Chapter 105: A Long Goodbye

After all this drama, Sheng Mingzhi calmed down and felt a bit ashamed.

After pretending to be a good boy in front of Lu Jiayan for a long time, all of his persona collapsed out of nowhere.

Mr. Sheng Jr. wanted to die so badly.

And, most importantly.

Sheng Mingzhi had just returned the birthday present Lu Jiayan had given to him in anger.

...... He hasn't even looked at it yet.

The restaurant is quiet.

Sheng Mingzhi was torn for a moment, sitting on a stool.

It was probably so obvious that Lu Jiayan didn't have to look too hard to see the tangle on his face and asked, "What's wrong?"

He was afraid that Sheng Mingzhi would think of something to do with him again and would have a falling out with him.

Just got into a relationship.

You can't just break up the next minute.

Sheng Mingzhi looked up at him, and then his eyes involuntarily fell on the beautifully wrapped paper bag in front of Lu Jiayan, trying to reason with him: "Lu Jiayan."

"Didn't I just confess to you and then you turned it down. I just thought then I couldn't accept your birthday present either."

Feeling logical, Sheng Mingzhi got smoother and smoother: "But aren't we together again now."

He pointed to the gift and whispered bb, "I don't think the line about me returning your gift just now would count, or you might as well give it to me."

How arrogantly he threw the gift at Lu Jiayan just now.

Now the desire to get it back is as humble as it gets.

Little Mr. Sheng didn't even get a chance to look at it TvT.

After that, a silence fell between the two men.

When Sheng Mingzhi saw this attitude, he guessed that in all probability he would not get it back and complained that he had been too impulsive.

Who knows, his ten seconds of rambling were interrupted by Lu Jiayan's laughter.

The other person covered her face as if she finally couldn't help it and laughed.

And the more they laughed, the wilder they got, and they ended up sitting on the stool.

Lu Jiayan's sitting posture is very much like his own, a slovenly, uncouth one, and when he smiles he is even more diffident, leaning back in his chair like he has no bones.

Sheng Mingzhi blushed a little at his laugh and glared at him, "What are you laughing at?"

Lu Jiayan stopped laughing, looked at Sheng Mingzhi and couldn't help but rub his head: "Why is our Mingzhi so cute?"

...... grass.

Don't think that a few kind words will make him feel better!

Little Mr. Sheng is super hard to coax, OK?

But since it was the first time Lu Jiayan had upset him, Sheng Mingzhi found a way to get off on his own.

Lu Jiayan handed the gift back to him, speaking with a smile: "Of course."

Lost and found, Sheng Mingzhi is visibly happy.

"Can I take it apart?"

Lu Jiayan nods.

Sheng Mingzhi unwrapped to reveal a dark blue velvet box.

His heart pounding, he opened it to a delicate wristwatch.

Sheng Mingzhi looked up again, "Can I try it on?"

Lu Jiayan laughed: "It already belongs to you, Mingzhi, no need to ask my opinion."

Oh.

I've been pretending to be a good boy for so long that I can't get over it.

Sheng Mingzhi has a white wrist, which is ideal for wearing a watch.

He played with it for a long time, not noticing Lu Jiayan's eyes on him.

It was only after he had returned to his senses that Sheng Mingzhi remembered something important.

He is, I think, in a relationship with Lu Jiayan.

Sheng Mingzhi's movements slowed, remembering the bite he had just taken on Lu Jiayan's arm.

So regretful.

" Brother Jiayan."

He even called me "brother".

This shows the extent of his weakness of heart.

Sheng Mingzhi approaches Lu Jiayan and examines the bite marks on his arm.

It had just seen blood and was now a little scabbed over, but still very visible.

Lu Jiayan raised an eyebrow and teased, "You've got good teeth."

Sheng Mingzhi instantly regretted it and muttered, "Why didn't you just duck?"

Shit, did he bite that hard? Lu Jiayan's skin is too brittle!

It's not much of an injury for Lu Jiayan, but it's fun to watch Sheng Mingzhi worry about him.

When I was studying, it's not that I didn't want to fall in love.

Like most guys, Lu Jiayan had a restless adolescence, but he was more tolerant than the average guy. He is more of a discerning man than a man who is not a fairy, as his friends say.

I just never thought that I would fall in love with Sheng Mingzhi.

Apart from her face, this little ancestor has about nothing to do with the Heavenly Fairy.

Sheng Mingzhi put a band-aid on the pressure mark he had bitten out and said worriedly, "Do you think we should go to the hospital?"

"I can't." Lu Jiayan cooperates with him, "I'm afraid that the wound will heal halfway before we get to the hospital."

Sheng Mingzhi couldn't hold back his laughter, and after a glance at him, he burst out laughing.

Then he slammed Lu Jiayan's shoulder in a rage and stomped on him, "You're so boring!"

He has very beautiful fox eyes and was born with a bit of flamboyance of his own.

But Sheng Mingzhi is not feminine, although she is handsome, and looks at him with round eyes like a cute little dog.

Are foxes also part of the canid family?

It was 1am when we walked out of the restaurant.

Sheng Mingzhi didn't want to go back to the hotel so early, he had just confirmed his relationship with Lu Jiayan and he wanted to stay with him longer.

As they walk side by side along the road, Sheng Mingzhi is racking his brains for something to say.

But Lu Jiayan spoke first: "Are your hands cold?"

...... is okay.

It's March, it can't get any colder than that.

As far as he knew, Italy was supposed to be a country in the northern hemisphere and the seasons were the same as at home, right?

Most importantly, of course.

Sheng Mingzhi realises that he seems to have left a bad impression of Lu Jiayan's temper this evening and in order to save the day, young Mr. Sheng cannot afford to give him another bad impression of being a petulant bag.

So very maturely, he replied, "It's not cold."

Lu Jiayan gave a "hmm" and after a moment he spoke slowly, "But I seem to be a bit cold."

Sheng Mingzhi :?

Lu Jiayan tilted her head, looked at him and suggested politely, "Or else, hold hands?"

He said, "It's just to warm my hands."

Sheng Mingzhi: ......

What kind of hand-warming method is that?

However, Sheng Mingzhi's face is still a little hot.

Probably because he's never been in love before, he was turned on by Lu Jiayan's retarded behaviour, yes, that's right.

When Sheng Mingzhi didn't say anything, Lu Jiayan shamelessly assumed that his little boyfriend had acquiesced.

In the next moment, Sheng Mingzhi's hand was in his.

Sheng Mingzhi's hands are a little smaller and paler, and he can hold them in one hand.

After a few steps, Sheng Mingzhi suddenly spoke, "But I'm not a hand warmer."

Lu Jiayan froze, Sheng Mingzhi's ears reddened, and he hit a straight ball that caught him off guard: "I'm holding hands because I'm in love with you." -Sheng Mingzhi

Back at the hotel, Sheng Mingzhi's heartbeat hadn't even calmed down yet.

Lu Jiayan told him to go to bed early, and Sheng Mingzhi promised him to his face, only to end up rolling around on the big bed as soon as the hotel door closed.

How can you possibly sleep?

...... Holy shit.

No way, really in love with Lu Jiayan?

Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!

Super excited ！！！！

Sheng Mingzhi buried his face in the pillow and squealed with excitement a few times.

At the same time, the phone buzzed and vibrated.

Sheng Mingzhi hurriedly pulled his face out of the pillow. It was a WeChat message from Lu Jiayan.

[There's no need to get so excited ^-^]

[I heard your voice at the door]

......

......

Grass.

Without any transition, Sheng Mingzhi's whole face is horribly red.

He... he thought Lu Jiayan had gone?

Me grass?

What's the point of standing at the door for so long? And I heard him screaming!!!

Help.

Embarrassed to death.

Sheng Mingzhi almost blackballed Lu Jiayan.

It took a long time to slow down and pretend to be calm as I replied in the dialog box.

Sheng Mingzhi: [Misheard, right?

Sheng Mingzhi: [After all, I'm old and prone to deafness :)]

As soon as I sent it, Lu Jiayan made a voice call.

I don't know if all couples in love are like this, but Sheng Mingzhi is, and after less than ten minutes apart, he's looking forward to seeing you tomorrow.

Lu Jiayan's voice comes over the phone with a smile: "I'm not that old, am I?"

Sheng Mingzhi rolled over, "Oh. Six years older than me anyway."

"Don't they say a woman is a golden brick, rounded up, so I'm not two golden bricks?"

Sheng Mingzhi tweeted, "You know it's a female junior too. Are you a woman!"

The word "woman" is also added.

Emphasis added.

"There's no 'female', but there's barely someone." Lu Jiayan gave a soft laugh.

It turned out that Sheng Mingzhi had just come of age today, and with a subtle embarrassment, added, "But maybe I'm probably not even a human being in your brother's eyes."

Speaking of Sheng Xu, Sheng Mingzhi suddenly remembered Lu Jiayan's reason for turning him down tonight.

The inexplicable reference to his brother is not something he would believe if Sheng Xu was not involved.

"Do you and my brother know each other?"

"Hmm. High school friends, college roommates."

Your mother.

And really know each other.

Sheng Mingzhi is furious: "Don't listen to anything my brother says to you, he's just sour on me!"

Lu Jiayan: "Acid?"

"Yes!" Sheng Mingzhi: "He's a bachelor at his own age, so he envies me for being in a relationship. Oh, I remember, he even learnt to fall in love online in college and got cheated out of 100,000 yuan."

Lu Jiayan laughs out loud.

We talked for about two hours before Sheng Mingzhi reluctantly hung up the phone.

The phone was horribly hot and he looked at the "someone" he had addressed to Lu Jiayan.

After thinking about it, and with red ears, I changed my note.

Replace "someone" with "boyfriend" -

Although Lu Jiayan did not say so, Sheng Mingzhi was probably aware of the internal strife within the Lu family.

It was not a complete lie that the other man was working in Milan. After hearing that Lu Xiao had been merciless to his own brother, Sheng Mingzhi empathised with his hatred for Lu Xiao after the legendary 'real brother' became his boyfriend.

He stayed in Italy and didn't come home. As time went on, the paper didn't hold up and Sheng Xu began to see that something was wrong.

A few phone calls to Sheng Mingzhi to urge him to return to his home country were excused by Sheng Mingzhi for various reasons.

For some reason, the first name that popped into Sheng Xu's head was Lu Jiayan.

There was probably some kind of telepathic connection between the brothers, but Sheng Xu intuitively knew that the problem was definitely Lu Jiayan.

Without even thinking, he called Lu Jiayan directly.

Lu Jiayan saw Sheng Xu's call and had a sense of expectation.

As soon as she picked up, Sheng Xu said bluntly, "Is my brother at your place right now?"

Lu Jiayan glanced at the clock and saw that Sheng Mingzhi would be arriving in about half an hour.

He said slowly, "Not at the moment."

After a pause, he added, "In fifteen minutes, probably in."

Sheng Xu is silent.

Then erupt.

"...... Fuck. I fucking knew it!"

It is a tone of dawning realisation and hatred.

Sheng Xu gritted his teeth, "Didn't I tell you to stay away from my brother."

Lu Jiayan: "I know. But I'm not failing here."

Sheng Xu raised his voice: "Failure? Did you even fucking try? Don't tell me you're in a relationship?"

Lu Jiayan euphemistically: "What a coincidence, I just wanted to inform you of this happy news."

Then added, "Brother."

Sheng Xu: "......"

Fuck you.

Furious, he hammered his desk heavily and scuffed up in his office, walking twice in an impotent frenzy.

The result was inexplicably calm in the next second.

In fact, this result was expected by Sheng Xu.

He knew Sheng Mingzhi all too well, and when he saw how deeply in love the little brat was last New Year's Eve, he knew it would never end.

He knows Lu Jiayan, a friend who knows his roots, not some stranger.

He would have been happy for Sheng Mingzhi to have a relationship with Lu Jiayan if there hadn't been any infighting within the Lu family.

Sheng Xu's voice suddenly calmed down and he asked, "Let me ask you something, tell me first, you're not playing with my brother's feelings, are you?"

Sheng Mingzhi is only eighteen years old and has never suffered anything, let alone the pain of love.

Lu Jiayan said with a straight face, "No."

Sheng Xu sneered, "You better not be. Or I'll kill you."

Thinking of the Lu family's infighting mess, Sheng Xu sank back into his chair.

If you don't want to be involved, you are.

Lu Jiayan was his friend, and Sheng Xu did not fail to help him in secret.

But helping him as a brother and pushing his own brother into the fire are two different things.

He could not think of a good way to stop Sheng Mingzhi now.

Sheng Xu lit a cigarette and said seriously, "I say. If I give you a hundred million dollars to break up with my brother, will you split it?"

Lu Jiayan paused, "Would a hundred million be Mr. Tai's?"

Sheng Xu :?

Lu Jiayan, slowly and deliberately: "As a dowry?"

Fuck you.

Did you think I couldn't beat you up over the phone line?

Lu Jiayan said, "And it's not right that you don't give me a big red packet when your brother gets married."

He caved in a loose tone and reminded him, "Remember to count it separately from the dowry."

Sheng Xu :?

"Didn't you just say I was your brother?"

Lu Jiayan: "Well. A brother in arms, a clear account."

Sheng Xu: ......

I'll give you my brother?

And I'm paying you back?

--The good brother of your dreams?

After a while, Lu Jiayan's voice came back on the phone, "Don't worry. I won't let Mingzhi suffer."

Sheng Xu laughed: "You can't even buy a watch for my brother with the little money you make, you dare to paint a picture on my head.

He took a deep breath, as if making a decision, and continued, " Lu Jiayan, let me be honest with you. It's not that my brother likes you, I really don't want to get involved in this mess with your Lu family. But my brother is being dragged down by you, and I can't just stand on the shore and watch. My brother can't stay in Italy with a poor boy forever, he can't take the pain, so."

Sheng Xu said quietly, "You have to go back to your country. And you must get Lu Xiao killed."

Hanging up the phone, Sheng Xu finishes his last cigarette.

He turned to his secretary and said, "Inform the board of directors of the meeting. From today onwards, MingChen will no longer provide any loan business to Sheng Jia unless it has Lu Jiayan's personal signature." -

At the beginning of 2012, there was a thunderstorm in the YunJing capital circle.

MingChen refused to provide any loans to Sheng Jia on the grounds of poor business conditions and blind expansion. As a direct result of this action, Sheng Jia's capital chain was broken and it fell into great distress.

Sheng Mingzhi, who has never followed financial newspapers, has heard about it.

He didn't ask his brother what was going on, but for a while, the topic was a hot topic of discussion in all of YunJing's financial circles.

It is immediately obvious to those who know the inside story.

MingChen did not cut off Sheng Jia's funding because Sheng Jia's business was not doing well, but because he had fallen out with Lu Xiao and was now supporting the Lu family's second son.

Of course, Lu Xiao was not as ruthless as Lu Jiayan when it came to business.

Many people know that Sheng Mingzhi and Lu Jiayan are together, thanks to Sheng Mingzhi's flamboyant circle of friends, who post ten lovey-dovey messages a day, telling the world that they are with someone.

At first, the crowd was in a watching mood, saying that Lu Jiayan had taken MingChen's life by the horns.

Sheng Xu has only one precious brother, and Lu Jiayan has even taken his brother, so he is still afraid that MingChen will not give up.

MingChen has now become Lu Jiayan's personal bank, as the biggest fear in business is a broken capital chain.

I'm not afraid that Lu Jiayan is a poor man who can't afford to pay, what if he fails?

As a result, after less than six months of watching the good show, the faces of the crowd gradually changed.

Lu Jiayan's approach is extremely strong, both in terms of decision making and market acumen, which is unparalleled.

Even without MingChen's support, it is likely that Sheng Jia will be in his pocket in a few years' time when he is well established abroad.

In late 2012, the Sheng Jia subsidiary launched a video app, gradually moving away from the declining traditional industry and towards the Internet.

In less than a year, almost all of Sheng Jia's senior management has been replaced.

The following year, the subsidiary product exploded, with over half a billion domestic downloads and unstoppable momentum.

At the same time, Sheng Jia embarked on a comprehensive diversification and expansion.

In just two years, it has expanded its commercial footprint to three times its original size.

MingChen and Lu Jiayan have put up a beautiful fight that will leave everyone in awe.

To this day, Lu Jiayan's various reform methods and practices are exemplified as a textbook version of a battle of the gods.

In June 2023, Sheng Mingzhi graduated from a leading international music school, completing a four-year university career.

At the time of the entrance exams, he had just been with Lu Jiayan and had ambitiously decided to go to YunJing University to study finance and to be a qualified "sage's helper".

Then he was beaten up so hard by Sheng Xu that he was told to crawl right away and that his family wasn't so down on their luck that they wanted him to come and learn about financial management companies.

Only the next year it will be bankrupt.

Although Sheng Mingzhi would like to prove that he can do well in finance, he prefers music.

So clutching his violin, he enrolled in a world-renowned music school.

By her sophomore year, Sheng Mingzhi was already an internationally renowned violinist and, despite her young age, was already a prominent figure in the national violin scene.

The young, talented and gifted songwriter has never ceased to be praised in China, plus Sheng Mingzhi, a small-minded composer, is determined not to appear on any variety shows in order to keep his profile up, so fans can only see him at concerts, and every time a few live photos are leaked, his face is on the level of a god.

On the day of his graduation, Lu Jiayan flew in from China.

Sheng Mingzhi just finished his graduation photo shoot with his classmates, and his ordinary bachelor's uniform looks like a PS-retouched pictorial on him.

He was still thinking about Sheng Xu's comment that he couldn't get into finance, and spat out to Lu Jiayan, "How come I couldn't get into Beijing University? I think I'd like to study finance, maybe I was a finance student in my past life."

Lu Jiayan held the bouquet for him and laughed.

Sheng Mingzhi thought Lu Jiayan thought he was joking, but he was quite serious: "I'm telling you, I'm serious. Last time I went to perform at the University of Beijing, I felt a special affinity with it.

Lu Jiayan said, "Well. Then the other parallel world we must be together too."

Sheng Mingzhi's face heated up and he let out an "oh".

On the green lawn, a group of students gathered to take their graduation photos.

Sheng Mingzhi didn't have to walk for long before he was recognised by his fans, who screamed and gathered around him for autographs.

After the signing, Sheng Mingzhi's vanity skyrocketed and he tapped his finger on Lu Jiayan's chest: "See, little Mr. Sheng is getting more and more popular now, you need to have a sense of crisis or you won't be good enough for me."

Lu Jiayan grasped his fingertips and teased, "Then don't I have to rush to marry Mr. Sheng Jr. and secure my position with the law."

Sheng Mingzhi's heart skipped a beat at the sudden mention of marriage.

Having been with Lu Jiayan for four years, it was almost time to get married.

But Lu Jiayan hasn't even formally discussed marriage with him so far!!!

Little Mr. Sheng is not likely to lower his noble head and bring it up voluntarily!!!

"Oh."

So why don't you propose to me when you know!!!

A little later, Sheng Xu also arrived.

After all, it was Sheng Mingzhi's graduation ceremony and neither Sheng Yuan nor Sheng Xu could miss it.

The graduation ceremony started only after everyone had arrived.

The headmaster called the names on stage and every time a name was called, there was a cheer from the parents and students on stage.

"Ethan, come up and collect your diploma."

Sheng Mingzhi was a little nervous when he finally heard his name.

The headmaster handed him his diploma and hugged him, "Congratulations, from today onwards you are a real adult. You are excellent and our whole school is very proud of you."

After Sheng Mingzhi had received his diploma, the headmaster went on to call the roll: "Jenson."

He added calmly, "I guess you must be late."

There was no answer, only laughter from the stage.

Amidst the laughter, as expected, a boy who was late came hurrying through the gate with his hand raised, "Here! Here we are!"

The headmaster laughed, "You see, I was right in my guess. Is this the seventy-fourth time this year you've been late for another vena cava occlusion triggered by intermittent vascular nerve headache varicose veins?"

The laughter on stage became even more arrogant.

The boy looked healthy, a handsome Asian with a wheatish complexion.

Sheng Mingzhi walked off the stage just in time to brush up against this boy.

He glanced at him and the other man seemed to notice the stranger's gaze and turned back to see Sheng Mingzhi .

He laughed a little, then turned his head, took three steps up to the speaker's platform and ran up to receive his diploma with a smile on his face.

The headmaster embraced him and said gently, "May the coach who presents you with your championship tomorrow not be late and congratulations on your graduation."

Sheng Mingzhi muttered, "What a strange man."

The student next to me added: "From the pop school next door, this guy is also a racer, super cool."

Sheng Mingzhi wondered, "What's his name?"

" Jiang Bie ."

"Which one?"

A fellow student casually said, "A long goodbye."

Sheng Mingzhi sits up straight and can't help but think.

What a strange name.