Chapter 851: Love Starting from a Breakup 40

After Huo Chen and the two others left, Jin Chen immediately contacted his people, urging them to hurry to the black market to find the antitoxin serum.

Perhaps because there was now a guarantee, over these days Jin Chen stayed constantly by his side, and Qiao Xu's separation anxiety eased considerably, though only when they were in different spaces within the same house.

If he saw Jin Chen leave the villa, he would still become very anxious.

Jin Chen worked in the study, while Qiao Xu lounged on the living-room sofa chatting with friends about everything.

Suddenly the topic shifted to Qiao Xu.

Jin Chengtian: @Qiao Xu, hey, you've become hot again in the circle, risking danger alone to save your ex and even taking a bullet!

Butterfly Orchid: Curious! You're living together now—does that mean you've gotten back together?

Mo Lin: Probably, after all you've sacrificed yourself! Those five-six-seven-eight plans of ours probably don't need to go ahead anymore.

Xi Zhengyang: Not necessarily—has Jin Chen personally admitted you two are back together? @Qiao Xu, there's been plenty of gossip about you lately.

Butterfly Orchid: Spill it! What gossip?

Xi Zhengyang: The matter of Shen Ling and Jin Chen's marriage alliance—I reckon this news was leaked by Shen Ling herself, she wants everyone to know.

Mo Lin: Oh wow, @Qiao Xu, what do you think?

Jin Chengtian: Where is the person?

Qiao Xu, the focus of the topic, began to overthink again.

He had almost forgotten that Jin Chen hadn't yet agreed to get back together.

He slowly curled up, the hard-won sense of security in his heart gradually draining, making Qiao Xu at this moment especially long for Jin Chen's embrace.

He hadn't replied to the message, so he jumped off the sofa and went to the study to find him.

But there were other voices inside; he must have been in a video conference.

Qiao Xu wanted to go in, but feared disturbing Jin Chen's meeting, he clung to the door frame, hesitating whether to push it open; the more he hesitated, the lower he felt, and tears began to patter down.

In the end, Jin Chen heard the movement, ended the meeting early, and came out to find him.

"Why didn't you come in?"

Jin Chen looked at the young master's state and knew he was getting anxious again, so he embraced him and walked toward the study.

"I was afraid of disturbing your meeting."

Qiao Xu buried his face in Jin Chen's chest, took a deep breath, gripped his shirt at the shoulders, and spoke in a muffled voice.

Jin Chen chuckled, held him and had him sit on his lap, wrapping an arm around his waist, saying, "When did you become so polite? You never used to be like this."

"The old me wasn't good."

Qiao Xu whispered, wrapping his arms around Jin Chen's neck, his whole body nearly pressed against his embrace, mist shimmering in his eyes.

"Don't like the old me."

"Like the present me, brother…"

Hearing this, Jin Chen's heart softened a bit more, he held his waist and patiently replied, "I like you, as long as it's you."

He raised a hand to ruffle his hair, his voice indulgent: "So don't overthink."

"Then… does that mean we're back together?"

When he asked that question, Qiao Xu was still worried and tense inside.

Before being caught at the casino, he had told Jin Chen he wanted to win him back again.

But after this ordeal, he no longer had that much energy, and his body seemed unwilling as well.

He just wanted to spend every day clinging to his brother.

"I won't be like before anymore, brother—let's get back together, okay?"

With both hands cupping Jin Chen's face, his eyes reddened, his tone almost pleading.

Without a sense of security, he becomes like this.

"Sure, of course."

Jin Chen held him tightly in his arms, his peach-blossom eyes slightly narrowed, his gaze falling on the faintly reddened earlobe of the person in his embrace, and he lightly kissed it.

"Little Xu is very good, very obedient, don't be sad."

Having finally soothed him, Jin Chen picked up his phone, which had been vibrating for a long time, and pressed answer.

"What's up?"

Not bearing the gentle magnetism he had just shown Qiao Xu, he turned cold again.

"Young master, Gu He is dead— we did everything as you ordered."

Before dying, he endured a period of desperate anguish.

"Besides, the family head has already gone to the island."

Jin Chen naturally knew what his dear old father intended to do, "He's rushing preparations, which surely aren't sufficient enough— you personally take people over to assist."

"Yes."

The call ended.

Qiao Xu lifted his eyes and spoke softly, "Gu He is dead, Qi Zhan is dead too, right?"

"Yes, they deserved to die."

Jin Chen lightly rubbed the youth's eye corner with his fingertip, his voice low, "Whoever harmed you deserves to die; Gu Zhongtang is also dead, only Jin Fu remains."

"... Ah."

Qiao Xu recalled that he still hadn't told Jin Chen his secret, and he fidgeted with his fingers, feeling torn.

"Brother… I have something to tell you."

Qiao Xu thought it over and decided he still had to say it.

He certainly wished Jin Fu would die, but after all he is Jin Chen's biological father, and no matter what, Jin Chen should have the right to know.

"Go ahead."

「That day at the casino, Jin Fu's reaction was intense, and there was also a letter from your Mother. 」

「Jin Fu……is very likely your biological father. 」

Jin Chen: "……"

Wait, what is this.

Jin Fu, is he his biological father?!

His mother is still his mother, his father is Jin Fu.

Who is Jin Tingxiao?

The cheap dad instantly became an uncle?!

Then the question arises.

Whose wife is his mother exactly? Jin Fu loves his mother to the point of wanting to lock people up, yet how can he be so ruthless toward him?

The information in this sentence is truly huge.

Jin Chen, however, reacted after a long while, barely forcing himself to accept this shocking setting.

「Did Jin Fu admit it? 」

「Hmm… he didn't say it outright, but that expression… I'd say it's about eighty or ninety percent certain. 」

Qiao Xu hesitated and then said it, fearing Jin Chen would be hurt, worriedly kissing the corner of his lips, "Older brother, don't be sad."

"I'm not sad."

Jin Chen's expression was strange, his brows tightly furrowed.

He certainly isn't sad, but he really can't accept it.

That beast is actually his own father……

Just thinking about it makes his eyes go black.

No wonder Jin Tingxiao won't let him kill Jin Fu.

According to the Jin Family's ancestral teachings, a patricide not only cannot inherit the family, but also has all rights and property stripped away, receiving severe punishment.

"It's fine, don't worry about it."

Jin Chen held the person and kissed them gently, his breath scattering, his deliberately softened voice hoarse and alluring.

"Jin Fu hurt you; no matter who he is, I won't let him off."

Since I can't kill my father with my own hands, I'll borrow a knife to kill.

The pain from childhood and the hatred for the lover's harm will all be repaid.

Qiao Xu heard what he said, kept rubbing against Jin Chen's embrace, kissing his neck, like a small animal licking.

"I like older brother…"

He whispered softly, and the sense of safety returned again.

【Detected Villain Heartthrob Value +15, total 93!】

【Detected Villain Blackening Value -10, total 55!】

In the following days, Qiao Xu recuperated at Nan Yuan for a long time, and his gunshot wound healed.

The medicine from the black market has been proven to exist, but it's extremely hard to obtain; Jin Chen is still coordinating relations on all fronts.

Fortunately, with his day-and-night companionship, the young master's condition has also stabilized considerably.

As the separation anxiety gradually eased, Qiao Xu resumed his weekly trips to the music shop.

To him, the piano melody played at his fingertips is also an excellent remedy for soothing the heart.

Unfortunately, uninvited guests always show up.