Sun Rain Chapter 1
byIn the dusk of late autumn, the gray-black sky is shrouded in scattered lights, and people returning home are walking in a hurry.
Changning Road in the south of the city, contrary to its name, is the busiest at this time.The constant traffic of vehicles shuttled among the neon signs, and the well-dressed doormen came forward to greet them. The car doors opened, and the music floated into the ears, dragging people into this sensual and sensual place.
There are also some who are out of place, such as the person sitting in the middle of the sofa in the Heting box at the moment.
There are more private clubs on the entire Changning Road than you can count on two hands, and Heting is not special among them. At most, the decoration is modern and magnificent, not so old-school, and most of the people who come to play are young people.
Therefore, the waiters here are even more youthful. When the waiter brought a group of young men in tonight and asked them to stand in a line, the person sitting on the sofa raised his eyelids and was willing to take a look.
Just when the foreman was called in, he didn’t even look at him.
“Everyone has been called, Mr. Shi.” The foreman, who was accustomed to big scenes, stepped aside and said with an undiminished smile, “See if there is the person you are looking for here.”
The young man known as “Shi Shao” did not answer. He sat quietly, glanced around and looked back, lowered his eyelids, and his thick eyelashes cast two uneven gray shadows.Following the tall bridge of the nose, there is a pair of pale lips. The slightly thick upper lip is slightly raised, which makes the chin lift up in the right shape.
He wore a shirt that didn’t quite fit. The top button of the collar was pressed against his Adam’s apple, and the pleated cuffs circled around the protruding wrist bones. His eyes were filled with cold white, and only the knuckles were a little red.He held a domino between his fingertips and tapped the rounded corner on the wooden table, making a light and regular sound.
He seemed to be trying his best to suppress his impatience.
Everyone who can get ahead in this place is a smart person. Before he could speak, the foreman rolled his eyes and said proactively: “Mr. Fu played exactly this deck of cards yesterday.”
Perhaps he was pleased by these words, the knocking stopped, and the man sitting on the sofa looked up again.A few of the two rows of waiters in front of him boldly looked at him, but after a moment, they lowered their heads timidly.
It’s not that the young man’s appearance is scary at this time, but that he is born too well. His facial features are as bright as a painting, and his eyes that are tempered with ice are piercing like a sharp knife. Not many people can withstand it.
“This deck of cards I touched…” Facing the light, his lips turned a little red, and he opened and closed slowly at this moment, “Who are you looking at?”
The tone is also cold, like water droplets that will condense when the temperature drops to 0°C.
The waiters who were standing looked at each other, with either encouraging or hesitant looks. After all, it was the foreman who stood up and pointed out the ones who served in this box last night.
The sitting man’s patience had obviously run out. He put down his dominoes and stood up. His crouched body stretched out, revealing a tall figure of nearly 1.8 meters.
He was just a little thinner and slender, and the foreman standing beside him could even see the shape of his shoulder blades.
Rather like an Israeli waiter – thinking so frivolously, the foreman still smiled professionally: “These were the only ones in this private room last night.”
Due to the narrowing of the scope, it wasn’t long before the target himself was revealed. He was frightened by the approaching figure and took two steps back. Then he was blocked and forced into a corner.
Lifting his head slightly, a face that was too beautiful for a man came into view. The waiter, who had only been here for less than two months, shuddered at first, and then turned pale with shame.
“Is it you?” The beautiful man said with a commanding tone in his deep eyes, “Look up.”
After seeing the waiter’s face clearly, the corners of his lips relaxed, finally showing a little bit of pride in having the upper hand.
But from a distance, they look similar in body shape, but up close, apart from the round eyes, what other similarities do they have?
The scene was like a player giving up in the middle of a match because his opponent was too weak. The person came suddenly but left gracefully. Before leaving, he still had time to arrange the messed up dominoes on the table in order.
The footsteps faded away, and the whispers turned into wild conversations behind the door.
“What’s the big deal? It’s just a wild dog picked up by the Shi family.”
“Call him Master Shi, he really thinks of himself as the young master of the Shi family.”
“Don’t be sour, no matter how savage you are, the Shi family’s blood is still flowing in your body.”
“Who is upset? No matter how good-looking he is, he can’t hide his businessman spirit. Otherwise, why would Mr. Fu look down on him and still favor our Xiao Xu? Brother Chen, don’t you think so?”
The foreman, who was called Brother Chen, smiled and did not answer, waving his hand to disperse everyone.
The waiter surnamed Xu was so frightened that he broke out in cold sweat. Now he was still leaning against the wall. When he saw Brother Chen was about to leave, he hurriedly caught up and said, “Foreman Chen.”
The foreman stood still and turned his head. The young man in his twenties had flushed cheeks: “If Mr. Fu comes back and comes back to look for me next time, should I…”
It seems that he has regarded himself as the object of jealousy and has begun to consider self-protection.
I heard the foreman snort, as if he was laughing at his wishful thinking.
“We don’t know whether Mr. Fu will come again. Do you still want him to order you?” Foreman Chen patted the young man on the shoulder, “Hide last night’s tip and accept it as soon as it’s good. That guy is not someone to be trifled with.”
Speaking of not being easy to mess with, in this huge Maple City, even the hungry homeless people in the slums can talk about the famous Shi family.
At the beginning of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, he relied on his military background to establish connections and occupied a place in the Maple City business district. Then he decisively invested all his wealth in the real estate industry at the beginning of its rise. In less than ten years, he became the richest man in the area. He also got involved in many other emerging fields. Today, the Shi family has developed into a family business that is connected to the economic lifeline of the entire Maple City.
It is said that such a family must have deep roots, full of descendants, and often stage dramas of fighting for inheritance rights that the common people love to see.However, Shi’s family is very small, and he is too low-key in a family that can be called a wealthy family. What is known so far is that the current leader of the Shi family, Shi Huai, is also in good health and has no intention of “passing on the throne” for the time being.
“There is no one to pass on to. The old man of the Shi family is also pitiful. One of his two sons has died, and the remaining one was born as a wild woman outside and cannot be brought to the forefront.” The waiters at Heting moved around among the rich families in Maple City. They could always collect some information that was not common to outsiders. They passed it around as a joke after dinner. “No, he came here just now to cause trouble. He was afraid that others wouldn’t know about the dirty tricks he used to tie Master Fu to his side.”
The night is thick and rumors are flying.
The people in the story may not know anything at all, or they may know but pretend not to care.
A black car drove along the road into a lush courtyard. The person who got out of the driver’s seat stood in the cold wind for a moment. When the smell of powder brought back from Heting dissipated, he walked towards the brightly lit mansion.
Aromatherapy was also lit in the house, including bergamot, which the hostess of the family liked.After changing his shoes and entering the door, he was called by the name of the young woman sitting in the main room, and his slightly hurried steps stopped.
“Shi Meng, why are you running?” the young woman with long hair and shawl greeted, “it’s time to eat, come and sit.”
Shi Meng has a very clear understanding of his position in this family.
So he just sat there without talking, holding the tea cup and staring at the blue and white pattern on the cup wall in trance.
“You’re acting like a good student now.” Recruiting people wasn’t enough. Shi Sihui couldn’t help but tease, “It would be nice if he could be this quiet normally.”
Shi Meng blinked slowly, as if he didn’t understand.Shi Sihui ignored him, turned her head and said to the middle-aged woman sitting on the single sofa: “Mom, do you think so?”
Li Bihan, who had been sitting leisurely since she took her seat and neglected to talk to him, raised her eyelids and said “hmm” softly.
As the current mistress of the Shi family, Li Bihan has watched Shi Meng grow up, and her attitude towards him is not bad, but it is far from treating him as her own.
This is inevitable. We are closely related by blood. Besides, who would like a thorn in their heart that cannot be removed?
Shi Meng had this consciousness, so he didn’t mind.Just when Li Bihan raised her eyes and looked over, she untimely remembered that when she first came to this house more than ten years ago, an unknown visitor once praised her and Li Bihan for looking alike, and that they were all carved from the same mold.
It was a rare joke that Shi Meng could remember over the years.
“By the way, is Fu Xuanxiao coming to the house today?” Shi Sihui brought up another topic, “He seems to be quite busy recently?”
Shi Meng came back to his senses, realized that he was being asked, and responded in a daze: “Come.”
An unknown laugh brought Shi Meng back to reality.
Shi Sihui is the eldest daughter in the family. She grew up surrounded by stars. She has never bothered to hide her emotions. She invites people over according to her temper, and then teases her according to her temper: “That’s right. You signed the contract, and he must come.”
Then he leaned closer to Shi Meng and winked at him: “If he doesn’t come, does it count as a breach of contract?”
In four years, the agreement written in black and white became commonplace.
A new round of cold wave came quietly at night.Before it got completely dark, Fu Xuanxiao answered the phone in the car and lowered the temperature.
“I won’t go.” He refused the person on the phone. “That place was so smoky yesterday. It’s a good thing you were able to find a place to do business.”
“Don’t tell me, those old die-hards also like to hang out there recently… Besides, the little boy named Xu, aren’t you very interested?”
Fu Xuanxiao was stunned for a moment, then tapped on the steering wheel with his slender fingers. When he realized it, there was a hint of anger on his face: “Don’t mention it, I don’t know where he got my phone number. He called me five times today.”
My friend Gao Lecheng on the other end of the phone laughed so hard: “It shows that our young master Fu’s charm has not diminished. Wasn’t it true that the second young master of the Shi family was also seduced by your skin…”
“Why mention him?” Fu Xuanxiao became even more annoyed when he thought about where the road ahead would lead. “I would rather be an ugly person.”
Gao Le took it easy and made a few harmless jokes, and the two decided on the time for their next meeting.
After hanging up the phone, Fu Xuanxiao stopped smiling. The profile of his face reflected on the glass window was cold and hard, coated with a layer of coldness by the wind.
Entering the Shi family’s mansion, it was just in time for dinner to begin.
There are many rules in the Shi family, and they pay attention to eating without saying anything during meals. Fu Xuanxiao abides by the etiquette and sits silently. Only when he glanced at a wrist wrapped in shirt cufflinks, his eyebrows raised slightly, seeming to be surprised.
Xu Shihuai, the head of the family, was also present. The people next to him had been extremely quiet since the beginning of the meal. He took two chopsticks of food and added a bowl of soup. Unexpectedly, he did not point fingers at Fu Xuanliao or exercise control.
After dinner, Shi Huai also called Fu Xuanxiao to sit with him in the study. There must be business matters to talk about.
It’s sad to say that the Shi family has been all-powerful in Maple City for decades, but in the end there is no one in the family who can inherit the mantle. Shi Huai is approaching retirement and can only help the juniors of his friends to use their remaining talents.
Fu Xuanxiao had an upright attitude towards this, and he accepted it with some pointers and respect. So when he came out of the study, he blew the cold wind in the backyard on the first floor for a while, and reviewed the content of the conversation before going upstairs.
In fact, besides the friendship from the previous generation, what else does Fu Xuanliao have to do with Huai Yi’s care for him?Regarding the cooperation proposed by Shi Huaiyi… Fu Xuanxiao pressed the sun with one hand and held the doorknob with the other hand and pushed it down.
The Fu family is considered a rising star in the business world and has not yet established a firm foothold. It would be great to be able to climb the big tree of the Shi family.But he has a short mouth. In the past, he could be upright and have no scruples, but now he is tied up by another confusing transaction…
The door opened in response, and the room was completely dark. Fu Xuanxiao was too focused on his thoughts to observe. Just as he raised his hand to touch the switch, his shoulder was suddenly restrained from behind, followed by a drag, and he retreated unprepared.
His back hit the wall hard, almost damaging the back of his head. Fu Xuanxiao hissed and frowned in the darkness.
The instigator seemed to realize that he had struck too hard. He took half a step back, but his hand stubbornly pressed on Fu Xuanxiao’s shoulder and refused to let go.
“What else…”
The last word could not be uttered, Fu Xuanxiao’s lips were blocked.
The man was cold, even his lips had no warmth. He didn’t care when he pressed against her, like a small animal eager to get warmth in the ice and snow.
I couldn’t tell whether it was because I was unable to resist or because I was too lazy to struggle. In short, the kiss that didn’t feel like a kiss continued, even in the end, both of them showed their fangs, almost biting, and completely undignified.
After the kiss, he pulled back. His rapid breathing had not stopped. Fu Xuanxiao stuck out his tongue and licked his lower lip. He tasted a faint smell of blood and sneered: “Shi Meng, are you a dog?”
He saw the figure in front of him, who was half a head shorter than him, tremble.
Shi Meng did not answer, but asked: “Where did you go yesterday?”
Facing his self-deception, Fu Xuanxiao felt both funny and pitiful: “Don’t you already know everything?”
Fu Xuanxiao was not unsurprised when he received a tip from Gao Lecheng downstairs just now.After all, Shi Meng is a proud and arrogant person who loves face very much. No matter how unhappy he is, he only dares to stay in the house and go out to declare his sovereignty. It is not his style.
However, Shi Meng never denied or regretted what he had done. He held his head high magnanimously and said, “You are not allowed to go to that kind of place.”
Fu Xuanxiao laughed again: “Why, are there new clauses in the contract?”
For questions that he didn’t want to answer, Shi Meng simply ignored them.He touched one of Fu Xuanxiao’s arms in the darkness and squeezed his wrist: “This hand?”
“Huh? What’s wrong with this hand?”
“Touch the boy.”
Fu Xuanxiao was stunned for a long time before he realized that the “boy” Meng was talking about was the waiter who was thrust beside him yesterday.
“Yes.” After all, there was nothing to hide, Fu Xuanxiao said, “How can there be no reason not to touch something that comes to your door?”
I have to admit that the words were somewhat intentional, just to make Shi Meng look angry and helpless.
In any relationship, no male creature is willing to lose.
So at that time, Meng’s dark eyes widened and turned into dark circles, as if he was out of breath and in disbelief. Fu Xuanliao couldn’t hide the joy in his heart.
“What, are you so angry?” He bent down and tilted his head, looked closely at Shi Meng, and lowered his voice, “You want to bite me?”
At this moment, Fu Xuanxiao obviously did not expect the possible consequences of provocation, and also forgot that Shi Meng was always reckless about the consequences once he went crazy.
I saw an undercurrent surging in those dark eyes. Before I had time to analyze the meaning, my left hand was suddenly raised.
Along with the puff of hot air, there was a burst of heartbreaking pain, and two rows of white teeth were embedded between the skin and flesh covering the metacarpal bones, fiercely.
Shi Meng actually bit him.