Chapter 57 Brothers in Misfortune, All Problems Solved

“I’ve found your mother,” Fu Yanli said, one hand in his pocket, the other hanging at his side, his fingers twitching slightly as if trying to grasp something. But he simply lowered his eyes and chuckled softly, “The problems you wanted to solve are all solved…”

"Fu Yanli," Xu Wenci murmured softly without looking at Fu Yanli, "I hate you."

"Um."

"Fu Yanli, I hate you."

"Um."

Xu Wenci raised his face; his slightly long bangs covered his eyebrows and eyes, but one could still vaguely see that his eyes were bloodshot.

The warm light from the bedside lamp illuminated the outline of his right cheek. He lowered his eyelashes slightly, moved slightly, and something seemed to slip into the shadows and quickly disappear.

A small pebble was thrown into the lake, and like the previous pebbles, it lay quietly at the bottom of the pool.

Someone silently counted the pebbles, finding one pile in this corner and another in another.

Is this the only sentence you can say?

Xu Wen resigned.

"I'm sorry," Fu Yanli said, bowing his head.

Xu Wen took a step back.

Fu Yanli stepped forward.

Xu Wenci frowned, instinctively wanting to take another step back.

However, Fu Yanli reached out, his eyes gentle, and placed his palm on his chin.

Then, she caught his tears.

Did he cry?

Xu Wenci turned his head to the side and then took a few steps back.

What is Fu Yanli pretending to be kind about?

He has done so many bad things, do you really expect to be forgiven?

Whether it's Fu Yanli from the last century or Fu Yanli in this world, he will always be a self-righteous bastard.

Has he solved all the problems he wanted to solve?

Did he ask himself? Why should he make decisions for himself?

“Ah… Auntie said she’ll come here to find you in an hour…” Fu Yanli felt his throat go dry and could only manage to say this.

“Fu Yanli,” Xu Wenci’s voice was dry, each word seemingly squeezed out of his throat, “what makes you think that solving these problems will make me free of problems?”

Fu Yanli's Adam's apple bobbed. All his resentment and silence crumbled when he saw Xu Wenci's bloodshot eyes. He remained silent for a full three seconds before speaking in a dry voice, "...I'm leaving first."

Xu Wenci closed his eyes, listening to Fu Yanli's footsteps leaving without a trace of lingering. As the sound gradually faded away, he clenched his fist. Fu Yanli always had a habit of avoiding problems.

It's one thing to run away for a day or two, but I've been running away for years, until small problems snowball into big problems, until they develop to the point of no return.

"Kicked out again?" Yi Lou sat on a step higher than Fu Yanli, but instead of comforting him, he began to mock, "How many times do you need to be kicked out before you're satisfied?"

"I left by myself." Fu Yanli forced a smile.

I don't believe it.

Fu Yanli didn't have time to joke around with Yi Lou, he just said, "He wants to kill me."

"You knew that, yet you still went close to him?" Yi Lou was speechless. "You ran over there like a puppy, helping this person and that person. I thought you thought you were some kind of weirdo who could resurrect indefinitely..."

"I will only die if he truly hates me." Fu Yanli chuckled lightly, no longer feeling so sad.

"Come on, they're about to kill you, and you're still saying they don't really hate you." Yi Lou was even more speechless.

Fu Yanli is the kind of person anyone with a modicum of sense could easily swindle them out of everything.

Fu Yanli lowered his head and pursed his lips.

He's telling the truth.

If Xu Wenci truly hated him, he would disappear even without Xu Wenci killing him with his own hands.

As expected, Xu Wenci still couldn't bring himself to do it.

This is not good at all.

Xu Wenci should indeed, just like in the previous world, plunge a knife into his chest and kill him.

She avoided his blood as if it were something dirty, and calmly went to the tap to rinse it off.

Then, live your life well.

"It's so late, why are you still here?" Yi Lou asked.

"I can't sleep."

"You're standing guard downstairs, but you don't even show any loyalty. You pretend to be mute when you're with them." Yi Lou rolled his eyes and didn't say anything.

Yi Lou looked at Fu Yanli's absent-minded appearance and turned his head away.

Forget it, I can't persuade them.

Go home and see that person first.

The person he was talking about was only thinking about leaving.

"System, can't I leave yet?"

[Host, you have higher-level authority than the system, so I cannot send you back for the time being.]

Gu Pei sighed, and when he saw Yi Lou push the door open and enter, he narrowed his eyes, his anger intensifying.

What are you doing here?

Yi Lou took off his glasses, and his gaze lingered for two seconds when it met Yi Pei's face. Then, his expression changed slightly, and he approached Yi Pei step by step.

"Gu Pei, about what I told you before..."

"Impossible..." Gu Pei said firmly.

Upon receiving this answer, Yi Lou's eyes reddened, abnormally so, but unlike usual, they weren't filled with sadness. Instead, they were filled with obsession and a fierce rage that almost wanted to tear the person in front of him apart.

"Heh," Gu Pei squinted at Yi Lou's near-madness, showing no fear whatsoever, but instead chuckled, "I suddenly remembered a dream I had about your brother. Do you want to know what he told me?"

Upon hearing this, Yi Lou's grip on his phone faltered, and the phone slipped from his hand.

The not-so-loud impact brought Yi Pei back to his senses, but it only deepened Gu Pei's smile.

“He didn’t like to talk and always sat in the corner. I hardly ever interacted with him.”

Yi Pei is a very quiet person who speaks very softly, the complete opposite of Gu Pei's personality.

"The first thing he said to me was, 'Do you have any candy? My brother wants some.'"

Yi Lou stood there, his originally sinister gaze fixed on Gu Pei's face as if frozen in place. His face turned pale in an instant, as if all his soul had been suddenly ripped away.

"The second thing he said was," Gu Pei smiled, taking in Yi Lou's pain and enjoying his regret, "that I couldn't bear to say what he said."

That's right, he wants to make Yi Lou suffer for the rest of his life. Isn't what Yi Lou is doing now for Yi Pei? But Yi Pei doesn't care.

"My second sentence was, 'Please don't make my brother the villain, okay? He's afraid of getting hurt.'"

He wasn't being soft-hearted towards Yi Lou.

He was just being soft-hearted towards Yi Pei.

It's all Yi Lou's fault.

Gu Pei closed his eyes.

No, it's all his fault.

If he hadn't given Yi Lou such a personality, perhaps Yi Lou wouldn't have treated Yi Pei that way, perhaps Yi Lou wouldn't have been so mean to his own brother, perhaps none of this would have happened.

Gu Pei bit her lip and turned her head away.

Large, hot tears fell from Yi Lou's eyes, landing on his arm. He lowered his head and bit down hard without any mercy.

Once, Yi Pei held onto this spot, begging him to let him go.

Blood oozed out, slowly flowing down his wrist like a string of blood-red pearls.

His face was deathly pale.

Gu Pei suddenly chuckled, but a deep, indescribable sadness welled up inside him.

Yi Lou, a selfish and highly intelligent person, is simply the perfect candidate to be the villain.

How perfect he is to be a villain.

But he softened his heart.

"Yi Lou, I also don't understand why you always come to me when you're having a bad day," Gu Pei concealed the sadness in his eyes, forced a smile, clutched his stomach, and seemed to laugh very lightly. He then raised an eyebrow, his arrogance reaching its peak, "To make yourself even more unhappy?"

Yi Lou slowly raised his head, the skin and flesh on his wrist were torn up, looking ferocious and terrifying.

This person was indeed not Yi Pei.

Every time he did this before, Yi Pei would stand there dumbfounded, and in the instant she realized what was happening, she would frantically cover his wound with her clothes, large tears falling onto his fingertips as if he were holding warm, smooth pearls.

He comes here every time in order to hear news about Yi Pei.

If you provoke Gu Pei, Gu Pei will reveal things about Yi Pei that he doesn't know, as if it were a favor.

Yi Lou squinted.

He wasn't looking for trouble.

It was to find Yi Pei.

Instead, Yi Lou, provoked by Gu Pei, went out and became sworn brothers with Fu Yanli, who was shivering in the cold wind.

"You went to him just to make yourself miserable, didn't you?" Fu Yanli commented after listening to his sorrowful story.

Yi Lou rolled his eyes; he didn't want to talk.

Fu Yanli still has the nerve to say that to him. His relationship with Xu Wenci has deteriorated to that point. He should be careful when he sleeps.

"You went to Suzhou, did you leave your brain there too?" Yi Lou teased.

He waited a few seconds, but instead of Fu Yanli retorting or insulting him as usual, Fu Yanli was lost in his own thoughts, which made him feel very bored. So he nudged Fu Yanli with his elbow in annoyance.

Fu Yanli ignored Yi Lou and said to himself, "I've found Xu Wenci's mother."

"And then what? Does that mean you're completely useless to Xu Wenci?" Yi Lou spread his hands, seemingly looking very sad for Fu Yanli.

Fu Yanli jumped up and down: "He approached me not to use me, but to get my hands on me!!"

It was definitely not exploitation.

Yi Lou closed his eyes.

It's to kill you.

"What exactly did you and he talk about back then? Why did you slink away like that? Did he tell you to get lost?!"

"No, it's just that I don't know what to do."

"Why did you run away?" Yi Lou, though not very good at handling his own feelings, was happy to be Fu Yanli's strategist in matters of the heart. So, exasperated, he scolded, "You should have refused to leave, held on to him, and not let him go."

Honestly, he hasn't even left yet, and you've already run away!

“He said,” Fu Yanli lowered his eyes, “that he hates me.”

Yi Lou seemed completely unconcerned, saying, "Lock him up first."

Fu Yanli: Are you sick?

He felt that Yi Lou was unreliable, so he decided to think it over himself.

Xu Wenci hated him enough for him to die.

Therefore, in his previous life, when Xu Wenci's love for him completely disappeared, he vanished as a ghost.

[Huh? Did we fast forward to the point where the seme finds the uke's mother? Why is the plot so advanced? Why did we skip the blood-drawing scene? [Confused][Confused][Confused]]

[I hope I won't get kidnapped soon [biting finger]]

The comments on the screen reminded Fu Yanli.

The blood-drawing scene and the rain-soaked night scene haven't even started yet...

Whether the original author actually wants these storylines to appear remains uncertain.

Although there were contingency plans in place, Old Master Joe and the two main characters were also aware of the original plot of this world, and he was always watching closely, making him a major variable.

In addition, he had amnesia. Although the diary recorded every detail of the month he had forgotten, there were bound to be omissions.

He doesn't remember that month, so sometimes he doesn't understand why Xu Wenci would be so soft-hearted.

Perhaps it wasn't out of kindness.

Perhaps it was simply because Xu Wenci, who was kind-hearted at heart, did not want to hurt someone who seemed innocent due to amnesia.

How come Grandpa Qiao has become the biggest villain? I remember the villain was Fu Rongzhen before? [scratching head][scratching head][scratching head]

[Grandpa Qiao planned to kidnap the protagonist (shou) and then lure the other protagonist (gong) to rescue him, but the other protagonist (gong) had amnesia and didn't answer the phone, causing the protagonist (shou) to also lose his memory... This plot... is as awful as ever [facepalm and wry smile]]

But actually, I always feel that this author has a lot of things he writes that he doesn't have control over [whispering]

[Thinking about it that way, I feel the same way too [raising hand][raising hand][raising hand]]

The biggest limitation now is not the authors outside the book.

Rather, it is the person in the book who is both a time traveler and the original author.

He can control everything in this book.

Therefore... he had to persuade Gu Pei to relinquish control of the book and let the plot unfold naturally...

However, if he were to meet Gu Pei now, not only would he not be able to get a single question out of him, but he would also likely be met with a few sarcastic remarks.

He remembered... Gu Pei had told Xu Wenci before... that he had an older brother.

Could Gu Pei's brother be a breakthrough?

“Mom, I like him.” Whenever Fu Yanli had free time, he would always declare to Ye Qingdai his determination to like Xu Wenci.

This is the simplest and easiest way to solve the problem.

Ye Qingdai, who was reviewing the contract, put down her pen in frustration, leaned back in her chair, and frowned.

She would rather her son bring home a pig and say he wanted to be with pigs.

That way, she could at least kill the pig and the person together.

But now... she can't do anything.

We still have to worry about it all the time.

Before Fu Yanli and Xu Wenci got together, she hardly ever paid attention to Fu Yanli's whereabouts.

"Mom, I like him so much, I'm definitely very curious about him. Just tell me what stories he told you..." Fu Yanli was always like a leech in front of his mother, bothering her every day until he got an answer.

The author's note: I had actually considered whether it was necessary to include the amnesia part in Fu Yanli's story, because I would not use words to describe his amnesiac behavior. He is a very cautious person, and even if he has amnesia, the preparations he made beforehand are enough for him to pretend that he has not lost his memory. This plot is somewhat superfluous.

However, precisely because Fu Yanli is a cautious person, he would never question Xu Wenci before losing his memory. Even if he recounted in detail what happened between him and Xu Wenci after losing his memory, he would not be able to empathize with him at that time, which gave him the opportunity to act rashly.

An opportunity to question love, an opportunity to ask for a choice.

He was actually a coward.

After losing her memory, she only spent a few days with Xu Wenci before returning to her pre-memory state, afraid to ask anything or express her emotions.

Sometimes I also think Xu Wenci is too kind. After all, if the things he experienced were to happen to other characters in this book, they wouldn't care whether Fu Yanli was controlled by the script or not. Once the harm was done, they would definitely try to get it back.

Xu Wen declined. [Pitiful]