withered lover

After discussing the countermeasures with Lu Yi, Du Zhinian didn't stay longer, and after leaving the private restaurant, he drove Shen Guiwan to the Du's Manor.

In fact, the matter was not that urgent, but Du Zhinian wished he could drag Du Hengyu into the water earlier and allow more time to prepare, so that he could get rid of this mess earlier.

The Du family's manor is in the outskirts close to the natural scenic spot. Du Zhinian's car drove up the elevated road all the way, and the clouds floating outside the window flowed away with the opposite direction of the car.

The elevated guardrail is full of ornamental flowers. The dry branches in winter grow new leaves under the sunshine in early spring, and the shadows that are rapidly receding are shining bright yellow.

When the car got off the elevated road, it was getting closer and closer to Du's Manor. Shen Guiwan, who was leaning against the window to watch the scenery, suddenly turned his head to look at Du Zhinian.

He hesitated and asked, "Can I really go?"

"Of course." Du Zhinian quickly glanced at Shen Guiwan, turned on the double flashing lights and parked the car on the side of the road.

Shen Guiwan's brows and eyes still showed coldness and alienation, but his failure to hide his eyes revealed his depressed mood.

He didn't seem to have walked out of the previous conversation.

"Wanwan." Du Zhinian leaned over to hold Shen Guiwan's face, and kissed him amidst the endless traffic.

Shen Guiwan's lips were very cold, and they even trembled a little when they kissed, but they were soon moistened and warmed by Du Zhinian again.

After the long and comforting kiss ended, Du Zhinian rubbed Shen Guiwan's cheek with his thumb, "You are my lover, I have decided to marry you, no matter what, I will take you to meet my parents."

"I don't know how to face them." Shen Guiwan lowered his head and rubbed Du Zhinian's palm.

Du Zhinian had a bad relationship with his parents. They even forced Du Zhinian to do things he didn't like and didn't want to do. If he went rashly at this time, he would definitely be disgusted.

Shen Guiwan didn't care much about his image and role in the eyes of Du Zhinian's parents, but he didn't want Du Zhinian to be caught in the middle.

"You don't need to face it." Du Zhinian gently brushed away Shen Guiwan's overlong hair on his forehead, "Leave everything to me, as long as you stay by my side is enough."

"Don't think too much, I will take you out of here before summer." Du Zhinian pinched the back of Shen Guiwan's head, and placed a light kiss on his forehead.

After decades of construction, the Du's manor has become extraordinarily spacious and magnificent. Du Zhinian's grandfather preferred the Western style, and the gate of the manor was finally built in a Roman style.

Du Zhinian parked the car in front of the gate of Du's manor, ignored the astonished butlers and maids, and walked down the corridor of the manor holding Shen Guiwan's hand openly.

On New Year's Eve, the dry branches covered with thick snow sprouted new buds in early spring. The garden that was once covered by soft snowflakes revealed the original gorgeous European-style statues. There were still no roses in bloom in the garden, but the chill and bleakness of that time did not exist.

When they reached the corner of the corridor, Du Zhinian and Shen Guiwan saw Wen Qiong walking towards them.

She was wearing a light gray woolen shawl, and she was slightly taken aback when she saw the two people walking hand in hand, and then quickly calmed down.

Shen Guiwan said hello softly: "Hello, Auntie."

Wen Qiong raised the corner of her mouth and gave him a very shallow smile, then looked Du Zhinian up and down carefully, and sighed: "You still brought him back."

Du Zhinian let out a short single sound from his nasal cavity, which should be a response to his mother.

Wen Qiong was not annoyed, but instead said calmly and gently: "He is still in the study at this time, go there by yourself, Mr. Shen will stay here and drink tea with me, is that okay?"

Shen Guiwan looked at Wen Qiong who was asking gently, and gently pulled Du Zhinian's hand, "I'll stay here."

Rather than going to see Du Hengyu who drove Du Zhinian to an emotional breakdown on New Year's Eve, Shen Guiwan wanted to stay with Wen Qiong who had met him once and had no hostility towards him.

He didn't have a mother, so he could only use Du Zhinian's mother to secretly satisfy his desires.

Every time Shen Guiwan wants to ask for something he wants, he will hold his hand so cautiously, Du Zhinian is of course reluctant to refuse him.

"Okay." He kissed Shen Guiwan's side face, "If you don't want to answer, just ignore her."

Du Zhinian had a grudge against Wen Qiong, but Shen Guiwan couldn't really do that, so he could only discuss with Du Zhinian in a low voice: "You go, I want to go home for dinner tonight."

He didn't eat much at noon, and he was already starting to feel hungry, so he wanted to make something light for dinner.

"Then think about what you want to eat first, and I'll come back as soon as I go." Du Zhinian pinched Shen Guiwan's face reluctantly, and then walked quickly towards the study.

Du Zhinian walked up the stairs to the third floor of the main house, without knocking, he pushed open the door of Du Hengyu's study.

After being away from home for more than ten years, he can't remember the last time he entered Du Hengyu's study. Now when he walks in again, what he recalls in his mind is the bad memory of being scolded and humiliated by Du Hengyu when he was young.

Du Zhinian stood by the door and took a deep breath. Du Hengyu, who was sitting on the mahogany chair, suddenly slapped the table hard and shouted, "Are you bringing your little lover back to piss me off!"

His speech was as bad as ever, and in the past, Du Zhinian would definitely retort, not to be outdone, and then break up after a big fight.

But today, when Du Zhinian heard Du Hengyu's roar, he just responded with no seriousness: "Speak with respect, Du Hengyu."

"Du Zhinian, you are the one who should speak with respect. Who do you think you are talking to now?" Du Hengyu's voice mixed with anger made the door of the study tremble slightly.

"Of course the chairman of the Du Group." Du Zhinian looked at his father with irony in his eyes, "I just don't know how long you can hold this position."

Du Hengyu suddenly got up, "Du Zhinian, don't be too arrogant, just because you let yourself go all these years doesn't mean I will let you go down like this in the future!"

"Ah—" Du Zhinian elongated his voice, "It seems that you don't know."

"In the past few years, I have been working as Yu Minggu's personal doctor, treating the little daughter of the Lu family."

"The youngest daughter of the Lu family was tortured to the point of death. Now that her sister is back, she is going to help her get justice."

When Du Hengyu suddenly learned of such a shocking secret, his expression froze for a while, and then gradually distorted following Du Zhinian's words.

Du Zhinian sneered and said, "It's not just me, your proud Du family has long been hollowed out by moths, and you probably don't even know how many dirty things the people below have done without telling you, right?"

"Yu Minggu has a lot of handles against the Du family, the tax evasion and bribery scandal of Du's top executives, the low-quality drugs that the pharmaceutical factory did not destroy entered the market... and the gossip about your two incompetent younger brothers. Come out and solve it quickly."

Du Zhinian counted Du's crimes in detail, and at the end he pretended to be strange and asked: "There are so many capable young people in the family, why do you choose to use two trash? Is it because they are your younger brothers?"

After living in the Du family for so many years, the so-called "relatives" in Du Zhinian's eyes were just strangers who lived together because of blood relationship, and they always prioritized their own interests over others, including himself.

This is actually understandable, after all, people are such selfish creatures, but Du Hengyu's support of those two useless younger brothers does not seem to be considering his own interests at all, but seems to be biasing all his feelings for his family on those two people .

Realizing this, Du Zhinian suddenly wanted to laugh out loud.

"I didn't even know that I raised a treacherous white-eyed wolf." Du Hengyu said in a deep voice, the anger in his voice seemed to erupt at any moment.

The chaotic private life of his two younger brothers is not a secret in the wealthy circle, but if the first two things Du Zhinian said are revealed, more serious things will be involved. The century-old family business may also change hands.

It's just that he didn't expect that the one who stabbed him in the back would be his son who was raised by himself.

Du Zhinian laughed when he heard the words, "Breach of faith? Have you ever had any respect for me?"

"What you said at the dinner table, I casually told Yu Minggu as an unimportant joke, who knows if he will check it?"

"But Nanjiang Pharmaceutical is not much better, do you want to know?"

Du Zhinian sat on the sofa in the study room, raised his legs to look at Du Hengyu who had lost his grace, "I can tell you, the condition is that you want to bring down Yu Minggu."

Du Hengyu roared angrily, "Say it!"

The voice was harsh and unpleasant, Du Zhinian covered his ears pretendingly, and continued to ask calmly: "Then you promised to help me?"

The son who had been in his hands kept provoking him. Du Hengyu was so angry that he picked up the paperweight on the table and threw it at Du Zhinian.

Panting heavily, he raised his hand, his chest heaved violently a few times, and suddenly threw the paperweight on the ground violently.

Du Zhinian looked at Du Hengyu's constantly changing expression with great interest, and saw him slumped on a chair in frustration, suddenly feeling like he was getting revenge.

Du Hengyu scolded his worthless younger brothers one by one in his heart, looking at his son who was doing nothing, he couldn't help but get angry.

"Du Zhinian, you'd better explain it to me!" He tried his best to maintain his image in front of Du Zhinian, but he couldn't stand his airs anymore, and even his roar weakened a bit.

Du Zhinian rubbed his chin and asked his father, "Is this the way you ask for help?"

Du Hengyu was so angry that he was on the verge of getting angry again, but Du Zhinian was tired of watching him jumping around, so he threw out his hole card indifferently.

"Over the years, Yu Minggu has done a lot of leaking secrets and patented formulas overseas. It is said that he is still lending usurious loans in China, and forcing people who can't pay the loan to be volunteers for drug experiments. I don't know if there are any deaths."

The first half was overheard by Du Zhinian in Yu Minggu's villa, and Lu Yi told him about the usury, no matter which one made Du Zhinian break out in a cold sweat.

Now he is using it as a bargaining chip to trade with Du Hengyu, which is already the choice to minimize his own risk.

"But I'm just a small attending physician. I don't understand and can't find out about this kind of thing, right?" Du Zhinian spread his hands innocently.

"Think about it carefully. After all, people have always hated you for pissing his father off. It might not be possible to go crazy and kill the entire Du family."

Du Hengyu got Du Zhinian's hole card, and the man who has been in a high position all year round quickly calmed down and analyzed the current situation.

He had a gloomy face, "Du Zhinian, do you think you can escape unscathed?"

Du Hengyu had heard some rumors about Nanjiang Pharmaceutical, but at that time they were all speculative news. Everyone had different opinions, but no one could confirm it.

Although what Du Zhinian said is unconfirmed news, but he was Yu Minggu's personal doctor, and these rumors are probably true.

If the Yu family is investigated because of this, the first thing Yu Minggu suspects is Du Zhinian, the situation of this idiot's son will be very dangerous.

But Du Zhinian looked at Du Hengyu with a very strange look, "I haven't committed any crime, why can't I get out? Or is it a crime to treat patients' wounds and save lives?"

"It's okay if you don't help me. Yu Minggu doesn't have anything against me. Even if he goes crazy and bites people everywhere, he can't do anything to me. I will lose my job at worst. I don't care about jobs that have no room for advancement. But guess what? If you can't move me, will you turn around and deal with you?"

"After all, you are my father." He grinned and sarcastically smiled.

Du Hengyu shouted coldly: "Du Zhinian, are you threatening me?"

This son is not stupid. He knows that he can't control the cards in his hand, and instead threatens the person who can control the situation.

"I learned it all from you." Du Zhinian stood up and patted the folds on his coat.

He glanced at the clock hanging on the wall, there were less than two hours left before the usual dinner time, it was time to take Shen Guiwan home.

Du Zhinian turned around and was about to leave the study, but after walking two steps, he remembered that he had forgotten a very important thing.

"Oh, that's right." He looked back at Du Hengyu, "I will marry Wan Wan, and I have already brought it back for you to see, don't say that I didn't give you face by cutting it first and playing it later."

His answer was a roar accompanied by the sound of glass shattering: "Du Zhinian!"

Du Zhinian dodged the paperweight fragments that bounced on the ground, "Don't worry, I won't invite you to witness."

When Du Zhinian went to see Du Hengyu, Shen Guiwan sat with Wen Qiong in the sun room in the garden for an hour. The two of them did not communicate with each other during the whole process, drinking tea quietly.

Shen Guiwan drank two cups of black tea and ate a small piece of strawberry cake, but it was a long time before Du Zhinian understood him.

There was a faint sound of cursing and shouting in the distance, Wen Qiong raised her eyelids, and took out a bank card from the pocket under the shawl.

She put the bank card in front of Shen Guiwan, and said softly: "This is a little thought from me, and it is a gift for you to meet."

The last time it was a blank check, this time it was a bank card with an unknown balance. Shen Guiwan didn't quite understand what such a large amount of money meant in the eyes of the gentle and dignified lady in front of him, but no matter which one was Numbers he would never earn in his life.

He didn't accept the bank card, and politely declined: "I can't take it. If you have to give it, let Du Zhinian accept it."

Wen Qiong wanted to persuade him to accept it, but Du Zhinian's voice came from behind the two of them: "Wanwan, I'm home."

Shen Guiwan turned his head, Du Zhinian put his hands in his pockets, and stood by the corridor waiting for him.

"I'm leaving first." Shen Guiwan bid farewell to Wen Qiong, trotted all the way to Du Zhinian, and put his hands into Du Zhinian's coat pockets to keep warm.

Holding hands in the crowded and narrow pockets, the two walked side by side towards the gate of the manor.

Looking at their leaving backs, Wen Qiong couldn't help calling out, "Year of the Year."

Du Zhinian paused, but he didn't turn around, but Shen Guiwan looked back.

Seeing this, Wen Qiong quickly walked over, and stuffed the bank card that Shen Guiwan hadn't accepted into Du Zhinian's hand, "Hold it, this is the share dividend of the Du family and the Wen family's property since you were born, the password It's your birthday."

Du Zhinian looked down at the bank card in his hand, and asked angrily and funnyly, "Do you think I need it?"

Wen Qiong frowned slightly, and said disapprovingly: "Before refusing, think about how to live abroad in the future, and talk about elopement without a family."

No matter where you go abroad in the future, the two of you will always have to buy a house and renovate your new home to live together. You can't live in someone else's house for the rest of your life.

Now that Du Zhinian has decided to take Shen Guiwan out of here, he will try his best to give him the best, but buying a house and decorating are a lot of expenses. Du Zhinian was not very restrained in spending money before, and the money he saved It was barely enough to buy a new house, and Wen Qiong's sum of money undoubtedly solved his money troubles.

"...Understood." Du Zhinian touched his nose in embarrassment, "Thank you, Mom."

Seeing him stuffing the bank card into his pocket, Wen Qiong finally showed a smile on his face, and walked them out of the gate of the manor on stiletto heels.