Ch23 - But he loves you~ (1/2)
2.15 – But he loves you~
translator: xiin
editor: BlueBug & alamerysl
Xu Yongyi and Bai Luzi both agreed that they could not stay in the city any longer.
They hired a hitman to kill Wen Xiuyuan, but as a result they were cheated out of a lot of money, once again realizing that Wen Xiuyuan had come well prepared and had a lot of tricks up his sleeve.
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They chose to leave the country before Wen Xiuyuan brought the police to their door.
If Wen Xiuyuan could make a comeback in two years, so could they.
In fact, Xue Ling admired the feelings between this husband and wife pair. People always said that married couples were like birds from the same forest, flying away separately when disaster struck. But from the beginning to end, the two of them didn’t seem to have any intention to give up on each other. They just handed Xu Qing over to Xu Yongyi’s mother when they packed up their things and prepared to flee.
Mrs. Xu was addicted to mah-jong and was at the tables all day. Although she knew something happened to her son and Bai Luzi, she did not realize it was a major event. She absentmindedly accepted her grandson when he was handed over and vaguely agreed with whatever her son said, then turned around to continue playing mah-jong.
Xue Ling did not intend to take action on her for the time being. Instead, he informed people that Xu Yongyi and Bai Luzi had fled. They were detained when they tried to pass customs.
The two people shouted that Wen Xiuyuan falsified evidence in order to frame them, but the real reason why the police arrested them was actually because Xu Group was involved in a major fraud and tax evasion case. They had also been accused of corruption, and they were the major suspects.
Bai Luzi’s design company was directly shut down. These two people held the controlling shares for the company and were Xu Group’s biggest shareholders. Even if they wanted to contend, there was no way to escape.
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Xu Yongyi finally understood the meaning of the phrase ‘If you don’t want anyone to know, then don’t do it’. If they hadn’t participated in those grey area activities, they might have been on a plane headed out of the country right now.
Over the past two years, Country H had been cracking down heavily on corruption. This time, a large number of high-level officials and businessmen were involved in X City’s corruption case. Xu Group, which acted as one of the key links, played an extremely important role and the government attached great importance to them. After they were arrested, they were detained separately, completely isolated and unable to receive any news from the outside world.
Bai Luzi and Xu Yongyi took advantage of Bai Luzi’s design company to make bribes through officials’ families. The investigation this time pulled down a large number of officials and was even reported by CCTV. Xue Ling was also implicated for a while, but with Cole there he didn’t even have to see the police at all, and nothing happened to him.
He stayed in H country until the trial for Bai Luzi and Xu Yongyi ended and their sentences were determined before he prepared to go back.
In modern times, there was no need to fight to the death. Xu Yongyi was sentenced to life in prison and deprived of political rights for life. Bai Luzi’s situation was not much better as she was sentenced to go to jail and had no hope of being released for ten to twenty years. Xue Ling had no intention of letting that day happen. The prison environment was very messy – it wouldn’t be strange if something happened and they died.
By the time everything was over, it was already summer. Xue Ling did not like summer, and after things were settled with Xu Yongyi and Bai Luzi he was even somewhat lazy about managing Mo An Group. After Doyle Owens and Wen Xiuting’s wedding, he merged the company into the Owen family’s group. As for the headquarters in Country M, it became a unique independent existence.
In his own words, it was his sister’s dowry and in the future it would be a gift for Wen Mo or Elaine. He would just help run it in the meantime.
Wen Xiuting very much disagreed with this. The company was something her brother worked hard on for two years, but in order for her to not have any backing when she married into the Owens family, he directly gifted the company to her. This was really unwise, let alone she didn’t want anything from her brother.
But Xue Ling remained indifferent, saying that since the company was now being managed by Cole, he’ll just occasionally take a look. This way, he can spend most of his time playing the piano with Wen Mo. He had never liked running a company; music was still his favorite thing. Now that they had already taken revenge, can’t sister let him spend his days playing piano?
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Faced with such a pitiful brother, Wen Xiuting had no choice but to come to terms with it.
Wen Mo’s musical talent became increasingly outstanding. It was most likely because Xue Ling was also an exceptionally good teacher that he entered the Zugeji Conservatory of Music at a young age. After his graduation, he participated in an international-level music contest, accomplishing the dream that Wen Xiuyuan never had a chance to complete, and became the world’s top pianist. Many people admired him, and countless musicians looked up to him.
When he was interviewed by the media, Wen Mo once made it clear that he was not the best in the world because he was still inferior to his teacher. Unfortunately, his teacher had stopped playing music for others long ago.
Wen Xiuyuan’s fans steadily increased, but news of him continued to decrease. Slowly, he faded from people’s memories and very few people remembered his revenge.
In the second year of her prison sentence, Bai Luzi suffered from influenza and became seriously ill, ultimately dying due to ineffective treatment. Xue Ling made sure to send a message to Xu Yongyi with this news, making Xu Yongyi nearly collapse.
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Ten years after Bai Luzi’s death, Xu Yongyi also died. His body and mind was already being tortured day and night; the final straw was when he received news that his son had drowned in the reservoir as a result of his mother’s lax care. He completely collapsed and committed suicide.
Xu Qing grew up to a become a very clever teenager, but because his grandmother never disciplined him, he was always outside playing around. Finally, because he had a cramp while playing in the reservoir, he drowned to death.
His death also involved a young college student who jumped into the water in order to save him. Unfortunately, neither of them made it out alive.
Xu Yongyi’s mother was completely dumbfounded. She had already lost all the back-up money her son had left for her through mah-jong, and her grandson died due to her lack of attention. But the old lady still went and made a lot of noise threatening to sue the government and blaming the reservoir for her grandson’s death. This incident aroused the attention of public, and their family’s affairs were brought out into the light once again. People laughed and pointed at her everywhere she went.
While she was outside the government building fighting with the workers, she was pushed and hit her head on a nail, thus dying from tetanus.
Xue Ling was fishing when he received the news. He adjusted the small hat on his head that was partially blocking his view, tore up the paper report, and threw the pieces into the water to feed the fish.
The small pond that was filled with pieces of paper did not look very scenic anymore.
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Cole let him do as he liked, reaching over to help him pull up the fishing rod that had been moving the whole time and caught a big fish.
Xue Ling was a little delighted and said with satisfaction, “It looks good. Let’s have fish soup tonight, sister hasn’t made fish soup in a long time.”
“Good.” Cole did not seem to have ever said the word “no” to him.
Over the years, although he never spoke out about his feelings to the other party and only greedily enjoyed the feeling of being around him, Cole did not want to change the state of affairs between them. He could tell that Xue Ling also did not want to.
They lived in Country E, in the Owens family estate. It was situated on a large spread of land, and there was even a racecourse. Even the royal family did not live in such a beautiful place. Xue Ling lived in the castle with his sister’s family and Cole, although even he did not know what status he was using to live here.
The sky slowly turned red as the sun went down. A car drove to the entrance of the castle, and when the people in the car saw Xue Ling and Cole carrying their fishing equipment, they opened the car door and ran over.