Chapter 1
He has lost everything.
He sorted out the documents on the table, stacked them at the corner of the desk. Then he took out the drawer key and handed it over to the secretary, entrusting her with trivial matters: The contracts are all here, please pass the keys to the personnel department, there are some details that need to be corrected for next month's concert, the specific changes are on the computer...
Ke Yuan knew he had lost everything.
This morning's routine board meeting, he was swept out of the company he founded by himself.
"Manager Ke......" The secretary's face showed a sorrowful expression.
Up until today, she had been his secretary for a full five years and had never seen Ke Yuan lose his composure like this.
Liu Hai's forehead was sweating, his eyes were bloodshot, and even his fingers on the mouse were trembling slightly.
"I'm fine..."
Ke Yuan always thought that Secretary Xiao was a rare strong woman of the times, seeing her so torn about leaving or staying, he felt both unbearable and guilty, so he forced out a faint smile, comforting words halfway out, were interrupted by someone.
That person never knocks on the door when entering his office, whether he is focused on sorting data or sneaking a cup of Kung Fu tea. He bursts in as if it's only natural. If Ke Yuan happens to be on the phone, sorry, he becomes even more impatient and directly grabs the phone to hang up, listening to me first before speaking. It's the same this time.
He slightly raised his chin and walked slowly in front of Ke Yuan, his eyes scanning the neatly arranged table before finally stopping on Ke Yuan's face.
"Get out." He ordered coldly.
These words were not directed at Ke Yuan, but were instructions to Secretary Miss. However, Secretary Miss, who usually treated him with both respect and fear, suddenly gained immense courage today, and her slender figure in high heels swayed slightly as she stepped forward to block Ke Yuan's path.
A clear and transparent protective posture.
Ke Yuan lost his smile.
Actually, Secretary Miss worried too much. Shu Mu's pride made him absolutely disdainful of doing such a thing as kicking a drowning dog.
Besides, this poor guy has nothing left, what else can he be bullied into, he's also looking forward to it.
"Xiao Jing." Ke Yuan smiled, "Would you mind stepping out for a moment?"
The secretary hesitated for a moment and finally had no choice but to follow him out of the door.
In the room, there were only Ke Yuan and Shu Mu left.
Shu Mu didn't say a word, and Ke Yuan naturally didn't have the enthusiasm to sing a solo, so he could only pretend to be busy, bow his head and pack things up. Poor him, before this, his hands and feet moved quickly, and the files and contracts that needed to be organized were already done. Now, he couldn't possibly mess up the carefully categorized files and reorganize them. So, he could only pull out a tissue and wipe down the table.
Wiping and muttering to himself, who knows who will be lucky enough to sit at this desk that his predecessor personally wiped clean. Tsk, tsk, it's been wiped so clean.
Back and forth wiping the table twice, his hand was suddenly held down by someone.
"You're doing this on purpose for me to see, aren't you?"
"What?" Ke Yuan subconsciously raised his head and looked at Shu Mu.
No wonder he's stupid, he really didn't understand.
Shu Mu was furious when he was provoked, and with a wave of his large hand, the neatly arranged documents were all scattered to the ground.
Even if Ke Yun's temper was good, seeing the white paper flying all over the sky, the fire that had been suppressed was still "suddenly" surging up.
"What can I do for you?" He sneered, "Wasn't it me who was swept out the door?"
Shu Mu gritted his teeth, and his normally handsome facial features became abnormally stiff with rage, as if he was the one who had been wronged.
Ke Yuan quietly looked at his own hand, which was pinched too tightly by him and had turned slightly blue.
It hurts, it really hurts.
"Wasn't it you who coaxed me into using all my savings to start the company, only to join forces with outsiders and strip me of all my duties? Wasn't it you who deceived me into signing over my shares, cheating me out of my entire stake in the company? Wasn't it you who instructed the media to smear me, tarnishing my public image?
Since we're reopening old wounds, let's make them even more gruesome - he recklessly dredged up past grievances. "Wasn't it you who promised to be with me for life? I haven't even asked you why you broke your promise, what right do you have to question me?"
"You!" As if he had heard some earth-shattering news, Shu Mu's eyelashes trembled violently, grasping Ke Yuan's hand and hesitating to let go, but unable to muster any strength, until finally, he had no choice but to release it.
"Do you all know?" Shu Mu's tone was always overbearing, when had he ever been so humble?
"I'm your agent, aren't I? Fund transfers, equity swaps... these tricks are all things I taught you. How could I possibly not know?" Ke Yuan paused, those bitter feelings like the mud at the bottom of a river churning up as the boat sailed through shallow waters, making it hard to bear. "It's just that until I got burned, I couldn't believe that one day you would use these tactics on me."
He looked at the person in front of him and suddenly felt that saying anything was unnecessary.
After ten years, they fought side by side, supported each other, shared joys and sorrows, and many things didn't need to be said.
That's enough.
"I'm leaving," he said. "Since the company fired me, I should follow the contract and pay me three months' salary as severance pay based on my basic salary. Would you mind helping me inform the finance department to transfer the money to my account? As for the things at home, I won't go get them, would you help me deal with it? And if there's anything else, please help me take care of it considering we've known each other for ten years. Let's not contact each other from now on."
Ke Yuan shrugged and walked past Shu Mu towards the door.
Documents scattered all over the floor, no matter how he walked, he couldn't avoid them. He simply followed the logic and stepped on them, trampling them hard a few times, as if wiping his shoes.
Relieve gas.
He quickly walked to the door, and suddenly heard the sound of footsteps behind him. The next moment, he was tightly held in someone's arms.
"Where are you going?" A familiar warmth spread across his back, and Sumo gritted his teeth. "You're not allowed to leave! Even if you've lost your shares in the company, you're still my agent!"
Why bother?
Shu Mu is not a person who drags things out, if he dares to do it, he must have known that the matter cannot be turned around. Since so, why pretend now?
But how pathetic, he actually felt a little bit of joy in his heart, as if this sentence of persuasion was enough to make up for the Yunnan Baiyao, sprinkled on the wound in his heart and healed immediately. He suddenly wanted to believe that Shu Mu wasn't completely unfeeling towards him, and the ten years he spent accompanying him weren't a carefully planned joke.
He slightly bowed his head and obediently leaned into Sumu's arms, with his arms crossed and hands clasped together.
Suddenly, I touched that small and hard metal.
Yes, Shu Mu wore a small platinum ring on his left ring finger.
He stretched out his right hand and lightly covered the back of his hand, where their ring fingers touched each other, making a low inaudible sound.
That day, Shu Mu won the Best Actor award. After the awards ceremony ended, he drove with Ke Yuan to the seaside, personally putting on the ring on each other's fingers, hugging him and reading out loud the words engraved inside the ring.
"Forever Love", Eternal Love.
There is no eternity.
Even tungsten, as hard as it is, has a melting point; let alone a relationship that was already full of holes.
So just stop deceiving yourself.
He straightened up, took off the ring and handed it back to Shu Mu's palm.
"Not anymore," he said.
