Chapter 0028 Control

On the day the admission results were announced, Chen Yan logged onto the official website, entered his examination admission ticket number and ID number, and as expected, he was successfully admitted to the finance major at Lancheng University.

Ruyi's total score was similar to his, so he figured if he was fine, then Ruyi would be fine too. With a relaxed attitude, he symbolically checked Ruyi's admission results.

When Jingzhou University suddenly came into view, his pupils trembled, and he stared at those words for a full twenty seconds. Then he kept pressing the shortcut key to refresh, and then logged out of his account and logged back in.

It still bears the name of Kyoto University.

His expression was tense, but he forced himself to calm down and grabbed his phone to call the person who had been admitted to Peking University, a prestigious university in the capital.

"Did you see the admission results? Congratulations!" he said through gritted teeth.

The other side remained silent.

Enraged by her, Chen Yan roared, "Now, right now, give me an explanation!"

Ruyi had anticipated this. She excused herself from feeling unwell and asked her part-time fast food restaurant manager for leave. She quickly packed her bag, boarded a bus, and rushed to Donghu Villa to put out the fire.

She had her facial recognition and fingerprint recorded by the property security system, so she passed through without any hindrance until she pushed open the door. There, she found Chen Yan sitting on the sofa, looking gloomy. The surroundings were clean and tidy, with no signs of vandalism.

Fortunately, there wasn't a large-scale demolition campaign, which is an improvement.

Hearing the noise at the door, Chen Yan looked over coldly and stated a fact to Ruyi in a cold and calm manner: "You're playing me."

Ruyi placed her backpack beside her, silently sat down next to him, and tried to take his arm, but he forcefully shook her off.

Having committed such an unforgivable crime, she still dared to touch him! His suppressed anger exploded at that small touch. He gripped Ruyi's shoulders tightly, demanding angrily, "Why? Why did you lie to me?! You clearly promised, why?"

"For the past few months, I've been so accommodating to you, afraid that I might upset you in some way and you would go back on your word. And what was the result?"

"Xu Ruyi! Are you a stone that can't be warmed up at all?"

Ruyi tilted her head and whispered, "Could you let go of me first? You're hurting me."

She spoke softly, her delicate eyebrows furrowed, her eyes brimming with tears, looking pitiful. Chen Yan stared at her for a moment, then released her with a dark expression.

Ruyi took out a beautifully packaged, slender cardboard box from her bag and gestured for Chen Yan to take it.

"This is a gift I bought for you with my savings from years of New Year's money, part-time wages, scholarships, and money from selling notebooks. I spent a long time choosing it, and I hope you like it."

The total amount of money was close to ten thousand. Two thousand was used to buy He Caiyu a multi-functional massager, and the rest was spent on this small gift for Chen Yan.

This move caught Chen Yan off guard. Since his first year of high school, he had celebrated his birthday three times. The first two times, needless to say, despite his many hints, Ruyi remained unmoved, so he had no choice but to force her to repay him with her body. In his senior year, he received a book of practice questions for the college entrance examination. Even the famous teacher he hired at a high price praised her for her good taste, while he was speechless.

Therefore, strictly speaking, this was the first time Xu Ruyi had given him a proper gift, so how could it not surprise him?

He kept his face stiff and quickly unpacked the package. Inside was a dark green Montblanc fountain pen. The pen body felt delicate and light to the touch, and the rose gold nib was engraved. The overall design was simple yet elegant.

He paused, looked at it for a moment, and asked, "...Why send such an expensive gift?" To him, something worth seven thousand yuan was nothing; he had used pens that were more expensive than the most expensive ones. But Ruyi was different; she was the kind of person who would shake her pen a few more times after the refill was finished. Seven thousand yuan was not a small amount for her.

Although he didn't want to admit it, Chen Yan's anger had indeed subsided by half.

"If you're so willing to spend money on me, why did you apply to Peking University?"

Ruyi replied irrelevantly, "Don't you like it? Then give it back to me."

Chen Yan dodged the pen in his hand and glanced sideways: "You little stingy thing, there's no reason to take back something you gave away."

Although his eyes were still unfriendly, his tone had softened, which secretly pleased Ruyi.

To everyone's surprise, the person's lips curled into a smirk the next second, and he added, "But just because I accepted the gift doesn't mean my anger has subsided, because you made a fundamental mistake, and I have to punish you."

Ruyi watched as he opened the shopping cart, and a long row of sexy lingerie of various styles came into view. She cursed Chen Yan inwardly for being shameless, but under his intense gaze, she pretended to be calm and checked off several items.

Chen Yan smiled and hooked his finger under her chin, praising, "You have good taste, I like these pieces too."

Ruyi nodded: "Perfect, then you can wear it."

She regained her confidence to talk back to him, her cold face revealing a strong allure. Chen Yan's breathing became heavy instantly. He pounced on Ruyi and groped her all over. Before long, her face turned red, her hair was disheveled, her breasts were half-covered, and she was completely naked. Chen Yan forcefully opened her up, his lips and tongue exploring and tasting her wantonly, forcing Ruyi to tremble like a delicate flower on a branch, shedding countless drops of dew.

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The die is cast, and they couldn't let Xu Ruyi repeat a year of high school; she would probably hate him to death. Helpless, the two could only start a long-distance relationship.

With Ruyi's encouragement and guidance, Chen Yan tasted the sweetness of learning and made great progress than before. Whenever he is mentioned, students of Lan University will call him the financial major with both wealth and good looks, half admiring and half respecting him.

The top student is very busy—busy with his studies, social life, and work. Starting in his sophomore year, he began interning at a subsidiary of Renxin Group. His emails, phone calls, and messages kept ringing every day. When Cheng Jue invited him for drinks, he had to make arrangements two weeks in advance.

No matter how busy he was, he would always take one or two days each week to fly to Jingzhou to see Ruyi.

Ruyi's roommates all know that she has a boyfriend who loves her very much and travels a long distance every week to visit her.

Whenever her roommates teased her with envy, Ruyi would just smile and remain silent. Having only eaten one meal with Chen Yan, they were naturally unaware that Chen Yan, who appeared to outsiders as rich, handsome, and talented, actually had a fatal flaw: an extreme desire to control and possess his girlfriend. This trait had already begun to emerge in high school, but because the two spent so much time together, it never had a chance to manifest itself.

Now that they are separated by distance, Chen Yan's desire for control has reached an unprecedented level.

He forced her to hand over the passwords to all her social media accounts and threatened her not to create any more accounts or change the passwords. Then he would log into the accounts every few days, deleting and blocking anyone who looked like a member of the opposite sex, regardless of their relationship or whether it would be awkward if they met again.

He called her and heard that she was having dinner with her classmates. He immediately asked if there were any men in the party. Then a video call came in, and he calmly offered to treat them. Everyone naturally expressed their gratitude for his generosity. The camera was focused on the crowd, and he took the opportunity to scan them. Anyone who looked even slightly decent aroused his suspicion. Afterwards, he questioned Ruyi about how she met the other person and ordered her to stop having any contact with him.

Ruyi applied to join a lab at the start of her sophomore year. There was a very handsome graduate student there, a renowned and outstanding figure at Peking University, a god-like figure. When Chen Yan found out, alarm bells went off. After failing to dissuade Ruyi, he made a series of phone calls and ruined her chance to join the lab, forcing Ruyi into a cold war with him for half a semester. In the end, she had to face reality and settle for another professor's team.

But Ruyi wasn't one to be completely manipulated by Chen Yan. She secretly bought a secondhand phone offline and, on someone's recommendation, obtained a non-registered SIM card through an unofficial channel. She used this number to rebuild a social circle outside of Chen Yan's control, and she never carried this phone with her when she was with him. As for the accounts Chen Yan controlled, she would occasionally update them with her daily activities to lull him into a false sense of security.

During the summer of her sophomore year, Peking University organized a debate competition for local universities. Ruyi reunited with Li Jinghao in the qualifying rounds. It turned out that he was studying law at Jingzhou University of Political Science and Law. Meeting an old friend in a foreign land was a pleasant surprise, and the two became friends.

The so-called reunion of old friends, seemingly accidental, was actually intentionally orchestrated by Li Jinghao. He knew that Chen Yan and Ruyi were separated by distance, and given the man's personality, his possessiveness would inevitably surface. He endured for a year and a half before arranging the reunion with Ruyi, precisely to expose more of Chen Yan's true nature and exacerbate the conflict between the two.

Hao Jing's father had some disputes with the company he worked for. Ruyi consulted Li Jinghao about some legal issues and found the key to the matter. The company did not want to go to court and chose to settle the matter peacefully, paying Hao's father a large sum of compensation.

Hao Jingyuan is studying clinical medicine in Lancheng and is extremely busy. She asked Ruyi to treat Li Jinghao to a meal first, and then she would find some time to go to Jingzhou to formally host a banquet to thank her benefactor, Li.

Li Jinghao had finally gotten this opportunity, so he prepared his speech, dressed up carefully, and went to keep the appointment.