Lu Residence.
Bang bang bang—!
Early in the morning, Lu Yanming was fast asleep when someone arrived at his home and started banging on the door, the sound exceptionally loud.
He woke up displeased and walked to the balcony to look down at the first floor. Since the balcony was blocking his view, he couldn't see who it was, so he shouted, "Who is it? Can't you ring the doorbell?"
"Open the door!"
Downstairs, Tang Si replied.
"Xiao Si?" Lu Yanming was stunned, not expecting Tang Si to come to his house so early to find him.
Slipping on slippers and putting on a jacket, he hurried downstairs, walked to the door, and opened it. "You're here so early, did something happen to Muyie?"
Lu Yanming preferred to live alone, so he chose a small Western-style building. Besides himself and a dog, there was no one else in the house.
Even the servants only came once a week to clean.
"Big Brother, I've never asked you for anything. Can you help me this time?" Tang Si looked exhausted, with stubble already growing on his chin, giving him a decadent and haggard appearance.
Lu Yanming was at a loss, looking at Tang Si with a surprised gaze. After a few moments of stunned silence, he asked, "Did you go bankrupt too?"
Apart from this, Lu Yanming could think of no other reason.
He quickly shook his head, "Brother, you know, the funds of my company were all used for Mu Ye's games. Now, at most... at most I can give you five hundred..."
Before the word 'billion' was spoken, Tang Si interrupted, "I want you to join forces with Borén Group to suppress the companies of the Zhao family and Huo Xiaohua."
"What?"
Lu Yanming's brows furrowed. He seemed to hear a hallucination, "Weren't you always refusing? Why did you change your mind today?"
Initially, Lu Yanming and Qing Muyie had both said they would help Tang Si suppress the Zhao family together. This way, they could buy more time and facilitate the early union of Shi Ran and Tang Si.
But Tang Si was stubborn and felt that doing so would make him seem useless, so he directly refused.
Tang Si knitted his brows, his expression solemn. The fists hanging by his sides were clenched tightly, and his fists were faintly trembling. "I've thought it through. If I have to choose between dignity and Ran Bao'er, I choose Ran Bao'er."
Upon learning that Shi Ran had gone to the hospital in the early morning, he had rushed to the hospital. On the way, he had almost hit a pregnant woman.
At that moment, on the empty street, the helpless pregnant woman was a reflection of Shi Ran. He felt as if he could understand Shi Ran's lonely and helpless misery.
After a night of internal struggle, Tang Si made his choice.
He chose to let go of his so-called dignity, borrow his good brother's influence to crush the Zhao family, and then marry Shi Ran into the Tang family in a grand manner.
The woman he loved, his child, could not suffer any more humiliation.
"Heh."
Lu Yanming scoffed, crossing his arms and leaning lazily against the doorframe, teasingly saying, "You know, if you had thought about this earlier, you wouldn't have had to go through all this trouble."
Tang Si sighed long and deeply, his heart filled with a great sense of loss. He lifted his suit jacket and took out a cigarette case, taking out a cigarette and handing it to Lu Yanming, then taking out another and placing it in his mouth. "We were young and ignorant. Seeing Ran Bao'er being bullied, I wanted to defeat the Huo and Zhao families with my own strength and avenge her myself, but I overlooked the time period, causing her to suffer grievances for no reason."
This was one reason. The second was that Tang Si felt it was unmanly and unpromising to avenge his woman through someone else's hands.
"But have you ever considered..." Lu Yanming lit the cigarette, took a puff, and a faint wisp of smoke billowed from his lips. "Defeating the Huo and Zhao families within your capabilities, even if it involved us, is still your strength. Otherwise, if anyone else helped us, would you think it's practical?"