Chapter 35 [VIP]
"The zither was put on by your brother."
A clear, cold female voice suddenly appeared behind them.
Wei Xuanyun stood at the villa entrance, raising an eyebrow with a smile as she looked at Wei Zhiyan: "He really likes the pipe organ now. Zhiyan, you only come home three or four times a year, of course you wouldn't know."
Wei Zhiyan paused, then quickly turned around, smiling and looking down as he called out, "Mom."
Wei Xuanyun hummed in agreement, then approached her youngest son with a half-smile on her face: "What are you talking about?"
She said, "You just stay in your villa as soon as you get home and never go out. What could be so important that you have to come all this way?"
"Nothing," Wei Zhiyan shook his head, his tone casual. "I just asked Aunt Zhao to help me look into someone. Mom, are you drawing?"
Wei Xuanyun had her hair tied in a ponytail, revealing her beautiful and smooth face. She wore a sleeveless, light blue apron on her slender shoulders, and there was paint on her jawline, indicating that she had just been holding a paintbrush.
Wei Xuanyun explained simply, "Your dad is in better spirits today and wanted to see flowers, so I took him to the garden for a while. The light there is nice, perfect for him to paint."
She took the phone from the housekeeper's hand, lowered her eyes, and looked at the screen teasingly: "Someone with your personality would actually check up on people, that's amazing. Has your heart finally started to flutter?"
"What happened? Both of my sons are—"
The woman's words suddenly caught in her throat.
She stared at the innocent-looking boy on the electronic screen, then after two seconds, she suddenly squeezed her eyes shut and opened them again.
You read that right.
It's about talking about peacock green.
—That's Tan Quelu, the only eighteen-year-old whom Wei Guan particularly liked, who was secretly poaching talent from others.
Wei Zhiyan coughed and shook his head, trying to cover up the truth: "Really, Mom, it's just that St. Weston was inexplicably locked down last night, and I accidentally made him angry, so I wanted to explain to him."
Looking at Wei Zhiyan, Wei Xuanyun suddenly remembered that Wei Guan had called her unusually early yesterday morning, asking her to help take Wei Zhiyan away from St. Weston.
Given the generous terms, Wei Xuanyun readily agreed.
It now seems that the reason for the school closure that shook the elite circles of Wies City last night, with everyone rushing to her to inquire about the news, was none other than talking about Green.
Wei Xuanyun also saw a picture of Wei Guan calmly scattering money from a helicopter, but Eden's PR team was awesome, and they quickly took down the video from the entire internet to prevent its spread.
The woman suddenly fell into a long silence.
After a long pause, Wei Xuanyun finally spoke slowly: "...I remember this young lady, doesn't she have a boyfriend?"
Wei Zhiyan paused, not expecting that even Wei Xuanyun knew about Zhong Wan's relationship.
It seems that the elite circles are indeed all watching the Zhong family make a fool of themselves.
The Zhong couple are always big mouths, which is quite embarrassing. Even Wei Xuanyun, who doesn't pay much attention to outsiders, knows about this. So what about Tan Quelu herself?
How many people will secretly mock him?
Thinking of this, the handsome young man frowned slightly.
He said calmly, "So what? What does it have to do with me that he's Zhong Wan's boyfriend? I just want to apologize to him."
“I was wrong last night. I told him I would take care of him, but I still left him alone.”
"It's understandable that he was angry, even more understandable that he felt wronged, and it's also understandable that he deleted me."
"I will apologize to him."
Wei Xuanyun just watched Wei Zhiyan talking to himself.
Wei Zhiyan began boarding school life at a very young age. Because of something that happened when he was a child, he rejected the Wei family and everything related to family. As an adult, he rarely went home even once a semester, and therefore, he and his mother were not very close.
It should be said that she was not particularly close to either of her two sons.
Wei Xuanyun blinked, tilted her head, and asked with interest, "So how do you plan to apologize?"
"Do you need my advice? Back then, your dad was penniless, and he only managed to win me over with his sweet talk. Do you want to learn from him?"
Wei Zhiyan stiffened almost imperceptibly.
The boy lowered his eyes, and after a few seconds, he grabbed his phone, his fingertips turning white from gripping it so tightly. He smiled casually and said, "No need, Mom."
"I have something to do, I'll be going now."
Wei Zhiyan turned around, his handsome features cold, and left without looking back.
Wei Xuanyun didn't care, shook her head with a hint of regret, and left just as lightly.
The housekeeper, who had been trying to make himself as inconspicuous as possible, finally breathed a sigh of relief, took out his phone, and hurriedly informed General Manager Wei.
joke.
The Wei family is full of lunatics. A few years ago, after Grandma Wei passed away, Grandpa Wei kept making a fuss about dying and sought out a master to summon her spirit. After several years of this, he successfully summoned his own spirit into a stroke-stricken old man.
Wei Xuanyun, a pampered only child, is beautiful, talented, and passionate about art. However, as soon as she came of age, she was tricked by her oil painting teacher into getting pregnant out of wedlock and eloping sweetly. Less than a year later, she returned in a sorry state because she couldn't endure hardship, bringing back her one-year-old son, Wei Guan, and crying and begging her parents for forgiveness.
Grandma Wei felt sorry for her daughter and reluctantly accepted this son-in-law, pretending not to see it.
Seven years later, Wei Xuanyun gave birth to Wei Zhiyan, but unexpectedly caught her gigolo cheating on her. He even secretly drugged her, trying to drive her insane and make her lose all her offspring.
Wei Xuanyun's love is dead.
She grabbed the car keys and ran over her husband, crippling him on the spot. Calmly, she crushed his right leg and right hand. Then, when he was agonizingly attempting suicide, she saved him and forcibly kept him in the attic, feeding him medication regularly so that he couldn't die, nor could he leave her alive.
This is what love should be.
He had promised her a love that would last forever, a love that was "inseparable, intense, and extreme."
How wonderful.
Grandma Wei decisively suppressed all the problems, helped her daughter resolve everything, and even wanted to kill the gigolo so that her daughter could remarry and start a new life.
But Wei Xuanyun felt sorry for her former lover who was now in so much pain, and thought she had gone too far and should "chase after him to the crematorium".
So she refused to divorce him. When she was in a bad mood, she would slap her husband. When she was in a good mood, she would push him out to sunbathe, sketch, and play the piano, just like when they were in love.
For a long time, the Wei family was a taboo subject in wealthy circles.
The butler had worked for the Wei family for decades. He recalled that when Wei Guan was a child, he would pass by his father's room after school and hear his father's weak cries for help.
The black-haired boy remained expressionless, raised his hand to close the door that the other person had painstakingly crawled open, and coldly ordered, "Give him some medicine."
The housekeeper had seen young Wei Zhiyan drawing in the garden, and when he looked up, he saw Wei Xuanyun torturing her husband. The man, covered in blood, cried and begged for mercy, while the woman stood high above, stepping on his crippled hand, her cold and beautiful face expressionless.
Wei Zhiyan was so frightened that he fainted on the spot, had a fever all night, and refused to stay at the Wei family again after waking up.
Wei Xuanyun then calmed down a bit.
At that time, Grandma Wei had not yet passed away. Upon learning of this, she immediately decided to abandon Wei Zhiyan and coldly nurture her eldest grandson Wei Guan, using all her resources on him and imparting all her knowledge to him.
Only in this way can the Wei family have successors after her death, preventing them from falling into ruin and forever providing a safety net for Wei Xuanyun's absurd behavior.
And until the day she died.
The hospital emergency room in the early morning.
The old man wore a breathing mask, his hair was gray, his eyes were kind, and his hands were withered and thin.
She waved everyone away, leaving only Wei Guan, who stared blankly at the handsome young man in white shirt and black pants in front of him.
The old man's voice was weak but calm: "Xiao Guan."
“Xuanyun is my only daughter, and also your only mother.”
"No matter how absurd she is, I will accept it. Because I failed in my responsibility as a mother and let her be deceived by others."
“I’m the one who ruined her. That beast’s medicine and his actions have caused her great mental harm.”
Wei Guan remained silent, listening attentively and gazing at the old man who had taught him so much.
The air was filled with the smell of disinfectant.
Grandma Wei smiled and said, "Xiao Guan, you've always been like this since you were little."
“I watched you grow up, and I knew long ago that even if Zhiyan hadn’t been cowardly back then, the Wei family would only belong to you.”
"Eden Group will rise to the top again because of you. You are a born businessman and a born leader."
"I've kept all the wills, the ownership of shares, and the senior members of the group for you."
"But I have only one request."
The old man's thin fingertips gripped his hand, unconsciously tightening his grip until the veins bulged.
"I want you to promise me that no matter what Xuan Yun does, you will always be there for her."
"forever."
Wei Guan looked down at her, his handsome, sharp features showing no emotion.
The young man's voice was calm: "Grandma, I thought you knew."
"Even without these, the Wei family still belongs to me."
The words fell.
Grandma Wei instantly shed her frail appearance, her eyes flashing with a sharp warning.
She looked at him coldly and sternly, just as she had for many years before, her voice icy: "Wei Guan."
Wei Guan raised an eyebrow slightly: "See, I'm more used to you the way you are."
The ward was constantly emitting cold air.
The young man stood up, glanced at his watch, and said calmly, "The key projects are not yet completed, and the group is currently very busy. If you have anything else to say, please ask your grandfather and mother to listen."
He has to go to work and doesn't have time.
Wei Guan was about to turn and leave.
Grandma Wei suddenly spoke up, saying calmly, "I know what you want—I've already had your grandfather sign the transfer agreement for his shares, and they will be transferred to you in stages starting next week."
"From this moment forward, you are the absolute leader of the Eden Group."
"Your plans will not be constrained by shareholders; your goals will not be suppressed by the board of directors; your orders will not be disobeyed by those old men."
“Wei Guan, you can do whatever you want.”
"No one will stop you anymore."
The young man stopped in his tracks.
After a long while, he slowly turned around, and a hint of satisfaction finally appeared in his handsome, dark eyes.
—In this battle at the end of his opponent's life, he was ultimately one step ahead, winning by half a point.
The young man lowered his eyes, said nothing, stepped forward, opened the ward drawer, took out a pre-prepared agreement, and showed it to Grandma Wei.
“I have many people under my care, and they have different tasks, but you can rest assured that their only task is to protect the mother.”
"No matter what Wei Xuanyun does, nothing will happen to her."
"I promise you."
"No matter how absurd my mother is, I will always protect her."
Grandma Wei looked at him and felt for the umpteenth time how decisive and ruthless her grandson was.
That's fine.
Only a truly ruthless person like this is suitable to lead the Wei family to new heights.
She said, "Okay."
"I believe you, Xiao Guan."
moment.
Life finally flowed gently through the old man's body.
In that fleeting second when consciousness faded and drifted away.
Grandma Wei suddenly spoke, her voice as soft as the wind: "Xiao Guan, you'll understand someday..."
"To love someone is to be her unwavering support."
"You'll understand..."
The heart monitor emitted a piercing beeping sound.
Twenty-one-year-old Wei Guan put away the agreement, and without any emotion, reached out and gently closed the old man's eyes.
He thought to himself, neither agreeing nor disagreeing.
What kind of bored person would pursue such an empty thing as love?
He will never understand.
A note from the author:
Uncle Wei, 27 years old: Watching intently!
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