Part 2
In the gloomy weather, the house was lit by warm lights.
Yan Shiting and Yu Li sat in the rocking chair by the floor-to-ceiling window, watching the rain outside.
After breaking the distance between them on Yu Li's birthday night, when they sat together again, the intentionally maintained distance no longer existed.
At this moment, the two of them were leaning shoulder to shoulder, and Yu Li heard Yan Shiting's low voice ask him:
"Where would you like me to start?"
Yu Li leaned back on the cushion and said, "When you and Yan Sui were very young?"
Hearing Yan Sui's name, Yan Shiting slightly lowered his gaze towards him.
Then Yan Shiting slowly said:
"Before Yan Sui was born, our parents were very busy and didn't have much time for me."
At that time, the Yan Group had just been established, and their parents were both busy with the company's affairs.
Without the company of his parents, Yan Shiting didn't feel anything, as he had been independent in character since he was young and did not feel lonely.
He didn't even need friends, and was content being alone.
It wasn't until after Yan Sui was born that Yan Shiting had a "playmate".
When their parents were busy, he carefully took care of this little brother, raising the baby who couldn't even turn over into a little radish head who would run after him calling him "brother".
It wasn't long before the Yan Group's business stabilized, and their parents also had a lot more time to spend with them.
Yan Shiting had to admit that in those few years, he gradually understood the meaning and beauty of "companionship".
Until the year Yan Sui turned six, their father passed away due to illness, and their mother also departed soon after.
The family members whom he had thought would always accompany each other had now gone far away.
Afterwards, since Yan Shiting and Yan Sui were not yet of age, their uncle Yan Yufeng took charge of managing their shares, and the thriving Yan Group fell into their uncle's hands.
Uncle Yan Yufeng was ambitious but incompetent.
"When my parents were in charge, the Yan Group was mainly engaged in real estate, relying on the bonus of the times, and successfully went public."
"Yan Yufeng mismanaged it, and in order to save costs and gain more benefits, he used substandard materials. The new housing projects became shoddy construction, failed inspections, and many people canceled their purchases."
During that period, the Yan Group's real estate, which was once known for being the most beneficial to the people, became despised by everyone in just one year.
A good friend of Yan Shiting's father, unable to bear seeing the Yan Group collapse so quickly, summoned Yan Shiting when he was seventeen years old, teaching him how to do business and observe market trends.
Yan Shiting was gifted, and had also been cultivated by his father when he was young, so he quickly discovered many problems with the Yan Group.
After he came of age, he brought lawyers and regained his own shares, participated in the shareholders' meeting as a shareholder, and interfered with Yan Yufeng's decision-making.
The uncle-nephew confrontation amused some people. Later, as Yan Shiting's every problem pointed out and the solutions he proposed allowed the Yan Group to profit, he gradually gained the support of some shareholders.
"In addition to that..."
Yan Shiting paused.
He looked out the window, furrowing his brows, his gaze gradually becoming ruthless.
Yu Li noticed the change in his mood and held his hand.
In addition to that, there was the matter that caused their uncle Yan Yufeng to be sentenced to death.
...
It was the twelfth lunar month, and it would soon be the Lunar New Year.
The lawyer was preparing to prosecute the Yan Yufeng family, and Yan Shiting noticed that one of the Yan Group's shareholders was also a little abnormal.
He followed the clues and found that the shareholder was colluding with Yan Yufeng, plotting to kill his father, Yan Hongfeng.
Yan Yufeng took advantage of the fact that he and Yan Hongfeng lived together in the villa, and gave Yan Hongfeng a slow-acting poison, one dose every six months.
That kind of poison would slowly take effect in the body of the person who ingested it, eventually causing the person to become physically weak and organ failure, leading to death.
Before discovering the poisoning, Yan Shiting had always thought that his father had just fallen ill and overworked himself to death.
He saw it with his own eyes, his father's last days, busy with the Yan Group until midnight, growing weaker and weaker, until he could only lie in bed and vomit blood.
But his cause of death was not illness, but poisoning.
Yan Shiting had just thought that his uncle Yan Yufeng was foolish and incompetent, but he never expected him to be so greedy.
After his father's death, the shares were still with his mother.
Yan Yufeng was anxious, so he also poisoned Yan Shiting's mother, Lyu Yuening.
This time, he used a large amount and the frequency was very high, and in less than two months, Lyu Yuening passed away with the same cause of death as Yan Hongfeng.
It was because of this haste that Yan Yufeng left evidence behind.
Nineteen-year-old Yan Shiting sat in the room all night, looking at the evidence.
At dawn, he went downstairs trembling, seeing Grandmother Yan come to beg him to spare Yan Yufeng.
At that time, although Grandmother Yan didn't care about him much, she was not as hateful towards him as she was later on.
Seeing him in a daze, Grandmother Yan did not hurry to talk about Yan Yufeng's matter, but instead asked about his well-being.
Yan Shiting looked at her kind and benevolent face, and then at the simple-looking Yan Sui beside her.
In the end, he had Yan Sui go out to play, and took Grandmother Yan to the study, showing her all the evidence of the poisoning.
"Grandmother, do you still think I should spare Yan Yufeng?"
His original intention was just to let Grandmother Yan see the evidence of her second son being harmed, so that she wouldn't continue to protect Yan Yufeng.
However, when Grandmother Yan saw the evidence, there was not the slightest look of shock on her face, but instead her gaze was evasive and only showed guilt.
"Shiting, the dead can't come back to life no matter what. Just let the living family members go, don't keep dwelling on those old matters..."
Yan Shiting looked at the expression on her face, and in an instant, he understood something.
His mind went blank, and it took a long time before he found his voice again:
"You knew about it all along?"
He pressed on: "When did you find out? After the poisoning or before?"
Grandmother Yan avoided his gaze and did not speak.
The nineteen-year-old Yan Shiting was not as steady as the thirty-one-year-old.
Looking at the guilty Grandmother Yan, his eyes reddened, and his throat felt as if it had been cut by a knife.
He coldly voiced, each word seeming to be squeezed out from his throat:
"Grandmother, please answer me."
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