I am a Big Player
Chapter 643 - 634, Chinese New Year’s Eve_1

Chapter 643: 634, Chinese New Year’s Eve_1

In the evening, Ren and Mrs. Ren were watching TV outside, while Yang Xi and Ren He snuggled up in their room. The heating had worked well that day, so each of them only needed to wear a T-shirt.

"Have you kept in touch with that Duan classmate afterward? Didn’t you write a love letter to her back then?" Yang Xi looked into Ren He’s eyes as she asked.

"Cut it out," Ren He knew this internet-addicted girl was getting jealous again, but he was honestly wronged. That love letter wasn’t really delivered by him in the strictest sense; if he had crossed over just a week earlier, this would never have happened.

How should I put it? Perhaps a young man in the prime of his youth might really like such a girl because she is dazzling enough and always right.

But Duan Xiaolou was never the type Ren He liked. After a few conversations back then, he roughly knew what kind of girl she was. Their life paths were bound to diverge; he couldn’t live the disciplined life that Duan Xiaolou lived, and Duan Xiaolou wouldn’t deviate from her own track, either.

For Ren He, after going through so much, the world gave him a chance to start over. From that moment on, there was no longer so much about ’wrong’ and ’right.’

Those rights and wrongs are the moral standards of others, but they have nothing to do with Ren He himself. Is it a mistake to choose an extreme life? Not necessarily.

It’s just that others may think it’s wrong.

In the evening, after dinner, Xu Nuo still nervously called him to say that their classmates thought Duan Xiaolou had changed a lot. Ren He couldn’t help but laugh and cry at this—why the heck would you call me about this? Don’t you know Yang Xi is by my side!?

If you asked Ren He, was her change wrong? No, it wasn’t.

This is a realistic society. She didn’t have her own Divine Punishment System, yet she had already achieved tremendous success in life.

Doesn’t everyone have the right to make their life a little better?

It’s just that after experiencing changes, it’s difficult for everyone to gather the relationship back to its original form, and there’s no need to do so.

Life is already hard enough; just focus on living your own life well.

Seeing Ren He truly didn’t regard Duan Xiaolou as important, Yang Xi finally felt at ease.

Perhaps there really is someone in this world who you can’t forget even when you reach middle age, whose name always holds a special place in your heart, neither close nor distant.

But perhaps what you remember is just the mood from back then and the reflection in the water, not the person. At sunset, you might still remember him or her, but that’s no longer important.

Our lives are just a few decades long; all we need is to press forward without looking back.

Let the old memories behind us vanish into the sky, and when there’s a moment of leisure, look back at your youth—that is the most beautiful scenery.

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On the morning of New Year’s Eve, when Ren He woke up, Yang Xi was already gone. Ren He had become somewhat more behaved late into the night, and neither Mrs. Ren nor Ren were teasing him anymore...

Dealing with such "rude parents" really leaves you with no temper.

Ren He woke up and went to wash up when he saw Yang Xi in the kitchen helping Mrs. Ren deep-fry something. The delicious aroma was permeating the house, but the range hood, which had been used for four or five years, was somewhat ineffective.

When Ren He reached the washroom, he saw that his toothbrush had already been placed horizontally on a cup with toothpaste squeezed onto it, and he suddenly felt that life like this was truly warm and cozy.

Today was the day when the rude parents and their children were coming over for the New Year celebration, and Ren He subconsciously glanced at Yang Xi in the kitchen. He was actually looking forward to this internet-addicted girl, with a beast hidden inside her, taking on those unruly kids.

After all, it’s not right for him to always pick on a kid, right? So, this year, let’s switch to Yang Xi to handle it. Ren He always felt that with Yang Xi in charge, the rude child’s situation might be even more tragic. Just looking at how Yang Xi’s own cousins didn’t dare to make a peep in front of her as if they had been unfriended on social media was probably the result of such sibling battles...

However, Ren He was disappointed in the end. For some reason, the rowdy child from previous years greeted him with a "Hello, brother" as soon as he stepped through the door, catching Ren He off guard. Were they changing their tactics?

This... was illogical!

Before Ren He could figure it out, Yang Xi came out of the kitchen and saw the rude child sitting on the sofa, hands on his knees, his face spelling out two big characters: ’well-behaved.’

In a puzzled whisper, Yang Xi asked, "Is this the rude child you were talking about? He seems pretty well-behaved to me. Don’t always pick on him; I guess all those stories were made up by you."

Ren He nearly spat out a mouthful of blood. How did it become that he made it all up? Who the hell knew what was up with this brat this year?

At that moment, Ren He’s uncle saw him and his eyes lit up, "Ren He, come here, I have some New Year’s money for you."

Ren He didn’t stand on ceremony and took it straight away, "Thanks, Uncle."

The thing about red envelopes is that they’re for good luck. Even if you have over thirty billion, there’s no need to refuse this money.

Yet, in the next second, the uncle directly asked, "I heard that you recently started an internet company and it’s doing pretty well. Teach your uncle how to do internet business, why don’t you? Maybe let your uncle invest in it, then it would be a family enterprise, wouldn’t it? I’ve been studying the internet recently, and a few internet companies have even asked me to be their vice president. I told them to let me consider it because, after all, you also run an internet company. It’s always better to help you than to help strangers."

Oh... That was quite a pitch, and it suddenly made Ren He realize the truth. No wonder the rude child was acting so well-behaved; it turned out the rude parents had a favor to ask. They must have prepped the child beforehand.

Studying the internet, huh? Last year you were asking me about how to play online card games, and now you’ve turned into an internet expert? Haha...

Ren He’s uncle was just like always, a complete disappointment. When Ren was letting him take some money back to their grandparents, this guy shamelessly pretended he didn’t know a thing and pocketed the money for himself.

Sometimes Ren He found blood relations to be a peculiar thing. Some relatives treated him as if he were their own child when he was young, while others acted as if they’d just picked him up off the streets, always scheming to get something out of his family. Ren He didn’t feel compelled to indulge them simply because they were related; if he did, everyone would become spoiled. In the end, who was the uncle?

The current stock structure of Qinghe Group remained immaculate, even with Beidou Military Industry involved. Ren He believed it was a win-win situation for Qinghe Group to contribute to the national military industry while securing a significant protective umbrella for himself.

But what was the deal with giving shares to his uncle?

He said with a polite smile, "That won’t work."

Yang Xi, watching Ren He on the verge of leaving his uncle speechless, quickly escaped back to the kitchen to continue helping Mrs. Ren cook. Mrs. Ren was frying meatballs and listening to the commotion outside. Hearing Ren He’s firm response, she almost burst into laughter.

For years, Mrs. Ren had been troubled about how to deal with Ren’s younger brother, but now her precious son had just taken up her cause.