Chapter 57 It's just money, right? He'll just earn it.
Yinshan Cemetery.
The mountains and rivers are beautiful, the environment is very nice and quiet.
In front of a grave, the tombstone was wiped clean, and the inscription on it read: "Tomb of the loving mother, Li Yan".
In the small photo above, the young woman smiles brightly, as if she has never experienced any hardship.
The small platform in front of the tombstone was also wiped clean.
There was a four-inch cake on the table, topped with some brightly colored berries, and a candle stuck in it. But it wasn't lit.
There were two bouquets of flowers next to it, not chrysanthemums or lilies, but two bouquets of beautiful pink roses.
Next to the cake were two small cups, made of rough earthenware, with a very rustic appearance, filled with some clear liquid.
A fingerprint is clearly visible on the glass wall, which is soaked in the clear liquid.
It's like when making a cup, you accidentally leave a fingerprint on the clay, and you don't clean it up before firing it.
It is quite unique.
Shen Li's slender white hand picked up another cup next to her and touched the one with the fingerprint.
"Mom, cheers!"
Shen Li brought the cup to her lips and slowly drank the wine inside.
Then he picked up the cup and slowly poured the wine in front of the grave.
This was the first pottery piece she made when she was a child. When her mother took her to the pottery studio, she made these two cups. When her mother picked them up to look at them and helped her adjust the shape of the cups, she accidentally left her fingerprints on the cup walls.
The mother originally wanted to remove the fingerprint, but Shen Li wouldn't allow it, saying that this way it would be easier to distinguish which cup was for the mother and which was for the baby.
And now, so much time has passed.
This became one of the few things Shen Li still longed for.
Twenty years have passed since this cup was made, but Shen Li can still recall her mother's smile from that time.
Shen Li sighed softly, her voice gentle, "If there really is an afterlife, you should be nineteen years old now, Mom."
"How are you doing?" Shen Li smiled. "I'm doing alright..."
She paused, sighed softly, and lowered her voice, "Actually, things aren't going very well, but I'll try my best to get better. I'm already trying..."
Shen Li gently fiddled with one of the two bouquets of flowers. "He Xun has been busy filming lately, so he probably couldn't make it back. But the flowers were delivered on time, and they're my favorite pink roses."
Shen Li smiled and said softly, "I still think it's a waste for a law school graduate like him to go into acting. If you were here, you would definitely give him a lecture."
No sooner had Shen Li finished speaking than a male voice rang out from behind her, "Isn't it a bit inappropriate to speak ill of someone when they're not around?"
The speaker's voice is very pleasant; any more depth in it would make him seem too mature, and any less would make him seem too immature.
The proportions in his voice are just right—neither childish nor old-fashioned. Sometimes it even sounds quite youthful, and it's the kind of cool and aloof voice that's very popular these days.
Upon hearing that familiar voice, Shen Li's eyes widened suddenly. She quickly turned around and saw a tall, thin man standing behind her.
He was dressed very casually, in a loose T-shirt and jeans, and wearing a black face mask.
A pair of deep eyes looked at her with a slight curve.
"When...when did you get back?!" Shen Li suddenly stood up. Because she had drunk a few cups, her steps were a little unsteady, and she almost lost her balance.
He steadied her with one hand, saying, "If we hadn't arrived in time today, we wouldn't have heard you talking behind people's backs."
Shen Li rubbed her nose. "I don't just talk about it behind people's backs, I talk about it to their faces too!"
Shen Li stared at him, scrutinizing him for a long while. "You shouldn't have chosen this path. Look how thin you've become! I saw how terribly thin you were in the photos..."
He Xun chuckled softly, cupped her head in his hand, and gently rubbed it. "Good, good, you're becoming more and more fond of your brother."
"How long are you coming back this time? You're not leaving for a while, right? Can you stop taking on acting roles for now? I'll cook you delicious food and nourish you every day," Shen Li said.
"Well, I won't be leaving for a while, and I won't be taking on any new roles for six months. At most, I'll be doing some variety show promotions." As He Xun spoke, he took out a lighter and bent down to light the candle on the small cake.
"Very good, very good. I'm just waiting for you to make me something delicious to make up for it." After saying this, He Xun picked up the cake with lit candles. "Besides, it's your birthday today, so I won't punish you or ask you any more questions."
Upon hearing this, Shen Li's heart skipped a beat, realizing the danger.
When she looked up, she saw He Xun's eyes, which seemed to be smiling but weren't.
When this guy's eyes are voted on online, he always ranks in the top three of the top ten most captivating eyes among male celebrities.
But Shen Li didn't find them charming at all; she only felt that those eyes were dangerous.
"We'll talk about it tomorrow," He Xun said, moving the cake towards Shen Li with a charming smile in his eyes. "Let's blow out the candles."
Shen Li felt a chill run down her spine. From the very beginning, He Xun had disapproved of her marriage to Lu Yanchuan.
She lost her mother at a young age, and He Xun doted on her from childhood to adulthood.
When He Xun learned that she was going to marry into the Lu family for the sake of the Shen family's business, he was furious.
After Aunt Li passed away, Shen Wenzhong married a new wife so quickly. Although Shen Li was not abused at home, she was basically in a marginalized and isolated state.
They were a loving family, while Shen Li was all alone.
He Xun was already very dissatisfied with Shen Wenzhong, feeling that he was not a qualified father, at least not to Shen Li.
This father, at this point, was thinking of using his daughter's marriage to gain benefits.
He Xun was furious. He asked Shen Li if she was forced to do it, but Shen Li refused to admit it.
He Xun felt that Shen Li said that because she didn't want him to worry.
Ultimately, isn't it all about money? Isn't Shen Wenzhong treating Shen Li like this precisely because of money?
During that period, He Xun was actually contacted by talent scouts because he was really good-looking and had the persona of a top student from law school, which was very popular in the industry at that time.
But before this, He Xun had never considered this at all.
His ambition since childhood was to work in the legal profession, and his parents died in a car accident.
The perpetrator exploited a loophole in the law, and the punishment he received was far too lenient compared to the loss of two lives.
Later, his relatives tried to seize his parents' inheritance, and his uncle, acting as his guardian, 'safeguarded' his parents' estate.
After all the assets were transferred to his aunt's name, he divorced her, and she took the children abroad.
The uncle acted like a rogue, saying, "Since the money's gone, go ahead and kill me if you dare."
As a victim of the law, He Xun suffered greatly because of it, so he was determined to learn the law so that he could help the vulnerable.
Aunt Li always encouraged him in this way when she was alive.
But at that time, he still called the talent scout.
Dreams and aspirations are utterly insignificant compared to the happiness of Aunt Li's daughter.
It's just money, right? He can earn it.
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