Chapter 60: Advance Payment Part 2

Through this, he learned a lesson: for a unlucky guy like him, it was best to live honestly and uprightly, never play tricks, do bad things, or lie again, or retribution would come knocking quickly.

Tao Zhi confessed everything from bottom to top. The more he spoke, the more guilty he felt. After finishing, he looked at Fu Zheng pitifully.

Tao Zhi hoped Fu Zheng wouldn’t scold him in public.

That would be so embarrassing.

Fu Zheng: “…”

Fu Zheng’s mood was quite complicated after hearing it all. Fu Zheng truly hadn’t expected that this idiot Tao Zhi would have the guts to hide something so big. Sneaking around with Fu Si Heng for months, and he had been completely in the dark.

Damn.

That was his first reaction after snapping out of it when he saw Tao Zhi’s expression.

Then, his gaze passed over Tao Zhi’s head to Fu Si Heng behind him.

Fu Zheng fell unusually silent.

His childish and immature plan had been exposed, and now Fu Zheng actually felt… a bit embarrassed.

Fuck.

So embarrassing.

So fucking embarrassing.

What was the difference between this and swearing in his heart to become a cold and ruthless person, only for others to find out?

Fu Si Heng must have laughed at him for a long time.

Fu Zheng clenched his fist.

“So you’re in a fake boyfriend relationship now, right?” This time, it was Fu Zheng’s turn to take a deep breath.

Fu Zheng steadied his emotions, extracted the most important piece of information, and looked at Tao Zhi again.

Tao Zhi nodded: “Once I pay back the 200,000 and Brother Fu accepts that he’s single again, we’ll break up…”

“Oh.” Got it.

Fu Zheng’s face was expressionless: “Fake boyfriends still kiss? Shameless.”

“How could you let such a shameless guy kiss you?”

Tao Zhi: “…”

It was just a brush of lips—did that even count as a kiss?

When confessing earlier, Tao Zhi hadn’t told Fu Zheng about the frequent kisses or even more intimate contacts.

First, he worried Fu Zheng would get angry again; second, it was embarrassing to say.

Very awkward and shy.

Tao Zhi scratched his nose tip, his gaze a bit evasive, and mumbled an ambiguous agreement.

Fu Zheng heard a vague “mm” from the mumbling, like petting a cat the right way, and his tone softened considerably: “You have to break up. Don’t you think there’s something wrong with what Fu Si Heng said?”

“Huh? What’s wrong?” Tao Zhi’s gaze refocused. He thought about it: “I do owe him money, and I’m saving up…”

“How long will it take you to save 200,000?” Seeing his bewildered expression, Fu Zheng felt a bit exasperated: “He’s using that to tie you down. Do you even realize—”

“Mind your own business.” Fu Si Heng lifted his eyelids slightly, his tone carrying a warning as he interrupted Fu Zheng.

“Heh.” Fu Zheng wasn’t afraid of him at all and sneered before turning back to Tao Zhi: “I’ll cover the 200,000 for you.”

He absolutely wouldn’t let this old man succeed.

“Really.” Fu Si Heng’s voice was flat: “Do you believe you can even scrape together 20 bucks?”

“Want to test me?”

“It’s just a mere 200,000.” Fu Zheng shot back: “Where can’t I get 200,000 from?”

“By selling luxury goods and sports cars, right?” Fu Si Heng’s tone was mocking: “You really have some ambition. Even your little sister-in-law knows to work, but besides relying on the family, what else can you do?”

“Correction,” Fu Si Heng added: “Relying on me.”

“Everything you have now is thanks to me.”

“You fucking—” Fu Zheng couldn’t take it anymore: “Don’t you dare look down on me!”

Tao Zhi: “?”

Wait, why were they fighting again?

Tao Zhi listened to the increasingly heated voices, looking at them with a dumbfounded and bewildered expression. He opened his mouth.

Tao Zhi wanted to stop them, but he couldn’t get a word in.

Mocking remarks as calm as a breeze from the left, furious curses from the right.

The sounds of argument intertwined in his ears.

“…” Tao Zhi looked down at his fingers, his expression even more bewildered than before.

How did it turn into this situation again?

Sigh.

–

The result of the fight was that Fu Zheng ended up in the treatment room again.

He couldn’t win with words or fists, but he still insisted on fighting Fu Si Heng and got another lesson.

Tao Zhi was sent back.

Tao Zhi was in a dazed state the whole time, unable to figure out why Fu Zheng liked him, even fighting his brother over him.

Hadn’t Fu Zheng told him before to seduce Fu Si Heng?

So strange.

His thoughts were so fickle.

What was originally a simple matter between him and Fu Si Heng—work, earn money, break up—had become much more complicated with Fu Zheng’s interference.

Tao Zhi felt he couldn’t handle them both appearing at once.

Especially now, as the car stopped at a crosswalk, Tao Zhi looked out the window and saw a woman on the street. Her right hand held a Husky, her left a German Shepherd, and she was being dragged along by the two dogs, unable to keep up… Tao Zhi inexplicably related to that owner.

“…” No, super relatable.

Hadn’t he just gone through that?