Chapter 54 Hello, Chuunib

This incident was truly too shocking. A normal person would probably never imagine in his entire life that someone would do such a thing. Moreover, Xin Yi looked gentle and kind, no different from a normal middle-aged man. Who would associate such a thing with him?

But for some reason, after hearing what Qi Nian said, Ning Hao inexplicably believed that this trust did not come from their kinship. Ning Hao himself could not explain why.

Although Ning Hao is usually a jumpy person, he becomes very calm once he encounters serious matters. Even though he is full of shock and turmoil in his heart, he still appears calm on the surface.

Even if they were to expose Xin Yi's hypocritical face now, what would it matter? They had no evidence, so they would just let Xin Yi talk, and it would be easy to alarm him.

However, Ning Hao was in no mood to continue the party. He said something to the people he knew behind Xiaofen's back and prepared to leave.

In order to prevent Xin Yi from noticing anything, Ning Hao reluctantly overcame his inner resistance and said something to the other party with a smile, which made him feel disgusted enough.

"You don't know, when he left just now, that pervert was still staring at my little pinky. That look was just like a perverted man staring at a beautiful woman, so disgusting!" Ning Hao did it himself, feeding his little pinky with a distressed look on his face, while constantly complaining to Qi Nian.

Qi Nian was speechless: "Didn't you notice that there was something wrong with his eyes before?"

You know, Xin Yi has always had that look in his eyes, okay?

Ning Hao laughed and touched his nose: "Wasn't I careless before? I thought he really liked snakes. Actually, it's not my fault. Who could have thought there would be such a pervert?"

Qi Nian nodded: "That's right."

If he didn't have this strange ability to eat melons, he would never have thought that there were such people.

"So what are you going to do now?" Qi Nian looked at Ning Hao, thinking that he would definitely do something.

Sure enough, Ning Hao immediately told his plan: "We must get evidence and then expose him. Otherwise, what if he does the same thing to other snakes?"

Ning Hao felt uncomfortable just by saying it.

Qi Nian nodded angrily: "That's right, you can expose him in your group when the time comes."

Ning Hao sneered when he heard this: "How can we be in the group?"

Qi Nian was a little curious about how he planned to expose himself, but he didn't ask too much. He would know when the time came.

Ning Hao got from Qi Nian the information about the zoo where Xin Yi previously worked, as well as the URL of the external network where the other party posted the video, and the other party's account number.

After getting these, Ning Hao first went to the zoo where Xin Yi worked before. At first Ning Hao was a little worried. After all, it had been almost ten years since Xin Yi was fired, and he didn't know if anyone still remembered what happened.

But Ning Hao was lucky. After he arrived there and asked around, he met the person in charge of the reptile area in the zoo.

When Xin Yi was still working in this zoo, he was just an ordinary staff member in the reptile area. After so many years, he has become the area manager.

And what's more, the other party happened to be the person who discovered Xin Yi's abnormal behavior.

It was also because Ning Hao mentioned the name "Xin Yi" that the person in charge immediately expressed his willingness to meet him. After all, this name left such a deep impression on the person in charge that he probably would never forget it for the rest of his life.

"I didn't expect that after all these years, I would still hear this name." The person in charge is also a middle-aged man. He said with emotion while drinking tea: "That incident left a psychological shadow on me, a grown man."

"Xin Yi and I started working at the zoo at about the same time. Since we were both new, we became good friends. I didn't have much sense of belonging to this job at that time. I just did my job as required every day." The person in charge felt a little ashamed when he said this.

He continued, "But Xin Yi was completely different. He was very serious when taking care of these little guys. He wanted to stay here all the time. Oh, because of this, he was an outstanding employee of our park at that time."

Ning Hao listened and felt that Xin Yi had been so good at pretending more than ten years ago.

"Who could have imagined at that time that under his gentle appearance, he hid such a twisted heart?" The person in charge said this with gritted teeth: "I left as usual that day and left him to clean up before leaving get off work. As luck would have it, I forgot to bring something. When I came back, I saw... I saw him doing such a thing to a particularly well-behaved snake in the park!"

The person in charge said: "This guy is quite smart. He didn't target protected species, so even if he was discovered, he would just be fired. There is nothing we can do to him!"

The person in charge couldn't stop talking when he talked about this: "For so many years, I have been telling people around me about this matter, just to let them be wary of this kind of people with a human face but a beastly heart. Some people may sound decent on the surface, but they may not do bad things in private!"

After the person in charge finished speaking, he looked at Ning Hao standing beside him and smiled a little embarrassedly: "Sorry, I couldn't help but say so much. You came to see me because of Xin Yi, could it be that he hasn't changed yet?"

"Not only has it not changed? It's become even more rampant!" Ning Hao was very angry when he talked about this and immediately told the person in charge.

The two men, who were nearly twenty years apart in age, shared a common hatred for Xin Yi.

Seeing the person in charge so angry, Ning Hao felt that his request should not be difficult to meet: "I came here just to ask you to issue a certificate to clearly state that he has such a criminal record."

"No problem!" The person in charge said immediately, "I'll get it for you right away. Wait a minute. Right now, this kind of person cannot be punished legally and must be condemned morally. Let him...let him..."

Ning Hao replied: "Let him die!"

"Yes, let him die socially." The person in charge said, "I don't really understand the words you young people use."

The person in charge quickly produced a certificate explaining why Xin Yi was expelled.

Next, Ning Hao followed the URL Qi Nian gave him and found Xin Yi’s account. After clicking on it, he almost went blind.

But there was no other way. In order to get evidence, he had to bear it. He looked at them one by one, comparing the snakes' patterns and found that not all of them were Xin Yi's snakes. There must be others'.

Ning Hao let out a breath, took a screenshot of his hand, and compared it with the hand in Xin Yi's photo. He easily found that it was the same person.

After collecting all the evidence, Ning Hao directly sent it to his reptile group, and also sent a copy to the Tieba forum he had joined before.

The originally quiet groups and forums immediately became noisy.

Someone recognized that there was one of his own snakes inside and immediately went crazy, wanting to chop Xin Yi to death with a knife.

Xin Yi was also among the pets, but he didn't dare to come out and speak from beginning to end.

Once he speaks, everyone will surely attack him and criticize him like a sieve.

Of course, even if he didn't speak, there would still be people scolding him.

Some people even added his contact information through group chat, but Xin Yi didn't dare to accept any of them. Later, he even quit the group chat directly, which made everyone very angry.

"What an idiot! I'm so angry that I'm in the same group with this kind of person. He's trash and has ruined the group."

"I really want to catch a poisonous snake and bite him."

"Don't say that. Even a poisonous snake wouldn't be guilty of this."

"No, is it enough to just scold him? That's too unsatisfying. And who will give justice to those victimized snakes?"

"Fuck! It's trending on the search list. Who bought it?"

"Really? I saw that the Animal Protection Association also came out and said that this behavior was too abominable. Tsk tsk, it looks like this guy won't be able to hide away this time~"

Ning Hao fed a mouse to his little pinkie, then glanced at the group messages, keeping his fame and honor to himself.

Alas, this time my savings were gone in an instant, I felt sad! But looking at the still innocent and lively little fans, Ning Hao felt that it was worth it!

Now Xin Yi became famous among the whole country.

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"Oh my god, this is too explosive, isn't it?" Liu Yu opened Weibo and saw the trending search at a glance. He was completely shocked: "Why is there still a pair of snakes... Well, I don't quite understand."

"What's trending?" Lu Ze looked over curiously, then took a deep breath and said, "Hiss... it's hard to judge."

Liu Yu frowned and complained: "It's better to kill this kind of person. It's good for both people and small animals."

"Although I don't quite understand this word, I agree with your point of view." Lu Ze raised his hand and gave Liu Yu a thumbs up.

After saying that, he glanced at Qi Nian who had been silent the whole time and said, "Why aren't you curious at all today?"

After all, Qi Nian was the most curious among them. It was not normal at all that he was so quiet today.

Qi Nian put the potato chips in his mouth and chewed them like a lamb eating grass. He said with a guilty conscience, "Oh, I've already seen that trending search. Now I don't want to see it at all. It affects my appetite."

This reason was very convincing, so Lu Ze didn't ask any more questions.

Seeing how delicious he was eating, Liu Yu stretched out her claws towards Qi Nian's potato chips and said, "Are they really that delicious? Let me have a taste."

I stretched out my hand, but found nothing.

Qi Nian calmly stuffed the last piece of potato chips into his mouth and said embarrassedly, "I ate it all."

Liu Yu took the bag of potato chips and rummaged inside, and there was really not even a crumb left.

"No. You eat too fast, don't you? And you eat so much, but you're not fat at all." Liu Yu looked at Qi Nian, his eyes filled with jealousy.

"No? I've gained a little weight recently." Qi Nian touched his face.

"Really? I can't even tell." Liu Yu was still very jealous because he found that Qi Nian seemed to have become more beautiful!

Why do some people look better when they gain a little weight? Sure enough, those who say that people look better only when they are thin are liars!

"Come on, stop looking at him." Lu Ze laughed to death: "Look, his neck is almost shrinking."

Qi Nian: "..." How can it be so exaggerated? It's just that Liu Yu kept staring at him, and he was a little embarrassed.

"Haha, you are so shy. What will you do if you have a boyfriend in the future?" Liu Yu said shockingly.

Qi Nian was shocked: "What nonsense are you talking about? What boyfriend?"

Lu Ze: “Is there something I don’t know?”

"Hey, I was just joking." Liu Yu waved his hands in embarrassment, but couldn't help asking, "Well, you haven't mentioned your brother recently."

Qi Nian didn't quite understand why she changed the subject so quickly. Only Lu Ze looked at Liu Yu, who was smiling.

Speaking of his brother, Qi Nian couldn't wait to share the story of his brother buying a clothing store for him.

Ahem, I was embarrassed to show off before, but now it’s Liu Yu who asked the question first.

So Qi Nian said it with a reserved look on his face.

Liu Yu covered her mouth and laughed: "Oh my god! Isn't it too spoiled?! Tsk tsk, such a big thing is shared now."

Should this kind of thing be shared? However, Liu Yu's reaction made Qi Nian inexplicably happy, and he smiled reservedly.

Liu Yu also knew the principle of knowing when to stop, so she didn't ask any more questions. She had already had enough sugar for today. She coughed lightly and said, "I almost forgot something important!"

As she spoke, she took out something like two red envelopes from her bag and handed them to Qi Nian and Lu Ze respectively.

"Wedding invitation?!" Qi Nian's mouth opened wide after he saw the words on the cover clearly.

"Are your parents going to remarry?" Lu Ze's reaction was quite quick.

Qi Nian, who almost misunderstood, said: “…” Ahem, luckily he didn’t say it out loud.

He opened the invitation letter and saw the names of Liu Yu's parents thanking him.

"Let me tell you something." Liu Yu looked very happy. "When my parents got married, the old lady said not to waste money, so the wedding was very simple. So this time my parents are remarrying, and the wedding is going to be a big one. My mother also said that she wanted to thank Qi Nian very much, so you must go when the time comes."

Taking into account the fact that Qi Nian was afraid of social phobia, Liu Yu also said considerately: "When the time comes, we will arrange a private room for you and add Sun Jing. Don't worry, there will be no unfamiliar people."

Qi Nian was deeply moved and immediately expressed that he must go.

Lu Ze also said that he would go.

——

In a blink of an eye, it was the day of Liu Yu's parents' remarriage. Qi Nian took a car to the hotel entrance, only to find that Liu's father had booked the entire five-star hotel with his wealth.

Qi Nian met Lu Ze at the door, and soon Liu Yu came to pick them up and took them to meet Liu Yu's parents.

This was the first time Qi Nian met Liu Yu's mother. She had fashionable curly hair and looked like a bright and beautiful woman.

Since the other party was busy putting on makeup, they did not disturb her too much and went directly to the private room on the second floor with Liu Yu.

The window of the box directly overlooks the wedding venue outside, which shows that the Liu family's arrangements are very thoughtful.

"Go and do your work. Don't worry about us." Since everyone around him knew each other, Qi Nian was more relaxed and let Liu Yu leave first.

Liu Yu was also very busy, so he gave the waiter a few instructions and left.

At this moment, there were only Qi Nian and Lu Ze in the box. The latter was still attending a remote meeting. Qi Nian was bored and just played with his phone.

When I opened Weibo, I saw a push notification, which was about Xinyi.

Xin Yi went out to buy something and was recognized somehow. Then, he was chased and scolded by an old lady. This scene was recorded on video and posted online. The comment section was full of people saying "good scolding".

Qi Nian shook his head and did not comment too much on this.

The wedding started very quickly. Mother Liu didn't like those complicated procedures, so this wedding was more natural and in accordance with her requirements.

Without those unnecessary sensational scenes, everyone enjoyed watching it.

After the wedding, Liu's father was so happy that he even went on stage to sing a love song. Although he was out of tune the whole time, that was the atmosphere he wanted.

Liu's mother was watching from the audience, saying "how embarrassing" but with a smile on her face.

They missed each other for many years, but finally got together.

Qi Nian silently wished: I hope they will live together forever.

After the wedding, Qi Nian and Lu Ze saw that Liu Yu and the others were very busy, so they said goodbye to them and left.

The two of them left the hotel. With the social expert Lu Ze around, Qi Nian no longer had to worry about meeting a talkative driver, and the two decided to take a taxi back.

However, just as they stood by the road, a Cayenne stopped in front of them and a middle-aged man got out. Qi Nian recognized him as Jiang Yi's father.

At the same time, he is also Lu Ze's biological father.

Qi Nian glanced at Lu Ze, thinking hesitantly, if he pulled the other person away now, would Jiang's father's Cayenne catch up with him.

It was obvious that Jiang's father could not know what was going on in his heart. He walked to Lu Ze with a smile and said gently, "Xiao Ze, can you find a place to talk to me?"

The man was very humble. Before Lu Ze said the words of refusal, he suddenly thought of the arrogant Jiang Yi that day, and he suddenly didn't want to refuse anymore.

If he didn't come into contact with anyone from the Jiang family, the other party's defense would be broken like that. If he did come into contact with them, there's no telling how the other party would react.

To Qi Nian's surprise, Lu Ze smiled and said, "Send my friend back first."

Father Jiang smiled and nodded, then looked at Qi Nian: "I'm sorry, I was so excited to see Xiaoze just now that I ignored you. It's been a while since we last met, Xiao Nian, you've grown a lot taller."

The Chu family and the Jiang family had contacts in the past, so Jiang's father naturally knew Qi Nian.

Although Qi Nian didn't know why Lu Ze agreed to Jiang's father, it was the other party's choice and he would not interfere self-righteously. He didn't know what to say either, so he just smiled shyly.

The two of them followed Jiang's father into the car. In the car, Jiang's father spoke several times. Lu Ze seemed to have suddenly become as shy as Qinian and ignored him the whole time.

Qi Nian didn’t know whether Jiang’s father was embarrassed or not, but he was quite embarrassed.

When I saw Jiang's father, he still had a smile on his face. I have to say that he has very strong mental qualities.

Qi Nian was a little impressed by each other.

Maybe because he saw that Lu Ze didn't pay much attention to him, Jiang's father looked at him with even more admiration, thinking that this kid was quite tolerant and not afraid of insults.

But he was not a person who didn't care about his reputation. This was in front of outsiders, so he simply shut up and said no more.

When they arrived at the Chu family's gate, Qi Nian was actually eager to get off the car, but he was still a little worried about his good friend facing the old fox alone, so he got off the car very slowly, as if he was possessed by an otter.

Father Jiang was very upset and coughed softly, "Please tell your uncle and aunt that I have something to do today, so I won't come to visit you. I will come in person another day."

Qi Nian nodded and still looked at Lu Ze.

The latter is both funny and touching. After all, it is not easy for social phobia to achieve this level.

He signaled to Qi Nian with his eyes that he was fine and told him to go without worry.

Qi Nian thought about it and felt that there was no need to worry. After all, Lu Ze was also Jiang's son, and he would not do anything.

Thinking this, he finally got off the car smoothly.

——

In the private restaurant, Jiang's father dismissed everyone else, breaking the quiet atmosphere. He sighed slightly and said, "You have suffered a lot over the years, but I am glad that you have grown into what you are now."

Father Jiang: "It's my fault too. I pushed Jiang Yiqun too hard. He still refuses to admit that he was wrong and is looking for trouble with you. Don't worry, I have already taught him a lesson."

Lu Ze didn't care whether Jiang's father liked him or not, so he was not nervous. He drank a sip of tea and asked, "You called me here just to say this?"

What kind of fatherly love and filial piety are you acting out?

Father Jiang was not angry either. He smiled and said, "Of course it's not just because of this. You have been out there for so many years, but after all, you are our Jiang family's child. How can we let you continue to suffer? Come back, child, and give your mother and I a chance to make amends."

Lu Ze lowered his eyes: "I have parents."

"It's okay if you want them to continue to be your parents. After all, they have raised you for so many years." Jiang's father was not angry. Instead, he was very satisfied with Lu Ze's loyalty and righteousness: "After all, they are also benefactors of our Jiang family."

Lu Ze didn't say anything, but seemed a little moved.

"Bringing you back to the Jiang family doesn't mean you have to sever your ties with your previous parents. What kind of people would we be?" Jiang's father continued to persuade him, "Child, I brought you back to tell you that you, like Jiang Yi, also have the right to inherit the Jiang family. In our Jiang family, the strong always have the final say."

Lu Ze's eyes moved, and he said slowly: "...Okay, but I have a few requests."

——

"What, you're going to work for Jiang's in your spare time?" Qi Nian was stunned, not quite understanding how Lu Ze could change so quickly.

In front of his friends, Lu Ze no longer had to pretend: "I don't care about the Jiang family. He said he had educated Jiang Yi, but in the end, Jiang Yi didn't get any punishment. Oh, it's really funny."

If he said this to others, he would definitely be laughed at by others, but he was not worried about it.

Sure enough, Qi Nian's brows furrowed even tighter: "Then why are you..."

"I don't want to give away things that I don't want to give away to others, especially to people I hate." Lu Ze smiled and said, "Do you remember how Jiang Yi looked for me? He was so arrogant, as if he could step on me at any time."

Lu Ze was very clear-headed: "At first he deliberately abandoned me because he was afraid that I would take away his parents' love. Now, he is afraid that I will return to the Jiang family because he is afraid that I will take away his property. If I really don't go back, wouldn't that be what he wants? I still feel a little unhappy when I think about it."

Lu Ze: "Besides, even if I avoid his attack and don't touch his interests, who can guarantee that he won't do something? Just like before, he imagined that his brother would snatch his favor away, so he did not hesitate to attack a weaker existence than himself regardless of blood relationship. I will not give the initiative to others, especially such a cold and bottom-line-less person."

Qi Nian felt a bit complicated after hearing this. He had indeed thought things were too simple before.

Lu Ze could certainly achieve something great, but how long would it take for him to be on par with the Jiang family? Even if he could, would Jiang Yi give him this opportunity?

Now that I have the chance to compete with Jiang Yi, why not? I would be a fool not to do so.

Moreover, Lu Ze's identity meant that some things were beyond his control. It would be better for him to make a choice on his own initiative.

Lu Ze looked at this friend he cared about: "Do you think I have changed?"

"You have changed." Qi Nian said seriously, "You have grown up, and you have grown very fast."

Lu Ze smiled. What was he worried about? Oh, he was just being hypocritical.

Qi Nian coughed lightly and patted his shoulder seriously: "I support your opinion. Isn't that what friends are like?"

Anyway, he is definitely partial to his friends!

Lu Ze half-jokingly said, "Wait for my triumphant return!"

Qi Nian couldn't help but laugh: "Hahaha, you are so immature."

Lu Ze: “…”