The two weeks following the reception were very peaceful. Chi Zhengzheng took up jobs, read books, and studied.
Wen Yu and Zheng Ye were wrapping up the net they had woven towards the Wen family, meanwhile, nothing was happening on Chi Yan's and Chi Zhouchen's sides, they were unusually quiet.
The Wen family was flushing with success.
At this moment, An Qinru found Wen Yiran who had just come out of the company.
Wen Yiran frowned as soon as he saw An Qinru. She was the person who he had always longed to see before, he didn't know when they started, he didn't want to see her that much, on the contrary, he felt it was quite troublesome.
Especially when he woke up in the hospital that day and found that An Qinru was sleeping next to him, Wen Yiran's brows could catch mosquitoes.
But in the end, it was the person he had always liked so he spoke softly to her. He saw her take care of him, hustling and bustling for him, he felt very touched.
For the following two weeks, he had been dealing with the company affairs with Wen Jingsen. The Wen family had been flushed with success recently, and naturally, there were many things to do and they had to socialize a lot.
In addition, deliberately, Wen Yiran hadn't seen An Qinru for many days.
– What he didn't know, the more he avoided her, the more An Qinru would clench her teeth
She rarely took the initiative to come to the company to find him. He always went to her. The moment he saw her today, he subconsciously tightened his eyebrows.
But he still showed a smile and said softly: "Qinru, why are you here?"
The moment An Qinru saw him, her eyes immediately turned red.
All the thoughts in Wen Yiran's mind were put aside, immediately moved towards her anxiously: "Qinru, what wrong with you? Is someone bullying you? Tell me."
An Qinru's eyes got even redder and she reached out to hug him.
Wen Yiran slightly stiffened, but soon relaxed, he raised his hand and patted her back: "Qinru, what's wrong, tell me."
An Qinru's tears fell all of a sudden, she raised her head to look at him: "Brother Yiran, I-I…"
"What?" Wen Yiran wiped her tears.
An Qinru bit her lips and murmured: "I'm pregnant!"
Wen Yiran froze all of a sudden, and then looked at her dumbfounded, his hands also stiffened on her face.
An Qinru leaned into his arms, but her eyes flickered.
– Wen Yiran had really changed. If he had heard the news before when he was Chi Zhengzheng's fiancé, he would definitely not have reacted like this!
At that time, when she was planning it out, she wanted to marry into the Wen family after being welcomed by the Wen family, she wanted Wen Yiran not to carry the identity of Chi Zhengzheng's fiancé but she also wanted the Chi family to marry her off in high spirits…
Therefore, she wouldn't be pregnant, she wouldn't use it to get married.
But now Wen Yiran's reaction when he heard this news was definitely unhappiness!
If she didn't marry into the Wen family while he still had feelings for her, she would never marry in her lifetime.
The Wen family was rich, Wen Yiran was good, and she liked him. With such conditions, this man was the most suitable person for her in the world!
How could she miss it?!
An Qinru no longer cared about Chi Zhengzheng being in Wen Yiran's heart. Now, the most important thing was her identity.
When she marries the Wen family, Chi Zhengzheng would only be the extra fiancée of the Wen family who would be kicked out, at that time, she could deal with her any way she wanted!
It took Wen Yiran a long time to come back to his senses, he put his hand on her shoulder and pulled her out. He looked into her eyes while his voice trembling slightly: "Was it… that night?"
An Qinru nodded her head with red eyes.
Wen Yiran's voice was hoarse: "It's only been two weeks… Y-You shouldn't be able to tell if you're pregnant…"
"It can be checked in two weeks, and I have confirmed it. "An Qinru blinked, and tears fell.
Wen Yiran opened his mouth, he wanted to say that – he didn't want this child, he wasn't ready.
An Qinru's voice was hoarse: "Brother Yiran, I'm not ready to get pregnant, I'm so scared, but I just want this child to be our blood, I'm so happy again!"
She cried and laughed at the same time, she was at her wits' end, her hands clutched his sleeves as if she didn't know how to live if he gave up on her.
– Qin Ru was such a weak woman.
As a result, Wen Yiran couldn't say what he wanted to say anymore. He was frozen in place, his eyes were blank, and he wasn't focused.
He didn't even know what he was feeling at the moment, but it probably wasn't happiness.
Chi Yan called Chi Zhouchen to the company.
"Dad, what's wrong?" He asked as he pushed open the door.
The moment he stepped into the office, he smelled the very strong smell of smoke inside, which was somewhat choking.
Chi Zhouchen's eyebrows instantly frowned and his eyes looked over, and sure enough, Chi Yan was sitting there, lighting a cigar and slowly smoking it.
He didn't smoke in the office, and even except for social occasions, he rarely smoked.
But today, he sat in his office, looking out the window, smoking a cigar. He knew from the smell, it was clear that he had smoked quite a lot.
"Dad, why are you smoking?" Chi Zhouchen went up and tried to put out the cigar for his father.
Chi Yan looked at him and said in a hoarse voice: "Zhouchen, you're here, look at this."
As he spoke, he reached out and pushed the two photos on the table to the opposite side.
Chi Zhouchen looked down, the photos weren't particularly clear, one photo was outside the side door of Yu Ding, and one photo was outside the door of Wangjiang Manor.
– It was the same car.
In the first photo inside, because the car opened the window, look carefully inside, found the passenger seat was – Zheng Ye?
Chi Zhouchen's brow furrowed.
Chi Yan said: "That day when you came back, you told me convinced that Wen Yu was definitely not simple, that he definitely would take on the Wen family, and that the Wen family had also been really too abnormal recently…"
Although he said he didn't believe it, his heart was still anxious.
"I found some private detectives and kept an eye on Wen Yu. But he was too cautious, nothing could be tracked, but some people were found." Chi Yan let out a long breath.
That was it, the more uneasy he felt in his heart, and the more he was convinced – Wen Yu was not simple.
"I looked for someone to keep an eye on Yu Ding and the outside of Wangjiang Manor, he watched attentively for almost ten days, before eventually taking this kind of photo. Zheng Ye opened the window when he left the company, only then he was able to take this one photo."
That being said, Chi Yan's voice trembled slightly: "Yu Ding developed rapidly in the past two years, but their boss rarely came out to make connections. Many people went to find their company's employees to inquire about their boss, however, ordinary employees have never seen the boss! The only people who could see the boss were senior executives, and those senior executives, nobody knew why they wouldn't run their mouths."
It was clearly visible that the management in Yu Ding was tight, you could see Yu Ding's hand.
Chi Zhouchen looked at him and listened carefully, although he didn't know why Chi Yan was suddenly talking about Yu Ding's boss.
"Their boss is too cautious! He has a dedicated elevator, a dedicated underground driveway, and his car is also changed from time to time, private detectives aren't able to proceed with their investigation until they took this photo…"
Chi Yan took a deep breath and looked at Chi Zhouchen: "Zhouchen, you guessed right, Wen Yu isn't simple, you guessed that he was part of the senior executives of Yu Ding, but I have to tell you – he is the boss of Yu Ding, Zheng Ye is his subordinate!"
Chi Zhouchen took a deep breath.
It took a long time before he said in a hoarse voice: "He is so young…"
"Yes, he's so young, it's so scary." Chi Yan's voice was slightly trembling.
Chi Zhouchen wasn't the only one who didn't believe it. Sometimes, he would rather not be so rational, he didn't want to speculate on the result and he even pray that his guess would be wrong.
"Dad, w-what should we do?" Chi Zhouchen couldn't help but ask.
Chi Yan looked out the window, and his voice sounded like it was on the ends of the earth: "What to do… you've been trying to persuade me, haven't you? Do we have any other options?"
To stop investing, break off the participation of the Chi family in this project, and stop the loss in time. This was the only choice left.
Zheng Ye returned to the country, Wen Yu moved out of the Wen family, Wen Yu was the owner of Yu Ding, he wanted to retaliate against the Wen family, as well as the abnormal shift of the Wen family, and the smooth progress and expansion of this project, etc…
As soon as these dots were connected, it was almost certain – this project was done for.
"Then how do we break it off? We can't tell the Wen family the truth, it would alarm Wen Yu… and he wouldn't let us go." Chi Zhouchen slowly said, his voice was somewhat ruthless.
The investment of the Wen family was even more exaggerated than that of the Chi family, they were beyond help. If the Chi family wanted to pull the investment out, if they wouldn't be able to pull it out, they could only prepare themselves to fill it in.
Besides, do they have to support the Wen family? How did the Wen family treat them these days? They were so high and mighty, they didn't take the Chi family seriously, and they even went straight to their door and scolded the Chi family for not being able to teach their daughter!
They were smooth sailing, they thought that they could step on the Chi family, that the Chi family wasn't to be feared in the future…
"Find a random excuse to make a scene, as long as you don't let the Wen family be suspicious." Chi Yan's voice was hoarse, he didn't look at Chi Zhouchen.
"Okay." Chi Zhouchen answered softly.
He was both shocked and frenetic. He knew that his father's decision to break off the project meant that he had determined from every means and every news that Wen Yu was the owner of Yu Ding and that the project was going to be done for.
– Even if he thought that Wen Yu wasn't simple, this news was still like a bolt from the blue for him.
"This is the only way. We will withdraw, W-Wen Yu, for your sister's sake, won't be unforgiving with us." Chi Yan looked out the window, his voice was hoarse.
He thought that his daughter was the stupidest in the Chi family, but now it seemed that the Chi family, except for Chi Zhengzheng, were all stupid!
It was only now that they saw that Wen Yu wasn't simple!
However, Wen Yu lived in the Wen house, but the Wen family didn't find out at all, how terrifying was this?
– He really hid too deeply.
If it were someone else, it would be impossible for Chi Yan to just give up and he would resist, but this was Yu Ding.
The one who dealt with the Liu family in a matter of a few days and almost made them disappear was Yu Ding's boss, who was still in hiding today.
He analyzed Yu Ding's boss's operations for Chi Zhouchen many times in the past, and he was amazed and jealous every time.
He was too terrifying.
Chi Zhouchen looked at his dad and was also a bit silent.
He was still young in the end, the company hadn't been officially handed over to him, but his father's worked for this company for most of his life, so have suddenly such a devastating setback, how could he feel good?
At this time his father was unable to endure it as if his heart was about to gouge out…
"Dad, don't be sad. While the green hills last, there'll be wood to burn." Chi Zhouchen's hoarse voice comforted softly. (t/n: meaning: Where there's life there's hope.)
The Chi family had invested too much. They made the business contract a long time ago, if they left now, there wouldn't be anything left. The whole Chi family's vitality would be greatly injured. They didn't know what kind of storm they would have to face next, and the damage was disastrous.
But it was better than nothing.
Chi Yan didn't speak, he looked at Chi Zhouchen, and said after a while: "Zhouchen, Dad is getting old… From now on, this world will be the world of you young people… You have to establish yourself early…"
His voice trembled as if he had instantly aged ten years.
Chi Zhouchen opened his mouth for a long time before saying: "Okay."
Because of Chi Zhengzheng's butterfly effect, the world was different in the end.
In the original novel, Chi Zhouchen was ignorant, he had always admired Wen Yiran, if it weren't for Chi Zhengzheng suddenly waking up, he wouldn't have somewhat grown.
He also didn't find that Wen Yu wasn't simple and he had been trying to probe.
He wasn't an adult yet, but he had to face the collapse of the Chi family and the bloody storm under Wen Yu's hands, his mentality collapsed, so much so that he later became addicted to drugs and frantically tortured the people from the Chi family.
This world was different, he alienated both Wen Yiran and An Qinru because of Chi Zhengzheng.
Also because Chi Zingzheng, noticed Wen Yu, noticed in advance, he was even the first to notice, and he kept trying to track him down, he also advised Chi Yan to stop in time. His heart was prepared so he would be able to bear it.
Moreover, the Chi family hadn't yet fallen, they didn't have to shoulder countless debts.
And now, all they had to do was to make a scene with the Wen family and then stop the investment.
They needed an opportunity.
– Just like An Qinru's pregnancy.
At this time, in Yu Ding.
"So the people who were following us, did you find out?" Zheng Ye asked, his brow furrowed.
Wen Yu said lightly: "The Chi family."
"Hmm? Surprisingly, it was them." Zheng Ye's brow furrowed and asked Wen Yu again, "Then what do we do with them? Will they ruin things?"