The birthday gift was prepared by Wu Pengpeng. It was an authentic work of Song Yan, the calligrapher and painter that Wu You liked the most.
Previously, in order to squander money, Wu Pengpeng had hoarded a lot of Song Yan's calligraphy and paintings. She had always been looking for an opportunity to give them to Wu You, but unfortunately, there was no proper reason. Now it was just right to give them out in the name of He Qianshan.
Although He Qianshan didn't understand calligraphy and paintings, he had heard of Song Yan's great name. Authentic works were extremely hard to come by.
He heard that Wu You liked to collect antique masterpieces. He must like these things.
"How much are these things? I'll transfer the money to you." Wu Pengpeng worked so hard to earn money. He couldn't let her spend money.
Naturally, Wu Pengpeng was not willing to accept it. Finally, she had an opportunity to squander money legitimately. She wasn't stupid enough to put the money back into her own pocket.
"No need." She found a high - sounding reason. "Anyway, the things are for my Uncle Wu. It's just going through your hands. How can I take your money?"
Even so, as long as she could gain Wu You's recognition with these things, it was worth spending any amount of money.
He Qianshan insisted on paying: "It's different."
"What's different?" Wu Pengpeng didn't give him a chance to refute. "These things are useless sitting in my house. Giving them to my uncle in your name is just storing them in a different place."
As she said this, she suddenly seemed to remember something. Her eyebrows drooped, and she looked extremely pitiful. "I understand. In your heart, I've always been an outsider, so you have to calculate everything so clearly with me."
How could He Qianshan stand her like this? He quickly surrendered: "I didn't mean that."
Since she didn't exchange these things for money, it was very likely that these things were prohibited from being traded.
If he insisted on paying, he might violate her trading principles.
This thought flashed through his mind, and He Qianshan was so scared that he didn't dare to insist on paying anymore.
Seeing that his expression wavered, Wu Pengpeng quickly pressed on: "By the way, my Uncle Wu has the final say in our family. As long as we win him over, the others won't have any objections."
Sure enough, He Qianshan was distracted. He hurriedly asked how to make a good impression on Wu You.
Although they had met a few times before, they were all worried about Wu Pengpeng at that time and didn't have the heart to care about other things.
This time was the first official meeting between him and the Wu family. He Qianshan was even more nervous than when he took over the Song Group back then.
All the way there, he silently reviewed the preferences of each of the Wu uncles in his mind. He even drafted a self - introduction in his mind, afraid that he would make some mistakes due to nervousness.
When they drove to the Wu family's old mansion, Wu You was already waiting at the door.
"Don't worry." Wu Pengpeng noticed his nervousness and patted his hand. "I'm here!"
He Qianshan gave her a faint smile. He took a deep breath, got out of the car with Wu Pengpeng, and tried to look calm.
"Uncle Wu, we're here." Wu Pengpeng waved at Wu You. She happily took He Qianshan's arm and introduced Wu You to him. "This is my Uncle Wu."
He Qianshan quickly handed over the gift in his hand: "Happy birthday, Uncle Wu."
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Wu You's smile freeze for a moment, showing a look of surprise.
He Qianshan recalled what he had just said and wished he could find a hole to crawl into.
"Sorry, Mr. Wu." He left an impolite impression on the other person on the first meeting. Was he on Wu You's blacklist?
"It's okay." Wu You took the gift from his hand and gave it to the servant waiting beside him. "You'll have to change your address sooner or later. It's the same now."
Hearing Wu You's words, He Qianshan subconsciously looked at Wu Pengpeng.
Did this mean that he was approved?
Wu Pengpeng winked at him, indicating that he had successfully won over Wu You.
He Qianshan was a little surprised. He had already mentally prepared himself to be harassed by the entire Wu family, but he didn't expect it to be so easy to pass this test.
Actually, it wasn't that the Wu family was easy - going. It was mainly because the Wu family doted on Wu Pengpeng to an almost limitless extent. As long as it was someone she liked, even if he was a good - for - nothing, they wouldn't object.
Moreover, He Qianshan was excellent in the first place.
Wu You had a good impression of him, so naturally, he wouldn't object.
He asked He Qianshan with a smile, "When are you two planning to get married?"
He Qianshan replied obediently, "It's up to Pengpeng. We'll get married when she wants to."
Hearing this answer, Wu You couldn't help but look at Wu Pengpeng, his eyes looking a bit hesitant.
Wu Pengpeng noticed that he had something to say to He Qianshan, so she quickly said tactfully, "You two go in first. I'll go get something from the car."
Originally, Wu Pengpeng just made up an excuse casually to give them some alone time.
When she got in the car, she suddenly remembered that a few days ago, Zhou Hong had given her a high - quality jadeite rough stone. At that time, she had used all her strength to refuse three times, but still couldn't refuse successfully. This rough stone was now part of her squandered property.
Wu Junchen always liked jade, so it would be just right to give it to him.
At that time, she had brought the rough stone back and casually tossed it into the car. For some reason, she couldn't find it now.
Wu Pengpeng rummaged through the car. She didn't find the rough stone, but instead found a file bag. There were her name written in a bold and flamboyant style on it, followed by the words "The Ideal in the World".
She opened the file bag and saw that there was a notebook and several documents inside.
It should be He Qianshan's stuff.
She hesitated for a moment but still couldn't help opening it.
Anyway, these things were related to her, so it couldn't be considered peeping.
As Wu Pengpeng read through them one by one, she felt as if she was in an abyss, with her whole body icy cold.
It turned out that the person who always ruined her money - squandering results at critical moments was none other than He Qianshan.
Before she could recover from this huge shock, a sharp pain suddenly came from her wrist.
Wu Pengpeng looked down and saw that the originally deep - red energy meter had turned into a very light red.
She stared at the faint red mark on her wrist, and suddenly her eyes turned red.
It turned out that in the end, she still inevitably reached this point.
She was like a phone about to run out of battery, not knowing when it would suddenly turn off.
Being able to have a heart - wrenching memory during this stolen time, she wasn't so regretful.
She was just afraid...
If one day, He Qianshan knew that it was he who had forced her to a dead end step by step, what would he do?
He probably wouldn't be able to forgive himself for the rest of his life.
She wasn't afraid of death. She was just afraid that he couldn't live happily.
"Beep beep" Suddenly, someone knocked on the car window twice. Wu Pengpeng turned her head and met Wu Junchen's worried eyes.
The emotions she had been holding back suddenly burst out, and she burst into tears.
"Brother, what should I do?" She tried hard to calm herself down, but her out - of - control emotions were out of hand.
Wu Junchen was startled. He quickly opened the car door and clumsily wiped her tears: "Don't cry, Pengpeng. Brother is here!"
Wu Pengpeng shook her head and covered her face, crying uncontrollably.
Wu Junchen didn't know why she suddenly lost control. He gently patted her on the back and told her not to be afraid over and over again.
Wu Pengpeng cried for more than ten minutes as if there was no one else around. Finally, she calmed down. She sniffed and tried to catch her breath with red - rimmed eyes.
Wu Junchen had never seen her like this, sad, helpless, and desperate, as if all her hopes had been suddenly taken away.
Wu Junchen felt strange. Just now in the hall, he had heard Wu You and He Qianshan talking about their marriage. It seemed that good things were coming soon.
She was finally going to marry the man she loved as she wished. Why was she so sad?
"Pengpeng, have you encountered any difficulties recently?"
Now that Wu Pengpeng had calmed down, she felt a bit embarrassed. She wiped her face and turned to him with a smile: "It's okay."
"Don't lie to me." Wu Junchen reached out and pressed her down. "I said, you can trust me."
Wu Pengpeng's hand on the car door paused. The two of them were in a stalemate for a few seconds. Finally, she gave in and sat back down.
She stared silently at the light - red energy meter on her wrist, not knowing when it would completely disappear.
She would soon vanish from this world. What would He Qianshan do then? What would the Wu family do?
Wu Pengpeng sat there silently for a long time before she said with some difficulty, "Brother, you know, right?"
She turned to look at him, with a determined look on her face as if she was ready to take a desperate step. "I'm not the real Wu Pengpeng. Actually, you've noticed it a long time ago, haven't you?"