Although Xi Quan was surprised that he had taken the initiative to invite the old man to his home for the New Year, he knew that once the words were spoken, there was no way to take them back.
Moreover, Xi Quan's words were not just polite small talk; he genuinely thought so.
So, given this situation, Xi Quan naturally hoped to hear an answer from the old man, and thus Xi Quan kept looking at the old man.
The old man was silent for a moment before saying, "I don't have any problem spending the New Year at your place, but if Su Zhe finds out, wouldn't that be a bit inappropriate?"
Xi Quan blinked, somewhat confused by the old man's meaning.
Seeing Xi Quan's confusion, the old man said, "Su Zhe knows everything now, and I've moved out. Isn't that making it harder for him to come to his senses? He might think we're deliberately distancing ourselves from him."
Xi Quan hadn't expected this.
Thinking about it now, it's possible, but Xi Quan still doesn't think Su Zhe is such a sinister person. Although he has contacted Jiang Xinya's maternal grandmother's side of the family, Xi Quan still doesn't think Su Zhe would do anything to harm them.
Xi Quan thought this way not because he was afraid of being embarrassed for misjudging Su Zhe, but because he didn't want to believe that Su Zhe would do anything to hurt them.
Admittedly, Xi Quan and Su Zhe did not have a good relationship at the beginning, but this only meant that they did not contact each other much. Later, after they contacted each other more often due to various things, Xi Quan believed that he and Su Zhe had established a brotherhood.
So when faced with the old man's concerns, Xi Quan was somewhat dismissive, and after a long silence, he said, "It can't be that serious."
The old man shook his head and said, "Is it really necessary? It's always better to be careful. I'm so old, I don't want to think about anything else. Peace and stability are more important than anything else. Oh, and that Zitai Fashion line has been launched. Don't forget the shares you promised me. Other than that, I don't have any other ideas."
"Going public is still a long way off; this is just the beginning..."
Xi Quan didn't mean anything by it; he was just explaining. But the old man was unhappy: "What do you mean? Are you trying to renege on your promise? Xi Quan, it's no fun if you're this stingy. The shares are in my hands now. If I lose them one day, they'll all be yours."
Perhaps because he was used to bickering with the old man, Xi Quan felt a little uncomfortable when he heard the warmth in the old man's words, and even didn't know how to respond to the warmth in the old man's words.
After much deliberation, Xi Quan decided it was best to treat the old man the same way he always had: "Since you've said that the shares will eventually belong to me even if they're given to you, then it would be better if I just held onto them from the beginning."
The atmosphere between the two was fine at first, and the old man had relaxed, but unexpectedly Xi Quan angered him again.
The old man was so angry that he stopped eating his tea and snacks, stood up, and started to walk out.
Xi Quan took out some money, put it on the table, and went out with the old man.
Just before getting into the car, the old man said to Xi Quan in an annoyed tone, "Don't you know the saying, 'Don't put all your eggs in one basket'? Humph."
Before the old man could speak, he opened the car door and got in, sitting in the back seat: "What are you standing there for? Hurry up and drive."
They've treated Xi Quan like a driver. What can Xi Quan do? He'll just have to be a driver.
Neither of them were particularly talkative, and they usually didn't have much to say to each other. They were talking quite well this time, but because Xi Quan had blurted out something, the old man didn't want to talk to Xi Quan at all, so the two of them were almost completely silent the whole way.
After dropping the old man off at the entrance of his residential compound, Xi Quan didn't plan to get out of the car and was going straight back when he happened to run into Su Zhe, who had just returned as well.
Su Zhe parked his car, then walked to Xi Quan's car and knocked on the window.
Rolling down the car window, Xi Quan looked at Su Zhe as if to ask, "Is something the matter?"
"Since you're here, let's have a good chat."
After saying that, looking at the old man who had already gotten out of the car, Su Zhe said, "Since you two have met, you must have already discussed how to deal with me. Since you have discussed it, let me hear it and hear your plan to deal with me."
Su Zhe would never have said this before.
But now... it's clearly driven by emotion.
I understand how hard it is for Su Zhe to accept that he suddenly found out about this, but while I understand, no one is without temper, and Xi Quan and the old man have never been good people.
The old man was already very angry with Xi Quan's words, and now that he heard Su Zhe say this, he snorted coldly again and went inside.
Xi Quan hadn't planned to get out of the car, but Su Zhe's words made him curl his lips in a mocking smile. He silently unbuckled his seatbelt, got out of the car, and locked it: "Let's chat."
Although there weren't many people living in the old man's place, it was quite spacious. He, Xi Quan, and Su Zhe sat in three corners of the living room, remaining silent and none of them uttering the first word.
Actually, both the old man and Xi Quan knew what they wanted to talk about, and the matter was not too difficult for either of them, so neither of them would speak first, because they were not quite sure what Su Zhe meant.
So in the end, it was Su Zhe who lost his composure first.
"Did you know from the beginning that I wasn't Quan Zhen's son?" Before the old man and Xi Quan could speak, Su Zhe asked the question he had always wanted to know.
The old man and Xi Quan exchanged a glance.
It was obvious that the old man meant for Xi Quan to speak. Xi Quan paused for a moment and then said, "It wasn't at the beginning; I only found out later."
"And then?" Su Zhe asked, puzzled.
Xi Quan said, "But Quan Zhen wasn't thinking about everything in the company. She was just plotting against me. Later, when I woke up, I went to find her, and then we both fell down the building. You were in a hurry and you also got injured. You know you have hemophilia. After we took you to the hospital, in addition to stopping the bleeding, you also needed a blood transfusion because of excessive blood loss. I thought we were brothers, so I asked the doctor to draw my blood. Before drawing blood, the hospital does a blood test. The blood test found that our blood types were incompatible. That's when we found out that we are actually not related by blood."
Although he already knew that he had no blood relation with Xi Quan or the old man in front of him, Su Zhe still found it hard to accept when he heard Xi Quan say these things.
"Why?"
Xi Quan was slightly taken aback, not quite understanding what he meant: "What do you mean, why?"
"Why is she supporting me?" Su Zhe asked.
Xi Quan quickly realized who Su Zhe was referring to when he said "she"—he was talking about Quan Zhen.
Xi Quan pursed his lips. Actually, if he could, there were some things he really didn't want to tell Su Zhe. It wasn't that Su Zhe couldn't know, but he felt that it was actually quite good not to know anything.
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