In May 2016, the Bronte estate in the suburbs of Milan, Italy.

On the tennis court, the Bronte father and son were sparring in the afternoon spring sun.Mr. Mario is nearly 28 years old, and he is still full of vigor and vitality. His son Steven is in his [-]s, but he looks like a [-]-year-old youth. He is fit and flexible, and he is flexible on the court. Running to catch the ball, the two went back and forth, already sweating profusely.

In this game, it was Mario's turn to serve, he served a low ball, Steven picked it back, Mario smashed it immediately, Steven picked it back again, Mario dunked the ball to Steven's backhand In the second position, Steven quickly slid to the left, hooked his wrist, and the ball flew over the net again, flying very high, Mario jumped up and smashed vigorously, Steven made a lunge and returned the ball to Mario's net In front of him, Mario ran up, flicked his wrist, and the ball hit the net.

"You won, I'm old!" Mario laughed, walked to the sidelines, and wiped his sweat with a towel.

"Father, you're not bad either. You put a lot of pressure on me every round." Steven followed and put the towel around his neck.

The father and son walked slowly to the living room.

"Son, you have been very unhappy these years!" Mario said suddenly.

"Dad, why do you say that?" Steven asked calmly.

"Marrying a woman I don't love, I've been unhappy all my life. I feel sad when you go my old way, and I wanted to tell you a long time ago." Mario sighed.

"Dad..." Steven acquiesces. In the past five years, he has lived in his father's Bronte Manor most of the time. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the relationship between him and his wife is not very harmonious. They have been married for nearly eight years and have no children. want one.

"Actually, as soon as Vincent resigned, I announced your identity. You don't need to wrong yourself to marry Millie. You have the courage to refuse the casino position. Why didn't you refuse her?" Mario asked.

Steven didn't answer, thinking to himself, Dad, you don't know, I had to get married back then to protect the personal safety of my beloved.He once accused his father of marrying for profit, but unfortunately, he did not escape the same curse.

"Steven, I know you love Vincent, but he has been dead for almost 8 years..."

"Dad!" Steven looked at Mario in surprise.

"If you care about you, you can see everything. During the years in the casino, even though you pretended to be deaf and dumb, your whole life was burning with a flame of happiness. Therefore, after 5 years, you have no intention of leaving the casino. Although I am anxious, But I have never urged you; and these years, although you have a beautiful wife, luxurious and glamorous, your life is like a withered flower, which makes me extremely worried. Since you are a man, society is very tolerant now, and same-sex marriages are common in many countries. Admit it. Divorce Millie as soon as possible, go find your own new life, set yourself free, and set Millie free." Mario persuaded.

Steven did not answer. In recent years, he has privately proposed to his wife for divorce several times, but his wife firmly disagrees. Out of guilt, he is embarrassed to force the lawsuit, and it has been delayed until now.Walking back to the fork in the respective small buildings, Steven suddenly said firmly: "Dad, thank you! You are right, I should go to find my life!"

Steven turned around, tears welling up in his eyes.In this world, except for the person who faked Vincent's death, only he knows that Vincent is still alive. No matter how many years have passed, he will never forget him—the person who spent eight years of beautiful youth with him.

Three years after Vincent left, Steven dared to investigate his whereabouts. He hacked into the London traffic surveillance system, reviewed the video from that year, and tracked down the whereabouts of the container truck. car, boarded a taxi to Heathrow Airport, disappeared at the gate to Berlin, and was never seen again.According to the speed and method of creating fake death for Vincent, he deduced that it was MI[-] that helped Vincent, so he took the risk of hacking into the database of MI[-] to check for information, but MI[-]'s anti-hacker guards are particularly strong , not only did he stay for a short time each time, but he also had to wait a long time before he dared to go again. Therefore, it took him three years intermittently to find the huge secret plan—"Valentine Project": In seven years, MI[-] eliminated the dangerous people involved in Vincent's data one by one, and closed the project in March this year.

However, the plan does not contain any personal information about Vincent.The world is so big that there is no way to find a person who is deliberately invisible. Steven can only bury the pain in his heart.In the dead of night, he would often hear a familiar voice whispering in his ear: "Henry, do you know? How much I love you!"

Every month, he would go back to London on a weekend, and spend one day in Vincent's penthouse, recalling the days they were together, and breathing his increasingly thinning breath; on the other morning, he went back to Henry's home to talk to Henry The family had lunch together, and he announced that he had found his own father and cured his deaf-mute disease. Henry’s family never doubted it; in the afternoon, he went to the Kelvin Orphanage to accompany the orphan, and regularly, he would open a donation form to the orphanage anonymously .He repeated these things month after month, and almost eight years passed by.

Steven's wife, Millie, was born in the Rossini family, one of the four largest conglomerates in Europe. After she graduated from Harvard University with a graduate degree in economics, her father handed over the management of the family's banking business to her.

Steven took over the banking business of the Bronte family.Since the world financial crisis was in that year, after discussions between the two families, the banks of the Rossini family and the Bronte family were merged into Shengxing Bank, each holding 50% of the shares. Millie became the president, and I assisted her in running the business wholeheartedly.Gambler Vincent is a business genius, and he deals with celebrities in the political and business circles in Europe. Steven has been with him for eight years, and he has learned the essence of it through hearing and seeing, and has played a huge role in the bank's management. With the connections of the four major families, Shengxing Bank has grown bigger and bigger in the past eight years, and its assets have doubled several times. Now, it has entered the list of the five largest banks in Europe.

As for the casino, after Vincent left, Steven submitted a detailed report to the four major families, clarifying what Vincent did in the casino, no one can copy, he not only has a super high talent for gambling , and his extraordinary economic vision, diplomatic skills, management strategy, courage and courage in doing things, coupled with the help of an excellent deputy like himself, ensured the continued prosperity of the casino.Now that there is a financial crisis, MI[-] is keeping a close eye on this place. He suggested that it is better to follow the trend and sell the casino to the coveted gangsters of a certain country at the current market price. The cash obtained can just hedge against the four big families. The impact of the investment industry in the financial crisis.The four big families adopted his suggestion and sold the casino for an excellent price.After the casino changed hands, the original high-end customers lost one after another, and it was quickly reduced to an ordinary underground casino, losing its prosperity for nearly a decade.

Steven has some personal assets, part of which is the stocks, bonds and real estate left to him by Vincent's will, and the other part is the casino dividends he obtained from the eight-year undercover operation, which was invested according to Vincent's asset allocation. It was at the bottom of the global economy at that time. With the recovery of the world economy in recent years, the value of these two parts of assets has continued to increase, and the current market value is close to [-] billion.

Steven once again proposed to his wife for divorce, but Millie still didn't agree, thinking that it would be the same as before, and there would be no more follow-up if it was delayed.However, Steven has made up his mind that even the lawsuit must achieve its purpose. After that, he plans to travel to every corner of the world to find Vincent.The longing for him day after day has already accumulated into a vicissitudes of life, becoming an unbearable pain in his life.

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