Mother Shen's non-stop chatter completely eliminated the uneasiness in Shen Tingci's heart.
When she looked up, Shen Shichuan handed over the bag in his hand very sensibly, and said in a low voice: "Sister, this is the bag, right?"
"Yeah." Shen Tingci hooked up the rope of the bag, her eyebrows widened, "Mom, I'll go up and see dad first."
"Okay." Mother Shen nodded, "Remember to ask him to come down to eat with you."
This is the home she has lived in for eighteen years. Even if Shen Tingci does not come back for many years and deliberately wants to forget this place, the moment she walks in here and steps up the stairs, all the memories come flooding back.
"Dad, can I come in?" Shen Tingci knocked three times before asking softly.
Soon, a cold snort came from inside.
Shen Tingci slightly tightened her hand on the rope, and pushed the door in with a smile: "Dad."
"Do you know if you're coming back?" Father Shen was sitting behind the desk, with a pair of gold-rimmed glasses on his straight nose. His stern face did not look soft at all, but was still intimidatingly cold.
The three Shen brothers and sisters are more or less similar to Father Shen, especially the same kind of indifference.
Previously, someone had said that she didn't look like Father Shen, but she didn't expect that she really didn't.
"My parents are here, of course I have to come back." Shen Tingci was arrogant and arrogant, but she was very sweet when she said it, "Dad, I bought it for you."
"When you go home, do you think you are a guest?" Father Shen's eyes fell sharply on Shen Tingci. How could Father Shen not know what he thought about Shen Tingci, whom he had raised since childhood?
It's just that no one can control this.
"How could it be? When I went shopping with my sister today, I saw this tie and cuffs and thought they suited my father very well, so I bought them. Besides, when a daughter has to buy some gifts for her father, how can she be called a guest?"
Regarding Shen Tingci's sweet words, Father Shen was not as easy to dismiss as Mother Shen.
He asked Shen Tingci to sit down.
Shen Tingci obediently pulled out the stool and sat down.
"What about the conflict with the Jiang family?"
"No." Shen Tingci denied with a smile on her face, "I just came back, how could I have a conflict with the Jiang family?"
"You have to remember, your surname is Shen." Father Shen said calmly.
From the beginning, he disagreed with Shen Tingci's intention to return to the Jiang family. How could he let go of the daughter he had carefully raised for more than ten years?
Moreover, one could tell what kind of temperament the Jiang family had by looking at their faces, so he took Jiang Yunxi back domineeringly and did not allow Shen Tingci to go back.
It's just that his daughter's idea was too big, and he let her go back with the idea that if she suffered more, she would know the good things about the family.
But he didn't expect that this time it would be seven years.
"Yeah." Shen Tingci, who was sitting opposite, responded cheerfully.
Father Shen leaned on his chair and looked at his silly girl.
"Do you have enough money now?"
"That's enough!" Shen Tingci nodded.
Father Shen lowered his head, took out a card from the drawer, and put it in front of Shen Tingci: "How much money will it cost you to be a star? You are a girl, so you usually buy more things for yourself."
"You and Xixi each have this card. There is no limit. Spend more."
This was Father Shen's secondary card. She had it before. When she left the Shen family, she returned it to Father Shen. But she didn't expect that after going around and around, this card would come back to her.
"dad……"
"If you still call me dad, just put it away." Father Shen didn't give her a choice. He stood up and walked around the desk in front of Shen Tingci, "As for the matter of Qi Huai, I have asked your elder brother to When dealing with second brother, you have to be more cautious in the circle, you know?"
"Yeah." Shen Tingci held the card and lowered her eyes to cover up the reddish moisture in her eyes.
"Let's go down and eat."
Sitting in the living room, Mother Shen was actually quite anxious.
My husband is not a reasonable person, otherwise the relationship with Ci Ci would not have been so tense in the first place, and my daughter's temper is too stubborn to follow anyone.
She was really afraid that they would quarrel again.
It wasn't until she saw Shen Tingci walking down beside Father Shen that the depression she was holding in her heart dissipated.
"The food is ready, just waiting for you and your daughter to come down. Come on, let's eat."
As soon as Shen Tingci pulled out the stool and sat down next to Shen's mother, Song Yanci naturally walked to Shen Tingci and was about to pull out the chair next to her.
But as soon as his hand touched the chair, his wrist was pinched by Shen Shichuan.
Song Yanci turned his head unhappily and heard Shen Shichuan gritting his teeth and saying, "Song Yanci, are you in the wrong position?"
"I'm sitting with my fiancée, what's wrong?" Song Yanci said lightly, and those fox eyes fell coldly on Shen Shichuan's face.
Shen Shichuan has not liked this man who kidnapped his sister since he was a child, so after hearing what he said, Shen Shichuan quickly said: "Is this still my sister? When my sister goes home for dinner, of course she has to sit with me. !”
"Shen Shichuan." As soon as he finished speaking, Jiang Yunxi's voice rang out, "This is your home."
"Xi Xi." Mother Shen could also tell that Jiang Yunxi was helping Shen Shichuan, so she called her in a low voice.
Jiang Yunxi looked at Song Yanci with a dead smile: "Mr. Song, you should know what it means for guests to do as they please."
Song Yanci was too lazy to pay attention to the two siblings who were stumbling over him. He looked at Shen Tingci who was sitting there: "Song Xiaoci, who do you want to sit with?"
Hearing Song Yanci's address, Shen Tingci's face turned red, and Father Shen's expression immediately became unpleasant.
"Song Yanci." Shen Tingci quickly raised her head, "Achuan..."
Before she could finish speaking, Song Yanci lazily stopped talking and gave up his position to Shen Shichuan.
Shen Shichuan grinned, and then quickly sat down on the chair next to Shen Tingci.
Song Yanci was sitting next to Shen Shichuan.
Shen Tingci looked at Song Yanci's action of hooking the chair, and suddenly felt upset.
But she forced herself not to look and looked away.
Apart from this incident, the meal was quite enjoyable.
At night, Shen Tingci originally wanted to go back to her apartment, but who knew that Shen's mother was holding Shen Tingci's hands with tears in her eyes, and sent soft words into Shen Tingci's ears. Before Shen's mother could wait, After the performance, Shen Tingci surrendered and agreed to stay at the Shen family today.
Knowing where Shen Tingci lived, Shen Shichuan's eyes lit up, and he immediately rushed forward to hug Shen Tingci: "Sister, let's go play games! I'll introduce my brothers to you!"
"Let me tell you! Many of my brothers are your fans! I really like you!"
When Shen Shichuan finished speaking, he felt a pain in his calf. He turned around and saw Song Yanci standing behind him with a cold face. Needless to say, he must have been kicked by this person just now.
Mother Shen smiled as she watched a few people making a fuss: "Husband, do you think this is family happiness?"
Father Shen smiled and rubbed Mother Shen's head: "Let's wait for them to play and come back to the room with me to rest."
"Sister! Look at Song Yanci, he kicked me!" Shen Shichuan pulled Shen Tingci and Jiang Yunxi to complain.
"He is stingy." Jiang Yunxi said without raising his head, "Ci Ci, you are still young now, you should have more contact with..."
"Song Xiaoci." Song Yanci interrupted Jiang Yunxi and fixed his eyes on Shen Tingci, "Come with me for a walk in the garden."
"I……"
"I'll go with you." Jiang Yunxi hurriedly intercepted Shen Tingci's words before Shen Tingci could speak. When she saw Song Yanci's brows twisting impatiently, she turned to Shen Shichuan and said, " Take your sister back to her room to play games."
"Yes!" Shen Shichuan jumped up and pulled Shen Tingci towards his room.
Song Yanci's brows were so furrowed that he could pinch a fly to death, but Jiang Yunxi stood up as if he didn't see it: "Where are you going?"
"Jiang Yunxi, why are you so crazy?" Song Yanci asked.
Jiang Yunxi looked calm: "Didn't you say you wanted to go for a walk in the garden? Don't you want to go?"
Song Yanci went out first with a cold face.
In addition to being hot and dry, there are many mosquitoes and cicadas chirping in the garden on summer nights.
Song Yanci took the lead and walked to the pavilion in the garden.
This is the place with the widest view in the entire garden, and naturally you can vaguely see the movement in Shen Shichuan's room.
Jiang Yunxi didn't care where Song Yanci was looking. After finding a place to sit down in the pavilion, she said, "What do you want to say to Ci Ci today?"
Before Song Yanci could answer, Jiang Yunxi said again, "Are you talking about your illness?"
When Song Yanci looked at Jiang Yunxi impatiently, the man also looked at him seriously.
A little irritated, my heart jumped out: "Is there a problem?"
"Song Yanci! Your current illness is erratic and irregular. What do you want to say to Ci Ci? Say that you didn't mean not to come back all these years, and that the words you said were unintentional, and then ask her to forgive you. You continue to hurt her, right?" Jiang Yunxi's words were as sharp as a knife, piercing Song Yanci's heart every word.
None of this was what he wanted.
He just wanted Shen Tingci to know that he, Song Yanci, had never been in love with someone else, and that the person he liked had always been her.
It's her, Shen Tingci.
Not Jiang Yunxi, nor anyone else.
"Ci Ci is soft-hearted. Song Yanci, you can't be so selfish. You give her hope and make her despair."
"I don't."
"But this is what you are doing now." Jiang Yunxi said, "Cici is my sister, and I will never allow you to hurt her."
"When I came home, do you think she really went back because the Jiang family was her parents and she was ashamed of me and the Shen family? Part of the reason was not because of you." Jiang Yunxi didn't mince words at all. Although her face is delicate, she also tends to be cold-eyed and stinky. When she doesn't smile, her aura is at its fullest. Even the little devil Shen Shichuan is very afraid of her.
Song Yanci did not speak, he lowered his head and leaned on the white column.
The summer wind passes slowly.
No one saw a slender figure standing on the balcony on the second floor.
*
It was already two days before I returned to the Imperial Capital.
After Song Yanci finished talking to Jiang Yunxi that day, he left the Song family directly. According to Shen Shichuan, he returned to the imperial capital ahead of schedule because of the institute's affairs, and he did not say hello to anyone.
But when Shen Tingci closed her eyes now, all she could see was the confrontation between Song Yanci and Jiang Yunxi that night.
Shen Tingci rubbed his temples: "How was the contract negotiation?"
"Don't worry while I do the work." Chen Sui patted his chest, looking completely fine.
Shen Tingci took the milk tea brought to her by Chen Sui, and the sweet fragrance spread between her lips and teeth. As she drank, she raised her head and glanced at the agent who was beaming with joy.
Since she joined the industry, she has given up on milk tea, and Chen Sui doesn't allow her to drink it. But just before the recording of the show, this man happily brought her a cup of milk tea and laughed so hard, He was afraid that others would not know that he had good things going on here.
"Did you win the lottery? Are you so happy?"
"Finally something not so unlucky happened, so of course you have to be happy!" Chen Sui said happily, "Do you want to drink? After work is over soon, I will take you to drink!"
In Chen Sui's opinion, celebrating is synonymous with drinking.
And the fact that he took the initiative to drink was obviously not something he would normally be happy about.
Shen Tingci was also a little curious: "Tell me about something that is not so unlucky."
"Of course it's you..." Chen Sui immediately stopped talking in the middle of the sentence. He looked at Shen Tingci and blinked. He didn't know how to say that he was gloating that the family named Jiang was not her biological child. The matter of parents.
Shen Tingci was not stupid. After hearing the first half of her sentence, she knew what he wanted to say.
She looked at Chen Sui who suddenly became a little uneasy, but she didn't care much and smiled: "You mean, my mother and I are not related by blood?"
"You know?" Chen Sui was very surprised, "But I..."
"It was not confirmed before, but it was confirmed later."
"I'm sorry, Ci Ci." Chen Sui restrained his excitement and said to Shen Tingci sincerely.
"There's nothing to be sorry for. In fact, I don't have any feelings for them. I just feel that since everyone else has a family, I have to have one too." Shen Tingci said lightly, "But now that I don't have one anymore, I feel like it's nothing special."
"Then...are you going to find your biological parents?"
"No." Shen Tingci said without thinking, "It's not like I don't have parents, so why would I rush to recognize a couple who abandoned me?"
"But..." Chen Sui felt that no matter how bad his biological parents were, they would not be worse than the Jiang family.
"Brother Chen, my matter is a bit complicated, but the parents I mentioned are not from the Jiang family." Shen Tingci said, "If they come to you in the future, don't pay attention to them."
Hearing this, Chen Sui breathed a sigh of relief: "I know, but you know how difficult the Jiang family is. I'm afraid it will get out and it will bring bad reputation to you. You also know that you are in the circle." You have many rivals, and if this information is obtained by someone with ulterior motives, it will be a devastating blow to you."
"Then I can only go home and grab the family property from my brother." Shen Tingci joked in a relaxed tone, "And you can help me put away the paternity test."
"good."
"That's right." After saying this, Chen Sui's tone became much more relaxed, "Qi Huai is cold."
"All of his personal social media accounts have been blocked, and his agency has officially terminated his contract. In addition to facing jail time, he will also have to bankrupt his family and pay a large sum of money in compensation."
After Chen Sui finished speaking with gloating, he continued: "And Yun Zihan, if you want that variety show in your hands, go ask the boyfriend behind him. For this, he has pushed a lot of work, and specially accompanied his boyfriend to go to that or something. I took a trip to the bay and laughed to death. Not only did I not get anything out of it, but I also had a lot of resources taken away by other artists."
"Just wait, the black draft about her will be exposed soon."
Shen Tingci knew about this.
She has Yun Zihan's WeChat account. Yun Zihan has been very diligent in updating his circle of friends these days. They are either famous brand jewelry bags or luxury cars and Imperial Capital, a group of rich second-generation people in Shanghai.
Many of them are her old acquaintances.
I think back then, although she was under the control of Song Yanci, she also had a lot of bad friends.
It was not until later that she entered the circle that the relationship gradually faded away.
"Have you booked the variety show guests?"
"We have decided on one, Sheng He." Chen Sui said, "The program team wants to create a hype for you and Sheng He."