After the car drove into the Lin's house, it turned out that as Lin Zhiyan said, neither Lin's parents were there, so Lin Zhiyi went back to the room directly.
She changed her bathrobe into home clothes and lay on the bed without wanting to move.
After all, a lot of things happened from yesterday to today, and she has yet to allow herself to be truly quiet.
But after calming down, my mind couldn't help but have random thoughts.
Thinking about the first time she met Xiao Ci, thinking about how she had been chasing him since they met and fell in love.
Thinking that all this was Xiao Ci's design, thinking that he was the one who came to the door, thinking that behind those cold and unwavering eyes, he must be mocking himself fiercely.
She laughed so loudly in her heart that she wanted to slap herself in the mouth.
Lin Zhiyi, how can you be so stupid? Is there anyone more stupid than you in this world?
She asked herself, curling up her whole body, as if this could numb the pain in her body and mind.
Seeing that she hadn't shown up for a long time, Lin Zhiyan felt uneasy after all. He knocked on the door with a glass of water and came in. He saw her lying on the bed with her head covered by the quilt.
Knowing that she might need more silence, she still sat on the edge of the bed and shouted: "Zhiyi."
"Yeah." Lin Zhiyi paid him attention, but her voice was muffled. She didn't know if she was crying secretly.
The less Lin Zhiyan could see, the more worried he felt, but his tone was calm: "Don't hold it in, it's all my fault. You can get up and beat me up."
It was all because he failed to protect her.
Lin Zhiyi stopped talking.
"Or, let's go exercise? How about a run?" People need to release when they are depressed, and it is good to vent.
Lin Zhiyi still didn't speak.
Lin Zhiyan waited for a long time, thinking that maybe he was too calm and gave her too little time. After all, after suffering such a big blow, she always needed to be healed.
He stood up to leave, but when he walked to the door, he heard her call: "Brother."
Lin Zhiyan turned around and saw Lin Zhiyi sitting up from the bed.
Although his hair was a little messy and his eyes were red, his mood was very calm. He looked at him and said, "Tell me about our grudges with the Xiao family."
She always needs to know why she is being treated like this.
Lin Zhiyan sighed, knowing that she couldn't escape, and she would know sooner or later, so she turned back and sat down, saying:
"Actually, there's not much to say. Xiao Ci's parents and our dad were college classmates. It's just that they left the country early and later came back to invest, and they met our dad again."
Lin Zhiyi was still young at that time, and he had just gone to college, but he was already helping his father with the company's affairs, so he knew better.
Lin Zhiyan continued: "At that time, Xiao Ci's father and our father were interested in a project at the same time, and Xiao Ci's father finally won it.
However, Xiao's mother felt that the risk was too great and refused to agree. The two of them had a very unpleasant quarrel.
Later, Dad was entrusted by Father Xiao to persuade Mother Xiao, and the two of them had more contact."
Lin Zhiyi frowned, because she remembered what Xiao Ci said about her father cheating on Xiao's mother's feelings, and asked: "Then what?"
"Later, Father Xiao invested in that project, but soon after there was a problem with the capital chain, Mother Xiao secretly gave the project information to Dad." Lin Zhiyan answered.
"Why is she? Is she really with our dad -" Although she didn't want to believe it, Lin Zhiyi still wanted to find out.
"No." Lin Zhiyan denied, saying: "Although Dad was indeed Mother Xiao's first love, we both got married and had children of our own, so we no longer have that kind of relationship.
Mother Xiao did this just to reduce the losses of the Xiao family." He said this with great assurance.
"But Father Xiao doesn't believe it. He prefers to believe that Mother Xiao betrayed her. Because if he completes that project, the Xiao family's company can go up a few levels." What Mother Xiao did was undoubtedly a stab in the back.
If it is true as his brother said, then Xiao Ci has the same misunderstanding as his father, but this won't lead to death, right?
"Then how did they die?" Lin Zhiyi asked again.
If it was a normal death, he shouldn't have died so young, and Xiao Ci himself said that it was the Lin family that ruined his family.
“There was a fire at home, and Xiao Ci’s parents were inside and did not escape, or it could be that Xiao’s father committed suicide or committed murder.
Because after forensic identification, Xiao's mother took a certain dose of sleeping drugs before the fire, and Xiao's father should have mixed it with food and fed it to her." After all, she was responsible for human life, so Lin Zhiyan didn't really want to mention it.
Lin Zhiyi felt equally heavy after hearing this, but she always felt that something was wrong and asked: Brother, when you and Dad took that project, did you know how important it was to Dad Xiao?"
"What do you want to say?" Lin Zhiyan asked, actually already vaguely guessing what she was going to say.
"Since we are friends, why didn't you and Dad help Dad Xiao at that time?"
"At that time, there had been a misunderstanding between my father and Xiao Ci's father, and he refused his father's help."
"So you just buy it?" This is so unreasonable.
"We are businessmen, and our interests come first, and it was Xiao's mother who asked her father for help." Lin Zhiyan defended herself.
"But this is taking advantage of others' danger." Lin Zhiyi hit the nail on the head.
"Zhiyi, you have been doing business in the past two years. You should know that there are no fathers and sons in the mall. Also, if we didn't buy it back then, it would have been an advantage to others." Lin Zhiyan and Lin's father have the same business philosophy, and they don't feel that they have any
wrong.
It's been a long time since the incident happened. Lin Zhiyi doesn't know exactly what happened at that time, and it's hard for her to judge whether it's right or wrong.
But intuition told Lin Zhiyi that things didn't seem that simple.
"Brother, I want to be quiet for a while." After knowing the truth, her mind seemed to be even more confused, and she always felt that she had overlooked something.
Lin Zhiyan wanted to say that no matter what the original grudge was, it had nothing to do with her and she didn't need to feel any psychological burden.
But the entanglement between her and Xiao Ci was destined to be unaffected, so in the end she just nodded and went out.
Lin Zhiyi naturally didn't sleep well that night, or it could be said that he didn't sleep all night.
But even though it was already dawn, she was still too lazy to get up or even move, as if she wanted to lie down until the end of time.
But the ringtone of her cell phone happened to ring, and she ignored it, but she couldn't bear the other person's persistence.
She glanced at Lu Xining and pressed the connect button: "Hello?"
"I know, our lawyer said we need the original copy of the contract we had with Ningtai. I checked in the archives to see if it was there, but Xiao Zhu said you took it away." Lu Xining asked.
"Didn't I file it? Then go to my office and look for it." Lin Zhiyi replied.
"I've looked for it. I even looked for the room in your apartment, but there's nothing there." Otherwise, it would be impossible to make a special call to ask.
Lin Zhiyi's mind was so confused now that she couldn't think of anything at the moment. She glanced subconsciously across the room. Most of the birthday gifts she received last night were still piled here.
Finally, it was settled on the exposed edge of a brown paper bag under a box.
She got out of bed and took out the things inside and took a look. Sure enough, it was the contract that Lu Xining wanted.
Thinking of Lu Xining being alone in the studio, it would be hard to let her run around again, and no one else would know her home.
Therefore, even though Lin Zhiyi felt weak, she still changed her clothes and prepared to go directly to the law firm.
Unexpectedly, just as he was about to open the car door, Lin Zhiyan called out and asked: "Where are you going?"
"I have a document to send to the law firm." Lin Zhiyi replied.
"Give it to me, and I'll have someone deliver it to you." Lin Zhiyan stretched out his hand towards him.
Lin Zhiyi looked at him strangely and explained: "We have a dispute over settlement fees. I need to discuss the details with the lawyer."
"I'll let someone handle this matter." Lin Zhiyan said again, as if he didn't take this trouble seriously at all.
But he never interfered in the affairs of Lin Zhiyi's studio, especially so blatantly.
"Brother, do you want to restrict my freedom?" She glanced in the direction of the door, where two security guards were standing.
"I just want you to rest at home these days." Lin Zhiyan explained.
"Are you afraid that I will see Xiao Ci?" Lin Zhiyi asked, then frowned and asked, "Why? Do you want to deal with him?"