I said, “I would never join forces with you. I used to be a soldier, and no matter what happens, there’s no way I’m going to join forces with the triads. The army gave me a second life and I can’t bring the army into disrepute.”
“Pedantic.” Zhao Zichen committed a blank stare and huffed, “With your own strength alone, you’re never a match for Jiang Ming! And once Jiang Ming notices you, you’ll only be dead! This man Jiang Ming is a poisonous snake, we only have a chance of winning if we get him before he can react.”
I laughed, “I won’t change my mind.”
Zhao Zichen was unable to persuade me, and when he saw that I was determined to draw a line in the sand with him, he had no choice but to give up. I asked Chu Xiaoxiao to delete the phone recording in front of Zhao Zichen, and swore to Zhao Zichen that Chu Xiaoxiao and I would never tell anyone his true identity.
“I still hope you will change your mind.”
“Unless I forget who I am.” I said.
Only after Zhao Zichen left did Chu Xiaoxiao let out a long sigh of relief, looking like she had been holding her breath.
“He’s really the boss of the Red Lantern Club, huh? It doesn’t look like it at all!”
“This guy is very thievish and has too many eyes in his mind.” I didn’t want to continue the conversation with Chu Xiaoxiao just now, the more I said, the more dangerous it would be for Chu Xiaoxiao, I glanced at the thermos box she brought and wailed, “Bringing me poison again today.”
“Hey, how do you talk, don’t eat it I’ll take it and dump it.”
“No eating.”
“You have to eat it even if you don’t! It’s a piece of my heart.”
I knew it was going to be like this, and as I said so, I took the dish she handed me in my hand, but I’d eaten everything in the army anyway, so this was nothing.
I had eaten everything when I was a soldier, so this was nothing.
“Why?”
“I heard that his father found out about him getting someone to hit you with a car. His father slapped him twice in front of the company’s board of directors, and he hit him so hard that his eardrums were broken. This time, Chen Yu Zhou is nothing, Lin Fang should follow you wholeheartedly.”
I froze as the spoon of soup reached my mouth and stopped.
“What do you mean?”
Didn’t Lin Fang and Chen Yu Zhou break off a long time ago, so why did Chu Xiaoxiao have to say that?
Chu Xiaoxiao wasn’t stupid either, and immediately realized that she had let her mouth slip.
“No, it means nothing, I …… you don’t look at me like that.”
“You’re hiding something from me, you and Lin Fang have been hiding it from me right? If you don’t tell me, I’ll go ask Lin Fang.”
“Oops!” Chu Xiaoxiao was annoyed by me and snatched the bowl of soup out of my hand, glaring at me irritably.
Seeing that I was still looking at her relentlessly, she had to say, “It’s not a big deal, the few days you were locked up, Fang Fang and Chen Yu Zhou contacted each other.”
My heart thumped and I immediately thought of what Qingqing said at the reception desk of the company, so I asked, “Did Lin Fang get into Chen Yu Zhou’s car? Chen Yu Zhou also gave her roses, right?”
“I think so.”
So it was true, why would Lin Fang lie to me and say no. While I was in custody, she was seeing Chen Yuzhou in private, is this what she meant by loving me?
I was not angry at all, only deeply saddened. My eyes went red and I couldn’t speak. It was normal that she would be like this, Chen Yu Zhou appeared to be richer than me on the surface, she just made a more favourable choice.
Chu Xiaoxiao said timidly, “Zhang Chao, don’t be like this ……”
I laughed at myself, “Heh, it’s okay. She wants to be with Chen Yu Zhou, it is also her own choice, only she should not lie to me, and you should not help her lie to me together. I don’t deserve her, and it makes sense that she would choose a richer man.”
“That’s enough! What are you babbling about. You were in the guardhouse, and Fang Fang didn’t know I would end up in court, so it’s normal for her to be scared! Besides, when Fang Fang met with Chen Yu Zhou, it didn’t necessarily mean she betrayed you. At that time, we were all running around to save you, and Fang Fang probably went to beg Chen Yu Zhou. At that time Chen Yu Zhou threatened her with the life of Fang Fang’s father, she really had no choice, and you were in the detention center, what did you let her do?!”
I was sobered by Chu Xiaoxiao’s questioning, yes, Lin Fang was isolated, she was terrified, I should protect her well in the future and definitely not let her fall into this predicament again.
“It’s my fault, I shouldn’t have doubted Fangfang like that.”
“You do like Lin Fang, then you should trust her. If you don’t trust her anymore, you might as well just break up with her.”
I muttered in my heart about Chu Xiaoxiao’s words, thinking Why is this girl so full of nonsense, saying the same sentence over and over again, doesn’t it mean the same thing?
“I like her, really. And, I want you to do me a favour.”
Chu Xiaoxiao put her heart down, lowered her head without looking me in the eyes and asked, “What?”
“I haven’t confessed formally to Lin Fang yet, can you teach me how to confess to a girl? I really like Lin Fang, and what she should have, I’ll give her.”
“You haven’t confessed to anyone?” Chu Xiaoxiao’s mouth opened wide in surprise as she asked.
I regretted a little, I shouldn’t have asked this twat to help me, I turned over and wrapped the quilt around me, “Forget it, no need for you to teach me.”
But Chu Xiaoxia pounced on my back and insisted on turning me over.
“Haha, you’ve never been with a girl before either, have you? Little virgin.”
“Sh*t, you’re the virgin.” I retorted feebly.
“Come on, you must not have even kissed your mouth.”
“I’ve kissed!”
“Then it seems that virginity is real.” Chu Xiaoxiao laughed so hard that tears came out of her eyes and patted her chest, “Don’t worry, as long as you truly like Lin Fang, I will definitely help you complete this confession!”
She was quite happy when she said it herself, but once she finished those words, she suddenly looked sad and asked me again, “Zhang Chao, you’re sure you really like Lin Fang, right?”
D*mn it, why did she keep asking this question over and over again?
“It’s not bad, I quite like it now anyway.”
I said that on purpose, changing my answer a little to see what she was trying to say.
Chu Xiaoxiao got anxious all of a sudden, “If you really don’t like Fang Fang that much, think it over before it’s too late.”
“How could I not like Lin Fang. What is going on, why are you asking me this question repeatedly.”
I always felt that Chu Xiaoxiao had something in her words, as if she was urging me to think about my relationship with Lin Fang on my body.
She didn’t think much of me and Lin Fang in the past, she looked down on me and thought I didn’t deserve Lin Fang. But now it’s different, listening to her words, it seems like she has a bit more of an opinion of Lin Fang.
When I asked Chu Xiaoxiao again, she was adamant that she wouldn’t say anything, and I couldn’t get anything out of her even though I tried to get her to say something. When I got anxious, Chu Xiaoxiao threw down a sentence: “I don’t care about you.” She ran out of the ward by herself.
I slapped my head and remembered what Lin Fang had said to me, she said that Chu Xiaoxia liked me. I wouldn’t have believed this if someone else had said it, but I definitely believed it when Lin Fang said it.
