Chapter 18 Don't Be Afraid of Me
In the car.
Bian Zhi sat in the passenger seat.
Shen Tingsi was driving and Lin Ye was sitting in the back seat.
Lin Ye glanced at Chen Tingsi, then glanced at Bian Zhi, restraining his playboy appearance and becoming somewhat obedient.
"that--"
"I didn't mean to fight, so don't tell my family."
Bian Zhi and Chen Tingsi didn't respond. Lin Ye knew that they had agreed. After a few seconds of silence, he turned to ask Bian Zhi, "Bian Zhi, you were so desperate to marry that kind of trash?"
Bian Zhi looked ahead calmly and said, "Yeah."
She has always been bold and responsible.
Lin Ye leaned back in the back seat leisurely. "How could you possibly look down on that kind of trash? Don't you usually have high standards? With me and Shen Tingsi in front of you, how could your aesthetic standards be so low?"
Bian Zhi didn't say anything.
There was silence in the car for a while.
The car was waiting at a traffic light. When it started, the driver turned the steering wheel and asked casually, "Ou Jia, I don't know your identity?"
Bian Zhi withdrew his gaze from the window. He was not surprised that Shen Tingsi asked this question. He was always very careful.
Bian Zhi casually said, "Hmm."
At first.
She thought about confessing.
But people don't care and say she is marrying above her station, either openly or secretly.
She was holding back a strong desire in her heart, or you could say she was in love. She felt that she had to rely on her own abilities to make Ou Moyuan fall in love with her and be impressed by her for who she was, not because she was the daughter of someone or would inherit some assets in the future.
If she wants to use her power to force others, that would be really meaningless. Why should she do that?
So, I never said anything.
The relationship between their family members is special. Each of the three children in the Lin family has a different surname.
Lin Jue never reveals her identity to the public, so the outside world knows that she is the eldest daughter of the Lin family. Except for the very close people around her, most other people don't know.
"What about the future?" Chen Tingsi asked casually, "Now that you're home, you'll definitely communicate more with your family in the future. If outsiders ask you about your identity in the future, how should we answer?"
Bian Zhi actually doesn't care much about what others think of her identity.
However, she had just entered Tongxin Hall, which was not considered the core Chinese medicine hospital of the Bian family. At the beginning, Lin's father did not reveal her identity to the people in the hospital. He probably wanted her to find out the current situation of the Chinese medicine hospital first.
She had indeed been away for too long.
"Don't tell me yet." Bian Zhi said simply but with a horrified look.
Shen Tingsi nodded.
Lin Ye became anxious.
"Why don't you say it?" Lin Ye put away his nonchalant look and closed the distance between him and Bian Zhi. "People nowadays are all snobs. They use good family backgrounds to show off. Look at the face of that scumbag today. He looked down on others and thought you were easy to bully because you had no background."
"You should reveal your identity as the only daughter of the Lin family, the heir to the Bian and Lin families, and scare those snobs who look down on others!"
Bian Zhi, however, didn't care much, "Only when one is in a low point can one see clearly whether a person is good or bad."
Besides, she doesn't care what others think of her.
She also doesn't need to go in front of people she doesn't care about to intimidate anyone.
Even if she had to, she didn't want to rely on her family background. She still had those ideas. She wanted to be upright and rely on her own abilities to reach the top step by step.
Lin Ye was particularly speechless about Bian Zhi's thoughts.
He felt that taking the shortcut would save Bian Zhi from many detours. He also felt that a talented girl like Bian Zhi was born to stand in the most dazzling place and shine.
Why lower your status and say a word to those meaningless people?
"Alright," Chen Tingsi said in a gentle tone, without any of the sharpness he had just shown when he confronted Ou Moyuan at the police station. He held up his glasses and smiled gently, "We Zhizhi have a plan, right?"
The words fell.
Chen Tingsi raised his hand out of habit, his palm facing the ends of Bian Zhi's hair.
Bian Zhi noticed it and subconsciously tilted his head.
Shen Tingsi's hand was suspended in the air. After a pause, he rolled up his palm, smiled slightly, withdrew his hand, and concentrated on driving.
When Lin Ye saw this scene, he immediately sat back with his shoulders hunched.
The car fell into an eerie silence.
After a long time.
Lin Ye felt the situation was too awkward, so he feigned excitement and shouted, "Hey, when did you two become so close?"
"Have you called Zhizhi?"
"What did you two do behind my back?"
As soon as these words were spoken, Lin Ye felt even more that something was wrong.
He coughed twice unnaturally and shrank back into his chair.
On the other hand, Shen Tingsi smiled again, turned his head to look at Bian Zhi, and said softly: "Zhi Zhi and I have always had a good relationship since elementary school."
"Now that I'm in a new family, things should be better."
Shen Tingsi said the latter sentence lightly, but it was full of flattery and temptation.
Lin Ye noticed it and his eyes fell on Bian Zhi.
Under the dim light that shone in here and there, Bian Zhi's expression became vague, as if she was lost in thought. Shen Tingsi and Lin Ye waited for a long time, but she didn't say a word.
But in fact, Bian Zhi was very sober.
Of course her relationship with Shen Tingsi is good.
It's not just because Shen Tingsi is her senior and her partner in the school's Mathematical Olympiad, but also because Bian Zhi's mother and Wang Zhen are close friends regardless of age.
Therefore, Bian Zhi's feelings towards Chen Tingsi since childhood were more like—
elder brother.
A brother who can be relied on from the bottom of his heart.
Comrades.
In a debate, in a math Olympiad, at any time, you can rely on your comrades.
Best friend.
She would tell Shen Tingsi many things that she would not tell outsiders, such as -
Menstruation is a secret among girls, but it is also a part of growing up that is worth celebrating.
So, when Wang Zhen pulled Chen Tingsi into their home and wrote her name into their household registration book, Lin Jue pulled her, pointed at Wang Zhen and asked her to call her mother, and pointed at Chen Tingsi and asked her to call him brother.
She felt that things had become too dramatic.
Even after many years, she still remembers it clearly.
When Lin Jue and Wang Zhen walked into the master bedroom one after the other, their shadows overlapped on the ground.
I still remember that when I accidentally pushed open the door of the master bedroom, Wang Zhen snuggled in Lin Jue's arms and looked at each other affectionately.
That book belonged to her mother.
And now, everything belongs to this woman named Wang Zhen.
Therefore, she desperately wanted to leave this family, so when Ou Moyuan mentioned getting married, she thought about it and agreed.
The car drove into the Lin family mansion in silence.
Lin Ye returned to the room first.
When Bian Zhi opened the door, Shen Tingsi called out to her.
Bian Zhi turned around and looked at him calmly.
"Zhi, Zhizhi..."
Shen Tingsi's face flushed with anxiety, and he no longer looked like the powerful and influential person he used to be. "You... I was at the police station today..."
Bian Zhi, "?"
"Don't be afraid of me," Shen Tingsi said after a long moment of hesitation, "I'm only that fierce to outsiders, not to you."
"Never."
"When you take over the Bian and Lin families in the future, just be yourself. I'll help you deal with people and things you don't like."
"Also, if you don't like Ou Moyuan, I'll take care of it for you. Just do what you want to do and don't worry about anything."
“…”
Bian Zhi stood at the door of the room, feeling that the more Shen Tingsi spoke, the more humble he became.
"Need not."
Bian Zhi suddenly spoke, and in Shen Tingsi's stunned state, he said calmly: "I don't hate anything, so you don't have to think about it, let alone calculate to help me deal with anything."
"You've been doing well, Chen Tingsi," Bian Zhi called his name seriously, "You don't have to live such a hard life. You don't owe me anything."
Shen Tingsi was stunned for a second and smiled bitterly.
After a while, he whispered, "Do you hate me?"
Bian Zhi was stunned for a moment. He never thought that he would come to such a conclusion.
He looked so fragile now. Bian Zhi paused and wanted to walk over.
The door at the end of the corridor suddenly opened, and Lin Jue stood at the door with a dark face.
"What time is it? Did you just get back, or are you going out?"
The words fell.
Lin Ye's room door opened. He was wearing a pair of headphones and shaking his head, completely unprepared for what was happening in the corridor.
His jumping movements came to an abrupt halt when he saw Lin Jue.
The expression on Lin Ye's face froze for a moment, then he rolled his eyes and acted like he was sleepwalking.
Trying to get away with it.
"Lin Ye!"
"Do you think I'm stupid?!"
Lin Jue’s roar was loud enough to blow the roof off.
final.
All three escaped and were ordered to reflect on their mistakes in the study.
At this time, the sky outside was slightly bright and foggy.
Lin Ye leaned to one side, his long legs drooping, and scrolled through his phone.
Before Bian Zhi fell asleep, he vaguely heard the sound of news on Lin Ye's phone.
Zhou Suihuai, a popular star and regular on Running Man, was injured during a sports entertainment game and has been rushed to the hospital. According to sources, Zhou Suihuai injured the side of his face, which may have impacted his variety show career.
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