Chapter 105: The Secret of the Cang Xi Family

  The ivy-covered low wall, the sunlight filtering through the leaves, casting dappled shadows on the stone floor. Slender fingers tapping gently against the wall... once, twice, like a beautiful melody. Suddenly, another shadow loomed overhead, and Qian Xun's head jerked up to see a boy with dark brown hair jumping down from the top of the wall, landing lightly on the ground.

  "You shouldn't have come to Lorancoes." Zhan Xi's eyes narrowed as he suddenly straightened up.

  "Mother asked me to come, how dare I not come. She has looked for you three or four times to go back, but you refused to go back, so Mother sent me to see you, what is it about this school that has captured your heart."

  "No one can hold onto my heart." Cang Xi said coldly.

  Cang Xi raised an eyebrow: "I didn't say it was a person, why did you answer so quickly?"

  For a moment, the air congealed, and Cang Xi's eyes turned icy cold, as if they had transformed into a sharp sword that was about to pierce through Cang Xi Jian's heart. However, Cang Xi Jian remained nonchalant: "Don't look at me with such an annoying gaze. Mother is concerned about you because in the future, you will be her successor and take over the Cang Xi family business. I also need to work hard to pass the civil service exam. From now on, you'll handle business, and I'll handle politics - the Cang Xi family must continue this relationship. If you don't return, Mother definitely won't give up. Even if you're very capable and manage to escape this time, you won't be able to escape next time."

  "I'm not interested in the Cang Xi family's business, and what my mother will do has nothing to do with me." Cang Xi Han was completely uninterested in this brother of hers... who wasn't even a real brother, but rather someone with no blood relation to her.

  At first, the Cang family was in politics and the Xie family was in business, each with their own family background. Later, the wife of the Cang family's successor died of leukemia, and the power on the government side gradually weakened. However, her mother suddenly chose to marry into the Cang family at this time, forcing her weak and incompetent father to death, and marrying the Cang family's successor. The Cang family brought their son, while the Xie family brought the Xie family's son, forming a ridiculous marriage. He nominally gained an older brother, and Cang Xie Jian also nominally gained a younger brother. This absurd marriage successfully allowed the Cang and Xie families to rise again, but from that moment on, Cang Xie Lian hated his mother and the people of the Cang family deeply.

  "Things of the past are already over, Father and Mother have been married for so many years, can't you still put down the estrangement between us?" Cang Xi's voice sank: "Sometimes it's better to know what's going on, if it wasn't for your mother choosing to form an alliance through marriage, perhaps the Xi family would have been destroyed long ago."

  "Hmph," Cang Xi Yan Han raised his head: "If it weren't for her back then, Father wouldn't have died."

  The mother's temper was so bad, and she did things in a very overbearing way. In this world, the only person who was willing to put up with her temper was the father. Although his childhood memories were a bit fuzzy, he still remembered that his father was someone who would cook breakfast for them in the morning and wake them up gently. He was warm and gentle, like a clear spring, and never lost his temper, no matter how noisy things got or how fierce his mother was towards him. He always smiled and silently accepted their unreasonable demands. Indeed, his father didn't have a very good job; he was his mother's secretary. The two of them had met, gotten married despite the family's opposition, and had him. But were women really so greedy? Because he was just a secretary, because he didn't have a good job, because he relied on his mother to make a living, no matter how gentle his father was, no matter how much his father loved them, his mother would be so cruel, driving him away, forcing him to divorce her, and finally... even causing his death.

  "Your father's death has nothing to do with your mother. Even if there was no marriage between the two families, your parents would have divorced anyway. You see, we are from the Cang family and you are from the Chi family. With our family background, it is impossible for us to have freedom in marriage. Even if they were really married, they would still end up separating in the end." Cang Xi Jian knew that this younger brother was very stubborn, she had known since their first meeting.

  At that time, he was only eleven years old, and Cang Xi Yan Han was only nine years old. The two families had agreed to the marriage on the first day, and the wedding ceremony was held the next day. At that time, Cang Xi Yan Han's eyes were filled with hatred, whether it was towards them or her mother.

  If you must know, it was the second day after his father's death. On the afternoon of the first day when the engagement was settled, his father passed away.

  He also saw his father, a very gentle man, wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, always holding a stack of documents. At first, when he went to the Quan family's company, he saw him in the chairman's office with his mother. Such a gentle man eventually died for the person he loved and for his own family. No one can clearly say how he died, and the police also covered up the matter under pressure from both families, only saying that he committed suicide because of emotional issues and died in his own backyard. There was a large cherry blossom tree in that garden, which is said to be where he first dated his mother after they met. So after getting married, they transplanted that cherry blossom tree over there. It's just that no one expected it would become the place where he would rest in peace after death.

  "So, you don't have to take me as a member of the Cang Xi family. I'm alive just to leave this family behind." Cang Xi said coldly and indifferently before leaving the short wall.

  He won't inherit his mother's company, nor will he sacrifice himself for the sake of the Tsang family. He wants to live a life that belongs to him, even if it means suffering to the extreme, he won't go back. Even if his mother tries her best to catch him, he'll escape far, far away, escaping the Tsang family and that cold-blooded world.

  He hoped for warmth, like that one night, where someone would suddenly jump out and grab his hand, saying: "Anyway, I saved you, so you have to thank me. Continue to help me keep it a secret, don't tell anyone that I'm a girl."

  Although it was a very arrogant thing to say, he remembered it and kept it firmly in his heart... although she was such a troublemaking girl; although there were so many people around her who admired her; although she would brazenly provoke him on the school broadcast. But he somehow felt that she was such a gentle, warm person.