Chapter 18: Trap Him

When HeJin went home, he felt that something was wrong. Although it was normal for DuYan not to be at home, there was an unexplainable cold atmosphere at home.

A note was left on the coffee table in the living room, the handwriting was rigid and upright: Work requires me to go back to Beicheng.

It was no different from him going on a business trip in the past. DuYan was a strange person. He didn’t like to use electronic products to communicate. When on a business trip, he will leave a note on the coffee table to indicate where he is going.

But HeJin just felt that something was wrong. He frowned and suddenly rushed to the second floor.

In the study, it was more than half empty. The books DuYan often read and the pens he commonly used on the desk were no longer in their places.

HeJin thought for a while, and then turned around to push open the door of DuYan's room.

The closet was really empty.

"On a business trip." HeJin sneered, "On a business trip or moving."

Subconsciously, he wanted to make a phone call and ask questions. Except when his finger touched the phone, he suddenly remembered that on the note, it did not say that it was a business trip.

The note that DuYan left wrote very clearly, "go back" to Beicheng.

HeJin squeezed his phone tightly, walked to the bedroom, and sat down against the head of the bed. He looked into the distance through the french windows in a daze.

Sure enough, he was still too weak. He was just a student without any ability.

Their relationship was all in the hands of DuYan. If he wanted to be responsible for his nephew, then he could force him to move over to live with him.

Once he felt that his responsibilities were over, he could leave a note and let go of his nephew, who was an adult and no longer his charge.

Even when the sun had gone down, and the whole room was gradually swallowed by darkness, HeJin still sat on the bedside. Only these leftover sheets still seemed to carry DuYan’s scent.

It was cold, like the first snow in winter, a lingering sense of chill.

At first sight he could tell that that person was hard to get along with, but HeJin didn’t know why he wanted to be close to him. He used every means regardless of the consequences.

HeJin lowered his eyes and looked at the piece of paper in his hand. When the man left Nancheng, this was the only thing left. None of the lights in the room were turned on, and the light that entered the room was dim, but HeJin could imagine how the pen fell onto the paper.

He was like this, as long as it was something related to DuYan, he would always remember it deeply. HeJin could even guess the emotions of the other party from the expressionless face.

Just stay by the other person’s side first. Won’t things turn around one day? Fang Xiangxiang's words rang out in HeJin's mind again.

He murmured, "What if I can’t stay by his side, what should I do then?”

The shadow completely engulfed the young man sitting on the ground, just like his heart now.

In the darkness, came a vague sentence.

"So should I--trap him by my side…”

***

DuYan, who cruelly abandoned his nephew there, was not without fluctuations in his heart.

When he got on the plane, DuYan still felt a little guilty at heart, but he quickly converged and adjusted himself.

Because this was just a dream.

After waking up, Shao Lingheng will not remember this dream. And as for DuYan, he would only remember the process of eating his dreams, and the various emotions in his dreams would disappear without a trace.

Since it was just a dream, there was no need to worry about the person in the dream. The best plan was to act according to the plan, eliminate the root cause of the nightmare and solve his problem of hunger.

The Xie Group in Nancheng was completely under DuYan's control. It took him three years to replace the key positions of the Xie Family with his own people, and now everything was ready.

The old man of the Xie Family had been admitted to the nursing home. The sun was setting on the west side of the mountain, and it was unknown when he would die (1). The heir to the Xie Family’s huge inheritance had not yet been decided, and naturally all the children of the Xie Family would not leave the turbulent Beicheng at this critical moment.

As the extremely ambitious villain Xie Yan, DuYan certainly had to return to Beicheng at this time.

DuYan was reading an email, and the contents were very simple: Xie BoShun’s daughter and Zhou DeFeng’s daughter have already met.

Zhou DeFeng’s daughter, Zhou YaLi, was the girl whom HeJin had a one-night stand with in the movie, that was due to his drunkenness.

In the movie, there wasn’t much written about her, but now that the movie had become a complete dream world, everyone had a motive to do things.

Zhou YaLi matured early, and found that ever since puberty, she had always had a crush on HeJin.

When HeJin's parents passed away, Xie ShuPing came forward to take care of the funeral, but did not tell the Zhou family about HeJin's true identity. He just left a large sum of money, entrusted HeJin to Zhou DeFeng, who had started a company with HeJin's father at the time, and had him raise HeJin on his behalf.

Zhou DeFeng was a snobbish man, and only raised HeJin for the money. In his opinion, he thought HeJin was just an illegitimate child abandoned by a wealthy family, and did not have much value.

Out of this consideration, Zhou DeFeng certainly would not let his daughter and HeJin become a pair.

But the young boy and young girl were together day and night, and he was worried about what his daughter would do, so he sent Zhou YaLi abroad to an aristocratic boarding school.

Now that Zhou DeFeng knew that HeJin was actually a child of the Xie Family, and seeing that DuYan meant to bring him back to recognize his ancestors. He started to call Zhou YaLi to come back from abroad.

If Zhou YaLi could successfully marry HeJin, it would be equivalent to having a relationship with the Xie Family, and the benefits would simply be immeasurable.

Zhou DeFeng's actions were driven by human greed and with a little bit of DuYan's encouragement.

The meeting between Xie BoShun’s daughter Xie SiQi and Zhou YaLi was all DuYan’s handiwork. After all, if there’s no whistleblower, it would be difficult to follow the plot.

Fang Xiangxiang’s father was the one who killed HeJin’s parents after drunk driving. In the movie, Zhou YaLi was the one who told HeJin.

As for DuYan's true identity, Zhou YaLi would be the most suitable informer.

Xie BoShun is the eldest son of Grandfather Xie, but Grandfather Xie had always been partial to Xie ShuPing, thus Xie BoShun naturally regarded this younger brother as a thorn in the eye. When Xie ShuPing died, DuYan, who was now highly regarded, became a thorn in his flesh.

Once Xie BoShun knows DuYan’s secrets and fears DuYan’s power, he would create a rift between DuYan and HeJin by using this matter.

In this way, not only could he kick DuYan out of the Xie Family power circle, but also control the power in Xie ShuPing's hands through HeJin. This was a matter of killing many birds with one stone.

Of course, as a villain, he did things with a purpose. DuYan's purpose was to destroy the Xie Family.

DuYan's purpose was of course not the Xie Family, but to become HeJin's biggest stumbling block in grasping the power of the Xie Family. Although HeJin’s mother is a member of the Xie Family, after all, he didn’t have the surname Xie. If he wanted to become the master of the Xie Family and control it in its entirety, there had to be a legitimate reason.

Saving the Xie Family, of course, was the best excuse.

So, he had to control the Xie Family before he could place the pot (blame) firmly on his back. This way, HeJin would be able to appear before the Xie Family members as the savior.

The current HeJin was not enough to become a person who could compete with DuYan.

However, DuYan had a lot of ways to let him grow slowly, and personally train HeJin into becoming the undefeatable hero that will defeat him in the future.

When the drunken derailment in the original plot passes, and the chance of his beloved woman marrying another person also passes. In addition to defeating the villain that had wanted to hurt the Xie Family, he would have a double harvest in his career and love, which was the proper plot of an undefeatable hero. The obsession and the unwillingness will surely fly away like the wind.

DuYan only needs to wait for the Lord of Dreams to wake up, the nightmare to dissipate, and then have a good meal.

This would be the perfect ending.

DuYan's original plan was to keep HeJin in Nancheng, wait until Xie BoShun sent someone to contact HeJin, and then have him inform HeJin that DuYan was not a Xie Family member.

Afterwards, he would logically carry the pot of Guo Shunshun killing HeJin's parents onto his own body.

Now, HeJin will probably run to Beicheng University to study. With Xie BoShun's cautious nature, naturally he would not take the initiative to contact HeJin. Because he believed that he wouldn’t be able to hide from DuYan.

DuYan could only place his ideas on Zhou YaLi again. Except that the inside information that Zhou YaLi would receive this time would no longer be about Zhou Xiangxiang's father killing HeJin's parents by drunk driving, but that there was a person behind the scenes.

In August, DuYan went back to Nancheng. Some of the work had not been completed and needed to be dealt with, including HeJin's affairs, in which he couldn’t be completely indifferent to.

When he returned to his residence, he was ready to face HeJin's anger or questioning. Anyway, based on his character, he would only listen coldly.

HeJin was not there when he got home. DuYan went directly into the study to deal with work and on the way, sent a WeChat message to inform HeJin of his return.

His WeChat message was sent out in less than an hour, but HeJin had already come back. When he heard the movement from downstairs, DuYan felt a rare panic in his heart.

When HeJin opened the door and walked into the study, his expression was unexpectedly calm.

The boy who walked in was tall and straight with broad shoulders. What surprised DuYan was that in less than a month, the youthful aura between HeJin's eyebrows had disappeared.

HeJin seemed to have quickly grown into a mature man in a short period of time.

"Uncle, you’re back."

HeJin sat down and greeted him. His tone was so calm, as if DuYan had only gone on a trip, instead of throwing everything away in Nancheng and going back to Beicheng.

"En." DuYan had no choice but to deal with the problem now, and he also had no intention to provoke HeJin’s anger.

"Oh right, I received the admission notice. I did better than I expected and was able to enter the major that I want to study.”

DuYan suddenly asked, "And Fang Xiangxiang?"

HeJin was not stupid, he knew that in DuYan's mind, he probably thought of him and Fang Xiangxiang as a pair. But it was ok for him to have this misunderstanding, since he will not think of other aspects.

"She has also been admitted to Beicheng University and transferred to other majors."

"En." DuYan nodded, a little relieved.

"What?" DuYan was a little puzzled.

"Uncle, I know that this time I was too willful. You had your own career, but you stayed in Nancheng for three years because of me. But I was like a kid, and had a bad temper just because I wanted you to stay in Nancheng.” HeJin smiled bitterly. “When obviously all your work was in Beicheng.”

HeJin's voice was firm and sincere, "That’s why, this time I will go to Beicheng, and grow up quickly in order to help you, okay?”

DuYan opened his mouth to speak, "No, you have misunderstood. I came to Nancheng to take over the Xie Group. It is just a matter of passing that I became your guardian.”

HeJin did get a little angry, but he still had a slight smile, “I was doing fine at Zhou’s house, and you had completely no reason to take me out of Zhou’s house at all, aren’t I right?”

DuYan found it hard to speak out his bitterness. If HeJin had stayed in the Zhou family, and had not been brought out, HeJin would definitely grow crookedly, and his relationship with Fang Xiangxiang would not go smoothly.

DuYan began to feel that something was wrong. What was this bear child’s brain making up? He was really the ruthless villain, but how did he become the guardian who had given up everything for the child!

"……"

Just when DuYan was still thinking about how to reverse HeJin's wrong impression of him, the other party spoke again.

"Uncle, I remember that you still owe me a request."