Chapter 18 You've been fooled again. He has been bullied many times. How could...

There is still some time before the key plot mentioned by the system comes to pass. Although Ye Man is injured and disabled, he is not idle.

Before, he swore in front of Xu Huaiting that he would help him break up Meng Yao and Chi Jue. The eight-digit advance payment paid by his living ancestor was still lying in his treasure chest, together with the watch given to him by Chi Jue. Ye Man had to show some sincerity no matter what.

The system said that Xu Huaiting's secret instigation was also responsible for his final fate.

He has informed the other party in advance, so that even if he attacks Meng Yao later and Xu Huaiting is unhappy and wants to pursue the matter, he can also say that he was doing it for the original agreement. In any case, he was doing Xu Huaiting's work. Now he won't come to him to settle the score because of this, right?

"It doesn't matter if he comes to settle the score with you. I will help you escape in the end anyway."

Ye Man took out his cell phone, poked it with his finger a few times, and found Xu Huaiting's phone number: "Brother Tong, I am escaping death, not really dead. I still want to live in this world. It is better not to offend such a powerful person with great power and influence."

"Besides, I took his money, and it would be hard to explain if I didn't do anything."

On Chi Jue’s last birthday, the gift Meng Yao gave to him was eventually returned. In the past two days, he has been looking for opportunities to meet Chi Jue.

Ye Man called Xu Huaiting, but the other party seemed to be very busy, so he didn't get through and left a message.

"Mr. Xu..."

He honestly reported his plans for the next few days to the message.

Meng Yao wanted to see Chi Jue, but Ye Man just had to focus Chi Jue's energy and attention on himself and the Chi family's affairs, so he naturally had no time to take care of Meng Yao.

As for how to tie up Chi Jue and prevent him from seeing Meng Yao, it was also easy.

Ye Man touched the hard plaster.

Pretend to be weak and act ruthlessly. If that doesn't work, go and ask your parents and elder brother for help. Even if Chi Jue is unwilling, he has to stay and be a caring and good brother to take care of him.

Ye Man was acutely aware that even though the Chi family knew that he actually disliked Chi Jue and often made things difficult for him in private, they still maintained a tolerant attitude towards him.

Maybe they felt they owed him something, or maybe it was due to his strategy of pretending to be pitiful and then selling his miserably.

I just don't know how long this unlimited tolerance can last.

Ye Man knew very well that if he continued to do this, people's patience would eventually run out.

Intellectually, he knew that the most important thing he should do now was to get along well with Chi Jue and not make trouble for no reason, but mentally, it was difficult not to be jealous and resentful of Chi Jue.

If only there were bad people in this misplaced life.

Sometimes Ye Man even hoped that someone was playing tricks on him and Chi Jue, so that he could at least blame someone with a clear conscience, without appearing like a petty, narrow-minded, and gloomy person who couldn't let go of a mistake he didn't know whose fault it was.

He touched his eyes.

He couldn't see his reflection in the mirror, but he must have looked as innocent and lovable as before.

Who could have imagined that such a person actually had a belly full of resentment that could not be suppressed?

He knew that he shouldn't make things difficult for Chi Jue, and he also knew that it was bad and unpleasant, but he just really... couldn't help it.

If he doesn't do something to vent, he'll go crazy.

The system nags worriedly in my ear: "You must pay attention to your hands. A broken bone is no small matter."

As he was talking, he began to get angry: "Do you know what viciousness is? I told you to bully others, but every time, every time..."

"What about every time?" Ye Man asked with a smile.

The system stuttered, the host heated up, and I couldn't speak.

Ye Man said softly, "You showed mercy every time. You didn't really bully anyone?"

The system was stunned for a moment: "You know?...You did this on purpose!"

Ye Man smiled, and said in a long voice, "Brother Tong is so stupid."

He has been bullied many, many times, how could he not know what a real bully is?

The system froze for a while, and the voice that had been whispering to Ye Man for several days instantly returned to normal.

"Ye Man! You lied to me again!" This evil, cunning liar!

The system was angry and annoyed, and pounded the ground in anger.

It had clearly been fooled by Ye Man before, and had sworn in its heart that it would never trust him again, so why did it fall for him again!

It is said that the vicious cannon fodder cannot be that kind of poor naive person, he is just pretending!

"You told Xu Huaiting that you wanted him to rub your belly, and you asked Chi Jue to peel shrimps. It was all an act—" Pretending to be harmless! Pretending to be innocent! You are full of tricks!

Ye Man turned his face away and hesitated: "Well, this..."

The system roared: "I will end my friendship with you!"

"...Brother Tong?"

The system was driven away by him.

Ye Man lowered his eyes and answered the phone that had been ringing non-stop and that he had hung up several times. He hung up the call after the first four digits of the incoming call number. The other party kept calling later, but he hung up every time.

Brother Tong was so angry that he didn't notice his little action.

The moment he answered the phone, Ye Man's expression turned extremely cold.

"Ye Guowen."

"I remember I told you, don't come to me again, and don't show up in front of the Chi family again. If you take the money the Chi family gave you, get as far away from me as possible."

After a while, a smoky-voiced man's voice came from the phone: "I want to see you."

"If you don't want the Chi family to know what you've done, you come to see me," the man sneered, "Xiao Man, if they knew that you stole things at such a young age, and what happened last time..."

"I'll be waiting for you at the broth restaurant on Minghua Street this weekend, my dear son."

Ye Man clenched the phone tightly for a moment.

......

In the Xu family's old house, there were about twenty people at the dinner table, from four generations.

The second uncle's second wife smiled and took a piece of food with chopsticks: "Huai Ting, it's rare for you to come back, so I specially asked the chef to make your favorite dishes. Come on, eat more."

Zuoyoubushi was the one who framed Xu Huaiting for stealing, dragged him out of his bed in the middle of the night, ransacked his house, and punished him by forcing him to kneel in front of the ancestral tablets for three days.

"Huai Ting, when you return to Beijing this time, you should also consider marriage. I think the girl from the Liu family is not bad. You are still young, but after all, you were injured so badly before and almost lost half your life. I don't know how many years this body can last. While you are still young, make plans early..."

When Third Uncle was halfway through his words, Xu Huaiting slightly raised his eyelids and stared at him quietly until he stopped talking. He smiled and said defiantly, "I'm sorry, I won't die in a short time. Third Uncle has gone through so much trouble."

"What are you talking about!" The other party glanced at Old Master Xu, his neck reddened as if his tail had been stepped on, "Do you suspect that I have done something secretly?"

As he was about to rush over, people around him stood up and tried to stop him.

Xu Huaiting was twirling a pair of chopsticks in his hand boredly. Seeing that he was unmoved, the man couldn't save face and rushed forward even harder.

Just as it was about to reach Xu Huaiting, the chopsticks twirled on his fingertips and then suddenly stopped.

The moment the chopsticks stopped, the man also froze there with a look of horror on his face.

The little son of his third uncle, who was sitting next to Xu Huaiting, tensed his back, narrowed his pupils, looked at the chopsticks that were only a few millimeters away from his eyes, and swallowed his saliva.

Crazy, crazy...

Xu Huaiting looked at Xu Weiming with a smile in his eyes, "Uncle San, you are so irritable over a meal, you should be more civilized."

Xu Jiang screamed in his heart at the chopsticks that were about to pop his eyeballs, who is the uncivilized one!

No one at the scene dared to speak, not even to breathe, for fear that if they breathed loudly, Xu Jiang would be covered in blood.

Xu Huaiting is capable of doing such a thing.

Finally, it was Old Master Xu who spoke up: "Everyone, sit down. It's a family dinner. What's the point of making such a fuss?"

Everyone took their seats again.

Xu Huaiting put down his chopsticks, unable to bear their verbal sparring and fighting, and stood up and walked to the balcony.

Light a cigarette, don't smoke it, just hold it in your hand and watch the flame flicker.

I looked down at my phone and saw a missed call and a message.

I clicked it and put it close to my ear, and the boy's soft and sticky voice rang out, as if he was talking next to my ear, making my ears numb.

"Mr. Xu, Meng Yao wants to look for Chi Jue again, but don't worry, I plan to pretend to be sick and force Chi Jue to stay at home to take care of me, so that they can't see each other."

I don't know if he did it on purpose or it was just a habit, but he spoke very slowly, enunciating each word, in a rigid yet serious manner. His voice was also light and soft, and at the end his words unconsciously dragged out a bit, sounding sticky and giving people the impression that he was just being coquettish.

He said he wanted to force Chi Jue to stay at home and take care of him?

Not knowing what he was thinking about, Xu Huaiting chuckled.

Interesting word choice. Haven't seen it in years.

I replied to the message with just a flick of my finger.

【Yes.】