Hong Kong, Ke family.

Rose branches are wrapped around the gate of the Ke family's mansion. Eighteen doormen's suits and leather shoes are separated on both sides, luxury cars are entering and leaving one after another, and the atmosphere is very lively. From time to time, the sound of reporters pressing the shutter on both sides is lit up.

Chi Qiu stood on the balcony of the villa wearing a European high-end pink engagement dress, looking indifferently at the huge flower platform made of 1,999 white roses in the garden not far away.

Later, she will stand on the flower stage and put on a ring, receive applause, and pose for the flashing shots of reporters from all walks of life. Tonight, her figure standing side by side with Gu Yuan will appear on the headlines of major newspapers and entertainment pages of Hong Kong Island, and no one can see her hypocritical face under the mask of happiness.

"Miss Chi," a concierge officer hurried over and said, "Sorry, the ceremony will begin ten minutes later. Young Master Gu hasn't come out of the locker room yet, so he told us not to bother him..."

"I got it, it's okay."

Chi Qiu turned around, took a breath and said, "I'll call him."

·

The second floor of the auditorium is the groom's preparation room. Chi Qiu reached out and knocked on the dark wooden door, and said loudly: "Mr. Gu, it's me!"

It was quiet inside the door for a while before a sound of an emotion that could not be heard: "Come in."

Chi Qiu pushed the door open and walked in.

The preparation room was a little messy, with golden sunlight passing through the windows, and a greasy and hazy luster on the long-lasting mahogany floor. Gu Yuan had been taken care of by a makeup artist, and his black formal dress made him look sophisticated and straight, with his handsome and deep face expressionless. He sat behind the combing table, and saw Chi Qiu coming in and not even lifting his eyelids, he reached out and gently turned over a page of paper in front of him.

Chi Qiu whispered: "Young Master Gu."

After more than half a minute, Gu Yuan finally looked at her and pointed to the account book that was spread out in front of him:

"What does it mean to ask someone to give me this morning?"

——I saw that the account book was densely packed, all written by hand, and it turned out to be Ke Wenlong’s private account during his lifetime!

Ke Wenlong is old and can't use computer software. He writes down some secret and important information by himself. He was injured in his right little finger in his early years, and later he trembled with a pen, and his handwriting was very obvious inclined. It is difficult for anyone who has seen him write letters in person.

I saw that the account book was listed separately with a book called "Gu Yuan", and the following were in and out, which was the financial expenditures that the Ke family supported Gu Yuan over the years and the various reward records received from Gu Yuan!

Chi Qiu took a breath and looked directly at Gu Yuan:

"This was discovered in the dark cabinet when I took someone to clean the master bedroom last night. I just feel that although it is already a thing of the past, you always have the right to know..."

There are still several pages in the book Gu Yuan's book that read "expectations". The handwriting below is sloppy and painted from time to time. It can be seen that Ke Wenlong will often make modifications based on the development of the actual situation.

In the expectation, Ke Wenlong listed the details of several routes commonly used by the Gu family, the terminal information and cargo entry and exit, and the approximate profit he calculated based on this. This profit was calculated ten years later, if you turn another page, you can see that Ke Wenlong counted 60% of them into the Ke family's "future profitable projects."

In other words, ten years later, Ke Wenlong calculated that Gu Yuan could take the lead and master the Gu family's route and provide unimaginable generous returns to the Ke family.

In addition, there are some other fragmented projects. Although the amount of cash is not as huge as the annual route income, the benefits of all invisible and non-invisible are also quite eye-catching. At least when Chi Qiu saw it, he almost couldn't believe his eyes because of his excessive shock.

Gu Yuan closed the account book, his face with a light back was as cold as a sculpture. "Old Ke has always been a very ambitious person, nothing is strange."

"You - don't you feel anything at all? You are the most valuable investment in the Ke family! You even calculated the various benefits you can ask you for ten years-"

Gu Yuan asked back: "Aren't I also an investment in your Chi family?"

Chi Qiu was speechless for a moment.

When she realized that she was about to retort, but you were the grandson of the Ke family. For my Chi family, no relatives counted, I just heard Gu Yuan's tone interrupt her in a very plain way:

"——I had the idea of ​​you when I was seventeen or eighteen years old. That time I had a car accident, and my internal organs broke down and almost died. After waking up in the ward, I asked anyone who had visited me. They said there was no one. I asked my grandfather, and they said they hadn't seen him either."

Chi Qiu fell silent.

"Of course, the Ke family must have been moving. At least during the rescue period, Mr. Ke personally called my father and asked him why this happened. Then he sent someone to participate in the investigation of the cause of the car accident... But that's a story later. When I was lying on the hospital bed that month, I often wondered, why no one came to see me? Why are everyone investigating, quarreling, scolding, and discussing compensation, and making a big fuss. Why didn't anyone come to see me with his own eyes?"

"Later I figured it out, many relationships between people, family, and interests and contradictions are actually like that." Gu Yuan threw the account book forward and said, "Many things have complicated causes and consequences, so it's not interesting to follow the root of the matter. Just see the side you want to see."

Chi Qiu bit his lip, "...I understand."

She stepped forward to pick up the account book, turned around and walked to the entrance of the study room, but suddenly stopped.

"The ceremony is about to begin, you might as well get off as soon as possible." She heard her voice trying hard to keep calm, but her breathing was unpredictable: "A person from the door just now said that Assistant Fang had arrived at the dock and was on the way to the wedding..."

It was quiet behind me, and Gu Yuan's cold voice rang out after a long time:

"Now you want to call him Vice President Fang."

·

At four o'clock in the afternoon, the ceremony officially began.

This huge engagement ceremony costing a huge million-dollar engagement ceremony was a grand event in Hong Kong. The guests included almost all the politicians, thieves and wealthy families in the upper class. Everyone knew that this was the Ke family building momentum for Gu Yuan, intending to establish his invisible heir in public opinion, and to prepare for him to change his name in the future. For Ke Rong, it was nothing like a major blow from the family.

The band played, the door slowly opened, and the snow-white carpet extended from the grass to the beautiful ceremony table.

Gu Yuan's black suit and dress with ruby ​​brooch cufflinks are handsome like a prince walking out of the castle; Chi Qiu's pink naked-shoulder engagement dress is worn in a complete set of huge diamond crown jewelry, with a noble temperament and charm, just like the princess who appears grandly in the last scene of the fairy tale.

The two of them held hands, and the golden boy and jade girl were in pairs, and walked towards the front desk in front of the warm applause and spotlights on both sides. Then Gu Yuan took the ring box from the witness and opened it, revealing the dazzling eight-carat princess square diamond inside.

——Under the reflection of the giant diamond fire color, the plain ring on Gu Yuan’s ring finger seemed extremely dull.

A trace of sadness swept away from Chi Qiu's beautiful eyes.

This engagement ring was worn by Gu Yuan's biological mother back then. After Gu Yuan fled to Hong Kong, he took two months to recover his power and funds from the mainland, and finally recovered it ten thousand miles away. Otherwise, the Ke family would not have been able to hold an engagement of this size. This ring was brought by his loyal confidants from the Gu family's mansion.

Chi Qiu didn't want it - she always felt that it shouldn't belong to her.

The wedding ring left by the mother is either passed to the daughter or to the son's lover.

Every time she saw this ring, an earlier picture would appear in her mind: it was the villa garden full of stars, and Gu Yuan hugged the young man was slightly panicked and suddenly looked at him; it was when the young man lay on the steering wheel, his eyelashes drooping like a feather, and said softly: "If you are scolded by the boss, you will be sad..."

The water light contained in those beautiful eyes was brighter than this diamond ring, which was enough to make her feel inexplicable pity and sorrow.

He should be lonely alone, right?

This is obviously...this should be his thing.

Chi Qiu raised his finger, and his movements were obviously hesitant.

"Please take what you give to you." Gu Yuan suddenly said, as if he had seen through what was thinking in her mind, but his attitude was very plain: "He won't care."

Chi Qiu's heart thumped heavily, and he spoke without thinking: "—How do you know he doesn't care?!"

She regretted it after saying that it was on the flower table, with countless cameras facing each other, and the people below were waiting for her to put on the ring.

But Gu Yuan didn't care and even showed a very light smile. In the eyes of outsiders, it seemed that the bride and groom had discussed the wedding ring issue, with a warm and romantic attitude. However, only Chi Qiu could see it, and the flashing in Gu Yuan's eyes was clearly mocking:

"What he wants now, and he still cares about this."

Chi Qiu couldn't even say a word, and watched the ring bend into his fingers.

The music sounded up, and applause burst out from the audience again. Gu Yuan nodded politely to the witness to thank the witness. Everyone around him rushed forward and congratulated him. The scene was joyful and harmonious. In the lively, no one noticed Chi Qiu's eyes glanced at Gu Yuan, the simple ring that he never left was still stuck on his ring finger.

But you care, Chi Qiu thought.

No matter how much hatred and disdain you show, you still... care a lot.

At this moment, a commotion broke out at the gate of the villa outside the garden. Then the concierge officer hurried through the crowd and walked to Gu Yuan and whispered: "Young Master Gu, the Gu family sent to congratulate you in the city of G."

Gu Yuan was talking to the host, and suddenly stopped hearing this. After a few seconds, he asked slowly: "—How many are you here?"

"Just... only one," the concierge officer was a little timid, "Mr. Mingzong did not arrive, the one who came from their vice president, the one with the surname Fang..."

Chi Qiu suddenly looked at Gu Yuan.

I saw that there was no change in the mood on the man's face. He looked at a certain point in the air, as if he was so immersed in his mind that he didn't think about anything, and he could not see what thoughts were turning in his mind. Chi Qiu's heart suddenly tightened, and after a while, he heard Gu Yuan say coldly:

"Since you're here, please come in."

Chi Qiu suddenly breathed a sigh of relief and turned his head to look at the door.

The iron gate wrapped in red roses opened, and a black Bentley slowly drove in and then stopped in the private driveway beside the lawn. Then the doorman quickly stepped forward and opened the car door. A few trusted followers first emerged from the car, and then a young man wearing a black windbreaker and thin and neat figure walked out.

——He was obviously thinner, Chi Qiu thought.

Before leaving the mainland, she had met Fang Jin. She accompanied Gu Yang to attend a commercial cocktail party. She saw him talking to Gu Yuan from afar through the crowd. She raised her head slightly, and her eyebrows and eyes were filled with smiles. This person looked beautiful like a carved pearl and jade. The eyes full of smiles and love were not allowed to look directly, because as long as the eyes were touched, the whole mind seemed to be intimidated, which was simply thrilling.

But now that smile is gone.

He just stood there quietly, walking through the crowd, his face pale and calm.

He was still very handsome. When he walked along the lawn, many people looked back at him, with a dazed look, curiosity and amazement. However, his steps did not stop. When he finally stood under the flower platform, the windbreaker fell as he stood still, and the sound around him gradually calmed down.

Gu Yuan stared at him from a high point, his eyes flashing with an indescribable light, as if a little disgusting and a little sarcastic.

After a while, he said, "Vice General Fang."

Fang Jin said lightly: "Gu Yuan."

The two of them looked at each other for a moment, and Gu Yuan finally slowly took a step forward and leaned over to reach out.

The flower platform was a distance from the ground, so I had to take advantage of the steps next to it. Fang Jin lowered his eyelashes, held Gu Yuan's hand, and stepped directly onto the flower platform with the force. Then Gu Yuan held his hand tightly and shook it twice.

If Gu Yuan's white and prominent knuckles are ignored, it will look like an intimate handshake.

"Welcome to attend my engagement," Gu Yuan's cold gaze shot straight into Fang Jin's eyes, but the voice did smile: "Why are you the only one here, where is my father?"

Fang Jin said calmly: "Your father is sick."

This question and answer seemed calm, but in fact it was undercurrent. The surroundings witnessed marriage, hosted marriage, emcee and others all felt something was wrong at the same time, and they were waiting by the side to look at Fang Jin.

They didn't know how many complicated entanglements and desperate love and hate behind that short sentence. They just felt that the vice president named Fang of the Gu family was so young and so handsome. His pale and plain face was even more eye-catching than the luxurious and glamorous bride and groom in front of him.

"...You've lost weight," Gu Yuandao.

Fang Jin smiled faintly, "It should be."
To be continued...