He Jian sat in his study while looking down at the data in his hand. He turned the pages quickly, as if he was very familiar with the information on the data and merely wanted to confirm something.
Dong-dong-dong. There was someone knocking on the door of the study for three times before a sentence was said through the door, “Third-shao, it’s me Han Gaoping.”
He Jian looked very concentrated and only raised his chin slightly as he said, “come in”. His eyes did not deviate from the data for a moment.
The door opened and a man in a suit came in. In his hand were document envelopes which he respectfully put down onto the table. There were three envelopes in all. He said, “Third-shao, these are what you asked for. All the information about Quanlin’s Qi family, Wu family and Qi Yueran are there.”
He Jian nodded and didn’t speak but merely waved his hand to indicate that he could go out. But Han Gaoping didn’t leave at once. He hesitated before finally said, “There’s another thing. Madam seemed to have heard about your talk of going to Quanlin City with Master He. She isn’t very consent for Third-shao to go charge out alone.”
“I got it.” He Jian then looked away from the data in his hand and said, “I’ll persuade my mother. You just have to go get ready and try to leave in two days. The sooner the better.”
After Han Gaoping went out, He Jian thought that he had been reading for too long that his eyes felt very uncomfortable. He took off his glasses and rubbed his eyebrows, then brought them back on quickly. He took the three document envelopes on the table, looked a glance at them before finally took the envelope with the words “Qi Yueran” on it and opened it.
He family’s previous generation was mixed with bureaucracy. Although Master He had retired and resided behind the scenes, his accumulated contacts were not simple. It’s the turn of the generation of He Jian. In addition to him, he had an eldest sister and a second elder brother. Only Old Two[1] was still wandering in the bureaucracy, while He Ying had entered the commercial district and was like a fish back in water[2] when she was doing business.
He Jian was the youngest and also the son that was born when Master He was already old, so Madam doted on her youngest son. As a child, He Jian was not disciplined as strictly as his elder brother and elder sister. Hence, he was more arbitrary. Gradually, He Jian had the good-for-nothing second generation syndrome.
From street racing to holding young celebrity, casino to entertainment city, there were all places he frequented. Because of Madam’s protection, Master He could not say anything. Ultimately, He Jian became so unbridled that he took his kept man and woman to his home for the night.
He was thirty years old this year, but except for indulging in disgusting orgies of eating and drinking and passing the nights in dicing and card playing and other frivolous pastimes, he couldn’t do anything else let alone having any bits of career. He mostly relied on his gege and jiejie to give him money. Otherwise, it was the Madam who spoiled him by giving a lot of money to spend.
The He family was an old and well-known family. It had a very good reputation in the social circle. However, this He Jian was a stinking reputation exception. It was a common thing to marry a wealthy and influential clan which didn’t need any real love, but no one dared to mention the matter with He Jian. As a result, when He Jian had turned thirty, he was still messing around and did not settle down.
However, in recent days, people in He Household thought that the third young master had changed. It was not an exaggeration to say that he had become a steady old town overnight as if he had changed into a new person. There used to be four days a week when they didn’t see his figure and he brought back a man and a woman for the night for two days. Now they didn’t see He Jian go out to fool around. Instead, he read in the study.
Yesterday, He Jian alone talked with Master He, saying that he wanted to go to Quanlin City by himself; to go out to temper himself with hardships and develop skills, to go out and do some business, to start his own company and so on.
Master He was taken aback once he heard that and looked at him for a long time. Of course, he was happy that his youngest son could make progress. After all, he had retired from active military service. Even if he pampered his youngest son a little more, he also hoped that his son could have capability and not live off the family’s past achievements. Thus, he didn’t say anything and consented.
Madam He was not very happy when she heard the news. She had never heard of Quanlin City before and only knew of it after she found someone to ask about it. It was a minor small city that was barely enough to be considered as second tier city. To let the youngest son go alone when there was nothing there and no one around to take care of him was it not meant for him to suffer? If he wanted to do some business, it was enough to develop in this city. Moreover, the company of her eldest daughter, He Ying, was not light in the commercial district and it was not bad to directly enter her company to develop his skills. She just couldn’t understand why her youngest son suddenly wanted to run to Quanlin City and neither did she know what was it in Quanlin City that held her youngest son’s soul affixed.
In fact, He Jian was the only one who knew why he wanted to go to Quanlin City. It was because there was a person in Quanlin city who he must go to meet personally to see if that person was okay. He Jian wanted to protect that person; a very important person.
He Jian’s temperament changed overnight, from being idle to being steady and progressive. In fact, it wasn’t that he suddenly woke up to reality, but rather the inside[3] had changed.
A few days ago, He family’s third young master and his disreputable gang had a revelry in the entertainment city. As a result, they quarreled with each other for a young lady and the quarrel turned into a fight. There were many people on the side of his opponent. He Jian was not careful and got hit on the back of his neck by the leg of a stool. At that time, he fainted. The people present were in utter confusion and rushed him to the hospital.
The doctor said that the situation of He family’s Third-shao was not very optimistic and asked the family to prepare for the worst first. He Jian woke up that night and seemed to be alright. Madam He then went to burn incense and worship Buddha the next day, but the awakened He Jian was no longer the third young master of He family.
At present, He Jian looked at the information in his hand. There was a photo of a man on the paper. He looked like he was twenty years old, very much young like a big boy. Although his expression was serious, there was a kind of inexplicable naivety. There were some notes on the bottom of the photo, which was a man’s name: Qi Yueran.
Qi Yueran, the young master of Qi family in Quanlin city, was also known as the famous gongzi [4] of the local old and well-known family.
Qi Yueran. This was the name he used to be called for more than thirty years. Who would have thought when he opened his eyes again, he went back to more than ten years in the past and became another person.
He Jian touched the photo, which looked the same as when he was young more than ten years ago. Now Qi Yueran was only twenty-one years old. He had just finished his studies and started to run his own company.
He took over his family’s company when he graduated. He was the second child in the family and his big brother was only one year older than him. Big brother was not in good health and was not interested in business, so he took over.
He was very fond of this frail, sickly and gentle gege because he had been taken care of by his big brother when he was a child. Hence, he couldn’t tell when he had an unusual feeling for his big brother.
He only remembered the last…..
Big brother suddenly told him that he had found a man he liked. Although marriage between two men was allowed at that time, however, the man big brother liked was his business rival.
After that, it was unknown how big brother discovered his feelings. He still remembered the expression of sadness, dislike and disgust. Big brother also accused him for aiming at that business rival, using mean means to compete abnormally and threatening that person.
What he didn’t think of most was that big brother not only treated him unjustly, but big brother also took the company’s information to send it to that person. The company, which he had worked hard for more than ten years, went bankrupt in less than four months. And his gege happily married his business rival with their parents magnanimously accepted that person. On the contrary, he turned into a forsaken incomprehensible villain.
After declaring bankruptcy, he left Quanlin City alone. Too much pressure made him unable to bear it that led to insomnia and depression, where he only relied on sleeping pills to close his eyes to rest. He just didn’t expect when he opened his eyes again, he suddenly went back to ten years ago. Furthermore, he was no longer the Qi Yueran of Quanlin City……
He was very lucky to have a new identity as the He family’s third young master. Although the Quanlin’s Qi family was also a local wealthy and influential clan, he absolutely dared not compare with the He family. It was just a matter of great difference in social standing. It was unrealistic to think about it.
Once He Jian woke up, he quickly adapted to his new identity. Then he asked people to investigate the news about the Quanlin’s Qi family. He looked at himself on the data and was in a very complicated mood. He often dreamed of the miserable end of his last life. In any case, since he had rebirthed, there was no reason to follow the same old disastrous road.
He Jian was allowed by Master He to go to Quanlin City for development. In fact, the most important reason was that he wanted to find “himself”, help “himself” and protect “himself”. He would live this whole life only for “himself”.
There was not any He family’s social connection in Quanlin City which made Madam He truly not at ease. She had to insistently ask Master He to entrust someone to take care of their youngest son. Although Master He had been retired for many years, his few words were still of use. He Jian had yet arrived in Quanlin City, but many people in the social circle already knew that the young master of He family was coming and so they were waiting to please and flatter him.
He Jian took only a few people to Quanlin City by private plane. There were several commercial district’s old and well-known families in the city, all of them had called He Jian’s assistant for they wanted to make an appointment with He Third-shao to have a simple meal.
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The previous He family’s third-shao’s tone of speech was very bad. It was said to be a simple meal, but in fact, they all wanted to change their ways to please him, send some beauties and take He Jian to play around. The rich second generation, who indulged in disgusting orgies of eating and drinking and pass the nights in dicing and card playing and other frivolous pastimes, was the easiest to please, because what he liked was not hard to get. They most afraid of that kind of too profound to be understood, did not like to play, did not love money and did not love beauty, which they called no way to get started.
No one knew the intention of the He family’s young master for coming here. They all wanted to probe and get Third-shao’s favor. Just in case if He family was going to make a big investment in Quanlin City, they could be the first to talk about cooperation.
When He Jian got off the plane, he refused all the invitations. Once he arrived at the villa prepared in advance, he said to Han Pinggao, “give me a call to Qi family and ask if the second gongzi of Qi family has time to come out for a meal and talk about cooperation.”
Han Pinggao wasn’t surprised by He Jian’s words. After all, Third-shao asked him to look up a lot of information about Qi Yueran. He said, “Okay, I’ll contact them right away.”
Note:
[1] He Jian’s second elder brother/ lao er
[2] glad to be back in one’s proper surroundings
[3] The inside changed but not the skin/ replace the soul
[4] son of a feudal prince or high official
[5] third-shao = third young [master]
He Jian sat in his study while looking down at the data in his hand. He turned the pages quickly, as if he was very familiar with the information on the data and merely wanted to confirm something.
Dong-dong-dong. There was someone knocking on the door of the study for three times before a sentence was said through the door, “Third-shao, it’s me Han Gaoping.”
He Jian looked very concentrated and only raised his chin slightly as he said, “come in”. His eyes did not deviate from the data for a moment.
The door opened and a man in a suit came in. In his hand were document envelopes which he respectfully put down onto the table. There were three envelopes in all. He said, “Third-shao, these are what you asked for. All the information about Quanlin’s Qi family, Wu family and Qi Yueran are there.”
He Jian nodded and didn’t speak but merely waved his hand to indicate that he could go out. But Han Gaoping didn’t leave at once. He hesitated before finally said, “There’s another thing. Madam seemed to have heard about your talk of going to Quanlin City with Master He. She isn’t very consent for Third-shao to go charge out alone.”
“I got it.” He Jian then looked away from the data in his hand and said, “I’ll persuade my mother. You just have to go get ready and try to leave in two days. The sooner the better.”
After Han Gaoping went out, He Jian thought that he had been reading for too long that his eyes felt very uncomfortable. He took off his glasses and rubbed his eyebrows, then brought them back on quickly. He took the three document envelopes on the table, looked a glance at them before finally took the envelope with the words “Qi Yueran” on it and opened it.
He family’s previous generation was mixed with bureaucracy. Although Master He had retired and resided behind the scenes, his accumulated contacts were not simple. It’s the turn of the generation of He Jian. In addition to him, he had an eldest sister and a second elder brother. Only Old Two[1] was still wandering in the bureaucracy, while He Ying had entered the commercial district and was like a fish back in water[2] when she was doing business.
He Jian was the youngest and also the son that was born when Master He was already old, so Madam doted on her youngest son. As a child, He Jian was not disciplined as strictly as his elder brother and elder sister. Hence, he was more arbitrary. Gradually, He Jian had the good-for-nothing second generation syndrome.
From street racing to holding young celebrity, casino to entertainment city, there were all places he frequented. Because of Madam’s protection, Master He could not say anything. Ultimately, He Jian became so unbridled that he took his kept man and woman to his home for the night.
He was thirty years old this year, but except for indulging in disgusting orgies of eating and drinking and passing the nights in dicing and card playing and other frivolous pastimes, he couldn’t do anything else let alone having any bits of career. He mostly relied on his gege and jiejie to give him money. Otherwise, it was the Madam who spoiled him by giving a lot of money to spend.
The He family was an old and well-known family. It had a very good reputation in the social circle. However, this He Jian was a stinking reputation exception. It was a common thing to marry a wealthy and influential clan which didn’t need any real love, but no one dared to mention the matter with He Jian. As a result, when He Jian had turned thirty, he was still messing around and did not settle down.
However, in recent days, people in He Household thought that the third young master had changed. It was not an exaggeration to say that he had become a steady old town overnight as if he had changed into a new person. There used to be four days a week when they didn’t see his figure and he brought back a man and a woman for the night for two days. Now they didn’t see He Jian go out to fool around. Instead, he read in the study.
Yesterday, He Jian alone talked with Master He, saying that he wanted to go to Quanlin City by himself; to go out to temper himself with hardships and develop skills, to go out and do some business, to start his own company and so on.
Master He was taken aback once he heard that and looked at him for a long time. Of course, he was happy that his youngest son could make progress. After all, he had retired from active military service. Even if he pampered his youngest son a little more, he also hoped that his son could have capability and not live off the family’s past achievements. Thus, he didn’t say anything and consented.
Madam He was not very happy when she heard the news. She had never heard of Quanlin City before and only knew of it after she found someone to ask about it. It was a minor small city that was barely enough to be considered as second tier city. To let the youngest son go alone when there was nothing there and no one around to take care of him was it not meant for him to suffer? If he wanted to do some business, it was enough to develop in this city. Moreover, the company of her eldest daughter, He Ying, was not light in the commercial district and it was not bad to directly enter her company to develop his skills. She just couldn’t understand why her youngest son suddenly wanted to run to Quanlin City and neither did she know what was it in Quanlin City that held her youngest son’s soul affixed.
In fact, He Jian was the only one who knew why he wanted to go to Quanlin City. It was because there was a person in Quanlin city who he must go to meet personally to see if that person was okay. He Jian wanted to protect that person; a very important person.
He Jian’s temperament changed overnight, from being idle to being steady and progressive. In fact, it wasn’t that he suddenly woke up to reality, but rather the inside[3] had changed.
A few days ago, He family’s third young master and his disreputable gang had a revelry in the entertainment city. As a result, they quarreled with each other for a young lady and the quarrel turned into a fight. There were many people on the side of his opponent. He Jian was not careful and got hit on the back of his neck by the leg of a stool. At that time, he fainted. The people present were in utter confusion and rushed him to the hospital.
The doctor said that the situation of He family’s Third-shao was not very optimistic and asked the family to prepare for the worst first. He Jian woke up that night and seemed to be alright. Madam He then went to burn incense and worship Buddha the next day, but the awakened He Jian was no longer the third young master of He family.
At present, He Jian looked at the information in his hand. There was a photo of a man on the paper. He looked like he was twenty years old, very much young like a big boy. Although his expression was serious, there was a kind of inexplicable naivety. There were some notes on the bottom of the photo, which was a man’s name: Qi Yueran.
Qi Yueran, the young master of Qi family in Quanlin city, was also known as the famous gongzi [4] of the local old and well-known family.
Qi Yueran. This was the name he used to be called for more than thirty years. Who would have thought when he opened his eyes again, he went back to more than ten years in the past and became another person.
He Jian touched the photo, which looked the same as when he was young more than ten years ago. Now Qi Yueran was only twenty-one years old. He had just finished his studies and started to run his own company.
He took over his family’s company when he graduated. He was the second child in the family and his big brother was only one year older than him. Big brother was not in good health and was not interested in business, so he took over.
He was very fond of this frail, sickly and gentle gege because he had been taken care of by his big brother when he was a child. Hence, he couldn’t tell when he had an unusual feeling for his big brother.
He only remembered the last…..
Big brother suddenly told him that he had found a man he liked. Although marriage between two men was allowed at that time, however, the man big brother liked was his business rival.
After that, it was unknown how big brother discovered his feelings. He still remembered the expression of sadness, dislike and disgust. Big brother also accused him for aiming at that business rival, using mean means to compete abnormally and threatening that person.
What he didn’t think of most was that big brother not only treated him unjustly, but big brother also took the company’s information to send it to that person. The company, which he had worked hard for more than ten years, went bankrupt in less than four months. And his gege happily married his business rival with their parents magnanimously accepted that person. On the contrary, he turned into a forsaken incomprehensible villain.
After declaring bankruptcy, he left Quanlin City alone. Too much pressure made him unable to bear it that led to insomnia and depression, where he only relied on sleeping pills to close his eyes to rest. He just didn’t expect when he opened his eyes again, he suddenly went back to ten years ago. Furthermore, he was no longer the Qi Yueran of Quanlin City……
He was very lucky to have a new identity as the He family’s third young master. Although the Quanlin’s Qi family was also a local wealthy and influential clan, he absolutely dared not compare with the He family. It was just a matter of great difference in social standing. It was unrealistic to think about it.
Once He Jian woke up, he quickly adapted to his new identity. Then he asked people to investigate the news about the Quanlin’s Qi family. He looked at himself on the data and was in a very complicated mood. He often dreamed of the miserable end of his last life. In any case, since he had rebirthed, there was no reason to follow the same old disastrous road.
He Jian was allowed by Master He to go to Quanlin City for development. In fact, the most important reason was that he wanted to find “himself”, help “himself” and protect “himself”. He would live this whole life only for “himself”.
There was not any He family’s social connection in Quanlin City which made Madam He truly not at ease. She had to insistently ask Master He to entrust someone to take care of their youngest son. Although Master He had been retired for many years, his few words were still of use. He Jian had yet arrived in Quanlin City, but many people in the social circle already knew that the young master of He family was coming and so they were waiting to please and flatter him.
He Jian took only a few people to Quanlin City by private plane. There were several commercial district’s old and well-known families in the city, all of them had called He Jian’s assistant for they wanted to make an appointment with He Third-shao to have a simple meal.
""
The previous He family’s third-shao’s tone of speech was very bad. It was said to be a simple meal, but in fact, they all wanted to change their ways to please him, send some beauties and take He Jian to play around. The rich second generation, who indulged in disgusting orgies of eating and drinking and pass the nights in dicing and card playing and other frivolous pastimes, was the easiest to please, because what he liked was not hard to get. They most afraid of that kind of too profound to be understood, did not like to play, did not love money and did not love beauty, which they called no way to get started.
No one knew the intention of the He family’s young master for coming here. They all wanted to probe and get Third-shao’s favor. Just in case if He family was going to make a big investment in Quanlin City, they could be the first to talk about cooperation.
When He Jian got off the plane, he refused all the invitations. Once he arrived at the villa prepared in advance, he said to Han Pinggao, “give me a call to Qi family and ask if the second gongzi of Qi family has time to come out for a meal and talk about cooperation.”
Han Pinggao wasn’t surprised by He Jian’s words. After all, Third-shao asked him to look up a lot of information about Qi Yueran. He said, “Okay, I’ll contact them right away.”
Note:
[1] He Jian’s second elder brother/ lao er
[2] glad to be back in one’s proper surroundings
[3] The inside changed but not the skin/ replace the soul
[4] son of a feudal prince or high official
[5] third-shao = third young [master]
