Confession of Rebirth

"Bang!"

As the basketball fell into the hoop, Huo Mingzhang, who had been beaten until he lost his temper, looked at Gu Chen, who was panting from exhaustion, but was able to shoot accurately. He waved his hand and said out of breath, "Stop playing, rest!" a little while."

Without saying a word, Gu Chen walked out of the arena, sat on the lounge chair, and wiped his face with a towel.Zhou Xiaoting immediately brought over a bottle of mineral water.Gu Chen unscrewed it and filled most of the bottle.Seeing Gu Xiu approaching with glutinous rice chicken in his hands, he asked with a gentle and harmless smile, "Brother, do you want to eat something to replenish your strength?"

"Didn't it be agreed that the well water will not violate the river water in the future?" Gu Chen was a little helpless, and wiped the sweat on his neck with a towel: "Since we both look at each other and hate each other, why don't you find someone who likes you? Why do you have to find yourself uncomfortable here?"

"Brother, what are you talking about?" Gu Xiu's eyes widened in surprise, as if he didn't expect Gu Chen to say such words: "Aren't we brothers?"

"I don't want a younger brother like you. You don't think of me as an older brother either. You didn't say it yourself, aren't we two brothers?" Gu Chen looked at Gu Xiu who looked aggrieved, a little funny.Sometimes he really doesn't understand what Gu Xiu is thinking.

"That's right! On the first day of school, you beat gongs and drums all over the world to proclaim that you were not born in the Gu family, but was adopted by the Gu family. Gu Chen was almost misunderstood by the whole school. It's not all your good deeds. Now you are wronged again What?" Cheng Yi sneered.He couldn't get used to Gu Xiu more and more.

"I do not have--"

"Okay!" Zhou Xiaoting interrupted Gu Xiu impatiently: "Stop talking about your nonsense, no one here wants to hear it. Since you hate Gu Chen so much and think he treats you badly, then go find the right one. You are a good person. Why do you have to pester Gu Chen?"

"I never said that my brother treated me badly." Gu Xiu looked at Zhou Xiaoting with an aggrieved face: "Why does Senior Sister Zhou always misinterpret my meaning and target me everywhere?"

"It's still the same sentence, since you feel that I am targeting you everywhere, then don't come to me. Find someone who is not targeting you, but willing to support you." Zhou Xiaoting disagrees: "I know I hate you, but I have to come to you Take what I say. If you don’t want to have fun, don’t you blame me?”

Gu Xiu was stunned by Zhou Xiaoting to the point of being speechless.He had no choice but to look at Huo Mingzhang aggrieved.

Huo Mingzhang was sitting cross-legged on the ground and fanning the wind with his hands, when he received Gu Xiu's call for help, he said to Zhou Xiaoting: "Can't you just say a few words? What are you messing with about the two brothers?"

Zhou Xiaoting confronted her tit for tat: "I just can't see Gu Xiu bullying Gu Chen while pretending to be wronged."

"Then let Gu Chen speak for himself." Huo Mingzhang propped his hands on the floor, looking like he was watching the show: "It's rare for Gu Chen to talk so much."

Zhou Xiaoting: "..."

Gu Xiu also looked at Huo Mingzhang in shock, and couldn't help asking: "Huo Mingzhang, what do you mean by saying that? What do you think of the two of us?"

Huo Mingzhang looked puzzled: "What can I take you two for? I just think that Gu Chen usually puts on a dead face and doesn't say a word, as if people all over the world owe him money. It's rare. Talking so much today is fresh!"

Although Gu Chen complained about him eight out of ten sentences today, Huo Mingzhang himself felt that it didn't matter, and he really couldn't understand Gu Xiu's sensitive and delicate thoughts.

Gu Xiu didn't know what to say, her face changed with anger.

Gu Chen, on the other hand, knew that Huo Mingzhang couldn't spit out ivory from his dog's mouth, so he wasn't surprised.

After resting for a while, I trained for more than an hour, and it seemed that the time was almost up.Gu Chen went back to the locker room to take a shower and change clothes.When I came out, I ran into Zhou Xiaoting who was guarding the door of the locker room.

Zhou Xiaoting looked a little hesitant, and looked at Gu Chen hesitantly: "...I have something, after much deliberation, I think I should tell you."

Gu Chen raised his eyebrows.

Zhou Xiaoting glanced at the basketball team members who were secretly watching the excitement, and said, "Let's go out and talk."

Gu Chen nodded.The two walked out of the basketball court side by side.

I don't know when it started to snow, and the snowflakes spread all over the ground.Gu Chen and Zhou Xiaoting stepped on the thin snow under their feet, silently walking to the playground where there were no people there.

Zhou Xiaoting talked for a while in her heart, and said, "Didn't you help our Dazhou Group solve a reputation crisis before? My dad just called me and said that according to Dazhou Group's performance appraisal standards, you can be rewarded with a house .He has already decided to choose a house of 150 square meters in Dazhou Tianxia for you. You can transfer the ownership tomorrow."

Gu Chen was slightly taken aback.

"My dad will send someone to wait for us at the real estate bureau tomorrow afternoon—"

"I can't accept it!"

"Listen to me!" Zhou Xiaoting continued, "I know you may not want it. But I want to say that this house is the reward you deserve—"

"Sister!" Gu Chen interrupted Zhou Xiaoting softly, and said with a warm smile, "Thank you for your kindness, but I really can't accept it."

"Why don't you accept it?" Zhou Xiaoting was a little anxious, and persuaded: "Sure enough, my dad is right. He said that you are thin-skinned and you must not accept it. He also asked me to quietly go to the student union to transfer your account, and then transfer the house to you. , I’ll give you a surprise. But I thought that even if I violated the regulations here, when it’s time to transfer the ownership, you still need to sign with your ID card..."

As Zhou Xiaoting was talking, she suddenly realized something was wrong.It doesn't make sense that her father and elder brother don't know about things that she can figure out.

Gu Chen looked at Zhou Xiaoting's hesitant look, and a trace of pity flashed in his eyes: "I went to the economic seminar with Professor Xing today. I met your father and your brother."

Zhou Xiaoting stared at Gu Chen blankly, as if she didn't understand.

Gu Chen continued: "The main content of this economic seminar is to discuss where the government's new commercial center will be located. Professor Xing advocates the development of the old western city, but Dazhou Group hopes that the government can choose the location of the commercial center. Put it on the outskirts of Dongcheng. At that time, a new subway line will be built, and several pieces of land under the Dazhou Group will happen to be on the line."

We are all smart people, so it is not necessary for Gu Chen to speak clearly, Zhou Xiaoting will naturally understand.She looked at Gu Chen in disbelief, and tried to explain: "No. My father is not that kind of person. He just thinks that you have contributed a lot to the Dazhou Group and needs to reward you. By the way, he also told me, If the rewards cannot be given in place at one time, outsiders will say that our Dazhou Group is ungrateful. My dad also said that he wanted you to join the president's office and asked my brother to take you..."

Gu Chen looked at the incoherent Zhou Xiaoting, and called out warmly, "Zhou Xiaoting."

This is the second time Gu Chen called Zhou Xiaoting's name.In the night, Gu Chen's outline became softer and softer under the outline of the street lamps, and even his eyes glowed with a gentle luster.He comforted softly: "Don't do this."

Zhou Xiaoting stopped talking immediately, and looked at Gu Chen with a broken expression.

Gu Chen continued: "Do you remember that you said that a good friend should speak straight, no matter what you do, you won't worry about the other party getting angry?"

"I think the same way now. I'm very happy. You can tell me the matter at the first time, respect my wishes, and not make claims. You have helped me a lot."

But I almost lost the chance to be friends with you.

Zhou Xiaoting looked at Gu Chen sadly.The family's calculations became the last straw that broke the camel's camel's back. In Gu Chen's impression, this girl who was particularly strong, cheerful, smart and capable couldn't help but squat down in front of the boy she liked, buried her head in her arms and said nothing. choked up.

Gu Chen was a little at a loss: "Zhou Xiaoting——"

"Let's go!" Zhou Xiaoting buried her head in her arms, and said with a slight cry: "Gu Chen, go back to the dormitory first. You leave me alone."

Gu Chen was worried: "But——"

"I beg you, let's go!" Zhou Xiaoting buried her head tightly in her arms, her voice choked with unconcealable panic and shame, and said, "Leave me alone for a while. I beg you, I beg you Please, I don't have the face to see you now. I don't want to see you. Please leave me alone."

Zhou Xiaoting didn't know, how would she face the fact that she almost killed Gu Chen?How to face the father and elder brother who are plotting to harm Gu Chen?

Gu Chen looked at Zhou Xiaoting who was squatting in front of him crying until he was choked up, and wanted to stay by her side to accompany her, but in the end, Zhou Xiaoting drove him away.

"Woooo..." After Gu Chen left, Zhou Xiaoting finally couldn't restrain herself, and squatted on the playground alone, crying loudly.

"I'll just say it! How could my father, that old fox, be so courteous for nothing? Sure enough, it's either rape or robbery."

A voice interrupted Zhou Xiaoting's crying, Zhou Xiaoting turned her head suddenly, and saw Huo Mingzhang leaning on the iron net with his hands in his pockets.

Zhou Xiaoting was startled and confused, not knowing what Huo Mingzhang had heard, she blurted out and asked, "Why are you here?"

"Of course I followed here secretly." Huo Mingzhang said confidently: "But I really didn't expect that I could overhear such a big show. Your father is really cunning and ruthless."

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Zhou Xiaoting subconsciously defended her family: "That's not the case at all. There must be a misunderstanding. I'll go home tonight and ask for clarification."

"What else do you want to ask?" Huo Mingzhang sneered, and said in a neutral tone: "I want to ask your father and your elder brother, as developers, why they can't even remember the process of house transfer? I still want to ask Why did your father and your elder brother ask you to transfer Gu Chen's account secretly when they knew that the house transfer required you to go through the formalities themselves, so that you can do it first and then play it. Why do you have to choose the one where Gu Chen and Professor Xing just finished participating in the urban construction plan? Economic seminars, and both sides are at a standoff over the location of the business center?"

When Huo Mingzhang said something, Zhou Xiaoting's face turned pale.By the time Huo Mingzhang finished speaking, Zhou Xiaoting's face was completely pale.

Huo Mingzhang continued: "This kind of common trick, don't pretend to be confused. Maybe you really don't understand, then let me tell you."

"The reason why your father let you take advantage of your status as the student council president to secretly transfer Gu Chen's account out, and do whatever you want is to pull you in."

"As the president of the student council, you shouldn't need me to tell you what procedures are needed to transfer the student account?"

"At least you need to issue a certificate first, and then go to the police station in the jurisdiction of University A to go through the formalities. During this process, someone will inevitably ask you why you want to change your account. You want to transfer the house to Gu Chen, and the reason must be hidden. .Even if you don't want to say it, people who are interested will surely spread it to everyone. At that time, everyone will know that Xing Lao's assistant has taken over the house of the Da Zhou Group."

"Let's spread out. An assistant can get more than 1000 million houses, so what kind of compensation can Mr. Xing get? Why is Mr. Xing a representative who advocates that the new commercial center be placed in Xicheng District, and his students will accept it?" The house of the Dazhou Group? Oh, by the way, this student is still an employee of the Dazhou Group, and he can earn hundreds of thousands of dollars a month selling houses in the Dazhou Group. It is higher than the salary of a university professor. You said that outsiders heard about this, Do you think this student is really capable, or do you have other guesses?"

"Do you think those people will continue to diverge their thinking, thinking that the Dazhou Group has promised Mr. Xing some kind of reward, so that Mr. Xing will turn against him at a critical moment? Taking a step back, even if Mr. Xing has a breeze, he will not want any benefits. Advocate Mr. Xing should not be the only one who chose the location of the new commercial center in the old western city. Can all these people not be moved by fame and fortune?"

"As long as one person is tempted and let go, more people will wait and see the direction of the wind. Once the hearts of the people disperse, the alliance on Mr. Xing's side will disintegrate. And everyone can push this blame to Gu Chen and even without any burden. It's Professor Xing's head. Because it was Mr. Xing's assistant who turned his back first."

Zhou Xiaoting couldn't help but argue: "But that's different. The money Gu Chen earns is his commission for selling the house. And my dad said that Gu Chen's house is his reward for helping Da Zhou Group through the crisis of public relations. This is He deserves-"

"Even if my dad and my elder brother want to win Gu Chen over and give him a house, that's understandable. In business, my dad and my elder brother just want a win-win situation." Zhou Xiaoting tried hard to defend her father and brother.

"But what kind of employee reward is worth a house worth 600 million?" Huo Mingzhang almost scoffed at Zhou Xiaoting's naivety: "If you say something like this, will anyone believe it? Even if we all know what you said is true , will those people listen?"

Everyone knows that many times, what everyone needs is not the truth.It's a reason, an excuse.It's just a pot.

Zhou Xiaoting was speechless.

Huo Mingzhang shook his head with a smile, and sighed again: "Also, you don't naively think that your father really wants to give him that house, do you?"

Zhou Xiaoting was stunned for a moment: "What do you mean?"

"If you really want to win over Gu Chen and reward Gu Chen with a house, why don't you just issue a gift document from the group headquarters and let the company go through the formalities? I remember that your company has been listed on the Hong Kong stock market recently, and the rewards for internal employees are all Doubled, right? The year-end awards are all ten cars worth 2000 million. If you really want to give a house, it's not too exaggerated. What's more, Gu Chen is still an employee of the Dazhou Group. It is logical for the Dazhou Group to reward employees Method, why do you want to engage in such a show operation, and involve you?"

Zhou Xiaoting only felt that there was only one string left in her head, and she couldn't turn the corner at all.

"Obviously I know that the last step of the real estate transfer must be signed by myself. I still want you to secretly transfer the account. It is clear that I want to use this process to make a fuss. When the time comes, the news will be spread. If Gu Chen wants a house, he has to go there by himself. Signed. Many people know that Mr. Xing helped Gu Chen revise his thesis and recommended his article to be published in The Economist, right? This time he took Gu Chen to attend an economic seminar. Anyone with a discerning eye can see it. At that time, everyone will know that Mr. Xing's most valued student is someone who can be bought for 500 million yuan. Seeing profit and forgetting righteousness, short-sighted, guess if someone will laugh at Xing Have you lost sight of it?"

"What about you? If this kind of situation really happens in the end, and more people say that he scolds him, will you feel faintly disappointed?"

Huo Mingzhang really admires Zhou Xiaoting's father, and killing people is nothing more than that.

Zhou Xiaoting didn't speak.

Huo Mingzhang continued to analyze: "If Gu Chen doesn't accept it, it will be more fun. You don't think that your father will only attack Gu Chen if he wants to disintegrate the camp of the Western faction? When the time comes, there will be such a big fuss. Three tricks, Gu Chen confiscated the house, but someone else took the benefits. Do you think those who took the benefits would turn out to be angry with Gu Chen? Just as Gu Chen became Mr. Xing's assistant, there was such a disturbance , so that those who advocate the development of the old western city will lose their troops and their vitality. Do you think Mr. Xing, or the people on Mr. Xing's side, will have a grudge against him?"

Huo Mingzhang took two steps, and sat down next to Zhou Xiaoting: "I think with Gu Chen's temper, he will definitely not accept the house. If you didn't tell Gu Chen about the matter, but listened to your father's orders first, then play. When the time comes , because you secretly adjusted his household registration and created such a difficult situation, do you think Gu Chen will blame you? Will you blame yourself?"

Zhou Xiaoting remained silent.

Huo Mingzhang smiled and said: "That's why I said that your father is clever. He obviously didn't even think about the house, and he can count people into the bones with empty-handed white wolf calculations."

"The house was taken away just for the sake of 600 million as a capital dog. It was Mr. Xing who misjudged him. How can he save Mr. Xing's face?"

"I didn't accept the house. Anyway, the news spread. It successfully disintegrated the cohesion of the western faction, and was splashed with dirty water. Except for that ridiculous character, I didn't get anything. Maybe I will be laughed at. I don’t know how to flatter. By the way, I have successfully provoked the relationship between the two of you.”

"In a word, success or failure, Gu Chen's future with Mr. Xing was bought out by your father with 500 million yuan. Sure enough, Jiang is still hot. In contrast, my father asked me to invite Gu Chen to Huo's Group's move to be the assistant to the president is simply not painful or itchy."

"Gao Ming!" Huo Mingzhang slapped his hands in admiration while talking: "My father didn't want to leave any way of life for Gu Chen!"

"Huo Mingzhang!" Zhou Xiaoting was covered in cold sweat when she heard it, but her mouth was relentless: "Stop scaremongering here. The Zhou family has no grievances with Gu Chen, and Gu Chen has done such a big favor to the Da Zhou Group. My dad How could my eldest brother harm him for no reason."

"Ask yourself!" Huo Mingzhang raised his eyebrows disapprovingly: "You said why did your father and your elder brother kill Gu Chen? It's not because you like him."

"If you don't like him, or if you don't like him so obviously, your dad and your elder brother will certainly not pay attention to a little intern. Maybe they will give him more rewards to encourage employees to work."

"Just because you like him, your father and your elder brother don't want this son-in-law. But Gu Chen has been able to toss about to the point where he poses a slight threat to the Da Zhou Group. Who would just stand by and watch potential enemies grow up?"

"Don't tell me not to bully young people who are poor. This is nonsense. Everyone knows that if you don't bully young people when they are poor, you won't be able to bully them later." Huo Mingzhang made a joke, looking at Zhou Xiaoting who was in a daze , Said: "I said a long time ago, you'd better not like him. People like us, once serious, will be a burden to the person we like. You can't protect him, and you can't follow him. The family is broken, what are you messing around with!"

Zhou Xiaoting stood up abruptly, clenched her hands into fists, and shouted at Huo Mingzhang: "Who says I can't protect Gu Chen? I'll go back and ask my dad and my elder brother, what are they trying to do?"

"And then?" Huo Mingzhang raised his eyebrows: "Let your father see you quarreling with them because of an outsider? Wait until your father and your elder brother can't figure it out, and then try another trick, completely playing people to death cry again?"

Zhou Xiaoting looked at Huo Mingzhang in a daze.Suddenly thought of one thing: "Why are you telling me this?"

Zhou Xiaoting looked at Huo Mingzhang in surprise.It was found that Huo Mingzhang in front of him was really calm and strange, and he was not at all like the stupid second-generation ancestor who was so stupid that it caused headaches.

"I just want to remind you that if you don't have the ability to go to heaven, don't mess around. It's not good to implicate others." After all, he was a bad friend who grew up together since he was a child. Huo Mingzhang didn't want to see Zhou Xiaoting make irreparable troubles because of Gu Chen. the point.Of course, there was also a trace of not wanting to see Gu Chen being implicated, so he persuaded: "You better think about what you can do and what you want."

"People like us, if we have nothing to do when we have nothing to do, no one will care about our little boy. Don't be serious. You just take your life too seriously." Huo Mingzhang got up and stretched his waist: "You think my dad Doesn't mom know that I like men?"

Zhou Xiaoting looked at Huo Mingzhang in shock.Over the years, the Zhou family and the Huo family have tried every means to match the two.It's not that Zhou Xiaoting doesn't know.Although she didn't like Huo Mingzhang, but because of her small friendship, she never thought of exposing Huo Mingzhang's sexuality in order to protect herself, but kept helping Huo Mingzhang keep the secret.

She never thought that Uncle Huo and Aunt Huo would know about Huo Mingzhang's sexuality.I never thought that the Huo family would actively arrange this marriage even though they knew Huo Mingzhang's sexuality.

"Don't think my parents are so dirty." Huo Mingzhang said lazily.

Zhou Xiaoting felt relieved.She said that the Huo family's seniors should not—

Before Zhou Xiaoting was finished rejoicing, Huo Mingzhang changed the subject: "Do you think your parents don't know?"

Zhou Xiaoting was stunned again.

Huo Mingzhang moved his neck and shoulders: "In the eyes of my parents and your parents, it doesn't matter what we like or who we like. What matters is who we choose to marry in the end is more in line with the interests of the family."

"As long as the interest is high enough, even if I like a duck, they will agree."

Huo Mingzhang turned his head to look at Zhou Xiaoting: "On the contrary, if you don't have enough interests, even if you fall in love with the best person in the world, you are useless in their eyes."

"Don't let someone who could have been excellent become useless just because of your liking."

"After all, you have no ability to protect him."