After My Rebirth Chapter 7: Relegated to the countryside

Chapter 7: Relegated to the countryside

Translated by Addis of Exiled Rebels Scanlations

Editor: Karai

On the way home, Li Sinian sneezed several times.

Liu Xue asked with some concern, “Vice President, are you okay? Is it rhinitis again?”

Li Sinian rubbed his nose, feeling a little itchy, but it was different from the feeling of rhinitis. He waved his hand, “Nothing, rhinitis is not in season yet, maybe someone is nagging me.”

Li Sinian arrived home at ten o’clock, the first time he came home so late since he was reborn.

Auntie Zhang knew he was out to talk business and would be eating out, so she didn’t leave him a meal, instead she prepared a sober soup. As soon as he entered the house, Auntie Zhang came towards him with the sober soup, “Young master has worked hard, have some sober soup.”

Li Sinian dodged, “No, I’m not drinking, help me heat a glass of milk.”

Auntie Zhang was a little surprised, “Weren’t you talking about business today?”

“Yes.”

“Then you…”

Li Sinian smiled, “Who says you have to drink when you’re talking business?”

Auntie Zhang sniffed carefully, but did not smell alcohol on Li Sinian, so she did not force him to drink the sober soup, and went into the kitchen to warm the milk.

Li Sinian took off his coat and before he sat down, he heard Li Cheng’s voice from upstairs, “What else can you talk about if you don’t drink when you go out to talk business?”

Li Sinian looked up at the words, “Dad?”

Li Cheng was still sullen with his face, “You come up here, I want to ask you something.”

Auntie Zhang heard the commotion and came out, asking, “Then young master, I’ll bring the milk up to you when it’s warm.”

Li Sinian nodded, “Okay, thanks.”

Li Cheng was usually very busy with his work, and he usually worked from home at this time. When he heard the movement at the door, he closed his notebook and lifted his eyes to look at Li Sinian.

Li Cheng asked, “You just said you didn’t drink today, didn’t you take the people from ChuanHe Construction to eat?”

“Yes, I did.” Li Sinian said, “Ate, just didn’t drink.”

Li Cheng frowned, “You went to talk business and didn’t drink?”

Li Sinian said the same thing, “Who says you have to drink to talk business?”

“Watch your manner of speaking!” Li Cheng’s frown deepened, “Well, even if you didn’t drink at noon to eat, what about the afternoon? You’ve been out all afternoon, where did you take Chuanhe’s people this afternoon?”

“The amusement park.”

Li Cheng was stunned and thought he had heard wrong, “Where?”

“The amusement park.” Afraid that Li Cheng didn’t know the exact location, Li Sinian also thoughtfully described, “It’s that Joy World in the west of the city.”

Li Cheng felt his breathing became unpleasant again, “You took ChuanHe Construction’s people to Joy World?”

“Yeah.” Li Sinian said as a matter of course, not feeling anything wrong at all, “ChuanHe Construction’s project leader came to Beijing from HaiCheng, we can’t do our best to entertain them properly?”

“So you took them to Joy World?!” Li Cheng felt that his words were squeezed out from his teeth.

Li Sinian expected Li Cheng’s reaction, but what he showed was confusion, “Yes, what’s the problem?”

Li Cheng’s back was pressed against the reclining chair, one hand covering his chest, breathing heavily. His fingertips trembled as he pointed at Li Sinian, “You, you rebellious son!”

Li Sinian tilted his head and continued to speak in that exasperated tone, “Dad, what is your reaction? What’s wrong with me taking the partners out to have fun when they are here? Isn’t that the way business was done before?”

Li Cheng took a deep breath for a full minute before picking up the papers on the table and slamming them hard at Li Sinian. Li Sinian dodged a bit, although he avoided the folder hitting his head, but the documents inside scattered out, A4 paper fell all over the ground, the skin under his left eye was still cut by the sharp paper.

Only a centimeter away, the A4 paper cut into his heart. Li Sinian’s eyes darkened, lifted his hand and gently touched the scratch under his eye. A very shallow wound, oozing a little blood, but it hurt badly.

Li Cheng propped up the table, “You waste, I stressed with you several times that this cooperation with ChuanHe Construction is very important, how could you make these mishaps?”

Li Sinian gently twisted the fingertips, did not speak. Li Cheng seemed not relieved, and threw another folder at him, which was still dodged by Li Sinian.

“How dare you dodge?” Li Cheng was even more angry, he gasped for a moment and said, “Go call the people of ChuanHe Construction to apologize, say we are willing to adjust the price downward, to eat tomorrow, bring a few bottles of good wine over! You must keep this cooperation!”

Li Sinian looked up and blinked, “What if I say no?”

Li Cheng was furious listening to Li Sinian’s words and did not breathe, directly began to sneer, “You won’t? You want to live in the countryside, right? If you don’t go, pack your things and go to the country today!”

Li Sinian was a little angry because the corner of his eye was cut. After hearing Li Cheng’s words, his eyes instantly lit up with light, “Really?!”

He was planning to sabotage the cooperation with ChuanHe, but he didn’t expect that Li Cheng would send him to the countryside just as he started to sabotage. It was effortless to achieve the goal, how could there be such a good thing?

Li Cheng naturally saw Li Sinian’s eyes light up, and he felt even worse for his heart. He said he wanted to send Li Sinian to the countryside with the intention of threatening, but he didn’t expect Li Sinian not only not to be threatened, but also to look very happy, so that his next big threat could not be said.

Li Sinian didn’t wait for Li Cheng’s answer and asked again, “Really, Dad? I can go to the countryside now?”

Li Cheng raised his hand and pointed at him for a moment, then turned his hand away and pointed at the door, “Get out of here!”

Li Sinian laughed, “Great! I’ll go pack my bags right now!”

With that, he ran back to his room and started packing.

Li Cheng was angry at Li Sinian’s attitude once again, but not even two minutes after he was angry, he couldn’t help but start to worry. His oldest son had always acted like he wanted to fight for the family fortune and was desperate to show himself at work, so he had been squeezing Li Sinian for a long time. He did not really want to send Li Sinian away because his work ability was really very strong, but looking at Li Sinian’s attitude just now, it was like he really wanted to live in the countryside.

What to do? If Li Sinian really left, so many things in the company would be given to other families to share power, right? When Li Cheng’s mind was calculating, Li Sinian had already packed his luggage.

He did not take too many things, in addition to the necessary electronic equipment and documents, only took a few changes of clothes.To prevent Li Cheng from suddenly regretting, he also booked the airline tickets in the room, and thought of how to continue to provoke Li Cheng with words later.

The countryside he often referred to was a house in the countryside of Li Cheng’s hometown. After his grandmother passed away three years ago, the house became vacant and could be used by Li Sinian who moved to the countryside. Li Sinian came out with his luggage and bumped into Auntie Zhang coming up with hot milk.

Seeing him looking like he was going away, Auntie Zhang was stunned, “Huh? The young master is going on a business trip?”

Li Sinian directly took the hot milk from her hand, tilted his head, and drank it all, “Kind of.”

After saying that, he did not care about Auntie Zhang’s shocked look, pulling the suitcase into the study. Li Cheng was thinking about the pros and cons of Li Sinian’s departure, when he heard footsteps and roller sounds at the same time, and looked up to see Li Sinian dragging his luggage over.

Li Sinian had a happy smile on his face, “Dad, I’ve booked my ticket, I’m flying to Suzhou in three hours, I’ll leave if there’s nothing else.”

“Wait!” Li Cheng called out to him, but in ten minutes, his attitude towards Li Sinian changed from anger to hesitation. He wanted Li Sinian to stay, but his face wouldn’t allow it, and he couldn’t take back the water he had spilled.

Li Cheng called the man to stop and did not speak again. Li Sinian naturally knew what kind of virtue his father had, so his lips curved and he smiled and said, “What’s wrong dad? Are you sorry?”

Li Sinian looked up at his father and deliberately smugly said, “I knew you could not let go of me, how can the company function without me, ah? I do not have to go back home to Suzhou, if you transfer part of the shares to my name now, I will not go.”

Li Cheng was embarrassed to backtrack on what he just said, but Li Sinian’s words stepped on his minefield, well, now he didn’t have to tangle.

Li Cheng threw another folder, and this time he didn’t hesitate to point at the door and say in a loud voice, “Get out! Get out of here right now! Without my permission, you are not allowed to come back to Beijing again!”

Li Sinian responded with a relaxed expression, “Okay, got it.” It was as if he was not the one who asked for the shares with a smug face just now.

For some reason, looking at Li Sinian’s attitude, Li Cheng panicked for a moment. But this panic only lasted for a moment, and then he continued to drown in anger. 

Li Sinian pulled open the door to go out, and ran into Li Wenxing, who was returning from a play date. Li Wenxing took a look at the suitcase in his hand and asked in surprise, “Brother, are you going on a business trip? You’re leaving so late?”

“Not a business trip, Dad asked me to go to Suzhou, I can’t come back without his permission. From now on, I will not live at home, and I will not be in charge of the company’s affairs. So you have to grow up quickly and take up the heavy responsibility.” Li Sinian said while carrying the luggage downstairs, when he finished, people also stood in front of Li Wenxing. He patted Li Wenxing’s shoulder, with a smile in his eyes, “I’m going to go live the life I want, you keep up the good work.”

Li Wenxing was a bit stunned, “Brother, you…”

There were many things he wanted to ask, and because there were too many, the words that were about to come out were stuck. He didn’t know which one to ask first.

Li Sinian knew that the tragedy in his previous life was mostly due to fate, but he still couldn’t deal with it with a normal heart when facing this millionaire protagonist who had everything in his life. After waiting for two minutes and seeing that Li Wenxing didn’t say a word, Li Sinian ran out of patience and pulled his luggage out the door.

The sound of the door closing brought Li Wenxing back to his senses. He subconsciously looked back and could only see Li Sinian’s figure through the window.

Li Sinian walked alone on the empty road, the street light stretched his shadow long, it obviously should be a silent picture, but Li Sinian’s brisk footsteps did not look pathetic at all.

Li Wenxing frowned. Why do you suddenly want to go back home to Suzhou? Was he punished by dad?

Li Cheng came down from upstairs and saw Li Wenxing, immediately showing a loving look, “Wenxing is back? Are you tired, go and rest.”

Li Wenxing returned to his senses, smiled at Li Cheng, and then passed him to go back to his room. After returning to his room, his smile faded away, and there was even a gloomy look in his eyes. Li Sinian went to Suzhou, so who could he show off his much-loved look to?

 

 

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