Chapter 37: The Vicious Ex-Boyfriend of the Impoverished Bigshot (Part 5)
The night was extremely quiet.
The door was opened, and the night light gently crept into the room. Yu Lin was pressed against the wall, his head slightly raised, his lips held, and he felt that Shen Zhou’s lips were warm and dry.
The tip of his nose was filled with a very faint smell of tobacco. Yu Lin was pressed against the door panel, and he felt his lips being bitten, not painful, just a little cool. His eyelashes trembled slightly.
Shen Zhou felt it, and his large knuckles came over, held his neck, and kissed him gently and soothingly, deepening the kiss.
The two of them were separated by a door panel, kissing in the dark night.
The light above their heads was a gentle color. He didn’t know how long they had kissed, but Yu Lin felt his skin getting hotter and hotter, and his eyelids felt like they were on fire. A sense of restlessness gradually arose in his heart.
He looked up, climbed onto Shen Zhou’s shoulders, and licked his lips lightly, calling out to the person in front of him, “Shen Zhou.”
His eyes were dazed, his cheeks were scorching hot, and his lips were slightly red. His fingers rested on his own chin. Shen Zhou looked at him, his Adam’s apple bobbed slightly, and his tall body, shrouded in the night, paused.
After a long while, he leaned down and kissed Yu Lin’s lips soothingly. “Leave it to me.”
…
A faint light came through the window glass.
The light in the room was dim. An unknown amount of time passed. Yu Lin panted lightly. Shen Zhou held him, kissed him gently, and his fingers lifted, wiping the corner of his mouth. “Are you better?”
Because of his skin hunger, Yu Lin would involuntarily become clingy when he was close to Shen Zhou.
He regained consciousness, lowered his eyes to look at Shen Zhou’s messy clothes that had been grabbed, and gently withdrew his hand, and asked softly, “Did I do that?”
He pressed his lips together. “Next time, you can push me away.”
He looked over, his black hair messy, his eyelashes trembling slightly, and his clear eyes seemed to be shimmering with water.
Shen Zhou was stunned for a moment, his eyelids drooped slightly, and for some reason, a laugh rolled out of his throat.
He leaned over, kissed Yu Lin’s eyelids, and said in a low voice, “En, I know. I’m fine.”
“…”
Yu Lin’s situation was special. After Shen Zhou found out, he was not at ease with him living alone and had cleaned up the second floor of the small shop for him to use.
There was a room on the second floor. It was not large, but the light was very good. Shen Zhou had set up a studio for him by the window. When the weather was good, Yu Lin could stay there for an afternoon.
The two of them had become closer and closer.
Shen Zhou’s source of goods was in the provincial capital. The goods were of good quality and low price, and there were many varieties, so his business quickly became popular.
His business was doing well, and he was a young man. Some people in the town admired him, and some people looked down on him.
The rumor that the two boys were messing around had started at this time.
These rumors had initially started in the hooligan crowd, but because they were too strange, no one had paid any attention to them.
However, not long after, the tailor was found messing around with another man in a cornfield. When the lights were shone on them, the two of them were still connected, and the scene was unbearable to look at.
The town was in an uproar, and the gazes on the two young men became strange, and the rumors were constant.
Yu Lin went to the county bank to withdraw money on the twenty-first of every month. Although his father did not care about this useless son he had left in his hometown, because he was rich and had been threatened by his old mother when she was alive, he had never been short of pocket money for his family.
To go to the bank, he had to go to the city. Shen Zhou was getting goods today and did not have time. Yu Lin asked for the address and planned to go by himself.
To get a taxi, he had to go to a lively place. Yu Lin held his passbook and walked closer. Before he got in the car, he heard a few aunties who were selling vegetables by the roadside whispering, “Hey, what do you think is the relationship between that kid from the Yu family and that kid from the Shen family…”
“Don’t say it. I think it’s strange too…” A few aunties sat together around a vegetable stall, sweating profusely.
Yu Lin walked over and opened the taxi door, his expression placid, as if he couldn’t hear that he was the subject of the gossip.
Seeing him come from behind, open the door and get in the car, the few aunties coughed, and their faces turned red with embarrassment.
Perhaps it was some kind of sign. The sun in Liuhe Town was gradually rising, and the temperature was too high. Yu Lin was still wearing the jacket that Shen Zhou had put on him before he went out, and he was a little hot.
He got out of the car and went to the bank, but he couldn’t withdraw the money from his passbook. The bank staff looked at him with some pity. “Your father is in debt and has been out of touch for a long time.”
The people around him all turned to look at him, and Yu Lin understood that the plot had arrived. He sat on a chair in the bank, turned his head, and saw the cold light reflected from the silver counter.
It was just that the plot was faster than he had thought.
Just as he had taken a car back to the town, before noon, he was pulled by a woman with an ugly expression and exquisite makeup, and was taken in the direction of his home.
“Where have you been?” The woman’s face was cold. As she led him, she said coldly, “You’re still running around. Do you know that your father is in debt outside? People are here to take your house now.”
The woman’s tone was harsh, but the hand that was pulling Yu Lin’s sleeve did not let go.
Yu Lin was stunned for a moment, turned his head to look at her, and recognized her identity from his memory, and called out softly, “Auntie?”
The woman paused.
Because of the unpleasant divorce of his parents, and the original host had not been well-brought up, the relatives on his mother’s side had rarely interacted with him, and there was almost no contact.
The woman was in her thirties, tall and slender, with delicate features, and was wearing a fashionable shirt and trousers from the provincial capital.
The corners of her eyes were slightly raised, and she looked very aggressive and not easy to mess with. Seeing Yu Lin looking at her, she frowned and looked over. “You remember me?”
Yu Lin nodded lightly.
The woman glanced at him and said placidly, “You’d better be prepared. The debt collectors won’t leave you anything.”
…
Kang Yue was doing business in the provincial capital. When she got the news, she rushed over and saw her sister’s nephew being kicked out of his house.
Compared to the little white-eyed wolf who had sat in his grandmother’s arms and had spat at them and had called them bitches when he was a child, the grown-up little white-eyed wolf was still a person, at least he could understand human words.
He followed her quietly, without crying or making a fuss. Before he got home, he knew to go to the side and buy her a bottle of water, and in turn, he comforted her not to worry.
When he got home and saw people with tools, breaking into his house and moving things, he did not throw a tantrum, but just calmly walked up and asked about the whole story.
When he learned that it was indeed his family that had gone bankrupt, and that his beast of a father had abandoned him and had run away, he did not say anything, but just nodded lightly, his eyelashes drooping quietly.
After all, he was only eighteen, and he had been pampered for so many years. The young man sat on the steps, and his light-colored eyes were filled with daze.
Kang Yue looked at him, held the water in her hand, and thought of her sister who had met an unworthy man, and let out a deep breath.
She had a cold face, and thinking that he was after all her sister’s child, even a cat or a dog could be given a bite to eat.
She went over, planning to let him pack his things and go with her, but she saw the young man who was in a daze at the door pause for a moment, and suddenly look in her direction, and his eyes curved.
“Shen Zhou.” he said softly, “Don’t make that face.”
Kang Yue paused, followed his gaze, and saw that under the bright morning light of Liuhe Town, a young man with sharp features, who already had the appearance of a man, was in black clothes, and had come from afar, travel-worn.
He crossed the morning and the light, and with an extremely steady pace, he stopped in front of the steps, and stared at the young man sitting on the dusty steps.
A moment later, his brow furrowed slightly, and he took off his jacket and put it on the young man’s thin body.
Kang Yue was thoughtful. She saw his eyelids lift, and he casually glanced at the clanging in the room, then he looked away and did not look again, very calm.
Only when he met the young man’s gaze, he reached out and ruffled the young man’s soft black hair, took out the passbook in his pocket, and stuffed it into his hand with a calm expression, and comforted him in a placid voice, “Don’t be afraid. I won’t let you be penniless.”
His expression was calm. On the contrary, the one who had been given the money was at a loss whether to laugh or cry as he looked down at the passbook in his hand.
A moment later, he looked up, and his eyes curved slightly. “I know. I’m not afraid, Shen Zhou.”
It was still a little cool in early May. Kang Yue looked at them, and remembered the rumors she had heard when she came, and couldn’t help but raise her eyebrows slightly.
***
Because of the bankruptcy, the things in the house had been moved out, and the house had also been mortgaged.
Yu Lin had not much left, and it was also very scattered. When he packed it up and brought it back, there was only one bag.
Shen Zhou held the bag. Lunch was settled at a small restaurant in the town. Because they had not seen each other for many years and were not familiar with each other, the atmosphere at the dining table was a little reserved.
After eating, Shen Zhou got up, touched the temperature of Yu Lin’s fingers, and buttoned his jacket.
Kang Yue sat under the gray and yellow wall of the restaurant, raised her eyebrows slightly, and held a cigarette between her fingers. She watched the atmosphere flow between the two boys, and her gaze swept over Shen Zhou’s fingers.
The restaurant was full of people, and the noise was mixed with the remains of food.
She looked away, stood up and took her bag, and said placidly, “Since there’s nothing, it’s getting late. I’m going back to Ansui.”
Ansui was the provincial capital of Jinnan, and its prosperity was not something a small place like Liuhe Town could compare to.
Kang Yue was not close to her nephew. After she finished speaking, she was about to leave when she heard her cheap nephew call her.
“Auntie.”
A soft and polite tone, it was as if he were not the same person as the little white-eyed wolf in her memory.
Kang Yue shot him a glance. “Is there anything else?”
The bag in her hand was taken by the young man. The young man looked at him and said softly, “Thank you for today. I’ll see you off.”
The young man in front of her was wearing a slightly large black jacket, and the white collar was slightly folded out. His expression was serious, and the gaze he looked over with was very clear.
Kang Yue looked at him and only felt that he had a pair of beautiful eyes that were exactly the same as her sister’s.
Kang Yue pressed her lips together, suddenly lifted her eyelids, and tapped the ash from her cigarette. “Don’t see me off. Let him see me off for a while.”
She lifted her chin and looked at Shen Zhou placidly.
***
Seeing that the two of them had something to say, Yu Lin took them to the street corner and then turned back to the small shop.
There were not many people in the afternoon. He checked the list and at the same time thought about the next plot.
In the plot, Shen Zhou had taken over the small shop, but because the business was booming and the prices were low, he had been suppressed by the merchants in the town, and had also been troubled by hooligans, and had been cheated miserably.
It was at this time that the original host had gone bankrupt. The helpless original host had listened to the instigation and had taken his last bit of money, and Shen Zhou had been forced to leave his hometown.
The small shop was not renovated to be prosperous, and it was only a small room. The shelves were neatly arranged with fashionable goods from the city, which Shen Zhou had gone to many places to choose from.
So it was said in the original text that this place was the turning point of Shen Zhou’s life.
Yu Lin let out a light breath and looked up at the willow tree on the other side of the river. The floral-tattooed youth was leading a group of hooligans and smoking, and they were smiling at him with ill intentions.
A week later, they would set fire to the small shop and let Shen Zhou’s hard work go to waste.
Liu Guang stood at the back of the crowd, with a cigarette in his mouth, and calmly shook his head at him, and mouthed, “Be careful.”
Yu Lin looked at him.
When he looked up again, the people gathered by the river were gone. The midday sun was gradually getting warmer, and the willow trees by the river were even greener, and the river was shimmering with light.
Yu Lin was thinking about how to solve this problem when his neck was ruffled. He looked up and saw Shen Zhou standing in front of the counter, looking down at him.
Shen Zhou walked over and put down the key in his hand. “Something on your mind?”
Yu Lin shook his head and looked at the bright sky outside the glass. “What did you guys talk about?”
Shen Zhou said, “You.”
Yu Lin turned his head, his expression slightly dazed. “Me what?”
Shen Zhou’s eyelids lifted slightly, and he ruffled his black hair, and suddenly let out a low laugh. “Auntie asked me what you usually like. I said painting.”
Yu Lin blinked lightly.
Shen Zhou was wearing a black jacket, and the metal zipper was hanging down lazily.
He had a placid smile, and when he looked over, his tone was very gentle. “She recommended a school in the provincial capital, and said it would be good for your future.”
Shen Zhou said, “Let’s go to the provincial capital.”