At one o'clock in the morning, after dropping someone off and returning home, Chi Yu finally dared to openly turn on his phone, which had been flooded with 99+ messages.

When Shi Jinzhe told him about the harassment, she casually mentioned that Cheng Youan had many bruises on his arm from needles.

He said he didn't expect Cheng Youan to be so weak; he didn't even have to use much force to push him away.

As they were about to get off the bus, he brought up the matter of the silver-ringed snake again, telling Chi Yu that he had even reported it to the police, but nothing came of it.

Based on the information Chi Yu received from him that evening, he processed and extracted the known clues, concluding that Cheng Youan must have encountered some trouble.

With their own son at home, given their family's "use and discard" mentality, how could they possibly go looking for Shi Jinzhe?

It's certain that Cheng You'an can't calm down the crazed Qiao Huiyun now.

And then there's the incident of him jumping from the second floor.

At first, Cheng Youan thought he was a good-for-nothing rich kid, but when he found out he wasn't, he was always looking at him with a gloomy face. It was hard for Chi Yu not to wonder if Cheng Youan had gotten involved with something he shouldn't have in order to relieve stress.

The problem is that he finally found his way back, so Cheng Yun should care about him a lot. How did he get infected?

How could something appear so easily beside him?

He smacked his lips and started typing on his phone.

[The Cheng family might have some kind of hereditary mental illness; all three members are acting crazy. Cheng You'an was having an episode and harassing his girlfriend, and Cheng Yun didn't say a word. He sent Shi Jin back to see Qiao Huiyun, but then refused to take her home. If I hadn't run into them, who knows what time they would have gotten home.]

The chatterbox in the group was only interested in one question: "Is his girlfriend pretty?"

Chi Yu: [Good-looking, but obviously the type who won't pay attention to you.]

Another reply: [They're quite a good match, but Shi Jinzhe doesn't really pay much attention to him.]

The third person casually sent in two videos: "Dude, how come you're even slower than me at gossiping?"

Chi Yu clicked on the video and saw that it was really pitiful.

You're doing this to someone else's girlfriend? It's just disgusting. It's not like it's your Cheng family's property.

The night owls in the group kept talking. Chi Yu glanced at them and started having people stir up trouble in the comments section of the video. Public opinion is such a good thing, of course we should make use of it.

After giving his instructions, he rolled down the car window and casually tossed his phone into the green belt outside.

If he can treat a child he's raised for twenty years like this, then in Cheng Yun's eyes, his family is no less someone he could sacrifice one day. He needs to make more preparations.

Anyway, he was just a good-for-nothing playboy who spent his days partying in nightclubs, so it was normal for Cheng Youan to be photographed with women on both sides and partying every night.

Now that my phone is lost, it wasn't my intention to spread the news.

Even if Cheng Yun finds out, so what? He's just like Cheng You'an, speaking and acting without thinking.

What bad intentions could an innocent child possibly have?

While Cheng Yun was in a state of panic at the hospital, the situation was slowly unfolding in the darkness of night.

Some people jokingly said that they had also encountered this domineering "crown prince" in other bars, where he was selling off a waiter who did not meet his expectations.

He posted a photo in which sharp-eyed netizens spotted what looked like a hot water bottle in the corner and collectively tagged the cyber police.

In a high-rise residential building on the outskirts of the city.

The custom-made king-size bed makes the large double quilt look like a floral handkerchief; if the person inside the quilt moves, they wag their tail.

Shi Jinzhe was thirsty and wanted to get out of bed to get a glass of water, but he was held captive by Sheh and could not move.

Even when entangled with her prey, she was more persistent.

He nudged Shekh, "Loosen your tail a little, I need to go down and get some water."

Sheh loosened the tail that was pressing on his leg a little, and after he got out of bed, Sheh took the pillow that Shi Jin had folded and rolled it up. "Pour me a cup too, with some honey, and make it warm."

"Hmm." Shi Jinzhe pressed his shoulder, turned his arm, and went to the kitchen counter to get her a cup of warm honey water.

Shekh only drank half a glass, leaving the rest on his bedside table. Just then, the screen lit up, and Shi Jinzhe picked up his phone to take a look.

It was push notifications from various apps, and some of the things in them looked familiar, like the row of luxury cars I'd seen earlier that night, and Cheng You'an before he went crazy.

No wonder such a decadent lifestyle could ruin a person with an unstable mind in just over four months.

Shi Jin folded the phone and said everything he needed to tell Chi Yu.

He is now just an ordinary person, but his relationship with the Cheng family is special. In addition, due to Shehe's special circumstances, he avoids doing certain things personally if possible.

Shi Jinzhe lifted the covers and discovered that her pillow was gone again.

She took out another pillow from the cabinet, and as soon as she put it down, she threw the first one away and used this one as a substitute.

Shi Jinzhe pressed down on the hand that reached out from behind: "Put it down properly."

Since Shekh couldn't move his hands, he moved his tail. "You used to always obey me."

"The past is the past."

I used to be indifferent, thinking of her as a snake that could speak human language. What thoughts could I possibly have about a snake?

Shech traced small dots on his body with his fingertips, asking knowingly, "And now?"

After stroking his tail a few times, Shi Jinzhe said, "Now I'm wondering if one of my parents has the surname Xu."

The tail feels smooth and cool; it must feel even better in the summer.

Shekh felt lightheaded from being touched, and pulled his hand away from the hand on his tail, saying, "Put it down properly."

"You're copying me again."

"Is it not allowed?"

“Okay.” Shi Jin lay down and pressed his other hand on Shehe’s tail. The texture of the belly scales was a little different, smoother, and required a bit of force.

Under the blanket, the tail was pressed down and tucked in completely.

Holding Sheh's hand, Shi Jinzhe pressed down on her nail bed as if holding a pen, and gently scraped it with Sheh's own nails.

Shekh didn't know what restraint was, he couldn't suppress his breathing, he couldn't pretend to be nonchalant, and all his physical reactions were fed back to Shi Jinzhe.

He withdrew his hand: "This is the kind of torture I suffer when you don't let me sleep."

"I understand." Sheh put away his tail, took his arms off Shi Jinzhe's body, and then, taking advantage of his unpreparedness, climbed up his neck again. "But I won't change."

She was eager to try, "How about we do it again, like before?"

Shi Jinzhe licked his lips, unable to say what he wanted to say.

How did this open the door to a new world for her?

His sleep time before dawn was swept away by his tail all at once, and by the time he was able to sleep and woke up, it was already three o'clock in the afternoon.

There were dozens of missed calls and text messages on my phone, all from Cheng Yun, questioning me.

The question wasn't about anything else, but about that willow tree, its branches so fragile they shattered at the slightest touch, utterly dead.

Shi Jinzhe blocked several numbers and saw a news notification that an explosion had occurred at a shopping mall owned by the Cheng family at 12:30 pm.

The scene was filled with black smoke, and the cause was a dismissed employee who claimed he was driven to desperation and committed suicide as revenge.

Opening the comments section, besides those offering prayers, there were also a bunch of people posting photos.

The incident happened unexpectedly, but for the public relations department, the explosion was easier to handle than Cheng Youan's drug addiction, because the police were now waiting outside the ward for the results.

It's not for any other reason than that something that shouldn't have been found was discovered on the Cheng family's ocean liner early this morning.

Nobody knows where this thing came from; it just seems to have appeared out of thin air. Putting it together with Cheng You'an's matter is like adding fuel to the fire, leaving him speechless.