Kawakami Mizuki

When Yi Chuwen saw Lin Chuyi again, she ran to Yi's house amidst the rumors as usual, as if what happened that day was just his illusion.

"The old lady said that she invited many celebrities to announce our engagement this Saturday." When Lin Chuyi said this, her face was calm.

"Impossible." Yi Chuwen flatly refused, "I will never marry anyone other than Xia Tian."

"You are now the most honorable prince of the Yi family. Once something happens between you and Xia Tian, ​​you will be ruined at least, and at worst, you will be kicked out of the Yi family. You will lose everything overnight." Lin Chuyi looked at him , "Think it through, don't you regret it?"

"Never." Yi Chuwen's faint voice reveals undoubted firmness.

Lin Chuyi nodded and stopped answering.

Just as she expected.Yi Chuwen is a filial person. Although he cared about his family's feelings before, he did not come out publicly, and he obeyed his family's arrangement that he was not allowed to see Xia Tian, ​​but he loved Xia deeply after all, and it was impossible for Xia Tian to be subjected to such Wronged.

Moreover, Yi Chuwen is proud of his capital, he is born with a talent for doing business, even without the backing of the Yi family, he will be able to stand on top of everyone one day just because he started from scratch.

It's just that he is a young man from a big family and has been protected by his parents since he was a child. After all, things in the world are not as simple and easy as he thought.So when his father announced the news of his engagement with Lin Chuyi in public, he could only watch the invited Xia Tian stare at him in disbelief with a blank expression on his face, with deep pain in his eyes.

That Friday night, his father called him into the study and waved away all the servants, so he knew his father's intentions.

"The girl who often goes to Yi's house is pretty good. Why don't you settle it first and get married after you all graduate from college?" Father Yi folded the newspaper slowly, his eyes under the gold-rimmed glasses were calm and wise.

"It is indeed time to settle it," Yi Chuwen nodded in agreement, "but the person I like is called Xia Tian, ​​and I will only marry him in my life."

"Nonsense." His voice was very steady, with an unquestionable momentum, "When I got confused and went astray, my family can forgive me. As long as you know your mistakes, you can correct them. You are still a good son of your father."

"I'm not wrong," Yi Chuwen looked at his father stubbornly, "so I don't plan to change it."

"Evil!" His face darkened, and he sternly reprimanded, "You should see clearly whether the power of the Yi family is more important than a man."

"Summer is important." Yi Chuwen replied without hesitation.

"Love? That's just a child's plaything. The power in your hands is real." Yi's father said with a gloomy face, "Awen, you are not young anymore, and your thoughts are still so naive , so disappointing.”

Yi Chuwen looked at him without fear: "Since I was a child, I have obediently followed the path arranged by you and tried my best to meet your expectations. But this time, I must follow my own will." Go, or I will regret it for the rest of my life."

"Young people always have to suffer a little bit before they know how to repent." Yi's father tapped the table with his finger, and the reflective glass lens showed a chill, "There is a kid in the Xia family. Not long ago, he provoked someone who shouldn't be provoked. He was hacked three times, and he is still unconscious in the hospital, you know about this, right?"

Yi Chuwen was slightly surprised, not understanding why he suddenly changed the topic to this matter, "I know, that person is Xia Tian's cousin."

At that time, Xia Tian was very sad, and often went to the hospital to visit this cousin.Later, for some reason, Xia Tian's father suddenly found out about Xia Tian being with him, and was so angry that he took a wooden stick with a thick wrist and shouted at Xia Tian: "Nonsense! If I didn't find out today, how long would you have kept it a secret? If you didn't Immediately break with that little bastard, and I will break your leg today!"

Xia Tian knelt on the cold floor, his eyes turned red immediately, but he was so stubborn that he refused to cry: "I like him, and I will not separate from him."

In the end, Xia Tian's father still didn't break his leg, but just widened his eyes and drove Xia Tian out of the house: "Get out of here! Don't come back after you get out, I'll pretend I never gave birth to your son!"

In the end Xia Tian cried and called him, he figured out the cause of the matter in Xia Tian's intermittent crying, hurriedly asked the location and hurried over, and suddenly saw Xia Tian curled up on a bench in the park, Lu There were a few hideous bruises on the outer arm, and he almost died from crying.

At that moment, Yi Chuwen felt that his heart was about to be broken by his crying, and he hugged Xia Tian distressedly, desperately comforting him.What he originally thought was that even if Xia Tian was kicked out by his family, there was still him, he would support Xia Tian and let Xia Tian finish college well.However, Xia Tian found a part-time job, coupled with a generous scholarship, and supported himself.

"Although the Xia family is small, if something goes wrong, they will definitely find out who did it. In the end, the Xia family found out, but they didn't even dare to say anything." Yi's father's deep words pulled him back from his thoughts. "You might as well guess who did it."

Yi Chuwen shook his head in confusion and confusion. He didn't pay much attention to this matter at that time, and he didn't ask anyone to investigate it. Naturally, he didn't know who did it.

There was a trace of coldness in Yi's father's eyes, "Of course that old man Xia Chen didn't dare to say anything, because I sent someone to do it."

"What?!" Yi Chuwen looked at his father in shock, and even suspected that he had heard it wrong.

"This is just a small warning to the Xia family. The old man of the Xia family is quite smart, so he kicked that kid out immediately." Yi's father pushed his glasses, "If you are not smart enough, the next turn, That's the kid."

"How dare you?!" Yi Chuwen looked at his father in disbelief, with tremors in his voice that he didn't even notice.

"Why don't I dare?" Yi's father looked at this useless son coldly, "If you give up your status as the heir of the Yi family, you will be nothing more than an abandoned son to the Yi family. What ability do you have to protect the one you like? people?"

silence.

On the day when the engagement was announced, when the banquet was the busiest, the two protagonists disappeared from everyone's sight.

The third floor was quiet, on the moonlit terrace, a man in a suit took a sip of spirits, and felt the fire burning his entire abdomen. He raised the bottle again, only to find that it was empty. He uttered a dirty word and slammed the wine bottle into the corner of the wall. With a "bang", glass shards splashed everywhere and fell scattered everywhere.

"So you are here." The faint voice was accompanied by a sigh. Yi Chuwen followed the voice and looked over, only to see Lin Chuyi coming from the darkness. She was wearing an exquisitely tailored evening dress, which seemed particularly obtrusive at this moment.

"Go, leave me alone." Yi Chuwen looked at her expressionlessly.

"Not long ago, you found me as an ally, but now you have turned your face so quickly?"

"I don't need any cooperation right now."

"Give up so easily when encountering a small matter?" Lin Chuyi's tone was light and mocking, "Is this what you said you like?"

"Shut up, it's none of your business."

There was restrained anger in Yi Chuwen's eyes.In fact, he knew that Lin Chuyi was not to blame for this matter, she was just a blind catalyst, speeding up the process of the matter.Even if Lin Chuyi doesn't show up, as time goes by and the age grows, sooner or later, the family and him will have disputes about it.But at this time, he couldn't be as rational as usual, even if he knew this, he couldn't help but vent his anger.

Yi Chuwen's attitude had been expected a long time ago, Lin Chuyi didn't care, and just said lightly: "It's meaningless to blindly get drunk and vent your emotions."

Yi Chuwen heard Lin Chuyi's subtext, and said coldly, "Say something directly."

Lin Chuyi randomly pulled a chair and sat down, put her hands on the bar, and grabbed a goblet to play with.She swirled the wine in the glass slightly, but didn't drink it.

"You and Xia Tian will be forcibly separated, after all, because you have no real power. Isn't that bit of autonomy on the edge of your watch all given by your father? He wants to take it back, but it's just a matter of moving his fingers. But If you can hold the real power in your hands and make the members of the Yi family have to be scruples, then who will be able to hinder you?"

Yi Chuwen frowned, he had thought of these things a long time ago, but the power in the Yi family was deeply intertwined, and it was extremely difficult to hold real power without being noticed.

"Now the power of the Yi family is divided into three. The old lady has one, your father has one, and your uncle has one. They cooperate with each other and restrain each other. These three are people with a strong desire for power. Unless one of them dies, it's impossible for you to get the slightest benefit from these three in the short term."

Yi Chuwen had to admit that Lin Chuyi, an outsider, saw the Yi family very clearly.

"so?"

"So, if you want to fish in the chaos, you must disturb the water in this pool. The more turbid the better." Lin Chuyi closed her eyes slightly, her long hair covered half of her face, and there was a chill in her eyes.

Although the power of the upper echelons of the Yi family is complicated and intertwined, all three are extremely shrewd old foxes. Although the Yi family is not well-organized, it has its own rules, which can be seen from the stability of the Yi family for decades.Yi Chuwen's heart moved slightly, and seemed to have understood her meaning: "If the Yi family is not in chaos, then...disturb other people's ponds, right?"

"As expected of the prince of the Yi family." Lin Chuyi nodded in affirmation of Yi Chuwen, "I think the Qi family can do it."

"The Qi family?" Yi Chuwen frowned, obviously not agreeing with Lin Chuyi's thoughts, "The Qi family is not easy to mess with, and its prestige in the local area is not inferior to that of the Yi family. Although they have been somewhat self-confident in the past few years, they are not close to stability. worry."

"First of all, Qi Yuan has not thought of making progress in recent years, and the Qi family is strong outside the middle, which is not as difficult as you think; secondly, it is precisely because of the great fortune of the Qi family that we can muddy the water; finally," Lin Chuyi's tone turned lighter , as if a feather fell on the ground, tantalizing, with self-evident temptation, "The greater the risk, the greater the reward. How long do you think summer can wait?"

Hearing the name Xia Tian, ​​Yi Chuwen felt a pain in his heart, but his eyes quickly became clear, "You just spoke in a clear and orderly manner, without flustering, obviously you have thought about it a long time ago, right?"

Lin Chuyi was noncommittal and just looked at him quietly.

"More than ten years ago, Lin Li, the Patriarch of the Lin family, was at odds with his wife, and then fell in love with a woman. Mrs. Lin happened to be sick at this time, and died not long after. Lin Patriarch logically carried the woman through the door. It's only pity that Mrs. Lin's bones are not yet cold. , the newlyweds happily worshiped and got married. The strangeness here may have something to do with the second Miss Qi who married into the Lin family, right?"

Lin Chuyi's dark eyes moved, but she pursed her lips without saying a word.

"The woman I met that day should be Ye Jia Ye Ling. Do you like her?"

Lin Chuyi remained silent, and Yi Chuwen went on talking on his own.

"You have tried everything possible to get in touch with me, and you don't even want the person you like, just to let me help you bring down the Qi family?" Yi Chuwen looked at her with a complicated expression: "I hope you don't regret it."

Lin Chuyi moved her lips, her voice hoarse: "I have never had the right to regret it."