Chapter 50 – Within Three Years (1/2)

When the long, long story was finished, Bai Lang’s tears had already soaked through the collar of Qiu Qian’s pajamas.

As he spoke, maybe because the immense pressure in his heart finally found a source of relief, Bai Lang’s tears couldn’t stop flowing out.

After finishing talking and crying, Bai Lang really had a sense of exhaustion and relief. However at the same time logic returned to his brain.

“If you don’t believe me, that’s okay.” Bai Lang burrowed himself into Qiu Qian’s chest. His voice was thick. “I only thought I should tell you. I should have, told you earlier….”

At this time Qiu Qian only continued to hold Bai Lang’s hand. For a long time he didn’t speak.

In the few minutes that passed, only Bai Lang’s hoarse breathing could be heard in the darkness. Bai Lang also didn’t say anything more, only sighing slightly as he calmed his feelings down. He wanted to withdraw however this movement caused Qiu Qian, who had been holding him the whole time, to suddenly tighten his arms. He forcefully embraced Bai Lang and pulled him back onto his chest.

Beside Bai Lang’s ear, a vibration came through the warm chest he was pressed against.

“I believe you.”

Bai Lang froze. He listened as Qiu Qian continued.

“But everything won’t be the same…. except for that umbrella I held up for you in your past life. This life I will still hold be holding it.”

With these words, Bai Lang’s tears flowed out again. He closed his eyes and burrowed his face deeper into Qiu Qian’s chest.

“En.”

“So I’ll definitely be well. You too, and also Xiao Hai.” The strong arm held Bai Lang tightly and he spoke as though making an oath. “Because in this life, we didn’t miss each other.”

“….. en.” Bai Lang agreed again. He didn’t know that Qiu Qian could also be poetic.

“That Kang Jian, I’ll take care of him down the road. So you don’t need to cry anymore.”

When he said this, Bai Lang laughed through his tears.

He used Qiu Qian’s pajamas to messily wipe his tears dry and then Bai Lang struggled to raise his head. His eyes, which had been made swollen and red by crying, looked at Qiu Qian.

“… I love you.”

The arms around Bai Lang’s body tightened even further.

“Me too, little white rabbit.”

***

From that day forward, Qiu Qian no longer became angry or impatient during rehabilitation. Step by step, he progressed steadily and obediently followed the instructions the doctors gave him.

He had determination, optimism and cooperated fully. As long as there was still a thread of hope, he wouldn’t let Bai Lang down.

As his illness slowly stabilized, Qiu Qian relocated to D country. This country was the top in the field of rehabilitative medicine, and here he continued to receive the most comprehensive and cutting edge treatment. Bai Lang and Qiu XiaoHai accompanied him the whole way. After two years time, Qiu Qian finally and miraculously was able to recover a walking ability similar to normal people. Even his athletic ability would only be slightly behind normal people.

During this time, Qiu Qian also didn’t delay to take care of the perpetrators behind the car “accident”.

Qiu EnXin’s second wife Ji Yi.

While Qiu Qian was seriously ill, his power and status in the Qiu family was clouded with doubt. However it was discovered that Qiu Qian’s business ventures were very secure and other people were not able to get their hands on it. This was because every business contract he had signed contained the following clause: if the parties involved changed, then the opposing party had the power to call off the agreement.

This clause meant that all of the deals that Qiu Qian had worked hard on, would disappear if he himself left.

This was the back path that Qiu Qian had left for himself. After all he didn’t have too many feelings towards the Qiu family and had only been taken back in by Qiu EnXin after he was already grown up. By doing this, Qiu Qian’s loyalty to the Qiu family might be called into question however this also demonstrated that the fact that each contractual party was willing to sign the clause, meaning that what they looked highly upon was Qiu Qian’s personal ability.After everyone in the business world knew that the success of a project did not just depend on the money that was backing it, but also on the brain that making the core decisions.

Thus after Qiu Qian left ICU and entered rehabilitation, with the help of a small team of people loyal to him, he easily and without much effort regained the power he had prior to his accident. And then the time for revenge had come.

The person behind the car accident, who had contacted them and also who was planning behind the scenes, were all investigated clearly by Qiu Qian.

All of the evidence pointed to Ji Yi. However just getting rid of Ji Yi wasn’t enough. Qiu Qian didn’t want to have to keep being on his guard against others later.

So when “taking care” of Ji Yi, Qiu Qian at the same time exposed the history and evidence of all the corruption that several of his brothers had been involved in these few years. Clearly the only thing that had happened was the accident that Ji Yi had arranged, but Qiu Qian forcibly dragged Qiu Kuo and several other brothers into the matter. He put them all under one big hat of being responsible for attempted murder.

His actions were incredibly efficient, ruthless and cruel. In addition Qiu Qian had long ago collected a wealth of materials and they were very complete. When Ji Yi, Qiu Kuo and the others were met with these so-called “evidence”, they all appeared to be cancerous outgrowths of the Qiu family, not only was their greed disgusting and dirty, but they were also ungrateful and disloyal. Of course everyone was aware that certain aspects of the evidence must have been inflated or exaggerated, but Qiu Qian did it so well that no one would find evidence of any fault. He completely sealed off all their back paths and left them the road to death. Even some of the elders of the Qiu family who had been alive for a long time and seen many things, couldn’t help but sigh and be awed.

After a few months of “cleaning”, even Qiu EnXin looked as though he had aged quite a few years. After all the things that the dirty things that his sons had done within the family corporation also reflected badly on him, their father . At this time V country’s oil investment received its first considerable amount of profit, and at the same time the shipping business new lines received new orders. Pressured by several elders in the family, Qiu EnXin finally decided to take the big step of announcing that Qiu Qian, who was responsible for all these successes, would be his successor. He even announced that he would hand over all power within three years.

At this time Qiu Qian hadn’t even stood up from his wheelchair yet.

But he had already confirmed his control over the Qiu family.