TL: Hua
“I heard that the doctors there like to study people like you. Maybe before long, you will be like other people who live there and forget everything, including my mother. For you, maybe this is revenge?”
Qin Chaoyan’s tone was not hurried, but his words were chilling.
Xie Yunming clenched his teeth and stared at him, as if trying to distinguish the truth of his words.
“You dare?” His face was ashen.
Qin Chaoyan looked at him indifferently. He didn’t need to speak; his expression said it all.
Xie Yunming suddenly lost control of his body and began to tremble, struggling violently. For him, forgetting Xie Yunzhao was obviously unacceptable.
Qin Chaoyan looked indifferent, watching him being held down by the bodyguards, and after a while, he suddenly said, “Take off the silver ring on his finger.”
Xie Yunming froze and suddenly struggled even more. His eyes were like an enraged beast, with uncontrollable anger: “What do you want to do? Let go!”
The bodyguards moved quickly. Two of them held him down, and the other stepped forward to grab his wrist and forcibly took the ring.
Xie Yunming’s shoulders and arms seemed to be clamped by iron pliers, unable to break free.
He struggled desperately, like a trapped beast, gasping for breath. When he looked up to see Qin Chaoyan’s indifferent gaze, he suddenly froze.
Three years ago, when he asked the bodyguards to hold Qin Chaoyan down at the airport and prevented him from returning to China, the other party was as embarrassed as he was now.
It’s really a matter of time.
He laughed softly and suddenly grasped the thumb with the silver ring, as if he would rather break the finger bone than let anyone take the ring away.
The bodyguard directly dislocated the finger bone to remove the ring. Xie Yunming suddenly struggled violently, trying to retrieve the silver ring.
The bodyguards were taken by surprise and allowed him to fall to the ground. The ring also fell during the fight, rolled on the ground, and stopped two meters away.
Xie Yunming stared at the ring in a daze and suddenly crawled over.
However, a pair of leather shoes walked up to the ring, and the owner raised the tip of the shoe, as if he was about to step on it.
Xie Yunming froze in an instant, staring at the ring with fear in his eyes.
“No…” He spoke with difficulty, as if he was so scared that he could hardly make a sound.
“I remember you cherished this ring very much.” Qin Chaoyan said slowly, “You always wear it on your hand. Even when you need to take it off when washing your hands, you are very careful.”
“I heard that this is a gift from my mother to you, and Aunt Lin helped design it, but…” He changed his tone and suddenly said coldly, “Are you worthy of it?”
As he said, he was ready to step on it.
Xie Yunming’s face suddenly changed, and he shouted, “There are your mother’s ashes in the ring.”
Qin Chaoyan paused slightly and slowly moved his shoes away.
Xie Yunming breathed a sigh of relief. He was so scared that he gasped violently, and his forehead was full of sweat.
Qin Chaoyan sneered, leaned over to pick up the ring, and said, “Sure enough.”
Seeing this, Xie Yunming’s expression changed again, and he desperately reached out to grab it.
Qin Chaoyan clutched the ring, looked down at him, and said word by word, “If my mother knows that you carry a little bit of her ashes with you, caressing it every day, and even…”
Three years ago, when he first met Xie Yunming at the Qin Group, he noticed that this person attached great importance to the silver ring on his hand and stroked it more than once.
In the three years of working with him, he occasionally saw him lower his head and kiss the ring. He always guessed that the ring was given by someone important to him or that there was something important in the ring. Unexpectedly, both guesses were correct.
For someone like Xie Yunming, taking away and destroying what he values most is the real punishment.
Qin Chaoyan has always known that words are a knife that kills without blood.
He looked down at the poor loser and said slowly, “After learning about Qin Qijiang’s infidelity, my mother would rather lie that she still likes someone as disgusting as Qin Qijiang than stay with you. I think she hates your feelings.
“If she knew that you took a bit of her ashes and carried it around with you day after day, she would think it was torture. You want to atone for your sins, to beg for forgiveness when you’re underground. But that’s just your wishful thinking.”
“I won’t give you the ring. As for how I will deal with the ashes inside, you can guess.” After saying that, he put away the ring, turned around, and left.
Xie Yunming was subdued by the bodyguards again. He struggled like crazy and stretched out his hand to Qin Chaoyan desperately: “Give me back the ring. What do you want to do? She is your mother!”
Qin Chaoyan paused at the door, his figure against the light.
He didn’t turn around but slowly said, “I’m sorry, I have never gotten along with her, and there is no family affection.”
Speaking of this, he suddenly tilted his head slightly, looked at the person on the ground behind him, and said, “By the way, you can only hope that I will avenge her and let Qin Qijiang and others suffer retribution. After all, you can’t do anything.”
After saying that, he took another step and left without turning back.
Suddenly, there was a tearing sound of anger coming from the room behind.
Xie Yunming was held down by bodyguards, looking disheveled and losing the radiance in his eyes.
He lay on the ground, searching everywhere like a madman, muttering, “Give it back to me, give me the ring back, give Yunzhao back to me…”
The bodyguards looked at each other, hesitated, and stepped forward to try to pull him up.
But he struggled violently and insisted on searching: “Yunzhao, Yunzhao, I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have hurt Lin Xue and her son. Come out quickly, Yunzhao…”
He crawled and searched for a while, suddenly hugged his head in pain, and slammed into the ground desperately: “Yunzhao, I was wrong. Come back soon, Yunzhao. I won’t force you or Chaoyan. Yunzhao, ring, ring, where is it…”
*
Outside the manor, the sun shines on the quaint buildings, cold and white as if it has no temperature.
Qin Chaoyan walked out of the manor gate, raised his hand to half cover his eyes, and looked at the sun. The coldness and gloom around him gradually dissipated in this light and shadow.
He breathed a sigh of relief, put down his hand, held the ring tightly, and walked outside.
Beside the car on the side of the road, Xie Yunhua and the two brothers Xie Yi and Xie Yu arrived at some point but were stopped by bodyguards and could not go in.
When Xie Yunhua saw him appear, she immediately stepped forward nervously and asked anxiously, “You, you didn’t kill him, did you?”
Qin Chaoyan tilted his head to look at her and shook his head slowly.
Even if he really had such an idea, he would not do it when he thought of Ye Rongxu’s instructions before coming here. Besides, as Xuxu said, it’s not worth it.
Xie Yunhua breathed a sigh of relief, then froze slightly, and explained carefully, “Don’t get me wrong. Auntie is afraid, afraid that you will do something illegal; after all, you are still young…”
After a pause, she asked cautiously, “How are you going to deal with my brother… I mean, Xie Yunming?”
Qin Chaoyan didn’t look at her this time but said in a light voice, “Send him to where he should go.”
Xie Yunhua was stunned; her lips moved, wanting to say something, but she didn’t say it in the end.
Qin Chaoyan turned and walked towards the car. Xie Yi came over at this time and stretched out his hand as usual.
Qin Chaoyan paused, looked at him for two seconds, and also stretched out his hand.
“I didn’t expect you to choose me at the company’s senior meeting.” Qin Chaoyan said calmly when shaking hands.
“That’s my mother’s wish.” With a smile, Xie Yi’s gaze shifted to Xie Yunhua, standing not far away, her worry still visible. After thinking for a while, he said, “She and I both think that Uncle should receive treatment and can’t continue like this.
“I know you didn’t trust us before, but whether you believe it or not, my mother and I have always treated you as a family member. I’m sorry that I couldn’t stop Uncle from doing those things before.”
“No need.” Qin Chaoyan let go of his hand. “Thank you too.”
After a pause, he said, “But if you and… Auntie are here to plead for him, then there’s no need to say it.”
Xie Yi smiled bitterly and said, “My mother did have this idea. To her, you and Uncle are both family members. Even though Uncle did something wrong, she can’t just let it go. But don’t worry, she knows that this is a matter between you and Uncle, and she won’t interfere.”
Qin Chaoyan nodded, and before getting in the car, he said, “I plan to move my mother’s tomb back to China and rebury her. In addition, you go to the group headquarters tomorrow to complete the handover procedures.”
Xie Yi was stunned and asked, “What do you mean? What handover?”
Qin Chaoyan frowned, “Xie Group will still be managed by you in the future. In addition, regarding Zhaoyu Group, I will also split the part that belongs to Xie Group and return it to you as soon as possible.”
Xie Yunming agreed to let him rebuild the branch company but named the branch company Zhaoyu. Yu means bright and shining, and Zhao is obviously from the word Zhaoming, which means brightness. Taking the last two words of Xie Yunzhao and Xie Yunming, his intention is very obvious.
QQin Chaoyan did not want to follow his wishes and prepared to remove all the parts belonging to the Xie Group, reorganize, and establish a new company with a changed name.
Although the scale of the company will be reduced, it will truly be his and have nothing to do with Xie Yunming.
In fact, considering his depressed and gloomy nature over the past three years, he had originally planned to destroy both Xie Group and Zhaoyu.
However, after meeting Ye Rongxu again, he gradually gave up this idea.
Plus these two companies are not important to Xie Yunming. He has already destroyed what the other party cherished the most, so there’s no need to do anything else.
What’s more, Xie Group is the lifelong work of Grandpa Xie, not Xie Yunming alone.
He just doesn’t want the things that Xie Yunming gave him.
Xie Yi was stunned for a moment but soon understood his intention. In any case, he still advised him, “I know you don’t want Uncle’s things, but Xie Group is not his alone. It’s something that also belongs to your mother and our grandparents. You should have inherited a part of it.”
Qin Chaoyan shook his head: “I won’t take it.”
After that, he got in the car and left directly.
Seeing the car going far away, Xie Yunhua walked over quickly and asked Xie Yi in a low voice, “What are you talking about? What share?”
Xie Yi looked at the car, shook his head slowly, and repeated what Qin Chaoyan had just said.
“This…” Xie Yunhua looked embarrassed and slightly disappointed. “He still wants to keep a distance from us.”
“I think he just doesn’t want to have anything to do with Uncle.” Xie Yu was inexplicably afraid of Qin Chaoyan now. He dared to speak up only after the person had left.
Xie Yi glanced at him and then said to Xie Yunhua, “At least the share that belongs to my aunt should be left to him, but…”
But Qin Chaoyan probably won’t come to Xie Group again and won’t have anything to do with their family anymore.
The three of them turned their heads to look at the manor with a heavy heart.
*
When Qin Chaoyan got in the car, he received a call from Ye Rongxu.
The other party may be undergoing rehabilitation, with a slight wheezing and intermittent breath sounds when speaking.
Qin Chaoyan’s face changed slightly, and he immediately turned down the volume of his phone.
After Ye Rongxu finished speaking, he asked in confusion because he didn’t get a response from the other party, “What, what’s wrong? Are you… listening?”
He was panting because he didn’t have enough strength. He had to take a breath from time to time, so his words were intermittent, and occasionally he groaned with a cracked voice.
Qin Chaoyan suddenly asked the driver to raise the baffle, crossed his long legs, and changed his posture while saying, “Nothing, are you… rehabilitating?”
Ye Rongxu nodded on the other end of the phone and said with a muffled groan, “Yes.”
The voice was obedient and soft, touching the listener’s heartstrings. It was also like a kitten’s paw, scratching people’s hearts.
“Is there anyone else beside you?” Qin Chaoyan asked again.
“Yes.” Ye Rongxu continued to breathe.
Qin Chaoyan was silent for a long time and suddenly said, “Let’s not talk for now.”
Ye Rongxu: “???”
“Why?”
For some reason, when he breathes, there is always an “ah” at the end of his voice, like a small hook that tickles inappropriate thoughts.
Qin Chaoyan gritted his teeth: “Next time I will accompany you to rehabilitate.”