Chapter 66 So Close
Jiang Kai chuckled and snapped his fingers. "That's right, out of sight, out of mind. You lot, hurry up and get to work! How can you smash Young Master Yuan's things and then let him watch? You're so clueless! Hurry up, don't delay things!"
Shi Nianzhi: "..."
Those two are so mean, they're always working together.
Gu Yuanyuan stood up angrily, pointing at Jiang Kai and Lu Jiunian, his hands trembling with rage, "You, you, you!"
Before the bodyguards could even make a move, Gu Yuanyuan had already fainted from anger.
Gu Dongxuan then showed up and instructed the servants to carry Gu Yuanyuan to a private doctor to see her injuries. Li Yuan was heartbroken and quickly followed.
Gu Dongxuan glanced at the smiling Jiang Kai and the indifferent Lu Jiunian, "You two, come here!"
Regardless, they still call Gu Dongxuan "Brother Gu".
Gu Dongxuan was the oldest among them, so his words naturally carried some weight.
Jiang Kai coughed. "Brother Gu has never dared to do anything to you, but I have a feeling I'm in trouble. Tsk, I was just watching the show, how did I get myself into this mess? I'm more wronged than Dou E."
Lu Jiunian ignored Jiang Kai and gently patted Shi Nianzhi on the back. "Wait for me for a moment. Don't get too close to the bodyguards."
"oh."
Shi Nianzhi watched Lu Jiunian and Jiang Kai walk away side by side.
He didn't move an inch, standing still and watching the bodyguard smash things.
He wasn't a collector, so when he saw these things being smashed, he just thought they were quite pretty and a bit of a waste.
The assistant came over and said, "Young Master Shi, please step back a little. I'm afraid some shards might fly out and accidentally hurt you."
"good."
Shi Nianzhi's ears turned a little red. No wonder Lu Jiunian told him to stay away from the bodyguards. So that was the reason.
Shi Nianzhi stepped back.
He closed the distance a little closer to Yang Runbai, who was stiff all over. It wasn't very close, but he could hear Yang Runbai clearly when he spoke.
"Could you please put in a good word for me later? I've studied hard for so many years and I'm about to graduate. I can't afford to have any problems at this time."
Shi Nianzhi turned to look at Yang Runbai, "I can't make the decision for him. You should ask him directly instead of me. Didn't you two get along very well before?"
"You know! He's just trying to make you jealous. You can help me. Please, I'm begging you! I come from a single-parent family. My mom works as a dishwasher in a restaurant to support my education. Her fingers are cracked from washing dishes, and she only makes 2,000 yuan a month. I'm about to graduate and find a good job to repay her. I can't be fired right now; I can't face my mom. You have parents too, don't you?"
Shi Nianzhi lowered his eyes, turned his head away, and remained silent.
Yang Runbai walked over and grabbed Shi Nianzhi's arm. "I can tell that your family wasn't well-off before. Can't you put yourself in my shoes?"
"I don't have your sharp mind, I can't put myself in your shoes."
Shi Nianzhi gripped Yang Runbai's wrist. "Take your hand away."
Yang Runbai's eyes were a little red. "It was Gu Yuanyuan who hit you. I didn't do anything! You know that! I didn't do anything to you."
“You did it. If you hadn’t opened the door, Gu Yuanyuan would never have been able to come in. If you hadn’t held me down, I would have run out long ago.”
Shi Nianzhi looked at Yang Runbai calmly.
Shi Nianzhi lowered her eyes, paused, and then said, "Does this mean you didn't do anything? You're still gripping my wound tightly, it hurts a lot."
The assistant couldn't stand it anymore, so he came over, pulled Yang Runbai away, and pushed him aside.
Yang Runbai dared not go forward. He actually stood there and cried, wiping away his tears with the back of his hand as if he were in utter despair.
Shi Nianzhi pursed her lips, then gently rubbed the bruises on her arm with her fingers before saying, "Didn't Gu Yuanyuan say he would protect you? You can go to him. Besides, Lu Jiunian might not necessarily punish you."
Yang Runbai squatted on the ground, "He likes you so much, he definitely won't let me go."
"He doesn't like me at all."
Shi Nianzhi muttered something under his breath, then turned to look at his assistant, "Could you take me home? I want to sleep."
He wants to go to school tomorrow.
He hasn't rested well these past two days. If he doesn't go to bed early tonight, he'll easily fall asleep in class tomorrow and will be punished by the teacher by standing in the corridor.
The assistant gave a professional smile. "Third Master will be out soon. We'll go back together later."
Shi Nianzhi looked down at his phone.
After a while, Jiang Kai and Lu Jiunian came out.
Jiang Kai rubbed his thigh. "I knew it. I was the one who would get kicked. Bullying his son means I'll get beaten up. Actually, I think he really wanted to hit you. He was just being lenient with you. I'm so innocent. I'm just a scapegoat!"
Lu Jiunian didn't speak. He kept his eyes on Shi Nianzhi, who was standing there with her head down.
Jiang Kai shouted, "No, you have to make it up to me. Give me those two chickens. I've already bought all the ingredients. Hurry up and catch them so I can stew them and make myself some nourishing food."
Shi Nianzhi turned around abruptly, "No!"
Jiang Kai walked over and grabbed Shi Nianzhi's ear. "You heard this clearly, didn't you hear that I took the blame for your husband? Are you intermittently deaf? Don't you have any conscience, you little thing? Who else would have come here if it weren't for you?"
"You, weren't you here to watch the show? What does this have to do with me?"
Shi Nianzhi pouted slightly, as if dissatisfied.
Jiang Kai stared at those little red lips, and his eyes darkened.
"Smack—"
The next second, the hand that was holding Shi Nianzhi's ear was hit hard, and he pulled his hand back in pain.
Staring at the culprit, "What are you doing?!"
Lu Jiunian's gaze was icy, as if he could pierce through Jiang Kai with a single glance.
Jiang Kai felt a little guilty. He awkwardly withdrew his hand, glanced around, and then asked, "Huh? Yang Runbai? What are you doing here? Who bullied you? Why are you crying like this?"
Jiang Kai still remembered Yang Runbai because Yang Runbai was the most handsome guy in the teacher training department and had pursued him.
Jiang Kai is a man of principle; he doesn't eat the grass near his burrow, no matter how tender the grass is.
Therefore, she rejected Yang Runbai's advances, but she embodied the word "gentle" to the extreme.
On the day he rejected Yang Runbai, Jiang Kai treated Yang Runbai to a meal. He was very gentlemanly in every gesture, and then used the most tactful words to say the most heartless things.
Yang Runbai seemed to have grasped at a straw, "Professor Jiang, can you please put in a good word for me? This whole thing was instigated by Gu Yuanyuan."
"You were involved too?"
Lu Jiunian's low, cold voice told Jiang Kai, "He is the main player."
Yang Runbai retorted, "How could I be a key player?"
"You sent the servants away and opened the door, which gave Gu Yuanyuan the opportunity. Weren't you the main force?"
The man's simple and straightforward words seemed to be daggers, striking right at the heart of the matter.
Jiang Kai's voice was rather helpless, "No one can shake Third Master's decision. Besides, you were in the wrong first. Why did you have to mess with him? I can't do anything about it. I still call Gu Yuanyuan my nephew. He's already been dealt with."
Jiang Kai's meaning was clear: he didn't care about Gu Yuanyuan, so naturally he wouldn't care about Yang Runbai, whom he wasn't even that familiar with.
Jiang Kai appears to be a gentle and harmless person, but he is cold-hearted at heart.
Lu Jiunian looked at his assistant, "You know what to do."
"Understood, Third Master. You should get some rest."
"Um."
Lu Jiunian took Shi Nianzhi's hand and walked towards the car.
Shi Nianzhi stopped in her tracks. "What do you plan to do with him?"
The assistant spoke on Lu Jiunian's behalf: "Expel him from school, kick him out of the capital, and forbid him from ever coming back."
Yang Runbai's face turned deathly pale, and he collapsed to the ground. He had worked so hard to make a decent living in the glitz and glamour of the capital, hoping to gain a foothold in high society and improve his life.
This will allow his mother to hold her head high in front of relatives, after all, she has been humiliated for so many years.
But now everything is ruined. He can no longer hold his head high in front of his relatives, and he can't even live a decent life anymore.
Yang Runbai burst into tears. Why? He had worked so hard for so many years.
He studied diligently for years, working tirelessly even when everyone else was asleep, all in the desire to become a little better, and then a little better still.
Now there's nothing left.
He felt dizzy and everything was over.
Shi Nianzhi pursed her lips, as if she wanted to say something but hesitated.
Lu Jiunian frowned. "Say what you want to say!"
I don't dare to say a word in front of him, I'm such a coward.
I don't know whether I should tell the truth or not.
"If you don't know, then don't say it!"
"Let me say this again... Gu Yuanyuan hit me. Since you didn't expel him or banish him from the capital, that's unfair to Yang Runbai."
The man's voice was somewhat cold, "What do you mean?"
Shi Nianzhi looked up at Lu Jiunian and said, "Treat Yang Runbai the same way you treat Gu Yuanyuan. Don't discriminate."
Lu Jiunian reached out and pinched Shi Nianzhi's chin. "I rushed back to help you get revenge. What, judging from your tone, you're not satisfied?"
Shi Nianzhi faced Lu Jiunian, who lowered his eyes and remained silent.
Lu Jiunian grabbed Shi Nianzhi's chin and shook his face back and forth. "Who are you trying to fool with that long face?! I've done so much for you, and all I get is this attitude from you?!"
“I’m usually like this when I’m not talking. If you insist that I’m unhappy, I can’t help it if I give you the cold shoulder.”
Jiang Kai chuckled and reassured Lu Jiunian, "Alright, alright, it's so late, Xiao Nianzhi must be sleepy. Why are you arguing with him? Hurry up and finish this, go back and rest, you're all tired. You haven't slept since you got off the plane, you must be sleepy."
Jiang Kai smoothed things over.
Lu Jiunian gave Shi Nianzhi a look that said, "I'll deal with you when we get home," and then grabbed Shi Nianzhi's wrist and dragged her into the car.
As soon as Shi Nian got out of the car, someone picked her up.
As Lu Jiunian carried him up the stairs, he asked with some alarm, "Are you going to hit me? I really didn't mean to hit you before. If you're going to hit me, could you please not hit me so hard? Just hit me with the same force I used to hit you, okay?"
"......"
Lu Jiunian's expression was rather unpleasant.
He threw Shi Nianzhi onto the bed.
Shi Nianzhi fell face down; he had just rolled over.
The man's hands were already resting on his ears.
Shi Nianzhi looked at Lu Jiunian, who was so close to him. His eyes, though bright, were darting around with a hint of fear.
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