Chapter 5 Medusa Luo Shu is indeed very challenging.

The next day at Gu Yang's house, Guan Siqi was beaming with joy as he entered the room. He added more details and described the whole story of his chance encounter with Luo Shu last night in a vivid and moving manner.

"A man and a woman alone late at night. Furthermore, this Duan Ran is the backdoor who snatched Azhu's place in graduate school. I heard he got into some overseas exchange program. Isn't that a coincidence?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the huge living room became unusually quiet, and there was no outsider present. Gu Yang's parents were on a business trip abroad during this period. When they heard that their son had been in a car accident, they were worried about asking someone to take care of him and were already on a flight back home.

Gu Yang, his arm bandaged, sat on the sofa. Hearing this stern voice, he gritted his teeth in silence, "So, she's with Duan Ran now?"

Guan Siqi sat cross-legged on the carpet, picking up the game console from the coffee table and about to express his opinion when Fang Qingzhuo, who was cutting the tags off new clothes with a pair of scissors, came towards them. There was a noticeable puddle of water on the chest of his white T-shirt. He teased, "Hey, isn't this my brother Zhuo, the one who got drenched by the nurse and had a sex scene in the hospital?"

Fang Qingzhuo glanced at Guan Siqi unhappily, and threw the clean clothes he had just bought on the way at his face to tell him to shut up. Gu Yang had just been discharged from the hospital, and the trainee nurse who was making rounds bumped into him without looking at the road, splashing him with an unknown liquid, saying that she wanted to compensate him and add his contact information. This clumsy trick has been played by girls since junior high school and is not outdated.

He grabbed the left cuff with one hand, and while walking, he pulled the clothes off from his head to the other arm in one breath and threw them into the trash can.

Guan Siqi removed the clothes covering his head and looked up to see Fang Qingzhuo, topless. She had an inverted triangle figure with broad shoulders and a narrow waist. A tattoo of a Medusa with snakes and hair was tattooed on her back, with only her eyes left blank. Against her fair skin, she looked particularly strange and mysterious.

In Greek mythology, the Gorgon Medusa had a terrible power. Anyone who looked into her eyes would turn into stone. No one could withstand Medusa's gaze.

He threw the clothes back to its owner and said, "Brother Zhuo, your figure has not been in vain. If I were a woman, I would also be tempted by your body, so that they wouldn't rush to pour water on you one after another."

Fang Qingzhuo didn't say anything. He turned around and tacitly raised his hand to take the clothes and put them on. He sat back on the sofa and was about to pick up the cigarette box on the coffee table when he saw Gu Yang, who was looking depressed, picking up a bottle of wine. He put down the cigarette box and pushed a can of Coke not far away to him: "Drink this."

Guan Siqi also took out the wine bottle that he hadn't even warmed up yet and helped him open the pull ring of the Coke: "Hurry up, or I'll have to carry you to the hospital again."

He seemed to be thinking of something funny and couldn't help laughing. "Remember when Gu Yang was in high school and sprained his ankle while climbing over a wall and was in a wheelchair that week? My brothers came to his rescue and took turns pushing him to and from school every day."

Fang Qingzhuo opened a bottle of beer and added, "I'm sure this is just a timely help, not a disaster."

Gu Yang also laughed: "You still have the nerve to say that, who was pushing the car and ran after the girl from the next class, forgetting me halfway."

Fang Qingzhuo pointed his index finger at Guan Siqi and said, "It's you, Guan Daha."

"It's the pot calling the kettle black. Who is using me as a living leave slip, giving me the pretext of going for rehabilitation, but actually dragging me to play games online?" Gu Yang continued to expose his shortcomings.

This time it was Guan Siqi's turn to add insult to injury: "Haha, you're not much better, internet addict."

Because their parents knew each other, the three of them were born in the same hospital and grew up together, playing together from kindergarten to college. Their relationship was so good that they almost wore the same pair of pants.

Besides this connection, Fang Qingzhuo also participated in everything from skipping school to fighting, drinking and smoking, to premature love. He was always the one to pick fights with Guan Siqi, and always the one to share the burden of Gu Yanghu. When faced with unsolvable problems, Fang Qingzhuo would step in and clean up the mess. During the years when parents were frequently called in, he was the only one who slipped through the cracks. It wasn't that he hadn't been reported, but that no one believed him. He always managed to stay out of the loop, committing crimes the night before and rushing to the stage the next morning to accept a commendation as a student representative.

When they were drunk, Gu Yang, who was the most sober, suddenly said: "I've thought it over. I won't call the police."

Fang Qingzhuo and Guan Siqi both put down the bottles in their hands and looked at him.

Guan Siqi's expression turned serious: "She's getting it too easy." However, this time he learned his lesson and played a double act with Fang Qingzhuo, "Azhuo, if you were in this situation..."

Halfway through his words, Fang Qingzhuo said firmly: "It's impossible to encounter it."

Guan Siqi felt like he had something stuck in his throat. "Okay, let me put it another way. If someone, no, someone offends you, what will you do? Ignore it or retaliate?"

He winked at Fang Qingzhuo. "For example, didn't Duan Ran use the backdoor to snatch your guaranteed admission spot? Now, the list has been finalized, and the whole school is laughing at you. You can't get it back, so how can you save the situation?"

"I can't take it back..." Fang Qingzhuo sneered, "Whether I want it or not, if someone takes it without asking, I should take it back. If I can't take it back from my left hand, I'll take it from his right hand."

But to be honest, from last night until now, Fang Qingzhuo's thoughts have indeed been a little confused. It's really a coincidence.

Faced with questioning, he chose to follow his heart: "I hold grudges very hard. I won't let anything that makes me uncomfortable go easy on me. Compromising and keeping things quiet is self-consolation. If you can't make your enemies suffer ten thousand times more than you do, then all their actions will be defined as what you deserve."

"Okay, I know you want to persuade me. The money was given by me voluntarily. Its nature is too vague. There's nothing we can do to her."

Gu Yang, who was caught in the middle, raised his hand to call for a halt. What difference would it make if he called the police and filed a case? The 100,000 yuan was a small matter, but she shouldn't play with his feelings, let alone humiliate and trample on his self-esteem in front of everyone. He squeezed the empty Coke can in his hand, and the can instantly deformed. "But I don't want to let her go just like that."

Inexplicably, Guan Siqi felt a sense of accomplishment, like a child growing up. "Yangzi, you've finally figured it out. How do you want to punish Luo Shu? The brothers will fully cooperate with you."

Gu Yang gnashed his teeth as he repeated the name Luo Shu in his heart. He wanted to tear off her mask and see if she was as heartless as she appeared.

"I want her to feel what I've done to her and repay it tenfold or a hundredfold. Doesn't she enjoy playing tricks on others? I want her to experience what it's like to be deceived and abandoned in a relationship."

Finally, there was some fun in his boring life. Guan Siqi rubbed his hands and snapped his fingers: "This is called giving someone a taste of their own medicine."

As if remembering something, he sighed, "What a pity, she has met me, otherwise with my looks, I could have met her."

"Hearing your tone, it's quite a pity." Fang Qingzhuo stretched out one leg casually, with his index finger bent and hooked on his temples.

As soon as he took over, Guan Siqi immediately turned his attention to his brother: "Don't mention it, this job is quite suitable for you."

Guan Siqi's obscene, smiling gaze made Fang Qingzhu feel nauseous. He leaned over, grabbed an apple from the fruit bowl, and threw it into his arms. "What the hell is suitable? Do I look like a sucker?"

Guan Siqi hurriedly caught the apple, wiped it on his sleeve, and said with a smile, "Of the three of us, you're the worst. We've fought together since we were little, and we've been in trouble together. But you've always gotten away with it, while we're always the ones getting scolded. The phrase we always have at our family's struggle sessions is 'We all played together, so how can Fang Qingzhuo be so outstanding? Can't you learn from him? Use him as an example. Don't you understand the saying that those who keep company with vermilion become redder, those who keep company with ink become blacker?'"

"As for me, I'm just too close to bad people and they become bad." He glanced at the two people present one by one with a hint of deep meaning, took a bite of the apple and sighed.

"The wicked complain first, that seems to be my line." Fang Qingzhuo smiled and picked up another apple, tossing it into his palm to play with it. "At worst, you can explain it to Uncle Guan and the others. I won't stop you."

"Why didn't I tell you?" Guan Siqi answered without hesitation. He told not only his parents, but also the girl he liked who chased after Fang Qingzhuo all day long, but no one believed him.

He continued, "Besides, you're such a good actor. You have a snake's heart but a Buddha's mouth. Just now, that nurse splashed water all over you. You smiled and said it was okay and told people not to take it seriously, but in your heart you must have been itching to complain to her."

"I also agree with Siqi's proposal." Gu Yang, who had been silent the whole time, suddenly spoke up. He looked at Fang Qingzhuo and said something persuasive, "After all, she and Duan Ran are related. If you take action, you can both fulfill my wish and avenge your grudge. It's like killing two birds with one stone. Besides, you have to punish the evildoer."

What kind of person is Fang Qingzhuo? A modest gentleman in the eyes of the opposite sex, a reliable figure in the hearts of his brothers, a role model to his peers, a promising young man in the eyes of outsiders, earning his first pot of gold at the age of 15 without a single needle and thread, and always humble and polite to his elders. Is the Fang Qingzhuo created by these coronation words really as perfect as his appearance suggests?

In fact, this is not the case. He is a good young man in front of people but a vengeful person behind their backs. This is the true face of this guy, commonly known as a ruthless person.

If you didn't provoke him, he'd ignore you. But if you did, whether it was the first time or the nth time, it would be disastrous if you ran into him when he was in a bad mood. He and Guan Siqi had learned this lesson the hard way in their second year of junior high. That time, a local tyrant, a minor figure, had come to their house to provoke them. After teaching him a lesson, Fang Qingzhuo stepped on his bloodied face and, in a way that was incredibly devastating to his self-esteem, threw a huge stack of medical bills at his wounds, each sheet stained with blood.

At first, Gu Yang thought Fang Qingzhuo was too fake and hypocritical, wondering if it was tiring to live with so many masks. But as he grew older, he had to admit that this was his ability.

"Azhuo, you're not at a disadvantage. Luo Shu is fair-skinned, beautiful, and has a good figure..." Guan Siqi blurted out three strings of numbers as he spoke.

Fang Qingzhuo frowned slightly, expressing his displeasure at Guan Siqi's thoroughness. He only glanced at Gu Yang and said, "Do you trust me so much?"

Gu Yang inadvertently glanced at the clothes that he had thrown into the trash can. Fang Qingzhuo had mysophobia, and it was suspected that he had even more serious emotional mysophobia. They had known each other for many years but had never shared the same clothes. He would not let others touch the clothes that belonged to him, and he would not even look at the clothes worn by others.

Having made up his mind, Gu Yang lightly prodded him: "Are you not sure?" Guan Siqi fanned the flames: "Brother Zhuo has indeed never been in a relationship. Dealing with a girl like Luo Shu is so challenging. It's no less challenging than competing with your cheap stepmother."

Fang Qingzhuo kept his eyes half-closed from beginning to end, and it was impossible to tell what emotion he was expressing. He gently stroked the blood-red apple with his fingertips for a long time, and then said "hmm" in a very low voice, which was considered as an agreement.

Luo Shu, it is indeed very challenging.