Curiosity Will KIll the Cat

Chen Bai was told not to check Xie Feihao's history because of the contract between Zhen Liyue and Xie Feihao, but he was too curious.

"Haven't I said you shouldn't look at his history?" Chen Bai heard Zhen Liyue's voice, "Curiosity will kill the cat."

"Sorry, madam." Chen Bai apologized as he shut down the PC.

Zhen Liyue peaked over on Chen Bai's desk, "If you want to talk about things like this, might as well bring the kid along."

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"Haohao!" Yang Li came to me crying the next day, "Why did you leave me behind?"

I feel like sinking into the office chair because of the amount of work piling up. Like Chen Bai said, maybe escaping the country might not be a bad idea.

Now I think about it, other than organizing these files, I have to meet with Zhang Liu's and Zhang Yie's useless father, sort our the problem between me and that smurf, that show I have to act, and not to mention it's the beginning of May, so finals are in a month. My original plans to mess around and watch the drama were ruined.

"Haohao, Mister Chen asked me about the depressants, what do I do?" Now Yang Li is also panicking.

"Don't worry, there won't be anything strange because the prescription of the depressant existed for at least two years."

"That's weird, the previous guy in this body had the same personality as me, no one in his family suspected a thing." Yang Li stopped acting and now flop on the sofa lazily.

What a coincidence, "Yang Li."

"What?"

"I would love to figure out this lucky coincidence and find if the original Xie Feihao had the same personality as me."

"But as both of us know, you're too lazy to even start anything." Yang Li wouldn't want to check the history either, he's careless about these things since they aren't that important to him.

"Hey, I can't fail anything if I don't start anything."

"If you don't start you won't succeed." I suddenly sat back up straight after hearing the voice of a creepy old lady.

The door swung open and in goes the old hag and the rabbit. I would've been happy if she's getting back to work, but it seems like she had different plans for today.

One moment, we were in an office room that's over 50 stories high, and the next moment, we're on a humongous yacht to the middle of nowhere. Yang Li was left behind, apparently, this is some kind of family business.

There's that guy who's supposed to be my shooting instructor, Bai Lidong, that guy who kept firing a rifle in the middle of the night not letting me sleep, the rabbit, and- ... this isn't a family meeting at all.

"Does this place seem familiar?" Zhen Liyure asked me while sitting near the deck.

I look around, a bit nervous. We're in the middle of an ocean, how am I supposed to tell which wave of water I've seen before? To be fair, I don't even know if this body had been on a boat before. What am I supposed to know?

"You don't have to act innocent anymore, I know everything." Zhen Liyue said with confidence.

No, you don't.

I ended not saying anything for the whole ride until we reached an island in the middle of the ocean. There was a modern house, I would call this some kind of vacation area, but if the island is surrounded by this many guards? This is probably some kind of isolation area.

I wasn't nervous, because locking up in this place is nicer than stuck inside that office for the rest of my life. Besides, even the outside looks nicer than the governor's front yard.

I followed Zhen Liyue inside, silently, until an empty room with a basic wooden table and two chairs, nothing special. Then she left me alone with Chen Bai and a few guards. I could ask them some questions, but I'm in the state of processing everything through my brain. Especially when a man walked with handcuffs on him.

"What? After three years you're finally back? I won't forgive you even if you're on your knees and beg." The man leaned back on the chair and gave the ugliest smile I've seen.

After just meeting him for three seconds, I had the idea of this old man up.

"Hey rabbit, can I beat his a-"

"No sir, you cannot beat your biological parent, and you're prevented to use vulgar words." Chen Bai replied while staying calm, but he didn't tell me to stop calling him 'rabbit'.

Wow, I never knew this body's father is an asshole. "Beat me up? I would like to see you try." He taunted, the way he grinned with that gray beard and a couple of missing teeth made him look like a drug dealer.

For some reason, this man's laugh made me wanted to drill a hole through his face.

I quickly stood up and lift the chair, about to throw it at the person sitting across the table from me, but Chen Bai ordered one of the guards to stop me.

"Sir, you already beat him up the last time you've seen him." Chen Bai continued to treat the situation calmly like he was used to it.

"If I don't have the permission to beat him up, can I have the permission to feed him to the sharks?"

"No, sir, you do not."

"Then what's the point of me coming here?" I think I get the gist of the story, the previous Xie Feihao came here three years ago after finding out he had no blood relation with his parents, Zhen Liyue probably led him here to find his biological parents but his father annoyed the hell out of him.

"Sixteen years and eight months ago, you were sold by this old man to this old lady." Zhen Liyue walked in without knocking on the door, "My grandson died of heart failure."

"So I'm the replacement?" I asked. It wasn't exactly me.

"... No." Zhen Liyue replied with a bit of hesitation, "The point is, you should stay as the heir."

"Why?"

"Because I want you to." That's the lamest reply I'm ever going to get.

"I don't want it." I mumbled quietly.

So I suffer through weeks of company paper because you just wanted me to be the heir? What kind of excuse is that?

"Hm?"

"Take your company and shove your responsibility to your real children, I don't want it"