uninvited guest
After having dinner with Tian's family, they couldn't refuse the invitation, and then they walked home hand in hand in the community.
"I never thought you were so stingy before, Hu Hanyu." Zheng Cheng was still the same, muttering non-stop, "Why don't you let me teach Mohawk how to swim?"
"That guy has known this for a long time. He's just looking for an excuse to stick with you." Hanyu said, "Don't be fooled by him. You won't be able to get rid of him when the time comes."
"Are you jealous of a child? You're useless." Zheng Cheng pinched his hand.
"What's wrong? You call him baby, isn't that right?" Hanyu said.
As he approached the building, he saw a dark shadow waiting under the tree. Hanyu slowed down vigilantly and motioned Zheng Cheng to take a look.
"Why are you wearing a headscarf so late at night? It's scary." Zheng Cheng squinted and looked again. "Why, you're wearing sunglasses? Did you just get double eyelid surgery?"
The two people were getting closer and closer, and the black shadow began to move, making Zheng Cheng very nervous.
"It's not coming for me..." He hid behind Hu Hanyu.
The shadow took off his sunglasses.
"Get ready, and run if anything goes wrong." Hanyu whispered.
The shadow slowly moved towards this side. It could be seen that it was a woman. She made noises when she walked and it sounded like she was wearing high heels.
It looks very unprofessional and can't run fast at all.
The black shadow stumbled as she walked, and Hu Hanyu almost reached out to help her because of her staggering.
This is too non-threatening.
Zheng Cheng leaned his head out and carefully identified the outline in the backlight. The man's bones looked so familiar.
"Chengcheng?" The black shadow called out tentatively. It was a slightly weak female voice.
Hanyu felt the hand in his palm stiffen for a moment. He was about to pull Zheng Cheng away, but saw that he was standing there without moving. He uttered a word in disbelief.
"mom?"
Chen Min sat on the sofa, looking around elegantly, completely different from her embarrassed state outside the door just now.
Zheng Cheng was staring at the kettle in the kitchen in a daze, while Hu Hanyu was playing with his phone beside him.
"What are you looking at?" Zheng Cheng asked.
"Check the almanac," Hu Hanyu said. "I'll see if today is a good day to see my parents."
"When are you still playing?" Zheng Cheng hit him. "The fact that my mom found this place means my dad already knew I was here!"
"But she came alone. Who of you from the Zheng family goes out without someone?" Hanyu calmly put the tea leaves and poured hot water. "I don't think they have discussed it well."
"I had a fight with your father." As expected, Chen Min confirmed Hu Hanyu's guess as soon as she opened her mouth. "He really went too far this time."
Zheng Yuan did know where Zheng Cheng was going, but he preferred to deal with it coldly and let Zheng Cheng deal with it himself. However, Chen Min could not sit still and came directly to him under the pretext of getting a beauty treatment.
"How can I feel at ease leaving my baby out there all alone? I don't know how he's doing." Chen Min touched Zheng Cheng's face, "Chengcheng...oh, thank you."
Chen Min took the tea brewed by Hu Hanyu, took a sip with her little finger raised, then put it on the coffee table and smiled at him.
"Your name is Hu Hanyu, right? Thank you for taking in our Chengcheng." she asked.
"Yes." Hanyu paused and smiled shyly, "You guys chat, how about I step aside for a while?"
"No need, just sit down." Zheng Cheng pointed to the rattan chair.
"Chengcheng, have you eaten well these days? I see there are no servants or chefs here, who will serve you?" Chen Min continued to touch Zheng Cheng's face, "You are doing evil..."
"I'm fine. I can do anything on my own." Zheng Cheng took her hand off her face and lowered his eyes, not looking at her. "Mom, don't pretend."
Although Chen Min's eyes were full of concern and heartache, Zheng Cheng did not trust her intentions.
First, he plays the emotional card to find out the other party's bottom line, and then uses their weaknesses to make conditions that are impossible to refuse. No one knows the Zheng family's business routine better than him.
"How can you say that to your mother, kid? I'm really worried about you." Chen Min pulled her hand back. She denied it, but her expression became more restrained.
Wow, she really is pretending.
"Thank you for your concern." Zheng Cheng then looked at the woman in front of him who was calmly adjusting her scarf. "Just tell me, what are you doing here?"
Chen Min glanced at Hu Hanyu. Hanyu was about to walk away tactfully, but was stopped by Zheng Cheng.
"Hanyu is my boyfriend," Zheng Cheng said. "There's nothing he can't hear."
The surprise only stayed on Chen Min's face for a second.
"It's nothing, actually." After looking Hu Hanyu up and down, Chen Min looked down at her manicure. "I guess you're going to talk to your dad on your birthday party, so I wanted to talk to you first."
"Did you really have a fight with him?" Zheng Cheng asked.
"We do have a difference of opinion," Chen Min's newly-attached eyelashes fluttered. "But Chengcheng, if you want to continue being an internet celebrity, we won't agree."
"What's your disagreement?"
"Let me ask you first," Chen Min raised her eyes again, the gentleness and fragility she had just shown replaced by a sharp gaze. "What do you want to talk to your dad about?"
Zheng Cheng missed Chen Min in front of him very much.
It has been many years since I heard Chen Min speak like this. In Zheng Cheng's earliest memory, she has always been like this, with ambition written all over her eyes.
"What do you want me to talk to my dad about?" he asked.
"Chengcheng," Chen Min laughed out loud, "How could you miss your mother so much?"
Zheng Cheng also laughed. His temper was exactly the same as Chen Min's. Either he would play dumb and eat the tiger, or he would just charge in. Neither of them would let the other get the upper hand.
After the kidnapping case, Chen Min changed from her original harsh and strict personality to a loving mother. This was probably a game between the couple.
When she smiled today, Zheng Cheng understood everything.
"Mom, I've always wanted to ask," he said, "Isn't it you who talked Lao Zheng into letting me go to America and study hotel management?"
Chen Min fiddled with the large jade egg-shaped earrings on her ears and smiled gently, "If you like it, why should we object?"
Sure enough, it was her.
This woman had never given up the idea of snatching Yuanlv away from him over the years. Chen Min simply sank her desire into the deep sea, from the light to the darkness.
"My spa time is almost up, so I won't waste time with you," Chen Min crossed her legs, sat up straight, and took out a document from her platinum bag.
"Chengcheng, it's time to look at the cards in your hand. Have you ever calculated how much your studio has earned this year?"
"Where did this come from?" Zheng Cheng was surprised.
The financial report in hand clearly lists his advertising revenue and platform rebates for the year.
"Didn't you outsource your financial services? I had nothing to do at home, so I asked them for the data and compiled it for fun.
"You can't become a big fat man in one bite, but using these to exchange for Nanjiang Road Forset is not a big problem. Then it's just a matter of time before I can slowly replace Zheng Lu."
Chen Min leisurely fixed her hair and tapped her high heels on the ground. "Okay, it's almost time for me to go."
"Wait a minute." A voice came from the side.
The mother and son looked at Hu Hanyu, who had been silent just now.
He clenched his hands on his knees and stared at Chen Min without any hesitation.
"Don't you care about Zheng Cheng's health?"
Being interrupted was unexpected enough, but Chen Min didn't expect Hu Hanyu to question her. She showed an unhappy look and said, "Didn't I show my concern right from the start?"
"Excuse me, this is just a greeting," said Hanyu.
Chen Min looked at her son's boyfriend angrily, raised her lip and said sarcastically, "Is Tianren Group so enthusiastic? They're even meddling in other people's affairs?"
"Auntie, you're overthinking it." Hanyu stood up and smiled. "What I did and said has nothing to do with Tianren. It's only about Zheng Cheng."
"I thought you came here out of genuine concern for Zheng Cheng, but apart from meals and servants, you've never cared about anything else. Don't you know how he's been living these past eight years?"
"Hanyu, don't..." Zheng Cheng wanted to stop him, but Hanyu raised his hand to stop him.
Without waiting for Chen Min to refute, he continued.
"He had two consecutive outbursts after arguing with his uncle. When I found him, he was frozen and couldn't even stand up." Hu Hanyu clenched his fists at his side again. "Don't you care about these things?"
A hint of surprise flashed across Chen Min's face.
"Is what he said true?" she asked Zheng Cheng, then turned back to look at Hu Hanyu, "But isn't he doing well now? I thought..."
"Is he okay?" Hu Hanyu interrupted her. "Can't you see that he's been adjusting his breathing? Can't you see that he's biting his lip to stop himself from shaking? Are you... really his mother?"
"Hu Hanyu!" Zheng Cheng grabbed his arm and stopped him behind him.
He didn't dare look at any of their expressions. The tense atmosphere almost buried him and made him unable to breathe.
He heard Chen Min sigh and then sneer.
"I can see that you really like Chengcheng, little friend. But being a mother is not as easy as you think." Chen Min walked in front of Zheng Cheng and raised her hand to touch his face. "Chengcheng, my baby, remember what I said. See you in a few days."
The strong arm in his hand was now stretched as tight as an arrow on a bow.
We can't let him take action, or he'll be finished.
"See you in a few days, Mom." Zheng Cheng replied with a smile on his face.
Chen Min's stiletto heels clattered loudly as she walked past Hu Hanyu and looked him up and down again. "Hu Hanyu, I'll remember that you have to come over in a couple of days."
Without waiting for Hu Hanyu to answer, she picked up her phone, continued talking, and walked out the door.
"Old Chen~ Oh, I just came out early and wandered around and got lost. Can you come find me..."
The moment the door closed, Hu Hanyu picked up the teacup she had just drunk from and smashed it to the ground.
"Hanyu! What are you doing?!" Zheng Cheng was stunned by the scene in front of him. Seeing Hu Hanyu raising his foot to kick the coffee table, he rushed over to stop him.
"What kind of mother is she?!" Hanyu suppressed the anger in his throat and growled, "She didn't care about you for so many years, and when the time came, she used the child to achieve her own goals. Is this what it means to be a mother? She's not even a human being!"
At this moment, Hu Hanyu's eyes were bloodshot, veins bulged from his forehead to his neck, he clenched his teeth, and gasped, like a manic beast locked in a cage.
"How could she, how could she do this to you? You're such a good person, why would she do this to you..."
This anger was for Zheng Cheng. Every word was something that had been swirling around in Zheng Cheng's mind hundreds of times, but he had never spoken it out loud.
He hugged Hu Hanyu tightly, using all his strength to hold him tightly, regardless of whether he was in pain or couldn't breathe.
"Hanyu, Hanyu..." Zheng Cheng held Hanyu's hands, "No matter what, she is my mother..."
Hu Hanyu looked at him hesitantly.
"That's enough, Hanyu..." He put his cheek close to his and whispered in his ear, as if comforting a child, "Just say it, that's enough, thank you..."
After a long while, Hanyu's tense body gradually relaxed, and he put his hand back to touch Zheng Cheng's back. Until then, Zheng Cheng slowly and completely handed herself to Hu Hanyu's arms.
"Do I have to go to the birthday party?" Hanyu asked hoarsely, "Isn't that just jumping into a fire pit?"
The lover you have tried so hard to protect is now risking everything and falling into a trap that has been laid out for years. Who can let go?
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