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-11-

Nie Jia really drank too much. Earlier, he deliberately avoided Huo Qing's eyes, but after opening his heart, he embraced him(Huo Qing) intimately without letting go.

"I'll go down and get some porridge. After you eat a little, go to bed." Huo Qing noticed that Nie Jia's cheeks were hot. He left the balcony with him.

"I just want to sleep with you now." Nie Jia said, pulling Huo Qing's tie. "You absolutely don't know how long I have been thinking about it."

Huo Qing said: "You are drunk."

"Isn't it better to drink?" Nie Jia fell on the bed and pulled Huo Qing's tie to draw him closer.

Huo Qing put one hand on Nie Jia's ear, leaned down and kissed him on the lips, smiling slowly: "My dear, this isn't something commendatory."

{T/N: means acceptable or approved. Huo Qing implies drunken sex or consent while drunk isn't acceptable.}

In the end, Nie Jia failed to take off Huo Qing's clothes while he was drunk. He only got a few kisses, and then Huo Qing stuffed him into the bed. He also remembered Nie Jia's fragile stomach. Fearing that he would be uncomfortable the next day, he hurried downstairs and brought him some digestible food.

The next morning, Nie Jia had a headache and lay on the side of the bed with his long eyebrows tightly furrowed.

"Is it serious? Do you need to take some medicine?" Huo Qing didn't leave last night. He put the quilt on Nie Jia who was sleeping while asking about his health. He was lying next to Nie Jia at that time, and gently massaged him with his fingertips at his temples, easing the symptoms of hangover.

"It's okay." Nie Jia said, curled up in the bed with a sore throat. There wasn't last night's enthusiasm and fascination in his voice.

Huo Qing's fingers paused, and something fell in his heart.

"I'll just take a break." Nie Jia's face was somber and his voice was a little displeased. His emotions were easily affected by his physical discomfort. Even a slight pain on his fingertips would make him immediately irritable and full of desire to destroy.

But in the past, he liked to curl up his body as much as possible when he was in a bad mood. This time, he fumbled for Huo Qing under the covers, and then wrapped his hands around his waist. Almost the whole person was wrapped around Huo Qing.

Huo Qing lifted the quilt and saw the young man snuggling beside him in such a dependent manner. The violent dark tide in his eyes dissipated in an instant. He thought that last night was Nie Jia's drunken nonsense. Huo Qing lost his depressed mood. With a sigh of relief, he rubbed the youth's neck.

"Yesterday you were too tired so I didn't tell you that the reclamation project in Lugang has been returned to Gu Xueying." Huo Qing said softly.

Nie Jiah gave a cry. Jiang's shares were sold directly by Huo Qing before. The funds were all given to Gu Xueying. During this period, Nie Jia did not worry. Gu Xueying and Qin Yiran were smart people. They had enough funds. They knew what to do. But halfway through, Yan Yu was suddenly killed. This aroused Nie Jia's desire to destroy. He didn't want to just observe the changes as he originally thought. He now wanted to participate!

"If I now withdraw from the Pacific Cable Project contracted by Jiang's, they will collapse. So, you won't have to deal with them in such a roundabout way." Huo Qing rubbed Nie Jia's temple for a moment.

"I'm playing a game. You don't have to destroy my fun and happiness." Moreover, if Huo Qing was to deal with Jiang Yang, it would be as simple as crushing ants, but in the end, the original owner's wish would not be realized. Huo Qing's attack would only fill Jiang Yang with hatred. How could he regret it?

Nie Jia got up from Huo Qing's embrace after his headache was relieved. He knelt down on the bed and looked very gentle as he just woke up. The affectionate emotions in his eyes were obvious. This made Huo Qing feel pinched in his heart.

"Of course, your happiness is the most important thing." Huo Qing smirked and stretched his hand to scratch Nie Jia's jaw like a puppy.

At the beginning of August, because Anna urged Nie Jia to move back to Jiang residence, Huo Qing also went to France for a business trip. Huo Yun happily lamented that her brother went to a foreign country as soon as he got together with Dr. Yan.

–

"Susu, are you in love? Who is she?" Anna never liked electronic gadgets. But two days after her son's return, she noticed that the mobile phone did not leave her son's hand. She often saw him talking to someone on the computer. Yan Su spoke with a smile on his face that she had never seen before, and finally, she couldn't help asking questions.

Nie Jia was texting Huo Qing, and he smiled as he said, "Someone from the Huo family."

"Huo? Miss Huo Yun?" Anna's eyes widened in surprise.

"Huo Yun has long been married. You don't need to guess. He is not in China now, he will be back in a few days. I will bring you to meet him at that time." Nie Jia put down his phone helplessly, and walked over to Anna. Squeezing her shoulders he asked, "Didn't Qin Yiran go shopping with you today? Are you tired after a day of walking?"

{T/N: So in Chinese, as many of you would already know, the pronunciation of he and she, of her and him, is similar. So while Anna is saying her(feminine), Nie Jia is talking about him(masculine), but since both of them sound the same, Anna most probably doesn't realize yet that Nie Jia is talking about a male Though she knows Yan Su's sexual orientation, she did not know that Yan Su was in relationship with a male.}

"I'm tired. But, I almost forgot to ask you. Yiran told me today that you bought Qin's bulk stocks for her. Even Gu Xueying's funds are what you gave him. Where did you get so much money?" When Anna first heard Qin Yiran say this, she thought that the kid was joking, but now Qin Yiran had indeed become the controlling shareholder of Qin's, and Gu Xueying also won the Lugang reclamation project that could create profits worth 10 billions.

She was afraid that the funds needed to do so could catch up with half of Jiang's shares! How could her son who was just a brain surgeon have so much money?

"I swear to you, I am definitely not breaking the law." Nie Jia smiled helplessly. "I will tell you in detail when the matter is over."

Anna looked at him for a while, and then gave up asking since she knew she couldn't intervene. She only reminded: "When your girlfriend comes back, remember to tell me. Don't hide it. The young master still needs to hide matters from his mother?"

It was getting late already, so she said a few sentences and went upstairs to rest.

Nie Jia glanced at the date, August 6th. Tomorrow was the day when Qin Yiran would officially become the chairman. Earlier, the Qin's board of directors was controlled by Jiang Yang. After all, he held 45% of the shares and was Qin's largest shareholder. Although Jiang Yang had not taken care of the Qin family himself, it was still Jiang Yang who was previously elected as the chairman. Now Nie Jia had acquired enough scattered shares for Qin Yiran, plus the original shares inherited by Qin Yiran, the total exceeded 51%. So, Qin Yiran would automatically serve as the chairman.

It was worth mentioning that Jiang He also served in Qin's Building as the executive president of Qin's head office. He had no ability, and being a president was just a bowl of rice that Jiang Yang had rewarded him. Jiang Yang did not expect him to improve his career. Jiang He was sitting in this position knowing how comfortable it was. Not only did he get a lot of dividends, he didn't even have to take any responsibility.

The next day, Qin's shareholders' meeting was held in Qin's Building.

After the lapse of half a year, Qin Yiran once again returned as the master. Her mood at this time was very complicated, with unrelenting hatred for Jiang Yang and sorrow for her father's death, as well as gratitude for Yan Su, who could make her stand here rightfully.

Qin Yiran stood at the door for a long time. When the helper reminded her about the time, the complex emotions and tears in her eyes faded away: "Chairman, the shareholders have arrived. You will be late if you don't go in."

"It doesn't matter, some people are cheap, let them wait for a while. They can be happy." Qin Yiran sneered, slowly raised her feet and walked in.

She will never forget what the shareholders were like when her father passed away. Especially when Gu Shi collapsed, and they broke the relationship between themselves and her family.

{T/N: If you don't remember, Gu Shi is Qin Yiran's maternal grandmother. She collapsed and died after Gu's were declared bankrupt.}

"Yo, isn't this Miss Qin? I haven't seen you for a long time. Did you take the time today to see if Jiang Yang was here, so as to stab him? It's so unfortunate that Jiang Yang didn't come here." Jiang He saw that Qin Yiran came straight in. He revealed an unwilling smirk, leaning on the secretary's desk and sneered at Qin Yiran: "Look at my memory, I forgot to consider the shares in Miss Qin's hand. It is said that it is still 0.1%. I heard that the new chairman is coming today. So, Miss Qin also came to participate in today's shareholders meeting? I will open the door for Miss Qin."

Jiang He lazily walked past lazily and opened the door. He was Jiang Yang's cousin. He had always been walking sideways in the company, and he did not converge in front of the shareholders. Who dare deal with him?

Qin Yiran stood still, just staring at Jiang He coldly, thinking quietly in her mind that it was Jiang He who gave Jiang Yang many sinister ideas whose brunt she swallowed during her marriage with Jiang Yang.

The major shareholders had indeed arrived. They were just waiting for Qin Yiran. When the door opened, everyone looked at Qin Yiran who looked at them frostily and remembered how they had treated the child before.

"Chairman, you are here."

The shareholders greeted her. Jiang He froze, the ridiculous smile on his face slowly receding. Then he turned rigidly to Qin Yiran, who was indifferent, and blinked in consternation. "Are you the new chairman?"

{T/N: means – a feeling of anxiety or dismay, typically at something unexpected.

Source of information : google dictionary.}

"You're fired. Get lost." Qin Yiran indifferently pursed her lips, threw his handbag to her assistant. She looked like a diligent chairman in the eyes of the shareholders in the meeting room.

"Impossible! You!? How could you be the new chairman!?" Jiang He finally recovered.

Qin Yiran ignored him, and coldly commanded hee assistant: "Immediately prepare Jiang He's dismissal letter. Throw out his personal belongings and him."

"Yes, chairman, I will deal with it immediately." The assistant put the document in front of Qin Yiran's desk, then rolled the sleeve of his suit to reveal a pair of strong wrists, and clamped Jiang He with one hand.

"You are not qualified to expel me! Who do you think you are? Why did you expel me?!" Jiang He was madly angered by Qin Yiran. He screamed, the assistant frowned, and directly dragged the person out of the meeting room with a knife.

In the whole process, no shareholder said a word for Jiang He. All people agreed that Jiang He had nothing to do with the position of CEO, and it should have been emptied long ago.

Qin Yiran's assistant dragged Jiang He all the way to his office and asked the secretary to pack up his personal belongings. The whole company knew about it all at once.

-12-

The new chairman was not a stranger, but the only daughter of the former chairman.

Qin Yiran didn't show up in the company very much before. Few people knew about her, but now Jiang Yang as a scum man, was well known. As one of the involved parties, she should have been embarrassed being scammed by the scum man. No one had imagined that Qin's new chairman would be changed within a month.

Nobody knew what happened. The staff only saw Qin Yiran's assistant dragging CEO Jiang He all the way to the company's door and handling him like throwing garbage. This tough move made the people in the company dare not breathe, let alone talk about it.

Everyone knew that Qin Yiran hated Jiang Yang, and Jiang He was Jiang Yang's cousin. What's more, Jiang He had always relied on Jiang Yang's background for his prestige in the company. The employees only felt a big sigh of relief and believed that he deserved it.

Qin Yiran dismissed Jiang He without asking for his opinion. When Jiang He woke up the next day, he was desperate to find trouble for Qin Yiran, but was stopped by the security guard at the door, and prohibited from entering.

"Are you blind, don't you know who I am?" Jiang He snarled at the security guard.

Even if Jiang He was dismissed from his post, he was still a member of the Jiang family. The head of the security team could not afford to offend him. He persuaded him: "Master Jiang, you have been dismissed. The chairman also specifically told you not to enter the company. Please don't embarrass us."

Jiang He panted angrily and scolded them. He returned to the parking lot and drove straight to the Jiang house. He was almost dizzy with anger, clutching the steering wheel so tightly that his fingers turned white. The humiliation in front of the public made him clench his teeth all along the way. He stepped on the accelerator and rushed into the Jiang mansion.

Qin Yiran had no complaints or enmity with him, even if she was angry with him because of Jiang Yang, she would not humiliate him in such a fierce way. The only possibility was to be abetted by others, and it was Yan Su who had a deep hatred against him. What a bastard!

"Yan Su! You bastard! Come out for Lao Tzu!" Jiang He pushed away the butler who wanted to entertain him, went upstairs and kicked twice on the door of Nie Jia's room. Fuelled by constant anger, the intensity of kicking the door was getting more and more high. "You asshole! Come out!"

{T/N: Lao Tzu – It is attributed to a Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu, meaning 'Old Sage' or 'Old Master'. Lao Tzu can also be written as Lao Zi. The underlying meaning is the same. Calling oneself Lao Tzu or Lao Zi implies putting oneself at a position or status higher than others. In simpler terms, it is almost equivalent to calling oneself daddy.

Asshole – It wasn't asshole per se. The mtl gave me asterisks. Literally, like ***. So, instead of repeating bastard, I choose asshole.}

Nie Jia was video calling Huo Qing in the room. Huo Qing frowned angrily when he heard the movement outside. "It sounds like Jiang He."

"You can hear that waste barking?" Nie Jia smiled in surprise. "I asked Qin Yiran to dismiss him. Maybe he guessed it. But I thought he would go directly to Jiang Yang. What's the use of looking for me?"

"Don't answer the door, I will let Wang Zong come to you immediately." Jiang He's violent tone and his act of smashing the door made Huo Qing very worried about Nie Jia's safety.

Nie Jia hadn't had the time to respond. The door of the room had been kicked open by Jiang He from the outside. He was like a hyena whose tail had been stepped on. He rushed in with red eyes and grabbed Nie Jia's collar to pull him from the chair, and lifted him up, "Did you make Qin Yiran expel me?!"

His words directly raised Huo Qing's heart rate, but since Nie Jia was wearing headphones when they were video-calling, he(Nie Jia) couldn't hear anything Jiang He said.

Nie Jia took off the headphones calmly and said, "Yes."

"Yan Su, I think you are tired of living!" Jiang He gritted his teeth and said: "Don't forget that you left me a lot of photos at that bar. You can guess, if these photos spread out and the whole world knows that the famous doctor Yan is gay, would you still have room for development in China?"

"If you can't find any other reason that can threaten me other than these old things, just give up. Instead of thinking about how to retaliate against me, it's better to beg Jiang Yang to let him give you another golden rice bowl. You are doomed this year when the Qin family pays dividends. If you don't hurry up and find a way to make money, your gambling debts will make you lose your money." Nie Jia pricked at Jiang He's weakest point.

Jiang He was so angry after being dismissed by Qin Yiran. It was precisely because without Qin's dividends, he could not fill the huge hole left due to gambling in the casino. This matter was not even known to Jiang Yang. How could he(Nie Jia) know so clearly?!

Jiang He was surprised for a moment, and then his anger became more intense. He sneered and loosened Nie Jia's collar. His fingertips gently touched his(Nie Jia) delicate collarbone and he(Jiang He) broke two buttons from Nie Jia's shirt, suddenly exposing a few inches of pale and smooth skin.

Nie Jia had woken up not long ago, and there was a slight moisture in the corner of his eyes, which made him look unpretentious and seductive.

"You were pretty when you were a child, and now that you have grown up, you have become a stunner. It's a pity that I used to have women in my head so I missed you, but it's not too late." Jiang He looked closely at the young man in front of him who looked so outstanding that he(Nie Jia) ignited a wicked fire inside him(Jiang He).

When Jiang He stretched out his hand, Nie Jia clamped his throat with a blank expression. His movements were fast and fierce but very precise. Jiang He could not breathe but he would not suffocate and choke in a short time. Instead, he could feel the pain of being pinched very clearly.

"You're looking for death." Nie Jia's eyes were ice-cold, and the docile temperament between his eyebrows had already been swept away. At this time, he looked at Jiang He as if he was looking at a dead person.

Jiang He didn't expect that Yan Su, who was slender, would have such great strength. He could not breathe. The feeling of suffocation made him panic and he kicked desperately as he tried to grab Yan Su's hand. The fingers which usually held scalpels were clearly pale and slender, as if they could be broken casually, but at this time, they were almost like steel blades that could not be shaken, and Yan Su almost broke his neck!

Driven by his desire to survive, Jiang He scratched frantically, and scraped Nie Jia's mouth, leaving two bloodstains.

Nie Jia's eyes were gloomy and he groaned irritably, and then twisted Jiang He's arms swiftly. Jiang He breathed violently in severe pain, but when he finally gasped, he was directly pressed by Nie Jia on the table. Jiang He's burly figure, which was half a head taller than him(Nie Jia), looked like a joke in front of him. Without any strength left to counterattack, he(Jiang He) could only let himself be squashed and flattened.

"Yan Su! Yan Su, I was wrong! I was wrong. I was just talking nonsense. I apologize to you! I'm sorry Yan Su, I didn't mean it. Jiang Yang ordered me to give you medicine and take those pictures for Jiang Zhaolin to see. It was he who wanted to drive you out of the Jiang family, and I was threatened by him! You let me go!" Jiang He was lying on the table busily begging for mercy.

He was terrified, because Nie Jia's thumb which was previously covering his right eye, pressed down a little bit! He felt his eye was about to explode!

He tried to beg for mercy, his body was cold and sweating, his tears had already rolled out and mixed with sweat, but his perpetrator was still unmoved, and even increased the strength of his fingers. He(Nie Jia) seemed to have made up his mind to poke his(Jiang He) eyes out.

"If you don't learn a lesson, you won't know if you should kick a steel plate." Nie Jia's tone was cold and his eyes were sharp like a sword. When he pressed on Jiang He's vital point, he wanted to see blood.

{T/N: From my point of view, it probably is similar in meaning to drop a stone on one's own feet. That is, do something only to end up hurting oneself.}

"Dr. Yan!" An anxious voice interrupted Nie Jia's impulse to commit murder. He looked up and saw Huo Qing's assistant Wang Zong rushing in with a solemn expression. When he saw that Nie Jia was safe, his expression relaxed and he calmed down, "You are fine."

Nie Jia recalled that his video-call with Huo Qing had not ended. He glanced down at the computer. Huo Qing looked at him solemnly through the screen, and when he(Nie Jia) looked carefully, he could also glimpse a trace of panic in his(Huo Qing) expression. Nie Jia's heart tightened, he immediately released Jiang He and took a step back.

He had admonished himself to restrain his emotions in front of Huo Qing, but he was completely out of control as soon as he was irritated. If Wang Zong did not come in time, he feared he would have really dug out Jiang He's eyeballs in front of Huo Qing.

Jiang He was paralyzed on the ground, and his legs were trembling with fear. He was unable to stand even if he wanted to get up and run.

Nie Jia wasn't much better, obviously he was the one who committed the crime, but at this time he was also full of panic. He moved his thin, dry lips, and finally said nothing but closed the computer.

"Get lost!" Nie Jia looked at Jiang He gloomily.

Jiang He dare not dally, and quickly escaped with his tail tucked between his legs.

Nie Jia sighed anxiously and threw himself on the chair, brittle like a bone, and looked half dead.

Wang Zong's cell phone rang but Nie Jia was paralyzed and unmoved. Wang Zong answered the phone and said: "Yes boss! Dr. Yan is fine. You don't need to worry! Yes! Yes! Yes!"

After hanging up the phone, Nie Jia glanced at him and asked, "Huo Qing?"

"Yes! Sir is very worried about your safety." Wang Zong said with a respectful attitude.

"You just saw it. I have nothing to worry about. You can go." Nie Jia got up from the chair and slammed into the bed, curling up like a hedgehog.

{T/N: The mtl gave me – you see, I have nothing to do, you can go. But I feel that in accordance to the preceding para wherein Wang Zòng mentioned his safety, the sentence should probably have been – you saw it, I am fine. You can go. or you saw, I have nothing to worry about. You can go.}

Wang Zong took a business card from his pocket and placed it on the desk. "Dr. Yan, this is my contact information. If you have any order and/or need, you can send me to do it at any time."

Nie Jia didn't answer. Wang Zong didn't say anything else. He walked out and closed the door behind him.

[Mr. Nie, are you worried about the director seeing your murderous side?] The system who had been quiet for a while, suddenly asked aloud.

"Quiet!" Nie Jia was depressed and didn't want to speak at all.

The system was silent for a while: [You can be more confident.]

Nie Jia didn't speak, his breathing was smooth, and the system didn't know if he was asleep.

Wang Zong's movements were very quick. In the morning, he did what Huo Qing ordered on the phone. He found out the reason why Dr. Yan, who was just a teenager twelve years ago, went alone to study abroad, and also the pictures taken twelve years ago which Jiang He secretly hid.

-13-

Paris.

Huo Qing gloomily looked at the photos on the computer screen which Wang Zong had just sent. His dark eyes shone like a sharp blade.

The scene in the photo was very chaotic. It could be seen that it was a private room in a bar. The obscene atmosphere formed by the chaotic naked silhouettes and shredded clothes almost rushed out of the computer screen. The figures were not clear, except for a teenager wearing glasses. He looked only sixteen or seventeen years old. His facial features were immature and young, with some confusion and uneasiness in his expression at being pressed on the sofa by a bare-chested man.

That's what he was like when Su Su was young, his clothes were ripped off by a group of men, he was fed medicine, and countless dirty pictures were taken when he was unconscious. These unsightly photos were even sent to the office of his stepfather Jiang Zhaolin.

Anna was unaware of the incident. Jiang Zhaolin arranged for Yan Su to drop out of school and called him into the study for two hours. At that time, Jiang Yang was about to take his college entrance exam, but he almost broke his arm to save Yan Su. Coupled with these disgusting photos, one could imagine how Jiang Zhaolin scolded Yan Su for those two hours. After all, he was just an insignificant stepson.

This was a heavy blow and shame for Su Su, who was just a child at the time. Huo Qing was heartbroken when he thought about it.

"Find out those people, including Jiang He." Huo Qing's irritability was reflecting through his tone.

"Yes sir! I'm already doing it." Wang Zong said on the phone.

Huo Qing hung up the phone and looked at the photos silently. At this time, his brain was boiling, but his eyes were very cold, and there was a terrifying killing intent.

–

At noon, Nie Jia ate lunch with a pale face, and then attended a seminar at the invitation of the General Hospital. He was not interested in this kind of backward medical treatment in some ordinary world. He just found something to busy himself with.

At the end of the seminar, it was already evening. Nie Jia was in a bad mood. After returning, he went to bed without even eating dinner, just like a salted fish who had lost its dream.

{T/N: A term, originally from Chinese, used to refer to someone feeling tired and sluggish.

Source: Urban Dictionary.}

He was in a bad mood, and the system was worried about his stomach ache since the morning, and had been yelling at him to eat, but was completely blocked by Nie Jia.

He wrapped himself into a spring roll and fell asleep.

It was unknown how long after that, Nie Jia was awakened by a string of sloppy footsteps. He realized that his door lock was damaged by Jiang He during the day and he had no time to repair it. Anyone could enter and leave his room. Maybe it was Anna, Nie Jia thought unconsciously. He felt the mattress sink by his side, and then a warm palm fell gently on his head.

He awakened abruptly, suddenly threw away the quilt and sat up, gazing at the person around him incredulously.

"I woke you up?" Huo Qing gazed at Nie Jia's pale but handsome face with unmatched tenderness.

Nie Jia was like a little animal with nowhere to escape, his ears were perked up, and he was a little cautious and surprised. "How?? Weren't you coming a few days later?"

"I thought you couldn't stand it, so I came back in advance." Huo Qing took Nie Jia's hand, kissed gently on the inside of his wrist, and then pulled the man into his arms, embracing him tenderly.

Nie Jia glanced at the time. It was ten o'clock in the evening. It took about twelve hours to travel from Paris to Yue City. That meant, Huo Qing came back immediately after their video call in the morning.

For once, he didn't know what to say. He felt first surprise and then faint joy, it was so nice that he didn't feel disgusted by his (own) violent behavior. Nie Jia moved his arms, his breathing slightly quickened and he wanted to hug him(Huo Qing).

At this time, Huo Qing said in a low voice in his ear, "I was very worried about you."

Nie Jia moved, and his just raised arm was put down again. He lowered his head and buried his face in Huo Qing's neck, laughing a bit self-deprecatingly. "You have seen it all, I can protect myself well. Nothing to worry about."

"Of course, this is a good thing." Huo Qing noticed the strangeness in Yan Su's tone and let go of his hand to look at the lost young man through the faint moonlight. He couldn't help but touch his forehead, kiss on his brows, then again anxiously hug the person back into his arms. "But if it wasn't Jiang He? But someone else who has the ability to hurt you, I could only watch you being bullied…." He gritted his teeth. "I will never leave you alone again. I will be with you wherever you go from now on, always in a place you can see me as long as you look back."

Nie Jia was too slow to react. For a second, he felt that he had misunderstood.

"No one can bully me. I will break their necks!" He no longer restrained his arrogance, and said the fierce and cruel words previously floating in his head, but suddenly, he couldn't control his tears. He clinged to Huo Qing's neck, clenching his teeth and crying.

"It's okay. It's alright." Huo Qing hugged the body that was trembling lightly, patted his back with distressed eyes and softly comforted Nie Jia.

In the previous worlds, Nie Jia had always believed that he would be sentenced to death when the cycle of reincarnation ended, and that his life would be completely over. He recalled Shi Chen countless times. Although they loved each other unabashedly, he had never said a word. He did not have the courage to boldly pursue the person he liked. It was Nie Jia's last regret. There was no chance for redemption.

Even when he learnt that Shi Chen was trying his best to save him, and had even hacked into the prosecution team's system to stand beside him, Nie Jia was still uneasy because he was no longer kind and docile. He was not afraid of death, but he was afraid that Shi Chen would mind and hate this change in him.

But now, Nie Jia finally understood that he had underestimated Shi Chen's love. And he realized that the person who didn't love enough was him, but instead he had wondered whether the other party was not firm enough. He was too selfish. In order to avoid him being hurt, Shi Chen even took the risk of being investigated and tampered with the prosecution team's personality detection system to come to him. He(Nie Jia) only had evaded and dared not respond positively to his(Shi Chen) feelings. What a coward!

"Thank you for being willing to love me and save me." Nie Jia groaned in repression.

Huo Qing smiled softly, "You are my salvation."

The system covered its mouth while crying. [Ahhhh!! Too moving… I'm so touched. (●//ω//●) Although I don't want to disturb you, Mr. Nie, I have to remind you that the director has captured Jiang He.]

After Nie Jia's mood stabilized, Huo Qing got up and washed him with a warm towel, and wiped his face covered with snot and tears. Nie Jia laid down on the bed with his eyes closed and obediently let Huo Qing wash him. The tip of his nose and the end of his eyes were all red, like an innocent child who had been bullied.

"It's late, let's sleep." Huo Qing's heart was covered with haze, and he touched Nie Jia's red eyes.

Nie Jia opened his eyes, his emotions were in a fluster since he was already sleepy. He took Huo Qing's hand and said softly, "What did you do with Jiang He? He was so scared in the morning and he didn't dare come to trouble me again."

Huo Qing's eyebrows jumped, he didn't want to tell him.

Nie Jia was insistent, "You know what happened in the bar twelve years ago, right?"

Jiang He took care to say everything today, and Huo Qing heard all those words without missing anything. How could he be indifferent?

Seeing that Huo Qing already had some gloom in his eyes, Nie Jia leaned forward and laid on his shoulders with a small smile and said, "In fact, it's nothing. They were all only posing for the pictures. I was not bullied. Jiang Yang just wanted to take some pictures to show Jiang Zhaolin. It's just that it didn't really affect me."

Huo Qing's face was still green, "Don't worry about this matter. Including Jiang Yang, leave it to me to handle it, okay?"

"Release Jiang He. If you want to be angry, you can beat him first. I assure you that they will be dealt with as soon as possible and will never involve themselves with us." Nie Jia blew gently in his ear. "Then, let's marry."

Huo Qing's pupils tightened, he wolfishly stared at Nie Jia. "Say it again."

Nie Jia smiled, "I am proposing. Do I need to kneel?"

Huo Qing's response was a fierce kiss that almost made Nie Jia breathless. He pushed the person down on bed and bullied him gently and overbearingly. Nie Jia suddenly remembered something when he was suppressed, and gasped slightly: "The lock on my room is broken, in case my mother comes in….."

Huo Qing threw his blazer, wrapped arms around Nie Jia 's knees, and hugged the man, walking straight into the bathroom. He put Nie Jia on the washstand, then kicked the door and clicked the lock, and sat Nie Jia beside the mirror. He pulled Nie Jia slowly in his arms and said: "Now it's locked."

Nie Jia laughed, wrapped his arms around Huo Qing's neck and kissed him. He lost himself in passion.

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The next day, Jiang Yang was dealing with business affairs in the office. These two days of rumours made him scorched, and he spent a lot of effort and yet was unable in completely clearing it up. The company had so many things to worry about that he was too busy to go home for a week and sleep well. Meng Qian was very distressed for Jiang Yang. Recently, the gallery did nothing, so he made three meals a day and brought it to Jiang Yang to accompany him in the company.

After lunch, Meng Qian was at Jiang Yang's desk feeding him fruit, and accompanying him to gossip while doing business.

Suddenly a strong force violently pushed open the door of Jiang Yang's office, and two figures poured in. Among them, the female secretary kept bowing and apologizing: "I'm sorry, chairman… He.. wanted to come in. I couldn't stop..."

Wasn't it Jiang He who had just been released by Wang Zong?

"It's alright, you go out first." Meng Qian glanced at Jiang He in disgust, threw the fork back into the plate and said to the secretary.

The secretary nodded, stepped back trembling and closed the door.

Jiang Yang glanced up and frowned impatiently, "What are you doing here looking like this?"

Jiang He was dirty, and he had dried stains of nosebleeds. It was obviously a look of being beaten. Especially the whole eyeball of his right eye, which was bloodshot, red and looked scary. He walked to the sofa and sat down, gasping for breath: "I was dismissed by Qin Yiran, don't you know? Do you still have the time to frolic about in the office?"

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Frolic about was a direct insult to Meng Qian.

Meng Qian frowned angrily, "What do you mean?!"

But it was Jiang Yang's cousin, not his brother. Meng Qian didn't take Jiang He seriously from the beginning. After all, Jiang He was such a waste that he had to count on Jiang Yang even for work. Without mentioning his identity as Jiang Yang's cousin, who would take him seriously?

But Jiang He's scolding angered Meng Qian. Instead of being angry, Jiang Yang took Meng Qian's hand to appease him. Let him be angry. Try to tolerate Jiang He's rudeness.

"Qin Yiran dismissed you, I know that." Jiang Yang said lightly: "She took back the sovereignty of the Qin family, and she certainly could not tolerate the people of the Jiang family under her leadership."

Jiang He snorted, sitting on the sofa. He touched the bruise on the corner of his mouth with his fingers. The pain caused him to raise his eyebrows angrily. "If you know it, hurry up and solve it for me. It's okay to arrange a position similar to the previous one."

Meng Qian was very angry. This Jiang He's face was really thick. Who was he? Jiang Yang? Wanted to be Jiang's CEO, did he even have this ability?

"Even if I arrange it for you, do you think my father will agree?" Jiang Yang said vaguely, already feeling impatient.

Jiang He was silent for a while. He knew that while he was in the Jiang's, whether it was the head office or its subsidiaries, if Jiang Yang gave him a high position, Jiang Zhaolin would definitely be angry enough to get a heart disease. Else, he would not have run far away to be Qin's CEO.

"Then restore my position in Qin's, just hang a name as long as I can get dividends. It isn't difficult if you use the Qin's shares in your hand, is it?" Jiang He stretched his arms and kept pulling a few tissues to wipe the blood stains on his face which made his teeth hurt.

He used his irritability to hide his anxiety. He wanted to come to Jiang Yang the previous day, but he was captured not long after he left the Jiang mansion. To be honest, he didn't even know who caught him. He was blindfolded when he was taken and when he woke up, he was still blindfolded. Without communicating with others, he could still feel others howling around him, obviously many other people including him were captured. Later, after one night, he was beaten with a stick and released.

In the entire Yue City, who didn't know what Jiang He's relationship with Jiang Yang was? Who dare capture him? The only people who he could think about were probably from the casino.

Jiang He needed money very much. Although he was from a side-branch of the Jiang family, neither Jiang Yang nor Jiang Zhaolin would give him money. He could not lose such a golden rice bowl, otherwise his life would be lost.

"I can't intervene in the Qin family." Jiang Yang rejected Jiang He's proposal without hesitation. "Do you know why Qin Yiran can regain her sovereignty?"

Jiang He stared at him coldly: "I'm not interested in knowing."

Jiang Yang smashed the pen on the table, indifferently saying: "Mr. Huo is helping her. Mr. Huo has acquired more than 49% of Qin's shares and gave them to Qin Yiran for free, not only helping her get back Qin's sovereignty, but he even provided capital to Gu Xueying who contracted the Lugang reclamation project. What does this mean? Do I still need to make it clear to you?"

Jiang He didn't understand anything about the commercial circles(or business world), but he knew that Jiang Yang was very afraid of Huo Qing. After all, he was the character whom Jiang Yang himself had to rely on. With Huo Qing intervening, Jiang He knew that Jiang Yang would never help him.

"Then what do you mean?" Jiang He threw a tissue with blood stains on it. "This will not work, nor will that work. Jiang Yang, don't make me angry, otherwise I will do it. Poke you to the media directly about that matter twelve years ago. Then I will see how you still survive in Yue City! If I die, everyone will die together with me!"

Jiang Yang's brows furrowed. Of course he knew that the barefoot don't fear those who wear shoes.

{T/N : The barefoot(those who have nothing to lose) aren't afraid of doing things that others(those with family, reputation, careers, etc at stake) would be afraid of doing.}

"What happened 12 years ago?" Meng Qian asked with a hint of curiosity.

"You! Don't you know what dirty things your fiancé has done?" Jiang He laughed.

"Jiang He!" Jiang Yang scolded.

Jiang He had already been anxiously corrupted, and no matter how willing he was to listen to Jiang Yang's command earlier, he continued to talk about the scandal from twelve years ago. It was just a narrative to remind Jiang Yang of how serious this matter would be to the media, and its consequences for Jiang Yang. "Twelve years ago, in order to drive Yan Su abroad, Jiang Yang tried his hand at acting the play of a hero saving the beauty. Why do you think a doctor like Yan Su had to go abroad? He didn't kill Jiang Yang. Wasn't it because Jiang Yang asked someone to block him in the bar and almost rape him? Jiang Yang, I still have those photos. If you don't want the world to know about this…"

"What do you want?" Meng Qian interrupted him. Instead of being shocked, he calmly intended to deal with it.

He reacted very quickly. Meng Qian realized the seriousness of this incident after Jiang He said it. He and Jiang Yang would both suffer damage. They must not let this incident affect Jiang Yang.

"It seems that you are a smart person. You are not as simple as you usually show yourself to be." Jiang He sneered and continued: "Jiang Yang can't arrange my position now, so it's better to use a one-time solution. I want 100 million."

"You really are a big lion." Meng Qian clenched his fists.

Jiang He spread his hands and said: "You have to be clear that if this matter is exposed, Jiang Yang will lose more than 100 million yuan. When the money is in my hands, I will disappear, and I will never appear again. How cost-effective!"

Jiang Yang took a deep breath in silence, suppressing his fiery anger: "No problem."

Jiang He was overjoyed that Jiang Yang promised to give away the money the next day.

Meng Qian tapped anxiously on the desk with one hand: "Jiang He is a bottomless hole. Once we give him money, he will continue to come back to threaten you after tasting the sweetness!"

"I know, but is there any other way? I did something wrong that year, and I should pay for it." Jiang Yang patted Meng Qian's hand comfortably.

He looked depressed, and Meng Qian felt very distressed. He gritted his teeth and remained silent for a while, then suddenly said loudly: "It is better to let him disappear like Yan Yu. Anyway, killing one is murder, killing two is also murder. Haven't we already found a scapegoat for Yan Yu's case? It's better to find another scapegoat."

"Will it implicate you?" Jiang Yang said worriedly, but Meng Qian was not hindered.

"No. The police have wanted to send Fang Yan to prison for so many years. Wasn't it impossible?" Meng Qian smiled and called someone on the phone.

None of them noticed a small dark green shadow flashing across the upper left corner of Jiang Yang's computer.

Nie Jia was sitting on the bed, with a computer in his lap. He tapped twice on the keyboard, stopped listening, and then quickly cleared the trace of intrusion on Jiang Yang's computer.

There was the sound of water in the bathroom, Huo Qing was taking a bath. Nie Jia had no more anger for these stupid people, he just sneered and threw the computer aside.

Meng Qian and Jiang Yang were the protagonists of this world, representing absolute decentness and justice.

Jiang Yang made mistakes when he was a boy. Even if he was justified, but to this day, he felt that the price he should pay is to give Jiang He, an associate in the crime, 100 million yuan? And for Meng Qian, killing people was as ordinary as eating, without any loss of humanity. Was this the so-called justice?!

These two people were too ridiculous.

This world was a series of fictitious data, prepared by the public prosecution team. The prosecution team had been desperately trying to convict him, but the justice concept they showed was extremely stupid to Nie Jia!

[Mr. Nie, Meng Qian has informed Fang Yan that Jiang He should be killed tonight.] The system sounded a reminder.

"Got it." Nie Jia responded faintly.

[Is he useless for you?] Asked the system.

"The usefulness of his life has already been reflected, but he will still be a little useful when he dies. I don't want to be a behind-the-scenes conspirator. Whether he can survive or not depends on his character." Nie Jia chuckled lightly.

The system laughed dryly. The director asked him to assist Mr. Nie, but obviously Mr. Nie could do everything by himself, and it was totally useless.

"Who are you talking to?" Huo Qing walked out of the bathroom while wiping his hair.

The system silently raised its hand.

Nie Jia raised his head and couldn't help but freeze. Huo Qing's body was wet with only a bath towel around his waist. Water droplets from his chest rolled down the gully between his abdominal muscles and mermaid line into the bath towel, showing Nie Jia a so-called fatally attractive beautiful body.

"No…" Nie Jia murmured.

Huo Qing licked his lips, walked over and threw the towel to Nie Jia, rubbing it on his dog's-head like hair, "Help me dry my hair."

Nie Jia looked at several scratches on Huo Qing's sturdy and broad shoulders, and his face suddenly warmed up. He whispered to himself and started wiping Huo Qing's hair.

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