Gu Zhizhou looked silently at the young man in front of him: "You are 29 years old this year, two years older than A Ye. He would never have imagined that he has an older brother in this world."
"Hehe, Gu Jueye is so amazing. He won the Nobel Prize in Biology last year and became the youngest winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Everyone says he is a genius and a pillar of the country. How can I be worthy of being his brother?"
Gu Zhizhou felt a pang of sympathy upon hearing Pei Shaoyuan's self-deprecating humor.
"I'm sorry, if I had known about you sooner, you would definitely be just as outstanding as A-Ye."
"Forget it, I know my own limitations."
"By the way, Shao Yuan, after your mother passed away when you were seven years old, who did you live with?"
Pei Shaoyuan's gaze gradually deepened, and a trace of sorrow lingered around him.
“After my mother passed away, a kind neighbor called the police. The police tried to find my relatives, but eventually found that I had no relatives in the world except my mother. So the police sent me to an orphanage.”
Pei Shaoyuan continued, “I spent two years in an orphanage and was adopted by a middle-aged couple. At first, I thought I had found someone willing to take care of me, but later I found out that the man was a gambling addict who often beat his wife. He only adopted me because he wanted someone to help them with housework. I lived in their house for a year and was beaten by that man countless times. Later, I couldn’t bear the torment and ran away. After that, I lived a life of wandering for several years until I was fifteen years old. I was then adopted by a kind old man and was able to survive until now.”
Gu Zhizhou felt a sharp pain in his heart after hearing Pei Shaoyuan's story.
"You've suffered. When you come back to this home, I will definitely protect you."
Pei Shaoyuan gave a soft chuckle and looked at Gu Zhizhou with his deep gaze.
"If you could have found me before I turned fifteen and said these words, I might have been very moved."
Gu Zhizhou fell silent.
Even if he is truly filled with guilt and heartache, the fact remains that he caused this child so much suffering.
Now that he has grown up and is very successful, he no longer needs his father's protection, and no amount of talk from him will help.
Just then, a taxi pulled up.
Pei Shaoyuan glanced at Gu Zhizhou: "The car that's picking me up has arrived."
"good!"
Pei Shaoyuan withdrew his gaze, turned around and walked towards the taxi, opened the car door and got in.
Through the car window, Gu Zhizhou wanted to take another look at Pei Shaoyuan.
The street was dimly lit, and the car was very dark inside, so only a blurry figure could be vaguely seen.
After watching the car leave, Gu Zhizhou stood in the howling cold wind for a long time.
After he calmed down, he walked back to his car, got in, and drove away!
Pei Shaoyuan returned to his hotel room. The door opened, and the lights were on.
He looked towards the floor-to-ceiling window and saw a tall, alluring figure standing there.
Hearing the door open, the woman slowly turned around, her alluring peach blossom eyes slightly upturned.
"How did today's family reunion go?"
Pei Shaoyuan's expression turned cold upon seeing the woman inside.
He then tossed the room key card onto the shoe cabinet in the entryway beside him and casually took off his light blue coat and scarf.
He took off his silver-rimmed glasses, lowered his eyelids slightly, and gently rubbed his brow with his slender fingers.
"Why haven't you left yet? Didn't the old man send a message to you?"
"Why should I leave? I've built up this empire in China for so long, and you want me to just leave like this and give you all the fruits of my labor? Why should I?"
The man walked to the wine cabinet, picked up a bottle of red wine, and poured himself a glass.
He chuckled softly upon hearing the woman's words.
He turned around and walked towards the woman.
The woman was tall and slender, and the man was tall and imposing.
The two people were standing face to face, and an unsuspecting person would think they were a couple.
But at this moment, their eyes were filled with coldness and calculation when they looked at each other.
“You’ve caused a huge mess in China. You’ve not only disrupted the old man’s plans, but you were also locked up by the Gu family for three days. If the old man hadn’t paid to ransom you, you would probably still be locked up by the Gu family right now.”
The woman's expression was cold and stern, a hint of sinister intent flashing in her eyes.
"Don't be too happy yet. Those two old folks in the Gu family are shrewd old men. You might end up not getting any benefits and instead being kicked out."
The man raised his wine glass and took an elegant sip of red wine.
His voice was clear and indifferent: "Do you think I'm as stupid as you?"
"Huo Zhaoyuan, what are you so smug about? Don't forget who you are. You're just a homeless child my grandfather picked up from a garbage dump. You only got to where you are today by claiming to be the illegitimate son of the Huo family. Without the Huo family, what would you be? Heh, in front of me, you're nothing more than a dog of the Huo family."
Despite Huo Xiuxiu's sharp sarcasm, Huo Zhaoyuan's face remained completely expressionless.
His thin lips slowly curved upwards, and his long, narrow phoenix eyes calmly looked at the woman with a ferocious expression in front of him.
"Do you know when a person is most afraid? It's when she's hysterical. Look at our incomparably noble Miss Huo now, what does she look like? She looks exactly like a shrew arguing with her hands on her hips in front of a vegetable stall."
"Huo Zhaoyuan!"
Huo Xiuxiu stared with her almond-shaped eyes, her eyes filled with hatred for the man in front of her.
She could never understand why, as the only granddaughter of the Huo family's direct line, she had stood out among the family's descendants since childhood.
To excel in every skill she learned, she gave it her all and devoted all her time to improving herself.
But in her grandfather's heart, she was no match for this homeless child who was only taken in by the Huo family when she was a teenager.
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