Meng Ruyi was struggling beside.
"Wait." Before Meng Ruyi could speak, Song Huaizhi, who had read a part, frowned and looked at her with an unfathomable expression. "What's wrong?"
Meng Ruyi was utterly confused. Suddenly coming to her senses, she saw Song Huaizhi frown as he pulled out a few pages in the middle. A rare look of displeasure appeared on his face when he looked at Meng Ruyi.
"Take another look." Song Huaizhi aligned the papers, folded a corner, and handed them to Meng Ruyi. "I hope you can consider this carefully. I don't think this matter is that important to me."
Meng Ruyi didn't reach out to take them. She just looked up at him, her face full of determination. "Brother Song, this is my intention, and also my mother's and the others'."
Song Huaizhi's face suddenly changed. He pursed his lips and looked at Meng Ruyi, but still reached his hand forward and placed the papers on the table in front of Meng Ruyi before continuing. "I haven't finished reading these yet."
His tone was a bit stiff as he spoke, and his eyes no longer had the calmness of the past. He just frowned. When waiting for Meng Ruyi to look at him, he avoided her gaze and turned his head straight.
Song Huaizhi knew that he must look extremely embarrassed now, and Meng Ruyi would surely be able to tell what he meant.
But he couldn't, and he would never accept this request.
Coming back to his senses and looking at the remaining papers in his hand, Song Huaizhi felt for the first time that the words were so strange that he couldn't even understand them, let alone concentrate on reading. His usual talent of being able to read ten lines at a glance had disappeared at this moment. He could only read word by word, and nothing remained in his mind after he finished reading.
Seeing Song Huaizhi deliberately changing the topic, Meng Ruyi silently picked up the papers again and skimmed through them.
Song Huaizhi's peripheral vision was always on the girl beside him. Seeing that she finally stopped mentioning this matter, he inexplicably let out a sigh of relief.
The thing that Meng Ruyi had brought just now was not harmful to him. In fact, it was even beneficial in many ways. Objectively speaking, if it were someone else, Song Huaizhi would surely have taken these papers without hesitation and then waited to take over those things.
But the person in front of him was Meng Ruyi.
Song Huaizhi knew that he was just a person of unknown origin now. In the eyes of any insider, he was like a large bucket of water. If he was unlucky one day, he would be poured into a boiling oil pan, splashing those around him with scars.
He never admitted his meanness or his unscrupulousness. But in this matter, Song Huaizhi hoped that they would not say a word.
He was greedy for the warmth that the Meng family had given him, so he was reluctant to leave and had been working hard to strengthen the connection between the Meng family and himself until the two were inseparable.
So over the years, the forces that Song Huaizhi had developed had always been under the Meng family, subordinate to the Meng family. All his industries also belonged to the Meng family. Even the shop that Meng Ruyi often went to was like this. On the surface, it was managed by Song Huaizhi, but the ownership of the shop was all in the Meng family.
It was no wonder that Xu Fanglian and Meng Chengliang were greedy. They really didn't know or realize. They thought that Song Huaizhi was just using the name of the Meng family to cover up his things. They didn't expect that Song Huaizhi had really transferred all these things to the name of the Meng family.
Xu Fanglian was shocked when she found out a few days ago. She couldn't even believe what she saw. So in the past few days, she had started to comprehensively inventory the shops to find out how many things Song Huaizhi had really brought to the Meng family. After the inventory, she wanted to find a way to return them.
Xu Fanglian felt blushed when she looked at these things. This child Song Huaizhi was really something. For so many years, he had been silent and didn't plan for himself.
After thinking for a long time, Meng Chengliang suggested that Meng Ruyi go and talk to Song Huaizhi about this matter.
The couple had trusted Song Huaizhi too much in the past few years. They didn't expect that they had actually taken so much advantage of him. They were almost too ashamed to hold their heads up.
These people trusted each other very much. Xu Fanglian and her husband trusted Song Huaizhi to handle these family businesses, so they didn't guard against him using the Meng family to establish industries. Song Huaizhi was eager to have a closer connection with the Meng family, so he never mentioned it.
It was really...
Meng Ruyi let out a deep sigh in her heart, thinking about how she should mention this matter.
"Okay." After delaying for a long time, Song Huaizhi finally finished reading all these things. He got up quickly as if escaping and said to Meng Ruyi, "I'll ask someone to send the things later. I still have something to do now. I'll go back first."
"Wait!"
How could Meng Ruyi let him slip away under her nose? She immediately opened her mouth to detain him. "Brother Song, stop!"
Unexpectedly, Song Huaizhi had really made up his mind this time. Hearing this, he just felt a slight stir in his heart and then continued to walk out.
Seeing this, Meng Ruyi pulled open the chair and rushed out. She grabbed Song Huaizhi's sleeve and stared at him firmly. "Brother Song!"
Her tone was firm, with some unspeakable anger.
Song Huaizhi just stopped and stood still, silent like a stone statue.
"Turn around!" Meng Ruyi was angry. Seeing Song Huaizhi's completely evasive attitude, she couldn't help getting angry and unconsciously raised her voice. "Song Huaizhi!"
Meng Ruyi was so angry that she couldn't even call him Brother Song. She stared straight at Song Huaizhi and said, "If you don't turn around, I'll really get angry."
Song Huaizhi had never seen Meng Ruyi so angry before. Hearing this, he turned around and looked at her. His long eyelashes drooped slightly, covering the darkness in his eyes.
"Why don't you accept it!" Seeing him turn around, Meng Ruyi's tone softened a little, but it was still sarcastic. "Do you think that our Meng family is greedy and will drive you out if we don't have these things!"
As soon as the words were spoken, Meng Ruyi regretted it the most. Angry words were always the most hurtful. Although it wasn't what she really wanted to say, she still said it without thinking.
"No." Meng Ruyi was the first to react. The hand that was holding Song Huaizhi's corner of his clothes slipped. "Sorry, I was just too angry."
"I'm really worried about you, Brother Song." Meng Ruyi looked at Song Huaizhi's hands hanging on both sides and continued. "If something happens to the Meng family, what will you do?"
Seeing the expression on Meng Ruyi's face, Song Huaizhi's pupils shrank slightly. All his words turned into a sigh.
Meng Ruyi only felt a slight weight on her head.
Song Huaizhi raised his hand, stroked her hair bun, and then tucked the stray hair behind her ear, revealing Meng Ruyi's clear and spiritual eyes.
"What if something happens to me?"
As Song Huaizhi spoke, there was inevitably some self-loathing in his tone, and the look in his eyes when he looked at Meng Ruyi was also tinged with a sadness that she couldn't understand.
Countless reincarnations, but he couldn't tell the person in front of him clearly. The originally doomed ending could only be regarded as an unhappened nightmare.
At this moment, although Meng Ruyi didn't know what Song Huaizhi was sad about, she felt the malice from the plot.
"...So what?" Meng Ruyi looked up at him. "How can we take something that hasn't happened seriously? If you give up on yourself because of this and just want to leave a way out for us, have you ever thought that if something happens to you, how can we live in peace?"