Winner Takes All

Title: 谁把谁当真 (Winner Takes All)

Author：水千丞 (ShuiQianCheng)

Translator: 月野 見事 (TsukinoMigoto)

Protagonists ：黎朔 (LiShuo), 赵锦辛 (ZhaoJinXin)

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Li Shuo’s parents are ready to return to the United States. He has spent the past few days on purchasing things for them. Before leaving, he packed five large boxes, most of which were Chinese ingredients and medicines that were not available in the United States.

Half the space of a box is occupied with various heart medicines and health care products. Li Shuo sits cross-legged on the ground. The more he tidies up, the heavier he feels.

Mr. Li also sat over and said with a smile: “I have to take six pills in a day. I weighed them that day. They weighed as much as an egg.”

“Don’t sit on the ground, it’s cold.” Li Shuo pulled off a cushion from the sofa and handed it to his dad.

Mr. Li pushed it aside: “It’s okay. The doctor said I can gradually reduce my medication. In another six months, I just need to bring some portable medicine.”

“Dad, your last accident really scared us to death. When I wasn’t by your side, you have to listen to mom. Take medicine on time, pay attention to diet, and keep exercising.” Thinking of what happened at that time, some kind of fear still lingers in Li Shuo’s heart. Heart disease is like a guillotine hanging on the top of the head. The people with heart disease will normally looks fine. It is unknown when it will attack and may be fatal at any time. In fact, his dad is very healthy except for the heart disease, and other physical functions. He is most afraid of it now. He hopes his dad won’t get any stress.

“Haha, I see, don’t worry.”

“I will take care of the rest, and I will go back to accompany you guys in two months.” He patted his dad on the knee, “Go and rest. I’ll clean up.”

After sending off his parents, Li Shuo suddenly felt empty in his heart, as if there was no more reason for him to stay in this city. But he likes to stay in China. Compared to the United States, he is more adapted to the food, culture and rhythm here, and he is also used to this city.

After he decided to transfer all of Ennan’s work to Brother Ning, he began to look for a startup firm to invest in. Cultivating is a very fun thing to do.

After returning home from the airport, Li Shuo bought some food from the supermarket near his place. He felt a little lonely when he thought that he was left to eat by himself, so he called Cheng Sheng and Wen Xiaohui, wanting to ask them to come and eat hot pot.

Cheng Sheng and his boss went to other cities for business.

Meanwhile, Wen Xiaohui was very excited as soon as he answered the phone: “Brother Li, have you seen Cheng Xiu?”

Li Shuo was stunned: “He’s back?”

“Uh, don’t you know?” Wen Xiaohui immediately remembered something, “Oh, Shao Qun will definitely not let him contact you.”

Li Shuo said helplessly: “Yes, it’s nice that he’s back. He has no friends. You can accompany him more when you have time.”

“That’s for sure. Hey, why are you looking for me?”

“Do you want to come over for hot pot?”

“No, Luo Yi and I are on vacation in Japan.” Wen Xiaohui smiled contentedly, “I just ate to death.”

Li Shuo smiled and said: “Then you guys have fun. Pay attention to safety.”

“Well, when I go back, I will bring you a gift.” Wen Xiaohui clutched the microphone and whispered, “There is a complete range of sex toys here. I will buy a few more items for you.”

“I am single now. You irritate me.” Li Shuo doesn’t know whether to laugh or cry. In fact, Zhao Jinxin and Wen Xiaohui really have a common language.

“You can still stay single and use them.”

“Okay, you better hang up or Luo Yi should be jealous again.” He could already hear the sound of someone walking up and down on the straw mat on the other side of the phone. It must have taken a lot of effort to be able to step on the straw mat and make such sounds.

“It’s okay, I’m the one in charge.” Wen Xiaohui joked, then hung up the phone.

Li Shuo looked at a lot of things in his hand, and thought to himself that he had bought too much.

As soon as he walked into the community, Li Shuo was stunned.

There was a car parked downstairs. Zhao Jinxin was wearing a long black coat leaning against the car door. His body and the car looked as if they are melted together. His face was plain fair, his lips were red, and his thick hair fluttered slightly in the wind. He raised his chin, frowning, with a cigarette in his mouth, the sparks of the cigarette end flashed and dimmed in the near darkness, and the lingering smoke would take shape and be torn apart in the cold wind.

Li Shuo felt as if his heart was hit.

Zhao Jinxin turned his head slightly, and when he saw him, he tugged at the corner of his mouth, pinched the cigarette with his fingers, and spit out a mouthful of white mist in the direction of Li Shuo, like an old friend greeting him and said, “You’re back. Were you in a traffic jam?” ”

Li Shuo didn’t speak, and walked straight to the gate.

“Actually, I wanted to come to your house a long time ago, but uncle and aunt are still here, so I was reluctant to disturb the two elders.” Zhao Jinxin opened the car door, took out a document folder, and followed Li Shuo into the apartment building.

Li Shuo pressed the elevator button and looked back at Zhao Jinxin: “You smoke.” He knew he couldn’t prevent Zhao Jinxin from entering his house, and it wouldn’t be useful to beat and scold against this kid.

Zhao Jinxin threw down the cigarette butt, trampled on it with his foot, threw it into the trash can, and then smiled at Li Shuo: “Actually, I rarely smoke. I know you don’t like the smell of cigarettes, so I never smoke in front of you.”

The elevator door opened, and the two stood side by side.

Zhao Jinxin reached out trying to take the bag in Li Shuo’s hand. Li Shuo changed his hand and looked at the floor number on the screen without squinting.

The two were speechless all the way until they entered Li Shuo’s house.

After Li Shuo put the things that he bought down, he turned to face Zhao Jinxin: “Let’s talk.” Now that he saw Zhao Jinxin, he no longer felt hatred or anger. He only felt very tired.

“When did you discuss with Zhou Jinxing to trick me?” Zhao Jinxin put the document folder on the shoe cabinet as he asked, taking off his coat.

Li Shuo was inexplicably nervous: “Is this important?”

“It is not important. What matters is you colluded with an outsider to fool me.” Zhao Jinxin walked towards Li Shuo step by step, “Do you know how Zhou Jinxing told me about it?”

Li Shuo looked at Zhao Jinxin coldly.

Zhao Jinxin said softly: “He proudly said, ‘It seems like you are plague in Li Shuo’s heart that he can’t help but avoid you’.”

Li Shuo narrowed his eyes.

“Is that so? Do you hate me to such extent?” Zhao Jinxin walked to Li Shuo, supporting the table with his arms, trapping Li Shuo in it, “You hate me so much that you don’t want to have any kind of relationship with me? Does it make you feel uncomfortable to be around me?”

Li Shuo straightened his waist and looked at Zhao Jinxin blankly.

“No matter what I say or do, you just won’t believe me. No matter how much I like you or how to make it up for you, you don’t want me anymore, do you?” Zhao Jinxin looks intimidating. His face almost touching the tip of Li Shuo’s nose. He stared widely at Li Shuo and snarled, “Do you?!”

“Yes!” Li Shuo shouted at a higher volume, and at the same time pushed Zhao Jinxin away by his chest with a strong force, “Yes, have you finally get it? Are you fucking deaf or blind?! Should I remind you how far you have rolled?”

Zhao Jinxin’s eyes were blood red. He gripped the back of Li Shuo’s neck and blocked his lips severely, kissing roughly in a cannibalistic manner.

Li Shuo resisted with raging strength in his anger, he pushed Zhao Jinxin away severely, and finally slammed his fist at the face that he was reluctant to hit many times before.

Zhao Jinxin snorted and staggered a few steps back before barely stabilizing his stance.

Li Shuo’s chest was violently heaving up and down, his complexion was flushed and pale at the same time while his body trembled.

Zhao Jinxin lowered his head, with blood oozing from the corners of his lips, he gently raised his hand, rubbed it, and then looked at the red on his fingers in a daze.

Li Shuo’s breathing was completely out of rhythm, as his beating heart swallowed and vomited, as if he was about to die in the next second. For a time, countless emotions surged, anger, hatred, humiliation, pain, regret, pity, all his imaginable and unimaginable emotions exploded into his brain, causing him to have a splitting headache.

Zhao Jinxin slowly raised his face, stared at Li Shuo with scarlet eyes, and whispered: “I bleed.”

Li Shuo heard his teeth fighting quietly.

“Uncle Li, I bleed.” Zhao Jinxin’s eyes were wet, and tears fell without warning. He pressed his lips tightly, his eyes full of pain and grievance.

Li Shuo finally realized what it means to have his heart pierced by an arrow. He almost couldn’t straighten his waist in pain. He opened his mouth and subconsciously put his fist behind him, like a timid child, trying to hide the evidence of his wrongdoing.

Why the fuck did you have to hit people? How can he use violence like this? Are your fists used to deal with the people you like…

A series of questions arose in Li Shuo’s mind.

But this is Zhao Jinxin, this is the bastard Zhao Jinxin, he deserves a lesson.

Li Shuo’s eyes were full of contradictions. The blood on the corners of Zhao Jinxin’s mouth and the tears on his face stabbed him all over. He took a big breath, turned his back, and said dumbly: “Get out.”

Zhao Jinxin’s eyes were so blurred that he could barely see anything. He wiped away his tears and looked at Li Shuo’s back viciously. The thing he hates most in his life is probably Li Shuo’s rejection of him. After all, he had enjoyed the embrace of this man. He knew how broad and warm that embrace was, and he couldn’t accept this cold back.

He took a few steps back, picked up the document folder on the shoe cabinet, wiped his eyes again, and said in a trembling voice, “Li Shuo, you should look at this.”

Li Shuo’s body was as rigid as a stone, and he was motionless.

“It is related to your father.”

Li Shuo’s eyes widened, and he turned around abruptly.

Zhao Jinxin’s face looked very embarrassed, mixed with tears and bloodshot eyes, and a sad expression with a sullen appearance. He threw the document folder to Li Shuo and said coldly: “Look, you are a practicing auditor. I’m sure you can understand it at a glance.”

Li Shuo caught the document folder, opened it suspiciously, and took out a stack of documents from it.

Looking at the file at a glance, the countless red strips of cover are obviously to hide some information that he does not want him to see, and the rest is for him to see things related to his father.

He flipped it roughly, getting more and more frightened. Although the information is limited, it is enough for him to judge that this is an offshore account opened by a leather bag company for tax avoidance and transfer of property. The registration place is an unheard island in the Pacific Ocean. It is passed in the documents. The signature for the transfer of property information, and the legal person in charge is his father.

Li Shuo stared at Zhao Jinxin fiercely: “Why do you have these things?” Even he himself didn’t know the existence of these things.

“I stole them from my dad’s safe.” Zhao Jinxin smiled coldly, “you should know what this is.”

How could Li Shuo not know? This can be used as evidence that his dad help Zhao Rongtian to transfer his gray income. As Ennan’s financial advisor and Zhao Rongtian’s personal friend, his dad did a lot of things that finance officers closest to rich men or politicians would do—this is especially common in capitalist societies—everyone does it, as long as they are not caught.

The two people who do this must completely trust each other, because Zhao Rongtian bears the risk of being absconded by his father, and his father bears the legal risk of being discovered. This involves huge interests. No wonder he feels that after his father left him with the firm’s office, he made more money.

Li Shuo shook the thin pages of documents: “What do you mean by showing me this? Do you want to threaten me with this? Are you crazy?”

“Why not?” Zhao Jinxin’s smile was a bit crazy, “You should be very confident in your father’s abilities. He will make sure this process of transferring property has nothing to do with my dad.”

“So?” Li Shuo couldn’t help laughing, but his eyes were red, without a slight sign of amusement, “Do you want to use this to deal with my dad? Is your brain okay? If my dad is arrested, the money will be gone. Aren’t you afraid if Zhao Rongtian will kill you for being an asshole?! Are you not afraid if my dad will sell Zhao Rongtian out?!”

“I’m not afraid.” Zhao Jinxin smiled, “As long as I let out a little bit of rumor, they will empty the account, and when the money is in a safe place, I still have a pile of evidence that will keep your dad in prison for a lifetime. You, if I want to, I can even make you unable to give a whistleblower call to anyone.”

“You fucking beast!” Li Shuo rushed forward in a few steps and blasted his fist over again.

Zhao Jinxin grasped his wrist and looked at him coldly, “Guess, will your dad sell my dad out? I guess not. No matter if it is for friendship or for money, he will definitely not do that.”

“Zhao. Jin. Xin.” Li Shuo hated him for the first time.

Zhao Jinxin then grabbed his waist, wrapped him in his arms, pressed his lips to his ears, and said softly: “Or, we don’t need to fight like this. I like uncle and aunt. I don’t want to hurt them at all. But the most important thing is, I like you, as long as you come back to me, nothing will happen to them…”

Li Shuo was trembling with his own ragged breathing.

He was terrified of this man for the first time in his life.

Zhao Jinxin’s lips softly kissed Li Shuo’s temples: “Baby, I like you so much. I don’t want to hurt you. So, don’t force me.”

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Next update: 2021/12/13