Chu Yi Qiao put down his mobile phone.
Luo Qing Ye saw that his expression wasn’t quite right: “Ge, what’s wrong? Did something happen?”
“Something happened to my grandfather and he is now being resuscitated. The doctor gave a critical notice and asked for me to sign it, you accompany me to the hospital first.”
When Luo Qing Ye heard that something happened to the old man, his expression was a little subtle, which reminded him of the cruel words he said to the old man at the door of the ICU half a year ago:
—Old man, I hope you can still live to see me destroy your son, destroy Caesar’s Palace, and destroy everything that allowed Chu Yi Qiao to suffer a single moment of harm, I wish you a long life.
Is this retribution coming so quickly?
Chu Yi Qiao saw that Luo Qing Ye was silent and didn’t say anything, thinking that he was unhappy. He took Luo Qing Ye’s hand and squeezed it, coaxing: “I know today is your birthday, but no matter how much I hate him, he is related to me by blood after all. If you don’t want to accompany me, then you wait for me here, I will be back soon.”
Luo Qing Ye froze, he didn’t expect Chu Yi Qiao to even coax him in return, he thought he was upset because he couldn’t spend his birthday with him?
“Ge, you’ve become silly ba.”
Chu Yi Qiao was suddenly pinched on the cheek, and looked at Luo Qing Ye in surprise.
“This is your family, you have the right to deal with your family, no need to ask me, and I’m not angry.” Luo Qing Ye looked at Chu Yi Qiao who was pinched on the cheek by himself and showed surprise, and his heart itched immediately. He leaned forward and kissed him: “I’ll go with you.”
“I thought you would be angry.”
“Am I that petty? I’m still very tolerant in front of important matters.” Luo Qing Ye lowered his hand.
Chu Yi Qiao nodded seriously: “En, petty.”
Luo Qing Ye pulled the man into his arms and kissed him hard before letting him go.
“See, petty.” Chu Yi Qiao felt a little pain on his lips, maybe it was bitten. He raised his hand to smooth his collar, adjusted his glasses, turned around and walked out: “Still a childish ghost.”
Luo Qing Ye: “……” He is getting more and more names.
***
“Master Jiang has had a serious myocardial infarction in recent years. Even with active treatment, complications cannot be avoided, which makes the myocardial infarction worse. Acute vascular occlusion leads to myocardial necrosis in the area related to the blood vessels. During the myocardial contraction, this area will be under relatively high pressure, leading to heart rupture. Although he has been resuscitated, the situation is not optimistic. Be mentally prepared.”1I’m completely clueless about all this, if anything is wrong factually, go find the author, I’m just the translator. 😂
Chu Yi Qiao listened to the doctor’s words without any expression on his face. Through the glass, he looked at the old man lying on the bed in the ICU ward. Various intubations fell on his body, and the various values on the instrument were still jumping. His heart was not really touched.
The old man lying there was his grandfather, but he was only a stranger with blood ties, and he was the person he hated the most besides Jiang Mian Huai.
It was him who prevented him from seeing his mother for the last time, and he didn’t even have the chance to see his mother off for the last time, and he even protected the evil man who killed his mother.
At the last moment when his mother closed her eyes, she shouted for him to go find his grandfather. When his grandfather appeared, he cried and wanted to hug his grandfather, but he was pushed away.
At that moment, he knew that his last relative in the world was gone. The indifference and ruthlessness of the old man were the most unforgettable pain in his life. To some extent, he hated him more than the evil man, Jiang Mian Huai.
After so many years had passed, was there any use in compensating him now?
“It doesn’t matter.” Chu Yi Qiao replied indifferently: “He deserves it. Next time, notify me when he is dying. Don’t notify me when he still has a breath.”
The doctor didn’t dare to reply.
Assistant Xu couldn’t bear to hear such words and walked forward: “Crown Prince, Master Jiang really misses you in his heart. All these years, he—”
“What do you know?” Chu Yi Qiao looked straight at Assistant Xu, the eyes under the cool glasses were full of coldness: “What do you know? You don’t know anything, on what basis are you speaking for him?”
Assistant Xu was dumbfounded.
Chu Yi Qiao sneered, and the fingertips hanging by his side trembled slightly: “You don’t know the pain unless the knife is stabbed in your body. Only those of you who don’t know can say words of plea. After this, Assistant Xu will sign the critical illness notice. I authorise it.”
Assistant Xu: “……” Wants to resign.
After Chu Yi Qiao finished speaking, he looked at the doctor: “Just do your best.” After saying this, he nodded to the doctor and prepared to leave.
“Crown Prince, Master Jiang has given you all the evidence of the eldest young master’s crimes. Have you received it?”
Chu Yi Qiao’s footsteps lurched.
“It’s a USB flash drive. Master Jiang said that it contains what you want most.” Assistant Xu looked at Chu Yi Qiao’s back and said: “It was sent to you half a year ago. At that time, Master Jiang’s condition had already worsened. He may have guessed his own situation and even changed his will. He said that he doesn’t request that you get married.”
Chu Yi Qiao looked at the incandescent light in the hospital corridor, USB flash drive? What flash drive?
Recalling what he had told Koko before, saying that if anything from his grandfather or Jiang Mian Huai was received, he would not accept it. He immediately took out his mobile phone to contact Koko. He was not sure if Koko had lost it. If she had thrown it away……
He may spend his life in regret.
The old man knew what he wanted most, which was the surveillance video of his home when he was a child. The surveillance video of Jiang Mian Huai using pheromones to make his mother bleed from all seven orifices and die suddenly. Only this was strong evidence.
Otherwise what was he working so hard for all these years.
Luo Qing Ye had never seen Chu Yi Qiao so panicked, but he could do nothing now. He could only accompany Chu Yi Qiao silently. The more it was this way, the more he felt that he was growing too slowly, when would he be able to protect Chu Yi Qiao so that he won’t be so tired.
During the lunch break, Koko, who was watching a TV series, suddenly received a call from her immediate boss, President Chu. She was so scared that her boneless chicken feet almost flew out. She quickly answered the phone: “Hello, President Chu? Are you looking for me for something?”
“I want to ask you, at the start I asked you to help me receive express mails or other things Grandpa and Jiang Mian Huai sent, did you throw it away?” Chu Yi Qiao asked, his throat seemed to be choked, and his voice trembled because of nervousness.
His heartbeat almost jumped to his throat. If the old man really intended to let him go, then the evidence he wanted most was the video from eighteen years ago.
If it is really thrown away……
Just then, a strong arm wrapped around his shoulders, stabilising his trembling body, and gently patted his shoulders, silently comforting him, like an invisible force.
“I didn’t throw it away, I put it in the warehouse.” Koko replied: “I don’t dare to just throw it away, there are quite a few valuables sent by Master Jiang inside, as well as antiques.”
Chu Yi Qiao’s eyes were red in an instant. He suddenly breathed a sigh of relief and suppressed his emotional fluctuations: “Okay, help me open the warehouse door. I will go back to the Group now and triple your salary this month.”
Koko on the other end of the phone: “?” She stared at the hung-up call interface in a daze. There is such a good thing? A salary increase from the sky!
“Let’s go.” Chu Yi Qiao looked at Luo Qing Ye: “Accompany me back to the Group.”
Luo Qing Ye didn’t ask anything, because he knew Chu Yi Qiao would tell him, just not now.
Right now, he just had to accompany Chu Yi Qiao to do whatever he wanted to do.
Chu Yi Qiao left quickly, and at a certain moment he seemed to think of something and stopped. He turned around and looked at Assistant Xu not far away: “What is the USB flash drive in?”
Assistant Xu: “A black ring box.”
Chu Yi Qiao was confused for a moment, ring box?
But there was no time to think so much, so he turned and left the hospital.
Assistant Xu looked at Chu Yi Qiao’s back as he left, and couldn’t help but sigh again in his heart.
The circle of the rich is not only chaotic but also complicated.
After doing something wrong, you still regret and express your deep affection. Who are you showing it to?
Maybe it’s for them, the insignificant spectators.
***
The warehouse that Koko was referring to was not a large warehouse for goods, but a small warehouse where Chu Yi Qiao kept items, which was located next to the secretariat.
As soon as the door was opened, a dazzling array of gift boxes were placed on the neatly arranged wooden cabinets. Koko was a Virgo with an obsessive-compulsive disorder in placing things, and she classified and placed every item. She did not expect that her obsessive-compulsive habit could earn a triple salary.
Chu Yi Qiao also did not expect Koko to be so careful. He had never been in his warehouse before. Koko always took whatever he asked her to take, and he never worried about these things.
“What are you looking for, President Chu?” Koko asked.
“It’s a black ring box, maybe the packaging won’t be very big, help me look for it.”
Koko froze: “A black ring box?” In her impression, there seemed to be only one black box. She walked to the cabinet where the boxes were placed, looked up and down for a moment, then stood on tiptoe and took out a very large box. The box was very heavy.
Luo Qingye hurriedly went forward to help her hold it: “I’ll do it, it’s quite heavy.”
Koko looked at Luo Qing Ye who was approaching for a moment and acted so boyfriend-like, her eyes were full of stars, but she immediately realised what she was doing, and glanced at her own President Chu, but her own President Chu didn’t seem to notice her.
Fortunately, fortunately.
“Such a big box?” Chu Yi Qiao frowned as he looked at the box he took down. Didn’t he say that the USB drive was placed in a ring box?
“There is only this one black box, there is no other small box in my impression, and this box was sent over by Master Jiang half a year ago, until now Master Jiang hasn’t sent anything, so I have more of an impression.”
“Okay.” Chu Yiqiao nodded: “Xiao Ye, come back to the office with me, Koko you go rest, I have delayed you.”
“Aiya, it’s fine, it’s fine.” Koko waved her hand, compared to Yuan Nian she is really much more relaxed. That poor assistant is still busy with the birthday party.
President’s office—
After Chu Yi Qiao saw Luo Qing Ye put the box on the desk, he stepped forward and opened the box.
The moment the box was opened, he saw a music instrument case, which was obviously a violin case. When he caught the word “sheng” on the lower right corner of the violin case, his head buzzed.
He reached out to the violin case and opened it. When he saw the familiar violin, his hand shook uncontrollably. He touched it gently, and his fingertips touched the slightly cool violin body. The memories were completely opened, and the tenderness of his mother was vivid in his mind.
His eyes instantly red, he closed his eyes.
This is his mother’s violin.
It was the violin that played beautiful lullabies every day to lull him to sleep.
“Ge.” Luo Qing Ye held Chu Yi Qiao’s shoulders, he felt Chu Yi Qiao’s grief and was instantly embroiled, looking at Chu Yi Qiao’s tears that slipped from the corners of his eyes, silently, but his body was tense and trembling.
“This is my mother’s violin, she was a violinist. After she left, I never had the chance to return to that home. I have nothing of hers.” Chu Yi Qiao opened his eyes and tried his best to ease his emotions. His fingertips gently brushed the violin, as if he was looking for something. He tasted the salty tears sliding down his lips: “……I didn’t even see her for the last time, and I didn’t even have the chance to send her off for the last time.”
Luo Qing Ye hugged Chu Yi Qiao tightly behind him.
“I don’t understand why my father wanted to kill my mother for the sake of profit. My grandfather didn’t even want me to see my mother for the last time. What have I done wrong?”
The Omega in his arms was trembling violently. The usually powerful Chu Yi Qiao seemed to have all his disguises broken down in an instant. At this moment, he was just an Omega who needed protection and love.
“Ge, don’t cry.” Luo Qing Ye turned Chu Yi Qiao towards himself, he slightly lowered his head against Chu Yi Qiao’s forehead, his hands stroked the corners of Chu Yi Qiao’s eyes to help him wipe his tears, and then coaxed softly: “I won’t let go of anyone who bullies you.”
Chu Yi Qiao pursed his lips, raised his eyes to meet Luo Qing Ye who was close at hand, and said nothing. He just stared at Luo Qing Ye in silence while he shed tears. At this moment, he didn’t care about his image as a brother. What image, it’s not important.
For so many years, he has been shouldering everything by himself. There is no one around him that he dares to open his heart to, so he has never told anyone about his affairs.
He couldn’t deny that He She had helped him a lot before, but in the end, he was still deceived. Just for the so-called love, to deceive him, to modify his report, making it such that he almost missed Luo Qing Ye.
So he doesn’t understand why the Alpha group is so paranoid, and they are willing to sacrifice an Omega to get what they want.
“……Damn it.” Chu Yi Qiao laughed out softly, his voice filled with sarcasm.
These people will get their retribution.
Although he was laughing, Luo Qing Ye saw the pain and grievance hidden in Chu Yi Qiao’s eyes. How uncomfortable it must be to make Chu Yi Qiao show the most vulnerable side without any defence, which is more vulnerable than the vulnerability shown when he just differentiated.
He took Chu Yi Qiao into his arms: “Don’t cry anymore, I’m really heartbroken.”
At an angle that Chu Yi Qiao couldn’t see, his eyes were dyed with a violent look.
Those who have hurt Chu Yi Qiao must not have a good death!
“……There’s still the USB flash drive.” Chu Yi Qiao gently pushed Luo Qing Ye away. He continued to flip through the black box. Sure enough, he found a ring box under the violin case, and he opened the ring box.
But there was a very simple ring in the ring box. It was not a modern style. There were some marks on the ring body. It looked a bit old. And this ring was not a lady’s ring, but a man’s ring.
[S&C]
Whose ring is this?
“Ge, there is an SD card here.” Luo Qing Ye picked up the very small black SD card on the side of the ring box.
“My desktop has a card reader.” Chu Yi Qiao put down the ring temporarily. He walked to the desk and sat down. He bent down and took out the card reader from the drawer and took the SD card from Luo Qing Ye’s hand.
Just as he plugged it into the computer, he stopped the next action when he saw the pop-up file interface.
“What’s wrong?” Luo Qing Ye leaned over Chu Yi Qiao with one hand on the table.
“……If I’m not wrong.” Chu Yi Qiao felt his throat was a little dry and painful, and the hand holding the mouse was a little afraid to click: “There is a surveillance video in it, which is the scene where Jiang Mian Huai killed my mother with pheromones. She died suddenly with blood flowing from all seven orifices, right in front of me, on my birthday.”
Luo Qing Ye’s expression froze instantly.
Even if he had never experienced it, he would feel that it was heartbreaking and cruel, not to mention that for Chu Yi Qiao, more than 10 years had passed, and the murderer who killed his mother was right next to him, but he could not do anything to the evil man, allowing the evil man to do evil and get away with it.
This is also why Chu Yi Qiao was in such a bad mood on his birthday.
“I was too young back then, and what I said was not enough to constitute any evidence. I have no evidence, and I don’t know what to do, but I remember that there was a surveillance camera at home, because my mother once told me that my father would watch us on the surveillance camera and asked me to behave myself.”
“I remembered it until now, I kept trying to find a way to return to my previous home. But when I was able to take the house back, when I returned, everything was gone. I don’t know if it was Jiang Mian Huai or someone else who took away everything. Anyway, there was no trace of my mother, as if my mother had never existed in this world.”
“This evidence is what I have been looking for. Only this can make Jiang Mian Huai clear my mother’s name. It is not as simple as the news said that year. It is not an ordinary Omega that is incompatible with an Alpha that resulted in a rejection reaction. Jiang Mian Huai deliberately used pheromone attacks to oppress my mother and caused her death.”
Chu Yi Qiao’s hand holding the mouse trembled a little as he looked at the only video file in the file and clicked play.
In the surveillance footage, the gorgeous and beautiful big house is decorated with a childlike style, which is obviously a boy’s birthday arrangement. A woman in an elegant long dress can be seen singing a birthday song to her child, and the cake next to her still has candles lit but not blown out.
The sound can be heard in the video, and it is obvious that the surveillance is equipped with a microphone.
Soon such a warm scene was interrupted.
The young Jiang Mian Huai walked in with an irritable and impatient mood on his face. The picture clearly showed that the woman’s expression became very cold in an instant, and she did not hide her disgust for Jiang Mian Huai at all.
“Chu Xin Xin, you lied to me.”
“What did I lie to you about.” The woman put the child behind her and responded indifferently.
“I didn’t touch you at all that night, it’s impossible for me to mess around after drinking. I didn’t mark you. This child is not mine at all, so whose is it?” Jiang Mian Huai approached the woman step by step.
“It’s yours.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Jiang Mian Huai slapped the woman. The woman could not resist the power of the Alpha at all. She fell to the ground with blood on the corner of her lips. Then he found that the woman’s expression started to look wrong. The blood on her lips did not seem to be from getting hit. It overflowed little by little.
“If I marked you and gave birth to our child, you would never reject my pheromones. Now there is only one reason, that is, you have another Alpha’s mark on you, you covered it up, you lied to me. So you also lied to me when you married me, right?” Jiang Mian Huai was extremely angry. He grabbed the woman’s collar.
The blood on the woman’s lips flowed more and more, but she was smiling, and her smile was extremely bright and dazzling.
“Being lied to is uncomfortable, isn’t it, it was you father and son who lied to me first, you can’t blame me.”
Jiang Mian Huai seemed to have noticed something, and his expression became more and more ferocious as he became more irritable. He directly picked up the woman and dragged her in front of him: “Now there is only one chance for me to let you go. Give me all my father’s shares, and I want you to tell him in person.”
“I won’t.” The woman choked on her blood, but she was still laughing: “That was his betrothal gift to me, why should I give it to you? It’s mine, even if I may not use it, it’s my treasure. And you broke the contract first, you said you wouldn’t touch me in the next two years, but when you found that you had a low degree of compatibility with me, you wanted to use pheromones to force me.”
“That’s because you have been marked!!” Jiang Mian Huai looked at the woman viciously: “How can another Alpha cover up the traces of a marked Omega? Why didn’t you tell me that you and my dad were together!!! Are you playing me?”
The woman’s ears and eyes began to bleed, and the blood just gradually soaked the entire skirt.
Jiang Mian Huai didn’t get any response, and angrily threw the woman to the ground. He began to lose his temper and smashed things. All the glass cups and glass jugs on the table were smashed, and the cake with candles still lit was also smashed on the ground.
“Qiao Qiao……run, go find your grandfather……”
Jiang Mian Huai seemed to be completely furious when he heard the word “grandpa”. He bent down, raised the woman’s hand, and stabbed the woman’s hand hard into a piece of broken glass on the ground.
The glass penetrated this beautiful hand, and blood splashed out instantly. The ring on the ring finger glowed faintly under the light, and then it was stained with blood.
This ring was the same as the men’s ring in the ring box just now.
And Jiang Mian Huai didn’t have any ring on his hand at all.
The picture finally freezes on the child who is sitting on the side, obviously frightened, with wet eyes but not daring to cry out.
It ended.
Chu Yi Qiao stared at the last scene in a daze, his eyes were red without blinking, and tears had already flowed down his face. He held the mouse tightly, as if he was trying his best to hold on to the last bit of rationality, but in the end, the line still broke.
He slammed the mouse in his hand aside, stood up and swept everything on the table to the ground, and the chair fell down with a sharp and piercing sound.
The chaotic sound echoed in the office, and the mess on the ground could not cover the choking and hysterical crying.
“……Why, why did you do this to me, what exactly did I do wrong.”
Chu Yi Qiao squatted down slowly with his head in his arms, crying uncontrollably, completely collapsed.
Luo Qing Ye felt that his heart was about to be torn apart. He kicked away the documents on the ground, sat beside Chu Yi Qiao and pulled him into his arms, using hugs and pheromones to quietly soothe the Omega’s collapse.
At this time, he couldn’t say any words of comfort, because nothing he said could heal hurt Chu Yi Qiao had felt for so many years.
“……Luo Qing Ye, I can’t accept it.” Chu Yi Qiao’s forehead rested against Luo Qing Ye’s shoulder as he choked: “I really can’t accept it.”
This made his hatred for so many years seem like a joke.
“If you can’t accept it, then don’t accept it. You have the right not to accept it.” Luo Qing Ye kissed Chu Yi Qiao’s cheek and coaxed him gently: “You are not wrong. It’s never you who is wrong. It’s them who are wrong. They will get the punishment they deserve.”
From an angle that Chu Yi Qiao couldn’t see, Luo Qing Ye’s eyes became more and more gloomy, like a wolf ready to attack.
He shouldn’t have said anything to the old man about living a long life, he should have said return to the west soon.
As for Jiang Mian Huai……
After coaxing for an unknown amount of time, Luo Qing Ye felt that Chu Yi Qiao seemed to be tired of crying, and his voice became quieter and quieter, but he also let Chu Yi Qiao sit on his lap and lean on him, and he just held him.
The afternoon sunlight poured into the room. The office was full of mess, but the sunlight seemed to bypass the mess and fall on the two people hugging each other, showing special favour.
“……Xiao Ye.”
“En, I’m here.”
“……Boyfriend.”
“En, I’m here.”
“……Fiancé.”
“En, I’m here.”
“Lao Gong2a term of endearment for ‘husband’ equivalent to the English ‘hubby’.”
“……”
Luo Qing Ye’s expression was stunned, obviously shocked by the name, and then he saw Chu Yi Qiao raised his head, his eyes red and aggrieved: “Huggy3he says 抱抱我 with 抱 being repeated making it sound coquettish..”
The sobs in his voice, as well as the aggrieved and coquettish voice, made all the strength that belonged to President Chu be smoothed out by the vulnerability.
At once, Luo Qing Ye’s heart softened to a mess.
He kissed Chu Yi Qiao’s moist eyelids and hugged the person tightly to give complete security, “Okay, huggy.”
“Let’s get married.”
“Wh-what?”
Chu Yi Qiao frowned when he saw his big reaction, and his red eyes became more moist: “Don’t you agree?”
“Agree, how could I not agree.”
At this moment, Luo Qing Ye thought that he was overwhelmed by such a thing, and he would be willing to die if Chu Yi Qiao wanted him to.
“Then you say it properly.”
“I agree.” Luo Qing Ye wrapped the person into his arms again, his hand gently patting the back, softly coaxing: “I, Luo Qingye, will be Chu Yi Qiao’s Alpha in this life.”
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