Chapter 67: Estrangement
I looked at him with disgust, “You don’t have to pretend, I know everything about what happened between Shen Yixiao and Lu Xiaoyun, and I’ve always known that you and Meng Zicheng were covering for him!”
Liang Feng didn't come back to his senses for a long time. He stared at me blankly like a sculpture. Gradually, a trace of pain and guilt appeared on his face, and his eyes avoided me.
I wiped away my tears, "Liang Feng, am I not good to you? Shen Yixiao saved you, didn't I help you?"
Liang Feng had the best academic performance among the three of them back then. Even though he skipped classes, fought, and hung out with Shen Yixiao and Meng Zicheng all the time, his grades remained in the middle. If he studied hard, he would definitely be in the top ten in the class.
But his father refused to let him continue his studies and stopped paying for his tuition, so I took out the money I had saved and gave it to him.
Although he dropped out of school with us later, the things I did to help him cannot be erased. Later on, I treated him and Meng Zicheng as my younger brothers, and did my best to give these people from unfortunate families a little so-called warmth.
Now thinking about it, it was really stupid. What some people lack is not warmth, but conscience!
"Li Yue, I'm sorry." After a long time, Liang Feng finally spoke again, his lips moving with difficulty, "I know I shouldn't treat you like that, but..."
I didn’t want to hear him talk about so-called friendship anymore, so I interrupted him, “If you really regret and feel guilty, then make it up to me, otherwise I will tell Shen Yixiao what you did to me. Even though you care about him so much, you will still fall out with him.”
Liang Feng frowned, "Are you threatening me?"
"Just think of it as me threatening you, or as me gambling on your conscience." I sniffed and my mood calmed down a lot.
It's really difficult for him to choose between me and Shen Yixiao.
In order to make him feel less embarrassed, I had to tell him some things.
Liang Feng has two half-brothers. Their relationship was actually good at the beginning, but then it started to deteriorate. His relationship with his family also became worse and worse, and he didn't understand why.
His two younger brothers actually looked for him several times, but he happened to be away, so Shen Yixiao received them every time, and they ended up parting on bad terms.
I asked Shen Yixiao why he did this, as Liang Feng clearly wanted to ease relations with his family.
I still remember Shen Yixiao’s answer, “It’s enough for Liang Feng to have two brothers, me and Meng Zicheng. If he has a good relationship with his family, do you think he will continue to hang out with us?”
At the time I thought his answer was strange, but he later explained to me that he was so afraid of losing us, and I foolishly chose to understand him.
In fact, his way of keeping people around him is the same, which is to let the people around him fall into the same situation as him, lose their families, and put their focus on him.
After I finished explaining the matter, Liang Feng's face had turned pale.
He has always regarded Shen Yixiao as his best friend, and Shen Yixiao must know his desire for family affection.
As a result, Shen Yixiao not only failed to help him win back his family, but also helped to alienate them.
If I don't tell him these things, he will never know.
Because he and his two younger brothers basically no longer have any contact with each other, even if they meet at home, they won't say a word.
"You lied to me, Shen Yixiao wouldn't do that." Liang Feng still wanted to struggle, he didn't want to believe what I said.
"You can go back and ask your two younger brothers. They are several years younger than you. They came to you because they were in trouble and wanted your help, but Shen Yixiao not only didn't help them, he also kicked them a few times." I suddenly felt a little sympathetic to him.
Liang Feng didn't say anything, he turned around and hurried downstairs.
I didn't pursue him, nor did I force him to agree to help me right away. He needed time to verify and time to consider.
But I am sure that he will not confront Shen Yixiao, otherwise, if I tell him about him hugging me, he and Shen Yixiao will also fall out.
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During the three days that Shen Yixiao was on a business trip, he called me every day.
Every day after get off work, I would go to Feicui Hua Ting to make sure Lu Xiaoyun was not at home.
Three days later, Shen Yixiao came back, and the lights were on in Lu Xiaoyun's house.
"Wife, this is a gift I brought you. Do you like it?" Shen Yixiao took out a pair of pearl earrings as a gift for a business trip.
I took it and said, "I like it."
It seems that he and Lu Xiaoyun had a very good time during these three days. They looked refreshed and didn't care about the various minor frictions before.
He kissed me and got up to change his clothes. When he came back, there was a white cloud under his open collar, next to the moon tattoo below his collarbone. It was just done two days ago, so his skin was red and had not recovered yet.
He didn't try to cover it up because he knew I would find out sooner or later.
"What's that?" I asked in surprise, pointing at his tattoo.
"I got this tattoo while I was on a business trip these past two days," Shen Yixiao remained calm as he sat down next to me again. He held my hand and repeated the lie he told me in his previous life, "I think it's just a small moon, all alone, so it would be nice to have a cloud tattooed to accompany the moon."
I looked at his lips, such a beautiful lip shape, such a nice voice, but what he said was so disgusting.
After he finished speaking, I made a joke, "Really? I thought it represented Secretary Lu."
Shen Yixiao finally couldn't hold it anymore, the expression on his face changed like a roller coaster, visible panic flashed across his face, and then he stood up and pretended to get his phone, avoiding my sight, "Are you kidding? I didn't even think about this matter."
"I was overthinking. I just remembered that you were on a business trip for three days and Secretary Lu happened to take three days off, so I thought you took her with you." I expressed my guess as if nothing had happened.
After Shen Yixiao adjusted his expression, he came back to his senses and showed a helpless and doting smile, "Wife, what are you thinking about?"
"Women like to think too much." I made up an excuse.
"You might as well install a monitoring and positioning device on my phone, so you can rest assured." He pinched my face.
I didn't continue to be aggressive, but waited until Shen Yixiao fell asleep, and then opened the chat box with Liang Feng.
There were several photos on it, showing Shen Yixiao and Lu Xiaoyun kissing in the hotel, and also eating.
Meng Zicheng went with them, and he deliberately took these photos and sent them to Liang Feng for appreciation: Brother Xiao is awesome, right? This method of concealing the truth is really powerful!
Liang Feng: Can’t we just turn a blind eye? Do we have to face such a cruel thing?
Me: It’s none of your business, just do as I say.
Liang Feng didn't reply to me, so I sent the photos without front-facing images anonymously to several familiar reporters.
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