Chapter 942: Bamboo Horse Youth 36

Bang!

The sound of the glass cup smashing on the floor was especially harsh.

Mu Henian rose abruptly, his eyes filled with violent cruelty, he grabbed Mu Nan's collar and lifted him up, his black eyes emitting a chilling anger.

"It's been years, and you're still as troublesome as ever."

His voice dropped to freezing point; after speaking, he slammed Mu Nan into the tea cabinet and casually threw a teapot at him.

"Mu Henian!! Let go of your brother!"

Mu's father could not tolerate his recklessness, nor did he expect Mu Henian to become so brutal.

Mu Nan was the same; when the hot tea scalded his chest, he cried out and stepped back, his lower back hitting the cabinet corner, pain making him bend over, his gaze at Mu Henian both unfamiliar and furious.

"Mu Henian! Are you crazy?!"

Mu Henian grabbed a tissue to wipe his hands, scanned the people in the living room, his gaze icy, finally settling on Mu's father.

"So you care about face, yet in the end you let an illegitimate child take your inheritance—talk about double standards."

"I don't care for the Mu family's wealth, and stop having thoughts about me."

Mu Henian thought of the nasty idea that Jin Chen, that bastard, came up with.

Just going home for a visit and getting scolded was enough to break relations, making him resentful.

But when his eyes met Cheng Huai's worried and reliant gaze, he froze for half a second, then thought… actually not bad.

Mu Henian coughed lightly, took Cheng Huai's hand and left, but at the main gate he received an invitation from the steward.

"Young Master, this is a banquet the Song family is preparing a few days later for Song Xu's return home; they specially invited you—you surely shouldn't refuse, right?"

"Does Song Xu himself know about this banquet?"

Mu Henian snorted and walked straight past.

Cheng Huai left the grand mansion, unable to hold back, he dragged Mu Henian into a frantic rant: happy families have their own happiness, while unhappy original families are miserable in countless ways.

After venting, he felt sorry and imitated how Mu Henian used to comfort him, gently coaxing him sentence by sentence.

Mu Henian held the boy tightly in his arms, his tone showing no loss, nor the distress Cheng Huai had anticipated.

"I'm not sad; as long as Ah Huai is by my side, everything is fine."

Cheng Huai narrowed his eyes, "Of course I'll always be with you; we'll be each other's family!"

——

When the four met, Mu Henian mentioned the banquet, and Song Xu indeed had no idea.

Cheng Huai thought it amazing, "You aristocrats don't even need to notify the person concerned for your banquets, huh."

Jin Chen: "When did you just say the banquet is?"

Mu Henian checked the time on the invitation he had just photographed, "Seven days later, at the Blue Gold Banquet Hall… the session before the business meeting?"

He suddenly realized, looking at Song Xu, "You're right—the Song family never regarded you as anything at all."

The project's returns over the past two years have been substantial; Jin Chen directly acquired a corporation overseas to continue pushing it forward.

Although Mu Henian didn't know where that guy got his resources, the company had just faced a bankruptcy crisis, and he snapped it up almost loss‑free.

Before they arrived in Jing Shi, rumors about the Golden Crow Corporation had already begun circulating here.

It is said to be a corporation that rose from overseas, each of its tech products bold and innovative, many of its technological resources and secrets being currently scarce domestically.

Several leading industries extended olive branches to the corporation's head, hoping to cooperate domestically; the Song and Mu clans were among those invited.

As Executive CEO, how could Jin Chen pass up this chance to save face? Although he already had a partner in mind, he still had the China region's agent agree to this business banquet invitation.

Who would have thought the Song clan's banquet was scheduled before that, clearly just inviting people to go through the motions, utterly meaningless.

Song Xu shook his head, indifferent, "I don't care about this either; it's better not to have me attend."

Who would have thought that after saying that, the next day after school he would receive a specially mailed invitation to the school.

Interestingly, there were four copies of the invitation.

Logically, as the banquet's protagonist, Song Xu should have been directly informed by the Song family; yet they notified him via invitation.

Song Xu had never attended a banquet before and didn't think anything was wrong, but how could Mu Henian not know?

Mu Henian: "Let's not go; we'll just wait directly at the business banquet hall."

"That's no fun," Jin Chen said, slinging an arm around Xiao Yu'er's shoulder with a teasing tone, "If so, we shouldn't just go—we should cause an uproar that turns that event upside down."

"Cause such a scene that they can't finish, make them loathe us to the extreme, then leave early and wait for them at the business hall."

Cheng Huai was the first to raise both hands, "I agree! How exciting!"

Even before that day, it almost sounded like the snobbish aristocrats were already hearing the slap‑slap‑slap of faces being struck.

Song Xu: "I'll listen to my brother."

Mu Henian: "……"

Surely childish, but… actually not bad.

Mu Henian suddenly felt a bit wistful; over the two years of being friends with that guy Jin Chen, his own noble, aloof, mature mogul aura had diminished considerably.

Seven days passed in the blink of an eye.

During those seven days, Xu Su had someone come to the school once, hoping to have Song Xu pick out a suitable outfit so he wouldn't be laughed at at the banquet.

As soon as Song Xu got the news, he turned and ran elsewhere, managing to evade the steward entirely.

Xu Su, fed up, just gave up—after all, they could only play for these two more years; once Songshang'an found a suitable heart donor and Song Xu received the transplant, he would have to obediently return home.

Seven days later, Hall A of the Blue Gold Banquet Hall.

Song Xu hadn't even arrived yet, but the luxurious banquet hall was already buzzing, glasses clinking, all conversation about the upcoming business banquet.

Of course, there were also those just there to watch the spectacle.

"Hey, I heard the Song and Mu families' engagement rumors have been going on for years; supposedly Mu Henian even went to Ming Cheng for the Song family's young master who has a heart condition."

"Then doesn't this mean they're going to announce their engagement?"

Facing those who are out of the loop with this news, others naturally only have the role of being laughed at: "You still don't know? The two of them each have a romance in Ming Cheng, not taking the arranged marriage to heart at all."

Such remarks made Mu Fu and Songshang'an, who heard them clearly, look extremely ugly.

Jin Chen and the three others arrived late, swaying gracefully.

The guests were stunned at first sight.

Although there are some country bumpkins from Ming Cheng, walking side by side, they always feel their temperaments are evenly matched.

Especially that, as rumored, Song Xu's boyfriend, who was a hooligan since childhood, turns out to be more handsome and proper than those raised in Jing Shi.

But upon second thought, it seems understandable; without some youthful capital, how could Song Xu possibly be willing to give up this family fortune just to be with him?

Indeed, youthful hearts consider love more important than anything else.