Chapter 13 Snow Country "You two are living together? Did you take your fake relationship for real?!"...
Now that things had come to this, Shen Cen no longer concealed anything. She found the harassing text messages Chen Zhao had sent over the past few months, took screenshots, and sent them to Jiang Shiyu. She also sent him several surveillance videos recorded at her doorstep.
Jiang Shiyu read through the documents one by one, his lips pressed into a straight line, the veins on his hands bulging. After packing the materials and sending them to his lawyer, he asked Shen Cen, "You mentioned before that Chen Zhao works at a game company, do you remember which one?"
"It's Koichi."
"Guangyi?" Jiang Shiyu raised his eyes, then quickly concealed the emotions in them.
Shen Cen, fearing that Jiang Shiyu might not know Guangyi, added, "The game we played together, 'Conquering the Central Plains,' was made by this company."
Jiang Shiyu closed his phone: "Understood, leave this to me."
After lunch, Shen Cen went back to his room to pack his luggage, while Jiang Shiyu returned to his study. He closed the door and dialed He Yan's number.
He Yan had already returned to the company. He asked, "Boss, what are the plans?"
Jiang Shiyu's fingertips traced the papers on the table, his eyes filled with malice: "Help me investigate someone, Chen Zhao."
He Yan quickly searched on the computer: "Boss, I found it. It's in the operations department. They just joined three years ago. Do you have any plans for them?"
Jiang Shiyu: "Dismiss him immediately."
Since Jiang Shiyu didn't explain his reasoning, He Yan knew he shouldn't ask any more questions: "Understood, boss. Is there anything else you need?"
“I’ll also talk to the other game companies,” he emphasized. “Just say it’s my idea.”
In recent years, Guangyi Technology has become a force to be reckoned with in the industry. Other game companies would give way to it on major issues, let alone on minor matters like this. Jiang Shiyu doesn't even need to show his face.
After hanging up the phone, Jiang Shiyu opened the pictures and videos that Shen Cen had sent him.
He saw Chen Zhao banging heavily on Shen Cen's door, calling her name over and over again. Even through the screen, he felt heartbroken. He couldn't imagine how scared Shen Cen must have been at that moment.
And those text messages, with their obscene words.
Jiang Shiyu's eyes grew colder.
He would never let her suffer any more harm.
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"My God, so much has happened since we broke up yesterday?"
Around 8 PM, Wen Jie made a video call, which Shen Cen cut off. But when Shen Cen called back immediately afterward, Wen Jie realized something was wrong.
Worried that something might have happened to Shen Cen, Wen Jie made two more video calls, which Shen Cen had no choice but to answer. Wen Jie immediately noticed that Shen Cen's room looked different.
Under repeated questioning, Shen Cen confessed: "I'm at Jiang Shiyu's house."
"What! You two are living together? You've taken your fake relationship into real life?!" Wen Jie almost jumped up.
Shen Cen quickly said, "No, no."
She then told Wen Jie everything that had happened yesterday.
Wen Jie's face turned pale with fright after hearing this. She hadn't expected that Shen Cen would go through so much in just one day since they separated.
Are you alright?
Wen Jie wished she could jump out of the screen and examine Shen Cen from head to toe before she would feel at ease.
Shen Cen comforted him, "Don't worry, Jiang Shiyu shielded me yesterday, and I wasn't hurt at all. But he... his arm was badly injured. I came to his house so it would be convenient for me to take care of him."
"I see. Jiang Shiyu does seem like a man after all."
Wen Jie had always worried that Jiang Shiyu would wrong Shen Cen because of the fake marriage, but now that she saw it, he had indeed fulfilled his responsibilities as a husband.
"How long do you plan to stay at Jiang Shiyu's house?" Wen Jie asked. "I remember your lease on the apartment near Peking University expires at the end of August."
Shen Cen had signed a one-year lease with the landlord, thinking she could move to a different place after a year if she found a suitable one. However, she had gotten used to the place after a year and didn't plan to move again. "I'll stay for at most another month and then go back. I've already talked to the landlady about renewing the lease when it expires..."
"Knock knock knock." The knocking interrupted Shen Cen's words.
She quickly told Wen Jie that Jiang Shiyu had arrived, then took off her headphones and got out of bed.
"ah!"
Almost the instant the door opened, she screamed and slammed it shut.
"Jiang Shiyu, why aren't you wearing any clothes on top?!"
Although she often saw shirtless old men fanning themselves with palm-leaf fans when she was a child in Jingnan Town, seeing a handsome guy like Jiang Shiyu with a good physique and obvious abs shirtless gave her a completely different feeling.
In contrast, Jiang Shiyu was much calmer. "I just came to have some medicine applied. Why do you look like I have ulterior motives?"
Oh, so it's for applying medicine.
Shen Cen quietly opened the door a crack and crept in through the crack: "Wait for me, I'll be right there."
After saying that, just as he was about to close the door, Jiang Shiyu stopped him with his elbow, stared at the half-face peeking through the crack in the door, and suddenly smiled: "Chen Cen, why are you blushing?"
"I didn't..." Shen Cen touched his face and found it was indeed burning hot. "I just took a shower and it's too hot."
"That's fine then." Jiang Shiyu loosened his elbow that was bracing against the door. "Otherwise, I'm afraid you might have ulterior motives towards me."
Shen Cen: "..."
Is she that kind of person?
Hearing the footsteps outside the door growing fainter, Shen Cen walked to the sink in the bathroom and splashed a handful of cold water on his face.
She looked at herself in the mirror, her wet hair clinging to her forehead, and her fair face showing even the slightest blush.
No, no! How could she blush over something so trivial!
Shen Cen patted his two cheeks rhythmically.
It's just abs, eight-pack no less, what's so great about it? She'll get used to it after watching more photos and videos of abs, and she definitely won't react like that next time she sees them!
Without hesitation, she walked out of the bathroom, picked up her phone from the bed, opened a short video app, and typed "abs" into the search bar.
To be honest, people in the internet age eat really well; they can see their abs without even leaving home.
only.
Shen Cen scanned a few, but it became somewhat boring. Among these, either the abs were very large but lacked aesthetic appeal, or they were neither large nor aesthetically pleasing. Very few had abs as perfect as Jiang Shiyu's.
However, the desensitization effect was still there; she has now mentally prepared herself.
It's just abs, what's the big deal? They're as common as eyes and mouths. Would she blush when she sees someone's eyes or mouth?
She walked to Jiang Shiyu's room and knocked on the door.
"Yes." Through the door, Jiang Shiyu's voice was muffled and unclear.
Chen Cen pushed the door open in one go.
?
Oh, Jiang Shiyu has already changed his clothes.
He was wearing a white sleeveless vest, but this simple and common vest perfectly showcased his strong muscles. He was sitting on a small sofa in the room, a laptop on his long legs, his left hand rapidly typing on the laptop.
Only a small, beige nightlight was on in the entire room, illuminating only half of the man's face, while the other side remained hidden in darkness.
"Why are you dressed?" Shen Cen asked casually as he sat down on the small sofa.
"What, Teacher Shen sounds quite regretful."
He turned his head, and in the instant their eyes met, Shen Cen vaguely saw his own silhouette in the man's pupils.
It's not very clear.
Seemingly burned by the man's gaze, she lowered her head and opened the medicine bag that Jiang Shiyu had bought at the pharmacy the night before. "It was just a casual question, don't overthink it. I'll help you apply the medicine."
Jiang Shiyu closed his laptop, placed it on the small table next to the sofa, and obediently stretched out his right arm. Chen Cen picked up a pair of medical scissors and neatly cut the tape and gauze.
Jiang Shiyu was surprised by her skillful movements: "Chen Cen, you gave up medicine for literature back then?"
Shen Cen chuckled at his words, making a sound like a happy kitten: "My mother and stepfather are both in the medical field, and I learned a lot about this from them when I was little."
Jiang Shiyu twitched his chin slightly.
Shen Cen stopped what he was doing, looked up and said, "You're the first one who didn't ask me why I didn't choose to study medicine like my family."
Jiang Shiyu's eyes flickered slightly, and he suddenly smiled and said, "I think that a person's choice of which path to take should be based on their own interests and hobbies, rather than being swayed by external factors such as family or society."
Shen Cen nodded thoughtfully: "Yes, love can overcome all difficulties."
Perhaps because he had revealed too much of his inner thoughts, Shen Cen lowered his head somewhat embarrassed.
She wasn't someone who liked to share her true thoughts with others, but for some reason, she always felt that the person in front of her was willing to listen and understood her thoughts, so she couldn't help but say more.
The tape had all been cut off. Shen Cen instructed, "We're about to remove the gauze. It will hurt a little, so bear with it."
The gauze was applied last night, and it's now stuck to the flesh and blood.
With just a little effort, Shen Cen's wound bled profusely.
She didn't know if Jiang Shiyu was afraid of pain, or whether she should continue tearing him apart.
Jiang Shiyu saw through her inner struggle: "What's a little pain? Just tear it all you want."
After hesitating for a moment, Shen Cen finally made up his mind.
"Hiss..." Jiang Shiyu winced in pain and let out a muffled groan.
"Did I hurt you?" Shen Cen asked worriedly. "It will hurt even more when I apply the medicine later."
"It's okay, let's continue."
Jiang Shiyu took a step toward Shen Cen, filling the gap between them.
Chen Cen opened a bottle of disinfectant, picked up a cotton ball with tweezers, and moistened it.
Gently wipe the wound with a cotton ball.
Jiang Shiyu gritted his teeth and didn't utter a sound.
The wound was large, especially after being wiped with the brownish-yellow disinfectant, making it even more shocking. Shen Cen couldn't bear to look at it any longer. After disinfecting and applying the medicine, she cut a piece of gauze that was just the right size to cover the wound and then covered it with tape in a crisscross pattern.
"Don't get the wound wet, or it will easily get infected..."
Shen Cen wasn't sure if the doctor had given Jiang Shiyu any instructions yesterday, but just to be on the safe side, she went over all the precautions again, "You need to talk to Auntie about your diet tomorrow. Eat less spicy food, and definitely no seafood..."
"Do you understand?"
Jiang Shiyu had been staring at Shen Cen the whole time, and only snapped out of his reverie when he heard her ask him. "Mm."
Actually, he didn't hear a word she said; he was too busy looking at her.
"Then I'll head back first. You should get some rest too." Shen Cen put the medicine back in the bag and stood up.
Jiang Shiyu suddenly raised his hand, "Chen Cen,"
Suddenly feeling the warmth and gentle touch on his fingertips, Shen Cen stiffened, but did not pull his hand out of the man's palm.
"Wait a moment."
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