Chapter 21: I am the Scandal of the Song Family

She would be nothing then.

The smoke in front of Shen Yu dissipated with the wind, the watery night spreading into a deep ink color in his eyes.

“Are you cursing me? Does your brother seem to have a short life?”

“That’s not what I meant.” Shuangxu wanted to explain, but didn’t know what to say.

Shen Yu’s voice seemed to carry the wind: “Xiao Jiu has grown up, unlike when she was a child, she would always go to her brother for anything.”

Shuangxu’s nose suddenly turned sour, her suppressed emotions like a broken dam, surging out of her eyes.

She wanted to say no, but she knew it was false.

From the moment she was sent away five years ago, she was no longer the Xiao Jiu she used to be.

She hung her head, big tears falling to the ground, disappearing silently.

Shen Yu put out the cigarette, his palm resting on her head, gently rubbing it.

Shuangxu had beautiful long hair, like water-soaked silk, black and soft.

She didn’t like others touching her casually. Yue Zifeng used to touch her head like Shen Yu when his hands were idle, but she wouldn’t let him.

“You don’t want to go to the research institute, what do you want to do then?” Shen Yu asked.

Shuangxu suppressed the sob in her throat, her voice steady: “I’m planning to start a business with my senior.”

Shen Yu didn’t say anything: “Want to start a business? I’ll open a company for you to play with?”

Shuangxu shook her head: “I’m very interested in the liquid hydrogen drone project my senior is doing. Feixue’s scientific research strength is also very strong, and there is still great potential for development in the future. I’m very optimistic about it.”

Shen Yu didn’t dampen her enthusiasm, smiling: “Then I’ll wait for you to ring the bell on the day you go public.”

Shuangxu hummed in agreement.

She remembered the words interrupted by the phone in the car, and hesitantly brought it up again: “Brother…”

“If you want to move out, move out.” Shen Yu knew what she wanted to say, “The house on Songming Road was originally prepared for you.”

Shuangxu felt relieved: “I haven’t told my godmother yet.”

Shen Yu patted her head reassuringly: “I’ll handle Mom.”

She didn’t know exactly how he talked to Fu Yun, but in any case, Shuangxu’s move out of the Shen family went smoothly through Fu Yun’s hurdle.

The house on Songming Road had never been lived in, the furniture was complete, but there were no daily necessities. She ordered what she needed online and had it delivered all at once.

She didn’t take much from the Shen family, she packed it up and had the family driver deliver it.

Many old books would never be looked at again, the clothes and bags in the walk-in closet were all from her teenage years, not only were the styles outdated, but the sizes were also not suitable anymore.

Just like this room, it only belonged to Xiao Jiu before the age of eighteen.

Shuangxu originally wanted to take her pet turtle with her, she had already ordered a fish tank for the new house, but she searched the pond in the garden for a long time and couldn’t find the turtle.

She went to ask the maid who usually fed it: “Where’s Gui Gui?”

The maid was also puzzled: “It was here yesterday. It must have gone to hide in some corner to slack off again.”

This turtle usually liked to escape, finding a corner to hide in by itself.

Shuangxu said: “Call me if you find it.”

Shu Yang heard about her moving, said he wanted to help her, and sneaked out of the hospital secretly against the doctor’s orders.

Shuangxu’s reaction was cold: “You can’t stay still and want to come out to play, just say so, do you think I dare to make you work? You’re more fragile than glass now, one touch and you’ll bleed.”

Shu Yang’s illness had this problem, anemia, low platelet count, once he bled, it was difficult to stop, and he was also prone to recurrent infections.

“Hey, I won’t pretend then.” Shu Yang immediately lay weakly on the new sofa, “I’m delicate and precious now, I can’t do any work, you two hurry up and finish cleaning and call me a takeaway.”

Xiao Liao was running around the house like a rabbit, exclaiming as she ran, “Oh my god, I’ve only seen such a shiny kitchen in TV dramas!” “Oh my god, this walk-in closet is bigger than our three-bedroom apartment!” “Oh my god, this bathtub can fit four muscular guys at the same time!”…

Shuangxu was unpacking and organizing the things she had moved from the Shen family, Xiao Liao rushed over in one step: “Little boss, you rest, I’ll do it!”

“I’ll do it myself, you’ve already run three laps, aren’t you tired?”

Before she could finish, Xiao Liao snatched the box from her hand: “I’m young, I’m healthy.”

“Who are you implying?” Shu Yang lay peacefully on the sofa, “Just give her a chance to show off, I think she wants to quit her job and come here to apply for a nanny.”

Xiao Liao blushed: “Hehe.”

Who wouldn’t want to have a room of their own in a three-ring large flat?

Even if it’s a nanny room.

“I don’t need a nanny.” Shuangxu thought for a moment, “But my turtle is missing, there’s a vacancy in the fish tank, do you need it?”

Shu Yang laughed out loud.

Shuangxu went to get them water, Xiao Liao, buried in the boxes, looked up and asked: “Little boss, you also won the city-wide youth swimming competition championship?”

Shuangxu looked at the trophy she was holding in her hand, carefully wrapped in shock-absorbing cotton: “Yes. I love swimming.”

This was the hobby she had stuck with the longest, Shen Yu even hired a professional swimming coach for her.

She had won many trophies since she was a child, but only this one was brought from the Shen family, which shows its significance to her.

“I won it when I was sixteen, my first swimming competition trophy, and also the only one.”

“Ah,” Xiao Liao said, “Your strength is so fleeting?”

Shuangxu chuckled, raising an eyebrow: “I’m very strong. But after this competition, my dad banned me from participating again.”

“Why?”

“Because his work requires the family to maintain a low profile, especially me.” Shuangxu shrugged nonchalantly, “I’m the scandal of the Song family, it’s best not to appeari n front of the public.”

After the competition, she was photographed holding the trophy with a bright smile. The organizers put it on the front page. But the excitement of winning was shattered when she received a transatlantic call from Song Mianzhi.

You see, Song Mianzhi rarely called her, once a year at most. The only time he called was to forbid her from participating in any more competitions.

Xiao Liao couldn’t understand: “What’s ugly about her? She’s so beautiful.”

Shuangxu was stunned for a moment, then burst out laughing on the couch: “Thank you for your unique perspective. I’m comforted.”

Shu Yang also couldn’t stop laughing: “How did she get into a prestigious university with that IQ?”

“She’s wise beyond her years,” Shuangxu said.

“See!” Xiao Liao jumped up, “Only the little boss understands me!”

The three of them laughed and joked, and even though there wasn’t much to pack, they didn’t finish until evening.

This was probably the most relaxed moment Shuangxu had had since returning to China.

Xiao Liao volunteered to take Shu Yang back to the hospital. Shuangxu saw them off at the building entrance and watched the car drive away.

As she turned to go back, she saw a limousine parked by the road.

The driver, wearing white gloves, stood in front of the car and bowed deeply to her from afar, opening the door.

Shuangxu’s good mood plummeted.

She walked over, got in the car, and the driver closed the door.

The Chairman’s wife was a very elegant woman, always dressed in a tasteful and dignified Chanel suit, her hair perfectly styled, her shoes spotless, the word “noble” etched into every cell of her being.

She sat across from Shuangxu, her posture elegant, and first peered through the window at the high-rise mansions outside.

“These houses are nice. Shen Yu is quite generous to you.”

Shuangxu knew her purpose in coming wasn’t to look at houses: “If you like, buy one.”

Only then did Cui Ning give her a withering look: “You’re becoming more and more arrogant, Miss Song. To see you, I have to come find you myself. Shen’s house is next to Song’s house. You go in and out of Shen’s house every day, can’t you spare a little time to visit your own family?”

Shuangxu: “I’m learning from Da Yu.”

Three times passing the door without entering.

Her unyielding attitude displeased Cui Ning, who asked directly: “When are you going back to America?”