Second Marriage of a Wealthy Old Man

by Usui Takumii

not mine, novel updates. Ps: Bl, be warned.

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Description

Meng Yang had done a lot of s*upid and wrong things in his life. Jumping around like a clown, annoying and unpleasant. Only after his tragic death did he know that he was a cannon fodder written in a book who only existed to set off the protagonist shou.

Although he certainly had done things to hate, the protagonist gong and the protagonist shou were not totally innocent. The protagonist gong betrayed him first, then the protagonist shou framed him. So when he was reborn, he decided…

Marry the protagonist gong's rich father and give the protagonist a few younger brothers to divide the property.

He wanted to be pregnant soon but thinking that the old man was getting older it would be more difficult. But he didn't expect that the old man was not only strong, he was even more handsome than the protagonist gong. The steady momentum and charm of that mature man was so attractive that a certain person couldn't close their legs…ahhhh, he accidentally told the truth. He just couldn't hold his mouth.

Luo Xiu and his ex-wife had been in a business marriage and were divorced for many years. He really did not expect that he would marry a boy so much younger than him, that he would become an extra son to raise.

He just didn't expect this delicate and tender little guy to be so attractive, making him pamper him and spoil him and eventually take his heart.

SMWOM 1

Meng Yang felt a painful ache in his head, as well as a little cold because of the wind and rain falling on him.

Rain? Meng Yang wondered, how could the rain get to him? Shouldn't he be in the cave?

After taking a deep breath, Meng Yang quickly determined that he was not in the cave, or even in the deep mountains below the cliff.

"Hey, are you okay?"

"Look at him like this, he's unconscious, right?"

"Why is this guy lying in the middle of the road?"

"He probably drank too much?"

"This is too dangerous, people simply do not take their lives seriously!"

Meng Yang listened to the voices around him, slowly opening his eyes a slit; although his vision was blurred, he could still see a crowd around him. He'd been blind for so many years, how could he see like this? I'm sure I'm still dreaming, let's wake up soon. Thinking like this, Meng Yang fell into a coma again.

The day after Meng Yang woke up, he was taken home from the hospital. He leaned on the bed, looked over and over the room familiar to his memory, and squinted his eyes at the sun outside the window. He hadn't seen anything with his eyes for many years, and after so many years of blindness, he had only now realized that the ability to see was so beautiful.

He never imagined that he would wait, wait, wait, wait for fifteen springs, summers, autumns and winters, wait for the chance to be born again, wait for the opportunity to come back, and he returned to the time when it wasn't too late. When he woke up in the hospital, he determined that it wasn't a dream and cried for a long time. The nurse thought he was suffering and called the doctor to do a bunch of tests again.

While Meng Yang enjoyed the feeling of being able to see, the door of the room was slowly pushed open. Meng Yang turned his head and immediately felt a sense of anger as if someone was clenching his neck tight, making it hard to breathe.

"Meng Yang, are you okay?" Yu Junchen asked Meng Yang, looking anxious and worried.

Mang Yang looked at him blankly, not answering his words.

"I got a phone call from my mother abroad. When I heard that you were nearly hit by a car and went into the hospital, I almost died and rushed back early," Yu Junchen walked over to the bed and sat down, watching Meng Yang with concern and asking, "How do you feel now? Does it hurt?"

Meng Yang held back his hatred and anger, slowly shaking his head.

"You're fine," Yu Junchen sighed and said, "Why are you so careless? You almost got hit by a car on your birthday, where's Luo Sheng? Didn't he accompany you?"

As soon as Yu Junchen's words were finished, Luo Sheng pushed through the door. He glanced at Yu Junchen first before looking at Meng Yang with a frown, saying, "How old are you, lying down on the road? Isn't it just that I didn't spend your birthday with you? There's a limit to your anger, right?"

"He just came back from the hospital and must still be very uncomfortable, can't you talk to him properly?" Yu Junchen looked a little angry, looking at Luo Sheng and saying, "Didn't I tell you before I went abroad that you had to spend his birthday with him? Why didn't you accompany him? If you were with him, would he have been nearly hit by a car?"

"I wanted to spend his birthday with him, but my grandfather suddenly called me and said that he would hold a family meeting. Even my uncles wouldn't dare not to go, so I couldn't go. And I already told him that I'm gonna make up for his birthday later, who knew he was so angry that he'd lie down in the road." Luo Sheng glanced at Meng Yang with an impatient look: "Birthdays come every year, one birthday isn't a big deal."

Yu Junchen looked at Meng Yang and said, "Meng Yang, since he didn't mean it, don't be angry. I have a birthday in a few days; we'll have both our birthdays together, okay?"

"I'll make it up to you. I'll throw a big party and invite your other friends to celebrate your birthday," Luo Sheng said with a look at Meng Yang, "So, are you satisfied?"

Meng Yang sneered in his heart, thinking that the two of them were really singing the same tune (1); their acting was really good. He didn't need to concentrate, just by breathing normally he could smell the same shower gel on both of them. The two of them must have come from the hotel together, then pretended to come in separately.

"I'm tired and want to rest, you can go to your business," Meng Yang said weakly, then pretended to be tired, laying down with eyes closed.

Yu Junchen glanced at Luo Sheng, then stood up and said, "Then rest well, and if you want to eat anything, tell me and I'll help you."

After Yu Junchen finished speaking, he saw that Meng Yang seemed like he fell asleep, not responding. With a look at Luo Sheng, the two walked out together.

Luo Sheng didn't immediately leave but instead went to Yu Junchen's room.

After entering the room, Yu Junchen said with a guilty face, "I grew up with Meng Yang, I know his character the best. His temper comes and goes quickly. Even if he is angry, he'll soon feel better. The more silent he is, the sadder he is. We shouldn't…we shouldn't do this kind of thing on his birthday behind his back, and since he wants to have a birthday with you alone, you should fulfill his wish."

"I don't want to be alone with him now; every time I eat with him, I think about you. I love you now, not him, and if you're not in love you're not in love. It's because of him that we can't be openly and honestly together. I think we've taken his feelings into consideration enough, there's nothing to be sorry about. I'll still tell him as soon as I can, then we can continue to be friends in the future."

"I've tried many times, but he really loves you and won't easily agree to break up with you." Holding his forehead, Yu Junchen said with some powerlessness, "After all, we wronged him first, we must try to minimize the harm to him."

"I'm just dating him, I didn't get married; even if I got married, I could divorce if there are no feelings. Now I want to break up with him, can we not break up if he doesn't agree?" Luo Sheng was angry and somewhat frustrated. "Can't you care about my feelings? And your own feelings too, can't you be a little selfish and not think about other people all the time?"

"Of course I care about your feelings, but now…" Holding Luo Sheng's hand, Yu Junchen leaned his head on his shoulder and said, "It's not the best time for you to break up with him, wait a while, wait a while."

"I can't wait, I have to talk to him as quickly as I can," Luo Sheng said with a stern expression. "I don't want to sneak around with you anymore, I want everyone to know that I love you."

"But…even if you break up with Meng Yang now, we can't be openly together right away. Otherwise, with Meng Yang's temper, we don't know what he'll do." Yu Junchen looked at Luo Sheng with imploring eyes, saying, "Just for me, wait at least another year or two, then break up with him. When I'm about to graduate, we'll go public together. At that time, his feelings for you will have faded and he can accept what we have together and not feel the harm of betrayal. Wouldn't that be good for everyone?"

After Luo Sheng and Yu Junchen shared a long look, Luo Sheng tightly clung to him and said in frustration, "You really know how to torture me, and you know I'd do anything for you."

"Thank you." Yu Junchen held Luo Sheng's face and kissed him.

After kissing for a while, the two began to take off each other's clothes.

Meng Yang closed his eyes and recalled what had happened in his past life.

He fell in love with Luo Sheng at first sight and actively pursued him. After a few meetings, Luo Sheng also had good feelings for him, so the two began dating.

Yu Junchen was the son of Meng Yang's stepmother and ex-husband, and after Meng Yang's parents divorced, his father married Yu Junchen's mother. The two grew up together and their relationship was quite good. After he met Luo Sheng, Yu Junchen and him also met, but Meng Yang didn't know that Yu Junchen also fell in love with Luo Sheng at first sight. At first, because of Meng Yang's relationship, he deliberately avoided Luo Sheng, but he eventually failed to control his feelings and started an affair with Luo Sheng.

Meng Yang had a very delicate and pretty face, but his character and temperament were not very good. Yu Junchen was not as good-looking as Meng Yang, but he was still handsome. More than anything, he had a particularly good temperament. He was very good with his words and was observant of the emotions of others. Luo Sheng felt that if Meng Yang's face and Yu Junchen's personality were combined, it would be the perfect lover.

Originally, Luo Sheng felt that each had their own advantages and it was difficult to choose between them, but gradually, Luo Sheng felt that he had completely fallen in love with Yu Junchen and that they were destined to love each other.

So when Meng Yang and Yu Junchen were in their second year of college, Luo Sheng broke up with Meng Yang, but Meng Yang didn't agree and tried all kinds of methods to get him back. However, after Luo Sheng and Yu Junchen were openly together, he happened to hear a conversation between his father and stepmother. He learned that Luo Sheng and Yu Junchen had been together for a long time. This double betrayal blow made him break ties with the two men and stand against them.

A lot happened in the middle, but the final result was that Luo Sheng, in order to cover up the fact that Yu Junchen framed Meng Yang, poisoned him. Thinking he was dead, he had his men throw him off a cliff deep in the mountains.

After being thrown off the cliff, Meng Yang did not die because he was saved by a big tree. However, because of the poison, he spent the next 15 years of spring, summer, autumn, and winter alone, deaf, blind, and dumb. The first few years were really like living in hell, suffering in hatred, waiting for someone to support him, to let him die like that. (2) Later, he gradually became accustomed to such a life and learned how to survive, but he lived like a beast.

Since God gave him a chance to come back, all the pain he had experienced, in this life, he would give it all back.

SMWOM 2

As Meng Yang got into Lu Yunjing's car, Lu Yunjing looked at him in confusion and asked, "Didn't you say yesterday that you were going to spend your birthday alone with Luo Sheng? Why did you suddenly go to the hospital, how did the tests go? There were no issues, right?"

"Drive first, talk as you drive," Meng Yang said, buckling up.

"Where do you want to go? Out to eat?" Lu Yunjing asked.

"Just find a place to sit," Meng Yang said.

"What the hell is going on anyways?" Lu Yunjing asked as he drove.

"When Luo Sheng didn't spend my birthday with me yesterday, I drank too much by myself and fell asleep on the road. The people passing by thought I was unconscious and called the hospital, so the ambulance picked me up. I wasn't hurt."

"If Luo Sheng didn't accompany you for your birthday, you could've called me. Why did you have to drink alone?" Lu Yunjing said exasperatedly.

"Luo Sheng and Yu Junchen are together behind my back," Meng Yang calmly said. (1)

Lu Yunjing looked at Meng Yang in shock, saying, "Is that true? You drank to drown your sorrows because you found out what they're doing?"

Meng Yang was silent and didn't answer. Before he was reborn, he had drunk heavily simply because Luo Sheng didn't spend his birthday with him, not because he knew about Luo Sheng's affair with Yu Junchen. According to the development of his last life, he only learned about Luo Sheng's affair with Yu Junchen once they were together openly, about three years later.

"I felt that something was wrong between them, but I wasn't certain and it wasn't easy to say," Lu Yunjing said angrily. "What are you going to do now?"

Meng Yang said, "In a few days, I'm gonna give them an unforgettable present on Yu Junchen's birthday. There's just one more thing that I need your help with."

"What, just say it."

"I'd like to borrow your tea mountain villa for a birthday party."

After a little reflection, Lu Yunjing got Meng Yang's meaning and said, "I understand, I'll help you prepare."

"Yunjing…" Meng Yang looked to the front, eyes set firmly. "From now on, my brain is controlled only by myself, and I want to live by my own ideas!"

"…Before, your brain was controlled by someone else?" Lu Yunjing was puzzled by his remark.

Meng Yang closed his eyes and remembered everything that had happened in his past life and the man he was; he was really a bit pathetic.

After Meng Yang told Lu Yunjing the specific plans, the two went to eat together, and then Lu Yunjing sent Meng Yang home.

As soon as Meng Yang was about to enter the house, Luo Sheng's car drove up.

"Meng Yang!" Climbing out of the car, Yu Junchen quickly walked towards Meng Yang and asked, "Where have you been? Why didn't you answer the phone? We were looking for you everywhere."

Meng Yang adjusted his facial expression and turned around, looked at Yu Junchen with a smile, and said, "I went to dinner with Yunjing, have you eaten?"

"We…" Yu Junchen looked back at Luo Sheng, who was heading their way, saying, "We've been looking for you everywhere, so we haven't had time for dinner yet."

Meng Yang smiled bitterly in his heart again; he could tell from the smell on Yu Junchen that he had just eaten food.

"What's wrong with you?" Looking angrily at Meng Yang, Luo Sheng said, "Do you think it's interesting to make people worry about you? Do you want to exhaust other's worries for you until no one wants to take care of you anymore?!"

"Forget it, Luo Sheng…" Yu Junchen grabbed Luo Sheng's hand out of habit to persuade him. He was surprised by his own actions and immediately let go of him, quickly glancing at Meng Yang, and discovered that there was no change in Meng Yang's expression. He deliberately pretended to be on Meng Yang's side and said, "Can't you speak to him properly? You were so worried about him, but now you're deliberately showing such an angry appearance. Can't you be more honest?"

"I have something I want to tell you, if you haven't eaten a meal yet, let the kitchen cook you a few dishes. We'll talk while you eat." Meng Yang turned and walked in. "Let's go."

As they entered the house, Meng Yang asked the maid to have the chef make the dishes that Yu Junchen normally likes. They sat in the dining room while they waited for the food and talked about the birthday party.

"When I was having dinner with Yunjing today, he knew that we were going to do a make-up birthday party and said he would lend us the villa on their tea mountain for it."

"Really?" Yu Junchen was a bit surprised, then said with a smile, "It seems he really thinks of you as a friend, since he's willing to lend you his tea house for a birthday party."

"We have our house, a villa in the mountains, on a beach, on an island, or a hotel. There's no need to have the birthday party in their tea house," Luo Sheng said.

Yu Junchen and Meng Yang had visited the tea house once before, liked it very much, and had wanted to borrow it for a few days to find inspiration. Lu Yunjing refused, saying that the villa was not allowed to be lent out to others at will. In fact, Lu Yunjing didn't lend it because he didn't like Yu Junchen very much, but because of Meng Yang's relationship, he had never said it.

As Yu Junchen was rejected several times, he was obviously disappointed and told Luo Sheng about this matter. Luo Sheng felt that Lu Yunjing was petty; it was just a small villa and he refused to lend it for just a few days, so he started hated Lu Yunjing.

According to the last life, one always wants what they can't get, because Yu Junchen had always been obsessed with the Lu family's tea mountain villa. Luo Sheng later used some means to get the Lu family's villa and give it to Yu Junchen.

In this world, Meng Yang will never let the same things happen again.

"It's true that the birthday party can be held anywhere, but this is a birthday present from Yunjing, and his heart is too strong to refuse it. I think that Junchen also likes the tea house, so I agreed." Looking at Yu Junchen, Meng Yang says, "Since the two of us are celebrating our birthday together, wouldn't it be better to choose a place we all like?"

Yu Junchen nodded in agreement and said, "You have a point. Since it is Yunjing's heart, it is indeed hard to refuse it. Let's do it at the teahouse villa."

Seeing that Yu Junchen wanted to have the birthday party at Lu family's villa, Luo Sheng stopped talking.

After all the dishes were served, Meng Yang immediately said, "You're hungry, eat quickly. I'm so sorry, I didn't notice that my phone was running out of power, so you were looking for me for so long. Eat a little more."

Meng Yang kept serving them more food as they talked about what to do for the birthday party. Yu Junchen and Luo Sheng only came back after they were full, but as they were pretending to have looked for Meng Yang without time to eat, they had to harden their scalps and keep eating. (2)

When Luo Sheng left, Yu Junchen said he was also tired and went back to his room to rest. His stomach was so uncomfortable that he had to take a few digestive pills.

Meng Yang looked at the table of food that was almost completely eaten. With a laugh, he got up and went back to his room to rest.

A few days later, on the day of Yu Junchen's birthday, Meng Yang received a call from Lu Yunjing early in the morning saying that everything was ready. They were just waiting for them to come.

This time Meng Yang and Yu Junchen were celebrating their birthdays together, so in addition to inviting their mutual friends, Luo Sheng invited some of his own friends.

The parking lot at the foot of the Lu family's tea mountain already had many luxury cars parked in it.

As Meng Yang entered the villa, Lu Yunjing took them to all the places that had been arranged for their birthday party.

"Thank you for your hard work, Yunjing," Yu Junchen thanked Lu Yunjing with a smile.

"You're welcome, it's my birthday gift to you and Meng Yang. Though I'll say, I don't have any other gifts," Lu Yunjing joked.

"It's better than any birthday present," Yu Junchen said with a touch of emotion.

"Come on, I'll take you to the room on the top floor."

At the top floor, Lu Yunjing pushed open the door to the room and said, "This room can see at least half of the mountain. Whether you're bathing or lying in bed at night, you can see the stars and the moon from above. This glass, you can see outside but cannot see inside, so there's no problem even if you sleep naked. But there's only one room like this, how will you two sleep tonight?"

Meng Yang looked around the room and said to Junchen in a deliberately loving but pained tone, "Although today is my birthday with you, it's actually your birthday, so shall I let you stay here?"

"Really?" Yu Junchen suppressed the joy in his heart and said humbly, "If you want to stay, you don't have to give it to me."

"Isn't it just a glasshouse? Do you need to let it go?" Luo Sheng clasped his hands and looked at Yu Junchen by the door, saying, "Since Meng Yang asked you to stay there, you will stay there. What use is politeness between you two?"

Luo Sheng saw that Yu Junchen really wanted to stay there, so he deliberately behaved like Meng Yang was his person and let Yu Junchen stay. He couldn't see what was so good about this room; any place in his houses was better than this. Although he could not feel the beauty of nature and the environment that Yu Junchen talked about, since Yu Junchen wanted to stay there, he had to find a way to let him stay.

"Then I won't be polite with you." Yu Junchen's eyes shone with an irrepressible joy as he turned towards the edge of the glass wall to look out.

Meng Yang and Lu Yunjing exchanged a quick look.

SMWOM 3

As the friends attending the two's birthday party arrived, they all came to greet Meng Yang and Yu Junchen and deliver birthday presents.

"Happy birthday."

"Happy birthday, here's a gift for you, I hope you like it."

"Thank you." Meng Yang and Yu Junchen smiled and thanked all of them, accepting the gifts and putting them away.

"It's so great that you're going to have your birthdays together."

"Yeah, my relationship with my brother isn't that good."

"It was Meng Yang who was willing to accommodate me and have my birthday together with his," Yu Junchen said with a smile.

"The feelings are mutual, you know me. If others treat me well, then I will return the feelings twofold. Junchen often tells me that even if everyone else abandoned me, he would stand firmly behind me and never do anything to betray me. I must be good to him for what he's promised me again and again."

Yu Junchen smiled, but his smile was a little reluctant, his heart full of guilt.

Meng Yang's mother died shortly after the divorce with his father, and his father married Yu Junchen's mother soon after. Yu Junchen entered the Meng family before he was ten years old. His life was very hard before the age of ten, and after arriving at the Meng family, he lived a life that he could never have dreamed of before. His mother told him that if he wanted to always live like this, he had to please Meng Yang.

Meng Yang's mother was a strong woman, but Meng Yang's father was a burdensome man. Although Meng Yang's mother had been busy with her career, in fact, she was very aware that his father had always maintained some kind of connection with his first love. In order to give Meng Yang a complete family, she chose to pretend not to know.

When Meng Yang was nine years old, his mom suddenly filed for divorce and handed over the management power of the company to the deputy general manager. She transferred all the property and shares under her name to Meng Yang and signed an agreement with the bank to manage it on his behalf, so Meng Yang was free to handle it once he became an adult. Within months of this, Meng Yang's mother died.

Adulthood in this country came at 16 years old, and one can get married at the age of 18. Meng Yang was now 19 years old and had long held economic power, so all the people in Meng Yang's house depended on him. They all knew about Yu Junchen's affair with Luo Sheng, but they kept him in the dark for their own peace of mind.

When compared to Meng Yang, Yu Junchen actually felt quite inferior. Meng Yang was very rich and it was all his own money. He was also better looking than him and was surrounded by many friends.

Yu Junchen had been ingratiating himself with Meng Yang, looking for an opportunity to join his circle of friends and slowly get more friendly with them.

After all of the guests arrived, Lu Junjing had people push out the cake and asked Meng Yang and Yu Junchen to make a wish and blow out the candles. Meng Yang let Yu Junchen make the wish alone, saying that he had already made a wish on his own birthday. In his mind, he thought that being reborn was the best wish that could come true.

"The first wish, I hope our family can be healthy and safe; the second wish, I hope…" Looking at Meng Yang, Yu Junchen said, "I hope Meng Yang will be happy. The third wish…"

Yu Junchen didn't say the third wish aloud, but instead wished with his eyes closed that he would be in love with Luo Sheng for a lifetime.

Yu Junchen blew out the candle and smiled amidst the cheers of others. Luo Sheng was standing behind others by the wall, watching Yu Junchen with a tender look of love.

Everyone ate, drank, and chatted together. After the banquet ended it was already quite late, so everyone decided to stay overnight. The villa was quite large, so twenty or thirty people could live there at one time.

After waiting in his room for a while, he received a call from Lu Yunjing.

"The fish are in the net, shall we start?"

"Let's get started," Meng Yang said.

The friends of Yu Junchen and Meng Yang, as well as Luo Sheng's guests, had already gone to bed when they were suddenly awakened by a knock on the door. They were then all taken outside the room on the top floor.

"Sorry to disturb you," Meng Yang said with an apologetic expression. "But I actually prepared a gift for Junchen today, and I'm hoping to surprise him. I hope everyone can witness this scene together now, so that we can end it soon and everyone can go back to bed. Please bear with me."

After Meng Yang finished speaking, he turned to the wooden wall and counted down: "Three, two, one!"

When Meng Yang's countdown ended, the walls in front of him suddenly swung open on both sides. A dry ice jet went off, accompanied by a steady stream of colored smoke cannons.

In the glass room, the two men who were hugging together on the bed were startled by the movement. They turned their heads and were dumbfounded, looking at Meng Yang in great shock. Meng Yang had his back to them and looked at other people calmly, no expression on his face.

Meng Yang turned and walked towards them step by step. The others saw this scene and were completely stunned, unable to respond for half a day.

Meng Yang walked to the bed and looked at them, saying, "Isn't this birthday present good? Do you like it?"

"You did this on purpose!" Luo Sheng looked angrily at Meng Yang.

"Yes, I did, but I did it for your own good. Now you can be together openly," Meng Yang said mockingly.

"Meng Yang, you listen to me, we didn't want to hurt you. We wanted to find the right time to tell you, we didn't want to hide it from you," Yu Junchen explained tearfully.

"So you thought that if you found the right time to tell me that you've been together behind my back, you wouldn't hurt me?" Meng Yang stared at Yu Junchen with a ridiculing look.

"I don't love you anymore, whoever I am with is my freedom. What rights and qualifications do you have to blame us?!"

"That's really good, at least it's a lot better than what Yu Junchen said. Although the slag is acting so righteous, at least he admits to being a slag, good, good." Meng Yang clapped a few times, saying, "Actually, you've been together behind my back for a long time now. In the beginning you felt that this kind of sneaky feeling was very exciting, so you didn't want to say anything. Then you felt that you really loved each other and wanted to be openly together, but you cheated and you didn't want to bear that reputation. You planned to break up with me first and then go out in the open together, so that in other people's eyes, you don't have any reason to be sorry to me, right?"

"Meng Yang, I'm sorry, we, we really should have told you earlier." Yu Junchen looked at Meng Yang with a face full of guilt and said, "We really don't want to hurt you, but we couldn't control our feelings, and we love each other…"

Meng Yang interrupted his words and said, "If you do it, just do it, why won't you admit it? It's disgusting to see you pretending again."

Meng Yang turned around towards the others and said, "How about it, isn't this scene exciting? You can remember these images for your whole life, and whenever Luo Sheng puts on airs or Yu Junchen puts on a kind face in front of you, you can mock them in your heart."

No one else dared to offend Luo Sheng, with heads low and eyes averted, but they felt that it was a good point in their hearts.

"Meng Yang!" Luo Sheng bit out through clenched teeth, "You'll regret what you did today!"

Meng Yang turned abruptly and looked at Luo Sheng, saying, "Want me to regret it? Bring it on, we'll wait and see who regrets it in the end." (1)

After Meng Yang left, everyone else went back to their rooms as well. They were all in a state of complete excitement and impatience to tell others what just happened, so this event would definitely spread as quickly as possible.

As the wooden walls slowly closed, only Luo Sheng and Yu Junchen were left in the glass room, and Luo Sheng jumped out of bed. He smashed everything that he could smash, but still couldn't alleviate his anger, while Yu Junchen tearfully held his own legs on the bed.

Luo Sheng didn't care about the reputation of being a cheater; who among the rich didn't have any tangled feelings and affairs. However, he was an extremely face-loving person (2), and being trapped in bed and watched by a crowd was a matter of great shame.

Yu Junchen was most afraid of being looked down upon and looked over. Although people might not insult him openly because of his relationship with Luo Sheng, who knew what they would say behind his back. Whatever he did after this, they would certainly mock his inconsistencies and hypocrisy.

When Lu Yunjing entered Meng Yang's room, he looked at him and asked, "Have you vented your anger yet?"

"Vented?" Meng Yang poured himself and Lu Yunjing a small glass of wine, then sat down and said, "This was only a small punishment, the real venting of anger is still to come."

Lu Yunjing didn't know what Meng Yang had experienced in his past life, so Meng Yang couldn't possibly explain to him how much he hated and despised Luo Sheng and Yu Junchen. Since his last life, the only thing he deeply loved anymore was the man who gave him warmth.

"Sorry, I got you involved."

"Whatever," Lu Yunjing shrugged. "I did promise to help you, and I'm naturally not afraid to offend Luo Sheng. He can't do anything to me."

Lu Yunjing's grandfather was a very powerful person. As long as his grandfather was there, Luo Sheng couldn't touch Lu Yunjing. In the previous life, it was exactly because Lu Yunjing's grandfather suddenly died that Luo Sheng's grandfather had the opportunity to use the Lu family. But in this life, Meng Yang would change each of these regrets one by one.

SMWOM 4

The next day, Meng Yang returned home with some movers. As soon as he entered the house, he saw that everyone in the house was waiting for him, watching him with some embarrassment.

Meng Yang was too lazy to pay attention to them, taking people upstairs to pack his important stuff and move out.

As Meng Yang brought people upstairs, his dad, stepmother, and Yu Junchen carefully followed him up to see what Meng Yang was bringing people to do.

They thought that Meng Yang had brought someone to throw out Yu Junchen's things, but he instead led people into his own room and told three of them what needed to be packed away. He then took several others to his mother's study.

In this study, there were many very important things, so there were two kinds of locks: password and key. Only Meng Yang could open the door.

"Meng Yang, are you going to move out?" Zhao Juan and Yang Su looked at each other, then turned back to Meng Yang and said, "Meng Yang, I know you're angry, but we really didn't want to hurt you, which is why we hid it from you. These kinds of feelings can't be forced…"

"Did I say I was trying to force anything?" Meng Yang interrupted her, saying, "If you want to watch, stand back and don't stop them from working."

"Meng Yang! It's clear that you're doing more than you say!" Yang Su posed with the authority of a father figure. "You angered Luo Sheng, which was very irrational for you and the company! Besides, if Luo Sheng doesn't marry you, he's free to be with who he wants. If it's not Junchen, he'll be with other people. You should be glad that Junchen is with him, otherwise if you did all of this, the company would be destroyed by your own hands."

"Everything you say makes me sick, can you shut up?" Meng Yang said expressionlessly.

"Meng Yang, I know that this'll be hard to accept for a while, but Junchen really feels guilty, and you've already made so many people talk about him and laugh at him. You've already punished him. Luo Sheng is very angry now, and Junchen has already gone to plead with Luo Sheng for you. You can go apologize personally to Luo Sheng and let him vent his anger, then it'll be a thing of the past, okay?"

Zhao Juan and Yang Su sang both a white face and a black face (1), acting both soft and hard towards Meng Yang. They wanted him to personally apologize to Luo Sheng so that Luo Sheng could save some face. They also wanted him to pay less attention to Yu Junchen, so that Yu Junchen could continue to live in the family.

Meng Yang's mother took the company over from his grandfather, which mainly dealt in products like perfumes, aromatherapy, essential oils, and other such items. Although it wasn't a big brand, it was a small and well-established company. Because of its good price-performance ratio, it was very popular with ordinary people.

Meng Yang's mother, while very good at business, didn't inherit his grandfather's gift for fragrance. Meng Yang was the same; although he had learned about perfume since he was a child, his talent for fragrance could only be considered average. His sense of smell was not particularly sensitive and his olfactory senses weren't that great. He was no match for Yu Junchen, who was later called a perfume genius.

His grandfather left Meng Yang's mother more than fifty books about perfumery, incense, and aromatherapy, which were all passed down from the previous generation of the Meng family ancestors. The content recorded in the books was all encoded. When Meng Yang was young, his mother taught him the correct way to read them, and told him he must never forget. In the past, although Meng Yang could read them, it was impossible to understand the profound contents of the books because his olfactory senses weren't very good. However, after his rebirth, Meng Yang read through the books and found them much easier to understand.

In his previous life, Meng Yang was distressed because he couldn't understand the contents of the books and felt that he had betrayed the hope and trust of his mother. Yu Junchen said that he would help him, and because he trusted Yu Junchen, he was really stupid enough to write out the way to understand the books and gave them to Yu Junchen to read. Later, Yu Junchen became a very famous perfumer and aromatherapist at a young age. These things played a key role.

In this world, Yu Junchen had only seen two of the books, and just these two books greatly benefited the talented Yu Junchen. Even before entering university, Xu Wangya, a famous perfumer, selected him as a disciple. Occasionally when he went to other countries to participate in displays and purchase raw materials, he would bring some back for Yu Junchen.

Yu Junchen stood at the door of the study and saw Meng Yang carefully packing the ancient books away into an anti-theft box with a password lock, ready to be moved away. He was immediately anxious, as he had a hunch that he wouldn't ever learn anything from those books again.

"Meng Yang, it's all my fault, I'll apologize to you, do I need to kneel down for you?!" Yu Junchen really knelt down at the door, anxiously looking at Meng Yang and saying, "Please, as long as you can forgive me, I'll apologize as much as I can! I'll move out of this house, and as long as you're angry, I won't come back, okay?!"

Zhao Juan watched Yu Junchen kneel and apologize to Meng Yang and was very distressed. She said with some anger, "Meng Yang, Junchen has already kneeled down and came clean to you, what else do you want? Do you have to be so unreasonable?!"

"Yes, Meng Yang," Meng Yang's aunt added. "We're all family here, why make things so ugly? Junchen begged you, so just forgive him. Luo Sheng loves Junchen and doesn't love you, that's not Junchen's fault. In fact, we all think that even if you love Luo Sheng, you won't be able to marry him. Luo Sheng obviously really loves Junchen and is very likely to marry him, which is why we didn't tell you. This is also for your company's sake."

Meng Yang automatically ignored everything they said and let the moving company move all the packed things away. The men stepped over Yu Junchen's kneeling figure, put the anti-theft box on the cart outside, and pushed the cart directly into the elevator.

"Meng Yang!" Yu Junchen saw that the books had been moved away and became even more anxious. "I'll break up with Luo Sheng, as long as you forgive me, I'll never see him again! I promise I'll break up cleanly with Luo Sheng (2)! Please don't move out!"

Meng Yang finished checking the study to see if there was anything left. He decided that everything necessary had been moved away and walked out while saying, "This house has already been sold; you have two days to move your things out. In two days, this house will belong to someone else. If you don't leave then people will call the police, so don't blame me for not reminding you."

"What did you say?!" Yang Su looked at Meng Yang in shock and angrily said, "You sold the house?! This is a house I bought with your mother, I am your father, and you dare to sell it without my consent?!"

Zhao Juan, too, was so anxious that she quickly followed Meng Yang and said, "Meng Yang, you're really going too far. Although you're an adult now, your father still matters, how can you sell the house without his consent? And since you sold the house, where will we live?"

"Where you want to live, what does it matter to me? Isn't your son with Luo Sheng now? One of the Luo family's businesses is real estate, they have plenty of money and houses. Let the Luo family give you a house or a mansion, why bother living in my house?"

Zhao Juan and Yu Junchen looked even more ugly after hearing Meng Yang's words. If they really did live in a house given to them by Luo Sheng, then Yu Junchen would go from dating Luo Sheng to being kept by him (3), which was completely different. If Yu Junchen had a reputation of being a kept man, not only would he be looked down upon, but the Luo family and Luo Sheng's grandfather would not agree to let them marry.

Yu Junchen didn't expect that Meng Yang would go so far as selling the house. He quickly ran after Meng Yang and looked at him with a pale face. "Meng Yang, what do you want me to do? As long you say it, I'll do it."

Meng Yang smiled coldly and said, "I've already sold my house and I've finished saying what I have to say. I'll do whatever I want from now on. The times when you would rely on while calculating against me are over. You should learn to be self-reliant."

"Meng Yang!" Yu Junchen called out to the leaving Meng Yang. "You're gambling at the cost of your own future and the entire company, you know that? I know I'm sorry, I can apologize to you, I can confess my sins, but I sincerely hope that you don't punish yourself because of my mistakes."

"As a person, you shouldn't be too full of yourself, but do you really think that Luo Sheng is so great that he can do whatever he wants to me? You'd better worry more about where you'll live." Meng Yang walked away as he finished speaking.

"Stop it! This is my house, who allowed you to sell it! Stop!" Yang Su screamed as he chased him out.

Zhao Juan sat on the sofa with her legs soft, then looked at Yu Junchen and asked, "This…Will it affect your marriage to Luo Sheng? What should we do?"

Yu Junchen sat down with a grim face. He had no idea what to do for the time being; he could only discuss it with Luo Sheng.

Yang Su chased after Meng Yang, but Meng Yang had already driven away. He could only angrily return to the house in a hurry.

When Meng Yang's mother and Yang Su divorced, Yang Su also got some property. Yang Su began to make various investments to prove his ability, but all his investments failed, and he lost all his money. Now that Meng Yang sold the house and would no longer be responsible for all their expenses, it could be said there's a salary at the bottom of the kettle, and they'd face many problems. (4)

"Brother, Meng Yang sold the house, where will we live in the future?!" Meng Yang's aunt turned around anxiously and angrily scolded him, "This Meng Yang has too big a temper and a hard heart! I can't believe he didn't even care about his dad and sold the house! What do we do?"

"Don't move! This is my house, I will definitely not move!" Yang Su gritted his teeth.

Meng Yang had already gone through the formalities of the transfer procedures; the owner of the house had changed, and they had to move.

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Next spring, Meng Yang would start going to college.

Although achievements and grades were normally key factors to decide which universities a student could test for, the graduation examination was also necessary. The university examination couldn't be taken without the graduation examination.

On the day of the graduation examination, as soon as Yu Junchen walked into the classroom, his chatting classmates all looked up at him and took out their cellphones, typing away.

Yu Junchen pretended to sit down calmly and take out his tablet computer to begin reviewing, but he didn't end up reading a word. He knew that from now on he'd have to get used to the weird looks. He would prove with his strength that although he had no money or background, his personal ability could be worthy of Luo Sheng.

Yu Junchen had been consoling himself in his heart. Being talked about and looked down upon was only temporary, so it didn't matter, he could endure it. When he proved his abilities and married Luo Sheng, everything would change.

—- Yu Junchen and Meng Yang usually look as close as brothers(1), I didn't expect one to steal the other's boyfriend.

—- Yes, his style is quite good, a kind and gentle look, but the result is he'd be a disgusting little three. (2)

—- That's right, this kind of discrepancy is the most disgusting.

—-If he directly said that he liked Luo Sheng and competed with Meng Yang fairly, I wouldn't look down on him so much, but he used such subtle methods to get together before they had broken up. Then he acted like such a good friend to Meng Yang, it's really shameless.

—-If I were to say, people like him are the scariest and shouldn't be befriended. He acts like he likes you on the surface, but who knows how many knives he's stabbed into your back.

—-Yeah, he's the kind of person you really can't get close to.

When Meng Yang entered the classroom, the students also turned to look at him, then typed faster.

—-Meng Yang seems okay, but it must be very hard to bear, right?

—-Isn't that obvious? If the closest person to you took away your lover, wouldn't anyone suffer?

—-I just saw a message from another group chat saying that Meng Yang sold his house, and it seems like it was a complete break with Yu Junchen.

—-Still, I think Meng Yang's way of exposing Luo Sheng and Yu Junchen was too irrational, isn't it completely offending Luo Sheng?

—-Right ah, this way of destroying face, although it vented his anger, is tantamount to driving himself into a dead end. Will Luo Sheng let him go?

—-Who knows, let's wait and see what happens next.

Yu Junchen also turned around and looked at Meng Yang. He then took out his mobile phone and sent a message to Meng Yang, saying that when the exam was over, they should find a place to sit down and talk. Meng Yang had already blocked him though and would not receive any messages.

Meng Yang was focusing on his tablet computer, though he wasn't reviewing; he was studying the terrain of a mountain in a certain country.

After the gentle sound of music in the classroom, all students immediately put away their phones and took out their tablets. Once the test content was sent to them, the network was blocked, and they could leave as soon as the answers were filled out within a specific time frame and sent to the podium.

Yu Junchen wanted to concentrate on the exam, but he was so worried that he couldn't focus.

In the original hour-long test time, Meng Yang took only half an hour to submit the answers and leave the classroom. Meng Yang found that since being reborn, his brain had become particularly flexible, which felt very good.

With two consecutive days of exams, Yu Junchen was unable to find a chance to talk to Meng Yang, who didn't give him a chance to say his boring nonsense.

Once the two days of exams were over, Meng Yang went abroad.

In his previous life, Meng Yang went into hiding in Tibet, thinking that no one would know him in such a remote area. He got lost and ended up breaking into a forest resort, which is when he met that man. Meng Yang hadn't been able to see the man's appearance clearly; he had only looked at him once before collapsing in front of him.

Meng Yang was taken in by that man and spent more than a year with him. Although during this year Meng Yang spent several months without saying a word, the man never pressured him for anything, only telling him that he was free to stay or leave. While staying with that man, Meng Yang felt an inexplicable sense of security. He didn't know why, he just felt that this man would be able to protect him, so he stayed.

Over the course of the year, Meng Yang unexpectedly fell in love with this man. He gave off a cold feeling, his legs were disabled and he had to sit in a wheelchair, and half of his face was disfigured. Still, every time he looked at him, Meng Yang felt the great charm of this man and couldn't help falling in love with him. Meng Yang felt that the man was also in love with him and was just hiding and enduring his feelings. That man was not a gentle person but was getting better and better by his side.

Meng Yang didn't want to get revenge or prove anything to anyone. He just wanted to spend his whole life with this man and live a life full of security and peace. However, Luo Sheng suddenly appeared and broke apart his dream-like life.

At first, Meng Yang thought that Luo Sheng was coming to find him. Later he learned that Luo Sheng actually came to find the man, who was Luo Sheng's father.

Luo Sheng was also surprised when he bumped into Meng Yang there. One day while the man was away, Luo Sheng decided to make Meng Yang, who had disappeared for a year, completely disappear from the world. In order to cover up the incident where Yu Junchen framed Meng Yang, he filled Meng Yang up with poison and ordered his men to take the dying Meng Yang into a mountain far from the resort. They threw him over a cliff that no one had ever visited.

Meng Yang was saved by a big tree and didn't die, instead ending up spending fifteen winters alone under the cliff. What kept Meng Yang alive, apart from the renewed hatred, was that he believed the man would come to find him.

He waited for fifteen years, and finally, Meng Yang couldn't wait any longer for the man to come to him.

Right before he was reborn, as Meng Yang lay in the cave and lost his living **, he had a very strange dream. He dreamed that the world he lived in was created by someone as a novel, and Yu Junchen and Luo Sheng were the protagonists of the world. He, on the other hand, was a tragic cannon fodder character to set off the two of them.

Although his dream didn't encompass the entirety of the book, he knew the general content. The reason the man didn't come for him was that the man was preparing to make public the fact that Luo Sheng wasn't his biological son and had also found enough evidence to prove Meng Yang innocent. However, he was killed by Luo Sheng's grandfather before he managed to do anything.

It was only after the man's death that Luo Sheng learned he wasn't his son, but he still inherited all the property of that man. After inheriting the Luo family business, he lived a happy life with Yu Junchen.

Meng Yang didn't know whether the dream was true or not. After all, the only clear things in the dream were about that man; perhaps because he loved that man too much, he had hallucinated everything. Still, no matter what the truth was, he had to be sure. In this life, he will both take revenge and pay off his debts of gratitude.

They came to a distant, small country called Ovis, where many skiers would often visit in the winter.

That man, or rather Luo Xiu, as Meng Yang learned from his dreams, would drive up the mountains soon. He would have a sudden headache and pass out, causing him to drive off the side of the mountain. The mountain was not terribly steep and through luck, Luo Xiu survived. However, his legs were disabled and half of his face was disfigured.

Meng Yang felt that, regardless of personal feelings from his last life or his dreams, Luo Xiu was a very extraordinary person. A person of such strength shouldn't end in such a way; he always felt that it was needlessly tragic.

There was the feeling that Luo Xiu's purpose was just to create a business empire for Luo Sheng to inherit. Once Luo Sheng was old enough to inherit it, Luo Xiu's existence was useless and he had to die. Luo Xiu knew that Luo Sheng was not his own son, but he had never broken their relationship. Luo Sheng inherited everything from Luo Xiu.

Meng Yang rented a villa near the snowy mountain and waited in his car every day at the intersection before returning to his residence in the afternoon. He was so nervous that he might miss the chance to save Luo Xiu, but though he didn't dream of the specific day, he was able to determine the approximate time by the angle of the sun. He also clearly remembered what kind of car he was driving and the license plate number.

Holding a thermos cup, Meng Yang sipped hot water and watched each car that drove past. When he saw the car exactly as he'd dreamed it, he immediately put down his cup and started the car. As he drove closer to the car, his hands began to tremble nervously as he saw the exact same license plate he'd remembered.

Meng Yang honked his horn hard to try and make him stop, but not only did Luo Xiu not stop, the car began to drive faster and faster. Meng Yang knew that Luo Xiu must have suffered from the headache and was already in a semi-comatose state, so he likely slammed on the accelerator instead of the brakes.

He was nervous, the anxiety making his palms sweat. If he couldn't change Luo Xiu's fate, what was the point of his rebirth? In any case, even if he had to bet his own life, he must change Luo Xiu's fate.

Meng Yang sped up next to Luo Xiu's car and tried to wake him up through the collision, but even after he bumped into the car several times, the car didn't slow down. Seeing the curve up ahead, if the car wasn't stopped it would go over the cliff, so Meng Yang could only slam into Luo Xiu's car while turning the wheel hard. Luo Xiu's car skidded against Meng Yang's car before a moment before they both crashed into the mountain wall next to them.

Meng Yang was barely conscious as he felt blood running down the right side of his forehead.

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Meng Yang's car crashed headfirst into the mountain wall, while Luo Xiu's car crashed half into the mountain wall and half into Meng Yang's car.

When Meng Yang hit the mountain wall, his forehead crashed into the glass with a violent collision, and he instantly slumped down. He felt dizzy and pained, but he finally got Luo Xiu's car to stop.

Just then, Luo Xiu had gotten a terrible headache and everything went dark. He tried hard to open his eyes, but everything was still completely black. It felt like something was hitting him, but he thought it was just an illusion from the pain. After he felt an even more violent collision, his disappearing consciousness slowly returned, and he felt his vision becoming clearer.

Luo Xiu quickly got out of the car once he clearly saw the situation. He rushed to Meng Yang's car and opened the door, seeing Meng Yang inside with his eyes closed and forehead bleeding. Luo Xiu was shocked and immediately pulled out his cellphone to call someone over, bending down to check on Meng Yang.

Meng Yang opened his eyes and saw his face before slipping into a coma-like state. Those eyes made Luo Xiu's heart shake, which filled him with wonder.

In order to make sure Meng Yang didn't freeze, Luo Xiu temporarily closed the door of the car and turned to look at the curve far ahead. If his car hadn't been stopped by that car, then he would've driven down that mountain and might be dead now. The man in the car saved his life.

Luo Xiu clenched his fists tightly; even he would be scared of the fact that he nearly died.

Luo Xiu's villa wasn't far away, so his bodyguards soon arrived. Luo Xiu carefully carried Meng Yang out of the car and had the driver rush to the hospital as quickly as possible.

Luo Xiu cradled Meng Yang in his arms, and after the bodyguard opened the medicine box, he personally handled the wound on his forehead with a hemostatic dressing.

Looking at Meng Yang's closed eyes, Luo Xiu was very worried and annoyed. This child had saved his life but had almost killed himself.

Most of the time, Luo Xiu went out with bodyguards. However, occasionally when he goes skiing he wanted to enjoy the feeling of being alone, so he went out without a bodyguard.

Today he'd suddenly wanted to go up to the mountain to ski, so he left without a bodyguard. Though his headaches were frequent, he'd never been in so much pain that he fainted before. The degree of danger just now, he and the child in his arms easily could have died.

When he arrived at the hospital, he immediately arranged for Meng Yang to have exams done. He also did a brain test for himself because the feeling was so strange. He wanted to determine how much his headaches had worsened. If the same thing happened in the future, he would have to take a bodyguard with him wherever he went.

Meng Yang felt uncomfortable, almost like he was hungover, with a headache and a nauseous stomach. He opened his eyes and blinked a few times before everything became clear.

"How do you feel? Are you okay?" Luo Xiu closely watched Meng Yang, waiting for him to fully wake up.

Meng Yang looked at Luo Xiu's face, somewhat in a trance, thinking that this was the man that he'd waited for those fifteen years. In this world, his face wasn't destroyed and his legs were fine; it was really wonderful.

This Luo Xiu, compared to the one he met in the last life, didn't look like the same person at all. Now, Luo Xiu was handsome, tall, strong, and had a perfect figure. Meng Yang's eyes moistened as the thought of their past lives brought complex emotions to his heart.

"Is it painful?" Luo Xiu guiltily looked at Meng Yang crying, thinking that his tears were from physical difficulties.

Meng Yang shook his head, signaling that he wasn't suffering.

"Don't be afraid. The doctor's already done a full body examination for you. You have no injuries other than the wound on the forehead, so once that heals you'll be fine," Luo Xiu comforted him softly.

Meng Yang nodded slightly, then closed his eyes and fell back asleep.

Luo Xiu asked the hospital to arrange the best ward for Meng Yang, as well as the best treatment and care. Over the next few days, Meng Yang could only rest in bed and undergo various examinations for his head. The doctors also assured Meng Yang that they would use the best medicine to make sure no scars were left on his forehead.

Meng Yang felt that there was no difference between living in a hotel room and living in the hospital, with the room service and Luo Xiu visiting him every day. It was only unfortunate that he'd missed the exam for the Saint James University (1) that he wanted to attend. He originally thought that once he changed the fate of Luo Xiu on the mountain, he would have time to go back and take the entrance exam. He didn't expect to be injured and have to stay for tests and treatment.

"Thank you for saving me," Luo Xiu thanked Meng Yang again.

"You already know who I am, don't you?" Meng Yang sat on the bed watching Luo Xiu.

Luo Xiu of course knew everything about Meng Yang, including his previous relationship with Luo Sheng. When he saw the information on Meng Yang, he was quite surprised at the coincidence. The person who saved him actually happened to be Luo Sheng's former lover, and they had broken up in such an unpleasant way.

What made him the most confused was that Meng Yang shouldn't be in this country at that time. After all, it was the time in China when universities were starting their exams, and Meng Yang seemed to appear specifically to save him.

"How do you want me to repay you?" Luo Xiu asked Meng Yang.

"Repay?" Meng Yang hadn't even thought about that.

"This life-saving grace should be repaid. As long as it's something I can do, I will help you out." Luo Xiu thought that if he really fell down that mountain, even if he was lucky, he would certainly lose half of his life. More than anything he dislikes owing people, let alone a life-saving debt, so he must repay him.

"I…I'll let you know after I think about it." Meng Yang had the sense of having picked up a genie in a lamp. After all, there was so much that the chairman of the Luo family could do, so he really had to think about it.

"I have to go back tomorrow to deal with some important matters. Would you like to go back with me, or would you like to stay here to recover before you head back?" Luo Xiu asked.

"I'll head back with you," Meng Yang replied immediately. Since Luo Xiu was returning to China, what was the point of staying?

Luo Xiu knew that Meng Yang had sold his house, so he didn't have a home and the relationship with his family was very strained. Meng Yang got injured because he rescued him, and he was obliged to take care of his post-injury recovery. According to his previous character, he would definitely send Meng Yang to a hotel, then let people take care of him until hospital tests said he was fully recovered.

However, looking at Meng Yang's deer-like moist eyes and sad listless look from his injury, he felt a softness that surprised even himself. In the end, he took Meng Yang home to care for him directly.

Meng Yang was also surprised that Luo Xiu would take him back to the Luo family home on Longling Mountain. When thinking about his plans for the future, he hadn't realized how pitiful and listless he looked in Luo Xiu's eyes.

Luo Xiu explained to the steward, Mr. Yuan, that Meng Yang would stay in the main house for a while. His housekeepers would take good care of Meng Yang until he was cured and could be cleared by the hospital exams.

Although it was the main house of the Luo family, it wasn't the Luo family's private property. Rather, it was bought by Luo Xiu, and the entire mountain was Luo Xiu's personal property. Meng Yang thought that since Luo Xiu invited him to live there, he could relax and live peacefully there. He also wanted to see what expression Luo Sheng would have once he knew he was there.

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Meng Yang, after all, had dated Luo Sheng and understood him to a certain extent. Luo Sheng had been raised by his grandfather and only returned to the Luo family's home once he was an adult. He had a house of his own outside and thus didn't return home every day. The Luo family home was also so large that even if they were under the same roof, they might not meet. Meng Yang thought that he would stay there for at least a few days before he would see Luo Sheng.

However, as Meng Yang and Luo Xiu were eating breakfast together the next morning, Luo Sheng came by. He looked as if he had something to say to Luo Xiu, but when he saw Meng Yang, he stopped in surprise.

"What are you doing here?!" Luo Sheng asked once he returned to his senses. "Who allowed you to come here?!"

Meng Yang didn't answer him, instead deliberately looking at Luo Xiu with innocent and helpless eyes.

"He's my guest that I invited to stay here. Do you have anything to say about that?" Luo Xiu looked at Luo Sheng coldly.

Luo Sheng was even more surprised at Luo Xiu's words, saying angrily, "Father, what did he say to you? I've already broken up with him, and whatever he says, it's a lie. Don't trust him!"

"I know he's broken up with you. Me having him here has nothing to do with you, so you don't need to care about it. If you don't want to see him then don't come back here." Luo Xiu hated Luo Sheng's mother and grandparents just as much as Luo Sheng, but it wasn't yet time to reveal that he wasn't Luo Xiu's biological son.

"Father, you can't let him stay here, you don't know what kind of person he is…"

"For the last time, he is my guest. If you dare continue to be rude to him, don't step into this house even half a step."

Luo Xiu's face showed no expression, not even anger, but this lack of emotion frightened Luo Sheng even more than normal. Afraid to say anything, he clenched his fists and glared fiercely at Meng Yang.

"Mr. Luo (1)," Meng Yang looked at Luo Xiu and said, "Luo Sheng doesn't want to see me, and I don't want to see him either. Why don't I go to a hotel…"

"You're living here for now and you don't have to go anywhere." Luo Xiu had been in charge of the Luo group for many years, and as such, was accustomed to making arrangements for others. Presently in his mind, Meng Yang was just a young man who should stay obediently and let Luo Xiu arrange the best care for him.

"Then, can I go out to see my friend today? I haven't seen him for a few days, and he's worried about me," Meng Yang asked. He knew that without Luo Xiu's permission, he might not be able to leave.

"Your injury isn't healed yet. Don't go out for too long, or have your friends come here," Luo Xiu said.

"I'll just go out for a little while and come back after talking a bit," Meng Yang said quickly.

Luo Sheng stood off to the side, neither leaving nor sitting down with them. He wanted to talk to Luo Xiu, but he didn't want to sit at the same table as Meng Yang. Luo Xiu and Meng Yang simply ignored his existence and continued to eat their breakfast. Watching the harmonious atmosphere, Luo Sheng was angry that he was at his own home, yet he felt out of place.

Luo Xiu glanced at the time and got up to go to the company, with Mr. Yuan sending him out. Only Meng Yang, Luo Sheng, and a few workers remained in the dining room.

"I have never seen someone as shameless as you! No matter how you persuaded my father to let you stay here, no matter what your purpose is, I'll warn you now; you'd better leave now and never show up in front of me again, or I'll make you regret it!" Luo Sheng warned fiercely.

Meng Yang took a sip of milk, wiped his lips, and stood up to look at Luo Sheng calmly. "If I live here and it annoys you, I'll be even happier. Also, you seem to not understand something. Mr. Luo is not just the head of the Luo company, but also the entire Luo family. He also owns this Longling Mountain, where he has invited me to stay. What qualifications do you have to complain? I'm really curious; I'm looking forward to what you'll do to make me regret."

As Luo Sheng watched Meng Yang leave, his heart was so angry that he wanted to rush over and throw him out himself.

Meng Yang asked Mr. Yuan to prepare a car for him and drove over to pick up Lu Yunjing.

As Lu Yunjing got into the car, he saw the bandage on Meng Yang's forehead. "What happened to your forehead?"

"Just a little injury, it'll be fine soon," Meng Yang replied as he drove.

"Anyways, what's so important that you had to go abroad while college exams were happening? Are you not ready to go to college? You said you wanted to go to St. James, but you've missed the exam. Do you plan to pick a normal university, or are you going to try again next year?"

"This year I plan to go to perfume competitions, and if I'm lucky, I might be able to be taken as a student by a master and get a special entrance exam. If I don't have that luck, I'll do it next year." Meng Yang did regret that he had missed the St. James exam, but he was confident about participating in the competitions.

"You might not know, but Yu Junchen and his mother, as well as your father, aunt, and uncle, are living in Luo Sheng's house. Your father keeps telling everyone that you're unfilial and have no conscience and that he's going to sue you.

Meng Yang smiled coldly and said, "How is he going to sue me? Sue me for not supporting him? I'm 19 years old and still a student, and he's not in his 70's or 80's. He can take care of himself. After a few decades have passed, I'll give him some money every month according to the law."

Meng Yang had been upset with his father in his past life, and in this life, he was just ending their father-son relationship.

"One more thing…Luo Sheng and Yu Junchen, they're getting engaged. I asked people to inquire, and Luo Sheng is doing it to prevent Yu Junchen from being looked down on for being kept. Therefore, he worked hard to obtain the blessing of his grandfather. Yu Junchen is one of the most important students of Xu Wangya and is the best-performing student among those entering St. James University's perfume school. That's valued even before school begins, so Luo Sheng's grandfather agreed to their engagement."

"As far as perfume goes, Yu Junchen is quite talented and hardworking." Though how far this could take Yu Junchen in this world, Meng Yang would wait and see.

"Still, their engagement isn't necessarily established. Luo Sheng is of the Luo family after all, and he's the only son of his father. Even if his grandfather agreed to his engagement with Yu Junchen, his father won't necessarily agree. But even if Luo Sheng's father disagrees, Luo Sheng has proven his determination and sincerity. The friends who used to have a good relationship with us are now surrounding Yu Junchen, that's the reality."

"They weren't very good friends then. What they do is their own business and we can't control it." Meng Yang knew all these people from before, and his anger and sadness all belonged to that previous life. Now, he felt no emotion regarding them.

"Luo Sheng has already said that he would never let you off. Your company may have some difficulties…"

"You don't need to worry, I know." Since Meng Yang had openly shed all pretenses of cordiality with Luo Sheng and Yu Junchen, he was prepared for Luo Sheng to interfere with his company. However, he had rescued Luo Xiu who would certainly not stand idly by.

Meng Yang drove the car to the outskirts and stopped the car by the side of an empty road, watching the scenery as he talked with Lu Yunjing.

At that moment, a sleek black car pulled over in front of them and a person stepped out alone.

"Oh, you two, watching the scenery here?" Xiao Ke walked over to the window with a mischievous face. He looked at Meng Yang and sneered, "I heard that Luo Sheng fell out of love and dumped you. I wanted to ask how you're feeling now."

"Get out of here!" Lu Yunjing glared at Xiao Ke.

"What's the rush? Let's have a good chat." Xiao Ke glanced provokingly at Meng Yang. "I'm really curious about how you're feeling. This has really been entertaining for me recently, you know? I find it especially laughable thinking about you defending Luo Sheng before this."

"I said go, you hear me?!" Lu Yunjing shouted.

"Ai, just tell me, how do you feel now?" Xiao Ke pretended not to hear Lu Yunjing, continuing to provoke Meng Yang.

Meng Yang looked at Xiao Ke blankly, then opened the door and got out.

Standing before him, Meng Yang looked for a moment before punching him in the face.

Xiao Ke didn't expect that Meng Yang would take action and fell to the floor unguarded.

"You dare to hit me?!" Xiao Ke was immediately enraged and stood up to fight back, but was quickly kicked in the stomach by Meng Yang and sat back on the ground.

Meng Yang stepped on Xiao Ke's stomach and looked down at him.

Lu Yunjing quickly stepped out of the car to stop Meng Yang. "Meng Yang, forget it, he just has a cheap mouth. Don't lower yourself to his level."

Xiao Ke felt that he had lost face and became even more angry. He threw off Meng Yang's leg with great effort and wanted to fight back, but he wasn't Meng Yang's opponent at all and could only be beaten down one-sidedly.

Meng Yang grabbed Xiao Ke's shirt and dragged him for a few steps before throwing him hard on his car with a loud noise.

Opening the door of the back seat of Xiao Ke's car, Meng Yang threw him in. He pulled out his belt and tied his hands to the handrail above the window of the car, then opened the door to the driver's seat and got in.

"You let me go!" Xiao Ge struggled hard and yelled, "Untie me or I won't let you go, you hear me?!"

"Meng Yang, what are you doing?!" Lu Yunjing ran over, but before he had finished speaking Meng Yang had already driven away. He could only go back to Meng Yang's car and drive to catch up.

Lu Yunjing was very worried that Meng Yang would hurt Xiao Ke in a fit of fury, as the Xiao family was not one to be trifled with. If Meng Yang really hurt Xiao Ke, it would certainly be a big deal.

SMWOM 8

Not far ahead was one of the city's largest racetracks, where Xiao Ke often came to practice driving and race with others. He also organized his own team and occasionally took part in some formal races.

Car racing, that kind of burning money and extreme stimulation, was highly attractive to many rich young masters. Meng Yang and Luo Sheng actually met at a racing track.

Xiao Ke, with his hands still tied, had been shouting curses and threatening for Meng Yang to let him go. Meng Yang, as if he couldn't hear anything, drove the car directly onto the racetrack.

Generally speaking, when you came to the track to practice or race, you had to show your membership card at the gate. However, Xiao Ke's father was one of the shareholders of the racing track. The guards at the gate knew Xiao Ke's car and let Meng Yang drive directly in without stopping him. They all thought that Xiao Ke had come to vent his anger and didn't dare get too close.

Curves, ramps, rocky paths, mud pools, and sand. Meng Yang drove Xiao Ke's car, drifting (1) and flying past everything. He felt the pleasure he used to feel at showing off his driving skills and enjoying the excitement.

Although Xiao Ke often raced, he was still frightened and often cried out. He felt that the car could really fly so high and so far. Several times he felt that Meng Yang was about to hit a wall on the edge of a curve, but Meng Yang simply stuck by the side as he passed and didn't hit anything.

In addition to being scared by Meng Yang's speed, he was hit several times on the glass during Meng Yang's sharp turns, causing him to get a bit dizzy.

Lu Yunjing drove his car into the circuit and pulled up to side of the field. Looking at the images on the huge screen, he was immediately dumbfounded. When did Meng Yang's driving skills get so good? It was almost like one of the great professional drivers.

The people in the monitoring room in the racetrack also excitedly praised Meng Yang's driving skills.

"Oh oh oh! What's going on here? Did Young Master Xiao take the wrong medicine? He's become so amazing!"

"The cornering speed is too fast, it's very professional."

"That ramp trick is too cool!"

"Falling! It's falling! Done! How powerful!"

"I say, is the driver really Young Master Xiao? Surely there's someone else in there?"

"….It's possible, yesterday when he came to practice he wasn't as good, now he's suddenly so great today, it's unscientific."

"Yes, he's not driving, is he?"

After Meng Yang had driven all the tracks, he drove the car directly out of the racetrack with Lu Yunjing following behind him.

Xiao Ke's face was ugly as he clenched his teeth. He was trying desperately not to vomit as his stomach churned. It was the first time in his life that he'd been frightened by a car ride.

Meng Yang pulled out of the racetrack and stopped at the roadside where they started. He stopped stably and got out of the car, opening the back door. He untied the belt attaching Xiao Ke's hands and pulled him out of the car.

As Xiao Ke got off, his legs were weak, his head was still dizzy, and his feet were unsteady. He simply sat on the ground and grabbed his hair in his hands. The sense of shame made him unable to even lift his head; it wasn't just that he was beaten by Meng Yang, but he was frightened into screaming, which made him feel even more ashamed.

Lu Yunjing also drove his car over. Meng Yang walked over and took a bottle of water from the car to drink.

"You…" Lu Yunjing wanted to ask Meng Yang when his driving skills became so powerful, but Meng Yang stopped him with a look. Lu Yunjing looked at Xiao Ke and didn't continue to ask.

"How do you feel?" Meng Yang looked at Xiao Ke and said, "Was it exciting? Was it cool?"

"You're so good at driving. Why haven't you ever shown it before?" Xiao Ke asked. "In order to not steal Luo Sheng's limelight?"

"I won't tell you why, but if you want to know how to beat Luo Sheng when racing, I can tell you."

Listening to Meng Yang's words, Xiao Ke was stunned, then sat on the ground and hesitated for a long time. He had some trouble with Meng Yang before and was just beaten by him. According to his personality, it was absolutely impossible for him to cooperate with Meng Yang. However, in addition to being frightened by Meng Yang's driving skills, he also envied him in his heart that he could be so good at driving and knew a way to beat Luo Sheng. It was too tempting for him.

After some hesitation, Xiao Ke stood up and said, "If you can really tell me how to beat Luo Sheng, all our bad blood will be forgotten, but if you dare to play me…"

"Is it necessary for me to play you like that? If I wanted to play with you, isn't it more fun to tie you up in the car and go to the track for a few more laps?" Meng Yang looked at him and said.

Xiao Ke turned his head away, shame returning at the reminder of him crying out, but he was still impatient to hear an answer. "Then you say it, how can I beat Luo Sheng in a race?"

"The method is very simple. You invite him to race and I beat him. But I'll drive your car to race him, I won't show my face, and you can't tell anyone else that I won," Meng Yang said.

"No!" Xiao Ke immediately rejected. "Either you join our team to beat him openly or tell me the way that I can win against him openly. This method of finding a substitute to cheat, I, Xiao Ke, dislike using it. Also, if it was found out, I wouldn't have any kind of face to race with others in the future."

"I didn't say that you would race him in your own name, don't you have a team? Just challenge him with the name of the team. After I beat him, you can just tell Luo Sheng and the others that you didn't beat him, but your team won the race. As long as you win against Luo Sheng, you can just ignore me. Do you understand the word game? Anyways, I'm not a professional racing driver and have never even participated in a race. If I was found to have won against Luo Sheng, how would it affect the reputation of you and your team?"

"Why don't you just win against him fair and square? With your driving skills now you can definitely beat him, and you'll also be able to get revenge for the love affair, wouldn't this be better for you?" Xiao Ke said doubtfully.

"Of course I have a reason why I can't show up directly. As for the reason, I won't tell you. Do you agree or disagree, just give me an answer."

Xiao Ke began to hesitate again.

"If you agree with my proposal, I'll join your team and teach you to improve your driving until you can beat Luo Sheng on your own." Meng Yang finally threw out the biggest bait.

"I agree, it's settled!" Xiao Ke agreed at once.

"If I win for you right away, people will think it's strange. Every once in a while, I'll go to the circuit to practice for you. You'll tell everyone that you've hired a good coach, and then you'll go to challenge Luo Sheng in the name of your team," Meng Yang said.

Xiao Ke was also very straightforward and didn't say anything further. After leaving contact information, he turned around and left.

As Xiao Ke left, Lu Yunjing looked at Meng Yang and said, "You really plan to join hands with him to deal with Luo Sheng? Sometimes he's like a madman, he's very hard to rely on."

"Crazy is crazy, but in fact, he's a very good person. He's highly loyal to his friends and would never stab someone in the back. He has his own principles and bottom line. Compared to Luo Sheng's betrayal and Yu Junchen's gross hypocrisy, he's trustworthy and suitable as a friend."

"Do you know him so well?" Lu Yunjing was even more doubtful. "And your driving skills…"

"I know you're confused. If I have a chance, I'll think about how to explain it to you. Don't ask for now because I can't clearly explain it you." Meng Yang didn't want to cheat Lu Yunjing but he couldn't tell him about his rebirth. He could only say nothing and not explain for the time being.

"Well, wait until you want to talk," Lu Yunjing sighed.

Meng Yang took Lu Yunjing home and drove back to the Luo family home in Longling mountain.

Why Meng Yang said he could trust Xiao Ke was because of his past life. Meng Yang was really not that talented in fragrance mixing back then. After breaking up with Luo Sheng, no matter how hard he tried, he was always crushed by Yu Junchen. He wanted to beat Luo Sheng using Luo Sheng's favorite racing hobby to regain a little sense of presence and self-esteem. Now he thought it was fortunate that he practiced so hard in his previous life, because it let him save Luo Xiu in this life. Otherwise, he would have fallen down the mountain with Luo Xiu.

In his past life, Meng Yang and Xiao Ke became friends by chance. At Meng Yang's most depressed time, in addition to Lu Yunjing, Xiao Ke helped him a lot.

In the end, both of them failed to have a good life. In this lifetime, in addition to changing his own destiny, Meng Yang would do his best to change their connected destiny.

SMWOM 9

In the evening, as Luo Xiu returned to the main house and was about to head back to his room to rest, Mr. Yuan reported to him, "Sir, Master Meng Yang only drank a bit of porridge for dinner and went to bed. I saw that he looked uncomfortable, so I asked the doctor to come over. After checking him, the doctor said he was okay but should rest properly and not be overworked."

Luo Xiu frowned and went up to Meng Yang's room.

Meng Yang was sleeping in a daze when he felt that someone had come in. Immediately opening his eyes, he saw that Luo Xiu was the one who came in. He sat up and looked at Luo Xiu to say, "Mr. Luo, you're back?"

Luo Xiu sat down on the side of the bed, looked at Meng Yang's poor complexion, and asked, "What did you go out to do today?"

"I… I chatted with my friend and then came back, nothing else. Maybe it was the wind that was blowing outside, but I suddenly felt a bit uncomfortable when I came back. But Mr. Yuan called a doctor to check on me, and the doctor said I'd be okay after a good rest." Meng Yang didn't want Luo Xiu to know about his car racing. He beat up Xiao Ke to get him into the car and then drove single-mindedly with lots of tossing and turning, so he felt a bit uncomfortable upon coming back.

"Don't go out again until you're well." Luo Xiu habitually used a commanding tone. He knew that Meng Yang was at an age where he liked to go out and play with friends, but it was important to rest and recuperate after an injury. He thought that Meng Yang was too young to understand or care about such things, but if he left behind any residual injuries or complications, he would surely regret it later. As the person who caused Meng Yang's injury, he had the responsibility to use the attitude of an elder generation to ask him to rest well.

"I know." Meng Yang put on a clever and obedient appearance.

"You're absolutely safe in here, and no one can hurt you. If you don't feel at ease then I can have someone stay outside." When Luo Xiu came in, he saw that Meng Yang was extremely vigilant even in his sleep, which seemed to be a manifestation of insecurity.

"No, just have Mr. Yuan lock the door." When Meng Yang lived at the bottom of the cliff, he became accustomed to staying highly alert even while sleeping.

The two of them sat quietly for a while. Meng Yang leaned on the headboard, pale and weak-looking, once again arousing compassion and sympathy in Luo Xiu's cold heart. He thought that this boy was a little pitiful. He had some family, but they were like vampires, so it was better to have nothing.

Luo Xiu also had many relatives, and after so many years of loneliness, he could understand Meng Yang's feelings and felt a little more sympathy for him.

"Have a good rest." Luo Xiu got up to leave.

"Mr. Luo…" Meng Yang called Luo Xiu, looking like he wanted to say something else.

Luo Xiu looked at Meng Yang puzzled and waited for him to continue talking.

"I…" Meng Yang looked up at Luo Xiu and said, "When we were abroad, you said that in order to repay me for saving you, you could help me with whatever you could."

"Have you decided what you want me to do for you?" Luo Xiu asked.

"I hope you can marry me." Meng Yang looked at Luo Xiu seriously and said, "As long as three years is okay, then you can repay me with three years of marriage. Do you agree?"

"Married?" Luo Xiu looked at Meng Yang in shock and said, "Marriage isn't a small thing for me or for you. I can't agree with your request, so let's change it to another one. I can give you half of my personal property."

"Half of your wealth is a deadly temptation to anyone, but not for me," Meng Yang said, smiling. "I just want three years of marriage, and we can divorce after those three years. I have no other requirements except this. That's all I ask, but you can agree or disagree with this. I will not force it, and I know that it won't force you, so it's up to you to decide."

"You want to get revenge on Luo Sheng by marrying me?" Luo Xiu asked with a look at Meng Yang.

Meng Yang thought for a while and said, "This is really the best way I can think of to get revenge on him."

Meng Yang felt that if Luo Xiu thought he wanted to get back at Luo Sheng, the three-year marriage agreement might be easier for him to agree to.

He loved this man so much that he waited for him under that cliff for fifteen years, but the man had not yet fallen in love with him. He gave himself three years to make this man fall in love with him. After spending more than a year with Luo Xiu in his previous life, he felt that Luo Xiu also liked him. This time, he was confident that he could make Luo Xiu fall for him. Still, experience had taught him that love can be cultivated but not forced. If Luo Xiu didn't fall in love with him in three years, he was willing to give up and guard him as a precious friend.

"Well, I'll think about it, and you think it over as well. We'll talk about it when you're better," Luo Xiu said finally after a long glance at Meng Yang.

"Good," Meng Yang immediately agreed.

Luo Xiu turned and left Meng Yang's room.

Lying down, Meng Yang closed his eyes and recalled his previous experience with Luo Xiu. He was afraid of Luo Xiu in the beginning, not because of the destruction of Luo Xiu's face, but rather his unapproachable cold manner. After several months together, Meng Yang felt Luo Xiu's gentle side, and then couldn't help but be attracted by his charm and fall in love with him.

From his past experiences with Luo Sheng, Meng Yang was afraid to love and kept restraining himself. But when he felt that Luo Xiu actually liked him, he felt the true joy of happiness for the first time. In this life, he would do his best to achieve the perfect love and happiness that he failed to start before.

Luo Xiu returned to his room to wash up. He lay in bed to sleep and thought about Meng Yang's words with Meng Yang's delicate and immature face coming to mind. Although nineteen was old enough to be married, it was still too young for him. However, since he wanted to get revenge on Luo Sheng, it wasn't impossible to get married in name only without the real status of a husband and wife. It was only three years, and he refused to be indebted to others.

Over the next few days, Meng Yang was very earnest in resting and recuperating, in that he barely even opened the door to his room. Lu Yunjing called him to go out but was refused. He wanted to recover his injury and get Luo Xiu's reply as soon as possible.

Luo Xiu was very busy during this period. He didn't return to the main house every day, so Meng Yang didn't see him very often either. When Meng Yang finally didn't have to bandage his forehead anymore, he couldn't wait to call Luo Xiu to say that his injury was healed.

In fact, though Luo Xiu didn't return to the main house daily, the housekeeper would report Meng Yang's situation to him. He was very clear that although Meng Yang no longer needed the bandages, he wasn't completely cured. Meng Yang was just urging him to reply as soon as possible.

As there was no time to return to the main house, Luo Xiu asked Mr. Yuan to have a driver send Meng Yang to the Luo group headquarters.

Meng Yang entered Luo Xiu's office, sitting on the sofa to wait. Once Luo Xiu finished handling the documents in his hands, he got up and went to sit down opposite Meng Yang.

Luo Xiu looked at Meng Yang and said, "Three years of marriage or half of my assets, you can only choose one. If you choose a three-year marriage, you'll have to sign a prenuptial agreement and give up your property. Do you need me to give you time to think about it?"

"No need to think about it, I'll choose the three-year marriage," Meng Yang immediately said.

"In reality, if you want to retaliate against Luo Sheng, there are other ways than marrying me. You could take my money and live a happier life under my protection than he does. Even though he's my son, you're my savior and I won't let him hurt you for that."

"Whatever you may think my reasons for three years of marriage are, my choice won't change," Meng Yang said firmly.

"Then…" Luo Xiu opened up a document and placed it in front of Meng Yang, saying, "Since you insist on this choice, please sign this prenuptial agreement. During the marriage, I'll bear all your normal expenses and give you pocket money each month. After three years, all the property in your name will belong to you."

Meng Yang took a look at the amount of pocket money on the agreement and raised his eyebrows, saying, "Mr. Luo is generous."

"Compared to what you turned down, this money isn't even worth mentioning."

"No matter what you say I won't change my mind." Meng Yang immediately signed the prenuptial agreement and pressed his own fingerprint onto the electronic screen.

After signing the prenuptial agreement, the next step was naturally to register for marriage.

The next day, Meng Yang received his marriage certificate. He was finally married, giving him an unreal, dream-like feeling.

Meng Yang sat in the car and stared at his marriage certificate for a while. He slowly turned to look at the man sitting beside him, thinking that he actually married this man and became a legal couple with him.

Luo Xiu also turned to look at Meng Yang. His divorce with his ex-wife was almost ten years ago, and because it was a business marriage, they were both unwillingly forced by their families. Ultimately, they divorced in disgust. Luo Xiu had no idea that, after years of divorce, he would remarry to a boy so much younger than him. Although it would only be three years of marriage, his life in his second marriage had officially begun.

Once Luo Xiu returned to the company, Meng Yang called Lu Yunjing and told him that he had a new home, asking him to visit.

Lu Yunjing thought that Meng Yang had bought a new house and wanted him to see it. When he learned that Meng Yang had been married and that he was married to Luo Sheng's father, he thought that Meng Yang was just joking with him. Seeing the two's marriage certificate, he thought that his jaw would fall off in shock.

Meng Yang wanted to take all the things that he'd stored with Lu Yunjing's family and move them to the Luo family's main house in Longling Mountain. Luo Xiu told him that as his legal partner, for the next three years, he was also one of the owners of Longling Mountain.

Meng Yang and Lu Yunjing were already heading up the mountain, and coincidentally, Luo Sheng had invited his and Yu Junchen's friends over to play. He had invited them very deliberately to humiliate Meng Yang.

SMWOM 10

Those people who used to be Meng Yang and Lu Yunjing's friends and were now friends of Yu Junchen were chatting around the indoor pool in the Luo family home.

"Luo Sheng had been with Meng Yang for over a year before and never invited us to come to the main house. Now he's just started dating you and invited us to play; the difference is too great."

"Luo Sheng and Meng Yang were just playing with each other. He and Yu Junchen are dating on the premise of marriage and will be engaged soon. Of course there's a big difference."

"Meng Yang didn't know what's good and what's bad. Feelings are a matter of both sides, and if you don't love, you don't love. What's the point of tearing face and making things so ugly? Wouldn't it have been better to part without blame and cut the knot as smoothly as you tied it?"

"Yeah, if they parted with no hard feelings they could've still been friends; angering Luo Sheng was really too stupid."

"It was because I didn't want to hurt him, so I kept it from him and tried to find a good opportunity to tell him, but I still hurt him," Yu Junchen smiled helplessly. "I'll apologize to him later, so he should… shouldn't be as angry anymore."

The others looked at each other, thinking that this was really hard to say. If you really didn't want to hurt him, you shouldn't have done such a thing in the first place. But these people, since they've chosen to bow to reality and stand on Yu Junchen's side, will of course not put their own thoughts to words. They immediately changed the topic to talk about other things.

On Luo Sheng's side, his friends around him were also talking about all the kinds of things he'd done for Yu Junchen recently.

"You're not really all in this time, are you? Are you actually going to get engaged to him?"

"Yeah, it's a little early to get engaged, even if you like him that much."

"I've decided that he's my true love. I won't marry anyone else except for him, so it's not too early to be engaged right now." Luo Sheng finished and looked over at Yu Junchen.

"But even though your grandfather agreed, are you sure that your father will agree?"

"Yeah, even though you grew up beside your grandfather, you are your grandfather's grandson after all, not his son. What'll you do if your father doesn't approve of your engagement with Yu Junchen?"

"Even if you give money to Yu Junchen to open a company, the gap between you two is still too big. From a family perspective, you're really worlds apart."

"Although your father doesn't care about you at all, I don't think he's likely to agree to your engagement with Yu Junchen."

"Even if it's hard, I'll fight for my own happiness. If I'm not with my beloved person in this lifetime, even if it means more money, what's the point? I am first an independent man and second my father's son. I'm in charge of my own life, and no one can interfere with my freedom of marriage," Luo Sheng said with determination. "My father only has one son and hasn't remarried for so many years. Apart from me, who else can he pass on this huge fortune to? Will he give it to my cousins who don't know how to learn and can only eat, drink, and play? Anyways, I'll certainly be engaged to Junchen."

The others looked at each other again. From Luo Sheng's eyes and attitude, they felt that he was really serious this time.

Last time, Luo Sheng was going to tell Luo Xiu that he wanted to be engaged to Yu Junchen, but he was too surprised and angry at seeing Meng Yang to tell him. Since then, he'd been thinking about the reason why Luo Xiu let Meng Yang stay there. He felt that it was likely the first step of Luo Xiu's opposition to his engagement. Thinking that rather than tell Luo Xiu and hear his opposition, he decided it was best to first decapitate and later present the trophy. (1) He'd have his grandfather help him and Yu Junchen hold an engagement ceremony first.

He'd brought these friends today to have them humiliate Meng Yang and make Meng Yang leave in shame. However, Mr. Yuan had told him that Meng Yang went out early in the morning.

When the car stopped, Mr. Yuan opened the door for Meng Yang.

Meng Yang and Lu Yunjing got out of the car and saw two rows of servants dressed in uniform.

"Let's go in and take a look," Meng Yang said to Lu Yunjing.

"It's worthy of being the Luo family home; it's really huge." Lu Yunjing couldn't help but sigh, "This is a real noble family. The house is so magnificent that it's oppressive, it seems others really didn't exaggerate. I've heard people say there's a particularly big and beautiful garden, and you can see the sea from some rooms."

"On the other side of the mountain is the sea, which can be seen from the bedrooms." Once Meng Yang answered, he asked Mr. Yuan, "Mr. Yuan, is Luo Sheng at home today?"

"Yes, Young Master has invited some friends to play and is entertaining them in the indoor pool," Mr. Yuan answered.

"Oh?" Meng Yang smiled and thought that it was truly timely, then said, "Take me to meet them."

Mr. Yuan replied respectfully, "Yes."

"Are you sure you want to cause problems with him now?" Lu Yunjing said, looking at Meng Yang.

"I'm not going to cause problems with him," Meng Yang said, still smiling. "From today on I'll be living here and will see him when looking down, not looking up (2), so I'm just going to say hello."

Luo Sheng and his group were talking about a swimming match when Luo Sheng's friend saw Mr. Yuan come in with people. After a moment's hesitation, he said, "Luo Sheng, your family seems to have some guests."

"Guests?" Luo Sheng turned to look in doubt, thinking that his father wasn't home, so why would guests suddenly come at this time? Even if there were guests, they shouldn't be brought to the pool, especially since he was entertaining friends there.

Mr. Yuan brought Meng Yang and Lu Yunjing to the poolside and backed away.

After seeing clearly that the people were Meng Yang and Lu Yunjing (3), everyone was stunned.

Luo Sheng returned to his senses first, asking with a frown, "Haven't you left yet?"

Ignoring Luo Sheng, Meng Yang walked directly to the poolside and looked out through the glass wall. "I've lived here for so many days but haven't been to this indoor pool yet. The scenery outside is really nice."

This indoor pool was quite large. Though the snow hadn't melted outside, it was very warm inside and was adorned with many beautiful tropical plants.

As soon as Luo Sheng saw Meng Yang, the humiliating scene of him and Yu Junchen being stuck in bed came to mind and his anger quickly flared up. "You're really brazen enough. Do you think that if you stay here, I'll get back together with you? Stop dreaming!"

Seeing Luo Sheng clenching his fists, Yu Junchen immediately hugged his arm, saying to Meng Yang, "Meng Yang, you apologize to Luo Sheng and come back with me. It's too inappropriate for you to depend on others' houses like this."

"Apologize?" Meng Yang turned to look at Yu Junchen with a puzzled expression, asking, "Have I done anything that needs an apology? Why apologize?"

"…" Yu Junchen lowered his head in embarrassment at Meng Yang's sarcasm.

Meng Yang looked at Luo Sheng and Yu Junchen before saying, "From now on, I'm one of the masters here."

"…" Luo Sheng looked at Meng Yang as if looking at a mental case and said, "Are you out of your mind? You dare to dream here?"

Others couldn't help but laugh at Meng Yang's words and look at him mockingly.

However, some friends who used to be close to Meng Yang were very embarrassed for him and began to advise, "Meng Yang, Luo Sheng has broken up with you. It's too much for you to run to someone else's house, go back quickly."

"Yeah, Meng Yang, even if you don't want to accept this fact, it's impossible for Luo Sheng to be with you. If you don't apologize, he can't get along with you as a friend. You don't need to say these embarrassing things to us or to yourself anymore."

"Luo Sheng, it seems like you really hurt him too much. Did he maybe lose his mind and is imagining that he's married you and is now a master here?" Luo Sheng's friend said.

"He also looks really pitiful, for the sake of the past, let's send him to a hospital for a check-up with the psychiatric department."

"You'll never be the owner of this place in your life because I won't marry anyone other than Junchen. The most impossible person is you, so either leave on your own or I'll have someone throw you out. You can choose."

"Do I have to marry you to be a master here?" Meng Yang said calmly. "You're not the real master here, are you?"

"I think you really are out of your mind!" Luo Sheng yelled. "You'd better get out of here immediately or I'll throw you out with my own hands! Don't blame me for not saving your face then!"

"Your father is the real master here. Everything on this mountain is your father's private property, and before you inherit your father's property, you're not the real master here. You're not qualified to make me leave." Meng Yang though that, although he didn't know why Luo Xiu didn't expose Luo Sheng as not his son for many years, Luo Xiu must have his own reasons. This matter can't be exposed by him, but he would never tolerate Luo Sheng bullying him indiscriminately just because he was Luo Xiu's son.

"I'm married to your father and am his legal partner now. Do I need your permission to live in my husband's house?" Meng Yang said with a smile.