Bonus Ko-fi update
Jian Suiying doesn’t know how to describe his current mood. After a brief feeling of shock and anger, he soon felt numb. He’d already gone through the issue in his head and made a rough guess before the meeting. Jian Suilin was the one who actually introduced the project to him, but that was almost a year ago already, and Yang-zong herself was his acquaintance. He thought that Jian Suilin discovered good business information and told him about it, after all, he gets multiple business ideas from others every day, and perhaps only one out of a hundred of those ideas can make him think twice and consider the level of interest. The odds were too small at first, so he still didn’t believe that Jian Suilin would’ve dug a hole for him so early. Even if he had that in mind at the time, it felt more like it was just by chance.
He looked at Jian Suilin and Li Yu, both younger and more beautiful, yet both of them made him feel cold. The chill that ran from the soles of his feet to his heart was like a feeling of melancholy.
He didn’t even have the interest to jump forward and beat them up, and his heart was filled with a sense of powerlessness. He sat calmly on the sofa, looking straight at the people present. Perhaps due to the many humiliations and blows he has already faced, Jian Suiying has become less prone to acting on impulse, or when faced with failure, he can only try to save face by pretending to be calm.
Under Jian Suiying’s unfathomable gaze, both Jian Suilin and Li Yu were trying to pretend to be calm. At this point, there was no more room for turning around. Either they knocked Jian Suiying down or they will get trampled on in the mud instead.
Jian Suiying took out a cigarette and lit it. His eyes peered through the swirling smoke around the people present, then he let his gaze fall back on Jian Suilin and said, “Cut the bullshit.”
Li Yu’s expression changed slightly because Jian Suiying didn’t spare him a second glance, which had already made his chest hurt with a depressive mood.
Jian Suilin pursed his lips and sat up straight. He winked at the two people from the Sichuan company, and they walked out of the door with understanding.
Li Yu suddenly felt that he couldn’t stand such a scene. He was afraid that Jian Suiying would look at him with hatred soon enough. The thought of what Jian Suiying would say and do, made him want to close himself up.
He can’t turn back anymore…
He suddenly stood up and whispered, “I’ll see myself out as well.”
Jian Suilin’s fist clenched behind his back.
The two brothers of the Jian family were instantly left alone in the big room.
Jian Suilin pushed a document from one end of the coffee table to Jian Suiying’s end. “Ge…”
Jian Suiying squinted at him, “You still have the face to call me ‘ge’?”
Jian Suilin gave him an ambiguous-looking smile, “Indeed, I don’t want you to be my ge…” If only you weren’t my brother… he suppressed the pain that surged in his heart and told himself that he would never regret taking this step.
Jian Suiying took the document and skimmed through a few pages. As expected, the creditor’s rights, along with several other unrelated non-performing assets, had been transferred back and forth several times, and sold to Jian Suilin and Li Yu’s company. Now, these two talented f*cks are the true creditors who own the land, and the company in Sichuan was assisting them on the premise of gaining profits.
The thing that worried Jian Suiying the most had happened, because the debt amount was no longer the biggest and most time-consuming controversial point. As long as the creditors wanted to, they could delay the matter as long as they wanted, and the land can only be in the awkward position of being unable to get its ownership transferred, that is, unless they get what they wanted from him.
Funny. He even egged them on to teach them a lesson from the land in Beihai, but in the end, they had already bitten on a bigger gold mine.
Jian Suiying sneered, ‘Jian Suilin, you’ve been deliberately bearing the humiliation for so many years, and today I finally fell to your trap. It’s not easy to think about such a grand scheme. It was also difficult for you to fake being a proper grandson for so many years. So just say what you want.'”
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
He’s actually impressed with his younger brother today. Compared to the weak, submissive, harmless little pretty boy, the man in front of him was his brother, a man with courage, wisdom, and the ability to adapt to various circumstances. It’s just that the said pretty boy in the past has long lost his interest in persecuting him, and the person who dared to compete head-on with him is definitely not soft-hearted.
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Jian Suilin’s fear of Jian Suiying had been carved deep into his bone marrow ever since he was young. This fear gradually diminished as he grew up, but it never really disappeared. If Jian Suiying lifted the table to hit him, he was prepared to be on the defensive, but Jian Suiying’s imposing and indifferent appearance left him at a loss for a moment.
He always felt that even if he did everything to make his brother hate him, what else could happen? This person never liked him. But when he realized that his distance from him was getting further and further, he panicked a little.
Jian Suilin knew he couldn’t say anything unnecessary.
He had fantasized countless times in the past that on the day he could raise his eyebrows in front of his older brother, he must properly humiliate him, to let him know that while he’d been bullying and disdaining his younger brother for so many years, he could also trample him with his foot. But he can’t do that now, he wanted to end the negotiation immediately, because Jian Suiying’s hateful gaze made him feel like he was unable to breathe.
He forced himself to calm down and slowly leaned back on the sofa. ‘I believe you’ve already understood the matter in sufficient detail, so let’s not talk nonsense anymore. I want half of the company’s capital.'”
Jian Suiying looked at him coldly, “Half? Do you really think the bargaining chip you’re holding is worth half the equity of my company?”
“The chips I hold in my hand can cause billions of losses and liabilities for the company. This company isn’t just yours, dad and your other relatives are shareholders too. I don’t think anyone wants to see the company fall into such a crisis.”
Jian Suiying’s eyes lit up like a torch, “You know that I’m not the only one in charge of the company. How can you pass the test with our relatives?'”
Jian Suilin smiled, “Everyone else except Dad is your relative. Over the years, they never took me and my mother seriously. Even if they lose all their money, I can only watch in mockery. As for Dad… what can he do to me?”
Jian Suiying sneered, “Then why do you think I’ll just give you half of the company’s capital as you wish? Just because we’re afraid of the company going bankrupt? We somehow grew up together regardless, don’t you know me well enough? I, Jian Suiying, would rather be in debt than fulfill your happiness!” He snubbed his cigarette firmly on the document, the cigarette end instantly burning through the paper. Then, he raised his long leg and kicked the table at Jian Suilin.
The muscles on Jian Suilin’s face twitched. He knew that Jian Suiying was indeed such a person, and if he was upset and irritated, he would rather get a dead fish and broken fishnet, than let Jian Suilin get his wish.
Jian Suiying stood up and smiled maliciously, saying, “Jian Suilin, do you think such little wind and waves can overturn my large ship? You’re too young. I, Jian Suiying, swear that from today on, I will make your life feel worse than death!” After putting down such harsh words, Jian Suiying slammed the door and left.
Jian Suilin slumped on the sofa, paralyzed in a cold sweat.
He reflected on the words Jian Suiying had said before he left, and couldn’t help but raise his hand to cover his eyes and laugh. He murmured, “My da-ge, you’ve already made me feel like I’m dying…”
Li Yu stood alone at the end of the corridor, near the elevator.
When Jian Suiying turned the corner, he saw him. He put his hands in his pockets and smirked, “Li Yu, what role did you play in this?”
Li Yu looked at him expressionlessly and said something completely irrelevant. “Who did you sleep with last night?”
Jian Suiying frowned.
Li Yu caught a glimpse of the small hickey under his collar, causing his brain to buzz in pain and his heart ache. It made him unable to breathe smoothly. “That Xiao Zhu? Pipi? Or was it someone else?”
“My private life has nothing to do with your bullsh*t. I’m only asking you this, what role did you play in this?”
Li Yu’s adam’s apple bobbed, and he struggled to resist the urge to knock Jian Suiying unconscious with a punch and hide.
“Let me guess then. At the board of directors meeting that day, three people who usually don’t agree with one another were on the same side. Did you take advantage of your identity as my former assistant and secret lover to hint on something to them?” Jian Suiying smiled. The more he felt his insides burn, the more he wanted to laugh, “You and Jian Suilin started plotting against me for over a year ago now. One is my younger brother, and the other is my lover, which made it impossible for me to defend myself. You two are really capable of taking me step by step into your trap… Li Yu, I don’t quite understand though. Our hatred for one another doesn’t exactly run as deep. We’ve also been sleeping together for several months, yet you don’t treat me like a human being. How much do you care for Jian Suilin anyway?” After Jian Suiying said this, he felt a strange sense sadness, “Would you rather die for him?”
Li Yu’s voice trembled. “I don’t like him. What I want is you.”
Jian Suiying felt like he was listening to some comic skit, but it’s not the actors who were making him feel funny, it’s Jian Suiying himself.
“Me? Aren’t you the casanova. We’ve both already reached this point, and you’re still bullsh*tting me. Let me tell you this, even if you kneel down and kowtow to me, I won’t let you and your heart get what you want. What’s mine will always be mine. If I can’t keep them, then I’d rather break them to pieces than to give them to someone else!”
Jian Suiying finally looked deeply at Li Yu. He felt his heart was like a piece of fragile ice, smashed to pieces on the ground. The moment he turned around, his eyes turned bloody red. He lifted his chin disdainfully and walked towards the stairwell without looking back.
According to Li Yu’s past experience, whenever they disagreed with each other, Jian Suiying was bound to take action. However, this time, Jian Suiying barely moved a finger, but instead seemed to be much calmer. Especially when Jian Suiying looked at him before turning around, it gave Li Yu a sense of despair and the feeling that everything had really come to an end. That look made Li Yu wake up from a dream.
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After Jian Suiying returned to his car and closed the door, he felt like dying. He leaned back in the car seat, gasping for breath and forcing himself to calm down. At this moment, the strong sense of frustration and anger exceeded all the feelings from the past, and he had the impulse to destroy everything in front of him.
He had never been afraid of anything in his life, but at this moment he felt at a complete loss as to how to move forward. The road ahead was so long, and everyone tried to get him to trip. He has never felt so lonely and helpless.
As he drove away from the hotel, various noises echoed in his mind, giving him a splitting headache. He was in such a helpless situation today that he didn’t want to do anything but gnash his teeth and hold on. No matter what Jian Suilin wanted, he wouldn’t let him have it. He wanted the two f*ckers, Jian Suilin and Li Yu, to leave his life with disheartened faces.
Jian Suiying first called the manager in charge of this loan project at Bank X and asked someone to see how much money or time the bank could give him. After the discussion, he immediately went to Yang-zong and the two continued to review the materials and consider how they would fight the lawsuit.
The only way now seemed to be to fight a lawsuit, but Jian Suiying changed his mind. In any case, he cannot bear to fall out with Yang-zong at this time. Initially, he is the most passive member in this case, and he cannot afford to have even more enemies at the same time.
It was like living inside a bomb ready to explode at any moment, and he has to keep looking for time to divert his attention, or else his entire body will explode.
After dinner with Yang-zong that evening, he drove home. When he arrived outside the residential area, he looked up and saw that there were only a few households with lights on in the 20-storey building.
The housing price here was too expensive. There were few people here who really bought and stayed, while most of the purchased properties were used for investment. Jian Suiying used to think that having few people around was clean and better, but now he felt that this place was like a motherf*cking haunted house. Could people really live here?
The thought of him returning to the empty, cold place that was full of memories of him and Li Yu made him want to retreat.
He doesn’t want to go back alone.
After thinking for a long time, he finally turned the steering wheel and drove towards Xiao Zhu’s house.
When he arrived at Xiao Zhu’s house, he rang the doorbell twice and waited for a moment, but no one answered the door. A wave of anger rose in his heart, and he repeatedly pressed the doorbell several times, but there were still no movements inside. Jian Suiying felt a sudden outburst of emotions and directed all his anger on the finger that rang the doorbell. The doorbell kept ringing, his actions harsh.
Open the door! Open the door! Sh*t, nothing’s going well! Everything’s against Laozi! Jian Suiying’s heart roared. Just as he stepped back to kick the door open, frantic sounds of footsteps came from inside. Who is it?'”
The door in front of him suddenly opened, and the warmth of the room filled his face. The warm light in the room made his eyes ache. The slim and beautiful boy looked at him with big, frightened, and worried eyes.
Jian Suiying slammed his fist on the door and shouted at him, “Were you motherf*cking dead or what! You can’t even hear the bell ringing!”
Xiao Zhu’s shoulders trembled with fear, and he looked at him with tearful eyes. “I– I was taking a shower…”
Jian Suiying saw his bare feet and wet hair, and a fierce, manic feeling swirled frantically in his chest. He forced his eyes to close before suppressing the feeling. He walked into the room, dumbly saying, “Go and make me tea.”
Xiao Zhu sucked in a breath and ran barefoot to the kitchen to make tea for him.
Jian Suiying slumped down on the sofa, feeling as if he’d been drained of all his strength. He didn’t even bother to move a finger.
After a while, Xiao Zhu came over with a pot of tea and sat carefully beside him, afraid to speak. Jian Suiying opened his bloodshot eyes, glanced at him, reached out and touched his ear, saying, “Are you scared?”
Xiao Zhu nodded stiffly and then immediately shook his head.
“Come here.” Jian Suiying extended his hand to him.
Jian Suiying quickly caught hold of Xiao Zhu as he sat on his lap after leaning over.
Jian Suiying hugged him tightly, as if he needed to hold on to something warm to let him know that he wasn’t truly alone and hadn’t been abandoned by everything. He buried his face in Xiao Zhu’s clothes and slowly breathed.
Xiao Zhu hesitantly reached out and hugged him back.
“I scared you… I also lost my temper with you. I’m motherf*cking sick. This was a disaster…” Jian Suiying hardly felt that he was actually talking to someone. He just said what his heart wanted to say, and someone was there to listen. As he spoke, he wanted to slap himself in the face and warned himself that a counsellor could never appear on Jian Suiying from now on. “I got tricked this time… why was that… its because I look up to myself too much… I was arrogant… I thought what I wanted will be mine… and whoever else wanted it won’t get it… but nobody ever took me seriously. I didn’t think, that nobody really took me seriously… Everybody… motherf*cking took me, Jian Suiying, for granted!”
Bai Xinyu, Jian Suilin, Li Yu… No one took him seriously. In the eyes of these people, he’s a piece of sh*t, that he’s nothing!
Xiao Zhu’s tears ran down his cheeks, and he hugged Jian Suiying tightly. He had seen all kinds of spirited and vigorous charms this man had, each of which made him admire the man, made him feel infatuated and intoxicated. However, Jian Suiying’s compelling charms has also been noticed by too many other people in the world, yet perhaps only he has been the only person who has seen such a frustrated and fragile look on the man. It made him feel both heartbroken and flattered.
He never dared to expect anything from Jian Suiying. Whatever the man gave him, he took, but he was not qualified to ask for more. Jian Suiying could hold him like this and cry silently, and he felt that everything was already enough for him. He didn’t know if Jian Suiying was still crying. After Jian Suiying spoke those words, he didn’t say anything anymore. He just silently hugged Xiao Zhu and breathed close to his clothes, each time so heavy and deep that his skin and heart trembled.
Things were even less optimistic than Jian Suiying imagined them to be.
Thank you for the ko-fi, Anya!
My heart hurts for Jian Suiying 🙁 he doesn’t deserve this. Can’t wait wait read more! Tysm for the update
This breaks my heart! I really hope things will get better for him soon. 😢💔
i made an account specifically to comment
thank god, he finally cried 😭 i am so concerned for jian suiying. he doesn’t cry. thank you xiao zhu for being there for him 🥺 fc*k li yu and suilin
What you do, comes back to you ! Serves him right, finally gets put in his place. I hope it’s scathing and oppressing until it ends. Get your head in the game , idiot !
He never really hurt anyone without a reason. He doesn’t deserve this
it’s so sad to see such strong person break, glad Xiao Zhu stay with him ToT
the only sane character here is Xiao Zhu. poor booy only have love, be there when he’s needed without wanting something back. I hope no one harms him ini this rage of storm. The back of my mind hoping JS would love him instead of Li Yu. but this is novel after all.
Istg of Suilin still wants to get together with his bro imma throw hands….k didn’t want to be my ge either then what bish u wanted him to be ur bf or smth lmfao u wish
ah so he finally cried. i found it worrying, since the beginning, how he would always get extremely mad but never cried afterwards or idk… I’m glad to see his more vulnerable side. i hope it’ll get better for him