Chapter 58 Bad Deal [VIP]
Chapter Summary: She was dealt a terrible hand from birth.
Fu Xianyin never gave Gu Linzhao a definite answer in the end.
She is actually a liar who can lie without batting an eye. Her experiences from childhood have enabled her to talk about everything from the Mariana Trench to the Horqin Grassland without batting an eye.
Promises and words are the most useless things to her.
But with Gu Linzhao, everything seemed to have changed.
She didn't want to lie to Gu Linzhao.
She also didn't want Gu Linzhao to be disappointed after discovering that the promise had not been kept.
In the past, she could have used Gu Banxian's ability to see through everything to convince herself.
But things are different now.
After finishing her phone call with Gu Linzhao, Fu Xianyin quickly booked a flight to Linlan.
Luckily, there were still flights to Linlan that evening. She quickly bought her ticket, packed some carry-on luggage at the hotel, and went to the airport.
The evening flight offered a perfect view of Beichuan's bustling cityscape, still brightly lit.
Fu Xianyin sat by the window, looking at the bright lights outside. She suddenly remembered that the last time she returned to Linlan, she had taken this same flight, with Gu Linzhao by her side.
It's only been two months since that incident, but Fu Xianyin feels like a long time has passed.
Fate is truly a strange thing.
The last time she so desperately didn't want to see Gu Linzhao, she ended up sitting next to him and going to Linlan together.
This time, she was all alone, yet she inexplicably began to wish that Gu Linzhao could be by her side.
After getting off the plane, Fu Xianyin took a taxi back to the hotel. She quickly washed up and collapsed onto the bed to sleep.
She took a three-hour exam today, acted crazy, cried a lot, and then spent so much time outwitting Fu Dongyuan.
I have absolutely no physical strength or energy left.
I slept soundly until the sun was high in the sky.
Fu Xianyin slowly washed up, took a taxi to the sanatorium, and on the way, she thought for a moment and sent Gu Linzhao a message:
I've arrived in Linlan.
There was no exam this morning, but the English exam is this afternoon.
After calculating the time, Gu Linzhao should already be in evening self-study.
Sure enough, a reply came shortly after the message was sent.
Gu Linzhao: [Did you go last night?]
Fu Xianyin: [Mmm.jpg]
Fu Xianyin: [How was the review?]
Gu Linzhao: [Not bad.]
Gu Linzhao: [English has never been my strong suit; as long as the score is acceptable, that's fine.]
Fu Xianyin chuckled softly.
Gu Linzhao's English was neither good nor bad, scoring around 130 points. It wasn't a major drag on his overall score, but it certainly wasn't his strong suit either.
After laughing, she held her phone, repeatedly opening and closing it on and off.
After hesitating for a while, she finally asked: "Have you told Zhaozhao Nian?"
In the small garden, Cheng Zhaozhao was still biting into a crepe when she saw this message pop up on Gu Linzhao's phone screen.
"Look, look! Yinyin asked!"
Chen Nianke also came over.
Cheng Zhaozhao said, "Hey, give me your phone, I'll call her back. Or maybe we should just call her directly?"
Lin Anxu said, "At least reply to me first."
Cheng Zhaozhao said, "Then hurry back."
Gu Linzhao typed on his phone:
[I said so.]
[But they want to hear you speak.]
Cheng Zhaozhao persisted in making her request: "Tell her I want to make a phone call, I want to make a phone call."
Gu Linzhao: [They're both next to me now. Cheng Zhaozhao said she wants to call you.]
Fu Xianyin watched the chat messages pop up one by one, gripping her phone tightly.
After taking a few deep breaths, she proactively opened the call page and dialed the number.
The call was answered instantly.
Cheng Zhaozhao's voice came through the phone: "Yinyin, Yinyin, can you hear me? Are you in Linlan now? Did you go there by yourself?"
Fu Xianyin said, "Yes, I can hear you. I came here by myself and came back yesterday."
There was silence on the other end of the phone.
Holding her phone, Cheng Zhaozhao hurriedly muted the call: "Then what are we going to talk about? Should I know or not know now?"
Lin Anxu was speechless: "Didn't Brother Zhao just say that he had told you two about it? So you must know."
Cheng Zhaozhao: "How much do I know? Yinyin definitely doesn't want us to know about this, that's why she hasn't told us. What should I say now?"
Chen Nianke took the phone, pressed the voice call button, and before she could speak, Fu Xianyin's voice came through the receiver.
She said, "I took the day off yesterday afternoon and talked to my dad. My parents are probably getting a divorce, but I can't say for sure."
Chen Nian was taken aback by Fu Xianyin's sudden candor. She said, "Ah...you, you talked to your dad?"
Fu Xianyin: "Yes, I told her I wanted him to divorce my mother."
Cheng Zhaozhao cautiously asked from the side, "So after they divorced, who did you live with?"
Fu Xianyin: "I won't follow anyone."
She said, "If it were up to me, I should be able to get custody of my father. He just needs to give me money so I can live."
There was silence on the other end of the phone.
After a long pause, Cheng Zhaozhao whispered, "I'm sorry, Yinyin."
Chen Nianke also said, "I'm sorry, Yinyin."
Fu Xianyin was startled. She asked in surprise, "Why are you apologizing to me?"
If anyone should apologize, it should be her.
Chen Nianke has been a very good friend to Cheng Zhaozhao. On the contrary, she is the one who keeps things to herself, trying every means to hide things from them, and refusing to be honest with her friends.
Cheng Zhaozhao said, "I don't know, it's like this..."
She pouted, tears welling up in her eyes: "If I had known it would be like this, I definitely wouldn't have forced you to tell me. I was wrong, Yinyin, please don't be angry with me."
Fu Xianyin felt both helpless and amused.
She sighed and said, "Why am I angry with you? You don't know how I can blame you. It was my fault for keeping things to myself when I could have explained them in a couple of sentences. How can we be friends like this?"
Cheng Zhaozhao had already started sobbing, so Fu Xianyin quickly said, "Okay, okay, let's skip this topic."
Chen Nianke asked, "Yinyin, when are you going back to school?"
Fu Xianyin said, "I'm not sure either, but I probably won't be back this week. Let's see next week."
The car was almost at the sanatorium when Fu Xianyin said, "I have something to do, so I'll talk to you later. Good luck on your exams this afternoon, and don't get distracted."
"Yes, sir!"
Lin Anxu was the first to speak, but he immediately regretted it. He whispered, "Oh no, what if my sister doesn't know I'm here?"
Chen Nianke rolled her eyes at him, speechless, as if he were an idiot.
After completing her routine registration last night, Fu Xianyin was taken by shuttle bus to Lin Yujing's small house at the sanatorium.
Unexpectedly, Lin Yujing was in a great mood this time, and when she saw Fu Xianyin arrive, she warmly invited her to come in and sit down.
"Yinyin, come quick, come quick! Why are you so busy with school today?"
Fu Xianyin placed the fruit on the table and watched Lin Yujing arrange the flowers before speaking: "Aunt Yujing, Fu Dongyuan and Chen Huimei may be getting a divorce."
Lin Yujing frowned: "Why is it so rushed?"
Fu Xianyin pursed her lips and recounted everything that had happened yesterday.
Lin Yujing's expression grew increasingly distressed. As soon as Fu Xianyin finished speaking, she opened her arms and said, "Come here, let Auntie hug you."
She hugged Fu Xianyin tightly and stroked Fu Xianyin's head affectionately: "Our Yinyin has been wronged."
My eyes started to sting again.
Fu Xianyin felt that she had been crying a lot these past two days.
Fu Xianyin stammered, "Aunt Yu Jing, I'm wondering if I did something wrong."
“If I stand up and testify, Fu Dongyuan can keep Chen Huimei in a mental hospital for the rest of her life. After all, she is my mother.”
"But, but I really hate them. You know, Aunt Yujing, when Chen Huimei came to the school to make trouble yesterday, for a moment, I really wanted to grab her and jump off the roof of our school. She didn't want to live anymore, I didn't want to live anymore, nobody wanted to live anymore, let's all die together."
Lin Yujing said, "You did nothing wrong, Yinyin. You have never done anything wrong. You are a kind and good child. The ones who are wrong are Chen Huimei and Fu Dongyuan, not you."
Fu Xianyin said, "But I am their daughter."
Lin Yujing said, "But Yinyin, you need to understand that in the relationship between fathers and daughters and children, the parents have always held the initiative. They decide whether or not to have a child, but can the child decide whether or not they need parents?"
"I can't decide," Lin Yujing said. "If you had the choice and the initiative, would you choose Chen Huimei as your mother, or Fu Dongyuan as your father?"
Fu Xianyin shook her head: "I don't know how."
Lin Yujing said, "So you are the victim, and you don't need to apologize to anyone."
She rubbed Fu Xianyin's head and said, "You especially don't need to feel sorry for me."
"Marrying Fu Dongyuan was my own choice. Fu Dongyuan's extramarital affair was a choice he and Chen Huimei made together. When I found out about this, I chose to divorce Fu Dongyuan, which was also my own choice."
She said, "You have never made any subjective choices, Yinyin. You should not feel sorry for your aunt, and you should not feel sorry for your aunt."
Fu Xianyin hugged her tightly.
In her dark seventeen years of life, if Gu Linzhao was the second lamp, then Lin Yujing was the first.
Lin Yujing never directed her resentment towards Chen Huimei and Fu Dongyuan, the two people who had wronged her the most in the world, at Fu Xianyin.
On the contrary, Lin Yujing loved and cared for her, treating her like her own daughter.
Sometimes, Fu Xianyin thought that if she could choose, she would want to be Lin Yujing's daughter.
She said, "Auntie, I met someone in Beichuan. He is very kind, caring, and considerate. He's a very good person, just like you."
Lin Yujing said, "That's great, Yinyin. I'm so happy that someone cares about you."
Lin Yujing talked to her for a long time.
She hugged her, comforted her, and consoled her. Even when Fu Xianyin told Lin Yujing that she was going to help Fu Dongyuan get a divorce, this kind woman's first reaction was to worry about Fu Xianyin.
“Fu Dongyuan is a smart man, Yinyin, you have to be careful.”
She was worried that Fu Xianyin would lose too much in this deal, and even wanted to use her family's connections to help Fu Xianyin contact a lawyer.
But Fu Xianyin refused.
She didn't want Lin Yujing to get involved in anything related to Fu Dongyuan anymore.
She can't be so selfish.
The two talked for a long time. In the end, Lin Yujing looked at her with affection and said again and again:
"Yinyin, grow up well, things will be alright when you grow up."
It was almost evening when I left the sanatorium.
Fu Xianyin opened her phone and saw a message from Shao Yang.
Fu Xianyin couldn't help but laugh out loud after taking a look.
Fu Dongyuan wants to send her abroad now. Shao Yang is already helping Fu Xianyin find an agency to help her study abroad. After Fu Xianyin finishes her standardized test scores, he will help her apply to schools abroad.
All Fu Xianyin needs to do now is prepare her application. As for the national college entrance examination, according to Shao Yang, she no longer needs to worry about it.
Fu Xianyin replied to Shao Yang's message: [Secretary Shao, my father and I have discussed the study abroad matter, and I have agreed. However, our school requires parental involvement for long-term leave of absence.]
Shao Yang: [Don't worry about taking leave, I'll take care of it for you.]
Fu Xianyin: [Thank you, Secretary Shao.]
It's hard to say whether it's an obsession or a desire to take control of one's own life.
Fu Xianyin wants to take the college entrance examination.
But she also knew that there was no point in talking to Fu Dongyuan about this now.
She can't have it all, at least not now.
Before she actually gets the shares, Fu Xianyin has to go along with Fu Dongyuan.
After he divorces Chen Huimei and gets the shares, Fu Dongyuan will probably stop caring about her after some time.
At that time, Fu Xianyin could make her own decision about whether to take the college entrance examination or go abroad.
Hopefully, nothing unexpected will happen.
Shao Yang was very efficient; he sent the message in the afternoon, and had already found a study abroad agency before Fu Xianyin arrived at the hotel.
Shao Yang is very reliable; otherwise, he wouldn't have reached his current position. He and Fu Xianyin agreed to go to the school next Monday to complete the leave application process, and he also sent Fu Xianyin the contact information of the study abroad agency.
Fu Xianyin opened her chat window with Gu Linzhao, typed a few lines, then deleted and exited, and opened their small group chat.
After hesitating for two seconds, Fu Xianyin still pressed the send button.
Almost instantly, the group chat exploded with discussion.
Cheng Zhaozhao: [What do you mean, Yinyin? Are you going abroad?]
Cheng Zhaozhao: [Waaaaah, I don't want to be separated from Yinyin...]
Fu Xianyin: [No, I just need to take leave to study for the TOEFL or something. The application season for overseas universities starts early, so I'll come back to school after I finish my applications.]
Chen Nianke: [So you have to learn the content from both sides? Can you manage it all? Won't it be very tiring?]
Fu Xianyin: [Learning anything is all the same, they're all pretty much the same.]
Fu Xianyin: [I haven't asked you yet, how did your English test go today?]
After these words were spoken, the group chat fell silent for a few seconds.
Fu Xianyin's mood strangely improved.
Looking at the lack of new messages in the group chat, she finally lay down on her bed and couldn't help but laugh out loud.
After a while, Lin Anxu finally came out and replied with a message.
Lin Anxu: [Brother Zhao said he felt the English exam was quite difficult this time.]
Fu Xianyin had finally caught one, so she couldn't let him go so easily.
She quickly asked, "Did he say what score he thought he could get?"
Lin Anxu: [Brother Zhao said he doesn't know if he can get over 130.]
Fu Xianyin felt more relaxed chatting with them, and suddenly felt like she was being a jerk.
So she said, "[Oh, what a pity. If I had taken the exam, I might have been first in the grade.]"
English is Fu Xianyin's strong point. She has narrowly beaten Gu Linzhao by a few points in the last few times. If she can widen the gap with Gu Linzhao in English, her chances of becoming the top student in the grade will be even greater.
Hearing her say that, the three people in the group couldn't sit still anymore.
Cheng Zhaozhao: [Enough, you academic high-achievers.]
Chen Nianke: [Enough, you academic high-achievers.]
Lin Anxu: [That's enough, you academic high-achievers.]
Lin Anxu also posted a meme of a frustrated little man.
Fu Xianyin held her phone and laughed heartily.
Fu Xianyin: [Okay, okay, we didn't take the test anyway.]
Suddenly remembering something, she asked in the group chat: "[Isn't it evening study time now? Are you allowed to use your phones?]"
Chen Nianke: [Shh, Gu Linzhao is doing practice problems right in front of me. I was secretly playing on my phone, so he didn't notice me.]
No wonder Gu Linzhao didn't say a word.
Fu Xianyin: [Wouldn't he be completely exposed when he checks the group messages?]
Cheng Zhaozhao: [Oh right, so what do we do?]
Fu Xianyin: [Should we just kick him out of the group?]
Chen Nianke: [I think it's a good idea.]
Lin Anxu: [Hahahahahahahahahaha.]
Fu Xianyin: [Stop playing on your phones and get back to studying.]
She began to urge the three of them on: [Look at Gu Linzhao, how diligently he's reviewing.]
Cheng Zhaozhao: [Waaaaah, I'm going to go all out with you academic superstars!]
Chen Nianke: [Waaaaah, I'm going to compete with you academic superstars!]
Lin Anxu: [Sobbing, I'm on the same wavelength as you academic superstars.]
Fu Xianyin suppressed a laugh and urged them to study: "[Go study! Stop looking at your phones!]"
Lying on the large bed in the hotel, Fu Xianyin sighed.
Two days ago, she was still wondering how well she would do on her midterm exams, whether Chen Huimei would be satisfied with her grades, and even whether either Chen Huimei or Fu Dongyuan would attend the parent-teacher conference, or whether neither of them would come like last time.
Now, let alone the midterm exams, she might not even be able to take the college entrance exam.
She has personally changed her own life, as well as Chen Huimei's life.
Do you regret it?
Fu Xianyin asked herself this question in her heart.
Her emotions were mixed, and she couldn't really say whether she regretted it or not.
Because if given the chance to do it all over again, Fu Xianyin would definitely make the same choice.
She still couldn't stand Chen Huimei's madness at school, couldn't stand being like a fish on a chopping board, like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered, with her life and death entirely in the hands of Chen Huimei and Fu Dongyuan.
never mind.
Fu Xianyin lay on the bed, looking at the white ceiling of the room.
She was dealt a bad hand from the moment she was born.
Since that's the case.
That tone suggests that it's better to play all your cards than to let them go to waste.
Even if it's bad, it's bad at the card table.
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