Never Meet 3 (Tao Xingye x Lin Yu)
Is it strange? Tao Xinghai leaned back on the sofa, his eyes filled with worry and resentment. "It is indeed strange."
Tao Xinghai suddenly laughed. "He's a CEO, the entire Wanyun Group belongs to him, and he has the Xu family behind him. Why would he give up his bright future and willingly stay in prison for three years, the time when he should be making great achievements? Lin Yu, why?"
Why did you go back after running away from the Tao family? Why didn’t you just be a puppet after going back and instead rebelled?
"After three years, he is nothing. No one dares to hire him despite having such a good academic degree. It's so satisfying to see him begging for help." Tao Xinghai's eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of fog, and he looked at a blank space without focus.
"Of course I won't lend him a helping hand. Who let him ruin Wanyun? I've suffered just as much as he has in the past three years, and I want him to pay it all back." Tao Xinghai's eyes were sharp as knives. "He did find a good job, working as a drinking companion for a guy named Wang, but I refused to give him even that job. You don't know, after Tao Xingguo retired, I became the new president of Wanyun Group. I was so impressive. Outsiders were still scared by such a shell company. I didn't even need to say it directly. I just gave him a look, and the job he had fought for with all his dignity was gone. Lin Yu, you really should have returned to China then. You should have seen how miserable he was the year after he was released from prison. All the grudges were gone. It was so satisfying, so satisfying..."
"You are shameless!" Lin Yu felt a sharp pain in her chest. Half of Tao Xinghai's face was red from her beating. She was shaky and finally stood up with the help of something. "He treated you well."
"Can't you take revenge if it's not bad? Lin Yu, be reasonable. Tao Xingye has been so good to you, don't you hate him? This time you returned to China..." Tao Xinghai looked Lin Yu up and down, "Don't you have the same purpose as me?"
Tao Xinghai casually took the flowers from the vase. He aimlessly tore off the petals one by one. "How good do you think you are to him? He knelt before Tao Xingguo to get your medical treatment, and he drank too much and ended up in the emergency room with stomach bleeding. Do you think it has nothing to do with you? Lin Yu, you're an independent engineering researcher in Germany. Of course, you have nothing to do with a mediocre person like him."
"You..." Lin Yu's voice trembled. The glass door behind him was suddenly pushed open violently. Tao Xingye almost rushed in and grabbed Tao Xinghai's collar. "Get as far away as you can. Do you understand?"
Rose petals fell from the space between their arms. Lin Yu looked at the thin figure with his back to her. Even his black suit couldn't cover the protruding bones on his back. She couldn't help but reach out to him.
"Sorry to disturb you." Tao Xingye tilted his head, his voice low and cold. He picked up Tao Xinghai who was pressed to the ground and walked straight out the door.
Lin Yu's outstretched hand suddenly lost its destination, floating helplessly in mid-air. Something seemed to be slowly collapsing and crumbling beneath Lin Yu's feet.
The stable platform in the terminal hall seemed unable to withstand a storm. She felt as if she was on a plane that would eventually land, but after a very long journey, the destination did not seem to be what she wanted.
Or maybe, this plane will have no destination, and she will spend the rest of her life floating slowly in the sky like an insignificant cloud, and can only watch the warmth of love in the world as a bystander.
"I'm not going back, Tao Xingye, I want you to keep me." Lin Yu finally didn't have the strength to steady her body, and she fell to the ground uncontrollably.
The moment Tao Xingye rushed over and hugged her, she cried so hard that she almost couldn't breathe.
She didn't care anymore, Lin Yu thought. Even if Tao Xingye really wanted to abandon her, she didn't care anymore. She wanted Tao Xingye to accompany her. She wanted Tao Xingye to stay by her side.
"My heart," Lin Yu bit her lip and covered her chest, "is in pain. He said it hurt especially when you were humiliated; he said it hurt so much when you were in jail that it was almost suffocating. That was your place. You dug a hole in my heart. That was your place."
It wasn't revenge, this trip back home wasn't about revenge from the beginning to the end. She boarded the plane, dressed herself despite her sleepiness, and went shopping at the mall, clearing out her inventory.
It was all for a possible encounter. She appeared in front of Tao Xingye with a perfect posture, not to make him jealous of her glamour.
In the most secret corner of her heart, there was a thought that even she was ashamed of. It was an expectation that had been buried between Chinese lovers since the days when women dressed up to please themselves.
"Am I beautiful?"
"Beautiful." Tao Xingye put his forehead against hers, his voice so tender that it almost faded away, "I know you are beautiful." He also knew that this beauty should not fall into his hands.
"Go back." His attitude suddenly changed and he became extremely calm. He raised his head and turned his back to Lin Yu. Lin Yu could only see his tense jaw.
"The current research landscape in Jincheng is not worth giving up everything you've gained after years of hard work in Germany. Here, you can't even access a new piece of equipment that you need most for experiments." Tao Xingye cleared his cough, lowered his head again, and a polite yet distant smile appeared on his face.
Lin Yu laughed, and her laughter became louder and louder.
When Li Chen and Li Lianqing arrived, they saw such a strange scene - Lin Yu was lying in Tao Xingye's arms with tears on her face, and Tao Xingye, who was holding her, was smiling like a sculpture.
All the weirdness disappeared in just a moment. At that moment, Lin Yu suddenly grabbed Tao Xingye's neck and forced him to lower his head, and then Lin Yu kissed him directly on the lips.
Time seemed to stand still as everyone looked at them.
"Yes." Li Lianqing clenched his fist and jumped up suddenly. When he landed, he turned to Li Chen with a wave. "Give me the money, give me the money. Mission successfully completed."
"Get out of here." Li Chen punched Li Lianqing on the head like hitting a groundhog, "Idiot." He grabbed the two strings of Li Lianqing's hoodie and pulled the hood back. Li Lianqing's ferocious expression was instantly sealed.
"Let's go!" Li Chen took Li Lianqing out and did not forget to hold Tao Xinghai and force him to be taken away.
The kiss ended long ago, but Lin Yu felt embarrassed after realizing it, and huddled in Tao Xingye's arms, refusing to look up. Only after the other person left did she stand up and look at Tao Xingye, looking like a fearless gangster.
She patted Tao Xingye's face and said, "Hey, I want to marry you."
Tao Xingye looked at this person. At this moment, she was more flamboyant than she had been in many years, just like the "thug" who had pestered her and asked him to help her as a matter of course when she first transferred to Tianya Middle School. She was no different from the one they first met and the one she was now.
And the gloomy, sad and depressed her in those few years finally slowly left.
Her transformation in her youth was caused by him. At that time, he stood in the dark and let her go through the ridicule of the whole school. At that time, he stood as a bystander and let others take away her locked diary.
She was a cautious sixteen-year-old, and all her successes were shattered by his quarrels. If he had compromised at the beginning, Lin Yu would not have experienced all the ups and downs later, would not have been rejected twice by the competition group, would not have experienced the pressure of the college entrance examination, would not have been devastated by rumors, and would not have... committed suicide.
She should have been in her dazzling twenties, but he threatened her future and used her identity as a wife as a shackle, forcing her to enter into a marriage with him that only he was interested in.
And now, she was standing in front of her again.
Tao Xingye suddenly felt like crying. It seemed that because of his efforts, his sense of disappointment towards Lin Yu had diminished a little...
"I want a formal wedding this time, and I want you to pick out a pair of rings with me..." Lin Yu looked at him with a smile, and Tao Xingye thought of the deceased Tao Damai.
Tao Xingye lowered his head and suddenly grabbed Lin Yu tightly in his arms, his forehead against hers, "It's you, it's always been you." His wife has never changed.
When he was 22 years old, he brought the marriage certificate from his hometown to Jinming Mountain by himself. The marriage certificate, which had been reviewed by the Buddha, was sealed in a wooden box, sealed with red clay, and enshrined with a green lamp, and placed safely in the Tao family ancestral hall.
It has never changed.
All Xu Meihan and he had was a wedding; they didn't get a marriage certificate because he was in jail.
He snatched Lin Yu back from the gangster Tao Xingye.
"Lin Yu..."
"Wow, you can't make any other noises?"
"Wife?"
"That's weird. You should just call me Lin Xiaomai."
"Wheat wife!"
"Silly boy, I meant to call me Lin Xiaomai."
"Lin Xiaomai's wife!"
"Get lost."
"Lin Xiaomai's wife, Lin Xiaomai's wife, Lin Xiaomai's wife..."
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