Noodles on stage

    Xie Qiao came out of the school building, took a taxi and went straight to Hengling’s headquarters.

    Su Tai gave the employee card to Xie Qiao. The security guard at the entrance of the headquarters looked at the stranger and asked symbolic questions. He only let him go when he saw the stranger holding the president’s card.

    In the exclusive elevator, Xie Qiao looked at the rising numbers and smiled. He was the one who invited Su Tai to dinner today.

    “Brother.” Xie Qiao knocked on the door.

    “Come in.”

    Sutai’s office occupies an entire floor. It is spacious and bright and has everything you need. “Your card.” Xie Qiao put the employee card on Sutai’s desk with a smile.

    Su Tai doesn’t use employee cards very much. He usually uses his fingerprints. He gave it to Xie Qiao yesterday to facilitate his future visits to the group. “You can just take it and use it when you come later.”

    Xie Qiao held the card with two fingers and quickly put it back into his trouser pocket, “How long do you have until you get off work? I’ll pick you up for dinner.”

    “Right away.” Su Tai lowered his head to look at the information, “You go over there and wait for me first.”

    “Yeah.” Xie Qiao sat on the sofa closest to Su Tai, leaning his head and looking at Su Tai.The first time he saw Su Tai working in an office, he used to be in the study room at home. A navy blue shirt wrapped around the alpha’s strong body, with the cuffs rolled up. The million-dollar watch was far less attractive than his face. When he lowered his head, his black hair covered part of his face. From Xie Qiao’s perspective, he could only see a high forehead and thick eyebrows and a straight nose.

    “Look what I’m doing?” The alpha had a keen sense and raised his head when he noticed his eyes. His complete face made Xie Qiao’s breath tremble.

    “Nothing done.”

    Xie Qiao withdrew his gaze, took a sip of water, and played with his phone for a while. Seeing that Su Tai was still busy, he took out a piece of paper towel and folded the paper crane. When Su Tai finished his work, there was a long line of white paper cranes.

    Su Tai tidied up his clothes and walked over. When he saw the paper cranes on the solid wood table, he laughed, “It’s a waste of paper.”

    “It still works when unfolded.”

    “For customers, I thought Hengling would go bankrupt tomorrow.”

    “You can use it yourself.”

    They never mentioned the quarrel that night again. Su Tai liked to finish things on the same day, so if he brought it up again, he would probably get angry again.

    Xie Qiao followed Su Tai into the elevator, just the two of them.

    Xie Qiao directly pressed the button on the first floor, “I didn’t drive today.”

    Su Tai’s originally puzzled face broke into laughter, “You’re coming to pick me up and you’re not driving?”

    “I’m from school.”

    “You will drive later.”

    “Of course.”

    It was rare for Xie Qiao to be Su Tai’s driver. He was afraid that walking at the slowest speed would make his brother uncomfortable, so he drove cautiously while Su Tai closed his eyes and rested.

    The cell phone placed in the middle of the car vibrated. Su Tai opened his eyes and picked it up, “Mr. Zhao.”

    “Nature will give it to you.”

    After saying a few words, Su Tai hung up the phone, threw the phone aside and continued to rest with his eyes closed.

    But Xie Qiao could see clearly that Mr. Zhao was very familiar to him. It was Zhao Wood who had asked him for a debt before with an IOU.

    The decoration of the hotel was simple and high-end. Xie Qiao and Su Tai walked to the private room with mist between their eyebrows.

    “Brother, who was Mr. Zhao just now?”

    “Friends.”

    “Are you familiar?”

    “It’s business, I can’t say I’m very familiar with him.”

    Xie Qiao didn’t ask any more questions. The meal was tasteless.

    He had been thinking about why Zhao Wudou came to him, but the money was not enough, and why the doctor was able to escape Cheng Yong’s surveillance, why there was no news after the underground boxing ring was discovered by the police, and why Su Tai could easily find him so far away in North America even though he had ditched the bodyguard. There was only one answer to all of this, that is, Su Tai was monitoring him.

    Su Tai may have known about the fact that he found out about Su Kun, but why didn’t he stop it?Or is there more inside information?

    Now that you know the inside story, why do you keep him by your side?

    Thinking about this, Xie Qiao didn’t pay attention. His feet were empty. When he fell, Su Tai stopped him and hugged him. “What are you thinking about? I’ve been restless since eating just now.”

    “Oh, it’s nothing. I want to take the final exam.”

    “Did you take the medicine the doctor gave you on time?”

    “Eat on time every day.”

    After returning home, Xie Qiao was showered with hot water all over his body in the bathroom, and then he gradually regained his body temperature.

    Repeated deductions in his brain eventually led to the possibility that his actions were exposed, but this was not the key. The most important thing was did Su Tai know about his relationship with Chen Yi, and did he know that he was dragged into the experiment?

    Xie Qiao shuddered. If Su Tai knew that he was originally an alpha, would he still keep him by his side?

    There was no one in the pavilion next to the artificial lake on campus during school hours. Cheng Yong stood in front of Xie Qiao, waiting for inquiries.

    “You said when was the last time I lost my memory?”

    “Half a year ago, you were in a coma due to illness. Su Tai sent you to the hospital. The bodyguards surrounded me and I couldn’t get in. I don’t know what happened inside at that time. Probably after you woke up, the security was lax. I climbed up the stairs at night and found you in the ward, but you didn’t rememberI was impressed, so I left a paper crane with one of its wings broken, which was the secret code for the two of us.” Cheng Yong noticed the change in Xie Qiao’s expression and continued cautiously, “It was a coincidence that you called me the next day and remembered it.”

    The surface of the lake rippled in the cold wind, and Xie Qiao thought that it had been so long. The cover he thought was clever was just a cocoon with one-way glass.

    “Bring that doctor back to see me in a few days.”

    Cheng Yong agreed and asked tentatively, “Did something happen?”

    “Nothing. It’s lunch time. Do you want me to treat you to a meal in our school cafeteria?” Xie Qiao stood up without any smile.

    “No need.”

    Xie Qiao spent one day taking exams at school and finally ended all the courses and exams for this semester.

    When he returned home, he saw a bunch of fireworks set off at the door, small fireworks that were not included in the city’s fireworks ban. He opened the door to change his shoes, looked at the clothes hanging on the back of the chair, and walked to the kitchen.

    “Brother, why are there a bunch of fireworks set off outside?”

    “Tomorrow is New Year’s Day.” Su Tai wore gloves on his hands and raised his head to indicate the dishes that had been prepared. “Take the dishes out. The only thing left is the muffin cake I baked for you at the end.”

    Su Tai filled the cake with cream, garnished it with blueberries, and brought it out from the kitchen. “It’s been a long time since I made it. Do you think it’s the same as before?”

    The muffin cake was made by Su Tai for him on his previous birthday. A few days ago, he said he wanted to eat something sweet, but the doctor said he couldn’t eat it. He went for a review yesterday, and Su Tai made it for him today.

    “Brother, why are you so nice to me?” Xie Qiao took a bite of the cake. The sweet cream was sandwiched with fruit, just like before.

    “Because you are my brother.”

    “But I’m not.”

    “I don’t want to quarrel with you today, let’s eat first.”

    “Brother, I found a doctor.” Xie Qiao’s words were a confession and a test, “If it is as I guessed, will you continue to keep me at home?”

    Su Tai ate the food carelessly, “If it’s as you guessed, you abandoned me, you are more likely to leave this home.”

    “But I will never leave you no matter what happens.”

    It is said that parents and relatives are the most important in a person’s life, but for Xie Qiao, Sutai is the most important.

    “Aqiao, I… sent someone to check on Xie Renqing.”

    When the secretary put a lot of information on his desk, he had never read a document so carefully, almost word by word. He saw that Su Tai’s time before he was eight years old was in a dilapidated rented house with rain, leakage, and wind. He had an omega father who was abused by domestic violence and wanted to throw him away, and an alpha father who wanted to sell him due to gambling debts. The little child’s clothes were so rotten that they could not protect his skin. The winter in Mandala was so cold that he didn’t know how Xie Qiao got here.

    Sitting in the spacious office where he worked every day, he felt empty and cold for the first time. It was a day he had never imagined since he was born. He had been wearing handmade clothes since he was born, and millions and tens of millions of gifts were piled in the nursery for free. The money he squandered could have taken him from kindergarten to college.

    He is now sitting across from Xie Qiao and does not even dare to look into his eyes. He has been taught by Mei Yuren since he was a child – kindness and responsibility, humility and tolerance, but in the end it is all about condescending and self-righteous love.

    If Xie Qiao hadn’t been in a coma due to pain and lost his memory for the second time, he would never have known that Xie Qiao actually didn’t like soup at all, just like he didn’t know that Xie Qiao had suffered terribly.

    “…I have worked hard on you before. If I knew how hard you worked before, I should have been nicer to you after you entered this family. My dad said that grievances cannot be passed from generation to generation, but there are always huge grievances that cannot be overcome…” Su Tai was silent for a long time. He recalled that the Zhao Wood he had entrusted to him by mistake turned out to be Xie Qiao’s father’s creditor, which made him blame himself even more. “Wait until you see the doctor before making a decision. Eat first, don’t be hungry.”

    “You know something right?”

    “You need to figure this out for yourself. Then you can choose whether to forgive me or not, okay?”

    “If I forgive you, can you promise me one thing?”

    “As long as I can do it.”

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