Chapter 83 A Winning Hand with Two Sixes by Your Side
Lin Shukai did not frown as before after hearing this. He sighed, "To be honest, I have not been a good father either. Xingmian's illness is not just a stomach problem, but more seriously a heart problem. He did not have these two problems when I went to Mushui to see him. I am the one who caused him to get these two problems."
He lowered his head and swayed slightly.
"Actually, that girl is right. She's very direct. She dares to say things that Xingmian wouldn't tell me before. You know, none of the people around me dare to speak the truth. They just blindly obey me. Over time, I've stopped doubting whether what I'm doing is right..."
“But everyone’s actions have shown that Aunt Chen, Butler Qin, and Uncle Yang all watched Xingmian grow up. I may be a little better at business than them, but when it comes to raising children, I am not even one ten-thousandth as good as them. When I found out that they had all hidden it from me, I still stuck to my own principles, which led to such a big disaster.”
Qin Kemeng's attempt to sow discord failed, but Lin Shukai's words gave her something to say: "Master, there's no need to blame yourself so much. If you feel you can't take good care of the child, why don't we have another one? Give Xingmian a little sister, and Xingmian will become more responsible. Our little sister will definitely be more considerate of Dad..."
Lin Shukai raised his hand to interrupt: "No need to mention it again. Putting aside my old age, I made a promise with Xiaodai since Xingmian was born that we would only have this one child in our lives, and we would give him all our wealth so that he could be the happiest child in the world."
“The happiest child in the world…” Lin Shukai murmured to himself, put down his teacup, suddenly stood up and walked to the window, staring blankly at the pond outside.
"Yes, we once promised to make Xingmian the happiest child in the world, but how did things turn out this way?"
Qin Kemeng stopped speaking. She smiled on the surface, but she was inwardly full of resentment.
How many years has it been?
Why bring up his ex-wife?
The light in her eyes slowly dimmed. He was like a stone that could never be warmed. The love she felt for him was gradually worn away by his nostalgia. Indeed, men in this world are unreliable. She realized this too late, which caused her well-planned things to be delayed again and again.
hehe.
Lin Shukai, since you're so hard-hearted, don't blame me for being ruthless.
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The sun is setting, casting a warm glow.
May is truly a perfect month, as can be clearly seen at Yunyue Manor.
Xu Zhiyu wore a pale yellow tutu today, with a matching embroidered triangular scarf on her head and two pigtails. She bent over and stood up among the violet flowers south of the bamboo house.
She had a small wooden basket slung over her left wrist, filled with picked violets and poppies.
Yes, to the west of the bamboo forest, there is a hillside covered in blooming poppies, and to the east, cherry blossoms and pear orchards are also in bloom. She is like a lively little white rabbit, hopping around in all these beautiful places!
Looking at the basket full of flowers, Ayu decided to go back and find a vase to arrange them, then have some ice cream, relax, and make dinner for Xingmian.
She hummed a little tune and walked upstairs with light steps.
Since her older sister came to her side, Lin Xingmian has recovered from all her ailments. She obediently follows the doctor's instructions to take care of her health every day and diligently studies her lessons.
The surveillance cameras in the room were removed as Xu Zhiyu had suggested.
At that time, she spoke with righteous indignation: "Old Lin, let me tell you the truth, and please don't mind if the truth is unpleasant to hear."
Lin Shukai raised an eyebrow: "How bad could it be?"
Xu Zhiyu: "To be honest, installing surveillance cameras in his room is something no human being would do! Think about it carefully, if you were the one being monitored, and someone could see you farting or picking your nose in your room! How could you live a normal life like that? Wouldn't that be being watched by a pervert?"
Lin Shukai: "..." Pervert? That's awful!
She put one hand on her hip and waved a finger in front of Mr. Lin's eyes.
He continued, "Let me tell you, that's not the scariest part. The scariest part is that Xingmian will be subtly influenced by you without you even realizing it! Who knows, he might become a pervert like you in the future! By the time you realize it, it will be too late! He will have completely learned it! My God!"
Ah Yu spoke with exaggerated gestures and funny movements, which made all the servants in the hall unable to help but laugh.
So later, staff came and removed all the surveillance cameras targeting Mr. Lin's home, leaving only some basic ones to prevent the loss of property.
The matter of Xingmian misunderstanding that her father was the one who harmed Xu's father has also been explained.
Because Lin Shukai exposed the real mastermind behind it all.
The fact that this whole thing has developed into such a peaceful and harmonious situation is all thanks to Xu Zhiyu's decision to believe Xingmian's father in the car that day.
If she had also become enraged at that time and firmly believed that Lin Shukai was the murderer who attacked her father, then things would have definitely become much more serious!
Instead of the way it is now—
"Sauce sauce sauce sauce~"
Ah Yu moved with light steps and suddenly jumped in from outside the door!
She placed the vase she had arranged on Xingmian's desk, proudly raised her chin, and said, "Hmph~ Pretty, isn't it? My aesthetic sense is impeccable!"
Xingmian saw a pale yellow little sun jump from the garden into his room. He stopped writing, a smile playing at the corners of his eyes.
"It's absolutely gorgeous! I feel like I'll score ten more points on the college entrance exam!" he praised earnestly.
Ah Yu placed her hands on the table, bent down to get closer to Xing Mian across the table, and grinned mischievously.
"Hey, to be honest, I knew your family was rich, but I really didn't know they were this rich!"
Lin Xingmian smiled and said, "It's alright. I don't have enough pocket money to buy you a necklace casually."
Xu Zhiyu tilted her head and exclaimed, "My God! At first, I just thought this bamboo house was yours, and that this was one of those villa areas. I never imagined that this whole mountain belonged to you! Wow, your dad is really amazing!"
Lin Xingmian said sourly, "Him? He's just average. The main thing is that my maternal grandfather is quite wealthy and helped my dad a lot before. I'm a bit more successful than my dad; his first pot of gold was two million, while mine was twenty million." *Cough*, although that channel wasn't exactly legitimate.
He uttered some astonishing words in a calm tone.
"What!?" Ah Yu's eyes widened. "Twenty million?? When did you earn twenty million?? We're such good friends, and you're so rich, yet you won't even share a penny with me!! Ugh! You're so mean! I'll fight you rich people to the death!!"
She clenched her fist and swung it at him, but Xingmian grabbed her little fist and pulled her into his arms, making her sit on his lap.
He thought it over carefully and explained, "I did earn more than 20 million, but I paid a heavy price at the time. And I'm broke now. I borrowed a lot of money from my aunt, and I paid her back all the money I had. 20 million is far from enough. I even had to sell two houses to pay it back."
As she spoke, Lin Xingmian lowered her eyelashes and murmured, "What's most infuriating is that my aunt actually charged me interest? That's so vicious."
Ayu didn't want Xingmian to hold her in his arms, feeling that it wasn't a good look for the two of them to be tugging at each other like that at home.
As she struggled, she muttered, "So how much money did you borrow from your aunt?"
Lin Xingmian: "More than 70 million."
Xu Zhiyu: "?"
"What? Tens of millions?"
"Seventy million?"
"What are you going to do? Are you going to save the world?"
"Seventy million!" she gasped. "Unheard of! Unthinkable! I wonder what it looks like!"
Lin Xingmian: "Yes, I want to save the world."
Xu Zhiyu: "? What did you do with this money? Do you really have a place to spend 70 million at such a young age? It sounds like something out of a TV drama..."
He reached out to her, and Xu Zhiyu thought Xingmian was going to touch her neck, so she instinctively dodged back. But he just grabbed the necklace around her neck and said, "Here, this is it."
Confused, she stared blankly, "This? What's wrong with this necklace?"
Ayu suddenly remembered a crack inside the pink diamond and assumed Xingmian was concerned about it, so she explained, "Oh right, I forgot to tell you. The day my dad had the accident, this necklace was in his coat pocket. The crack inside was probably from the fall..."
Lin Xingmian frowned slightly: "This is a genuine diamond, with extremely high purity. It's the hardest substance in the world, how could it possibly crack from a fall?"
In fact, Xu Zhiyu had always been puzzled by this. She shook her head and said, "I don't know either, but I think... you said before that this necklace was blessed, maybe it saved my dad's life."
Before she could finish speaking, her expression turned slightly sad when she mentioned Xu's father.
Xingmian's eyes softened as she comforted him, "If that's really the case, then it seems I really did spend seventy million to save my world."
Xu Zhiyu: "Huh? What do you mean? You mean..."
Lin Xingmian: "You are my world."
He spoke with deep affection, and Xu Zhiyu's eyes went from blank to shocked.
"You mean—you spent 70 million to buy this necklace???"
"Really???" She cupped Xingmian's face in her hands and stared intently at her.
Overwhelmed with emotion, Lin Xingmian's gaze fell on her sister's red and tender lips, and her voice suddenly became hoarse: "Mmm."
Ah Yu slapped him on the head, shattering the ambiguous atmosphere!
"Are you out of your mind!" she exclaimed angrily. "Seventy million! That's seventy million!! And you actually used it to buy a necklace like this?!"
Her slap ignited Lin Shao's temper, and he said unhappily, "What? You have a problem with that?"
Xu Zhiyu: "Of course I have an opinion! My God, seventy million could probably buy three Huainan Lanes, right? Why are you wasting money like this?"
Lin Xingmian angrily retorted, "I...didn't...spend...money...randomly!"
"Why are you talking like that? You don't like it? Fine, if you don't like it, then take it off and give it to me so I can throw it away."
Upon hearing this, she quickly clutched the necklace tightly: "How could I say I don't like it? I just didn't expect a necklace to be so expensive. I feel like it's worth more than me when I wear it around my neck."
“Don’t say that,” he said. “Money is the least valuable thing; you are priceless.”
If a man said that, Ayu's first reaction would be that he's greasy and pretentious.
But Young Master Lin said it so seriously, there was nothing wrong with it. In his world, money was indeed the least valuable thing. She had nothing to say to him, so she simply rolled her eyes at him, shook her head, and walked away.
"I won't disturb your studying anymore, I'll go make you dinner."
Lin Xingmian was unhappy again: "Someone is making dinner, why are you going out again? Can't you stay in the room with me?"
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