After returning to Beijing, Li Xiaoheng personally oversaw the arrangement of Tan Yu to a private nursing home funded and established by Fengxing Group. As a mentally ill patient with serious suicidal tendencies, Tan Yu was placed in a single ward in the intensive care area as he should be. The entire ward was pure white, and in order to prevent patients from self-harm, the four walls, including the ceiling and floor, were covered with soft padding. Tan Yu, who was wearing a straitjacket, was tied up on the hospital bed with a gag ball in his mouth.

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In order to ensure everything went as planned, the medical staff who look after Tan Yu were all confidantes personally arranged by Li Xiaoheng. Everyday they would keep watch on Tan Yu without ever slacking off. Worrying that the ward would be too monotonous, and Tan Yu would feel bored, Li Xiaoheng personally directed the engineering team to replace the high ceiling with an LCD TV of the same size. Tao Mu-related news would be broadcast 24 hours a day. Including the TV dramas and films Tao Mu participated in, the award ceremonies and various public events he attended. Li Xiaoheng wanted to make sure that for the rest of Tan Yu’s life, he would be able to see with his own eyes how Tao Mu was so glamorous and so well-received, and how he lived his life cherished in the hands of all his family, friends and lover.

“You should be lucky, our Mr. Tao is not a man who can be ruthless after all.” While Tao Mu was in the bathroom, Li Xiaoheng walked to the hospital bed and looked down his nose condescendingly at Tan Yu, who even though was tied up on the hospital bed he was still struggling, and said coldly: “If I followed my original intention, you would have a catheter inserted and fed using nasal feeding. It also prevents you from taking the opportunity to stir up any trouble. Everyone was in trouble. It’s a pity that our Mr. Tao disagreed.”

Li Xiaoheng hooked up the corners of his mouth, but the smile did not reach his eyes, and he said in a cold and threatening tone: “Although in my opinion, what you have done makes you no longer have the right to be called a human being, but our Mr. Tao still wants to treat you as a human being. So you better be smart.”

Li Xiaoheng bent down slightly, staring straight into Tan Yu’s eyes with his own dark ones, and threatened in a gentle tone: “If you misbehave just once, you will be a sober vegetable for the rest of this life.”

Tan Yu’s pupils instantly dilated, his eyes widening in shock, the whites covered with bloodshot veins. Struggling with all his strength, he made a muffled sound from his mouth gagged by the gag ball, looking extremely insane and terrifying.

Seeing this, the medical staff immediately brought over a tranquilizer. Li Xiaoheng waved his hand: “I need him to spend every day soberly. From now on, if it is not necessary, try to use tranquilizers as little as possible.”

Li Xiaoheng raised his head and glanced at the ceiling: “It’s too quiet. Let’s play some videos.”

The pitch-black screen suddenly lit up, and a burst of passionate music sounded in the quiet ward. A clip of Tao Mu wearing a black suit and standing on the stage of the Lingxiao Awards Ceremony to deliver his acceptance speech appeared on the big screen.

Li Xiaoheng enjoyed admiring Mr. Tao’s golden age beauty for a while, and said with great emotion: “This was the first award our Mr. Tao had won. Like you, it was the Best Newcomer Award. Although the atmosphere of winning the award was very different between the two of you. One attracted a lot of attention, and the other was shunned. But forcibly making such a comparison is a bit insulting to Mr. Tao. But fortunately, this is the only time. After all, your life is over now. But Mr. Tao’s new life has just begun. This Best Newcomer Award was the first trophy that Mr. Tao had won, but it is definitely not the last trophy that Mr. Tao will receive.”

Li Xiaoheng didn’t talk much. But if necessary, Li Xiaoheng could still be quite loquacious. Just like at this moment, Li Xiaoheng knew the thorn in Tan Yu’s heart——he was such a cowardly person and afraid of death, yet he was able to risk sacrificing his life, even if he had to give up his seven emotions and six desires, he still wanted to keep his greed and continue reincarnation. Wasn’t all of this just because he wanted to replace Tao Mu as Shen Yu, and trample Tao Mu underfoot? Therefore, Li Xiaoheng deliberately released the video of Tao Mu winning the award, needling Tan Yu with words, in order to provoke Tan Yu’s unwillingness and anger to the greatest extent. He wanted Tan Yu to keep this emotion forever, let Tan Yu experience the suffering that Tao Mu experienced for so many lifetimes as one who could never get what he wanted yet couldn’t let go, and let Tan Yu live in Tao Mu’s shadow for the rest of his life.

Sure enough, Tan Yu became more and more frantic when he heard what Li Xiaoheng said. He was struggling hysterically, and even the hospital bed which was nailed to the floor shook violently.

Li Xiaoheng smiled slightly, and continued: “Our Mr. Tao doesn’t have many works now, so I can only wrong you to watch repeated videos. However, “Soldier Elite” in which our Mr. Tao plays the leading role is about to finish. There will be more works coming out continuously. You will see our Mr. Tao’s new works every year, and every year you will hear what awards and praises our Mr. Tao has received. In addition, I will also have the medical staff take screenshots of Tao Mu’s fans’ online comments and show them to you regularly.”

“Our family’s Mr. Tao will only live better and better, and you won’t be too bored either.”

Li Xiaoheng unscrupulously stimulated Tan Yu’s nerves with the gracious attitude of one granting the best of both worlds.

On the hospital bed, Tan Yu, who was tied up, was going crazy. In several lifetimes of reincarnation, the last thing he wanted was to hear someone praise Tao Mu’s goodness in front of him, and he couldn’t bear Tao Mu living a better life than him. However, he had to spend the rest of his life surrounded by Tao Mu’s praises and applause. The better Tao Mu’s life was, the angrier he was. At this moment, Tan Yu really wanted nothing more than to truly go crazy.

But how could Li Xiaoheng truly drive Tan Yu crazy. Backed by the strong medical resources of the private nursing home, Li Xiaoheng would ensure that Tan Yu spends his life lucid. Lucidly watching how Tao Mu was sound and happy, his life smooth sailing.

At the door of the ward, Tao Mu silently watched everything Li Xiaoheng did for him. Suddenly, he felt that the hardships and sufferings of these lifetimes were not in vain.

Even though he failed to win back the Shen family, even though he had worked so hard for so many lifetimes and experienced betrayal and indifference, Tao Mu finally found his lover in the long cycle of reincarnation. For the rest of his life, as long as he had Li Xiaoheng by his side, all the bad things he had encountered would be worth it.

I walked through the dark nights and the cold winters, just to wait for the warm and bright you in the spring when the flowers bloom.

Tao Mu stepped forward gently, and hugged Li Xiaoheng who was still provoking Tan Yu’s emotions from behind, and said in a warm voice: “I am sure that my life will get better and better. Because I have you by my side.”

Li Xiaoheng, who was just swinging his big tail leisurely, suddenly froze. His body stiffened, and he turned around inch by inch: “When did you come back?”

Li Xiaoheng looked embarrassed, and even cut a bit of a sorry figure. He didn’t expect Tao Mu to see his immature and scheming side. He felt annoyed with himself in his heart, wondering if what he said just now would affect his tall and mighty image in Tao Mu’s mind.

Tao Mu, who had never thought their Mr. Li was tall and mighty, smiled slightly: “Since you threatened Shen Yu your original plan to treat him as a vegetable.” It didn’t take long to go to the bathroom. What’s more, Tao Mu was also worried that Tan Yu, who was emotionally unstable and crazy, would hurt their family’s Mr. Li. Tao Mu prided himself on his high martial arts prowess, and he could protect Li Xiaoheng by always following at Li Xiaoheng’s side. But he didn’t expect to come back in time and hear such words.

“Mr. Li, thank you.” Tao Mu was a little shy, and he didn’t even have the nerve to call out Li Xiaoheng’s full name. But still looking brightly and firmly into Li Xiaoheng’s eyes, he said warmly: “Thank you for making me feel that so many reincarnations were necessary. I am very grateful to Shen Yu, although his existence once made me feel very painful. But it also gave me the opportunity to wait for you.”

“It was worth it!”

After dating for so long, he almost never heard such a touching confession from Tao Mu and Li Xiaoheng was already floating with joy. The corners of his mouth were stretched wide in a grin, showing his white teeth in a silly looking smile, and the big tail behind him almost turned into a propeller at how fast it wagged. Not a speck of the air of a domineering CEO remained at all.

Li Xiaoheng hugged Tao Mu. At that moment, 10,000 bullet screens flashed through his mind, but in the end he couldn’t even utter a complete sentence. He could only bury his head in Tao Mu’s hair, and say in a muffled voice: “Tao Mu, trust me. I will treat you well. I will treat you well in this life.”

Tao Mu, who was pressed by Li Xiaoheng into his chest, hooked up the corners of his mouth, and hugged Li Xiaoheng in response.

The loving interaction between the two undoubtedly stimulated Tan Yu on the hospital bed. Tan Yu’s eyes were red and his eyes looked like they were about to burst from their sockets. He struggled violently on the hospital bed, trying to make the loudest noise. But it was still unsurprisingly ignored by the two people who were deep in love.

Seeing this scene, the confidants of the Li family who were hiding outside the hospital ward secretly called the main family to report the good news. Such that the two had just come out of the nursing home and Li Xiaoheng received a call from Father Li. Straight to the point, he asked Li Xiaoheng when he would take his boyfriend who “has already announced their relationship during the live broadcast” home for dinner.

Chairman Li, who was always stern and serious in front of outsiders, was now quite outspoken, and he said with great gratification that he had waited for this day for too long. Now that the silly son finally had official status, the old father was very pleased, and had even ordered all the companies under the Fengxing Group to start promoting the “Boss’s Happy News” discount promotion on the day Tao Mu made their relationship public. Now the whole group’s discounts and promotions were bringing in flourishing sales, but everyone in the Li family was still yet to meet their official male daughter-in-law. This situation was really worrying!

On the other end of the phone, Mother Li and the several younger siblings of the Li family were unwilling to be left out and shouted: “Elder Brother, please do your best. It would be best to bring our sister-in-law home tonight.”

Grandpa Li, who had retired, also expressed with great excitement that he had already started to check the almanac to select auspicious days. He just wanted to know when Tao Mu wanted to hold the engagement ceremony? And where? Did he prefer Chinese or Western? Were there any special requirements for wedding gifts? Were there any special requirements for the wedding bedroom? If Tao Mu didn’t like his current house, feel free to ask for anything. The Li family would immediately select a piece of land, form a construction team, and build a new newlywed house in full accordance with Tao Mu’s requirements…..

Grandpa Li’s questions were not only many but also quite detailed. Li Xiaoheng hung up the phone silently, held Tao Mu’s hand and comforted him: “Don’t be afraid. Our family is just too anxious, afraid that I, an old bachelor, won’t be able to marry a wife, so that’s why they are pressing so hard. If you’re not used to it, I’ll make it clear to them——”

Tao Mu interrupted before he finished speaking: “It’s okay.”

Tao Mu smiled slightly at Li Xiaoheng, squeezed Li Xiaoheng’s hand back, and said seriously: “Actually, I’m also quite anxious.”

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“I’ve waited for several lifetimes, and I really don’t want to wait anymore.” Tao Mu said, his eyes scanning the compartment aimlessly, and when they finally landed on the tissue box, they lit up. He took out a tissue and twisted it into a heart-shaped ring, held it in front of Li Xiaoheng, blushed and even stammered out of nervousness: “…..So, Mr., Mr. Li, are you willing to marry me?”

The black car that was driving normally drew an S on the street. Li Xiaoheng pulled the car over after a close call, grabbed Tao Mu’s hand, and replied seriously: “Yes. Of course I am willing.”

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As Li Xiaoheng expected, with Tao Mu and Shen Yu unconscious, all the chess pieces in the game fell into a long dream one after another. But different from the full version experienced by Tao Mu, these people only dreamt about people and things related to the plot. But even so, these bits and pieces were enough to make them sick enough to throw up their lunch. Especially after seeing the comparison between the real Shen Er and the terrible fake that was Shen Yu in their memory.

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A fake was a fake, even though Shen Yu imitated Shen Er in everything and tried his best to create the illusion of a phoenix. But Shen Yu was not Shen Er after all. He didn’t have Shen Er’s heart of innocence, nor did he possess Shen Er’s sincerity, care and consideration when interacting with others, nor Shen Er’s innate brilliance and compassion. He was just a cuckoo occupying the nest, clinging to the stolen identity and status that didn’t belong to him, but looked upon all of these as his innate halo. And then with these false halos he stood high above, maintaining his equally false pity and hypocrisy.

But stripped of all this, the real Shen Yu——no, he wasn’t even Shen Yu. His existence only tarnished the name that meant to be endowed with all the fine beauty of nature. Strip the name, and he was nothing but a pathetic and hateful clown. He thought that by wearing the crown and appearing on the raised dais, he could become a king. It was a pity that in the eyes of everyone who had recovered their memories, all this was just a poor imitation show one after another. Under the contrast between reality and illusion, it only appeared even more ugly.

However, it was such a hideous caricature of a thing, which made people feel disdainful to even take a second look, that played all of them in the palm of his hand. And what did they do wrong? In order to satisfy this person’s greed and delusion, they fell into reincarnation life after life, and even dying could not bring peace.

“A person like you could actually live so many lives under Shen Er’s name.” Yao Wenxiao, who had to send Shen Yu to the hospital because Shen Yu suddenly fell into a coma in his office, was so disgusted that he looked like he had swallowed a live caterpillar. His face turned green, and when he thought that he had been bewitched by this thing of a person for so many lives, he had the urge to hit the wall and kill himself.

“How disgusting!” Yao Wenxiao glared at Shen Yu, who just woke up from the hospital bed, with disgust on his face: “How could there be such a disgusting person like you in this world.”

Yao Wenxiao’s gaze as if he was looking at a puddle of mud instantly stimulated Shen Yu. Shen Yu, who was already emotionally unstable, immediately yelled loudly: “Don’t look at me like that. Don’t look at me like that. I’m Shen Yu, I’m Shen Yu! I’m your favorite Shen Yu! How can you treat me like this!”

The deranged shrieks attracted the doctors and nurses who were making rounds. The medical staff who didn’t know the whole story looked at Yao Wenxiao with disapproval on their faces and walked to the bed to comfort the patient. However, Shen Yu’s struggle was so intense that he even accidentally scratched a nurse. The medical staff had no choice but to control the person in a hurry and try their best to appease the patient’s emotions.

Yao Wenxiao took two steps back with a sneer, and looked at Shen Yu’s crazy display with cold eyes. Suspicious over whether this person was pretending or if he had really gone crazy.

“What happened?”

Yao Wenxiao turned his head and saw Shen Chen showing up at the door of the ward with the Shen family’s mother and daughter. He immediately sneered: “Don’t you know how to see for yourself? He’s pretending to be crazy!”

Yao Wenxiao paused, unable to calm his emotions. He couldn’t help but ridicule: “But your Shen family is truly interesting. You actually treated such a nauseating thing like a treasure, holding it in your palm for so many lifetimes, but rejecting the real phoenix.”

“What qualifications do you have to say anything about the Shen family? Aren’t you equally blind! Treating a fake as real love for so many lifetimes?” Shen Yan gave Yao Wenxiao a vicious look and interrupted him.

Mrs. Shen had already rushed into the ward regardless of anything else, and without any notice, slapped Shen Yu, who was pinned on the bed by the medical staff, twice on both cheeks: “You shameless bastard. How dare you plot against our Shen family like this? How did our Shen family offend you? You fake, a cuckoo occupying the nest, the smelly mud in the stinking ditch, you give me back my son!”

Seeing this, Shen Yan also rushed forward with anger on her face.

Like Yao Wenxiao, the mother and daughter of the Shen family felt disgusted from the bottom of their hearts when they thought that they had been used by Shen Yu for so many lives.

Shen Yu was controlled by the medical staff and had no ability to resist at all. Looking at everyone’s disgusted and hateful eyes, and enduring the slaps on the face and body from Mrs. Shen and Shen Yan, the memory of being abandoned like a shoe was instantly brought back. Shen Yu, who was already emotionally unstable, immediately collapsed mentally. He defended in a shrill voice: “It’s not my fault. Don’t you guys hate Shen Er too? Shen Yan, don’t forget that you switched Shen Er and me with your own hands. You don’t want Shen Er to return to the Shen family, you said you wanted me to be your real younger brother! You said it! And Mom, you said that you hated Shen Er for inviting the wolves into the house, and regretted giving birth to such a son as him. You all said these things.”

The medical staff standing on the side were confused, but they couldn’t just watch their patient being beaten on the hospital bed. They could only rush forward, trying to stop the crazy Shen family mother and daughter. Shen Yan became even more angry from embarrassment, and raised her hand to slap the nurse, only to be stopped by Shen Chen.

“Some family matters need to be dealt with. I hope everyone can give us a little time.”

Seeing that the medical staff hesitated, Shen Chen smiled slightly and said, “Don’t worry. My mother and sister were just too emotional for a moment, and they won’t do anything again.”

Perhaps it was because Shen Chen came across as too reliable, or maybe it was because of the difficulty of minding other’s family affairs, the medical staff looked at each other in blank dismay, and finally left.

After sending the medical staff away, he also persuaded Shen Yan and Mrs. Shen who were emotionally unstable and wanted to continue hitting Shen Yu. Shen Chen then walked to the hospital bed and looked down at Shen Yu.

A strong hope flashed in Shen Yu’s eyes: “Elder Brother! Elder Brother! Elder Brother, you like me, right? I am your younger brother. I am good and obedient. Unlike Shen Er, who actually lured wolves into the house and killed you and your Dad, and ruined the Shen family——”

“The person who killed me and Dad was Zhuo Yan, not Xiao Yu.” Shen Chen coldly interrupted Shen Yu: “Also, you are not Shen Yu either. From the beginning to the end, you were never a child of the Shen family. You have your own biological parents, and your biological father’s surname is Tan. I have already removed your household registration from the Shen family. From now on, you will be Tan Yu.”

“Greed?” Yao Wenxiao smiled playfully: “He really lives up to his name.” (TN: tan yu=greed/avarice)

“No! No! No!” Shen Yu, no, it should be Tan Yu shook his head frantically, screaming hysterically: “You can’t do this. I am Shen Yu, only I am Shen Yu. I am your favorite Shen Yu. You can’t do this to me.”

Shen Chen still continued to look at Tan Yu condescendingly. His face was expressionless, but there was a trace of pity in his usually cold eyes: “You are really pitiful!”

Yao Wenxiao also shook his head, and said, “People like you will never understand. We like Shen Er, or putting it in another way, the reason why Shen Er is liked by everyone is not because of this name. It depends on who has this name. Shen Er in the past, and Tao Mu in the present, only those with excellent qualities will attract everyone’s attention. People in the world are attracted to strength, and moths fly towards the flame. People always yearn for bright, dazzling and warm things. But towards this reasoning, you, a piece of trash who has been gleefully living in the shadow of another over several lifetimes, will not understand.”

When Yao Wenxiao said this, he looked at Tan Yu with an increasingly disgusted expression: “Fakes will always be fakes. Even a high-quality imitation can’t compare with the genuine thing. What’s more, you are not even a high-quality imitation, but just the cheapest of imitations. Naturally, you would be abandoned like worn shoes.”

“After all, if you get down to it, a fake is just a defective product.” Yao Wenxiao made a final decision and walked slowly to the hospital bed. He still maintained a condescending attitude, looking at Tan Yu as if he was seeing through Tan Yu. He tutted and shook his head: “How pitiful! When you were Tao Mu, you couldn’t compare to Shen Er. When you tried your best to become Shen Yu, you couldn’t compare to Tao Mu. So, seriously, what is even the point of you messing around for so many lifetimes?”

“What do you know?” Having been completely exposed and his disguise torn off, Tan Yu also showed his true colors, and yelled at Yao Wenxiao with a ferocious face: “You people who have been born with golden spoons in your mouths, and have been pampered all your lives, how could you understand? No one likes a poor orphan with no father and no mother. So no one likes Tao Mu. No matter how hard I try, your eyes are still glued to Shen Er! And never take a look at me! It is because there are too many people like you that I want to do my best to become Shen Yu! I just want everyone to like me, is there something wrong with that? God is not fair! What right does Shen Yu have to be liked by everyone just because he is born well?”

“But the truth is not like this.” A voice came from the door of the ward, and everyone followed the sound, and found that Zhuo Yan and Yan Sheng, who was filming in America, entered the ward one after the other.

It was Yan Sheng who spoke just now: “Even if he is an orphan, Tao Mu can find a way to work hard in his career and find a family that loves him. In contrast, even if you become Shen Yu, you will only end up being betrayed and abandoned by everyone.”

“You want to replace Shen Er, but you can only live in his shadow life after life. Even if you steal his life by taking his name, you have no way to become him.” When Yan Sheng said this, he couldn’t help but sigh: “An individual can never become someone else. You can only try to be the best version of yourself.”

It was a pity that Tan Yu would never understand this truth.

“No! Impossible! I don’t believe it! I don’t believe it! You are all lying to me! How can Tao Mu be likable? No! No! I’m right! I can’t be wrong! This world must be wrong! Obviously everyone should like Shen Yu! You should all hate Tao Mu! You should use all means to target Tao Mu! Step on him! Make him unable to stand up for the rest of his life! He only deserves to be lowly in the dust, watching Shen Yu stand up high! It’s you who are all wrong! It’s all your fault! How can you think that Tao Mu is better than Shen Yu? How can Tao Mu be better than Shen Yu?”

If Yao Wenxiao’s words were just acrimonious, Yan Sheng’s words directly shattered Tan Yu’s delusion, making him have to face up to his incompetence and failure. However, Tan Yu, who wanted to replace Shen Er even if he sacrificed everything, even his own life, could not bear such a reality.

The taut thread that was in his head finally broke. Tan Yu seemed to have caught some life-saving straw, and two terrifying lights suddenly burst from his eyes, so astonishingly bright.

“Yes! You are right! Shen Yu is not as good as Tao Mu! Tao Mu is the best! I am Tao Mu! I am the real Tao Mu! Shen Yu is not as good as Tao Mu! Tao Mu is the best! The best! But the real Tao Mu is me! I am Tao Mu! I am Tao Mu! Hahahaha…..”

Tan Yu’s laughter suddenly stopped, and he struggled on the hospital bed: “That’s right. I am Tao Mu. I want to take back everything that belongs to me. Mine, mine, everything is mine…..”

In the chaos, Tan Yu suddenly touched the fruit knife on the bedside table. He held the small knife, with the sharp tip against his heart, and muttered to himself with a frantic expression: “This life is wrong. Tao Mu is the best. I’m going to switch everything back——”

Zhuo Yan, who had been silent since entering the ward, but carefully observed Tan Yu’s state the whole time, was the first to react. He rushed forward, snatched the fruit knife from Tan Yu’s hand, and backhanded Tan Yu: “Whether you are really crazy or pretending to be crazy, it won’t be so easy to die.”

“That’s right, this kind of person should live a long life!” Li Xiaoheng who just got off the plane broke out in a cold sweat at the scene just now, and immediately sneered, “Keep him awake and lucid at all times. So that he can see with his own eyes how our CEO Tao’s life goes smoothly, and ends happily ever after.”

As he spoke, a group of medical staff suddenly appeared from behind Li Xiaoheng. This group of people rushed into the ward while pushing a mobile hospital bed and all kinds of equipment. Regardless of Tan Yu’s flailing and screaming, they put on a restraint suit and stuffed a gag in his mouth. They even put a tranquilizer in him for easy transfer later.

Li Xiaoheng nodded slightly at the people in the ward: “Since this person is crazy and has serious suicidal tendencies, I will take over his treatment out of humanitarianism. Don’t worry, I will let him live in the best nursing home, and hire the best medical staff to wait on him. Also, doesn’t he like to be called Shen Yu?”

Li Xiaoheng looked at Shen Chen: “Change his name back. I want him to use the name Shen Yu without encountering any disaster and disease, and live a long life. It can also be regarded as satisfying his wish of eternal life.”

The appearance of Li Xiaoheng and Tao Mu made the atmosphere in the ward suddenly stagnant. Everyone looked at Tao Mu with complicated eyes. Mrs. Shen rushed forward with excitement: “My Xiao Yu——”

“Mrs. Shen!” Tao Mu pushed Mrs. Shen away very coldly: “Shen Er is dead.”

These words were like a magic spell, and Mrs. Shen froze in place, and then suddenly broke down crying. Shen Yan stepped forward to support Mrs. Shen, and glared at Tao Mu: “How could you treat Mom like this? Don’t forget——”

“Let me remind you!” Tao Mu interrupted Shen Yan’s accusation, his face was expressionless and his tone was calm, he even slightly cold: “Don’t forget how Shen Er died in every life.”

Tao Mu said lightly: “I’m not Shen Er. I have no tolerance for the Shen family. What’s more, everyone here, no matter what life you count, can be called my, Tao Mu’s, enemy.”

Tao Mu’s eyes were dark and deep, and he reminded everyone unceremoniously: “Before speaking, consider the power of FlyNews and Xiaoheng Capital.”

“You——” Shen Yan was struck speechless by Tao Mu. However, looking at Tao Mu’s attitude at this moment, Shen Yan finally realized soberly that the handsome and indifferent man in front of her was really not Shen Er.

As Tao Mu said, the constant reincarnation had completely exhausted Shen Er’s last hope for the Shen family. Today’s Tao Mu not only had no tolerance for the Shen family, he could even strike them down without hesitation. The only difference was whether Tao Mu wanted to do so or not.

The Shen family who were the most important to Shen Er were all like this. Not to mention other people who have a slightly shallower relationship with him. Yao Wenxiao’s figure stiffened, and he looked at Tao Mu with nostalgia——to be precise, he took one last glance at the Shen Er in his memory, and left silently.

Tao Mu was right. No matter what everyone’s relationship had been like once upon a time, after the reincarnation of so many lives, they now only exist in the form of enemies. What’s more, even if the first life was counted, Yao Wenxiao couldn’t resist the temptation in the end, and played a role in betraying Shen Er. The brotherhood of the two had long been broken. To this day, it was already fortunate if Tao Mu decided to ignore the past and let all past grievances rest. Yao Wenxiao didn’t dare to ask for anything else. After all, with the current state of the Yao family, even just maintaining a decent livelihood took up all their efforts. He really dared not face giants like FlyNews.com or the Li family.

Zhuo Yan also had the same thinking. His situation was rather special. Even before breaking the reincarnation cycle and recovering his memory, Zhuo Yan often dreamt of being with Tao Mu——to be precise, fragments of being with Shen Er. It was just that Tao Mu was already with Li Xiaoheng at that time.

Zhuo Yan thought to himself that he couldn’t compare to Li Xiaoheng, so he didn’t dare to let these ambiguous emotions grow. What’s more, the most important thing in Zhuo Yan’s heart was always to take revenge on the Shen family rather than pursuing romantic love.

Now remembering his previous life, Zhuo Yan dared not have illusions about Tao Mu even more. Not only that, Zhuo Yan was even worried that Tao Mu would not be able to swallow this anger, and would unite with the Li family to take revenge on him. Fortunately, Tao Mu really didn’t have any interest. Zhuo Yan rejoiced secretly, and left in silence as well.

Yan Sheng, the only one who felt that he was innocent, sighed, and walked up to Tao Mu: “I hope to have the opportunity to cooperate with you again.”

Compared to Yao Wenxiao and Zhuo Yan’s guilty conscience and timidity, no matter which life, film king Yan, who only targeted Tao Mu in terms of acting skills, was more calm and undaunted. Although his petty actions of the past few lifetimes were somewhat embarrassing. But Yan Sheng never crossed that line. So he didn’t feel that he had anything to be sorry towards Tao Mu. After all, film king Yan was essentially a person who admired the strong. There were a lot of bullies in the entertainment circle, and Yan Sheng’s actions against Tao Mu were far from being called that of a bully. After all, he had never tampered with Tao Mu’s script arbitrarily by relying on his identity and position, let alone bullying Tao Mu in the crew. He just suppressed the other when acting against each other in front of the camera. If Tao Mu really wanted to hold grudges even for this, then Yan Sheng could do nothing about it.

In the final analysis, because Yan Sheng was backed by the Yan family, although he was quite wary of the Li family and didn’t want to offend the Li family easily, it was not to the point that he would avoid in fear. What’s more, he trusted Tao Mu, and felt that no matter how many times he had been reincarnated, so long as he was essentially the Shen Er he knew, he would not hate him for such a trivial matter. Besides, if one wanted to quibble over details, the reason why Yan Sheng was even dragged into this cycle of reincarnation was traced back to Shen Er’s involvement.

Otherwise, he wouldn’t be targeted by that psychopath Tan Yu!

Yan Sheng felt that after being forced to sleep with a person like Tan Yu for so many lives, and even treat him like a treasure. Towards such a disgusting experience he didn’t even take his anger out on Tao Mu, so Tao Mu shouldn’t have any reason to be angry with him, right?

Sure enough, Tao Mu looked at Yan Sheng’s outstretched right hand and just smiled slightly before shaking it: “I also look forward to continuing to cooperate with Teacher Yan.”

The two looked at each other and smiled, inexplicably sympathetic to each other.

After Yan Sheng also left, only the three members of the Shen family were left in the ward, as well as Tan Yu who was lifted to the mobile hospital bed by the medical staff for transfer.

Shen Chen looked at Tao Mu, moved his lips, and in the end he didn’t speak to Tao Mu, but looked at Li Xiaoheng, and discussed: “He is not Shen Yu, nor is he a child of our Shen family. I have already removed him from the Shen family household registration. His biological father’s surname is Tan——”

“Then move him back.” Li Xiaoheng said without room for argument: “After all, it is the wish of someome who even went as far as sacrificing their life in order for it to be fulfilled. No matter what, let him live a long life and enjoy it to his heart’s content. Besides, isn’t this also something that some members of your Shen family want? Perfect…..”

When Li Xiaoheng said this, he glanced at Mrs. Shen and Shen Yan, and said calmly: “It can also act as a reminder to you Shen family, just what kind of thing that you want to cherish and pamper for life after life.”

Everyone in the Shen family was speechless. Mrs. Shen and Shen Yan glared at Li Xiaoheng. However, when their gaze met Li Xiaoheng’s still and deep eyes, they cowardly shifted their eyes elsewhere.

After all, they were greedy and selfish, cowardly and incompetent people. They only dare to hurt those who really care about them. Once they encounter someone who didn’t care a lick about them, or who had malicious intentions towards them, they would shiver and stick their head into the soil, exposing their ugly buttocks and let themselves be slaughtered. Then intensify the damage they received on those who really care about them.

Li Xiaoheng really hated the Shen family’s mother and daughter. Compared to Tan Yu, who was an outright villain, these kinds of people who hurt Shen Er unscrupulously by taking advantage of Shen Er’s love, and used familial affection as a knife were the most hateful.

It was just a thin layer of blood, what right did they have to dare to hurt someone who he held preciously in his hands afraid that even the slightest bit of strength would hurt him? Thinking of Tao Mu having his heart cut bloody by these so-called family members where he couldn’t see, and how silly he was to endure the pain and keep coming back to seek abuse, Li Xiaoheng wished to get rid of all these people!

“Forget it!” Tao Mu held Li Xiaoheng’s palm and squeezed it: “The past is over. No one should mention it again. We finally managed to deal with those bad things. Let’s concentrate on living our own life.”

Tao Mu’s words were not only aimed at Li Xiaoheng, but also meant to warn Shen Chen.

Shen Chen understood, and swallowed all the words he wanted to say. He turned around and said: “Whether you pursue it or not, Zhuo Yan caused the death of me and my parents in the first life, and ruined the Shen family. In this life, he took away the Shen Group again. I will not let him go.”

“That’s your own grievance!” Tao Mu said lightly, “As long as you don’t come looking for me, everyone can just walk our separate paths and mind our own business.”

These words again!

Shen Chen sighed inwardly. If he had felt only wariness when he first took the initiative to say this to Tao Mu, then now, there was only melancholy in Shen Chen’s heart.

When Tao Mu was still Shen Er, the Shen family hated him in every possible way, and drove him out of the house several times, avoiding him like the plague. But now Tao Mu had really left the Shen family behind.

After several lives as family, they had become strangers after all.

Shen Chen glanced at Mrs. Shen and Shen Yan and thought, this was the Shen family’s wish for several lifetimes, and now it had finally come true. But the attitude of his mother and sister did not appear happy.

Just like Tan Yu who also fulfilled his wish. For the rest of his life, he was afraid that he would just regret it even more.

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There was an old saying that one could not return to the past life, and one could not seek the next life. But in Shen Chen’s view, the fate between Tao Mu and the Shen family was more described as one could not seek the past life, and one could not return in the next life.

With a long sigh, Shen Chen took the initiative to stretch out his right hand, and finally said to Tao Mu the words in his heart that had been buried for several lifetimes: “I hope you can live a sound and happy life and die peacefully at a ripe old age.”

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By the time the live broadcast ended, it was already past eight o’clock in the evening. Tao Mu was in a coma for three days and had just woken up. Although there were no physical symptoms, the hospital advised Tao Mu to stay in the hospital for observation for a few days out of prudence. Considering Mr. Song’s age, Li Xiaoheng offered to have Liu Yao and Meng Qi take Mr. Song back to the hotel to rest, while he stayed in the hospital to accompany him by the hospital bed.

Liu Yao and Meng Qi also knew that the two children had just gone public, so they probably still had a lot of private things to talk about. So they no longer insist on staying as a third wheel. They just patted the big-tailed wolf on the shoulder with an exasperated face, and told Li Xiaoheng to take good care of Tao Mu.

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CEO Li wagged his big tail and agreed with high spirits. He also graciously supported Mr. Song’s arm, personally saw him to the elevator, watched the three parents leave, then put his arms around Tao Mu’s shoulders, and returned to the ward together while half hugging.

During this period, their mobile phones kept ringing non-stop, calls from relatives and friends who watched the live broadcast. Among them, the reaction of the Li family was the most excitable. Tao Mu could hear Grandpa Li complimenting Li Xiaoheng on the other side of the phone for a job well done from a long distance away. Father Li and Mother Li even eagerly asked when the engagement ceremony was going to be held.

After the news spread on the Internet, wave after wave of netizens reacted fiercely. Except for a small number of homophobic netizens and fans who could not accept their idol in love, the attitude of most people was still very peaceful and tolerant. Especially during the live broadcast, all Tao Mu and Li Xiaoheng could see were the blessings of the netizens.

Don’t know if these comments were directly screened by BulletScreen.com in the background, but Tao Mu was still very happy.

It was not advisable to overeat at night, and Tao Mu had just woken up. So Li Xiaoheng ordered a pot of seafood porridge and a few light side dishes from the hotel to accompany Tao Mu for dinner. While drinking porridge, Tao Mu discussed the dream of reincarnation with Li Xiaohang. He said with a wry smile: “I originally thought that being able to be reborn once was already the most fantastic thing. But I didn’t expect the reality to be far more unbelievable than I knew.”

Tao Mu said to Li Xiaoheng: “In the beginning, I thought that what I experienced in my previous life was a book. And when I was reborn, I could often hear the content of readers’ comments popping up in my mind. And some of the comments were about things after my death…..”

Li Xiaoheng analyzed thoughtfully: “Perhaps the information you hear in your mind was not some readers’ comments, but the evaluation of these events by different people in each reincarnation. Although you don’t remember each reincarnation, your soul has actually experienced every life. So what these people said had become fragmented memories, buried deep in the subconscious.”

Tao Mu looked at Li Xiaohang’s calm analysis, and couldn’t help asking: “What about you? I want to know how you live in every reincarnation?”

“I can’t remember.” Li Xiaoheng shook his head: “I just remember that I want to find someone, but I can’t find them no matter how I search.”

When Li Xiaoheng said this, he suddenly chuckled, looked at Tao Mu and said, “Speaking of which, I have been single for several lifetimes. It’s all because of you. Tell me, how should you compensate me?”

Tao Mu put the porridge bowl on the bedside table, and asked with a smile, “How do you want to be compensated?”

“Compensate me with this life and every life after.” Li Xiaoheng said with a faint smile, “One life is too short to love you enough.”

“Several lifetimes is so long, don’t you feel tired?” Tao Mu frowned, suddenly thought of something, and said: “Besides, the non-stop reincarnation is too hard. And Shen Er’s obsession with the Shen family is gone. It is likely that there will be no reincarnation in the future.”

Tao Mu analyzed that the reason why there were so many reincarnations was not only caused by Shen Yu’s greed and delusions. At least there must be Shen Er’s obsession with wanting to save his family taking part as well. Only when Shen Er was willing to accompany Shen Yu into reincarnation could this cycle continue.

For example, this reincarnation cycle was like a chess game. The chess players were Shen Er and Shen Yu, all of them were chess pieces, and the constant reincarnation was the chessboard. Only when two people have the desire not to let go and both have the desire to play chess, could this game of chess go on. As for who wins and who loses, it depended on whose methods and skills were more superb. And this chess game took the form of the plot halo that Tao Mu once thought.

But now, Shen Er had obviously exhausted all the feelings he had for the Shen family in the long cycle of reincarnation. Once a chess player gives up, gaps would appear in the seamless chess game, and even cause it to slowly collapse. However, the other player of the chess game was not willing for it to collapse, so he did everything possible to drag Tao Mu back into the game. This was probably why after rebirth, even though Tao Mu tried his best to avoid Shen Yu, and avoided Shen Yu’s family, he was still approached by the unwilling Shen Yu again and again, trying to drag him back to the original plot.

However, Tao Mu’s subconscious desire to break free from reincarnation had caused factual deviations. The originally unchanging trajectory of reincarnation shifted from the original direction, just like a snowball, no matter how hard Shen Yu tried to entangle him, even using up his last ounce of strength, the fate that had already rolled into a big snowball began to roll vigorously in a new direction until eventually breaking the cycle of reincarnation, and all the chess pieces woke up. And Shen Yu, who vainfully tried to play with fate, naturally had to bear the pain of being crushed by fate.

Tao Mu said: “Actually, although Shen Yu’s character in the first life was not very good, he still had intelligence and skills. However, with the repetition of reincarnation in each life, Shen Yu would become a little stupider.” Until this life, when the seven emotions and six desires were almost exhausted, and only greed and delusions remain to support Shen Yu’s personality.

However, desires were hard to satisfy, and Shen Yu, who only had greedy desires left under his skin, obviously would never be satisfied. He would only keep asking and asking for more. But this kind of person was doomed not to be liked by others no matter what time or place. In other words, Shen Yu went to great lengths to exchange for this reincarnation situation, but in the end, he could only get the fate of losing everything.

Thinking of this, Tao Mu couldn’t help sighing a little. Shen Yu harmed Shen Er and so many people because of a moment of greed, but in the end he was also swallowed up by this greed. Tao Mu felt that the current Shen Yu had almost lost all the emotions and perceptions that a human being should have, and without these, a human could not be called a human.

“That’s his own fault.” Li Xiaoheng snorted coldly, and hugged their CEO Tao tightly: “He has caused you to suffer so miserably! And made your husband, I, stay alone in a vacant bedroom for so many lives! I have been an old virgin for several lifetimes! This hatred and grudge will never be forgiven! If you have the time to feel sorry for him, why don’t you think about how to make it up to me?”

As Li Xiaoheng was talking, his whole body practically glued over, pressing Tao Mu under him with restless hands and feet.

Tao Mu felt tingly all over because of Li Xiaoheng’s messing around, so he could only hold Li Xiaoheng’s wrist and said softly: “Don’t fool around. We are talking about serious stuff!”

“You say what you want, and I’ll do what I want, these two things are not in conflict.” Li Xiaoheng thrusted against Tao Mu hard, the underlying meaning clear in his words.

Tao Mu’s whole body went jelly-like from Li Xiaoheng’s actions, and he collapsed weakly on the hospital bed. But his arms encircled Li Xiaoheng’s neck very honestly.

Li Xiaoheng originally just wanted to tease Tao Mu to distract Tao Mu’s attention so that he would stop thinking about unhappy things and disgusting people. Unexpectedly, Tao Mu was so obedient, and it immediately aroused all Li Xiaoheng’s desires.

So without another word, a tumult that needed to be carried out with the lights off occurred. After the cloud and rain passed, Li Xiaoheng hugged his arms around Tao Mu in his embrace, and with his palms running along Tao Mu’s smooth back, he said slowly: “When you were unconscious, I had a dream. According to your analysis, probably all those in the chess game will have dreams. Maybe the Shen family will remember everything too.”

Li Xiaoheng looked down at Tao Mu, hesitant to speak. Finally, he asked, “Have you ever thought about what to do?”

“There is nothing to do.” Tao Mu lay in Li Xiaoheng’s arms, and said lazily, “Actually, the revenge that should be taken and the people who should be hated, Shen Er had already dealt with it all in the first life.”

At the beginning, Zhuo Yan deliberately got close to Shen Er, and joined forces with the Yao family to destroy the Shen family. Shen Er tried his best to find Mr. Song, and forced the Yao family to hand over the “Song Family Recipe Book”. He even went further, directly tossing Sheng’an Group into bankruptcy and shutting down, leaving the Yao family with nothing. The methods were much more ruthless than Tao Mu in this life. Later, he teamed up with Li Xiaoheng to force Zhuo Yan to go to jail, and finally took him down together. One life for another, all grievance and hatred had long been settled. As for the many reincarnations afterwards, whether Yao Wenxiao and Zhuo Yan plotted against Tao Mu, or Tao Mu took revenge on Yao Wenxiao and Zhuo Yan in turn, Tao Mu was too lazy to bother with those sh*tty things.

As for the rest of the Shen family, in fact, the kinship relationship was already broken as early as the first life. It was just that Shen Er couldn’t see through this truth himself. Now that the obsession was gone, Tao Mu had no expectations for the Shen family, so naturally he didn’t bother to hold hatred either. He finally managed to break the reincarnation cycle, and he didn’t want to get involved in that nonsense anymore, let alone have anything to do with the people in the chess game. For the rest of his life, he just wanted to spend his days with his Mr. Li.

Mr. Li agreed with Tao Mu’s words very much. Especially the last part. But there was one person who must be punished. Otherwise, Mr. Li would not be able to get rid of his remaining hatred. It was even more difficult to spend the rest of his life with Tao Mu with peace of mind.

This person was Shen Yu.

“You said it too. These reincarnations were all caused by the obsession and greed of Shen Er and Shen Yu. Although these two factors can’t do without the other. But there is no guarantee that Shen Yu will not stir up any more trouble. I have worked so hard to find you, I won’t let others interfere. So this person must be dealt with.” When Li Xiaoheng thought of Shen Yu, that beast, he felt angry all over his body. This beast who didn’t deserve to be called a human had harmed Tao Mu to this extent just because of his own selfishness. As if Li Xiaoheng would let him go so easily.

Tao Mu finally broke free from the reincarnation cycle, and of course he didn’t want to walk back on the old road. Hearing Li Xiaoheng’s words, he thought for a long time before saying: “Although the reincarnation of each life is similar. But after I thought about it carefully, in fact, no matter how the reincarnation of each life changed, there were always two time nodes that would never change. Which are meeting at the age of eighteen and dying at the age of twenty-eight.”

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These two time nodes happened to be the first meeting of Shen Yu and Shen Er in the first life, and their time of death. For some reason, Shen Yu seemed to be extremely obsessed with these two points in time. In so many lifetimes of reincarnation, many details have changed, but these two time nodes have never changed.

“So,” Tao Mu concluded thoughtfully, “If we can guarantee that no one dies on our twenty-eighth birthday, we can probably break the cycle of reincarnation.”

“This is easy.” Li Xiaoheng chuckled lightly upon hearing this, and said with deep eyes: “It’s not easy to have a person live. But it’s too easy for a person to be unable to die.”

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