TSBIR Chapter 34
by Volare“Second Young Master Shen.”
“Second Young Master Shen.”
Everyone watched Shen Jinyu appear, looking at him curiously. Shen Jinyu wasn’t at the military camp, what was he doing at the company?
Shen Jinyu arrived at Shen Jinlin’s office. Shen Jinlin saw him and his face was full of happiness.
“Brother, why are you here?”
Shen Jinyu held up the photos, staring at Shen Jinlin.
“These photos, shouldn’t you give me some explanation?”
Shen Jinlin looked at the photos, his face changed instantly, his smile froze on his face, and his eyes were full of guilt.
“Brother, where did you get these photos? Someone must be framing me.”
Shen Jinyu sneered, throwing all the photos at Shen Jinlin’s face.
“Shen Jinlin, do you think I’m an idiot?”
Shen Jinyu told Shen Jinlin these things hoping he could be honest, but even at this point, Shen Jinlin was still lying to him.
“Brother, brother, I was wrong, I was just afraid that if Shen Xingyang returned to the Shen family, I would lose everything. I regretted poisoning him after I did it, and wasn’t Shen Xingyang alright?”
Shen Jinlin grabbed Shen Jinyu’s clothes, begging him constantly, looking very pitiful.
But Shen Jinyu only felt it was hypocritical. He pushed Shen Jinlin away forcefully and walked out.
When he was a child, he looked at the newborn Shen Xingyang with complicated emotions because Shen Xingyang was the reason he lost his mother.
Later, he was unwilling to accept Shen Xingyang, but when Shen Gai wanted to throw Shen Xingyang to his death, he couldn’t help but plead for him.
Shen Xingyang survived. He wanted to hug Shen Xingyang, but whenever he looked at Shen Xingyang, he remembered his mother’s death.
Later, Shen Xingyang learned to walk, calling him “brother” softly. He didn’t respond, but when he saw Shen Xingyang falling, he subconsciously went to help him.
Later, Shen Xingyang grew older, and his illness became more severe. He was much shorter than other children, and there were always a group of people following him, afraid that something might happen to him.
He had also envied Shen Jinjue and Shen Xingyang’s relationship. Later, he went to Shen Xingyang, wanting to tell Shen Xingyang that he was his real older brother, but looking at Shen Xingyang surrounded by people, he couldn’t squeeze in.
He turned his head and saw Shen Jinlin, who was sitting on the swing alone, just like he was when he was a child, longing for someone to push him.
He began to pay attention to Shen Jinlin, began to take care of him. Every time he thought of Shen Xingyang, he would treat Shen Jinlin a little better. Gradually, their relationship became better and better.
Later, Shen Xingyang got angry after being rejected for wanting to go to school with Shen Jinlin, and said something to provoke Shen Jinlin. The two of them fought.
He watched Shen Xingyang cover his chest and cry loudly for his brother. He went up and hugged Shen Xingyang, but Shen Xingyang refused to accept him and was eventually taken away by Shen Jinjue.
Shen Jinyu watched the two of them leave, only able to pick up Shen Jinlin, who was crying on the ground. As a result, when Shen Jinjue returned home, he took Shen Jinlin into the Shen family ancestral hall and began to enforce family law without explanation.
At that time, Shen Jinlin was only six years old, a small bundle, very pitiful. He couldn’t stand it and almost fought with Shen Jinjue.
Later, Shen Jinjue said that one day, he would regret it. Later, Shen Xingyang was taken away, and he never saw Shen Xingyang again.
From that day on, Shen Jinyu secretly vowed in his heart that he only had Shen Jinlin as his younger brother and he would protect him well.
He and Shen Jinjue joined the military camp together, but he could never compare to his excellent older brother.
Gradually, he went home less and less often. Shen Jinlin always sent him messages and called him, telling him about the big and small things at home.
Every time Shen Jinlin said that he was bullied by Shen Xingyang at the company, he felt extremely guilty, because he had sworn back then that he would protect Shen Jinlin, but he hadn’t done it.
Because of this guilt, his attitude towards Shen Jinlin became better and better. As long as Shen Jinlin had a request, he would do his best to fulfill it.
So when he heard that Shen Xingyang had hit Shen Jinlin and had also squeezed Shen Jinlin out of the general manager position he had held for so many years, anger made him unable to restrain his inner emotions.
Soon after, he asked for leave, just to stand up for Shen Jinlin.
Then what about Shen Xingyang? Shen Jinlin had the partial love and care of his parents, but Shen Xingyang, after Shen Jinjue went to the military camp, had always been alone. Who would protect him?
Shen Gai had always been biased towards Shen Jinlin, how could he let him be bullied by Shen Xingyang at the company? How could he not have thought of that at the time?
He always thought that he was the most upright person in the Shen family, and others also praised him like that, saying that he was fair and impartial and didn’t favor relatives.
He thought that everything he did was right, but now the facts told him that he was a fool who couldn’t tell right from wrong.
After Shen Jinyu left the office, he grabbed people and asked about Shen Xingyang and Shen Jinlin’s reputation in the company. After asking around, everyone sided with Shen Xingyang.
Although Shen Xingyang was strict at work, there were almost no contracts that he couldn’t negotiate. Shen Xingyang had even drunk too much alcohol because of some difficult contracts and was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment. Therefore, the people in the company admired Shen Xingyang very much and would obey his management.
And Shen Jinlin, whom he trusted, was just a vase. His achievements were all obtained by Shen Xingyang bit by bit by pleasing others and trying his best to negotiate. It was Shen Xingyang who suffered grievances in the company.
“Xingyang, they said Second Young Master Shen came to the company.”
Shen Xingyang didn’t even need to ask to know that Shen Jinyu had gone to find Shen Jinlin. Now, he didn’t have any hope for Shen Jinyu anymore.
“Second Young Master Shen is here.”
Xiao Qi had just walked out when he hurried back, telling Shen Xingyang with some panic.
Was he here to ask Shen Xingyang to give up his position again? Was Shen Jinyu reasonable at all?
Shen Xingyang looked towards the door and saw Shen Jinyu walking in as expected.
Shen Xingyang continued to lower his head to look at his documents: “Second Young Master Shen, I’ve said it before, I won’t give up this position. If Shen Jinlin has the ability, he can come and take it himself.”
As a result, Shen Jinyu didn’t say a word and forcibly grabbed Shen Xingyang’s hand. As expected, he saw the scar on the palm of his hand.
Shen Jinyu grabbed it very hard. He had just had blood drawn yesterday, and because the same spot was always used, it was bruised purple. Shen Jinyu’s grab made him cry out in pain.
Shen Jinyu suspiciously rolled up his sleeve and looked down, all he could see were needle holes. The area near the blood vessels was so bruised purple that he couldn’t see the original blood vessels.
Shen Jinyu was so shocked that he couldn’t speak for a long time. Had Shen Xingyang’s illness become this severe?
He only knew that Shen Xingyang had anemia and heart disease, but he didn’t expect that he would have to receive treatment every day now.
“Xingyang.”
Xiao Qi pushed Shen Jinyu away and looked at Shen Xingyang’s hand.
“Are you okay?”
Shen Xingyang shook his head and turned to look at Shen Jinyu.
“Second Young Master Shen, have you made enough trouble? Can you leave now?”
“Why didn’t you tell me that Shen Jinlin poisoned you? Why didn’t you tell me that your situation at Shen’s would be so difficult? And your illness, why have you never mentioned it?”
Shen Jinyu questioned Shen Xingyang loudly, his eyes full of hurt, perhaps hurt that he had misunderstood Shen Xingyang, or perhaps hurt that Shen Xingyang didn’t tell him anything.
“Didn’t I say it? When I was little, you didn’t believe me when I said Shen Jinlin was taking my things. You didn’t believe me when I said Shen Jinlin hit me with a stone. Instead, you said I was framing him. When I was very young, the doctor said that it would be difficult for me to survive and that I could only rely on medicine to keep me alive. The whole Shen family knows, why wouldn’t you know! My illness was never suddenly serious, but it has always been like this, it’s just that you didn’t care. You have never believed what I said.”
Shen Xingyang’s eyes were a little red, but he held back from crying. He wasn’t suffering these grievances for the first time. He thought he didn’t care anymore.
But unexpectedly, it was still a little difficult to say it out loud.
Shen Jinyu stood there for a long time, thinking about all the past events, and finally only weakly said “I’m sorry”.
“There’s no need. You just don’t like me, there’s no need to apologize, at least you didn’t want me to die like Shen Jinlin and the others.”
Hearing these words, Shen Jinyu could no longer hold back his tears.
This was the second time he cried. The first time was when his mother passed away.
He had failed his mother’s dying wish, not only had he not taken care of Shen Xingyang, but he had also become an accomplice in harming him.
Shen Xingyang wouldn’t forgive him. He couldn’t defend himself, couldn’t tell others that he had never hated Shen Xingyang, that he had Shen Xingyang in his heart, but he couldn’t bring himself to take the initiative to be good to Shen Xingyang.
Slowly, the two of them grew further and further apart, even to the point where they couldn’t reconcile now.