Tang Yaoyao nodded: "Okay, then I'll see what Fourth Brother gave me."
She then opened a box that wasn't very big.
"Why are you being so secretive..."
Before he could finish speaking, he saw a wine glass.
Tang Yaoyao: "..."
She looked at him strangely, blinking her charming, slightly bewildered fox-like eyes: "Why are you giving me this? To make me drink more?"
"Take it all apart." His clear voice remained quiet.
Tang Yaoyao tore open all the wrapping paper and discovered that this cup was different from the others...
There is a lipstick mark on the rim of the cup that looks as alluring as a rose. It is not very obvious, but it adds a touch of elegance to the cup.
"this……"
As she spoke, she froze again, feeling that the cup was somewhat familiar—or rather, the lipstick mark was very familiar.
He held the cup and thought quietly for a few seconds.
"Ah! This is the wine glass from the bar I went to with Ye Junlin when I was still in Blue City."
After saying that, Tang Yaoyao looked at him with great suspicion: "How did it end up in your hands? Did you steal it?"
"Bought."
Tang Yaoyao didn't understand what he meant. After picking up the cup, she saw a character engraved on it that was similar in color to her lipstick: "Yao".
To engrave words on such a thin glass...
How did he do that?
No, this material isn't entirely glass. She rubbed the cup with her hand; it felt cool to the touch. She paused, stunned. "It looks like there's a layer of crystal on the outside. How come I didn't notice it before? The owner of this bar is incredibly generous."
Therefore, it's not that the words are engraved on the cup, but rather that a single character is written on it and then coated with a layer of transparent crystal.
No wonder this quilt looks so unique.
Seeing that she was admiring the craftsmanship of the water glass and didn't seem to dislike the gift, Xiao Jinhan slightly moved his thin lips and said, "This was made through post-processing."
Later...
Tang Yaoyao had always prided herself on her intelligence, believing that nothing in the world could stump her. Yet now, she couldn't understand his thoughts.
She blinked again, looking at him with confusion: "You bought it and then modified it, leaving my lip print and writing my words on it... What do you mean by giving me this gift? I don't quite understand."
Xiao Jinhan also lowered his eyes, looking at the red wine glass in her hand. His dark chestnut pupils were deep and serious, with a seriousness she had never seen before.
She didn't urge him, but waited for his answer.
Xiao Jinhan pursed his lips: "This move might be a bit abrupt."
Isn't this a bit abrupt...
That was too abrupt!
She really didn't understand.
Xiao Jinhan continued, "Let's start with my background."
Tang Yaoyao looked at the stars in his eyes and his gentle voice, and nodded as if possessed: "Okay."
There was thunder and lightning on the day Xiao Jinhan was born.
The lightning didn't stop all night, as if it illuminated the entire city.
His birth mother had a difficult childbirth, and when it became absolutely necessary, the doctors decided to perform a cesarean section on her.
He was just wheeled onto the operating table when his mother successfully gave birth to him.
Thunder roared all night, but he didn't cry when he was born, as if he didn't even know he had come into the world.
The doctor patted the soles of his feet, but he didn't cry out once, leading the doctor to suspect that he was born mute.
All the medical staff felt this was strange. After the mother finished her postpartum confinement, the doctor came to check his hearing and vision, and there were no problems.
But he never cried once during the first two months.
At two months old, he finally cried out for the first time, and the whole family was overjoyed, proving that he was not born mute.
At the same time, devastating news struck: Grandma accidentally tripped and fell, hitting her head on the corner of the stairs. She bled profusely and was rushed to the hospital, where she was already brain dead and could not be saved.
The mother was so immersed in the grief of her grandmother's passing that she didn't connect the two events.
When he was almost three months old, he cried again. After he finished crying, the servant who had been taking care of him suddenly died of a cerebral hemorrhage...
The Xiao family was in chaos at the time. His fourth uncle stepped forward and said he would go to the Buddhist temple to bully them. A high monk told him that this was the reincarnation of an evil spirit.
At that time, Fourth Uncle was deeply loved by Grandpa. Father's influence in the Xiao family was not strong, and he was determined to protect him. Mother threatened to kill herself, and in the end, he was spared.
He cried again when he was just three months old.
People are filled with anxiety, all worried about who will suffer the consequences.
Unexpectedly, Grandpa fell ill. A highly virtuous monk told the Xiao family that only a Buddhist temple could cleanse the evil spirits from his body. In the end, he was to be taken to be a monk for thirty-seven years.
When this matter came to the attention of her mother's best friend, Qiao Yanzhi, she did not believe that evil spirits could be reincarnated. She thought that if a spirit were truly evil, it should be imprisoned in the eighteenth level of hell for eternity, so how could it be reincarnated?
Therefore, Qiao Yanzhi took him back to the Fu family and raised him there, and there have been no problems for more than 20 years.
Afterwards, his father gained a certain status in the Xiao family, sharing the position with his fourth uncle. Naturally, he was taken back by the Xiao family, but he would never forget the kindness the Fu family had shown him.
The kindness of giving birth is profound, and the kindness of raising and nurturing is equally profound.
Tang Yaoyao knew what happened after that; she had heard it from Su Mei.
Master Xiao is feared because he is ruthless and doesn't care about family ties. At the age of eighteen, he entered the construction industry with his brilliant mind and unparalleled business acumen.
He didn't start from scratch; his parents provided him with a foundation. He emerged like a dark horse, crushing his fourth uncle step by step in a competition, exposing all the mistakes his uncle had made over the years, and personally reporting him.
Ultimately, he acquired all of his fourth uncle's influence in the Xiao family, stepped over him to rise to power, and made Old Master Xiao look at his grandson with new respect, thus becoming the heir of the Xiao family.
Little did they know there was such a story behind him.
Tang Yaoyao pursed her lips and said, "So, you and Third Brother... no, Sixth Brother are the same, not the biological sons of the Fu family. In name, you are the sons of President Fu and his wife."
"General Manager Fu" was her affectionate nickname for her father.
"Um."
Tang Yaoyao nodded thoughtfully, feeling sorry for her fourth brother's difficult infancy. Suddenly, she wanted to laugh again. She looked up at his black, tousled hair, which was clearly visible under the warm light, casting a row of light and dark silhouettes on his forehead.
If his mom hadn't intervened back then, his hair... cough cough...
Finally, he couldn't help but burst out laughing: "Fourth brother, thank goodness Mom brought you back, otherwise you would have been a monk in the temple for thirty-seven years. Let me do the math, by then you'd probably be considered a highly respected monk, hahaha..."
Xiao Jinhan: "..."
She laughed again: "Don't be surprised, when I met Fourth Brother, I felt that you were particularly suited to be a monk."
"Those ones……"
Tang Yaoyao interrupted, "I know, it was all your fourth uncle's doing."
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