Chapter 124 Inheritance

Mrs. Shen was stunned by Shen Xingran's words.

Shen Xingran did not stop, and walked out of the Shen family villa with a suitcase. She

got into Jin Lino's car.

Shen Xingran's disturbance made the already depressed Shen family even more dead.

Mrs. Shen seemed to have her soul sucked out that day. She locked herself in the bedroom and didn't eat.

Shen Xingzhuo stood in the middle of the huge living room for a long time.

Finally, he came to his senses, did not dare to look at anyone, and did not care about the media blocking outside, and left the Shen family villa directly.

Shen Xingyu sat quietly on the sofa for a while, stood up, and went to the study to make a phone call to familiar contacts for help.

The most energetic person was probably Shen Hongyuan lying on the hospital bed.

Ever since he learned that it was Shen Xingran who leaked the news to the media, Shen Hongyuan has fallen into an extreme state of anger.

He couldn't figure out why Shen Xingran would betray the Shen family.

Shen Hongyuan thought that it might be Lu Ran's revenge.

He also suspected that Shen Xingzhuo, the prodigal son, was resentful of his previous reprimand and deliberately made trouble for him.

He even thought it was Shen Xingyu.

As his sons grow up, they will have more dangerous thoughts.

Shen Hongyuan suspected his three biological sons, but Shen Xingran was the only one he didn't suspect.

Because in his eyes, blood relationship is the biggest reliance.

Shen Xingyu and Shen Xingzhuo, who have an inseparable blood relationship with him, are fearless and have the courage to do it.

But what does Shen Xingran rely on?

He is just an orphan with no one to rely on, and he grew up relying on the love he gave him.

It was Shen Hongyuan who personally pushed Shen Xingran to his current position. In Shen Hongyuan's eyes, without him, Shen Xingran is nothing.

So he will only cling to the Shen family tightly, how could he betray?

It is precisely because he trusts Shen Xingran the most that Shen Hongyuan arranges Shen Xingran to an important position beside him.

But Shen Hongyuan never thought

that the one who betrayed him in the end was actually this helpless orphan.

At noon, Shen Xingyu brought the investigation team to the ward.

Shen Hongyuan's blood pressure soared due to anger, and the instrument next to the bed was beeping.

The investigation team asked some questions, but Shen Hongyuan did not cooperate at all and kept silent.

But the evidence had been collected, and Shen Hongyuan's confession was not important.

After taking notes, the investigation team stood up and said:

"Mr. Shen Hongyuan, after investigation, you are suspected of illegally occupying personal property, the amount is over 100 million..."

But after hearing this, Shen Hongyuan, who had not reacted, trembled and looked up at the investigation team.

Shen Xingyu's face darkened.

Shen Hongyuan began to speak vaguely: "Invasion, embezzlement of personal property? That's my company!"

The investigation team looked at him and explained in a businesslike tone:

"Someone reported that you illegally tampered with your father's will fourteen years ago. Now the situation has been basically verified, and the lawyer involved has surrendered."

"The ownership of Shen's is still being further liquidated."

"All the property under your name will be frozen and await the court's judgment."

Shen Hongyuan lay on the hospital bed with a gray face.

The investigation team left soon.

Shen Xingyu was not surprised to hear that Shen Hongyuan illegally tampered with the will, nor did he ask any further questions.

Because, when he was the CEO of Shen Corporation, he knew that Mr. Shen had left almost all of his property to his youngest grandson, Shen Xingran.

Truth will come out sooner or later.

After illegally occupying the company's property, the chairman of Shen Corporation was exposed for tampering with his father's scandal.

Tampering with a will is a media favorite.

The news about Shen Corporation was very popular at that time.

This news quickly made the headlines, completely satisfying the gossip desire of the general public about the so-called wealthy families.

Ji Min got the news earlier.

Before the media broke the news, he threw out this bombshell on the way to pick up Lu Ran and took him home:

"Mr. Shen left all his property to Shen Xingran."

Lu Ran encountered some problems in the experiment.

He was struggling to draw up a statistical table, and rolled his eyes when he heard Ji Min's words.

He said speechlessly: "Don't tell me this bad news."

His parents and brother all revolved around Shen Xingran.

Even the serious old man in the photo unexpectedly gave all his inheritance to Shen Xingran.

It was really speechless.

But just after Lu Ran finished speaking, Ji Min raised his hand and knocked him on the head.

"Ouch." Lu Ran raised his hands to hold his head.

Ji Min reached out and took out the experiment book in his hand and put it aside.

"Have you achieved anything? When Grandpa Shen died, it's hard to say whether Shen Xingran was adopted or not."

"Your grandpa left all the inheritance to you."

Lu Ran was stunned.

He clearly distinguished himself from the name "Shen Xingran", so when he heard this sentence, he didn't feel any sense of substitution.

Lu Ran was not shocked when he heard that the Shen family failed to sign the contract.

When he learned that it was Shen Xingran who betrayed, his reaction was also calm.

But at this time, he was really surprised.

After the news of Shen Hongyuan's tampering with the will was exposed, the Shen family fell into great chaos. It

was originally just a financial mess, but now the entire board of directors is in turmoil.

There are many elderly people on the board of directors who have worked with Mr. Shen.

There are also people from the Gu family.

When they heard the news, they were all equally incredible.

No one knew better than them what kind of person Mr. Shen was.

The old man established the Shen Group.

In his later years, he was almost blind, but he was still busy at work.

He was a tyrant with a strong desire for control over power.

But at the same time, everyone knew that compared to his own son, Mr. Shen valued the Shen Group itself more.

No one could have imagined that Mr. Shen would leave all his inheritance to a four or five-year-old child.

Because of the change in share ownership, it is bound to cause great turmoil within the company.

If this real will was announced at that time, everyone would think that the will had been tampered with.

Soon, the person behind the news also revealed his true colors.

After all, the person who now occupies the identity of "Shen Xingran" is not Lu Ran.

The Lino family and the Shen family are indeed archenemies.

Old Lino somehow found the lawyer who helped Shen Hongyuan tamper with the will, and learned the real will left by Mr. Shen.

Old Lino had already grasped the news, but he had kept silent.

Now seeing the decline of the Shen family, he came directly to a ruthless move.

After Lu Ran learned the news, he recalled Old Lino's attitude towards him before, and he understood it a little.

I guess Old Lino knew very well that no matter how confused Mr. Shen was, he would not leave the entire Shen family to a grandson who had just been adopted.

So at the beginning, he extended an olive branch to Lu Ran.

But he was kicked into the toilet by Lu Ran.

Probably sensing that Lu Ran was not easy to control, he settled for the next best thing and chose the current Shen Xingran.

Because the timing of this "real will" provided by the lawyer is very clever.

It was just after Shen Hongyuan officially adopted Shen Xingran and gave her a household registration.

In the wording of the will, the words "youngest grandson" were used.

And Shen Xingran happened to be a few months younger than Lu Ran.

More than ten years have passed, and Mr. Shen has died long ago.

Proving who "Shen Xingran" in the will is is a difficult problem for any department.

Soon, Ji Min's assistant handed over Shen Xingyu's call and said to Ji Min: "Mr. Shen asked to see Master Lu Ran."

Ji Min did not refuse immediately, nor did he answer the phone.

The night when Lu Ran learned about the ownership of Master Shen's inheritance, he stood by the window in a daze all night.

But the next day, he continued to rummage through his experimental data.

It seems that the ownership of this inheritance cannot change his determination on certain things.

But he also has no intention of giving things to Shen Xingran for nothing.

He took the time to go back to the orphanage, printed some materials and handed them to the lawyer.

Ji Min did not interfere with Lu Ran's decision.

I just took some time to visit Lu Ran's psychologist and asked about Lu Ran's treatment.

After a period of psychological treatment, Lu Ran's phantom pain did not disappear.

The psychologist was also very distressed.

She said: "The patient's psychological defense is very high. For the treatment, most of them only cooperate with the behavior, and psychologically they have not officially entered the treatment system."

But for the persistent phantom pain in Lu Ran's mind, the doctor thought about it and put forward a point of view:

"He once mentioned that he was pushed into the pool in winter. It is possible that this is the sequelae of the trauma that time."

"What?"

Hearing this, Ji Min frowned, and he asked carefully, "What did he say, when, and who pushed him?"

Logically, psychological counselors should keep the patient's information confidential.

But when signing the agreement, Lu Ran had no objection to Ji Min's right to know.

Therefore, the doctor did not hide it.

Lu Ran would not bring up these things on his own initiative.

The doctor asked because she remembered the story Lu Ran had told her.

The lost child found his family, but discovered that his family only favored the adopted son who had taken his name and identity.

He was troubled by his adopted son in every way, and was once pushed into a pool in winter.

Relatives who witnessed everything still stood on the side of the adopted son.

When he told this story for the first time, Lu Ran did not say that it was his own story.

But his life experience is no longer a secret now, and it can be easily guessed.

So the doctor asked the boy about the experience of being pushed into the pool.

When answering this question, Lu Ran was sitting in the warm sunshine.

The young man turned his head to look at the street scene outside the window. He was silent for a long time and only said two words:

"It hurts."

The water in the pool was icy cold.

He tried to climb up again and again, but was pushed down again and again.

People will slowly lose strength in the water, and feel a kind of despair as if they will never be able to climb up.

In the end, they even forget to struggle.

Ji Min looked down at the medical records in his hand.

In his mind, he was thinking about the time when this happened.

Lu Ran was not recognized by the Shen family until he went to college.

But after the winter vacation, people already knew him.

It seems... there was no time left for this to happen.

Soaking in cold water in the middle of winter is not a trivial matter.

At that time, Da Huang had been fostered at Ji Min's place, and Lu Ran came every day. If there was anything unusual, he would definitely notice it.

But Ji Min also thought that Lu Ran did often stare at the swimming pool.

There was a swimming pool in the backyard of Ji's house.

But Lu Ran never went near it.

Before Ji Min could figure out the clue, he pulled out another piece of medical record in his hand.

There was a scribbled sketch on the paper.

Ji Min looked at the doctor, who said,

"This is a psychological self-portrait of the patient."

Ji Min looked down at the sketch.

In the drawing was a little man trapped in a rectangular frame.

Ji Min looked around for a while before realizing that the rectangle should be a bed.

But what was depressing was that the little man on the bed was not in a resting position.

Below the little man's neck, there were many densely packed black horizontal lines drawn.

These horizontal lines were like cuts from a knife, and also like invisible restraints.

Coming out of the psychological clinic.

Perhaps because of the self-portrait, Ji Min was feeling very depressed.

This painting might be difficult for ordinary people to understand.

But Ji Min had been in a wheelchair.

The moment he saw the painting, he understood what Lu Ran meant.

The little man in the painting was trapped in a hospital bed.

Perhaps it was because of an illness, or perhaps it was... a disability.

When the car was on the road, the driver asked about Ji Min's next stop.

Ji Min talked to the assistant and asked the driver to go to the place reserved by Shen Xingyu.

On the way, Ji Min couldn't help but think of his relationship with Lu Ran before the operation.

Ji Min's temper was indeed weird at that time.

Especially when it came to other people's attitudes towards his injured leg.

But Lu Ran was the only exception.

Whether this kid was pushing him at full speed in the parking lot, or occasionally poking his leg to see his reaction.

Or maybe it was the words that Lu Ran blurted out when he first met him:

"If I'm really disabled and can't move, I might as well be dead."

Ji Min surprisingly didn't feel disgusted by these.

People can't fully empathize with things they haven't experienced.

A healthy boy who can run and jump will never truly understand the pain of a person trapped in a wheelchair.

Even if sympathy arises, it is mostly based on imagination.

But the feeling that Lu Ran gave Ji Min was different.

Ji Min still remembered that before his surgery.

The boy smiled and comforted him: "I can take care of people who are paralyzed..."

The car stopped in front of a hidden restaurant.

Ji Min's thoughts paused.

He got out of the car, and the waiter waiting outside saw that it was him and took the initiative to greet him.

Take him to the box where Shen Xingyu is.

"Hey."

Hearing the sound of the box door opening, Shen Xingyu immediately looked up.

After seeing Ji Min, his eyes did not stop, and continued to look outside the box.

But after Ji Min came in, he closed the door of the box and said:

"I'm the only one coming."

Shen Xingyu retracted his gaze, and there was no look of loss on his face.

He was looking forward to Lu Ran coming, but he also knew that Lu Ran would not come.

"Senior, long time no see." Shen Xingyu said.

Counting carefully, this is the first time they have met formally since Ji Min's leg injury healed.

Ji Min nodded and picked up the menu beside him.

"Is he okay." Shen Xingyu asked.

"Not too good." Ji Min said.

Shen Xingyu paused, and finally stopped the desire to ask further.

Because he knew that it was meaningless.

After hearing what Shen Xingran said, Shen Xingzhuo was hit hard and didn't go back to the Shen family for several days.

Mrs. Shen even locked herself in the room all day.

Only Shen Xingyu was not affected.

Because he knew himself well, he didn't need to be scolded by Shen Xingran before he began to face himself.

But Shen Xingyu knew that he was even more hopeless.

People like Shen Hongyuan, Mrs. Shen, and Shen Xingzhuo, more follow instinct and emotion.

They don't have an accurate understanding of what they do.

So after being ruthlessly exposed by Shen Xingran, they will be hit hard and unable to accept it.

Or try to refute and push the blame to others.

But Shen Xingyu is different.

He always knew clearly what he was doing.

Between the family and himself, he chose the family.

Between the family and the child who would secretly watch him in the study, he still chose the family.

So, on the day when Shen Hongyuan hosted Fang Chen for a banquet.

Knowing that it was not Lu Ran who pushed the person, in order to calm the situation as soon as possible, he still slapped Lu Ran.

Shen Xingyu knew clearly what he had chosen.

And what he had to pay.

He was not surprised that Lu Ran was estranged from him.

Lu Ran smashed the cake all over his face and made him eat those messy things, but Shen Xingyu was not angry.

This was just the price he had to pay for his choice.

He knew this very clearly.

Therefore, for Shen Xingyu, there was no option of repentance.

Just like now, knowing that Lu Ran would not come over, Shen Xingyu was still working hard.

But sometimes, the emotions suppressed by reason would still come out.

Asking some meaningless questions.

Shen Xingran scolded him for being both right and wrong.

Shen Xingyu sighed imperceptibly, suppressed his emotions, and rationally analyzed the pros and cons:

"Shen's is a decades-old business. Although it has had problems recently, it is not completely worthless."

"It is the best option for Lu Ran to take over Shen's. However, taking over rashly is not a good thing for both the Shen family and Lu Ran himself. If Lu Ran chooses to cooperate with his family and issues a letter of understanding..."

Ji Min did not respond.

The man looked at the electronic menu in his hand seriously, and only raised his head casually, looking at Shen Xingyu, and said:

"I am surprised that you are still working hard until now."

Shen Xingyu paused.

He said: "Someone has to do what needs to be done."

He was going to continue to talk about the pros and cons and put forward conditions.

Ji Min ordered the bill, raised his eyes, and said firmly: "You knew about the inheritance a long time ago?"

"Yes." Shen Xingyu said.

There is nothing to hide.

At this time, there was a knock on the door of the box.

The waiter came in and brought the food ordered by Ji Min.

The first thing served was a lemon sundae.

The waiter held the cup and was about to put it in front of Ji Min.

Ji Min raised his chin towards the opposite side and said, "It's for him."

Shen Xingyu was a little surprised.

But this was not the focus of his attention.

He was just thinking about how to persuade Ji Min efficiently.

The waiter left, and the box returned to silence.

"Do you agree with your father's behavior of tampering with the will?" Ji Min continued to ask.

Shen Xingyu was silent.

He did not express his own opinion, but just said: "Under the circumstances at the time, this was the best choice for the company and the family."

Ji Min smiled: "But your brother is missing."

This sentence was like some invisible sword stabbing at him.

Shen Xingyu was stunned for a moment, but soon regained his composure and continued:

"Leaving all the shares to a missing child, how much turmoil this will cause to each company, you must understand."

Ji Min said: "He likes you very much."

Shen Xingyu's lips trembled very slightly, and the corners of his mouth tightened deeply.

"I can feel that he treats you differently from everyone in the Shen family." Ji Min said.

Shen Xingyu lowered his eyes to look at the dishes on the table.

But he didn't order anything else.

Besides the drinks, there was only the lemon sundae ordered by Ji Min on the table.

"He remembered that you liked rabbits," Ji Min said.

Shen Xingyu remained calm: "That was a long time ago."

He lowered his head and took a bite of the dessert in front of him.

The fresh lemon scent spread, which was the only dessert flavor he could accept.

At this time, Ji Min said again: "He also remembered that you like lemon-flavored ice cream."

Shen Xingyu paused.

He frowned deeply.

On his face, which was always calm and rational, like a robot, a trace of light, extremely suppressed pain overflowed.