Second Marriage of a Wealthy Old Man

by Usui Takumii

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

3. 21 to 30

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Xu Wangya had lost face from making trouble with Meng Yang in class and was naturally angry. However, he wasn't angry because Yu Junchen hadn't beaten Meng Yang. He was angry because he'd lived to such an age, what scenes had he not seen, and he had been put on the spot by a student that hadn't even entered his eyes before.

Xu Wangya did have to admit that Meng Yang's sense of smell was really strong. This incident had occurred because he had underestimated Meng Yang, so he had to bear it.

Still, he didn't think that Meng Yang was better than Yu Junchen. A sensitive sense of smell was an important asset, but talent in perfumery relied mainly on the ability to comprehend, and Yu Junchen was the best of all the students he'd accepted. He believed that his future achievements would be very amazing, and possibly in the future, Yu Junchen's achievements could surpass his. However, he thought that it was impossible for Meng Yang to surpass Yu Junchen in talent. In all the past years, he'd never made an error in his judgment.

Having lost the test against Meng Yang, Yu Junchen was in a low mood. At the same time, he was worried that Xu Wangya would blame him for this failure. He was only relieved when his senior brother, Wen Yuan, told him that Xu Wangya wasn't angry with him, and even thought that Meng Yang could never surpass him in the future.

After the masters left the classroom, the students walked out and talked about Meng Yang and Yu Junchen's scent test.

"No wonder Meng Yang's score on the entrance exam was higher than Yu Junchen's. He must've got a high score in the scent test and in knowledge of spices, since these two scores account for the majority. As for scores in the basic knowledge exam, we can get a general idea of the numbers from his scores in his previous school."

"I was sure that Meng Yang's score must have a lot of water in it, but judging from his performance, I don't think it's necessary for him to cheat at all."

"On the whole, is Yu Junchen stronger or is Meng Yang stronger?"

"I think Yu Junchen should be stronger. Accuracy in scent tests can be improved through practice, but talent is very hard to change and improve. Yu Junchen has won first place in competitions several times before, but Meng Yang has never won a prize in past competitions. He must be more talented."

"But Meng Yang has now become a student of Master Lin Songtai. He might be even better than Yu Junchen in the future, right?"

"Yu Junchen is a student of Master Xu Wangya though, and Master Xu Wangya's students are better than Master Lin Songtai's students. Isn't that widely known? It's obvious that the teaching ability of Master Xu Wangya should be better than Master Lin Songtai's."

"It's also worth saying that Yu Junchen is obviously more talented than Meng Yang. Since Master Xu Wangya's ability to guide is better than Master Lin Songtai's, the possibility that Meng Yang will be better than Yu Junchen is too small."

"Still, whether it's becoming a student of Master Xu Wangya or a student of Master Lin Songtai, it's a really enviable and desirable thing."

Meng Yang had two classes in the morning and two classes in the afternoon. After the end of the first day of classes, Meng Yang didn't head back to the main house in Longling Mountain. He instead asked the driver to take him to the headquarters of the Luo Group.

As he entered Luo Xiu's office, Luo Xiu was on the phone, so Meng Yang took out his own fragrance bottle from his backpack. (1) Taking off the bottle top and putting it on the small round table, he sat down on the sofa and pulled out a tablet. He'd saved some of the ancient books onto his tablet, and whenever he was free, he'd take it out to study and do research.

Luo Xiu ended the call a half an hour later. Meng Yang put down the tablet and walked over to Luo Xiu, sitting down on the armrest of his chair. Massaging his shoulders and the back of his neck, he asked, "Will you be busy till late today?"

"It won't be too late today; I'll be done in four or five hours," Luo Xiu said while looking at a document.

"Then let's have dinner at the office today," Meng Yang said.

"How was school today?" Luo Xiu asked.

There's no need to talk about Meng Yang's massage techniques. He pressed the acupoints very accurately, so Luo Xiu couldn't help but relax. It was too satisfying, and he couldn't help wanting to close his eyes and enjoy it.

"The courses on the first day are very simple and are easy for me to understand," Meng Yang said. "Today, for the first day of school, I wanted to go to dinner with Yunjing to celebrate, but his family will definitely celebrate with him. I can't make him ignore his family just for me."

Meng Yang deliberately sighed.

Luo Xiu said, "If you want to say something, just say it."

"Tell you what?" Meng Yang pretended to hesitate before saying, "The generation gap between us is quite large, right? You won't necessarily understand my troubles and other things when I talk about them. You'll only tell me some important principles and maybe lecture me."

"Am I really that old-fashioned in your eyes?" Luo Xiu asked, signing a document.

"I don't know if you're old-fashioned, but you've been trying to raise me like a son lately, so maybe you'll lecture me like a father," Meng Yang said. "But recently, I seem to be very envious of Yunjing. His parents and grandparents love him very dearly. In his heart, my father cares less about me than Lu Yunjing does. Today, Yunjing asked me to go to his home for dinner, but I was afraid I'd feel envious and sad, so I refused."

Meng Yang put his arms around Luo Xiu's neck and pressed his face to his, saying, "Mr. Luo, do you really want to be my father? I don't want to be your son though, so what should I do?"

Luo Xiu sped up his reading of the documents and said, "If you don't want me to treat you as a son, I can treat you as a brother."

"Can't I have another choice?" Meng Yang asked.

"So what do you want me to do for you?" Luo Xiu said. "I'll respect your ideas."

"Really? You'll really respect my ideas? Then…" Meng Yang kissed Luo Xiu's face hard and said, "Do you understand?"

Luo Xiu felt the soft touch of Meng Yang's lips on his face. He froze for a moment before saying, "Let's go eat."

"Didn't you say it'd take four or five hours to finish?" Meng Yang asked.

"Today was your first day in school, and it should be celebrated. Let's go." Luo Xiu stood up, heading to the side to pick up his coat and put it on.

Luo Xiu hadn't given him a response, so Meng Yang was a little disappointed, but at least he'd gotten Luo Xiu to put down his work.

Luo Xiu's headache couldn't be completely cured in such a short time period, and he didn't know the medicinal fragrance that could erase it yet. Meng Yang was still reading the ancient books carefully. What he could do now was try to find a way to get Luo Xiu to rest when it was time to rest, so his headache wouldn't become worse.

Luo Xiu would take bodyguards with him when he went out, and he wouldn't drive by himself, so Meng Yang didn't need to worry about his safety for the time being. He could just carefully study those ancient prescriptions.

After dinner, Meng Yang pestered him until he returned to the main house. Luo Xiu wasn't allowed to go back to work.

Once they returned to the main house, Meng Yang massaged Luo Xiu with essential oil, and Luo Xiu then went to the bathroom to take a bath.

"Mr. Luo…" Meng Yang pushed the bathroom door open, but he froze in the doorway and looked at Luo Xiu.

Luo Xiu immediately took a bath towel and wrapped it around his waist. He then turned to Meng Yang and asked, "What's the matter?"

Looking at the place underneath Luo Xiu's towel, Meng Yang's brain felt a little rattled. He'd completely forgotten what he wanted to say.

"Something to say?" Luo Xiu asked again, turning off the water and looking at Meng Yang.

"That's right…" Meng Yang's eyes kept looking up and down Luo Xiu's body, and he couldn't remember what he was going to say. Swallowing, he said, "Nothing, I…I'll tell you when I remember."

Meng Yang walked back through the bathroom door and went over to the bed, falling down on it with his hands covering his warm face. He knew there was a big gap between him and Luo Xiu in all aspects of his figure, but he didn't expect that the gap would be so large. He couldn't help but worry about the future. If he and Luo Xiu developed to that point, he wouldn't be able to bear it.

After Luo Xiu came out of the bathroom, Meng Yang went in to wash up. The picture he saw just now was lingering in his mind, making his body hotter and hotter. Meng Yang was entirely a man, and was thinking about why the gap between Luo Xiu and him was so big until he finished his bath and left the bathroom.

Meng Yang didn't stick close to Luo Xiu when he went to bed like before, instead looking at him from a distance, embarrassed.

Taking a deep breath and cheering himself on in his heart, he approached Luo Xiu slowly. He hugged Luo Xiu's arm like before and said, "Mr. Luo, let's talk."

"What do you want to talk about?" Luo Xiu asked as he looked at news on his mobile phone.

"Have you been single for so many years because you haven't met someone you like? What type do you like?" Meng Yang asked.

"I haven't thought about it before, but I haven't met a type that I liked yet," Luo Xiu answered truthfully.

"So, do you think I could be your type?" Meng Yang said.

Luo Xiu put down his phone, thought for a moment, and turned to Meng Yang to say, "I can understand that you feel uneasy and lonely in your heart. There can sometimes be a temporary dislocation with people's emotions and feelings, but sooner or later the misplaced emotions will return to the right place."

"Everyone is saying that I've made it now that I'm married to Mr. Luo. In fact, I think so too. Mr. Luo is so handsome and generous, and you're so gentle to me. I really don't want to give you up to anyone else." Meng Yang looked into Luo Xiu's eyes and said, "Why don't I seriously think about if my emotions are misplaced, and you also seriously think about if you can like my type, okay?"

Luo Xiu was silent.

"If you don't say anything, I'll assume you agree," Meng Yang decided on his own.

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Meng Yang went to Lin Songtai's teaching courtyard the next day and officially became his student. He also met his senior brothers and sisters, and after talking with them, Meng Yang thought that they were all good people and were easy to get along with. There should be nothing bad about coming to classes here. Meng Yang felt that masters definitely liked to accept students with similar personalities and styles.

Once Lin Songtai left, Meng Yang and the others packed their things and prepared to leave.

"Meng Yang, we're going to have a dinner party today. You should come with us," Wu Feng said, turning to Meng Yang.

"I'm sorry, senior brother. I have an appointment today, but next time," Meng Yang replied. He hadn't seen Luo Xiu for three days, and today he had to go to the office and have him eat and rest.

"Well, this time was a little sudden, so I'll tell you in advance next time," Wu Feng said.

"Good." Meng Yang picked up his things and said, "I'll leave first, senior brother."

Okay," Wu Feng nodded.

As Meng Yang left the courtyard, Yu Junchen and his two senior brothers walked right up to them.

"Meng Yang." Yu Junchen stepped up to Meng Yang, looking at him and saying, "I'm going to have dinner with my senior brothers this evening. You should come with me; I want to introduce you to them."

Meng Yang ignored him and walked directly around him.

"Meng Yang…" Yu Junchen saw that Meng Yang didn't pay attention to him and called out again, but Meng Yang still ignored him. Yu Junchen could only turn around and show a lost expression.

Wen Yuan immediately frowned at Meng Yang's attitude. He went over to Yu Junchen and said loudly, "Why are you inviting him? In our hearts, he doesn't even deserve to give you shoes. How can he eat with us? In the future, you should pay less attention to such people so as not to lower your standards."

"Senior brother, let's hurry to class or the teacher will be unhappy if we're late." Yu Junchen was worried that Wen Yuan's words would be heard by Meng Yang, making it even more difficult for them to reconcile. He urged Wen Yuan and the others to quickly leave.

As Yu Junchen walked forward, he looked back at Meng Yang and sighed helplessly in his heart. If he wanted to reconcile with Meng Yang, he had to create a suitable opportunity.

In fact, in his past life Meng Yang had been introduced to Yu Junchen's senior brothers and knew them too. Because Meng Yang's talent for perfumery wasn't high, they despised Meng Yang in their hearts. It was nothing to look down on Meng Yang and ignore him, but they also often taunted him. Meng Yang wasn't so stupid that he couldn't hear it, so he would no longer meet with them.

Almost all of Yu Junchen's senior brothers were like their teacher, Xu Wangya, arrogant and upright. Though they did have reason to be proud, they would flaunt their greatness by mocking others. Meng Yang couldn't look up to them, whether in this life or his last life.

Furthermore, Wen Yuan liked Yu Junchen, and had been very ambiguous with Yu Junchen in his previous life. Before Meng Yang knew that Yu Junchen had been together with Luo Sheng for a long time, he always thought that Yu Junchen would be with Wen Yuan. Meng Yang knew that even if Yu Junchen was now engaged to Luo Sheng, he'd definitely continue to be ambiguous with Wen Yuan in this life. It was just his character, so he'd wait to watch a good show.

Besides going to school everyday, Meng Yang spent most of his time in the study room of the main house, seriously studying the ancient books about aromatherapy left by the Meng family ancestors. However, if Luo Xiu hadn't returned to the main house for more than three days, Meng Yang would visit his office. He had to wear him down until he was willing to have dinner with him or return to the main house.

Based on what Meng Yang understood from his dreams, he knew that Luo Xiu's "setting" was a workaholic. He would work nonstop to make money and was addicted to his work. Even when he had a moment to rest, he would need to find something to do to constantly expand their industries. Only when the headaches were very severe would he stop and take a break. It was because of this that his headaches would become more and more serious.

In addition to having a work addiction and headaches, Luo Xiu had a few other characteristics formed by this "setting". Meng Yang would slowly change him though. In this life, they would be happy.

Meng Yang's senior brother Wu Feng and Yu Junchen's senior brother stood in the lobby of the most famous ancient style hotel in the city, Asking Root. (1) They were at odds with each other because there was only one empty courtyard, and it wasn't easy to clear out another courtyard. People on both sides had always looked down on each other and always took the chance to sneer at each other when they met in school. Now that they happened to meet outside, they naturally wanted to argue until the end.

Yu Junchen had come here to eat with Luo Sheng before. Luo Sheng told him that his father and a few friends had invested in Asking Root together for fun. The better the business, the better the inn became, so it only entertained member customers.

Wu Feng's boyfriend Qin Hong's father was a member of the hotel, and Yu Junchen's senior brother Wen Yuan's father was also a member of the hotel, but there was only one vacant courtyard. They had both come at the same time, and they wouldn't tolerate each other. It was very hard for the service staff there.

Yu Junchen thought that since Luo Sheng's father was one of the bosses here, the manager would definitely give Luo Sheng face, so he called him over.

However, when Luo Sheng arrived, Wen Yuan was unhappy again. He deliberately said to Luo Sheng, what was a small courtyard? If Luo Sheng really had the ability, then he'd take them to the Liuxiang courtyard. Luo Sheng couldn't understand Wen Yuan's hostility and contempt, but he was a proud person who loved face. Even though he knew Wen Yuan was deliberately provoking him, he would still prove him wrong.

However, the manager said to Luo Sheng, "I'm sorry, Young Master Luo, I really don't have the right to let you into the Liuxiang courtyard."

Wen Yuan knew that the manager would say this and deliberately sneered at Luo Sheng.

Luo Sheng looked at the manager with displeasure and said, "Did you say that when my father came? Or do you need my father to call you before you let us enter the Liuxiang yard?"

"This…" Hesitating for a moment, Manager Xu slowly said, "If it's President Luo's personal request, naturally you can go in."

Of course, it was impossible for Luo Sheng to call Luo Xiu over such a small thing. He had no such confidence in front of Luo Xiu.

Just as Luo Sheng was thinking of saying something more serious to obtain the manager's approval, Luo Xiu and Meng Yang came in from outside the gate.

"President Luo!" Manager Xu seemed to see his savior and quickly walked to meet Luo Xiu. "President Luo, Young Master Luo and his friends happen to be here. Do you want to arrange for them to be in the Liuxiang courtyard?"

Luo Xiu frowned slightly, and manager Xu immediately understood what he meant. He asked the service personnel to prepare the yard without mentioning anything about Luo Sheng entering the Liuxiang courtyard.

Seeing Luo Xiu coming, people on both sides voluntarily retreated and left the middle road open.

Meng Yang turned to look at Wu Feng, stopping to ask, "Senior brother, you're here for dinner, so why don't you go in?"

The manager quickly explained the situation to Meng Yang.

"I see." Meng Yang looked at Luo Xiu and asked, "Mr. Luo, can you let my senior brothers eat in the Liuxiang courtyard?"

Luo Xiu nodded.

Liuxiang was the largest courtyard of Asking Root. There was ,of course, more than one room. When the manager saw Luo Xiu nodding, he immediately asked people to prepare things again.

"Let's go, senior brother," Meng Yang said to Wu Feng.

"Do you come here often?" Wu Feng asked Meng Yang.

"Occasionally when I have the time," Meng Yang replied.

As he said this, they walked in. Luo Sheng was ignored, and his face became extremely ugly.

Wen Yuan thought that since Luo Xiu had come, Manager Xu would definitely let them in on Luo Xiu's orders. After all, Luo Sheng was Luo Xiu's son. Unexpectedly, Luo Xiu didn't pay attention to Luo Sheng at all and went inside, and Meng Yang even brought Wu Feng inside with him.

This time, no one competed with them for the small courtyard that wasn't easy to have vacated, but Luo Sheng was in no mood to eat, and turned away in anger.

Yu Junchen didn't know what to do for a moment. He wanted to catch up with Luo Sheng, but he couldn't leave these senior brothers alone either. After hesitating for a while, Yu Junchen didn't go after Luo Sheng and instead stayed with his senior brothers.

Wen Yuan's mood was a little complicated. He didn't know if he should be happy or not because of Luo Sheng's disgrace because Wu Feng and the others had "won".

Meng Yang and Luo Xiu sat cross-legged beside the low window. A small stream was outside the window, and though it was an artificial stream, it was designed in a very natural way.

"I chose equestrianism as my elective course in sports, but I've never learned to ride. I want to practice before I start. Will you teach me?" Meng Yang asked Luo Xiu.

"Understood. I'll take you to pick a suitable horse tomorrow, and you can use it in class," Luo Xiu said.

"Thank you, Mr. Luo." Meng Yang got up and walked over to Luo Xiu and hugged Luo Xiu's shoulders to express his thanks.

Luo Xiu patted Meng Yang's back. He thought that Meng Yang would immediately let go, but Meng Yang held him tightly and didn't release him.

"What's the matter?" Though Luo Xiu couldn't see Meng Yang's face, he still felt that there was something wrong with his mood.

Meng Yang loosened his grip on Luo Xiu and sat down and held his legs. He looked down and said, "After my mother died, no one was sincerely good to me apart from Yunjing, who took good care of me as a friend. I'm very clear that you're accommodating me because I saved you, but I can't help but be moved."

Luo Xiu stroked Meng Yang's hair and said, "It's true that I'm very grateful to you for saving me. Just like I believe that you're truly good to me in always wanting me to rest, you can also believe that I'm sincerely good to you. Still, it's important to understand your feelings clearly. I don't want you to regret anything later."

Luo Xiu was always so busy, but he still immediately agreed to teach Meng Yang to ride a horse. Meng Yang really was moved. Even so, Luo Xiu obviously thought that Meng Yang's feelings for him weren't love. This was within Meng Yang's expectations, but he was still a little lost.

Luo Xiu thought that he and Meng Yang were brought together by fate. He'd never felt lonely before meeting Meng Yang, but after Meng Yang came to his side, he thought it was rather nice to have someone to accompany him. Yes, and he seemed to have the desire to protect Meng Yang.

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The next day, Luo Xiu took Meng Yang to the Mountain Creek Horse Ranch to practice riding.

The manager of the horse ranch knew that Luo Xiu was coming and that he wanted to select a horse for Meng Yang. As such, he immediately had the trainers lead out the best horses out for him to select.

As Luo Xiu and Meng Yang arrived at the horse ranch, the manager greeted them with respect. Luo Xiu and Meng Yang changed into equestrian clothes and boots, and the manager personally drove the tour bus to take them to choose horses.

It was very sunny, but the blowing breeze made it comfortable. Meng Yang took off his sunglasses and looked around at the large stretch of green grassland and racecourses; even Buddha wouldn't be able to see the end of it.

The horse trainers had been waiting with their horses. When they heard that Luo Xiu was going to choose to buy one of their horses, they were very excited. If one of them could take care of and train Luo Xiu's horses full time, they'd have a very prosperous life for at least the next few years. In other words, they were relying on their horses to live.

"It seems that the equestrian lessons in our school will also be held on this track," Meng Yang said to Luo Xiu.

Luo Xiu nodded.

"Our stables have always been in charge of the equestrian classes at St. James University, with training and teaching happening in block B5," the manager smiled.

Once they arrived at the VIP area, the manager first alighted from the car and helped Meng Yang open the door. Meng Yang and Luo Xiu got out of the car and went over to the rest stand with a sunshade to sit down. The service staff had prepared tea and fruit and stood off to one side, waiting for orders to come at any time. Luo Xiu's bodyguards and assistants stood on the other side.

Soon, several horse trainers came over while riding on their horses. When the horses were all arranged, the manager came to Luo Xiu to say, "President Luo, these horses are not only of good breeding, they are also very beautiful and have good color. Most importantly, their characters are very gentle, so even a beginner can control them well."

"Go and have a look," Luo Xiu said to Meng Yang.

"Okay." Meng Yang nodded and got up to see the horses that had already been arranged and were standing there.

Meng Yang didn't really know what made a horse good, but he knew that all the horses that could be sent to Luo Xiu for selection would be good and expensive. Even if he didn't know much about horses, he thought they were beautiful.

Meng Yang took martial arts lessons in his last life and had practiced them for many years since he was a child. In this life, he wanted to learn skills that he hadn't learned in his last life, so he chose the equestrian lessons that he thought were useless in his last life.

Glancing around, Meng Yang took a fancy to a horse that looked soft and shone golden in the sun, and headed straight for it.

"May I touch it?" Meng Yang asked the trainer.

"Yes," the trainer replied.

Meng Yang stroked the hair on the horse's neck and smiled.

"Do you like this one?" Luo Xiu approached Meng Yang's back and asked.

"It's beautiful." Meng Yang didn't know what kind of horse was good, so he just chose it according to appearance.

"Young Master Meng has a really good eye. There aren't many Golden Snow horses in this world, and our ranch has made great efforts to buy it through an auction abroad. This kind of horse has a gentle character, is light and elegant while running, and is very smart and easy to control. It's very suitable for beginners to learn equestrian skills." (1)

"Such a high-quality horse must be very expensive, yes?" Meng Yang asked.

"It's indeed more expensive than President Luo's horse. After all, rare things are more costly, and this kind of horse is very difficult to breed. It has its own high value."

Meng Yang began to calculate in his heart whether it was a good deal to buy this horse. After all, it was good-looking, but who knew if it was worth buying. How much time would he spend on horse-riding?

"Run a lap first to try it out. If you like it, we'll buy it and take it home to raise," Luo Xiu said.

"Can I really bring it back and raise it?" Meng Yang looked at Luo Xiu, beginning to have some expectations.

"The main house has a place to keep it. We can let it bask on the lawn and occasionally send it to the horse ranch for inspection and training."

"Can you bring back the horses you bought before as well? That way it'll have company. When I don't ride it, it won't be alone," Meng Yang said with a smile as he stroked the horse's face from top to bottom.

The manager's heart also immediately became happy, because Meng Yang had practically bought the horse on behalf of Luo Xiu. It was better to sell the most expensive horse to Luo Xiu rather than sell it to other people, because Luo Xiu had always been generous, and the cost of taking care of a horse was not a small amount.

Luo Xiu helped Meng Yang to mount the horse, then sat behind Meng Yang. He turned the horse's head and had him trot, then slowly speed up.

Feeling the light feeling of running, he couldn't help but feel happy. This kind of free feeling of flying through the wind was very unique and was a different kind of fun from driving. He seemed to understand why so many rich people would like to ride horses in a modern society with such advanced technology. Before, he thought that riding a horse would be hard and bumpy, and that driving was more smooth and comfortable, but now he understood it had a lot do with the horse that he was riding.

Meng Yang leaned back on Luo Xiu's broad and strong chest and felt very safe, and enjoyed the pleasant sensation. Once they'd ridden the horse for a lap, they returned to their original spot.

Luo Xiu dismounted and looked at Meng Yang to ask, "Do you want to try another horse?"

"No need," Meng Yang said with a smile. "Let's take it home."

Luo Xiu looked at Meng Yang's happy smile, and his mood got better. Although he enjoyed making money and felt that it was fun, the main reason he made money was to make himself stronger, so he kept on making more money. But over the years, although he'd spent a lot of money as well, it seemed that spending money had never made him happy. But today, because of Meng Yang's smile, he felt the pleasure of spending money for the first time.

The manager brought over the electronic purchasing contract from the assistant and put them in front of Luo Xiu. Seeing Luo Xiu sign put him in a good mood. He decided to go home after this and celebrate with his wife and children.

The manager raised his hand towards the other horse trainers. For other horses that weren't selected, the horse trainers could only ride them away in disappointment.

Luo Xiu began to teach Meng Yang how to ride a horse. Since Meng Yang had been reborn, his brain was better and he learned things faster. However, he purposefully didn't learn horse- riding immediately, so that Luo Xiu would sit behind him and hold him longer. From time to time, Luo Xiu would bow his head and tell Meng Yang how to keep his balance, as well as how to understand and control the horse's state. The two people's bodies were stuck together tightly, and when Meng Yang was about to tilt over from the rocking of the horse, Luo Xiu would use one arm to hug his waist.

When Luo Xiu took Meng Yang off of his horse to rest, Meng Yang raised his hands and put them around Luo Xiu's neck and kissed his face. He said cheerfully, "Thank you, Mr. Luo, I'm very happy today."

Luo Xiu touched Meng Yang's hair and looked at his smile, and also felt very happy.

Meng Yang and Luo Xiu returned to the main house and took the horse back with them. He had decided to name the horse Lengyang, meaning cold sunshine.

After he brought Lengyang back to the main house, Meng Yang asked Luo Xiu to practice horse riding with him on the lawn outside the main house when he was free. Since he'd learnt to ride a horse, he had wandered around on Longling Mountain. It was a good feeling to run in the woods. Sometimes Meng Yang would ride his horse to the beach at the back of the mountain to enjoy the sea breeze.

The school's equestrian class was about to start. The time of the school's equestrian class was the same as the business school's. It was the only class that Luo Sheng and Yu Junchen could take together, so they both chose to take the equestrian class.

Though the horse ranch would provide horses for students for their equestrian lessons, if they had their own horses at the ranch, they could use those to practice. Some students chose to take equestrian lessons because their horses were at the horse ranch.

Yu Junchen didn't own a horse at the ranch, but Luo Sheng had bought a horse for him and told Yu Junchen that he'd like it once he saw it.

Once all the students arrived at the racetrack, they put on their equestrian clothes and took the tour bus. The business school and the fragrance school would practice in adjacent areas.

The students got off the tour bus and went to stand in the rest area. A coach came over and asked the students without their own horses to raise their hands. Finally, after confirming the number of students who needed a horse, the trainers were informed through a headset to bring in the horses.

While waiting for the horses to arrive, the students chatted amongst themselves.

In the fragrance college, both Yu Junchen and Meng Yang were people that students wanted to curry favor with. One of them was married to Luo Xiu while the other was engaged to Luo Sheng, and one was a student of Master Lin Songtai while the other was a student of Master Xu Wangya.

"Junchen, will you also use your own horse? What breed is your horse?"

"Luo Sheng bought me a horse, but I haven't seen it myself yet. He just said that I'd like it," Yu Junchen said with a smile.

"This kind of half-surprise is quite romantic. Even I'm looking forward to it."

"When I came to practice riding, I saw Luo Sheng's chestnut red horse. It was very tall and handsome."

"Will Luo Sheng come here to teach you how to ride?"

"He said he'd come over during free practice time," Yu Junchen replied, looking forward to it.

"Wow~ your fiance is personally teaching you, it really doubles the romance. I feel envious just thinking about it."

"Here, here! Look, the horse in front is my horse!"

The students' personal horses arrived first, and someone said, "Junchen, quickly guess which one Luo Sheng sent you, and let us see if you're really connected."

Yu Junchen looked at the horses carefully and guessed which would be his in accordance to the ones he liked.

The students looked at the horses that were running in, eyes full of excitement. Among the black, white, chestnut, and brown horses, a light golden horse suddenly appeared and immediately attracted everyone's eyes.

"Am I hallucinating? Can only I see that pale golden horse, or can you all see it?"

"I also see the beautiful horse. Isn't that Pegasus from that Western fantasy movie?"

"I know that horse! There are only 20 to 30 of those horses in the world, and they're extremely expensive. Someone really bought one?!"

"I saw this horse when I came here with my father. The manager of the racecourse said that they had spent a lot of effort to bid on it from abroad. My father also said that no one would buy it any time soon, because just keeping it would be very expensive."

"Could that be the horse that Luo Sheng bought for Junchen?"

Yu Junchen looked at the beautiful horse with wide eyes. He was surprised to hear that it was the horse Luo Sheng bought for him. Although he didn't understand much about horses, he knew the value of this horse just by listening to his classmates talking about it.

"He's worthy of being the young master of the Luo family, they're really too rich!"

Once the horses had lined up, the students resisted the urge to rush over and get a closer look at the light golden horse. So many people rushing towards it would have frightened the horses, so they had to wait for the coach to call names first.

Yu Junchen looked at the pale golden horse, and his heart was full of anticipation. He was already imagining in his mind what it'd be like to ride it.

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The coach began to call the names of the students to come claim their horses.

The students named walked quickly to their horses and happily stroked their necks. Since school had started, apart from the equestrian class, it was difficult to find much free time to see them.

"Fifth horse, Yu Junchen," the coach called, looking at the roster on the computer.

Yu Junchen, who was suppressing his excitement and anticipation, suddenly froze, because the fifth horse was a white horse. Though the white horse was also very beautiful, his expectations fell through, making him unable to respond.

"Fifth horse, Yu Junchen." The coach saw that Yu Junchen had frozen and thought he didn't hear clearly, so he called again.

Just now, those who'd thought the pale gold horse was given to Yu Junchen by Luo Sheng were stunned, before becoming more confused and curious.

Yu Junchen walked towards the white horse in a daze, but his eyes were always locked on the light gold horse beside him. He felt uncomfortable and unwilling, as if his things had been robbed.

The horse stood in the middle of all of the horses, and was the most outstanding one in the crowd. In comparison, other horses that were normally very beautiful looked common.

"Sixth horse, Meng Yang."

Meng Yang walked to his horse with all the students' eyes focused on him. The people beside Yu Junchen had been talking about Luo Sheng giving a horse to Yu Junchen, so no one remembered that Meng Yang was the one married to the chairman of the Luo Group. How could Luo Sheng be richer than his father?

Yu Junchen's expression was quite ugly as he lowered his head. He felt as if he'd just lost face, and he was also a little angry that when those people were talking just now, why hadn't Meng Yang said that it was his horse? Meng Yang had definitely intended to make him lose face.

Once all the students who owned a horse got on their horses, they would slowly ride them into the horse ranch under the guidance of the trainers to start practicing. There were more students without their own horses, so they couldn't all huddle together. The horses provided by the ranch for practice had arrived, but everyone's eyes were still focused on Meng Yang's horse that was like a suspended picture.

Yu Junchen couldn't ride a horse, so the horse trainer helped him lead the horse into the horse track. His eyes were on Meng Yang who was on his horse. He wasn't really interested in equestrian lessons, but he wasn't good at the other sports elective courses either. Taking equestrian lessons would allow him to be with Luo Sheng, so he chose them. But although he wasn't interested in horses and riding them before, he had to admit that the horse Meng Yang was riding would greatly appeal to anyone. Just its appearance alone made people want to own it.

All the students were ready with their horses, and the students with riding experience and those without experience would practice under the guidance of the trainer and the coach respectively.

Students with riding experience had a free practice time period, while those like Yu Junchen, who had no experience at all, could only slowly trot at most.

The coach confirmed that Meng Yang was riding well, so he was allowed to run freely.

Meng Yang felt like going for a run first, so he rode his horse into the distance while everyone watched after him.

"It's so beautiful, just like a horse out of a fairy tale."

"For the first time, I really saw elegance in a horse."

"That horse is so expensive that it's scary, he's really worthy of being the chairman of the Luo Group."

"Though it's expensive and intimidating, we'll never know the feeling of owning such a horse. I've always thought that our family was rich, but now I can't help but sigh: the more money, the better."

Yu Junchen sat on his horse and listened to their comments. He couldn't say what kind of mood he had. The horse Luo Sheng gave him also looked very good and was from Luo Sheng's heart. He'd always thought that the intention was more important than anything else, but he wasn't sure why he didn't feel very happy now.

The business school also began its free practice period, and Luo Sheng came over to Yu Junchen on his horse. Seeing Yu Junchen sitting on the horse in a daze, he called out, "Junchen?"

Yu Junchen just came back to his senses and looked up at him, "…Luo Sheng."

"Do you like the horse I gave you?" Luo Sheng asked with a smile.

"Like…I like it." Yu Junchen also smiled and said, "Thank you."

"What's the matter with you? Do you not feel well?" Luo Sheng looked at Yu Junchen. Though he had a smile on his lips, there was no smile in his eyes.

"No, I'm just not used to riding since it's my first time," Yu Junchen quickly explained.

"It's normal to be afraid of riding for the first time, let me teach you," Luo Sheng said.

"Okay," Yu Junchen nodded.

Luo Sheng got down from his horse and got up on Yu Junchen's horse and sat behind him. Luo Sheng's friends also came over, and when they saw Luo Sheng sitting behind Yu Junchen, they all started teasing and laughing.

At that moment, Meng Yang rode back to the pasture and once again attracted everyone's gazes. Luo Sheng and his friends were all stunned when they saw him.

Blue sky, white clouds, sunny weather, and on the endless green grass, a horse shining a soft gold underneath the sunshine ran gracefully and briskly towards them from afar.

All the students gazed at this beautiful picture that looked like the special effects in a movie. In this picture of a vast and clear blue sky and a green landscape, one person and one horse seemed to run straight from the clouds in the sky to the ground. It seemed too beautiful to be real.

Arriving at the place where he'd started from, Meng Yang tightened the reins and let the horse slowly come to a stop.

Lu Yunjing had just come from a nearby practice area on his horse. Seeing Meng Yang's horse, he froze for a moment and then rode towards him.

"Is this your horse?" Lu Yunjing looked at Meng Yang's horse, surprised. "Did President Luo buy it for you?"

"Yes," Meng Yang nodded with a smile.

"This horse is worth many villas, and villas are real estate and can increase in value, at least. But when the horse gets older…"

"The Luo family doesn't lack villas, and no matter how many there are, I don't have time to live in them all," Meng Yang said. "But I can ride this horse in the main house when I have time. When I don't have time, I can let it bask on the lawn, so it'll be good scenery. It's good and pleasant to look at."

"That's also true. Anyways, President Luo has the money. As long as he spends it happily, it's not a waste."

"It's interesting to ride a horse on Longling Mountain, as riding through the woods and crossing over streams is different from riding on grass. Next time, you can come too."

"Alright, I'll visit often when I have free time." Lu Yunjing looked at his horse and said, "But my horse isn't good compared to your horse. I'm going to choose a more beautiful horse in a few days."

Luo Sheng was looking at Meng Yang's horse, and his friends said to him, "Luo Sheng, that horse must have been bought by your father. It can't have been bought by Meng Yang himself."

Luo Sheng had seen the horse before and knew its price. He really didn't expect that Meng Yang would ride it. He also knew that Meng Yang didn't have enough money to buy the horse, so his father must have bought it for him.

"Luo Sheng, even though that guy married your father, you're still your father's only son. Your father's thing should be yours."

"That's right. How can a marriage certificate be comparable to a father-son relationship? Since it's your father's horse, you're more qualified to use it than Meng Yang."

Luo Sheng listened to their words and felt even angrier, and his face became more ugly.

When Meng Yang saw Luo Sheng looking at him while they were talking, he'd already guessed what they were talking about.

Meng Yang very clearly understood that although the Cheng family had a competitive relationship with the Luo Group, the master of the Cheng family has made long-term, stable plans for Luo Sheng to inherit the Luo family. Luo Xiu was in a coma for a while because of the accident, and after waking up, he was unable to manage the company for a year or two. Many things happened during this time. When Luo Xiu was finally able to regain control of the company, the situation had changed a lot.

There was nothing wrong with Luo Xiu in this life and Meng Yang would never let Luo Sheng and the Cheng family get Luo Xiu's property again. What he had to do now was intensify the conflict between him and Luo Sheng. When that happened, the Cheng family would certainly not be indifferent. Once the Cheng family moved, Luo Xiu would move, so Luo Xiu would be more guarded against them and would speed up his revenge on the Cheng family.

Meng Yang rode his horse over to Luo Sheng and Yu Junchen, and looked at Luo Sheng and said, "Are you talking about this horse? This horse was a gift from your father, and it completely belongs to me. It looks like you have an opinion about it though?"

"It's fun to spend our Luo family's money, isn't it? You really are shameless!" Luo Sheng sneered in anger.

"If you have anything to say, say it to your father, it's no use saying it to me." Meng Yang smiled wryly at him and said, "The more you want to humiliate me, the more you prove that you're addicted to running your mouth. You can't do anything about me at all. If you really have the ability, have your father divorce me, or have him ignore me, or at least, have him be less kind to me. Unfortunately, you can't do any of this, because you don't matter at all in your father's heart."

Luo Sheng became completely enraged by Meng Yang's words. He raised the whip in his hand and swung it hard towards Meng Yang. Meng Yang responded quickly and immediately used the horse reins to avoid being hit, but failed to avoid it completely. Though the whip didn't hit him, it did hit his horse, who neighed and ran forward a few steps.

"Meng Yang!" Lu Yunjing cried out in panic.

The coach noticed something wrong and ran over, having the trainer separate the horses. He didn't allow the students to cross the field again. He'd be in a lot of trouble if something happened, so before they got into any more trouble, he tried to stop them in every way possible.

Luo Sheng got off his horse and glared fiercely at Meng Yang, saying, "Just you wait! I will never let you off!"

"Then you'd better talk about it less and just do it, we'll see what you can do to me!" After Meng Yang finished talking, he stroked the place where his horse had been whipped and said sorry to it in his heart.

"Meng Yang, are you okay?" Lu Yunjing worriedly asked Meng Yang.

Meng Yang shook his head.

"After all, he is President Luo's real son. You and President Luo just got married, so you'd better keep your distance from him for the time being," Lu Yunjing advised.

Meng Yang thought that this level was far from enough; he must create even more conflict.

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Luo Sheng was furious about what happened at the ranch, but Meng Yang felt this degree of anger wasn't enough.

So when Luo Sheng was invited by Xiao Ke to race again, he immediately agreed. He'd been thinking about racing with Xiao Ke again, and wanted to get back the face he'd lost to Xiao Ke last time.

Before the car race started, the racing track was very busy. The news that Xiao Ke had beaten Luo Sheng last time had spread and caused a lot of discussion. So this time, more people came to see their car race than last time.

"I haven't seen Xiao Ke race with others during this period of time. Did his driving skills really improve like you said?"

"If you'd seen the last time they raced, you wouldn't even ask. Anyways, I'm going to bet on Xiao Ke this time."

"But I didn't see it with my own eyes, so I can't believe it. After all, Xiao Ke lost to Luo Sheng so many times before. Maybe last time he only won because of good luck. Just to be on the safe side, I'll bet on Luo Sheng to win."

"It's said that Xiao Ke hired a very talented coach. During this period of time, he didn't compete with other people because he was hiding away and practicing hard. As long as he can drive normally like last time, I think there'll be no problem."

Luo Sheng's car arrived first, then Xiao Ke's did.

Xiao Ke pulled up to the front of the grandstand and opened the door to get out.

"Young Master Luo." Xiao Ke walked to Luo Sheng's car and patted its hood. "The new car looks good. I want it."

"You just won by chance last time, and you forgot the fact that you lost so many times before? Don't be afraid to sprain your tongue when you talk so big," Luo Sheng said with a cold face.

Xiao Ke smiled and said, "Talking big doesn't mean anything. It's really boring to use a car to bet on every time, really boring. How about we bet on something else this time?"

"What do you want to gamble?" Luo Sheng asked, looking at him.

"Whoever loses will invite everyone here to drink. If our team loses, I'll give a toast to everyone who bet on you and won. I'll say that I shouldn't have challenged you as you're someone beyond my level, as well as bow and apologize. If you lose, you should toast everyone that bet on my team and won, bowing and apologizing, saying that you shouldn't be too arrogant. Okay?"

When people in the nearby stands heard what Xiao Ke said, they looked at each other, thinking that Xiao Ke's gamble was too much. For rich second generations like them, money was a small thing, but face was something big. At least half of the people present would see him bow and apologize; what face would Luo Sheng have after that.

Luo Sheng hesitated, even though he was confident and positive that he could win against Xiao Ke.

"What? Young Master Luo doesn't dare to gamble?" Xiao Ke continued to provoke him. "I've lost so many times before and fulfilled all the conditions you've put forth, yet you've only lost to me once and you dare not to agree with my proposal. Is Young Master Luo so timid? Since it's like this, in order to spare Young Master Luo's small heart, we'll not wager something so big. For whoever wins, we'll pick one of the people who bet on the winner, and the loser will apologize three times like I said. Is that alright?"

Luo Sheng remained silent.

"Still won't gamble? It turns out that Young Master Luo's courage is that small? Then this car race isn't even necessary." Xiao Ke said to the people in the stands, "Let's go! Great Young Master Luo (1) is timid and afraid of losing. He can't afford to lose, so he can't compete!"

Everyone in the stands began to talk in low voices.

Faced with Xiao Ke's public provocation, Luo Sheng's face became even more ugly, and his fury grew even more. If he didn't vent his anger he'd be even more miserable, so he agreed to Xiao Ke's wager.

While both of them drove to the starting point, Meng Yang switched from hiding in the back to climbing into the front passenger seat. Once the car stopped, the two switched positions.

The words that Xiao Ke just said were all what Meng Yang asked him to say. Didn't Luo Sheng like to humiliate him in public? At this time, he should let him now feel ashamed in public.

During this period of time, Xiao Ke was really practicing his driving skills. In order to not expose the fact that Meng Yang was replacing him in the race, he now practiced secretly. He'd agreed with Meng Yang that he wouldn't race with others until he could beat Luo Sheng with his own skills. Meng Yang was also trying his best to teach him the skills he'd learned in his previous life.

People watching the race were very excited just by watching the two cars chasing each other on the big screen.

"Xiao Ke's really courageous; he dares to drive in such a dangerous way. If either of them doesn't control their car well, he'll be seriously injured."

"It's dangerous, but it works. Isn't he widening the distance between them right now?"

"Just watching it is really thrilling. How confident would I have to be to drive like this?"

"Young Master Xiao's driving skills are really improving. Even if he competes against a professional driver, he might win."

"Yes, it's a pity not to take part in bigger races with such skills."

Meng Yang's attention was all highly concentrated. In his brain at the moment, this car was his body, but it wasn't an easy task to make his body flexible, agile, and fast. Now, every seemingly easy and simple skill was a testament to the countless times of practice and hardship in his previous life.

Every time Meng Yang showed off his impressive car skills, the spectators couldn't help but yell and cheer. Even those who'd bet on Luo Sheng started to cheer him on, simply from the admiration that racing enthusiasts had for such strength.

Meng Yang didn't plan to make Luo Sheng crash this time, so the distance between the two was getting larger and larger. Luo Sheng couldn't catch up to the car in front of him, and his concentration became even worse as his mentality collapsed, making him almost hit a boulder. After pulling the emergency brake, he hit the steering wheel to vent, his heart about to burst.

Meng Yang drove the car to the finish line and quickly exchanged positions with Xiao Ke again.

"You really are great." Xiao couldn't help but sigh. "With an additional person's weight, you can still pull so far away from Luo Sheng. You have such amazing driving skills, why don't you want to let people know? See those people cheering? They're all so excited because they admire your driving skills. Isn't it a good thing to be admired and worshipped?"

Meng Yang was silent, not answering him. Perhaps one day in the future he'd show off his driving skills in public, but he wouldn't do it now. There were too many people with old-fashioned ideas in the fragrance circle, and he couldn't let his image cause controversies until he had some achievements.

Xiao Ke got out of the car and waited for Luo Sheng to drive over. The crowd in the stands excitedly cheered for him, making him feel very happy. Although he couldn't be proud because he didn't beat Luo Sheng himself, as long as he could make Luo Sheng unhappy, it was the happiest thing for him. Besides, he'd win with his own skills sooner or later.

Luo Sheng tightly grasped the steering wheel with both hands, taking a deep breath to force down his anger and unwillingness, then he opened the door and walked towards Xiao Ke. If he lost, then he lost, and he had to face it.

"You remember that this time, it's still our team that won." Xiao Ke looked at Luo Sheng before turning to the people in the stands and saying loudly, "Today, Young Master Luo has invited everyone to have a drink, so everyone, make sure to drink happily!"

The people in the stands cheered again, with only Luo Sheng's friends staying quiet.

"Let's go, Young Master Luo." With that, Xiao Ke turned around to get in the car.

Luo Sheng clenched his fist before turning to get into his car.

Cars followed behind Xiao Ke's car for a while and drove to a bar in the city together. Most people instinctively wanted to enjoy the show. It was such a rare opportunity to see the young master of the Luo family make a fool of himself and lose face, how could they miss it?

When everyone got to the bar, Xiao Ke had people bring out a lot of wine, then loudly asked, "Who bet on our team to win just now? Those who want to be toasted by Luo Sheng can now stand up."

Dozens of people looked at each other, but no one stood up. No one who bet on Xiao Ke dared to stand up and publicly offend Luo Sheng. The main reason was that they had no injustice or hatred with Luo Sheng, and had no need to offend him. Also, Xiao Ke had told his friends before not to stand up.

"I bet on Young Master Xiao Ke to win. Why don't I accept Young Master Luo's toast and apology?"

Everyone looked at the source of the voice, trying to see who dared to offend Luo Sheng. The crowd automatically gave way, and Meng Yang walked right through the middle from behind the crowd, with Lu Yunjing following him.

"Oh, isn't this Young Master Luo's former…oh no, it should be Young Master Luo's little father." Xiao Ke pretended he didn't know that Meng Yang would come and said with a smile, "You want to accept Young Master Luo's apology and toast?"

"I was at the racing track and bet on your team to win. According to the agreement between you two, I think I'm qualified to accept his toast and apology as a representative." Meng Yang took out his phone and showed it to Xiao Ke and the others; he had bet on Xiao Ke's team to win.

"It's getting more and more interesting. Since other people don't want it, then you'll receive it." Xiao Ke looked at Luo Sheng and said, "Young Master Luo is a person willing to gamble and lose, so I don't think he'll mind who the toast is to, right, Young Master Luo?"

From the moment Luo Sheng saw Meng Yang, his face became even more ugly. The two people he hated the most had united to humiliate him. Especially as they were in front of so many people, he couldn't let them do what they wanted.

"Come, I'll pour Young Master Luo some wine," Xiao Ke said loudly. After pouring Luo Sheng a full glass of wine, he handed it to him and said, "Please, Young Master Luo."

Luo Sheng took the glass of wine from Xiao Ke's hand and looked at Meng Yang with a vicious glare.

Meng Yang also looked at Luo Sheng with a sneer.

Luo Sheng's anger erupted like a volcano. He smashed his glass onto the ground and walked towards Meng Yang.

"Young Master Luo," Xiao Ke put his hand on Luo Sheng's shoulder, asking him, "What are you doing? Can't afford to lose? Remember, this is a bet you agreed to, and you'll certainly be looked down on if you break your word. Who would be willing to compete with you in the future?"

Luo Sheng grabbed the front of Xiao Ke's clothes and said, "Don't worry, it's your turn soon!

Luo Sheng planned to teach Meng Yang and Xiao Ke a lesson in order, from weakest to strongest. He pushed Xiao Ke away and walked towards Meng Yang, and raised a fist and punched Meng Yang in the face with all his might.

At the moment Luo Sheng's fist swung towards Meng Yang, all the lights suddenly went out. Amidst the screams of girls, the breaking sound of wine bottles and glasses, and the commotion of shouting and pushing people, the bar fell into chaos.

After Meng Yang was hit by Luo Sheng, he firmly kicked Luo Sheng in the stomach. Luo Sheng knelt on the ground unguarded. In the dark, Meng Yang had a complete advantage, and he grabbed Luo Sheng's hair and kicked him again.

Xiao Ke had his hands full with monitoring the electric circuits, so Meng Yang could first safely beat Luo Sheng up.

Luo Sheng cried out from the severe pain, then stood up and fought back with all of his strength. He couldn't see at all in the dark, but he grabbed the person before him as quickly as he could and began to fight him.

The bar's security guards yelled to try and calm them down and sounded the alarm, but the crowd was still in chaos. Then the lights suddenly came back on.

When they could see again, the people who'd just panicked in the dark were reassured and calm again. Then they saw Luo Sheng and Xiao Ke fighting. Their friends immediately came to help, and they became a big group of people fighting. Just then, the tall security guards pushed into the crowd and separated all the people who were fighting.

"Meng Yang, Meng Yang!" Lu Yunjing showed off his acting skills while crouching on the ground and hugging a dizzy-looking Meng Yang as he shouted.

"Are you okay?" One bodyguard squatted down to help Meng Yang up. Others began to notice that Meng Yang had fallen to the ground and didn't respond, as if he'd fainted.

Luo Xiu was in a video conference with someone from a foreign company in his office when the mobile phone on his desk suddenly rang. He took a look and answered it.

"President Luo, I've just received a phone call from the manager of a bar saying that the eldest young master and Meng Yang were fighting in the bar. Meng Yang was knocked unconscious by the eldest young master, and has now been sent to the hospital!"

Luo Xiu stood up abruptly and quickly walked out.

In a high-end bar in the city, many rich kids had gathered to fight. The scene was chaotic and several people were injured, and even the police were dispatched to surround the scene. The injured people were sent to the hospital and media reporters rushed to see what was happening. However, there were too many rich kids involved in this matter, so it couldn't be reported on. The matter would soon be suppressed.

Luo Xiu got off the car outside the hospital and walked quickly into the building, taking the elevator to reach the right floor.

Yu Junchen had arrived first because he was close by. He stood at the door of Luo Sheng's room, and when he was about to push the door, he subconsciously turned his head. He then saw Luo Xiu walking quickly with his entourage and said, "Mr. Luo, Luo Sheng is…"

Yu Junchen's words hadn't been finished when Luo Xiu led his people past him, not even sparing him a glance. Yu Junchen froze for a moment and saw Luo Xiu walking into Meng Yang's ward while the others waited outside.

Lu Yunjing saw Luo Xiu push the door open and immediately stood up and exclaimed, "President Luo."

Luo Xiu looked at Meng Yang lying on the bed. He saw a large purple and blue bruise on the corner of his mouth and frowned, and looked at Lu Yunjing to say, "Go back first."

"Yes." Lu Yunjing was a little afraid of Luo Xiu. He gave Meng Yang a warm look and left quickly.

Meng Yang looked at Luo Xiu and whispered, "Mr. Luo."

Luo Xiu closed his eyes and took a deep breath. He went to the side of the bed and sat down, and asked Meng Yang, "Is there any other pain?"

Luo Xiu had seen Meng Yang's test results and physical condition on his way over. He knew that Meng Yang had been trampled on by several people in addition to the injury on the corner of his mouth. Meng Yang had fainted on the ground during such a chaotic scene at the time though, so he still asked.

"I was trampled on by a few people. It hurt a little, but there was no serious injury." Meng Yang being hit by Luo Sheng was deliberate, and he also avoided part of Luo Sheng's strength. Luo Sheng's injuries were much worse than his though, so if Meng Yang wasn't hurt at all, it wouldn't be justifiable.

"Does your head hurt?" This is what Luo Xiu was most worried about.

"No head pain." Meng Yang looked at Luo Xiu and asked, "Mr. Luo, are you angry?"

"Why did you fight with Luo Sheng?" Luo Xiu looked at Meng Yang and asked.

"He tried to whip me and humiliate me. I was angry, so I deliberately went to trouble him and tried to shame him," Meng Yang said, half true and half false.

"If you can beat him, it's okay to fight him. But you know you can't beat him, so why didn't you take a bodyguard with you? Or you could have told me, and I would have found a way to help you out."

"I, I will bring my bodyguard next time." Meng Yang held Luo Xiu's hand and looked at him with a coquettish glance, saying, "Don't be angry, I promise I won't do it again."

Luo Xiu looked into Meng Yang's eyes and felt helpless again. He really was angry at Meng Yang's recklessness which caused him to get hurt, but looking at those eyes, he could only feel helpless that he wanted to be angry but couldn't be.

Luo Xiu called a doctor in and asked about Meng Yang again. Originally, he wanted Meng Yang to stay in the hospital for a night, but Meng Yang didn't want to stay at the hospital and insisted on going back home to sleep. Luo Xiu could only take him back home.

Luo Xiu asked people to bring clean blankets, then wrapped Meng Yang up in the blankets to pick him up and carry him out of the hospital.

Yu Junchen had seen Luo Sheng's situation and talked to him. He knew that although he was seriously injured, they were mostly just flesh wounds, so he was a little relieved. He'd wanted to go see Meng Yang, but the people outside wouldn't let him in. All he could do was stand outside and wait in the corridor. He thought that Luo Xiu would go to see Luo Sheng, and after Luo Xiu came out from Meng Yang's room, he could go in and show his concern to Meng Yang.

When Yu Junchen saw Luo Xiu come out, he was about to come forward and talk, but he saw Meng Yang being held by Luo Xiu. Meng Yang also noticed him. They looked at each other as Luo Xiu carried Meng Yang and walked away from Yu Junchen. It was like he didn't even notice Yu Junchen's existence.

"Mr. Luo, Meng Yang!" Yu Junchen saw Luo Xiu passing by Luo Sheng's room, and wanted to catch up with them to stop them from leaving, but was stopped by a bodyguard. Having been warned by the bodyguard's eyes, he dared not shout again.

Until those bodyguards left, Yu Junchen stood still in the same place, unable to return to his senses for a long time. He thought that it was okay that Mr. Luo went to see Meng Yang first, but he didn't even look at Luo Sheng, and instead left with Meng Yang in his arms. Was Luo Sheng, his own son, less important than Meng Yang in Luo Sheng's father's mind?

Luo Xiu carried Meng Yang into the car, and Meng Yang shrank into Luo Xiu's arms. Luo Xiu thought that he was feeling uneasy and held him closer.

Once they returned to the main house, Meng Yang went to take a bath by himself. When he came out of the bathroom, he untied his robe and lay on his side so Luo Xiu could help him apply medicine to the black and blue areas.

Though the bruises weren't very serious, they were particularly conspicuous because Meng Yang's skin was tender and white. Luo Xiu frowned as he looked at the bruises.

Meng Yang raised his hand to smooth his wrinkled brow, saying, "It doesn't hurt, really."

Meng Yang wanted to act pitiful and make Luo Xiu angrier with Luo Sheng, but seeing Luo Xiu's frown, he couldn't say anything pitiful anymore.

Luo Xiu looked at Meng Yang, their gazes meeting.

The next day, Luo Xiu met with Xiao Ke's father and they talked for more than an hour. As for exactly what they discussed, only the two of them knew. Fortunately, most of the injuries were flesh wounds and easily taken care of, so the matter was soon completely suppressed. People on both sides were no longer investigated.

Luo Sheng's injuries were more serious than anyone else's. He had injuries on both his face and body, as Meng Yang had kicked him and Xiao Ke had punched him. Therefore, he stayed in the hospital for three days before leaving.

Luo Sheng's grandfather and his friends all went to visit him. Luo Sheng's friends were indignant and said they must get revenge, while Luo Sheng's grandfather advised him to endure it for a while.

When Luo Sheng was discharged from the hospital, Luo Xiu asked people to pick him up and bring him to the main house on Longling Mountain. Luo Sheng figured that Luo Xiu would at least ask him how his injuries were.

Luo Xiu sat on the sofa in the hall, and looked coldly at Luo Sheng standing before him. He then got up, walked over, and kicked Luo Sheng's knee. Luo Sheng immediately knelt on the ground.

Luo Sheng endured the pain and looked up angrily at Luo Xiu.

"Go apologize to Meng Yang, and apologize until he's willing to forgive you," Luo Xiu said coldly.

"Why should I apologize?" Luo Sheng roared. "I'm more hurt than they are, and they united to humiliate me. It's good enough that I didn't ask them to apologize to me!"

"You know how it feels to be humiliated?" Luo Xiu looked down at Luo Sheng and said, "What's the relationship between the horse I bought for Meng Yang and you? What rights and qualifications do you have to humiliate him and hit him with a whip?"

"Who is Meng Yang?! He's not worthy of the Luo family's money!"

Luo Xiu kicked Luo Sheng to the ground with a strong kick. Luo Sheng felt a sharp pain in his chest as his sight almost immediately went dark.

Luo Xiu looked at Luo Sheng covering his chest and said, "Every cent of the Luo family is earned by me, and who I'm willing to spend it on is my own business. Do you think because you're my son, I have to give you my property? This is the last time I warn you, if you dare to touch Meng Yang again, I'll beat you half to death! Go apologize to Meng Yang immediately. If one day Meng Yang doesn't forgive you, you won't be allowed to return to the main house at that time!"

"I'm not returning, I'm not returning!" Luo Sheng rose from the ground and said with a glare, "Anyways, I didn't grow up with you for all those years. Even if you ask me later, I won't come back!"

Luo Sheng turned around angrily and left.

Luo Xiu sneered in his heart, thinking that Luo Sheng spoke with a lot of backbone. Firstly, even if he could really do it and never come back to the Luo family house, and even if he did have the backbone, Old Master Cheng would never agree. The Cheng family had been aiming for the Luo family's property for so long and had almost succeeded many years ago.

Luo Xiu clenched his fists tightly. He would never let the Cheng family go; he must beat them into the ground, then make them suffer and regret it!

Sure enough, once Luo Sheng arrived at the Cheng family and told the Old Master Cheng that he would never return to the Luo house, he was immediately taught a lesson by Old Master Cheng.

"You're too ignorant, how could you say something like that? How stupid!" Old Master Cheng stood up with hands behind his back and paced anxiously, saying, "You're giving up everything that should belong to you and making others happy, don't you know that?"

"Should I live in that house without dignity and let them humiliate me? I can't swallow it!" Luo Sheng said through gritted teeth.

Old Master Cheng's face sank. He wanted to continue scolding Luo Cheng to make him understand the reality of things. Seeing Luo Sheng's face and expression though, he knew that he couldn't continue to attack him now, as it'd only make his rebellious heart worse.

Old Master Cheng sat down and sighed, saying, "You're too young to have experienced a lot of things personally. You don't understand the difficulties of your father. Your father also endured many things that ordinary people couldn't bear during those years, which is why he's achieved so much today. If you really want to prove that you're stronger than your father, then you have to tolerate more than he can. If you can't bear even this little thing, you won't be able to make it in the future!"

Even Old Master Cheng had to admit that in addition to his impressive abilities, Luo Xiu's endurance that was beyond what others could handle was also a key to his success.

Luo Sheng clenched his teeth hard. Though he understood what his grandfather was saying, he still felt unwilling to accept it.

"During these days, you should calm down and think about it. We'll talk about it again soon." Old Master Cheng said.

SMWOM 26

Meng Yang was only lightly injured, but Luo Xiu had him rest at home for two days before returning to school.

The freshman period was soon coming to an end, and the monthly test would immediately be carried out. After each monthly test, the classes would be re-divided and seats would be arranged according to the results. The class courses would be different, so the class division was very important for every student. The end of the month was the most tense time for the students.

Meng Yang and his senior brothers and sisters were preparing to pack up and leave after noting down the lessons assigned by Master Lin Songtai.

"Are all of you confident for this exam?" Lin Songtai asked.

"Teacher, we're confident in every exam," Wu Feng said with a deliberately serious face. "But confidence isn't something one can rely on."

"I think it's you that can't rely on yourself." Lin Songtai shot Wu Feng a look and said, "Although I usually tell you that results aren't the most important thing, if you can all get good results and put a damper on that old man Xu Wangya's spirit, this teacher will be very happy, understood?"

"Teacher, we understand," Meng Yang's senior brothers and sisters nodded and replied, knowing this pair of teachers. Seeing their looks, Meng Yang thought it was rather funny.

"Teacher, don't worry. Meng Yang is here this time, so at least the top place in the first year is secure," Wu Feng said.

Other senior brothers and sisters also nodded their heads in agreement. During this period of time, they'd clearly felt how talented Meng Yang was and knew how solid his basic knowledge was. They all agreed that even if Meng Yang was performing badly, he could easily take first place in his age group.

Lin Songtai angrily looked at the students and said, "Am I worried about Meng Yang? I'm worried about you all who don't know how to grow! If you worked half as hard as Meng Yang then I would worry less. You should be at least a little stressed, or you'll always be lazy until you realize how much time you've wasted. This time, if you fail to reach the top ten in your respective grades, you'll be punished by copying volumes one to twenty on botany ten times and volumes one to twenty on pharmacology ten times.

"Teacher…" There was an immediate wailing in the classroom.

"Howling for what? Unacceptable behavior!" Lin Songtai lectured, then got up and left.

Meng Yang's senior brothers and sisters each packed up their things with a sad face.

The group of people had just walked out of the courtyard and happened to meet Yu Junchen, who'd come from the opposite courtyard. The stone road between the two courtyards was quite wide, and the students on both sides were staring at each other in a bid for superiority. On Meng Yang's side, Wu Feng's eyes were opened the widest.

Meng Yang didn't want to stare back at them. He thought it was boring and made his eyes hurt. If he wanted to compete, he would only use his strength to compete with the other side.

Meng Yang said to Wu Feng, "Senior brother, let's go. I'm hungry."

"After ten thousand years of defeat, soldiers only have the ability to stare, If you have the time, you're better off reading more books." Wen Yuan sneered scornfully and said, "You people who are used to being defeated have no real ability. Even if you don't hide when you see us, you still have the face to show off and glare at us. You all are really the most shameless people in the entire world."

"Speaking of shamelessness, who can compare with you?" Wu Feng said sarcastically. "Master Xu Wangya said that he can't stand people who cheat, but who in this college doesn't know that he's helped you cheat many times? Relying on cheating to act haughty, I'll return the same words to you; you all are really the most shameless people in the whole world!"

"Don't speak such nonsense to me!" Wen Yuan glared at Wu Feng and said, "Are you so ignorant that you don't understand normal practice before a test? Is there a limit to your stupidity?"

Wu Feng sarcastically replied, "Yes, your normal practice, it really is normal! But our teacher taught us that even if we must give up our rank, we must ensure the authenticity of the assessment, otherwise the assessment will be meaningless. What your teacher taught you is that even if it's shameless, you should use your own face to hit the ball on the sidelines (1) in order to get good grades and rankings, right?"

"Even if you slander us, we won't lower ourselves to your level, but if you dare insult our teacher, don't blame me for being rude to you!" Wen Yuan said fiercely.

"Am I afraid? Bring it on!" Wu Feng rolled up his sleeves as if to fight.

"Senior brother, forget it, don't fight." Yu Junchen grabbed Wen Yuan's hand to calm him down. He then looked at Wu Feng and said, "Senior brother Wu, please don't say such words. Everyone is in the same school. We're not enemies, and there's no need to fight like this every time we meet."

"Who's your senior brother?! You don't have to put up an act in front of me. Other blind people can't see your true colors, but your hypocrisy makes me sick!" Wu Feng really hated Yu Junchen. He felt even more disgusted seeing him pretend to be a good person and began to attack him. "I heard that you're the most valued student of Master Xu Wangya, and the most talented of all of his students? I think your talent for stealing someone else's boyfriend must be higher than your talent in incense and perfume. In the scent test before, you lost to Meng Yang terribly, isn't that right?"

Yu Junchen lowered his head and Wen Yuan became even more furious. He wanted to go over there and teach Wu Feng a lesson, but after seeing Qin Hong standing behind Wu Feng, he kept a hold on his rationality. In his mind, there were many ways to teach someone a lesson, but the dumbest way was to hit someone.

"Senior brother, put that face away. You look like a villain," Meng Yang whispered.

Wu Feng was stunned for a moment and rubbed his face with his hands, adjusting his facial expression. Seeing that Wen Yuan and the others were so angry they couldn't speak, he proudly raised his chin and left with Meng Yang and the other students.

The closer it was to the exam, the more nervous the students in the fragrance school were. Even students who were usually fond of chatting and laughing became silent, as if the air was filled with tension.

Yu Junchen's nerves were no less than other people's, maybe even more stressed. Meng Yang's score in the entrance exam was higher than his, and he won the last scent test. If he couldn't maintain first place in the grade, he'd lose not only his own face, but the face of his teacher. Over the years, the first place in the grade had always belonged to his senior brothers, so he couldn't let himself be robbed of the top grade. Xu Wangya himself had admitted that he was the most talented among all his students after all.

The fragrance school's tests were very strict, and it was impossible to cheat during the examination. Although Yu Junchen practiced in advance and had more advantages than other students, the contents of the exam were random and couldn't be predicted.

On the day of the exam, there was naturally a more tense and serious atmosphere. Several masters were there to supervise the exam, and at the same time, they were there to oversee the results of the students, particularly their own students. The students below were even more nervous about the tests, because during the tests, the masters on the platform were also secretly competing. If their students performed well, they would show off their satisfaction with a smug look.

As soon as the students arrived at the school on the second day after the tests were over, they stared at their tablets and waited for the results to be announced.

"Got them, got them!"

"No, my hands are shaking, I can't open them."

"Number one is…it's Meng Yang!"

"Really?!"

"See for yourself!"

"It really is Meng Yang, he had a full score on the basic subjects given, and even the smell sensitivity test is a full score! Is he a monster?"

"His scent quotient score is also very high, my god! Is it really possible for a human to do this? He's not a robot, is he?"

"Is this the arrogance of a genius?"

"Stop lamenting about other people's achievements. No matter how high other's scores are, they don't have anything to do with us. Take a look at your own scores, and then we'll divide into classes and rearrange our seats."

Yu Junchen's hand holding the tablet was constantly shaking. He not only lost first place, but the difference between him and Meng Yang wasn't small at all.

Meng Yang had packed his things and was waiting for Yu Junchen to recover his composure and get up and give up his seat. Meng Yang didn't press him. After all, the college had given students the instructions to change classes and seats. The longer Yu Junchen stayed in that position, the more he'd embarrass himself.

A few minutes later, Yu Junchen's expression was still ugly, but he tried to keep his calm as he stood up to exchange seats with Meng Yang.

When he came to Meng Yang's seat, Yu Junchen wanted to congratulate him, but he couldn't say anything. He'd already done his best to be expressionless.

Meng Yang glanced at him, then got up and went to the first seat to sit down, having seen Yu Junchen's ugly expression. In the afternoon, their class would have the monthly incense theory class taught by the masters. He wanted to see what kind of face Xu Wangya would have.

In the afternoon, Lin Songtai and Xu Wangya, along with several other masters, came into the classroom. They all looked very different sitting on the platforms.

Lin Songtai looked at Meng Yang and exchanged looks with the other masters around him, all smiling in satisfaction.

Xu Wangya looked at Meng Yang and then at Yu Junchen. Though he pretended to be calm and uncaring about it, Meng Yang could see the anxiety in his heart even though other students might not be able to see it. In the past years, all the students sitting in the first position were his students. Now his most important and promising student was being compared to Meng Yang, of course he was worried.

Because these master classes were only once a month, they didn't waste too much of the students' time and started the class directly. When class ended, Xu Wangya immediately got up to leave, but Lin Songtai stopped him.

"Why is Old Xu leaving so urgently today?" Lin Songtai asked with a smile. "Don't you always talk to your students before you leave?"

Xu Wangya stopped and turned to Lin Songtai, saying, "Don't you think it's a little too early for you to be proud?"

"I don't think so," Lin Songtai said matter-of-factly. "It's said that fortunes rise and fall in time. You've been proud for so many years, and now that fortune has turned to me, so of course I'll start to be proud early."

Xu Wangya narrowed his eyes at Meng Yang and snorted scornfully, then looked at Lin Songtai and said, "What is a moment of pride? The future is long, so let's wait and see who'll be happier in the long run, and who'll be able to laugh in the end."

"What you said is very close to my heart; let's look to the future," Lin Songtai nodded.

The two masters were arguing on the platform, and the students below were all afraid to move. Although they didn't seem to be arguing as they communicated peacefully, even these students could feel the heavy pressure between them.

Lin Songtai looked at Meng Yang and said, "You've done very well in this test and have worked hard. For the next two days you don't have to come to my school; have a good rest."

"Yes," Meng Yang replied respectfully.

Once the masters left, the students relaxed and talked in low voices.

Yu Junchen's mood had calmed down a lot now. He knew that wasting too much time and emotion on an unchangeable fact was dangerous and wrong. What he wanted to do was not to regret the fact, but to do his best in the future.

After adjusting his mind, Yu Junchen went to Meng Yang and said, "Congratulations, Meng Yang."

"Thank you," Meng Yang said without raising his head.

"Meng Yang, in all honesty, I'm a little sad to lose first place, but I'm very happy because the first place is you. This kind of mood is quite contradictory, but you should be able to understand it, right? Maybe we'll compete more in the future, but I sincerely hope that we can not only maintain a healthy competitive relationship and make progress together, but also care for each other without estrangement like we did before," Yu Junchen said to Meng Yang with a very sincere expression and tone of voice.

Meng Yang listened to his words and laughed coldly in his heart. He thought that Yu Junchen's hypocrisy was really embedded deep into his bones. He only wanted to reconcile with him for the books left by Meng Yang's ancestors, yet he spoke so grandly.

Standing up and calmly looking at Yu Junchen, he said, "Whether or not you want to be my competitor depends on if you can keep up with me. Once you lose the qualifications to compete with me, I hope you can accept reality."

Yu Junchen was an object of Meng Yang's revenge, but he wasn't a rival in his mind. In terms of fragrance studies and aromatherapy, Meng Yang had his own goals that were higher and farther away, so he wouldn't stop until he reached a point that he couldn't break through. How far he could go wasn't clear to him, but he would never stop trying.

Yu Junchen took an involuntary step back. Looking at Meng Yang, he felt a sense of panic and fear in his heart that he couldn't understand in the moment.

SMWOM 27

As Meng Yang took first place in his grade, his senior brothers and sisters said they wanted to help him celebrate. Lu Yunjing also wanted to help him celebrate, so Meng Yang simply booked a small banquet hall with a garden and a swimming pool in a hotel for everyone to get together, and also invited Xiao Ke and his friends. After the last bar fight, Meng Yang had reason to publicly be friends with Xiao Ke.

Meng Yang talked with his senior brothers and sisters for a while before Xiao Ke came. Xiao Ke brought some good bottles of wine from his own collection to celebrate Meng Yang's first place. Wanting to talk to him alone, Meng Yang took him to one side and sat down with him.

Meng Yang opened the red wine that Xiao Ke brought and thought it was quite good after he tasted it. He chatted with Xiao Ke and couldn't stop drinking one glass after another.

"How's Su Di?" Meng Yang asked.

"How else could he be? Still sleeping well." A flash of sorrow passed through Xiao Ke's eyes when he heard Su Di's name. He smiled bitterly and said, "Maybe he was in too much pain before, because now he just sleeps and doesn't want to wake up."

"Maybe he really is tired and just wants to have a good rest, so don't worry too much. Once he has enough sleep, he'll definitely wake up," Meng Yang comforted. The Su Di of his previous life didn't wake up, but there were methods to wake up comatose people in the aromatherapy books handed down by the Meng ancestors. However, he couldn't tell Xiao Ke until he learned them.

Having talked with Xiao Ke for a while, Meng Yang went back to talk with his senior brothers and sisters. He kept drinking, and Lu Yunjing wanted to send him back home after seeing that he was on the verge of being drunk.

Meng Yang waved him away and took out his cell phone, and called Luo Xiu and asked him to pick him up.

Luo Xiu frowned as he listened to Meng Yang's slurred words. He knew that Meng Yang must be drunk as soon as he heard them, and though he knew there were bodyguards following him, he was still uneasy. Worried that something was wrong with him, he immediately got up to pick him up.

In the conference room of a certain branch of the Luo Group, the employees who were having a video conference looked at each other and didn't know what to do. For the second time, their BOSS (1) who'd previously never been absent from a conference before had suddenly left the meeting.

The door to the banquet hall was suddenly opened, and everyone turned to look. Once they saw the man who'd appeared at the door, the originally talking and chatting voices immediately grew quiet. Their eyes were all focused on this tall and handsome man, and no one dared to continue talking.

Luo Xiu looked around for a moment before going inside. His aura was so powerful that no one dared stop him, and no one went up to ask who he was looking for. Those who recognized him were even more afraid to speak to each other. Even Lu Yunjing silently stepped back after seeing Luo Xiu.

Luo Xiu spotted Meng Yang lying on the sofa and quickly strode towards him. Looking at Meng Yang's state, he found that he was completely drunk and seemed to be pretending that he was a fish as he kept spitting bubbles.

After picking up Meng Yang, Luo Xiu directly carried him away until they both were out the door. Everyone seemed to come back to their senses, with some people even thinking that they'd drunk too much and were hallucinating.

"Was he Luo Sheng's father?" Xiao Ke asked Lu Yunjing in a low voice.

"Haven't you met President Luo?" Lu Yunjing looked at him with some doubt. Xiao Ke was a young master of the Xiao family, there was no way he'd not seen Luo Xiu before.

"I've seen him before, but that was the first time I've seen him so closely. He seems more handsome now." Xiao Ke touched his face and said, "And he's got too much presence. Is it because of his face and body?"

"The reason behind his imposing manner is mainly his strength," Lu Yunjing said.

Luo Xiu carried Meng Yang back to his car, with Meng Yang constantly mumbling something incomprehensible.

"Mr. Luo, don't shake…" Meng Yang grabbed Luo Xiu's face in his hands, thinking that Luo Xiu had been shaking him to make him dizzy. In reality, he was drunk and Luo Xiu hadn't moved at all.

Meng Yang's lips kept falling on Luo Xiu's face. Not only could he not find Luo Xiu's lips, he also covered Luo Xiu's face with saliva.

Luo Xiu felt the soft, wine-scented lips and thought this little guy was really a lot to worry about. Even with a bodyguard following him, he would still worry that he would be bullied outside, that he'd be injured accidentally, that he was too young and didn't have the self-awareness to avoid being cheated, that he was too beautiful and someone would take advantage of him, that he'd be approached by someone with ulterior motives or that he'd be harmed because of their marriage.

Stroking Meng Yang's hair, Luo Xiu sighed helplessly. He didn't know when his mind had begun to change. Although the child worried him a lot, it wasn't a burden that annoyed him, but a burden that gave him a sense of happiness.

True happiness? Luo Xiu thought, he believed, that he was the insulator between those two words. (2)

Meng Yang's mouth was sour; he still couldn't find Luo Xiu's mouth to kiss and he felt tired, so he buried his face in Luo Xiu's neck to rest. Still thinking he was a fish, he puffed and puffed.

Luo Xiu returned to his room with Meng Yang in his arms. Meng Yang was so drunk that he couldn't bathe himself, so Luo Xiu fed him some sobering tea and took a warm towel from the maid to wipe his face, neck, and body.

Mr. Yuan stood aside and watched. He was very surprised, as he'd been Luo Xiu's steward for many years and had never seen Luo Xiu personally take care of people before. Mr. Yuan thought to himself, it seemed that Young Master Meng Yang was really a special case for the master. He could not only have him marry him, but make him willingly take care of him. It was just as well. After all these years, the master finally had a companion who could enter his heart.

After having the servants leave, Luo Xiu changed Meng Yang into pajamas and covered him with a quilt, and left him to sleep. He then went into the bathroom to wash up.

When Luo Xiu came back out of the bathroom, he saw that Meng Yang had no clothes on. He writhed around on the bed, looking extremely uncomfortable.

Luo Xiu went to cover him with the quilt, but Meng Yang groaned and pushed the quilt away. He really felt too hot.

Meng Yang felt like his body was on fire, making him extremely uncomfortable. Breathing hard, he opened his eyes and through his blurred vision, he saw Luo Xiu's face that appeared like a miracle. He sat up abruptly and clung to Luo Xiu's neck.

"Mr. Luo… Mr. Luo, I waited for you for so long, why didn't you come to get me?" Meng Yang asked in tears. "How could you not come to get me?"

"I brought you back, you're home now. Just sleep well now," Luo Xiu said as he patted Meng Yang's back.

"I really wanted to give up countless times, but I couldn't give up…" Meng Yang continued to cry. "I was always waiting, always waiting, I didn't wait for you…"

Luo Xiu originally thought that Meng Yang was originally talking about waiting for him to pick him up while he was drunk, but he couldn't comprehend what was said later. However, drunk people had no logic to their words, so he could only continue holding him and comforted him saying, "You waited, but I'm here now."

"You liar, you didn't…you didn't come get me." Meng Yang's heart ached and his body was still hot as he twisted around in Luo Xiu's arms.

Because Meng Yang's skin was so smooth and tender, Luo Xiu felt like he was holding a tender and slippery white fish, and he also began to sweat as Meng Yang moved in his embrace.

Luo Xiu's robe was also torn off by Meng Yang. As a man with normal physical and mental health, Luo Xiu felt a sense of guilt from the sensations produced in his body. His self-control had always been strong, and he didn't know if it was because he hadn't found someone to vent with for a while, but he felt those sensations easily these days.

In order to let Meng Yang sleep well, Luo Xiu hugged him tightly in his arms and covered them both with the quilt. Meng Yang's feet were suppressed by Luo Xiu and his body could no longer move around. Finally, he fell asleep in his exhausted state.

Meng Yang slept, but Luo Xiu still couldn't sleep. Since Meng Yang was drunk, the fragrance on his body seemed to be stronger. Luo Xiu was hot and sweaty, and ended up taking eight showers in that one night.

The next morning when Meng Yang woke up, he sat dazed in bed, unable to remember how he got back home. Just as he was about to give up on retrieving his memory of last night and get out of bed to wash up, he opened his quilt and found that he was naked, making his eyes widen in shock.

"Awake?" Luo Xiu came out of the bathroom.

Meng Yang hurriedly covered himself with the quilt and stammered, "Luo, Mr. Luo, I, last night, I…"

"You were drunk last night, so I picked you up," Luo Xiu said.

"Then, why am I not wearing anything, even underwear…" Meng Yang whispered.

"You took it off by yourself. You might've felt hot after drinking too much, so you took everything off."

"Then, did you, did you…"

"Don't worry, I didn't do anything to you, I just held you to get you to sleep." Luo Xiu sat on the bed, looked at him, and asked, "Do you think I'd take advantage of you and do something excessive?"

"I didn't mean that." Meng Yang hugged his legs and lowered his head. "I want to ask, Mr. Luo, did you, did you feel anything after I stripped last night?"

Luo Xiu's eyes avoided looking at him for a moment before he said, "Don't worry. In my heart, you're still a child, so I won't have any ideas even after seeing your body."

Meng Yang gripped his hair and thought ruefully, you've given me ideas, though! I completely stripped for you to see, do you really want to hurt people like this?!

"What do you want for a gift?" Luo Xiu asked.

"What? What gift?" Meng Yang looked at him doubtfully.

"You're the first in your grade, so you should be rewarded," Luo Xiu said.

"It's just a monthly exam, there's no need for a reward." Meng Yang thought for a moment and said, "How about this, I'm going to take part in a very important competition soon. If I can get first place in that, you'll agree to one of my requests. How does that sound?"

"Good, just not something that will embarrass me."

"Don't worry, don't worry, I won't ask for too much," Meng Yang immediately said.

Luo Xiu went to the other room to dress, and Meng Yang put on his pajamas and got out of bed, and quickly walked into the bathroom.

Meng Yang and his fellow students usually needed many kinds of incense making materials in order to study and practice, which were usually easy to obtain. However, obtaining some high-quality materials depended on financial resources, recognition ability, and luck.

In the neighboring Rong City, there lay the largest spice and incense market in China, so the school gave them leave to go to the price-guessing auction in the spice market with the masters. Meng Yang went there first, and the masters would arrive on the next day. In addition to Meng Yang and the others, Yu Junchen and his senior brothers naturally came along, and Luo Sheng also came with them.

The reason why Luo Sheng followed Yu Junchen was of course because he knew Wen Yuan liked Yu Junchen, and he'd already argued twice with Yu Junchen about it. Although he believed that Yu Junchen had no special feelings for Wen Yuan, he didn't want to give Wen Yuan any chances, so he went with them.

Meng Yang had wanted to go to the spice market for a long time. In addition to buying many ingredients to practice with, he also needed to buy incense-making herbs for Luo Xiu's headaches. This time, he was leaving for two days and one night, so Luo Xiu specially arranged for someone to go with him.

The fragrance market of Rong City was in an ancient part of the town, and all buildings and streets maintained a classic style. Entering it was just like traveling to ancient times, and a large number of tourists and merchants would travel from all over the world to see it.

Everywhere in the city was fragrant, and almost every shop was lit with its own signature fragrance to attract customers. Meng Yang walked into a shop that looked like a private home and handed over the famous name card of Lin Songtai at the front desk. Wen Yuan also handed over the famous name card of Xu Wangya.

After receiving the cards, the front desk staff immediately led them to the garden where important customers were received.

The garden wasn't big, but it was quiet and elegant. Meng Yang first registered and collected a multitude of wooden plaques with numbers on them, and then found a table to sit and drink tea while he waited for the bidding to start.

When the time came, the wooden gate of the garden closed, and five service personnel in ancient-style clothes came out of the house with pallets. They put the pallets on a separate platform to display the materials, and all the guests took turns to look at them.

These raw materials were relatively rare, so they were also very expensive. They could only be seen and smelled, but not be touched. Some people even brought magnifying instruments to examine them.

There were five kinds of raw materials in the first round of bidding. Those who'd finished their observations went back to their seats and began to seriously think. They then wrote down the prices they believed the materials were on the wooden plaques.

Meng Yang only needed two of the five raw materials, so he wrote down the number of the materials and the prices he thought they were on two wooden plaques, and then handed them to the staff.

When the time was up, the service staff would no longer accept any more bidding wooden plaques, but would announce the closest price.

"Materials No. 1 and No. 3, obtained by guest No. 28."

"Material No. 2, obtained by guest No. 30."

"Materials No. 4 and No. 5, obtained by guest No. 35."

The staff turned over the wooden plaques with the prices on them and put the wooden plaque with the closest price bid next to it.

Meng Yang was No. 28. His bids were almost the same as the real prices, and even Wu Feng was shocked.

"You're too good at guessing, there's almost no difference from the original price," Wu Feng exclaimed.

"The price of these materials isn't hard to guess, so I can be fairly accurate," Meng Yang said after a sip of tea.

"I guessed for No.1 too, but it was too far away," Wu Feng said, holding up his chin with his hand.

All the spices used for bidding had strict pricing standards. In addition to distinguishing the quality of the materials, people needed to understand the current market environment in order to guess the closest price. If everyone guessed a price lower than the actual price, then no one could buy it. Only those who guessed higher and closest to the actual price could buy it.

The materials for the second group were brought out, and Meng Yang went to observe them again. After smelling them, he went back to his seat and began to think. He wanted all five spices from the second group. Although they were currently available, these materials couldn't always be easily bought. Since he'd encountered them, it wasn't a bad idea to buy all of them and store them.

"Materials No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, No. 4, and No.5, all obtained by guest No. 28." Once the staff said this, they'd turn over the price boards one by one and then put Meng Yang's wooden plaques up.

Then all the ingredients in the third, fourth, and fifth groups were again all bought by Meng Yang. Everyone couldn't help but look at Meng Yang each time, with their eyes opening wider and wider. Meng Yang was young and was obviously still a student at a glance. Most of the other people who could enter this place were very talented in the field of fragrance, and there were even two masters present. It was really shocking that they all couldn't outguess a student.

If Meng Yang hadn't married Luo Xiu, he would've been more low-key until he had found a suitable backer. But seeing as he had Luo Xiu to back him up, there wasn't any need to keep a low profile.

When Yu Junchen saw that all the materials he wanted were taken by Meng Yang, he became anxious. Luo Sheng saw his anxiety and patted his hand to comfort him.

Wen Yuan was worried because Meng Yang had bought almost all of the materials, and seeing Luo Sheng's movements, he was even more upset. But what could he do, so he just kept drinking tea to calm his anger.

After that, five more rounds of spices were brought out one after another. Meng Yang casually succeeded in guessing the price of everything he liked. Even the boss of the auction house was shocked. He quickly asked people to check the register, and after seeing that Meng Yang had come under the name card of the famous Lin Songtai, he sunk into thought.

These materials weren't cheap. Meng Yang bought so many materials all at once and directly paid without blinking an eye, and led others to think that his identity was not ordinary.

When everyone got up to leave, those who'd come there for nothing began to talk.

"Who is that? He looks so young yet he can be so domineering. I've never seen him before."

"Yes, obviously a student. Where did he come from?"

"It seems that another genius has appeared."

"No, even if he's a genius, he didn't suddenly become a genius. He should've at least participated in a competition before, but I don't have any impression of that young man from just now."

"It's really strange, let's go find out if anyone else knows his origins."

Yu Junchen, Wen Yuan, and Yu Junchen's other senior brothers were very uncomfortable hearing people praise Meng Yang. They thought they'd be able to successfully bid for at least one or two kinds of materials so as not to lose face for their teacher. They didn't expect that they wouldn't get anything and that they would let Meng Yang get almost everything. If their teacher knew this, he'd be very angry.

Luo Sheng was also very unhappy. Any time he saw Meng Yang spending money, he felt that Meng Yang was spending his money.

When they were about to go back to the street, someone suddenly stopped Meng Yang.

"Student no. 28, please wait a moment."

Meng Yang and the others looked back together. A tall, handsome man approached them with a gentle smile.

"Is something wrong?" Meng Yang asked him.

Meng Yang looked at this mixed-race man and thought he seemed familiar. After some serious thought, he remembered who he was.

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The man could tell from Meng Yang's expression that Meng Yang recognized him. He looked gently at Meng and asked, "Are you going to eat? Can I invite you to go with me?"

Wu Feng and the others looked at each other and thought that this person was handsome, but they didn't know each other. What was the meaning behind inviting them to dinner out of the blue?

"No, we're going shopping before we eat and I've already reserved a table," Meng Yang calmly refused.

Bradley (1) was very surprised by Meng Yang's refusal. He'd thought Meng Yang had recognized him just then, but if he'd recognized him, how could he have refused his invitation?

"Goodbye." Meng Yang nodded to him and turned away.

Bradley was still surprised by Meng Yang's refusal, and Meng Yang and his friends were already slowly moving away.

When Yu Junchen passed by Bradley, he couldn't help looking at him more. He also felt that this man seemed a bit familiar.

"Wait a minute, I remember!" Wu Feng suddenly cried. "He's not that one guy, what's his name?"

"He's Bradley, the Vice President of the internationally famous perfume company Persevere (2). He's also known as a performer and famous model all over the world." Qin Hong also knew who he was at a glance.

"Yes, yes, that's him! I said that he looked familiar, I've seen his perfume ad before. He's amazing!" Wu Feng said excitedly. "Did he really invite us to dinner just now?! Did we just miss something big?!"

Everyone else realized this and began to talk about it.

"Was that really him? I thought it was just a lookalike, but he's the perfume icon!"

"Should we go back to find him now?!"

"Yeah, we're really lucky to get to meet Bradley, and he wanted to invite us to dinner?! I'm not dreaming, am I?"

"Wait a minute, you're wrong. It seems that he wasn't inviting us to dinner, but just Meng Yang."

"Meng Yang, did you not recognize him just now? Is that why you said no?" Wu Feng asked Meng Yang.

"I recognized him," Meng Yang said. "But we're not familiar with him. There's no reason for him to invite us to dinner."

"A meal has to be cooked to be eaten, right?" Wu Feng said. "He must've seen that you're talented and wanted to get to know you. If you can become friends with him, then you'll have many advantages during future overseas competitions. Buying rare materials would also be easier if you were friends with him."

Hearing Wu Feng's words, Meng Yang just smiled and said, "I booked a private room in Wangcheng Tower; you don't want to go?"

"Of course I want to go, but…" Wu Feng still wanted to persuade Meng Yang, but he was interrupted by Qin Hong.

"Meng Yang's right. We're not familiar with each other, so why should we agree to go to dinner with him?" Qin Hong said.

As soon as Wu Feng heard Qin Hong's tone of voice, he knew that he was jealous. He hit Qin Hong with his elbow and said, "You be less sour, I'm saying this for Meng Yang's sake. If Meng Yang can be friends with Bradley, it'll open many golden roads. If Meng Yang wants to go abroad to compete, it'll be a big help."

Yu Junchen had been deliberately slowing down behind them to listen in on Meng Yang. Hearing their conversation, he was surprised to find that the man just now was Bradley himself, and Bradley had even invited Meng Yang to dinner. Why was Meng Yang so lucky?"

Meng Yang and his friends wandered around the city for a while, buying many common but high-quality materials before they went to Wangcheng Tower for dinner.

After eating, they went back to the inn. Compared to the hotels outside the city, the inns in the city weren't very big. Meng Yang's inn was the best and largest one in the city.

"What a coincidence, are you staying here too?" Bradley asked, looking kindly at Meng Yang.

"Excuse me, are you Mr. Bradley?" Wu Feng asked him.

"Yes." Bradley looked at Wu Feng and nodded, and then looked back at Meng Yang and asked, "Can I chat with you alone?"

"No, just tell me which materials you want." Meng Yang had seen that this man was waiting for them specifically, and the reason why he'd wait specifically for them was because he'd likely bought the ingredient Bradley wanted.

Bradley smiled and thought that No. 28 was really smart. He liked to deal with smart people. "I want the jasper honey branch and the jade jasmine balls."

"No." Meng Yang didn't consider it and immediately refused. "I'm going to use these two materials right away and can't give them to you."

"I'll pay five times the original price," Bradley said.

"Do you think I'm short of money?" Meng Yang asked.

"…" Bradley thought about it and said, "How about I trade with you other spices of equal value? I'll owe you a favor for this time."

"I'm sorry, it's not that I don't want to sell the materials to you, it's just that the two materials you want are indispensable to me. It's impossible for me to give them to you. Although these two kinds of materials are rare, they aren't as rare as some of the others I bought. Maybe some of the other shops still have them. If you really need these two materials, you'd better hurry and ask around," Meng Yang said before going straight inside. These two materials were two essential herbs with medicinal properties for Luo Xiu's headache treatment. As such, it was impossible to sell them to Bradley.

"Meng Yang…" Wu Feng glanced at Bradley before quickly following Meng Yang.

Bradley turned to look at Meng Yang's back and sighed in his heart. Although he liked to deal with smart people, he didn't like to deal with stubborn people.

"Boss (3), does that young man want to deliberately raise the price? Or maybe he wants you to agree to bigger demands," Bradley's assistant said. "I heard that there's an old saying in this country, in order to capture something, one must first let it loose." (4)

"He really didn't want to give it to me." Bradley watched Meng Yang's back and smiled. "He's quite interesting though."

Wu Feng wanted to convince Meng Yang, after all, it would be a good thing for Bradley to owe him a favor. Judging from Meng Yang's expression though, it was impossible to sway him, so he didn't continue talking.

Everyone went back to their own rooms. The others shared rooms with two or three people, but Meng Yang occupied the largest room alone. He slept lightly and still wasn't used to sleeping in the same room as others.

Yu Junchen had a room with Luo Sheng. When Luo Sheng entered the bathroom to wash up, Yu Junchen stayed sitting on the sofa for a while before he got up and left the room.

Yu Junchen originally wanted to go to Meng Yang's room and talk to him, but as soon as he came around the corner, he was shocked and immediately backed away. He saw a tall man's back and watched as he entered Meng Yang's room.

Thinking that the figure looked very familiar, Yu Junchen looked at the height and body shape. It was very similar to that of Bradley that he'd met during the day. He quietly poked his head out and found that Meng Yang's door had been closed.

After a little hesitation, Yu Junchen hurried back to his and Luo Sheng's room.

Luo Sheng, who was taking a bath, heard a rapid knock on the door and immediately opened the bathroom door. He looked at Yu Junchen and asked, "What's the matter?"

"I just, I saw…" Yu Junchen looked like he wanted to talk, but paused. With an obviously strange look on his face, he said, "I was going to talk to Meng Yang just now, but I saw that man who wanted to invite him to dinner today. He went into his room, and after the man went in, Meng Yang closed the room door."

Luo Sheng looked at Yu Junchen in confusion, not understanding why this matter was making him so flustered. He also heard a bit of their conversation from today, and it seemed like the man had something to ask Meng Yang.

Yu Junchen saw Luo Sheng's puzzled appearance and said, "It's so late, and everyone must have already washed up and are preparing to go to bed. Meng Yang, no matter the circumstances, is a married man. During this time, he let other men into his room. If people knew about this, ugly rumors would definitely spread…"

Luo Sheng was stupefied for a moment. His mind raced, and he quickly said, "Go and call all the others out. It's our chance to get back at Meng Yang for letting people see us last time."

"You, do you really want to do this? Forget it, tomorrow I'll just remind Meng Yang to pay more attention in the future." Yu Junchen persuaded him.

"When he had so many people come watch us before, he didn't think about our face at all! We can't miss this opportunity!"

"But they didn't necessarily do anything, maybe they're just talking in the room. The man seemed to want to buy materials from Meng Yang."

"It doesn't matter if they don't do anything, as long as others think they did," Luo Sheng said. "Forget it, you can't do such things. Don't dirty your hands because of him. I can do it by myself."

Luo Sheng picked up his mobile phone and made two calls, and then got dressed and waited.

More than ten minutes later, the person that Luo Sheng called arrived. Luo Sheng had called over Yu Junchen's senior brothers and even Meng Yang's senior brothers. Everyone then gathered around Meng Yang's room without knowing why and watched as Luo Sheng knocked on the door.

"Who is it?" Meng Yang called out.

Luo Sheng didn't answer and simply continued knocking.

Meng Yang walked to the door with some confusion and slightly opened the door. Seeing so many people standing outside, he was quite shocked.

Luo Sheng wanted to push the door open, but Meng Yang held the door firmly and coldly looked at him and asked, "What are you doing?"

"Don't you know what I'm doing?" Luo Sheng sneered and pushed the door harder. "Open the door!"

"This is my room, should I open it when you say so?" Meng Yang understood what he was here to do. He shot a look at the bodyguards who'd appeared behind the crowd, and signaled them not to do anything for now.

"Hey! I swear, what's wrong with you? Calling us all to stand out here, what do you want to do?!" Wu Feng and the others were all sleepy, and had been woken up suddenly without understanding the situation. Luo Sheng had asked them to stand in the hallway and began to knock on Meng Yang's door, so they'd thought something was wrong with Meng Yang.

"Yeah, what are you trying to do!?"

"If you want to make trouble and bully Meng Yang, a lot of us are here and we aren't afraid of you!"

"Who are those people?" Meng Yang looked at the men with cameras in their hands and asked, "Reporters? What, did you bring people to catch an adulterous person? Just like the last time when I brought people to catch you and Yu Junchen cheating?"

"That's right, I'm here to catch a cheater," Luo Sheng said loudly. "You're married to my father, but you're hiding other men in your room so late at night! Are you really giving my Luo family so little face?!"

"What if there are no other men in my room? How will you apologize to me?" Meng Yang said with a chilly expression.

"There's no way, just open the door and let us look, do you think you can hide it?" Luo Sheng had stayed in the hallway since finishing his calls, so he was very sure that no one had left and the man must still be in the room.

"I'll let you see, but first, what are you going to do if there are no men in my room?" Meng Yang asked again.

"Cut the crap and get out of my way!" Luo Sheng pushed the door open.

Once the door was opened, Luo Sheng was ready to take people and rush inside. At that very moment, the bathroom door opened and a man in a bathrobe came out. Luo Sheng was very excited, but just as he was about to have the reporter take a picture, the man lowered the towel that he was using to wipe his hair. Luo Sheng saw his face clearly and stiffened.

"What is this?" Luo Xiu saw a large group of people standing outside with Luo Sheng standing at the front and instantly frowned.

"Mr. Luo, Luo Sheng said that there were other men in my room, so he brought people to catch me supposedly cheating on you." Meng Yang approached Luo Xiu and held his arm, his face full of grievances as he said, "I think he just wanted to purposefully humiliate me. This isn't the first time either…"

"Father…" Luo Sheng swallowed nervously and explained, "I didn't know that you were here, I thought that he…"

"What did you think?" Luo Xiu looked at the people with cameras behind Luo Sheng and said, "Are those reporters? Since you've called all these reporters here, fine, I'll make things clear and give them something to report on. The Luo family will have nothing to do with you in the future, and not a penny of my property will be inherited by you. Tomorrow I'll have people go through the legal procedures to sever our parent-child relationship, so you can give up on ever inheriting the Luo family business. In the future, the affairs of myself, the Luo family, and Meng Yang won't require you, an outsider, to meddle with them."

The law wasn't a trifling matter and couldn't be treated as such. If Luo Xiu and Luo Sheng went through the legal procedures of severing their father-son relationship, then their legal father-son relationship couldn't be restored for at least a decade. Luo Xiu wanted to completely cut off Luo Sheng's ideas of inheriting the Luo family's industry in advance to save him from continuously making trouble. If it weren't for Luo Sheng's ignorance, he wouldn't have made a move like this.

"Father…" Luo Sheng's face dramatically changed. He saw from Luo Xiu's eyes that he was really determined to sever the parent-child relationship between them this time.

"Don't call me Father, I'm not fortunate enough to be able to afford a son like you! If these people don't publicly report it, then I'll have other media do it. From now on, you'd better not dream of inheriting any of my property!" After thinking about it, Luo Xiu felt that he should mention it again. "If you can't stand on your own two feet, then you won't become stronger. Only what you can get with your own ability will belong to you and nothing else."

"I'm sorry." Luo Sheng clenched his fists. He couldn't hear Luo Xiu's words at all, only thinking that he had to endure for the sake of the Luo family's property. He lowered his head and said, "I'm willing to apologize to Meng Yang. I'll do anything to apologize."

"You should apologize, but it's Meng Yang's right to not forgive you," Luo Xiu said.

Luo Sheng took two steps forward and bowed ninety degrees to Meng Yang, saying, "I'm sorry, everything that happened before is my fault, please forgive me."

"If you think that what you've done can be completely erased with a word of apology, then I can only say that you're too naive." Meng Yang looked at him and smiled, "But since you want to apologize, you should at least show some sincerity."

"…What do you want me to do?" Luo Sheng asked, clenching his teeth.

"According to the traditional etiquette of our country, the day after I married Mr. Luo, you should have served me tea and called me little dad (5). Mr. Luo and I have been married for a while though and you haven't followed this etiquette so far," Meng Yang said, glancing at the bodyguard standing outside.

The bodyguard came in, poured a cup of tea, and brought it to Luo Sheng.

Meng Yang brought Luo Xiu over to sit on the couch and looked at Luo Sheng. Meng Yang didn't force him to kneel down. If Luo Sheng really had a backbone, then he would turn around and leave.

There were many people standing outside the room watching this scene. They were also very curious if Luo Sheng would turn around and walk away, or if he'd really serve Meng Yang tea and call him "little dad".

Luo Sheng tightly clenched his hands together. According to his character and temper, he should have already turned around and left, but his grandfather's words had been circling in his mind. If he wanted to be successful, he had to endure what ordinary people couldn't. In his heart, Luo Sheng told himself that if his father could bear it, then he could also bear it now. When he took control of the Luo family, he would surely make Meng Yang pay a thousand times over for today!

Taking the teacup from the bodyguard's hands, he walked over to Luo Xiu and Meng Yang and knelt down, raised the teacup, and said, "Please have this tea, little dad."

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Standing outside the door were Meng Yang and Yu Junchen's brothers and sisters, as well as Yu Junchen himself and several part-time paparazzi.

Luo Sheng knelt in front of Luo Xiu and Meng Yang in front of these people and called Meng Yang "Little Dad". Even Meng Yang was surprised. Unexpectedly, a man with such a personality like Luo Sheng really knelt down for him. As expected, the draw of money was really powerful.

Yu Junchen stood outside the door, shocked and distressed. He looked at this big villain Meng Yang who was forcefully insulting Luo Sheng while Luo Sheng had to bear the humiliation.

Meng Yang deliberately waited for a few moments before taking the cup, but he didn't drink it. He wouldn't drink this cup of tea.

Meng Yang looked at him and said, "You're a little late on this cup of tea, so I don't want to drink it now. But since you've called me Little Dad, I can't lose my tolerance as an elder. Whether or not I'll forgive you, I'll consider it tonight and give you an answer tomorrow."

Luo Sheng took a deep breath and gritted his teeth, suppressing his anger.

"You can go," Meng Yang said.

Luo Sheng got up, turned around, and walked out. When he got to the door, he pushed away the people who were blocking his way and quickly left.

"It's not early, you should go back and sleep now." Meng Yang went to the door and closed it.

Luo Sheng had knelt down in front of so many people and served tea to Meng Yang, calling him Little Dad. Although Meng Yang's heart was a little happy, such a small punishment wasn't enough. Meng Yang wanted to see how much Luo Sheng could endure for the sake of money.

Meng Yang sat on the bed and looked at Luo Xiu, saying, "Mr. Luo, was what I did too much? I know that although you just said all that to him, he is still your son after all. You are father and son by blood, which is a bond that can't be broken."

"He's not my son," Luo Xiu said suddenly.

"Not your son? What do you mean by that?" Meng Yang asked, pretending to be puzzled.

"…" Luo Xiu thought for a moment and said, "I mean, I've never thought of him as my son, and my property will never be passed down to him. You can just think of him as if he was not my son at all. What's more, this was his fault. You can teach him a lesson any way you want in order to help you vent."

Meng Yang thought that Luo Xiu was going to tell him the truth, but it seemed that he wouldn't say it for the time being. After all, Luo Xiu's "setting" was such that he couldn't easily tell others that Luo Sheng wasn't really his own son. Such a "setting" facilitated Luo Sheng inheriting the Luo family business smoothly in his previous life. But in this life, it would never happen!

Meng Yang got close to Luo Xiu and hugged him around the waist, looking up at him and saying, "Mr. Luo, since you've never regarded Luo Sheng as your own child and you're also not going to let him inherit the property of the Luo family, why don't you let me give you a baby?"

"You're still a child, it's still too early to think about giving birth right now…" Luo Xiu had the words in his mouth, but suddenly, he couldn't say it. He wanted to say that when Meng Yang met a person he loved, he'd regret saying those words. When he thought of Meng Yang leaving him in the future though, his heart felt restless.

Meng Yang pushed Luo Xiu down and straddled him while looking down at him. "I want to give you a baby. Although we have a three-year agreement, if you don't want me to leave after those three years, I won't leave. Should we have a child together?"

Meng Yang kissed Luo Xiu's forehead, nose, cheek, and chin. He placed his hand on his flat stomach and said, "Let me have your baby; teach me how to do it. You're my legal husband, so you're responsible for teaching me these things."

While looking at each other, Luo Xiu could see the love in Meng Yang's eyes. Meng Yang also saw that Luo Xiu wasn't without feelings, he was just restraining himself.

Leaning over again, Meng Yang blew in Luo Xiu's ear and asked, "Do you really hope that after three years, I'll go to other people to learn this kind of thing? That I'll give birth to someone else's child?"

Luo Xiu closed his eyes and took a deep breath. Meng Yang's words hit him right in his heart. God knows how much willpower he used to keep himself calm.

Seeing him like this, Meng Yang's heart was even more unwilling. He clearly didn't do anything in his last life but was still able to get Luo Xiu's love. In this life, he eagerly threw himself into Luo Xiu's arms and even his words were straightforward. He didn't believe that Luo Xiu was unmoved. Was he really not charming? This thought threw his heart into disorder.

Meng Yang tore off Luo Xiu's robe and began to touch him with his hands.

With that move, Luo Xiu's last thread of sanity broke. He turned over, pressed Meng Yang under him, and kissed him hard.

Meng Yang put his arms around his neck but didn't know how to respond, so he let Luo Xiu take charge.

Every time Meng Yang got drunk he would think that he was a fish, but he was unaware of the fact and had no memory of it after waking up. When he was kissed dizzy by Luo Xiu, he fell into the illusion of becoming a fish again. The feeling was very distinct, so when he woke up his memory would definitely be clear.

A beautiful white fish was swimming freely in the warm ocean water, enjoying himself, when a sea monster much bigger than him suddenly appeared. He had to hide in a cave, but the sea monster tried to enter the cave and eat him, making him very scared.

The sea monster bit the white fish. The little white fish struggled because of the pain, crying and begging for mercy, but the sea monster bit down hard and made him unable to break free.

The little white fish thought that the sea monster was going to eat him, and he was afraid of the pain. But slowly, he found that although it hurt, it also felt a bit good, so he no longer struggled.

Meng Yang thought that he was going to officially become husband and wife with Luo Xiu that night, but after all the early work he had to do was done, Luo Xiu couldn't bear to do the last step.

Luo Xiu stroked Meng Yang's face; he looked so small. His whole person was like a fresh and delicious peach. Water would come out with a pinch, sweet and delicious. Because he was so tender (1) though, he couldn't get a good taste. But even though he had only gotten a fleeting taste, it had given him a rich aftertaste, and he had really fallen in love with this flavor.

Luo Xiu's biggest worry now was that Meng Yang was still too young, and would likely regret it in the future one day.

Luo Sheng and Yu Junchen didn't sleep all night long. Yu Junchen kept apologizing to Luo Sheng because he had made a mistake. He only vaguely saw the figure, and thought that the man who had entered Meng Yang's room was the one who had invited Meng Yang to dinner that day. Because of his misidentification, Luo Sheng had to apologize to Meng Yang and kneel down to offer Meng Yang tea, as well as acknowledge Meng Yang as Little Dad.

Luo Sheng was completely sleepless from anger. Of course, he wasn't angry at Yu Junchen, but at Meng Yang and was thinking about how to get revenge.

After daybreak, Luo Sheng went to the bathroom to wash up. He didn't want to stay there any longer and planned to leave immediately. As soon as he came out of the bathroom, he received a call from his grandfather.

"What's going on?! Why is the news saying that your father wants to publicly break off relations with you?!" Old Master Cheng said hurriedly.

"News?" Luo Sheng had a bad feeling in his heart. He immediately picked up Yu Junchen's mobile phone and clicked on the news page. The headline on the top news article in Anluo City (2) was that the Chairman of the Luo Group was going through legal procedures to break off the relationship between him and his only son. However, the content of the article said that at present it was only a rumor and hadn't been confirmed yet.

Luo Sheng knew that it would be impossible for such news to appear without Luo Xiu's approval.

"What's going on?!" Old Master Cheng asked again.

Luo Sheng told Old Master Cheng what had happened last night, but he didn't say that Yu Junchen had told him there were other men in Meng Yang's room.

"You're such a fool, you can't even remember a single sentence that I've said to you?!" Old Master Cheng roared angrily. "I've told you so many times that you must be patient and not provoke Meng Yang for now. He can make your father marry him and drive you out of the Luo family, so he's certainly not a simple person to deal with. How could he be caught by you so easily?!"

Luo Sheng listened to his grandfather's scolding silently. He thought that his grandfather's scolding was very reasonable. Though he truly despised Meng Yang, he had made a big mistake when he underestimated the enemy.

"Listen to me, Luo Sheng!" Old Master Cheng said solemnly and gravely. "Since the news says that this matter hasn't been confirmed, this means that your father has given you a chance. No matter what methods you use, you must not let your father go through the legal procedures to sever the father-son relationship with you. If you can't do even this, you will have wasted all my years of painstaking efforts to shape you. If that happens, don't come back to the Cheng house, and sever the relationship with me too."

Old Master Cheng was worried that his words were too heavy, which would upset Luo Sheng and make him hate him. Before hanging up, he said, "This is a test for you. I hope you won't let me down."

Luo Xiu had other things to deal with, so he was going to leave immediately after getting up and showering.

"Then will you pick me up this evening? Or shall I go to you?" Meng Yang asked while hugging him around the waist.

"I'll pick you up," Luo Xiu replied.

"Alright, kiss me before you leave." Meng Yang looked up and pouted a little.

Luo Xiu hesitated for a moment, but still held Meng Yang's head and kissed him.

Meng Yang also held Luo Xiu's head and deliberately licked his lips before letting him go.

After Luo Xiu left, Meng Yang changed his clothes and prepared to go out.

Once Meng Yang had changed his clothes, he heard Luo Sheng making noise outside.

"Let him in," Meng Yang said.

When the bodyguard heard Meng Yang's order, he opened the door to let Luo Sheng in and stayed in the room to guard Meng Yang.

Luo Sheng saw that Luo Xiu wasn't there and could only look at Meng Yang and say angrily, "What's with the news headlines in Anluo City?! I knelt for you yesterday, so why is there such news?!"

"Kneeling is voluntary. I didn't make people press your head down and force you to kneel." Meng Yang sat down on the sofa and looked at him.

"What do you want?!" Luo Sheng asked.

Meng Yang watched him in silence for a moment and said, "Your father never thought of relying on the Luo family to succeed. He was forced by your parents to marry your mother under the guise of paying back the support of your grandparents. He was originally going to leave the Luo family and start a career using his own abilities, but because your paternal grandfather suddenly died of a serious illness and your uncles were only teenagers then, he had to take over the Luo family business."

Whenever Meng Yang thought of Luo Xiu's suffering, he couldn't breathe easily. He looked icily at Luo Sheng and said, "When he took over the Luo family industry, the Luo family's company was already in danger. Because your grandfather and uncle threw stones at someone who fell down a well, he had to struggle with great difficulty to support the Luo family business. Everything that the Luo Family has now was earned by him. If he's willing to give it to you, then you can have it. However, he's not willing to give it to you, but you foolishly take it for granted that it should belong to you."

"If it's not given to me, don't tell me you want it?!" Luo Sheng glared at Meng Yang.

Luo Sheng's words made Meng Yang look down on him completely. He smiled, "Sooner or later, your father and I will have children, and there will be more than one. Then he'll give everything to whoever he wants. Even if he exchanged everything for cash and threw it all into the sea, what can you do about it?"

Luo Sheng's face became even more distorted. He had no way to refute Meng Yang and could only turn to leave quickly. He wanted to go back home and discuss this matter with his grandfather. As long as he could obtain the property of the Luo family, he would do anything!

Meng Yang smiled in contempt again. Luo Xiu had never had any hope for Luo Sheng. Even though Luo Sheng didn't know that Luo Xiu wasn't his real father, he would hate, blame, and deny this father that didn't care about him, but would still recognize Luo Xiu as his father for the sake of property. If Luo Xiu was an ordinary office worker, Luo Sheng would certainly have the backbone to ignore this father that didn't care about him.

When Meng Yang was ready, he went out. He'd thought he was late, but he unexpectedly came out earlier than the others. As such, he stood in the garden of the inn, looking at the flowers and waiting for his senior brothers and sisters.

"Good morning."

Meng Yang turned to look, and then nodded, "Morning."

"Are you waiting for your friends?" Bradley asked Meng Yang.

"Yes," Meng Yang replied.

"Then I'll go first," Bradley said with a smile, leaving with his assistant and bodyguard.

"Okay." Meng Yang nodded, then looked at Bradley's back as he walked away. Suddenly, he was hit with a revelation. He had an inkling why Luo Sheng thought there was another man in his room; the back of this man looked quite similar to Luo Xiu's, and their height was almost the same.

Yesterday, Meng Yang had called Luo Xiu once he had returned to his room. He knew that Luo Xiu was going to visit the branch in Rong City, so he acted a little coquettishly and asked him to come see him, so Luo Xiu came over. Meng Yang had no idea that Luo Sheng would make such a move, but it had given him a chance to teach Lou Sheng a lesson. Since he'd offered up his head, Meng Yang wouldn't hesitate to step on it.

SMWOM 30

After breakfast, Meng Yang and the others directly set out for the city's largest fragrance garden, where quarterly price-guessing auctions were held during every season.

Lin Songtai and Xu Wangya, as well as the other masters of the school, had already arrived and were drinking tea and chatting. Yu Junchen and the others had arrived, but Xu Wangya's expression wasn't very good. The students' heads were slightly lowered in silence.

Meng Yang and his fellow students went over to salute the masters.

"Sit down," Lin Songtai said with a smile. "I heard that yesterday's spice auction was completely dominated by Meng Yang?"

"Not completely," Meng Yang replied. "There were several ingredients I didn't think I really needed, so I didn't bid on them. Later, I thought that even if I didn't need them currently, it's always useful to save them for later. As such, I took the entire last half."

Lin Songtai and several other masters around him smiled, while Xu Wangya and the masters around him at another round table didn't look very good.

"Teacher, did I cause any trouble by doing this?" Although Meng Yang didn't feel the need to hide his strength, it was still better to ask.

"You're still a student, so it's necessary to show off your talent as much as possible. When you're more famous, remember to leave a bite for others," Lin Songtai said.

"Yes, this student will remember." Meng Yang also believed this. For now, it was more important to establish a reputation to be able to participate in more exclusive auctions in the future.

"Why don't you come with me later and guess on some prices?" Lin Songtai asked.

"Thank you for the opportunity. If I guess the price correctly, can I buy it myself?" Meng Yang asked.

"Naturally," Lin Songtai said.

"Thank you, teacher," Meng Yang thanked him happily.

With the sound of the gong, all the wooden folding doors separated from the inside and were pushed open. The qualified bidders stood up and walked in, while the others stayed outside to watch.

Everyone who had the qualifications to bid could bring along one person as a helper; most people would bring in people who were experts at price-guessing.

There were also people like Lin Songtai who took their students in to learn and experience the world.

Yu Junchen was the most promising student of Xu Wangya at present, so Xu Wangya naturally took him along. No matter what, he had to train Yu Junchen to gain more achievements, and then he would have more say in the college and association. If Yu Junchen was competing with Meng Yang, Lin Songtai would certainly take advantage of this opportunity to suppress him.

The first round of the price-guessing auction began with two kinds of materials. Only one person from each group could go up to identify the quality of the spices per round.

The first round contained ingredients that Xu Wangya needed, so he went up by himself to identify the ingredients.

Bradley was in front of Meng Yang, but suddenly turned around and said, "Please, go ahead."

Meng Yang didn't know what to make of this and didn't want to speak any useless words, so he just nodded and went to the front to confirm the quality of these materials.

Meng Yang just went to smell them and didn't need to look at them, so he decided to return to his seat. After thinking for a while, he wrote down a price on the wooden plaque.

"Confident?" Lin Songtai asked.

"Yes," Meng Yang nodded.

Lin Songtai smiled and continued to drink his tea.

Soon after the wooden plaques were collected, the staff loudly announced, "Materials No. 1 and No. 2 obtained by guest No. 17."

Lin Songtai smiled wider as Xu Wangya immediately turned around to look at Meng Yang, fists clenched. The No. 1 material was exactly what he'd needed.

The next two rounds of materials were all obtained by Meng Yang, and the faces of the other participating guests were all quite sullen. Everyone watching outside was surprised and began talking.

"Who in the world is that young man? That's really amazing."

"Didn't you see him sitting with Master Lin Songtai? Most of those people have just been accepted by Master Lin Songtai, and to be accepted by such a world-class master, you must be extraordinary."

"There are many masters and price-guessing experts among those bidding, yet he put on such a one-man show and beat them all?"

"Isn't it just three rounds? It's too early to say such things."

The fourth and fifth rounds soon began. Xu Wangya had thought about letting Yu Junchen try it out after obtaining the ingredients he needed, as it would still be a learning experience even if the price was not accurate. Now though, he wouldn't let Yu Junchen go up.

"Teacher, can I buy all of the materials?" Meng Yang returned to his seat and asked Lin Songtai.

"Why not?" Lin Songtai smiled.

Meng Yang nodded and continued to write prices on the wooden plaques.

Ending with the sixth round, Meng Yang alone took all the spices from this spring's price-guessing auction. Those who watched were completely shocked, their voices growing louder and louder as they discussed this marvel.

Yu Junchen looked cautiously at Xu Wangya's face before lowering his head, trying to think about when Meng Yang got such a strong sense of smell.

Xu Wangya sighed in his heart for a long time. Even though he was quite unhappy, he had to admit that Meng Yang's sense of smell was really too strong. Not only did he have a strong sense of smell, he'd also mastered all kinds of ingredients to the extent that he could guess the prices so accurately.

The staff placed all the materials into boxes and let Meng Yang have a look before packing them up.

Lin Songtai picked up one of the wooden boxes and smelled the ingredients inside, and was immediately shocked. He wasn't able to judge the exact quality by the scent, yet Meng Yang was able to even guess an exact price. Now he could understand the mood of the other bidders.

Once Meng Yang signed the receipt, Lin Songtai stood and escorted Meng Yang outside, surrounded by spectators.

"Mr. Lin really deserved to be a world-renowned master of incense, he's a masterful teacher!"

"Congratulations to Mr. Lin, you have another genius student."

"Thank you, thank you." Lin Songtai thanked them with a smile on his face as he walked out with his students. He was very proud at receiving compliments from these people.

"Master Lin, your student has such a strong sense of smell. Are you going to train him to be a fragrance appraiser (1) later on?"

"Yes, your student's sense of smell is really amazing and admirable. With your teaching, he could become one of the country's most famous fragrance appraisers in the future."

"Future things will be known in the future. It's not worth talking about if there'll be no action, so please don't flatter (2) him too much." Lin Songtai's words still held some reservations between the lines.

"Mr. Lin, can I borrow you to talk for a moment?" The manager of the fragrance market asked Lin Songtai, squeezing through the crowd with difficulty.

"Wait for me in the tea house opposite here," Lin Songtai directed his students. He then went off to the side with the manager.

Bradley passed by Meng Yang and said with a smile, "Congratulations. It was a complete victory this time."

"Thank you," Meng Yang replied calmly.

"You…" Bradley wanted to ask Meng Yang why he was so cold to him, but on second thought, he figured Meng Yang might just have that kind of character. He smiled and said, "I hope we can become friends the next time we meet. Until then."

Meng Yang held this kind of attitude towards all unfamiliar people, even if the other side was an internationally famous perfumer, held the title of perfume idol, and was a master figure loved by countless fans. In Meng Yang's heart, he wasn't familiar with him and wouldn't rush to make friends just because of Bradley's status.

Meng Yang and the others went to the tea house across the street while more and more people were still talking about how amazing Meng Yang was. This time, he really gave Lin Songtai a lot of face. In one day, he had made a name for himself in the fragrance market. In the future, people would be willing to pay him high prices just to identify the quality of various ingredients. This was just the beginning.

The people of the spice market management association were going to entertain some rich businessmen and incense masters that night. They hoped that Lin Songtai would bring Meng Yang to the party tonight as he had taken the limelight today, as many rich businessmen wanted to meet him.

Lin Songtai wanted to give some face to the management of the fragrance market, so he not only took Meng Yang, but also his other students.

Meng Yang returned to the inn with the others to wash up and change clothes before setting out for the party. Yu Junchen and his fellow students were taking their luggage to go on a sightseeing bus tour outside the city and then were then going to return to Anluo.

As Yu Junchen was about to get on the tour bus, he saw Meng Yang come out dressed in formal clothes. He treated Yu Junchen and the others as if they were invisible, not even giving them a glance as he walked past them.

Meng Yang had sent a message to Luo Xiu and learned that he would also be at the party. He wasn't very interested in the party, but he looked forward to going home with Luo Xiu afterwards.

Entering the banquet hall, they were taken by Lin Songtai to greet the people of the Fragrance Market Administration Bureau. After getting familiar with these people, it'd be more convenient to come to the market without taking his reputable name card.

Many rich businessmen came to talk with them and expressed their intentions to invest in Meng Yang. Once Lin Songtai informed them of Meng Yang's identity, they immediately stopped talking about investment. They hadn't known Meng Yang's identity before and eagerly talked about investing in him, so they felt a bit embarrassed.

Meng Yang managed to escape the crowd and looked for Luo Xiu. He saw him standing not too far away while talking to Bradley.

Bradley turned his head slightly and saw Meng Yang walking towards them. He thought Meng Yang wanted to talk to him, so he kept his eyes on Meng Yang.

When Meng Yang reached them, he grasped Luo Xiu's hand (3). He nodded to Bradley and then turned to Luo Xiu to ask, "When did you arrive?"

"Only about three minutes ago," Luo Xiu looked at Meng Yang and replied.

"When can we leave? I'm a little tired," Meng Yang asked.

Luo Xiu looked at the time and said, "I'll go say hello to my friends, and we can leave in ten minutes."

"Okay." Meng Yang nodded.

Bradley watched in shock as the two of them talked for a moment before he came back to himself and asked, "President Luo, this is?"

"This is my lover Meng Yang. We just got married," Luo Xiu replied.

"Marry…married already?" Bradley looked at Meng Yang and felt an indescribable sense of loss.

"Then I'll go and talk to the teachers and my senior brothers and sisters," Meng Yang said to Luo Xiu.

Luo Xiu nodded.

Meng Yang nodded to Bradley again and turned to walk away.

Bradley's eyes followed Meng Yang the whole time. Though he didn't realize it, the sense of loss in his heart was fully expressed on his face.

Luo Xiu saw his expression and turned to follow his gaze only to see Meng Yang's back. He immediately understood what was happening and was a little unhappy in his heart.

"Mr. Bradley, I'm going to say hello to my friends. We'll talk again next time," Luo Xiu said, hiding his displeasure.

"Okay," Bradley hid the emotions on his face, but he still didn't feel very good. In reality, he didn't like Meng Yang yet, but he felt it wasn't easy for him to meet someone interesting. He hadn't taken action and confirmed his feelings yet, but he had already lost the opportunity, leaving him feeling very frustrated.

During such parties, Luo Xiu usually would only come to show his face. After ten minutes, Luo Xiu found Meng Yang so they could leave.

Luo Xiu saw that Bradley was still looking at Meng Yang and raised his arm to hold Meng Yang as they left.

"What's the matter?" Meng Yang felt that something was wrong with him.

"Nothing, aren't you sleepy? Sleep in the car." Luo Xiu bowed his head to whisper in Meng Yang's ear, and then kissed his face.

Though Meng Yang didn't understand why he had lowered his head to tell him this, he nodded.

In Bradley's eyes, Luo Xiu hugged Meng Yang and from time to time would lower his head to kiss him on the cheek. They left together intimately.

Once they got in the car, Meng Yang yawned and lay on his side in Luo Xiu's arms, and let him cuddle him to sleep.

Meng Yang soon fell asleep, while Luo Xiu watched his sleeping face in a complex mood.

He was very clear in his heart that people would be attracted to Meng Yang and would like him as this was a normal thing. In the future, there would only be more people. After all, he was not only talented and beautiful, but also very young. His whole body exuded an attractive and youthful aura.

Bradley was ten years younger than him and more suitable for Meng Yang. He was also very excellent in all aspects.

As soon as he thought about Bradley liking Meng Yang though, he became very angry. Even he didn't know whether he was angry at Bradley or at the fact that he himself couldn't be ten years younger, or perhaps even both.

Luo Xiu kissed Meng Yang's forehead. He didn't want to give him to anyone. Even if a more suitable person appeared, he didn't want to let go. Only by keeping Meng Yang at his side could he be at ease.