Chapter 34 She still knew nothing about him
Chapter 34
News of what happened at the shooting range spread quickly. This was nothing unusual; after the previous two incidents, everyone knew that Young Master Li was very fond of his young girlfriend.
Moreover, these friends in the circle all know that Fang Qi, the eldest son of the Fang family, is promiscuous and has been having affairs with a lesbian couple. When Fang Qi takes them out, people often see the two beautiful women sitting next to him, embracing and kissing each other without a care in the world.
This kind of thing sounds outrageous and would be condemned as shameless if spoken out, but it's perfectly normal in this circle. It's even considered a very common occurrence. There are countless other things that are far more chaotic than this, so everyone knows why Li Changjing got angry this time.
However, Gao Zhiyuan had ulterior motives. He had originally left early due to other matters, but upon hearing about this at the dinner table, he immediately ran out to make a special phone call to Fang Qi, and learned the details of what had happened from Fang Qi.
Although no one knew about his poaching, Gao Zhiyuan still felt uneasy after hanging up the phone, thinking about Li Changjing's personality.
He's the kind of person who's directly offered his girlfriend a price.
But he only made a reservation, so it doesn't count as poaching someone directly, right?
Fang Qi hung up the phone, lay back on the sofa, and chuckled.
Of course he knew what Gao Zhiyuan was thinking. It was he who had encouraged Gao Zhiyuan to bring it up. He just didn't expect Gao Zhiyuan to actually go and keep thinking about it for so long.
Li Changjing's plain-looking girlfriend is quite popular.
Fang Qi gently stroked the smooth hair beneath him, and without warning, the image of that little girl's innocent, shy, almost silly smile—completely unguarded—appeared in his mind every time she saw him. [The door was locked briefly, then...]
After a while, he let go of her hand, and the pretty girl with short hair looked up with teary eyes.
"Of all the people you've got your eye on, why did you have to try and seduce them?" Fang Qi chuckled and asked in a hoarse voice with his eyes closed.
Above him, Angela paused and gave Fang Qi a wistful look, then spoke softly with lingering fear, "She's beautiful, especially when she smiles at me, it makes you want to make her cry. But she has a certain strength about her, you can tell she won't cry easily, so you want to make her cry even more."
As she spoke, she gently stroked Fang Qi's body again, her eyes sparkling, her voice as soft as smoke: "Darling, don't tell me you didn't want to make her cry..."
*
Li Changjing hung up Fang Qi's call and went outside.
The hotels here all have suites. Knowing that he was coming, Fang Qi's door was open. Li Changjing pushed the door open and went in, only to catch a glimpse of a threesome on the sofa.
In broad daylight, naked, the scene is erotic and stimulating.
Li Changjing glanced at the group of people, then kicked the cabinet next to him without changing his expression. The crystal pendant on the lamp rattled loudly as it was kicked, and the people on the sofa stopped, only then realizing that someone had come in.
Seeing that the person on the sofa looked at him when they heard the sound, Li Changjing turned around and walked towards the balcony.
Soon, Fang Qi casually put on a bathrobe, revealing his fair chest. He held a lit cigarette between his fingers, and his beautiful peach blossom eyes were flushed with desire. He held the cigarette in one hand and handed over the cigarette case with the other.
Li Changjing didn't take the cigarette pack offered to him, and looked at him coldly, "Young Master Fang, do you want me to have Secretary Feng arrange a physical examination for you when we get back?"
Fang Qi chuckled. He admired Li Changjing the most; he could even swear in such a gentle voice and tone. He wondered what Li Changjing would be like on the day he lost his mind. Could he always be so composed?
Putting away the cigarette pack, Fang Qi said nonchalantly, "I'm just under a lot of pressure at work, so I'm relieving some stress after get off work."
In response to his answer, Li Changjing turned around and looked at the expansive mountain scenery outside the open-air balcony. "Fang Qi, even without your stepmother and younger brother being exposed to the wind, the old man will still have a problem with you."
Fang Qi slowly dropped his nonchalant expression, his face turning cold. After a moment, he leaned against the railing, turned to look at Li Changjing's profile, and laughed indifferently, "You know perfectly well that I've always been like this since I was a child. Their family has had a problem with me for a long time."
Fang Qi looked at Li Changjing, waiting for him to speak, but saw him looking down at a certain spot downstairs. After a while, he said, "Even if I believe you don't care, do you believe it yourself?"
"Can't we even continue this conversation? Alright, I can tell." Fang Qi stubbed out his cigarette on the iron railing speechlessly. "You're here to get revenge on me for your little girlfriend, aren't you? Why are you saying such nasty things?"
“I have to go back soon.” Li Changjing turned around. “Li Zeyuan just called. I heard him say that Lao Song’s position is about to become vacant. You should make the most of it and stay away from Gao Zhiyuan and Xu Siqiao’s group. You can’t let your hatred for the Fang family affect your own hatred.”
Li Changjing wasn't one to nag or preach, and he wouldn't try to persuade someone who was contemplating suicide, but he had said these words to Fang Qi many times before, and this was the last time. After saying this, he patted Fang Qi on the shoulder and walked past him.
Fang Qi didn't turn around, staring blankly at the distant mountains. He unconsciously walked to the railing where Li Changjing had been standing, and inadvertently looked in the direction Li Changjing had been looking. Suddenly, he caught sight of Li Changjing, the little girl, slowly swinging on the grass on the first floor.
He raised an eyebrow, finally understanding what Li Changjing had been looking at with his head down.
He turned around and looked in the direction Li Changjing had left through the door. The door was closed, and Li Changjing had already gone out.
Fang Qi's smile grew wider and wider. Looking in the direction he left, he could no longer hold back and finally bent over and laughed out loud.
*
Wen Yining was led by Li Changjing towards the parking lot, and she secretly glanced at him from behind.
Li Changjing's attitude was calm and natural, as if he hadn't done anything to her, as if he hadn't reacted at all, and he didn't seem shy at all. Infected by his calm attitude, Wen Yining also gradually calmed down, as if she had forgotten what had just happened with him.
Although it was already autumn, the afternoon sun was still very bright. The bodyguard drove the car over and parked it in the hotel courtyard. The sunlight bathed the black car body in golden light.
"Oh, Qing-ge'er is going back?"
A familiar, irreverent tone of joking came from upstairs.
Wen Yining looked up and saw Fang Qi, dressed in a white bathrobe, leaning against the third-floor railing, looking at them and laughing.
She found it a little funny to hear Fang Qi call Li Changjing "Brother Jing" in that accent. She didn't know if it was the pronunciation of their Beicheng accent or what. Aunt Liu always called him that too. It sounded very nasal, and he couldn't distinguish between "Jing" and "Qing".
His girlfriend was scared by Li Changjing, and he's still so heartless. I don't know whether to say he has a good relationship with Li Changjing or to say he's a real scumbag.
I wonder how Angela is doing.
As Wen Yining thought this, she looked up at Fang Qi upstairs and subconsciously smiled at him.
Fang Qi paused for a moment, then smiled and waved to her after a couple of seconds.
The next second, Wen Yining's shoulders tightened as Li Changjing pulled her into the car.
The car drove from the outskirts of Beijing into the city and gradually slowed down. After two hours of bumpy driving, Wen Yining leaned against the car window, feeling drowsy. Suddenly, she heard Li Changjing ask unhurriedly, "Have you spoken to Gao Zhiyuan?"
With a "ding" sound in her brain, Wen Yining's half-closed eyes snapped open, completely alert.
Wen Yining's throat bobbed. Looking out the window, she felt inexplicably guilty and didn't dare to turn around. After thinking for a moment, she picked a question that could be used to her advantage or disadvantage, "Why...why did you suddenly ask that?"
Li Changjing had only asked a question based on a guess, but seeing her like this, he stared at her for several seconds.
Before he could answer, Wen Yining couldn't help but guiltily turn to look at Li Changjing's reaction. She saw him staring at her with a deep, unfathomable gaze, a gaze that seemed to reveal everything. "What did you say?"
The words were very harsh, and the person who spoke was a friend he had known since childhood, while his girlfriend had only known Li Changjingcai for half a year.
It was precisely because of this relationship that Wen Yining had never known how to bring it up.
After thinking for a moment, Wen Yining, under Li Changjing's gaze, still mustered her courage and quietly confessed everything.
Li Changjing listened in silence, his expression growing increasingly grim, while Wen Yining's voice grew softer and softer. Finally, Li Changjing suddenly smiled.
Wen Yining was filled with unease. Not long after, she saw a deluge of gossip online about the popular young actress named Bai Duo who was with Gao Zhiyuan when they first met.
She also posted a picture, but even someone like Wen Yining, who wasn't familiar with Gao Zhiyuan, could tell that the person hugging Bai Duo was Gao Zhiyuan.
The news disappeared without a trace within an hour, which only fueled the heated discussions online.
Gu Lingling and Jiang Fengqing were having a great time discussing something in their dormitory.
"Bai Duo must have paid to get rid of the smear campaign! I never expected that she, who always puts on a clean and tough woman persona, would actually be this kind of person. Money really can make the devil turn the millstone!"
"Maybe it's her sugar daddy!"
Wen Yining immediately thought of Li Changjing. Not long after, she heard Fang Qi gloatingly say that Gao Zhiyuan was already engaged, but because of that news, he got into a lot of trouble, which was almost like slapping the woman's family in the face.
If it hadn't caused a scene, the other family wouldn't have cared. But since it became public knowledge, the other family naturally wouldn't have been happy. Gao Zhiyuan's father was furious and determined to teach this spoiled son a lesson. Now he's being forced to go to his father-in-law's house every day to express his stance, and he's about to be sent to the army, to the most arduous one.
On the way back, she couldn't help but ask Li Changjing. He touched her hair, smiled, and didn't say anything.
*
As winter approached, Wen Yining finally couldn't bear the guilt and torment she had been feeling for so long. One night after the lights were turned off, she confessed her affair with Li Changjing to Gu Lingling and Jiang Fengqing.
But with a strange feeling, she didn't dare to talk about her first meeting with Li Changjing, his covetous and manipulative methods, and his high-ranking, even clandestine, identity.
A top student from S University spoke concisely, clearly, and easily understood, omitting anything that shouldn't be said and covering all the background information and questions that would be asked.
Then he would just have to wait to receive all their condemnation.
Gu Lingling and Jiang Fengqing were stunned for a long time after hearing these words, both surprised and bewildered, and even doubted that they had heard correctly.
Once it was confirmed, a scream suddenly rang out in the dormitory.
The two climbed directly onto Wen Yining's bed and bombarded her with questions. Gu Lingling asked three times but still couldn't believe it. She even found the treasured video in Wen Yining's album that she couldn't send and pointed at Li Changjing in the video, repeatedly asking Wen Yining, "Are you sure your boyfriend is this person?"
Wen Yining nodded.
Another scream erupted in the dormitory.
After the two of them berated her like madmen, they finally calmed down.
Jiang Fengqing asked, "If he's not from Chen Yu's company, then who is he?"
Wen Yining gave a vague answer: "Public servants."
"Which organization does he work for? And it's strange that he lives with his nanny and her grandson instead of his family. Why? Does he not have a good relationship with his family?"
Wen Yining was stunned. These were the kinds of questions she usually tried to ignore when she was with Li Changjing, but now they seemed very sharp.
She didn't know that after knowing him for half a year, apart from learning about his identity from Fang Qi, she knew nothing about Li Changjing. She didn't even know what he was busy with, how many people were in his family, whether they were happy, or why they were unhappy.
They talked a lot together, about the trees downstairs from her dormitory, about a certain book, a certain author, about her childhood, about how the autumn wind blew away the last crape myrtle flower downstairs, about all sorts of vague and unrealistic things. He always patiently and tolerantly accompanied her in talking about all sorts of irrelevant and whimsical topics.
But they never talked about his personal, practical issues.
She knew that her relationship with Li Changjing was actually very abnormal, but she had only been reflecting on it herself and had gradually gotten used to it, so she could ignore the abnormality. But now that she was talking to someone else, she was shocked to realize how abnormal their relationship was.
Seeing her expression and silence, the two fell silent as well. Gu Lingling hesitated before asking, "Wenwen, you don't... know nothing about this, do you?"
Wen Yining was silent for a moment, then said, "I really don't know."
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