After the event, Nan Qi struck while the iron was hot and went to his mother first, roughly revealing that he liked boys. Unlike Nan Yu, he was not calm at all. Nan's mother was so angry that she fainted on the spot.
Nan's father felt as if he had a mouthful of blood stuck in his throat.
There was no whipping.
He pointed directly at Nan Qi and declared, "If you dare to come out of the closet, get out of the Nan family!"
Nan Qi clenched his fist, indignant: "Why can Nan Yu? You've treated him differently since we were little. He can like men, but I can't? I'm not going to inherit the family business!"
Nan Qi rarely talked back; he was quite artistic at heart, let alone talking back to his father, whom he had been afraid of since childhood.
This was the first act of resistance.
Father Nan was furious. He couldn't tolerate his other sons' disobedience, so he slapped Nan Qi across the face. "Two sons from one family! You may not care about your reputation, but I do! Unless you're not my son, Nan Zhenhua's son!"
Covering his cheek where he had been slapped, unable to release the force of the blow, Nan Qi suddenly smiled, his tightly clenched fist relaxing. "Good."
Nodding as he backed away, he went back to his room to pack a few clothes and dragged his suitcase to leave. As he passed the living room, his father angrily questioned him, "What are you doing?"
Nanqi: "If you don't acknowledge me, I have no choice but to leave."
Nan's father said "okay" several times, "If you dare to leave, this family will have nothing to do with you anymore, and you're not allowed to take anything of value with you!"
Nan Qi immediately took off his wristwatch and slammed all the supplementary cards onto the coffee table. This angered his father, who refused to let him take any of them.
"What clothes or suitcases don't belong to the Nan family?"
Nanqi's eyes reddened, and in the end he took nothing.
He was kicked out of the house while he was all clean.
Yu Zhan was still waiting for his reply when Nan Qi went to the hotel to find him. As soon as they met, he hugged him and rubbed his head against the boy's shoulder.
With a hoarse voice: "Take me home, my parents don't want me anymore."
Yu Zhan let out a soft "Ah," feeling both heartache and self-reproach, and hurriedly nodded: "Okay, okay, let's go home, let's go home."
Yu Zhan paid for the trip back to the small village in Anshi.
Nanqi is penniless now.
Nan's father did not back down. After Nan Qi left, he acted as if he had no son. Nan's mother fell ill from anger and spent more than half a year in bed before she recovered. Time flies, and three years passed in the blink of an eye.
Nan Yu tries to persuade her brother's parents, but she gets scolded every time.
Gradually, he stopped talking about it.
He said that if he talked too much, his father would be caught in the crossfire and force him to divorce Gu Han.
Without the support of money, Nanqi is just an ordinary child who can't have everything he wants, and he still has to work.
The young master disliked the feeling of being tied down by a nine-to-five job, and art should not be bound by such constraints; naturally, artists would not want that either.
So I started working as a food delivery driver.
The money I earn in a day isn't even enough to cover the scolding/penalties I get.
Yu Zhan felt sorry for Nan Qi; he didn't want Nan Qi to suffer with him anymore.
So he took the initiative to contact Nan Yu.
She wanted his help, which was nothing more than finding a tool to act as her rich boyfriend, telling Nanqi that she didn't love him because he was poor, and packaging Yu Zhan as a person who despises the poor and loves the rich.
Nan Yu thought it was unreliable.
If the truth comes out one day, we won't be brothers anymore. Besides, we've been together for two years. Doesn't Nanqi know what kind of person Yu Zhan is?
However, upon hearing that her own brother was living such a miserable life...
Nan Yu has come up with a solution.
Knowing that his brother worked as a food delivery driver and also did part-time work as a waiter, he deliberately took Nan's mother along under the guise of a trip. Nan Qi was grilling meat for another table. After three years of honing his skills, he had become quite proficient at some things.
He didn't have the business acumen of his brothers.
He only knows how to play with art.
Art without a proper method is worthless.
Life had smoothed out his rough edges, but he still stubbornly refused to go home and apologize. For three years, he had not contacted any of his family members. Nan Yu only learned about his situation through Yu Zhan.
Gu Han had already discussed with the store manager that Nan Qi would be serving. Nan Qi himself was unaware of this and was working up a sweat. He had just wiped the sweat off his clothes and went outside when he saw several familiar figures and stopped in his tracks.
I wanted to leave, but the manager came over and said, "We're short-staffed. You need to help grill that table. Go."
Nanqi was in a dilemma and didn't want to go, but the shopkeeper pushed him there.
Nan's mother saw Nan Qi first. She had been paying attention to him for the past few years and knew Nan Yu's thoughts before she came.
However, no amount of footage can compare to the impact of seeing it in person.
Seeing that he had no way to hide, Nanqi had no choice but to bite the bullet and grab the clips and scissors without calling for help.
From the moment Nan's mother saw him, her gaze never left him. He was her own flesh and blood, and he wasn't much older than Nan Yu. Seeing her son suffering so much, her heart ached.
"Xiao Qi".
Nanmu's voice went through her throat several times before she finally managed to utter a strained cry.
Nanqi looked down as he flipped the roasted meat. Upon closer inspection, the veins on his right hand, which was holding the scissors, were bulging slightly. His heart was in turmoil, and he probably just wanted to run away.
Nan Yu: "Brother."
Nanqi glanced at him, then quickly turned his attention to the baking pan.
Grilling meat inevitably involves oil splattering. Nan Qi got splashed with oil and instinctively pulled his hand away, wiping the back of his hand before continuing to grill. Nan's mother couldn't bear it and grabbed her son's wrist, saying, "Come home with Mom. How can you do this kind of work?"
Nan Qi withdrew his hand: "Excuse me, ma'am, I'm working. Please don't disturb me."
Nan's mother: "You..."
Seeing this, Nan Yu rolled her eyes, peeled an orange for her mother, and deliberately said, "Mom, Xiao Ge is no longer our family. His suffering has nothing to do with us. Have an orange."
The orange he offered to his mother was slapped away.
Nan's mother was truly angry. "What kind of talk is that?"
Nanqi couldn't take it anymore. He put the scissors and clips back into the bucket and said, "I'll have someone else do it for you." Then he left.
Nan's mother called out to him, but he couldn't come back.
Having achieved his goal, Gu Han went over and told the shop manager that Nan Qi no longer needed to be forced to help with the grilling. When he returned, Nan Yu was telling his mother:
"The delivery guy is still working as a deliveryman. Oh, he doesn't own his own shop; he delivers for others. That's why he's so tanned from the sun and wind. Mom, are we really not going to get rid of him?"
Nan's mother remained silent for a long time.
In the end, they compromised.
She couldn't bear to see her child suffer.
They immediately found Nanqi. The young man was in the kitchen. Nanqi's mother found the environment inside pungent and felt bad thinking about how long her son had been there.
He pulled Nanqi along, wanting to go out.
Nanqi broke free and continued to evade.
Nan's mother also became anxious: "Nan Qi! Even if you're angry, you shouldn't be working here! Can't I even touch you now?"
When Nan Qi saw his colleagues looking over, he walked straight past his mother and went outside. He saw about a dozen bodyguards outside. He was a little uncomfortable not seeing them for a long time.
I don't want to work today, I'm going to ask for a day off.
Nan's mother quickly said, "Stop the young master!"
There were no young masters or young ladies in the small town; those were terms used during the landlord era. Everyone thought they were filming a movie, and more and more eyes were drawn to them. Nanqi covered his face completely with a mask.
Unable to move or retreat, they could only stand still.
Nan's mother had her bodyguards put him in the car and told Nan Yu and the other woman not to eat anymore. Gu Han paid the bill and left with his men.
"Are you still with that child?" Nan's mother asked.
Nanqi did not reply.
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