Chapter 357: Grasping the Starlight and Seeing the Moon
Edwin was very concerned about that past. He felt that it was the ugliest time in his life, and that time was filled with the looks he hated the most.
He changed cities and unexpectedly met Richard. This accident made his hatred burst out, nourished by his self-torture, and gradually magnified.
Especially in the few times he had contact with Richard at the company, he was the one who made mistakes and Richard offered help without hesitation.
Edwin couldn't stand it and his spirit was on the verge of collapse several times.
At a party, he met the youngest daughter of Dempsey, one of the founders of D&L, and they quickly fell in love. He planned to use this advantage to bring down Richard.
Then, he succeeded.
After Edwin finished speaking, he calmed down and returned to his elegant and gentlemanly side. With a proper smile on his face, he asked Richard, "How is it? Is it a great pleasure?"
Richard finished the cake, scraped the cream on the plate with a fork and put it into his mouth, smiling: "Well, congratulations, you got what you wanted?"
“No, no, no,” Edwin stretched out his right index finger and shook it at him. “Not enough, not enough yet. I’m just here to kindly remind you that after this incident, you can forget about entering the gaming industry again.”
Richard nodded: "I know."
"Oh, and there's more," Edwin laughed, "Don't even think about getting any other job. I'll get someone to keep an eye on you. If you find any job, I'll ruin it. You won't even have a place at the sink in the restaurant kitchen!"
Richard exclaimed: "Wow, you really have a lot of energy now."
Edwin could tell he was mocking him, but he didn't mind. How could a winner mind the mockery of a loser? "Besides, I'm here to show you a way out. There's only one job you can do, and that's begging on the street."
He smiled very maliciously: "Didn't you like hanging out with homeless people in the past? Then you can go with them again, picking up rags and rummaging through trash cans. I won't stop you, and I'd even be happy to see it."
Edwin wanted Richard to fall into the mud and roll there, never to be able to walk up again, never to jump in front of him again. He also wanted the past to rot in a corner of the world with Richard, without even a fragment left.
And he will stand at the pinnacle of life, looking down on all this from above.
Richard listened to him while holding the cup of coffee and thinking that he didn't like this variety of coffee beans very much. It was too sour and not his usual taste.
After listening to Edwin, he finished the coffee in his cup and sighed as he put the cup down: "Alas."
Then he asked Edwin: "Do you hate Thomas and his group back then?"
Edwin looked at him with contempt: "What nonsense are you asking? If it were you, wouldn't you hate it?"
"Then I sincerely congratulate you now, Edwin," Richard stood up and said, "Congratulations on finally becoming the kind of person you once hated the most."
Edwin was suddenly stunned. He sat in the sofa chair, his eyes involuntarily following Richard's leaving back.
The past that Edwin was very concerned about and obsessed with was just a life experience for Richard. Moreover, after experiencing ups and downs, his mindset has become more open.
So when Liu Wangxue asked him, he not only gave a positive answer, but also told the story naturally. His tone was like that of a bystander, telling a commonplace story, but when he came across something that he found interesting, he would use rich vocabulary to describe it a little more.
Du Yunkai and Richard were good friends and knew something about his past, but not much. He knew so little, let alone Xu Qingsong.
After hearing this, the three of them were silent for a while.
Richard had no intention of being sentimental. They knew that what he wanted was definitely not sympathy or pity. He probably just wanted to have a casual chat and talk.
"What's wrong with you? Are you sad for me?" Richard broke the silence with a smile.
The three of them also laughed. Du Yunkai found a topic to ask him, "I remember when I first joined the company, there was a period of time when I asked you to go to lunch together, but you always said you were not hungry..."
"What do you mean you're not hungry?" Richard suddenly remembered and interrupted him, laughing. "I'm starving, okay? After you all left, I secretly went to the tea room to eat the free snacks."
Without waiting for the three to reply, he continued, "I was so poor at that time. I had just joined the company not long ago, and I had to use the salary to pay off my loans. I took out loans for my undergraduate and graduate studies, so I had a lot of money. I couldn't afford the food you guys ate, but I had to save face."
"Good job!" Du Yunkai suddenly realized, "Richard, do you know why our team was the most valued by the company and had the highest year-end bonus?"
"Is there any need to ask that?" Richard said, "Of course our team is the most efficient and capable, and the games we make are the most profitable."
"No! Not entirely!" Du Yunkai slapped the steering wheel, "Most of it is because of you! You didn't go to dinner for the sake of face, and every time everyone came back, they saw you were still working - to use a more popular word now, it's 'rolling', no one wants to be outdone by you, so you single-handedly led the whole team! My God, each of our year-end bonuses is due to you!"
Richard was stunned, then burst into laughter: "Oh! God——"
Liu Wangxue turned to look at Xu Qingsong. This was really unexpected.
Xu Qingsong smiled and held her hand and shook it, indeed.
After everyone finished laughing, Liu Wangxue asked again: "What happened later? After you became rich, did you go back and take back your adoptive parents' house?"
She was indeed a little curious, and this kind of cool drama is always interesting.
Richard shook his head, and only then did he sound regretful: "I went back, but that place had been demolished a long time ago, and there was nothing left."
After he saved up the first sum of money, he immediately asked for a few days off from work to deal with the house problem.
Since he went to college, he has been busy and exhausted, and has never been back. When he went back this time, he found that the place had been replanned and became extremely unfamiliar. Nothing was gone, and nothing was left. He didn't even meet the people in the past.
That day, Richard was walking in the new neighborhood and happened to notice himself in a shop window. He saw the expensive suit and leather shoes, the meticulously groomed hair, and his mature face under the hot sunshine. He suddenly felt like he was in a dream.
But the sky in that dream was gray, with a little starlight occasionally shining through. He caught that little starlight, and then he saw the moon, and then welcomed this beautiful sunny day.
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