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Xia Qiyou is not yet the official owner of the Xia family, and his shareholding is less than 17% - about 10 billion based on his net worth.

After discussing with his father, Xia Qiyou transferred half of his shares to Qiu Ziming.

Qiu Ziming didn't refuse this time, and accepted it calmly.Because the benefits he brought to the Xia family have already exceeded that half of the shares.

But Xia Qiyou also noticed the change in Qiu Ziming's attitude towards him - Qiu Ziming was avoiding him.

It's not a good feeling to be deliberately avoided by someone you regard as your best friend.

Obviously nothing unpleasant happened between the two, but it seemed like a cold war.

Clearly living under the same roof, but treat the other party as a transparent person.

Xia Qiyou went to visit his father alone - after all, he had no reason to let Qiu Ziming accompany him.

His father had been seriously ill for more than a year, but Xia Qiyou seemed to be three or five years old, striding down the hospital aisle in a custom-made suit, perfectly interpreting the word heroic.

Qiu Ziming didn't come with him, he didn't seem to know what to talk to his father about.

Xia Qiyou and his father were talking about the company's recent affairs absent-mindedly, but they were thinking in their hearts, what was Qiu Ziming doing when he was not around?

When I got home, the apartment was deserted, and Qiu Ziming was not there.

Xia Qiyou panicked, he searched inside and outside but did not see Qiu Ziming.

In the study, he saw the outline of Qiu Ziming's new novel; this is Qiu Ziming's work that took the longest time, and after more than a year, he only wrote the beginning.

Xia Qiyou knew that Qiu Ziming didn't like to rummage through his things without authorization, so he just glanced at the relationship between the characters in the outline and thought it was too complicated, so he didn't continue to read.

In the early morning, Xia Qiyou slept on the sofa in the living room before waiting for Qiu Ziming.

He smelled the perfume on Qiu Ziming's body, and asked in a bad tone: "Are you on a date?"

"No." Qiu Ziming replied lightly, bent down and put on slippers.

"Tell me if you have a girlfriend," Xia Qiyou said eccentrically, "I will definitely bless you."

"I said—no."

"Then you came back so late and still smelled of perfume, how do you explain it?"

Qiu Ziming's blank eyes wandered away for a while, "I have no obligation to report my whereabouts to you, do I?"

Xia Qiyou was choked for a while and couldn't recover.

After Qiu Ziming disappeared from the range of his senses, he opened a bottle of red wine and drank it in a depressed mood in the background of the living room.

A glass of wine unknowingly warmed his throat and made him drunk.He vaguely heard Qiu Ziming's voice coming from the bathroom.

Putting down the wine glass, shaking his head, making sure he wasn't drunk, he went to the bathroom.

"What's wrong?" Xia Qiyou asked outside the door.

"The door is unlocked..." Qiu Ziming's voice sounded depressed, "Can you come in...can you help me?"

As soon as the door was opened, there was a burst of moist water vapor mixed with the smell of shower gel.

Xia Qiyou saw the overturned bottles and cans, and then saw Qiu Ziming who was half kneeling on the ground with a painful expression.

"Why did you fall?" Xia Qiyou asked in a low voice, at the same time wrapped him up with a towel, and carried him back to the bedroom.

Qiu Ziming seemed unable to stand the embarrassment, he closed his eyes and did not speak.

Xia Qiyou felt that he was a little heavier than expected.He also found that when he hugged Qiu Ziming, his heartbeat accelerated uncontrollably.He was careful not to let his hot breath fall on Qiu Ziming.

When he put down the person in his arms, he inevitably saw Qiu Ziming's beautiful body like a work of art.

He gently checked the extent of Qiu Ziming's injury.There was a shocking purple bruise on Qiu Ziming's knee, and his ankle was strangely stiff due to the sprain.

When Xia Qiyou applied the medicine for him, he almost couldn't help stroking his body along his feet.

He saw that Qiu Ziming's eyes were covered with moisture, and he held his breath until he was about to be breathless, then he dragged himself back to reality from the chaotic consciousness, and then left Qiu Ziming's bedroom as if fleeing, and locked himself in the bathroom .

The girl named Qiao Dailing started to get closer to Qiu Ziming.

In principle, Xia Qiyou should not interfere with Qiu Ziming's love affair.But he couldn't accept that someone like Qiao Dailing became Qiu Ziming's lover.

Qiu Ziming began to return late habitually.

Xia Qiyou would wait for him to come back in the living room every night.He told himself that he just didn't want Qiu Ziming to be deceived by Qiao Dailing.

Most of the time, Qiu Ziming doesn't smell like a lady's perfume.

There were also two times when Xia Qiyou smelled the perfume, and he would become irritable for the next few days.

Xia Jinghong felt that something was wrong with him, and tried to enlighten him: "Teacher Qiu is now one of the shareholders of the Xia family. He and Ms. Qiao happen to be talented, beautiful, and well-matched. I am very optimistic about them. But you, when will you find a wife?"

Xia Qiyou rolled his eyes: "Dad, Qiao Dailing has liked Lan Cheng since she was a child, and you don't know how many stupid things she has done for him over the years? If you say that she has empathized with Brother Ziming, beat him to death." I don't even believe it."

Xia Jinghong smiled generously: "Teacher Qiu is indeed much more attractive than that kid from the Lan family. I think it's quite normal for Ms. Qiao to have a crush on him."

"..."

"But you're quite abnormal," Xia Jinghong turned serious in an instant, "Why do I think you don't want Teacher Qiu to fall in love with others so much?"

"I didn't, I..."

"Tell me honestly, do you not like girls?"

"No, I..."

"Don't worry, your father won't be as unenlightened as your grandfather. You and I shouldn't hide it. As long as it's someone you really like, no matter if it's a man or a woman, I won't object."

"Dad, you really misunderstood..."

"Besides, Dad wants to tell you something else. The first person I liked was a man, but then I loved your mother more than anything—you know what I mean?

Love is a matter of two people's life, and has nothing to do with outsiders.So don't think that if a man likes a man, he can do whatever he wants, but if he likes a woman who has a boyfriend...

When my career was most difficult, the person who gave me strength was Xiaoqing.At that time, I knew that I would protect her with my life.What I am most proud of in my life is not running the Xia family like it is today, but marrying Xiaoqing.

I hope that you can also find someone who is willing to guard with your life, and I hope that you can become someone who others are willing to entrust for a lifetime. "

Xia Qiyou is about to graduate.In his senior year, he made great progress in his studies, and was even selected as an outstanding graduate of the college, and he had to give a speech on the day of the graduation ceremony.

His father was seriously ill, and Xia Qiyou's closest relationship was Qiu Ziming.He wanted to invite Qiu Ziming to attend his graduation ceremony.

Qiu Ziming agreed with some reluctance.Xia Qiyou brooded on it for a few days, and finally asked him face to face, did he despise himself as a friend because of the Qiao family's daughter.

Qiu Ziming was obviously very angry, "Who do you take me for?"

All kinds of suspicions and anger that had been suppressed in my heart for several weeks suddenly rushed to my heart, Xia Qiyou sneered like crazy: "Isn't it? Who doesn't know what kind of woman Qiao Dailing is? She had two abortions for Lan Cheng. Suicide twice, who in the circle doesn't know about this? Do you think she really likes you? She just treats you as..."

Qiu Ziming slapped Xia Qiyou coldly, his voice changed in anger, "I don't know what's going on with you recently, you always target Miss Qiao. I've said it many times, she and I are just ordinary friends..."

"Ordinary friends? Don't lie to me! You've never gone out so late with other women before. If you like her, just say it. What kind of man is hiding?!"

Qiu Ziming showed a sad expression like never before, and his out-of-focus pupils were struggling to focus on Xia Qiyou's face, "Why do you think I like her? Can't you really tell who I like?"

Xia Qiyou chuckled, then glared at Qiu Ziming viciously: "Who do you like? I have never seen you approach anyone except Qiao Dailing. What do you let me see?"

Qiu Ziming seemed to be trying his best to restrain his emotions, closed his eyes and pursed his lips, turned around and wanted to get away from this unprovoked quarrel.

"Fucking this again!" Xia Qiyou squeezed his arm hard, "Are there any problems other than denying or avoiding, is this how you treat your friends?"

Qiu Ziming frowned in pain, then opened his eyes as if he had made up his mind, "Who am I getting close to, who am I liking, you don't feel it at all... do you?"

Before Xia Qiyou could answer, he smiled wryly and shook his head again: "I can't feel the best. I don't want you to hate me either."

Xia Qiyou's brain couldn't turn the corner for a while, and it took a while to understand the meaning of Qiu Ziming's words: "You..."

"After you say it, you don't even have to be friends, right?" Qiu Ziming's voice reminds one of the snow melted by the sun, "Don't worry, I'll move out right away, and I won't go to Xia's again from tomorrow on."

Xia Qiyou wanted to keep Qiu Ziming, but he didn't know what reason he should use.

He didn't know how he felt towards Qiu Ziming, but he knew very well that he and Qiu Ziming should not be together, let alone be impossible.

Qiu Ziming just disappeared from his life so calmly.

I don't know why, Xia Qiyou always can't help but think of the scene when the two get along.

Does Qiu Ziming really not know how he feels about himself?

Xia Qiyou turned down his speech at the graduation ceremony and didn't even attend the ceremony.

Without Qiu Ziming's testimony, this ceremony would be meaningless.

Not long after graduation, Xia Qiyou went to visit his father alone, sitting on the edge of the hospital bed carelessly peeling apples.

"Teacher Qiu hasn't come for a long time," Xia Jinghong said suddenly, "I also heard that he left Xia's and went to Qiao's. What happened?"

Xia Qiyou looked dumbly at the pitted apple that had been peeled by himself, "He...his business philosophy differs from mine. It happened that Boss Qiao was poaching people, so he jumped ship."

"Just leave like that? How can he be regarded as a minority shareholder of Xia's, and Qiao's is in a competitive relationship with us, and dare to hire him?"

Xia Qiyou thought for a while and confessed: "He returned all the shares to me, and he will have nothing to do with us in the future."

"What is this?" Xia Jinghong was furious. "After climbing up Qiao's, he will not recognize us? Without my promotion, he would be where he is today?"

"Dad, he is yours anyway..."

"So what if it's my son? He doesn't want a company as big as mine, and now he's still going to be someone else's son-in-law? Why should I have this son?"

"Dad—" Xia Qiyou threw the apple, "You don't want to recognize him. He doesn't owe you anything, so don't say that about him."

"Yeah, he doesn't owe me, I owe him!" Xia Jinghong said in an annoying tone, "I didn't want him in the first place, why didn't I kill him back then? I have been burdened for him for so many years. After finding him, he gave away a house and shares, but he didn't care about it!"

Xia Qiyou heard an abrupt sound outside the door, as if something had fallen to the ground.

He opened the door of the ward and saw the flowers on the ground; the petals were scattered all over the ground.He asked the nurse if anyone had wandered in front of the ward.

The nurse nodded, "It's the handsome guy who used to come with you, the one you couldn't see. He stood at the door for a while, and then suddenly threw the flowers at the door and left in a hurry."