Shi Zhen left his house, took a deep breath, and calmed himself down before leaving.
After he left, he drove to a nearby residential complex.
Anshan Town is developing slowly, but Changxi City is different; there are already commercial housing buildings there.
It's very rare.
Not long ago, Shi Zhen took a fancy to a nearby real estate development.
He planned to buy Guan Baiyu an apartment and transfer Guan Baiyu's household registration there.
This building complex doesn't have elevators; it's all ground-floor parking garages with four floors of walk-up buildings above.
The ground floor garage, though called a bicycle garage, is actually quite large; most family cars can fit inside. The upstairs apartments aren't very attractive, but the layouts are decent.
Most importantly... this neighborhood has a good location.
The neighborhood, located not far from their rented house, is in the same school district as their house—the best school district in the entire Changxi City.
Even if you want to buy a house here in the future, it will be difficult to do so.
Right now, this house costs just over a thousand yuan per square meter, and it even comes with a garage. Twenty years from now... the house price here will be twenty or thirty thousand yuan.
The smallest apartment in the complex is 130 square meters, and the largest is 180 square meters. Because it is a walk-up building, the usable floor area is very high, and the price of a single unit is between 150,000 and 200,000 yuan.
This price has deterred many people in Changxi City who want to buy a house.
Even wealthy people in Changxi City think it's a bit foolish to spend tens or hundreds of thousands of yuan to buy a house.
With just a few tens of thousands of yuan, you can build a villa in the countryside. Wouldn't it be so comfortable to live there, with the whole house upstairs and downstairs? Why squeeze into such a small house?
When housing prices don't rise, many people are unwilling to buy a house unless they have an urgent need to improve their living conditions.
The house has been built, and Shi Zhen can see the finished house directly.
However, compared to the magnificent sales offices he had seen in his previous life, this sales office was nothing. Even the person selling the houses wasn't a young woman, but an unremarkable middle-aged man.
Shi Zhen took a liking to the fourth floor of a house that was over 130 square meters.
Because it's on the top floor, the apartment has a small attic and is actually over 200 square meters. The total price was 198,000 yuan, which he paid in full, even after a discount.
The garage on the ground floor of this house doesn't count as a floor; there are four floors above it. The second and third floors are the best, but the fourth floor is not bad either, and you don't have to worry about the people upstairs making noise.
Shi Zhengang had just finished building his office building. Not long ago, he also went to the No. 1 Middle School of the city to talk to the school about the "Baishi Construction" project to subsidize those who cannot afford to go to university, and planned to allocate a portion of the money to support those who cannot afford to study...
Right now, it's difficult for him to get a loan to buy a house for Guan Baiyu; he can only pay in full...
His money is almost gone again.
However, it would be good if Guan Baiyu's household registration could be transferred out.
If Guan Baiyu and Guan Guangguo were separated into two households in the village, with Guan Baiyu becoming a separate household, then when Guanjia Village is demolished in the future, Guan Baiyu, as a separate household, would also be able to obtain land and build a house.
However, disputes can easily arise.
As long as he doesn't cause trouble, he'll never lack money in his life. Since he won't lack money... he doesn't want Guan Baiyu to get involved with these things.
Shi Zhen paid the deposit.
He had accomplished something significant, but he was still quite agitated. After thinking for a while, he went to the company's office building again.
His office building has now attracted the attention of many people in Changxi City.
More than 20 years later, Changxi City has several large parks and the greening has become better and better. But now the entire city only has one park and even less greenery. Of course, if you go further out, there are plenty of green fields, bamboo forests and so on.
Shi Zhen built a koi pond outside his office building, complete with a glass bridge, making it a rare sight in Changxi City.
These days, many people come to see the fish and walk on the glass bridge every day... This can undoubtedly enhance the company's reputation.
At least anyone who comes here will definitely remember the company name "White Stone Construction".
When Shi Zhen went inside, he saw Zhao Qiujuan typing. Upon seeing him, Zhao Qiujuan asked, "Zhen, did you bring Xiaoyu home?"
"We've taken them home," Shi Zhen said.
"Why didn't you bring him?" Zhao Qiujuan asked, puzzled.
Shi Zhen said, "He drank some wine and fell asleep."
"They're kids having a gathering, and they're even drinking?" Zhao Qiujuan was somewhat surprised.
"Sis, he's eighteen."
“That’s true…” Zhao Qiujuan laughed, “He’s still studying, so I always feel like he’s still young.”
Shi Zhen also felt that Guan Baiyu was still too young.
This is one of the reasons he hesitated.
He was afraid Guan Baiyu would regret it.
Once Guan Baiyu goes to university and sees a wider world, he might regret it.
And he... honestly, he can't accept losing it again.
It wasn't until Zhao Qiujuan got off work that Shi Zhen and Zhao Qiujuan went home together. On the way, the two even found a cooked food stall and bought a braised duck.
When I get home, I'll cook some rice in the rice cooker and stir-fry a couple of vegetables, and dinner will be quite a feast.
When Shi Zhen got home, he knocked on Guan Baiyu's door: "Xiaoyu."
There was no response from inside the door.
Shi Zhen became worried. He had heard before that drunk people had vomited, and later... he shouldn't have left Guan Baiyu drunk!
Upon opening the door and entering, Shi Zhen was relieved to see Guan Baiyu lying comfortably on the bed.
But soon, his heart tightened again.
Guan Baiyu's eyes were a little red and swollen. Had he been crying?
"Xiaoyu?" Shi Zhen called out again.
Guan Baiyu remained silent.
Although his eyes were a little swollen, he must have slept well, as he had a smile on his face. Shi Zhen couldn't bear to wake him, so he quietly went out again.
As a result, Guan Baiyu still hadn't woken up by the time they finished eating.
Shi Zhen went in to check on him several more times, but Guan Baiyu was fast asleep, breathing steadily with no sign of waking up.
Guan Baiyu doesn't have a high alcohol tolerance, so this is probably because he drank too much.
Guan Baiyu didn't get up, so Shi Zhen put the food he had saved for him in the refrigerator, wrote a note and left it on his bedside before going to sleep.
Guan Baiyu was still dreaming.
He liked the man very much, accepted the gifts, thanked him, and spoke to him.
Their relationship had grown much closer, but he still hadn't found the right opportunity to confront the other person.
He didn't know what to do.
But just then... the work on this construction site was about to be finished.
Although he knew where the man's next construction site was, his master was going to another site and wouldn't go to that one.
Should he... go work for that person?
Just as he was worrying, the man hesitantly told him that after the work on the construction site was finished, he would treat everyone to a big meal.
He and his master went with him.
The man's gaze, as before, always fell on him, and while eating, he asked him what he wanted to do in the future.
He didn't actually know what he wanted to do in the future.
He wanted to take the certification exam and study on his own, but he had no confidence at all.
He was too busy supporting himself to study.
Sometimes he's too tired to concentrate on reading.
Human energy is limited.
And he has already dropped out of school for four years...
He was too busy during those four years and didn't read much, so much so that he now has to pick up some junior high school knowledge again.
There's nothing we can do about it.
When he first dropped out of school, he was too young to find a job. His adoptive parents were struggling financially and kept pressuring him to repay the money, insisting that his adoptive grandmother must have left him some money…
Those four years were extremely depressing for him.
But when asked, he still replied, "I want to study and become a teacher."
This man admires scholars; he had noticed it long ago.
And becoming a teacher... was indeed once his dream.
This guy kept saying how great it is to be a teacher, and then he started drinking. After only a little over a bottle of beer, his speech became...incoherent.
He thought about it for a moment, then took the man away.
He knew where this person lived.
This man was, after all, a foreman. He rented a house nearby and had been living there before when the midday sun was strong. He had even let the foreman rest there.
He led the man to his residence, and upon entering, he found the house to be exactly as it had always been, with very few belongings.
And this person was still shouting that he wasn't drunk.
He said definitively, "You're drunk."
The man looked at him, still denying it: "I'm not drunk, I know who you are...you are Guan Baiyu..."
Then the person suddenly hugged him and kissed him.
He did not push the person away.
They naturally got together.
They lived a good life after that.
This person was genuinely kind to him, but also a bit naive. The next day, he told him all his belongings and gave him a considerable amount of money, leaving him both amused and exasperated.
This person stopped him from working on the construction site, moved him to a different house to live in, and allowed him to go back to school.
Even if this person knows nothing about things like certification exams.
This was the first time he...felt like he had a home.
When the new shopping mall opens, they will go shopping together.
If they hear there's a fun place nearby, they'll go there together.
He used to be poor and had never been to many places. Only after being with this person did he gradually come into contact with more and more things.
However... the more money this person earned, the more anxious he became.
He spent a lot of time studying on his own, taking exams little by little, and finally earned a college diploma.
However, this person can earn hundreds of thousands from just one project.
He continued his self-study and eventually earned his bachelor's degree... By then, he had become a well-known boss.
The gap between them is widening.
He also had some dissatisfaction with this person.
For example, this person smokes and drinks, showing no regard for their health.
For example, this person has a lot of family issues, yet they still want to manage everything. Also, some of their subordinates clearly have problems, but because they are relatives, this person lets them run wild.
Sometimes when he sees this person exhausting himself, he wants to beat him up to bring him to his senses.
It was around that time that he inadvertently learned that he was not the child of the Sun family that he had always thought he was.
If that's the case, then he might be... someone his grandmother bought and brought home!
He found it ridiculous and it made him particularly upset.
His life seemed to have become a joke.
He cared for his bedridden grandmother, and sometimes he couldn't even go to class. He resented the Sun family for not wanting him.
When Yan Jiangtao cheated on the school exam and framed him, causing him to fail to get a guaranteed admission to university, he resented the Sun family for not wanting him.
He wanted to attend a vocational high school where he could study for free. At the time, there was a shortage of veterinary specialists, so he could have gone. However, before the high school entrance exam, he fell ill, and in the end, instead of attending a free vocational high school, he only got into the worst high school!
At that time, he resented the Sun family for not wanting him.
For many years before, he had difficulty even getting enough to eat.
He fell ill before the high school entrance exam, which was actually due to malnutrition.
How could he not resent it?
When he had to drop out of school; when he dropped out and went to collect eggs for a chicken farm, earning only five yuan a day; when he had to work on the construction site even when he had a fever; when he finally saved some money but had to give it back to his adoptive father.
He harbored resentment towards the Sun family.
As it turned out, he hated the wrong person.
Furthermore... before Shi Zhen appeared, he always regarded his foster grandmother as his only relative.
Even though his grandmother wasn't good to him, she was still the one who raised him.
It turned out his grandmother had been lying to him all along.
This caused him great distress.
He also happened to be very busy.
Taking the self-study bachelor's degree exam was already difficult for him, and now that he had to take the civil service exam, he was even busier and more stressed, worrying every day that he would fail.
He's already a big boss? And him? Six years and he hasn't accomplished anything.
For a period of time, he found fault with everything and even suffered from insomnia.
That's fine, but that person was busy and came back very late every day, so they didn't have time to spend together properly, and they could barely exchange a few words.
He comes back late at night, and then that person keeps trying to hug and kiss him... He's annoyed and tired, so he pushes the person away.
He knew the man was a little unhappy, but he really wasn't in the mood at the time.
It's also annoying that that person keeps thinking about this.
And at that time he couldn't sleep. That guy... I don't know what happened, but he suddenly developed a problem: he always snored when he slept!
Sometimes, just when he's about to fall asleep, the other person suddenly starts snoring, which wakes him up.
He was so angry that he couldn't help but kick the man.
He kicked him, and the man groggily rolled over, pulled him into his arms and hugged him. For a moment, he stopped snoring, but when he was about to sleep, he started snoring again!
He pinched the person's nose and covered the person's mouth... but the person still slept soundly!
He was so annoyed that he simply switched rooms with this person.
He plans to have a proper talk with that person after he passes the civil service exam.
However, an accident occurred.
He finally passed the civil service exam, and that person's enemy was also finished. They were both very happy and agreed to go out for dinner together.
As soon as they went outside, a car came crashing into them.
They had nowhere to hide.
The man instinctively pushed him away, and he did the same.
...
Guan Baiyu suddenly woke up, a little dazed.
He was in a car accident. Is Shi Zhen alright?
Wait, he was seriously injured in the accident; he might die!
After he's gone, Shi Zhen... I wonder who will benefit from it!
Shi Zhen initially had many bad habits, such as not brushing his teeth, not liking to take baths, and having poor taste in clothes... It was he who kept a close eye on him and helped Shi Zhen change.
In previous years, Shi Zhen didn't earn much money, and he wanted to expand his company. The little money he managed to save was all spent by his family...
They had just made some money! He was even thinking of buying a nicer house instead of renting anymore... and then this happened!
That guy is always thinking about sex; I wonder if he'll go find a young and handsome one!
If that's the case, he'll be so angry he'll die! No, he's already dead! He'll be brought back to life by anger!
Besides, he put in so much effort to pass the civil service exam!
His secret stash of money!
Are all of these gone?!
Guan Baiyu felt like cursing.
But soon he came to his senses and realized that something was wrong with him.
He just finished his college entrance exams and was rejected after confessing his feelings. Where did all this other nonsense come from?!
He was just having a dream!
But this... is clearly not a dream.
Those emotions were all real.
His relationship with Shi Zhen didn't seem as fake as he had dreamt before.
He was confident that he could easily provoke Shi Zhen into a rage!
There are many other things that are also truly excessive.
In fact, if Shi Zhen hadn't suddenly come to him, he would have been living the life he dreamed of.
And Shi Zhen...
There are actually many incongruous aspects to Shi Zhen.
According to what he knew... Shi Zhen used to dote on Shi Ting, but what about now?
He didn't care much about Shi Ting's high school entrance exam.
Shi Zhen's personality is completely different from what Shi Xingchao and the others described; it's not the same as his previous personality.
Furthermore, Shi Zhenming clearly hasn't read many books, yet he knows so much...
Even if his mother could teach him something... he was only eight years old when his mother passed away, how much could he have learned?
And... how did Shi Zhen's mother know anything about starting a company?
And are they... really relatives?
It's clear that Shi Dalin and Shi Ting know nothing about him!
Shi Zhen was probably lying to him before.
He had never experienced anything so bizarre before, so he didn't think much of it, but now the more he thought about it, the more something seemed off.
So... did Shi Zhen have a dream like him?
Is this a dream?
Guan Baiyu instinctively felt that it wasn't a dream, but rather... another life he was experiencing.
Did Shi Zhen also experience a similar life?
So that's why this guy came to him, claiming to be his cousin? And then kept taking care of him?
But if that's really the case... they've been together for so long, why... didn't Shi Zhen make a move against him?
Do you think he's too young?
He confessed his feelings yesterday, but Shi Zhen didn't react at all! Is he even capable?!
Wait, Shi Zhen likes... the him in his dreams, not the him now?
There are indeed differences between them.
He is more lively now, but in another version of his life, he is darker.
Because of his shady nature, he would put on a facade in front of Shi Zhen.
For example, he disliked Shi Zhen's family members, not a single one of them, but he never showed it. On the contrary, he cared about them a lot and would send them gifts from time to time.
For example, the resentment in his heart, and some of the things he had done... he was unwilling to talk about them with Shi Zhen.
He was always gentle in front of Shi Zhen back then.
Of course, the last period doesn't count.
He regretted not having a proper talk with Shi Zhen back then.
When he first got together with Shi Zhen, he held on to him very tightly because he didn't want to lose him. But after six years together, he was certain of Shi Zhen's feelings for him, and he couldn't help but lose his temper when he was upset.
Shi Zhen must have been quite upset at the time.
But she still comes back every night, doesn't argue with him, and doesn't even ask many questions. Sometimes she just looks at him like a submissive wife.
Guan Baiyu covered her eyes, and tears welled up again.
Shi Zhen probably remembered all of that when he first started working.
I thought of them... their entire life together.
Then I came to find him.
That idiot.
Guan Baiyu wiped away her tears, checked the time, and realized it was already five o'clock the next morning.
He slept for a day and a half... Guan Baiyu got up and went to the toilet.
After using the restroom, Guan Baiyu looked at himself in the mirror and was speechless.
He cried too much last night, and both his eyes are swollen, making him look really ugly!
He looks much better now than he did during that period of his life, and he's also five centimeters taller.
The difference between having someone provide you with good food and drink and struggling alone with nothing to eat is enormous.
But if both eyes are swollen, it definitely won't look good.
Guan Baiyu stared at herself in the mirror for a while, then heard a knock on the door: "Xiaoyu, are you alright?"
Shi Zhen got up when he heard the noise. He went to Guan Baiyu's room and saw that no one was on the bed, so he knew that Guan Baiyu had gotten up.
He waited outside the toilet. At first, there was movement inside, but then it suddenly stopped, so he couldn't help but knock on the door.
"I'm fine." Guan Baiyu opened the door and went out.
If it were the old him, he would definitely have tried to hide his swollen eyes from Shi Zhen.
He didn't want Shi Zhen to see him looking so ugly.
But now he feels indifferent.
Shi Zhen has seen what he looks like before.
And then there's Shi Zhen... In his mind before, Shi Zhen didn't snore.
But now... the emotions from his dream are still there! He's filled with resentment towards Shi Zhen for snoring!
This guy smokes and drinks, works like crazy, and snores at such a young age, haha!
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