Chapter 1074(END) (2/2)

Spicy chicken, fish-paste shredded pork, steamed fish—every dish was Sichuan cuisine.

Still, as everything was brought to the table, Chen Hansheng noticed a plate of mustard greens.

Every time Chen Hansheng had it, he would always remember the same mustard greens that Shen Youchu had made for him during freshman year.

Pinching a large serving with his chopsticks, he chomped on it audibly while saying unintelligibly, “I would never get sick of it.”

“You didn’t like it that much back in the day,” Liang Meijuan remained puzzled.

“People are like that sometimes.

They just suddenly find love for a certain type of food, and that love remains for life,” Chen Hansheng chuckled in reply.

“Mustard greens, spicy and crunchy!”

Opposite him, Shen Youchu’s cheeks subtly flushed brightly like new moons—a beauty to behold.

She knew that Chen Hansheng was saying that for her benefit—words of affection that belonged only to them.

After dinner, Chen Hansheng’s enthusiasm remained high, and the group of people continued to chat in the living room.

They talked about children, friends, relatives, and so on.

They also chatted about recent updates in their life.

Shen Ningning was in college now, and people were talking about how a boy had brought breakfast to the classroom every day as he was trying to pursue her.

Hu Linyu was now the chairman of “Meet Cute Milk Tea Shop.” She often traveled for business and was too busy to drop in lately.

Fortunately, she could video call through the Fruitchat app to see Shen Youchu and her little darling.

Chen Lan also got married, and her husband was a Ph.D.

engineer at Fruitshell Electronics.

Chen Hansheng carefully selected him from tens of thousands of employees for his sister.

The whole family was happy, saying Chen Hansheng had finally done something good.

The entire family would be unsettled if Chen Lan didn’t get married.

There were also mentions of Jin Yangming, Gao Jialiang, and even Hong Shiyong.

Everyone noticed that Chen Hansheng was talking a lot tonight.

“Rongyu.” Lu Yuqing quietly pulled Xiao Rongyu over and asked in a low voice, “Isn’t Hansheng acting a bit strange tonight?”

Xiao Rongyu looked up to see her husband chatting animatedly in the living room.

She said, “No, I don’t think so.

You may be overthinking it.”

“Really?”

When Lu Yuqing heard Xiao Rongyu’s reply, she let go of her doubts and murmured, “Maybe he’s just busy with work.

I heard that Fruitshell Electronics plans to introduce a semiconductor factory from Singapore, which has been on national news.

Hansheng has been busy lately.

Don’t quarrel with him, okay?”

“Mom!

We haven’t quarreled in a long time,” Xiao Rongyu replied with a bright smile.

But after sending her mother away, Xiao Rongyu’s smile slowly vanished.

As the secretary said, she was the person who accompanied Chen Hansheng day and night.

How could she not notice his changes?

She had only said that to prevent the older woman from worrying.

Xiao Rongyu, who was as beautiful as the stars surrounding the moon, had long learned to consider the emotions of her family.

Chen Hangsheng was just too skilled at concealing his true thoughts and emotions.

If he didn’t want to say something, no one could pry open his mouth and force him to.

***

After ten o’clock in the evening, the older people of the group wanted to turn in to rest.

However, before leaving, Wang Zibo took Chen Hansheng outside for a puff as they usually did.

In recent years, Chen Hansheng and Wang Zibo’s smoking frequency has decreased a lot, mainly for fear of affecting the children.

However, in the past few months, or since Wang Zibo also sensed that his best friend was a bit anxious, he accompanied Chen Hansheng to smoke a cigarette almost every day.

As the cigarette burned out, Chen Hansheng didn’t discuss anything serious again.

Wang Zibo sighed, patted his friend’s shoulder heavily, and then turned to leave.

He was a reliable, steadfast, and honest friend.

If something really did happen to Chen Hansheng on the twentieth of July and he was gone from this world, he would entrust the company to Zheng Guanshi and his parents to Wang Zibo for care.

Wang Zibo would definitely take care of them like his own parents.

Chen Hansheng never doubted this.

As for the young children, Chen Hansheng had made arrangements long ago.

On the morning of the nineteenth of July, Chen Hansheng returned to the company’s office.

He out a document titled “Instructions on the Distribution of Fruitcase Group Shares” from the drawer, which detailed the division of Chen Hansheng’s assets.

After carefully taking a page from it, he first went to the bank to deposit it, then took the key and went to the “Zhengda Jiujiantang Villa Complex.”

The name of this community, “Zhengda Jiujiantang,” was a bit strange.

In fact, the community had many of the top villas in Jiangning, almost comparable to Zhongshan International.

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It was located at the foot of Jiangning General Mountain.

Chen Hansheng arrived at one of the villas and skillfully unlocked it with fingerprints.

When the door opened, he saw Luo Xuan confronting a little girl.

“Chen Zining, peel eggs yourself if you want to eat them!” Luo Xuan said coldly.

“If you don’t peel them for me, I won’t eat!” the little girl angrily retorted.

The little girl was Chen Hansheng’s third daughter, born to Luo Xuan.

She was only seven years old this year.

Not only does she look very similar to Luo Xuan, with single eyelids and big eyes, but even her stubborn personality seems to be a replica.

When Chen Zining saw Chen Hansheng, she looked at her dad as if he were a savior.

“Chen Zining, I’m telling you…”

As they were in the comfort of their own home, Luo Xuan was wearing only a thin nightgown, which revealed the fair skin under the purple underwear.

She crossed her arms, scrutinizing the little girl, and said, “Don’t think you’re off the hook just because your dad is here.

It wouldn’t make a difference if your Grandpa or Grandma came either!”

“Hmph!” Chen Zining pouted discontentedly, refusing to pay attention to Luo Xuan.

“Don’t fight, okay?

Here, I’ll peel the eggs with you.”

Chen Hansheng picked up his little daughter and sat her on his lap.

He held Chen Zining’s small hand and told stories while guiding her to peel the eggshell.

Shang Yanyan witnessed this scene as she came downstairs.

“You’ve been quite free lately, huh?

You’ve been coming over every few days to have breakfast with Zining.”

Shang Yanyan was Chen Zining’s godmother.

She never had children due to the fear of pain, but she treated Chen Zining as her own, fulfilling the jest from their university days—”I’ll help you raise a child.”

Chen Hansheng’s gaze swept over Shang Yanyan’s exposed chest.

He chuckled and said, “Well, naturally, I come over when I have time.”

After coaxing his youngest daughter to finish breakfast, Chen Hansheng took out an envelope and casually said to Luo Xuan, “Here’s a document for you guys.”

“For us?”

Luo Xuan and Shang Yanyan exchanged glances.

They accepted the envelope and opened it to find only a key to a bank safe.

“You can’t read the document now.

It’s locked in the bank safe.

I informed the bank, and you can only open it on the morning of the twenty-first.”

“Why must it be on the twenty-first?”

Luo Xuan was intrigued and asked, “Is it a gift for us?”

“You could say it’s something like that.” Chen Hansheng replied with a smile.

“But you might not like it.”

If Luo Xuan knew that this was the inheritance Chen Hansheng had left for her, she would probably go crazy right now.

“You’re being extremely vague about this, huh?”

Luo Xuan didn’t quite understand but still put away the key.

Chen Hansheng stayed until noon before a phone call called him back to the company.

As they heard the car driving away, Shang Yanyan narrowed her beautiful eyes.

She turned to Luo Xuan and said, “You must have noticed your man’s unusual behavior.

I suspect something’s happened, and that document in the safe is likely related to it.”

“It doesn’t matter.”

Luo Xuan was indifferent.

“With his abilities, there’s nothing he can’t handle.

I’m not worried at all.”

Watching Luo Xuan blindly confident in Chen Hansheng, Shang Yanyan shook her head.

But then she thought, if there were problems even Chen Hansheng couldn’t solve, would it be of any use for her to worry?

***

The nineteenth of July passed without any incidents.

The next night would be the twentieth of July 2019.

Back then, Chen Hansheng had transmigrated back to this day.

If it were someone else, they might stay home nervously and dare not go out.

However, Chen Hansheng didn’t do so.

He believed that if he was destined not to survive this day, it would be futile no matter how he tried to avoid it.

So, he didn’t make any changes to his schedule.

He went to work, attended meetings, and picked up his daughters from school as usual.

Fortunately, everything went smoothly during the day, but Chen Hansheng didn’t dare to be careless because he remembered that the time he traveled back was actually midnight.

After dinner, Shen Youchu accompanied her daughters in doing their homework as usual.

Chen Hansheng, who usually slacked off, appeared at the doorway.

In the study, the bright light illuminated Shen Youchu’s smooth and delicate cheeks.

The tone of her speech was incredibly gentle.

Chen Hansheng didn’t say anything.

He just silently watched them, his gaze filled with some tenderness.

However, Chen Hansheng’s abnormal behavior quickly caught Shen Youchu’s attention.

However, she didn’t ask much about it.

She simply raised her head and exchanged a glance with him.

After a moment of eye contact, she lowered her head again, redirecting her attention to Chen Zijin and Chen Zipei.

‘Ah…

Shen Youchu must have noticed that I was restless tonight, but she didn’t ask a word.’

Although Chen Hansheng didn’t intend to reveal the true facts, he felt a faint sense of disappointment in his heart.

But then again, he thought that with Shen Youchu’s temperament.

After having children, it was normal for her to focus on them.

Chen Hansheng smiled contentedly and returned to the study.

Unexpectedly, over an hour later, someone knocked on the door.

It was Shen Youchu.

“What’s wrong?” Chen Hansheng asked in confusion.

“It’s not that I didn’t want to talk to you just now,” Shen Youchu explained softly.

“I was correcting the children’s homework and urging them to sleep.

If you’re not sleepy now and still want to talk to me, I have time.”

Watching Shen Youchu’s sincere and concerned expression, Chen Hansheng felt his heart ache a little for her.

He smiled and pinched Shen Youchu’s cheek.

“We’re an old married couple.

There’s no need to be so formal.

I just wanted to sleep with our daughter tonight.

We can make a makeshift bed on the floor.”

The villa was exceptionally quiet in the late night.

Chen Hansheng lay on the floor, surrounded by the breathing of his precious daughters.

Moonlight flowed in from the window, casting a soothing and hazy glow in the room, like a dream wrapped in a veil.

Originally, Chen Hansheng didn’t plan to sleep.

He was reminiscing about the moments of the past seventeen years.

However, somewhere along the way, he lost interest.

The next morning, he was awakened by his phone ringing.

[If you miss the train I’m on, you will know that I am gone; you can hear the whistle blow a hundred miles…]

Chen Hansheng opened his eyes.

His first instinct was to check his daughters’ beds, only to find them empty.

‘Where are my daughters?

Did I return to the original timeline again?’

Chen Hansheng’s heart skipped a beat suddenly, and he quickly rushed out of the bedroom.

Finally, he saw Shen Youchu and Xiao Rongyu in the living room.

They were busy fixing Chen Zijin and Chen Zipei’s hair.

“Hey, it’s already ten o’clock, Dad.

You had a good sleep, huh?” Chen Zijin smiled and exclaimed, “But today is the weekend, so we didn’t want to wake you up.”

“Good morning, Dad.” Chen Zipei also raised her right hand, greeting Chen Hansheng.

Chen Hansheng’s eyes suddenly stung when he saw the scene that greeted him.

He realized he hadn’t returned to the original timeline.

Chen Zijin and Chen Zipei were here.

Xiao Rongyu and Shen Youchu were also here!

“The phone has been ringing for a while.

Why haven’t you answered it?”

Xiao Rongyu was looking at Chen Hansheng, who seemed to be rooted to the spot in a daze while his phone was still loudly ringing.

“Oh, right!”

Only then did Chen Hansheng react and saw it was from Zheng Guanshi.

After answering, Zheng Guanshi said, “Hey, I know something’s up with you.

It wasn’t a good time to ask you about it when we were abroad that day, but I’m already at the airport now.

I’ll call Jing over, and we’ll come see you, okay?

Tell us what’s wrong.”

“No need.”

At this moment, Chen Hansheng had already let go of all his burdens, and even his tone of speech had changed.

“The matter has been resolved, but you can still come over for breakfast.”

Zheng Guanshi was somewhat skeptical.

“Are you sure?”

“Yes.

I’m sure,” Chen Hansheng replied confidently.

There was a moment of silence on the other end of the phone.

Zheng Guanshi was probably considering whether Chen Hansheng was lying or not.

After a while, Zheng Guanshi still seemed a bit uneasy.

So, he said, “Then Jing and I will come to your house for breakfast.”

“No problem.”

After hanging up the phone, Chen Hansheng explained, “Xiaomi’s chairman and Jing are coming over for breakfast.”

Shen Youchu and Xiao Rongyu were familiar with these two people.

Shen Youchu didn’t say anything and arranged for the housekeeper to prepare more breakfast.

Xiaorou jokingly said, “So it’s Chairman Zheng and Jing.

I thought it was Luo Xuan.”

Shen Youchu and Xiaorou knew about Luo Xuan’s existence, but Chen Hansheng strongly denied any relationship with Luo Xuan.

However, Xiao Rongyu didn’t believe him and often used Luo Xuan to tease Chen Hansheng.

“Why would it be her?” Chen Hansheng laughed awkwardly, “Why would she come to me so early in the morning…”

Before he could finish his words, the doorbell rang.

“Senior Chen!

Senior Chen!

Are you okay?!” Luo Xuan called out urgently.

“I went to the bank and saw what you left for me.

Why is it a document about property?

Explain this to me!

Now!”

“Oh no!”

Chen Hansheng had thought that something unexpected might happen, so he arranged the asset division early on.

However, thinking he had nothing to worry about, he neglected to tell Luo Xuan not to go to the bank to see the documents.

That was something like a will.

It was no wonder Luo Xuan came directly to investigate instead of making a phone call!

Xiao Rongyu and Shen Youchu both looked at him.

Xiao Rongyu’s gaze was especially unpleasant.

Chen Hansheng felt an overwhelming headache.

Did a middle-aged man still have to go through another round of turmoil in life?