The Price of Rebirth [System]

When Wu's father turned the green pepper beef in the pot into a clean white plate, the rice cooker next to it just made a "ding--" sound, and the red indicator light automatically slid back to the heat preservation setting.

With the back of his hand, he wiped the fine sweat on his forehead due to the heat of the kitchen, turned off the range hood, and Father Wu just walked out of the kitchen with the delicious dish.

There are already quite a few dishes on the dining table in the living room, and the fresh fragrance of the vines permeates the air. Just smelling it a few times will make people's index fingers move and salivate.

After serving the last fried dish on the table, Father Wu subconsciously glanced at the clock hanging on the wall, frowned sadly and sighed quietly.

After wiping the greasy palms on the apron, Father Wu took off the apron and came to his son's door with a comforting tone and a little temptation.

"Xiaojing, Xiaojing? Come out to eat, no matter how sad you are, you can't treat your body badly, right?"

There was no sound from inside the door, and Father Wu knocked twice more, but there was still no response. In the end, he could only sigh lightly, and just as he put down his hand, the door was opened with a "click--".

Father Wu raised his head in surprise, and saw his son's pale, haggard cheeks, the dark circles under the eye bags became more and more obvious due to insomnia, and the whole person seemed to be dehydrated, without aura and vitality.

"Xiaojing..." Wu's father cried out in distress, but he wanted to reach out and touch his head, but his heart was full of sadness.

"Dad..." Zhang Chongji smiled, very reluctantly, "I'm fine...don't worry."

don’t worry?How could he not be worried by this appearance?

It has been two days since I saw the news of Young Master Yuan's engagement on TV that day. During this period, my son either locked himself in the room or sat on the sofa and stared at the phone blankly. Just a text message reminding the weather forecast that he would It made him stand up immediately.

Expectations again and again ushered in more disappointments again and again.

Seeing his son's complexion getting darker and his body getting more and more haggard with the passage of time, he, the father, was helpless.

During this period, it's not that my son didn't go to Yuan's house to ask for clarification, but no matter how sincere his attitude was, he was dismissed and blocked from the door.

Time and time again, from morning to evening, Yuan Cheng didn't even show his profile. Every time he saw his son's distraught appearance after returning home, he felt very worried.

How did that happen?Why subject his son to such feelings?He doesn't want his son to have a beautiful and sweet relationship, but at least he doesn't want him to feel sad and tortured by a wrong relationship like he is now.

No matter how sad and distressed Father Wu was, even if he wished to take out the man in the villa and give him a good lesson, he was still powerless and helpless.

The only reason is that it was the Yuan family, a wealthy business family with huge influence, and he, an ordinary person, could not be provoked at all. If he still had the position of housekeeper, it would be fine, but it is a pity that he has nothing to do with the Yuan family at all.

What's more, he is old now, and his son is already 25 or [-] years old. Some things are simply beyond his touch and try to solve.

For example, the son's current feelings.

I have tried to stop it, and I have been annoyed, but the matter still developed into my worst guess.

Based on serving the Yuan family for so many years, Father Wu is naturally very aware of the character of Yuan Hongtian, the head of the Yuan family. To put it mildly, he is capable and sophisticated. The so-called old man talks about being a teenager, but directly, he is a cunning fox who is only strong and does not understand human feelings.

Seeing that the engagement is imminent, how could the master of the Yuan family allow an outsider to make trouble like this?What's more, this outsider is still his son's so-called lover.

But Wu's father guessed that the master of the Yuan family didn't know about his son and his elder son's affairs, otherwise, with his resolute personality, it is absolutely impossible for the father and son to be so stable now.

Sighing, Father Wu can only blame himself for not living up to expectations, his obscurity, and his mediocrity, and all he can do now is to take care of his son as much as possible so that he can get out of this relationship as soon as possible .

Although he thought so and did so, the effect of this comfort and care was minimal. What made him even more troublesome was that he felt that his son hadn't given up on Yuan Cheng at all, let alone getting out of this period. Feelings gone.

"Dad, I'm not hungry..." Zhang Chongji looked at Father Wu's self-blame and distressed eyes, and smiled softly, but the bitterness in it could be seen, needless to say, "You eat first."

Father Wu sighed, but without saying anything, he grabbed Zhang Chongji's arm that was about to close the door.

"dad?"

"Would you like to accompany Dad? Even if you don't eat, don't stay in the room alone for so long."

Looking at Father Wu's pleading eyes, Zhang Chongji finally lowered his eyes and nodded.

In this way, Wu's father cooked such a table of delicious dishes, but he could only enjoy them alone. Seeing his son sitting quietly on the sofa and looking down at the mobile phone in his hand, he felt that the food was tasteless and tasted like chewing wax.

Suddenly, Zhang Chongji's cell phone vibrated, and with a "ding dong—" a text message was received.

Zhang Chongji's eyes suddenly ignited with the light of hope, and he hurriedly opened the interface, but the next second his face was full of disappointment and sadness.

Seeing this, Father Wu sighed softly again. Seeing the table full of food, he couldn't stop his sobs. He had to eat a few bites in a hurry, put down the bowls and chopsticks, and started to clean up.

And Zhang Chongji looked down at the text message he had received after watching Father Wu's back disappearing into the kitchen at the corner.

Indeed, this is not a text message from Yuan Cheng, but it is also different from the weather forecast that people ignore.

There is no reason, it's very simple - this message is from Yuan Ke, but just a short paragraph made Zhang Chongji silently hold the phone tightly.

"The cat and the tiger have never met. One day, a pregnant cat passed by the tiger. The cat thought: there is such a big cat, a genetic mutation! But the tiger thought: the children are getting worse and worse. I was pregnant at such a young age.”——Yuan Ke

Looking at the irrelevant words in the text message, the corners of Zhang Zhongji's mouth curled up slightly.

That's right, it's not a sarcastic statement or an annoying word, but on the contrary, it's a bad joke that has nothing to do with the topic.

Always swearing at people as idiots with a vicious tongue, but in fact, his own behavior is as childish as a kid.

Is it because he is afraid that he will be too sad?How could this kind of cold joke be thought of by him, and where did he pickpocket it?

In short, this is not the first cold joke text message that Zhang Chongji has received. He began to receive similar text messages inexplicably after waiting at Yuan's house a few days ago to no avail.

Zhang Chongji knew that his silent pleading and waiting in front of the gate of the Yuan family had always been seen by Yuan Ke. Although he did not speak out again to stop the servant from rejecting him, Zhang Chongji felt that the servant who politely rejected him was much more kind. Li was so arrogant and unreasonable, it was obvious that she had been managed by others.

This person is not Yuan Ke, who else?

Although Yuan Ke himself did not appear again, he used this funny text message to comfort him.

After all, he is still a pure and awkward devil king.

Shaking his head, Zhang Chongji pressed the delete button but paused when he pressed the 'OK to delete' button, pursed his lips and pressed the cancel button.

Just keep one, just pretend.

Zhang Chongji thought so, ignoring the wave in his heart.

Putting the phone beside the sofa, Zhang Chongji sighed softly, looking up at the white ceiling.

After a while, the phone vibrated again, and another message came in with a "ding dong--".

Zhang Chongji has already become paralyzed by this. After all, he has waited for so long and been disappointed so many times. Naturally, he will not report his hope this time. What's more, it is actually impossible for him to receive any information from Yuan Cheng himself or himself. .

Don't think that he doesn't understand anything. From the moment he made up his mind to break up, Zhang Chongji thought about the order of all the plans. Don't think that he is really sad when he stays in the room these days, it's just a disguise It was just a trick of the eye. After seeing the engagement news, he searched for some information on the Internet to sort out the clues and the next action to be taken to make sure nothing went wrong.

It should be fortunate that the Internet is a good tool for knowing everything. Whether it is the engagement time or the fiancée of Miss Bai, he has thought about it carefully to ensure that there is no leakage.

The reason why Zhang Chongji attached so much importance to this breakup was not only because he was an important step in the plan, but also because of the official head of the Yuan family——Yuan Hongtian.

According to the information on the Internet and the disclosure of Yuan Cheng's inadvertent testing before, Yuan Hongtian is not a person who can sit comfortably if he is provoked by himself. If he really pursues something, then no one will have a good end.

Although the information on the Internet is different, there is a subtle commonality. He just grabbed a few common and relatively 100% true information to start.

According to the information, this engagement must be Yuan Hongtian's idea, and according to his strong means and personality, he will never make any mistakes in this engagement ceremony. This old guy is always uncommonly cruel in matters related to the group .

Although the future task of Yuan's Group's bankruptcy is to start with Yuan Ke, Zhang Chongji still has a headache when he thinks of taking Yuan's Group from such a difficult old guy.

According to Zhang Chongji's plan, Yuan Cheng would never be able to contact him, and he just had to give up slowly and break up by default after the engagement ceremony tomorrow.

So when he clicked to read the text message, Zhang Chongji blinked his eyes and pursed his lips tightly.

An unfamiliar number, with no previous call records or information records, is completely an unfamiliar number that he came into contact with for the first time, but the content from this unfamiliar number made Zhang Chongji not feel strange at all.

There is no reason, just because the content of that text message surprised and surprised him enough.

"Xiao Jing, you must listen to my explanation. Meet the western restaurant at 3:[-] pm. I am Yuan Cheng."

The content is only a few simple sentences, and the sentences are not smooth and reversed. It can be seen that the text message was sent in a hurry, but Zhang Zhongji squinted his eyes, read the text message again, and pursed his lips.

Without the slightest doubt, and without any reason, Zhang Chongji was sure that this person was Yuan Cheng, not because of the last few words of the text message, but because of an inexplicable feeling in his heart.

However, if it is confirmed that this text message was sent by Yuan Cheng himself, then he can pretend not to see it and return to the track of his plan, but... there are many fatal loopholes in it.

So, does he come to the appointment...or not?