usatvline Chapter 119 Zhan Weiguo's older brother, Zhan Weimin
Chapter 119 Zhan Weiguo's older brother, Zhan Weimin
"You'll have to handle your own affairs from now on. My sister has already broken the formation for you."
Zhan Jingwen disliked getting involved in these trivial family matters and tried to pull Youyou away.
"Come on, go home!"
"Okay."
"Wait for me, wait for me~" The unlucky guy broke free from Quan Zhimo's body and followed Youyou away from the Quan family.
When Zhan Jingyang and Zhan Jingxi saw their older brother return with Youyou, they quickly pulled Zhan Jingwen aside and asked, "Big brother, when did you become inseparable from her?"
Zhan Jingwen retorted, "Who's inseparable from her? I just felt sorry for her. It's too dangerous for her to go out alone. If something happens, you two and I will all get beaten up."
"Oh~" Zhan Jingxi nodded in sudden realization, his expression both innocent and foolish.
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In the bustling city center, in a luxurious villa, a man was looking at his phone when he suddenly seemed to see some earth-shattering news. His eyes widened in disbelief, followed by boundless fear and panic.
"What's wrong, Weimin?" Suddenly, a woman with a comical appearance walked over with a freshly made salad, sat down next to Zhan Weimin, and asked him with concern in fluent English.
As the woman spoke, she peeked out to look at Zhan Weimin's phone.
The woman had a basic understanding of Chinese and could read the information on Zhan Weimin's phone.
The Zhan Group posted two updates about its family members on its official social media accounts.
One is Zhan Jinxi, the real daughter who was recently found.
One is Zhan Ye's own daughter, Zhan Yoyo.
Actually, she had seen it a few days earlier, but she hadn't told Zhan Weimin.
"What's wrong?" Tavana asked with a smile.
He should be happy, so why does he look so unhappy?
Just as Zhan Weimin was about to speak, his phone screen suddenly displayed an incoming call from Old Master Zhan.
Upon seeing this contact person whom he hadn't spoken to in a long time, Zhan Weimin's heart skipped a beat.
Zhan Weiguo found his biological daughter; could he have discovered something in the process?
With trembling hands, Zhan Weimin answered the phone call from Old Master Zhan.
In the past, he would have hung up the phone without hesitation and refused to communicate with them.
However, in order to test whether they really knew the truth about Zhan Jinxi's replacement, he had to answer the phone so that he could figure out how to plan his next move.
"Hey, Dad."
"You little rascal, you're busier than the founding emperor! You finally answered the phone." Old Master Zhan complained on the other end of the line, but his tone sounded very happy.
"Dad, what's wrong?" Zhan Weimin breathed a sigh of relief.
"You saw the company's official announcement, right? If you did, come back and meet your niece and grandniece. They've never met you before. Also, Jinxi is going to university tomorrow, and Yoyo will be starting kindergarten soon," Grandpa Zhan said with a smile.
Judging from their tone, they probably didn't know the truth behind Zhan Jinxi being switched, and his tense nerves finally relaxed.
However, given his brother Zhan Weiguo's personality, he would definitely investigate thoroughly! Therefore, he would need to spend the rest of his life abroad, firstly to escape, to escape always living in his younger brother's shadow and being compared to him at will, and secondly out of fear, fearing that if Grandpa Zhan found out the truth, he would be completely disappointed in him and might even expel him from the family tree.
"Dad, I'm quite busy here, so I won't be going back. I'll send them a gift later."
"You good-for-nothing, what have you been so busy with? Huh? You haven't been home for over ten years! What's so great about being abroad? Why can't you stay in your own country? Why did you have to run off to another country?"
Old Master Zhan said angrily, then suddenly seemed to remember something, and his tone softened a lot, "Weimin, that matter is in the past, people have to look forward. I can understand that you don't accept other women, and I won't force you to spend the rest of your life with other women, but you can't keep hurting yourself!"
Thinking of what happened eighteen years ago, Zhan Weimin felt a lump in his throat and wanted to cry, but over the years, he had cried all his tears and could no longer shed a single tear.
His wife, his most beloved wife, and Zhan Weiguo's wife, Qin Yimo, were both pregnant at the same time, and the prenatal tests showed that they were both girls. He was so happy that he was incoherent.
However, what he hated most in his life was that his wife and Qin Yimo gave birth at the same time. His wife had a difficult childbirth and died along with her unborn child, while Qin Yimo gave birth to a healthy and chubby little girl safely for the war and the country.
At that moment, his heart ached as if it were being ground to pieces by a meat grinder.
He could admit that he was inferior to him in every way, but why, why did even his wife and children have to be taken away!
He had thought that he would stop competing with his brother and stop comparing himself to him. He would just live a good life with his wife and children and enjoy family life. However, fate always seemed to have a way of taking away everything he wanted and leaving him with nothing.
He hated everyone, he hated the world!
Especially seeing Zhan Weiguo's beaming smile, he was consumed by jealousy and even harbored murderous intent; he wanted to kill his own brother.
Fortunately, the last shred of reason he retained saved him.
However, he did something else entirely: he secretly took Zhan Weiguo's daughter away.
What he lost, Zhan Weiguo can never get back.
However, someone put another baby into Zhan Weiguo's daughter's baby box, thus successfully making Zhan Weiguo and his wife believe that this was their daughter, and they named her Zhan Luya.
"For the people..."
Before Grandpa Zhan could finish speaking, the other party abruptly hung up the phone.
Grandpa Zhan looked at the phone that had been hung up, sighed, and felt helpless.
Since he doesn't want to come back, let's respect his decision. After all, this city is an incurable and irreparable pain for him.
……
Prospective college students start school about half a month earlier than other students because they need to undergo military training for half a month or a month.
Zhan Jinxi rushed back from the film set the day before to prepare for school the next day, and Zhan Juzhou accompanied her back as well.
Zhan Chiyan disappeared for several days, but finally reappeared today.
After dinner that evening, Qin Yimo busied herself packing Zhan Jinxi's essentials for starting school, especially for the military training under the scorching sun. She made sure to prepare everything she needed, including sunscreen and BB cream, to prevent sunburn or heatstroke.
"Hey, Xixi, how about we skip the military training? It's too tough. If we can avoid the hardship, we shouldn't force ourselves to endure it. Listen to Mom, let's skip the military training, okay?"
Qin Yimo has said this at least a hundred times.
"Mom, military training is related to my academic credits. If I fail a course someday, I can make up for it with credits so I won't fail to graduate," Zhan Jinxi said as she folded her clothes and put them into her suitcase.
"I'll buy you the credits. You can have as many as you want."
"Hey, hey, hey, what kind of mother are you? Don't teach your child bad habits." Old Madam Zhan couldn't stand it anymore and hurriedly stopped her.
Buy it with money? Although the Zhan family is wealthy, they don't need to buy things with money; they acquire everything through their own abilities.
After being scolded by Madam Zhan, Qin Yimo finally shut up and buried herself in packing Zhan Jinxi's luggage.
Fortunately, when Zhan Jinxi filled out her college application, she chose a university in the city, which wasn't too far from home, only an eight or nine-hour drive away. Otherwise, she would have cried and made a fuss.