The Tang Family’s Seven Os

Tang Qi Yuan had always felt confident that since he had been able to make his table mate improve so quickly, he should be able to continue to teach and educate more people now.

But unfortunately, in all his years, he has encountered many hard-working students, but he has never met a student who has made rapid progress like his table mate.

Ai……he often sighed silently in his heart at, maybe his table mate was really gifted.

Tang Qi Yuan sighed silently for a moment, looked at the scenery outside the window and asked: “Where are we going now?”

“Cheng Lang is returning today and my Ge just won an award yesterday, so my mum said for us to go to Orchid Palace and celebrate for both of them.”

“Ok.” Tang Qi Yuan nodded with some happiness, since Sheng Xi had exhibited that painting at the auction back then, his light had gradually emerged and more and more people appreciated his paintings, over the years he had held several exhibitions and won many awards, his fame in the art world was getting higher and higher.

Not only did Sheng Xi become more and more brilliant and overwhelmed Sheng Lian, but Sheng Cen also gave His Majesty a blow when he scored high marks in the entrance exams that year. In these years, Sheng Xi and Sheng Cen were like sheathed blades, and His Majesty could no longer hide their brilliance, while Sheng Lian looked mediocre in comparison to them. No matter how much His Majesty loves Madam Zhen Wei and Sheng Lian, Sheng Lian’s own inability is a waste of effort and cannot be recognised by everyone.

Everything was getting better and better, but unfortunately, after the college entrance examination, Sheng Cen’s grandfather passed away suddenly. They had no support overnight. Sheng Xi and Sheng Cen were after all His Majesty’s biological sons. Although His Majesty would make things difficult for them, he would not really kill them, but Xia Cheng Lang and His Majesty were not related by blood, so after the death of Old Master Xia, His Majesty directly took action against Xia Cheng Lang, wanting to permanently get rid of the future troubles of the Xia family and cut off the support behind Empress Xia and Sheng Cen.

At that time, it was the first time that Tang Qi Yuan saw the strong-willed Empress Xia, and he had to sigh that Empress Xia was worthy of being the daughter of the Xia family.

At that time, Empress Xia had officially torn her face off from His Majesty, and simply escorted Xia Cheng Lang out of the country, and sent many people to protect him. Fortunately, Xia Cheng Lang lived up to the hard work of Empress Xia over the years, and now he can take charge of himself, becoming a strong support for Empress Xia.

Now that Xia Cheng Lang has returned to China, Tang Qi Yuan understands that this means that the battle between Sheng Cen and His Majesty will officially begin.

When his mobile phone rang, Tang Qi Yuan came back to his senses, picked it up and looked down at it, it was Tang Wu Yuan who had sent him a recording, nothing else was said.

He reached out and tapped on the recording, and a somewhat unfamiliar voice rang out in the quiet car.

“I say you should just do what every Omega does, don’t come out to work and wait honestly in the back of the house every day, waiting to serve and entertain men……”

Tang Qi Yuan frowned slightly, not reacting for a moment to whose recording this was that Tang Wu Yuan had sent him, just thinking that this person’s voice was really ugly and the words that came out were even uglier.

Sheng Cen, however, was visibly stunned for a moment, turned his head to look at his phone and said in a deep voice: “It’s Sheng Lian’s voice.”

Sheng Lian? Tang Qi Yuan was a little surprised to hear this name, how could Tang Wu Yuan suddenly send him such a paragraph of Sheng Lian’s words? But this Sheng Lian was really annoying as always.

Before Tang Qi Yuan could ask, Tang Wu Yuan sent another text immediately afterwards, which said that he should give this recording to Sheng Cen.

Without hesitation, Tang Qi Yuan forwarded the recording to Sheng Cen with his mobile phone, saying in a flat voice: “My Ge asked me to give it to you.”

Sheng Cen was silent for a moment and nodded gently, “Thank your Ge for me.”

“Okay.” Tang Qi Yuan honestly sent another message to his brother, first criticising his brother for secretly recording, and then expressing his gratitude to his brother.

“You should understand what I will do if you give me this voice recording, right?” Sheng Cen suddenly asked.

“I know.” Tang Qi Yuan replied indifferently and did not say any more.

Sheng Cen could not help but hook his lips, over the years, when he fought with Sheng Lian, the methods he used could not be said to be open and honest, but also used a lot of tactics. Tang Qi Yuan more or less knew some of these things, but this little table mate of his, who was always ancient and kind, surprisingly did not recite him a word about being generous to others.

When Sheng Cen got out of the car, he received a call from Xia Cheng Lang, who said that his friend had been injured and that he had to take him to the hospital and could not come over for the time being.

There was another car parked at the entrance of Orchid Palace, and Tang Qi Yuan took a glance at the license plate number and said with a start: “Yan Fei is here too.”

“En.” Sheng Cen looked at Yan Fei’s car and frowned slightly.

When Yan Fei was in university, he chose to come back to study in China, and since then, he had more opportunities to go in and out of Orchid Palace. He still liked to pester Sheng Xi, just like before. It can be said that it was because he was young and ignorant in the past, but now that he’s so old, it’s hard to say that he’s ignorant.

What’s more, the way he looked at Sheng Xi was already clear, and he couldn’t hide the affection in his eyes, but Sheng Xi didn’t realise anything, and still treated him like a child.

The relationship between Sheng Xi and Yan Fei’s brother was complicated and everyone knew about their marriage contract, so Sheng Cen did not approve of the two of them, but he had grown up with Yan Fei and he could not keep him away, so he couldn’t help feeling helpless whenever he saw Sheng Xi and Empress Xia being unaware of it.

The two of them walked into the house side by side and saw that Yan Fei was huddled around Sheng Xi telling him interesting stories about his classmates, and Sheng Xi was so amused by him that he was smiling, and Empress Xia was also grinning from ear to ear. Every time he came to Orchid Palace, Sheng Xi looked much happier than usual.

There were times when Tang Qi Yuan could not help but suspect that Sheng Xi had fallen in love with Yan Fei, but the way Sheng Xi looked at Yan Fei was always clean, like an older brother looking at his younger brother, his gaze loving and tolerant, and whenever Yan Fei looked at Sheng Xi with this look, he could not help but have resentment in his eyes, but it would soon be covered up by his smile.

Empress Xia looked up and saw them and immediately smiled. His Majesty had been trying to suppress Sheng Cen and the Xia family in every way possible these past few years, and it was always Empress Xia who had been struggling to hold on, so she looked a little older than she had in previous years, with fine lines already at the end of her eyes, but her face looked more gentle.

Yan Fei looked at Sheng Cen and joked: “Cen Ge, how come you haven’t even made a trip back to Orchid Palace since you came back, and hurried to pick up Xiao Qi Ge? If I had known you had so much time, I would have let you pick me up as well on the way.”

Sheng Cen glanced at him and raised his eyebrows gently, “Xiao Qi doesn’t know how to drive, so you don’t know how to drive either?”

Tang Qi Yuan stood aside, his cheeks couldn’t help turning red. When he was learning to drive, Sheng Cen personally taught him, but he failed to pass the test three times, and finally had to give up. Speaking of which, he was really isn’t a good student, Sheng Cen taught him so seriously in vain. Fortunately, Sheng Cen still maintains the principle of being a peerless table mate, and promised him that he would drop him off pick him up from work everyday, although he doesn’t think it’s on the way, if his table mate thinks it’s on the way, then it’s on the way.

Yan Fei glanced at Tang Qi Yuan and said lightly: “It’s obviously some people that wants to take Xiao Qi to and from work, so they did not teach seriously.”

“No, it’s because I’m too stupid.” Tang Qi Yuan shook his head in shame and hurriedly retorted for his table mate, he felt that his table mate was really wronged, his table mate was so busy, how could he not teach him properly just because he wanted to take him to and from work, it was clearly him who was causing trouble for his table mate.

While Yan Fei laughed lightly, Sheng Cen glanced at Tang Qi Yuan without blushing, reached out and pressed the top of his head, whispering as if laughing or sighing: “Little fool.”

Empress Xia stood to the side and laughed, coming over and slapping Sheng Cen, reprimanding in a low voice: “Don’t bully Xiao Qi again, our Xiao Qi is smart.”

“Come and eat.” She took Tang Qi Yuan’s hand and walked towards the dining hall, “Xiao Qi, are you tired from class today?”

“No, the students are all very good.” Tang Qi Yuan shook his head and obediently followed her, going to sit down in the dining room, while the others also came over and sat down on the chairs in turn.

As Xia Cheng Lang was unable to come, they celebrated Sheng Xi’s award with a meal. Empress Xia had prepared red wine, and after a few bites of the meal, they all raised their glasses to congratulate Sheng Xi.

After raising his glass, Tang Qi Yuan took a small sip of the wine when Sheng Cen took his glass away and replaced it with juice. His capacity for liquor was not very good, so he didn’t object, obediently holding the juice and drinking two mouths.

Although Sheng Xi was not a good drinker either, he also took a few sips from his glass. His paintings had been recognised by more and more people over the past few years, so his mood and mental state were much better than before, and because he had drunk a little wine, his face had a nice flush, and he looked healthy and energetic, not as soft and pale as in previous years.

While Empress Xia looked at such a Sheng Xi, the corners of her eyes suddenly got wet, and she secretly turned sideways and wiped her tears.

Sheng Cen, however, noticed her movement and could not help but look pale, put down his wine glass and asked in a deep voice: “What happened?”

Sheng Xi looked at Empress Xia, his eyes flashed with a touch of sadness, turned his head to Sheng Cen and smiled gently and said: “Nothing is wrong, don’t think too much, let’s eat first, you’ve been abroad for so many days, it’s been a long time since you’ve had home-cooked food, eat more today, it’s all made personally by Mum.”

Empress Xia also forced a smile and said: “Mum is just too happy, today Cheng Lang returned home and Xi Xi won an award, Mum is very happy.”

“You guys don’t hide it from me.” Sheng Cen wrinkled his brows slightly and his voice sank a few more notches, the more Empress Xia and Sheng Xi kept this from him, the more serious the matter was.

Tang Qi Yuan also followed suit and put down his cup, looking up at Sheng Xi and Empress Xia, Empress Xia’s cooking today had salty prawns and bland soup, he could see that Empress Xia was distracted, how could Sheng Cen not see it.

Empress Xia looked at their faces and knew that she couldn’t hide it, so she couldn’t help but let out a soft sigh: “I originally wanted everyone to have a good meal and talk about it afterwards.”

Tang Qi Yuan sat over a little and gently patted her hand, it hadn’t been easy for Empress Xia these past few years, and it hadn’t been easy for Sheng Cen and Sheng Xi either, he saw all this in his eyes, so he would never advise Sheng Cen to be lenient with His Majesty and Sheng Lian, because for Sheng Cen to be merciful to them was to be cruel to himself and his loved ones, their world was one where the strong preyed on the weak, and only the strong survive.

Hearing Empress Xia’s words, Sheng Xi smiled bitterly and slowly spoke: “It’s nothing really, it’s just that Imperial Father…… Imperial Father has asked me to get married next month.”

As soon as his words fell, Yan Fei’s wine cup fell to the ground and shattered in response to the sound.

Sheng Xi looked up at him in surprise, but saw that his face was as white as paper and his gaze trembled.

Yan Fei did not look at the shards on the ground, but stared at Sheng Xi and asked: “Marrying who?”

“……Your Ge.” Sheng Xi’s voice was a little dry, “Didn’t your family tell you?”

“No.” Yan Fei’s voice was incomparably deep and cold.

Sheng Xi struggled to smile and said: “You’ve called me Ge for so many years, so you’ll really be my younger brother from now on.”

“I’ve never treated you like a Ge Ge.” Yan Fei’s fists were clenched deadly tight, as if he was trying to suppress something, he looked up at Sheng Xi and said word for word, “I won’t let you become my Ge Ge, let alone let you become my sister-in-law.”

“Xiao Fei……” Sheng Xi’s mouth opened wide in surprise as he looked at him and called out softly.

Yan Fei looked at him deeply, stood up without saying a word, turned around and walked out.

melon: 10 more chapters to go!~