Du Yuanzhe's bedroom on the second floor

He stood in front of the French window, looking at the dark night outside, wondering why Xia Ningmi was angry with him.

After being knocked down by Xia Ningmi, no matter how stupid Du Yuanzhe was, he knew that it was he who made Xia Ningmi angry.

But he had only been home for an hour and hadn't said a word, so how could he have offended Xia Ningmi?

Du Yuanzhe couldn't figure it out and could only recall the moment he entered the house.

At first, Xia Ningmi was still normal and would take the initiative to talk to him. But when he went to cook, Xia Ningmi was already angry.

So what happened in between?

Suddenly, he thought of the pile of gifts on the sofa in the living room.

Du Yuanzhe's expression turned strange. Was she angry that he didn't buy her a gift?

How is this possible?

That's Xia Ningmi, why would she care about these trivial matters?

But apart from this, he really couldn't think of why Xia Ningmi was angry.

Three minutes later, Xia Ning looked for the bedroom door.

Du Yuanzhe took a deep breath and knocked on the door.

Boom boom boom——

The next second, Xia Ningmi opened the door, still damp from the shower, and looked at him expressionlessly.

Du Yuanzhe pursed his lips and asked, "You were angry with me just now, was it because I didn't buy you a gift?"

Xia Ningmi was stunned, looked away, said "no" and was about to close the door.

"etc!"

Du Yuanzhe held the door open with his hand: "Then tell me why you are angry, okay?"

Xia Ning looked at him: "Why do you have to know?"

"I made you angry, you have to know why, so I won't do it again in the future."

"What if you did nothing wrong?"

Du Yuanzhe said: "Making someone angry and doing something wrong are not necessarily causally related. Everyone has different taboos. Since we live together, we should understand and tolerate each other."

Xia Ning looked at him quietly: "Du Yuanzhe, you are such a good person."

Having the right values, a kind heart, and even more rare is being able to understand and care for others.

Du Yuanzhe laughed and said, "On the Internet, this is not a good thing to say."

【Why are you suddenly giving out the nice guy card】

Xia Ning wanted to close the door again: "I want to rest."

Du Yuanzhe insisted: "You haven't answered my question yet."

Xia Ning said: "I don't want to answer."

Du Yuanzhe frowned: "If you don't tell me, you will be the only one who is angry and upset. If you tell me, even if I can't do anything, you will feel much better."

Xia Ningmi still didn't answer.

Du Yuanzhe was a little angry: "Why are you so awkward? If you speak it out, it will be solved. Why......"

“Talking it out won’t solve it.”

Xia Ningmi interrupted.

Du Yuanzhe was stunned.

Xia Ningmi's voice was vague: "When I was three years old, after I went to kindergarten, I first learned that parents would celebrate their children's birthdays with them. I told my mother that I also wanted them to celebrate my birthday with me, and she smiled and agreed, but until now she still can't remember when my birthday is."

"When I was five, I fell down the stairs and was in so much pain. I wanted my mom to hold me, and I told her, but she was busy trying on new clothes and asked the nanny to pick me up. She didn't even ask if I was in pain."

"When I was sixteen, Zhou Chenlang showed up and Zhou Heng's affair was discovered. They divorced soon after. My mother sent me to the old house. I begged her not to abandon me. I could take care of myself and I could take care of her. I told her everything that was in my heart, but she still left without looking back."

Xia Ningmi came back to her senses from her memories and her eyes fell on Du Yuanzhe again: "It will only add to the pain. It's useless to speak out."

Du Yuanzhe looked at her and pursed his lips: "You..."

Xia Ningmi said calmly: "I'm telling you all this now, what else can you do except sympathize with me? It's still useless."

She closed the door again, and this time Du Yuanzhe did not stop her.

Xia Ningmi leaned against the door and closed her eyes.

Du Yuanzhe stood outside the door.

He had always thought that Xia Ningmi was naturally indifferent and had lacked curiosity about other things since childhood, but it turned out not to be the case.

When she was a child, Xia Ningmi, like other children, longed for the love of her parents, but she was more unfortunate than other children. She did not feel any love from her parents.

She still longs for it now.

She was indifferent to Zhou Heng's address, but she always called Xia Yiyao "Mom".

Her desire has always been betrayed. It’s not that she hasn’t tried to express it, but she failed, so she doesn’t want to express it anymore.

Du Yuanzhe looked at the door and said loudly, "Xia Ningmi, Xia Yiyao is just a passer-by in your life. She is just a very short journey. You still have a very long journey to go and you will meet many people. One day, you will meet someone who will help you solve your problems as long as you tell him, and all your desires will be responded to."

The next moment, the door was opened again.

Xia Ning stared at him: "Are you a psychiatrist?"

"What?"

"Are you always so kindhearted whenever you meet someone who has had a bad experience, and won't stop until you cure them?"

Du Yuanzhe shook his head: "How could that be? I don't even know him."

"What if we know each other?"

Du Yuanzhe groaned: "If it's someone I know, I would definitely help if I can."

Xia Ningmi said calmly: "Du Yuanzhe, I don't need you to treat me."

"Why?"

"What I want is something special, something that belongs to me alone."

Xia Ningmi closed the door again.

Du Yuanzhe was shocked. He stood there for a while and then returned to his room.

Three o'clock in the morning

He tossed and turned in bed for a long time but still couldn't fall asleep, so he took out his cell phone, opened the address book and made a call.

It beeped for nearly a minute, and when I was about to hang up, the call was connected.

"Hello, who is this?"

The voice over there was full of weariness.

Du Yuanzhe said: "Xiaopang, it's me."

Xiao Pang's mind was still confused, and he asked subconsciously: "Who are you?"

"I'm your brother Zhe."

Xiaopang was still confused: "Brother Zhe? Who is Brother Zhe? I don't know this person."

beep--

Du Yuanzhe's eyes widened. Is he dead now?

Good boy, you even dared to hang up the boss's phone, are you trying to rebel... Never mind, I'm a magnanimous man and will spare him for now.

Du Yuanzhe gave up the idea of ​​fighting back and continued to harass the next person.

beep--

"Hello~"

The broker is reliable and he takes the call quickly.

"Brother Liu, it's me."

Liu Xu was much more sober than Xiao Pang and said, "I know it's you. You're calling at this time. Did something happen?"

Liu Xu was on the speaker and browsing Weibo.

"Nothing, I just wanted to talk to you."

Liu Xu paused, looked at the clock on his phone, and said with suppressed anger: "Do you know what time it is now?"

Who would call someone at three in the morning to wake them up and chat?

Are you sick?

Du Yuanzhe said: "It's only three o'clock, it's still early."

Still early?

Liu Xu sneered and said in a sinister tone, "It's just that there are still a few hours until dawn. It's really early."

The word “早” is deliberately emphasized.

Du Yuanzhe ignored his tone and said happily: "Brother Liu also thinks it's still early, so let's chat for a while."

Liu Xu's eyebrows were twitching, and he was too lazy to argue with him: "Just say whatever you want to say."

"Just chatting."

"If you don't tell me, I'm dead."

"Wait a minute," Du Yuanzhe coughed twice, licked his dry lips, and said, "It's nothing, really. I have a friend."

"And then?"

"My friend told me that a girl told him that she hoped he would be special to her and that this specialness must belong to her alone. My friend asked me what the girl meant."

Du Yuanzhe pretended to be relaxed and said, "My friend is really something. How can I, who has never been in love, understand the relationship? I thought Brother Liu must know something since he is experienced and knowledgeable, so I asked for him."

After listening to this, Liu Xu said faintly: "Don't you already have the answer?"

Du Yuanzhe was stunned: "What?"

Liu Xu: "You already know that this is related to feelings, what else do you want an answer for?"

Du Yuanzhe was silent.

Liu Xu sighed: "Tell me, who is that girl?"

How unlucky he was! Not only was he called up in the middle of the night to chat, but he also learned that his artist might be in a relationship.

"We already said we were just friends, how would I know who the girl was? It's getting late, Brother Liu, go to bed early. Staying up late all the time is not good for your health."

Then he hung up the phone.

Liu Xu opened his mouth wide as he listened to the beeping sound on the phone, and was so angry that his lungs were about to explode.

"You woke me up in the middle of the night and now you're telling me that staying up late is bad???!!!"

"If I answer your call in the middle of the night again, I'll be a dog!"

The other side

Du Yuanzhe couldn't sleep at all.

His mind was a mess now. He felt that the conversation in front of Xia Ningmi's door just now was all his imagination, so it was so unreal.

How could Xia Ningmi like him?

It is said that one of the three biggest illusions in life is that she likes me. I must have had an illusion.

Definitely!

Du Yuanzhe told himself this over and over again.

At seven in the morning, it was daybreak

Du Yuanzhe still couldn't fall asleep. With dark circles under his eyes, he went into the bathroom to wash up, and then walked out of the room.

Xia Ningmi was having breakfast, still a glass of milk and two slices of toast, and she didn't mind that it was tasteless.

Du Yuanzhe paused and said calmly, "I'm going to make breakfast. Do you want to fry some eggs?"

Xia Ningmi nodded: "Okay."

Du Yuanzhe quickly fried two eggs, one for him and one for Xia Ningmi.

"Don't you find it hard to swallow toast when you always eat it dry?"

Xia Ningmi said calmly: "I don't eat it all the time."

Du Yuanzhe thought about it carefully. It seemed that he had only seen it twice. The other times when he woke up, Xia Ningmi was gone. He didn't know what she had eaten. Subconsciously, he thought that Xia Ningmi would eat this for breakfast.

Du Yuanzhe pursed his lips and decided to change the subject: "When will the company's new variety show start recording? If it's too late, I might have already joined the crew to film a new drama."

Xia Ningmi said, "For such trivial matters, ask your agent."

Du Yuanzhe: "......"

While Du Yuanzhe was racking his brains to think of a new topic, Xia Ningmi had already finished breakfast, went back to her room, changed into a professional suit, and left.

Du Yuanzhe watched her leave and smiled absurdly: "I said it was an illusion. How could anyone be so impatient to talk to someone they like?"

It’s all Liu Xu’s fault. He had to think nonsense all night long!

Du Yuanzhe finished his breakfast in two or three bites and went back to his room to catch up on his sleep.

In the car

The co-pilot Cheng Yu was reporting today's itinerary to Xia Ning.

Xia Ning looked out the window, her eyes flickering as she recalled Du Yuanzhe's unnatural way of finding topics to talk about this morning.

Even she herself was not sure what she was thinking, so there was no need to mislead him.

"President?"

Xia Ningmi came back to her senses and ordered, "Go ask Starfish Video when the new variety show will be filmed, and then tell Liu Xu."

"yes."

8:00 AM

Du Yuanzhe had just fallen asleep when he was woken up by the ringing of the phone.

Xiao Pang asked: "Brother Zhe, did you call me last night?"

Du Yuanzhe looked annoyed as if he had been woken up: "It's already been solved, don't disturb me, I want to sleep."

After saying that, he hung up the phone.

......

Du Yuanzhe slept until noon. When he came out and saw the gifts in the living room, he remembered that he had to go back to the Du family today. He went home to eat, took a quick shower in his room, and then drove back to the old house.

Chen Rongshan was really happy to see the gift, and kept saying, "My son is so filial, your mother's love for you is not in vain."

Even Du Yongliang's expression softened when he received the fishing rod given by Du Yuanzhe, and anyone could see his satisfaction.

Du Yuanzhe didn't expect that sending a gift could make them so happy. He suddenly realized that for Chen Rongshan and her husband, what made them happy was not receiving the gifts but that their son was still thinking about them when he was away from home.

He inexplicably thought of Xia Ningmi. She never told him why she was angry. Maybe it was really because he didn't buy her a gift.

Du Yuanzhe shook his head vigorously to stop himself from being sentimental.

Chen Rongshan asked someone to put away the gift Du Yuanzhe had sent, and said, "Yuanzhe, the New Year is only a week away, you should stay at home."

Du Yuanzhe could live anywhere, and it would be more convenient to have someone cook for him at the Du family, but he still refused: "Mom, I have some work to do at the company these days, and I'll come back to live after I finish it."

Chen Rongshan said disappointedly: "Okay then."

After my younger son became ambitious, he became visibly busy.

"Yuanzhe, haven't you met up with your friends for a long time?"

The original owner also had his own small circle, consisting of a group of rich second-generations who did not have to inherit the family business and had nothing to do all day except eating, drinking and having fun.

In fact, after the original owner entered the entertainment industry, she rarely got together with them, because they also had prejudices against the entertainment industry and thought that female stars were just playthings for the rich. The original owner couldn't get used to it and gradually became estranged from them.

After Du Yuanzhe traveled through time, they haven't gathered together even once.

Du Yuanzhe said: "I can't play with them."

Chen Rongshan was surprised: "I met the Lu family kid before, and he mentioned you and said he would call you someday."

Du Yuanzhe: "He just asked casually. We haven't been in touch for a long time."

Chen Rongshan sighed: "Yuanzhe, you become a star, but you can't maintain your connections in the industry. Are you planning to stay in the entertainment industry in the future?"

Du Yuanzhe said, "Mom, most people in our circle only care about their own interests. There are not many people who really want to be friends with each other. As long as the Du family is still here, even if I don't see them often, if I need their help, they will still help. We are just trying to save face."

Chen Rongshan chuckled and tapped his forehead: "You really understand."

Du Yuanzhe smiled and said, "It's all because of my mother's good teaching."

Because he has to face Chen Rongshan, a doting son-loving woman, all the time, Du Yuanzhe's words have become much sweeter, and he can say nice things more and more easily.

Chen Rongshan said proudly: "That's right. In the circle of Yancheng wives, everyone knows that I am the best at educating my son."

Men tend to become bad once they have money, and there are countless second-generation rich people who enjoy themselves in the circle.

The two brothers of the Du family are already a rare breath of fresh air.

Du Yongliang looked at her smug look and said coldly, "Do you believe people's polite words? If your two sons were really educated by you, they would probably be more stupid than the other now."

Chen Rongshan's smug smile disappeared immediately, and she looked at Du Yongliang unkindly: "Do you mean I'm stupid?"

Du Yongliang said: "If you were smart, you wouldn't have quarreled with others in the mall, and you wouldn't have been speechless by a young man."

Du Yuanzhe was stunned. He didn't expect the topic would turn to Xia Ningmi.

Chen Rongshan sneered: "You are smart, why don't you go find the Xia family girl and get your place back?"

Du Yongliang frowned: "Do you think this is a fight? Why are you looking for trouble? It's all in the past. If I go find her, wouldn't it make us Du family members look petty?"

"If you can't get back at me, don't blame me. Xia Ningmi is very strong, and you may not be able to subdue her even if you meet her."

"What a joke," Du Yongliang said in disbelief, "When I took over the Du family, she was still in her mother's womb. How could I not be able to control her?"

"Dad, that's not necessarily true."

Du Yuanwen walked in from outside while talking.

Du Yongliang said in dissatisfaction: "Yuan Wen, what nonsense are you talking about!"

Du Yuanwen sat down and peeled a banana to eat. He said, "A year ago, I worked with Xia Ningmi. She was very careful in her work and no one could find any flaws. She was very strong at the negotiation table. I had to give in two points before I could get the contract."

"I heard that it's the same when she works with Jiang Chelin. She can always guess your bottom line and never give in. Even Jiang Chelin has a headache when facing her."

Du Yuanzhe didn't expect Xia Ningmi to have such brilliant achievements. No wonder she has such a great reputation in the business world.

Du Yongliang's expression became serious: "Why haven't I heard you say this before?"

Du Yuanwen smiled and said, "No matter how powerful Xia Ningmi is, I am the one who will deal with her. You are already semi-retired, how can I bother you with these things?"

Chen Rongshan became proud again and said, "I said that the girl from the Xia family is too powerful, it's definitely not that I'm weak."

Du Yongliang was speechless: "She's amazing, why are you so proud? She's not your daughter-in-law."

Du Yuanzhe looked a little unnatural.

Chen Rongshan waved her hands repeatedly and resisted: "I dare not want a daughter-in-law like this. I want to see which family will marry her."

Du Yuanwen said, "Xia Ningmi is too cold. I have met her many times in various occasions, and I have never seen any other expression on her face. Jiang Chelin is more humane than her."

Du Yongliang pondered and said, "That girl has had a hard life. You all know what happened to her mother. Old Master Xia passed away early. The Xia family is what it is today thanks to her. If she is not strong, how can she control the board of directors?"

Du Yuanwen was also very impressed by this. With Du Yongliang behind the scenes, it took him four or five years to completely take over the Du Group, but he did not dare to say that he had completely controlled the Du Group.

Xia Ningmi took full control of the Xia family in a short time after the death of Mr. Xia, and also developed Qianying Entertainment into one of the two giants in the entertainment industry.

Even though many people in the circle look down on celebrities, it is generally recognized that the entertainment industry is particularly profitable. The fact that Xia Ningmi was able to take charge of Qianying Entertainment and carve out a large empire in the entertainment industry is the most powerful proof of her strong ability.

Du Yuanzhe listened quietly to their discussion about Xia Ningmi. After hearing about things he didn't know, he felt that he understood Xia Ningmi a little better.

He suddenly felt an urge to tell her what the Du family had said.

But as soon as he opened WeChat, Du Yuanzhe backed off again, sighed and put his phone away again.

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