Chapter 38
"Xiaoyu!"
Chen Yuan rushed over, wrapped his arms around Lian Yu's neck, and pressed his cold cheek against the side of Lian Yu's neck.
Lian Yu looked around, his rapid breathing still not subsiding.
Everything was normal on the sidewalk, passers-by chatted and walked away, and at the end of the road, a street lamp was lit lonely.
"You didn't mean..."
"how?"
Chen Yuan raised his head, the fear in his eyes had long been replaced by shrewdness.
"I can't ask you to come if I'm fine? Lian Yu, do you still remember that you are my boyfriend?"
Lian Yu's eyes widened slightly, and his expression looked a little blank.
Chen Yuan sneered.
"Don't forget, I'm living this way because of you. I asked you to buy me a bag and you still can't even produce it. You even dare to be entangled with other men outside."
Chen Yuan had a smile on his lips, and every word he said was heart-wrenching.
"What's wrong with me asking you to come? Even if I tell you to die, you have to go."
Lian Yu's pupils trembled.
A ball of emotions swelled in Lian Yu's chest, squeezing the air out of his lungs until he could barely breathe. Lian Yu stumbled back a few steps, his breathing becoming somewhat rapid.
"Why on earth...why am I attracted to someone like you?"
The murmurs to oneself seemed especially clear at this moment.
Chen Yuan widened his eyes.
"What do you mean?"
"I want to break up with you."
As the words left his mouth, Lian Yu suddenly felt an unprecedented sense of relief. He clenched his fists at his sides, staring directly at the person before him who was both incredibly familiar and incredibly unfamiliar to him, and repeated:
"I mean, we're done."
"You dare?!"
Chen Yuan rushed over and grabbed Lian Yu's collar.
"Just like you said it's over? It's you who made me like this—"
"Chen Yuan."
Lian Yu's tone was very cold, and there was no longer any indulgence in his expression.
Chen Yuan shuddered, but his pride made him hold his head high and ask.
He squeezed out a cold laugh from his throat:
“It’s because Qin Yi is wrong, it’s really that bitch!”
Lian Yu frowned and interrupted him impatiently.
"We are both adults. Eloping was a choice made by both of us, so I shouldn't be the only one to bear the consequences."
Lian Yu suddenly felt relieved.
"You said I was the reason you ended up like this. But when I finally got out of that packed bar at 4 a.m. and had to rush to class at 8 a.m., when I had to scrub vomit off me, where were you? You were sleeping, chatting online, and questioning why I couldn't afford to buy you a bag. Chen Yuan, before I became a pauper, I was just like you."
The night wind blew up Lianyu's fiery red hair, and the moonlight enveloped him, like a vague, elusive phantom.
"No!"
Chen Yuan was completely panicked. He reached out and wanted to hold Lian Yu.
"No, Xiaoyu, I—"
Lian Yu took a step back.
Chen Yuan's hands froze in mid-air, his expression somewhat helpless, a tear rolling down from his red eyes.
It wasn't until then that Chen Yuan finally realized that Lian Yu, who always allowed him to control her, was slipping away from his grasp. It turned out that everyone's patience was limited, and it would be gradually worn away by uncontrolled harm.
He's taken his spoiled-ness game too far.
"Please forgive me, please forgive me, Xiaoyu. I will change, really... please believe me!"
Lian Yu looked at the embarrassed tearful eyes of the person in front of him and suddenly felt like laughing.
What were you doing so early?
"Chen Yuan, we're done."
Lian Yu turned and left, no longer paying attention to Chen Yuan's calls behind him.
His body felt more relaxed than ever before, his pace quickened little by little, and finally, Lian Yu started to jog.
Like a white dove in spring, every feather is soaked in sunlight.
He suddenly thought of Qin Yi.
He remembered Qin Yi asking him if he wanted to fight against fate.
Is this what it feels like?
Lian Yu laughed, and he bent down, feeling the blood rushing through his veins. He didn't care what passersby thought of him, or whether they would think he was crazy.
In the past, he had always been pushed forward by fate, but in his future life, he wanted to follow his heart.
"I see!"
Lian Yu suddenly shouted with abandon.
Under the dim street lights, his fiery red hair looked like a cluster of burning flames, and the earrings on his earlobes sparkled.
"I know what I want!"
He quickly took out his cell phone and dialed the familiar number.
But he didn't know that in the void, a mechanical electronic sound rang out, slowly spreading at a frequency that could not be captured by human ears.
[Correction mode, on.]
Click.
A tear fell to the ground, and the palm of the hand that was supporting the slate tile clenched little by little, and the veins bulged.
Chen Yuan's eyes were red.
"Qin Yi, it's all because of you... I'm going to kill you!"
——
In front of the floor-to-ceiling window, the thin moonlight outlined a figure, the dark outline was like a cold and hard mountain.
"You failed."
Qin Yi paused, pursed his lips, and wanted to speak, but for some reason it was extremely difficult.
The man in front of the French window stood up. His eyes behind the silver-rimmed glasses were surprisingly bright. Only a tiny wrinkle at the corner of his eyes made people realize that this man was already forty years old.
"Mr. Chu."
It was not until then that Qin Yi finally found his voice.
"I said, if you can bring my son back before 8 o'clock tonight, then I am willing to take the initiative to end our engagement as the party that breaks the contract and bear the cost of breaking the contract, but I'm sorry, you failed."
Chu Tian raised his chin and motioned Qin to look at the electronic clock on the wall which had just passed eight o'clock.
But Qin Yi just raised his head.
The bright red numbers on the sky were reflected in his eyes.
16:00:01
Only 16 hours left.
As soon as it's twelve o'clock tomorrow noon, the wedding march will start playing on time, and the world will enter self-destruction mode. Even if he can escape through the time tunnel, Lian Yu's ending will be to be buried in this world that does not belong to him.
The numbers gradually distorted and formed double images in his eyes.
A strong nausea rose in my throat.
Qin Yi's body suddenly shook, and his legs almost immediately went weak and he fell down.
"Are you okay?" Chu Tian quickly supported him, frowning.
Qin Yi shook his head.
"It's just that I haven't slept for more than fifty hours. It's nothing serious."
Chu Tian glanced at his pale lips and face, and suddenly chuckled.
"Why, you wanted me to take pity on you and offer to fulfill your wish? But I'm sorry, you failed."
Chu Tian, who was used to being in a superior position, didn't need to consider Qin Yi's feelings at all and spoke without mercy.
"When I saw Xiaoyu so eager to pull you away that day, I thought he liked you. But now it seems that Xiaoyu's feelings for you are just that, at least not enough to be willing to come back with you. Of course, there is no need for me to take the risk of terminating the contract for you."
"I've been seen through."
Qin Yi raised his chin, and the temperament that was trying to hold on to the extreme and on the verge of breaking disappeared completely. He shook off Chu Tian's hand that was supporting him.
"Don't you feel disgusted about marrying someone like me?"
"I don't think so."
Chu Tian shrugged, with a gentleman's smile always on his lips.
"My only requirement for a marriage partner is that he treats Xiaoyu well. Even if it's just that kind of love, it doesn't matter. I don't care. I chose Chen Yuan because of this. Who knew he would dare to elope with Xiaoyu?"
When the word "elope" was mentioned, Qin Yi heard a clear sound of grinding back teeth.
He looked up in shock, only to see Chu Tian smiling as usual.
"But fortunately, you are the one who will fulfill the engagement on behalf of Chen Yuan. You seem to be more reliable than Chen Yuan. You will not treat Xiaoyu badly, nor will you take Xiaoyu away from me."
?
Qin Yi frowned and stared at Chu Tian for a while.
Damn adopted slave.
"No wonder Lian Yu was so easily deceived by Chen Yuan." Qin Yi muttered.
"What did you say?" Chu Tian narrowed his eyes, looking a little bad.
Qin Yi suddenly heard the system broadcast in his mind.
He suddenly raised his head and smiled harmlessly:
"Nothing... Oops!"
Falling on flat ground is a test of acting skills, but it doesn’t matter, Qin Yi’s acting skills are good enough.
Seeing that he fell into an inertial shape without any external force, even someone as smart as Chu Tian instinctively reached out to catch him.
"dad!--?"
The door was pushed open at this moment. In front of the door, Lian Yu's smile froze on his face, and there was a bit of confusion in his wide-open eyes.
"What are you doing?"
Qin Yi was pushed away by Chu Tian.
He stood firm and watched Chu Tian open his arms to Lian Yu.
"Xiaoyu, you've suffered enough outside and finally decided to come back? How about staying with daddy?"
Chu Tian embraced Lian Yu in his arms and patted her back loudly.
Lian Yu seemed to be unable to react and just let Chu Tian pat him.
But his eyes were always on Qin Yi.
Qin Yi lowered his eyes.
The thick and long eyelashes showed a sinister aura, but a barely perceptible smile appeared in the eyes hidden behind the shadows.
After a while of greetings, Chu Tian finally noticed Lian Yu's abnormality. He put his arm around Lian Yu's shoulder and walked towards Qin Yi.
"What are you doing? Come on, call me little mom."
"Little Mom?"
Lian Yu had an extremely bewildered expression on his face, just like a lamb lost in a place where wolves roamed. He was so helpless that even if he curled up, he could not escape the fate of being hunted.
The wind blew the door shut with a bang.
Lian Yu shuddered as if frightened.
"What stepmother?"
Lian Yu staggered back a step. He looked at Chu Tian for help and tried hard to shake his adoptive father's shoulders with his eyes.
"I don't understand. What, what stepmother?!"
"You weren't here some time ago, so you didn't know. Didn't I marry into the Chen family before? But as you can see, Chen Yuan eloped with you..."
"Wait a minute!" Lian Yu's scalp tingled as if struck by lightning. "Chen Yuan is the youngest son of the Chen family you're marrying into?"
"Yes, because of Qin Yi's complicated background, he was not recognized by the Chen family until a few months ago, so he never changed his name. Although Chen Yuan ran away, the engagement had to continue, so Qin Yi continued to fulfill the engagement on Chen Yuan's behalf."
"How could that be... But Chen Yuan clearly said that his marriage partner was an old man!?"
As soon as Lian Yu finished speaking, Chu Tian laughed: "I asked the housekeeper Uncle Li to go on my behalf on the day of the meeting. I have to test the bride's sincerity, right?"
At this moment, Chu Tian's hearty laughter sounded like a mockery of Lian Yu.
Lian Yu lowered his head and clenched his fists at his sides.
"Why didn't you tell me?"
"...Xiaoyu" Chu Tian stretched out his hand, as if he wanted to say something.
Lian Yuqu suddenly raised his head, gritted his teeth, and his eyes fell on Qin Yi's face.
"So you knew everything, and I was the only one who was kept in the dark. Is this your way of getting back at me?"
Lian Yu stared at Qin Yi, but no answer came out.
He scoffed.
"You're right, it's really over between us."
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