The storm that Xiao Yuanmu brought to the entire imperial capital circle after being found by the Xiao family completely got out of control when Xiao Yuanmu's first private interview was released, and it swept into the Song family, making the Song family the center of the storm in the imperial capital.
"Mr. Xiao, you have achieved so much at such a young age. In addition to your hard work and talent at work, do you also have emotional support?" Zhou Nan raised the phone to his eyes, and while looking at it, he deliberately lowered his voice and asked himself: "Yes."
"When people ask him a paragraph, he answers with one word, which is one word in English." Zhou Nan looked up with a smile and said to Xiao Shenglin, "Xiao Yuanmu didn't talk much when he arrived in the United States."
Xiao Shenglin smiled and looked at Song Xuanhe with some concern.
Song Xuan was lazily lying on the sofa reading a fashion magazine, and seemed not to care at all what they said.
"Then could you please tell me where your emotional support comes from? As far as I know - I don't mean to offend you, we learned that you grew up with the help of a welfare institution in China before being found by the Xiao family. Is it the director of the welfare institution who raised you who has supported you to this day?"
"Xiao Yuanmu: The dean is my relative." Zhou Nan joked: "This time it's four words, which is a significant improvement, but the next interview will be a leap forward. Wait, I'll read it to you."
"Mr. Xiao, do you mean there are other people besides relatives?"
"Xiao Yuanmu answered yes, and we are getting to the point." Zhou Nan sat up straight, looked at the bilingual Q&A interview transcript on the screen, coughed, and said, "The reporter asked, can you reveal something? Maybe just explaining your current relationship status will be fine."
"Xiao Yuanmu's answer: I have a lover, and we have been together for almost two years. Although we are in a long-distance relationship, our relationship is very good. We trust and love each other, and he supports my work very much. Haha ...
Zhou Nan laughed so hard that he fell to the ground holding his phone, and while laughing he squeezed out a sound from his oxygen-deprived throat: "God, they trust each other and love each other, hahahahahahahaha, I laugh every time I see this, haha ...
Song Xuanhe glanced at him, rolled her eyes and looked away.
Zhou Nan climbed up, leaned on the sofa where Song Xuan was lying, and said with a smile: "Song Er, is this what you mean by breaking up?"
"Get out." Song Xuanhe pushed his face away.
"It seems like you haven't broken up yet." Zhou Nan sat down next to Song Xuanhe, pushing him closer, and said, "I was so afraid of saying the wrong thing when I mentioned your sad story of losing your love, but you actually lied to us."
"Believe it or not." Song Xuanhe kicked him away, sat up and straightened his messy T-shirt, and said with an impatient tone of being woken up early in the morning, "And get out after you finish reading, Daddy wants to sleep."
"Dad, tell me, what's going on between you and Xiao Yuanmu?" Zhou Nan hugged Song Xuanhe's legs, blinked his peach blossom eyes, and pinched his throat and said, "Dad, just tell me~"
Song Xuanhe kicked him off the sofa mercilessly and said expressionlessly, "Get lost. Daddy doesn't have a son as sissy as you."
"Honestly, Song Er, what's going on between you and Xiao Yuanmu?" Zhou Nan walked over to Xiao Shenglin and sat down, his expression serious: "Xiao Yuanmu is a member of the Xiao family, which gives him a lot more information than his RE, and he almost announced to everyone that you are his boyfriend. This time you can't hide even if you want to."
Xiao Shenglin also said: "Xuanhe, are you and Mr. Xiao really broken up?"
"We broke up." Song Xuanhe rubbed his hair irritably and added, "I think we broke up, but he doesn't think we broke up."
"Is there such a thing?" Zhou Nan raised his eyebrows: "We can't even agree on breaking up?"
"Breaking up is not divorce. If one person says to break up, then it's done." Song Xuan rolled his eyes at him: "Do we have to sign a certificate and each take one?"
"Then you should have signed it in the first place." Zhou Nan said, "If you go out now and tell others that you and Xiao Yuanmu have broken up, who will believe it? Don't even mention whether others will believe it or not. Do you think Mr. Song and Song Guochao will believe it?"
Xiao Shenglin nodded: "Zhou Nan is right. The news published in the magazine almost ties you and Xiao Yuanmu together. No matter what you say at this time, no one will believe it."
"But then again, it doesn't matter whether others believe it or not." Zhou Nan laughed: "Anyway, they don't dare to offend you at this time."
"Tsk, what kind of fate do you think this is." Zhou Nan looked at Xiao Shenglin: "Lin Zi, you and Xiao Yuanmu are still related by blood. I didn't expect that you met every day before, but no one came out. You are still brothers who have been separated for many years."
Xiao Shenglin smiled faintly, a hint of something flashed across his eyes, and he said nothing.
Zhou Nan also knew that he was worried about Xiao Nan and Xiao Ranyun, the father and daughter who were recalled to the Xiao family, and comforted them: "Xiao Ranyun is so smart, and with Xiao Yuanmu here, nothing will happen to her, you don't have to worry."
Xiao Shenglin shook his head and said softly: "The Xiao family is not as simple as you think."
"There aren't many simple families in big families." Zhou Nan said, "No matter how complicated the Xiao family is, it's not a place full of dangers. Besides, Xiao Yuanmu knows Xiao Ranyun. Even if he doesn't protect her because she's his sister, he will protect her because of Song Er."
"It's hard to say whether Xiao Yuanmu can gain a firm foothold." Xiao Shenglin's voice was filled with a hint of mockery and sigh: "The Xiao family is the family that I have seen that follows ancient rituals the most and loves innovation the most. It's not just the culture of China. The Xiao family immigrated abroad very early. The Xiao family not only has the ancient Eastern sense of respect and inferiority, but also the Western free thought. However, it is only engraved in the minds of the servants who have served the Xiao family for generations. Freedom is only owned by the master, but there is a difference between the direct branch and the collateral branch of the master. There are too many mixed places and more complicated factors. I can only say that Xiao Yuanmu's entry into the Xiao family is not much different from Longtan Huxue."
Song Xuanhe thought of Xiao Bocong mentioned by Xiao Ranyun before. He frowned slightly and asked, "Is it related to Xiao Bocong?"
Xiao Shenglin was surprised by Song Xuanhe's sharpness, but he nodded: "I just said that the Xiao family follows ancient rituals, so when each of the descendants of the Xiao family is born, their parents will choose servants for them in the future. At present, it should be said that their subordinates, depending on the identity of the master, the number and quality of these servants will also be different. From this point, you can see that the Xiao family is not much different from the ancient mansions in some places."
Zhou Nan clicked his tongue: "As I recall, the most common people around Xiao Ranyun seem to be a life assistant and a tutor, and there are always two bodyguards following her... Xiao Ranyun seems to be a collateral branch, so how many people does Xiao Bocong have?"
"No less than thirty." Xiao Shenglin said calmly: "Maybe more than fifty."
Zhou Nan widened his eyes in surprise, and even Song Xuanhe found it hard to believe.
Xiao Shenglin knew what they were thinking when he saw their expressions. He said, "Xiao Bacong is the only child of the direct branch. According to the etiquette, when he is born, twelve people will be trained as his future confidants. This includes all the directions in which he may develop and use in the future. As he grows up, these numbers will continue to increase. He will be selected once when he is six years old, and again when he is sixteen. I remember when he was sixteen, in addition to two life assistants and two peers who usually accompanied him to school, there were already twenty-eight people who worked specifically for him and had already started to develop in various industries. Fifteen of them had already joined Xiao's companies at that time. Although they were all at the grassroots level, their strength should not be underestimated. The most important thing is that those around Xiao Bacong are absolutely loyal to him, and they form a community of interests. The appearance of Xiao Yuanmu is a threat to all of them."
"So, what Xiao Yuanmu is facing is not only Xiao Baicong, but also more than 30 subordinates around him, and even all the side branches that support Xiao Baicong to inherit the Xiao family. Tell me, is this a dragon pond and a tiger's school?"
Zhou Nan was silent for a long time, then said, "Fuck."
"Are you really talking about modern times?" Zhou Nan pondered over what Xiao Shenglin had just said, but still found it hard to accept: "Can the United States, which advocates humanitarianism, freedom and equality, tolerate the Xiao family's class consciousness?"
"Class consciousness exists everywhere." Xiao Shenglin said, "And the eight chaebols are extremely attractive to you. Do you think those people who have been clinging to the Xiao family since ancient times and are now considered to be influential people outside will let go of the big tree of the Xiao family? What's more, they are not only Xiao Bocong's subordinates, but also a community of interests with him. In the future, when Xiao Bocong is in charge of the Xiao family, those people will be dispersed to the highest levels of various companies under the Xiao family. No one will think that they are servants of the Xiao family, but will only know that they are leaders in various industries. Their class, except for the eight chaebols, can even be said to be above us."
After digesting Xiao Shenglin's words, Song Xuanhe recalled the various difficulties Xiao Yuanmu had experienced in the book and the various hostilities he encountered in the Xiao family. The author's introduction to the Xiao family was far less complete than that of Xiao Shenglin, a member of the Xiao family. It should be said that the author only briefly mentioned the complex relationships between the Xiao family members and focused on Xiao Yuanmu's struggles in the business world.
When he was reading the book, he felt that the people in the Xiao family's companies were a bit too much in their resistance to Xiao Yuanmu. After all, they were in the same position as the head of the Xiao family, and Xiao Yuanmu's ability was obviously better than Xiao Bocong's. It was unreasonable for them to blindly support Xiao Bocong, who didn't seem to have much ambition.
Now that I think about it, those people are most likely Xiao Bacong's people. If that's the case, then in the book, is Xiao Yuanmu the first member of the Xiao family who is willing to open his heart to accept him, and Xiao Bacong, who doesn't seem to have any ambitions, really as harmless as in the book?
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