Chapter 19: Tell her clearly that she will drag you into the abyss...
Lu Chiyuan's call allowed security to stop Shen Zhiyi from sending out the essay in time.
There were still a lot of things in the company that needed Lu Chiyuan's attention. He couldn't just leave them all behind and go back to reason with Shen Zhiyi, so he asked the security guard to start a video call on the computer.
On the other side of the computer, Shen Zhiyi was sitting in her room, with security standing behind her.
Without waiting for Lu Chiyuan to speak, Shen Zhiyi said first: "Why did you let someone take my phone away? Don't I even have the right to speak now?"
Lu Chiyuan didn't beat around the bush and said directly, "Chen Jiu sexually assaulted minors and molested company employees. He was fired from the company a week ago. What are you going to say for him now? Say that he is innocent, or that he is an honest man and he would never do such a thing?"
"He has been with you for so many years. If he had a problem, would you have discovered it now? I think you deliberately found a reason to fire him because you have a problem with him because of the last incident. You said he molested employees, who did he molest? He sexually assaulted a minor, so why didn't the news report the victim?"
Shen Zhiyi couldn't listen to Lu Chiyuan's words, and she argued convincingly, looking at Lu Chiyuan unconvinced. In her opinion, all this was Lu Chiyuan's trick. He was powerful, how easy was it to frame someone?
[It's really better to raise a piece of barbecued pork than to raise her. Does she want to listen to what she is saying? The Lu family is so good to her, but she doesn't stand with the Lu family at this time, but instead helps Chen Jiu to make excuses? Did Chen Jiu save her life? ]
Lu Chiyuan video chatted with Shen Zhiyi in Jiang Chen's office, and Jiang Chen sat next to him to avoid appearing in the camera. He couldn't see Shen Zhiyi, but he could hear Shen Zhiyi's voice.
It’s better not to listen to this.
[She didn't hesitate at all when she harmed Brother Lu. I now suspect that Brother Lu was kidnapped because she and Chen Jiu worked together. The author didn't dare to write it too clearly because he was afraid of being scolded, right? ]
[The Lu family died because of her, but she inherited the property and fell in love with the male protagonist with peace of mind.]
[She is already eighteen years old, can the Lu family sever ties with her? ]
The more Jiang Chen thought about it, the angrier he became. The story had just begun and she had already acted like this. Who knew how much more trouble she would get into later.
But Lu Chiyuan's setting is that no matter what she does, he will be able to solve her problems without holding grudges and play the role of a good brother.
Jiang Chen was skipping chapters crazily when he was reading. Now that he has come in, he can't advance the progress bar. He ignores Shen Zhiyi as much as possible and concentrates on following Lu Chiyuan. In the end, Shen Zhiyi jumps in the face again.
[Why don't I just kill her! ] Jiang Chen thought, [I will die with her. ]
Snowball was shocked: [Host, this joke is not funny. The system reminds you that if the luck does not shift, the death of the hero and heroine will cause the small world to collapse.]
Jiang Chen was silent for a while, then said: [Just kidding.]
If the small world collapses, Lu Chiyuan will also disappear.
On the other side of the computer, Shen Zhiyi's words became more and more intense. In the past, she only needed to act coquettishly to get things done, but now it doesn't work.
Jiang Chen saw Lu Chiyuan frowning, but he didn't say anything to refute. After thinking for a moment, he seemed to have made some kind of decision. He put down his pen, stood up and walked towards Lu Chiyuan, saying: "Brother Lu, can you let me have a few words with Miss Shen?"
Lu Chiyuan looked up at him, his slightly blue eyes hiding an emotion that Jiang Chen couldn't understand. He stood up and gave his seat to Jiang Chen.
Jiang Chen sat down, looked at Shen Zhiyi with a smile, and said, "Miss Shen, you know best that Chen Jiuwu is innocent. He is Brother Lu's security guard, and he has been assigned to you for only a few days. You seem to be quite protective of him. Could it be that there is a secret between you two? Are you worried that he will tell it, so you are so eager to help him get away with it?"
Shen Zhiyi asked Chen Jiu to help her with more than one or two things, and Lu Chiyuan saved face for Shen Zhiyi and never mentioned the good things she did in school.
Jiang Chen didn't care about that. Since Lu Chiyuan was not in a position to say it, he would say it.
It is a crime if he offends the male lead, and it is a crime if he offends the female lead.
Shen Zhiyi was choked by Jiang Chen's words and looked around and said, "What does it have to do with you if I talk to my brother? Does this matter have anything to do with you? You are just a security guard, just do what you should do."
"You still know that he is your brother!" Jiang Chen directly retorted, "You don't stand on his side, but speak for outsiders. Do you think you are really kind and today is another day to do good deeds?"
Jiang Chen's impoliteness made Shen Zhiyi feel hot on her face. She just liked to play the devil's advocate. When others thought those things were wrong, she had to think that she was right to show how different she was.
She didn't care what Chen Jiu was like, she just wanted to stand against the public.
Jiang Chen exposed this, and she became angry and shouted: "I was wrong, it's all my fault, you are right, are you satisfied?"
After saying that, without waiting for Jiang Chen to say anything more, he directly closed the communication.
Jiang Chen didn't react, and was silent for two seconds, then looked up at Lu Chiyuan: "Um...she hung up."
“As expected.”
Lu Chiyuan was not surprised, the cold war was also a tactic often used by Shen Zhiyi, but in the past, he would take the initiative to give her gifts as a stepping stone because she was much younger than him.
But now, Lu Chiyuan didn't have such an idea.
Today was the second time he heard from Jiang Chen about his own ending and his parents' future.
He still felt it was absurd, like a fairy tale. But behind the absurdity, Shen Zhiyi's ungratefulness made him feel cold in his heart.
The Lu family had never let her down. They had been helping her deal with various things. Maybe because of work, they couldn't be with her all the time, but materially, they never lacked her for anything.
In the end, she cared more about outsiders' affairs than the Lu family's.
Lu Chiyuan found it ironic. Perhaps absurdity is the essence of this world.
Without Shen Zhiyi's interference, Huanyu's public relations team quickly suppressed the public opinion and dug up the club's affairs, bringing Linfeng Group into the center of public opinion again.
Lin Feng reacted and responded. Thanks to him, Jiang Chen and his colleagues on the same floor stayed to work overtime. In the end, they overwhelmed Lin Feng's momentum with a slight advantage and threw the dirty water back.
It was already past eleven when the get off work ended. Everyone packed up and left one after another. Jiang Chen was a little late in organizing the materials for tomorrow. By the time he finished, the lights outside had been turned off and it was pitch dark.
The lights of Xu Chen and Lu Mingxuan were still on. He passed by Xu Chen's office and saw two people ordering midnight snacks.
"Aren't you going back?" Jiang Chen asked casually.
Xu Chen turned around and said, "It's too late. I have to get up early tomorrow. I choose to sleep in the company. How about staying with us? Let's have some nightlife?"
Jiang Chen waved his hand quickly: "No, I decline. I'm leaving first. The car I called should be arriving soon."
Jiang Chen sprained his foot and couldn't use it, so he didn't drive today.
The street below the company building was empty. The halo of the street lamp stood alone in the darkness, and the shadows of the trees on both sides of the road were intertwined.
Jiang Chen looked around and didn't see the driver's car. He turned on his phone and found that the driver had canceled the order.
"What?"
Jiang Chen was speechless. He walked towards the road. Soon a car caught up with him and stopped beside him.
Jiang Chen couldn't help but look towards the car and recognized it as Lu Chiyuan's car.
The driver stopped the car, got out and opened the back door for Jiang Chen. In the dim light, Lu Chiyuan leaned against the seat with his hands folded on his legs.
He looked at Jiang Chen and said, "Get in the car. I'll take you home."
Jiang Chen put away his phone and got in the car without saying anything.
The driver lowered the front fender, darkness engulfed, and the only light source in the car was the lights flashing on the side of the road.
Lu Chiyuan's expression was hidden in the flickering light and shadow, and Jiang Chen couldn't see it clearly.
In the book, he is either helping Shen Zhiyi solve problems or on his way to help Shen Zhiyi solve problems. Occasionally, there are other words, also when he is on the way to work.
His joys, sorrows, anger and happiness are hidden in the words left by the author.
The world outside the window recedes, and the cars are speeding. In this quiet and narrow space, is he thinking about his own life, or is he worried about the troubles brought by Shen Zhiyi? Or is he thinking about nothing and just quietly enjoying the passing of time?
Jiang Chen didn't try to find something to talk about. He turned his head and looked out the window. The world was very quiet.
The driver stopped the car at the gate of the community. Jiang Chen thanked him, got out of the car and closed the door, and found that Lu Chiyuan followed him out of the car.
He took off his suit and was only wearing a shirt with two buttons undone on the collar, revealing his beautiful collarbone.
He said to Jiang Chen: "Walk with me."
There is a river near the community where Jiang Chen lives. The riverside is very quiet. There are no vendors setting up stalls and no young couples taking a night stroll. However, there is a group of fishermen who come here every day to cast their rods without fail.
The street lights along the river are dim, and more light comes from the shops on both sides, which are colorful.
Jiang Chen bought two cans of iced beer at the convenience store, one for him and one for Lu Chiyuan. They walked along the river, and at first no one spoke, just drinking in silence.
After drinking most of the wine in his hand, Lu Chiyuan started to talk. He mentioned Shen Zhiyi and talked about the six years that the author had glossed over in the story.
The Lu family adopted her and treated her as a family member, not as a pet, thinking that they just had another cat or dog in the house.
The Lu family’s parents were very disgusted with the Shen family’s behavior, so after buying out the relationship, they never let Shen Zhiyi contact them.
In six years, even if there is no blood relationship, feelings can be developed.
Shen Zhiyi was very timid at first. She actually cared a lot about what others thought. Lu's parents kept taking her to banquets in the hope that she would be confident and generous.
As an only child, Lu Chiyuan enjoyed the love of his parents until he was nineteen years old. He was not opposed to this extra sister.
The 19-year-old boy, who was full of emotions, compassion and sympathy, and not good at communication, filled Shen Zhiyi's room with expensive gifts.
They think that love can nourish beautiful flowers, but they don’t know that the flower is rotten from the root.
"Jiang Chen, if you were me, what would you do?" Lu Chiyuan put down the wine in his hand, leaned against the railing of the river bank, and looked up at Jiang Chen.
If it was wrong for him to help Shen Zhiyi, would it be right for him to give up Shen Zhiyi?
Jiang Chen smiled bitterly and said, "I may not be able to do as well as you, Brother Lu, you have too strong a sense of responsibility. Your uncle and aunt gave Shen Zhiyi to you to take care of before going abroad, and you felt that it was your responsibility to teach her well, so you took the trouble to clean up after her. You are very good, but Shen Zhiyi doesn't deserve you to be so good to her."
[She will drag you into the abyss, from which there will be no return.]
Jiang Chen added in his heart that Lu Chiyuan's hesitation came from the influence of the world consciousness on him, and also from six years of feelings and dedication.
"Do you hate her?" Lu Chiyuan suddenly changed the subject.
"Why do I hate her?" Jiang Chen was puzzled. He was indeed very angry at the heroine created by the author. He felt that this ungrateful person was really stupid and bad, but he couldn't say that he hated her.
Jiang Chen looked at the sparkling water surface. The ripples from the fisherman pulling up the fishing rod spread out, forming circles of waves.
"Rather than hating her, I think she's pathetic."
Shen Zhiyi is just a character created by the author to serve men. She acts and makes troubles, messing up everyone's fate, and finally has a beautiful love affair with the male protagonist.
She seems to be the winner, but in fact all her interests are serving the male protagonist.
Jiang Chen still had some leeway towards her, but he was completely disgusted with Gu Tingsen.
"Pathetic?" Lu Chiyuan repeated these two words with a dark look in his eyes.
Jiang Chen realized that it was not appropriate to use this word now, so he tried to make up for it, "She has a rich and handsome brother like you but she doesn't know how to cherish him. Instead, she has such poor taste that she can only fall for the yellow-haired boy on the street and can't tell the good from the bad. It makes people angry just by looking at her. If I had a brother like you, I would show off from elementary school to college, and I would want the whole world to know."
"Am I as good as you say?"
"Of course, otherwise I wouldn't..."
【I like you.】
Jiang Chen's voice unconsciously lowered, he scratched his head, and hurriedly brought out his original admiration for him, covering up the past without a trace: "It was because I admired Brother Lu that I applied for the job in the company. My parents didn't agree with me working outside, but they didn't stop me when they knew I was following you."
Jiang Chen grew up without any disaster or illness. He always took what he had and never fought for what he didn't have. However, he showed what persistence was when it came to following Lu Chiyuan.
Jiang Chen used his body to express his feelings, hoping that his feelings would be seen by Lu Chiyuan, instead of being foolishly hidden in his heart like in the original novel, and in the end the person who listened to him fell into eternal sleep before him.
Lu Chiyuan raised his hand, and his broad palm fell on Jiang Chen's head, ruffling his slightly curly hair, and smiled lightly: "I heard it. Okay, I'll take you back."
Lu Chiyuan withdrew his hand, threw the can of wine into the trash can, turned around and walked back.
Jiang Chen raised his hand to cover the place that Lu Chiyuan had touched, feeling a little weird. The barrier of distance he had set up in his heart was shattering, and the crackling sound was infinitely amplified.
He quickly caught up with Lu Chiyuan, his steps so happy that it seemed like he was skipping.
The street lights lengthened their shadows and they walked further and further away.
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