Chapter 245: 241. Let Me Tell You a Story (Please subscribe, please vote for monthly tickets!)

Feng Hui felt he should have just said Zhang Ran wasn't there earlier; even if that would have made Yu Mingcai unhappy, it wouldn't have been as direct as this.

He hadn't even expected Zhang Ran to say such things, and looking at Zhang Ran's expression, it didn't seem like he was joking.

Feng Hui wanted to speak up to smooth things over, but after seeing that although Zhang Ran had a faint smile on his face, his eyes were extremely cold, he opened his mouth but ended up saying nothing.

Yu Mingcai frowned; if the fact that Zhang Ran didn't greet him at the door at first only made him feel a bit uncomfortable, then right now, Zhang Ran was openly slapping him in the face.

Just at this moment, Zhang Ran suddenly laughed, and just as Feng Hui was letting out a sigh of relief, he became tense again immediately after hearing what Zhang Ran said.

"I wonder if you recognize the leader Yu Mingzhi?" Zhang Ran said with a chuckle.

Yu Mingcai said indifferently: "He is my younger brother, so what?"

He could tell by now that Zhang Ran seemed to have a sense of repulsion toward him, or rather, toward Chang City.

Judging from Zhang Ran's previous sentence, he seemed to be full of malice toward him.

Although there was a smile on Zhang Ran's face, his tone was exceptionally cold: "Nothing, it's just that we have already fired Yu Mingzhi; the company is too small to accommodate a 'great Buddha' like him."

As soon as these words were spoken, Yu Mingcai could barely control his expression; the corner of his eye twitched involuntarily, and his gaze became cold and sharp when he looked at Zhang Ran.

He understood completely now that Zhang Ran was intentionally looking for trouble with him, but Yu Mingcai couldn't figure out how he or Chang City had offended him.

Although they had indeed prepared to help Tian Yaohui before, hadn't they not made a decision yet? And in the end, they had stood on his, Zhang Ran's, side; why on earth was Zhang Ran doing this?

"Mr. Zhang, have we met before?" Yu Mingcai asked indifferently.

Zhang Ran did not answer his question, but instead turned to Feng Hui and said: "Chairman Feng, you go out and get busy first; I will have a private chat with this leader."

Feng Hui was dying to leave immediately; hearing this, he didn't linger and took his leave directly.

After Feng Hui left and only Zhang Ran and Yu Mingcai remained in the room, Zhang Ran lit a cigarette and began to smoke.

Yu Mingcai was not in a hurry to ask questions either, just waiting quietly; he really wanted to see why Zhang Ran was doing this.

"We should know each other." Suddenly, Zhang Ran said this sentence, which sounded nonsensical to Yu Mingcai.

"What do you mean?" Yu Mingcai asked with a frown.

But Zhang Ran acted as if he hadn't heard Yu Mingcai's question and said to himself: "Let me tell you a story."

Yu Mingcai took a deep breath, suppressing the anger in his heart; he was no longer prepared to speak, as he wanted to hear what Zhang Ran could possibly say.

"Once upon a time, a man fell in love with a girl, and that girl also loved him. Being with that girl, the man would feel relaxed and happy from the bottom of his heart; it seemed that just being with her was the happiest thing in the world.

That kind of happiness was something the man had never experienced before; even money and power had never brought him such a feeling."

"At that time, the man swore that he would give the girl the most perfect life and that he would stay with her for a lifetime!

He wanted to give the girl the most perfect wedding and make her the happiest person in this world."

"That day, the man embarked on a journey abroad; the man didn't tell the girl that he was going to prepare a proposal ring for her this time.

Likewise, the girl didn't tell the man that she was already pregnant, because both sides wanted to present this happiest and most beautiful moment as a surprise to each other."

Zhang Ran fell into his memories, and his tone became ethereal; Yu Mingcai frowned, as he could hear from Zhang Ran's tone how much this man loved this girl. As for who the man was, Yu Mingcai didn't even need to guess.

Perhaps because of Zhang Ran's tone and demeanor at this moment, Yu Mingcai's heart slowly settled down, and the anger from just a moment ago was gone.

"That day, the man was ready; he was prepared to return. He was full of anticipation and joy, wanting to find the girl to propose; he was already prepared."

At this moment, Zhang Ran's tone became somewhat indifferent: "But when he returned again, he discovered that twenty-eight years had already passed in this world. Twenty-eight years! It passed in just such an instant!"

For the first time, a trace of trembling appeared in Zhang Ran's voice!

And at this moment, Yu Mingcai also instantly understood some things: that was, given Zhang Ran's current methods, how could Tian Yaohui have possibly embezzled the shares that originally belonged to him back then?

Tian Yaohui was clearly no match for Zhang Ran at all, so how did he manage it back then?

This point had always been something Yu Mingcai couldn't figure out, but now he understood, because Zhang Ran had disappeared for twenty-eight years in the middle.

At the same time, Yu Mingcai also understood why Zhang Ran was so young.

However, these were not the points Yu Mingcai was focused on; he had a faint, ominous premonition in his heart at this moment.

"When the man heard news of the girl again, it was the news that she had already passed away." Zhang Ran clenched his fists.

Having said this, Zhang Ran fell silent and did not continue; it seemed the story ended here.

Finally, Zhang Ran revealed a smile that was uglier than crying, looked at Yu Mingcai, and said: "Do you know what this girl's name was?"

Yu Mingcai's heart was pounding wildly at this moment; if he hadn't associated anything before, he would be truly stupid if he couldn't think of it now, combined with Zhang Ran's previous attitude.

Zhang Ran didn't need Yu Mingcai to answer and said word by word: "That girl's name was, Yu! Qing! Wan!"

When he said the last word, Zhang Ran's fist smashed heavily onto the tabletop.

"She was your own younger sister, Yu Mingcai! How could you be so heartless! To drive a pregnant woman out of the house—she was your own sister, a relative connected by blood!" Zhang Ran's eyes were red as he stared fixedly at Yu Mingcai.

When Yu Mingcai heard Zhang Ran say the name Yu Qingwan, his body trembled involuntarily, but he quickly recovered.

"Even... even if you didn't care about these things at the time, I didn't need you to take care of her that well; you only needed to consider that she was still a pregnant woman, to be slightly, just slightly caring, to show just a tiny bit of kindness—if you had just waited until I returned, if only..." At this moment, Zhang Ran didn't even realize that his voice was actually full of pleading; this was a state Zhang Ran had never revealed before.

Even people like He Yong had never seen Zhang Ran have such a fragile side; he was begging the Yu Family of that time to take just a little bit of care of Yu Qingwan, even if it was just a tiny bit.