"Did you know? Lulu has launched a new watch."
"Isn't LULU releasing new products too quickly?" The actress sat on the bench and joined the conversation with the other artists in the same group.
"I have been eyeing the Starry Sky watch for a long time."
"That's a men's watch, and you can't wear it."
"It's fine as long as it looks good. It's just like perfume. There are girls who use nice men's perfume too."
"Don't even think about it. It's a limited edition, there's only one. At the premiere of 'One Hundred Ghosts' yesterday, LULU, as a sponsor, gave the watch to a male artist in the crew."
"What the hell?"
They were filming in the mountains with poor network connection and were too lazy to even touch their phones, but when they heard the exciting news, they immediately became alert.
"Wen Yu, you're awake. Come over and have breakfast." The female artist saw Wen Yu coming out of the studio and waved at him.
"Good morning." Wen Yu had a faint smile on his face, "What were you talking about just now?"
"It's the starry sky watch from LULU. Brother Xiang said it was given away yesterday." The actress said, and suddenly asked, "Are you talking about Mr. Gu?"
"Oh, if it was Mr. Gu, I wouldn't be that surprised. The one he sent was an artist from the same group, a boy who looks pretty stunning. Let me show you his photo."
“It costs seven figures to hire a top star as a spokesperson. Giving away watches is equivalent to free publicity. Isn’t it more cost-effective than hiring a spokesperson?”
"That makes sense! LULU's family has things worth millions to tens of millions, and giving them away is more eye-catching. So is it for Le Hanfei?"
"No, a little celebrity. What's his name? I can't remember. Anyway, he's not a familiar face."
Brother Xiang gave them the screenshots from his phone, three in total. One was of him whispering with Gu Yanshen, one was of him holding a microphone and introducing himself, and another was of him receiving a gift from President LULU.
"Is this a newcomer? She's so stunning!!"
"Haven't you watched the popular variety show 'Weekend Unlimited' a while ago? This is Lu Wenxing, who is partnered with actor Gu. Wen Yu has also been a guest on two episodes."
Wen Yu, who was named, forced a smile, "Ah, yes. Did you download the video? Can you show it to me? I don't have internet on my phone."
Brother Xiang handed over the phone and said, "What's this? Take it and have a look if you want to."
Wen Yu took the phone, but because several people gathered around him, he couldn't just turn the video to the end, so he could only increase the speed and watch it from the beginning with them.
"Yesterday was May 3rd?"
"Yes. Wen Yu was so busy filming in the mountains that he didn't even know what year it was."
"Hahahaha, yesterday's premiere happened to be that artist's birthday."
Wen Yu remained calm and maintained a gentle smile on his face. When he saw Ji Yuan handing the gift to Lu Wenxing, his fingers curled up unconsciously.
"This guy named Lu Wenxing is so lucky." The female artist looked at Lu Wenxing in the video with envy, "How many gifts did he receive yesterday? Some were given by Brother Shen himself, some were given by artists in the same group, and some were given by major sponsors. There was even a car given by a sponsor. The gifts Lu Wenxing received combined are more expensive than my salary."
"Yes."
"Wen Yu, what's wrong with you?"
"Ah? Nothing." Wen Yu pursed his lips, his eyes like water, "Just like you, I'm envious too."
"I don't believe it. Tell us the truth. Are you a rich kid from some wealthy family who's out for fun?"
"Yes, yes, yes. Is that the kind that if you don't become popular, you have to go back and inherit the family business?"
Wen Yu's mouth curled up, "You should read less novels on weekdays, it's not that exaggerated."
The 4th was a weekday, and Xie Chengfei also had to go to class. Since he did not go back to school last night, he had to rush back to school early in the morning for morning reading.
Lu Wenxing slept late yesterday, and Ji Yuan didn't intend to wake him up. She sat in the restaurant with Lu Xiaofei to eat breakfast.
Wen Zheng and Wen Huaihe went to Yihe Welfare Home early in the morning, thinking that they would go early and come back early to have lunch with Xingxing.
"The director of the welfare home has been replaced, so it's a bit difficult to find clues from that year."
"We now know more information than before, and we can find it no matter how difficult it is."
Because I was concentrating on looking for the stars, I didn't notice anything unusual about the welfare home, or I didn't connect the two things together, so I didn't investigate.
Now that the stars have been found, the focus is on what happened more than a decade ago.
Wen Zheng drove the car to the gate of the welfare home and found that someone had arrived earlier than them.
"Sheng Chao, I can't move it." Qin Siyu rubbed her sore arms and turned around to find that there was another car parked behind theirs. She walked over and Wen Zheng rolled down the window.
"Excuse me, we'll be leaving soon after unloading. Are you guys trying to pass by?"
"It's okay, we're here to donate to the welfare home."
Qin Siyu smiled and said, "You're here really early. We're here to deliver donated supplies."
"Xiao Yu, just go in and take a rest. I'll move the rest." Sheng Chao's voice came from the yard. Wen Zheng got out of the car neatly, "Let me help you."
Qin Siyu's eyes lit up, and he didn't refuse. They really needed help. "Okay, thank you."
The staff of the welfare home also came out to help with the loading, and soon the entire truck of school supplies and daily necessities was unloaded.
Wen Huaihe was a little shocked. When did his son become so enthusiastic towards a girl and even take the initiative to help?
Wen Huaihe had also heard Lao Qin's son complain that a girl mustered up the courage to confess to Wen Zheng, but was deducted class points for being outside during morning reading time halfway through her confession. Then, until she graduated from high school, no girl confessed to her again.
But now...why is his son so eager towards girls?
Suddenly got it?
But I have a boyfriend!
Wen Huaihe stared at Sheng Chao for a few seconds. Although his son was taller, more handsome and richer than others, he couldn't steal someone else's partner.
Before Wen Huaihe could continue thinking, Wen Zheng had already started chatting with Qin Siyu.
"Do you often come to the welfare home to deliver donations?"
"Not often, only once every few months." Qin Siyu had a good impression of Wen Zheng who helped her. She felt that he must be a successful entrepreneur as he was dressed in a suit and tie.
“…This gentleman looks familiar.” Qin Siyu’s gaze fell on Wen Huaihe who was standing behind Wen Zheng.
Sheng Chao couldn't sit still any longer. His girlfriend and Wen Zheng were chatting animatedly. He pretended to come over to bring water and separated Qin Siyu and Wen Zheng.
Just then he saw Wen Huaihe standing beside him, with a hint of surprise in his eyes.
"President Wen."
Wen Zheng doesn't like to be interviewed, but Wen Huaihe has been on several financial interviews, so many people know Wen Huaihe.
Qin Siyu's eyes widened slightly, "You are the president of Wen Group, you look so young."
"The little girl is so sweet." Wen Huaihe only acts like a boss in the company. He is quite gentle outside and likes to hear people praise his youth the most.
"Do you often come to this welfare home?" Qin Siyu thought of what Wen Zheng had asked him just now and asked back.
Wen Zheng shook his head. "Very little. Most of the donations are transferred to the finance department. I came here today to check out the environment of the welfare home. I plan to expand the welfare home so that the children can have a better living environment."
"So that's how it is." Qin Siyu smiled, "I can take you for a walk."
"OK."
Wen Huaihe's eyes widened at Wen Zheng's words. Did his son still remember what he was here for? Sheng Chao smiled and put his arm around Qin Siyu's shoulder. "My girlfriend and I are very familiar with this. You can ask us anything you want to know."
"Then I'll trouble you two." Wen Zheng pretended to be casual. "This welfare home has been established for a long time, and the current facilities are much better than before."
"Yeah." Qin Siyu didn't think much about it and continued with Wen Zheng's words, "When I was a kid, I slept in a big bunk bed here. Now the children in the welfare home have six people in a dormitory, which is much better than before."
"You mean when you were little?" Wen Zheng didn't expect there would be such an unexpected gain, "You were like this before..."
"Yes, I am an orphan too." Qin Siyu did not hide anything. Wen Zheng came to expand the welfare home, so she wanted to tell him more about things related to the welfare home.
"Yihe is the welfare home with the most children in City C. It should have a lot of funding, right? Do entrepreneurs often make charitable donations?"
"Yes." Qin Siyu said, "There are also many entrepreneurs who will sponsor children to go to school."
“Are there many adopted children?”
Qin Siyu nodded and continued, "Older children know they are adopted. They will return to the welfare home as volunteers when they have time, and those who are able will come back to support other children. Generally, children aged three or four don't have many memories, and adoptive parents will not tell their children that they are adopted."
Wen Zheng listened to Qin Siyu's introduction, but he was thinking about something else. Wen Yu was seven years old when he came to their home, just the right age to go to elementary school, but it seemed that he had never been back to the orphanage.
"How old were you when you came to the orphanage?"
"I've been in an orphanage since I can remember. The previous director said I was an abandoned baby."
Wen Zheng understood that the girl in front of him must know Wen Yu. "Do you know that there was a child named Xiao Yu?"
Before a child goes to primary school, the welfare home will not give the child a surname, but only a nickname. This is to make it easier for the adoptive family to directly name the child.
"There is no one named Xiaoyu." Qin Siyu thought for a while and suddenly said.
"You are talking about Xiaoyu, right? He is the most beautiful child in the orphanage, and the director's mother likes him the most. He is very diligent and obedient, and often helps take care of other children. Everyone likes him very much."
"You all like him?"
"But after he was adopted, he never returned to the orphanage. When he was still young, many parents came to adopt him and took a liking to him at first sight, but Xiaoyu's brother rejected them all. He said that there were so many younger brothers and sisters in the orphanage who needed his care, and he didn't want to leave the director's mother."
Qin Siyu lowered her head a little disappointed, but Wen Zheng almost suspected that they were not talking about the same person.
Wen Yu doesn’t want to leave the welfare home?
Wen Zheng was only eleven years old at the time, but when he first met Wen Yu, he obviously wanted to fit in with their family, and his attempts to please him were very deliberate. But his mother thought that Wen Yu was frightened by the kidnapping he had experienced, and that his subconscious attempts to please him were because he felt insecure, and that he was just afraid.
But after listening to what the girl in front of him said, Wen Zheng felt more and more that she was not the same person at all.
“Are there any pictures of him as a child?”
Qin Siyu looked at Wen Zheng in confusion, "Are you here to donate? Why do you know about Brother Xiaoyu?"
"It's like this. My parents once wanted to adopt Xiao Yu, but he didn't want to. Later, my parents told me about it, and I just happened to remember it and asked."
Wen Zheng couldn't tell her about the investigation, so he could only lie to her.
Qin Siyu seemed to be a frequent visitor to the welfare home. She was very familiar with where everything was placed. Wen Zheng subconsciously asked her, "Are you adopted too?"
"No." Qin Siyu smiled. "The director's mother came to me once and said someone wanted to adopt me, but they didn't want me anymore."
This kind of thing happens frequently in welfare homes, so it is not surprising. Many adoptive parents have not thought it through before coming, and some regret after adopting the children and send them back.
"Hey, this is a photo of Brother Xiaoyu."
Qin Siyu showed him the old photo which had turned yellow. It was a photo of two children. The boy was thin but had a pure and sincere smile. He was half-hugging the girl who was half a head shorter than him, and there was a bit of doting in his eyes. They looked like a very close brother and sister.
Is this really Wen Yu?
He looked exactly like Wen Yu when he was a child, but his demeanor was completely different. Wen Zheng couldn't help but ask, "Does he have a twin brother or younger brother?"
Qin Siyu was very confused by Wen Zheng's question, "No."
Wen Zheng frowned slightly, looking down at the photo in his hand, his eyes moving from Wen Yu to the little girl beside him, "This girl... is called Sisi."
"How do you know?" Qin Siyu was even more surprised. How did Wen Zheng know her nickname?
And it seems that Wen Zheng only knew her when she was a child.
"Why do you think about Brother Xiaoyu all the time?" Sheng Chao felt a little jealous.
"Brother Xiaoyu saved my life. If it weren't for him, I would have fallen into the water and drowned when I was four years old. Brother Xiaoyu also fell seriously ill because of saving me." Qin Siyu explained to Sheng Chao for the first time.
"I'm sorry, I just found out. Next time I have the chance to see him, I will definitely thank him for saving my girlfriend."
…
On the way back, Wen Zheng told Wen Huaihe about his doubts.
"Dad, can you tell me the details of the process of adopting Wen Yu?"
"After learning that Sisi was adopted, Xingxing was sad for a while. You didn't know that because you went to school that day, your mother wanted to make Xingxing happy, so she took Xingxing with her to the welfare home to donate clothes."
"There are many children your age in our villa area. Xingxing doesn't have any playmates of the same age. Your mother has been a volunteer in an orphanage and is very familiar with the children there. I thought we could take Xingxing with us."
"At that time, your mother was distributing things to the children in the yard. Xingxing followed another teacher to visit the younger children, and that day..."
"The kidnappers were not targeting the children in the orphanage. Their target from the beginning was Xingxing. They wanted to kidnap Xingxing and blackmail me."
Wen Zheng understood what he heard, "So they mistook Wen Yu for Wen Yu?"
"right."
Wen Yu was different from other children, he was handsome and clean, he didn't look like an orphan. The kidnappers determined that Wen Yu was the child of the Wen family and took him away directly.
"In that kidnapping case, Wen Yu's foot was seriously injured. The director of the welfare home said that many families only want to adopt healthy children. If Wen Yu's foot cannot be cured, other families will not adopt him."
"The director of the welfare home at the time also knew our family's situation, so he asked us to adopt Wen Yu."
Wen Zheng still remembers what the dean said to him at that time.
"Xiao Yu is a good kid, he's very well behaved. If you don't want him, what if his legs are disabled? That would be a huge loss for the child. He's still so young..."
Wen Zheng was still wondering, had his personality changed drastically because of being kidnapped? Had he become sensitive and fragile, afraid of being abandoned?
It makes sense to explain it, but Wen Zheng still feels something is wrong.
Wen Yu was seven years old and Xingxing was five years old.
A two-year age difference may not be noticeable to adults, but for children of this age, a difference of half a year, let alone two years, is particularly obvious.
Did they just happen to kidnap the wrong person?
When Wen Yu was still young, Wen Zheng's attitude towards him was not like it is now, it can only be said that they were not close.
But in the past few years, he always felt that Wen Yu had ulterior motives, so he would be cautious whenever Wen Yu was involved.
And the photos of two completely different people, the innocent eyes of a child can't lie, but the Wen Yu in the photo and the Wen Yu that Wen Zheng saw for the first time...
Aren't they really twins?
…
After Lu Wenxing returned to China, Wen Huaihe did not bring him back to the Wen family's old house. He didn't even tell old man Wen about Xingxing's affairs. Since he wanted to thoroughly investigate what happened, it would be better if fewer people knew about it.
Wen Huaihe owns properties in many places. After bringing Xingxing to Wen Zheng's apartment, Lu Xiaofei and her family also live there temporarily.
Xie Chengfei returned to school early in the morning. Lu Xiaofei and Xie Nian went to see him off. Because Xie Nian had to go back to City B first for work reasons, Lu Xiaofei did not agree to Ji Yuan's request to stay, and only said that they would have plenty of time to get together in the future and there was no need to rush.
If Lu Xiaofei wasn't in a hurry to leave, Lu Wenxing would have slept until dinner time, but he still forced himself to see Lu Xiaofei off.
When Wen Zheng and the others came back, they happened to meet Lu Wenxing at the door.
"Where did you go this morning?"
"Something happened at the company. Dad and I will go take care of it."
Lu Wenxing didn't ask any more questions, as he didn't understand the company's affairs. "Is it done?"
"Yes." Wen Zheng walked into the elevator with him, "We're going to go to the movies this afternoon."
Speaking of this, Lu Wenxing was also confused. He was surprised that Wen Zheng agreed yesterday, but it was heard by Director Wang who was passing by.
After all, Wen's Group was a major sponsor of the "Hundred Ghosts" crew, so Director Wang said without even thinking, "Book the theater. Anyone who has time can go together."
Then……
Not only the staff, but also the artists in the same group.
Song Jiajia was very curious about the whole crew going to the movies together, and she insisted on joining them, dragging Le Hanfei with her, and a large group of people went along.
Before the birthday party ended, Director Wang took Lu Wenxing aside and spoke earnestly.
"I didn't expect Xiao Wen to be so approachable. It seems that he has a good impression of you. Go to the movie tomorrow and do your best. Song Jiajia is an artist of Huayi. Let her help you make some connections. It won't be difficult to sign you to Huayi."
Director Wang was quite worried, so much so that Lu Wenxing didn’t know how to explain to him… He could be signed into Huayi without any recommendation.
The group of people met in the cinema. Even Song Jiajia was surprised because Lu Wenxing and Wen Zheng appeared together. She had heard from her boss Wen Yan that Wen Zheng was boring and dull, with a cold face all day long, and he was afraid that others didn't know that he was a domineering president.
But……
Song Jiajia looked at him for a few more seconds. Why did she feel that unlike what Wen Yan said, Wen Zheng was... pretty good to Lu Wenxing?
Ji Yuan and Wen Huaihe, who were among the sponsors, appeared together. They did not appear with Wen Zheng. Lu Wenxing felt that standing with Wen Zheng was too eye-catching, so he said a few words to Wen Zheng and walked towards the artists in the crew.
"How did you two get here together?"
Of course Lu Wenxing couldn't say that he came by car, so he just said, "I met him at the door. Teacher Gu hasn't arrived yet?"
"he……"
As soon as Song Jiajia opened her mouth, she saw Gu Yanshen coming over. He had changed into a more casual outfit today and was carrying two large bags of drinks in his hands. The assistant following him was also carrying two large bags of drinks.
"If you want to drink something, just go to the front and get it." After Gu Yanshen said this, everyone else ran towards the assistant.
“Ahhhhh! Long live Emperor Gu.”
“Milk tea and movies are a perfect match.”
"Get me a can of Coke."
Gu Yanshen held the milk tea and juice in his hands, "Help me get it."
Lu Wenxing took the juice. Gu Yanshen put a straw in the cup of milk tea in his hand and handed it to Lu Wenxing, "Double caramel pudding milk tea."
Lu Wenxing was stunned for a moment. Gu Yanshen specially helped him insert the straw before handing it to him.
Gu Yanshen took his glass of juice from Lu Wenxing again, and then Wen Zheng came over with the Coke bought by Gu Yanshen and the popcorn he bought.
Before he could say anything, Lu Wenxing had already taken the straw from Wen Zheng's hand and helped Wen Zheng, who had no hands free, to insert the straw. His movements were very natural, as if he had done this before.
Wen Zheng curled his lips and smiled, speaking to Lu Wenxing, but his eyes were on Gu Yanshen.
"Eat some popcorn?"
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