guest of honor

Since Qin Mu was very young, he knew that his mother did not love him.

When Daishan culture just started, Qin Wenchuan was not only busy with work, but also full of crises.Once they encounter a difficult competitor, they will send their wives and children to other provinces or even abroad to avoid danger temporarily.For example, when he was 4 years old, Qin Mu spent the winter on the west coast of N City.

City N is located north of the equator and south of the Tropic of Cancer. It is a seaside city with beautiful natural scenery. It is still warm in winter, with lush vegetation and endless coastline.

Qin Wenchuan arranged bodyguards to guard Ye Zhen's mother and son, not allowing them to leave the hotel.Fortunately, there is an open sea behind the hotel. During the daytime, the waves are shining and the fine sand is kissed by the waves. It is so beautiful to look at from the sea view room.

The young Qin Mu was playful and active, always pestering Ye Zhen to take him to the beach to play in the sand.Ye Zhen either lazily refused, or let the bodyguards take Qin Mu to play, but she never seemed to see the disappointment on Qin Mu's immature face.

The only time she promised him was something Qin Mu would never forget.

One afternoon when the sky was clear and clear, Ye Zhen took Qin Mu to the beach, held his little hand and built a miniature fortress with sand.Qin Mu happily hugged Ye Zhen's calf with his muddy hands, and looked up at his mother with a sweet smile, but he didn't notice the disgust and indifference on Ye Zhen's face at all.

Perhaps it's because Ye Zhen's voice is extraordinarily gentle: "Mu Mu, be good, don't move here, I'll be back soon."

After speaking, she left with two bodyguards.And 4-year-old Qin Mu still played with the sand carefree, until dusk, Ye Zhen never came back.The coast, which is usually bustling until midnight on weekdays, is deserted today, not even the hotel staff.The sun went down very early, and the sea under the night was no longer peaceful and calm. The huge waves surged and white foam churned, and the sea breeze blew Qin Mu down on the beach.

Qin Mu panicked, called for his mother loudly, and staggered towards the hotel with his bare feet.

However, between the hotel and the beach, there is a dense artificial palm forest.Four-year-old Qin Mu still doesn't know how to remember the way, the tall trees are like ghost shadows, and the sharp whistling of the wind is like a threat, he can't even hear the sound of his own crying.

In the end, it was the patrolling security guard who found him.Qin Mu will always remember that stranger's terrified expression and ruthless reprimand: "Where are your parents? Do you know there will be a typhoon tonight! You want to die..."

He was sent back to the room.Ye Zhen opened the door and looked down at him coldly, making him choke back his crying.After a long time, when Qin Mu checked the typhoon again, he realized that it was his luck that the typhoon did not land on the west coast as planned, otherwise he would have died.

From childhood to adulthood, Ye Zhen never cooked a meal for him, never took him to see a doctor, and never even went to the parent-teacher meeting.No matter how good his grades are and how outstanding his performance is, Ye Zhen turns a blind eye to him.

And Qin Mu gradually became indifferent.Human nature in his eyes is not blindly kind, and blood relatives are not worthy of forgiveness.When Qin Wenchuan was present, he and Ye Zhen tacitly acted as a loving mother and filial son, but when they turned around, they were even more indifferent than Doomedu Sutu—probably the only point of ruthlessness, which is the only similarity between them except eyebrows and eyes.

After Qin Wenchuan's death, Ye Zhen did not take the initiative to contact her natal family, and even presided over Qin Wenchuan's funeral.After the chaos, she was rushed into the hysterical crowd, knocked unconscious against the wall, and failed to see her husband die again.

Afterwards, the Ye family finally intervened.Ye Zhen was arranged by Ye Jingsheng to be sent to a hospital in France, while Qin Mu was left in the country.Not long after, Ye Zhen's mental state had problems, and the French hospital issued a medical certificate, which transferred her rights of behavior to Ye Jingsheng and Qin Mu.

Qin Mu didn't have any feelings for her, and never thought of visiting her, until he found out that He Minghan had secretly sent someone to investigate Ye Zhen's whereabouts.

He Minghan obviously searched the hospital, but found nothing.It might be because Ye Zhen wasn't there at all, or it might be that Ye Zhen was under strict protection—Qin Mu thought about it carefully, everything about Ye Zhen was arranged by Ye Jingsheng himself.On the surface, it seems reasonable and watertight, but in reality it is not clear.

Since the medical certificate was indeed issued by this hospital, Qin Mu went to find Ye Zhen himself.At the beginning, there was no such person, but when Qin Mu asked the hospital to be responsible for Ye Zhen's life safety as Ye Zhen's parent and child, otherwise the hospital would resort to the law, the hospital director finally let go: "Your mother is indeed in our The hospital received treatment. Because of her special status, the guardian asked her information to be kept confidential, so we had to conceal it. Since you can prove that you are Ms. Ye’s son, you are also one of her legal guardians, so you have the right to see She. But I have to remind you that Ms. Ye's mental state is very bad, she often talks nonsense, and she may not know you anymore, please be mentally prepared."

Qin Mu smiled knowingly and didn't mind.His indifferent attitude towards Ye Zhen will not change because of her pity.

The doctor said that Ye Zhen might not know him anymore, but in fact, the weak woman lying on the hospital bed opened her mouth and called out his name, angrily: "Qin Mu!"

Qin Mu signaled the suspicious doctor to leave first. After all, Ye Zhen's hands were in handcuffs, and she couldn't do anything to him.Turning to look at Ye Zhen again, Qin Mu had a helpless smile on his lips: "Mother, what's wrong with you?"

"I'm not sick!" Ye Zhen raised her locked hands, her eyes were deeply sunken and the corners of her eyes were red, "You let them release me from the hospital, I want to go back to China!"

"I am not the one who sent you here, and I have no right to let you go."

"Liar!" The handcuffs smashed against the head of the bed, making a piercing hum, and Ye Li stared at him bitterly, "You wolf-hearted bastard, you have no right to inherit my shares at all! Don't think that you are handcuffing me here, No one will know your wolfish ambition!"

"I have no right to inherit your shares? Even if you don't like me, I'm still your son." Qin Mu sneered, "And you are a mental patient now, do you have the final say?"

Ye Zhen said angrily: "My uncle will find me, he also has the right to inherit, Ye Jingsheng will not let you take away the 10% easily!"

"Ye Jingsheng?" Qin Mu narrowed his eyes, "Mother, do you know who the person who sent you here is?"

Ye Zhen laughed out loud suddenly, her thin fingers twisted and gripped the head of the bed tightly: "Who else can it be, who else can it be but you?! I've already seen that you are not a good thing, for that 10%, what are you doing?" You can do it all! Do you think that as long as Qin Wenchuan is dead, you can attack me unscrupulously? Dreaming!"

Qin Mu put his arms in his arms and quietly looked at the hysterical woman on the hospital bed.Either Ye Zhen is really crazy, so she is talking nonsense; or, all of this is Ye Jingsheng's trick... The anger in Ye Zhen's eyes is like a giant beast lurking in the deep sea, and he suddenly felt shuddering.

"Let me tell you! As soon as Qin Wenchuan died, I found Ye Jingsheng! He already knew that you are not the son of the Ye family!" Ye Zhen said cheerfully, "As long as he shows the mother-child certificate, you will not have a word. arrive!"

Qin Mu froze in place.

Ye Zhen's words seemed like a bolt of lightning struck the top of his head.Everything in the past became extremely clear in an instant. Ye Zhen's indifference and hatred for him and Ye Jingsheng's caring for him tore apart two completely different truths.

Either one is unbelievable.

But he couldn't let Ye Zhen see through his guilty conscience.If it is true that he is not her biological son as Ye Zhen said, then trapping Ye Zhen here is the only way for him to inherit 10% of Yuanyang's shares.

But Ye Jingsheng, why did he do this?Could it be that after imprisoning Ye Zhen, he is sure that he can handle Qin Mu?

The crux of the matter is whether he and Ye Zhen are related by blood.Only on this basis can the motivation of Ye Jingsheng's actions be analyzed.Qin Mu's eyes darkened, he strode forward and grabbed Ye Zhen's thin wrist.

"What are you doing?!" Ye Zhen screamed.

"I lend you a drop of blood." Qin Mu stroked Ye Zhen's withered hand, and took a glass from the bedside table.

Qin Zhen's fingers flinched, and then she calmed down, seeing that Qin Mu didn't want her life: "Even if you drained my blood, the test results will not change, and Ye Jingsheng is even worse for the 10%." Will give up looking for me! You'd better let me go as soon as possible, otherwise Ye Jingsheng doesn't necessarily care about your life..."

Qin Mu pierced her fingertips, and while smearing blood on the glass, he said in a low voice: "Now I tell you, Ye Jingsheng did all of this, can you believe it?"

"Why would he..." Ye Zhen's disdainful sneer froze on the corner of her lips, and in a flash, she thought of a terrible answer.She suddenly withdrew her hand and stared at Qin Mu, the hatred in her eyes was gradually replaced by fear: "Impossible...you can't be..."

Ye Zhen slumped down on the bed, looked at the pale ceiling and muttered four words, but didn't make a sound.

And Qin Mu left with the blood sample.

In less than 48 hours, the paternity test results came out, and he and Ye Zhen were not related by blood.

Ye Li quietly listened to him finish telling the story about Ye Zhen.

The two of them had already returned to the living room on the 3th floor of No. 18 Nanlin Road. Qin Mu held his hand from the beginning to the end. When the last sentence fell, he suddenly half-kneeled on the floor and hugged Ye Li's calf tightly. , looked up at him.

Ye Li touched the top of his hair, feeling the fear and panic in his heart: "Don't worry, I won't tell anyone."

Qin Mu lowered his head, pillowed on his knee, and said in a low voice, "But Ye Zhen, she is your cousin after all..."

"I'm not close to her, don't worry." Ye Zhen doesn't occupy a place in his memory.Even Qin Mu's family has always had very little contact with the Ye family, far less closely related to interests.

This is actually a very abnormal phenomenon, but no one has mentioned it for several years. Could it be that Ye Jingsheng did it on purpose?He played this pivotal role in Qin Mu's story.If he knew Qin Mu was not Ye Zhen's biological son, why would he abandon Ye Zhen and help Qin Mu?Why should Qin Mu be brought into Ye Family or even into Yuanyang?

Taking a step back, even if Ye Jingsheng thinks that Qin Mu is a better target to manipulate than Ye Zhen, after he successfully sends Ye Zhen to the mental hospital, he can announce that Qin Mu is not Ye Zhen's biological child, or use this news to Threaten Qin Mu to use him.

Even if the law stipulates that adopted sons and stepsons have the same right to inherit property, if it can be proved that Qin Wenchuan cheated in marriage, it is still a good handle.

"Ye Jingsheng, why on earth did he do this?" Ye Li wrapped his fingers around Qin Mu's soft hair and muttered to himself.

Qin Mu thought about those four words that Ye Zhen kept repeating when she was looking at the ceiling and talking to herself.She didn't make a single sound, but judging from her mouth shape, it was the words "Chao Qin Mu Chu".In a literal sense, it is alluding to the fact that Qin Wenchuan had an affair in marriage and took his illegitimate child home.But there must be a deep meaning in it, Qin Mu couldn't figure it out, and even thought that he had heard it wrong.

He shook his head: "I don't know either." After a pause, he added, "But I know one thing."

"what?"

"Ye Li, you are not my uncle."

Ye Li was embarrassed when he heard the words, and wanted to withdraw his hand, but Qin Mu held it tightly and covered his head. The 20-year-old still curled up on his lap like a child, and said softly, "It's great, I have no blood relationship with you, this is the only happy thing this year."

Carefully restraining his emotions, each word hurt Ye Li's nerves.He couldn't bear to push him away, and even wanted to hold him tightly in his arms and comfort him softly: "How have you been this year?"

"It wasn't very good at the beginning." Qin Mu said in a muffled voice, "He Minghan kept the foreign subsidiaries under tight control. I have been shut down a lot, and I have been threatened..."

Ye Li's fingers tightened, and he said in a trembling voice, "You...are you okay, why didn't you tell me?"

"At that time you ignored me at all, how dare I tell you?" Qin Mu raised his head and glanced at Ye Li quickly, not daring to reveal too much grievance and hatred, "You called me for the first time At that time, it was also the time when I made progress for the first time-I thought you knew, that you had been watching me secretly, and I was going crazy with joy. But... who knew that you came here because of Huazhong Electronics? Find me to settle the account."

Ye Li recalled that it was a week after the Huazhong Electronic Financial Fraud Case happened. He was afraid that Qin Mu would deliberately not report the incident, so he made the phone call.Although he didn't directly question him, he was asking how much Qin Mu knew inside and out - he couldn't even say "I miss you".

Ye Li was a little ashamed by what he said, but Qin Mu was not completely innocent.He nodded Qin Mu's head and warned him: "You are not wronged."

Qin Mu gasped for breath, looked up at him angrily, and even held back tears in his eyes.He tremblingly said: "Ye Li..."

"……sorry."

"It's okay." Qin Mu immediately took an inch and supported Ye Li's knee, "My knees are sore, can I hug you?" After speaking, without waiting for Ye Li's answer, he straightened up and opened his arms.

He just expected that he would not be able to refuse him, Ye Li thought angrily, and was immediately hugged.Qin Mu seemed to like his warm neck very much, and kept rubbing his nose against his neck: "Later, I met Mr. Chi Wei. He is a British Chinese, a visiting professor at the school, and the president of a British record copyright company. , I am very interested in the Chinese mainland market. I took the initiative to find him and persuade him to make a tender offer for the subsidiary established by He Minghan, which forced He Minghan's people to leak their feet."

"Chi Wei..." The name was completely unfamiliar, Ye Li asked vigilantly, "Why did he agree to help you?"

"Because I hired him as a consultant for Daishan Culture, and he can exercise shareholder rights on my behalf." Qin Mu tilted his head, rubbed Ye Li's earlobe, and said softly, "If you want to get help, you always ask There's a price to pay."

Ye Li disagreed: "You are too hasty to do this. If Chi Wei and He Minghan have contacts, you have already handed over the Daishan culture to others."

Qin Mu smiled lowly: "Didn't this not happen?"

Ye Li frowned: "That's because you're lucky. It's essential to be on guard against others, not to mention that you, as the heir of a listed company, should act with caution..."

As soon as he put on a straight face and started "educating" Qin Mu, he couldn't stop the car, as if he had returned to Qin Mu's internship in Yuanyang, and he taught him to read financial statements, analyze shareholder structure, and study exchange rate trends.As he talked, he also became confused. It was clear that Chi Wei was just a stranger. How could he have such deep hostility?

Qin Mu looked at him with a smile, heard his voice getting softer, and suddenly asked: "Ye Li, are you jealous?"

Ye Li was startled, and subconsciously retorted: "What am I jealous about?"

"Because you hope that you are the only one who treats me well, and that you are the only one I have." Qin Mu put away his smiling face and said solemnly, "I think so too."

His eyes were too bright, even though they were deep, they only reflected the shadow of one person, and they were only shining because of this one person.Ye Li never thought that he would see steadfastness and loyalty in Qin Mu, but now this unswerving determination belongs to him alone, which makes his heart tremble slightly.Ye Li stretched out his hand, stroked the broken hair on Qin Mu's temple, and begged softly, "Give me some time, Qin Mu."

"Okay." Qin Mu agreed with his eyelashes trembling slightly.He held Ye Li's hand in his own, and gave a soft kiss.But he didn't want to push Ye Li too hard, he could only silently recite the love that penetrated to the flesh and blood in his heart.