Fall in love with your enemy

Continuing from the last time, I finally witnessed the dirty deeds of the Yu family. Some things made me want to laugh when they were first mentioned, like the fact that Yu Pei'an, as a father, didn't even know his own daughter's name, until Hyun-young said pitifully that she just wanted to grow up, and then a feeling of sadness rose again.

Unfortunately, I am powerless. After all, this is the Yu family's family affair. Then I think, under certain circumstances, it is not Yu Pei'an's fault that he does not recognize his own children. There are more than 50 children in the Yu family's yard now, not counting those who died in the past ten or twenty years. Xuanying is used to it. Do we still expect the culprit to be sad about it?

People are judged by comparison. From this perspective, my master is really kind.

I had nothing to say, so I had to stay with Hyun-young for a while longer, not knowing if this would give her a chance of survival, until someone suddenly greeted me from behind. I turned around and saw Corian's brilliant smile.

Xuanying was really sensible. When she saw that my friend had come, she immediately stood up and said goodbye and left. Ke Rui'an didn't take it seriously. He just turned sideways and looked at Yu Pei'an's study in front of him: "Oh, what a coincidence, Miss Fu, you and Xin Ci are here too. Has Xin Ci gone to the study? Why did they leave you here alone?"

I was still feeling depressed, watching Hyun-young find a servant to take her back to Muyuanzhai before I turned my attention away. As soon as I came back, I realized a very serious problem, and my voice suddenly became a little higher: "Wait a minute, you can speak Chinese?!"

Corian shrugged as if he had heard a joke: "I'm studying in Yingjing, of course I can speak Chinese. Xin Ci told me that I speak English a little too fast, and he was afraid that you wouldn't understand me, so he told me to speak Chinese when I see you next time."

"Well, he is really considerate..." I lowered my head in embarrassment. Gao Xinci was really careless with his words. Is it worth bragging that I am so stupid that I can't learn a second language? Corian didn't realize that I was not good at English before, but now he knows it clearly!

Corian didn't take it seriously. With the calmness of a top student and admiration for Gao Xinci, he looked up unconsciously while speaking, his eyes almost twinkling with stars: "Of course, Xinci is the gentlest person. Speaking of this, I think I still have to apologize to you for what happened that day. In fact, Xinci often mentioned you when we were in school. I was always curious until I saw you at the dinner. I suddenly understood why you made him obsessed. But he is a strange person. I don't understand why he didn't try hard to pursue you after you met again after a long time. I just made a joke to stimulate him. I hope it didn't have a bad impact on your relationship. I feel relieved to see that you are still together."

"It's okay. I can see that you care about him very much. It's rare to have a close friend in this world. He is lucky to have you." I smiled and replied, wondering in my heart whether I should tell Gao Xinci about his plan to beat him up that he had been thinking about for several days...

Corean was still looking like a little fanboy, so I didn't want to disturb him. He chuckled twice and motioned for me to go to the study with him. I calculated that the time for Gao Xinci's meeting was almost up, and I should go and have a cup of tea with him to say goodbye, so I accompanied him. Along the way, Corean kept talking and kept saying good things about Gao Xinci.

"Xin Ci is a man of few words. When I first met him, he seemed very sad every day. We are very similar. My father and Aunt Gao are old friends, so Aunt Gao asked my father to take care of him from time to time and talked about business matters. Gradually, we became familiar with each other, and I learned that he was sad because of a breakup. He told me your story, your suffering, and the happiness you had when you were together. I can imagine that you are a very good person, but there are always many difficulties in the family. You are very lucky to meet again."

I listened quietly, smiling politely from time to time, but sometimes I had to quietly refute in my heart, isn't the filter that Corian gave Gao Xinci a little too strong? Gao Xinci? A man of few words?! How did that make Corian a chatterbox? But for his praise of me, I still "stayed put", my face almost stiff.

Corean continued: "Xin Ci cares about you very much. I have felt it with my heart. In fact, he can be said to be a very 'selfish' person. This selfishness is not derogatory. He will generously share everything he has worked hard to get with the people who are really important to him. As for others, even if there are thousands of words or thousands of gold, he will not change a bit, and he may even hate this kind of persistence. In your country, Yingjing's connections are the most valuable. It is not the richest place, but it is the center of power. Power stands at the top of all the good things in the world. Regardless of whether there will be business involvement in the future, knowing more connections is more beneficial than harmful, even including..." Corean suddenly lowered his voice and looked around. No one came close to my ear: "Including people like Yu Pei'an."

I coughed and put my hand up to hide my smile. It took me a long time to recover. I signaled the servants not far away not to follow me. Only then did I feel relieved and walked closer: "Have you also heard about Mr. Yu's romantic affairs?"

"It's more than that. For a businessman, being romantic is not the most important thing. What's important is that he is cunning. He taught his children to be cunning, just like the little girl just now. Maybe you just met her and don't understand what we see. She is exactly like her father. Being clever will not produce any good results. Yu Pei'an doesn't like children who are very similar to him, and he doesn't like successful ones even more. He feels inferior for his cowardice and flattery in the past."

I was shocked. Yu Pei'an had just acted like a loving father to Hyun-ying. What was the point of a five or six-year-old kid being a little clever for a living? If he really remembered this hatred, he would be worse than an animal. But I could only smile bitterly: "Now I understand how tired my uncle is. Ying-jing's life is not easy. I thought that doing business was the most troublesome thing."

Corian waved his hands and smiled. His pair of sparkling eyes looked particularly beautiful in the sun. He pursed his lips helplessly, "Sorry, Miss Fu, reality is indeed too cruel. If the malice in the world really only stayed at one level, he would be very relaxed, but this is different. In the family business, the enemy is not only at work, but not even at work. It will suddenly appear from any place you can imagine in life. It may even be just a gangster who comes out of the alley with a knife to end a person's life. I understand it deeply, so I got sick. It was Xin Ci. He is the most compassionate person I have ever met. He saved me."

I was slightly surprised, and then I bowed slightly: "I'm sorry Curian, I brought up your sad story."

"That's okay. Actually, it happened a long time ago. My father said that I was too timid. When I was little, I couldn't sleep and cried when I heard wild cats meowing outside. Now I'm much better." Coreyan joked.

I managed to cope with it with a grin, but I still put more of my emotions on Hyun Young. If I had known, I would not have come to the Yu family. This kind of thing that can be seen but cannot be controlled is better than never heard of. I could only shake my head in distress: "I still don't understand why a five or six-year-old child is treated as an adult. President Yu can't even remember his own daughter's name, let alone expect his daughter to understand his inferiority complex. Why would he vent his anger on her? What does she know about pleasing others?"

Corian remained calm, as if he had been worn down by reality. His indifference to his child made people even more terrified. "Children from aristocratic families are all like this. My father said that we are like thorns born on the edge of a cliff. If we are not careful, we will fall. If we cannot teach our children to take root deeply, it is better to let them leave soon after they are born, rather than wait until the father and son are filial and the old man sends the young man away. That way, they will be happy and not suffer too much."

"Really?" I turned my head and blurted out something in English. It took me a long time to calm down: "Curian, do you mean that you agree with Yu Pei'an's approach?"

Corian quickly shook his head like a spinning top: "Oh No! I won't! My father said that this is very common in major families, but if I dare to do this, he will break my legs! I just want... You have a concept here, scholars, farmers, merchants and artisans, the four directions are ranked, we are at the bottom, so we should be low-key. He is too ostentatious. Whether in the business world or in the family, the story of the Yu family has become a joke."

I sighed: "After listening to you, I seem to understand something."

"What?"

"There is still a difference between a family like ours that was forced to move up and a real family. You see it much more clearly than I do."

Ke Ruian laughed out loud, not knowing whether he was really happy or self-deprecating: "Miss Fu, you are too modest. You and Mr. Fu are both low-key and steady, which is admired by many people. Your grandfather is even more admired by many people."

"Him? Why? I'm not familiar with my grandfather. He died shortly after I was born, so I don't have any feelings for him. But I really like listening to his stories." I asked with great interest.

Corian was now frowning and thinking deeply, but he still shook his head: "Well... Many people can't really describe their admiration for him, but they all understand that he is very good at controlling people's hearts. Often a random word or action can change someone's life. We always stay away from self-made geniuses. I haven't seen him, but I heard from the elders that people like him can scare many people with just one look at him, just like you have a word here called...eagle-eyed and wolf-eyed!"

I nodded with the corners of my mouth pulled, looking back at the meaningful look in Corian's eyes. Yes, Grandpa was a very shrewd and capable man. As a superior, his terror was beyond the imagination of many people. However, such a person also died in the most cruel and simple way. What's the use of admiring him so much?

No one in this world can be like him, but many people imitate him, and there are more cruel things, which is not a good thing.

Not far ahead is Yu Pei'an's study, an arc-shaped building surrounded by a garden-style fence and housing two peacocks. It looks very comfortable. Just as I was thinking about how to communicate with people after entering, Zhizhi called to save my life.

If you see too many bad guys, you will get angry and sick. I quickly pointed to my phone and said to Corian: "You go in first, I have something to take care of."

Corean responded without thinking, "Okay, see you later." I didn't think there was anything wrong, but the next second he almost jumped up as if his words were hot on his lips: "Oh sorry! I spoke English again! I meant to see you later..."

I was also annoyed by the little classmate Gao who caused this weird exchange behind the scenes. He stomped his feet and replied: "It's okay, it's okay! I understand what you said!"

It was very difficult to send away Corean, a little foreigner who was as crazy as Gao Xinci. Zhizhi almost hung up the phone. I was afraid that I would have to endure his nagging when I got back, so I quickly found a place where there was no one and answered the phone. I lowered my posture and prepared to accept a few words of insults. Unexpectedly, as soon as I said hello, a voice that made me even more unhappy came out!

"Hey Shishi, where are you? Did you have fun eloping? If you did, can I negotiate a price with you for something?" Lao Hou asked in a long tone, with some noise coming out. He seemed to be busy with something. After a while, he asked again, "Busy? Why don't you say anything? Let me be direct. I found those herbs from Ma Da. They are indeed of great research value. I heard from the locals that you have already bought the right to pick them. You are too busy to handle it, so why not just sell it to me? It's a one-time price. How about 50 million?"

I quietly rolled my eyes, and sighed helplessly after showing contempt: "No need, I'm just a guide. If you hadn't accidentally shown me the pictures of those plants, they would be nothing but weeds in Mada. William gave me the right to pick them, and using them to treat illnesses and save lives is also a good deed for me."

"Oh? So reasonable. Gao Xinci is a kindergarten teacher? He taught you to be so well-behaved and cute." Old Hou laughed cheerfully twice, then changed his tone to tease, "Well - maybe it was stimulated by the dirty things and found that it is better to be at home. Is it the Yu family now? Uncle is telling you, don't learn bad things, and don't be too empathetic. With garbage genes and garbage education, no matter the old or the young, they will not be good people after the baptism of time. If you still don't understand, come back and uncle will give you two biology lessons."

"Uncle, you are even more obscene than Yu Pei'an when you said that, okay..." I poked my head around, good, no one, then looked up and down, oh no, there is a surveillance camera, I took a breath of cold air: "Uncle, I'm sorry, can you treat my words just now as the discharge of irritating waste gas? I have a question for you now, if I say bad things about someone who is a bit powerful in his home, and there is a surveillance camera above my head facing my face, what should I do? Help me think of a reasonable way to sneak into his surveillance room and delete the surveillance camera?"

Old Hou couldn't hold it in any longer and burst into laughter. Even without the speakerphone on, it was deafening. I quickly put the phone away until he pretended to be serious and started to talk about the plan: "Baby, turn on the speakerphone, and uncle will try to talk to the little thing that is monitoring you."

I listened to this with half-belief and half-doubt. I thought that the Hou family was very prestigious in Yingjing. Maybe Old Hou and Yu Pei'an were old friends? Would they say that I, a kid who said bad things about others without covering up, was just innocent? An unintentional mistake? Oh, right, could it be that Old Hou and Yu Pei'an were close friends who had a lot in common? They were both playboys. At most, Old Hou was not as fertile as Yu Pei'an...

I was still thinking about it, but who would have thought that the next second, Old Hou coughed and seemed to have picked up a loudspeaker and started shouting: "Silly girl with no vision! Who is Yu Pei'an! How can he be compared with you! What do you think he relied on to get to where he is today? A fool with a bunch of green hats on his head! A poor little thing who is so inferior that he goes crazy every day! At most, he can be a topic of conversation for you after dinner--"