There are too many memories in Chen Chen's mind, and they are not coherent. Therefore, Chen Chen couldn't be sure what the beginning of the story was like. He only remembered the ending of each episode.
Eighteen years ago, two children were switched because of Shen Yan's prank. Eighteen years later, the two children met in H Town and became good friends again, and then returned to the Shen family at the same time due to an accidental mistake. The adopted son is innocent, kind and simple-minded, but the biological son, who has been wandering around since childhood and has seen the fickleness of the world, always has a sense of resentment in his heart. This hostility became even stronger as Tao Mu witnessed his adopted son's affluent life and his ever-lovable situation. The resentment gradually accumulated and eventually got out of control. So the biological son began to target the adopted son and frame him. Up to this point the plots are all the same, the only difference is the ending. Either the biological son schemed hard but ended up losing his own life and then was reborn for revenge, causing the naive adopted son to die tragically at the age of 28. Or the adopted son who was plotted to be killed was reborn and took revenge on his biological son. After his death, the biological son continued to be reborn and came back to take revenge on his adopted son... This cycle repeats over and over again, with no end in sight.
"No!" Tao Mu listened to Shen Chen's description and suddenly realized: "I was reborn in this life, but I never thought about revenge, let alone returning to the Shen family. Your inference is not valid."
Chen Chen's lips curled slightly, revealing a sneer: "Perhaps you have not subjectively thought of revenge on Shen Yu and the Shen family, but your existence itself has promoted the development of the plot. I said that the driving force behind the development of the plot lies in obsession. And the obsession comes from the unrequited desires of both you and Shen Yu. Therefore, even if you can let go of the Shen family, as long as Shen Yu can't let go, the plot will still develop step by step."
But after so many cycles, the original plot aura may have been distorted. I can't take care of too many details and can only remember the key points of the plot.
Tao Mu sneered, and a trace of mockery suddenly flashed in Chen Chen's eyes. He raised his eyebrows and said, "Isn't Shen Yu's obsession the Shen family? He wants to be recognized by the Shen family and wants to return to the Shen family. Why don't you fulfill his wish?"
Chen Chen was silent. After a while, he said, "But I also have obsessions."
It would be fine if Chen Chen couldn't remember so many things. But now that he has recalled the Shen family's irreparable destruction, how could he accept Shen Yu again without any reservations? Not to mention Shen Yu, an outsider who had nothing to do with the Shen family, even Tao Mu, his brother, was looked at with annoyance by Shen Chen.
Tao Mu understood. What Shen Chen cared about most in his life was the interests of the Shen family. But no matter what the ending of the story is, the Shen family will inevitably end up broken up. No wonder Shen Chen would be so repulsive to him and Shen Yu.
Chen Chen originally thought that after he told Tao Mu these things, Tao Mu would be as upset as he was. After all, this situation where one's life is dominated by an inexplicable plot halo is really sad and ridiculous. All their joys, sorrows, anger and all their efforts are ultimately just to push the plot forward and prepare for the so-called ending. When Chen Chen first recalled all this, he was so angry that he wanted to kill someone. It was only because of his strong self-control that he did not go crazy, but instead eliminated the Shen Group as soon as possible in an attempt to break the plot. Unexpectedly, after Tao Mu knew these things, except for the initial emotional fluctuations, he actually showed a bit of calmness after hearing them.
"Nothing strange." Noticing Chen Chen's emotions, Tao Mu smiled: "Your current emotional ups and downs are all what I experienced when I was reborn. Resentment, unwillingness, and wanting to make everyone who has let me down pay the price. My heart feels like it's burning in a raging fire every moment. But as time goes by, and you meet more people and more things, you will find that the world is actually very big. Those who don't like you, and those things that make you unhappy, are all in the past."
Shen Chen's heart moved, and he looked at Tao Mu with deep eyes.
Tao Mu laughed at himself: "Once, I really thought I was useless. That's why I was deserted by my relatives, my blood relatives didn't like me, and even my lover who had been with me for many years betrayed me. But after going through a lot of things, I realized that it takes fate to become a family. The Shen family and I are destined to have a shallow relationship."
Tao Mu originally had a little extravagant hope for the Shen family hidden deep in his heart, but after hearing Shen Chen's description of so many memories of his past lives, Tao Mu finally felt relieved. It turned out that he and the Shen family were not destined to be together. Otherwise, the Shen family would not have sided with Shen Yu every time in so many reincarnations. There was not a single exception.
Tao Mu knows his own character. Although Chen Chen didn't elaborate, Tao Mu knew how much he could compromise when he wanted to fight for something. So Tao Mu could imagine that if he still had an obsession with the Shen family and had the memory of rebirth, in order to win the recognition of the Shen family, Tao Mu would definitely disguise himself as Shen Yu and use his innocence and kindness to win the favor of the Shen family.
However, even so, in Shen Chen's description, at the beginning of each story, the Shen family never accepted him as they accepted Shen Yu. All the regrets came after Tao Mu's death. Just like Chen Chen said, maybe these regrets have nothing to do with one's true intentions, but are just a product to promote the development of the plot.
Tao Mu doesn't have as many memories of other lives as Chen Chen, but Tao Mu can judge from Chen Chen's words how many times Tao Mu, who fell into reincarnation again and again and wanted to win the recognition of his family, had experienced disappointments before he lost all his obsession with the Shen family, just like he did in this life.
Tao Mu felt it was strange when he was just reborn! He is obviously such a petty and vindictive person, who will not cry until he sees the coffin or the Yellow River, and will not give up until he sees the coffin. However, after his rebirth, he has no intention of returning to the Shen family or taking revenge on Shen Yu. At that time, Tao Mu thought that one death would eliminate all his obsessions. But now that I think about it, if it is an obsession that I cannot obtain, it will not be so easy to dissipate. Unless one has experienced too many disappointments, or even slowly seen the true nature of the Shen family after repeated rebirths, all obsessions will disappear subconsciously, and one will no longer think about revenge or anything else, and will only want to stay away from these people.
Hearing Tao Mu's words, Shen Chen frowned and subconsciously wanted to refute Tao Mu's inference. However, when the words came to his lips, Chen Chen suddenly froze.
"You also discovered it, right?" Tao Mu chuckled: "If the Shen family had no obsession with Shen Yu, even if I was reborn and forced Shen Yu to death, you would not avenge Shen Yu."
"You can say that I have a distorted outlook or that I am vicious by nature. I am the real son of the Shen family. Even if I target Shen Yu everywhere after returning to the Shen family and drive Shen Yu out of the Shen family, I just want him to experience how I have struggled to survive for so many years." Tao Mu looked at Shen Chen with a complicated expression and sneered: "He took my identity, robbed my family, and lived a life of luxury for eighteen years. I just want him to experience how I live. He, an adult, can't even endure ten years. How dare he have such an obsession and rebirth and revenge?"
"Bullshit!" Tao Mu couldn't help but swear: "How thick-skinned and how much support does Shen Yu have to dare to have such an obsession?"
"Do you still think your Shen family is miserable and innocent?" Tao Mu sneered repeatedly, but his heart was more sad than angry: "If your Shen family could put themselves in the right position for a lifetime, at least remember how your biological son struggled to survive when you were blindly pampering a fake, if you still had a little blood relationship with me, you would not become the knife that Shen Yu used to deal with me. I am also surprised that you chose to be a fake in every lifetime, either treating me badly when you were alive, or being my enemy after Shen Yu's death!"
Tao Mu thought that the idiot who fantasized about family warmth and hoped to be recognized by his family was ridiculous, and he really laughed out loud: "The Shen family has been ruined every life, and it is entirely your own fault."
Tao Mu's eyes were slightly red. There had never been a moment when Tao Mu felt that he saw through the Shen family so clearly.
So after so many lifetimes, Shen Yu and the Shen family are finally a family.
"It's really disgusting." Tao Mu's Adam's apple moved up and down, his heart was churning, but his face was calm: "You should go find Shen Yu."
"It's not me who is obsessed with the Shen family, but him." Tao Mu smiled, his dark and clear eyes full of gloating malice: "Although I don't know why, I am really glad now that you are also reborn. And in order to save the Shen family from the end of family destruction, destroy the Shen Group with your own hands."
"Guess what, after the Shen Group is gone and the Shen family can no longer be Shen Yu's support for a good life, will Shen Yu still care about the Shen family like he did in his previous lives?"
"I'll give you a suggestion." Tao Mu suddenly had an idea, and he curled his lips in a particularly vicious way: "How about you take the Shen family to find Shen Yu and let Shen Yu raise you? Doesn't he value family affection? Doesn't he like to snatch other people's parents, brothers and sisters, and even snatch them for several lifetimes without feeling tired? Then how about you let him take on the obligations of being a child?"
"Although you didn't say it, but in the previous reincarnations, Shen Yu should have enjoyed the rights of being the second son of the Shen family, right? He is twenty years old this year. He is an adult. Now that he has enjoyed his rights, he should also fulfill his obligations."
"I heard that Chairman Shen - no, he's not the chairman anymore. Shen, Shi, Yuan," Tao Mu smiled playfully, and read out the name of the person who was nominally his biological parent word by word: "He was so angry at you that he had a heart attack and was hospitalized? This is a good opportunity. Let your most precious adopted son of the Shen family go to the bedside to serve his father?"
"After all, you two have been so good to him from beginning to end." Tao Mu thought that even in this life, when Shen Yu was driven out of the Shen family by Madam Shen and Shen Yan, Shen Shiyuan and his son still treated Shen Yu with the face of a loving father and elder brother, without any change in their attitude. He smiled playfully and said, "Go find Shen Yu. If the Shen family loses the Shen Group and can never be Shen Yu's backer and support, and Shen Yu still misses the Shen family and still wants to gain your understanding and recognition, I will acknowledge that Shen Yu is the real member of the Shen family." Even if there is no blood relationship.
"I swear, if in this life, Shen Yu can remain the same after the Shen family's defeat. Even if there is a next life, or the next life, I will no longer have any obsession with the Shen family and Shen Yu. I, Tao Mu, will never be a member of the Shen family in my life. I will never have anything to do with the Shen family in my life."
But what if Shen Yu’s attitude changes!
Tao Mu and Shen Chen looked at each other, and no one spoke. If Shen Yu's attitude changed, it would prove that Shen Yu's obsession was not on the Shen family itself, but on the wealth and glory that the Shen family could provide him. Now that you have seen through this, does it matter whether you have obsessions or not?
It's good enough if we can live our life to the fullest. Who cares about what happens in the next life or the next life? Tao Mu has been reborn so many times, but didn't he only feel that he had figured out his life today?
At this moment, Tao Mu suddenly felt his body lighten, as if something that was shackled deep in his blood had broken free.
Chen Chen looked at Tao Mu's suddenly relaxed brows and eyes, and suddenly felt empty in his heart. It was as if some connection had been severed.
The two brothers looked at each other. He looked away tacitly. Maybe they are destined to be brothers only in this life!
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