Chapter 46 - Reaching the Lowest Point
UNEDITED
How much did his mother invest into the family for the past few years. He spent a lot of energy trying to gain his father’s recognition, but in the end what did mother and child receive? The abandonment of their father.
Jiang Zihan pushed open the door and walked inside. The room was completely dark. The window curtains were closed tightly and there wasn't a single ray of light. Jiang Zihan opened the curtains and the sunshine from outside instantly flooded in. Bright and beautiful sunshine illuminated on the sofa, Chen Yuze couldn't help but open his eyes.
However that beautiful sunshine had him once again tightly close his eyes. Shrinking back into his body he leaned against the sofa. Regarding the person who just entered, he simply didn’t care.
“How long do you want to be depressed for? What happened? You can’t tell me?” Jiang Zihan walked over, “You dont treat me as a friend?”
“It doesn’t matter what happened, in the end there will always be a solution. What’s the point of tormenting yourself like this? That’s enough, I won’t be noisy anymore, hurry and get up.”
Chen Yuze forced a bitter laugh, “Resolved and then what? Currently I have nothing, I also don’t care about anything.” He said it this way, grabbed onto the alcohol on the table and was going to swallow it down.
Jiang Zihan snatched it over. “What exactly happened to you?” Chen Yuze previously was a very positive person. But now that he turned into this Jiang Zihan was extremely worried.
“Yuze, don’t torment yourself ok? Even if you don't want to consider your friends, then think about your parents. Otherwise when your parents see you like this, they will feel sad.”
Chen Yuze heard the word ‘parents’, only felt his heart ache more.
Chen Yuze did not say anything. He also didn’t know where he would start. From when his dad didn’t like him and doted on that person called Cheng Jinyu, or from Cheng Jinyu unexpectedly was his cousin, or that he was originally his mother’s nephew.
Chen Yuze hung his head dejectedly. He didn't know what he should say. His mom tried to call him again to tell him that his dad already decided he wanted a divorce. It didn’t matter if they divorced, in any case his parents were never like other married couples. But the thing that he couldn’t accept was that his dad actually secretly shifted the majority of his property back under his name.
In other words after his parents divorce, his mother would turn into a pauper and he would also not have anything at all.
Who would his dad give this money to, it was obvious at a glance. Cheng Jinyu used to be someone who wasn’t even equal to a dog, and now he had already stolen everything he had.
Chen Yuze believed that he didn’t treat him too badly, it would have been fine if he didn’t reciprocate any of that. But he didn’t expect that in the end everything that he received was cheated away.
Was he deliberately trying to steal his dad? Was this something he planned in advance? Chen Yuze was suspicious of where he received his sudden wealth. Was the person his dad?
Chen Yuze didn’t dare to think like this. The moment he tried his heart would ache fiercely.
Jiang Zihan lightly patted his shoulder. “Don’t be like this. Doesn’t matter what it is, it will all pass. Why don’t you tell me ok?”
Chen Yuze felt that he had nowhere to speak his belly of bitter water, he sat up and drank a mouth full of alcohol. “Did you know? Cheng Jinyu originally is my blood related cousin, he is my maternal uncle’s son.”
Zihan stared blankly. “He is your cousin... Then… then why?”
Chen Yuze smiled, “That’s right, how come he never once said it? How come my mother also never said it, what exactly are they hiding from me? Up until now, they won’t tell me anything. Only, my dad currently knows and is extremely angry, and because of this he wants to divorce my mother.”
“Divorce? He’s unlikely to go so far right?” Jiang Zihan said, “Although what your mother did isn’t very good, but, Cheng Jinyu is still considered an outsider. Uncle would not divorce your mother because of an outsider.”
Chen Yuze said, “Exactly! But my dad treats him extremely well, even better than me. You didn’t see it, it was as if he was my dad’s son and I was not.”
“Son? More like a lover.” Chen Yuze coldly said, “No wonder he suddenly had so much money. Don’t know from where he cheated my dad out of the money.”
Jiang Zihan thought up to here and suddenly said, “Currently he opened a menswear company. Will your dad give the project to him.”
Chen Yuze said, “He doesn’t even want me anymore, do you think he would still care about my friends? Jiang Zihan, I think there's no hope, forget it.”
“Did you know? My dad wants to divorce my mom, he practically took all of his assets and transferred it. He doesn’t want to give my mom a single cent. Of course, he also won’t give me money. Brother Zihan, he doesn’t want me anymore, completely doesn’t want me anymore.”
Chen Yuze said up to here, eyes had turned red.
Jiang Zihan couldn't bear and directly held him in his chest, “If he doesn't want then he doesn't want. Yuze, you should know, I’ve always liked you. But the person you like is Gu Bokai, so I never told you.”
“But right now, I want to protect you and be by your side. Even if you know that you’re simply just using me for support, merely treating me as a spare tire is also fine.”
Chen Yuze was leaning into Jiang Zihan’s chest, like it was the only warmth that existed. However, thinking of Gu Bokai, his heart was still sore.
Chen Yuze did not reject Jiang Zihan's embrace. This made Jiang Zihan extremely happy. However this kind of excitement was not what he had imagined before. Originally he had thought of countless scenarios where he would confess to Yuze, as well as if Yuze’s response was also just as happy.
But in reality, Jiang Zihan was very calm. Even though there was a beauty in his embrace, he didn’t have any notion of going further.
He genuinely liked Chen Yuze, but he thought he could only look at this flower from far away. Or perhaps he wanted to compete against Gu Bokai?
Jiang Zihan pushed down on his inner bafflement. He didn’t want to continue that investigation. He simply grabbed Chen Yuze from the sofa. “That’s enough, don’t get angry anymore. Hurry and wash your face, do what you should do. What’s the point of being engrossed in your own suffering? Carefully put yourself together.”
“Yuze, you still have me. Don’t give up and despair. What happens after, no one knows. You just can’t be defeated like this.”
Jiang Zihan spent a long time persuading Chen Yuze. He saw him restore a bit of his former vigor, then hurried to leave the villa.
Chen Xiuyuan’s company project is a very big project. It was also the project that Jiang Zihan recently was very busy with. If he threw it away for no reason, then these past few months of bitterness would be wasted.
Hearing that info from Chen Yuze was very important. It was necessary for him to prepare. It could not land in the hands of that cheap and useless Cheng Jinyu.
Jiang Zihan urgently walked towards his company. But near the company, Jiang Zihan saw that right at that time at the bottom level was Cheng Jinyu. The two people’s gazes met. Jiang Zihan was just thinking of greeting him when Cheng Jinyu already turned around and left.
Jiang Zihan shouted out, “Cheng Jinyu, you didn’t see me?”
Jiang Zihan did not like him like this, like he had never once attached importance to him.
Cheng Jinyu stopped, towards Jiang Zihan he said, “Chief Jiang, hello.” Respectul and alienated, just like him.
Jiang Zihan smiled and said, “I didn’t think that your identity was so special, you're actually Chen Yuze’s cousin. I should have gotten more acquainted with you from the start.”
“I heard that your relationship with Chen Yuze’s dad is very good, no, it should be extraordinarily good. Your charm is very big, even able to wrangle a person like Uncle.
“I think you know, but Chen Yuze’s dad is going to divorce his mom. It seems like it's because of you. No wonder Chen Yuze’s mom never made your identity public. Turns out it was because there was this inside story.”
“Have you participated in Uncle Chen’s company project? You most likely did! After all it's a meat pie dropped from the heavens, not eating it will be a waste.”
Cheng Jinyu stood there and listened to Jiang Zihan talk. He waited until Jiang Zihan finished talking, then Cheng Jinyu opened his mouth. “What’s the point of telling me this? The situation between husband and wife has nothing to do with me.”
“Uncle’s company project has nothing to do with you? Uncle agreed before that this project was going to be handed to my company. Now you’re meddling in people’s affairs, you say if it has anything to do with me?”
“What's going on here? Someone came looking for you?” A cold sound came from the stairs Jiang Zihan turned around to see Gu Bokai from the back walkover.
From his investigations Jiang zihan knew that Gu Bokai and Cheng Jinyu’s relationship was very good, but what exactly was their relationship? He still hadn’t figured it out. Now Gu Bokai walked out of the escalator that was behind Cheng Jinyu, these two people were probably with each other.
Jiang Zihan smiled, “You are also here. I heard that your relationship was good, it seems it’s true. I also only just found out, Biao Ge’s abilities really are out of the ordinary. When he doesn’t make a move then he doesn’t do anything, but as soon as he makes a move its very ferocious.”
“Chief Gu, when did you also grovel yourself to Biao Ge’s suit pants? Tell me.”
Gu Bokai with big strides walked to the side of Cheng Jinyu. Holding him in his arms and grinning he said, “That's right, I groveled to his Western Suit pants. Why? Envious?”
Jiang Zihan revealed a bit of mockery. “Not envy, just Yuze will feel despair. For a few days Yuze has been suffering and has not eaten or slept. I did not think that the secret love was actually with Biao Ge.”
“I don’t know how grieved Yuze will be if he sees this scene. Biao Ge, you keep saying Yuze is hypocritical, Yuze is selfish, then what about you? You didn’t know Yuze likes Gu Bokai, or didn’t know who Chen Yuze has been keeping himself single for these years.”
“He didn’t know you were his cousin, but you knew he was your cousin. You’re stealing your cousin’s sweetheart. You don’t think that you’re selfish or hypocritical?”
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