Recap
Rong Yu suddenly changed the topic and his expression became serious: “I want to tell Madam about something.”
Mother Ding smiled and asked, “What’s the matter?”
She didn’t think the young boy would say anything impactful.
Rong Yu said: “Zhang Wenfan is gay.”
Mother Ding’s smile froze.
“How do you know?”
Rong Yu said without changing his expression: “He is my ex-boyfriend.”
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The fondness for Rong Yu disappeared from Mother Ding’s face, and she asked warily: “What are you trying to say?”
Now, how could she not understand that the young man approached her with a purpose?
“Madam, don’t worry, I don’t mean any harm. It’s just that I was cheated of everything I owned by that scumbag, and I don’t want to see anyone being deceived again. I saw your esteemed daughter getting very close to him, so I wanted to inform you.” The young man’s face was bitter and he looked very sad. He seems extremely pitiful, “He only knows how to pretend. He cheated my money and used me for his own pleasure. He coaxed me into giving him all the inheritance left by my parents so that he could start from scratch. After he got rich, he kicked me out of the house in the blink of an eye. Fortunately, I met Mr. Gu so I did not end up homeless.”
Mother Ding’s expression was solemn. She thought Zhang Wenfan was unreliable before, but if what the young man said was true, then his character is terrible!
“Do you have any evidence?”
“It’s my fault that I was stupid. I didn’t think about guarding against him at that time. I don’t have any evidence.” Rong Yu regretted, “But we lived in Building no. 2, Wushui Lane, Dongcheng District, and the neighbors there probably haven’t moved out yet. Just ask them and you’ll know the overall situation.”
Xicheng District is a wealthy area in Zhanghua City, while Dongcheng District is comparable to a slum. When Zhang Wenfan failed in his investment and went bankrupt, he lived there. Chi Yu stayed with him in that small house, suffering without any regrets, and all the neighbors could see it.
After Zhang Wenfan became rich, he tried desperately to cover up this disgraceful past, but as it had already happened, no matter what he did, it would leave traces. He has already given their detailed address. If the Ding family follows the clues, they will definitely discover the fact that Zhang Wenfan once lived with Chi Yu, and will also discover that the source of Zhang Wenfan’s initial capital is unknown.
Zhang Wenfan is of course not gay. He is terribly homophobic, but he pretended to be gay in order to get Chi Yu’s assets. Wanting assets but not wanting to bear this “stigma”, why is there such a good thing in the world?
Homosexuality itself is not a despicable thing, but same-sex marriage fraud is absolutely despicable. The Ding family would never let their daughter suffer such injustice, and their anger was not something Zhang Wenfan could bear.
Mother Ding endured her anger and said, “I will go check it out.”
In fact, she already believed it. She likes the young man very much. He looked so well-behaved and cute, and he came with Gu Minghuai. Why was there any need to lie to her? As for Zhang Wenfan, she had long disliked him. She couldn’t see the man’s sincerity towards her daughter, so it was only natural that she can see through his character flaws.
“He is a homosexual, and he cheated my daughter’s feelings.” Mother Ding couldn’t restrain her anger, “That’s unreasonable! Is he just after our Ding family’s fortune?!”
Rong Yu: Be more confident and remove the “?”
Rong Yu said sadly: “I can’t confirm this, but he has indeed cheated me of all my family fortune.”
This sentence is more effective than admitting “I think he really is interested in your family fortune.” This statement would be a guess, but Rong Yu talked about established facts.
Mother Ding was so angry that she laughed aloud: “Very good. He pretends to be a very good person. He hasn’t asked our Ding family for a penny for so long. It turns out that he was just waiting for the opportunity…”
Rong Yu gave the final blow at the right time: “He didn’t ask for money? I’m afraid that’s not true.”
Mother Ding already trusts Rong Yu and asks quickly: “What happened?”
Rong Yu said calmly: “At the Mystic Goods auction the day before yesterday, I saw your esteemed daughter and Zhang Wenfan staying together, and I realized that they have a close relationship.
Maybe the right question to ask would be: where is your daughter’s necklace?”
Mother Ding’s expression changed.
Great, my daughter dares to join forces with outsiders to deceive her! That Zhang Wenfan is indeed a disaster!
Mother Ding covered her chest and felt a tightness in her chest with anger.
Rong Yu said comfortingly: “Madam, calm down.”
Mother Ding waved her hand to indicate that she was okay.
After calming down a little, Mother Ding suddenly felt sympathy for the poor child in front of her: “Thank you for telling us, otherwise we don’t know how long we will be deceived by that beast. Can you add us on WeChat? It’s easier to contact us if you have anything you need in the future… Such a scumbag is not worth your pain anymore, I wish you and Mr. Gu happiness.”
“Of course.” Rong Yu finished the last bite of his cake and smiled, “Thank you for your hospitality.”
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Rong Yu got up and left. Mother Ding was sitting on the sofa, getting angrier as she thought about it. She got up and walked to Ding Weiwei with a very ugly look on her face.
Ding Weiwei didn’t know why: “What’s wrong, Mom?”
Mother Ding pulled her out from the crowd and said, “Follow me upstairs.”
…
“Mom, what are you doing?” Ding Weiwei was pulled into the room by Mother Ding, feeling baffled.
“Where’s the necklace?” Mother Ding asked with a straight face.
Ding Weiwei choked: “What necklace?”
“Don’t play dumb with me, it’s the one Mom gave you.”
Ding Weiwei hesitantly said: “Didn’t I say I had it kept at the bottom of the box…?”
Mother Ding asked: “Where did you put it? Take it out.”
Ding Weiwei’s eyes shifted: “I forgot, oh my, I have so much jewelry, how can I remember…?”
Mother Ding saw the way her words staggered. At this point, how could she not understand anything: “Tell me honestly, did you give that necklace to the guy named Zhang as collateral? Otherwise, how can he afford to buy such rare items?”
Ding Weiwei was someone who couldn’t hide things well. Her face revealed her fear when she heard this: “Mom, you, you know?”
It’s over, it’s over, I don’t know which uncle tattled on my parents here, I really can’t contain the fire.
Mother Ding felt lightheaded. What the young man said was true, so she’s afraid that the other things were not false either.
She asked: “What did you buy for him? Zhang Wenfan pretends to regard money as dirt in front of us every day. It turns out that you are providing a gold mine to provide for him, and you lied to your parents for a wild man?”
“Mom, don’t speak so harshly. Wenfan is not that kind of person. He didn’t borrow the necklace to squander my money.” Ding Weiwei explained everything in a hurry, “He wanted to buy the Pisces jade pendant for Mr. Gu. Doesn’t Mr. Gu like jade? As long as he gets on the line with Mr. Gu, his business will grow bigger and bigger. You will definitely be satisfied. All you do is judge him because he is poor all day long, you can’t see his efforts at all!”
“Using your necklace as collateral for the jade pendant so that he can use it to please Mr. Gu?” Mother Ding said, “Ding Weiwei, how could I have given birth to a daughter like you? You are so stupid! Do you know that this is called borrowing flowers to offer to Buddha?* Our family also has business dealings with the Gu family. You don’t help your father develop connections for the other party, why are you helping outsiders?”
*(Means to win favour/influence someone using someone else’s things.)
Ding Weiwei explained: “Wenfan is not an outsider, we truly love each other…”
“He doesn’t love you at all!” Mother Ding said angrily, “Do you know that he’s gay?”
Ding Weiwei was stunned, shook her head and said: “Mom, you can’t make up such lies just to break us up. I won’t believe it.”
“I will bring the evidence after I find it. If I really find out that he scammed marriage and cheated money, he will not be able to live well for the rest of his life.” Mother Ding said sternly, “You break up with him immediately. If you don’t break up, just with that necklace, I can and will send him to jail immediately!”
Mother Ding is also a business woman, and she has this courage. She will never allow her daughter to be harmed.
Ding Weiwei was beaten with a stick and felt that Mother Ding was being very unreasonable: “Mom, why are you doing this? He didn’t steal or rob. You gave me the necklace, and I voluntarily gave it to him as a mortgage. Why do you have to go so far as to send him to jail?!”
“I gave it to you. It was a verbal statement that it was a gift. There is no written proof. Can you prove it in court? Now my necklace is being mortgaged. Whether I think that it is stolen or robbed, I have the final say.” Mother said coldly.
Thirty million is not a small amount, it is enough for a life sentence.
“Mom, I don’t understand why you have to push Wenfan to the corner. Anyway, I just love him…”
‘Pa!’
Ding Weiwei covered her face in disbelief: “Mom, you actually hit me?”
On her birthday?
Mother Ding said in disappointment: “It’s because your father and I have spoiled you since childhood that you are so naive and easy to deceive. You said I forced him to a corner. You know how that ambitious beast is thinking about forcing him to a dead end?”
Ding Weiwei couldn’t listen, she just felt that she had been greatly wronged. When she was slapped by her mother for the first time in her life, tears burst out of her eyes. She pushed open the door and ran downstairs.
Mother Ding sat alone on her daughter’s pink princess bed, dazed for a while, and wiped the corners of her eyes with her fingers.
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Rong Yu completed the task and returned to Gu Minghuai, just as Gu Minghuai also finished talking to his business partners.
“I see that you and Mrs. Ding chatted for a long time.” Gu Minghuai asked casually, “What did you talk about?”
“You can still be distracted while talking about business. Mr. Gu, are you not afraid of being cheated? I just thought the cake was delicious and asked about the chef.” Rong Yu picked up the champagne on the coffee table and took a sip, and then vomited directly into the trash can, “Pfft——”
He put it back in disgust: “It tastes bad.”
Gu Minghuai picked up his glass and took a sip along the surface of the glass and the lip mark left just now: “This is the best sparkling wine in France. You are not used to drinking wine.”
“I’m not used to drinking?” Rong Yu seemed to have heard a joke, “I don’t care for it.”
What a joke. In his original world he only drank the “Dew of one hundred thousand springs and autumns, one drop can intoxicate for a lifetime” wine. The devil’s palace has an entire wine cellar dedicated to this precious wine, Rong Yu can still down a thousand cups without getting drunk. This thousand-year-old peach blossom wine from the Peach Garden in Heaven is only suitable for washing glass cups at his place.
He is used to tasting fine nectar and jade dew, so he has no care for these ordinary wines.
“Speaking of which,” Rong Yu said, “Don’t you think saliva exchange is dirty? Don’t you dislike it? Why are you touching a cup that someone else has drank from, and specifically drank on the same spot that someone else has touched…”
“That was before.” Gu Minghuai drank the champagne in one gulp, “Now it’s not someone else, it’s my wife.”
“Who is this wife?” Rong Yu asked.
Gu Minghuai was well aware of Xiao Yu’er’s domineering temperament and is adaptable: “I am your wife.”
Rong Yu was satisfied: “That’s right.”
“The cake just now was so delicious.” Rong Yu stood up, still not satisfied, “I’ll get another piece.”
Then he brought back an entire layer.
Gu Minghuai: “…”
Isn’t this just cutting off one layer from the nine-layer birthday cake?
Gu Minghuai looked at the birthday cake, and sure enough, there was a layer missing from the top.
The corner of his mouth twitched: “Aren’t you going to get the small cakes on the table?”
“But I think this one is bigger. I didn’t take all of it, only one layer.” Rong Yu said confidently.
Gu Minghuai was dumbfounded: “Xiao Yu’er, this layer is not for eating.”
Rong Yu raised his head from the cake: “Isn’t it edible?”
Gu Minghuai said: “They had a tradition of slamming their heads into the cake.”
Rong Yu was shocked.
In the original world, everyone said that he wasted a lot of natural resources, but now he feels that people in this era are even worse.
Rong Yu ate the cake regardless: “Then can I still eat it?”
Gu Minghuai: “…Can you stop eating it as you are asking that question?”
Rong Yu: “Oh, I’m just being polite.”
Gu Minghuai: “What if I say no?”
Rong Yu: “Then I won’t be polite.”
Gu Minghuai: “…Eat.”
Rong Yu continued to work hard without being polite. Halfway through, the cake in front of him was taken away.
Rong Yu raised his head: “My cake!”
“That’s enough.” Gu Minghuai said, “If you eat too much cake, you won’t be able to digest it all, and your stomach will feel uncomfortable. If you want to eat, I’ll hire the cake chef to make it for you every day, but it is limited.”
He also didn’t know what the consequences would be for a fish to eat so much cake. The little fish was no different from a normal person when in human form.
Rong Yu was not persistent, guessing that the time was almost up and it was time for the next act.
Zhang Wenfan accidentally broke the wine glass and didn’t show up again. It does not take much to figure out that he was frightened after seeing him, so he hid in the dressing room and didn’t dare to come out.
Mother Ding is a resolute and strong woman. After learning about Zhang Wenfan’s true identity, she will not allow her daughter to be associated with him again. Calling Ding Weiwei upstairs is definitely to break them up.
As for the silly and naive girl, she definitely does not believe her mother’s warning. She was immersed in the tragedy of being beaten with a stick in an idol drama, and she was so aggrieved that she wanted to cry to her boyfriend.
Rong Yu analyzed the characters of the three people well and even knows how their actions will play out. His next step is to confront Zhang Wenfan and expose the scumbag’s past. Zhang Wenfan will definitely reveal his flaws in his panic. That time, he will seize the opportunity to let Ms. Ding, who is looking for her boyfriend, hears it, and he can completely wake her up.
Ding Weiwei is innocent and naive but not indifferent to right from wrong. After seeing Zhang Wenfan clearly, she will not help him anymore.
What Rong Yu wants is that Zhang Wenfan has nothing, is alone, and does not deserve even a single chance.
But before he takes action, he has to get Mr. Gu away first.
So, he ate so much cake on purpose.
Yes, even eating cake is part of the plan, although the cake is indeed delicious.
“Oops.” Rong Yu covered his abdomen, “I seem to be feeling a little uncomfortable after you mentioned it.”
Gu Minghuai’s expression tightened and he asked with concern: “Is it painful?”
Rong Yu said pitifully: “I have to go to the bathroom.”
“I will go with you.”
“Just wait for me here.” Rong Yu said, “You don’t have to resort to following me to the bathroom.”
Gu Minghuai shot back: “Why do I remember that a certain little fish even requested my help to wear his underwear?”
“Anyway, there’s no need to follow me.” Rong Yu couldn’t help but say, “If anything happens, I can still contact you on the phone.”
Gu Minghuai nodded: “Alright. Then go and come back quickly.”
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Rong Yu didn’t go to the bathroom.
He went straight to the dressing room.
The dressing room of the Ding family was also quite large. Zhang Wenfan sat on a chair and did not dare to go out for a long time.
It is terrifying for anyone to see someone they thought dead reappear.
What’s more… Chi Yu is a yokai.
It was the yokai who was killed by him.
He must be back to…
Zhang Wenfan was thinking in a frantic state, not noticing that the door of the dressing room behind him was quietly pushed open.
The sound of leather shoes hitting the floor was particularly clear, and every step sounded like the footsteps of death approaching.
Zhang Wenfan got shocked, turned his head, and saw that familiar and beautiful face. The young man was smiling and looking very sunny.
Zhang Wenfan, however, seemed to be shrouded in dark clouds. He was so frightened that he fell to the ground and kept retreating.
“Don’t come here, don’t come here! Don’t kill me!
It was the Taoist priest who harmed you, not me! You have to look for him!” Zhang Wenfan collapsed and yelled, covering his face.
Rong Yu stood in front of him, looking down at him condescendingly, with the contempt of watching an ant scurrying back in his eyes.
“Zhang Wenfan, you are living like a dog.”
Zhang Wenfan’s face turned pale when he heard this familiar voice: “You were the one who bid against me at the auction that day!”
He is indeed back for revenge!
Rong Yu smiled: “When you were so intent on ruining me, you didn’t expect me to come back, right?”
Zhang Wenfan said with agitation: “I didn’t want to ruin you! The money was originally given to me voluntarily by you! Otherwise, why would I be your boyfriend?!”
Also, you are a yokai, you deserve to die!
It’s just that Zhang Wenfan didn’t dare to say this, for fear of angering Chi Yu and the other party would kill him directly.
Yokais kills people, where does he have the chance to resist?
“Oh, so you admit that you are with me because of the inheritance left by my parents. Not only did you deceive my feelings and steal my family’s assets, but you also killed their son, and then you used this dirty blood money to build your own business so that it’ll seem that you are such a capable entrepreneur with a clean net worth.” Rong Yu couldn’t help but applaud him.
“Let me think about it, how should I kill you?” Rong Yu said as if he was thinking about his next course of action.
Zhang Wenfan was horrified. Chi Yu feels completely different from before. In the past, Chi Yu was gentle and carefree, speaking softly to him, but now he was so domineering and seems like he could kill him in the next second.
“No, don’t kill me, don’t kill me!” Zhang Wenfan crawled over and tried to hug his thigh, but Rong Yu kicked him away in disgust.
Zhang Wenfan got up and continued to beg for mercy: “Chi Yu, let’s reconcile. Can I be your boyfriend again? Don’t you love me? Otherwise, you wouldn’t have proposed to be with me in the first place. I, I love you too. Let’s continue and live a good life together, just like before, okay?”
Rong Yu lowered his eyes, as if he was really touched: “Really? You love me?”
Zhang Wenfan was overjoyed that the fish yao still had feelings for him so he relented quickly. He said: “Of course I love you!”
Rong Yu tilted his head: “I don’t believe it, you are still with Ms Ding.”
“I don’t love her! I did it for the Ding family’s assets!” Zhang Wenfan quickly distanced himself from the relationship, “That woman is stupid and annoying. How can she be as considerate as you? How can I like her?”
Rong Yu smiled and said, “As expected of you, you haven’t changed at all.”
He turned around and pushed open the door of the dressing room. When he saw the person standing outside the door, he pretended to be surprised: “Ms Ding?”
Ding Weiwei stood outside the door with tears streaming down her face.
She quarreled with her mother over Zhang Wenfan and was beaten by her mother. She was about to run to her boyfriend’s arms to express her grievances, but she didn’t expect to hear such a conversation outside the door.
It seemed that the previous confrontation between her and her mother was a joke.
Ding Weiwei asked with a pale face: “Is everything you said true?”
She was asking Zhang Wenfan.
Zhang Wenfan’s face turned pale and he thought, it’s over, everything is over.
The big tree of the Ding family is completely unreachable.
Money was important, but life was even more important. He couldn’t give Ding Weiwei the answer he wanted in front of Chi Yu.
Zhang Wenfan could only speak vaguely. He hurriedly stepped forward and said: “Weiwei, please listen to my explanation…”
‘Pa!’
Ding Weiwei slapped him in anger.
“I trusted you so much, and this is how you treat me?
Fighting with my mother over you is the most stupidest thing I have ever done in my life!” Ding Weiwei took off the ring Zhang Wenfan gave her and threw it directly into Zhang Wenfan’s face, “I give your broken things back to you. I don’t want it anymore!”
The ring fell to the ground with a clang, and Ding Weiwei ran away crying.
She came here for comfort, but she didn’t expect to become even more saddened.
But it was good, she finally saw the person clearly, and she wouldn’t be treated like a fool again.
Rong Yu’s goal was completed, he turned to leave.
What will happen next for Zhang Wenfan is up to the Ding family to decide, the outcome won’t be any good.
Blood Jade Bracelet: Is this what it means by the saying: a gentleman talks but doesn’t act? I can’t see it before but you really are quite a gentleman.
The Great Demon King’s conquest of the world by force has reached a point where it is a no-brainer. Rong Yu never needed to take any violent measures from the beginning to end and was able to completely ruin Zhang Wenfan’s life with just words. The Blood Jade Bracelet doesn’t find it difficult to admire him.
Rong Yu: In a society governed by law, if I act, someone usually ends up dead.
Blood Jade Bracelet: …You are quite the law-abiding citizen.
Rong Yu paused when he walked out and turned the corner.
It seems that something unexpected happened.
Gu Minghuai leaned against the wall and stood there for who knows how long.
With the poor sound insulation of the dressing room and the distance to the corridor, everything can be heard from this location.
Rong Yu asked: “Why are you here?”
Gu Minghuai said calmly: “After thinking about it, I still felt uneasy, so I followed you.”
Then he saw that Xiao Yu’er went to the dressing room instead of the bathroom. He felt suspicious and listened in the corridor.
He came earlier than Ding Weiwei and listened to it from beginning to end, including the sentence “It was the Taoist priest who harmed you.”
Zhang Wenfan knew the identity of Xiao Yu’er and collaborated with a Taoist priest to harm him.
Gu Minghuai remembered that the first time he met Xiao Yu’er was at the vegetable market. The carp was placed in a big basin with a clearly marked price. If he hadn’t brought it back on a whim and raised it, one can only imagine what would have happened.
Zhang Wenfan hadn’t even gained Gu Minghuai’s favor yet, but he has already angered him.
Gu Minghuai went directly into the dressing room without asking any questions.
Zhang Wenfan was still lying on the ground in a daze. How could he not understand now that Chi Yu came back to seek revenge and it was impossible to forgive him. Ding Weiwei also left him, and he doesn’t know if the Ding family will leave him a way to survive. He has nothing left.
Just when he felt that his life was over, he saw a tall and handsome man pushing open the door and entering.
It’s Mr. Gu.
Zhang Wenfan suddenly became excited.
As long as he get Mr. Gu’s protection, what does the Ding family’s suppression mean?
He originally wanted to please Mr. Gu, if a single jade pendant was not enough, the secret that Chi Yu was a yokai would be a huge favor!
This last life-saving straw must be grasped.
“Mr. Gu.” Zhang Wenfan quickly stood up and arranged his clothes, “What a coincidence, you came in to change too.”
Gu Minghuai ignored him.
Zhang Wenfan took out the box containing the jade pendant from his pocket and presented it to him in a flattering manner: “I heard that Mr. Gu likes jade. This is the Pisces jade pendant that I spent 30 million to obtain. It’s a small gift. Please accept it.”
He opened the box cautiously, and saw a bright and transparent jade pendant lying there quietly, with the two fishes holding each other’s lips appearing extremely intimate.
Gu Minghuai glanced at it, put the jade pendant into his coat pocket, and straightened his cufflinks.
When Zhang Wenfan saw Gu Minghuai accepting the jade pendant, his face lit up with joy and he felt that he had hope.
It’s really a smooth road. I just lost the Ding family’s ladder, but got on Mr. Gu’s helicopter.
“Mr. Gu, please don’t believe this Chi Yu next to you. He is a monster! He is a carp spirit! If you don’t believe it, you can find a Taoist priest…”
The next second, a punch was delivered.
There was a sharp pain on his face, and Zhang Wenfan was confused. He didn’t understand what was happening, but the strong punches were already falling.
Zhang Wenfan said anxiously: “Mr. Gu, I’m not kidding you, he is really a monster!”
With a cold look on his face, the man kicked him hard, with such force that Zhang Wenfan almost suspected that his ribs had been broken.
Gu Minghuai beat Zhang Wenfan up directly.
The beating was quite severe, his nose was bruised and his face was swollen, but there was barely any bleeding.
He has always been calm and composed. He rarely gets into trouble with others, when an iceberg erupts, which is more terrifying than a volcano.
Rong Yu leaned against the doorframe and watched the show: “Little Bracelet, is Mr. Gu venting his anger for me?”
Blood Jade Bracelet: Don’t ask questions you know the answers to.
Otherwise, why would he beat someone up for no reason?
Rong Yu: He doesn’t look like he would beat someone impulsively.
Blood Jade Bracelet: You misunderstood.
Those who have the attribute of the sun loved to fight. Before the Lord God became the Supreme God, he was the God of War who killed half of the deities in the Ten Thousand Worlds. Those who are capable of pulling this feat off are never reasonable.
In a way, he and the big devil are a perfect match, and they can be called to be a violent combination.
Zhang Wenfan had no power to fight back and huddled on the ground with his head in his hands, looking miserable. After Gu Minghuai finished, he held Rong Yu’s hand with a cold face: “Let’s go.”
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Ding Weiwei came back upstairs, opened the door and lay in Mother Ding’s lap crying: “Mom, I was wrong…”
Mother Ding was shocked: “What happened?”
“You’re right, that Zhang Wenfan is a liar!” Ding Weiwei cried, “I heard with my own ears. He said that I was stupid and annoying, and that he was only with me because he wanted our family’s fortunes. He is not a human being, and the man led in by Mr. Gu seemed to be his ex-boyfriend, and he was also deceived by him. He even went so far as to cheat him of his parents’ inheritance, and even wanted to kill that man…
What kind of wolf-hearted thing did I have my sights set on?!”
Mother Ding was surprised. She had never expected that Zhang Wenfan had cheated Chi Yu of not just money and body but also wanted to kill him. This made her shudder, if Zhang Wenfan had ever thought of plotting against their family like this…
This scourge must not be allowed to exist.
Fortunately, my daughter was finally able to get out of it. Mother Ding held Ding Weiwei in her arms and coaxed her: “It’s okay. As long as you can see it clearly now. Long-term pain is worse than short-term pain. With your conditions, there are a lot of good men for you to choose from, why hang yourself on a tree with a crooked neck?
Today is your birthday, spend it happily.”
The banquet that night ended successfully, and some people were satisfied that they had sealed big business deals. Some people learn the truth and become desperate and angry.
Zhang Wenfan was kicked out of the Ding family in public, his face was completely lost, and he became a joke among the upper class.
Rong Yu followed Gu Minghuai back home.
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It was very late when they got home after the banquet. The lights were on in the bedroom. Gu Minghuai didn’t intend to sleep, he seemed to want to have a long conversation.
“Now can we talk about what happened between you and your ex-boyfriend?”
Rong Yu: “Why do I smell vinegar?”
“Don’t change the subject.”
“Oh.” Rong Yu replied obediently, “It was actually a scene of repaying kindness with murder.”
Gu Minghuai frowned: “Repaying kindness again?”
Rong Yu nodded. But that was done by the original owner and had nothing to do with him.
Gu Minghuai said: “Continue talking.”
“This story… started a thousand years ago.”
Rong Yu told the story of how he was rescued by a fisherman thousands of years ago, how he looked for his benefactor, and how he rescued Zhang Wenfan who looked exactly like his benefactor in modern times. How he repaid his kindness with his fortune as a carp spirit and then imitated the human way of promising themselves to him, and was almost turned into a braised carp.
Everything was told exactly as it was.
He was very calm when he told it. It wasn’t his story anyway.
Gu Minghuai became more and more annoyed as he listened.
“So, when he said that you loved him and offered to be with him…”
“What’s love? I don’t understand it at all. It’s just the saying you humans have that says that one should pledge oneself to repay someone else’s act of saving one’s life, so that’s what I said.”
Gu Minghuai’s face brightened slightly after hearing this, but he soon felt that something was wrong: “Didn’t you say you didn’t understand the meaning of pledging yourself to someone else?”
At first, Xiao Yu’er confidently believed that the promise of his body was just physical contact, so he kept pestering him every day.
“I know a little bit.” Rong Yu made a little gesture, “It’s just two people who want to be together. What was between him and I is just a formality, there are really no emotions involved at all.”
Gu Minghuai was not happy: “Then did you propose to become my boyfriend, because I saved you from the vegetable market, and you want to repay the favor?”
He loves Xiao Yu’er, but he doesn’t want Xiao Yu’er to be with him just for the sake of repaying kindness.
“Of course not! I didn’t understand it before, but I understand it now. It’s not enough for two people to be together, they also need to be in love with each other.” Rong Yu explained seriously, “After I met you, I understood what true love means.”
Gu Minghuai still had a straight face.
Rong Yu was too lazy to coax him: “Do you dislike me now that you know I had an ex-boyfriend?”
Gu Minghuai lowered his eyes: “No.”
“You do.” Rong Yu snorted coldly, “You have not looked good since you came home. You really are this type of man. If you mind it so much, don’t sleep with me.” He said and got into the quilt.
Gu Minghuai pulled him into his arms and whispered, “I feel distressed for you.”
I feel distressed that you have been looking for someone for a thousand years.
I feel sorry that I wasn’t around when you got hurt.
Rong Yu was surprised: He also knows what distress means ah.
Blood Jade Bracelet: …This is not your own experience, how can you empathize with it?
The big devil doesn’t seem to have strong empathy.
Rong Yu was too lazy to pay attention to the Blood Jade Bracelet. He said, “Why do you feel distressed? Do you feel sorry for me? After searching for so many years, I found a scumbag.”
Gu Minghuai said: “Not everyone is a scumbag.”
Rong Yu thought to himself: He is so shameless.
“Xiao Yu’er.” Gu Minghuai said suddenly, “Now that we know what true love is.
… Then do you want to know what it means to truly commit yourself to each other?”
Rong Yu: What is he talking about?
Blood Jade Bracelet: He is inviting you to a month-long spiritual energy transaction.
Rong Yu: You are really a master of translation.
Rong Yu pulled Gu Minghuai’s tie and kissed him.
The ends of his eyes were slightly raised, and his red lips were raised.
“Okay, I’ve never quite understood the meaning of this word. You’d better let me know more thoroughly.”
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This teaching lasted until midnight and was transformed from Chinese class to physical education class.
Gu Minghuai personally taught the meaning of the word to Rong Yu and demonstrated it in all the ways possible.
“Do you understand now?” Gu Minghuai asked seriously.
Rong Yu is like a student who is exhausted after excessive extracurricular activities. He is so sleepy that he just wants to sleep through the lesson: “…I understand, can you stop teaching now?”
“No way. Class isn’t over yet.”
“…Why is your class so long! And what period is this already! Do you know that I can go to the Education Bureau and sue you if you drag the class on like this?” Rong Yu struggled hard. He wanted to skip class, but unfortunately he was pressed down by Teacher Gu and could only be dragged back to continue the lesson.
Rong Yu bit his fingers to suppress his sobs. Gu Minghuai kissed away the tears from the corners of his eyes, pulled out his fingers, and choked up speechlessly when he saw the two teeth marks on them: “Take mine instead.”
“Then I’ll bite you!”
If he hurts, Gu Minghuai needs to get hurt together, not him alone.
Gu Minghuai chuckled: “Okay.”
…
This was originally a beautiful night, but due to an unexpected situation, it turned into a thrilling night in one second.
When Gu Minghuai held Rong Yu’s ankles and planned to teach another lesson, the white feet in his hands turned into red fish tails without warning.
Gu Minghuai: “…”
A fucking normal person would be scared to death.
Fortunately, Gu Minghuai was used to this kind of situation happening – although this was the first time it happened at this time – he could still remain calm.
Rong Yu was finally freed, but unexpectedly it was his fish tail that saved his life.
The spiritual energy bar in his body is already full, and the water value is dropping rapidly. After all, this is considered exercise, and it consumes a lot of energy.
It can be seen that Gu Minghuai is really not a human being, he somehow managed to single handedly turn him back into a fish.
Gu Minghuai looked at the fish tail and was at a loss as to what to do.
“What are you doing standing still? Why don’t you take me into the water quickly?” Rong Yu mocked, “Don’t think that this is still dirty even after all that, alright?”
Gu Minghuai carried Rong Yu into the bathroom and poured water on him. He was already very skilled at doing this.
Rong Yu glanced at Gu Minghuai and made no attempts to hide his gloating: “Teacher Gu, please go take another cold shower. I won’t entertain you here.”
Gu Minghuai did not go to the shower room to take a shower, but directly stepped into the bathtub with his long legs.
The bathtub was large and a little crowded for two people. As soon as Gu Minghuai came in, the water inside immediately overflowed.
Rong Yu: “Do you want to wash together?”
“Let’s continue the class.” Gu Minghuai had no intention of enduring it alone tonight.
Rong Yu raised his tail and said, “How can I do it now that it’s like this?”
“Xiao Yu’er, fishes have cloaca.” Gu Minghuai stated, “The last lesson is biology. Our topic today will be to explore the mystery of the fish cloaca.”
Three inches below the mermaid’s navel.
“Be good, open your scales.”
Rong Yu: “…”
…
Rong Yu clenched his fingers on the edge of the bathtub: “When you used to dislike my tail and didn’t even want to touch it, did you ever think about this day?”
Gu Minghuai replied: “When I didn’t love you, I didn’t stop to think about this future with you.”
Rong Yu clenched his knuckles until they turned white: “What a heartless thing for you to say at this time.”
Gu Minghuai grabbed his hand and leaned forward to kiss it. The two men’s hands are equally slender and beautiful, one was wearing a golden tail ring and the other a blood-colored jade bracelet, their ten fingers intertwined.
Rong Yu raised his eyes, and saw the man’s handsome face very close at hand, decorated with water drops like a dream.
“After I fell in love with you, I regretted not having fallen sooner.”
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The next day, Gu Minghuai didn’t go to the company and stayed with Rong Yu at home.
Rong Yu sat on the bed playing with his mobile phone.
Mother Ding sent him a message. The Ding family was very efficient and found out that Zhang Wenfan had indeed lived with a man in the past all in one night. Moreover, Zhang Wenfan had no business acumen at all in the past, and whatever he did made him lose money. Suddenly one day, he got wealth from an unknown source, he did not win the lottery, yet became prosperous overnight. All of this happened to that man after Chi Yu appeared.
In conclusion, it is consistent with the information Rong Yu had given.
But the most devastating thing was that Ding Weiwei heard Zhang Wenfan’s words with her own ears. Ms Ding had been sad all night. She woke up this morning and started learning to take over the family business. She decided to let the scumbag go.
The Ding family’s parents were so happy that they almost cried. Their daughter finally stopped chasing after and pleasing a bastard.
The Ding family does not intend to let Zhang Wenfan off so easily. Last night they sent someone to Mystic Goods to explain the situation and get the necklace back. At the same time, they prepared a court summon to send to the Zhang family. Mystic Goods also did not like losing 30 million in vain. They were not short of money, but they were not willing to be cheated. If Zhang Wenfan returns the jade pendant, Mystic Goods will no longer pursue the case, but Zhang Wenfan will be on the Mystic Goods’ blacklist from now on, and will be unable to move forward in Zhanghua City. If he refuses to return it, he will need to go to court and apply to freeze all of his assets in his name for mortgage.
Of course Zhang Wenfan couldn’t afford it, as his Pisces jade pendant had already been given to Gu Minghuai. Mystic Goods would never dare to offend Gu Minghuai for a jade pendant, so they will only target Zhang Wenfan.
This was also the reason why Gu Minghuai accepted the jade pendant.
All options for Zhang Wenfan’s survival were eliminated.
Zhang Wenfan was also very self-aware, so he bought a train ticket overnight and fled to other places.
He couldn’t stay in ZhangHua City at all in this state.
As for how Zhang Wenfan, whose assets have been frozen, penniless and about to be a wanted fugitive, will live in other places… that is not Rong Yu’s concern.
After Zhang Wenfan fled to other places, Chi Yu’s candle grew longer, but the light was still dim.
Before the inner dan is retrieved, the fire of life will not light up again, as the Taoist priest has not yet appeared.
Rong Yu is not very anxious about this matter, regardless, there is still more than half a year left.
“After you have jumped over the dragon gate, you will live almost as long as the world. Sooner or later you will get tired of living. I have helped you so much, so is it not too much to let me stay in this world for another half a year?” Rong Yu said to Chi Yu in the soul lamp.
“You have the person you want to find, and I also have the person I want to see. I’ve waited nine hundred and seventy-two cycles whereby the blue sea turned into mulberry fields*, and one vicissitude is all the years since the birth of your world. Can you understand, silly fish? You can’t. You are less than a thousand years old.
Okay, it’s settled.”
*(In China, at least since the middle of Tang dynasty, the phrase mulberry fields is a metonymy for the land which was or will be covered by oceans.)
“What’s settled?” Gu Minghuai came in from outside the door, “Who are you talking to?”
Rong Yu lazily leaned on the bedside: “Can’t I just talk to myself?”
“Okay.” Gu Minghuai said, “I washed an apple for you, take it and eat it.”
Rong Yu turned his head and refused: “I won’t eat it with the skin on.”
“Fussy.” Gu Minghuai picked up a fruit knife and peeled an apple for him, “By the way, I’ll give you this Pisces jade pendant.”
Rong Yu took the jade pendant, held it in his hand and looked at it for a moment, then raised his hand to smash it.
“Don’t smash this!” Gu Minghuai stopped him immediately.
Rong Yu looked at him: “Give me a reason.”
Gu Minghuai said: “This is a token of love. The two fishes are us. If you break them in half, we will be separated. In order for us to be together forever, can Xiao Yu’er be so noble as to let this piece of jade go?”
Rong Yu stared at him for a moment, then carefully put away the jade pendant: “I think you have cited a good reason.”
“Eat the apple.” Gu Minghuai handed him the peeled apple.
Rong Yu took it and took a bite.
“Is it sweet?”
Rong Yu said critically: “Hardly.”
“Then why are your eyes red? I thought it was because it was too sour.” Gu Minghuai asked with a smile, “Could it be that you were moved to tears because I peeled the apple for you with my own hands?”
Rong Yu bit the apple, his peach blossom eyes dyed with a beautiful crimson color, indescribably bright.
“Yeah, when I woke up this morning and saw that you didn’t run away, I was so fucking moved that I cried.”
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