Venus

Qiu Ziming asked Xiao Han's assistant to pick out some beautiful pairing rings with good meanings, and it didn't take much effort for Qiao Dailing to forget the one he liked.

On the weekend night one week before receiving the marriage certificate, Qiu Ziming and Qiao Dailing went to the bar with a few acquaintances.He acted like a groom-to-be, with a longing smile, and a gentleman's gentle demeanor when talking about Qiao Dailing; it made people envious and moved.

Later, Qiu Ziming got drunk, and Qiao Dailing took them to their wedding villa.Because Qiu Ziming said that the apartment is his private domain, and he never told her the password of the gate.

Qiu Ziming woke up suddenly before dawn.He was unreasonably disturbed to find that he was not in the apartment.

He groped himself for a while, but couldn't find the communicator, and his anxiety grew deeper.

After searching back and forth in the room, he found the dedicated mobile phone, and dialed Mr. Qiu's number unskillfully.

Old Qiu's voice couldn't hear the displeasure of being disturbed in his sleep, but his tone was very deep and slow, "Ziming, what's wrong?"

"I don't want to get married." Qiu Ziming said unconsciously, "I don't want to marry Qiao Dailing."

Elder Qiu was quiet for a while, "Then what do you want to do?"

"I want..." Qiu Ziming rubbed his aching temple, "I want to go abroad."

After a longer pause than before, Elder Qiu slowly asked: "Are you sure?"

Qiu Ziming was very sure, "Old Qiu, I have already paid off what I owed you. Why should the grievances between you and Mrs. Qiao extend to me and Xiaoling?"

"I'm getting old, and I can't control you young people anymore." Elder Qiu smiled like a gentle old man, "Go as you please."

Qiao Dailing pushed open Qiu Ziming's door sleepily, yawning, "Brother Ziming? I heard a voice from your side..."

Qiu Ziming hung up the phone, half knelt on the ground, propped his hands on the edge of the bed, and said in Qiao Dailing's direction, "Xiaoling, let's call off the engagement."

Qiu Ziming gave the apartment that Xia Qiyou gave him to Assistant Xiao Han, and then disappeared.

Two years later, Xia Qiyou already had his own company overseas.He immigrated to Hungary, but spent half of the year in cities around the world.

He heard that Xia's went bankrupt, and that Qiao's stock price was in a slump, so he stopped paying attention to that city.

This time, Xia Qiyou brought a latest product to Los Angeles to participate in the design competition.

If he can win the prize, then he can raise a very considerable amount of money.

During the selection process of the competition, Xia Qiyou accidentally found an old acquaintance.

The first round of selection was over, and Xia Qiyou was shortlisted.

He was in a good mood, and at the dinner party, holding a goblet, he made friends with people of different skin colors with ease, and then walked slowly to Qiao Dailing's side.

"Miss Qiao," Xia Qiyou contrived to speak a foreign language with a Chinese accent, "Oh no, it's my sister-in-law. Long time no see."

Qiao Dailing has also changed a lot in the past two years.She quickly adjusted her mood, turned around gracefully, and smiled, "Mr. Xia, Brother Ziming and I are not married, just call me Karen."

Xia Qiyou looked around and did not find Qiu Ziming's figure. He frowned slightly, "Why didn't you...?"

"If I really marry her, I will be a sinner of the Qiao family." Qiao Dailing still smiled.

"What do you mean?" Xia Qiyou took a sip of his wine, trying to recall the sporadic news he had seen in the past.

At that time, he deleted all of Qiu Ziming's contact information, blocked all news about him, and was so busy in the small studio every day that he didn't have any thoughts about the fate of a domestic listed company. I don't understand.

"Brother Ziming," Qiao Dailing sighed softly, "When we were picking a diamond ring together, I really wanted to marry him. But he lied to me like a fool, thinking that I really knew something. I can't even tell..."

Xia Qiyou felt that his eyes were shaking a little, and asked, "Where is he now?"

Qiao Dailing looked at him sympathetically: "Is he a sinner of your Xia family? Not only that, he also betrayed me, Mr. Qiu, and everyone... What do you think will happen to such a sinner? "

"Speak clearly." Xia Qiyou glared at her.

Qiao Dailing's bright red lips grinned exaggeratedly, and lightly said, "He's dead."

Xia Qiyou finally won the second prize in the competition.

It was a new type of wristband communicator, with a pair of waterproof earphones.The performance of the bracelet is very powerful, and the battery life is also very long-lasting.The internal artificial intelligence can act as a guide dog, can prompt and forecast the weather conditions, and can automatically call the police at critical moments...

The main customer base of this design is naturally the blind; but for ordinary people who lack a sense of security in their lives, this product also has a strong appeal.

Xia Qiyou was interviewed after winning the award.When the reporter asked what this product was called, he shrugged casually, "There is no fancy name, it's called 'communicator'."

"Why not have a special name? A product with a sense of design deserves a cooler name."

Xia Qiyou in front of the camera looked a little impatient, "Names are often deceptive. I don't like fancy names at all."

"It doesn't need to be fancy, the 'Fruit Basket' like the first prize is pretty good."

Xia Qiyou shook his head, then covered his face with one hand.After a few seconds, he put down his hand and smiled bitterly at the camera,

"I used to have a friend who had the word 'ming' in his name - in Chinese, that word means 'brightness'...but you know what? He was actually blind, never seen since he was born Light. Huh, what am I doing with all this nonsense? I mean—I hate the duality of words, you know?"

The reporter asked a few more questions with a vague understanding.Finally she asked, "Is this communicator of yours designed for your friends?"

Xia Qiyou seemed to be distracted. In front of the camera, his eyes were empty and his expression was stiff. At first glance, he thought this was not an interview program, but a horror movie.

He finally shook his head, "It was my father's wish to do something for the invisible. After he passed away, his wish became my wish. I have many friends who are blind, and my designs It exists for each of them."

For the next month or so, Xia Qiyou was going crazy.The financing has been extremely smooth, and even some mediocre products in the past have been acquired.Xia Qiyou no longer had the enthusiasm he had when he first started working two years ago.

He always suffers from insomnia, thinking back to Qiao Dailing's words that day.

He didn't believe what Qiao Dailing said was the truth, but he couldn't see any trace of Qiao Dailing lying.Qiao Dailing didn't wear a ring, and there was no trace of a ring on her finger.Why not get married?

What does it mean to marry him and become a sinner of the Qiao family?What happened to Qiu Ziming betraying Mr. Qiu?

Xia Qiyou wants to go back to China.But he dare not.He wasn't sure if his taint had been washed clean, the person who connected him back then seemed unreliable.

Xia Qiyou reopened his personal computer.He hasn't been a hacker for a long time, but this time he can't care so much.

He is not in the country, and the information that can be found is still very limited.After staying up all night for two nights, his insomnia actually got worse.

Xia Qiyou found Xiao Han's assistant, and now she has her own studio, doing some simple publishing business.

Hearing Xia Qiyou's voice, she immediately remembered that rainy evening, when he bent down by the car window and told her the funny words "don't work two jobs for one salary".

"What's the matter?" Xiao Han asked.

Xia Qiyou took a deep breath and asked, "Where is Qiu Ziming?"

Xiao Han's eyes turned red all of a sudden, and his voice choked up, "Mr. Qiu, he..."

Xia Qiyou kicked the cabinet holding the competition trophy irritably, and said in a low voice, "Tell me everything about him, don't hide anything from me."

Xiao Han talked intermittently for a long time, and cried for a while in the middle.

A double image appeared in front of Xia Qiyou's eyes unconsciously, and he blinked vigorously before speaking: "You don't know where he went, do you?"

Xiao Han's voice had calmed down at this time, "He left suddenly without taking anything, and didn't even say a word. I haven't heard anything about him since then."

"Didn't take anything away? Didn't leave anything behind?" Xia Qiyou seemed to breathe a sigh of relief—it's good news that he didn't leave a suicide note.

"He didn't even take the contents of the safe." Xiao Han hesitated, "I don't know the password of the safe, and I don't know if there will be..."

Xia Qiyou remembered the safe; he had seen it in Qiu Ziming's study.

He opened the safe that day, and all he saw was a pile of torn manuscript paper.He remembered that he had roughly read a few paragraphs, and it should be a crime story if nothing else.

Xia Qiyou's pupils shrank suddenly; he thought of Qiu Ziming's crazy decision to close his pen suddenly, and that old but hypocritical smile of Mr. Qiu.

Xia Qiyou told Xiao Han the password of the safe.Within a few hours, Xiao Han excitedly dialed Xia Qiyou's video call, holding a stack of manuscript paper in his hand.

Xia Qiyou looked at her seriously: "There's only this incomplete manuscript inside, right?"

"There is this manuscript, and..." Xiao Han opened a lightweight velvet box, "The only wedding ring designed by Master Bartholomew!"

Xia Qiyou frowned, "You bought it when you married Qiao Dailing?"

"It should be." Xiao Han was completely fascinated by the diamond ring, "Mr. Qiu asked me to go to several counters at that time... But I remember that he and Ms. Qiao didn't buy this pair in the end..."

Xia Qiyou only felt that the diamond ring was very dazzling, so he asked Xiao Han to put it aside.He thought for a while, and asked Xiao Han to sort out Qiu Ziming's manuscripts, and then bring them to Budapest with the ring.

"This... I'm quite busy here too..." Xiao Han wanted to refuse.

"I will be responsible for the round-trip expenses, as well as your accommodation and transportation here. In addition, I can also introduce you to some Hungarian novelists."

Of course, Xiao Han couldn't refuse Xia Qiyou's conditions.A week later, Xiao Han arrived at his studio.For Xia Qiyou's current achievements, her shock and admiration were written all over her face.

Xia Qiyou asked Xiao Han many questions as if he was interrogating a prisoner.

Xiao Han had never seen Xia Qiyou like this before, and after being interrogated all afternoon, he avoided him, "Mr. Xia, I've told you everything I know. I've been looking for him for two years but I can't find him...Of course, I'm not so I have tried my best to find him with various abilities and methods. I believe that he will be fine just like you, but..."

Xia Qiyou drank down a glass of sugar water in frustration.Lately he's also taken to this cheap sweetness.

"Perhaps..." Xiao Han looked at him cautiously, "Elder Qiu will know the whereabouts of Mr. Qiu."

"He?" Xia Qiyou sneered, "Do you know how I got here?"

Xiao Han shuddered and shook his head in a daze.

"I came here by smuggling. It's been almost three years..." Xia Qiyou narrowed his eyes, "It's only now that I figured out what kind of trap I stepped into... That old man Qiu Minze, his name is so benevolent, What you do is the opposite.”

Xiao Han dared not say anything.She remembered the scandal two and a half years ago - Xia Qiyou's dedicated "Shouwang" foundation was reported for embezzlement of charity funds, and it disappeared before it became the target of public criticism.At that time, the public opinion in the whole city was boiling, and everyone scolded him.Qiu Ziming just doesn't allow employees to discuss this matter in the company.

Others may not be able to see anything, but Xiao Han can more or less sense that there is old Qiu's shadow in the Foundation's case.She just didn't understand why Qiu Ziming calmly allowed Mr. Qiu to frame Xia Qiyou.Doesn't it mean that the relationship between brothers has been repaired?

Xia Qiyou exuded a cold chill, "If Qiu Minze knew where Ziming was, he would really die."