Chapter 36: The Third Young Master's Talk Gu Xingjue looked at the incoming call...
Gu Xingjue looked at the caller ID, his eyes darkening. He said in a deep voice, "It's him again! Why is he calling you? Why would a professor who comes to your school to give a lecture care so much about a student like you? He has so many students to care about. Why did he choose you?"
Chen Song extended his hand toward him and said, "Give it to me."
Gu Xingjue held his phone tightly in a standoff. The disinfectant-filled room was completely silent. The phone's ringing sounded strangely in a loop, like a death warrant. The atmosphere was oppressive and awkward.
"Give it to me," Chen Song's lips moved stiffly, his tone unyielding. "Don't let yourself become the person I hate the most."
Gu Xingjue's fingertips twitched for a moment, and he returned the phone to him: "You want to hate me just because of him, right? Are you...are you in love with him?"
Chen Song looked at him deeply, pulled back his phone, and answered the call: "Hello, Brother Jing Sheng."
"I heard you were sick and hospitalized?"
Chen Song: "Yeah. It's okay now."
Yun Jingsheng breathed a sigh of relief. "I'll stay in Beijing for a few more days. I'm leaving today. I went to your school to say hello and also wanted to see you. Dean He said you took leave. I'm sorry, if I had known earlier, I could have taken care of you. But now I have to...go on a business trip. Wait until I get back. By then, you should be back in Vancouver for the holiday. Let's meet in Vancouver. I have a job that needs to be handed over in South City, and I can help you find where to arrange your internship."
Chen Song was silent for a moment and said, "Yes. Okay."
The announcement of boarding for Country Y rang out on the other end of the line. Yun Jingsheng said, "I'll hang up now. Take care of yourself."
Chen Song said, "Okay."
After the call ended, the ward fell silent again. Chen Song was burned by Gu Xingjue's ghostly gaze.
"Why didn't you refute what I just said?" Gu Xingjue said angrily, "You said you didn't like me so quickly. Is it difficult to say you don't like him?"
"Yes, I like him." Chen Song raised his eyes and looked at him quietly, and almost immediately answered him, "So, can you please stop appearing in front of me? My sweetheart is coming."
"Bullshit!" Gu Xingjue roared in rage, pushing the vase off the table. The fragile ceramic shattered on the floor, and the dew-soaked flowers fell to the ground. "Don't you like me? How come you suddenly like him? I don't believe it!"
"I know," Gu Xingjue suppressed his anger, "I know, you are just talking in anger."
Chen Song looked at him calmly, his tone as indifferent as water. "I'm not saying this in anger. I've stopped being angry with you. I've already said that the Chen Song who loved you is long dead. People change. The person I love now is him. Stop being like a child and asking others to repeat the same thing over and over again. I'm really tired."
The rage boiling in Gu Xingjue's body had nowhere to vent, slaughtering every inch of flesh and blood in his body. The terrifying blood vessels climbed up his neck, and the burning blood rushed all the way to his nerves, leaving his eyes bloodshot and wanting to burst.
"You like him, but does he like you? What does the eldest young master of the Yun family see in you? Can you beat him?"
Chen Song blinked lightly, then straightened his neck stubbornly and looked straight at him. "He'll be here soon. If you don't believe me, you can ask him. After hearing his answer, I hope, we hope you leave."
Gu Xingjue's chest was tightened by an invisible net, the feeling of suffocation pressed on his blood vessels, and his bones trembled.
Anger, sadness, resentment, questioning, grievance, all kinds of complex emotions are running around in my body and are about to explode.
"Have you done it?" Gu Xingjue looked at him with red eyes and asked in a hoarse voice.
Chen Song's eyes froze slightly, he took a deep breath and closed his eyes.
If this could make Gu Xingjue completely abandon the toy he'd been playing with for three years and stop pestering him...
"Um."
The overload of emotions exploded in his body in an instant. Gu Xingjue kicked over the stool and said, "Good! Very good! Chen Song, you're great! Yes! You're right! No one in this world will love only one person for their entire life! I don't believe you can let me go. I can't let you go either! Damn it!"
Gu Xingjue was furious, and rushed out of the door like a bolt of lightning filled with murderous energy.
The door was open, banging against the wind. Snow was still falling outside, getting heavier. It was the heaviest snowfall in Beijing this year.
Chen Song seemed to have had a big dream. When he woke up, he was still in the winter three years ago. If only he had not met Gu Xingjue.
They had all fulfilled Chen Song's wish and driven Gu Xingjue away, but why did his heart still feel like it had eaten ice chips, and it was so painful that it was bleeding...
The next day, Chen Song was discharged from the hospital and returned to school.
The school was much emptier, as students who had finished their homework and classes went home early for winter break. If Chen Song hadn't been hospitalized, he could have returned to South City two days ago.
When Chen Song returned to the dormitory, Jiang Shuang was playing games and Cang Mingzhi was packing his luggage.
Cang Mingzhi asked him, "Tell me, where have you been these past few nights? I sent you a message and you were so evasive."
"Are you going to meet your girlfriend..." Cang Mingzhi smiled ambiguously, until he saw a pile of hospital bags in Chen Song's hand, the smile on his face disappeared, and he pointed at the bags and asked, "You, this, this..."
So many bags looks like a terminal illness.
Jiang Shuang saw it even after taking off his headphones.
Chen Song placed the bag on the table and began to pack his things. "I went to the hospital for a minimally invasive procedure. It's nothing serious. Acute appendicitis."
Cang Mingzhi suddenly realized: "Ah, no wonder you looked so weak that day. Is there any sequelae?"
Chen Song said, "It's not a big deal. Just eat well."
Chen Song's luggage wasn't large, but it was impossible to bring everything back all at once. He packed his bedding, clothes, and daily necessities into a cardboard box and sent it to the courier station. There were many recycling centers downstairs, so Chen Song sorted out his useless books and sold them.
Finally, I packed all the remaining odds and ends into the suitcase and prepared to take them back.
After finishing everything, Chen Song went to the mall to buy two bottles of red wine and took a taxi to the small western-style restaurant. He came here today to resign. There was no formality for resigning from a part-time job, and in fact, just saying it was enough, but Chen Song came here today to say goodbye to Master Liu.
Chen Song first went to the Human Resources Department to handle his resignation. It turned out that his affair with Gu Xingjue had become known to everyone, so everyone in the Human Resources Department was watching him.
That look seemed to be saying, look, he finally got together with the eldest son of the Gu family, and now he has turned his life around.
Chen Song didn't take it to heart. Everything he had experienced since his youth had already made his heart numb.
Ah Le, the head of the HR department, couldn't help but gossip with him. While calculating his overdue commission, she pushed her glasses aside and asked, "Hey, I heard from Xu Ke that Young Master Gu stayed up all night to pick you up from get off work?"
Chen Song: “…” It wouldn’t be good for anyone to see it, but it had to be seen by someone as loudmouthed as Xu Ke, who was speaking in such an exaggerated manner.
"Everyone says that Young Master Gu is the most romantic among the four young masters in Beijing. I didn't expect that he would fall for you. Does he treat you well?" A Le handed the settlement sheet to Chen Song and looked at him curiously.
Chen Song took the list, said "thank you", turned around and walked out of the Human Resources Department.
The kitchen was busy. Chen Song wanted to say goodbye to Master Liu face to face, but he could only stand at the door and look at him from afar. Then he went to the locker room, put the packaged wine on Master Liu's cabinet, edited the message in the message column and sent it to Master Liu.
Chen Song was not good at talking, not good at saying goodbye. Master Liu had taken great care of him over the past three years, teaching him everything he knew, and he was just as taciturn as Chen Song.
Perhaps this farewell is the best for both of them.
After returning to campus, Chen Song went to Dean He's office, but Dean He wasn't there either. Perhaps it was fate, knowing Chen Song didn't know how to handle the separation. He placed the packaged wine under Dean He's desk and edited a farewell message for him.
After preparing everything, Chen Song went to the high-speed railway station and took a high-speed train for more than nine hours back to Wenzhou, the southern city.
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The psychedelic-lit bar was bustling with music every night, the crowds dancing to the frenzy of the music, and the sounds of revelry were endless. Gu Xingjue had been addicted to it for three days.
No matter how many delicious people Xie Yanchen ordered for him, Gu Xingjue didn't even look at them. He just kept drinking and smoking, and his obsession with alcohol was almost to the point of madness.
Xie Yanchen had initially found it quite amusing; Gu Xingjue had kicked out many of his bedmates, who had always come crying for help. But this time, it was truly extraordinary; Gu Xingjue had been dumped, and after being dumped, he had never recovered.
Gu Xingjue had stubble on his chin, his hair was messy, and he was wearing the same clothes he wore three days ago. He looked truly dejected. Xie Yanchen dragged Gu Xingjue to the upstairs apartment and told him to clean himself up.
Two days later, when he messaged Gu Xingjue again, he found that he had been sitting in the apartment for two days. When Xie Yanchen arrived at the apartment, it was filled with wine bottles. Gu Xingjue was sitting on the floor, leaning against the bed, unconscious.
Xie Yanchen dragged him to the bathroom, turned on the shower, and the pouring water soaked Gu Xingjue's clothes.
"Can you wake up? It's just a dumping. If you're a man, go get her back! Who are you pretending to be affectionate to?" Xie Yanchen threw the shower head at him, "Can you stop being so embarrassing, big brother?"
Gu Xingjue seemed to be awakened by the rain and said, "He and Yun Jingsheng. They... they did it."
Xie Yanchen leaned over and patted his face: "So what? Can't you take it back? You are the most arrogant and domineering person in the Beijing circle, and you are afraid of a weak person like him? I have never seen you so cowardly. And you are like this now, as smelly as a rat crossing the street, who would want you?"
Gu Xingjue seemed to have some reaction, and drops of water slid down his forehead and rolled into his eyes: "You don't understand, he doesn't love me anymore. He loves Yun Jingsheng. You will know if you have loved her before."
Xie Yanchen was very disdainful of Gu Xingjue's pretentious remarks, and even more unhappy. He grabbed Gu Xingjue's collar and said: "Yes, I don't understand. But as long as it is what I want, I will do whatever it takes to get it. What's wrong with Yun Jingsheng? Have you forgotten what kind of brother Yun Jingsheng has?"
Gu Xingjue suddenly opened his eyes wide, immediately got up, and was suddenly full of energy. If he hadn't been soaked in water, it would have been impossible to tell how miserable he had been recently.
Gu Xingjue took out his cell phone and made an international call.
The phone beeped a few times before being picked up: "The weasel is paying New Year's greetings to the chicken, the dog is looking after you. Call me dad and I'll help you. Oh, I forgot, I'm your brother-in-law now. But I still hope you call me dad."
"Fuck you!" Gu Xingjue cursed, "You better keep your brother under control! He's poaching people and he's even got me!"
There was silence on the other end of the phone for a moment, followed by a scornful laugh: "What's it to me? He cheated on you, that's his own thing. I didn't expect that after not seeing you for so long, you're still so useless."
Gu Xingjue laughed in anger: "Alright, two foxes are hard to deal with. Now he is alone in the country. If your precious brother is gone one day, don't cry and beg your parents like before. Even the Lord of Heaven will be of no use!"
Yun Che's words were still frivolous: "You can try. I heard that you've been raising that little lover for three years. My brother is gone, do you think you can protect him?"
Gu Xingjue was about to explode again, but Xie Yanchen took the phone and turned it on speakerphone: "Come on, both of you, you're still acting like this at your age. Yun Che, I don't believe you really don't care about your brother."
Yun Che said lazily, "How can I care about him? My sister-in-law is the one who should care about him. And my wife should be the one who cares about me, not him. What are you saying to a married man? You two are probably jealous of my early marriage. If you lead me astray, be careful or my wife will come and punish you two."
"Gu Gou, are you being worthy of your sister?"
Xie Yanchen chuckled faintly: "We grew up wearing the same crotchless pants, so I don't know what kind of shit you are up to? Who are you pretending to be? Just your wife, and you have another one outside the house. What's the matter? You two have such a strong taste, are you playing 4i?"
Yun Che's tone darkened. "Xie Yanchen, you're so fucking bored you came out and checked on me."
Xie Yanchen said slowly, "With your limited knowledge, you can only fool the Yun family. But I have to warn you, your brother is serious. Ajue said that they even slept together."
There was no sound from the other end of the line. After a long period of dead silence, Yun Che said gloomily, "Gu, you'd better hide your girlfriend before I return home. Don't let me see her."
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The author has something to say: While writing this article, I accidentally heard a song whose lyrics are very suitable for Chen Song.
"But I am still the sea" LBI Libby.
I left the North with no more tears.
I let go of my obsession and I am no longer tired.
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