So, he only thought of painting a picture for her with his own hands.

But for a perfectionist like him, the painting was too shabby and hasty.

"No, I just want this!" Chu Mingzhu's voice was a little coquettish.

Qiu Yan had no choice but to nod: "Okay, then I'll fix it again tonight, and I'll send it to you tomorrow." ”

The two continued to eat cake and chat with each other in front of the video. Before you know it, it's early in the morning.

"Hey, you little troublemaker, it's past twelve o'clock, women can't stay up late!" Qiu Yan reminded solemnly.

"Is it so fast? It's twelve o'clock?" Chu Mingzhu turned his head and glanced at the wall clock: "Ah, it's past twelve o'clock, it's a little faster! It's all your fault, why didn't you remind me earlier?"

Qiu Yan looked defeated.

"I said Miss Chu, I reminded you an hour ago, you said that it was not yet twelve o'clock, and you would go to bed until twelve o'clock. Half an hour ago, I reminded you that you said it was still early, and I will finish it in a moment. As soon as you say it, you talk for another half hour. ”

Chu Mingzhu opened his innocent eyes as bright as black pearls, and asked suspiciously, "Do I have them?" ”

Qiu Yan sighed very distempered, "Of course you have!"

Chu Mingzhu was quite embarrassed: "I'm sorry, Qiu Yan, I hurt you to accompany me so late! Thank you for spending such a happy birthday with me!"

Qiu Yan generously supported his waist with both hands: "It's okay, it's good if you're happy!" After a pause, he added: "I'm also happy!"

The video was turned off, and Chu Mingzhu lay down, still with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

Two months later, Chu Daqianjin flew to the city again.

After dealing with all the business dealings, she and Qiu Yan made an appointment, and the two sat face to face again in a restaurant with a rather elegant environment, chatting and eating.

It was a dusk with pretty good weather. The golden sunlight shone in through the floor-to-ceiling windows, enveloping the people sitting by the windows in a hazy and psychedelic halo.

Chu Mingzhu and Qiu Yan happened to be sitting at a dining table by the window. At this moment, Chu Mingzhu was talking with her eyebrows fluttering, and Qiu Yan couldn't help laughing because of her.

"You really said that to people?" Qiu Yan asked after laughing again.

Chu Mingzhu was still excited: "Yes, you don't know how green his face was at that time! Oh, I feel relieved when I think about it now!"

Qiu Yan shook his head: "It's not good for you to be like this, you don't know when someone secretly makes you a stumbling block one day." ”

Chu Mingzhu's mouth pouted slightly: "I'm not like you, I have to think about everything so thoroughly." I should be serious when I should be serious, relaxed when I should relax, and happy when I should be happy! In order to be the heir of the Chu clan, I have suffered sins that others have not suffered, and I must also enjoy the blessings I deserve. ”

Qiu Yan didn't answer for a while, picked up the juice in front of him and took a sip.

Chu Mingzhu's words reminded him of himself. He didn't like to be a businessman, but he was the sole heir to his family, and he had no choice, and he gave up his ideals in order to take on his unshirkable family responsibilities.

Moreover, Chu Mingzhu's words also made him think of Caiyue again.

In the past, he always advised Caiyue to relax when it was time to relax, and not to worry about the future unnecessarily. Unexpectedly, now it is Chu Mingzhu's joke, and he can't think of it.

Chu Mingzhu saw that Qiu Yan's face was suddenly wrong, so he asked a little cautiously, "What's wrong with you?"

Although Chu Mingzhu and Qiu Yan really became friends, when the two were together, they often joked with each other, and even wrestled with each other. Therefore, Chu Mingzhu will have this question.

It's just that the two are now joking and wrestling with each other, and they are no longer as malicious as before, and they no longer want to embarrass each other and admit defeat as before, but are funny and ridiculous between friends.

Chu Mingzhu can say it very well, like a happy baby. Qiu Yan and Chu Mingzhu were together, talking a lot more, and smiling a lot.

Hearing Chu Mingzhu ask him so cautiously, Qiu Yan smiled: "No." Just remembered someone. ”

Qiu Yan's strange look made Chu Mingzhu guess that the person he remembered in his mouth must be Caiyue. Her face darkened slightly.

"You miss her, don't you?"

Qiu Yan smiled again, but did not answer, which was considered a tacit acquiescence.

After a pause, he added, "Caiyue is very different from you, she likes to worry and always worries about the future. I've always wanted to get her out of the habit of worrying about the future. But I couldn't do it!"

As he spoke, his beautiful amber eyes looked out of the floor-to-ceiling windows of the dining room in a daze.

"I often wonder whether the moment she resolutely jumped off the Luofeng Bridge, her heart was relieved or sad. ”

A few years ago, the video of Cai Yue jumping from Luofeng Bridge has been stored in Qiu Yan's mobile phone since he downloaded it from the Internet. He often remembers images of her looking up at the sky with tears in her eyes before jumping off the bridge. It was a sight that often made his heart ache and he couldn't sleep.

The sadness in Qiu Yan's eyes was so obvious and so deep that Chu Mingzhu was very sad to see it. She gently placed her hand on the back of Qiu Yan's hand.

"Qiu Yan, don't you do this! I think Caiyue must have been relieved at that time, because she did everything she could for love. The rarest and most difficult thing in this life is nothing more than having a clear conscience, and she has done it! She has done the best explanation to you and Xiao Tian who love her!"

Qiu Yan smiled a little miserably: "Yes, but her explanation to us is to deliver everything of herself, leaving nothing for herself at all!"

Qiu Yan's eyes were more than sad.

Chu Mingzhu was even more sad.

"No, what she left for herself is the eternal nostalgia and love between you and Xiao Tian for her, which is rarer than anything else, more precious than anything else! Even now, I strongly feel that although I am the only one sitting in front of you, Caiyue is still by your side. Because in your heart, she never leaves. ”

Qiu Yan twisted his head to the side, his face as perfect as a sculpture of a Greek god was slightly out of proportion at the moment. It was the pain in his heart.

There was silence for a long time before he turned his head back and asked, "What do you mean by that?" You said that you have suffered a sin that no one else has suffered. ”

Chu Mingzhu had been quiet and did not disturb Qiu Yan when he had just adjusted his mood. At this time, when he heard him ask, he didn't answer Qiu Yan's question, but just smiled with a rare gloomy expression, and then lowered his head,

Looking at Chu Mingzhu's expression, this "sin" must have made her very heartbroken, otherwise, she would not be what she is now.

But Qiu Yan was born and raised in a cultural background that pays great attention to personal privacy, so he has never been a person who likes to explore other people's private affairs, let alone force others to talk about their own private affairs.

"If it's hard to say, forget it. ”

Who knows, Chu Mingzhu looked away with his eyes and began to speak.

"I once had an older brother who died. He died, and I became the heir of the Chu clan. ”

Qiu Yan nodded: "Everyone knows this. ”

"There's something that no one else knows. The current Mrs. Chu is not my biological mother. ”

Qiu Yan was thundered by Chu Mingzhu's words. Almost everyone in the business circle knows that Chu Mingzhu is the pearl of Chu Qiaonian and his wife, and the heir of the Chu family's business empire recognized by everyone up and down, inside and out.

Chu Mingzhu laughed self-deprecatingly.

"You see, even someone as powerful as you doesn't know my background. My biological mother was a middle-level manager of the Chu family, and she resigned from the Chu family after having me. When I was four years old, my half-brother died, and Mrs. Chu spent more than a year seeking medical treatment and was diagnosed as unable to have children.

At that time, in addition to my father's lineage, the Chu family also had my uncle's lineage. Uncle has a son, if the father of the eldest son has nothing else, then the uncle's line will control the future power of the Chu family. In this case, my father took me back to Chu. But Mrs. Chu allowed me to return to the family, and the condition she put forward to my father was that my mother would not be able to see my father and me again in this life. ”

Qiu Yan looked at Chu Mingzhu in surprise. Chu Mingzhu smiled sadly, and then continued.

"I refused to go with my father, but my mother told me that she was going to marry another man, and that it would be a burden to take me with her. I didn't believe it, but she didn't pay any attention to me. Later, I had to follow my father.

My father told me that a master had told me my fortune, and I had to stay away from my parents and foster another family before I was five years old to keep my two generations safe. Now that the murderous period has passed, it is time to recognize the ancestors and return to their ancestors. Although there are many suspicions from the outside world, because my father and Mrs. Chu have been doing a good job of keeping secrets, basically no one knows the real inside story.

After I arrived at the Chu family, I learned that Mrs. Chu agreed to let me get started, because she suspected that my half-brother was killed by my mother, and she let me enter the door of the Chu family smoothly in order to better torture me and my mother. ”

When Chu Mingzhu said this, there were already tears in his eyes.

Qiu Yan never thought that Chu Mingzhu, who was the proud daughter of the sky, would have such a tragic life experience. He didn't know how to comfort Chu Mingzhu in grief for a while.

Chu Mingzhu quickly controlled his emotions.

"Fortunately, my father really loves me, and I am also very angry. Externally, I behaved more impeccable than my uncle's son everywhere, and I fought for my father's face. Internally, although Mrs. Chu secretly did a lot of bad things to me, as long as there are outsiders, I can endure the pain and pretend to be like a biological mother and daughter with her. So, it's hard for her to blatantly catch my mistakes. Although my grandfather has always had the heart to support my cousin, in the end, I successfully became the president of the Chu family. ”