Chapter 164: No More Old Friends From The Past
“Manager Meng?” Jiang Ning blinked her eyes, teasing Jiang Li: “What relationship do you two have? Why does he want to protect you like this?”
Jiang Li hesitated for a moment, then said seriously: “He’s nominally my boss now, because I signed with the entertainment company under the Meng Family.”
“Oh~” Jiang Ning drew out the ending tone: “You’re in the eye of the storm right now, and he still signed you. Looks like it’s true love.”
Jiang Li’s face immediately flushed red: “Ning Ning, don’t talk nonsense. It will affect Manager Meng’s reputation. He signed me because… I can make money for him in the future?”
Jiang Ning: “…”
She looked at Jiang Li with a somewhat indescribable expression.
After dealing with the crazy public love story between Huo Yu and Bai Chuchu for so long, why did she still seem so clueless about relationships?
Jiang Ning rubbed her forehead: “I’m not going to say more to you. Let Manager Meng teach you instead.”
Jiang Li was full of question marks.
And Meng Su, who was being discussed by Jiang Ning and Jiang Li, was at that moment driving and stopping outside an old residential building.
Meng Su was dressed in a suit, with a pair of gold-rimmed glasses on his nose bridge, adding a touch of elegance to him.
He surveyed the dirty and messy surroundings, a trace of heartache flashing in his eyes.
While lost in thought, a person came down from the stairwell.
He was tall with long legs, wearing a gray crewneck hoodie inside, a blue-and-white school uniform jacket outside, a schoolbag on his back, and pushing a bicycle out from the corridor below.
He wore simple clean little white shoes. His long legs straddled the bicycle as he prepared to head to the Jiang Family Villa to pick up Jiang Ning for the evening study session.
He had only pedaled two steps when he saw a person standing at the rusty entrance.
He squeezed the brake, stopping five steps away from Meng Su, looking at him from afar.
Xie Jingyan’s expression was calm, as if he had long anticipated that Meng Su would come looking for him.
After looking for a few seconds, Xie Jingyan got on his bicycle to go around him.
But Meng Su blocked his way first.
Xie Jingyan, who nearly crashed into him, emergency braked, lifted the bike and swung the tail around, stopping only one centimeter from Meng Su.
Xie Jingyan was angry on his face: “Why are you blocking my way?”
Meng Su looked at Xie Jingyan’s familiar eyebrows and eyes, pursed his lips and took a step back: “Sorry, Xiao Jing.”
Xie Jingyan endured it again and again, his dark eyes calm: “Move aside.”
Meng Su took off his gold-rimmed glasses, revealing facial features that were thirty percent similar to Xie Jingyan’s, especially those eyes.
Meng Family people all had a pair of affectionate eyes.
When looking at people, they held seven parts tenderness and three parts affection.
Meng Su wasn’t angry and instead smiled: “Xiao Jing, it’s been thirteen years since we last met. Are you doing well? We all miss you and your mother very much.”
Xie Jingyan looked at him indifferently with dark eyes: “Sir, I don’t know you. Please move aside and don’t delay me going to school for the evening study session.”
Meng Su didn’t back down. The child who had only reached his thigh back then was now as tall as him.
His amber eyes held helplessness: “It’s only been thirteen years, and you don’t even want your uncle anymore? Meng Jing.”
Xie Jingyan, unable to endure any longer, grabbed his collar and pushed him against the car body: “Shut up. Don’t call that name. My surname is Xie. I’m a child of the Xie Family. I have no relationship with you all. Please don’t come harass me, don’t harass my family. I have no other loved ones. I only have a grandmother and a sister. Understand? Meng Su.”
The out-of-control Xie Jingyan was like a provoked wolf with no rationality. He glared viciously at the person in front of him, his eyes filled with hatred: “Do you understand? You people surnamed Meng, don’t appear in front of me again.”
After speaking, Xie Jingyan let go of Meng Su’s collar, got on his bicycle, and left without looking back.
Meng Su chased two steps: “Xiao Jing!”
Looking at Xie Jingyan’s resolute figure, Meng Su’s mind flashed to the five-year-old “Meng Jing” tilting his head against his chest, asking in a childish voice with some sadness: “Uncle, why does everyone say that when Daddy’s white moonlight comes back, Mommy has to leave? Uncle, what is white moonlight?”
He lifted his chubby little face, his round eyes blinking, very cute.
Meng Su was only in junior high at that time. Hearing “Meng Jing’s” words, he didn’t know how to answer and could only say: “Xiao Jing, your daddy will still be there, your mommy won’t leave. There’s no white moonlight. Don’t be afraid.”
Meng Jing’s eyes curved into a smile: “Yay! With Mommy and Uncle here, Xiao Jing won’t be afraid. I love you two the most.”
A child’s smile was full of infectious power.
Meng Su also thought his sister could be happy forever. When love was deep, that man was even willing to have his only son take her surname to show loyalty. But why did it end up like this?
He would never forget how his sister knelt at the entrance, begging their parents to help her divorce Lin Tinghe. But marriage alliances between wealthy families weren’t easy to break back then. The Lin Family was a prominent clan in the Capital Circle, and the Meng Family had only Meng Su as a boy that generation, who was young and lacked responsibility.
The parents told her to endure for a few more years for the child’s sake, until the child was older.
They didn’t agree to her divorce.
The brother-in-law who once said he would love his sister for life started staying out all night after that woman returned, showing care to that woman, no longer caring about his sister and child’s feelings.
That woman had lost her own child due to negligence and was saddened. His good brother-in-law couldn’t bear to see his former first love sad, so he came to discuss with his sister, asking Xiao Jing to recognize that woman as a godmother and be sent to her to raise for a few years.
Even without love, his sister couldn’t lose her son.
The family wouldn’t help her, thinking it normal for a man to fool around outside—as long as she endured, it would be fine. After all, she was the official wife; who could surpass her?
Plus, the Meng Family was declining at that time, not ranking among the major wealthy families in the Capital City. Facing the Lin Family, which was on par with the Huo Family, they could only swallow their anger.
Within a year of that woman’s return, his once spirited sister seemed to age decades—not in appearance, but in that originally passionate and vibrant heart.
In the end, she used her shares in the Lin Family and gave up the perfume brand she had created, worth billions, leaving with nothing and divorcing to take her son away.
Meng Su still remembered, on the eve of his sister’s divorce, he hid at the entrance, peeking through the door crack to see his sister kneeling on the ground with Meng Jing, begging bitterly.
The parents wouldn’t let him go out, saying she would figure it out and be fine.
At that time, little Meng Jing held Meng Qing’s hand and looked back at the Meng Family gate once.
He couldn’t forget the raw hatred visible in such a young child’s eyes.
Later, his sister divorced on her own and left with Meng Jing.
No one knew where she went.
The family said she was being proud now and would naturally return when she ran out of money.
But one year, two years, three years, five years, ten years…
The wutong tree leaves at the Meng Family gate turned green and yellow again and again, guests coming and going in waves.
But among these people, the old acquaintances were never seen again.
The sister who had been best to him never came back.
This is Old Xie’s background.
His biological father is surnamed Lin, from the Capital City’s Lin Family.
His mother Meng Qing is Meng Su’s biological older sister.
Because Meng Qing and Old Xie’s biological father loved each other deeply before, he had his first child take the woman’s surname to show loyalty.
The relationships are roughly like this. When we get to the key parts and all the characters are introduced, I’ll summarize for everyone. I’m afraid you’ve forgotten the earlier plot after reading so long. Finally, please vote.
