The Downtrodden Villain In A Redemption Romance Novel Chapter 50

Chapter 50 Explanation

Lu Qingrang saw that Xu Wen was frozen in place and didn’t even blink, so he stretched out his hand and waved it gently in front of his eyes.

Seeing that Xu Wen still didn’t respond at all, he had no choice but to pick up the card on the table and gently stuff it into Xu Wen’s slightly open palm. He also closed his fingers to ensure that the card was firmly held.

When his fingertips touched the cold card, Xu Wen suddenly trembled, as if he was suddenly connected to a power source, and his distracted eyes instantly focused.

He almost immediately grabbed the card tightly with his backhand, as if what he was holding was not wealth, but some hot evidence.

He raised his head suddenly and looked at Lu Qingrang anxiously, with obvious panic in his voice:

“Brother Lu! Is this dangerous?! Will they, will they follow this to find out about you?!”

Lu Qingrang was slightly startled by the question he blurted out.

Sure enough.

This thought flashed through my mind instantly.

Lu Qingrang expected that Xu Wen would be shocked, ecstatic, and might even blame him for taking the risk, but he didn’t expect that Xu Wen’s first concern was his safety.

He even noticed that Xu Wen subconsciously clutched the card, as if what he was grasping was not wealth, but evidence that might endanger him.

“Don’t worry,” he slowed down his voice, “If this program was given directly to Nangong Chen, with his suspicion, he might still investigate in layers. But his brother…”

Lu Qingrang shook his head gently, with a hint of contempt in his tone, “He is just a spoiled young man who is eager to prove himself. His vision and methods are far behind.”

He looked at Xu Wen, his eyes calm and confident, with the absolute sense of control of a king in the technical field: “What I make, let alone the mediocre people under Nangong Yu, even the top experts trained by Nangong Chen may not be able to see the secrets in it, let alone pursue me.”

He paused slightly and came to a conclusion clearly word for word:

“After all, the original blueprint of Sky Dome and every line of core code came from me. No one knows it better than me.”

Xu Wen grasped the key points of his words very keenly, and his eyes widened slightly: “The sky… was created by you? That, that was your hard work…”

Lu Qingrang looked at the undisguised shock and regret for his injustice on his face, and a complicated smile appeared at the corner of his mouth. The smile was mixed with the pride of the past and the cold ridicule of the present.

“The blueprint and technology were indeed created by me.” He affirmed the first half of Xu Wen’s sentence, and then changed the subject slightly.

A deeper secret was revealed in a calm tone, “But Weiwen Technology, that is, the company that was later acquired and reorganized by Nangong Chen and renamed Chenxia Technology, from a legal and equity structure perspective, its founder and actual controller have always been my adoptive parents.”

He paused and seemed to be organizing his words to explain the complicated past to Xu Wen in the most concise way:

“My adoptive parents, whose surname is Xia, adopted me when I was nine years old. Their family has relied on the Nangong family for generations and relied on them to survive on the edge of the inner circle by clinging to the big tree of the Nangong family.”

Lu Qingrang’s fingertips gently rubbed the edge of the water glass, and his voice was terrifyingly calm:

“When I was twelve years old, they discovered my potential in technology. After that, they finally found the most suitable position for me, a convenient tool that can create value for the family.”

“It is undeniable that they gave me the best educational resources after that.”

He raised his eyes and looked through the dense heat, as if he was looking at himself in another time and space.

“When Weiwen Technology was established later, they promised to give me technical shares, but they always delayed signing the agreement for various reasons. How naive I was at that time, thinking that as long as I worked hard and made achievements, I could truly become a part of this family.”

Xu Wen noticed that his fingers holding the cup tightened slightly.

“Until the infighting within the Nangong family became intense, my adoptive parents chose to side with Nangong Chen. In order to show their loyalty to the new master, they orchestrated a bankruptcy and plunged the company into a debt crisis through several abnormal related transactions. Then they packaged and sold the entire company, together with all the core technologies I had developed over the years, to Nangong Chen at a very low price.”

There was a cold sarcasm in his voice: “On the surface, this transaction is an ordinary commercial merger, but in fact it is a letter of investment given by the Xia family to Nangong Chen. And I, the person who created all the core values, was not only excluded from the transaction, but also became the perfect scapegoat in their plan.”

“On the eve of bankruptcy, they deliberately pushed me to the forefront.”

Lu Qingrang’s tone was still calm, but Xu Wen could hear the suppressed pain in it. “All the accusations of poor decision-making and poor management have been cleverly transferred to me. The media is overwhelmingly accusing me.”

He paused, as if recalling the darkest time.

“The most ironic thing is that when the company was officially bankrupt and liquidated, the employees who had worked side by side could not get the compensation they deserved. I looked at them.” Lu Qingrang’s voice finally showed a slight fluctuation. “I took out all the savings I had saved from taking on private projects over the years to compensate the employees. That is the only money I have that belongs entirely to me.”

“So when you found me,” he looked at Xu Wen, his eyes were heartbreakingly calm, “I really had nothing. Not only money, but also no reason to live.”

Xu Wen’s heart seemed to be grabbed hard.

He finally understood why Lu Qingrang was so desperate when they first met him and chose to die in a decisive way like burning charcoal.

This was not only because he was betrayed by his closest relatives, not only because he was burdened with unfounded charges, but also because at the moment when he was completely abandoned and fell into the deepest darkness, Bai Yueguang Su Xia, whom he had devoted his whole life to, turned away without hesitation and fell into Nangong Chen’s arms again, giving him the final and most fatal blow.

The system only told him at the beginning that Lu Qingrang was “bankrupt, estranged from his family, and about to commit suicide.”

It wasn’t until this moment that Xu Wen truly felt the suffocating heaviness and cruelty behind those few lines when he heard Lu Qingrang use such a calm tone to cut through the bloody past.

Xu Wen’s Adam’s apple rolled slightly, and his eyes fell involuntarily on Lu Qingrang’s wrist.

On the skin that was once tightly covered by his sleeves, there were still those shocking old scars that he had glimpsed when he wiped his body when they first met.

Lu Qingrang seemed to have already seen through his turbulent mood.

“It’s okay.” His voice was very soft, like a gentle barrier that gently separated the heavy past.

He stared at Xu Wen, with a warmth that was almost dependent on him in his eyes, “Don’t I have you now?”

He tilted his head slightly and asked softly:

“We will get better together, right, Xu Wen?”

That sentence sounded like a question, but the tone was as sure as stating a fact that was bound to come.