Inside the restaurant in H.

"Are you okay?" Ai Qing asked with a pretty blushing face, holding her chin.

"I have something to do every day, nothing is wrong." Chen Tianze replied with a hard tongue.

"Then keep chatting, I'll listen." Ai Qing took the initiative to pour wine for Chen Tianze.

Chen Tianze drooped his eyelids, looked at Ai Qing with purple cheeks, and continued to complain to her in a vague manner: "Ai Qing, I ask you, do you think I succeed?"

"From the point of view of whether you have money or not, you have succeeded."

"No, I'm so successful... I've succeeded... I've lived the most fucking failure, do you know?" Chen Tianze slapped the table and shouted in the private room without any quality: "From the perspective of family, I have never had biological parents since I was a child. It was the second uncle and second aunt who raised me with great difficulty. Now they are old, I want to repay them... But they don't need me... They like to clean up the floor in the countryside, talk to their neighbors, and live their own lives... But now? Because of me, they dare not go back home, so they run to BeiJian to live... They are not used to it, but there is no way, they have to pay for me. Teng, I have to force myself to stay in a place I don’t like. Brother Ai, do you think I’m successful?… When I was young, I swore that if I got married one day, I must give my child a perfect and healthy family, because I know what it feels like when the child was young, without his biological parents... But I still didn’t do it. Xiao Ao was just one year old, and I divorced Lanlan... My elder brother Chen Jinnan has been in prison for a few years? I want to make it happen, but now is not the time... Because he is safer inside than outside, he has to continue squatting for me and for the company... You say, let me say, am I successful?"

Ai Qing held his chin and listened quietly, nodding in response, but did not respond.

"After talking about family, let's talk about love." Chen Tianze's eyes were red, he covered his chest and paused for a while, and continued to say like a bamboo tube pouring beans: "Brother Ai, there are no outsiders in the room today... Let me tell you the truth. In fact, the person I like most is not Lan Lan. But life is like this, and life is not perfect. What you like, what you nostalgic, or what you care about, often pass by you. What is marriage? It's the food, rice, oil and salt, it's mutual support, but it's not necessarily the one you like the most... I don't need others to teach this principle, I understand, so I have never regretted it, regretted it. I chose Lanlan as my wife... but we still divorced... Brother Ai, I told you with my heart... I feel very guilty about Lanlan. Even if she has so many bad things and has countless problems, she is still married! She blocked the gun for me, prepared a club for me... Washing clothes and cooking for me, and giving me a baby! I, Chen Tianze, are all hers. I don't want to divorce, I want to take care of her for the rest of my life and give her a support. To be honest, I once firmly believed that even if Erpang and the others left me, Lanlan would not... But unexpectedly, she left first, and I couldn't even keep it... Do you think I failed?"

Ai Qing stared at Chen Tianze in a daze, and wiped his tears stiffly with his little hands.

"Company, brother!" Chen Tianze held his fingers and frowned and continued to say, "In the past five years, I have watched my career from scratch, milk station, club, Shengshi Marriott, Jiayang Real Estate... I am like a rocket, as if I have been worth hundreds of millions in the blink of an eye... But I also have also watched the best brother Zhou Qi die with my own eyes, watch Lu Tao's family die, watch Yang Xin go to prison for murder, and see Big Pineapple's parents crying for their son... Brother Ai, I don't lie to you at all. Now, when I get the most afraid of answering the phone at night, I'm most afraid of someone telling me that something happened to someone... Some time ago, I couldn't sleep in Shen Y. Lan Lan led me to see the doctor. The doctor told me that I had anxiety symptoms and I had to take medicine. But will the medicine be cured after I took it?! It's useless, because I'm still in this industry, my anxiety cannot be cured... I can't tell the doctor, nor can I tell him that I have a group of brothers following me. I really don't want to see them leave me one by one... I want to protect everyone, but I can't do it... Until today, the company is gone, the wife is gone, and the children are not around... During the holidays, the paper money I burned for my brothers will be pulled into a truck... Ai Qing, I actually lived a very failed life... Really."

Speaking of this, Chen Tianze lowered his head, his lips trembled with tears: "Oh, drink some wine and pour bitter water, don't bother me!"

Ai Qing held his chin and frowned and asked, "I don't think you are annoying, but I just want to ask you, can you stop doing it?"

"Haha, don't do it? Can I choose not to do it now?" After Chen Tianze said everything in his heart, he looked much more relaxed, as if his body had become lighter and his movements were smoother, not as heavy as before, and he looked heavy everywhere.

"Then drink, you'll get drunk after you finish drinking. After you're drunk, you'll still be you tomorrow, and you have to go forward!" Ai Qing held up the wine glass in awesome manner and shouted: "Like a man, raise your head! Have you heard a sentence? The vicissitudes on his face are far less profound than the stories in his eyes."

"Hehe." Chen Tianze smiled: "You are quite good at speaking!"

Ai Qing said cutely and stuck out his tongue: "I also stood up and talked without any pain in my waist, hehe!"

"Come on, I've done it!"

After the words finished, the two clinked their glasses and drank them all.

...

It was past three o'clock in the morning.

A taxi parked at the entrance of a five-star hotel. Ai Qing, carrying a bag, turned around and said coolly: "I'm going back to sleep, thank you for your hospitality."

Chen Tianze sat in the car, looking at Ai Qing's slim figure and red face, and suddenly reached out and grabbed her white and tender wrists.

After Ai Qing was stunned, he did not refuse or forcefully pull his hands. He asked with a smile on his cheek, "What do you mean? You really have to take advantage of some alcohol to make something else happen?"

Chen Tianze stared at Ai Qing for a long time, and his eyes were red and replied: "Xiaoqing, thank you... Thank you for coming from the inner M for listening to me... Thank you!"

Ai Qing was stunned, smiled and pulled out his arms, stretched out two slender fingers and bounced on Shen Tianze's forehead: "Dexing, I'm leaving!"

"Yes." Chen Tianze nodded.

After saying that, Ai Qing simply turned around decisively and walked towards the hotel.

...

A few minutes later.

In the 24-hour supermarket opposite the hotel, Ai Qing bought two more bottles of liquor and some snacks.

She returned to the brightly lit streets of Shang H, took off her high heels from her feet without any image, and walked barefoot on the cold streets, making herself more comfortable...

Standing on the side of the road, Ai Qing thought for a long time, took out the phone and dialed a number.

"Hey? Xiaoqing?!"

Within a few seconds, Li Bo, who had been pursuing Ai Qing, answered the phone.

"I can't marry you, give up." Ai Qing said very seriously.

"What's wrong? Didn't your dad agree with my dad? I'm going to buy a house...!"

"I said, I can't marry you, I can never, forever!!!" Ai Qing roared and burst into tears.

In fact, she was also full of bitterness when she came today.

Because Ai Jiang had conspired with Luo Jiahong to kidnap her before, Ai Qing had completely fallen into a cold war with her family. Her father had clearly told her that she had to marry Li Bo, and even Ai Jiang had begun to use her relationship to use the political energy of the Li family to plan her future.

She also wanted to find someone to talk to, and she also wanted to chat with Chen Tianze, but when she saw Chen Tianze's condition, she couldn't say anything. Well... she was willing to be a listener for him...

After making the phone call, Ai Qing put his left hand on her shoulder and high heels, and wine in her right hand, and walked towards the hotel barefoot, while behind her was a brilliantly lit crossroads.

She is Ai Qing, a woman who lives harder than a man. She firmly believes that the sunshine in the morning will be brighter and more brilliant than yesterday.

...

The next day, early in the morning.

Chen Wenhao's eyes were full of red bloodshot eyes and met Liu Yanzhang in the hotel restaurant downstairs.
Chapter completed!