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Chapter 287 0284 [Brotherhood is True Love]

Xie Yang's house has been renovated, but it needs to be left to air out for a while before moving in.

He walked into the Huaqing Jiayuan residential complex tonight, only to receive a call from Chen Guiliang. Chen inexplicably invited him to have a few drinks and even asked him to bring some snacks.

"Ding dong, ding dong!"

The doorbell rang for more than twenty seconds before the door slowly opened.

Xie Yang walked into the living room and looked around: "Your decoration is pretty good. The previous owner had good taste."

Xie Saobang actually likes this style too.

Because it looks classy.

Chen Guiliang took the barbecue and braised dishes from his hands and carried them directly to the rooftop: "If you want something chilled, go get it from the refrigerator yourself."

Xie Yang didn't stand on ceremony with him and took a bunch of beer from the refrigerator.

The rooftop garden lights were all on, shaped like ancient lanterns. At Chen Guiliang's feet were more than ten cans of beer, and he had already poured out the snacks and set out chopsticks.

Xie Yang sensed that Chen Guiliang was acting strangely today: "You invited me to admire the moon? There's hardly a moon tonight."

"Let's grab a few drinks, it's been a long time since we've had one." Chen Guiliang tore open the tab on his beer.

Xie Yang tossed Chen Guiliang a cigarette, lit one for himself, and said, "You son of a bitch...do you have something on your mind tonight?"

Chen Guiliang laughed and said, "You don't swear anymore? Or are you just not swearing in front of me?"

Xie Yang still kept up his habit of flipping his hair. This time, he flicked it sharply and said arrogantly, "Isn't the company going public? As a senior executive of a listed company, how can I use foul language? I have to maintain a positive image."

"You keep a straight face in private, my foot!" Chen Guiliang said, raising his beer.

Xie Yang opened a can of chilled beer and clinked glasses with him, taking a big gulp. Looking at the label on the can, he sighed, "Three years ago, you could only drink Blue Sword beer and smoke only hard-pack White and Red Plum cigarettes. Buying a pack of soft-pack Yellow and Red Plum cigarettes was a pain, let alone Red Pagoda Mountain. Now I can drink Budweiser and smoke Zhonghua cigarettes as much as I want. It's like a dream."

Chen Guiliang asked, "Do you think you've changed?"

Xie Yang thought carefully: "I've become more confident, more diligent, and more self-disciplined. I used to be addicted to games like 'Legend of Mir' and 'Legend of Mir 2,' saving my meal money to spend all night at internet cafes. Now I'm not interested in playing them at all; I just think those games are pretty childish."

"Who told you to brag? I'm asking if your way of dealing with people has changed," Chen Guiliang said with a smile.

Xie Yang nodded: "It's definitely changed. Let me think... When you first promoted me, I was actually very insecure, feeling like I didn't know anything. I was afraid of being laughed at for getting in through connections, afraid of being laughed at for being incompetent. The higher I got in the company, the stronger this feeling became. Sometimes I even dreamed that I messed things up, turned against you, and was fired. I would wake up in the middle of the night from nightmares."

"Haha, you have quite a lot of inner monologues." Chen Guiliang couldn't help but chuckle.

Xie Yang continued, "Later, things went more and more smoothly at work, and I was able to handle things with ease. I felt myself getting a little arrogant, thinking that I was incredibly awesome, practically a genius. How should I put it, I often looked down on everyone, and I started talking nonsense."

Chen Guiliang asked, "How come I didn't notice you were like this?"

"Even if I'm arrogant, would I be arrogant in front of you?" Xie Yang took another sip of his drink. "I'm mainly arrogant in front of relatives, friends, subordinates, and old classmates. I especially love to show off and flaunt my knowledge, and sometimes I say hurtful things."

Chen Guiliang asked, "How did you realize that later?"

Xie Yang recalled: "Once, I called my brother. Before we had even exchanged a few words, I mocked him for being a civil servant, saying it was meaningless, that he was busy as a dog all day long and didn't earn much money. I told him to just quit his job and come help me, and that I could easily make him a certain amount of money a year."

"Did your brother scold you?" Chen Guiliang asked.

Xie Yang nodded and said, "He gave me a good scolding, saying I was getting more and more arrogant. He said I was lucky to have met a benefactor, and that I had become arrogant after achieving some success. He said if I hadn't followed you, I would still be a student at a lousy second-tier university... Anyway, he scolded me for a long time, and I was so angry that I hung up the phone. Then I lay in bed, tossing and turning, unable to sleep, and in the middle of the night I picked up my phone and called my brother. That night, I talked to my brother all night long."

Chen Guiliang remarked with emotion, "You have a wonderful older brother."

"What exactly happened to you? Everything seems to be going well at the company," Xie Yang asked.

Chen Guiliang said, "It's nothing. Let's drink!"

Chen Guiliang suddenly sought out Xie Yang for drinks because he realized he had changed.

When he first transmigrated, he chatted with Xie Yang by the artificial lake at school, and even said that he wanted to have a relationship that had nothing to do with money. He wanted to experience true love.

Chen Guiliang understood perfectly well that Bian Guanyue had truly fallen in love with him, and that it had absolutely nothing to do with money.

But what about Chen Guiliang himself?
This evening, Chen Guiliang received a call from Bian Guanyue, who tacitly approved of Tao Xue's existence. After hanging up, Chen Guiliang did not feel the expected joy, but rather a sense of bewilderment and self-reproach.

He never seemed to care about Bian Guanyue's feelings.

Even more terrifying, Chen Guiliang discovered that he had changed, becoming unrecognizable and utterly unfamiliar.

He said one should be cautious when alone and that I should examine myself three times a day.

But it simply can't be done.

Easier said than done.

He's just an ordinary person; the idea of ​​putting knowledge into practice is pure nonsense.

Xie Yang, unaware of Chen Guiliang's inner thoughts, began to talk to him about people and events from the past: "Did you know? Teacher Liu and Teacher Gao, a married couple, were poached by a school in the next city."

Did Liu Shuying and Gao Zhan, a married couple, switch jobs?

Chen Guiliang shook his head: "I don't know."

Xie Yang said, "That couple, one a top-level teacher and the other a senior teacher, not only taught you, but also produced a provincial top scorer and three municipal top scorers. The school in the neighboring city was quite generous in trying to recruit them, offering 200,000 yuan in cash, a Volkswagen sedan, and a three-bedroom apartment." Chen Guiliang laughed, "That's not bad. They've been working hard for half their lives; we were already in our final year of high school when Teacher Gao could finally afford a Chery QQ."

The hidden message behind this is that some local schools have begun to resort to any means to seize teaching resources. Having taken away teachers, the next step is to seize students.

Good schools will get better and better, while bad schools will get worse and worse.

Xie Yang laughed and said, "I heard that some schools are trying to poach Teacher Li, and they're even schools in Chengdu. But Teacher Li didn't leave."

The fact that schools in Chengdu came to poach Li Runze is definitely related to Chen Guiliang.

Putting aside how successful Chen Guiliang is in business, he caused quite a stir in a previous essay competition, even leading to revisions to the annotations in Chinese language textbooks. As Chen Guiliang's Chinese language teacher, and one who was already a top-level teacher, it's perfectly normal for him to be targeted by other schools.

But Li Runze had already given up. No matter how good the job offer was, he would stay in the small county town and be too lazy to move.

Because he stayed at the county's No. 2 High School, he could act with complete impunity and give the new principal a hard time at any time. The new principal would have to appease him!
Xie Yang took another sip of beer and said somewhat wistfully, "Zhou Jing has a boyfriend."

"How did you know?" Chen Guiliang asked.

Xie Yang said, "Wang Lei's school is very close to hers. Wang Lei told me that one day he saw Zhou Jing shopping with a boy. Wang Lei even went to say hello, and Zhou Jing introduced him as her boyfriend. Damn, Wang Lei said that guy was pretty handsome."

Although Xie Yang often "fell in love with other girls" during high school, saying he liked every pretty girl he saw, he ultimately harbored a secret crush on Zhou Jing for three years, and even confessed his feelings at the farewell dinner after the college entrance exam.

Xie Yang felt a pang of inexplicable heartache, but it wasn't as painful as he had imagined.

It's like having a thorn stuck in your flesh; you don't feel it normally, but when you touch it, it hurts so much you gasp.

Chen Guiliang leaned back in a traditionally woven rattan chair, sitting under a grape trellis, swaying back and forth with a beer in his hand.

He felt much better after having a drink and a chat with an old friend.

He picked up his phone and texted Bian Guanyue: "I'm sorry."

Bian Guanyue replied: "Mm."

Chen Guiliang sent another message: "I will treat you even better."

Bian Guanyue replied after a long time: "It's getting late, I'm going to sleep now."

When Chen Guiliang returned to his hometown that year, he explained the situation to Tao Xue, saying that he was already in a relationship. But Tao Xue cried her eyes out, and Chen Guiliang softened and continued to delay.

That's not right either. We can't put all the blame on Tao Xue; Chen Guiliang himself also had thoughts of having affairs with multiple women.

Most men have had this thought, it's just a matter of whether they have the ability and the courage to take that step.

Now that things have come to this, even if Chen Guiliang deeply reflects on his actions, it's impossible for him to kick Tao Xue away and go back to the past.

He could only try to be even better to Bian Guanyue to make up for his mistakes.

Xie Yang continued muttering, "Damn it, back in school I always thought that when I became successful, I'd drive a luxury car to pursue Zhou Jing. Now I haven't even had time to buy a luxury car, and she already has a boyfriend."

Chen Guiliang said, "Find someone else. What you're still thinking about is probably your youthful feelings, not that you actually like any girl."

“That’s possible,” Xie Yang said earnestly, “I didn’t really love Zhou Jing. In fact, after I started working, I didn’t think about her for a year or two. It was only when I suddenly heard that she had a boyfriend that I felt like I had lost something.”

"Let's drink. Let's not talk about that stupid stuff."

"drink!"

After finishing one can, Xie Yang opened another and, on a sudden whim, called Xu Haibo: "Bobo, are you asleep yet?"

"What?" Xu Haibo asked irritably.

Xie Yang pressed the speakerphone button: "I'm drinking with Master Chen, would you like to have a couple of drinks?"

Xu Haibo said speechlessly, "Me, fly there?"

Xie Yang said, "Go buy some wine, let's drink while we talk on the phone."

Xu Haibo cursed, "You're crazy!" Then he added, "You should have said you wanted to drink earlier. The dorm doors are all closed at this hour, where am I supposed to buy alcohol?"

Chen Guiliang shouted from the side, "Use water instead of wine, plain water is fine too."

Xu Haibo poured himself a glass of water, raised it to his phone and clinked glasses: "A toast to you two from afar. Let's drink together in person when you come to Chengdu sometime."

"Cheers!" Xie Yang laughed heartily. "I love you, Bobo!"

Xu Haibo cursed, "Get lost, I like women."

Chen Guiliang shouted, "Bobo, be careful next time you see Xie Yang. That kid changed his sexual orientation because he was stimulated by Zhou Jing's relationship."

"Really?" Xu Haibo was starting to believe it.

Xie Yang quickly explained, "Damn, I'm not gay, I was just joking!"

"Hahaha!" Chen Guiliang laughed loudly.

It's still more fun to be with my brothers. The more brothers I have, the happier I am. Too many women are a real headache.

(End of this chapter)