Fall in love with your enemy

Continuing from the last time, I finally coaxed Zhou Zhi to sleep and carried him back to bed. The next second, Uncle Shao rushed in. The child was so scared that he shivered in his dream. I hurriedly stopped Uncle Shao who was about to speak, made sure Zhou Zhi was not awake, and tiptoed to take him through the side door to the corridor.

After a few steps, we arrived at the pavilion by the pond. I sat on the railing. Ji Bing saw us through the crack in the door and followed us. He was still stubborn and looked cold. It was a pity that he was old. He had not recovered well from the plastic surgery before. Later, he set himself on fire to make his uncle feel at ease. His face was getting more and more sagging. He had to wear a mask even when he was not at peace. He was not afraid of scaring me and would let him fly around in my yard.

Uncle Shao wiped his sweat, and when he accidentally glanced at him, he grimaced in disgust: "You should go to the hospital if you are okay, and get it fixed. Won't you scare yourself by looking in the mirror in the middle of the night?"

Ji Bing shrugged nonchalantly: "Why would I look in the mirror in the middle of the night?"

Uncle Shao: ...

Ji Bing: "Come on, just tell me what you want to do. It's the middle of the night and I have to go back and wash up. That little bastard has made me so mad..."

"That's what I want to say. How come all the people in our courtyard have changed? Did you see that? What does this mean?" Uncle Shao anxiously took a sip of the hot tea on the table and fanned his mouth frantically: "I asked, where is the original person? They said he was transferred to Xieyu Shuhe. Did Chengcheng do that? What on earth is he going to do? I wanted to ask him, but he stopped me and said I couldn't leave Qianhe Hall! He told me to take good care of Shishi, but I think Shishi is fine. My daughter is sick and I'm in a hurry to go home. What's going on?"

"Yes, Shishi is fine—" Ji Bin stretched out his tone, with a hint of irony: "It's just that he is under house arrest by his brother."

"Hmm...hmm?!" Uncle Shao immediately perked up and looked at Ji Bing and then at me in astonishment.

Ji Bing sighed deeply, glanced at me from head to toe, and said helplessly: "I told you long ago that you would raise an ungrateful person. It would be a miracle if you could get a child of a traitor."

"What should you tell the child? Okay..." Uncle Shao pulled Ji Bin's sleeve worriedly and looked at me quietly.

Only then did I remember the box that Chengcheng gave me. I opened it and saw that it was the engagement ring between Jiang Yinan and me. It had been left at Gao's house, and he actually got it back for me. The moment I saw it, I wanted to laugh.

He was just provoking me. He wanted me to give up remarriage for Jiang Yinan. He wanted to tell me that Gao Xinci was the person Jiang Yinan hated the most, his biggest rival, and the last person he saw before his death. But Chengcheng seemed to have forgotten that he was the executioner who held the most ruthless handle in the matter of Jiang Yinan's death.

I took a deep breath, put on the ring, and threw the box into the pond, watching it float away with the water. I thought, I'm done crying, but life must go on. I hugged myself and rubbed my body. At most, I felt that the winter in Jinhai was too cold, and the cheongsam could not protect me from it. I'd better order a few more shawls to be made in a few days.

But Ji Bing refused to let me go: "He hates his biological father for abandoning his biological mother, and now he has locked up his sister like a mistress in this courtyard full of spies, and used his marriage with Han Lu to contain Gao Xinci so that he couldn't turn against him. In just these few days, he has thought of everything!"

Those two words stung me. The whole world could almost see that he really wanted to trap me in a moral vortex.

"Stop talking!" I finally mustered up the strength to stop him, but after I said it, I showed the cowardice that Ji Bing hated the most. I bent down, covering my face and crying.

I had no ability to resist, and couldn't even control my emotions. I had completely lost. Not long after, Youyou called me again to inquire about the situation. Shen Qilin's subordinates were going over to ask him to hand over his work. Chengcheng was anxious enough, but I could only hold back my sobs and let him move away with his people. As for the future, they could only settle in Huaqiong temporarily. It was thanks to Jiang Yinan that he had snatched Huaqiong back from me earlier. I also said that I was planning to merge Huaqiong and Ruiyi recently, but fortunately I didn't make it in time.

It seems like God has left me a bottom line, but it's a little small. It's my fault that I didn't live up to expectations and focused only on Ke Yi and Rui Yi, and ended up dragging down the only one that belonged to me. However, Huaqiong is a film and television company, and a short-term stagnation will not mean that it will never be able to recover. Nowadays, movies and TV series can be made as long as you are willing to pay. I still have the 70 billion that Lao Fu hid for me and the more than 40 billion saved in the past few years. I can get a small star to take the lead, and I will make money no matter how bad the plot is. At most, I still have a conscience and am willing to pay a little more for the script.

Uncle Shao came over and patted my shoulder gently. It took him a while to understand the meaning of Ji Bing's words. He turned his head away instantly: "Wait a minute? What did you say?"

"What? Did you not hear it and want to listen to it again or do you find it unbelievable?" Ji Bing rolled his eyes speechlessly.

Uncle Shao was still stunned, but this time he quickly came to his senses, and then he almost went berserk, the flames suddenly jumped up, and he rolled up his sleeves and was about to leave: "This little bastard, he's going crazy!"

I didn't hold him back, but luckily when I looked up, he had already been dragged back by Ji Bing's collar: "What are you doing? Are you going to beat him up? Not to mention whether it will work, can you beat him with your old arms and legs?"

"Then what do you say we should do?" Uncle Shao angrily pushed him away, looked at me and felt sorry for me, lowering his voice: "You are still unreasonable, he suffers all the time, offends the whole family and then pushes him up, he has such dirty thoughts in his mind and now he wants to lock him up!

"So you didn't understand what we just said for a long time? You follow the kid every day, but you didn't leave any undercover agents around him to provide him with some information. Tsk, so stupid." Ji Bing said contemptuously, and the next second Uncle Shao's fist almost hit him in the face, but unfortunately he was caught.

Uncle Shao shook his hands in disgust: "How dare you say that to me? You are so awesome, but you disappeared for several years. How come you didn't bring back anything useful? With half of your body buried in the ground, can you still create some value for your first love's child? You will miss her when you are old and can't walk anymore!"

"Hey you..."

"What do you mean? Did I say something wrong? If Zheng Lin sees how useless Uncle Shishi is, she won't want to see you even if she goes to hell!"

"You can do it, you can do it! Only you can do it! Then aren't you the same as me? I haven't seen you arrange a few undercovers to pass on information to Shishi. You go to work while I travel, and in the end you are not much better than me."

"Isn't that because the brat was on guard against me? He just perfunctorily responded to whatever I said, and even Shen Qilin didn't say a word. What's the difference between this and retirement? You can hardly say a few words to him in all these years, right? Don't look down on me, a candidate who has been eliminated from the beginning, for having worked on the front line for many years!"

I waited for the two uncles to finish rolling their eyes at each other. When I heard this, a name popped into my mind. If I were to say "undercover", how could there not be one?

"Isn't Xu Qingyu counted as one?" I raised my hand quietly.

Ji Bing was the first to ask: "Who is Xu Qingyu?"

I gave her no hope at first sight, so I turned my gaze to Uncle Shao. He was silent for a moment and nodded heavily, but then he felt embarrassed again and scratched the back of his neck, "Shishi, I do remember this person. Wasn't she the one you asked to handle Chengcheng's social affairs before we went to Malaysia? Yes, she has made some progress and has settled down with Chengcheng, but she has been with Chengcheng for three or four years. Although you assigned her there in the beginning, you didn't take care of her later on. She wasn't brought up by our men, so we can't really get close to her..."

Ji Bing sneered after hearing this: "Not even as good as Shen Qilin."

Uncle Shao retorted: "Then you go and recruit Shen Qilin? He is a complete traitor."

Ji Bing shrugged: "What does it have to do with me? I wasn't the one who brought him in in the first place."

I suddenly thought of Liang Sen. Shen Qilin was brought here by Liang Sen. If Liang Sen were here, he might even say a few more words for me for the sake of his benefactor. However... it has been more than half a month since I last hugged Liang Sen and cried bitterly. He hasn't looked for me again. We used to be close friends, but now, I am not only his cousin but also the murderer of his mother. Even if he and Liang Yun have no feelings for each other, it cannot cover up their blood feud. What else can I want?

Just at this moment my cell phone rang. I thought I was hallucinating or dreaming. It was Liang Sen sending me a message.

【Why did you suddenly return to Jinhai? 】

I didn't say anything, and I didn't know how to respond. It seemed like I could use this opportunity to ask for help, but I didn't know how to start, so I could only treat it as a "backup plan" because Ji Bing soon let out a long sigh of relief with smugness: "I've thought of a way for you. After all, the two of us old guys plus that young boy Xiao Feng definitely can't help you win, but you have a lot of foreign players."

I was stunned: "Huh?"

Ji Bing was even more proud: "Tsk, the Gao family is really quick. They are already on the mountainside. I'll ask them to bring Hanlu with them. If that brat dares to sow discord between you two, he won't be able to get married himself."

Me: “Huh???”

No way? So fast? When did he call? Or was he just smoking just to think about how I should act like a spoiled child to Gao Xinci? ? ?

I stood up anxiously: "Did you tell him what happened today?"

Ji Bing shook his head: "No, I thought if I told you, you would quarrel with me. You should decide these household affairs by yourself."

I finally breathed a sigh of relief. I wondered if this could be considered as "lowering the bottom line in a critical moment." I silently calculated the distance from the lower half of the mountain to the old house and then to Qianhe Hall. Gao Xinci would arrive in an hour and a half at most. Cheng Cheng could not be stopped. I had to think about how to face it for a while. Should I accept my fate, accept my fate, or accept my fate?

If I run away with Gao Xinci, there will be a lot of things to consider afterwards. After all, the Gao family is a den of tigers and wolves. It is a little different from the previous life, and the answer cannot be copied. Besides, I can't let go of Chengcheng. Leaving will basically mean a break between us. I can't bear to see him fall into depravity or be resentful and make trouble for Gao Xinci. If he keeps him at home, I can still take care of him a little.

If I am willing to give up myself, I will just be locked up in Qianhe Hall and go out less often. Chengcheng won't starve me to death. I am not afraid of staying at home. It was like this in my last life anyway. Either Lao Fu or Gao Xingci locked me up. I had a lot of black cards in my arms and I didn't have to worry about making a living. Naturally, I was worry-free.

But that would be close to self-destruction, and it was really hard to decide. Fortunately, my second uncle really cares about me. I don’t know if he sensed my difficulties, but he came to help me “solve my problems”. At first, I heard footsteps, and I thought it was a little undercover passing by, but Uncle Shao and Ji Bin on the side were at loggerheads. I looked up and found that they were my relatives.

The second uncle was wearing a black Mao suit with black bamboo embroidered on the shoulders. He looked particularly elegant and gentle from head to toe. He glanced at Ji Bing and the others to break the beautiful atmosphere: "Why are you in such a hurry? This is an old house. There are a lot of people watching. What can I do?"

"Uncle Ji," I stood up and bowed expressionlessly, without any big changes. "Uncle Ji, Uncle Shao, you guys should go back and rest first. I think Uncle Ji wants to talk to me privately. After all, I wronged him a lot today, and he should admit his mistakes and accept the punishment."

Neither Ji Bing nor Uncle Shao moved. After a long while, Ji Bing finally gave in and gestured to the lattice door behind Uncle Shao. However, there was a layer of glass blocking it, so they had to save face for each other. Thinking of this, he took a few steps back and went in, gently closing the door, leaving a "small gap" visible to the naked eye.

My second uncle pointed at me and smiled funny, then took the white fox fur coat in his hand and put it on me. He put it on for two steps to see if it was good, then he lifted the hair on my temples and said, "It's cold now, others who are strong and healthy can go out to enjoy the breeze, but why are you running outside in such thin clothes?"

"I was only here for a short while, I'm fine." I smiled bitterly, shook off my clothes and said helplessly, "Uncle, is it appropriate for a fox owner like me to wear fox skin? The cocoa beans will bite me if they smell it."

Seeing that I was about to take it off, my second uncle hurriedly put it back on me and covered it tightly, with some resentment on his face: "Okay, this is a replica. I know you don't like it. Since Cocoa Bean settled in the old house, there has been no real fur on the whole mountain. If you find a fox hair, it must have fallen off by itself."

"Really?"

"How could I lie to you about this?" My second uncle tapped my forehead, pulled me to sit down, and laughed as he spoke: "Besides, I think you don't call Coco Bean mom all the time. You wear the same fur as it does, so it is even more convinced that you are its real mother."

"Then I have to order a set for Lingling and Yunyun, so that all the brothers and sisters have the same set, which is simply irrefutable evidence." I felt a little complicated in my heart, laughing at myself for being able to look so nonchalant, but thinking like this made the muscles on my face twitch, and the smile I showed in the end was unnatural: "Well - it's just that Zhao Si will be jealous. Wangcai Rongrong and Kekedou both have white fur, but it's an orange cat. But when I picked it up, it was already quite big, so it should know that I am a stepmother."

Second uncle patted my head in anger and amusement: "Look at you, it's like running a zoo, it's lively, you have children and you're energetic, there are cats, dogs and foxes, I heard Ji Bing has a snake? Hey, in addition to these, there is also a little wolf."

"Wolf?" I paused, then immediately understood that my second uncle really didn't have the leisure to joke with me, so I curled the corners of my mouth.

Second Uncle looked at me, unable to hold back for a moment, revealing a more complicated mood than mine, with pity, helplessness, and mockery. His warm palm gently brushed the hair on the back of my neck: "It feels bad, right? I haven't experienced the feeling of raising an ungrateful person, but I have been an ungrateful person before."