Chapter 6 The door was slammed shut with a loud "bang!"

The door slammed shut with a loud "bang!" Chen Ya looked up and saw Li Li storming away in high heels, her face full of anger.

She got up, went over, pushed open the door, and asked, "Mr. Tan?"

Tan Su remained calm, focused on the computer files: "Get out."

She gently closed the door.

Tan Su was a man of absolute authority and rarely smiled in the company; this was the first time someone had dared to offend him so brazenly.

In a way, Li Li was also raised by Tan Su.

Before bringing Tan Yi back, Tan Huiming had a special talk with Tan Su, casually mentioning the matter while showing concern for him.

Tan Su knew that his grandfather had not been as successful as outsiders perceived him to be all these years.

Having lost his wife in middle age and his son in old age, he struggles to steer the ship of Yanqi with his increasingly frail body, balancing various ambitious shareholders and fighting against external opponents, which has exhausted all his energy.

Now that Tan Su has entered a private boarding school and may soon go abroad to study, he is lonely and has no better options.

"It's just Tan Yi. It has nothing to do with anyone else." This was the promise Tan Huiming made to him.

Tan Su was just a schoolboy in his early teens, what could he possibly say?

He could only nod and reply: Okay, I understand.

Tan Su forced himself to slowly get used to the extra person who would come home each time. Tan Yi also probably sensed early on that he couldn't afford to offend this older brother, so he was always exceptionally honest and well-behaved in front of him.

But Li Li didn't understand these things.

She followed Tan Yi, hiding behind a cypress tree in the courtyard, holding her breath, and secretly peeking through the gaps in the branches and leaves at the tall, pale older brother in a dark sweater school uniform stepping onto the steps.

The other person seemed to glance in their direction, or perhaps it was just an illusion.

She tilted her head and asked Tan Yi, "Who is that?"

Tan Yi said softly, "That's my older brother."

Li Li didn't understand why Tan Yi was afraid of his brother.

She was never afraid of Li Zhoudu; on the contrary, she relied on her grandparents to back her up and acted arrogantly in front of him every day.

However, Li Zhoudu himself is also a very good person. Because he is his parents' only son, he dotes on his little sister who is a few years younger and has a very cute appearance.

Even if the kitten mischievously doodled on his homework, Li Zhoudu would never really get angry. He would just pretend to be angry and pick the kitten up and put it on the tall cabinet in the living room.

And when she pretended to cry out of fear, he immediately picked her up and put her down.

Most importantly, Li Zhoudu also functions as a trash can, secretly eating the things she dislikes, like carrots, peppers, and egg yolks that she finds fishy. Hehe.

Tan Su only came back that day to pack some clothes for the changing season.

Tan Huiming had just been busy preparing a few more of his favorite dishes in the kitchen when he heard this, and he felt a little disappointed. He still asked, "The Li family's little granddaughter is coming to play, and she'll call you 'brother' too. Why don't we have dinner together before you go back?"

Looking at his grandfather's expectant gaze, Tan Su nodded and said, "Okay."

As a result, during lunch, Li Li habitually broke open the fried egg in her bowl, took out the round yolk that looked like the moon, and secretly threw it into Tan Su's plate when no one was paying attention.

In her logic, she sees herself as the same as Tan Yi, so Tan Su should also be the same as Li Zhoudu.

The egg yolk landed perfectly on the other person's steak.

Tan Su paused, his knife and fork still.

A few seconds later, he put down his cutlery, pushed the plate out, and said casually, "I'm full."

Watching his departing figure, Li Li felt rejected and was very unhappy. From then on, her impression of Tan Su plummeted.

When Li Li returned to her office, she passed You Chang's workstation from behind and noticed that she was submitting resumes using a job recruitment app.

She stopped in her tracks and, while You Chang was still in a daze, quietly circled back from the front.

Since Tan Su's approach was not working, she wondered if she should introduce You Chang to Wan Jing.

However, Wan Jing's main business is not related to You Chang's computer science major, and she recently had a big fight with Li Zhoudu and hasn't slept at home for days.

The reason for the argument was, of course, her not coming home that night during her weekend trip to Hong Kong.

After playing games all night and working a full day, she was so tired when she got home that she didn't even eat dinner before going upstairs to her room to catch up on sleep.

Just as I was half-asleep and about to fall asleep, the door opened from the outside.

The lights inside the room were turned on.

Li Zhoudu stood at the door and asked, "Where have you been these past two days?"

Li Li mumbled, covering her face with the blanket, "I stayed at Fang Xuan's house for two days."

Li Zhoudu said, "Are you lying? Do you want me to check your immigration records?"

Li Li didn't speak. She hugged a pillow and lay on her side, curling up on the bed like an ostrich: "Get out, I'm going to sleep."

Seeing her stubbornness, Li Zhoudu was furious: "You're giving up a good life to stay here and suffer at Yanqi's place. You'd rather shamelessly ask for meal tickets at the dinner table than leave. Do you think I don't know who you're doing this for?"

The voice coming from under the covers was muffled: "If you think I'm a disgrace, then leave me alone."

"Is this how you try to discard someone after you've served your purpose, Li Li?"

Li Zhoudu rarely called her by her full name, and whenever he did, it meant he was furious.

"Grandpa said back then that it didn't count. We sent you away for four years, and you still can't break up?"

“Fine,” he said threateningly, “you really think we can’t control you anymore?”

Li Zhoudu slammed the door and was about to leave when Li Li suddenly sat up in bed, throwing a pillow at him while crying, "It's my own business, I can do whatever I want. Just because Grandpa's not here, doesn't mean this isn't my home anymore! You think you're so great, what gives you the right to yell at me?"

What did I say to you?

"You blocked the door and cursed at me!"

The housekeeper rushed over, stepped in front of Li Zhoudu, pushed him away a little, picked up the pillow on the ground and said, "Stop arguing, stop arguing. Grandma is still downstairs. Don't let her hear and feel bad, okay?"

Li Li immediately jumped out of bed, ran barefoot to the walk-in closet to put on a coat, went downstairs, got into her sports car, and ran away from home.

This time, she really went to see Fang Xuan.

Fang Xuan was her and Tan Yi's good friend in high school. She was a very lively and outgoing girl who stayed in S City after taking the college entrance examination and is now pursuing a master's degree.

After getting off work, Li Li changed her clothes and lay sprawled on her soft sofa, listening to Fang Xuan send a voice message on WeChat, flirting with an 18-year-old male college student. The message was full of inappropriate content for children, making Li Li blush.

After Fang Xuan finished chatting, Li Li suddenly blurted out, "Scumbag woman."

Fang Xuan politely retorted, "You're love-struck."

Li Li proudly declared, "So what if I'm love-struck? I'm of high quality!"

Fang Xuan retorted, "You've only ever eaten at Tan Yi's place all these years, how do you know the quality is good?"

Li Li couldn't stop laughing: "Who said that big yellow girl!"

“Same to you,” Fang Xuan rolled her eyes and tossed her phone aside. “I didn’t wake up as early as you. When you and Tan Yi started kissing, I was still picking my toes all alone.”

Unlike Li Li's stable emotional state, Fang Xuan has been a womanizer for many years, but never gets involved with anyone seriously.

She adheres to the principle that she chooses her own identity when she's away from home; today she plays the young master of a soy sauce factory, and tomorrow she's the daughter of a chain of guesthouse owners.

Actually, after so many years of truthful and fabricated accounts, Li Li couldn't remember very clearly what kind of business her family was in.

She's been thinking about You Chang lately, and only when she remembered did she ask Fang Xuan, "Does your family hire anyone who studies computer science?"

Fang Xuan pulled a yoga mat from the corner, moved it to the center of the living room, spread it out, lay down on it, and started doing air cycling. She joked, "What can you do at my house, stir soy sauce?"

Li Li collapsed back onto the sofa, utterly exhausted. "That's true."

Fang Xuan asked, "Whose side are you asking for?"

"A friend."

"Why don't you ask Tan Yi? His family does all sorts of things," Fang Xuan casually suggested.

When Li Li went to Hong Kong last time, she sensed that Tan Yi wasn't in good shape, and she didn't want to trouble him with things here. So she said, "Never mind, I'll ask Li Zhoudu again when I have time."

She's going back home soon because it's Wenxi's fiftieth birthday.

Li Zhoudu will have to call her eventually, and then Li Li can make a gesture and take the opportunity to ask.

She had a good plan, but Li Zhoudu was slow to offer her a way out.

The day before, Grandma called and said, "Little Cat, Auntie's birthday party is tomorrow, remember to come back."

Li Li was furious with Li Zhoudu, but she obediently replied, "I know, Grandma."

The Li family's industry isn't particularly high-profile, but they have a wide network of clients and contacts across various sectors, resulting in a large number of friends and customers.

Li Li wore a halter-neck little black dress with a sheepskin belt, feeling like a Black Widow, incredibly cool.

When Wenxi saw her, she brought her to her side to greet the guests and asked with a smile, "You haven't been home these past few days. Did you have a fight with your brother? How did he bully you? I'll scold him for you."

Li Li said no, she had been staying at a friend's house recently. Then, on behalf of her parents, she gave Wenxi the gemstone bracelet that Wenxi had prepared beforehand, wishing her good health and eternal beauty.

Wenxi liked it so much that she put it on her wrist.

Li Zhoudu and the others entered from outside just before the banquet began. He was wearing a suit and stood beside Wenxi, his face equally dark.

The brother and sister seemed to be competing to see who was more aloof. Wenxi, both amused and exasperated, pushed Li Zhoudu towards Li Li: "Auntie said you made the kitten cry the other day. Aren't you going to buy something to appease your sister? Aren't you two going to make up?"

Li Zhoudu glanced at her and said, "What else do you need to buy? Buying a car won't earn you a month's worth of kindness from that ungrateful wretch."

Li Li turned her head away angrily.

The two grown children in the family stood out conspicuously together. Wenxi was in a good mood and joked with the guests who didn't know the situation: "Yes, these are my son and daughter."

Someone with ulterior motives asked, "Has your family's marriage been arranged yet?"

Wenxi covered her mouth and laughed, saying, "Nowadays everyone values ​​free love, and my family doesn't interfere."

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