Chapter 546 After all these years, I've come to like trash?

Chapter 546 After all these years, I've come to like trash?

"We'll talk about it when we get home." Jiang Ruan opened the car door and lifted him into the car.

In the end, Huo Zhizhou successfully infiltrated the camp.

We got inside.

Mo Mo parked the car, and Jiang Ruan and the others got out.

Sui Sui stared at Huo Zhizhou and accused him, "Liar! You even use children."

Huo Zhizhou: "Hmm?"

"You dare say you didn't call me out on purpose?" Sui Sui hadn't thought much of it at first, but after seeing her mother there, she understood.

"I can't get in." Huo Zhizhou was quite frank, his thin lips parting slightly as he said calmly, "I can only ask you, the young master, to come out and invite me in."

"No way." Sui Sui didn't give her any face at all.

Huo Zhizhou pinched his cheek: "You little ingrate."

She avoided it year after year.

He ran over and stood next to Jiang Ruan.

Jiang Ruan ruffled his hair and calmly met Huo Zhizhou's gaze: "What do you want to talk about?"

"What did they say upstairs?" Huo Zhizhou asked, glancing at Sui Sui as he spoke.

Jiang Ruan was silent for a moment, then agreed: "Okay."

“Mommy.” Sui Sui grabbed her hand and exposed him without hesitation, “He did it on purpose.”

Jiang Ruan: "I know."

Sui Sui: "If you don't want to see him, just ask Uncle Mo Mo to kick him out."

Huo Zhizhou laughed in exasperation.

The little guy is getting more and more heartless.

"It's nothing," Jiang Ruan said calmly. "It's just this once anyway."

Huo Zhizhou paused.

His pupils deepened.

What does "once" mean?

"Let's go upstairs." Jiang Ruan looked at him as if he were a stranger.

Every year, we consciously give them space.

I went inside the house.

Jiang An and Old Master Qin were surprised when they saw Huo Zhizhou.

Before they could speak, Jiang Ruan explained, "I want to talk to him about something."

"Oh, okay." Old Master Qin nodded.

Jiang Ruan then led Huo Zhizhou upstairs.

They had just left.

Grandpa Qin then said to Jiang An with a worried look on his face, "An'an, what do you think the Huo family boy and Ruan Ruan have to talk about?"

"If you want to know, you can eavesdrop," Jiang An said.

Old Master Qin: "Am I that kind of person?"

Jiang An: "You can be."

Old Master Qin: "..."

Old Master Qin: "Why hasn't Li Zhishen come these past few days?"

Jiang An: "I don't know."

Grandpa Qin: "I didn't like that kid at first, but after a few days of him not showing up, I've started to miss him a little."

Jiang An didn't respond.

Whether he comes or not has no effect on her.

"It's not that I really want to, it's just nice to have someone to scold," Grandpa Qin quickly added. "Although that kid always talks back, he doesn't dare to talk back too fiercely."

"If you liked him so much, why did you strongly oppose it back then?" Jiang An really didn't care much about the past, so much so that she didn't feel any emotion when she brought it up now.

"Isn't it because the Qin family and the Li family don't get along?" Old Master Qin said.

Jiang An: "Are you on good terms now?"

Old Master Qin: "..."

It seems to be even worse.

Li Chengxuan was sentenced to death.

The day the verdict was handed down, Old Master Li was furious, and it seems he's even fallen ill from the anger recently.

In terms of the relationship between the families, it has almost reached a point of no return.

Unfortunately, Li Zhishen is now the head of the Li family.

Ruan Ruan is his biological daughter.

With various layers of relationships, it becomes somewhat complicated.

"Is there really no possibility between you and him?" Old Master Qin hesitated before speaking.

Jiang An didn't respond.

Having gone through so much and so many years, and with his advancing age, Old Master Qin doesn't take many things as seriously as before: "You two liked each other, and he's been waiting for you all these years, so it's not impossible..."

"Stop." Jiang An's expression was detached. "After all these years, you think I've come to like trash?"

Old Master Qin: "..."

Li Zhishen, who had just entered: "..."

“I’m not a garbage dump, don’t dump just anyone on me,” Jiang An said ruthlessly.

Old Master Qin: "Since you've already shown me kindness, there's an added bonus—"

“If it weren’t for this blood relation, and you hadn’t treated Ruan Ruan well, see if I would still like you,” Jiang An said bluntly.

Old Master Qin thought about it.

Too.

He is, after all, An'an's biological father.

He's really good to Ruan Ruan; he's never shortchanged her in terms of material things.

It seems that Li Zhishen only gave Ruan Ruan a gift for her birthday. After that, either Ruan Ruan didn't accept the gifts, or he didn't give her anything at all.

"What did he say to you that made you speak up for him like this?" Jiang An looked at him suspiciously.

"It's nothing," Old Master Qin said calmly. "I just feel that I'm getting old and won't live for many more days. If you have someone to keep you company after I'm gone, you won't be so lonely."

“Ruan Ruan lived longer than him, and Sui Sui lived longer than him too.” Jiang An didn’t give him any face at all.

"Ruanruan is busy with work, and Suisui is still a child." That's really why Grandpa Qin is considering it. "You and Li Xiaozi know each other very well."

Jiang An: "You're overthinking it."

Old Master Qin: "Really no chance?"

Jiang An: "I haven't even considered it."

Old Master Qin sighed but didn't say anything more.

“There’s something you need to understand,” Jiang An said rationally. “Past grudges and hurts can’t be washed away by the passage of time. I didn’t choose him before, and I won’t choose him now.”

“I thought you were testing him by sending him here,” said Grandpa Qin.

Jiang An was about to speak.

Out of the corner of my eye, I noticed someone walking in this direction.

So much so that what was originally a plain statement was transformed into sharp and hurtful words: "He's only useful because he's easy to work with, so we just treat him as a free long-term laborer."

"I really don't know if it's because the ancestral grave location wasn't chosen well." Old Master Qin began to have doubts. "How come your marriage with Ruan Ruan is unhappy?"

"To be precise, besides his marriage, Dad isn't a very good person either." Jiang An wasn't afraid to hurt people's feelings at all.

Old Master Qin: "..."

Li Zhishen: "..."

Li Zhishen finally came over: "I'm quite good to Ruan Ruan."

Old Master Qin: "!"

Old Master Qin subconsciously looked at Jiang An.

Did they hear all the bad things they said about him?

"So it's good that you're going to beat someone to death before you've even met them." Jiang An stood up, not intending to talk to him at all. "Then I'll have someone beat you to death someday, and you can't hold me responsible."

Li Zhishen remained silent.

This is the point he can least refute.

"You two can talk slowly," Jiang An said, leaving them some space.

Li Zhishen did not chase after him.

I know she's upset.

Chasing after her will only annoy her more.

"How much of what you just said did you hear?" Old Master Qin asked tentatively.

Li Zhishen sat down: "I've heard everything I should and shouldn't have heard."

Old Master Qin deliberately put on a stern face: "Then what do you think?"

Li Zhishen: "What do you mean, what do you think?"

Old Master Qin: "A free long-term laborer."

Li Zhishen: "Doesn't that mean she's still somewhat useful to you?"

Old Master Qin was somewhat surprised: "You're not angry?"

“She’s not wrong.” Li Zhishen has always been aware of his position. He hasn’t forgotten why he’s here. “If it weren’t for the fact that I’m still useful for free, I would have been thrown out long ago.”

Old Master Qin glanced at him a few more times.

After careful consideration.

Finally, he said, "If you had the awareness you have now back then, would you have been able to drive An'an away?"

"If you had the same awareness back then, would An'an have left?" Li Zhishen had never lost an argument in this regard. "Would the Qin Group have become what it is today?"

Old Master Qin: "..."

If An'an hadn't left back then, the Qin Group would have been under her management.

The Qin family is now undoubtedly the number one of the four major families.

"Why isn't dinner served yet?" Li Zhishen looked towards the restaurant. "Ruan Ruan hasn't returned yet?"

Grandpa Qin: "You're back."

Li Zhishen looked around: "Where?"

Old Master Qin: "They're upstairs discussing business with Huo Zhizhou."

Li Zhishen: "?"

Li Zhishen: "He's here to chase after someone?"