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"Let's start with friends."

Standing outside the restaurant door, Song Cheng stroked my collar for me, and said in a gentle voice, "The ruined trust needs to be re-established, there is no rush, let's take our time."

I reluctantly nodded, and he asked me, "Would you like to go together?"

"No, I have something else to do." Seeing his disappointed expression, I quickly pointed to the medicine in the handbag, "I just took the medicine, I have to go back and take it quickly."

Song Cheng asked worriedly: "How are your eyes? They look much better today."

"It's okay." I said, "Take the medicine on time and you'll recover. I'm in a hurry, let's go first."

"By the way, this is for you." He took out a lip balm from his pocket and stuffed it to me, "I've always wanted to bring it to you. Drink more water, you can see that the corners of your mouth are chapped."

The small tubular object is in my palm, carrying the residual heat of body temperature.I clenched my fists and said, "Song Cheng."

"Ok?"

"...Next time we meet, show me the real you."

The evening wind blew through his forehead, and the sky was filled with darkness.The cold white street lights suddenly turned on, and he smiled at me.

"it is good."

When I got in the taxi, I saw that there was no message about Yang Chen's serial bombing on my phone, which meant that he hadn't come home yet, which made me heave a sigh of relief.Leaning lazily on the back of the chair to massage his temples, his thoughts diverged and he thought about many things in the past.

When I first went to the studio, I was very young, and a teacher was very kind to me. He often came to talk to me and brought me candies and picture books.I don't know why, but I was flattered by this, and felt that he was really a good teacher, and I was very grateful from the bottom of my heart.Later, he implicitly asked where I lived, and I told him unprepared.

Until he was stopped by the guard with a gift, he reported my name and said that I agreed to his home visit.When the servant came to deliver the message, Xu Yuzhong, Xu Yucheng and I were practicing calligraphy in front of Mr. Xu.

"Don't reveal where you live to outsiders."Even though I have been told many times, I still made mistakes.

The old man glanced at me lightly, and my face immediately became hot as if someone had slapped me.In order to be considerate, I sat with the teacher in the living room for a while, and he said he wanted to talk to my parents.

Xu Yuzhong found an excuse to come down to watch the excitement, and the room was quiet for a moment after the teacher said that, and he burst out laughing.

Conspiracy.

I clearly saw him lip-synthesizing to me standing on the stairs.I hurriedly stood up and said that no one was at home, and asked the guards to return the so-called gifts as they were, and invited them out with the teacher.

No one mentioned it, and I felt ashamed during that time, and didn't even want to go out to eat.Xu Yucheng reassured me that it's okay to make mistakes occasionally, at least I learned a lesson from it.

He said it very straightforwardly: "Xiao Yan, no one in this world will treat you well for no reason. There is no free lunch in the world. No matter what they want to get from you, there is always a reason there."

The teacher's appearance is deliberately blurred in my memory, I can only remember his sincere and gentle eyes when he talked to me.Why is he here?Do you really just want to visit me?

I don't understand and haven't had a chance to figure it out.Because next week I will change to a new studio and a new teacher.

But there is always a reason for everything, I remember what Xu Yucheng said.

There is no need to feel sad because of this, as long as I keep myself a useful person, there will be a steady stream of people who will treat me well.

So... money, power, future.Song Cheng, what do you want from me?

Not long after I entered the door, the staff of the restaurant Yang Chen had ordered called.

Fortunately, I came back in time. I watched them set up a table full of good-looking dishes, and sent Yang Chen a message to ask him when he would be back.

He replied quickly: You are in a meeting, you have dinner first.

In this case, there is no need to wait hypocritically. When I was talking to Song Cheng before, I was emotionally ups and downs, and I had no appetite at all.The dishes Yang Chen ordered were very suitable for my taste. I was full and felt much better, so I began to rummage through the room.

The previously torn files have been cleaned up, but I believe Yang Chen must have a backup.But I'm not sure where the backup is, so I had to look for it first.The house is very big, so I took a bit of effort to check it. I didn't miss every corner except Yang Chen's usual office and study.

The door of the study was ajar, and even though he usually didn't expressly prohibit me from entering, I still stopped at the door.

Unlike other places, the things here are his personal belongings, and I always feel that it is inappropriate to rummage without permission.

Although Yang Chen likes to control my privacy excessively, he still takes it for granted.But just because I hate his behavior, I can't... become a person who disrespects others like him.

I'm bad enough, why make myself worse.

Suppressing curiosity and turning to leave, the phone rang suddenly.I glanced at it, and it was Andre—well, I haven't settled with him yet, this guy came to the door first.

"Andre, please explain..."

The sound of a wine bottle bursting in my ear made me take the phone away as a reflex.The other end of the phone was very noisy, as if someone was throwing a rave party, and the excited screams shook my eardrums.

I held back my anger and moved closer: "What are you doing?"

"Press—wrong——"

A female voice shouted over there, and I quickly asked, "Who are you? This is my brother's cell phone, where is he?!"

"I don't know!" Her voice was covered by the roaring music, appearing a bit intermittent, "I picked it up on the ground!"

"Then where are you?"

She couldn't hear me after saying it several times, and I had to yell back: "Tell me the address!!"

Before the other party hung up the phone impatiently, I vaguely discerned the word "Durin" from the noise - mainly because I had heard the name of this bar.

To be precise... I visited this place frequently a long time ago.

Andre is really giving me trouble.I glanced at my watch and sent a message to Yang Chen: I'll go find my brother, he seems to be having a good time.

This time, instead of replying, he called.The voice was very low, and compared with the deafening noise just now, I almost couldn't hear what he was saying.

"This meeting will end immediately." His tone changed fiercely, "Don't go, we'll talk about it when I go back."

Ok.

Although I'm a little worried about Andre's situation, he doesn't go out to play once or twice, and it's not uncommon for him to stay out all night, so there's no rush.If Yang Chen finds out that I went to find him by myself, there will inevitably be another big fight.

I don't know what this bastard put in my phone, but I have to ask him to remove it for me.

When Yang Chen came back, he was unexpectedly a little happy. He even said something weird about driving me to find Andre, and he went downstairs to pick up the car.

I glanced at his expression: "Go out and win the lottery?"

"It's much better than winning the lottery." His face turned pale, and the corners of his mouth couldn't stop curling up. "Speaking out will scare you to death."

"Why, are you going to be president?"

"Hmph, it's almost done. Although this matter hasn't been settled yet, there are some clues." Yang Chen smiled, "Kiss me, I'll consider whether to tell you or not."

"What's the matter?" I licked my lips, "I don't want to talk about it."

He wasn't angry either, and deliberately hung me up: "It's fine if you don't listen, I'm not exaggerating, it will definitely shock you."

The light outside the window fell into his eyes, and the moment the light flowed, I held my breath.While he was waiting for the red light, I propped myself up and gave him a perfunctory kiss on the cheek, and said angrily, "Is that all right? Say it quickly."

"Let's say it first, you can't tell others. If it leaks out, your man will not be beaten to death by those old men at the shareholders' meeting." He smiled, "But you have nothing to say, I believe you are very strict."

"It's still a joke, it's almost—"

Yang Chen leaned close to my ear and spoke softly.

His father was going to bid for a project. Even I had heard about this project, but I only knew it was a government project. How could it fall into a private pocket?I was so surprised that I couldn't believe what I heard: "Is your dad serious?"

"It's crazy, isn't it? He won't do anything he's not sure about, so don't worry." After the red light passed, the car behind him honked to urge him, and he happily turned the steering wheel, "If this happens..."

If this is accomplished, the Yang family will be truly wealthy.

Yang Chen was driving extremely fast, completely disregarding the speed limit regulations, stepping on the accelerator and even whistling.I looked at his side face, he was handsome, proud and high-spirited.

Heaven's Pride.