Chapter 69: Drunk (1)

In the end, the family’s division matter went on without a hitch through Shen Yu’s ‘suppression by force’ process.

However, on account of Shen Yu’s abruptly significant decision, it became a hot topic both inside and outside the circle/field/industry and among the media for a period of time. It gradually quietened down until half a year later.

As an involved party, Shen Yu was not affected in the slightest contrary to what one might have expected.

With the weight off his shoulders, he would have more time and energy to busy himself with his own things—— such as painting, running a dessert shop and so on.

Ever since Uncle Zhang left, Shen Yu let Kang Lin take care of two old shops and a new one with him. Unfortunately, there was a lack of manpower. After all, the will was there, but not the strength1.

Now that he was a little bit free, he intended to find the time to recruit a few more management staff.

Shen Yu’s life was pretty much full, yet he rarely got in touch with Tang Li.

Although Tang Li would call him or send him a Wechat (text/voice) when he was free, it was clear that Tang Li seldomly had time to go to bed or to even squeeze out the time to video call on Wechat at 12 o’clock at night.

Then halfway through it, Tang Li would fall asleep right away.

Shen Yu leaned against the bedside. The light was dimmed on his side, leaving only the small lamp. Yet in the video call, Tang Li sat on the sofa sleepily with bright light in his bedroom. Tang Li, who had just taken a bath, had no time to dry his hair.

Shen Yu scrutinized the other party’s asleep appearance carefully.

He found that Tang Li seemed to be thinner from the last time he saw him. His skin was pale to the point of morbid. His eyes and eyebrows were full of weariness; he just looked extremely tired.

Even when he was asleep, Tang Li’s eyebrows frowned slightly. It was as if even in his dream, he couldn’t stop worrying about some problems that had yet to be solved.

This kind of appearance made Shen Yu’s heart ache.

He wanted to tell Tang Li to get up and blow his hair dry before he go to sleep. He hesitated for quite a while, but could not be cruel enough to disturb his rest. He just stared at Tang Li before he too, slowly fell asleep.

The next day.

Shen Yu’s first reaction after waking up was to check his cellphone.

He saw that his phone’s battery was almost exhausted, but it had not been turned off. However, the video call had been hung up as early as five o’clock in the morning.

In addition, Tang Li had sent a voice message.

“I’m sorry that I fell asleep last night. Let me finish this thing in two days. Then, I’ll look for you as quickly as possible.”

Shen Yu pondered for a moment. He recalled that the last time they met was a month ago. At that time, Tang Li finally had some free time, so he asked Shen Yu out for dinner and to watch a movie together.

But then, as soon as both of them stepped into the cinema, they were recognized by three or four passersby girls at once. They picked up their cellphones and took photos of them frantically.

If it was in the past, Shen Yu would not have any reaction. However, that day he was really frightened and felt guilty like a thief2. He dragged Tang Li and immediately left the cinema without a word.

Afterwards, they searched for an exclusive cinema and were able to book a private room where they were finally able to chat in peace. Tang Li had told him a lot about the school affairs and his plans for the college entrance examination. At that time, he only had a month before that examination.

Shen Yu was worried that Tang Li’s study would be affected, so he did not dare to go out with Tang Li as often.

Now that only a few days were left for the college entrance examination, Tang Li unexpectedly became busy with another affair.

In retrospective, the more Shen Yu thought about it, the more he felt that something was amiss.

Thereupon, he called Kang Lin

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Kang Lin seemed to have guessed the reason why Shen Yu was looking for him, so he took the initiative to report: “Mr. Shen, I have found out that the company is not big. It just started two years ago and is considered to be a dark horse in the industry. The company has three bosses and each of them holds different shares. The one you met that day was Big Boss, Zhou Che, and the other two were Tan Dong and Lin Pingran. Tang Li is not even a titular employee in that company so he should not have been very busy with the affairs of the company as he has been recently.”

Having said that, Kang Lin unexpectedly recalled something and he immediately changed the topic, “Oh, that’s right. Last year that company was negotiating a deal with the Tang family. It seemed like they were preparing to cooperate on a project. Unfortunately, the price could not be negotiated, so it has been delayed until now.”

“The Tang family?” Shen Yu froze, “You mean Zhou Che and them, know the people from Tang family?”

Kang Lin was silent for a moment. He then said in a deep voice, “I guess Tang Li and Tang family have liaised among themselves because all the resources for the project are from Tang Li and the person named Lin Pingran is the one negotiating with the Tang Family. Obviously on the surface, It seems as if Lin Pingran is currying favor with the Tang family, but in actuality, he has been a white-eyed wolf. It is reckoned that Tang Li is putting pressure on the Tang family from behind the scenes by doing this.”

Shan Yu asked, “They still haven’t succeeded in discussing (the terms)?”

Kang Lin answered, “No, but the Tang family’s patience is running out.”

After saying that, Kang Lin then added, “The Tang family doesn’t know that Tang Li is behind Lin Pingran.”

Shen Yu was silent.

He had been guessing for a long time, but he couldn’t figure out what kind of medicine was being sold in Tang Li’s bottle gourd3.

It can be concluded that when Tang Li had returned to the Tang family, he would start to share Tang family’s work and work diligently for them, instead of fighting against the Tang family in the name of an outsider4.

However, on second thought, he felt that it was not unreasonable for Tang Li to do so.

After all, the Tang family was not the same as Shen family where the majority of the shares were held by Shen Yu and Elder Shen. There were many people in the Tang family, and each of them had relatively equal rights. Over the years, they have checked and balanced each other, and if they had each other’s back, they would move as one.

He didn’t know if Tang Li’s method would make a little gap in the Tang family who had already formed a circle/come altogether. Perhaps when the gap expands, Tang family would fly into a rage out of humiliation and concentrate their firepower on Tang Li…

Shen Yu’s imagination ran wild numerous times. It was only after he hung up that he forgot to tell Kang Lin to pay attention to Tang Li’s action.

Sigh.

Forget it…

Shen Yu sighed silently in his heart.

Tang Li was a man with principle. He knew what he was doing.