The Deepest Color of the Night

Hong Kong, Ke family.

The gate of the Ke family’s mansion in Mid-Levels was entangled with rose branches. Eighteen doormen in suits and leather shoes stood on both sides. Luxury cars came in and out one after another.

Chi Qiu was wearing a European high-end pink engagement dress and stood on the balcony of the villa, looking indifferently at the huge flower bed made of 99 white roses in the garden not far away.

Later, she will stand on the flower platform, put on the ring, accept the applause, and put on a smile to face the flashing cameras of various reporters; tonight, her figure standing side by side with Gu Yuan will appear in the entertainment pages of major newspapers on Hong Kong Island Headlines, no one can see her hypocritical face under the mask of happiness.

"Miss Chi," a protocol officer hurried over, bowed and said, "I'm sorry, the ceremony will start in 10 minutes, and Young Master Gu hasn't come out of the locker room yet, so tell us not to disturb him... "

"I see, it's okay."

Chi Qiu turned around, took a breath and said, "I'll call him."

·

The second floor of the auditorium is the groom's preparation room. Chi Qiu reached out and knocked on the dark wooden door, and said loudly, "Master Gu, it's me!"

The door was quiet for a while, before a voice could not hear any emotion: "Come in."

Chi Qiu pushed the door open and walked in.

The preparation room was a bit messy, and the golden sunlight passed through the windows, casting an oily and hazy luster on the aged mahogany floor.Gu Yuan has already been taken care of by the makeup artist. The black formal dress sets off his lean and straight figure, and his handsome and deep face is expressionless; he is sitting behind the dressing table, and when he sees Chi Qiu coming in, he stretches out his hand and gently turns it over without even lifting his eyelids. A sheet of paper in front of you.

Chi Qiu said softly: "Young Master Gu."

After more than half a minute, Gu Yuan finally looked at her, and pointed to the account book in front of him: "What do you mean by asking someone to give this to me this morning?"

——I saw that the account book was densely packed, all handwritten, and it turned out to be Ke Wenlong's private account before his death!

Ke Wenlong is old and not used to computer software, so he writes down some secret and important information by himself.He was injured in his right little finger in the early years, and then he was a little trembling with the pen, and the handwriting had a very obvious slant, and it was difficult for anyone who had seen his handwritten letters to mistake it.

I saw that there was a single "Gu Yuan" book listed in the account book, and the entries and exits below it were impressively the Ke family's financial expenditures supporting Gu Yuan over the years, as well as the records of various remuneration received from Gu Yuan!

Chi Qiu took a breath and looked directly at Gu Yuan:

"I found this in the dark cabinet when I took someone to clean up the master bedroom last night. I just think that although it's a thing of the past, you always have the right to know..."

In Gu Yuan's book on the ledger, there are still a few pages with "anticipation" written on it. The handwriting below is scrawled and sometimes scribbled. It can be seen that Ke Wenlong will often make revisions according to the development of the actual situation.

In anticipation, Ke Wenlong listed the details of several shipping routes that Gu’s family used, terminal information, and cargo in and out, as well as the approximate profit he calculated based on this; this profit has been calculated until ten years later based on the way it advances every year. If you turn a page, you can see that Ke Wenlong counted 60.00% of it into the Ke family's "future incomeable items".

In other words, ten years later is the time when Ke Wenlong calculated that Gu Yuan would be able to rise to the top, master the Gu family's route, and provide unimaginably rich returns to the Ke family.

In addition, there are some other fragmented projects. Although the amount of cash is not as huge as the annual route revenue, the sum of all invisible and non-invisible benefits is quite an astonishing figure. At least when Chi Qiu first saw it, I could hardly believe my eyes because of the shock.

Gu Yuan closed the ledger, his face against the light was as indifferent as a sculpture, "Old Ke has always been a very ambitious person, nothing surprising."

"You - don't you feel it at all? You are the most valuable investment of the Ke family! Even after ten years, I have calculated all the benefits that I can ask you for -"

Gu Yuan asked back: "Aren't I also your Chi family's investment?"

Chi Qiu was momentarily at a loss for words.

When she came to her senses and was about to retort that you are a grandson of the Ke family, and you are not a relative to my Chi family, Gu Yuan interrupted her in a very flat tone: "—I When I was [-] or [-] years old, I also had the same thoughts as you. That time I was in a car accident, and my internal organs ruptured and I almost died. After waking up in the ward, I asked who had visited me, and they said no one. I asked my grandfather Well, they said they didn’t see it either.”

Chi Qiu fell silent.

"Of course the Ke family must have taken action. At least Mr. Ke called my father himself during the rescue and asked him why this happened, and then sent people to participate in the investigation of the cause of the car accident...but that's a story Yes. When I was lying motionless on the hospital bed that month, I often thought, why no one came to see me? Why everyone was investigating, arguing, reprimanding, and negotiating compensation. No one came over to see me with their own eyes?"

"Later, I figured it out. Many relationships between people, between families, between interests and conflicts are actually like that." Gu Yuan gently tossed the ledger forward and said, "Many things There are complicated causes and consequences, so it’s not interesting to get to the bottom of it, just see the side you want to see.”

Chi Qiu bit her lip, "...I see."

She stepped forward to pick up the ledger, turned around and walked towards the door of the study, but stopped suddenly.

"The ceremony is about to start, you'd better come down quickly." She heard her voice trying to keep calm, but her breathing was unconcealable: "The person at the door said just now that Assistant Fang has arrived at the pier and is going to the dock." On the way to the wedding..."

There was silence behind him, and Gu Yuan's cold voice sounded after a long time:

"Now you have to call him Vice President Fang."

·

At four o'clock in the afternoon, the ceremony officially began.

This engagement ceremony, which cost a huge amount of money, was a grand event on Hong Kong Island, and the guests included almost all politicians, chaebols and wealthy families in the upper class.Everyone knew that this was the Ke family trying to build momentum for Gu Yuan, intending to establish his status as the invisible heir in the public opinion, and also to prepare for him to change his name and surname in the future; A major blow.

The band played, the door opened slowly, and the snow-white tapestry stretched from the grass to the beautiful ceremony stage.

Gu Yuan’s black suit dress, with ruby ​​brooch cufflinks, is as handsome as a prince walking out of the castle; Chi Qiu’s pink bare-shouldered engagement dress, wearing a set of huge diamond crown jewelry, has a noble and charming temperament, just like in the last scene of a fairy tale The grand debut of the princess.

The two of them held hands, a golden boy and a jade girl in a pair, facing the warm applause and the spotlight from both sides, they walked to the front stage, and then Gu Yuan took the ring box from the witness and opened it, revealing the dazzling eight-carat princess cut diamond inside. .

——Under the reflection of the fire of the giant diamond, the plain ring on Gu Yuan's ring finger looked abnormally dull.

A trace of sadness flashed across Chi Qiu's beautiful eyes.

This engagement ring was worn by Gu Yuan's biological mother back then.After Gu Yuan fled and came to Hong Kong, he took two months to recover his influence and funds from the mainland one after another, and finally recovered [-]% or [-]% of the [-]%. Otherwise, the Ke family alone would not be able to hold an engagement wedding of this scale.This ring was brought from the Gu family's mansion by a few of his loyal cronies.

Chi Qiu didn't want it at first - she always felt that it shouldn't belong to her.

The wedding ring left by the mother is passed either to the daughter or to the son's lover.

Every time she sees this ring, an earlier picture will appear in her mind: that is the villa garden full of stars, the young man who was hugged by Gu Yuan was a little panicked, and suddenly looked at herself ; that was later when the young man leaned on the steering wheel, his eyelashes drooping like feathers, and said softly: "If you are scolded by the boss, you will be sad..."

The watery light in those beautiful eyes was brighter than this diamond ring, enough to make her feel an inexplicable love and sorrow in her heart.

He must be alone, right?

This is obviously... This should belong to him.

Chi Qiu raised his finger, with obvious hesitation in that action.

"You take what is given to you." Gu Yuan said suddenly, as if he had seen through what was going on in her mind, but his attitude was very flat: "He won't care."

Chi Qiu's heart skipped a beat, and the words of retort came out without thinking: "—how do you know he doesn't care?!"

After she finished speaking, she regretted it. After all, it was on the flower platform, surrounded by countless cameras, and the people below were still waiting for her to put on the ring.

Gu Yuan didn't take it seriously, and even showed a very shallow smile.In the eyes of outsiders, it seems that the bride and groom-to-be discussed the issue of the wedding ring, with a warm, romantic and intimate attitude; but only Chi Qiu could see it, and the twinkling in Gu Yuan's eyes was clearly ridicule: "Does he want anything now? How can he not?" Care about that."

Chi Qiu couldn't say a word, and watched helplessly as the ring was slipped on his finger.

As soon as the music sounded, the audience burst into applause again.Gu Yuan politely nodded to the witnesses to express his thanks, and everyone around came forward to congratulate him, the scene was joyous and harmonious; no one noticed Chi Qiu's eyes glanced at Gu Yuan, the simple ring that he never left his body , and still put it on his ring finger motionlessly.

But you do care, Chi Qiu thought.

No matter how much hatred and disdain you show, you obviously still... care a lot.

At this moment, there was a commotion at the gate of the villa outside the garden, and then the protocol officer hurried through the crowd, walked up to Gu Yuan and said in a low voice, "Master Gu, the person sent by the Gu family in G City is here. "

Gu Yuan was talking to the master of ceremonies, when he heard this, he paused suddenly, and after a few seconds, he slowly asked: "——how many are here?"

"Just... just one," the protocol officer was a little timid, "Mr. Gu Mingzong didn't come, it was their vice president, the one surnamed Fang..."

Chi Qiu suddenly looked at Gu Yuan.

I saw no emotional changes on the man's face, he fixed his eyes on a certain point in the air, as if he was so engrossed that he was not thinking about anything, he couldn't see what thoughts were going through his mind at all; Chi Qiu's heart instantly He grabbed it tightly, and after a while, Gu Yuan said coldly: "Since you're here, please come in."

Chi Qiu breathed a sigh of relief, and suddenly turned to look at the door.

I saw the wrought iron gate covered with red roses opened, and a black Bentley drove in slowly, and then stopped on the private driveway beside the lawn.Immediately afterwards, the doorman stepped forward to open the car door, first a few trusted followers got out of the car, and then, a thin and neat young man in a black windbreaker came out.

——He's obviously lost weight, Chi Qiu thought.

Before she left the mainland, she once met Fang Jin once. It was when she accompanied Gu Yang to a business reception, and she saw him talking to Gu Yuan through the crowd. She raised her head slightly and smiled.This person looks as if carved out of pearls and jade. His eyes full of smiles and love make people unable to look directly at them, because as long as the eyes touch, the whole mind will be frightened, it is simply thrilling.

But now that smile is gone.

He just stood there quietly, walking through the crowd, his face pale and calm.

He was still very handsome, and when he walked along the lawn, many people looked back at him with dazed, curious and amazed eyes.However, his footsteps did not stop, and when he finally stood under the flower platform, the windbreaker fell off as he stood still, and the surrounding voices gradually quieted down.

Gu Yuan stared at him condescendingly, his eyes shone with indescribable, disgusted and mocking light.

After a while he said, "Vice President Fang."

Fang Jin said lightly: "Gu Yuan."

The two of them looked at each other for a moment, and Gu Yuan finally took a step forward slowly, leaned over and stretched out his hand.

The flower terrace is some distance away from the ground, and you have to use a step next to it to go up.Fang Jin lowered her eyelashes, held Gu Yuan's hand, and used her strength to step directly onto the flower platform, but Gu Yuan shook her hand twice.

If one ignores Gu Yuan's protruding white knuckles, it looks like an intimate handshake.

"Welcome to my engagement." Gu Yuan's falcon-like cold gaze went straight into Fang Jin's eyes, but the voice really smiled: "Why are you the only one here, where is my father?"

Fang Jin said calmly, "Your father is sick."

This question and answer seemed to be calm, but in fact, the undercurrent was raging. The witnesses, officiant, master of ceremonies and others all felt that something was wrong at the same time, and they just stood aside and looked at Fang Jin.

They didn't know how many complicated entanglements and desperate love and hatred lay behind that short sentence. They just thought that the vice president of the Gu family, surnamed Fang, was so young and handsome. The bride and groom who dress up luxuriously and brightly are even more eye-catching.

"...You've lost weight," Gu Yuan said.

Fang Jin showed a faint smile, "It should."

He gently broke free from Gu Yuan's hand and turned to Chi Qiu.At that moment Chi Qiu felt uneasy, sad and pity in his heart, the feeling was complicated and hard to describe; however, Fang Jin's expression was the same as when he first saw her, as if he was still the forbearing, restrained person next to Gu Yuan, Gentle and polite little assistant.

"Congratulations, Ms. Chi, happy wedding." Fang Jin took a jewelry box from Aken who came quickly behind him, and said gently: "I have another Bo Yi, this is a little congratulatory gift for you, please accept it." .”

He opened the lid of the box, and inside was an extremely rare ruby ​​ring that was as big as an adult's fingertip, reflecting scarlet and pure light in the sunlight.When Chi Qiu saw it, he rejected it in astonishment: "How can this be done? It's too precious, and—"

"Ruby represents the promise of staying together for a lifetime. It is the legendary stone of love." Fang Jin smiled slightly and said, "Miss Chi is so beautiful today, you two are very suitable... I wish you and your wife healthy and safe, and grow old forever."

He handed the jewelry box to Chi Qiu's hand, stepped forward and gave her a gentle hug.

In an instant, Chi Qiu felt his weak breath, and the bones protruding from his shoulders, his heart felt as if lemon juice had been squeezed heavily, and even his internal organs felt sore with pain.

She thought that she was very unfortunate to be the heroine in the marriage of interests, but at this moment, she suddenly felt that there was a deeper, more powerless, and more unspeakable pain in this world.

why?Obviously this person turned his back on him first.

They all said that he followed the more powerful President Gu, even abandoned the seriously injured Gu Yuan, and never looked back at sea.

Why……

Fang Jin took half a step back, and asked with a smile, "Why are you crying? You have to be happy on a good day."

It was only then that Chi Qiu realized that her vision was blurred. She hastily wiped the corners of her eyes, and there was an unconcealable sob in her voice: "Assistant Fang..."

Fang Jin smiled and shook his head, turned around and supported the bodyguard's hand, and walked off the flower platform.

The moment he turned sideways, Gu Yuan's gaze shifted from ruby ​​to him, his face was strangely stiff, it seemed that he was clenching his teeth tightly if he looked carefully.

He knows the ring.

It was a long time ago when I took Fang Jin to Macau. One day Fang Jin came out of the shop, very happy, and said that he bought a ring and gave it to him as a gift when he got married.At that time, Gu Yuan thought he was joking, so he answered yes perfunctorily, not thinking that such a day would really happen.

——It turned out that he had already secretly planned it back then.

It's quite a word that must be practiced, but it's really given away!

Fang Jin walked through the crowd towards the grass, while Gu Yuan stared at his back, feeling as if his heart had been pierced so hard by a knife blade that he couldn't feel any pain even when his nails dug deep into his palm.