Gu Youchen nodded and took the initiative by stretching out his hand, “Gu Youchen.”

It was impossible for those present to not know this name.

They worked in capital investments, and since they were coming to Beijing, they had already made various preparations.

More than half a year in advance, they had investigated all the major families and companies with a market value of over 100 million in Beijing.

If it was Gu Heng and Li Lan, they would’ve probably recognized them at a glance, but Gu Youchen had only been back for two weeks, and he had not accepted any video interviews from the media so far, so everyone was still unfamiliar with his face.

“Then CEO Gu, we’ll trouble you by sending our Qingqing back.” Old Zhao was relatively older in the group, so he stood up and said, “Qingqing is our little sister, everyone cares about her very much, so you must help us to send her home safely .”

Gu Youchen nodded, “Of course, don’t worry, everyone.”

As he spoke, he asked Ning Qingqing, “Qingqing, shall we go?”

Ning Qingqing nodded, picked up her bag, and said goodbye to her colleagues.

Everyone was winking and gossiping.

Coming out of the clubhouse, Gu Youchen went to get the car and asked Ning Qingqing to wait for him at the door.

He hadn’t had a drink today, so he didn’t let the driver drive. When he first arrived at the clubhouse, the parking space was already full, so he parked in the underground parking lot on the opposite side.

Ning Qingqing was looking across the road, when suddenly someone beside her called her, with a slightly hoarse voice, “Qingqing.”

Turning her eyes, Ning Qingqing saw Shen Zhiqian standing alone in the shadow two meters away from her, as if he had been standing there for a long time.

Subconsciously, Ning Qingqing was about to turn around and go back to the clubhouse to wait for Gu Youchen inside.

However, Shen Zhiqian took a step forward, “I want to tell you something, it won’t take much of your time.”

Seeing that Ning Qingqing was not looking at him, Shen Zhiqian said again, “Give me two minutes, if I don’t say anything today, I will try to find you in the future.”

Hearing this, Ning Qingqing stopped, and said lightly, “Go ahead.”

Shen Zhiqian said, “What I want to talk about is my relationship with Gu Youchen.”

“Actually, there are many people of similar age in our circle in Beijing. If it weren’t for some things, I wouldn’t regard him as my nemesis.”

“It was because my mother almost married Gu Youchen’s uncle.”

Hearing this, Ning Qingqing was genuinely a little surprised, “I’ve never heard of this matter before.”

Shen Zhiqian laughed mockingly at himself, “This is a scandal between the two families, no one wants to mention it.”

“In the second year after my mother married my father, something went wrong with the Shen family’s company. My father was facing bankruptcy and might even be in debt. I heard that at that time, even the ancestral home was mortgaged.”

“My mother was originally interested in my father’s money and used some tricks to marry him. With this mishap in the second year of their marriage, when she saw the deteriorating situation, she took all the remaining gold from the house with her and ran away.”

“At that time, Gu Youchen’s uncle’s wife had already passed away in a car accident two years ago, leaving behind a young son. His uncle thought it was difficult for a man to take care of a child on his own. In addition, my mother started teaching choir at the kindergarten at that time, so she was very good at pleasing the father and son of the Gu family. So, after a few interactions, they got together.”

“However, the people in the Gu family didn’t know that my mother was already pregnant. Just when they were planning to get married, they discovered my mother’s pregnancy test records from the hospital which did not add up with the month when she met the Gu family members; the child clearly belonged to the Shen family…”

Having said that, a shadow formed within Shen Zhiqian’s eyes, and the self-deprecating arc of his lips became more obvious, “That child was me. At that time, she wanted to falsify the pregnancy report and make me a Gu family member, but they were not stupid, and found out the truth after a little research.”

“Her engagement with the Gu family was annulled. She thought she could only live alone, but she didn’t expect my father to meet a savior for his business and which brought the business back to life.”

“So my mother went back to look for my dad again, but my dad completely ignored her. But considering that I was in her belly, he arranged an independent residence for her to be taken care of until I was born.”

Shen Zhiqian looked up at Ning Qingqing, feeling that he was embarrassed to the extreme today.

He lost face in front of Gu Youchen and his friends, and at this moment telling the most embarrassing past of his family to the person he liked.

He snorted coldly, “Who does a paternity test four times after being born? The last time I did the test was when I was ten years old, and at that time my memory was already very clear. I heard the people at the facility tell my father that the genetic test couldn’t be wrong, plus they did it four times, so I’m surely his biological son.”

“Yet, at that time, my father’s second wife had already died of illness. My mother had been looking for opportunities to go back to the Shen family all these years using various reasons. Obviously, the reason she used the most was to see me, and she would purposely go at night and be unwilling to leave afterward.”

“My father never gave her any good attitude, and she seemed to only love the Shen family’s money and power, so she didn’t care.”

“Sometimes she hates me very much because if it weren’t for me, she might have married into the Gu family a long time ago, at least she wouldn’t need to shamelessly cling onto the Shen family like she is doing now.”

“Sometimes she also hates the Gu family and feels that Gu Youchen’s uncle was narrow-minded. As a result, she was always talking about the members of the Gu family since I was a child, especially Gu Youchen. Because I am the same age as him, she used him as a comparison and the person I had to surpass.”

“Since young, I was being brainwashed like this. When I grew up, my father didn’t want to give her money, so she came to me every time to get some. As her biological son, I couldn’t refuse her.”

“Qingqing, I grew up in such a family environment, so I admit that I never thought of marrying you before.”

“Every time you mentioned this topic, I subconsciously avoid it, because the notion of family gives me the feelings of absurdity and suffocation.”

“But I understand now that my parents are my parents, and we are different. I shouldn’t deny our future because of those traumas.”

Speaking of this, Shen Zhiqian looked at Ning Qingqing, the darkness under his eyes became more distinct because he didn’t sleep well, “Qingqing, give me another chance, okay? Let’s reconcile, we will be together again, I will learn to get rid of those shadows, and I will try my best to become a good husband, I…”

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