TSBIR Chapter 33
by VolareWhen Shen Xingyang woke up, the figure beside him was gone. He thought Song Yichen had returned to his own room to wash up.
But when he walked to the bathroom to prepare for his morning routine, he heard the sound of water inside. Why was Song Yichen taking a shower so early?
Shen Xingyang wasn’t fully awake, still muddled. It was all Song Yichen’s fault; he had gone to sleep too late last night and was so sleepy.
Not long after, Song Yichen opened the door and came out, smiling when he saw Shen Xingyang.
“You can sleep a little longer.”
Shen Xingyang rubbed his eyes, stretched lazily, and couldn’t even bother to fix his messy hair.
“I’m used to waking up at this time.”
As Shen Xingyang spoke, he walked towards the bathroom. But the bathroom, just after a shower, had no warmth at all. He squeezed toothpaste onto his brush, stuck his head out, and looked at Song Yichen.
“Why are you taking a cold shower?”
Song Yichen looked at Shen Xingyang meaningfully, a smile on his face: “What do you think?”
Shen Xingyang suddenly thought of something, retracted his head, continued brushing his teeth, and didn’t say anything more.
“Brother, Shen Jinjue is here.”
Song Yichen put down his teacup: “Let him in.” He hadn’t expected that Shen Jinjue could wait until now to come.
“Song Shao, has our Shen family offended you? You withdrew the medical team without even a word, isn’t that a bit excessive?”
Shen Jinjue came in with a face full of anger, his tone full of questioning.
Song Yichen nonchalantly drank his tea, completely unconcerned by Shen Jinjue’s anger.
“Second Young Master Shen, our Song family doesn’t owe you anything. I can give the medical team if I want, and withdraw it if I want. If Second Young Master Shen is not comfortable, find another family. Mu City doesn’t only have my Song family with medical teams.”
If the person in front of him wasn’t Shen Xingyang’s older brother, Song Yichen would definitely not let him off so easily.
“You…”
Shen Jinjue didn’t expect Song Yichen to be so disrespectful. Although the Song family outwardly didn’t like his Shen family, they would still give the necessary courtesy. He didn’t know what was going on this time.
“Second Young Master Shen, please go back, I’m very busy.”
Song Yichen was too lazy to pay attention to him, continuing to busy himself with his own affairs, but Shen Jinjue was unwilling to leave.
Which medical team in Mu City could compare with the Song family?
“Does Song Shao really want to make enemies with my Shen family?”
Song Yichen couldn’t bear it any longer, and threw the teacup in his hand out, hitting the ground in front of Shen Jinjue.
“Shen Jinjue, don’t mention the Shen family to me. The heir of the Shen family is Shen Jinjue, it has nothing to do with you. It’s bad enough that you’re stupid, don’t drag down the entire Shen family, tarnishing the Shen family’s many years of reputation.”
Shen Jinjue didn’t understand either; when had he offended this ancestor? They had only met a few times before, okay?
“Song Yichen, don’t go too far. We haven’t even met a few times, when did I provoke you to make you vent your anger on me?”
Shen Jinjue seemed even angrier. He had been in the military camp for many years, and his temper had always been fiery.
“Shen Xingyang is my person, Second Young Master Shen shouldn’t have forgotten what you did to him, right?”
Shen Jinjue understood everything when he heard this, and he sneered.
“So it’s about Shen Xingyang, I was wondering who it was. What, does Shen Xingyang have so much charm that regardless of gender, everyone is willing to stand up for him?”
Hearing that it was about Shen Xingyang, Shen Jinjue didn’t want to say any more to Song Yichen.
“Second Young Master Shen, the Shen family’s Madam was a famous lady, upright, and humble. If she knew that her eldest son laid a hand on his own younger brother for the sake of a son born to a mistress, I wonder how she would feel?”
Shen Jinjue hated it most when others mentioned his mother, mentioned the heartless woman who abandoned him.
But reason kept him calm, and he restrained the urge to hit Song Yichen.
“Young Master Song, our Shen family’s affairs are none of your concern.”
“I don’t care about your Shen family’s affairs, but if you and Shen Jinlin dare to lay a hand on him again, don’t blame me for disregarding my relationship with the Shen family.”
Shen Jinjue was ready to leave, but when he heard this, he turned around aggressively.
“What do you mean?”
Shen Jinjue gritted his teeth, he was quite curious how Shen Xingyang blackened him and Shen Jinlin to others.
Song Yichen was too lazy to say more to Shen Jinjue and directly took out some photos and threw them on the table.
“Second Young Master Shen probably doesn’t know that Shen Jinlin drugged Shen Xingyang, wanting Shen Xingyang to die, right? If these dirty tricks were known by Jinjue brother, I don’t know if he Shen Jinlin can still stay in the Shen family.”
Shen Jinjue picked them up in confusion. The photos showed Shen Jinlin deliberately putting drugs in Shen Xingyang’s cup, as well as chat logs and transfer records of him buying drugs from others and arranging for a woman to go to Shen Xingyang’s room.
Shen Jinjue frowned. With Shen Xingyang’s character, didn’t he make a big fuss about this? If this matter were to be exposed, no one could protect Shen Jinlin, why did he hide these things?
“At the time, he locked himself in the storage room, and in order to stay awake, his palms were covered in blood, but the first thing he said when he saw me was to ask me to keep this matter a secret.”
After Song Yichen finished speaking, he approached Shen Jinjue, his eyes full of hatred: “If I hadn’t appeared that day, no one can imagine what would have happened. Second Young Master Shen can go and look at Shen Xingyang’s right palm; the scar is too deep, I can’t remove it.”
At that time, Shen Xingyang didn’t have his heart medicine with him, and in that kind of environment, being drugged, no one dared to imagine the consequences.
After that day, he was still haunted by lingering fears. No wonder Shen Jinjue arranged for Shen Xingyang to live outside. So his Shen family was a den of tigers and wolves.
Shen Jinjue didn’t speak. How could Shen Jinlin, although reckless, not be bad?
“Second Young Master Shen, you haven’t been in the company for these years; you should go to the Shen company and see who negotiated those contracts. After you’ve seen them, you’ll be qualified to judge whether Shen Xingyang is worthy of his current position.”
Shen Jinjue looked at Song Yichen; his tone was full of feeling unworthy for Shen Xingyang.
“Second Young Master Shen, it’s right that you don’t let him call you brother, because you don’t deserve it.”
Listening to Song Yichen’s words, Shen Jinjue fell into contemplation. This was completely different from what he knew and completely overturned his understanding of Shen Xingyang and Shen Jinlin.
Shen Jinjue protected Shen Xingyang and only had Shen Xingyang in his heart. Shen Xingyang was also unruly in front of him.
When Shen Xingyang and Shen Jinlin fought as children, causing Shen Xingyang’s heart disease to relapse, Shen Jinjue beat Shen Jinlin half to death that time.
Later, Shen Jinjue arranged for Shen Xingyang to live outside and never returned to Shen Manor.
Then, as the children grew up, Shen Xingyang forcibly entered the Shen company by relying on Shen Jinjue, and soon used those means to squeeze Shen Jinlin out.
In what he knew, Shen Xingyang was eccentric and did things recklessly, while Shen Jinlin had been well-behaved since he was a child and was often bullied by Shen Xingyang. Shen Xingyang often framed Shen Jinlin by relying on his heart disease.
But from Song Yichen’s mouth, Shen Xingyang was the innocent one. How was that possible?
With Shen Jinjue’s personality, would he really let Shen Xingyang be wronged?
“Shen Jinjue, you really are stupid, being played around by a not-so-smart Shen Jinlin. Besides Shen Gai, Shen Xingyang should be considered your only family, right? It’s a pity, Shen Xingyang doesn’t consider you family anymore.”
Song Yichen didn’t say a word, and Shen Jinjue recalled the scene of Shen Xingyang looking at him with despair, saying that he was calling him brother for the last time.
Could it be that, as Song Yichen said, he had misunderstood Shen Xingyang for so long?
Thinking this, Shen Jinjue ignored Song Yichen, took the photos, and left the office.