Mu Xiaozhe is a smart child. He realized at a very young age that his family structure was different from others.
He has many older brothers and sisters. His older brother is older than his mother and doesn't like him. His older sister prefers to play with their mother.
The maid in the house would often speak ill of him and his mother behind their backs, all because of the eldest brother's attitude.
He once went to his father to cry and make a scene in order to test his father's attitude. He then discovered that although his father would scold his older brother for crying, it would not cause him too much harm.
If he cries too often, his father will get annoyed with him.
This often left Mu Xiaozhe feeling both angry and powerless when facing his older brother.
Until one day, another older brother appeared in the family. From the servants' gossip, Mu Xiaozhe knew that his appearance would make his mother sad.
However, he could act willfully to vent his mother's anger, so he made his father kneel down and ride him like a horse in front of his father.
From his father's attitude, Mu Xiaozhe concluded that Mu San, his older brother, was the only person in the family he could manipulate at will using his father's power.
Therefore, he constantly flaunted his power in front of his friends, and Mu San never expressed the slightest dissatisfaction with this.
But perhaps because he grew up in a large, secluded family compound, Mu Xiaozhe was naturally good at knowing what kind of words were unpleasant to hear.
Thus, he cloaked his power in a veneer of kinship, making it easy for him to take whatever he wanted from Mu San as a matter of course.
When his father was about to send Mu San abroad, Mu Xiaozhe cried and made a scene at home for three days and three nights. It was the first time his father had ever seen him so willful, and he was so upset that he moved out.
His mother was also shocked by his feelings for Mu San, but only he knew that he was afraid, afraid that everything would be different after Mu San came back.
No, perhaps Mu San also knows.
Therefore, no matter how others tried to persuade him, he remained unmoved, preferring to be scolded by his father for being cold-hearted and ungrateful rather than say a kind word to him.
In fact, his worries were not unfounded.
In just three years, Mu San went from being a pitiful nobody in the Mu family mansion who could be bullied by everyone to a newly rich member of the Mu family who made a glamorous return and could rival his elder brother.
In just one year, Mu San defeated his older brother, whom Mu Xiaozhe had been unable to do anything about due to his mother's favor and his young age.
Mu San didn't usually live in the Mu family's old house, but Mu Xiaozhe had personally witnessed how frustrated and unsuccessful his elder brother had been during those years.
It wasn't until his elder brother and his wife died in a car accident, and his father, consumed by rage, moved into a nursing home, that Mu San became the true head of the Mu family, and Mu Xiaoze finally gave up any thoughts of competing with him.
The smugness of being trampled underfoot in his childhood has become a persistent nightmare for him.
Logically speaking, he shouldn't remember things so clearly when he was three years old, but when you do something wrong, your conscience will haunt you in the middle of the night.
The gap between his other older siblings and Mu San was too great, and they basically didn't have much interaction with him. Most of the humiliations Mu San suffered in his childhood were caused by him.
If his elder brother was a stumbling block on his path to power, then he was the perfect candidate to demonstrate his power by making an example of him. He was so afraid of ending up like his elder brother that he hid in the old house for a long time, not daring to show his face.
He tried desperately to avoid Mu San, but their encounters always came so unexpectedly.
So, at a gathering with his old friends, he acted like a lapdog wagging its tail, shamelessly hugging Mu San and loudly proclaiming to everyone, "Brother, you're finally back! Do you know how much I've missed you all these years you've been gone?"
"I'm closest to my brother!"
Under Mu San's ambiguous gaze, he tried his best to play the role of the younger brother, repeating the same sentence over and over again, until he himself began to believe it.
In some ways, he is well-suited to be a star, whether as an actor or an idol who creates dreams for the audience, he excels at both.
But when he learned that his cheap father had deliberately transferred all the shares to his mother in order to annoy Mu San, he knew that this act of brotherly affection had come to an end.
"From now on, I owe you nothing." Mu Xiaozhe solemnly handed the contract to him.
He turned to Qiao Xia and said, "You haven't paid the penalty for breach of contract yet, so I'm not terminating the contract with you."
"Tch~" Qiao Xia snorted coldly: "You think you can come and go as you please? Wouldn't I lose face?"
"Sister~" Mu Xiaozhe was flexible and grabbed Qiao Xia's sleeve and shook it. "Please forgive me this time since it's my first offense."
Qiao Xia flung his hand away, "Disgusting!"
"Isn't my beauty worth treasuring?" Mu Xiaozhe flirted with Qiao Xia without any restraint.
Zeng Manwen also chimed in, "Why don't you give him another chance? Or how about I make a sacrifice and sign with your company too?"
Qiao Xia looked at the two somewhat similar faces in front of her, one big and one small, and was genuinely tempted.
Mu Xiaozhu, who had been following Zeng Manwen closely, retorted irritably, "What do you mean by 'sacrifice a little'? Haven't you been longing to be a big star again day and night?"
Zeng Manwen sighed, "How can that be the same? Now I can only support myself by selling my body."
Mu Xiaozhu couldn't stand her playing the victim, so she directly exposed her: "You only handed over the shares, but you didn't lose any of your real estate, jewelry, gold and silver deposits."
"Shh~, this is all I have, why did you have to let him hear it all?" Zeng Manwen glanced in Mu San's direction, thinking she was being quiet, and hurriedly pulled Mu Xiaozhu away.
Mu Xiaozhu suddenly let go of her hand and walked straight to Mu San's side. "I only own three percent of Mu's shares. If you want them, I can sell them to you at market value, but you can't have any designs on Juli from now on."
"Okay." Mu San agreed without hesitation.
He originally intended to use that land to cripple Juli and then exchange it for the shares held by Mu Xiaozhu. Although he would have to lose some funds now, it was still within an acceptable range.
In the distance, dozens of warships appeared on the coastline, and Qiao Xia excitedly waved to the people in the distance.
Uncle Niu and the others obediently put down their guns. The two big shots who sensed something was wrong in the sky above the island left reluctantly after weighing their options. Mu Xiaozhe, still unwilling to give up, tugged at Qiao Xia's sleeve and acted coquettishly.
The wind whipped up waves that nearly soaked the share transfer agreement Mu San was clutching, so he quickly held it protectively in his arms.
Looking at the backs of the group of people not far away, Mu San realized that he was not as excited as he had imagined. Perhaps it was because although he had achieved his goal, things did not develop as he had expected.
He originally thought that Zeng Manwen sought outside help because she was reluctant to give up her shares.
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