Chapter 113 The Harder You Try, the More Unfortunate You Are

The last time Shen Zhi had dinner with so many people was the first day his mother took him to the He family after marrying into the family.

Most of the He family were there. Shen Zhi didn't recognize them, not just because of their looks.

It's the eyes.

Shen Zhi raised his head and could clearly see the disdain and indifference in the eyes of everyone on the stairs. They were as noble as the jewels in the glass cabinet of the exhibition hall, gorgeous and cold.

Shen Zhi could hardly recognize even his mother.

She was well-dressed, with a little makeup on, and was as beautiful as a princess. Unlike Shen Zhi, she seemed to be very familiar with the He family. Although her expression was a little humble and fawning, it was obvious that she was happy and at ease.

Shen Zhi suddenly felt fortunate. He was glad that his mother was living the life she wanted and was not dragged down by him.

That's good.

Shen Zhi let out a sigh. He didn't want to ruin his mother's second marriage, even if it would make her a little uncomfortable.

Shen Zhi didn’t know if he had done well enough, but he really tried his best.

"Who is he?" He Qili raised his eyes and asked softly in surprise.

Shen Zhi wiped the sauce from his mouth with a napkin without raising his head, "Friend."

He Qili's smile widened, and interest appeared in his eyes, "Xiaozhi has friends now, that's great, does Xiaozhi have many friends in college?"

Shen Zhi didn't have that. He had always been committed to being a gentle senior. He simply couldn't make friends. He had no topics to chat with, no free time, and even no sincere heart.

But Shen Zhi just said "hmm" softly. He thought, even if it wasn't his friend, it wouldn't be a wedding gift either.

"It's better to look for reliable friends," He Qili said with a faint smile.

Ruan Zhu is a meticulous person. Her family is very strict and her parents also set limits on the friends she can make.

She thought that the same parents were also the ones who gave the wedding gifts.

Ruan Zhu was always soft-hearted. She hadn't completely let go of Song Hengyang. She couldn't bear to see him being misunderstood. "Junior Song is very capable. He is the top scorer in science. He has studied abroad and won several international gold medals. Now he has joined the student union and is working with Senior Shen."

"They are inseparable, they are friends and partners," Ruan Zhu redefined the relationship between Shen Zhi and Song Hengyang.

They are closer than the friends Shen Zhi mentioned.

No one at the table felt anything was wrong, even Chu Shi just frowned, then picked up the spoon and drank his cream of mushroom soup.

Shen Zhi's eyes trembled slightly. Perhaps the lie wrapped in a sweet coat took effect. At this moment, Shen Zhi felt proud.

It's like a little kid who gets a long-lost candy and runs to his friends to show off loudly, saying, "Look, I have it too. I'm no different from you."

Shen Zhi suddenly thought that this was enough. Even if his lie was exposed, he had possessed it for a moment.

He can bear the consequences of lying.

"Isn't that right, Junior Brother Song?" Ruan Zhu asked for confirmation.

Song Hengyang, who was secretly patting the bunny pudding's butt with a spoon, was stunned for a moment. The peach mousse was sold out, and he was given a peach pudding in the shape of a bunny.

"The senior asked me to study with him and then join the student union in the future," Song Hengyang said honestly.

Ruan Zhu looked at him with a smile. That was it. She was right. Senior Shen and Junior Song had a very good relationship.

Ji Shilu looked at Song Hengyang in confusion and questioned, "Is this a new election system? I have never heard of it."

After Ji Shilu finished speaking, Ruan Zhu blinked in confusion. She seemed to have never heard of it before.

Shen Zhi closed his eyes, his expression as calm as water.

When He Qili heard Ji Shilu's question, he curled his lips and smiled. No one knew Shen Zhi better than him.

When Song Hengyang heard the topic about himself, he raised his head slightly, glanced at Shen Zhi beside him, withdrew his gaze coldly, and then lowered his eyes to stare at the little rabbit pudding on his plate again. It was soft and springy, like a miniature version of Senior Shen.

He is not hungry yet, he can watch for a while and eat later.

"There are so many people here," Qin Dingzhuo saw Shen Zhi as he stepped into the restaurant. He looked a little different from his usual gentle appearance and a little dull.

Ruan Zhu quickly put aside her confusion, her eyes lit up, and she introduced enthusiastically, "This is also Senior Shen's friend."

Senior Shen has many friends, and she knows several of them. She is also a friend of Senior Shen.

Qin Dingzhuo did not come alone. He was followed by a frail and thin young man who looked very quiet.

He Qili watched as the tough-looking young man walked to Shen Zhi's side carelessly, resting his long arms on the back of Shen Zhi's chair, his thick muscles flowing naturally, his eyebrows frowned, his big white teeth bared, and he smiled, "Yes, I'm his friend."

"My friend, you invited so many people to dinner but not me? This is how you treat your friends?" Qin Dingzhuo asked in a questioning tone, but one could still hear the intimacy in his words.

Qin Dingzhuo saw that Shen Zhi had not replied for several days and could not find him, so he thought Shen Zhi was teasing him on purpose.

He went out with Luo Yi today and ran into Shen Zhi having dinner with someone else. He was furious, but when he really walked up to Shen Zhi and smelled the faint, cold fragrance on him, his anger completely dissipated.

Qin Dingzhuo was convinced that Shen Zhi was sent by God to torture him.

He Qili rolled his eyes slightly and looked at Luo Yixi behind Qin Dingzhuo. The young man had fair skin and a slim figure, and his glassy eyes were misty. From certain angles, he looked very much like...

Shen Zhi.

He Qili suddenly smiled and sighed, what a friend he is.

Shen Zhi asked the waiter to add two more chairs. Qin Dingzhuo sat on Shen Zhi's right, and Luo Yiqing sat next to Qin Dingzhuo.

This night is destined to be a bumpy night.

But what no one expected was that the first person to speak would be the seemingly introverted Luo Yiqi.

"Mr. He from Borri Medical?" Luo Yiqi studied medicine and had participated in some seminars on medical devices with his mentor. He had met He Qili.

He Qili nodded and said, "I just returned to China recently. I didn't expect to be recognized by Mr. Luo."

"The new capsule endoscope developed by Hejia is excellent and well-known in the industry," Luo also praised.

He Qili smiled and said, "Thank you Mr. Luo for your approval."

Luo Yixi turned to look at Shen Zhi, "Is it Senior Shen Zhi? I am a year younger than you. I have seen you on the school's official website. You appeared as an outstanding graduate."

Shen Zhi did very well in the exam that year, especially he was more than 20 points ahead of the second place. On the day when the school learned that Shen Zhi was admitted to Yuchuan, they specially gave the first and second year high school students a day off.

The school interviewed Shen Zhi, and the video played on the big screen in the school cafeteria for a whole year.

Shen Zhi frowned. He saw the same aura in Luo Yixi, which made him very dislike.

Luo Yiqi was obviously quite happy and didn't notice Shen Zhi's slight rejection.

"Will you join Borui in the future?" Luo Yiqi asked, "I think you are studying finance."

Shen Zhi felt a subtle discomfort in his heart, and he raised his eyelids to look over, "How do you know that I studied finance?"

Luo Yi was stunned for a moment, then he turned his head to look at Qin Dingzhuo and said, "Because Dingzhuo is in Yuchuan, he also pays attention to the celebrities in Yuchuan. The senior is very famous both in Chongde and Yuchuan."

"Really?" Shen Zhi asked back calmly, his attitude was not enthusiastic enough.

Luo Yixi's smile froze for a moment. "Actually, I met the senior in Chongde. He was not very approachable at that time and looked very cold. Although he was the most handsome boy in the school, no one dared to talk to him."

"Xiao Zhi was indeed a little withdrawn at that time," He Qili looked at Shen Zhi tenderly and agreed.

Seeing that someone agreed with him, Luo Yiqing started to talk more and nodded, "The senior is too cold. Later I found out that the senior is not only a school bully but also a rich second-generation."

Shen Zhi said calmly, "You seem to be paying attention to me, but unfortunately I don't have much impression of you."

Shen Zhi's words were not nice, he was holding a gun and a stick.

Even the carefree Qin Dingzhuo could sense the unfriendly tone and got furious for no reason.

"Who pays attention to you? Your affairs are always making a lot of noise, it's hard not to know about it." Qin Dingzhuo thought of a few popular posts on Yuchuan Tieba and sneered, "You are the student union president? You don't care even when negative posts are flying everywhere."

"What's the matter?" He Qili was a little curious.

Luo Yixi took out his cell phone and let He Qili take a look at it.

It's nothing more than questioning Shen Zhi's family background and suspecting that he is pretending to be a rich second-generation.

He Qili smiled and said, "It's quite stupid."

He Qili turned to look at Shen Zhi, as if to comfort him: "Xiao Zhi, I will help you clarify. What belongs to my brother is yours."

Something flashed across Shen Zhi's eyes, and he refused, "No, I can handle it myself."

Shen Zhi curled his lips, looking a little cold: "Actually, I also assist in computer repair, so I can check IP addresses."

"Oh", there was no reaction to the wedding gift.

Shen Zhi's smile turned cold.

"You'd better find out quickly, otherwise rumors about you eating slop will spread," Qin Dingzhuo said sarcastically in a bad mood.

"How could that be? It's too outrageous for the senior to live in the He family and eat slop," Luo Yiqi comforted Shen Zhi.

Shen Zhi looked at Luo Yixi strangely.

He had never eaten slop, but there was free soup in Chongde High School, and he could soak his steamed buns in it and still be full.

Qin Dingzhuo slowly responded, "Are you from the He family?"

Shen Zhi didn't say anything, Luo Yi pulled Qin Dingzhuo down and explained: "Senior's mother and Mr. He's father are a reconstituted family."

Qin Dingzhuo's eyes moved between Shen Zhi and He Qili, and the veins on his forehead tensed a little.

He had met Shen Zhi, also on the big screen in Chongde.

He and Shen Zhi were in the same school, even in the same grade. Shen Zhi didn't remember him, but Qin Dingzhuo did.

He first saw Shen Zhi not on the big screen. That day he jumped over the wall to skip classes during his senior year of high school and was taking the college entrance examination.

When I came back, I saw Shen Zhi in the corner of the school.

That day was the first day of the college entrance examination and it had just rained. I don’t know why there are always showers during the college entrance examination. It is probably to temporarily drive away the summer heat for the candidates.

Qin Dingzhuo could just see half of Shen Zhi's face. Under the watery moonlight, the young man's youthful and handsome face appeared out of thin air in the night.

Shen Zhi's voice had already passed the puberty period, and he spoke with a youthful vigor and clarity, "You don't want me to transfer schools?"

There is an inexplicable sense of irony.

There was a man sitting in a wheelchair. Qin Dingzhuo couldn't see clearly. He seemed to coax Shen Zhi with a few words, but Shen Zhi's attitude was still cold.

The man sighed helplessly and pushed his wheelchair to leave.

Shen Zhi suddenly jumped up, overturned the man's wheelchair, and left without looking back.

Qin Dingzhuo bumped into Shen Zhi who was leaving. The boy was not even as tall as his chest. His features were far less gentle than they are now. His amber eyes, like sharp spikes, stabbed at him fiercely.

Qin Dingzhuo didn't want to argue with him, but Shen Zhi whispered, "I'm sorry."

Qin Dingzhuo kindly helped the man who had fallen into the water to get up. The man smiled nonchalantly and said, "I'm his older brother. My younger brother has been a little rebellious recently. Please excuse me."

Those amber eyes with silvery moonlight were imprinted in Qin Dingzhuo's heart. He was somewhat skeptical as to why the owner of such beautiful eyes would do such a thing.

Later, on the school's big screen, Qin Dingzhuo looked at Shen Zhi and smiled as he accepted the interview, "I am very grateful to my family."

Qin Dingzhuo did not miss the look in Shen Zhi's eyes at that time, which was as cold as when he overturned his brother's wheelchair. Qin Dingzhuo suddenly felt a little uncomfortable for such a two-faced person like Shen Zhi.

The man in his memory overlapped with the person in front of him, the old fragments were refurbished, Qin Dingzhuo's heart was beating, he felt that he might have missed something.

If he was not a relative but just a stepbrother, would he really be good to Shen Zhi?

Does Shen Zhi really like this kind of family?

"You really care about me. You seem to know more about my affairs than I do," Shen Zhi said without hiding anything, with a hint of interrogation in his tone.

Qin Dingzhuo's emotions were in turmoil, and he felt uncomfortable being stabbed by Shen Zhi. Although every word was not about him, it seemed as if it was reminding him.

Remind him that he had misunderstood Shen Zhi.

"Who is paying attention to you, Shen Zhi, don't be so self-indulgent," Qin Dingzhuo retorted.

The nerves stimulated his temples, and Qin Dingzhuo felt a little bloated and painful in his brain.

Shen Zhi looked at him deeply and said indifferently, "It's better. I hate people paying attention to me behind my back. It's like a stink bug in the sewer that can't be shown on the stage."

Luo Yixi's face turned pale, and he forced a smile, "Senior, I didn't mean to pay attention to you, it's just that you're so outstanding that you're always being discussed, and I just heard it by chance."

Qin Dingzhuo stood up suddenly and blocked Luo Yixi. His tall and heavy figure was frighteningly oppressive against the light and shadow. "Shen Zhi, who are you scolding?"

Shen Zhi raised his eyelids and looked at him, his eyes cold.

Qin Dingzhuo's eyes were red, and his brows were pressed down, giving a feeling that a storm was about to come.

It was this kind of look again that made Qin Dingzhuo feel torn apart. He was defeated by Shen Zhi's look and remembered that his father also looked at him in the same way, with indifference and contempt.

It was as if his appearance would dirty their eyes.

Qin Dingzhuo couldn't stand it, so he started a fight in high school. He dragged Luo Yixi and his father out of the closet, and his father broke two sticks on him.

Luo Yiling was sent abroad by his father, but Qin Dingzhuo didn't think much of it until he saw on TV that Shen Zhi had won some Olympic medal and was interviewed by all the major media outlets, speaking in a high-sounding manner with all kinds of beautiful words.

He said Yuchuan is his ideal university.

Qin Dingzhuo found it funny every time he heard it, because he felt that people like Shen Zhi would probably feel disgusted when they said such things.

Qin Dingzhuo lay in bed for three months and watched for three months. He thought that he would crawl to Yulichuan even if he had to. He had to let Shen Zhi see that only real people like him could live happily.

He wanted to crawl to Yuchuan and slap the faces of those who looked down on others.

"Are you calm now?" Shen Zhi picked up the cream mushroom soup that he hadn't drunk and poured it on Qin Dingzhuo's head. The rich scent of cream spread out.

Qin Dingzhuo's temples were wet, his eyelashes were dripping with soup, his dark eyes looked straight at Shen Zhi, and he smiled with his lips raised.

"Qin Dingzhuo, you have no right to question me. You should ask your friends what they have done." Shen Zhi's words were ambiguous. Qin Dingzhuo didn't understand and subconsciously looked at Luo Yixi.

Luo Yixi revealed a hint of vulnerability at the right time.

Qin Dingzhuo was confused, and Shen Zhixia followed up with a sentence, "Qin Dingzhuo, don't play any malicious substitute games with me, and don't let the victim come to target me."

"What do you mean?" Qin Dingzhuo asked subconsciously, but he couldn't get an answer from Shen Zhi.

"Go find it yourself, maybe you are one of them," Shen Zhi said.

Shen Zhi had no time to deal with that pervert, so the best way was to provoke him out.

After Shen Zhi finished speaking, he ignored Qin Dingzhuo and turned to face the crowd and said, "The student union does not have a new election system. I like Song Hengyang, so I just used this as an opportunity to get in touch with him."

If that person is here, Shen Zhi hopes to see the scene he wants to see.

Like him? Covet him?

Then let's see who loses patience first.

"Senior, you like Song Hengyang?!" Ji Shilu almost screamed, finding it unbelievable.

Ji Shilu stared blankly at the calm and composed Shen Zhi.

Ruan Zhu glanced at Song Hengyang, who was indifferent, as if she had known it for a long time and was still eating the little rabbit pudding bite by bite. She suddenly got over the breakup.

Shen Zhi glanced at the people with different expressions and pinched Song Hengyang's chin. Song Hengyang had a premonition of something and turned his head to the side.

A slight smile appeared in Shen Zhi's eyes. Regardless of Song Hengyang's attempt to avoid him, he aimed at Song Hengyang's lips and kissed him in front of everyone.

However, Qin Dingzhuo pulled her away fiercely as she barely touched the water. "Shen Zhi, don't joke like that."

Shen Zhi broke away from Qin Dingzhuo's control, "I'm not kidding."

Shen Zhi stood up and patted Song Hengyang on the head. "After eating, follow me."

Song Hengyang was stunned for a moment, his ears turned slightly red, and he quickly stuffed most of the bunny pudding into his mouth. His cheeks instantly became puffy, and he stood up obediently.

For a moment, Shen Zhi felt that Song Hengyang was exactly like the little rabbit pudding.