Chapter 65

Second update! Encouragement needed! ***

Zhang Ruoxi looked at Song Chen coldly, the latter's back drenched in cold sweat, his expression becoming awkward and somewhat guilty.

Could it be that Zhai Yue confessed? It's over... Song Chen inwardly lamented! Being unfaithful is no fun!

"Why should I care if you were discussing official business?" Zhang Ruoxi crossed her arms, mimicking Zhao Lin's usual haughty attitude. It seemed that Zhai Yue had not told Zhang Ruoxi about their relationship, and Song Chen secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Zhai Yue smiled slightly and said to Yang De, "We need some time to talk, you guys can entertain yourselves for a while!"

Yang De nodded and said to Song Chen with a rather ambiguous tone, "I didn't realize you were so popular with women! Tsk tsk tsk..."

"Ha ha!" Liu Jun, Shi Tao, and the others laughed out loud, completely ignoring Zhang Ruoxi's embarrassed expression.

"Nothing to say, have your waiter bring in twenty cases of beer first! Tonight, someone will come in standing and leave lying down!" Cui Yao said with a smile.

Zhai Yue smiled and turned to look at Song Chen, her eyes filled with a complex expression. "Let's go!"

The two came to the corridor outside the private room. Song Chen, looking at the fiery red figure under the transparent partition, couldn't help but ask, "Did you bring her here?"

"Did you see?" Zhai Yue's eyebrows slightly raised, suppressing the displeasure and bitterness in her heart, she said dejectedly, "Although I don't know how you found out about my sister and my family... but the situation hasn't escaped your prediction! Today... my sister and Ah Zheng had another argument, it was very intense! Ah Zheng even made some outrageous remarks..."

"You call Zhai Yan your sister now?" Song Chen, however, stared sharply at Zhai Yue, focusing on this point.

"All the resentment and hatred..." Zhai Yue's expression was bitter, her voice dry, "have faded with the sulfuric acid and the wheelchair... I still can't understand where my brother's malevolence comes from... it's really... very scary!"

Song Chen fell silent.

The two walked silently to the bar, where Zhai Yue called out to Zhai Yan.

Zhai Yan glanced at Song Chen with a slightly tipsy and hazy look, her eyes filled with a hint of indescribable strangeness and gloom, then followed Zhai Yue and Song Chen to a small private room that had already been reserved.

Zhai Yue did not stay. She stood at the door of the small private room, her hand on the doorknob, first giving Song Chen a deep look, then looking at Zhai Yan, and finally silently closed the door, isolating all the loud and high-pitched music outside. After lingering at the door for a moment, she left dejectedly and returned to her friends.

Staring at Zhai Yan, Zhai Yan also looked at Song Chen with a strange gaze.

After a moment of contemplation, Song Chen slowly said, "Has your sister mentioned me to you?"

Zhai Yan smiled coldly, leaning against the sofa and said indifferently, "She mentioned the plan to invest in an internet cafe, it's quite impressive! I didn't expect a nineteen-year-old college freshman to come up with such an idea! Of course, she also mentioned your understanding of the Zhai family, and how all of Ah Zheng's reactions were predicted by you! I don't want to leave the Zhai family, at least not in such a wretched way! But Ah Zheng's eyes make me very afraid, I have to protect myself!" As she spoke, Zhai Yan tightly clenched her fists, her long nails deeply embedded in her tender palms.

Song Chen glanced at Zhai Yan's tightly clenched fists and involuntarily stood up, kneeling in front of her, grabbing her hands. Zhai Yan looked at Song Chen in surprise, trying to pull away, but Song Chen held on tightly.

"Let go!"

Song Chen, of course, did not let go. Smelling the fresh and elegant scent of the girl he had secretly loved in his previous life, Song Chen used one hand to spread open Zhai Yan's left palm, seeing the wounds caused by her nails. He gently blew on them and asked, "Has your sister mentioned anything about me to you?"

Zhai Yan smiled proudly, "Apart from your business acumen, what else is worth mentioning? Your black computer room? Your software company? Or your despicable act of dating two girls at the same time?"

Hearing the last sentence, Song Chen was speechless. But he was not angry, nor did he hastily refute her, because she was telling the truth.

Wiping the wounds on Zhai Yan's left palm with a napkin, Song Chen smiled faintly, "You graduated from a prestigious university and are the second daughter of Zhai Kuo, naturally, you have high standards. It's normal that you don't look up to my small businesses. How can someone who started from scratch compare to the elites who stand on the shoulders of their ancestors?"

Zhai Yan was stung by Song Chen's words, her tender lips quivered, but she did not speak. Song Chen looked up and found that he could finally look at Zhai Yan's beauty, her stubbornness, and her melancholy—she was truly beautiful!

"I'm actually just like you!" Realizing that his bold gaze made Zhai Yan angry, Song Chen lowered his head and gently and carefully wiped Zhai Yan's wound with a napkin. His words made Zhai Yan's heart tremble, and her beautiful eyes stared at Song Chen intently.

"A few months ago, I had a happy family! A successful father, a kind and gentle mother. If it weren't for a woman only a few years older than me, I think I would have been happy, carefree in college, with a gentle and considerate girlfriend... With all these, what more happiness could you expect?" Song Chen asked in a low voice, and Zhai Yan fell into deep thought.

"It seemed like overnight, my parents divorced! I stayed with my mother, losing the most valuable 'capital' to boast to my classmates... I didn't want to use his money to go to college, nor did I want another woman to look at me with a hateful gaze, saying that since I followed my biological mother, why should I still take money from my father! Even though it's the father's duty..."

Song Chen smiled bitterly and shrugged, looking up at Zhai Yan again and said softly, "Do I have the right to resent that woman?"

"My mother didn't!" Zhai Yan retorted coldly, "My mother never had the right to interfere with the Zhai family! Even if my father doted on her, what can she do? She can't even step into the Zhai family!"

"But she still hurt the Zhai family! Even if that woman didn't use a mocking tone to stab me in the back, she still caused my parents' divorce!" Song Chen said calmly.

Zhai Yan was speechless, but she was angry and embarrassed, "So what? Just say what you have to say. I know you and my sister are colluding to kick me out!"

"She's protecting you!" Song Chen shouted.

"She's also protecting herself and Ah Zheng!" Zhai Yan pointed in the direction of the door and screamed, "And her mother! Since you know so much about our Zhai family, can you deny this?"

"..." Song Chen, still kneeling, fell silent for a moment. For such a fact, he could only sigh, "But she is still protecting you! Believe me, whether Ah Zheng is blinded by past resentment towards your mother or by your challenge to his position and authority in the company, his narrow-mindedness will not allow you to continue to exist!"

Thinking of her mother's plight, Zhai Yan's beautiful eyes were filled with unhidden fear and sorrow, "He's a devil!"

Song Chen stood up, looking down at the woman trembling slightly on the sofa, and said calmly, "I said before, we are actually the same kind of people! Both of us, as younger generations, harbor deep-seated resentment and a desire for revenge against our elders!"

"I don't!" As if her secret had been guessed, Zhai Yan's pupils contracted, and she instinctively cried out in surprise.

Song Chen stared at Zhai Yan. He had once seen a childhood photo of Zhai Yan in her wallet: the little Zhai Yan in the photo had a bit of baby fat, with clear and transparent eyes. In their first meeting in his previous life, he read worldliness and desire in her eyes. When he left the company, her eyes were filled with unhidden resentment and madness.

More than once, Song Chen wanted to ask Zhai Yan where that clear and transparent gaze had gone. Now, Song Chen clearly saw a hint of purity and pain in Zhai Yan's eyes again. This hint of purity would eventually disappear completely with Ah Zheng's madness and brutality a few days later.

"I have many crazy ideas in my heart! I need a helper to assist me in implementing a grand plan!" Suppressing his sympathy, Song Chen slowly said, "A grand plan that can change the entire world economy!"

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