Song Yu Han knew that Guo Yun's concern was not derived from fear. Rather, it was due to the fact that his refusal to attend would end up giving his intentions away.
He had planned for so many years and kept himself hidden so much that people thought that he had completely forgotten his past. But the truth was that he had never forgotten about what happened to him and his mother. He was biding his time very slowly until he had every resource to ruin them one by one.
Guo Yun sighed but he no longer asked him to reconsider his decision. He tapped him by the shoulder and said, "I still think this is too fast. But if you really did accept and go there, the first person who will be disappointed would be me. Thankfully, you're still the same man I met that day."
Song Yu Han curled up his lips into a sardonic smile and replied, "What would you do if I changed? Are you going to kill me in my sleep?"
In an instant, the hand that was over his shoulder clutched on tightly as if it was a metal claw. Guo Yun's face turned grim as his voice turned low and mysterious, "Killing you would be a kind of pleasure to you, you sadistic bastard. So, I won't do anything."
"Sometimes, I think it's terrible that you know me best," said Song Yu Han as he smiled bitterly.
Their friendship had been going on for so many years. Not a lot of people know this, but the first time they met was not when Guo Yun applied for the special assistant position in his office, but somewhere else and a bit earlier than that.
Otherwise, they wouldn't be so close that they could treat each other like blood-related brothers.
"Where's Guo Yun?" Ran Xueyi asked as soon as she saw him enter their room.
Song Yu Han took off his jacket and looked around the room to see his wife and son kneeling on the ground while a few books laid open on top of the coffee table.
He strode over with the elegance of a panther and looked down on the books to see what they were doing. At a glance, he realized that while he was outside discussing some matters with Guo Yun, Ran Xueyi had taken out some books provided in the room and let their son look through it.
The books were not bedtime story books. They're all magazines about the latest fashion trends, business topics, and entertainment gossip. Topics that people who are over 20 years old would find interesting enough to look at.
Song Yu Han was in between laughter and tears. He wondered if his 3 years old son could even understand this kind of topic.
Under his disbelieving eyes, Ran Xueyi silently waved her hand to have him sit down beside her and said, "Sit down. I'm just teaching Zhanzhan some words that he may not understand."
"Would he even understand what's in there?" Song Yu Han glanced once more at the books before noticing that there were already words underlined with pen marks. "What is this?"
Ran Xueyi calmly answered, "Zhanzhan said he wanted to read more about these topics. So, I had them underlined in case he wanted to learn more about it."
Song Yu Han stared at the words 'Carmakers are gunning for market shares", and suddenly became mute. Would his son even understand these things? Isn't it a bit too advanced?
His way of thinking was definitely normal and reasonable. How can his son of three years only actually know about cars or even about the stock market?
However, what baffled him even more was that Ran Xueyi didn't doubt their son even for a second and she enthusiastically encouraged him.
Although it was a good thing that their son was curious about such things since that meant Song Yu Han could hand over his power as chairman to YH Group to his son, but isn't it a bit too early to learn about business?
Restless about his son's growth and development, Song yu han took out his phone under his wife's and son's confused gazes and started to search some children's stories.
But then, his fingers stopped above the phone screen as he realized that he couldn't remember the names of these stories because his childhood memories were not so innocently spent.
So, he could only type in the search bar 'Books that children like to read'. He found several books with titles such as 'Where Willy Went', It's Just a Plant', and Fairy Tales like 'Snow White', 'Sleeping Beauty', and 'Beauty and the Beast'.
Latter three were already controversial and somewhat nonsensical when the fairy tale spark in one's heart vanished, but the former two were definitely not books children should read!
What were the authors who wrote them thinking? Teaching children who knew nothing about how babies were made? Or how to observe a plant to find out if it's a forbidden plant?
Song Yu Han never thought that these books were being placed in school libraries for children to read.
Seeing the deep frown on his face, Ran Xueyi couldn't stop herself and ask, "What is it?"
Song Yu Han snapped out of his thoughts and locked his screen in an instant. He kept his phone away from their grasp and said, "You can continue teaching him. Wait, should I help you?" He then turned to his son, "Zhanzhan, do you want me to buy you some stocks for you to play with? What do you think about LG? Apple? Or Tesla since you like reading about cars?"
"Ah? What are you talking about?" Ran Xueyi's eyes widened in surprise. She never expected him to ask their son this question. Besides, what does he mean by 'some'? Just a few stocks of these companies are at least in the tens of millions!
Ran Xueyi never expected Song Yu Han's method to educate their son was a bit too much! No, it's too unimaginable!
Little Zhanzhan, on the other hand, had no idea what his father was talking about. However, he felt that what his father said was somewhat interesting.
LG, Apple, Tesla, these things sounded a bit foreign to him. However, his father already bought them so much but didn't buy anything for himself. Thus, Little Zhanzhan misunderstood his father and replied, "A'Yu can buy them if you want..."
'En, since you bought me and mommy lots of good and delicious things, you should get a reward, too! Ah, I'm a good son!' Little Zhanzhan thought to himself and praised himself.
Later on, Ran Xueyi watched the pair of father and son move to sit on the sofa to discuss how much they should buy and where they should buy stocks. Mostly, it was Song Yu Han speaking and Little Zhanzhan nodding his head and acting cutely.
Song Yu Han even asked their son whether they should buy an entertainment company to help her. In the end, Little Zhanzhan happily agreed and said, "Present for Mommy!"
In the corner, Ran Xueyi doubted life again and again. She wondered if she was the only normal person inside the room. Or perhaps, she was the only one who couldn't understand the way her son and husband thinks...
Bored and annoyed since the duo completely forgot about her, Ran Xueyi unlocked her phone to look at her Weibo account. As soon as she logged in, she saw that her message box received more than a thousand messages.
As an artist, a very popular one. Getting hundreds of private messages on their message box was normal. So, Ran Xueyi didn't think too much about it and left them unopened and didn't reply to one of them.
She went to the front page to see any news, but instead, she saw her own name on the first ranking of hot entertainment news and gossip. It was even on the Weibo hot topics. The two rankings were the most popular and heated rankings in the country.
And so, when she saw her name on the top five, she couldn't stop her curiosity and checked why she was trending.
She didn't do anything that made her trend on the platform. The film was not even announced yet. As for her other films, the official release date will happen in a couple of days.
So, what made this happen?
Ran Xueyi didn't hold herself in suspense as she clicked on the hashtag trend and for a brief moment, she was dazzled into stupefaction.
It was a headline entertainment post.
[Eyewitnesses have spoken and broken the news. Popular actress Ran Xueyi (Estelle) was seen at a mall with a wealthy businessman. They were seen walking closely with the businessman's son. At a glance, the eyewitnesses saw that they carried several bags of purchased international and expensive items worth thousands! It is being speculated that Ran Xueyi has a parvenu sugar daddy to cling on to and was never married!]
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