Chapter 134: Poisonous Hands
"Blah!"
Duan Jiyang stood up suddenly, his face changing from gloomy to bright and dark. He almost knocked over the coffee on the table. Lu Yan's words stirred up waves of shock in his heart.
How is it possible?! His father had clearly told him that Tang Rufeng's illegitimate status was not acceptable, and that as long as he worked hard in the future, the family property would still be his. Why would he suddenly contact a lawyer to change his will?!
Duan Jiyang suppressed his panic and asked, "Did Zhao Shu tell you this?"
Lu Yan leaned back in his chair. Although he was smiling, his expression did not seem fake. "Why would I lie to you? He just happened to come to my bar a few days ago and we chatted casually. Why don't you call and ask him yourself?"
Duan Jiyang certainly wouldn't ask. He and Zhao Shu had no connection, so how could the other party tell him? This news burned his heart like fire. Duan Jiyang couldn't stay there for even a quarter of an hour, so he left the cafe and rushed home.
Little did he know that not long after he left, Lu Yan sent a message to Tang Rufeng. After doing all this, he turned off the screen of his mobile phone and muttered to himself: "I seduced him? Tang Rufeng really dared to make up a story..."
There was really nothing Tang Rufeng was afraid to make up. Facts had proven that no matter how innocent and green a college student was, he or she would become dark and cunning after entering society.
Duan Jiyang was anxious to confirm the truth, so he rushed home. However, before he could even run upstairs, he saw a middle-aged man wearing glasses walking out of Duan Jianfeng's study. He was holding a briefcase and had a gentle face. It was Zhao Qikang, a partner in a well-known law firm in the industry.
At that moment, Duan Jiyang's heart was as if he had fallen into an icy cave. He forced himself to adjust his expression and greeted him: "Uncle Zhao, what a coincidence, why are you here today? Does Dad want to talk to you about something?"
Nine out of ten lawyers are shrewd people. Zhao Qikang would never get too close to any of the Duan family's sons. When he saw Duan Jiyang, he just smiled politely and said, "It's Mr. Duan. The chairman has some business to attend to, so he asked me to come over to confirm. It's not a big deal."
Duan Jiyang asked without being able to discern the emotion: "Are you asked to change your will?"
Zhao Qikang glanced at Duan Jiyang with a hint of surprise, and no one knew what that look meant. "Mr. Duan, when I just came out, I just heard the chairman ask his assistant to look for you. It seemed like there was something urgent. Go in quickly and don't keep him waiting for too long."
He nodded slightly after he finished speaking, turned around and left. His evasive attitude made people more and more uneasy.
Duan Jiyang frowned and thought for a moment, but finally he pushed the door and walked into Duan Jianfeng's study. Like Tang Rufeng, he hated the dark and oppressive atmosphere inside. He stood in front of the desk in a proper manner, not even daring to raise his head: "Dad, what do you want to talk to me about?"
“Blah——!”
Duan Jianfeng said nothing. With a gloomy face, he threw an advertising contract in his face. The sharp edge of the paper drew a red mark on his face, which looked particularly eye-catching. He said angrily, "How many times have I told you that you can just drink and eat with those bad friends, but don't take your feelings into business. Jinrong's project company has already decided on the cooperating advertisers. Who told you to pass it to the Lin family privately!"
Duan Jiyang subconsciously took a step back, watching the contract papers flying down like snowflakes. He endured the burning pain on his face and said, "Dad, I just think the price they offered is more appropriate, nearly six points cheaper than similar companies."
Duan Jianfeng slammed the table. "Cheap?! You only care about cheap, don't you know that cheap things are not good? They did a terrible job in the advertising and marketing of Jinrong. Have you ever taken a good look at it? All they know is intrigue. If you had paid a little more attention to taking secret photos, the project would not have turned out like this!"
Duan Jianfeng was so angry that his chest was heaving, and his tone could not hide his disappointment: "I originally wanted you to return to the company to gain experience, but now it seems that you are really useless. Get out!"
Duan Jiyang raised his head when he heard this: "Are you really going to hand over the company to that bastard Tang Rufeng?!"
Duan Jianfeng became more and more angry: "So what if I hand it over to him? The company is mine, I can hand it over to whoever I want to give it to, it's none of your business!"
Duan Jiyang didn't know where he got the courage from after hearing this, and gritted his teeth and said: "If you hadn't swallowed up my mother's company, the Duan family would not be where it is today!"
He ignored Duan Jianfeng's furious expression and slammed the door and walked out. However, he didn't expect that Tang Rufeng was sitting on the sofa downstairs waiting for him. He had a cup of milk tea in his hand and had drunk half of it. It seemed that he had just arrived.
Duan Jiyang walked down the stairs quickly, his voice cold, unable to conceal his hostility: "What are you doing here?!"
Tang Rufeng crossed his legs, shook the cup of milk tea in his hand, and said lightly: "This is my home too, why can't I come?"
Duan Jiyang cursed in a low voice: "Bastard!"
Tang Rufeng didn't seem angry at all when he heard this. He stood up from the sofa and looked at Duan Jiyang with his dark eyes, staring at him until he felt a chill run down his spine. Then he asked with a half-smile, "Don't you want to know why Dad asked Lawyer Zhao to do that just now?"
Duan Jiyang unconsciously clenched his fists, looking suspicious and uncertain: "You know?"
Tang Rufeng's lips curved coldly: "Of course I know."
He took a step forward and walked in front of Duan Jiyang, and said casually: "Don't you know it all in your heart? Dad has changed his will."
Duan Jiyang's expression froze upon hearing this, and then he sneered, "Just because I messed up an advertising plan, he wants to change his will and give you the family property? Do you think I will believe it?"
Tang Rufeng said, "Messed up? Let me tell you the truth, the promotion was not messed up at all. He just wanted you to leave the company. He just made up an excuse."
Duan Jiyang always felt that this sentence had a deeper meaning: "What do you mean?"
Tang Rufeng said nothing, but casually shook the milk tea cup in his hand. There was a simple and elegant lily pattern painted on the cup, which was about to bloom and was lovely. However, Duan Jianfeng hated this kind of flower the most because he was allergic to lily pollen.
Tang Rufeng said meaningfully, "You know what you did in your heart. The old man was actually quite nice to you. At least he didn't call the police. Don't you think so?"
His words were incoherent and made Duan Jiyang dizzy. He took two steps back unconsciously, with gloom and panic flashing in his eyes.
No... How could this happen?! Did the old man find out that he deliberately put pollen in his room on the day of his birthday party, so he wanted to get rid of him?
Duan Jiyang was so panicked that he couldn't control himself. He was anxious to confirm something and subconsciously looked up at Tang Rufeng, but found that the other party had already left. He was the only one left standing alone in the middle of the huge living room.
Duan Jiyang calmed down in the shortest possible time and managed to calm down. He walked out quickly, took out his cell phone and called his secretary, asking him to find a way to delay Zhao Qikang at all costs so that he would not have time to change his will. Then he drove away from the old house.
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"Zhao Shu sent me a message today, saying that his father was in a car accident two days ago and is currently in the hospital. He thinks it was Duan Jiyang who did it."
Because of Duan Jianfeng, Lu Yan and Tang Rufeng tried to avoid people when they met during this period. The meeting place was set in a private room of a bar. The dim light fell on the two of them, making them a little blurry. Only the karaoke screen in front of them kept flashing the picture.
Tang Rufeng had just got off work and looked exhausted. He closed his eyes and rested his head on Lu Yan's legs. He looked visibly relaxed and lazy: "It's 80% likely that he did it."
Lu Yan clicked his tongue and said, "How cruel."
Tang Rufeng opened his eyes and said in an ambiguous tone, "He can be even more ruthless. Do you believe it?"
Lu stretched out his hand to cover Tang Rufeng's eyes and smiled: "No matter how cruel he is, it has nothing to do with me. I don't like him, don't you think so?"
Ever since he knew that Duan Jiyang had lied to Tang Rufeng that he was a body double, Lu Yan had been repeating this sentence over and over again, until his ears were worn out. Hearing this, Tang Rufeng pulled Lu Yan's hand down, his eyes bright, and asked tirelessly, "Who do you like, then?"
"you."
"I like you."
Lu Yan was always very patient. Tang Rufeng liked to listen, so he would repeat it a few more times, a thousand times or even ten thousand times: "Are you going to sleep here tonight, or go home directly?"
Tang Rufeng rolled up his sleeves and glanced at his watch: "I can't stay too long, or I'll be photographed like last time. I'll be back in two more hours."
Lu Yan raised his lips slightly and said jokingly, "Do we look like a couple having an affair?"
Yu Jue continued, "There are still two hours left. Go to sleep for a while. I'll stay with you."
They hadn't seen each other for a while since they were secretly photographed last time, and spent most of their time chatting on their phones. Tang Rufeng didn't want to waste the hard-earned two hours sleeping, so he simply got up from the sofa, put his arms around Lu Yan's neck, sat on his legs, sniffed him like a puppy, and kissed him.
Lu Yan hugged Tang Rufeng's waist and let him do whatever he wanted. He couldn't help but raise his eyebrows secretly, thinking that it wasn't him who seduced Tang Rufeng, it was Tang Rufeng who seduced him: "Aren't you going to sleep?"
Tang Rufeng bit Lu Yan hard, feeling that he was not paying attention, and said in a low voice with dissatisfaction: "You can still sleep when you go back."
Okay.
Lu Yan understood what Tang Rufeng meant. He turned over and pressed him down on the sofa, giving him a suffocating deep kiss. Tang Rufeng seemed to particularly like this kind of near-death stimulation. Every time he kissed Lu Yan, he would hold his neck tightly, panting in his arms, with a smudged look at the corners of his eyes, like a ghost in Liao Zhai.
Tang Rufeng pressed against the tip of Lu Yan's nose, remembering something, and rubbed it lightly from time to time: "When I was working part-time at the bar, I often saw you drinking in the booth upstairs..."
Lu Yan asked subconsciously: "And then?"
Tang Rufeng: "And then there is no then."
He didn't dare to go up and talk to him, nor did he dare to appear in front of Lu Yan. He just passed by the bar downstairs frequently, because if he looked up, he could see the other person sitting lazily in the booth and laughing, arrogant and unrestrained, like a burning bright flame.
Lu Yan had never looked down, so he didn't notice it.
When Lu Yan mentioned this, he wanted to laugh, and his chest shook: "Then do you know why I go to the bar to drink every day?"
Tang Rufeng was puzzled: "Why?"
Lu Yan was very proud: "In order to break off the engagement with Duan Jiyang, I deliberately had a life of debauchery in there, and he couldn't stand it and broke off the engagement."
Tang Rufeng choked when he heard this. He had never expected that there would be such a thing behind this. "Since you didn't want to be with him, why did you insist on getting engaged to him in the first place?"
Lu Yan tried to recall for a moment and found that his memory of Duan Jiyang was blank. He fell in love with him inexplicably and got engaged inexplicably. It was difficult to find a reason: "...I can't explain it. I felt that he and I were wrong from the beginning."
Wrong start, wrong end, wrong person.
Tang Rufeng breathed lighter upon hearing this, and felt inexplicably nervous. He only felt a sudden warm touch on his ear. Lu Yan whispered something almost sweet: "But the two of us are right..."
He kissed Tang Rufeng's delicate cheeks and slightly thin jaw, and finally kissed her red and swollen lips, rubbing them: "We still have a long time to live together, don't do anything that can't be undone, understand?"
Lu Yan may not be able to see Tang Rufeng's hatred for Duan Jianfeng, and he may also be able to guess what Tang Rufeng is up to. He wants to make the other party feel relieved, but he is also worried that the other party will do something irreversible in a fit of anger, so he can only remind him in this way.
Tang Rufeng closed his eyes when he heard that. His throat was inexplicably blocked and he could not hide his hoarse voice: "Well... I know."
Tang Rufeng really wanted Duan Jianfeng to pay the price, but he was not alone now. He could not fight without considering the consequences like he did in the past. He still had a glimmer of hope for the future, and it was not worth losing everything for a piece of trash like Duan Jianfeng.
The weather is getting colder. Duan Jianfeng has always had problems with his legs and feet, so he doesn't like to go out. Although he usually has a nanny to take care of him, it is impossible for her to follow him all the time.
On an ordinary afternoon, the family doctor came to check Duan Jianfeng as usual. As soon as he walked to the door, he saw Duan Jianfeng tumbling down from the upstairs with his hands on his neck and a look of terror on his face. He was so scared that he even dropped his medicine box. He hurried forward to check on the situation:
"Chairman!! Are you okay, Chairman?!"
Duan Jianfeng's voice was hoarse and he couldn't speak. He held his neck tightly with both hands and gasped heavily. A large rash appeared on his old face, like an allergy symptom. His eyes were originally dim, but when he saw the doctor, his eyes lit up again. He tightly grasped his hand and squeezed out a few hoarse words from his throat: "Call... call an ambulance..."
Seeing that he was in a bad condition, the doctor immediately called 120 and sent him to the hospital. After emergency treatment, it was determined that he was allergic to pollen. However, because Duan Jianfeng had also suffered a dislocation of the cervical vertebra when he fell, his neurological function was severely damaged and he was likely to suffer paralysis.
As soon as the news came out, Tang Rufeng and Duan Ji Yang rushed to the hospital immediately, but learned that Duan Jianfeng was still undergoing surgery and his secretary was currently helping with affairs.
The more guilty a person is, the more eager they are to show it. Before Tang Rufeng could say anything, Duan Jiyang had already stepped forward and asked, "Secretary Lin, why did Dad suddenly become allergic to pollen? Doesn't he have a nanny at home?"
Secretary Lin hesitated and said, "We don't know the reason yet. The nanny happened to be out picking up an order for food at noon, so she wasn't at home at the time. The family doctor found that the chairman was not feeling well when he came to the house, so he was sent to the hospital. I have already called the police, and we are still waiting for the results of the police investigation."
Hearing that Secretary Lin had called the police, Duan Jiyang said nothing and went to sit on a bench outside the operating room. He didn't expect Duan Jianfeng to be so lucky that he could survive the allergy and fall. "Did Dad tell me who was in charge of the company when he was in the hospital?"
Secretary Lin looked at Duan Jiyang deeply, unable to hide his suspicion, and then nodded and said, "If the chairman does not have any special instructions, whoever was in charge before will still be in charge now."
The person implied was Tang Rufeng.
Duan Jiyang had an ugly look on his face, feeling that he had lost more than he gained. Not only did he fail to get rid of the old man, but he also let the bastard Tang Rufeng get away with it.
Tang Rufeng didn't plan to wait outside. He checked the time and said calmly, "Since we've already called the police, let's wait for their results. I have something else to do at the company. I'll go back first. Call me when the chairman wakes up."
Hospitals are places where one is most accustomed to the fickleness of human nature. Duan Jianfeng himself probably never imagined that one day he would be lying on a hospital bed with only a secretary guarding outside. His two sons regarded him as an enemy and each hoped that he would die, but they didn't know who to blame.
On the other hand, Lu Yan also got into trouble. Lu Wanshan somehow found out their home address and blocked the door, refusing to leave, like a gangster.
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