Chapter 1763: Zirui's Benefactor

Zirui passed his father's test, yet he was targeted by someone else.

One day, just after class, he was preparing to go check on the stall when he was blocked on the road by a few men: "Come with us, our boss wants to see you."

"Who is your boss?"

"Who it is is none of your concern; just come with us."

"And if I don't?"

"Don't? Heh, then that won't be up to you." The men exchanged glances, intending to use force.

Zirui took two steps back, preparing to flee.

"Thinking of running? It's not that easy!"

Zirui turned and ran, and the men took off in pursuit.

Just at the most critical moment, several people rushed out from nowhere, grabbed Zirui, and ran.

"Third Young Master, come with us."

One person took him and ran forward, while the other two blocked those men, preventing them from catching up.

Zirui wasn't stupid; these people behind him must have been sent by his father. Once he was safe, he wanted to say "thank you" to them, but they had suddenly vanished—it was so fast, just like how they had suddenly appeared.

Such skills must belong to people sent by his father.

Zirui felt his eyes grow a bit moist; really, why put on such an act?

He had already been kicked out of the house and had his father-son relationship severed, yet he still sent people to secretly protect his safety.

A father's love is like a mountain.

It is not very meticulous, but it is very solid.

Zirui didn't have many days of peace before he was blocked again by the same men from before.

"Sheng Zirui, don't think anyone will help you this time. Those people have already been dealt with by us. Come with us."

"What did you do to them?"

"Nothing much, just made them fall into a temporary sleep for a few hours. Rest assured, our boss just wants to have a word with you; he won't do anything to you."

Someone capable of calculating against his father was definitely not a simple person.

Sheng Zirui prepared to go with the men: "Lead the way."

In an instant, he thought of quite a lot.

He thought these people would cover his eyes with a black cloth, stuff him into a car, and take him to some mysterious place!

If they didn't do that, it wouldn't be worth the grand display they put on.

However, they did not.

The men very politely led him toward the administrative office building.

"The Principal is looking for me?"

"You'll know when you get there; don't ask about things you shouldn't."

They arrived at the Principal's office, and the mysterious person pushed the door open and told him to go in.

Did the Principal need to be this mysterious just to see him?

Sheng Zirui walked into the office, the door was closed from the outside, and the Principal greeted him with a smile: "Sheng Zirui, it really wasn't easy to invite you here."

He smiled sheepishly: "Principal, you just needed to tell me, and I would have come over myself. You didn't need to be so formal."

"It wasn't me who wanted to see you."

The Principal said this and went out.

And only then did Zirui notice that there was someone else sitting on the sofa.

Just a moment ago, that person had been sitting there with zero presence, but now that he was discovered, his entire aura opened up, exerting a great deal of pressure on others.

"You wanted to see me?"

Zirui didn't recognize this person, but he looked familiar.

"Zirui, sit. I just wanted to have a casual chat with you."

He obediently sat down, but the strings in his heart were pulled tight.

The person in front of him looked approachable, yet unfathomable; he was definitely not a simple character.

His relationship with Qi Shishi was no longer a secret. He couldn't see through this person and didn't know if he was a friend or an enemy for the time being. If this person wanted to use him to scheme against Qi Shishi, that was absolutely not allowed!

The man smiled and said: "I am not from L-Country, and I have no interest in the people or affairs of L-Country." He was very clever and saw through Zirui's thoughts at a glance.

Zirui was startled.

There weren't many people who could see into his heart at a glance. This person was meticulous and extremely calculating; he didn't know what his background was, but he certainly had one.

He remained calm and observed him carefully.

The person in front of him was about thirty-something years old and looked... very ordinary.

The kind of person you could throw into a crowd and never find again!

His attire was also very ordinary: a white shirt, black dress pants, and a pair of black leather shoes on his feet. The watch on his wrist was made in Jiangzhou—it was a famous brand, but a very old model, likely produced over a decade ago. The price certainly wasn't high, but it was very practical.

When he spoke to Zirui, his aura was restrained, giving off a harmless feeling, but Zirui didn't dare to let his guard down.

Zirui made a preliminary judgment that this person was from Jiangzhou.

The reason was simple: everything he was wearing was a brand produced in Jiangzhou; he should be someone from a government department.

Suddenly, his brain went "Boom," and he remembered—this person was a big shot.

No wonder he looked familiar; he remembered now.

He had seen him on television—a very low-key person who was also very capable—the Minister of the Jiangzhou Ministry of Commerce, Kang Qingru.

Although he was the Minister of the Ministry of Commerce, he never got too close to people who did business.

"You are..."

"Alright, since you know who I am, you should be at ease, right? Hahahaha..."

Kang said with a beaming smile, "I won't use you to deal with the President of Country L, nor will I use you to deal with your father; I am simply very interested in you."

"I heard you gave up your status as the Clan Heir for the sake of romance. I don't think that sounds quite right, so I wanted to chat with you to verify if the rumors are true or false?"

The Minister of Commerce of a dignified major nation, chatting idly with a university student who had been abandoned by his Clan?

Sheng Zirui was not that naive.

But he still nodded and spoke his true thoughts: "The rumors are half true. I am indeed in a relationship with Qi Shishi, but it isn't entirely for her sake. I want to do the things I want to do..."

He roughly recounted the growth trajectories of his siblings.

"Since we were young, our parents have been very open-minded. They didn't restrict the children's education within rigid frameworks. Everyone else could choose their own lives according to their own ideas, but I was the exception."

"I was treated as the Clan Heir from a young age and had to receive a more rigorous education than others. For a time, I thought this was my own choice, that it was what I liked."

"But later I discovered it wasn't. The things I liked were always being suppressed—not suppressed by others, but suppressed by me all along. Actually, from the bottom of my heart, I also envied their kind of..."

Perhaps it had been suppressed for too long.

In front of Kang Qingru, Sheng Zirui poured out all his inner thoughts.

The two talked for several hours, chatting quite happily, even forgetting the existence of time.

Before Kang was ready to leave, he said to Zirui, "I hope no one knows about our meeting today. Can you do that?"

"Of course."

Jiangzhou.

Jiangzhou University.

On her way to the Cafeteria, Tian Yuanyuan was blocked by Wang Qing.

She frowned and said irritably, "Are you a fly? Why are you here harassing me again? Get lost, a good dog doesn't block the path."

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