Chapter 49
Chapter 49
When others are angry, they smash things around.
Shu Yao was angry and quietly separated the rooms.
The last time I stayed at Shen Ye's house was when my grandmother came back to China, so all her toiletries and clothes were in his room.
Seeing her start to move her things to the guest room, Shen Ye put his right hand on the door frame and stopped her: "You want to sleep in the guest room?"
"Um."
"Why?"
Shu Yao said as a matter of course: "Aren't you pursuing me? How can I sleep in the same bed with a pursuer?"
"Why not?"
Shu Yao couldn't find a reason for a moment, so he blurted out, "It's unfair to other suitors."
"..." Chen Ye laughed angrily, leaning down to look directly at her serious face, and said with a teasing tone, "Are there other suitors? How many are there?"
Shu Yao choked and said, "There are 10 people ahead of you. You are 11th."
"Oh?" Chen Ye didn't look unhappy, but smiled. "That's not too much. Do you have the personal information of the first ten people?"
"What are you doing?"
"If I kill them all, wouldn't I be the first one?"
“…”
Shu Yao was almost amused by him. She slapped his hand away and went into the guest room carrying two bottles of lotion.
Biscuit followed her over and over again, from the bathroom to the guest room, and then from the guest room to the bathroom...
Chen Ye leaned on the desk in the bedroom, supporting the edge with one hand, and watched her vent her anger quietly.
The last time, Little Biscuit was about to follow her out of the bedroom, and at the end he looked back at him.
That look was like a child facing his parents' divorce, who said goodbye to his father with regret after choosing his mother.
"Heh." Shen Ye snorted and laughed.
Even the dogs knew to look at him.
People are worse than dogs.
He picked up the phone beside him and checked the time. It was already half past one.
Forget it, thinking that she had to get up early tomorrow to rush back to Lishui to prepare for the live broadcast, Chen Ye couldn't bear to delay her sleep.
If you have anything to say, let’s talk about it tomorrow.
He went to the bathroom to wash up, lifted the quilt and was about to go to bed when the door handle was suddenly pressed again.
He looked back and saw Shu Yao coming back angrily, holding a pillow.
Biscuit followed closely behind but was ignored. It was obvious that he had made a mistake.
"What's wrong?" Shen Ye picked up the biscuits and put them on the bed.
Shu Yao threw the pillow on the bedside and asked speechlessly: "Did you train him?"
"Training for what?"
"Peeing on the bed in the guest room."
"..." Chen Ye let out a muffled laugh, leaned over and rubbed the little head, his smug thoughts not concealed at all, "So you were helping your father destroy the enemy camp, I misunderstood you, you are worthy of being my good eldest son!"
Shu Yao turned over and lay down speechlessly.
Biscuit drooped his ears, looking as if he knew he was wrong. He rubbed his head against her arm and whimpered from time to time.
Shen Ye leaned against the head of the bed and patted his head, "Come on, your father has used this trick before, it didn't work."
As soon as he finished speaking, Shu Yao reached out with his right hand and took the biscuit.
?
On the way back, he said his wound hurt, but she didn't react at all. Her eyes were filled with two words: You deserve it.
Shen Ye turned over and glared at the back of her head: "Why is it useful to play the victim?"
Shu Yao didn't even open his eyes: "Because it's a dog."
There was suddenly no movement behind me.
Just when Shu Yao thought that Shen Ye was speechless, she suddenly felt the heat of his breath on her right ear. His lips brushed against her earlobe, followed by a low voice:
"Woof!"
*
The next day, the driver of the Shen family took Shu Yao back to Lishui. It was not because he was angry, but because Shen Ye had a morning meeting that had been scheduled long ago and could not be postponed.
However, this made Shu Yao feel relieved, because she felt that with Zhou Beichuan's personality, he would definitely come to find her.
Anyway, the last layer of window paper has been broken, and Shu Yao just wants to resolve this matter once and for all.
As expected, as soon as the plaque of Yin Garden came into view, Shu Yao saw Zhou Beichuan sitting on the steps through the gloomy sky. He had his head lowered and looked dejected, but his suit was still neat.
Perhaps hearing footsteps, Zhou Beichuan looked up with bruises on his face.
At this moment, Shu Yao seemed to have returned to that day.
At that time, although she and Zhou Beichuan were neighbors, due to Shu Yao's personality, the two were not close.
It’s just that they went to the same junior high school, had the same school dismissal time, and took the same route home, so Zhou Beichuan would ask her if they could walk together whenever he met her.
Sometimes Shu Yao would deliberately delay in order to avoid him, but she would find that Zhou Beichuan would be waiting for her at the door.
Over time, Shu Yao gave up. After all, she didn't have any bad impression of Zhou Beichuan at that time.
One dull evening, the two men passed by her house when they suddenly heard sounds of beating and scolding. Zhou Beichuan asked her what was wrong.
Shu Yao asked him to go back first, but he didn't.
He said that he was tall and strong and was not afraid. Shu Yao also thought that Luo Jianhui had always liked him, and maybe with him around, Luo Jianhui would really restrain himself, so he did not refuse.
But unexpectedly, something happened later that made Shu Yao feel guilty and regretful every time he thought about it -
The knife that Luo Jianhui used to threaten his mother was cut across his face by Zhou Beichuan.
She was left with a scar that he could use to morally blackmail her at any time.
However, scars can be repaired, but once the relationship between people is broken, it is destined to never go back to the way it was before.
Shu Yao stood in front of him and asked calmly, "What do you want to say?"
Zhou Beichuan's eyes were lonely, but he spoke very quickly, as if he was afraid that she would not listen to the end: "Yaoyao, I don't know what Chen Ye said to you. I did buy the medicine that year, but I... was just curious, and I gave up very quickly. I didn't plan to use it."
Shu Yao didn't show any surprise: "I know you're useless."
"How did you know?"
"That day you were beaten up by Chen Ye, and the things in your schoolbag were scattered all over the floor. I helped you clean it up, and indeed, I didn't find any trace of the medicine. Later, when I took you home, I saw the unopened bottle in your trash can."
"Then can you forgive me?" Zhou Beichuan asked, then realized something was wrong. He looked at Shu Yao in panic: "You..."
Shu Yao had a faint smile on his face: "Zhou Beichuan, do you really think that I only knew about the medicine because Chen Ye told me?"
"How could you..." Zhou Beichuan's face turned pale instantly.
The temperature dropped, and the chill wind from the alley seeped into his sleeves. Shu Yao stuffed his hands into his pockets, his eyes cold. "Actually, I knew about it before the college entrance exam. One day while you were eating, a message from a shopping website popped up on your phone, inviting you to review the magic medicine you just bought. I thought the name was strange, so I searched it."
"Then why didn't you ask me then?" Zhou Beichuan's face was full of panic. He tried to grab her arm, but she dodged it quickly.
"Because I think that's an opportunity for me."
The first time Shu Yao brought up these things, her tone was very calm, as if she was just recounting a story she had heard. "Every time you wanted me to do something, you would hint to me over and over again that your scars were caused by me and my mother. I accepted most of your requests, not because I was obedient, but because things like bringing you food and water were easy tasks, and I felt it was my duty out of gratitude."
"But you're asking me to give up my high scores and follow you to a university that's completely inadequate for my grades. I can't accept that. Nothing can make me give up my own future. From the beginning, I was determined to apply to Fuchuan University, but I knew you wouldn't give up. Purchasing records alone wouldn't prove what you wanted to do. So I offered to treat you to a meal, actually, to give you an opportunity to use it. Of course, you won't succeed, and as long as I have this leverage, I can take the opportunity to completely get rid of you."
Human hearts are uncontrollable, so she is used to doing her best to control crises within her predictable range. This was the case with Lin Ruiyang's replacement of the manuscript seven years later, and also with Zhou Beichuan's purchase of medicine seven years ago.
After hearing her words, Zhou Beichuan felt dizzy. The familiar face in front of him looked so strange.
The last pillar of support in his heart was taken away, and Zhou Beichuan's spiritual world completely collapsed. He laughed in anger, "So, Chen Ye thought he was standing up for you, but he actually ruined your plan?"
"That's not really the case. Plan A was interrupted, so I naturally have Plan B. I just didn't expect that simply changing your major would make you so angry that you wouldn't contact me for several years. If I had known earlier, I wouldn't even have to treat you to dinner in the first place."
Zhou Beichuan stepped back, leaned against the door, and laughed sarcastically: "Shu Yao, I really underestimated you."
"It's the same. I underestimated you once." Shu Yao paused and casually said, "Actually, six years ago, at my grandfather's funeral, I met Luo Jianhui. Guess what he told me about the scratch on you?"
Zhou Beichuan's eyes trembled slightly, and he stumbled a little before saying, "You, you believe what someone like your father says?"
"Actually, he didn't tell me anything." Shu Yao curled his lips, "But your reaction now confirms some of my suspicions."
"Yaoyao..."
"But there's no point dwelling on the past, so the truth of this matter is no longer important to me." Shu Yao sighed and issued an ultimatum. "The unpleasant parting at the beginning has already allowed me to achieve my goal. In addition, you took the initiative to stop committing crimes, so I gave you the last face and did not expose that matter. Now, as long as you no longer appear in the lives of Chen Ye and me from now on, I will not bring up the past again, but if you don't give up, then-"
Shu Yao raised his eyes slightly, his gaze cold and icy, like the icy light of a sword being unsheathed: "You don't think I was so foolish as to leave no evidence at all, do you?"
At this moment, Zhou Beichuan's heart was shocked. For some reason, he always felt as if he saw the shadow of Shen Ye in her.
"Are you threatening me?"
"That's fine if you feel that way."
Zhou Beichuan's right hand, hanging by his side, was clenched into a fist, with veins visible on the back of his hand.
Only now did he understand what Shu Yao had said before: never seeing each other again until they died, which was the last respect she could give him.
The mistakes he made in the past have now become a knife against his neck. For the sake of his reputation and his future, there is clearly only one path before him.
He gritted his teeth and finally compromised:
"I won't look for you again."
*
Zhou Beichuan grew up with his grandparents and suffered from strange looks. He was inferior and cowardly, but also competitive and paranoid. In his dark life, Shu Yao was his only direction.
He had liked her since junior high school, but she was always cold and indifferent to him, so he often wondered if there was any way to make her treat him better.
Until that day, the opportunity came and he saw her father holding a knife against them.
At that time, he was only fourteen years old. With his immature mind, he naively thought that if he was injured while saving them, Shu Yao would definitely feel guilty and would definitely feel sorry for him.
Unfortunately, he was unlucky and had no experience. He originally just wanted Luo Jianhui to cut a line on his hand, but unfortunately he injured his face.
But the effect is very good.
Shu Yao did indeed obey him from then on, so he began to slowly test her bottom line. When he asked her to help with homework, she never refused. When he asked her to bring food and water, she accepted it. Until the end, when he lied to outsiders that she was his girlfriend, she did not deny it.
He also gradually discovered that since he vaguely revealed that Shu Yao was his girlfriend, the boys immediately looked at him differently.
He enjoyed the feeling of being superior and being envied by his peers, which was an experience he had never had in the previous eighteen years.
But he also knew that it was just an illusion, and she was still very far away from him, as if she might disappear from his side one day.
Especially as the college entrance examination approached, boys expressed their affection more and more directly, and his inner uneasiness gradually accumulated and eventually turned into an urgent desire.
He needed a reassurance to make her belong to him completely.
But he had never done such a thing before, and it was impossible for him to say that he was not afraid. He hesitated for a long time and did not dare to take action.
Until that day, Shu Yao took the initiative to invite him to dinner and said she wanted to celebrate his birthday. He remembered her goodness in the past and felt that she should at least have some feelings for him. He also realized his mistake in an instant.
He threw away the medicine and prepared to formally confess his feelings after dinner, but he didn't expect to meet Chen Ye on the way. He had seen Chen Ye's reaction when the boys in the basketball team had teased her about her relationship with Shu Yao.
No one understands men better than men, so the competitive side of the contradictory personality wins again. He wants to see the pleasure of the chosen one being defeated by him, so he deliberately says those words to stimulate him.
However, when he met Shu Yao's concerned look, he once again realized his own meanness.
He didn't think so before, but now he thinks that he didn't contact Shu Yao for a long time after he went to Luobei. Perhaps part of the reason was that he was subconsciously avoiding everything about that incident.
But it turns out that all this is fake.
Her concern and her initiative were nothing more than an illusion she created to get rid of him after she got to know him clearly.
In the end, he was the most naive one.
The car sped all the way, and when Zhou Beichuan calmed down, he found that he had driven the car to the downstairs of Lu Wanqiao's house again.
In the past few years, Lu Wanqiao has been his partner and also his closest friend.
When he was bored, he was used to coming to her to talk.
Even if they were no longer collaborating, they were still friends. He wanted to push the door and get out of the car, but then he remembered the last time he was secretly photographed.
Afraid of bringing her more negative news, he withdrew his hand.
Leaning back in his chair, Zhou Beichuan looked ahead with lifeless eyes.
Secret photography...
Some fragmented memories came to his mind, and he remembered that the last time he came here, he was stimulated by the intimacy between Shu Yao and Chen Ye. He got drunk and went upstairs to complain to Lu Wanqiao.
He later lost the memory of what was said and had no recollection of it, but when he recalled it now, Zhou Beichuan suddenly felt a sinking sensation in his heart.
He then remembered that on the second day after the cheating scandal broke out, a fan posted a Reuters post in the super topic, saying that he had met Lu Wanqiao on the road. She seemed to be in a good mood and asked fans not to worry. He didn't pay attention to it at the time, but now he realized that the place seemed to be not far from the Sudden Rain Building.
Could it be that night...
Not caring whether there were paparazzi taking pictures, he pushed the door open, got out of the car, and went straight to Lu Wanqiao's house.
The password has been changed.
But he was not sure whether it was to guard against Xu Jiazhe or to guard against him.
Fortunately, Lu Wanqiao had a bad memory and only had a few passwords that he used over and over again. Zhou Beichuan tried them randomly and sure enough, the password worked the fourth time.
The door opened.
*
When Lu Wanqiao returned home, the living room was dark.
After turning on the light, she had an inexplicable intuition that something was wrong.
She looked around and suddenly looked up at the closed curtains. She remembered that she did not close the curtains in the living room when she left.
Thinking her house was being invaded by an illegitimate child, she instinctively stepped back, but stopped when her peripheral vision caught sight of a suit on the sofa.
That is Zhou Beichuan's suit.
Her brows knitted slightly, and as she changed her slippers, she called out, "Zhou Beichuan?"
No one answered.
Lu Wanqiao walked to the door of the study and saw Zhou Beichuan sitting behind the desk, his hands clasped together, supporting his lowered forehead, looking exhausted. In front of him was her laptop, which he had turned on, and the screen reflected a little light.
"How did you get in?" Lu Wanqiao asked in an unhappy tone, "Why did you turn on my computer?"
"You still haven't changed your habit of backing up everything." Zhou Beichuan raised his head and pressed a key on the keyboard expressionlessly.
His drunken voice came from the computer.
It's that recording.
Lu Wanqiao was only panicked for less than a second, and quickly regained her composure. Since she dared to give the recording to Chen Ye, she was mentally prepared for Chen Ye to take the recording directly to confront Zhou Beichuan.
Zhou Beichuan only discovered this on her own now, which actually made her surprised by Shen Ye's personality.
"I recorded it, what's wrong?"
“You gave the recording to Chen Ye?”
"Yes." Lu Wanqiao crossed his arms over his chest and sneered, "Why, you dare to do such a disgusting thing, and you're afraid of being found out?"
"I fucking treated you as my friend! You're going to betray me so easily?!" Zhou Beichuan suddenly became furious. He picked up the computer with one hand and smashed it to the ground with all his strength.
Computer parts were scattered all over the place, leaving slight dents on the mahogany floor.
There was a lot of important information in Lu Wanqiao's computer. Thinking about the trouble that would arise later, she frowned.
"Zhou Beichuan, where are there any true friends in this circle? You're not that naive, are you? When you picked me out of the newcomers, wasn't it because you thought I was hardworking enough and could make it big?"
Zhou Beichuan could not refute.
His chest was heaving, and before he could calm down, he heard Lu Wanqiao say, "Zhou Beichuan, ask yourself, do you really love her? If you really loved her, why didn't you think of coming back to find her during your years in the imperial capital? You just got everything you wanted, and when you came back, you found that there were things you never had before. This is just a kind of competitive obsession. Besides, she didn't like you in the first place. The most I did was help you give up someone who didn't belong to you in the first place.
"Do you fucking think I should thank you?"
"Overnight, the industry banned you. Who did you offend? You know the answer, right?" Lu Wanqiao handed him a business card. "This is my friend in Luobei. He can't be an agent anymore. You can go to his company for actor training. The income is pretty stable. No matter how much Chen Ye targets you, he won't have the time to kill you."
"Zhou Beichuan, you can fight me to the death, but with our current leverage, you should think about whether you have a chance of winning. If you lose, you won't even have this peaceful life anymore."
As expected, the hatred in Zhou Beichuan's eyes gradually faded, replaced by hesitation.
Based on her understanding of Zhou Beichuan, he is very concerned about his reputation and sometimes a little paranoid, but his only weakness is that he is timid.
So she felt that even if the matter was exposed, Zhou Beichuan would not have the courage to confront her head-on.
And at this moment, Lu Wanqiao knew that he had won the bet.
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