Confession of Rebirth

"Zhou Xiaoting?" Hearing the voice on the other side of the phone, Gu Chen immediately reacted: "Congratulations."

"Thank you." Zhou Xiaoting tightened her hand holding the phone slightly: "I just got off the plane. How about having a chat when you have time?"

"I'm not in City A." Gu Chen thought for a while, and said, "You should go back to school when you come back this time, right?"

Zhou Xiaoting understood, and said with a smile: "Then see you after school starts."

After hanging up the phone, Zhou Xiaoting looked at Ling Yiyi who was flying over, smiled and put her arms around her little girlfriend: "Thank you for coming to pick me up."

"What's the relationship between the two of us? Why are you being so polite to me?" Ling Yiyi asked, "Who were you calling just now? Are you uncle or aunt?"

"A friend." Zhou Xiaoting didn't want to reveal too much about her and Gu Chen's matter, so she casually said a word.

Ling Yiyi asked again: "When you come back this time, will you not leave? You don't know, a lot of things happened during your stay. I miss you so much."

"Well, I'm not leaving." Zhou Xiaoting's eyes were dark.Immediately asked: "How have you been recently?"

"It's terrible." Ling Yiyi shook his head, and walked out of the airport holding Zhou Xiaoting's hand, complaining endlessly: "Didn't I tell you before. The child who was stolen from our house was found. I am I never thought that my twin brother who had been missing for 19 years would be that rotten guy Gu Xiu. Oh yes, he has changed his name to Ling Xiu now. Anyway, it doesn’t matter what his name is! Ever since this rotten guy came back to us At home, our family has never had a single day of peace. Every day he tosses it into a mess. Even the company is unlucky. The one who is scolded by netizens is bloody. I don’t even bother to say it.”

Ling Yiyi took Zhou Xiaoting out of the airport and got into the car.While driving, he asked, "What's your plan next? Should I take you home first, or the two of us go directly to dinner? By the way, why didn't your uncles and aunts come to pick you up when you came back from abroad?"

"Let's go eat first." Zhou Xiaoting said, "I changed my flight and came back one day earlier."

"Then go eat first. What do you want to eat?" Ling Yiyi asked again.

"Let's go eat hot pot." Zhou Xiaoting blinked her eyes and asked calmly, "Did that Ling Xiu make things difficult for Gu Chen after being recognized by your family?"

"He wanted to make things difficult for Gu Chen, and he even teased my mother. That kid Gu Chen is so good! That idiot and my mother have never played with him before." Ling Yiyi added here, gloating : "On the contrary, someone posted a video on the Internet, revealing all the bad things between him and Huo Mingzhang. Now Huo Mingzhang has broken up with him too."

"What do you think that idiot is thinking? It's fine if he didn't play with the man before going back to Ling's house. Our family recognized them all, and he still hooked up with the man unclearly, and forced Huo Mingzhang to stand up and admit The relationship between the two of them. There should be a limit to innocence!"

Zhou Xiaoting snorted softly: "That's not naive, it's stupid."

Ling Yi took a look at Zhou Xiaoting and frowned: "Why do I feel that you are a little different when you come back this time?"

Zhou Xiaoting asked lightly: "What's the difference?"

"I can't tell." Ling Yiyi shook his head: "Anyway, it feels different to me."

Zhou Xiaoting smiled: "Maybe you just came back from abroad, and you are still a little uncomfortable."

Maybe!

Ling Yiyi didn't take it to heart either.Drive the car to a hot pot restaurant where the two often go.After entering the private room, I didn't forget to confirm with Zhou Xiaoting again and again: "You are coming back this time, are you really going to leave?"

Zhou Xiaoting shook her head: "I'm not leaving."

Ling Yiyi was worried: "Then what if my uncle and aunt change their minds and send you away after a while? You don't know, since you left, my life has been boring. I don't usually A man who can talk. It's killing me."

Zhou Xiaoting smiled: "Then try not to be sent away by them."

Ling Yiyi was a little worried when he heard this: "Do you know why your family called you back?"

Before Zhou Xiaoting could speak, Ling Yiyi said to himself again: "I heard from my mother that Uncle Zhou is going to find you a blind date again. This time it's not Huo Mingzhang, but an investor that your Da Zhou Group is wooing."

"I haven't heard of it." Zhou Xiaoting said with a smile: "My parents said that the group is currently busy preparing for the Hong Kong stock market listing, and there are not enough people. That's why they asked me to come back. They want me to help the family."

"That's good! That's good!" Hearing this, Ling Yiyi patted his chest in relief: "I'll just say it! My mother is worrying about nothing every day. Investors who even want to win over the Dazhou Group have to How old are you? Even if you are not married and have children, I am afraid you are old enough to be your uncle. It is impossible for uncles and aunts to do such things. It is too unreliable."

Ling Yi was only focused on talking, and didn't see Zhou Xiaoting's expression dim for a moment.

On the other side, after Gu Chen hung up the phone, he looked up at the clear sky, the wind and the sun, and felt the breeze blowing towards him, and he was in a daze for a moment.

"Who's calling?" Zhong Li moved closer to Gu Chen and asked knowingly.

"Zhou Xiaoting." Gu Chen paused, and added: "It's the daughter of the chairman of Dazhou Group. She was sent abroad by her family to study abroad before. She came back today."

Zhongli then thought about it, and confessed: "I investigated this daughter of the Zhou family before. She likes you."

"I don't like her." Gu Chen looked at Zhong Lisui, and made a very clear statement: "But she is my friend. If there is a need, if she asks, I will help her within my ability."

"I understand." Zhong Li then nodded.He is not the kind of boy who will be jealous indiscriminately when he is impulsive.She can understand Gu Chen's code of conduct, and also appreciates Gu Chen's attitude towards people.

"If necessary, I can help," Zhong Li said.

Gu Chen smiled, his unreserved trust in Zhong Lisui was very helpful.His hand ran across the hot spring water and held Zhong Lisui's hand.The two clasped their fingers together, feeling each other's warmth.Gu Chen said: "After school starts, we may meet frequently. As long as her privacy is not involved, I will truthfully report the content of our conversation to you."

Zhong Li then smiled: "There is no need to use such a serious word as 'report'."

Gu Chen said seriously: "For you, no matter how solemn you are, you should."

Zhong Li then smiled.He originally thought that when he fell in love with a boy of Gu Chen's age, he should be the one to accommodate him.But he didn't expect that the sense of security that Gu Chen gave him was unexpectedly comprehensive.This made Zhong Lisui feel in a trance, as if he was not in love with a 19-year-old boy.Instead, he was living with a peer who was close to each other.

Although there may be a lack of passion to a certain extent, Zhong Lisui really felt very benefited from this steady flow of ironing posts and meticulous care.At least he can feel that the two of them are very serious about each other's feelings, and their dedication and care for each other are equal double arrows.

Gu Chen and Zhong Li lived in the hot spring resort for five days, and then returned to City A with the large army.

Five days, whether it is long or not, is enough to make two people who have just confessed their love to each other directly fall in love - although the way Gu Chen and Zhong Lisui get along with each other, in the eyes of outsiders, it is the same as usual.

After coming out of the airport, Zhong Li said goodbye to the fellow employees one by one, and drove Gu Chen back to school.

Before getting out of the car, Zhong Lisui looked at Gu Chen who was taking off his seat belt: "Shall we go on a date next weekend?"

Gu Chen smiled: "If you have time, make an appointment..."

When Zhong Li heard what Gu Chen said, he immediately woke up.Before I had time to be disappointed, I heard Gu Chen continue to say: "If you don't have time, let's work overtime together."

Zhong Li was startled when he heard the words.Then he smiled and said, "Come to our company to work overtime?"

"It's okay." Gu Chen said this, and suddenly thought of the last time, he promised Zhong Lisui to go to Tiansui Capital's headquarters to work overtime. As a result, all the employees of Tiansui Capital worked overtime, and the Tiansui Building was brightly lit, which directly scared Gu Chen. The embarrassing thing about going back home, I couldn't help telling: "We two work overtime, if your company's employees are fine, don't be obliged to work overtime."

Zhong Li smiled lightly: "I will tell them."

After a pause, Zhong Lisui added: "However, if the market is really going to collapse next month as you describe, I guess everyone will be forced to work overtime if they don't want to."

Gu Chen shrugged his shoulders: "Then let them prepare early."

Zhong Li smiled lightly: "Is that why you have so much confidence in yourself?"

Gu Chen raised his eyebrows: "I gambled on our first time. I don't even have this little confidence!"

Just as Zhong Lisui was about to say something, Gu Chen's cell phone rang suddenly.

Gu Chen took out his phone.It was Professor Xing calling.While answering the phone, Gu Chen covered the receiver and said to Zhong Lisui: "I won't tell you now, I'm going back to school. Call me if you need anything."

Zhong Lisui also got out of the car.Help Gu Chen take the suitcase out of the trunk.Watching Gu Chen walking into the school gate with his suitcase on the phone, he didn't drive away until he was out of sight.

"...I just arrived at the gate of the school, and your old man called. The timing is so accurate." Gu Chen laughed and teased Professor Xing: "Is it possible that your old man is pretending to be a position on me?"

"I have that spare time!" Professor Xing snorted arrogantly: "I want to ask how your homework is doing. Have you sorted out the data for the project I gave you last time?"

"It's almost unfinished. I'll send it to you tomorrow morning." Gu Chen also asked, "Have you read the paper I sent you before the holiday?"

"I finished the approval, I sent it to your mailbox early. Are you crazy about going out to play, and you don't even check your mailbox?" Professor Xing raised his eyebrows, grabbing the student's handle: "Study hard. Don't be playful."

"Understood." Gu Chen smiled and said, "I brought you a souvenir. Now send it to your office?"

"I'm not in the office. You come to my house. Let's have dinner together in the evening. Your teacher's wife made pork ribs and lotus root soup." Professor Xing said.

"I won't go there." Gu Chen declined politely, "I want to eat the big plate chicken from our cafeteria."

"Forget it." Professor Xing said, "You send the souvenirs to my office tomorrow."

"Okay—" Gu Chen was talking, when he raised his head, he saw Zhou Xiaoting standing at the end of the walking path.

The daughter of the Zhou family wore a white sportswear, her long hair was combed into a ponytail, and she smiled at Gu Chen in the bright sunlight of early summer.He walked over with a smile on his face: "Gu Chen, long time no see."

Gu Chen looked at Zhou Xiaoting's bright smile that was the same as usual, but he was very sensitive to notice that Zhou Xiaoting's eyes were not as bright and clear as when they first met.Even though Zhou Xiaoting was in front of Gu Chen, she still tried her best to maintain her original state.

"Zhou Xiaoting, long time no see." Gu Chen asked, "Are you okay?"

"good."

There were people coming and going around, and Zhou Xiaoting noticed the curious eyes of the students from time to time, and said with a smile: "Let's not chat for now. I have to go to the student union to hand over the work."

Zhou Xiaoting became the president of the A Student Union as soon as she was a sophomore.Although I went abroad to study for more than half a year due to family reasons, my job has not been retired.She came back this time to dismiss the student council president.

Gu Chen raised his eyebrows.Wanted to say something, but still didn't say it.Nodding at Zhou Xiaoting, she passed by with her suitcase.

A few minutes later, Gu Chen received a WeChat message.is the address of a coffee shop.It's a bit far from A.

Gu Chen frowned, not knowing what mystery Zhou Xiaoting was playing.

But that night, Gu Chen still came as promised.

"What do you want to drink?" Zhou Xiaoting, who arrived at the coffee shop early and booked a private room, said with a smile: "Don't worry. This coffee shop has a good secrecy. Many stars in the entertainment circle also like to come to this coffee shop Drinks. No one will know we're meeting here."

"What are you doing so mysteriously?" Gu Chen was at a loss.

"Isn't it because I'm afraid that it will hurt you." Zhou Xiaoting laughed at herself: "You know, my family members will lose their nerves at some point."

Gu Chen looked at Zhou Xiaoting, and obviously felt that the little girl was not in the right state: "Are you okay?"

"Do you know why my dad and my elder brother called me back in such a hurry?" Zhou Xiaoting answered irrelevantly: "They want to win over investors and let me go on a blind date with an old man in his 30s."

Gu Chen immediately reacted: "Pan Haoyang?"

"You know?" Zhou Xiaoting looked at Gu Chen in surprise.Immediately smiled and said: "It's not surprising. The Dazhou Group has hurt you so badly. It's reasonable to be defensive."

Gu Chen frowned: "Pan Haoyang is not a good choice."

Gu Chen never forgot how this guy was imprisoned in his previous life.

"For me, an old man in his 30s is not a good choice. But for the Dazhou Group, which is in urgent need of foreign aid, Pan Haoyang is the best choice for the Zhou family." Zhou Xiaoting said lightly.

Gu Chen looked at Zhou Xiaoting who was expressionless and didn't know what to say for a while.

Zhou Xiaoting chuckled: "You don't have to look at me like that. I don't feel how pitiful I am. I'm just awake."

"My father, my good brother, I thought that my family members were unconditional, but they just regarded me as a bargaining chip in marriage." Zhou Xiaoting paused, looking into Gu Chen's eyes: "But I am also human, I am I also have my own emotions, and I also want to have my own choices, so why should I be their bargaining chip?"

Gu Chen looked at Zhou Xiaoting with some hesitation.

"I didn't want to come back." Zhou Xiaoting swallowed her saliva: "My mother called me and asked me to stay abroad and not come back. I stayed abroad to study until I graduated. She said that I was still young, and it was too late to wait two years. Two years."

"But my dad cut off my credit card. He also called our school and suspended me without authorization." Zhou Xiaoting smiled, her eyes were soaked with a thin layer of moisture, and she was bright and aggressive: "They're a bit aggressive after one o'clock. There is no way left for me."

Gu Chen looked at Zhou Xiaoting who was about to cry, and felt a little uncomfortable.He still remembered that at the beginning of school, the proud, confident, bright and flamboyant girl was completely different from the cynical girl in front of him.

Zhou Xiaoting touched her face: "Gu Chen, I'm not reconciled."

Zhou Xiaoting sniffed and looked at Gu Chen: "They forced me first. I don't know what to do anymore. Gu Chen, help me."

Gu Chen subconsciously asked: "What?"

"I want the Dazhou Group." Zhou Xiaoting looked directly at Gu Chen: "I don't want to marry a gay, nor an old man. I don't want to be the banner of my father and my brother. They want to win over whoever they want, so they can't wait to marry me. Send it to someone's bed. I've had enough of this kind of life."

"I am also from the Zhou family, and I have the right to be in charge of the Zhou family. As long as I become the person in charge of the Zhou family, they will no longer be able to persecute me." Zhou Xiaoting looked at Gu Chen and said innocently: "Gu Chen, will you help me?" me?"

"How can I help you?" Gu Chen sighed slightly, looking at Zhou Xiaoting who was in a hurry to go to the doctor: "I'm not from the Dazhou Group, so I can't help you."

"You can do it." Zhou Xiaoting looked at Gu Chen: "You just need to find a way to make Dazhou Group's Hong Kong stock listing project continue to fail this time, and you can help me."

As long as the Hong Kong stock listing project of the Dazhou Group fails, Pan Haoyang's status as an investor is nothing to the Dazhou Group.At that time, Zhou Xiaoting will have time to slowly plan to seize power.

"If you're talking about this," Gu Chen thought for a while before saying, "You can rest assured. Dazhou Group's Hong Kong stock listing project will not be successful."

Zhou Xiaoting's eyes lit up: "What can you do?"

"It's not that I have anything to do, it's that the market situation is not good." Gu Chen corrected.I don't know what kind of luck the Dazhou Group is going.Catch up with this juncture to operate the Hong Kong stock market listing.The entire A-share market and the Hong Kong stock market will be smashed through.Under the overturned nest, there are no eggs?

Zhou Xiaoting didn't understand Gu Chen's words: "What do you mean? Did you hear something?"

"I didn't hear any rumors, I just observed it myself." Gu Chen didn't want to explain too much: "Anyway, don't worry. If you are worried about Dazhou Group's Hong Kong stock listing plan this time, you don't have to worry about it from now on. "

"I believe in you." Zhou Xiaoting thought for a while, and then said: "I will find a way to get into the high-level when I come back this time. While doing things, I will win over shareholders and try to get as much news as possible."

Gu Chen actually didn't quite understand the significance of Zhou Xiaoting's doing these things.As long as Chairman Zhou and Brother Zhou Xiaoting's shares are still there, no matter how Zhou Xiaoting struggles, the foundation of the father and son will not be shaken.On the contrary, because of all kinds of extreme emotions and methods, I will push myself to a desperate situation.

Gu Chen looked at Zhou Xiaoting now, as if he saw himself before rebirth.He sighed slightly: "You'd better calm down. Impulse won't help. Don't hurt yourself because of impulsiveness."

Zhou Xiaoting stared at Gu Chen in a daze: "What do you want to say? Do you think I shouldn't resist? Do you think I should accept my fate like this and marry an old man in his 30s, or just let my dad and my elder brother marry me? Another blind date that is beneficial to the Da Zhou Group?"

Gu Chen looked at Zhou Xiaoting quietly.Until Zhou Xiaoting calmed down completely, she leaned on the sofa with a decadent expression.

Gu Chen said: "I can understand your current mood. You don't want to be used by your relatives, and you don't want to be a marionette. But you don't have the ability to resist."

Zhou Xiaoting moved her lips, wanting to refute Gu Chen's words, but she didn't know how to refute.

Gu Chen continued: "You want to compete with your father and your eldest brother for the Zhou family, thinking that if you control the Da Zhou Group, you can get rid of the current shackles. But have you ever thought that they are also Zhou family members, why do those group shareholders Choose you? What do you use to compete with your father and your elder brother?"

Zhou Xiaoting didn't speak.

Gu Chen said: "You have to understand these things, your core competitiveness, and what you should do. Instead of clamoring to replace your father and elder brother all over the world."

Zhou Xiaoting subconsciously said, "I only told you about this."

"Then I thank you for your trust. But I can't help you with anything." Gu Chen didn't mean to prevaricate Zhou Xiaoting.He speaks the truth.It is so easy to compete for the management rights of a multinational group.Many people have turned against each other, and the lawsuit has lasted for more than ten years, and it may not be successful.

Zhou Xiaoting, a little girl with no trump card and no competitiveness, wants to compete with the well-established chairman of the group for management power, which is simply a fantasy.

Zhou Xiaoting's heart was going cold when Gu Chen poured several basins of cold water on her head.She stared blankly at Gu Chen: "Then what should I do? Just accept my fate like this?"

"Do what you can do and what you are good at." Gu Chen didn't have any good suggestions, he could only analyze based on his own experience: "You are Zhou Xiaoting. What kind of Zhou Xiaoting do you want to be, you go Do it. Be yourself, and be prepared to do it even if you are against the whole world."

"This process is likely to be very painful. You are likely to suffer a double blow and torture, both physically and mentally. Those people will do many things that you cannot bear in order to force you to bow your head and force you to obey. But you need to rely on your own Perseverance gritted your teeth and survived. Once you give up, you can only continue to be a marionette."

Gu Chen looked at Zhou Xiaoting, and asked flatly, "Are you ready for this?"

Zhou Xiaoting looked at Gu Chen for a while, and took a deep breath: "You mean, from now on, I will no longer regard myself as the Zhou family. I will no longer spend their money, and no longer use the influence of the Da Zhou Group to solve my problems. My own problems. I even have to be prepared to be targeted and oppressed by the Dazhou Group."

Gu Chen corrected: "What I mean is, if you want to get rid of the control of your father and your elder brother, you have to strip away the identity of Zhou Xiaoting, and you can live a wonderful life, and enjoy it."

If you can't do it, or you regret it, you can only accept your fate and compromise.This kind of thing, outsiders can't help, it depends on what choice each person makes.

"It's not about fighting for the sake of fighting. It's about living the life you want." Gu Chen said with emotion.