At three o'clock in the afternoon, the birthday banquet of the sisters Chu Bijin and Chu Liunian officially ended.

In the process of the birthday banquet, Qin Luo's birthday greeting song made the originally slightly deserted banquet completely lively, so that when Chu Rujin invited Aunt Wang and other servants to join again, they did not refuse again, but happily participated in it.

Later, Su Rui also came over, and also fought wine with Qin Luo, pushing the cup and changing the lamp, looking like she would not give up if she didn't pour Qin Luo too much.

Qin Luo was still a little puzzled, I don't know where this chick got such a big momentum, but then Su Rui took the initiative to say that he didn't know - okay, it turned out that Chu Liunian drank too much at Qin Luo's house last time, and Su Rui came specifically to take revenge.

It's a pity that even if Su Rui is a professional bodyguard, her physical fitness is better than that of ordinary people, but she definitely can't compare to Qin Luo's hanging, and in the end she can only retreat helplessly.

As for the others, Xu Ke and Tang Yu didn't want to drink too much outside, for fear of being foreign, so they deliberately controlled the whole process, so in the end, their cheeks were only slightly red, and their consciousness was not affected much.

Chu Bijin was cooking the whole time, and the wine was not on her recipe at all, although she took a symbolic sip, she turned her head and changed it to Coke, and then continued to eat by herself.

Chu Liunian didn't continue to watch while eating after Qin Luo's song, but suddenly became a lot quieter, for quite a while, she kept holding a goblet in her hand and supporting her chin with the other hand, quietly watching Qin Luo's posture, and from time to time touching her chest and saying things that others couldn't hear.

She would respond when others talked to her and toasted, but after responding, she continued to look at Qin Luo, and she didn't know what she was thinking, so that Qin Luo was a little uncomfortable with her, but when she asked her, she said nothing, so she had to pretend not to care.

As for those servants, although they have turned into an atmosphere group after one of Qin Luo's songs, they can be servants in the Chu family after all, although some of them are still very young, their professionalism is still worthy of recognition, and there will definitely be no undignified situations such as drinking too much.

Especially Aunt Wang, she maintained full sanity from beginning to end, showing the qualities that a calm and elegant wealthy housekeeper should have.

Until the end of the birthday banquet, Qin Luo and the others were leaving, Chu Rujin originally wanted to send it away, but today he ate a little too much, and he felt that his stomach was rebelling when he took a step, so he could only lie on the sofa by the window like salted fish and wave goodbye to Qin Luo and the others.

Chu Liunian didn't have anything to do, and sent Qin Luo and the others outside with Aunt Wang.

Su Rui had already driven the car to the door first, and opened the door very thoughtfully, and then stood on the side of the car and beckoned Xu Ke and Tang Yu to sit in the back row.

When it was Qin Luo's turn, Chu Liunian suddenly said, "You wait a minute." ”

Qin Luo paused, turned around and asked her, "What's wrong?" ”

Chu Liunian hesitated for a moment, as if he wanted to say something, and then suddenly frowned and covered his chest, and complained in a low voice: "I know, I know, don't rush, didn't I just want to talk to him." ”

"What?" Qin Luo looked puzzled, it wasn't that he didn't hear what Liu Nian was muttering clearly, but he was wondering why he didn't have a head and no brains to say this.

And Chu Liunian didn't wait for him to think about it, and asked, "Will you accompany me to a game exhibition next weekend?" ”

Qin Luo blinked and asked rhetorically, "Is this your birthday wish?" ”

"No, it's just an ordinary invitation, if you don't want to, forget it...... Count me in begging you. ”

Chu Liunian clutched his chest and held back the second half of his sentence, his eyes obviously showing a little embarrassment.

Qin Luo looked at her inexplicable performance, and then looked at her movements of covering her heart, and suddenly seemed to understand something, and responded with a smile: "Okay, I'll accompany you then." ”

Chu Liunian didn't answer after hearing this, just stared at him for two seconds, then looked away and snorted lightly with a little arrogance.

This made Qin Luo feel the urge to rub her head...... However, Chu Liunian was not Chu Rujin after all, so Qin Luo still dispelled this idea, waved his hand and said hello before getting into the car.

As Su Rui stepped on the accelerator, the spacious and comfortable Mercedes-Benz van gradually drove away from this luxurious castle away from the hustle and bustle of the city.

Qin Luo's gaze always fell on Chu Liunian through the car window—she did not immediately return to the house because of Qin Luo and the others' departure, but stood at the door and looked at the car in the distance, as if she was looking at Qin Luo from a long distance.

As the distance continued to widen, looking at Chu Liunian's increasingly blurred figure, Qin Luo's mind recalled her somewhat inexplicable words and actions just now, and he had some understanding in his heart.

As expected, Chu Liunian's muttering voice just now was not talking to him, but talking to another Chu Liunian, and talking to the owner of that body.

Chu Liunian has a second personality because of the psychological shadow, which is used to help her avoid reality and help her live a normal life, this is the Chu Liunian that Qin Luo sees on weekdays.

And the real Chu Liunian has always been hidden in a corner of her consciousness, and she will only appear when she changes into a cosplay costume, but she will only appear in the image of an anime character who matches that costume.

Recalling the several contacts he had with Chu Liunian, Qin Luo had already touched Chu Liunian's situation almost.

There is no doubt that the first "date" I made with Chu Liunian was the main personality of Chu Liunian.

The host's personality was usually cowered in a corner, but not asleep, and she seemed to be able to perceive everything in the outside world through her second personality, but she never paid attention to it.

Only Qin Luo was an exception...... Just like just now, the matter of asking Qin Luo to visit the comic exhibition together was obviously not a temporary rise of Chu Liunian, but an invitation to Qin Luo after the main personality communicated with the sub-personality.

In other words, it was Chu Liunian's main personality who invited Qin Luo this time.

The little girl who was tormented by the psychological shadow to the point of splitting her personality wanted to take the initiative to go out into the sun this time, but she just had a date with him......

"What are you thinking?"

The sudden sound pulled Qin Luo's gradually divergent thinking back to reality.

He looked at Xu Ke, who was sitting opposite, shook his head and said, "It's nothing." ”

Xu Ke pursed his lips and said in a slightly sour tone: "Are you thinking about the passing of the year?" I've heard her ask you to go to Comic-Con next week. ”

Qin Luo could hear the sourness in Xu Ke's words, although Xu Ke had tried his best to restrain herself, but after all, Qin Luo had been friends with her for a long time and understood her deeply enough, of course, this little detail could not be hidden from Qin Luo.

But he didn't care about this, and nodded calmly when he heard this: "It's a game show...... Well, speaking of which, she also asked me a few times during the summer vacation, but I didn't have much time at the time, so this time it was a birthday gift for her, after all, although I sang for them, I also cooked for Xiaojin, and there was no special gift over there. ”

When he said it, he didn't have time to promise Chu Liunian at that time, but in fact, everyone knew that all his energy at that time was spent on Yao Yanyan.

Xu Ke's sourness in her heart increased a lot when she thought of this, but she didn't dare to show it, after all, she also knew that the possessiveness without identity was the most ridiculous, and the vinegar without qualification was the most sour.

She has been unswervingly on the road of expressing her love for Qin Luo for a long time, she has almost done everything she can, and the rest can only depend on what Qin Luo's final response will be.

Of course, Xu Ke's mind couldn't hide from Qin Luo, but he really didn't have the heart to think about those things now, even if he really didn't care about what happened to Xu Ke before, the impact of Yao Yanyan was already minimal, but now a new problem has emerged.

One is Tang Yu, the state she showed to Qin Luo last night, and what she said before leaving, obviously means that she is holding back some big moves.

The other is the two sisters of the Chu family...... Originally, because of their special status, Qin Luo, as the only boy who has been close to them for so many years, will be concerned by their family, and it is normal for him to be mistaken for the possibility of becoming a future uncle.

Qin Luo came here today to celebrate the sisters' birthdays and explain them to their families at the same time, but unfortunately their brother and father's brain circuits are a little wrong.

Chu Yang is obviously a standard domineering president image...... Although it doesn't feel domineering, but at the age of thirty, he has come to the point where he is now, and it is impossible to say what a good gentleman he is.

In the process of his contact with Qin Luo, in addition to having some scrutiny of Qin Luo at the beginning, he later seemed to be a kind brother-in-law, and he opened his mouth and closed his mouth to say "brother-in-law", as if Qin Luo's marriage to his sister had become a certainty.

Although Qin Luo had explained to him more than once that he and his sisters had not come that far, he still seemed to firmly believe that Qin Luo and them would be together, and he was also a bit dead.

However, compared to the old Bi Hao in their family, Chu Yang is still normal.

Today's meeting with Lao Bi Yan really subverted Qin Luo's perception of successful people.

Qin Luo didn't know that he shouldn't judge people by their appearance, but there was no way, Lao Bi Yan was too abstract.

He looks rough and doesn't say anything, he is a huge rich man worth hundreds of billions, why should he wear a big gold chain and a small watch, and make himself look like a nouveau riche rich man?

When you go out to talk about business, you are really not afraid that others will see you, so you have to wait for three seconds and then hesitate whether to continue to cooperate?

Well...... With the size of the Chu family, this possibility is not very likely, after all, it is basically other companies that ask the Chu family to talk about cooperation, not the Chu family to ask others.

If you have to say it, with Chu Xiong's status and status, even if he wears a pair of big pants and runs around with a water gun every day, others have to praise "exquisite" when they see it!

Therefore, what Qin Luo really disliked him was not his image, but the arrogance and contempt for others reflected in his speech and demeanor.

Especially when he mentioned Chu Rujin and Chu Liunian, the title of "little cub" really made Qin Luo stunned for a while, and he couldn't understand how such a well-behaved and lovely sister became a "little cub" in his father's mouth?

If he simply expressed his contempt for Qin Luo, he wouldn't say anything, and he would even feel that this was normal, after all, people have a big business, although Qin Luo is now a little famous, but he really can't compare with others, and it is normal to be despised.

But Chu Xiong told him that he didn't despise you alone, but that everyone here was rubbish.

And when he mentioned the relationship between Qin Luo and the sisters, Qin Luo didn't have time to explain the misunderstanding clearly, so as to dispel the Chu family's idea of recruiting him as his future uncle, Chu Xiong raised his hand and threw out a suite of 100 million plus 100 million.

To be honest, what this operation really wants to say is quite handsome, but it has to be based on the premise that Chu Xiong respects others - of course, it is not ruled out that he wants to directly use money to smash Qin Luo unconscious, so as to set up this marriage, but this trick obviously has no effect on Qin Luo.

In addition, in the process of dialogue with Qin Luo, he did not show his affection and love for his two daughters from beginning to end, but regarded them as a burden or even unsalable goods, as if he wished he could throw them to others as soon as possible.

In this regard, he couldn't even compare to Tang Zeming in Qin Luo's heart.

Is it because of the great change in their personalities after their crucifixion that caused Chu Xiong's disgust? Or is Chu Xiong himself a cold-blooded person? Qin Luo didn't know why, he didn't know where he and his sisters would go in the future, the only thing he knew now was that since he had finally said so many words to Chu Xiong, he would do his best to snatch the sisters out of that old Bi Yan's hands.

However, the size of the Chu family is not within the reach of ordinary people, although Qin Luo has the confidence to do anything, he will not be complacent.

Especially in his heart, he felt that Chu Xiong's performance was very strange, and it always gave him an incongruous sense of disobedience, so he couldn't help but want to try to explore again, to see if he was a real old man.

So he looked at Tang Yu and asked, "Have you seen Chu Xiong before?" ”

Putting aside the two sisters of the Chu family, Tang Yu was the one with the highest status in Qin Luo's social circle, and with her living environment, she could come into contact with Chu Xiong, so Qin Luo wanted to ask her if she knew Chu Xiong.

But after hearing this, Tang Yu did not answer the question directly, but asked with a strange expression: "Chu Xiong? Did you have a bad conversation with him? ”

It's good that I didn't just call him Old Bi Oh...... Qin Luo shook his head and said casually: "It's not pleasant, in short, it's not the same as the communication I imagined, let's talk about it in detail when I go back." ”

Tang Yu knew that Qin Luo was avoiding Su Rui's suspicion, after all, although Su Rui was the driver and bodyguard of Chu Rujin and Chu Liunian, it seemed that she was only responsible for the two of them, but after all, she was sent by the Chu family to the sisters, so it was best to avoid her when talking about Chu Xiong.

Thinking like this, Tang Yu said: "I haven't seen it, but my dad should have seen it, he used to serve in the magic capital, and he was transferred back to the imperial capital after the expiration of his tenure, when he was in the magic capital, he participated in some political and business exchange summits, and the Chu group, as the leader of the magic capital, will definitely not be absent, it stands to reason that Chu Dong should have gone in person on that occasion, but I was not in the magic capital at the time, and I didn't go to that summit, so the details are not clear." ”

In this way, Tang Yu didn't know much about him...... Qin Luo muttered in his heart, and then heard Su Rui in front of him say: "At that time, the chairman went, but he didn't have much intersection with Secretary Tang. ”

As soon as Su Rui's words came out, Qin Luo suddenly raised his eyebrows.

And before he could think about it, Su Rui immediately said: "I probably know why you said that the communication with the chairman is not the same as you imagined...... In fact, when the eldest lady and the second lady were just born, the chairman of the board of directors was very protective of them, even after the eldest lady left, the chairman has always sent people to pay attention, but after the two young ladies left the hospital, for some reason the chairman suddenly changed his temperament and no longer paid attention to the two young ladies. ”

Su Rui took the initiative to say these words, regardless of whether it was useful or not, but at least her attitude showed one thing, that is, she was showing favor to Qin Luo.

She noticed Qin Luo's action of glancing at her when he mentioned Chu Xiong just now, and knew that Qin Luo wanted to avoid suspicion in his heart, so she wanted to dispel Qin Luo's doubts in this way, and once prove that she was on Qin Luo's side, or that she was on the side of the Chu family sisters.

It's just that Qin Luo certainly won't completely let down his guard because of her simple words, after all, if he insists on saying it, he and Chu Xiong are now considered "enemies", whether they are qualified or not is another matter, anyway, in general, that's the case.

Finally, returning to the content of Su Rui's words, Qin Luo noticed a few keywords, and couldn't help but ask, "After Xiao Jin leaves?" Did she go anywhere as a child? ”

Qin Luo already had a deep understanding of Chu Rujin and Chu Liunian, but it was also relatively fragmentary information, as for the more detailed content, Chu Liunian had only told Xu Ke and Tang Yu once in the bedroom today.

When Tang Yu heard this, she wanted to tell Qin Luo what she heard from Chu Liunian again, but as soon as she was about to speak, Xu Ke on the side hurriedly said: "That's the case, when I first came here today, Liunian took us to visit her room, and then said......"

followed by a very detailed explanation, which can be said to be a complete retelling of the childhood experience of the sisters that Chu Liunian said to Qin Luo.

Tang Yu was a little helpless when he heard it on the side, and couldn't help but complain in his heart that Xu Ke was too childish, and he even had to fight for this kind of thing.

But if you think about it carefully, Xu Ke's current situation is not very optimistic, if she doesn't take the initiative to fight for some things, how can she get a good ending in the end?

Even, including her, Tang Yu herself, why not?

Thinking of this, Tang Yu couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

As for Qin Luo, he couldn't help but gasp halfway through it, but he didn't interrupt Xu Ke, and only after listening to it did he grit his teeth and question: "It was her mother who poisoned Xiaojin?" Her biological mother? ”

Xu Ke could feel the suppressed anger in Qin Luo's words, and nodded timidly when he heard the words: "Well, it was Liu Nian who told us so." ”

As soon as her words fell, Su Rui, who was driving in front, echoed: "No wonder you are so surprised, after all, tiger poison does not eat children, but unfortunately, it was indeed her biological mother who poisoned the eldest lady at that time." ”

Qin Luo stared at her and asked, "Why?" ”

Su Rui shook her head: "I don't know about this, the eldest lady's poisoning was only known by the chairman a week later, when the chairman sent someone to send the eldest lady to the hospital, and before that, the second lady had been in the hospital for a few days because of the kidnapping and split personality." ”

After a pause, Su Rui continued to add: "Although I have been working in the Chu Group before, I was only sent to the two young ladies after they were discharged from the hospital, and as for the great change in the chairman's temperament, it was also after the two young ladies were discharged...... By the way, there were no listeners in the car. ”

Her last sentence was undoubtedly to further show favor to Qin Luo, expressing the meaning of "I am on your side".

But Qin Luo didn't have time to think about this now, because the person who poisoned Chu Rujin was so unexpected that a person like him, who was good at controlling his emotions, almost couldn't help but scold.

Just like Su Rui said, tiger poison does not eat children, that woman, as Chu Bijin's mother, should have taken good care of Chu Bijin who was separated from other relatives after Chu Xiong's divorce, but she didn't do it, but she still had to poison Chu Nijin's meal, which caused Chu Nijin to be different from ordinary people now......

Remembering that when she first came into contact with Chu Bijin, she was lying on the ground with pain and cramps because of stomach pain, remembering her extreme attachment to snacks, and remembering her innocent and cute smiling face—for a moment, Qin Luo even thought of the idea of pulling out the sisters' biological mother to avenge Xiaojin.

But he finally restrained his emotions very well, and after taking a deep breath, he began to think about the problem of Chu Xiong's personality changing drastically.

He was a very good father when the sisters were born, and later the couple divorced, and the biological mother took Chu Rujin away, Chu Xiong took Chu Liunian with him, and a few years later Chu Liunian was kidnapped, and was sent to the hospital because of the split personality caused by the psychological shadow, and then Chu Bijin was poisoned by his biological mother, and then he was also sent to the hospital.

It was also in this process that Chu Xiong was assassinated, and the driver Wei, who had been with him for many years, protected him and died, after which Chu Xiong recognized the only son of the dead driver as his own son.

After that, Chu Xiong's temperament changed greatly, and he gradually drifted away from his two daughters, and he never played the image of a good father again.

So here's the problem...... Among them, is there something that fundamentally caused Chu Xiong's temperament to change?

Qin Luo's thinking continued to diverge, but the more he thought about it, the more inexplicable he felt, and in the end, he couldn't figure out why, and when he came back to his senses, the car had stopped, and outside the window was the campus gate where people came and went.

"It's here, let's go."

"Thank you."

After greeting Su Rui, Qin Luo took Tang Yu and Xu Ke to open the door and get out of the car, looking ahead and exhaling a turbid breath.

It's useless to think so much now, no matter how complicated things are, the most important thing at the moment is to do your own thing.

Anyway, the stairs are at your feet, no matter how high they are, just step by step.

(End of chapter)