Chapter 86 Blind Date

Shen Xingyu is eight years older than Lu Ran.

The year Lu Ran was born, Shen Xingyu was taken away by Grandpa Shen.

At that time, Grandpa Shen was old, but he was very dissatisfied with his only son Shen Hongyuan.

Others said that Grandpa Shen was personally training the next generation of heirs.

Shen Xingyu didn't understand this yet.

He only knew that Grandpa was very strict and basically never smiled at him.

He had to learn a lot of things, and life seemed to become very bitter.

Until he was ten years old, Shen Xingyu's first investment in his life failed.

He was very frustrated and cried to Mrs. Shen and wanted to go home.

Grandpa Shen said nothing and let Shen Xingyu go back.

But he took away Lu Ran, who was only two years old, and Shen Xingzhuo, who was four years old.

Shen Xingyu only had to go there every weekend to attend classes.

At that time, it was the first time that Shen Xingyu felt the burden of identity and family.

He was very annoyed and disliked everything, especially children.

Shen Xingzhuo, who liked to make trouble, was a fool in the eyes of the teenage Shen Xingyu.

Lu Ran was not much better.

What was even more annoying was that this child liked to stick to him for some reason.

Every time Shen Xingyu went to the old house to attend classes, or Lu Ran returned to the Shen family.

The child always followed him around like a little tail, inexplicably.

Shen Xingyu took classes in the study.

He would run in, take out candy from his pocket and hand it to him, saying

, "Big brother, have some candy!" After a while, he would run over with a cup in his hand and say, "Big brother, drink some water!"

Sometimes he would look at him with a pair of sparkling eyes and say, "Big Pot, I, I learned a nursery rhyme today..."

But Shen Xingyu was not in the mood to listen.

When he was in a relatively stable mood, he would say to the child, "I have to go to class."

The child would say "Oh" and quietly leave.

But he did not leave, but secretly lay on the window of the study and looked inside.

Even when Shen Xingzhuo asked him to play ball, he could not leave.

Sometimes when Shen Xingyu looked up from his heavy schoolwork, he could see a furry little head sticking out of the window.

In fact, when he first saw the figure outside the window, Shen Xingyu was not sure what his mood was at the time.

A teenager of eleven or twelve years old cannot clearly distinguish all emotions.

Shen Xingyu vaguely remembered that it seemed... not so bad.

But soon, Shen Xingyu's mood would drop.

He thought that if he showed a smile to the child now, the child might become even more aggressive in pestering him.

Shen Xingyu's face turned cold, he looked out the window and said: "What are you doing here, go away."

This is a good time.

There are worse times.

Once again, Shen Xingyu was scolded.

He saw the child who got close to his legs and suddenly got angry.

Just like Shen Hongyuan scolded him, he yelled at the confused child:

"I told you not to stick to me, can you get out!"

He yelled very loudly.

The child couldn't help but be scared.

He shook twice on the spot.

But he didn't cry, nor did he call his grandfather or mother to come over.

He only glanced at him, turned around and ran away with a "tick, tick, tick".

When he ran out of Shen Xingyu's study and ran to the corridor.

Shen Xingyu turned his head and took a look.

He saw the child stroking his chest gently, like a little adult, and comforting himself in an inarticulate voice:

"It's okay, it's okay..."

"Da Guoguo is just in a bad mood, just like Dad is just in a bad mood..."

At that moment, Shen Xingyu was stunned.

For some reason, his anger disappeared.

As if he was amused, he suddenly wanted to laugh again.

On the next day, the child who had been yelled at by him was like nothing had happened.

He would still give him candy when he was in class.

He would still secretly lie by the window, revealing only a pair of eyes and a furry head.

But once there is a first time, there will be a second time.

Once again, Shen Xingyu couldn't help it.

He pushed open the window and yelled at the child:

"I told you not to come near my study and not to bother me. Don't you understand what I'm saying?"

This time the child was very scared.

Shen Xingyu could clearly see that the child's entire furry head shook twice involuntarily.

Then, the child raised his well-behaved black eyes to look at him, turned around and ran away.

From then on, Shen Xingyu's little tail disappeared.

The child no longer followed him.

No longer ran over to give him candy when he frowned in class.

No longer followed him around, nervously saying what nursery rhymes he had learned today. After

Shen Xingyu finished his homework, he raised his head and looked out the window out of habit, but he never saw the furry little head again.

He walked over, pushed open the window, and looked out the window.

The lawn was also empty, with nothing.

No child crouched down and hid there secretly, looking up at him and smiling.

Occasionally, when Shen Xingyu got out of school, he would glance into the yard from a distance.

The child and Shen Xingzhuo were squatting on the ground playing with sand.

When Shen Xingzhuo saw him looking at him, he made a face at him with disdain.

The child just quietly shoveled sand into the bucket with a small shovel.

Sometimes Shen Xingzhuo ran out to play crazy.

He stayed by the sandpit to play by himself .

Later, Shen Xingyu realized that the child seemed to be a little afraid of him.

Sometimes when he noticed that he was looking at him, he couldn't help hiding behind the sofa.

Or hiding behind an adult.

This seemed to be the result Shen Xingyu wanted.

But sometimes, he saw the child playing hide-and-seek with Shen Xingzhuo in the yard. Shen Xingyu

was inexplicably angry.

He thought that if he always played with a fool like Shen Xingzhuo, he would become stupid sooner or later.

Later, another thing happened.

Shen Hongyuan took him to meet an important client.

The client had a strong taste for food, so Shen Hongyuan specially arranged for the meal to be held at a Sichuan restaurant.

He also brought Shen Xingyu along.

At first, the guest enjoyed himself.

Shen Xingyu was eating hot pot. He had more knowledge than most people of his age.

Occasionally, he would say a few words to the customer opposite him, and he would get praise from the customer opposite him.

Shen Hongyuan was also very satisfied.

However, he still had to belittle him verbally, saying that his boy was not up to the standard.

Until the waiter brought another dish.

It was a spicy rabbit head.

On a plate, there were decorative vegetables at the bottom, and four neatly arranged rabbit heads on the top.

Shen Xingyu didn't see what kind of animal it was at the time.

After he ate one, he asked curiously what it was.

The customer opposite told him that it was a rabbit head.

But Shen Xingyu likes rabbits.

He raised two lop-eared rabbits, and this spring, they gave birth to two little rabbits.

He took good care of the family of four and sometimes brought them to school.

And he raised it very carefully, usually not letting his two younger brothers touch it.

At that age, Shen Xingyu could not understand or accept that the things he liked became food and were eaten.

He felt very disgusted. He

could not help but throw down his chopsticks: "How can you eat this kind of thing!"

He leaned over the table and vomited.

At that time, Shen Xingyu had forgotten how the two people at the table reacted. He

only remembered that the customer looked at him and said, "It's not good for a boy to be so timid."

Shen Xingyu didn't know how the business deal went.

He only knew that Shen Hongyuan was furious after returning home.

He made him kneel down. He

scolded him for being useless.

He also asked the servant to take out the rabbit he raised.

Shen Xingyu remembered that scene very clearly.

Shen Hongyuan raised the rabbit cage high with both hands and slammed it heavily on the lawn in the backyard.

The turf was smashed into a mess.

The cage was broken, and the four lop-eared rabbits fled everywhere on the lawn.

Shen Hongyuan caught two big ones and broke the rabbits' necks with his own hands in front of him.

The other two small ones could not be found, and Shen Hongyuan yelled in anxiety, almost turning the entire backyard upside down.

After Shen Hongyuan's rage, the Shen family gradually returned to peace.

Shen Xingyu still had to go to the next finance class.

He sat in his small study, waiting for the teacher to come.

The waiting time was very hard.

He waited silently, and his mind was full of the images of the two dead lop-eared rabbits.

He looked up inadvertently and saw a small figure standing in front of the study door.

Shen Xingyu was in a very bad mood at this time.

Whoever came over, he would think they were laughing at him.

But he seemed to hope that someone would come over.

Shen Xingyu looked at the child outside the door and said, "What are you doing here? Get out!"

The child was still very afraid of him. After being yelled at by him, he subconsciously took two steps back.

But after a pause, he walked back.

He stopped in front of Shen Xingyu's study door, and was very careful not to step over the threshold of the study.

The child was wearing light blue plaid overalls.

He stood in front of the study door and clumsily reached out to pull down the straps of the overalls.

Shen Xingyu was stunned and didn't know what the child was doing.

He saw the child pull down the straps and rolled up the white sweater inside a few times.

Then he took out two furry bunnies from his belly.

He bent down carefully, held the child with his hands and placed it on the ground. He

stood up again, pointed at the two lumps on the ground, and said to Shen Xingyu in the room: "Rabbit!"

After that, he turned around and ran away.

The straps of his overalls were not tied yet, hanging loosely on his arm.

Since then, the relationship between the child and Shen Xingyu has not improved.

He still hides from him every time.

Shen Xingyu vaguely remembered that later, the child came to him again.

But he was upset about something, and as usual, he killed the child.

It was also that time that he came to his senses.

Someone told him that the child was lost.

...

In the next ten years, Shen Xingyu would occasionally think in the gaps between his busy studies and work.

The child was very afraid of him.

He must have come to him because he couldn't find anyone else that day.

If he hadn't yelled at him...

Later, the boy who would break down over a plate of spicy rabbit head and who would lose control of his temper and yell at others disappeared.

Shen Xingyu once thought that he might become a person similar to his father.

But in those long ten years, he became what he is now.

Calm and self-controlled, not disturbed by emotions, and never loses his temper. His

mind is full of weighing the pros and cons.

Shen Xingyu's sight gradually focused on the fragments of the rabbit balloon in his hand.

The balloon was printed with a cartoon version of a rabbit.

The rabbit had long ears and round eyes.

It looked nothing like the four lop-eared rabbits he had raised.

After looking at it for a while, Shen Xingyu suddenly became uncertain again.

Because he could no longer remember what the lop-eared rabbits looked like.

So... it was a coincidence.

He couldn't even remember it.

How could that four-year-old child still remember?

It's impossible... that he has forgotten everything else and still vaguely remembers these messy things.

For some reason, Shen Xingyu didn't contact Ji Min again because of Lu Ran.

A few days later, Shen Hongyuan took the initiative to contact him.

Shen Hongyuan probably knew from Shen Xingyu that Ji Min would not let Lu Ran meet the Shen family in a short time, so he didn't mention it. His

words were respectful and appropriate. He only mentioned that some business occasions required the Shen family's children to appear, and hoped that Lu Ran could go there. He

even explained the location.

He made clear arrangements for when Lu Ran would go back.

Ji Min was a little surprised when he received the news.

But he didn't mean to completely restrict Lu Ran from contacting the Shen family.

It is also a good thing for Lu Ran to be able to attend more formal occasions as a member of the Shen family.

Of course, everything depends on Lu Ran's opinion.

After Lu Ran learned about it, he agreed without thinking.

He lived in the Shen family before just to keep an eye on the Shen family and see what they were up to.

Now of course he has to go.

Shen Hongyuan was also surprised that Ji Min let him go so easily.

Until he saw Lu Ran outside the booked restaurant.

In the meantime, there was a bodyguard standing behind Lu Ran. Both bodyguards were tall and strong.

Standing behind Lu Ran, they were like a small mountain.

Shen Hongyuan: "..."

Lu Ran was also a little speechless.

He turned his head to look behind him and asked, "Brother, are you all going to follow me like this recently?"

The two bodyguards had been instructed by Ji Min.

At this moment, she gave an experienced reason and said, "The boss said that this is the treatment his ex-boyfriend deserves."

Lu Ran suddenly understood.

He thought, this is the appearance of a domineering boss.

It seems that Shen Hongyuan is not going to cause trouble today.

He set the meeting place outside and brought Shen Xingran with him.

Lu Ran looked carefully and found that Shen Xingran seemed to have done a special hairstyle.

The clothes were also very exquisite.

I don’t know who he is going to meet this time.

When he entered the private room reserved by Shen Hongyuan, three familiar figures came into view.

One of them raised his wine glass to Lu Ran, curled his lips, and smiled seductively: "Honey, long time no see."

Lu Ran: "..."

It’s Lino’s family.

Lino’s family is now a competitor of the Shen family, and if they go up a generation, they are still enemies.

Now Shen Hongyuan actually made an appointment with the Lino family.

Seeing the eldest son Jin Chao greeting Lu Ran, Shen Hongyuan looked as if he was used to it.

Shen Xingran looked at Lu Ran with a little surprise, and a hint of competitive hostility flashed in his eyes.

But he behaved very well and didn't say much.

When the dinner started, the Lino family opposite was also very polite.

Shen Hongyuan took the initiative to introduce his two sons.

He smiled and said, "My youngest son, I believe you have seen him, so I won't say much."

Then he pointed at Shen Xingran and said, "This is my adopted son, who also studies at Y University..."

Lu Ran glanced at Shen Hongyuan and felt that the scene was a bit weird.

Soon, the old Lino on the opposite side also introduced:

"These two are the bad boys in my family. The eldest one looks unreliable, but he is actually very loyal when he meets someone he likes. The second one is honest and caring..."

Lu Ran felt even more weird.

He made an excuse to go to the bathroom and called Ji Min.

Before receiving Lu Ran's call, Ji Min was reading a document on the computer.

This document was the information of this generation of young people in the aristocratic family circle that he asked his assistant to collect.

Ji Min clicked on a page and it was the Gu family.

The first thing that came to mind was the arrogant face of Gu Ningqi.

Ji Min frowned, clicked the mouse and changed another page.

The next one was Gu Zhi.

Compared with Gu Ningqi, his grade is higher, but he is also an idiot.

Butler Chen stood behind Ji Min.

Looking at the man with a stinky face, he quickly read the document with an extremely picky eye. In the end,

he came to a conclusion: none of them are up to the standard.

Then, he threw away the mouse and stared out the window, not knowing what he was thinking.

Until Lu Ran called.

The boy's voice was still full of vitality.

After the call was connected, he quickly said: "It's over, boss, I suspect Shen Hongyuan asked me to go on a blind date."

Ji Min: “?”

Ji Min: “!”

He reacted quickly, his brows wrinkled into a knot, and his usually calm tone became much higher.

“Blind date? How old are you? What kind of blind date?” the man said.

Lu Ran was worried about something else: “Will this affect my work if it gets out?”

“For example, people will say: Ji Min’s ex-boyfriend was pursuing him on the surface, but actually secretly went on a blind date behind his back. It must be Ji Min who is not good enough.”

The boy learned the tone of gossip from others.

Ji Min didn’t think about this, and just said: “Wait, this is not important.”