Just as Li Xiaoheng expected, as Tao Mu and Shen Yu fell into a coma, all the chess pieces in the game had a long dream one after another. However, unlike the complete version that Tao Mu experienced, these people only dreamed about people and things related to the plot. However, even so, these fragmentary fragments are enough to make people so sick that they can't eat. Especially after seeing the contrast between the real Shen Er and the clumsy Shen Yu in his memory.
Fake is fake, even if Shen Yu imitates Shen Er in every way and tries his best to create the illusion of a phoenix. But Shen Yu is not Shen Er after all. He does not have Shen Er's innocent heart, nor does he have Shen Er's loyalty, care and consideration when interacting with others, nor does he have Shen Er's innate brilliance and compassion. He is just a pheasant who has occupied the magpie's nest, clinging to the stolen identity and status that do not belong to him, but treating all of this as his innate halo. Then he relies on these false halos to remain high and mighty, maintaining his equally false compassion and hypocrisy.
However, stripping away all of this, the real Shen Yu - no, he is not even Shen Yu. His existence only tarnishes the name of this beautiful place. Strip away the name, and he's nothing more than a pathetic and hateful clown. He thought that by putting on the crown and appearing on stage, he could become a king. Unfortunately, in the eyes of everyone who has recovered their memories, all this disguise is nothing more than a series of poor imitations. In the contrast between reality and illusion, it becomes even uglier.
However, such an ugly thing that makes people disdain to even look at it for a second longer could actually play with all of them. What did they do wrong again? In order to satisfy this person's greed and delusion, he fell into the cycle of reincarnation for life after life, and even died unpeacefully.
"It's amazing that someone like you has lived so many lives under the name of Shen Er." Yao Wenxiao, who had to send Shen Yu to the hospital because he suddenly fainted in the office, felt so disgusted that he felt like he had swallowed a caterpillar alive. His face turned green, and when he thought about how he had been bewitched by this kind of thing for so many lifetimes, he had an urge to bang his head against the wall and commit suicide.
"How disgusting!" Yao Wenxiao stared at Shen Yu, who had just woken up on the hospital bed, with disgust on his face: "How can there be someone as disgusting as you in this world?"
Yao Wenxiao's gaze, as if he was looking at a puddle of mud, instantly irritated Shen Yu. Shen Yu, who was already emotionally unstable, immediately shouted loudly: "Don't look at me like that. Don't look at me like that. I am Shen Yu, I am Shen Yu! I am your favorite Shen Yu! How can you do this to me!"
The hoarse screams attracted the doctors and nurses who were making rounds. The medical staff who didn't know the truth looked at Yao Wenxiao with disapproval. Walk to the bedside and comfort the patient. However, Shen Yu struggled so violently that he even accidentally scratched the nurse. The medical staff had no choice but to try their best to control the patient and calm him down.
Yao Wenxiao sneered and took two steps back, looking at Shen Yu's crazy appearance coldly. I don’t know if this person is pretending or is really that crazy.
"What's going on?"
Yao Wenxiao turned around and saw Shen Chen and the Shen family's mother and daughter appear at the door of the ward. He immediately sneered, "Can't you see it yourself? You are just acting crazy and stupid!"
Yao Wenxiao paused, still feeling unsatisfied. I couldn't help but sneer, "But your Shen family is really interesting. You actually treat such a filthy thing as a treasure, holding it in your hands for so many generations, but you shut the real phoenix out."
"What qualifications do you have to criticize the Shen family? Aren't you just as blind as me? You mistook a fake for your true love and loved it for so many lifetimes?" Shen Yan glared at Yao Wenxiao fiercely and interrupted him.
Mrs. Shen rushed into the ward without caring about anything, and slapped Shen Yu, who was pinned to the bed by the medical staff, twice without saying a word: "You shameless bastard. How dare you plot against our Shen family like this? How did our Shen family provoke you, you fake cuckoo who has taken over the magpie's nest, you scum in the stinking ditch, give my son back to me!"
Seeing this, Shen Yan also rushed forward with anger on her face.
Like Yao Wenxiao, the mother and daughter of the Shen family felt disgusted from the bottom of their hearts when they thought that they had been used by Shen Yu for so many lifetimes.
Shen Yu was controlled by medical staff and had no ability to resist at all. Looking at everyone's disgusted looks, and enduring the slaps on the face and body from Madam Shen and Shen Yan, the memory of being treated like a worn-out shoe was instantly brought back to him. Shen Yu, who was already emotionally unstable, collapsed immediately. The sharp voice defended: "It's not my fault. Don't you hate Shen Er too? Shen Yan, don't forget that you were the one who replaced Shen Er and me. You didn't want Shen Er to return to the Shen family. You said you wanted me to be your brother! You said it! And mom, you said you hated Shen Er for letting the wolf into the house and regretted giving birth to a son like him. These words are all said by you."
The medical staff standing nearby were confused, but they could not just watch their patients being beaten on the hospital beds. They could only rush forward and try to stop the crazy mother and daughter of the Shen family. Shen Yan was so angry that she raised her hand to slap the nurse. He was stopped by Chen Chen.
"I have some family matters to deal with. I hope everyone can give us some time."
Seeing the medical staff hesitated to speak, Chen Chen smiled and said, "Don't worry. My mother and sister were just excited for a moment and won't do anything again."
Perhaps it was because Chen Chen gave people an impression of being too reliable, or perhaps it was because they were worried that it would be difficult for a judge to judge family affairs, the medical staff looked at each other and finally left.
Send the medical staff away. He also persuaded Shen Yan and Madam Shen, who were in an unstable mood and wanted to continue hitting people. Shen Chen walked straight to the bedside and looked down at Shen Yu.
Shen Yu's eyes flashed with strong hope: "Brother! Brother! Brother, you like me, right? I am your younger brother, I am good and obedient. Unlike that Shen Er, he actually let the wolf into the house and killed you and dad, and caused the Shen family to be destroyed--"
"The person who killed me and my father was Zhuo Yan. Not Xiao Yu." Shen Chen interrupted Shen Yu coldly: "Also, you are not Shen Yu. From the beginning to the end, you are not a child of the Shen family. You have your biological parents, and your biological father's surname is Tan. I have moved your household registration out of the Shen family. From now on, you are Tan Yu."
"Greed?" Yao Wenxiao smiled playfully: "It really lives up to its name."
“No! No! No!” Shen Yu, no, it should be Tan Yu, shook his head frantically and screamed hysterically: “You can’t do this. I am Shen Yu, I am Shen Yu. I am your favorite Shen Yu. You can’t do this to me.”
Chen Chen still looked down at Tan Yu. He had a blank expression on his face, but a hint of pity flashed through his usually cold eyes: "You are so pitiful!"
Yao Wenxiao also shook his head and said, "People like you will never understand. We like Shen Er, or rather, the reason why Shen Er is popular is not because of this name. It depends on who is called this name. Shen Er in the past, Tao Mu today, only people with excellent essence can attract everyone's attention. People admire the strong, like moths to a flame, and people always yearn for bright, dazzling and warm things. But this truth, you, a scum who has been complacent in living under the shadow of others for several reincarnations, will never understand."
When Yao Wenxiao said this, he looked at Tan Yu with an increasingly disgusted expression: "Fakes are fakes. Even high-quality imitations cannot compare to the originals. What's more, you are not even a high-quality imitation, but just the most shoddy imitation. Naturally, you will be discarded like a worn-out shoe."
"After all, the essence of fakes is defective products." Yao Wenxiao made the final decision and walked slowly to the bedside. He still maintained a condescending attitude, looking at Tan Yu, but also as if he was looking at others through Tan Yu. He shook his head and said, "How pitiful! When you were Tao Mu, you couldn't compare to Shen Er. When you tried your best to become Shen Yu, you couldn't compare to Tao Mu again. What's the point of you messing around for several lifetimes?"
"What do you know?" After being completely exposed and stripped of his disguise, Tan Yu's true colors were revealed. He shouted at Yao Wenxiao with a ferocious face, "How can you, who have been born with a silver spoon in your mouth and have been pampered and superior all your life, understand? No one will like a poor, fatherless and motherless orphan. So no one will like Tao Mu. No matter how hard I try, your eyes are still glued to Shen Er! You never look at me more! It is because there are too many people like you that I have to try my best to become Shen Yu! I just want everyone to like me, is there anything wrong with that? God is unfair! Why can Shen Yu be liked by everyone just because he was born well?"
"But the truth is not like that." A voice came from the door of the ward. Everyone looked in the direction of the voice and found that Zhuo Yan and Yan Sheng, who was filming in Country M, entered the ward one after another.
It was Yan Sheng who spoke just now: "Even if he is an orphan, Tao Mu can still find a way to work hard and get a family that loves him. Even if you become Shen Yu, you will only end up being deserted by your friends and relatives and abandoned like a worn-out shoe."
"You want to replace Shen Er, but you have to live in his shadow for all eternity. Even if you use his name to steal his life, you can't become him." Yan Sheng said this with a sigh: "A person can never become another person. You can only work hard to be the best version of yourself."
Unfortunately, Tan Yu will never understand this truth.
"No! Impossible! I don't believe it! I don't believe it! You are all lying to me! How could Tao Mu be likable? No! No! I am not wrong! I won't be wrong! It must be that this world is wrong! Obviously everyone should like Shen Yu! You should all hate Tao Mu! You should target Tao Mu by any means necessary! Trample him under your feet! Make him unable to turn over for the rest of his life! He is only fit to be humbled to the dust, watching Shen Yu high and mighty! You are wrong! It's all your fault! How can you think Tao Mu is better than Shen Yu? How could Tao Mu be better than Shen Yu?"
If Yao Wenxiao's words were just sarcastic, Yan Sheng's words directly shattered Tan Yu's delusion and forced him to face up to his own incompetence and failure. However, Tan Yu, who wanted to replace Shen Er even at the cost of his life, could not tolerate such a reality.
The tightly stretched thread in my mind finally broke. Tan Yu seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw, and his eyes suddenly burst into two terrifying rays of light, incredibly bright.
"Yes! You are right! Shen Yu is not as good as Tao Mu! Tao Mu is the best! I am Tao Mu! I am the real Tao Mu! Shen Yu is not as good as Tao Mu! Tao Mu is the best! But the real Tao Mu is me! I am Tao Mu! I am Tao Mu! Hahahaha..."
Tan Yu's laughter suddenly stopped, and he struggled hard on the hospital bed: "That's right. I am Tao Mu. I want to take back everything that belongs to me. Mine, mine, all mine..."
In a panic, Tan Yu suddenly touched the fruit knife on the bedside table. He held the knife, the sharp tip against his heart, and muttered to himself with a crazy expression: "This life is wrong. Tao Mu is the most powerful. I want to change everything back-"
Zhuo Yan, who had been silent since entering the ward but had been carefully observing Tan Yu's condition, was the first to react. He rushed forward, snatched the fruit knife from Tan Yu's hand, and slapped Tan Yu in the face: "Whether you are really crazy or just pretending to be crazy, it's not that easy to die."
"That's right, this kind of person should live a long life!" Li Xiaoheng, who had just gotten off the plane, broke out in a cold sweat and sneered, "We need to keep him awake. Let him see with his own eyes how our Mr. Tao lived a smooth life and died of old age."
As he spoke, a group of medical staff suddenly appeared from behind Li Xiaoheng. This group of people rushed into the ward pushing a mobile bed and various equipment. Regardless of Tan Yu's struggles and screams, they put a straitjacket on him, stuffed a gag in his mouth, and injected him with a sedative to prevent him from making too much noise. Convenient to transfer later.
Li Xiaoheng nodded slightly at the people in the ward: "Since this person is already crazy and has serious suicidal tendencies, I will take him over out of humanitarianism. Don't worry, I will put him in the best sanatorium and hire the best medical staff for him. Also, doesn't he like to be called Shen Yu?"
Li Xiaoheng looked at Chen Chen and said, "Change his name. I want him to live a long and healthy life with the name Shen Yu. This will also satisfy his wish of eternal life."
The appearance of Li Xiaoheng and Tao Mu suddenly made the atmosphere in the ward stagnate. Everyone looked at Tao Mu with complicated eyes. Mrs. Shen rushed over with excitement: "My Xiaoyu——"
"Mrs. Shen!" Tao Mu pushed Mrs. Shen away coldly: "Shen Er is dead."
This sentence seemed like a spell that froze Madam Shen in place, and she suddenly broke down and cried out. Shen Yan stepped forward to support Mrs. Shen and glared at Tao Mu: "How can you treat your mother like this? Don't you forget——"
"Let me remind you!" Tao Mu interrupted Shen Yan's accusation, expressionless and calm, even a little cold, and said: "Don't forget how Shen Er died in every life."
Tao Mu's expression was indifferent: "I am not Shen Er. I have no tolerance for the Shen family. What's more, everyone here, no matter from which life, can be called an enemy of me, Tao."
Tao Mu's eyes were dark and deep, and he reminded him bluntly: "Before you speak, consider the strength of Feixun.com and Xiaoheng Capital."
"You——" Chen Yan was speechless after being confronted by Tao Mu. However, looking at Tao Mu's attitude at this moment, Shen Yan finally realized clearly that the handsome and indifferent man in front of her was really not Shen Er.
Just as Tao Mu said, the constant reincarnation has completely exhausted Shen Er's last bit of hope for the Shen family. Today, Tao Mu not only has no tolerance for the Shen family, he can even attack them without hesitation. The only difference is whether Tao Mu wants to do it or not.
All the members of the Shen family, who are the most important to Shen Er, are like this. Not to mention other people with lesser relationship. Yao Wenxiao's body was stiff. He looked at Tao Mu with nostalgia - or to be more precise, at the last look at Shen Er in his memory, and left silently.
Tao Mu's idea is right. No matter what we have been like in the past, we have existed as enemies throughout so many reincarnations. What's more, even if the first life is counted, Yao Wenxiao couldn't resist the temptation and played the role of being sorry for Shen Er. The brotherhood between the two had long been severed. Today, Tao Mu is lucky to be willing to show mercy and forget about the past. Yao Wenxiao didn't dare to ask for anything else. After all, with the current strength of the Yao family, they have to try their best just to be content with a small fortune. I really don’t dare to go up against behemoths like Feixun.com or the Li family.
Another person who has the same idea is Zhuo Yan. His situation is rather special. Even before he broke the cycle of reincarnation and recovered his memory, Zhuo Yan often dreamed of being with Tao Mu - or more precisely, fragments of being with Shen Er. But at that time Tao Mu was already with Li Xiaoheng. Zhuo Yan thought that he could not compare with Li Xiaoheng, so he did not dare to let such charming emotions grow. What's more, compared to romance, the most important thing in Zhuo Yan's mind is always revenge on the Shen family.
Now that he remembered his past life, Zhuo Yan dared not have any illusions about Tao Mu anymore. Not only that, Zhuo Yan was even worried that Tao Mu would not be able to swallow this anger and would join forces with the Li family to retaliate against him. Fortunately, Tao Mu really didn't have this intention. Zhuo Yan secretly rejoiced and left silently.
Yan Sheng, the only one who felt that he was innocent, sighed and walked to Tao Mu: "I hope we can have a chance to work together again."
Compared to Yao Wenxiao and Zhuo Yan's guilty conscience and timidity, Emperor Yan, who only targeted Tao Mu in business in every life, was more calm. Although the practices in previous lives were a bit unkind. But Yan Sheng never crossed that line. So he didn't feel that he had done anything to let Tao Mu down. After all, Actor Yan is essentially a person who admires the strong. There are many drama tyrants in the entertainment industry, and even Yan Sheng's behavior against Tao Mu is far from being considered a drama tyrant. After all, he had never relied on his identity and status to arbitrarily tamper with Tao Mu's script, nor had he ever bullied Tao Mu in the crew. I just tried to suppress my acting when I was acting together. If Tao Mu really wanted to hold a grudge against him for even this, Yan Sheng would have no other options.
In the final analysis, because Yan Sheng has the support of the Yan family, although he is quite wary of the Li family and does not want to offend them easily, he does not avoid them to the extent of being afraid of them. What's more, he trusted Tao Mu and felt that no matter how many reincarnations he had, as long as he was still the Shen Er he knew in essence, he would not be jealous of him for such a small matter. Besides, if we really want to be serious, the reason why Yan Sheng was dragged into this reincarnation game was because he was implicated by Shen Er.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have been targeted by that psychopath Tan Yu!
Yan Sheng felt that he was forced to sleep with a man like Tan Yu for so many lifetimes, and yet he had to treat him like a treasure. Tao Mu didn't get angry at him for such a disgusting experience, so Tao Mu shouldn't be angry with him, right?
Sure enough, Tao Mu looked at Yan Sheng's outstretched right hand and just smiled slightly, then shook it: "I also look forward to continuing to cooperate with Teacher Yan."
The two smiled at each other, and inexplicably felt a sense of mutual sympathy.
After Yan Sheng left, only three members of the Shen family were left in the ward, along with Tan Yu, who was carried by medical staff onto a mobile bed for transfer.
Chen Chen looked at Tao Mu and moved his lips. In the end, he didn't speak to Tao Mu. Instead, he looked at Li Xiaoheng and discussed, "He is not Shen Yu, nor is he a child of our Shen family. I have removed him from the Shen family's household registration. His biological father's surname is Tan——"
"Then move it back." Li Xiaoheng said without question: "After all, it is a wish that others would sacrifice their lives to fulfill. At least let people live a hundred years and enjoy it. Besides, isn't this also the wish of some people in your Shen family? It just happens..."
Li Xiaoheng said this, glanced at Madam Shen and Shen Yan, and said lightly: "It can also remind you Shen family members what it is to want to be pampered for life."
These words left everyone in the Shen family speechless. Mrs. Shen and her daughter glared at Li Xiaoheng. However, when his eyes met Li Xiaoheng's calm eyes, he looked away timidly.
After all, he is a greedy, selfish, cowardly and incompetent person. They only dare to hurt those who truly care about them. Once they meet someone who doesn't care about them or is a tough guy with bad intentions, they will tremble and stick their heads in the mud, exposing their ugly butts and let others slaughter them. Then they inflict even more harm on the people who truly care about them.
Li Xiaoheng really hates the mother and daughter of the Shen family. Compared to Tan Yu, a complete villain, the most hateful person is the one who takes advantage of Shen Er's feelings to hurt Shen Er unscrupulously and uses family affection as a knife.
Just because of a thin layer of blood relationship, why did he dare to hurt the person he held in his hands and was afraid of dropping? When he thought of how Tao Mu had been stabbed all over by these so-called family members in a place where he couldn't see, and how he had to endure the pain and keep coming up to them to seek abuse, Li Xiaoheng wished he could get rid of all these people!
"Forget it!" Tao Mu held Li Xiaoheng's hand and squeezed it: "What happened in the past is in the past. No one should mention it again. It's not easy to solve those troubles. Let's just concentrate on our own lives."
Tao Mu's words were not only meant for Li Xiaoheng, but also meant to warn Chen Chen.
Chen Chen knew it well, and swallowed back all the words he wanted to say. Then he said, "Whether you pursue him or not, Zhuo Yan killed me and my parents in his first life, and destroyed the Shen family. In this life, he took away the Shen Group. I will not let him go."
"That's your own grudge!" Tao Mu said calmly, "Just don't come looking for me, and we'll keep our distance."
This sentence again!
Chen Chen sighed inwardly. If he had taken the initiative to say this to Tao Mu before, he would have been more cautious than reminding him. Now, all that was left in Chen Chen's heart was sighing.
When Tao Mu was still Shen Er, the Shen family disliked him in every way, and drove him out of the house several times, avoiding him as much as possible. Now Tao Mu has really forgotten the Shen family.
After several generations of kinship, we eventually become strangers.
Shen Chen glanced at Madam Shen and Shen Yan. I thought that this was the Shen family’s wish for several lifetimes, and now it has finally been fulfilled. But my mother and sister were not happy.
Just like Tan Yu who also achieved his wish. I am afraid I will regret it even more for the rest of my life.
An old saying goes that the past life cannot be returned to, and the next life cannot be pursued. But in Shen Chen's opinion, Tao Mu's fate with the Shen family is that if he doesn't pursue it in the previous life, it will be difficult to return in the next life.
With a long sigh, Chen Chen took the initiative to stretch out his right hand, and finally said what he had buried in his heart for several lifetimes in front of Tao Mu: "I hope you can live a peaceful and happy life and die of old age."
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