Chapter 3
Less than two seconds after Qin Mingchuan sent the accusing WeChat message, Su Xingyao's phone vibrated slightly.
The other party contacted him, contrary to his usual practice.
After her blocking action was interrupted, Su Xingyao looked at the call expressionlessly, then hung up without blinking.
But the next second, the phone started vibrating again.
Qin Mingchuan, the nobleman who has always been high and mighty, made another phone call this time without giving up.
Su Xingyao did not give in because of the other party's insistence and continued to prepare to hang up.
But Sunset, who was a few meters away, saw him squatting beside the flowers and immediately rushed towards him happily.
Its little paw rested on Su Xingyao's right hand, so that the finger on the screen pressed the wrong spot.
Qin Mingchuan's call was connected in a daze.
A deep and familiar voice immediately came through the receiver.
"When do you plan to run away from home?"
Qin Mingchuan's tone of voice was relatively gentle, but the meaning he expressed was full of unquestionable affirmation.
He had already determined Su Xingyao's gender early on.
He disappeared for more than a month because he ran away from home and was in a bad mood.
Upon hearing this, Su Xingyao did not explain, nor did he intend to explain.
He knew that not only Qin Mingchuan, but everyone around him should have the same attitude and opinion towards his disappearance.
After all, people who truly care about you and believe in you don’t need your explanations, and people who need you to try your best to explain don’t care about the truth of the matter at all.
Su Xingyao didn't say anything, and Qin Mingchuan on the other end of the phone was also silent.
It was a few seconds before he spoke again.
"Tomorrow is Aunt Wen and Xiaoxi's birthday, don't forget."
After Su Xingyao understood the purpose of the other party's call, she followed his words and replied, "Got it."
After saying that, Su Xingyao, who didn't want to talk to the other party any more, prepared to hang up the phone.
But before he hung up, Qin Mingchuan, who hadn't spoken to him more than three sentences for a long time, spoke again.
"Will you come back?"
"Huh?" Su Xingyao didn't understand why the other party talked so much today.
Qin Mingchuan on the other end of the phone didn't seem to be used to it either. After a pause, he added an explanation, "Don't make Aunt Wen angry."
After saying that, he added, as if he had missed the point, "She takes this birthday very seriously."
Qin Mingchuan knew better than anyone how much Su Xingyao cared about his mother, so he emphasized it to him again.
Su Xingyao didn't quite hear what Qin Mingchuan said. After he hummed absentmindedly, his attention was drawn to Luo Ri who was trying to bite the peony petals.
Seeing that the puppy was really about to bite the petals, Su Xingyao quickly reached out to stop it.
"Sunset don't bite."
He covered Sunset's head with his hands and warned it in a gentle tone.
Luo Ri was always the type to push the envelope. He tilted his neck back and in this position he licked Su Xingyao's palm with his tongue in a flattering manner.
A soft voice came into Qin Mingchuan's ears through the receiver.
He kept holding his phone and listened quietly to what was happening from Su Xingyao's side.
When the time was right, he spoke casually.
"Who is Sunset?"
"My..." Su Xingyao quickly corrected what she was about to say.
"A little dog."
There was silence again on the other end of the receiver.
“Do you have a dog again?”
Su Xingyao did not answer.
Qin Mingchuan couldn't wait for an answer and sighed.
"Xiaoxi is afraid of dogs and is allergic to dog hair. Don't bring him back when you come back tomorrow."
Su Xingyao held the phone farther away, and without being disturbed by Luo Ri, she finally hung up the phone smoothly.
Afterwards, he blocked Qin Mingchuan’s mobile phone number as well.
Looking at the increasingly long blacklist, Su Xingyao discovered that it was not that difficult to sever ties with Qin Mingchuan.
His nominal fiancé had genuinely cared for and taken care of me.
The subsequent disgust and alienation with myself was also real.
He used to not understand why a person could change his attitude so quickly.
Now after dying once, I finally figured out that it was Qin Mingchuan who liked Shen Huaixi.
How can I not be biased if the person I like hates me?
Compared with his childhood sweetheart, a friend like him who he just met halfway is naturally nothing.
Qin Mingchuan's phone call made Su Xingyao stay by the flowers for a while longer.
When he stood up, his calves felt numb.
Sitting on the swing next to him, Su Xingyao lowered his head and gently rubbed his numb muscles.
He remembered that when he was suddenly informed of the engagement, he went to explain to Qin Mingchuan that they could cancel it later.
Thinking about it now, Su Xingyao just felt that he was ridiculous.
What Qin Mingchuan hated from the beginning to the end was not this marriage contract.
After the blood circulated, Su Xingyao's legs felt much more comfortable.
The knot in his heart caused by the loss of his friendship with Qin Mingchuan was completely resolved at this moment.
There are so many people who hate him, so it doesn’t matter if there is one more Qin Mingchuan.
Su Xingyao stood up and remembered what the other party had just reminded her of.
Qin Mingchuan’s reminder was very good. He really had to go back tomorrow.
But the reason for going back was not because of Wen Ningshu and Shen Huaixi’s birthdays.
This birthday no longer matters to him.
The important thing is that all the certificates and household registration books he left in the Shen family villa must be taken away as soon as possible.
After all, without his ID, he couldn’t even change his phone card.
Su Xingyao rubbed her slightly sore fingers.
It actually takes a lot of time and energy to block these people one by one.
*
The next afternoon, Su Xingyao returned to the Shen family.
Originally he planned to take a taxi back by himself, but Aunt Zhang was worried about his health and insisted that the family driver take him back.
Unable to resist Aunt Zhang's concern, Su Xingyao returned in the car that Lu Jiuxu left in the villa.
He left late, and it was already dark when he arrived at the Shen family mansion.
Just as Su Xingyao expected, the usually bustling Shen residence was empty at this time.
Except for a few unimportant servants who stayed at home, everyone else went to the Shen family's hotel to attend the birthday party.
After all, it was the birthday of the mistress of the Shen family and the most favored son. No one would be stupid enough to be absent on such an important day.
Su Xingyao walked all the way to her room without any obstruction and didn't even meet anyone.
The room remained as it had been when he had left it.
However, he didn't have the heart to take a closer look at this place that didn't belong to him. He walked straight to the bookcase, opened the drawer and took out a file bag.
Inside were various documents that he had sorted out long ago.
He opened the file bag and counted them carefully one by one. Only after he had all the documents, he put his household registration booklet in.
This household registration booklet is very new and contains only his account.
Many people don’t know that even though he has been back to the Shen family for so many years, he hasn’t even been able to move his household registration back.
Not only the household registration, but also the birthday and name, his parents didn't want him to have anything to do with the Shen family.
For example, today, Qin Mingchuan emphasized many times, Shen Huaixi's birthday.
In fact, it originally belonged to him.
Not only his birthday, but even the name Shen Huaixi once belonged to him.
Huaixi, Huaixi.
Unfortunately, after his biological son, whom they once had high hopes and expectations for, went missing, his parents gave all of these to the child they later raised.
Only after he accidentally learned of this secret, because he hated the birthday given to him by his adoptive parents so much, he naively asked his parents if he could also celebrate his birthday with Shen Huaixi on this day.
When he made this suggestion, he actually had a little bit of thought in mind.
Because if that happens, his and his mother's birthdays will be on the same day again.
Although this cannot make up for the maternal love he lacked since childhood, it can at least make the relationship between him and his mother closer.
Thinking of his silly thoughts at the time, Su Xingyao couldn't help but smile.
He no longer remembered how he had made this "rude" application at that time.
But he clearly remembered his father's face that suddenly darkened and he scolded him for no reason.
The father in my eyes seemed to be suddenly irritated by something. He angrily threw the pen in his hand, pointed at his head and scolded loudly.
"Yueshuang, everything in the house belongs to you. Why do you have to fight with Huaixi even for something as trivial as your birthday?"
Su Xingyao was so stunned by her father's scolding at that time.
He didn't know what terrible evil he had done to make his father misunderstand his intentions like this.
So he could only shut up and never mention his birthday again, assuming that he didn't need to celebrate his birthday.
Naturally, he was also very self-aware and never mentioned again the delusion of asking his parents to add him to the Shen family's household registration, nor did he change the name Yue Shuang that his adoptive parents had given him when he changed his household registration, which had caused him endless humiliation and suffering.
Su Xingyao opened the household registration booklet and gently stroked the words on it with her fingers.
He applied to change the three words "Su Xingyao" to his given name before going abroad to study.
But now thinking about it, he was glad that his parents stopped him.
Su Xingyao took the file bag with a smile, walked into the deepest part of the cloakroom and found an old and yellowed suitcase.
This was what he dragged with him when he returned to the Shen family, and it contained all the luggage he had brought from the orphanage.
Su Xingyao put the briefcase in, packed it, pulled the light suitcase, and left the room without any reluctance.
When passing the back garden, he stopped and his eyes fell on a corner in the distance.
The yolk was once raised there.
Because Shen Huaixi was afraid of dogs, his family would not allow him to bring back the disabled dog that had lived with him in the orphanage for six years.
Later, he begged desperately, repeatedly tearing up the memories of how he and his sister were tortured by their adoptive father, telling his parents how Egg Yolk became disabled because he saved him, and he was extremely determined that he would never abandon it...
Only reluctantly did they agree to keep the egg yolk in an inconspicuous corner of the garden.
Su Xingyao walked to this place and squatted down, gathering a handful of dirt from the ground guiltily.
He brought it with him when he came, and now when he leaves, he can no longer take it with him.
Su Xingyao stayed here for a while and said her final farewell to Egg Yolk silently.
Then he placed a black card on Shen Liangyu's desk.
This was given to him by his father Shen Liangyu when he just came back, and he was told to swipe it if he needed money.
But he never used this card.
To this day, he didn’t know how much the amount was in it, but he clearly remembered that the password was Shen Huaixi’s birthday.
After finally returning the last thing related to the Shen family, Su Xingyao left the Shen family without looking back.
His household registration is independent and he changed his name himself. He owed the Shen family six years of living expenses, and he had the bank deposit the money into this card.
Now, he has nothing to do with the Shen family at all.
*
The scene of the Shen family’s birthday party.
Before the dinner started, Wen Ningshu received a thoughtful and valuable gift.
The gift was personally delivered by the director of a well-known gallery.
“Mrs. Shen, this is a gift that Mr. Su made for you personally, and he specially asked me to deliver it to you.”
Under everyone's curious and envious gazes, the gloved person in charge carefully opened the gift shell and showed Wen Ningshu the contents.
Soon a brightly colored painting appeared before everyone.
There is a large sunflower field in the painting, in which a young girl is basking in the sun and strolling leisurely.
"This painting is called Girl in the Sunlight, and it is Mr. S's latest work."
After the introduction, the person in charge was afraid that people would underestimate the value of the painting, so he immediately added, "It has been certified by the gallery."
If it is certified by a gallery, then its value is extraordinary.
A few people who were slightly knowledgeable around also followed the person in charge and said, "Mr. S's paintings are priceless, Mrs. Shen, the gentleman who gave you the gift was thoughtful."
After all, anyone who pays a little attention to art has heard that this new generation of cutting-edge painter, who debuted just two years ago, is a powerful and mysterious person.
His works are very popular among private collectors, but very few are produced.
The most mysterious and regrettable thing is that he only cooperates with one gallery and never participates in any activities in person. Therefore, even if collectors want to buy paintings from him, they can't find him at all.
Therefore, it must have taken a lot of effort for someone to get such an authentic painting for Wen Ningshu today.
The person in charge smiled and nodded when he heard this, "Indeed, Mr. Su prepared it for Mrs. Shen a year in advance."
As he spoke, his eyes quietly fell on Wen Ningshu.
He did not say the following few words about this painting.
This painting is actually a twin series, and S painted two in total.
In addition to this picture, there is another picture with a similar picture, but a completely different artistic conception, "Fantasy in the Rain" which tells the story of family affection.
However, the other party explained that if he did not come to pick up the painting in person, then he would deliver the "Girl in the Sunlight" today.
The other painting was sent to the gallery for processing.
Of course, these are just agreements between the two of them. There is no need for him to tell anyone else, let alone expose Mr. Su's identity.
This does not include the protagonist who received the gift today.
Wen Ningshu didn't notice the person in charge's gaze.
After hearing that this painting was specially prepared by Su Xingyao for him, his mood, which had previously made him angry because of his ignorant son running away from home, instantly became relieved.
This time, her troublesome son finally took some time to think about her.
She even felt as if the other party had asked S to tailor-make this painting for her.
Both the style and the content are completely in line with her preferences.
Even the flower above is her favorite sunflower.
Wen Ningshu moved the time back to the girl in the painting.
She didn’t know if it was an illusion, but she even felt that the back of the girl in the painting looked a bit like herself when she was young.
Amidst everyone's compliments, Wen Ningshu happily accepted the painting.
So she finally remembered her son and asked Aunt Liu, who had raised Shen Huaixi.
"Is Xingyao coming soon?"
Aunt Liu shook her head. "Not yet."
She carefully observed Wen Ningshu's expression, and seeing her eyes and eyebrows were filled with joy, she said, "The young master really put his heart into it this time."
After that, she deliberately emphasized the other party's "crime" again, "He was out for so long this time and made you angry, so you should admit your mistake."
Wen Ningshu did not deny Aunt Liu's guess.
She thinks so too.
After all, she was angry for a long time after Su Xingyao hung up the phone, so she asked everyone not to contact him and wait for him to do it himself.
But no matter how angry I was, I felt relieved when I realized that my son had prepared such a thoughtful gift for my birthday.
So when Aunt Liu suggested calling Su Xingyao, Wen Ningshu finally condescended to pick up the phone and opened Su Xingyao's WeChat.
"Let me ask him."
As she spoke, she pressed the voice button and asked in a slightly gentle voice.
"Xingyao, the dinner is about to start, are you almost there?"
The slender fingers released and the voice came out.
Then Wen Ningshu saw a red exclamation mark appear on the screen.
Seeing that the message was not sent successfully, Wen Ningshu looked at Aunt Liu in confusion.
"What's going on? Is the signal bad here?"
After saying that, she changed her position and sent it again.
When the message failed to be sent again, Wen Ningshu, who was originally immersed in joy, suddenly changed her expression. She finally came to her senses and her hands were shaking.
Su Xingyao actually blocked her!
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