. However, everything that happened in the dream made Tao Mu feel both familiar and strange——what was familiar were the people, what was not familiar was the relationships between the people and the development of the plot in the dream.

“Tao Mu, why did you only come back now! Where are the boxed lunches? What time is it now? Hurry up! The whole crew is waiting for you! It’s been almost an hour. Why are you always so slow in everything you do?” In his field of vision, a dark and thin face appeared. Tao Mu had a good memory, and immediately recognized this person as the unit manager of the drama “Purple Cloud”.

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“Yes, I’m sorry.” Tao Mu heard his flustered apology——no, it wasn’t his own voice.

Tao Mu’s heart jumped, and he was horrified to find that this voice was very familiar: “I didn’t mean it. I was almost hit by car when I went to pick up the boxed lunches——”

“Aiya, don’t explain anymore. Hurry up and put the food down! Everyone is starving.” While talking, the unit manager snatched the thermos box from Tao Mu’s arms and put it on the table beside him. After opening it, he immediately became angry: “Why is it only this? And why is this boxed lunch spilled? Tao Mu, what’s the matter with you? The boxed lunches are spilled like this, how do you have everyone eat this?”

“I’m sorry, I didn’t mean it.” Tao Mu cried and apologized: “I was almost hit by a car when I came back——”

“If you were hit by someone, go to the person who hit you! Now I ask you, after making the boxed lunches like this, how will everyone eat it?” The unit manager cursed angrily: “Tao Mu, are you deliberately trying to make things difficult for me? You can’t even do such a small thing well, what else can you do——”

Before he could finish speaking, he suddenly heard an arrogant and rapid braking sound behind him. Everyone turned their heads and saw a red supercar parked by the side of the road. The car door opened, and a young man with hair dyed blond and wearing a three-piece dark purple suit stepped down. Taking off his sunglasses, he casually asked, “Where is Second Young Master Shen?”

The unit manager didn’t have time to question “Tao Mu”, and immediately moved over to apologize and said with a smile: “Mr. Yao, you are here. Second Young Master Shen has just finished a scene and is resting in his private lounge.”

Tao Mu’s pupils dilated, recognizing that this person was Yao Wenxiao. So the current plot development was that Yao Wenxiao came to visit the film set for Shen Yu?

But why was he dreamimg about these things?

Tao Mu was just thinking about it, when “Tao Mu” in the dream suddenly became excited, pointing at the arrogant Yao Wenxiao and said excitedly: “It’s him! It’s him who almost hit me just now. Only then did I spill the boxed lunches.”

“Who are you!” Yao Wenxiao raised a thick eyebrow, and glared at “Tao Mu”, full of hostility: “You can eat indiscriminately, but you can’t talk indiscriminately. When did I hit you? Hey kid, don’t try to scam me, aren’t you a little too tender?”

“I’m not!” “Tao Mu” had a wronged expression on his face, and he almost cried, “It’s clearly you who drove too fast just now and almost hit me when turning. It was because of you that I fell…..I recognize this car!”

“Hey! You’re still not done, are you?” Yao Wenxiao grabbed “Tao Mu” by the collar angrily, and was about to speak when he was interrupted by a voice from behind.

“Yao Wenxiao!”

Yao Wenxiao, who was originally arrogant and domineering, heard his name being shouted in a voice full of warnings, and immediately let go of “Tao Mu” sheepishly. He smiled ungratiatingly at the direction the voice came from: “Shen Er, you came?”

Tao Mu followed the source of the sound and saw a figure walking towards him surrounded by seven or eight assistants. When the person walked into view, Tao Mu was stunned!

How was this possible?!

Tao Mu was shocked to see that the person Yao Wenxiao called “Shen Er” actually had a face exactly like his. No, it should be said that this “Shen Er” turned out to be him——Shen Yu actually had Tao Mu’s face and turned into Tao Mu’s appearance?

Clearly aware that he was dreaming, but he didn’t know why he had such a dream, Tao Mu was suddenly dumbfounded.

In the dream, the plot was still going on.

“What’s the matter with you?” Shen Yu raised his eyebrows, and asked impatiently, “Who are you in conflict with this time?”

“You can’t blame me this time!” Yao Wenxiao snorted embarrassingly, and squinted at “Tao Mu” who stood next to him aggrieved and indignant: “He insisted that I bumped him with my car. Say, it is broad daylight, I’m not drunk, wouldn’t I know if I hit someone with my car?”

Shen Yu still frowned, his dark eyes moved slightly, and fell on “Tao Mu”.

“Tao Mu” straightened his back subconsciously, and said, “He really almost hit me. He drove too fast when he turned the corner, and knocked me down all at once. So even the boxed lunches were spilled.”

“Hey you kid——” Yao Wenxiao rolled up his sleeves and scolded, “You insist on biting me and not letting me go, are you?”

“Okay!” Shen Yu was already hungry after filming all morning. After waiting in the lounge for a long time, his boxed lunch was still not delivered. He sent his assistant out to inquire, and heard that Yao Wenxiao came to visit his film set, only to get in a quarrel with the assistant who delivered the boxed lunches. So Shen Yu got impatient and simply came out by himself. But he didn’t come here to break the lawsuit for these two people.

“Call your restaurant!” Shen Yu’s face was dark, and he ordered angrily: “Hurry up and send a batch of boxed lunches over.”

Yao Wenxiao thought that Shen Yu was taking the side of this nonsensical little assistant in front of him, and immediately became anxious: “No! Why? I didn’t bump into him!”

“I don’t care if you hit him or not. I’m almost starving to death!” Shen Yu glared at Yao Wenxiao angrily, and gestured at the set with his chin: “Look at how hungry everyone is? I hung on the wire all morning. In the afternoon there are still more scenes to film. Yet you still stand here and waste time with him. Do you want to starve me to death?”

“Besides, you came here under the pretense of visiting me, yet you didn’t even bring a cup of milk tea, and you even clipped our film crew’s boxed lunch assistant. Am I wrong to ask you to pay for a meal?”

“What’s the matter, do you still want this little assistant to repay the crew a meal?” Shen Yu said, sweeping Tao Mu with his long and narrow phoenix eyes, and said lightly, “Do I need to remind you how much he earns a month?”

Yao Wenxiao was speechless after being lectured, and like a husky that fell into the water, he complained with a whine: “I can’t say no to you, you only know to bully me! You knew how to bully me since you were a child! Do rich people have no human rights? So it’s always our fault once we get in a conflict with the poor?”

“Shen Er, you are too biased!”

Yao Wenxiao complained with his mouth, but his hands didn’t stop. He took out his mobile phone and called the manager of his restaurant’s branch in H Town, asking him to quickly make a few tables and deliver them over. Every dish was Tao Mu’s favorite.

During this period, Tao Mu was also adding his two cents on the side. This dish would not add onion and that dish would not add garlic. He even listed in detail which dish to add a certain number of spoonfuls of sugar and which dish to stew for a certain amount of minutes. In the end, he still did not forget to tell: “Have the master chef cook personally, I will not eat the food cooked by the little apprentices.”

Yao Wenxiao rolled his eyes: “Got it! As if you still need to say this.”

He complained again: “It’s just my bad luck. I came to visit your set, and I have to pick up the tab for a few meals.”

Shen Yu squinted at Yao Wenxiao: “Do you want me to wire you the money?”

Yao Wenxiao hurriedly apologized and said, “No, no, you eat, order whatever you want, if it’s not enough, keep adding more.”

Shen Yu snorted and said nothing more.

Seeing this, the unit manager who was standing at the side thanked him again and again: “Thank you, Mr. Yao, and thank you, Second Young Master Shen. If it weren’t for your help, the production crew would have had a hard time organizing the meal today.”

Each crew had a limited budget. A single meal cost at least a few thousand yuan. If Shen Yu and Yao Wenxiao didn’t take care of this matter, the unit manager and the assistant would have to pay for the meal. So the unit manager said this not only to compliment Shen Yu and Yao Wenxiao, he was also truly grateful.

When going out to work and earn a living, a few thousand yuan was no small matter. How many group extras in H Town earn less than 2,000 yuan a month! What was more, Yao Wenxiao was a wealthy young master with a generous hand, and the sum of the tables he ordered was at least 20,000 yuan. This was equivalent to giving the whole crew extra meals. So don’t even mention the unit manager, even the director and several other actors who rushed over after hearing the commotion thanked him repeatedly.

Only the other person involved stood there reluctantly, with a face full of class struggle.

Seeing this, the unit manager secretly poked “Tao Mu” in the back to let “Tao Mu” also hurry up to thank him.

However, “Tao Mu” just bit his lip and stood there indignantly, head raised and neck stiff. He felt he had done nothing wrong. It was Mr. Yao who was wrong. Why drive the car so fast, wasn’t it because he was relying on how much money his family has? What a big deal!

“It’s not my fault. He almost hit me in the first place!” “Tao Mu” didn’t take it seriously when he saw the direct and indirect hinting gestures from the unit manager, and spouted complaints.

“Hey you kid——” Yao Wenxiao felt uncomfortable when he saw “Tao Mu” like that. He was just about to roll up his sleeves and show his teeth, but the director standing on the side quickly said, “What’s the matter with this person? Don’t you even know to admit your mistakes? Who hired this person, fire him now!”

“That’s right!” Yao Wenxiao put his hands on his waist and lifted his chin, shouting to the sky: “Fire him——”

Before he could finish speaking, Shen Yu slapped him on the head.

“Enough! Towards a child, why are you quibbling with him?” Shen Yu pressed his stomach impatiently, his mood becoming worse because of hunger.

Seeing this, the director and several other actors standing by the side smiled and flattered him: “Second Young Master Shen is really kind and generous. Since you said that, then this matter…..”

As the director spoke, he looked at Yao Wenxiao again. After all, Yao Wenxiao was also an investor in this drama.

Yao Wenxiao covered the back of his head and sneered: “Who isn’t a precious baby here? Why can’t I quibble with him——”

Before finishing speaking, Yao Wenxiao received Shen Yu’s glare, and Yao Wenxiao could only keep silent, forcefully maintaining his respect: “Fine. Don’t quibble, don’t quibble. These days, doing good deeds must depend on the person, and I will treat this as a meal fed to the dog——”

Before he finished speaking, Shen Yu slapped his head once again: “How do you talk? Who are you feeding, who is a dog?”

Only then did Yao Wenxiao realize that his angry words just now were ambiguous, and immediately apologized with a smile: “No. I mean that this small assistant of your crew is a dog who bites the hand that feeds it, and doesn’t know good people. He is ungrateful, he is.”

Shen Yu didn’t bother to talk to him anymore. Clutching his stomach, he walked back to the lounge while surrounded by a large group of people. Yao Wenxiao ran along behind Shen Yu like a husky running in the wind. Not at all the arrogant and domineering attitude he had in front of “Tao Mu” just now.

The unit manager glared at “Tao Mu” who was standing there gloomily, and snorted coldly: “Why are you so incapable of doing anything? Let me tell you, it’s because you are so young and an orphan, which is quite pitiful that I let you in the crew as an assistant. But if you continue to be such a failure, and you make trouble for me, then you should piss off as far away as you can! I don’t want to be implicated by you. Do you hear me!”

“Tao Mu” was also full of grievances. He just felt that he had worked hard all day, but in the end he was almost hit by a car and then scolded, and was even almost kicked out of the crew. The only person who spoke for him also had such a condescending face, as if he didn’t take him seriously at all. Why? Why was it that everyone was about the same age, yet those people could do whatever they want with the help of their family background? Wasn’t it just because they were born with a golden spoon in their mouth, wasn’t it just because they were reincarnated into a good family?

“Tao Mu” was indignant and depressed. But he didn’t dare to offend the unit manager, so he could only nod aggrievedly. The unit manager didn’t want to see “Tao Mu”‘s gloomy face, so he waved his hand in disdain. Watching “Tao Mu” sobbing all the way into the bathroom with cold eyes, he shook his head involuntarily.

——When he first saw the child, he felt that the child was fair and pure. But as a result, after having more contact with him, he realized that this child was indeed pitiful, but the pitiful person must have something to be despised, and this old saying was absolutely true.

On the other side, “Tao Mu” who had sobbed in sadness all the way into the bathroom, now stood in front of the sink washing his face.

After experiencing that “people not matching” dream sequence just now, Tao Mu had already had some vague guesses in his heart. But when the dreaming Tao Mu saw “Tao Mu” with his own eyes in the mirror, as expected it was Shen Yu’s delicate and pitiful face, Tao Mu was still beyond shock.

What was going on?!

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Tao Mu, whose brain almost short-circuited, was thinking hard in his dream. Suddenly, he thought of the countless lives of reincarnation and revenge that Shen Chen had described to him. Shen Chen said that he had experienced so many reincarnations that he could no longer remember the sequence of each life, let alone why there were so many reincarnations. However——

Looking at the face of “Tao Mu” with the face of “Shen Yu” in the mirror, Tao Mu suddenly had a moment of enlightenment as if in a trance. Maybe everything he saw now was the real source of so many reincarnations!

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“You changed the company’s name?” Shen Yu looked at Yao Wenxiao with a complicated expression.

When he was waiting for the notification at the front desk, Shen Yu noticed it. Yao Wenxiao changed Yuxiao Media to Wenxiao Media. Shen Yu originally thought that he wouldn’t care. However, when Shen Yu really saw all this, Shen Yu still felt sour in his heart. It was as if something had passed him by and never to return.

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Yao Wenxiao looked at Shen Yu’s distraught and injured expression as if he had been greatly hurt, and found it quite interesting.

“And so?” Yao Wenxiao looked directly at Shen Yu, and asked calmly, “Do you think I shouldn’t have changed the company’s name?”

“That’s not what I meant.” Shen Yu subconsciously explained, “I’m just, a little sad.”

“Why are you sad?” Yao Wenxiao sneered. Originally, he wanted to say something, but when he saw Shen Yu’s face that always appeared innocent and pure and as if he didn’t know where he was wrong, he suddenly lost interest.

There were many people and many things that you couldn’t notice when you were deep in the situation, but once you jump out of the maze and watch with the attitude of a bystander, you would find many details that were completely different from your original impression.

For example, Yao Wenxiao had always felt that Shen Yu was a person who had no shrewdness or scheming. But in fact, Shen Yu was very deliberate even in speaking. Towards this expression of one hesitating to speak, if it was the silly Yao Wenxiao from before, he was afraid that he would come up with all kinds of conclusions himself. Yao Wenxiao couldn’t help but think back to those years, every time he saw Shen Yu put on such a face of being greatly wronged, he couldn’t wait to jump forward, accusing the other party of bullying Shen Yu indiscriminately, and even helping Shen Yu vent his anger without thinking like a complete idiot. Thinking of all of this he couldn’t help but think it was funny.

“You…..” Shen Yu looked at the sneering smile on Yao Wenxiao’s face, and suddenly felt a little flustered: “Don’t say that. I just think that we were so happy once, but now…..we can never go back. So I was a little emotional, a little sad.”

“Pfft!” Yao Wenxiao chuckled, but didn’t say anything, and instead asked, “You have never been one to show up for nothing. Tell me, what do you want me for?”

Shen Yu frowned. He felt that Yao Wenxiao’s attitude towards him was not as friendly as he imagined. Shen Yu hesitated a little, subconsciously bit his lip, ignoring this uncomfortable feeling. He went straight to the point: “Do you know that Tao Mu is the real second son of the Shen family?”

Yao Wenxiao raised his eyebrows: “What do you want to say?”

“You also know that the Shen family’s conditions are not as good as it used to be now that they have lost the Shen Group. My dad is sick and hospitalized, and he can’t even afford a caretaker. I just think that since Tao Mu is also a child of the Shen family, he has an obligation take care of——”

“Obligation?” Yao Wenxiao didn’t wait for Shen Yu to finish, and sneered out loud: “Putting aside whether or not Tao Mu is the flesh and blood of the Shen family. Do you even understand the law? Tao Mu already has adoptive parents, and his legal fathers are Liu Yao and Meng Qi. He has no obligation to the Shen family.”

“But Tao Mu is the blood of the Shen family after all——”

“So what?” Yao Wenxiao tilted his head and looked at Shen Yu: “Aren’t you also Yu Qingqing’s son? Yu Qingqing went to jail, and I don’t see you taking on the responsibilities of her child and go to the prison to visit her.”

“You——” Shen Yu was stunned speechless. He didn’t expect Yao Wenxiao to say such a thing, so he avoided answering: “This is different.”

“Then tell me, what’s the difference?” Yao Wenxiao rotated the pen around his fingers and asked with great interest.

“Yu Qingqing is sentenced for the crime of abandonment. She abandoned the real second son of the Shen family, and her husband even stabbed my elder brother. The two of them deserved to go to jail. If I go to visit her at this time, wouldn’t it hurt my father and elder brother? The Shen family has raised me for more than 20 years. I can’t repay them with much, but I can’t do something that would make them sad either.”

“But Tao Mu is different. Mom and Elder Sister, they really want to find their son and younger brother. What’s more, Dad is sick now. If Tao Mu can return to the Shen family at this time——”

“Then you can throw the burden of the Shen family to Tao Mu?” Yao Wenxiao interrupted Shen Yu. He leaned on the back of the chair and clapped his hands: “I really didn’t see it before, the Shen family had raised you for twenty years, and spent a lot of money and energy on you. Now you are only asked to take care of Shen Shiyuan in the hospital for a few days, yet you can’t even take it anymore?”

“I’m not!” Shen Yu clenched his fists and stomped his feet angrily with an aggrieved attitude of being wronged: “Yao Wenxiao, how can you think of me like this? Even if we are not friends now, we were once childhood friends. Can it be that in your mind, I am that awful of a person?”

“Am I wrong?” Yao Wenxiao spread his arms and shrugged his shoulders: “You don’t want to get rid of the burden of the Shen family, you just simply don’t like Tao Mu. When you see his happy life, you are unable to reconcile with it. So you want to pull Tao Mu into the quagmire of the Shen family? Have a complete stranger in the legal sense who has never lived with the Shen family support the old and the young of the Shen family?”

“But why do you think that an outsider who has never lived with the Shen family would be willing to shoulder the responsibility that you, the adopted son who has been doted on by the Shen family for twenty years, is not willing to shoulder?”

“I don’t——”

“Let me guess again,” Yao Wenxiao tapped on the table, and continued to analyze: “With Tao Mu’s personality, he obviously doesn’t want to recognize the Shen family. Back then, when the Shen family was well-off, he was still unwilling to recognize each other, let alone now when the Shen family is in straits. But you have to force Tao Mu to recognize the Shen family. So you came to me, probably because you want to use Wenxiao Media to guide public opinion and put pressure on Tao Mu?”

Yao Wenxiao hooked up the corners of his mouth in amusement: “Shen Yu, why didn’t I find out before, that you actually have this kind of scheming?”

“I don’t!” After being exposed by Yao Wenxiao analysis by analysis, and even tossed these scheming thoughts out to bask in the sun, Shen Yu’s face turned green and then white, and he shook his head violently to refute: “I don’t think this, I just think that Dad is suffering now, if he can see his real son, he will be happier.”

Yao Wenxiao sneered: “You didn’t think so before.”

“Remember what you did when the Shen family ran to Hong Kong and wanted to recognize Tao Mu?” Yao Wenxiao deliberately pointed out: “You worked together with Lin Rong’an to forge a fake DNA test, and even ran to Hong Kong Airport to stop the Shen family only to be slapped by Mrs. Shen. It didn’t take long for this to happen, you wouldn’t happen to have forgotten, right?”

Yao Wenxiao ruthlessly tore off Shen Yu’s mask, making Shen Yu have to look directly at his naked greed and desire: “In the end, you just like the power and wealth of the Shen family. Once the Shen family can’t provide you with what you want and the living standards you want, you will treat the Shen family like a worn shoe. Just like you did to me.”

Yao Wenxiao said calmly: “From the beginning, what you cared about is not the familial relationship of the Shen family at all, just like what you cared about at the beginning was not the friendship between us at all. If this is the case, why do you still have to pretend so hard? It’s clearly simple greed, it’s just wanting to seek an identity, status, and life that doesn’t belong to you. Why do you use such beautiful words as kindness, innocence, love, and righteousness to disguise yourself? Are you not tired of living this way? Or, have you been pretending for so long that you even deceived yourself?”

Crack!

As if some persistence deep in his heart had been broken, Shen Yu could only feel a rush of blood rushing into his head, such that his whole body trembled involuntarily. He couldn’t help clenching his fists, stared at Yao Wenxiao with red eyes, and shouted in a voice full of resentment: “You are talking nonsense. You are talking nonsense. I am not such a person at all. Why do you slander me?”

Not right, not right, it was not like that. It shouldn’t be like this. Shen Yu was the second young master of the Shen family. He should be an innocent, pure, kind, affectionate and righteous son of a wealthy family. He should be loved and helped by all his family and friends, and he should always enjoy everyone’s dedication to him without a bottom line. Shen Yu was not wrong, why did Yao Wenxiao say that?

Shen Yu took a deep breath, and accused Yao Wenxiao with a face of accusation: “Yao Wenxiao, I thought we were still friends, you let me down too much!”

“Friends?” Yao Wenxiao raised his eyebrows: “I’m curious, Shen Yu, how do you define the concept of a friend? When my Yao family was betrayed by your Shen family, I didn’t blame you. I even helped you secretly to vent your anger and suppress those bullies. I even went to Hong Kong to celebrate your birthday. But how did you treat me back then?”

“Use me if you have need, and put me aside when you do not. Now you still have the face to accuse me that I don’t regard you as a friend.” Yao Wenxiao snorted softly: “Shen Yu, you have always wanted to compete with Tao Mu. But you, down to your core, are really much more lacking compared to Tao Mu.”

“Although Tao Mu is shrewd and ruthless, he would not scheme and manipulate those around him or his friends. Those who follow him would always gain greater benefits. Whether it is in terms of career or emotional support, they can all gain a great sense of satisfaction. That’s why more and more people gather around him. But you, who are full of high-sounding principles, only count on the people around you to give and make sacrifices. Once things don’t go your way, you will stand on the moral high ground to criticize. But when you ask others to give and give, have you ever thought about what you have done for others?”

The more Yao Wenxiao talked, the less interested he felt. Before, because of Shen Yu, he felt disdain for Tao Mu’s character. It wasn’t until Sheng’an Group got into a fight with Tao Mu, and his grandfather Yao Sheng’an was defeated by Tao Mu, that Yao Wenxiao began to face Tao Mu seriously.

Then he discovered that Tao Mu, as an opponent and enemy, could inspire hatred, but he could also make people sincerely convinced and willing to concede defeat. His grandfather was calculated by Tao Mu, and even though he lost the Sheng’an Group, he had been full of praise for Tao Mu in private. He felt that Tao Mu must be the most reassuring kind of person as a friend or business partner.

In contrast, Shen Yu was a person who you felt was worthless as an opponent and worthless as a friend.

So much so that Yao Wenxiao now found it unbelievable. How could he have once fallen in love with someone like Shen Yu in the first place?

Shen Yu grew up to be twenty years old, and before meeting Tao Mu, he had always been smooth sailing and attracting everyone’s attention. But since meeting Tao Mu, everything that belonged to him had changed. It was no exaggeration to say that Tao Mu had become Shen Yu’s heart demon, a thorn in his side. Shen Yu could accept anyone saying that he was not good, but absolutely could not bear anyone saying that he was not as good as Tao Mu.

“You’re talking nonsense!” Shen Yu burst into tears, and subconsciously grabbed the ornaments on the table and threw them at Yao Wenxiao: “How can Tao Mu be better than Shen Yu? Tao Mu is just an orphan that no one wants, even his biological parents think he is superfluous and abandoned him as a baby. He has deep scheming and his words are like honey hidden with razors. He should be trampled under others’ feet forever like a puddle of mud. What right does he have to be better than Shen Yu?”

“Are you crazy?” Yao Wenxiao didn’t expect Shen Yu to become violent while talking, and almost missed being hit by the flying ornaments. He quickly called the security guards to come in while dodging.

The security guards outside the door quickly brought Shen Yu under control. Yao Wenxiao was in a state of embarrassment, with a blood-red mark on his cheek. He angrily picked up another phone on the table: “Shen Chen, did you hear that? Your younger brother is crazy, come here and take him away!”

Shen Yu, who was still struggling and crying under the control of the security guards, stopped abruptly. He looked at Yao Wenxiao in disbelief.

Yao Wenxiao sneered and said, “Don’t pretend to be crazy with me. With this time and energy, you should think about how to explain this to the Shen family.”

“Shen Yu!” Yao Wenxiao licked his lips, and wiped the wound on his face with the back of his hand: “You just said something wrong. Although Tao Mu is an orphan, the one who was really abandoned by his parents was not him, but you. And the one who all family and friends love is also him, not you.”

“Fakes will always be fakes. Even if you stole the identity, status and life that should have belong to Tao Mu by chance, you are not him after all.”

One was a smart person who could climb up from the depths of the muddy swamp and strive to stand at the highest place even if he was as insignificant as dust; one was a stupid person who even though he clearly had a good family background, harmonious familial relationships, and a childhood friend who thought the world of him, still frittered away a good deck of cards. Although the two were both human beings, it was absolutely impossible for them to have the same ending even if they were forced into the same situation one day.

“Shen Yu, stop making trouble, and live your own life well. You will never be able to compare with him. And you don’t need to compare with him.”

Seeing that the two of them were once the best of friends after all, Yao Wenxiao couldn’t hold back and said these words anyway. It was also out of good intentions, for fear that Shen Yu would try to take on Tao Mu. With Tao Mu’s ruthless method of doing things, Shen Yu couldn’t beat him at all.

However, what Yao Wenxiao didn’t expect was that the moment he said these words, Shen Yu suddenly opened his eyes wide in fright.

At this moment, time seemed to stand still. Immediately after his vision went dark, Shen Yu seemed to hear the sound of glass breaking again. Shen Yu suddenly felt a sense of nausea. All the scenery rippled like lake water, then spun rapidly, and finally formed a vortex.

Shen Yu could only watch as pictures emerged one after another from the whirlpool.

“Shen Yu? Shen Yu?” Yao Wenxiao looked at Shen Yu, still held between two security guards, who suddenly passed out while struggling fiercely for no apparent reason.

He subconsciously raised the phone and reported to Shen Chen on the other end: “Your younger brother has passed out. It has nothing to do with me, I didn’t touch him.”

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“He’s not my younger brother!” Shen Chen frowned, and said coldly, “Send him to the hospital.”

At the same time, Tao Mu, who was seeing Li Xiaoheng off at the airport, also felt his vision go dark, and fell directly on Li Xiaoheng’s body.

Li Xiaoheng subconsciously caught the person in front of him, frightened out of his wits: “Xiao Mu!”

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