TL: Hua
Ye Rongxu asked someone to bring the little wooden horse to him.
Seeing that it was mixed with dead leaves and gravel, Butler Lao Yang quickly washed and dried it before handing it to him.
Ye Rongxu held the palm-sized wooden horse, touched the head, and gently stroked its vivid eyes with his fingertips, unable to hold back a smile.
He didn’t expect that Qin Chaoyan, who had a coffin face all day, could carve such a cute little horse.
He couldn’t help but think of the first time he met Qin Chaoyan at the Qin family. The other party was also carving such a horse.
At that time, he went to the Qin family to play with Qin Jingxu. As soon as the wheelchair entered the yard of the Qin family villa, he saw a thin boy sitting by the pool, lowering his head to carve something.
Ye Rongxu had never seen this person in the Qin family, so he went over curiously, and then his eyes were attracted.
The other party held a piece of wood in one hand and a carving knife in the other hand, skillfully scratching on the wood.
Wood chips fell in succession. The palm-sized wood in his hand was as easy to cut as dough, and soon it turned into a cute little wooden horse.
Ye Rongxu’s clear eyes widened in disbelief. He felt that it was really amazing.
Because his zodiac sign was a horse, he liked things related to horses since he was a child and couldn’t help asking impatiently, “Can I touch it?”
Qin Chaoyan, who was only thirteen years old at the time, liked to keep a cold face, just like now. Hearing this, he seemed to have just noticed another existence. He looked up at him coldly, then retracted his gaze.
Ye Rongxu was a little uneasy, but he was used to being spoiled and thought it was no big deal if it was just a touch.
In the end, he boldly stretched out his hand, but as soon as he touched the wooden horse, he was pushed away hard.
The young Qin Chaoyan glared at him fiercely, as if he had touched something against his will.
Ye Rongxu’s wheelchair didn’t have a brake. His body followed the inertia of the wheelchair and retreated sharply, his face whitening with fear.
Before he could apologize, the bodyguards surrounded him. The servants of the Qin family saw the situation outside and suddenly shouted as well, “Oh my god, Qin Chaoyan hit the young master of the Ye family.”
Soon, a group of people rushed out.
Before Ye Rongxu had time to explain, he saw Qin Qijiang slap Qin Chaoyan in the face, making him stagger.
Ye Rongxu was spoiled when he grew up, so how could he have seen such a scene? He wasn’t afraid when Qin Chaoyan pushed him away, but he was scared to tears when he saw Qin Qijiang beating him.
Seeing this, Qin Qijiang thought that he was indeed beaten by Qin Chaoyan and kicked him again.
Qin Chaoyan staggered back a step and fell to the ground, but soon got up stubbornly and stood straight.
Ye Rongxu was so scared that he explained with tears in his eyes: “Uncle Qin, this brother didn’t hit me…”
Just halfway through his words, he saw Qin Chaoyan staring at him with red eyes that were more fierce than before, like a ferocious wolf cub.
Ye Rongxu’s thin body trembled with fear.
Later, Qin Jingxu took him back to the villa and asked someone to wipe his tears. He then told him that the fierce child just now was his younger brother, who had just been acknowledged a few days ago because he was an illegitimate child.
At that time, Qin Jingxu, who was also only thirteen years old, wasn’t good at hiding his emotions. When he mentioned Qin Chaoyan, a trace of disgust flashed in his eyes as he said, “His mother is a mistress, and he’s not a good thing either. Xiao Xu, you don’t have to pay attention to him. People who come from the bottom of society are not worthy of playing with us.”
Ye Rongxu didn’t understand what a mistress and an illegitimate child were at that time. He just felt guilty in his heart. If he hadn’t insisted on touching the wooden horse, Qin Chaoyan wouldn’t have been beaten.
Later, he secretly stuffed his chocolate candies in Qin Chaoyan’s room, wanting to apologize to him.
Because of his poor health, his family has been controlling his sugar consumption, and all those candies were secretly hidden by him behind the backs of the adults in his family.
But the next day, when he went to Qin’s house again, he found the candies thrown into the trash can.
Qin Jingxu said, “Yesterday, when Qin Chaoyan came back and saw the candies, he angrily threw them all away.”
Then he sighed and touched Ye Rongxu’s head, saying, “Xiao Xu, just ignore him. He must hate you very much.”
Ye Rongxu felt a little sad. Tears welled up in his eyes, and he sniffed while thinking: Forget it. If he doesn’t like me, then I don’t like him either.
After that, he never took the initiative to look for Qin Chaoyan again.
Not long after, he heard from others that Qin Chaoyan had left the Qin family. He was only thirteen years old at the time, and it’s unknown how he survived on his own.
After that, all the news about the other party came from Qin Jingxu and Qin Jingrong.
Ye Rongxu sighed, thinking it was no wonder that Qin Chaoyan always hated him. After all, he caused the other party to be beaten when they met for the first time.
Back in the bedroom, Ye Rongxu put the wooden horse into a gift box covered with red velvet, poked the horse’s ears with his slender white fingers, and whispered, “For the sake of screwing you over as a child, I will overlook the fact you’re going to torture me in the future.”
*
On the first day back home from the hospital, Ye Rongxu strictly followed the health care points written by the old Chinese doctor. He went to bed at ten o’clock in the evening and refrained from reading dog-blood novels, no matter how good they were.
However, after lying down, he couldn’t sleep because of his biological clock.
At six o’clock the next morning, the alarm clock rang on time, and he was too sleepy to open his eyes again.
Wrapping himself in the quilt like a silkworm, he struggled for a long time before he sat up with difficulty. His hair was messy, and his eyes still couldn’t open.
It’s so hard to adjust the sleep schedule.
I want to give up on health care.
But no, I still want to live a few more years.
After struggling for a while, he changed his clothes, asked the nurse to help him pour water and take medicine, and then carried himself to the wheelchair.
When he took the elevator downstairs in the villa, it was almost seven o’clock.
When Grandpa and Grandma Ye saw him so early today, they were a little surprised. “Why did you get up so early today?”
Ye Rongxu yawned, holding the thermos cup, and announced listlessly, “From today on, I will take care of my health.”
Lin Jiaojiao, who was eating breakfast, couldn’t help laughing: “You’re hugging a spiritual pillar, but you’re not spiritual anywhere.”
Ye Rongxu looked at the thermos cup in his hands and then glared at her angrily.
After finishing breakfast, Lin Jiaojiao stood up and rubbed his head, saying, “That’s the way to stay energized. Alright, I’ll go to school first and come back to play with you in the evening.”
Go to school?
Ye Rongxu froze, then turned toward her and said, “I go to bed at ten at night.”
Lin Jiaojiao is in her third year of high school this year. At ten o’clock in the evening, she probably hasn’t finished her evening self-study yet.
Speaking of which, Qin Chaoyan and Qin Jingrong seem to be in the third year of high school this year, just like Lin Jiaojiao. They are all at Jiangcheng No. 1 High School.
They also go to school every day.
Ye Rongxu suddenly felt envious.
Of course he also went to school, and he was also in No. 1 High School. However, due to health reasons, he was often hospitalized, so he was just a student by name and rarely went to school.
Ye Boxuan saw that he was envious and comforted him: “When you get better, you can also go to school.”
After that, he received a call, got up, and hurried to the company before finishing his meal.
Grandpa Ye sighed when he saw this, then changed the subject and joked with Ye Rongxu: “It’s good to keep healthy; I am also keeping healthy now; will you go to the park with Grandpa later?”
Ye Rongxu nodded absent-mindedly.
*
After breakfast, Ye Rongxu went to the park with Grandpa Ye, holding a thermos cup and watching the uncles practice boxing.
After returning home and having lunch, he planned to take a nap—no, a healthy sleep.
Who knew that before he went to bed, he heard that Qin Jingxu had come.
The other party knew that he wasn’t in the hospital and couldn’t get through to him on the phone, so he actually started to visit.
The Ye and Qin families are old friends. Ye Rongxu’s grandparents are good friends with Qin Jingxu’s grandparents. Although Grandpa Qin passed away a few years ago, the old lady is still alive.
Grandpa Ye didn’t want to embarrass his old friend’s grandson too much. He ignored Qin Jingxu for several hours and finally let him in.
As soon as Qin Jingxu came in, he apologized in a very humble manner and coaxed Grandpa and Grandma Ye in a kind voice.
And this person was very tactless. He came one day and came again the next day.
Ye Rongxu wasn’t a patient person to begin with. He was annoyed when he saw him, and he got angry when he was annoyed. When he got angry… his health plan was interrupted.
On the third day, he simply went to the Ye family’s hot spring villa for recuperation with his grandparents.
The air in the mountains is good, the scenery is good, and the humidity is suitable. Ye Rongxu lived in the villa for a week and felt that his body was much lighter and his breathing was smoother.
A week later, when he returned to the villa, he was surprised to learn that his engagement with Qin Jingxu had not been canceled.
He couldn’t help turning his wheelchair and went to the study to find Ye Boxuan. As soon as he entered the door, he asked unhappily, “Dad, why hasn’t the engagement been canceled yet? Why isn’t it canceled?”
When Ye Boxuan heard that his son was angry, he hurried forward to coax him: “It’s not that it won’t be canceled. I just haven’t found any evidence about the thing you mentioned last time.”
Not only was there no evidence, but Qin Jingxu also took the initiative to explain to Ye Boxuan that he and Shu Ming were just friends and said that Shu Ming had a boyfriend. Moreover, Ye Boxuan’s investigation also found that Shu Ming had been with his boyfriend during the few days he returned to China.
After that, Qin Jingxu asked Grandma Qin, who was not in good health, to intercede.
Without evidence, the Ye family’s decision to cancel the engagement without reason is somewhat unreasonable. What’s more, the two families were old friends, and the other party asked Grandma Qin, who was not in good health, to come and make peace.
Ye Boxuan couldn’t be too ruthless, so the matter was dragged on.
Ye Rongxu calmed down after listening to it. He remembered that Qin Jingxu and Shu Ming had just gotten together in the book, and they were abroad before. They had just returned to China for a day, and he exposed them right away, so it’s estimated that there was really no evidence to be found.
Alas, it was all his fault for not recording the phone call last time.
Ye Rongxu scratched his hair in annoyance, thought for a while, and asked again, “Does it have to be evidence?”
Ye Boxuan pondered: “Not really.”
Then he asked him, “Why do you want to cancel the engagement so badly? Is it because he likes someone else, or…”
Ye Rongxu was worried: “I just don’t like him; it has nothing to do with who he likes.”
He is not a person who likes to say bad things about people behind their backs, but this time, he paused and said, “And I feel that Qin Jingxu has changed. He’s different from when he was a child. He always makes me uncomfortable when he talks to me now. It’s a bit like PUA1PUA = mind control, aka gaslighting. mentioned on the Internet. I don’t want to be together with him.”
Ye Boxuan has never heard of what PUA is, but he can see that his son really doesn’t like Qin Jingxu, not jealous and angry as he thought, so he nodded and said, “Okay, I will go to Qin’s house tomorrow to cancel the engagement.”
Ye Rongxu’s eyes lit up, and he asked, “Really?”
“Really.” Ye Boxuan promised.
Ye Rongxu still didn’t believe it and asked, “Don’t you need a reason?”
Ye Boxuan touched his head and smiled. “My son doesn’t like him; that’s the reason.”
Originally, when the marriage was arranged, he didn’t agree.
It was just that the two families had a good relationship at that time. The old man of the Qin family had helped the Ye family in his early years and took the initiative to propose marriage. And Qin Jingxu’s mother, who was Madam Qin at the time, was a close friend of Ye Rongxu’s mother.
Qin Jingxu had just rescued Ye Rongxu from the hands of human traffickers at that time, and Ye Rongxu did not resist him, so Ye Boxuan agreed.
Now that Ye Rongxu doesn’t like him anymore, Ye Boxuan naturally won’t continue this engagement. His son doesn’t have to get married.
Although there is no evidence that Qin Jingxu has fallen in love with someone else, this engagement is not irrevocable.
“Xuxu, go and rest first. Dad will handle it tomorrow.” Ye Boxuan coaxed him, then pushed him out of the study and handed him over to the nurse.
Ye Rongxu was satisfied and felt that the engagement would be canceled for real this time.
The next day, he got up early because of his recent health care, but as soon as he went downstairs, he heard his father talking to his grandparents in a low voice.
“If Xuxu doesn’t like it, then cancel it. I think Qin Qijiang is also getting more and more unreasonable now. I can’t be at ease letting Xuxu marry into their family.” Ye Boxuan said.
Grandpa Ye sighed: “In this case, we can only cancel it.”
After a pause, he asked again: “Does Jingxu really have someone he likes behind Xuxu’s back?”
When it comes to this, Ye Boxuan pinched his eyebrows and said, “That’s what Xuxu said, but I haven’t found any evidence, so it’s not confirmed yet.”
Upon hearing this, Grandma thought that things would become awkward for their two families, so she said: “If we cancel the engagement like this, our Ye family will be the one that’s being unreasonable, and it’s not easy to say this to Cuixia.”
Cuixia is the old lady of the Qin family, Qin Jingxu’s grandmother. She just dragged her sick body to the Ye family to help Qin Jingxu make peace two days ago.
Grandpa Ye also remembered the help Qin Jingxu’s grandfather had given to the Ye family and was silent for a while.
They are not ungrateful people, but they can’t sacrifice their grandson’s happiness to repay the favor.
Ye Boxuan knew his parents’ dilemma, but fortunately he had thought of a solution long ago and said, “If it doesn’t work, our Ye family will suffer a little loss in this matter. We will compensate the Qin family more in the company project, or even give them some shares, so that it will be acceptable to the old lady of the Qin family.”
Old man Ye nodded. “That’s the only way.”
Ye Rongxu heard this, and he didn’t agree with their solution. He wanted to cancel the engagement, but he didn’t want Qin Jingxu to take advantage of the Ye family at all.
Speaking of repaying the favor, hasn’t the Ye family helped the Qin family enough in all these years since Grandpa Qin passed away? It should have been repaid long ago.
He immediately controlled the wheelchair and rushed over to stop them, saying, “No, I don’t agree.”
Ye Boxuan saw that he was driving the wheelchair like a racing car and was so scared that he quickly used his foot to help him brake while scolding him. “Why are you moving so fast? Do you want to fall into the swimming pool again? No Qin Chaoyan will save you this time.”
Ye Rongxu: “Uh.”
Oh, Qin Chaoyan!
Qin Chaoyan knew that Qin Jingxu had a lover, and he might have evidence.
