Chapter 25 Meng Yanchen and Song Yan fight
Meng Yanchen walked through the hospital corridor, where the smell of disinfectant mixed with the noise of the crowd.
He raised his hand and knocked on the door.
"Enter!"
Xu Qin had his back to the door, tidying up the medicine cabinet.
He heard the door open, but didn't turn around.
"The medicine is on the table. It has precautions and instructions on it. Take it yourself."
Xu Qin turned around and said coldly, deliberately covering the left side of her face with her hair.
Meng Yanchen didn't move, looking at her slightly flushed cheeks and the faintly visible fingerprints.
He frowned slightly, took a step forward, and said in a deep voice,
"What's wrong?"
Xu Qin raised her head to look at him, a sarcastic smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.
"Do you still care? Does what happens to me have anything to do with you?"
As she said that, she opened the drawer and slammed a bank card on the table.
"Two hundred and seventy thousand, not a cent less. Now, please don't insult Song Yan with money anymore."
"insult?"
Meng Yanchen's eyes behind his glasses suddenly turned cold, "Do you think I'm insulting him?"
"Isn't it?"
Xu Qin's eyes were red and her voice was choked. "Why didn't you call me directly? Or you could have just contacted Song Yan directly. Why did you let Qin Yu go? Qin Yu even went to his house. His uncle and aunt were at home. What would the neighbors think of him if they knew? If his uncle and aunt knew..."
She stared at Meng Yanchen intently, "Isn't it just a few hundred thousand? Meng Yanchen, do you really need this little money? Is it really necessary to push me so hard?"
Xu Qin's questioning struck him as absurd.
Meng Yanchen stood in front of her, looking down at her, still calm and clear-headed.
"It's only natural to pay back a debt. It has nothing to do with whether I have money or not. He's your husband now, and he should protect you from the worst. That's his responsibility. How did it become like I was insulting him?"
"Qin Yu is my assistant. I don't think there's anything wrong with him handling this matter for me. As for why I didn't let Qin Yu find you,"
He paused, "Because it was Song Yan who borrowed the money. If he is a decent man, he should face and bear these things independently. Qin Yu went to his home instead of his workplace, which is already the greatest respect and decency for him. Moreover, I believe in Qin Yu's ability to handle things, and he won't let the neighbors know about it."
Meng Yanchen looked directly at Xu Qin and asked, "Have his neighbors found out? Obviously not, so why are you being so hypocritical and angry with me now?"
"You go!"
Xu Qin suddenly grabbed the bank card and threw it hard at Meng Yanchen's face. The card passed his cheek and fell to the ground with a crisp sound.
"You don't care about me anymore, you don't want me anymore! You don't need to take care of my affairs anymore!"
Meng Yanchen bent down to pick up the bank card and gently put it back on the table.
"He borrowed the money, so he should pay it back personally."
His eyes fell on Xu Qin's swollen cheeks again, and his voice was low.
"As your brother, I'm going to ask you one last time, was it Song Yan who hit you?"
Xu Qin stared at him stubbornly, "Do you still care?"
Meng Yanchen adjusted his glasses, his eyes dim and unclear behind the lenses.
"I see."
After saying that, he turned and left.
Meng Yanchen slammed the door and walked out. The light from the corridor made his eyes hurt.
He strode through the hospital corridor, but bumped into someone head-on at the corner.
Song Yan was carrying an insulated lunch box and walking towards Xu Qin's department.
The two looked at each other and the air froze instantly.
"Meng Yanchen!"
Song Yan took the initiative to step forward, with a provocative look in his eyes, "I will return the money to you, don't think..."
Before he could finish his words, Meng Yanchen grabbed his collar and dragged him to the open space behind the hospital.
“What are you doing!”
Song Yan roared and struggled, but was hit hard in the face by Meng Yanchen.
"Hold!"
Song Yan staggered back a few steps, blood oozing from the corners of his mouth, "Are you fucking crazy?"
Meng Yanchen said nothing and threw another heavy punch.
As the heir of the Meng family, he has received professional combat training since childhood and has been doing fitness exercises all year round. His skills are no less than those of Song Yan, who was a firefighter.
Song Yan finally reacted, dodged sideways, and quickly counterattacked.
"I'll take care of the money issue! Don't go too far!"
This sentence made Meng Yanchen understand instantly - the card Xu Qin gave was not Song Yan's money at all.
Xu Qin didn't know what she sold, or what she scraped together from various sources, just to fill a man's hole.
And this man even hit her, the princess who was raised by their whole family.
Thinking of this, Meng Yanchen's eyes became even angrier.
He kicked Song Yan in the abdomen, "What kind of man are you? Why do you treat her like this?"
Song Yan wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and deliberately provoked Meng Yanchen.
"I'm her man. I've been her man since high school!"
Meng Yanchen landed a heavy punch on her. "Song Yan, she's your wife? How could you have the heart to do that to her?"
Song Yan's pupils shrank slightly, and then he became furious, "You still know that she is my wife?"
He suddenly turned over and pushed Meng Yanchen to the ground.
"Now that you know, put away those dirty thoughts of yours!"
Song Yan grabbed Meng Yanchen by the collar, "Don't think I don't know what you're thinking. You've been coveting your sister since you were little. You want her too, right? You're just a rat crawling in the gutter, never seeing the light of day! I'm telling you, I'm already engaged to her. For the rest of your life, you can only see Xu Qin as my wife!"
Meng Yanchen broke free with an elbow strike and pinned Song Yan to the ground with his backhand.
"Song Yan, I'm warning you, Xu Qin is my sister, and she will always be! If you let her suffer any more, I'll make sure you can never be a firefighter again!"
Finally, someone discovered the fight and hurried to inform Xu Qin.
When Xu Qin arrived, he did not rush over immediately. He stood there blankly, watching the scene quietly.
Meng Yanchen pressed Song Yan to the ground with his fist raised high; Song Yan's face was covered in blood, but he still glared at him unwillingly.
The sunlight shone through the shadows of the trees and fell on the two men in patches.
The scene before my eyes suddenly overlapped with my memory—
Ten-year-old Meng Yanchen pinned the boy who mocked her background to the ground, her glasses askew;
Seventeen-year-old Song Yan blocked the gangster's beer bottle for her, and blood flowed down his forehead.
How beautiful it was then~
The corners of her mouth curled up into a smile unconsciously.
No one noticed that among the crowd of onlookers, a figure quietly raised his phone and clearly recorded the entire process, even the conversation between the two people...
PS: When I wrote this chapter, I had a feeling that I might get scolded for why Meng Yanchen still cared about Xu Qin and whether he still liked her. Don't get me wrong, after all, the two grew up together, and Meng Yanchen restrained and endured his love for her for so many years. Even if it's just family affection now, when he sees his sister being bullied by others, he will stand up for her. This is the responsibility of a man and a brother, just like him at the age of ten.
Moreover, establishing Xiaomei's place in his heart requires a process of accumulation and explosion, which is the author's understanding of Meng Yanchen's character: quietly observing, slowly approaching, and being inseparable from her. The too-rapid emotional separation and transference, on the contrary, makes me feel a little inconsistent with the character's setting.
If it is different from what the babies expected, please be gentle with your scolding, because I can’t scold you enough~
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