Last night's cold wave was ferocious, and the whole of Europe cooled down overnight.

It was not yet 3 p.m., and the sky was already dark, and there was light snow.

Chi Qingtai wore a dark gray wool coat and dragged his suitcase into the busy waiting hall.

He came to Europe to inspect investment projects, and by the way, he attended a cancer academic conference to find the possibility of new drug research and development.

The investment project has been implemented, but unfortunately there is still no progress in the research and development of new drugs. He hadn't had time to inform the lab of the results.

Chi Qingtai rubbed his stomach with a faint ache, and was about to dial out the phone, but unexpectedly, a call came in first, Chi Qingtai lowered his eyes, and his fingers wearing black gloves opened the answer button.

"Mr. Chi, I'm Zhao Qi from the first investment, have you read the report of Helios Automobile? They are in a hurry to raise funds, what is your opinion? ”

He went abroad for a few days, and there was a lot of backlog of work in China.

"I dismissed it in the email," the stomach pain and the sudden cooling of the weather made his tone seem unwarm, and he said calmly on the other end of the phone, "The report only has the project team and product ideas, and lacks the core patented technology of Helios, you can fill it up and give it to me." ”

Chi Qingtai is the head of Shansheng Capital Greater China, and has been a venture capital investor for nearly ten years, and his capabilities and means are the top, and he will not pass such an obvious project.

"Helios has the technology," Zhao explained, "and the patent is already being applied for, and it will be granted soon." ”

Chi Qingtai: "Then let's talk about it when they apply." ”

"But it's too late," Zhao Qi's voice was eager, "now that clean energy car manufacturing is a big outlet, there have been many investment institutions in contact with Helios, if it weren't for me and their founder are alumni of the department, I wouldn't have been able to get this investment opportunity." ”

Chi Qingtai raised his eyebrows: "The founder is your roommate?" ”

"Yes," Zhao Qi nodded, "I have known him for many years, and I know him well, whether it is a person or a project, it is very worth the investment." ”

Chi Qingtai: "But you studied marketing as an undergraduate. ”

Zhao Qi: "......"

Chi Qingtai: "A person with a marketing background is now engaged in a highly technical car-making business, don't you think this is a bit hasty?" ”

Zhao Qi was stunned, and realized that this was indeed a little delicate, but in the end, the desire for the project won.

"Boss, there is really no problem with the project, if we are late......"

Ji Qingtai had already hung up the phone.

Zhao Qi dialed again, and the other end showed that he was on a call.

"Brother, will you finish it?" A female voice came, it was Chi Qingtai's twin sister Chi Qingqian.

"It's over," Chi Qingtai replied, enduring a faint pain in his stomach, "This case is different from my mother's, and it will not help me in the development of new drugs." ”

There was a moment of silence on the other end of the phone.

After a long while, Chi Qingqian pretended to be brisk and said, "I know, brother, come back early, don't be too tired from work, remember to eat on time." ”

"Okay." Chi Qingtai coped with it skillfully, and then he remembered that he hadn't had lunch yet.

"Brother, there's one more thing...... Chi Qing hesitated, "You know that our dad has an illegitimate child outside, right?" ”

Chi Qingtai's expression remained unchanged: "I know." ”

At the beginning, their parents broke down because of this incident, although they did not divorce due to family marriage, but they have been strangers for many years.

Chi Qingqian: "He went home with his illegitimate child. ”

Chi Qing stood □□ the airport, his dark gray coat made him have a cold temperament and sharp eyebrows.

After a short pause, he quickly calmed down: "Got it, wait for me to come back." ”

"Brother," Chi Qingqian called him, as if he had made up his mind, "Jiang Zexing has been chasing me for a long time, otherwise I would have promised him." ”

Ji Qingtai also knew about this, and asked again: "Do you like him?" ”

There was silence for a moment, and then he said casually: "I don't like it much, and I don't hate it too much." ”

Chi Qingtai: "Then why did you agree?" ”

A few seconds later, Chi Qing's shallow and bitter voice came from the phone: "Dad said that he would shut down our laboratory......"

"No," Chi Qingtai interrupted her, "With me, the lab won't shut down." ”

But Chi Qingqian seemed to have made up his mind, and muttered to himself: "Jiang Zexing said that he would support me in pursuing my career, and he would also invest in our projects, and wait for me to marry him......"

"Even if you marry him, won't such a big family ask you to marry and have children?" Chi Qingtai calmly analyzed, "After you get pregnant and give birth, do you think you still have so much time to work?" ”

Chi Qingqian was stunned.

Chi Qingtai changed his tone and comforted softly: "I'm not forcing you to tie up with the laboratory, although our team is understaffed now, everyone is reliable." It's just that if you really want to continue experimenting, getting married rashly is a terrible choice. ”

"But what about the lab?" Chi Qingqian sniffed, his voice full of despair, "There is no money for the project, and I heard that someone wanted to change jobs that day." If it weren't for the fact that I really couldn't help it, I wouldn't have chosen to ...... like this."

Chi Qingtai closed his eyes, exhaled lightly, and when he spoke again, his voice had returned to its usual calmness: "Leave these questions to me, you can do experiments with peace of mind." ”

Chi Qingqian's eyes were hot, and he couldn't help but want to cry.

"Well," she sniffed, trying to suppress the tremor in her voice, "then I'll wait for you to come back." ”

Chi Qingtai hung up the phone, his expression gradually cold.

Ji Renqiang wanted to shut down the laboratory, and even threatened him with an illegitimate child......

Years ago, Chi Ching-tae's mother suffered from a rare type of cancer that could not be completely eradicated by surgery, but there was no drug on the market that could cure it. When he was desperate, Ji Qingtai and his sister teamed up to set up a laboratory dedicated to the research and development of new drugs, with the intention of curing his mother.

It sounds fanciful, but they do have the ability.

Chi Qingtai is the head of the Greater China region of the international investment institution, in the golden decade of the rapid development of the Internet, he led Shansheng Capital to invest in many excellent projects such as online shopping platforms, short videos, video games, etc., from investment to exit, achieved dozens or even hundreds of times of returns. With his connections and resources, it is not difficult to invest in a pharmaceutical laboratory.

Chi Qingqian is a doctor of pharmacology, and he got a PhD degree from a famous overseas university at the age of 25, and has participated in many R&D projects during his time in school, and has excellent professional ability.

In the past four years, the siblings have invested countless resources and time in the laboratory, and even if they have encountered several financial shortages and research bottlenecks, they have never thought of giving up.

As their father, Chi Renqiang has always refused to invest in projects, and has opposed them to continue research more than once.

Previously, Chi Renqiang's abacus was resolved by Chi Qingtai under pressure.

Chi Renqiang failed to interfere many times, and this time it was estimated that he knew that the laboratory was short of money, so he planned to threaten his inheritance with an illegitimate child and force him to obey orders.

The father-son relationship has come to this extent, which is a little too ridiculous.

Ji Qingtai laughed at himself, and his body shook very lightly.

I had low blood sugar, my head was a little dizzy, and my stomach pain was getting more and more intense.

Fortunately, there was still time, and he was ready to go through the security check as soon as possible and go to the VIP room for a bite to eat.

"Hello, are you Chinese?" At this moment, a voice suddenly sounded in his ears.

Chi Qingtai chose to ignore it, but the man held out his hand to him.

Chi Qingtai took a step back and raised his head suddenly.

He has a pair of very beautiful eyes, like the slightly damp mountains after the rain, giving people a bright and fresh feeling. But because he has a straight face all the year round, the whole person looks cold and cold, like an unclimbable snow-capped mountain.

The person opposite was amazed for a moment, and he didn't mind Chi Qingtai's coldness, and began to introduce himself: "My name is Wang Haoyu, I just graduated with a master's degree this year, and now I am going to return to China to work in my family's company, what about you?" ”

Chi Qingtai didn't squint, and walked directly around the person to the luggage packing area, he had a long-handled umbrella to check.

The man followed.

The chance encounter on the street in a foreign country made him ignore Ji Qingtai's resistance, and instead regarded it as a kind of romance.

"Can you get acquainted? You look very much in line with my aesthetic," the man opened the WeChat QR code, "I just want to make a friend first." ”

"I don't make friends." Chi Qingtai refused.

His voice is neither high nor low, and the sound quality is slightly magnetic, giving people the feeling of jade colliding.

Even the sound is so good!

The man followed him straight to the packing table.

Chi Qingtai frowned, faintly impatient.

He didn't bring a secretary with him on this trip, and he had to deal with this kind of thing himself.

Chi Qingtai put the umbrella on the consignment desk, and while waiting, the man came over to talk again, and took a step forward and walked directly in front of him.

Chi Qingtai dodged to the side, his low blood sugar head was a little dizzy, and he shook it for a while.

A hand stretched out next to him, and a man in a jacket seemed to want to help him.

Chi Qingtai took a step back to dodge, his back against the table, his right hand holding a round thing, and finally barely kept his balance.

"I'm sorry......" He apologized in English, bowing his head but stunned.

What did he touch?

The color of light rice, the smooth feel, the sunken eye sockets, the neat teeth -

The round thing in his palm wasn't a ball or a toy, but a cleanly washed skull.

Chi Qingtai: "......? ”

Rao is Chi Qingtai has always acted steadily, and in the face of this situation, he couldn't help but widen his eyes slightly.

It's not like he's never seen a skull.

His mother and sister both studied medicine, and when he was a child, he even played with human skeletons as toys.

But it was because of familiarity that he was able to recognize that it was not a medically dissected skull.

The skull's provenance is more primitive and coarse, and it seems that it only appears in archaeological documentaries or tribal battles......

“…… I'm sorry. ”

Chi Qingtai silently withdrew his hand, and his heartbeat couldn't help but be a little faster.

Then he saw what was next to the skull, a row of silver gleaming knives in the premium storage box.

Chi Qingtai: "......"

It feels even scarier!

"Sir, your belongings have been packed," the staff member interrupted his distraction, "please keep your papers and have a great trip." ”

Chi Qingtai raised his eyes, but one hand took the document one step ahead of him.

Cold white skin, you can see the protruding blood vessels on the back of the hand. But the skeleton is large, and the knuckles are thick and long, as if they can screw off a human head with one palm.

- It's the owner of the skull just now.

After realizing this, Chi Qingtai quietly took a big step back and took the initiative to distance himself from the other party.

It was then that he saw the whole picture of the man.

The man was half a head taller than him, wearing a black jacket and pants tucked in black leather boots, dressed like the male protagonist of an action adventure movie.

A huge black hiking bag was placed at his feet, and he remained silent the whole time while waiting, revealing only a cold and hard side face.

Even if he acted very nonexistent, just standing there was full of oppression, and he directly shocked the person who accosted him just now.

Then, the man put his documents in his pocket, picked up his hiking bag, and left with the mobile phone on the table.

It didn't take long for Chi Qingtai to pack his luggage and wait for the security check with his documents.

He lowered his head and turned on his phone, but the phone repeatedly prompted that the unlocking failed. The face unlock fails, and the password unlock doesn't match.

Don't...... Did he get the wrong phone?

Chi Qingtai looked down at his phone, there was no phone case, the default desktop, exactly the same as his mobile phone.

If someone uses the same mobile phone, they are too lazy to put on the phone case and change the default desktop, there is indeed a possibility of taking the wrong one.

Ji Qingtai recalled carefully that he had been on the phone before, and only took his documents when he was packing oversized luggage and put his mobile phone on the table.

And there was only one person by his side at the time-

The owner of the skull.

After realizing this, Ji Qingtai couldn't help but sigh. He really didn't want to be involved with that kind of weirdo, but unfortunately the reality didn't allow him to escape.

He has a lot of business information in his phone, and if he loses it, it will be a huge loss.

Chi Qingtai found a kind passer-by to borrow a mobile phone and dialed his own phone.

Fortunately, it was quickly connected, and two seconds later, an indifferent voice sounded: "Are you?" ”

Chi Qingtai calmed down, and said with a straight face: "The mobile phone in your hand is mine, and you took the wrong one at the luggage packing table just now." ”

"I'm sorry," the man seemed a little surprised, and his tone was no longer as cold as before, "where are you?" ”

"It's almost past security."

"Wait for me at the exit, I'll come right over."

The man in the jacket hung up the phone and turned back from the customs office and walked outside.

It wasn't long before the phone in his hand rang again. Thinking that the man was urging him just now, he swiped it away.

"Returning home?" The voice on the other side was a little unfamiliar.

The man was stunned for a moment, and then realized that it was not a person, he wanted to hang up, but the person opposite had already spoken: "Go home tomorrow for a meal, and I will introduce my brother to you." I know you don't want to see him, but Chi Yu is my child after all, your own brother, and your family, and it is impossible to turn a blind eye for the rest of your life. ”

The man understood, and his expression was a little subtle.

The person on the other side regarded his silence as resistance, and his tone sank suddenly: "Do you really think I can't do anything about you?" You think I don't know your lab is short on funds? Nothing has been done in the research either? ”

The man didn't want to snoop on other people's privacy, so he opened his mouth to stop: "Wait a while, you will talk about it later." ”

I never wanted to anger the other party directly.

"Yes, my mother is sick and I feel very uncomfortable, but it's not your way to save me!" The voice on the other end of the phone became angry, "Do you know that everyone is laughing at me, saying that my two children are crazy, whimsical, and unknowing!" ruined the Chi family's family business ......! ”

"I don't mean to disturb your speech," the man interrupted as he didn't bother to listen to his chatter, "but please don't rush to be my father, I'm not the owner of the phone." ”

The man: ?

"Don't you know yet?" The man's tone sneered, "You can't even hear your own son's voice? ”

"You're not Chi Qingtai?" The other side finally reacted, and a string of questions fell on his face, "Who are you?" How do you have his phone? What about the Chi Qingtai people? Let him answer the phone! ”

……

At this time, Chi Qingtai had just finished the security check, and the phone in his hand rang.

The first time he didn't answer, the second call quickly came back.

Thinking that the other party was in a hurry, Chi Qingtai answered the phone and explained: "Hello, I am not the owner of the mobile phone, please ...... if you have something"

"You released Miss He's pigeons again? This is already your 13th blind date pigeon! But the man didn't listen to him, and said directly, "You just let her pigeon go, why do you still pour dirty water on yourself?" What kind of messy fly/leaf/child, makes people have tires, and even likes to abuse?! You, do you know that your reputation is stinky, and no one in the entire capital city dares to marry you! ”

"Sorry, it's not my phone," Ji Qingtai raised his voice and stopped the other party from revealing further, "I'm just helping him answer the phone, and he himself will be over soon." ”

“……”

There was an awkward silence on the other end of the line.

But soon, the man did not give up and probed: "You are his friend, right?" Then you can help me persuade him, it is impossible for people not to get married for the rest of their lives, right? ”

Chi Qingtai: "......"

For a moment, he actually felt some sympathy for the other party. Also as a person who is urged to marry, he knows better than anyone how uncomfortable it is to deal with repeated reminders.

"Sorry, I don't know him......"

Before he could finish speaking, someone suddenly took the phone from his hand.

Ji Qingtai looked up and saw the familiar black jacket and the man's tough jawline.

"You can really do it, urging marriage to a stranger." The man gestured at him and said, "What do you mean by splashing dirty water?" I'm just being realistic. I've been abroad all these years, don't you all know that I like to? ”

I don't know what the other end said, the man laughed, and replied in an angry tone: "Oh, I forgot to say, I've been tired of women lately, so I'm playing with men instead." If you really want to introduce it, just introduce me to the handle. ”

The other end of the line coughed sharply, obviously angry.

The man's face did not change, and he added in a mocking tone: "After all, you don't want me to leave offspring, do you?" ”

Chi Qingtai: "......"

Is this something he can listen to?

Soon, the man hung up the phone and walked towards him. Ji Qingtai quickly adjusted his expression and made it look like he hadn't heard anything.

He was a little embarrassed, but the man didn't say anything, and directly took out his mobile phone and handed it to him.

Chi Qingtai was about to take it, but the man withdrew his hand again.

Chi Qingtai: ?

"Wait a minute." The man took out a disposable alcohol swab from his pocket, carefully wiped the phone, and then handed it over again.

He thought he had a habit of cleanliness.

Chi Qingtai was stunned for a moment, and then reached out and took the phone.

Black gloves and deliberately avoiding contact with people seem to confirm his cleanliness.

But Chi Qingtai did not explain.

He said thank you and turned and walked to the customs gate.