If You Are A Dodder Flower Chapter 53 Part2

He was very young and had a good-looking face, dressed very fashionably. So it was… He Chengzhe.

Xia Rou had wanted to go to sleep, but she had received a sudden call from He Chengzhe. "I'm almost to your house. Cao An drank too much. Can you come down and help?"

So she had gotten out of bed and gone downstairs. Translated by The Novelst

Cao An was drunk as a jellyfish. He Chengzhe opened the elevator and took him all the way to bed, and she had followed him down to send him off.

It wasn't hard to see that He Chengzhe's expression was very dull the entire time, his lips pressed shut.

"What happened? Did you guys fight again?" she asked.

Inside the elevator, He Chengzhe had taken a glance at her and remained silent. But his eyes showed his gloom.

The elevator slid quietly open and he took big steps to walk out of the house. Xia Rou had called after him, "Brother Chengzhe," and followed him out.

Xia Rou had always been a kind, considerate sort of girl. Even though He Chengzhe was in a terrible mood, he still couldn't bear to take out his anger on her, so he stopped.

"What's wrong?" Xia Rou asked after catching up to him.

He Chengzhe remained silent for a while, before answering, "I wanted to dissolve our partnership. He doesn't."

Xia Rou let out an understanding sound. She knew what he was speaking about.

He Chengzhe was surprised. "You know about this?"

Xia Rou nodded her head with a "Mn."

He Chengzhe stood on the stairs, unable to say anything for a long time. At last, with difficulty, he said, "I always thought that he wanted the same things as me, and also considered the company important to him… Today, I finally understand that it was just a temporary interest to him…"

Xia Rou asked softly, "What did he say?"

"He said he has to do something else, so he's going to hand the company to me," He Chengzhe said, his face wooden. "That's why I wanted to dissolve our partnership, but he refused."

Cao An… had actually listened to her advice? Xia Rou thought. She couldn't help but to feel grateful.

"Don't blame him too much," she said, explaining, "I told him to do that."

He Chengzhe stared at her.

"That thing was decided by Uncle Cao. Even big brother agreed. You don't understand… In this house, when the two of them decide on something… Fourth brother, he couldn't oppose them at all."

"You know his temper. Even if he capitulated inside, he'd still act stubborn for a few days and throw a tantrum to his heart's satisfaction."

"But, brother Chengzhe… You still don't understand exactly how it works here…"

Xia Rou let out a sigh, explaining, "For huge matters like this, Uncle will definitely not allow Fourth brother to act capriciously. If he continued to resist, then Uncle… he would definitely threaten your company. Maybe you still don't understand the extent of Uncle's reach, but if he were to lay a hand on your company, it would collapse just like that."

He Chengzhe looked at her, speechless.

"It's true," Xia Rou lowered her head. She said softly, "That's how they are."

He Chengzhe believed her. She wasn't someone to lie carelessly. Somehow, he understood faintly how much power a person like Cao Xiong held; it was just that he had never faced him directly. He had been naive.

"I know you invested a lot of painstaking effort into the company. That's why I recommended not going against Uncle. Fourth brother… he also understood. It's because he understands that he didn't act carelessly this time."

"He chose to obey because he doesn't want to bring the company into it. It's because he knows… this company is your heart blood."

Xia Rou thought that in her heart that it was really rare for Fourth brother to have acted so maturely for once. It was so rare to see that even he would consider others and put away his own selfishness.

In this life, even Fourth brother had changed.

Then, would he and Chengzhe brother… Would they be able to live a better life this time around?

He Chengzhe was touched, but his mind had gone entirely blank.

"I thought… I always thought that everyone was human. Though we might differ in ident.i.ty, there shouldn't be much difference in our very natures," he mumbled.

He smiled bitterly. "I guess I was wrong." Translated by The Novelst

"He and I are completely different. We are all actually… from entirely different levels." He walked down the stairs, turning around to look up at Xia Rou. "Xiao Rou, you've already understood this so early?"

Xia Rou understood the confusion He Chengzhe was experiencing.

Although everyone knew that above some people were even more people that were of high status, it was so high up that ordinary people couldn't even fathom it. Most people had no clear recognition of this.

That was unless ordinary people dared to walk closer and even enter into that world.

Proofread by: Hannah