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After the interview, Xie Zhongxing had fine beads of sweat on his forehead, wetting his hair.
Qin Zhongyue who saw him wipe it away with his hand quickly took out a packet of tissues from his pocket and gave one to Xie Zhongxing, “It’s very hot today. Let’s hurry back to the car and turn on the air-con.”He then said, “I’m really touched. You said that I’m a good friend of yours.”Xie Zhongxing, “…...En.’Qin Zhongyue said, “But besides me, you should still make other friends. You can never have too many friends. If you are ever troubled, you can talk to your friends and your mood would be much better after doing that.”Xie Zhongxing, “…….”Xie Zhongxing asked, “If I make a very close friend in the future, would you be happy?”Qin Zhongyue who heard this waved his hand, “Of course. I’m not such a small-minded person.”Xie Zhongxing continued, “Then if I ate with them, studied with them and slept with them, would you be happy?”Qin Zhongyue was shocked, “Why would you sleep with them? They’re not disabled!”Xie Zhongxing, “……..”Xie Zhongxing sighed, “Let’s go. Let’s go and cool down in the car.”Qin Zhongyue was anxious, “You can’t make friends like those. The bed is a very sacred thing. I won’t allow you to be lying on the same bed as another person!”Xie Zhongxing, “I will also have a wife in the future. You’re going to be against this even despite that?”Qin Zhongyue was left stunned by that.Xie Zhongxing looked at him and said, “Forget it, that is something that will happen in the future. Let’s go cool down.”Even after getting into the car, Qin Zhongyue’s expression was still complicated.Xie Zhongxing looked at the window. The window clearly reflected Qin Zhongyue’s expression.Sometimes, he didn’t understand Qin Zhongyue.Xie Zhongxing was very certain that he wasn’t a ‘gay’. He didn’t like men.
But Qin Zhongyue’s advances made his heart race.Zhong Yiming’s sincere and pained expression was still vivid in his mind. He actually couldn’t understand how a man could like another man.He was surprised when he found out about this. He had a ‘so it’s actually possible’ kind of realisation.Did he misunderstand Qin Zhongyue?Even if Qin Zhongyue had said all sorts of strange things that may make one misunderstand, he was still able to do it with great integrity.Xie Zhongxing wasn’t too certain about his intentions. He even felt that this child-like temperament of Qin Zhongyue’s may perhaps just simply be his way of expressing his possessiveness.Men joking around with each other like this; perhaps it was something that could be easily brushed off and not taken seriously.Liking another person can just be purely liking them as a person.He was a little upset. He felt that he was the only one stuck in this ambiguous and confusing state.He was one that held grudges, Xie Zhongxing thought this.*The live broadcast took place at a prime broadcasting time at noon.Xie Zi’an had kept very quiet ever since the results were released and was at this moment sitting quietly at the dining table. Even if he saw a dish he liked, he didn’t dare reach over to pick it up.Xie Guoxu and Liu Xiu who saw Xie Zhongxing’s radiant face on TV had poor expressions on their faces.Finally, it was Xie Guoxu who moved first. He smacked Xie Zi’an’s hand with his chopsticks, “Look at what kind of results you got!! Now look at what Xie Zhongxing got! You still have the nerve to eat?! Put that bowl down and kneel next to that wall!”Because he had used a lot of force, Xie Zi’an’s hand was soon red and swollen. He however didn’t dare cry out, for fear that it would make Xie Guoxu angrier.Because they were father and son, he was very aware of Xie Guoxu’s temper. He just quietly placed down his bowl with a tearful expression and knelt down.
Liu Xiu was very distressed, “Calm down, calm down. It’s not like you don’t know how bad the environment has been for him the last six months. How could he have possibly been able to settle down and study? Some of those kids have not been raised properly; they would always talk bad about An An behind An An’s back. With it like this, do you think he could have studied in peace?”It would be a lie to say that Xie Guoxu didn’t feel distressed for his son. He didn’t make Xie Zi’an kneel for too long.Liu Xiu, “That Xie Zhongxing really has no conscience. If he had the time to tutor another person, why couldn’t he help his own cousin a little?”Xie Guoxu lost his appetite.Yeah. If Xie Zhongxing helped tutor Xie Zi’an, even if Xie Zi’an doesn’t get into Tsinghua or Peking University, he would at least be able to get into a good one.Whenever he goes out nowadays, others would no longer call him by his name and instead refer to him as ‘the cruel uncle who abused the top student’. His reputation was completely gone.With everything like this, Xie Guoxu’s only hope was his son getting into a good university so that all this suffering wasn’t in vain but look at what happened. Not only did Xie Zi’an fail to get into a first-rate university, he wasn’t even able to get into a second-rate university. A third-rate university was more expensive, costing almost twenty thousand a year. After paying for those expenses, there wouldn’t be much left of what they have remaining from selling the house and the car.What made Xie Guoxu even more in anguish was what happened later. That night, Liu Xiu’s younger brother called and said gloatingly, “Sister, it looks like the news regarding the demolition of that place you sold has been confirmed. It has been classified as a commercial area and the compensation is thirty thousand yuan a square metre plus a house at another location. If you waited two more months to sell, you would’ve made a big profit! The person who bought your place even specially came to buy me dinner to thank me!”Liu Xiu who heard this almost fainted, “Are you for real??”Her brother said, “Why would I lie to you? You are so smart. I told you that the place would soon be demolished but you insisted on selling. No wait, you actually are an idiot. Why did you have to abuse that top student nephew of yours? Now karma's coming back to you. If you sold that place to me instead, I would’ve at least given you a share of the compensation but you refused. Look at what happened now. You’ve lost it all.”Liu Xiu didn’t have a very good relationship with her younger brother and they had lots of conflicts in the past. Now that something like this happened, her brother clearly came here to rub salt into her wound.Liu Xiu hung up on him. She was still in disbelief. With a trembling finger, she called an old classmate of hers to ask about the demolition.The old classmate said, “Yeah, that place is really going to be demolished and a subway station will be built there. As soon as this news came out, the house price in that area rose from five thousand a square metre to more than ten thousand. Why are you asking about this? You want to buy a place there? You should probably think about it more carefully. The price there is increasing day by day. The people there would naturally have no intention to sell, they’re not idiots!”Liu Xiu ended the call. Her vision turned black. She fell onto the ground and began to sob loudly.Xie Guoxu just happened to return from outside. Seeing Liu Xiu like this, he frowned, “What is wrong with you?!”Liu Xiu tearfully told him what happened and Xie Guoxu’s face also turned ashen. He slumped lifelessly onto the chair.Xie Zi’an was too afraid to leave his room.
As he listened to Liu Xiu’s cries from his room, his heart surged with regret and remorse.If they had treated Xie Zhongxing better, all of this would not have happened. They wouldn’t have had to sell their house and car and would’ve at least received two million as well as a house as compensation for the demolition. With Xie Zhongxing being so intelligent, if he had tutored him, his grades would have definitely been very good and perhaps he could have even gotten into Tsinghua or Peking University. After all, the person he had tutored started off with only 430 points and he was at five hundred or so at his lowest!But it was pointless thinking about this now. They had personally thrown away the only good thing they had.Xie Zi’an couldn’t help but also cry. He cried over the two million that they had missed out on, the house and the Tsinghua University admission letter.*Qin Xiangqian was aware of the time of the live broadcast. He even specially went back to his fathers place, used his fathers name to call his relatives over and then used a projector to show off Qin Zhongyue’s handsome face as the live broadcast played.He looked at his father, Qin Yuanjian, and said, “Dad, you see that? Zhongyue got into Tsinghua university.”When Qin Yuanjian heard this, he was very pleased. No one in the family had been able to get into Tsinghua University, “That is great news. We must celebrate.”Qin Xiangqian continued lightly, “It was only 682 points, what a shame. We shouldn’t make a big deal out of it.”Qin Yuanjian, “What is a shame? That is a high enough score! Do you think anyone can get into Tsinghua?!!”The others who overheard this conversation wanted to roll their eyes. Everyone except for Qin Yuanjian could tell that Qin Xiangqian was secretly showing off.Qin Xiangqian and Qin Zhongyue were both loyal men, different from Qin Yuanjian. He had a total of nine sons and three daughters, the first five from Qin Xiangqian’s mother and the other seven from other women he had slept with outside.Qin Yuanjian had taken responsibility and brought them home, causing the early years at home to be rather uncomfortable. After Qin Xiangqian’s mother divorced his father to devote herself to scientific research, the Qin Enterprise was in danger. It was then that Qin Xiangqian stepped in and managed to grow it into as big of an enterprise as today.Qin Yuanjian no longer had much power but he still tried to make sure everything was fair for his sons and daughters. He tried very hard digging out things from Qin Xiangqian’s pockets to give to them.Qin Yuanjian liked to drag others down. When he saw that Qin Zhongyue only liked to play around all the time, he even hinted at Qin Xiangqian to pass the company down to his other, more talented grandchildren.Towards this, Qin Xiangqian wanted to laugh out loud. The current Qin Enterprise belonged to him. He held 68% of the shares and even owns many of the branch companies that he had established from scratch. No matter what Qin Yuanjian and those people did, they can only dream about getting what belongs to him.And he had worked so hard for the enterprise all these years, even causing him to lose his wife. Why should he hand it over to the others?
Even if his son wasn’t talented, he could just give it to his male wife when the time comes.As he thought this, Qin Xiangqian didn’t reveal his thoughts on his face and said to Qin Yuanjian, “For Zhongyue to get such a high score, it’s all thanks to his classmate. I will invite him over when I have the chance.”Qin Yuanjian chuckled and agreed. He had specially married a physics professor to improve the genes of his future generation. Looks like although that woman had nothing good about her, she was at least able to give him some great sons and grandsons.The expressions of the other people darkened. They didn’t appear pleased. Qin Yianjiang however didn’t notice it all.*Xie Zhongxing was completely unaware of the turbulence in the Xie family and the Qin family. In fact, he no longer cared about the Xie family. Even if they stood in front of him now, he probably wouldn’t experience any emotional changes in him.He saw Qin Zhongyue sneeze a few times and asked with concern, “What’s wrong? Have you caught a cold?”Qin Zhongyue frowned, “I feel like someone is talking about me.”After saying that, he sneezed three more times.Xie Zhongxing poured him a cup of hot water, “Have some hot water.”Qin Zhongyue received it and was touched, “How could I trouble you to pour me water.”Xie Zhongxing, “…..Are you being sarcastic?”He thought about it and continued, “I guess I really haven’t done much for you. Should I massage your shoulders for you?”Qin Zhongyue shook his head and said seriously, “What I meant was, you are not allowed to do something like this in the future.”Xie Zhongxing, “….Why?”Qin Zhongyue said, “You doing this makes me feel guilty.”Xie Zhongxing, “…..Guilty?”Qin Zhongyue placed down his cup and gently squeezed Xie Zhongxing’s thin shoulders, “Even if it’s massaging shoulders, I should be the one doing it. How could I let you do this kind of manual labour? Your hands will turn rough.”Xie Zhongxing, “……..”That really isn’t necessary.