Chapter 33: The Vicious Ex-Boyfriend of the Impoverished Bigshot (Part 1)
“Brother Lin, Brother Lin? Are you drunk? Quick, call Shen Zhou over.”
“Liu Zi, go out and tell the boss that we’re busy. Tell him to wait outside when he gets here.” A wave of muffled laughter, laced with malice.
In a daze, Yu Lin felt the surrounding light was dim, and he was surrounded by jeers. It was a bizarre and noisy scene.
He was resting on the sofa in the private room. The smell of smoke was pervasive, and his head ached. He had drunk a lot of alcohol, and his consciousness was hazy.
He propped his head up, feeling unwell. Someone stuffed a phone with a tangled cord into his hand and said to him with a malicious smile, “Brother Lin, are you drunk? Perfect. Quick, call Shen Zhou to come and pick you up.”
Yu Lin lowered his eyes and leaned against the sofa, his body limp from the alcohol. He was uncomfortable, his eyelids red, and he frowned slightly, only able to repeat unconsciously, “Shen Zhou…”
The jeering crowd surrounded him. Hearing the name he called out, they immediately became excited. “That’s right!”
After the clamor, their gazes fell on the young man’s excessively beautiful features, flushed from the alcohol. Their Adam’s apples bobbed, and their gazes lingered on his snow-white neck, and they immediately fell silent.
“…”
The private room was in chaos.
On the other end of the phone, a young man with dark features was lowering his head to pack goods. An old-fashioned phone was loosely tucked between his ear and shoulder, his expression indifferent. He had no intention of paying attention to such a prank.
On the other end of the phone, the excessively beautiful young man’s voice was clear and hoarse. He was coaxed into saying something else. He was slow for a long time, and finally asked, “Shen Zhou… are you already here?”
The clinking of glasses in the bar was accompanied by a chorus of malicious teasing.
The night was as cool as water. Shen Zhou hung up the phone, paused for a moment, and then picked up his jacket and went out with a blank expression.
The place where the group of people was drinking and playing was in a private room of a disco in the county town.
When Shen Zhou arrived, the wind had made his jacket cold. The little lackey, Liu Zi, was standing outside the door, craning his neck to look out.
Some people saw the commotion here and came closer out of curiosity, but they were all impatiently driven away by him. He was humming a lewd tune. When he looked up and saw Shen Zhou, he smiled maliciously.
“Yo, Brother Shen is here?”
Liu Zi’s eyes lit up, and he immediately went to welcome him. He was calling him “brother,” but his eyes were scanning upwards, not even glancing at Shen Zhou.
Shen Zhou had offended their leader, and their leader was looking for an opportunity to mess with him. This time, they had many people, and they had specifically set up a trap for Shen Zhou to play with him. They didn’t need to give him too much face.
Liu Zi’s slanted eyes narrowed, and he smiled, feigning politeness. “What wind brought you here? Didn’t you say you wouldn’t come to this smoky place?”
He slapped his forehead. “Oh no, I forgot. You’re here to find Brother Lin, right? Brother Lin and the others are busy right now. Why don’t you wait outside with me for a while?”
His words were a mix of soft and hard, and he was pleased with himself. But Shen Zhou’s expression was cold. He didn’t even look at him, not even a glance, and pushed the door open and went in.
Liu Zi: “…” Fuck you!!
The lights were on in the private room, but they were very dim, and the smell of smoke and alcohol was pervasive.
At the very back was a row of sofas, leather sofas, a rare sight in this town.
Yu Lin was sitting on the sofa, frowning and dozing off. His skin was very fair, and lying on the dark sofa, his features were beautiful and quiet. His slender fingers rested on the armrest of the sofa, and his eyes were lightly closed, as clean as an artist.
He was very drunk, and his eyelids were even red. The people around him were talking to him, but he couldn’t hear clearly. He just frowned slightly and occasionally shook his head.
Someone reached out, and while calling him “Brother Lin,” they tried to put their arm around his shoulder in a feigned intimacy.
Before they could touch him, Shen Zhou walked over, avoided the person who was trying to put their arm around him, leaned down, and asked placidly, “Yu Lin, I’m here. Are you coming with me?”
The person who was dizzy from being drunk lightly closed his eyelids, his black hair falling over his forehead, and did not answer.
Everyone present knew that this young master had been chasing the stubborn Shen Zhou for several months. Now that he could be summoned at will, as obedient as a dog, he had won him over.
But a young master was a young master after all. Now it seemed that he didn’t take this poor guy seriously at all. The people around them looked on and immediately burst into earth-shattering laughter.
Shen Zhou’s dark features were under the light, and he did not move, not at all concerned.
Seeing that Yu Lin did not respond, he straightened up and was about to turn and leave.
Before he could move, the hand hanging by his side was suddenly grabbed. Shen Zhou turned around, frowned slightly, and the young man on the sofa’s eyelashes trembled slightly. He was unconscious, but his fingers lifted slightly and held his tightly.
His lips were pressed lightly together, his eyelids closed, and he called him with dependence and unconsciously, “Shen Zhou…”
***
If Yu Lin were awake, he would know that he was at an important node in the plot.
As a scumbag cannon fodder who couldn’t tell right from wrong, the first thing Young Master Yu did after getting a boyfriend was to call him over and make him act like a dog.
Shen Zhou was proud and arrogant, and he felt deeply humiliated. It was because of this that the seeds were planted, and it was only after he could no longer bear it that he resolutely parted ways with the original host.
The original host had also successfully missed the first golden thigh of this world, and his ending was bleak.
In the private room, Shen Zhou moved, but he couldn’t shake off Yu Lin’s hand, which was holding him tightly. After a moment of silence, he bent down and picked him up, kicked the door open, and left.
He was not easy to mess with, and he was holding the young master who was nominally his boyfriend. The others were stunned for a moment and couldn’t stop him. The carefully prepared farce had to end in a hurry.
The jellyfish system had been entrusted by Yu Lin to investigate Xie Yibai’s data and had been hibernating in the system space. Seeing that something was wrong, it crawled out to take a look, trembling.
The beginning of this story took place in a small county town.
The facilities in the small county town were aging, and some of the ground was not even paved with cement. The streetlights were also on and off.
Shen Zhou led him out of the smoky disco, and after walking out of the brightly lit entertainment street, he could only rely on the moonlight and the lightbulbs hanging on the power lines to move forward.
It was just the beginning of spring, and the weather was still a little cold. The light from the lightbulbs was pale and bright.
With Shen Zhou’s intelligence, he had already realized that this was a trap set for him. Although he was holding Yu Lin, his expression was very cold, and he looked as if he had no warmth.
The system was so anxious that it was spinning in circles, afraid that he would secretly retaliate, and kept calling out to Yu Lin in its mind to wake up.
But this body’s alcohol tolerance was very poor. Yu Lin only felt a headache and couldn’t hear clearly what was being said around him.
After a long time of noise, he was really uncomfortable. He lifted his head slightly and buried it in Shen Zhou’s neck.
“It hurts a lot.” he said in a small voice, “Can you be a little quieter?”
The little jellyfish immediately fell silent, and Shen Zhou’s forward steps paused.
“Where does it hurt?” Shen Zhou raised his hand, wrapped the jacket on him tighter, and ruffled Yu Lin’s head. His fingers lifted slightly, wanting to peel the young man from his neck.
Before he could move, Yu Lin seemed to have sobered up a little. His eyelashes lifted slightly, and he turned his head with confusion, and stared at his neck for a long while.
He felt that it was familiar. He carefully looked at this position for a moment, and then comfortably buried himself in it.
He even nuzzled him.
“…”
Shen Zhou was silent, and stood in place. His Adam’s apple bobbed slightly, and the fingers holding his collar paused slightly. After a long while, his fingers loosened, and he held him tighter in his arms.
A warm breath fell by his ear, and it was as if his always cold and hard heart had also softened for a moment.
Shen Zhou could not explain his strange reaction.
He frowned and stood in the deep and cool moonlight for a long time.
But it didn’t matter. After tonight, they would no longer have any relationship.
***
Because of the drunkard’s light hums, Shen Zhou held him and awkwardly coaxed him for half the night, like petting a cat, before he finally quieted down. He found the key and sent him home to sleep.
Yu Lin didn’t know what had happened. When he woke up in the morning, he only felt that his head still ached from the hangover, but it was much better than when he had just arrived yesterday.
He got up, pressed his temples lightly, and lowered his eyes slightly to block the sunlight. He was not yet fully awake.
He wrapped himself in the soft quilt that almost completely enveloped him. The little jellyfish had already rushed up with teary eyes and told him what had happened yesterday. “In the end, he brought you back and settled you down, and left without looking back. He didn’t even look at us once!”
The little system was trembling and paced back and forth in mid-air, feeling desperate. “Oh no, Lin Lin, we’re done for. If I had known, I would have chosen another node to teleport to. Do you think we’ve offended the protagonist as soon as we arrived?”
Yu Lin: “…”
He couldn’t remember what had happened last night. In the system’s chattering, he opened the script with a headache.
The script took place in the new millennium, in a place called Liuhe County. The protagonist was Shen Zhou.
Liuhe County was not large in area, but it was densely populated. The central street was a row of shops, scattered by the water that ran through the town. All the households in the town were familiar with each other.
Most of the residents of the town were not rich. Only the Yu family did business outside and had become a big boss. The son he had left at home had become a young master who was sought after by everyone.
The young master did not lack pocket money, but no one disciplined him. Over time, he had attracted a group of bad friends.
A group of hooligans would coax him to play. At first, it was fighting and drinking with people. Later, he slowly stopped going to school, skipped class all day, caused trouble, and then asked people to cover for him.
The people of the county kept a respectful distance from him and would take a detour when they saw him. And Shen Zhou was a well-deserved Long Aotian male lead, and also the control group for the useless young master.
The water in Liuhe Town was winding, and the willows were low and soft. The two of them were of similar age, but their situations were worlds apart.
Shen Zhou’s family was very poor. He had lived alone since he was a child. When he was young, he had been fostered in his uncle’s house. After his uncle had moved to the city, he had not taken him with him, but had only left him in the county town.
Shen Zhou had then done some odd jobs to make a living.
Shen Zhou’s youth was poor, pale, and precarious. Because he was young and weak, everyone was harsh to him, and he had developed a tough skin.
He was busy making a living and didn’t pay much attention to the young master. But the young master had played a trick on him. He couldn’t stand his dead look of not putting anyone in his eyes, and had pestered him to be his friend.
Shen Zhou didn’t know what it meant for two boys to be friends, but the young master was the first person to express his liking for him.
It was a strange feeling.
After chasing him for a few months, with flowers and sweet words, the young master was dashing and romantic, and had moved Shen Zhou’s iron heart, and had won him over.
Shen Zhou had never been in a relationship before and didn’t know that the ill-tempered young master was just playing with him. After winning him over, he just wanted to humiliate him in front of his friends and step on him.
Shen Zhou had a traditional idea in his bones that a man should be a man of integrity. Therefore, in the face of his partner’s beatings and ridicule, although he was uncomfortable, he did not resist and endured it.
But the Yu family had a sudden change of fortune. The little young master had taken all his money and had run away with someone.
A few years later, with his good business sense, Shen Zhou had risen to the top and had become a business tycoon.
But the little young master had been cheated of all his property and had died in another place.
This time, Yu Lin was playing the role of this ex-boyfriend.
“…”
He pressed his temples with a headache, and for once, he felt that it was tricky. “You’re saying that yesterday, I had already called Shen Zhou over and let the others bully him?”
“En!!” The little jellyfish nodded repeatedly. “The things they said were really nasty. Shen Zhou was bullied the whole time.”
Yu Lin’s memory was not very clear. “And then…”
The jellyfish was teary-eyed. “And then you bullied him too. He wanted to put you back to sleep, but you held on and wouldn’t let go, and kept making him hold you. When he left, his arms were stiff.”
Yu Lin: “…”
Me?