Evil Love Appears chapter 78

It was already quite late after dinner, and Wen Ke initially wanted the Han family driver to take Xu Jiale and Fu Xiaoyu directly back to B City. However, Fu Xiaoyu refused.

“Don’t bother. We’ve already booked train tickets, so we’ll walk to the high-speed rail station from here. You both can head back, and we’ll talk on the phone tomorrow.”

Before parting ways, Fu Xiaoyu lazily rested his head on Xu Jiale’s shoulder. Then he waved at Wen Ke and Han Jiangque.

Han Jiangque sat in the car in a daze. He struggled to digest the situation for quite some time, and it wasn’t so much that he couldn’t accept the fact that Fu Xiaoyu and Xu Jiale were together as it was that he couldn’t quite come to terms with Fu Xiaoyu’s appearance in a romantic relationship.

“What’s wrong?” Wen Ke sat beside him and gave him a gentle hug.

“Fu Xiaoyu, I’ve never seen him so happy. Even when he made a lot of money, he was never this happy,” Han Jiangque said, his voice low

“Isn’t happiness a good thing?” Wen Ke stroked Han Jiangque’s face. “Why the sigh?”

“I don’t know.”

Han Jiangque suddenly felt somewhat melancholic.

His best friend was finally in love, and he was naturally happy for him. But there were other inexplicable emotions at play, and precisely because they were inexplicable, they made things awkward.

Wen Ke kissed his hair and said with a smile, “It’s always like this, even the best of friends eventually leave your side to be protected by someone else, right?”

“…” Han Jiangque leaned against Wen Ke’s shoulder for a while before responding softly, “Yes.”

Fu Xiaoyu was indeed very happy.

In a certain sense, Han Jiangque was the person Fu Xiaoyu trusted most and was closest to in this world.

And tonight, he could finally tell Han Jiangque, who had awakened:

He was in love with his Alpha.

Fu Xiaoyu’s face was no longer flushed, and the alcohol had worn off, but his mood lingered in the slightly tipsy moment.

Hand in hand with Xu Jiale, he walked on the streets of summer. The night breeze carried the scent of Xu Jiale’s minty pheromones. Each step felt light and airy. They walked to the end of this straight road, and only then did Fu Xiaoyu turn around and look at Xu Jiale with seriousness.

“Xu Jiale.”

“Yes?”

“I want to tell you about my plans for the future.”

This statement was so solemn that Xu Jiale was momentarily stunned.

“I’m about to step down from my position as the CEO of IM Group,” Fu Xiaoyu said.

“Damn, I thought you were going to propose to me.”

Xu Jiale raised an eyebrow on one side. Well, this matter was quite serious as well, but he deliberately joked and smiled before asking seriously, “Why?”

“I don’t want to work under Han family control anymore,” Fu Xiaoyu said slowly. “After stabilizing the situation at IM a while ago, Han Zhan and Han’s two brothers’ influence has been growing. They’ve been inserting more and more people. It’s not unexpected, really. Han’s family has always been like this. They only trust their own. In the past, when Han Jiangque was in charge, and he was willing to listen to me, I still had some say. But now it’s different; Han Jiangque has essentially left the family business, and I don’t want to stay at IM.”

Xu Jiale frowned slightly, and he was genuinely a little upset.

Fu Xiaoyu’s speech had been indirect, but Xu Jiale could still guess the kind of family group entanglements he was facing.

Fu Xiaoyu was Han Jiangque’s most trusted confidant from the legitimate line, which pretty much closed off any path to gain the trust of the other two alpha brothers in the Han family. In such a group, it was easy to imagine the difficulties Fu Xiaoyu would encounter..

Fu Xiaoyu shook his head. “Han Jiangque still has 6% of the shares under his name. He just told me that he wants to transfer a significant portion of those shares to me. It’s his way of giving me a foothold in the company.”

He paused for a moment before continuing, “But I turned him down.”

“Why?”

Xu Jiale narrowed his eyes.

Fu Xiaoyu spoke calmly, “Actually, I wanted to leave a long time ago. If it weren’t for Han Jiangque’s accident, and my need to use Han’s family’s influence to counterattack Zhuo Yuan’s industry, I also wanted to hold this position for Han Jiangque’s sake. Now that he’s awake, there’s no need for me to return to my position at IM. To me, staying at IM doesn’t make sense anymore. If I’m not with Han Jiangque, the Han family won’t consider me family; I’ll just be working for them forever, and that’s not what I want. I’m not young anymore, and I should be building my own empire.”

Fu Xiaoyu’s tone was very calm, but in that moment, his eyes still revealed a hint of fierceness. “Xu Jiale, from now on, I’ll invest all my energy into Lite, the company Wen Ke is involved in. For me, it’s indeed an unfamiliar and challenging field, but after researching it for so long, I have confidence in myself. I’ve already talked to Wen Ke, and in the second half of the year, I’ll officially start the overseas expansion plan to take our love app to international markets. When he returns from his maternity leave, he will talk to us. Blue Rain and several investment companies will also invest in it, and the entire company’s equity distribution will be reorganized. But regardless, Wen Ke has assured me that our proportions will remain roughly the same. I think when the time comes, you should also negotiate properly; you… got too little in the past.”

When it came to work, Fu Xiaoyu’s speech speed also slightly increased, with each word ending crisply. He had always been pragmatic. If he didn’t see a real opportunity here, even if he had a good relationship with Wen Ke and Han Jiangque, he wouldn’t have joined.

But once he decided to join, he would fight for the maximum benefit for himself and for Xu Jiale.

“Oh?”

Hearing this, Xu Jiale couldn’t help but smile slightly.

Actually, when Lite, this mini-company, was just founded, the distribution of shares was basically child’s play.

Wen Ke was the contributor and the legal person, as well as the largest shareholder. The rest of the shares were initially intended to be divided evenly among Han Jiangque, Fu Xiaoyu, and Xu Jiale. Xu Jiale, who wasn’t short of money, had symbolically retained 5%, and Fu Xiaoyu had a slightly larger portion at the time, but no one had cared much about this matter.

However, things were different now. Lite had rapidly expanded, and its capital and prospects were incomparable to the past. So when it came to the distribution of shares at this point, it was no longer child’s play; it involved real money.

He certainly heard the implication in Fu Xiaoyu’s words: “You mustn’t lose out.”

However, he deliberately avoided that topic and instead blinked, asking, “Are you really going to be my big boss together with Wen Ke this time, President Fu?”

“Yes.” Fu Xiaoyu raised his head with a slightly proud look in his eyes.

Xu Jiale couldn’t help but lower his head and kissed the omega’s cheek. “President Fu, what did you just say? You’re not exactly young, are you?”

“Indeed,” Fu Xiaoyu said. “I’ll be turning twenty-seven in my virtual age after my birthday.”

As he said this, his voice softened, and he looked up at Xu Jiale. “My birthday is next month.”

Next month—

Xu Jiale quickly calculated in his mind and suddenly burst into laughter. “Leo?”

For a moment, everything seemed to fall into place.

All the logic added up.

Driving an extravagant car to work became more fitting, gifting a one-carat earring made sense, and everything had a reason.

“Why are you laughing?” Fu Xiaoyu couldn’t help but snort. “What’s wrong with being a Leo?”

In reality, he didn’t believe in these things at all, but Xu Jiale’s reaction piqued his curiosity.

“I’m laughing because I’m happy. Take a closer look. Isn’t Leo known as the king?” Xu Jiale said, then suddenly leaned closer to Fu Xiaoyu.

Due to the proximity, his face looked a little oversized, and he smiled, saying, “Fu Xiaoyu, am I the legendary man of the king now?”

“…” Fu Xiaoyu held his breath and didn’t speak, grabbing Xu Jiale’s hand and trying to continue walking.

“Fu Xiaoyu, I can’t walk any further. The king’s man can’t walk; where’s my carriage?”

“Fu Xiaoyu, the king’s man… Ah, ah!”

Fu Xiaoyu deftly squeezed Xu Jiale’s finger.

The world was instantly silent.

Then, as if nothing had happened, he held the alpha’s hand again and continued to drag Xu Jiale forward.

Before Fu Xiaoyu’s birthday, there was another person who would be celebrating a birthday. That person was Fu Jing, who was also a Leo. Xu Jiale noticed it on Fu Xiaoyu’s calendar when the two were sitting together, planning when they could go out for a date that week.

Fu Xiaoyu knew that Xu Jiale had seen it, but he quickly averted his gaze, closed the calendar, and pretended not to care.

It had been a while since Fu Xiaoyu had had any contact with Fu Jing.

“Your father’s birthday is in a few days; didn’t your aunt contact you?” Xu Jiale asked.

“She did,” Fu Xiaoyu pretended not to care, opened another work document for review, and acted absorbed in his work. “I told her I’m busy with work and can’t go back.”

Once he reached this point, he emphasized, “I am indeed busy.”

“I understand.” Xu Jiale nodded and pondered for a moment, then said, “What does your father like to eat? How about your aunt?”

“My father… likes seafood. My aunt likes beef.” Fu Xiaoyu answered automatically, then asked, “Why?”

While flipping through his contacts, Xu Jiale said, “I’m definitely not going on the day of your father’s birthday. I’ll go two days in advance and when I bring the food over, I’ll say it’s a mid-year bonus from the company for you. It’s perfect since it’s Tang Ning’s favorite. I’ll take about thirty percent premium beef and seventy percent fresh seafood. How does that sound?”