My father's inheritance is my mortal enemy.

Li Bo asked the bartender for a camera, took a picture of his right hand, and wrote four characters on the back of the photo:

Li Bo knew.

2035.1.1

He hung the photo below Zhou Yanshao's photo, took a picture with his phone to remember it, and sat down nearby.

A photo of two hands became Li Bo's phone wallpaper; no one could decipher its meaning. Li Bo only dared to set such photos as his own wallpaper.

The nights in Russia are cold, but the tavern is warm. Li Bo drank glass after glass of wine until his stomach started to hurt, at which point he stopped, simply put on his trench coat, held his velvet gloves in his hands, and draped a scarf over his arm before leaving the tavern.

It was snowing heavily outside the tavern, and the fierce wind stung Li Bo's face. Every step he took was painful and arduous.

With nowhere to turn and no one to rely on, his thin figure walked through the wind and snow, the dim yellow streetlights overhead. Li Bo felt a little dizzy, stopped, and rubbed his forehead.

A voice suddenly came from behind: "Li Bo?"

Li Bo turned around, but before he could even see the other person clearly, he collapsed first.

When Li Bo opened his eyes again, he was already in a hotel bed.

He still vaguely remembered fainting last night. He didn't know how he got back. Just then, Ruan Ge came in with hot water. When she saw Li Bo wake up, she sighed softly.

"President Bo," Ruan Ge put down the hot water, "It's very cold here in Russia. You drank too much last night. If you passed out on the street and no one found you, you would really freeze to death in the snow."

Li Bo hadn't seen Ruan Ge for six years. This reunion in Russia surprised him, but surprise was his second reaction; his first reaction was fear.

He was afraid that Zhou Yanshao was also there, and that the scene he feared most and least wanted to face would be presented before his eyes.

Seeing that Li Bo seemed lost in thought, Ruan Ge called softly, "President Bo?"

"Hmm?" Li Bo snapped back to reality, his voice hoarse.

Li Bo caught a cold after drinking too much last night, with a sore throat and a bit of wind.

"Have some hot water, I'll go get you some cold medicine."

Thank you.

Ruan Ge brought the medicine over shortly after. After Li Bo took it, Ruan Ge asked, "I always thought that the fire five years ago... I never expected to meet you again. I'm so happy!"

For Ruan Ge, Li Bo was her benefactor.

Li Bo smiled slightly, but the smile was a little stiff: "You're here to ski too?"

Ruan Ge paused for a second, then said, "I'm here to see my fiancé."

Ruan Ge said, "President Bo, I'm getting married soon."

Li Bo's heart trembled. To him, this was a special place he and Zhou Yanshao had agreed upon, a place of memories that belonged only to the two of them. But now it seemed that it was no longer so.

"Congratulations." Li Bo's hand, holding the thermos, tightened its grip on his fingertips.

"If Mr. Bo has time, could you attend my engagement party as an elder?" Ruan Ge doesn't have much family anymore. Li Bo has been supporting her for many years without compensation, so to her, he is an elder.

"..." Li Bo said somewhat evasively, "I'm probably going back to China in the next couple of days, so I won't be able to find the time. I'm really sorry."

"It's alright," Ruan Ge continued, "Actually, I have to thank President Bo for allowing me to meet my fiancé. He's also a skier, and we met at the Nordic base."

Li Bo's eyes welled up with tears. "It's good to have common interests."

A tall, handsome man walked into the bedroom and affectionately called out in English, "Baby."

Ruan Ge turned around, her eyes filled with happiness.

Li Bo looked at Delos, his pupils trembling slightly.

Is this Ruan Ge's fiancé?

"Mr. Bo, this is my fiancé, Delos," Ruan Ge introduced to Li Bo.

Delos walked to the bedside and reached out his hand to Li Bo: "President Bo, I've often heard Ruan Ge talk about you."

Li Bo and Delos shook hands.

Delos said that the hotel belonged to his family and that he had helped Li Bo back last night. He didn't expect Li Bo to be staying at the hotel, so he took him directly back to his room.

A moment later, Delos went out to answer a phone call.

Only Li Bo and Ruan Ge remained in the room.

Ruan Ge said that Delos' mother was seriously ill and hoped that he could get married soon. She and Delos had taken a vacation together to Russia to get engaged.

Ruan Ge also said that this ski resort is where he and Delos met.

Li Bo nodded slightly and said with a smile, "I thought you would like Zhou Yanshao; you admired him a lot before."

"My senior is my idol. I admire and respect him a lot. I used to like following him around. But that's not love..." Ruan Ge's eyes darkened. "President Bo, there's something I've always wanted to ask you."

"What is it?"

"You... when you sent me to Northern Europe, you hoped... that my senior brother and I..."

Ruan Ge wasn't stupid. Over the years, Li Bo had her learn to ski, and she would always coincidentally hear the name "Zhou Yanshao" from different people and frequently see news about Zhou Yanshao. After she fell in love with skiing, she gradually made Zhou Yanshao her idol and goal.

Li Bo sent her to the Nordic training base, where she met Zhou Yanshao and successfully met her idol. Later, Li Bo "died," and the story between the Zhou and Li families and Li Bo spread like wildfire.

Ruan Ge also vaguely sensed that something was wrong.

She felt as if every step she took was arranged by Li Bo.

Perhaps Li Bo wanted to use her to keep Zhou Yanshao under control? But why didn't Li Bo tell her beforehand? Li Bo had done Ruan Ge a favor; if Li Bo had asked, perhaps she would have tried her best.

But Li Bo didn't say anything, only asking her to keep their relationship a secret, so she couldn't speculate about Li Bo's intentions. Today, Li Bo mentioned Zhou Yanshao again, and Ruan Ge finally couldn't help but ask about the confusion she had been over the years.

Li Bo didn't hide anything: "I think you two are a perfect match."

Ruan Ge shook her head: "Senior brother has someone he likes."

"I know, he's getting engaged soon."

Li Bo smiled wryly. In terms of controlling emotions, he was indeed inferior to Zhou Huiyuan. He could learn about 80% of Zhou Huiyuan's style of doing things, but in this aspect, Li Bo was not ruthless enough.

He probably didn't want Ruan Ge to become a second him, entangled in emotions and unable to escape the quagmire of interests.

So he went to great lengths to make Ruan Ge admire Zhou Yanshao, making their relationship seem more like a "free love." But he didn't expect that even so, Ruan Ge and Zhou Yanshao would not end up together.

Years of planning have fallen through.

"Engaged? With whom?" Ruan Ge was somewhat shocked. She had been at the Nordic base for a long time and had never heard of her senior brother having a lover.

"I don't know, I heard they're from the Nordic base."

"Impossible." Ruan Ge sighed slightly. "These past five years have been tough for my senior brother. He hasn't had a single relationship while he was at the base."

Li Bo pondered the two words: "Hard work?"

"My senior is sick. He has severe bipolar disorder and has been receiving psychological counseling. Several psychologists at the training base have been treated, but it hasn't helped much. I heard from the coach that he's been sick for almost seven years. I don't know the specifics, but it's probably related to his ex-girlfriend."