Chapter 5 The Past
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Qin Shu didn't answer immediately, but glanced out the car window.
It was a huge outdoor luxury goods advertisement. The woman in the advertisement was wearing a black dress, red lips, and delicate makeup. Her left hand was raised and gracefully placed on her right shoulder. The unique silver spring and summer jewelry watch on her wrist was particularly prominent.
But these are not the main points. The main point is that the side profile of this woman is 50% similar to Qin Shu.
Qin Shu looked at the face with perfect expression and suddenly wanted to laugh. After all, she still remembered clearly the distorted and terrified look on this face.
"Hey, isn't this your sister Qin Yue?" Zhou Yin took advantage of the opportunity to turn his head and take a look.
"Yes, and the person who pushed me down the stairs was also my good sister." Qin Shu withdrew her gaze from the car window and added calmly.
Xu Wen frowned slightly upon hearing this. "Although we have found out that she has been trying to ban and discredit you over the years, we still don't understand why she did so."
"Wait, wait! It turns out that it's your sister who has been trying to ban and discredit you all these years? Aren't you a family? How big a grudge is this?" Zhou Yin's understanding of Qin Shu was obviously not as detailed as Xu Wen's, so for a moment he almost couldn't keep up with the conversation between the two.
"Drive carefully." Xu Wen reminded Zhou Yin calmly, protecting Qin Shu's privacy in his own way.
In this way, the initiative is back in Qin Shu's hands. If she doesn't want to mention this matter again, and without Zhou Yin's questioning, she doesn't have to answer.
Qin Shu didn't mind at all. Maybe because she had been reincarnated so many times, she seemed to have become much colder and more indifferent emotionally. Now when she thought of these "family members", she didn't have much emotional ups and downs.
"To be honest, I'm curious too. Why don't you ask later?" Qin Shu was really curious. She probably knew why Qin Yue hated her. After all, she had seen Qin Yue at her most miserable state. But she wouldn't want to kill her just for this, right?
"Qin Yue...is your cousin, right?" Zhou Yin brought up the topic again after seeing that Qin Shu didn't mind.
"Well, her father is my father's half-brother."
"Their family and your family don't have a good relationship?" Zhou Yin knew that things would definitely not be simple when she heard about this "half-brother" relationship, and the fact that the Qin family was indeed a wealthy family in the upper area of Sigma 13, and even on the entire planet. Even though it has declined a little now, a lean camel is still bigger than a horse after all. Of course, she did not deny that there were her preconceived subjective emotions involved.
"How should I put it? It's not something that can be simply described as good or bad. In the beginning, we were just not very close. It was mainly because my second uncle was very dissatisfied with our family unilaterally. He has never been very motivated, so his position in the Qin family is also rather awkward. He always felt that my father was superior to him, and he was very dissatisfied with this. He had caused several family divisions and insisted that the old man was partial to my father. Later, I don't know where he got the bad habit of gambling, and he refused to change after repeated warnings. In a fit of rage, the old man broke off relations with him and drove him out of the Qin family. As a result, he insisted that it was my father who wanted to 'eliminate dissidents' and that was why he was driven away, so he hated our family even more." Qin Shu felt that her second uncle had a strange way of thinking when she spoke.
Zhou Yin had some impression of the current Qin family's business. She had also seen the second uncle mentioned by Qin Shu in the financial reports of Star Network. He looked like a decent person and didn't look like a man who hated his brother at all. It really shows that you can't judge a person by his appearance.
"Did the old man of the Qin family completely cut off his source of income after he drove him away? And - did he tell his other business friends not to help your second uncle?" Xu Wen suddenly asked.
Qin Shu was stunned for a moment when she heard this, then shook her head. "No, not only that, he also gave my second uncle a lot of assets. Several companies that my father was optimistic about were also directly given to my second uncle by the old man. Although those companies were not particularly profitable at the time, they had good prospects. My mother even complained to my father about this, saying that the old man was actually partial to my second uncle."
After hearing this, Xu Wen understood the inside story: "Well, although the old man of the Qin family ostensibly kicked his youngest son out of the Qin family, he was actually just forcing him to be independent. Otherwise, there's no way to explain his actions. The funds and assets are all in place, and his connections are intact. He's simply breaking away from your father's control in disguise. If your second uncle wants to, it won't be difficult for him to achieve some success outside, and others won't think that he's succeeded because of his reliance on the Qin family. When he returns to the Qin family, no one will look down on him anymore. To put it bluntly, the old man of the Qin family is very likely planning to support your second uncle vigorously after he returns to the Qin family. Although he won't let him take the top position, at least he won't be suppressed by your father anymore."
Zhou Yin was already a little numb after hearing this. She knew that since Xu Wen could say such things, he must have done relevant research as a basis. "It turns out that Mr. Qin really is partial to his eldest son, but the one he favors is not his eldest son, but his useless youngest son. But judging by your second uncle's behavior, I'm afraid he has no idea of Mr. Qin's intentions, right?"
This was the first time Qin Shu had heard this theory, and she was stunned for a moment. Only after hearing Zhou Yin's follow-up question did she come to her senses and nodded. "Well, after he left the Qin family, he didn't manage those companies at all. He was still fooling around on various planets. And I don't know what he was thinking. He couldn't cause trouble for my parents, so he actually found some mercenaries from the lower district to arrest me at the gate of my elementary school. Of course, our elementary school's smart security system has always been very good. He was arrested before I even saw him. I only found out about it when I went back and heard my father call my second uncle's terminal to sever ties with him."
"You have a good memory. You remember things from so long ago."
Qin Shu smiled, her tone somewhat helpless. "There's nothing I can do. It's the standard routine of the quick-travel world. Illusions, inner demons, and mental power always like to repeatedly pull out your already blurred memories. If you see it too much, it will be difficult to forget it."
Although Qin Shu said it lightly, Zhou Yin and Xu Wen both knew that what happened behind the scenes was not as easy as Qin Shu appeared. After all, no one likes to be forced to recall the tragic events of the past over and over again. Although the experience Qin Shu was talking about now did not sound tragic, when they thought about what happened to her later, and the fact that her parents were still alive and cared about her and loved her every day, it seemed particularly sad.
"Um, sorry..." Seeing Qin Shu like this, Zhou Yin felt a little sorry.
Qin Shu shook her head. "There's nothing to be sorry about. You don't have to be so cautious. I'm not that sensitive. Otherwise, I would have been desperate when I was being blackmailed by the entire internet. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. It's rare for me to talk about this topic with others."
"So your sister, ah bah, Qin Yue is targeting you because your two families have severed ties?"
"That's not the case. After all, my second uncle squandered all his assets and fled to the Kopra Empire. Then my second aunt brought Qin Yue, who was still in the sixth grade, to our house for help, and my father still helped. Logically, Qin Yue shouldn't target me because of the severance of relations between our two families."
Qin Shu still remembers Qin Yue who followed her second aunt to their house to borrow money. She would pull her second aunt's sleeve and hide behind her, looking thin and timid. But when her father agreed to lend money to her second aunt and her second aunt happily asked Qin Yue to bow her head and thank her, Qin Yue showed a fierce look.
Qin Shu still doesn't understand that look.
"So, your family is helping them, isn't it? Why is she still trying to ban and smear you?"
"I don't know, maybe people change. Like my second aunt, she was pretty nice to me before, but after my parents died and they became my guardians, she became more and more impatient with me. Plus, Qin Yue kept making up rumors that I bullied her, and my grades were way ahead of Qin Yue's, so she hated me even more. But she never said it out loud. She just ignored me with a cold face when I did well on the test, collected the dishes before I finished my meal, had the driver 'accidentally' forget about me on the way to school, and had the maid accidentally lose some of my favorite toys and books when cleaning my room. Only when Qin Yue did well on the test would she be a little more friendly to me, and if I was lucky, I could get some delicious food."
When Qin Shu finished speaking, she smiled bitterly with some helplessness.
"Isn't this mental abuse? How old were you when your parents died? How dare you treat a 10-year-old like this..."
The death of Qin Shu's parents was no secret. After all, the news that the aircraft carrying the eldest son and his family of three had accidentally crashed had caused quite a stir on Sigma 13.
You should know that such incidents as aircraft crashes causing deaths have not occurred in the Interstellar Federation for nearly ten years. This is because when encountering sudden accidents, the aircraft will automatically enter rescue mode and eject people from the flight cabin. The ejected chairs are equipped with landing and life-support equipment. Even if someone is accidentally injured, as long as they are still alive, they can be successfully rescued after being sent to the hospital. In addition, after sudden accidents, the aircraft system will automatically alarm and contact the nearest hospital for rescue, so there have basically been no deaths.
In addition, Mr. Qin fell ill because of this incident and died soon after. The Qin family fell into the hands of the youngest son of the Qin family who was driven away. This incident also caused quite a bit of discussion.
As for Qin Shu, everyone only knew that she unexpectedly survived the accident. However, because she had no relatives on her mother's side, her second uncle's family, who were her only relatives, became her guardians. As for how she lived afterwards, no one knew.
"So, I'm here to settle the score, aren't I?" Qin Shu did not dwell on the pain of the past. Now she would take revenge on the spot if she had a grudge.
Xu Wen clicked on the terminal and suddenly said, "Qin Shu and her family are not at the Qin family right now. They just left and headed for Taris. We need to change our means of transportation."
"receive."
"Taris?" It had been too long, Qin Shu was a little dazed, and couldn't react for a moment to where this place was.
As if he could see Qin Shu's confusion, Xu Wen took the initiative to explain: "It's a small planet built as a holiday resort. It's near Sigma 13. They made an appointment with the Lu family to have dinner there. In addition—"
"What else?"
"Lu Yishen is there too."
Qin Shu: “!!!”
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