Chapter 58: Entertainment World 2: Calling Brother
"Who is that?!"
Before Chu Sicheng could react, Lu Yuming next to him was the first to explode.
"Why is he so disgusting!"
"Isn't your job the problem he created?"
Although Lu Yuming doesn’t usually pay much attention to the circle of friends, he occasionally hears some gossip from classmates who are fans of celebrities.
I have heard a little bit about this information on Chu Sicheng's phone.
"What's this called? Unspoken rules, right?"
"Is he trying to take advantage of you?"
“…”
Chu Sicheng said nothing, just staring at the boy in front of him whose eyebrows were almost twisted into a flower. After a while, he slowly said:
"So you know this."
"Should you focus on me now?"
At this moment, Lu Yuming really wanted to pry open Chu Sicheng's brain to see if the water he just drank had gone into it.
"Answer me quickly, did he lose your job?"
After all, in the eyes of his star-chasing classmates, those who like to use unspoken rules are people of low character who will do anything to achieve their goals. It is very likely that after Chu Sicheng rejects them, they will use some insidious and dirty means to force him to agree.
The more Lu Yuming thought about it, the angrier he became. In the end, he slammed his chopsticks on the table and took out his cell phone to call the police.
"Hey, what are you doing?"
Chu Sicheng grabbed his hand holding the phone, feeling both amused and helpless.
"it's useless."
"So you're just going to let them bully you like this!"
Compared to the calm and composed Chu Sicheng, Lu Yuming, with slightly red eyes, looked more like someone who had been humiliated by spam messages.
He had not yet entered society and had witnessed the evil of human nature. He did not understand why Chu Sicheng's reaction was so calm.
"Aren't you going to resist? Will they let you go just by being so tolerant?"
Chu Sicheng pondered for a moment, and considering the extent to which the bug maliciously targeted the protagonist, he concluded:
"Can't."
"Then why did you stop me from calling the police?!"
“Because calling the police is useless.”
Chu Sicheng sighed, stretched out his hand and tapped Lu Yuming's forehead lightly.
"Kid, this world isn't black and white. There are many things that can't be solved by the police alone."
"Besides, he only sent a harassing text message. Even if we report it to the police, he can still argue during the investigation that it was sent by mistake, and he won't be charged with any substantive crime."
"But……"
"I know you're mad at me,"
Chu Sicheng patted Lu Yuming's hand,
"But this won't bring those people down. Sometimes, a mild punishment will only lead to more brutal retaliation."
"...So are you going to keep enduring like this?"
Lu Yuming asked.
He felt sorry for Chu Sicheng.
The man in front of him was described by his stepfather and even in the photos on the wall of the second bedroom as a person who loved life and was positive.
But it was this person who gave him the first impression of a sense of decadence.
He must have suffered a lot of grievances in the entertainment industry.
This kind of text message is probably not the first time you have received it.
Lu Yuming lowered his eyes, feeling a tightness in his chest, as if someone had forced a large ball of cotton into his chest, making him feel uncomfortable and distressed...
This is actually a very strange phenomenon for him.
After all, according to his usual indifferent character of turning a deaf ear to the outside world and not caring about anything that does not concern him, he would not care much about the difficulties others encounter, and he would not stop the other party from silently enduring and willingly accepting his death.
But when facing Chu Sicheng, perhaps because of the other party's kindness in taking him in, or perhaps because the young man was dressed too shabbily, he just couldn't let go of his heart that was hanging tightly.
Fortunately, Chu Sicheng is not a master who swallows his anger, otherwise Lu Yuming would be suffocated to death by the other party sooner or later.
"Don't worry, your brother will not be wronged."
Even if they suffer at first, they will retaliate and inflict a thousand or ten thousand times more pain on the other party.
"Besides, he wasn't the one who actually messed up my job."
Chu Sicheng reached out and picked up a piece of fried chicken and stuffed it into Lu Yuming's mouth.
"Okay, just let your poor Brow Heart go. Don't worry about this matter anymore. Let's eat first."
"...Jiang Nian'an, I'm worried about you!"
And spared his poor brow.
Who was it that made him frown?
Don’t know how to appreciate good people!
Lu Yuming turned his head away angrily, muttering to himself that he would never care about the man next to him who took his kindness for granted!
However, although he said so, after finishing his meal and washing up, before Lu Yuming returned to his room to sleep, he looked at the young man lying motionless on the sofa, not knowing what he was thinking, and he couldn't help but let go of the door handle and turned to stand in front of him.
"Hello!"
Chu Sicheng moved his head and looked up at him.
"First, I don't say hello."
"second--"
"It's already this late and you still have the mind to play tricks!"
"Now that you've seen me like this, why aren't you going to call me brother to cheer me up?"
Lu Yuming: “…”
He felt as if the man in front of him was his natural enemy.
Born to be his nemesis!
Lu Yuming couldn't understand how there could be someone in the world who was so out of touch.
He should have just taken these two unnecessary steps and left this annoying guy in the living room and gone back to his room to have a good sleep.
only.
The boy in the annoying baggy pajamas cursed in his heart, but in reality he still stood beside the sofa.
The black pupils reflected the orange light, as if covered with a layer of golden gauze.
"...If I yell, will you be happy?"
The boy asked him.
A pair of eyes, still somewhat childish and naive, looked at him, asking, looking for a way to make the young man no longer sad.
“…”
Chu Sicheng was stunned for a moment, then laughed again.
"You know, if you're so good—"
The man was speaking, then paused for a moment, not knowing what he was thinking about, and the rest of the sentence disappeared between his lips and teeth.
"What did you say?"
"……nothing,"
Chu Sicheng bit the tip of his tongue, and when his drooping eyelashes lifted again, the emotions in his eyes disappeared.
He resumed his carefree attitude and hooked his finger at Lu Yuming.
"Come on, shout."
"Your name is puppy."
Chu Sicheng laughed even more happily, "Don't tell me, I might be happier if you do that."
"Jiang Nian'an!"
A shout with an embarrassed and annoyed tone successfully quieted the restless man on the sofa.
He didn't seem to like Lu Yuming calling him by this name. He covered his eyes with his fingers, and his red lips opened and closed before he finally spoke slowly:
"Call me brother, I won't tease you anymore, and don't call me by that name anymore."
Which name?
Jiang Nian'an?
Why?
Could it be that the elder has lost his temper and thinks that calling him by his full name is an offense to him?
What era is this? Why are we still following the rules of seniority?
Old antique!
Lu Yuming couldn't help but complain in his heart. The active rebellious factor in adolescence made him subconsciously want to go against Chu Sicheng.
Even though he was not allowed to call his name, he insisted on calling it.
However, looking at the man's eyes covered by his right hand, and seeing his lips tighten unconsciously even when he relaxed, Lu Yuming moved his lips, and inexplicably, the three words that should have been uttered became,
"elder brother."
Chu Sicheng put his hand down.
Perhaps it was because he was too close to the floor lamp next to the sofa, and the heat from under the lampshade was transmitted to Lu Yuming's face through the air, so hot that he unconsciously took a step back and his eyes no longer fell on the person on the sofa.
"Now, it's okay now."
Lu Yuming turned his face away and said, "Are you satisfied?"
Eighteen-year-old boys always have a way of making comforting words sound like provocations.
But he is very obedient and does whatever you ask him to do.
Chu Sicheng looked at him and suddenly felt that he was not worthy of being called brother.
Because when the boy called him obediently, he actually thought, now you are so obedient, you can call whatever I want, then we can go to bed...
alright.
Don't think about it anymore.
Chu Sicheng coughed lightly, stood up and sat down, crossing his long legs together.
"Satisfied."
He said this, half concealing and half confirming it again.
“Very satisfied!”
“…”
Lu Yuming really thought that his cheap brother was very strange.
But the dead air on the other person did indeed fade a lot after he called him brother, so he ignored the small part of the strangeness and puffed up his cheeks and said:
"So you can go to bed now?"
"I'm not sleepy yet, you go to sleep first." Chu Sicheng answered while turning on the computer on the coffee table.
"Not sleepy yet?"
Lu Yuming subconsciously looked down at his watch.
2:30 in the morning.
As the flower of the motherland and the future successor, he was preparing to go to bed, but this half-dead man in front of him was still prepared to endure it?
"... To be honest, I'm not an old man half buried in the ground."
Amidst the heart-wrenching worry about the young man's honesty, Chu Sicheng felt that he still needed to defend himself.
"I'm only five or six years older than you, not fifteen or sixteen, let alone fifty or sixty. What are you thinking about every day?"
"When I was your age, I didn't—"
Chu Sicheng, who was complaining, suddenly got stuck.
Lu Yuming blinked doubtfully, "Nothing?"
"……nothing."
Chu Sicheng, who didn't really want to be warned by the main system again, stopped complaining and refused to answer Lu Yuming's question.
"Go back to sleep."
Lu Yuming was unwilling.
He usually hated people who only finished talking to him halfway, and now that Chu Sicheng was the one who made this mistake, he was even more curious about what the second half of the sentence was.
Unfortunately, the man in front of him was as hard as iron. No matter how he asked, even if he lowered his head and called him brother twice, he couldn't pry the rest of the words out of the other person.
"You better pray you don't have to ask me questions in the future!"
Lu Yuming left angrily after saying something.
The deafening sound of the door slamming was like his determination to break off his curiosity about Chu Sicheng.
However, behind the door panel that completely blocked out the light from the living room, the young man tilted his head back slightly, resting his head against the door panel, still unconsciously thinking about the unfinished words of the man.
When he was his age, he wouldn't...
What can't you do?
Don’t you think people who are five or six years older than you are old?
Or isn’t he worried that people who are five or six years older than him may die suddenly from staying up late?
Based on the content of his previous conversation with Chu Sicheng, this guess is quite consistent.
But if this is true, then another question arises.
Lu Yuming couldn't help but tighten his fingertips on the door handle.
Why should Jiang Nian'an worry about a man who is five or six years older than him?
According to him, Jiang Nian'an is the only child of Jiang's father, so it is impossible for him to be as worried about his adopted brother as he is.
Combined with the man's meaningful words "we are destined to be together" after he confessed his mistake.
Could it be that...
Lu Yuming couldn't help but bite his lips.
Could it be that when Jiang Nian'an was eighteen, he was dating a man who was five or six years older than him?!
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