After leaving the sanatorium, Mo Xuan drove back to the manor. Uncle Zheng, seeing the family of five return, breathed a sigh of relief. Not just him, but the other servants also felt relieved.
For so long without returning, they were afraid that their young mistress, along with the children, would elope with Mo Xuan.
As soon as they got back, Mo Xuan received a call from an unknown number. He frowned and answered it.
"Well, you really are a disobedient son, aren't you? You even had the audacity to block my number?" Mo Changshan's cold voice echoed through the phone. "Tell your grandmother, I'll give you a total of 600 million for the shares. That's the most I can offer. Come back tomorrow with the share transfer documents."
Mo Changshan couldn't wait any longer. Several major companies had shown interest in acquiring the 10% stake. Of course, he had no idea that this was all part of Luo Tian's plan.
"Fine."
Mo Xuan responded indifferently to Mo Changshan's words, then without waiting for any further conversation, he hung up the phone and blocked the number.
On the other end, Mo Changshan was about to say more when Mo Xuan abruptly ended the call. When he tried to call again, the number was unreachable.
"This ungrateful son!" Mo Changshan slammed his hand on the table. "Fine, fine. Do you think I'll make it that easy for you to get the money? You ungrateful wretch, I shouldn't have brought you back to torment me in the first place!"
Mo Xuan stared at his phone screen, his eyes burning with fury. It would be a lie to say he wasn't hurt. His biological parents never gave him what he deserved, and even sided with his brother, Mo Jinpeng, to sabotage his relationship with Su Yanran.
To them, profit was everything. Mo Jinpeng was raised from a young age and was closer to them.
Mo Xuan, on the other hand, was sent to live with his grandmother at the age of two. He saw his parents so rarely that the number of times they met in a year could be counted on one hand. Sometimes, they would come, look at him for a moment, and leave.
But was it his fault? They chose to send him away; was it his fault that he didn't grow close to them? He had no concept of what it meant to have parents until he was 15 and got into trouble, which led to him being brought back to the Mo family.
He was well aware that if it weren't for his outstanding academic performance at the time, they wouldn't have thought of bringing him back. Even then, it was only to make him a tool for Mo Jinpeng's future.
During university, he refused to major in finance and instead insisted on studying computer engineering. Mo Changshan had cursed him out, but Mo Xuan didn't care.
His future was his to choose, not to be someone else's stepping stone.
"Daddy, dinner's ready!"
Luo Wei'er and Luo Xue'er ran over, grabbing Mo Xuan's hand. Seeing the children, the anger in his eyes gradually subsided. He held their hands and walked to the dining room together.
That night, after tucking the two children into bed, Mo Xuan returned to his room. Just as he finished showering and changed into his pajamas, his phone rang again—another unknown number.
"Mo Xuan..."
When he answered, Su Yanran's hoarse voice came through, seemingly still intoxicated. Hearing her voice, Mo Xuan sighed and said, "I admire your persistence. After everything that happened today, what else do you want from me?"
He didn't know about the events of the previous night, or else he might have been even more surprised by Su Yanran's persistence.
"Leave them, won't you?" Su Yanran said pitifully, her voice trembling as if on the verge of tears. "You like the children... I can treat them as my own. If they don't let you take them, I can have children for you..."
"Yanran, I've said it before, we need to face reality," Mo Xuan rubbed his temples. "Almost three years have passed since you and Mo Jinpeng announced your relationship, and then you went abroad to study. All this time, you never thought of me. What's the point of this now?"
"I... I was just afraid. I'm sorry for what I did to you..."
Su Yanran sobbed, and in the past, hearing her cry would have made Mo Xuan feel pain and compassion. But now, he felt nothing.
All this time, it was Luo Shiya, Luo Muqi, and the children who had been by his side. When he was at his most helpless and desperate, it was they who reached out to him.
He didn't know what the outcome would be for the three of them, but he was willing to stay by their side.
"Yanran, don't call again. I don't want to repeat myself. Let the past stay in the past." Mo Xuan's tone was calm, and Su Yanran no longer had the power to affect his emotions. "You see, I have children now. No matter what, I won't betray their mother."
"Mo Xuan, you're so foolish..." Su Yanran suddenly laughed. "How can you trust them so blindly? Do you know what kind of status and wealth the Luo family has in the Capital? A family like that would never allow such a ridiculous situation."
"The harm will ultimately fall on you, and you'll be the one abandoned! Mo Xuan, don't be delusional. The Luo sisters have always been unattainable. How many wealthy young men have tried and failed? You're not in the same world as them!"
"Mo Xuan, we've known each other since we were young. Don't forget, at 15, if it weren't for me, you wouldn't be alive! Just consider it repaying your life debt to me, and be with me. Let's leave and never come back!"
Hearing Su Yanran's words, Mo Xuan sighed. At 15, he had been injured and lost some memories. When he woke up, he learned from others that Su Yanran claimed to have saved him.
During their relationship, Mo Xuan had been utterly devoted to her, not only because he genuinely liked her but also because of this.
"Yanran, I can't give up on my daughters because of that," Mo Xuan said with a wry smile. "And it was you who first betrayed me."
With that, Mo Xuan ended the call. This time, he didn't block the number, and Su Yanran, hearing Mo Xuan's words, could only sob into her hands.
Mo Xuan, who had originally intended to note down the number, hesitated and deleted the call record instead. Su Yanran had saved his life, and if she ever needed help, Mo Xuan might assist her, but nothing more.
At that moment, the door suddenly opened. Luo Shiya walked in wearing a seductive black-gold nightgown with a deep V-neck that revealed her fair skin and the hint of her voluptuous figure.
"Shiya, why are you..."
Mo Xuan was a bit embarrassed by her appearance, but before he could finish, Luo Shiya suddenly rushed into his arms and hugged him tightly.
"Xuan, I want you..."
Luo Shiya's voice was soft, but her eyes burned with desire. Mo Xuan was momentarily stunned, his brain struggling to process the situation.
In the next second, Luo Shiya grabbed the collar of Mo Xuan's pajamas and kissed him passionately.
Mo Xuan... succumbed.
It was the first time Mo Xuan had seen Luo Shiya like this, her eyes smoldering with unquenchable desire. An hour had passed, yet Luo Shiya showed no signs of tiring.
"Xuan..." Luo Shiya's voice was hoarse, her hands tightly gripping Mo Xuan's. "Forget the past, forget everyone else..."
"Everything about you should belong to me. So, let yourself sink into me..."
to panic—he has a system. As long as an investment target dies, he can claim a reward. And since he is immortal, the one thing he has plenty of is time. ... Countless years later. “Immortal Emperor of Longevity? I invested in him.” “Supreme Celestial Venerable? I invested in him.” “Undying Empress? I invested in her.” “...” “Heh. Once they’ve all died, even the Heavenly Dao will have to kneel and call me Dad.”
his freshman year, Su Bai accidentally bound the "Indulgence Tycoon System." 【Sleeping in? Reward: +$1,000】 【Spent $288 at a street barbecue stall? Cashback: +$2,880】 【Dropped $14,396 on in-game skins? Special reward unlocked: A brand-new Porsche Panamera!】 Luxury cars, penthouses, corporate shares, financial empires… College life was all about living freely and doing whatever he pleased! … When the adorably naive academic genius faced family medical bills and financial struggles, Su Bai waved his hand dismissively: "Your future is on me." "Wuwu~ Big Brother is so good to me! I’ll become a scientist to repay you!" When the genius girl got bullied by a shady professor? Su Bai casually dropped a billion-dollar investment, forcing the university to grovel and beg for her return. A company’s funding chain collapsing? Su Bai smirked—cash was the one thing he’d never run out of. Years later, when people traced the rise of the AI prodigy beauty, who was the man behind her success? Not just that—Su Bai also became the tsundere campus belle’s unattainable dream, the contrast senior’s daily necessity, and the beautiful counselor’s emotional anchor…
he colors of other people’s emotions. Light red meant anxiety. Gray meant exhaustion. Orange meant excitement. Yellow... meant repression. At the same time, he could gain unlimited control over one of those colors. Pale cyan: relaxation. Using this ability, he started offering “two-yuan hugs,” spending an afternoon exchanging emotional-color experiences with others. Then came his final female customer of the day— a girl whose emotional color was pure black... —— A week later, Xu Chuan had become skilled at using pale cyan—Relaxation—treating it like a bottle of menthol balm whenever he needed it. That was when he discovered he had unlocked another unlimited emotional color: Purple, the color of fear. So these emotional colors refresh every week? Fine, I take it back—I’ll never call you useless again... —— Much later, after Xu Chuan had accumulated countless emotional abilities, one night, he suddenly found himself inside someone else’s dream. There, he could use the emotional colors he possessed to paint. And in her dream, he painted her a shower of pink shooting stars, spreading across the depths of the night sky...
m back to his original world. In the end, he realized he had overthought things. [Hey, why is Shen Manni, the female lead, acting strange? Shouldn't she be fawning over the male lead at this point?] [Zhou Qiaoqiao, are you sick? Weren't you supposed to break off your engagement today?] [Damn it! An Youyi, please do your job as an undercover agent and sell my information to the protagonist, you idiot!] ... At this moment, Xu Mo himself didn't know that these female leads had already heard his inner thoughts. Then they decided not to play by the rules. Xu Mo: Please respect my profession as the big villain!
