Highly toxic

Zhuang Xi wanted to persuade her, but seeing the light shining in Jiang Mu's eyes, all her words turned into a helpless voice, "Okay."

He felt from the bottom of his heart that the relationship between Geng Yan and Jiang Mu would not last long, but no matter whether it ended with Geng Yan's unilateral boredom or another external force hindered him, Jiang Mu was undoubtedly the most passive one.

But judging from Jiang Mu's current state, Zhuang Xi also knew that no matter how much he tried to persuade him, Jiang Mu would never be alerted. If he wanted to end it, he had to wait for Jiang Mu to hit the south wall himself.

Anyway, I have bumped into it once, so if I bump into it again, it will be regarded as growth.

The next day, he planned to go out with Geng Yan, so Jiang Mu asked Zhuang Xi to go out for dinner tonight.

Zhuang Xi was not polite, and chose a high-end Japanese food restaurant in the bustling area. Jiang Mu was not stingy either. He continues to contribute articles to the magazine and has completely resumed his previous work status. He just received a high salary two days ago , so I don't care about spending a little money at the moment.

At the dinner table, Zhuang Xi deliberately asked Jiang Mu and Geng Yan if they had any long-term plans, such as cohabitation or engagement or marriage.

"It's a bit too early to talk about this now, so I'm sure the relationship hasn't been long." Jiang Mu said with a wry smile, "Let everything take its course."

"How long have you been talking with your ex-boyfriend? Didn't someone stop you temporarily?" Zhuang Xi said, "I think it's best if you have the opportunity to beat him up. It's not that you have to force him to marry you right away, it's just to spy on him. His reaction, see if he has any considerations in this regard, if he keeps avoiding this question, it means that he is ready to play with you in his heart, and it will run counter to your view of love, and you can let go as soon as possible."

"I still feel... a bit early."

"Xiao Jiang, I have fucked more men than you have ever seen. Nine out of ten are lower body creatures. Geng Yan is by no means an exception."

Jiang Mu laughed and nodded, "Okay, okay, I'll ask him when I get a chance."

Zhuang Xi could tell at a glance that Jiang Mu was perfunctory to himself. He was now one with Geng Yan, so naturally he couldn't listen to his slander against Geng Yan.

That's it.

Zhuang Xi sighed inwardly, and decided to leave it alone, so why talk so much nonsense.

Just as the waiter was serving the meal, Zhuang Xi's cell phone rang suddenly.

Zhuang Xi glanced at the caller number on the phone, and his expression changed suddenly.

"I'm going out to answer a call." Zhuang Xi stood up, smiled and shook the phone in his hand towards Jiang Mu, "It's from my old lover."

Jiang Mu smiled helplessly and shook his head.

Zhuang Xi didn't connect until outside the restaurant.

"Brother Qing." Zhuang Xi said into the phone.

Jiang Mu sat alone at the dining table, tasting the sashimi platter in front of him with relish, until a figure suddenly sat down in front of him.

"So soon..." Jiang Mu thought it was Zhuang Xi who came back, and raised his head with a smile, but the smile instantly froze on his face.

It was He Qianyan.

He Qianyan was wearing a brown mid-length windbreaker, retro and casual, with meticulous hair care, and a pair of silver metal thin-frame glasses on the bridge of his straight nose...

As if it was still the same as a long time ago, looking upright and reserved, from face to body, everything is perfect.

If Jiang Mu didn't get to know this person seriously...

He Qianyan looked at Jiang Mu calmly, the slight upward curve of the corner of his mouth didn't seem to exist, but his voice sounded full of warmth, he said, "Xiao Jiang, long time no see."

Jiang Mu was caught off guard, he didn't expect that he and He Qianyan would meet in this kind of place.

However, Jiang Mu has completely let go of the deceit and betrayal he experienced in the last relationship, but the scars are still there after the wound is healed, and facing He Qianyan again, he is already sober and rational enough.

Now he and He Qianyan are not even friends...

"Long time no see." Jiang Mu calmed down quickly, and replied calmly, "Is Mr. He coming here for dinner with your friends too?"

"Yes, I booked a private room upstairs with a friend." He Qianyan said calmly, looking at Jiang Mu with gentle eyes, "I didn't expect to see you as soon as I walked in, so I wanted to come and chat with you."

In He Qianyan's eyes at this moment, Jiang Mu seemed to have been completely reborn. His confident and natural manner of speaking made him look completely different from the restrained and cowardly look he used to have.

It's not the appearance that he can easily control in He Qianyan's impression.

"My friend is calling outside." Jiang Mu smiled, "I'm afraid I'll be back soon, Mr. He is sitting at..."

"Don't rush me away, I'll leave after a few words." He Qianyan interrupted Jiang Mu, and said slowly, "I went to look for you, but you moved, and because of work, I couldn't be free again. Going out of time to find you, but I never forgot you."

Jiang Mu lowered his head slightly, and his eyes fell on the platter of sashimi in front of him indifferently.

He Qianyan continued with a complex expression, "I think you should know that I broke off my engagement with her, just over a month ago... I only regret that I didn't tell you at the very beginning that I broke off my engagement with that woman. Inevitably, if at the beginning..."

"So you broke off the engagement with your fiancée..." Jiang Mu interrupted He Qianyan, "It's not because it was uploaded on the Internet that she cheated on your driver, or, her so-called cheating was calculated by you."

He Qianyan stared at Jiang Mu, his gaze became cold little by little as his eyes were intertwined.

He didn't like that Jiang Mu was too smart.

"Why? Because she is useless, she should be kicked away by you?" Jiang Mu laughed ironically, but He Qianyan didn't immediately deny it, so it seems that his guess just now was right.

Two minutes ago, he only felt that he had no feelings for He Qianyan, but now he realizes that he still hates this hypocritical man.

"It's more because I want to pick you up." He Qian said, "Xiaojiang, I only made a mistake once, and in that mistake, you should know how helpless I was, and now I got what I wanted Everything, and you think you have enough ability to protect you, you really don't want to give me another chance?"

"I separated from you back then, not only because of the mistake you made, but also because I saw Mr. He's character clearly from that mistake. Now you even plot against your fiancée, which shows that I was right... ...Some mistakes can be corrected, and some can't be corrected for a lifetime." Jiang Mu said with a blank face, "Mr. He, we are not the same way."

He Qianyan closed his eyes heavily, and whispered as if in great pain, "Xiao Jiang, I love you..."

Jiang Mu was unmoved, and looked at He Qianyan calmly, "I'll tell you the truth, I'm already with Geng Yan."

He Qianyan's pupils were shocked, and he looked at Jiang Mu in disbelief, "What do you mean?"

"Geng Yan is my boyfriend now." Jiang Mu said without hesitation, "I love him."

"You..." He Qianyan stared at Jiang Mu, breathing slightly, "Is it for revenge on me?"

"I'm not that boring."

"You can't like someone like him."

Jiang Mu couldn't bear it anymore, "Then do you know why I liked you in the first place? Why did I follow you as a belief?"

"..."

"Because you have the same face as Geng Yan."

"..."

When meeting He Qianyan for the first time, Jiang Mu understood that heartbeat as love at first sight.

At that time, he still didn't understand He Qianyan's temperament, he was simply hit in the heart by that face, and then he couldn't take his eyes off He Qianyan's face anymore.

"When I was a teenager, Geng Yan saved my life. I was very impressed with that face..." Jiang Mu said, "When I first saw you, you were similar to that face. That's why I fell in love with you instantly."

He Qianyan was shocked, Jiang Mu's words completely overturned his cognition of the past relationship with Jiang Mu.

"So..." He Qianyan moved the corner of his mouth, and laughed at himself, "In your eyes, I was just Geng Yan's substitute in those years?"

"No, I'm not that shameless. I've always been sober enough to know that you're not him. During those years of companionship, I was sincere every moment. If we were still together, if you had never deceived me or used me, even Now I know that the person who saved me was Geng Yan, and I will not leave you..."

His love for He Qianyan has never been hypocritical. He did notice He Qianyan because of the similarity between He Qianyan and Geng Yan, but when he really fell in love with He Qianyan, it was only because of him. itself.

"I just want to tell you that you don't understand me." Jiang Mu said, "The other thing is, I have enough reasons to fall in love with Geng Yan."

At this time, Zhuang Xi came back after finishing the phone call. Seeing the person sitting opposite Jiang Mu, she was stunned for two seconds before realizing that it was He Qianyan and not Geng Yan, and she was shocked.

"Oh, I'm not Mr. He." Zhuang Xi rubbed her hands, walked to the dining table with a smile on her face, and looked at the handsome man in front of her obsessively, "Is Mr. He going to share the table with us? Then I'll ask the waiter to serve you again." A set of cutlery."

"No, Mr. He still has friends upstairs." Jiang Mu said to Zhuang Xi, "I'm also preparing to leave."

Zhuang Xi felt that something was wrong with the atmosphere at the table, and her eyes wandered thoughtfully between Jiang Mu and He Qianyan.

"I'm glad you can tell this, so at least in the future, I have no reason to show mercy to you."

He Qianyan left the table, paused slightly as he walked past Jiang Mu, and said expressionlessly, "Xiao Jiang, you disappointed me so much."

After He Qianyan left, Zhuang Xi sat down.

"What did you talk about?" Zhuang Xi said, "Why do I feel that he is angry?"

"It's nothing." Jiang Mu lowered his head to eat, and said lightly, "It's been such a long time since we broke up, so there is nothing to talk about."

After nine o'clock in the evening, He Qianyan returned to the He family's manor villa.

He Qianyan inherited everything from his stepfather, He Zhengkun, including this luxurious manor exclusive to the owner of the He family.

However, He Qianyan only came back to live occasionally. When he first entered He's house, he and his mother Tong Wan were often looked down upon and excluded here, so he didn't like this place very much.

If he hadn't left a place for the old lady of the He family to enjoy her old age, he would have sold the place long ago.

Tong Wan knew that He Qianyan would be back tonight, so she kept waiting. Her fiftieth birthday was coming, and she wanted to discuss some matters with He Qianyan.

"It's been less than half a year since He Zhengkun's death, and my mother wants to hold a big birthday banquet, isn't that inappropriate." He Qianyan said.

"It's either a grand birthday banquet, or a meal with my family." Tong Wan moved the corner of her mouth, and said softly and cautiously, "Mom just wants to discuss it with you. How about taking your brother as well?" Call over, the family together..."

Seeing He Qianyan's increasingly cold face, Tong Wan's voice became lower and lower.

I don't know when it started, but Tong Wan felt a strange sense of strangeness towards He Qianyan, the son of He Qianyan who had become the owner of the He family, and there was also a trace of inexplicable fear in it.

I don't know if it's because of the sudden rise in status that He Qianyan's mentality has changed, or if He Qianyan has experienced something that makes his temperament not as easy-going as before, Tong Wan only feels that He Qianyan has completely changed. Although he still respects her as a mother, he has a sense of distance.

It seems that there is only a nominal mother-child relationship between them, other than that, there is no love in it.

"My brother?" He Qianyan raised the corners of his mouth slightly, looked at Tong Wan, and asked calmly, "Who is it?"

Tong Wan's face was slightly stiff, and He Qianyan, who was not showing any emotion at the moment, gave her a creepy feeling instead.

"Qianyan, Geng Yan and us are a family after all." Tong Wan said with a sad look, "That's also my mother's heart disease, I don't want my past mistakes to affect the relationship between you brothers... Qianyan, Mom, I'm sorry Geng Yan."

He Qianyan smiled, but his eyes were cold, "Mother, shouldn't it be me who you are really sorry for?"

Tong Wan's face was slightly startled, as if she had thought of something, her face suddenly became extremely ugly.

"I should have hated you more than Geng Yan, but I didn't." He Qianyan said slowly and expressionlessly, "I have no reason to be grateful to you, because I was able to stay at the beginning because of me. My own plan, but I am still willing to respect you."

Tears glistened in Tong Wan's eyes, and finally she leaned against the wall beside her, covered her face and wept, and said in a hoarse voice, "Mom is sorry for you, Yan Yan, mother is sorry for you..."

He Qianyan stood in front of Tong Wan, raised his hand to wipe Tong Wan's tears, and said gently, "Remember mother, I am your only son."