21 Chapter 21
After hanging up the phone, Ye Jinyi shrank his body until his head was buried in the quilt, and a muffled sound came from under the quilt.
"Honey, I was wrong."
"No." Chen Ying's voice was calmer than she had expected, and she felt relieved. "It's a good thing you asked, otherwise I would have fallen for you."
She took the fruit salad that had been placed on the bedside table and continued eating. "Luckily, I didn't impulsively confess today, otherwise I would have lost face."
Ye Jinyi poked his head out from under the quilt and blinked, "Are you really not angry?"
Chen Ying rolled her eyes at her.
"Hmph, so what if he's a top student? He's just a scumbag!" Chen Ying wasn't angry, which emboldened Ye Jinyi. He stood up straight and shouted, "He already has someone he likes, yet he's constantly messaging and asking them out for dinner. He even comes over from such a long distance, pretending to be so gentlemanly and considerate. Ugh, he's trying to hook up with someone at the same time. What a jerk!"
"Yeah." Chen Ying agreed while eating beside her.
"I was truly blind. I misjudged him. Chen Ying was blind, and so was I. How could I not know how to think? I believed everything Chen Ying said and actually thought he was a good person."
"Um."
"Baby, don't feel bad. Let's block him and ignore him. Let him go fishing. He can fish for whoever he wants. If he messes with you again, I'll expose him! Bah!"
"Yeah, that's right! Block him."
Chen Ying thrust her fork into the bowl, not caring if she hit the flesh, and picked up her phone to play—
Wait a minute...
"He sent me a message."
"What? What did he post?" Ye Jinyi was even more excited than her.
"He said he would go with me to Wu Qianqiu's wedding this week."
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"What nonsense are you talking about." Chen Ying did not reply. She silently deleted the chat box, blocked it, and continued eating fruit.
Ye Jinyi was stunned by this agility. His mind was confused and he suddenly felt a little scared. What was going on?
Zhou Baixi on the other side waited for a long time but didn't get a reply. He asked again before going to bed, but all he got was an exclamation mark.
? Was I accidentally blacklisted?
He texted again.
One minute passed... five minutes passed... ten minutes passed... no reply.
You shouldn't be asleep or working overtime at this time. This shouldn't be the case.
Zhou Baixi made the call directly.
"The number you dialed is currently busy..."
Zhou Baixi couldn't sleep.
In the middle of the night, Ye Jinyi was sleeping soundly when a dark figure suddenly climbed onto the bed. She was startled, but before she could scream, the figure had already hugged her and was crying.
"What's wrong? Did you have a nightmare?"
Chen Ying shook her head and just hugged her and cried.
Ye Jin's heart sank.
She gently patted Chen Ying's back and joked, "Before bedtime, I said we should sleep together, but some people insisted on sleeping alone. What are they doing now?"
A choked voice said, "Just now I was pretending to be strong, and now I am pretending to let it go."
Ye Jinyi sighed, not knowing what to say.
Chen Ying said, "Find me a boyfriend. I want to like someone else, too. Life is so long, I can always forget."
"Okay..." Ye Jinyi comforted softly, "There's a handsome guy in our department. Do you want his contact information right now?"
The crying suddenly got louder, and Chen Ying said firmly: "No."
Ye Jinyi rolled his eyes while feeling distressed: I knew it!
If she could really forget so quickly, Chen Ying would not be Chen Ying anymore.
The next day, Ye Jinyi woke up at dawn. As usual, when someone cries, he boils an egg and applies it to their eyes before eating it. It's practical and nutritious. Chen Ying also came to her senses after waking up, regretting her impulsive decision to block the person.
She scrolled through her phone, opening each app, checking it out, then exiting and switching to the next. She didn't know why she was opening those apps, but subconsciously she didn't want to open WeChat, fearing that she'd be pulled out again out of guilt.
Her eyes were swollen as if they had been stung by a bee. After applying eggs for a while but to no avail, Chen Ying gave up on it. She ate the eggs in a few bites and packed up the kitchen waste to take downstairs.
Today is a rare cloudy day, and the weather is neither cold nor hot. In order to cover her swollen eyes, Chen Ying specially wore sunglasses, looking very cool and attracting a lot of attention.
As soon as I got off the subway, a strange number called me.
Chen Ying answered the call and spoke with her head down, letting her hair on both sides cover part of her eyes.
"Chen Ying..."
This voice... a hint of disgust flashed in Chen Ying's eyes.
"Dad said you promised to come to my wedding. I'm sorry I never formally apologized to you."
"I forgot." Chen Ying said with disgust.
In fact, it is impossible to forget. She will never forget what Wu Qianqiu said to her that night. It was so disgusting. It would be better to scold her.
On the night after the college entrance examination, Chen Ying waited until night but Zhou Baixi did not show up. When she was about to return to her uncle's house, she ran into Wu Qianqiu waiting in the elevator.
He was drinking and had a cigarette in his mouth. I don't know how long he had been smoking. There were cigarette butts all over the ground.
Chen Ying was already afraid of him, and it was the middle of the night and no one would come here. If he got drunk, he might accidentally beat her to death.
She pretended not to see him, walked to the elevator number 3 next to her, and pressed the floor button.
"What are you hiding from?"
Wu Qianqiu followed.
Chen Ying gripped her phone tightly, quickly unlocked it, and quickly typed a few numbers on the keyboard. If Wu Qianqiu dared to do anything wrong, she would call the police.
"Why are you back so late? I've been waiting for you."
Chen Ying calmly moved to the side, putting some distance between them and him. "Why are you waiting for me?"
Wu Qianqiu took a deep drag on his cigarette, leaned over, and asked, "Do you hate me?"
"Don't you hate me?" Chen Ying asked back.
There was no one around at night, so the elevator came down very quickly. As they were talking, the elevator had already reached the first floor and the door opened. Just as Chen Ying was about to go in, Wu Qianqiu reached out to stop her and pressed the door closing button.
"What are you doing?!" Chen Ying was anxious, but she couldn't beat him, so she could only watch the elevator door close again.
"You're crazy! I want to go back to sleep!"
Wu Qianqiu remained unmoved.
Chen Ying was anxious and angry, and suddenly realized that Wu Qianqiu was having another seizure and didn't want her to sleep at his house.
She snorted coldly and was about to walk out and return to her own residence.
"Who wants to sleep in your house?" I feel disgusted living under the same roof with him.
Unexpectedly, as soon as Chen Ying raised her foot, she was stopped again.
"You're crazy! I want to go home!"
Chen Ying was forced into the corner between the elevator and the wall, and would be stopped no matter which way she went.
Ignoring her punches and kicks, Wu Qianqiu threw away the cigarette butt, took off his coat and put it on Chen Ying.
Chen Ying subconsciously wanted to throw away her clothes. Wu Qianqiu also knew that she had this idea. He put the coat on her shoulders and said, "It's cold at night, wear it."
"Are you done yet? I want to go home! If you stop me again, I'll call the police!"
"I don't hate you."
Compared to Chen Ying's anger, Wu Qianqiu's voice was neither hurried nor slow, so melodious that it seemed to come from far away. "I treated you very badly when we were young. I apologize."
Chen Ying was so shocked by his sudden apology that she stood there in a daze, forgetting to struggle for a moment.
"I thought I hated you, but actually I was jealous, and more of a fear. I was abandoned before, so I was afraid of being abandoned again. My parents loved you very much, especially when I knew they originally wanted your parents to adopt you. I panicked, afraid that one day I would be kicked out and you would be the one to come into this family..."
Wu Qianqiu laughed self-deprecatingly, "I get scared when I see you. I hate the way Daddy looks at you with such doting eyes. Besides, even if your parents didn't agree to give you to them, you two are related by blood. Daddy loves you so much that he wants to give you the whole world."
Chen Ying was silent.
Her uncle had always treated her well and treated her as his own daughter. She was always grateful and secretly vowed to respect her uncle and aunt as much as she respected her parents. Unexpectedly, this would make the adopted Wu Qianqiu feel uneasy and afraid of being abandoned again.
"After I arrived at the university, I met a lot of new people. There was a girl who kept pursuing me, but I was very annoyed with her. I even thought, if that girl was you, I don't think I would refuse."
"You're sick! You're crazy!" Hearing this, Chen Ying was as if struck by lightning, shaking with fear. "Have you become stupid from smoking?!"
"I'm not talking nonsense." He seemed to sigh, "Many times I've deliberately jumped up and down in front of you to get your attention, but you never even look at me. I can only steal your things so that you can see me."
"Pervert!" Chen Ying didn't want to listen anymore and pushed him to go out. Wu Qianqiu was caught off guard this time and was pushed aside. He didn't chase after her, but just said to Chen Ying's back: "Chen Ying, I like you, let's give it a try."
"Shut up!" Chen Ying stopped, anger boiling in her chest. She glared at Wu Qianqiu and scolded him, "You pervert, no matter how much I hate you, I still treat you as my brother and don't bother with you, and you actually have the nerve to say you like me. If you dare to mention this again, I will tell my uncle and aunt everything you said today, tell everyone, and don't even think about raising your head!"
After saying that, he walked out without looking back.
"Where are you going?" Wu Qianqiu chased him out. "I won't say anything. Come back and go upstairs to sleep."
"Get lost! Don't follow me! I can go wherever I want, it's none of your business!"
Chen Ying started running straight away, running along the path paved with cobblestones. Wu Qianqiu was worried about her safety and kept following her from behind, but for a while he couldn't even outrun her.
Seeing that he was about to catch up, Chen Ying frowned in disgust, and her sharp eyes spotted the security guard on night patrol and ran towards him.
"Uncle, save me! He's been following me!"
Wu Qianqiu didn't dare to chase her and explained that he was her brother. The security guard obviously didn't believe him and asked Chen Ying if she wanted to call the police. Wu Qianqiu didn't stop her, but she suddenly thought of her uncle and aunt, gritted her teeth, and said bitterly: "No, just help me stop him, I'm going home."
Wu Qianqiu was stopped and asked which building and which household he belonged to. Chen Ying took the opportunity to run out, waved and took a taxi back to where she lived.
It was already four in the morning when Chen Ying returned home. Lying in her little bed, she was still restless. She hadn't slept all night, and now she couldn't fall asleep. The disappointment of being stood up by Zhou Baixi had been overshadowed by the disgust that followed. Chen Ying became angry when she thought about it. No wonder Wu Qianqiu had become a different person in recent years, becoming more and more mature. She had thought he had grown up and become like a brother, but she hadn't expected him to harbor such dirty thoughts and have the nerve to say them out loud.
Chen Ying felt a palpitation in her heart and tossed and turned in her arms, unable to fall asleep.
The phone on the table kept ringing. Wu Qianqiu kept calling. She was so angry that her chest heaved violently. She got up, turned off the phone, and went back to sleep.
I didn't sleep well, and the day broke out early.
Chen Ying's biological clock was more punctual than the alarm clock. She relaxed in bed for a while and planned to go out to buy breakfast first.
The door was only a crack open when she keenly sensed someone outside. She pulled the door back and peeked out through the peephole. Wu Qianqiu was sitting on the stairs like a stray dog, leaning against the railing and not saying a word.
Chen Ying was so angry that she gritted her teeth and wanted to call her uncle to ask him to come back. As soon as she turned on her phone, she saw countless text messages and missed calls bombarding her, all from the same number. She roughly read a few of them, and the content was nothing but explanation and giving her a chance.
Chen Ying frowned and deleted all the messages, replied "Get lost", then lay back on the bed and continued to sleep.
She wasn't asleep, listening to the noises outside. Wu Qianqiu seemed to be moving, his footsteps gradually approaching the door. Chen Yingping listened angrily, thinking that if he dared to knock on the door or shout, she would call the police.
She waited for a long time, but there was no movement outside the door. She looked out through the peephole, but he was no longer there.
Chen Ying took a sip of water and thought of those text messages. The more she thought about it, the more disgusted she felt. She immediately packed up her things and was about to leave.
Stay away from Fanhua City and stay away from idiots.
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"I'm so sorry! I was too impulsive and didn't consider your thoughts."
The voice on the other end of the phone brought Chen Ying back to reality.
She listened to the apology silently, her heart as still as water.
There was silence on the other end of the phone for a few seconds.
"I mistakenly thought those feelings were love, but in fact they were a brother's possessiveness of his sister. I have always treated you as my sister. I saw Zhou Baixi picking fish bones for you. You two have no relationship. I should have done it. I misjudged my feelings. I am really sorry!"
"Yeah." Chen Ying finally spoke and accepted his apology.
She had never told the adults about that incident, and she didn't know how to start talking about it. In her heart, Wu Qianqiu at that time had always been a childish child who never grew up, who loved to play and was playful.
In fact, he was also worried that his uncle would be angry after he told others. What if he really didn't want him anymore, then he would be abandoned again.
"Am I still qualified to be your brother now?" Wu Qianqiu asked cautiously on the other end of the phone.
Chen Ying said coldly, "Whatever."
Wu Qianqiu fell silent again.
Chen Ying pursed her lips, unable to bear the hardness, and added, "Do you want to be my brother? I don't have a brother that old."
Wu Qianqiu seemed stunned for a moment, then said: "Then...see you at the wedding, your sister-in-law and I will give you a big red envelope."
"Yeah." Chen Ying hung up the phone in annoyance.
She still couldn't bring herself to say hurtful words in front of a groom whose wedding was approaching. Although she still felt uncomfortable, after hearing his apology, she finally felt less repulsive towards him.
Relative is such a magical term. Even if there is no blood relationship, if you call someone brother, he will be your brother for life.
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