TL: Hua
Ye Rongxu experienced a long-distance flight during the day and rushed to the company at noon. He was exhausted and went to bed early at night.
But he was worried about his father’s condition, and he had just met Qin Chaoyan during the day, so his mind was full of thoughts. When he closed his eyes, he could only think about these things, so he didn’t sleep well.
The next day, he got up very early and planned to go to the company with Ji Qingyu.
Seeing that he looked listless and obviously hadn’t adjusted to the time difference, Ji Qingyu advised him to rest at home.
“I will inform you as soon as there is news from the embassy.” Ji Qingyu promised and advised, “Xu Xu, you should also take care of your body.”
He doesn’t want Xuxu to collapse before knowing Uncle’s situation.
Ye Rongxu hadn’t gotten a good night’s sleep and was consequently feeling a bit tired. Hearing this, he reluctantly nodded.
*
At noon, before Ye Boxuan’s news came, an uninvited guest came to Ye’s house.
Ye Rongxu looked at Qin Jingxu sitting opposite him, frowned, and raised his hand, indicating that the butler didn’t need to serve tea. He said in a somewhat unhappy tone, “What are you doing here?”
Qin Jingxu smiled; his tone was familiar, as if he was greeting an old friend: “Not even a cup of hot tea?”
Ye Rongxu: “Sorry, there is no tea at home recently.”
He picked up the health cup and took a sip of the freshly brewed chrysanthemum and wolfberry tea.
Qin Jingxu smiled again. He didn’t seem to mind and continued the conversation as if they were still on good terms: “Speaking of which, you didn’t like this kind of light and healthy things when you were a child, but you liked to eat candy. I remember one time…”
“What do you want to say?” Ye Rongxu really didn’t want to listen to his hypocritical reminiscence of the past, so he frowned and interrupted.
Seeing this, Qin Jingxu finally stopped smiling and said, “Okay, since you don’t want to listen, I’ll be frank. I hope you marry me.”
Ye Rongxu rolled his eyes, and without a second’s delay, he said directly, “Look in the mirror.”
“What?” Qin Jingxu was stunned.
“Or the landscape pool outside.” Ye Rongxu added, “If you really can’t, go ask how much it costs to make a key[mfn]Meme originated from a key-making service. In short, when someone says, Do you make a key? Or do you want a key? They insult you for being incapable or not qualified.[/mfn].” Are you worthy?
He didn’t rest well today, so his temper was not very good, especially for someone like Qin Jingxu.
Qin Jingxu understood the meaning behind his words but smiled, with resentment hidden in his eyes.
“Don’t refuse so bluntly.” He said, “You may have forgotten that we are engaged. If Qin Chaoyan hadn’t interfered, we should have gotten married.”
Ye Rongxu frowned and was about to refute.
He added, “I know what you’re going to say, but when the elders of the two families agreed on a marriage contract when we were young, Qin Chaoyan was nowhere to be found. No matter what, he should not be the engagement partner, right?”
Ye Rongxu: “When we were young, it was just a marriage alliance. Can’t we change the marriage partner when we grow up? Besides, the engagement banquet was four years ago. Do you think everyone in Jiangcheng has lost their memory?”
Forget it; why argue about this? Anyway, Qin Chaoyan…
Thinking of the scene when they met yesterday, he frowned with some impatience: “No matter who it is with, marriage is no longer possible. I don’t want to hear this. You can go back.”
Qin Jingxu smirked and said, “Xiao Xu, you may not have carefully read the marriage agreement back then. The agreement stipulated that each family would give 5% of their equity to the two betrothed. After marriage, the two would exchange 2.5% of their respective equity. However, if one party cheats or fails to fulfill the engagement, they must give all of their 5% equity to the other party.”
Ye Rongxu was surprised and looked puzzled.
He remembered the clause of mutual equity transfer, but the clause “If one party cheats or fails to fulfill the engagement, they must give all of their 5% equity” was intentionally added by Grandpa Qin to restrain the Qin family’s betrothee, right?
“I remember this clause is to constrain the Qin family.” He said.
“In theory, it’s like this, but I asked a lawyer to look at it, and the wording at that time seems to have some loopholes.” Qin Jingxu took out the document, pointed to that clause, and smiled. This article doesn’t explicitly say that it’s specifically targeting the Qin family’s marriage contractors, and as a matter of fact, the agreement binds both parties, and interpreting it from a textual perspective, it seems fine to say that this article is equally applicable to the Ye family.”
Ye Rongxu’s pupils widened slightly.
Indeed, when the two families were with good intentions to set up a marriage contract, they didn’t intend to guard against anyone, and they didn’t even think about drafting an agreement at the beginning. It was drafted temporarily at the dinner table, without a lawyer’s review, and the wording was not as rigorous as the formal agreement.
After all, no one thought that the two families would come to this point.
But—
Ye Rongxu picked up the flower tea and leaned back on the back of the wheelchair, casually saying, “Go to court.”
The Ye family has a team of hundreds of lawyers. He doesn’t believe that the other party can win the lawsuit for an agreement that is not strictly worded.
What’s more, in his eyes, Qin Jingxu wasn’t even considered a marriage partner. The other party was now presenting himself as a marriage partner but was only relying on the fact that the elders of both families were absent.
Moreover, even in the worst-case scenario, if Qin Jingxu really wins, will he really get married for 5% of the shares?
It’s impossible.
Ye Rongxu was already very impatient. He took a sip of chrysanthemum wolfberry tea, trying to calm his mind and suppress his unhappiness.
Qin Jingxu’s face darkened, and after a while, he suddenly spoke again: “Xiao Xu, I don’t necessarily want the 5% equity in your hand, but there is one thing you need to know. Several directors of Ye Group want to buy the share I hold. One of them seems to be surnamed Wang. I heard that he doesn’t get along well with your father, and it seems that Uncle has also had an accident recently, right?”
Ye Rongxu suddenly raised his eyes and stared at him.
“By the way, that Director Wang also hopes that I can withdraw my investment from several major projects that Qin and Ye have cooperated on. Of course, this will hurt the Qin Group, but selling the Ye Group’s shares held by the Qin Group, as well as my own share, the damage is still under control. I just don’t know if Ye Group’s sudden crisis, followed by news of the chairman’s accident and internal conflicts among directors, will lead to instability and change of ownership.” Qin Jingxu continued.
Ye Rongxu’s fingers holding the handle of the cup gradually exerted force, and his knuckles turned white.
Is this the reason why he and Qin Jingxu got married in the dream? Is everything really unchangeable? He had obviously changed his engagement partner four years ago and chose Qin Chaoyan, but the result was…
He suddenly remembered again the scene of yesterday’s meeting with Qin Chaoyan, obviously once intimate, but yesterday was as strange as a passerby.
What was going through his mind the moment he called out to the other man in the conference room and he turned to look at him?
In front of him, Qin Jingxu’s voice continued, “Of course, I don’t want to be an enemy of you, Xiaoxu. You also saw the situation yesterday. Qin Chaoyan came back this time, obviously to retaliate against us…”
It’s you, not us.” Ye Rongxu snapped back to his senses and coldly corrected his wording.
Qin Jingxu smiled and said, “His uncle has been targeted by your father for the past three years. He followed his uncle. This time his return to China was obviously instructed by his uncle. How could he only target me and not the Ye family? He came for both of us.
“So we should join forces and resist together. Besides, it’s not good for the elders not to know about such a big matter as getting married. I have already sent someone to see your grandparents in Country M; it seems to be Hopkins Hospital? It’s not easy to get in, but it’s not impossible. The people I hired are all experienced mercenaries. If you want, you can also ask them to help bring your grandparents over.”
It’s not impossible to pick them up. This sentence is obviously a threat, telling Ye Rongxu that Grandpa Ye and Grandma Ye are under his surveillance, and he can take action at any time.
Ye Rongxu’s pupils suddenly contracted, and his pretty face was stained with anger.
“I’m sorry, this is a bit presumptuous, but I guess…”
“Bang!”
A cup of flower tea suddenly hit his forehead; the edge of the glass scratched his skin, and blood instantly flowed.
Qin Jingxu was hit so hard that he saw stars and was dizzy for several seconds before the darkness dissipated and he saw the figure again.
“You–” He covered his forehead with a ferocious expression, and his calmness just now disappeared completely.
“Get out!” Ye Rongxu interrupted coldly.
“What?” Qin Jingxu was stunned and stood up in disbelief.
“I told you to get out; don’t you understand?” Ye Rongxu’s beautiful eyes were filled with anger, and he turned around and shouted, “Uncle Yang, no, Uncle Chen, kick him out.”
Butler Yang came quickly and was stunned when he saw this.
At his age, he really couldn’t drag Qin Jingxu. But Chen Jiang came up and hauled him out.
Qin Jingxu’s arm was twisted. He turned his head and said through gritted teeth, “Ye Rongxu, aren’t you afraid that the Ye Group will change its owner and that your grandparents will get into trouble?”
Ye Rongxu acted like he didn’t hear it, clenched his fingers, and sat in the living room with his back straight.
When Chen Jiang came back, he seemed to have calmed down.
He had just called his grandmother to confirm that it was temporarily safe over there, and when he turned his head and saw Chen Jiang, he added, “Uncle Chen, Qin Jingxu said that my grandparents are under surveillance by the people he sent. Alert our people.”
Chen Jiang suddenly became serious and quickly finished the call and replied, “They said everything was normal, but for Qin Jingxu to say that, he might have sent people over. It’s just that we don’t know who it is and whether they have been lurking in the hospital.”
This is a matter of safety, so it’s obviously not something to be taken lightly.
Ye Rongxu nodded: “Please tell the people over there to keep a close eye on them and find out the people sent by Qin Jingxu as soon as possible. In addition—”
He paused and said, “Go check Qin Jingxu and…”
After explaining everything, he took a deep breath and said as if he had made up his mind, “Finally, help me notify Qin Jingxu and say… I agree to his conditions.”
Lin Jiaojiao heard the noise and came downstairs. She was stunned when she heard this: “What conditions?”
Half an hour later, Ji Qingyu hurried back from the company.
Ye Rongxu was sitting at the dining table eating lunch when he arrived. He smiled and said, “Brother Qingyu, why did you get off work so early? Just in time, let’s have lunch together.”
Then he called the butler: “Uncle Yang——”
Seeing that he was fine, Ji Qingyu breathed a sigh of relief, then waved his hand and said, “No need”.
He pulled a chair and sat at the table. After moistening his throat with a sip of water, he said, “I heard from Jiaojiao that you are going to marry Qin Jingxu? What’s going on?
He came to force you?”
Ye Rongxu turned his head to look at Butler Yang and asked him to take the servants who were working on the first floor to another place. After making sure that no one else could hear, he took a mouthful of porridge, put away his smile, and said, “It’s not a real agreement. I just pretend to play along with him for a while.”
Ji Qingyu glared at him and said unhappily, “How can you randomly agree with him?”
Then he frowned and asked, “Is he threatening you?”
Ye Rongxu nodded: “He threatened me with the company’s shares and my grandparents’ safety.”
Ji Qingyu was so angry that he cursed directly, without any politeness, and then rolled up his sleeves and stood up.
Ye Rongxu hurriedly grabbed him and said, “Brother Qingyu, calm down. I have asked Uncle Chen to deal with this matter.”
“Chen Jiang?” Ji Qingyu frowned and said worriedly, “How will he deal with it? ”
Ye Rongxu: “First of all, it is impossible for Grandma Qin to give the Ye’s shares to Qin Jingxu. He must have obtained them illegally. In addition, his previous case was successfully cleared, and he controlled the Qin Group in the short term without anyone opposing, which is very suspicious.
“The most suspicious thing is Qin Qijiang. Just as he regained control of the company, his stroke worsened and he collapsed again, which doesn’t seem normal. I asked Chen Jiang to check these points and try to find evidence to send Qin Jingxu back to prison as soon as possible. In addition, I ask people to protect Grandpa and Grandma and quickly identify the person Qin Jingxu sent.”
Grandpa Ye just had an operation, and it wasn’t convenient to be transferred to another hospital immediately. Besides, the enemy is hidden, and they are in the open. Accidents might also happen during the temporary transfer. Furthermore, the key protected object of the Ye family bodyguards before has always been Ye Rongxu, and this time there are not many people staying with Grandpa Ye and Grandma Ye.
Ji Qingyu understood Ye Rongxu’s plan but still frowned: “That’s what you said, but Qin Jingxu will definitely be anxious to get married. He obviously has his eyes on the shares in your hands and wants to use you to control Ye Group. What if Chen Jiang doesn’t find evidence in time? As for grandpa and grandma… what if it’s too late?”
Ye Rongxu put down the porridge bowl and said with a wooden face, “It’s okay. If it really comes to that, the marriage still won’t happen. Even if Qin Jingxu wasn’t taken away by the police, someone will come to destroy the marriage.”
Ji Qingyu was stunned for a moment and asked, “Who?”
He subconsciously thought of the person he had just met yesterday and thought to himself: Could it be…? Is it really him? The old love rekindled so quickly?
No, but why would he do that?
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