Down-and-out Young Master
Jinnan's wound finally healed after three days.
It was early morning, before the busy shift began. Lu Yiqing knocked on the door and entered, holding a stack of documents. She also brought a cup of coffee for Jin Nan. It wasn't really necessary, as President Jin had been looking so radiant lately.
"Thank you." Jin Nan nodded politely and reached out to take the document.
It contained information on Xu Xingwen that he had secretly investigated. The text was accompanied by pictures, all of which were clearly candid shots, each taken while he was talking to someone, always wearing a hat.
To use the current popular term, it is called "a strong sense of stealing."
"This Mr. Xu... uh, Xu Xingwen, works as a purchasing manager for a construction company. His father, Xu Yuqiang, is the actual controlling shareholder. He's fairly well behaved, but there seem to be some funding issues in the past two years, and project payments have been delayed."
The reason for coming to Xu Zhiyuan because he was short of money was understandable. However, Jin Nan was concerned about something else. During the conversation with Xu Zhiyuan, Xu Xingwen mentioned Jin Licheng.
"Do they have business dealings with Hua Lin?" Jin Nan asked as he turned the page.
Lu Yiqing shook her head decisively: "No, it doesn't meet the bidding requirements."
There is no contact between them, and logically speaking, there is no personal grudge between him and Jin Licheng. It can't be some bloody drama of stealing a woman, right?
Jin Nan felt a little embarrassed. Asking him to deal with Jin Licheng's ugly affairs felt like exposing a dead person's past.
"Mr. Jin." Lu Yiqing suddenly lowered her voice, "There's nothing from Xu Xingwen's side, but... Mr. Xu's parents do have a partnership with Hua Lin."
Jinnan pricked up his ears and wanted to continue listening, but there was a knock on the door.
"Come in."
Claire stepped on a pair of flat sandals to make them look like 10cm high heels, and she had the air of a big sister. But when her eyes fell on Lu Yiqing, she lost all her arrogance and winked at her playfully.
Jinnan: ...
Lu Yiqing blushed a little and avoided his sight.
"Mr. Xu needs some documents for you to confirm." Claire gently placed a stack of papers on Jinnan's desk. "Also, he asked me to ask you, would you like Chinese or Italian food for lunch?"
For some reason, Jinnan always felt that she was considerate in order to please her father-in-law.
"Lunch, let's go." Jin Nan quietly gathered the food Lu Yiqing had just brought towards him. "Didn't he go out on a business trip this morning?"
"The negotiation results are in front of you. It went very smoothly. Mr. Xu is on his way back and asked me to book a restaurant first."
Jinnan coughed and said, "Thank you for your help."
"No trouble, if there's nothing else I'll go back to work."
When Claire left, the soft flying sleeves of the fabric floated across Lu Yiqing's honest and old-fashioned shirt sleeves along with her hair. Lu Yiqing retracted her hand uncomfortably and felt a little embarrassed facing Jinnan.
Jinnan also became curious: "What's going on, you two?"
"It's nothing, Sister Claire takes good care of me." Lu Yiqing said in a low voice.
Her current appearance was far from her serious and efficient appearance at work, as if she had returned to the timid and speechless little girl in the second grade of junior high school.
Jinnan smiled gently: "Yiqing, if it's convenient for me to ask, is your father still in contact with you now?"
"Yes, but his phone and every aspect of his life are monitored by the police, so he doesn't dare to cause trouble for me."
Jinnan also blinked like Claire, "So there are no adults in your family to take charge of you?"
"Yeah." Lu Yiqing said softly and nodded.
"I'm a bit arrogant, barely considering myself your half-brother, but I want to give you some advice," Jin Nan also whispered, "Your future life is yours, so you need to think carefully. Your own happiness is the most important thing."
"Okay, thank you, Brother Xiaonan."
*
Lu Yiqing compiled all the secrets of the previous generation into a document and sent it to Jinnan.
At that time, Jinnan was at the dinner table. He took out his mobile phone and opened it to flip through it casually. He thought that this girl had some potential to be a reporter.
Xu Zhiyuan helped pick up the food without glancing at his phone. "Ritz's cocktail party tonight, are you going?"
Jinnan was busy stuffing his food, and after a long while he said, "No, I have to go comfort a friend tonight."
"Comforting a friend?"
"Yeah. Lin Jiaze."
The Lin family’s paternity test results are out.
Originally, it was just Chen Chen and Lin Jiayi's appraisal, but later the whole family did it again and again and finally confirmed that Lin Jiaze, the spoiled young master who grew up, really had no blood relationship with the Lin family.
Lin Jiaze moved out the same day the first expedited result came out, quietly settling into a small suburban house the Lin family had bought, and he refused to see anyone. Even Jinnan's several calls were ignored.
The down-and-out young master finally decided to meet people, and Jinnan couldn't bear to let him down.
After a simple explanation, Xu Zhiyuan naturally let him go and even asked about the location of the evening party and planned to pick him up. Jinnan couldn't resist him.
The gathering place was at Lin Jiaze’s small company.
He occupied half of the 24th floor of the Lido Shanhai Building. At 6:30, many people had left work. Jinnan couldn't get in through the access control, so he sent a message to Lin Jiaze in front of the door. After a while, the elevator opened and Li Hongfang and Chen Chen walked out together.
"Um..." Jin Nan was a little surprised to see Chen Chen, and didn't know how to greet him for a moment.
"Just call me Chen Chen, Mr. Jin." Chen Chen smiled politely, "Jia Ze accidentally hooked me up in the group message, so I came to see him."
Li Hongfang was stifling laughter. This certainly seemed like something Lin Jiaze would do.
"You didn't change your name? Have you been to the Lin family? What did Uncle Lin say?"
If it weren't for his awkward position, Jin Nan actually quite liked Chen Chen, a young man a few months his junior. He was gentle and good-tempered, and even when faced with such a big situation, he remained neither arrogant nor impatient. He didn't have the smug look that Jin Nan had shown when he was trying to support him.
"Uncle Lin said that everything will remain the same from now on. My parents and I will go to the Lin family for the New Year, and then we will come to your house to pay New Year's greetings."
This name was too obvious about the relative nature of the relationship, and Jinnan was even more surprised by Lin's father's words, "Everything remains the same." Blood relations were not matters that could be influenced by emotions. How could the Lin family let a son who had been scientifically proven to be their biological father be allowed out?
"Uncle Lin didn't give you any compensation?" Li Hongfang was also surprised.
Chen Chen rubbed his head embarrassedly. "Actually, there is. I just feel it's not suitable. I have a deep relationship with my current parents, and Jiaze can't leave the Lin family. If I switch back, it will be very uncomfortable for both of us. And Uncle Lin said he would give me an internship opportunity at Maolin Overseas Business Department, and I agreed."
This child is so lovable, Jinnan and Li Hongfang thought at the same time.
But of course, they were more concerned about Master Jiaze, whose life had been turned upside down. He had been a completely spoiled brat, relying on Lin Jiayi's strong coercion to stay in the right place.
Now his parents are not his parents, and his brother is not his brother. It would be strange if he could bear it.
I think I locked myself at home and cried the past two days.
However, it turned out that they underestimated Lin Jiaze.
A few minutes after the phone call, Lin Jiaze came out and opened the door. He was dressed neatly, with his hair combed back, and he looked like he could go out with Xu Zhiyuan to negotiate and calm the situation.
"Here?" Lin Jiaze was still laughing. "I asked the cook at home to send over some food, including some barbecued lobster and other things. The dishes are still being cooked. Send me whatever you want to eat first."
Li Hongfang went up and held his shoulders. The three of them looked him up and down carefully. His eyes and face were clean, and he didn't look like someone who had been crying for a few days.
"Are you okay?" Jin Nan asked carefully.
"What can happen to me?" Lin Jiaze said as he hit Li Hongfang, "Let go of me, or you'll strangle me to death and be buried with me!"
Li Hongfang smiled and rubbed the dog's head, then sat down and started ordering food.
The Lin family's chef was originally recruited from the State Guest House. He is very good at cooking Sichuan cuisine. You can't eat such delicious food outside the Lido except for the Lin family.
Lin Jiaze pushed open the door of the small conference room and used the large electronic screen to watch a food documentary that was showing the local cuisine of a small town in the west.
Chen Chen was called over by Li Hongfang to order food. Jin Nan sat next to Lin Jiaze and asked quietly, "Brother, are you really okay?"
"I used to teach you that you have to be tough at home so that your parents will pay attention to you and your subordinates won't bully you." Lin Jiaze looked at him and swallowed his saliva. "Now I understand you. You can't be tough without confidence."
Jin Nan chuckled: "If you didn't have the confidence, didn't you take Chen Chen home?"
Lin Jiaze could have brought her home. The rest of the Lin family was unaware of the situation, and Chen Chen's attitude clearly indicated he wouldn't take the initiative to come and acknowledge her. It could only be that this seemingly unintelligent young master had taken her home himself.
Lin Jiaze was quite proud when he mentioned this.
"I'm telling you, I took Chen Chen with me and specifically asked him to wear a mask. I took him to Maolin to meet my brother. I said, 'Brother, I'll show you something great.' He asked, 'What great thing?' I said, 'Clang clang clang, your brother.' Didn't you see how green his face turned?"
Jinnan tried to imagine Lin Jiayi's green face, but found that he couldn't imagine it. Lin Jiaze's language system remained the same as before.
"We were just chatting at the door. Chen Chen said he didn't want to go back to the Lin family." Jin Nan glanced at the young man who was being ordered by Li Hongfang and continued quietly, "Do you know about this?"
"No matter what he thinks, what belongs to him is his, and I won't take it. They won't touch my small, dilapidated temple, so it's all good this way." Lin Jiaze said, "Nannan, from now on we will be friends of different social status. You won't think I'm poor, will you?"
"How could that be?" Jinnan laughed.
"Come to think of it." Lin Jiaze suddenly thought of something and moved closer to Jinnan. "What did you do to provoke Brother Xu last time? Did he dare to drive over to catch you?"
Jin Nan didn't know how to explain it for a moment. He was silent for a while and said dryly, "No, we are fine."
"Tsk tsk tsk, that look in his eyes was like he had just killed someone. My brother was only that aggressive the time I almost got into a car accident. You don't drive fast, so how can you provoke him?"
Xu Zhiyuan was a tough guy to talk about, so just as I was talking about him, a message came in. Ruiz was actually a freelance jewelry designer who had been contacted by Hua Lin's partners. He held an annual cocktail party at Lido to showcase his personal work besides brand design.
The items were very much to Jinnan's liking, and the key was that they were rare. Jinnan had bought several small items for Xu Zhiyuan there, and had smuggled them all into Xu Zhiyuan's cloakroom.
This time it was Xu Zhiyuan's turn to choose, and Mr. Xu bought him a pinky ring.
Lin Jiaze took one look and his eyes widened in surprise: "Jinnan, your brother bought you a ring?!"
"Yeah." Jin Nan responded softly. He didn't know where he got the courage from, but he didn't dare to look up, but dared to speak.
"Jia Ze, we are not related by blood."
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