After all, they had been friends for many years. Although Lin Yiming was dissatisfied, it wasn’t a good look to say anything, so he only pursed his lips slightly and looked at him.
“No, it really wasn’t me.”
Su Tang’s mind went completely blank, and he hurriedly spoke up to explain.
“Yiming, we’ve known each other for so many years. You wouldn’t disbelieve me, right…”
His frame was slender, and standing there with his fists clenched made him look very frail. Even his voice was trembling.
“I grew up with you from childhood. When have you ever seen me harm someone else?”
Looking at his anxious gaze, Lin Yiming’s heart wavered slightly.
He wasn’t unclear about what kind of person Su Tang was. Could he really have seen wrongly just now?
Immediately after, Lin Yiming felt his sleeve being gently tugged.
Shi Song tilted his head up to look at him. This kind of upward-looking expression was particularly prone to triggering another person’s desire to possess.
“I’m fine. You guys go back first. I can just go to the hospital to check it out myself.”
He smiled with a pale face, looking extremely weak. Even though his beautiful eyebrows were tightly furrowed, the words that came out of his mouth were: “It’s just that my head hurts a bit, but it shouldn’t be a big problem. I’m sorry for ruining the fun for everyone.”
This tone caused Lin Yiming’s heart to twist up completely.
He had no time to worry about Su Tang anymore. He just turned his head to look at Shi Song and said, “Baby, how are you? Let me carry you to the hospital on my back.”
As he spoke, he was about to semi-squat down toward Shi Song.
But Shi Song retreated slightly, shook his head, and said in a weak tone, “No need.”
“My head is a bit dizzy. Being carried on a back isn’t comfortable. I can just walk by myself.”
His baby was truly sensible.
Lin Yiming felt increasingly uncomfortable in his heart.
Watching their retreating backs, Su Tang wiped his face harshly, his eyebrows knitting together.
Upon arriving at the hospital, they registered for the emergency room.
Shi Song did not let Lin Yiming follow him into the consultation room; he only asked the doctor to prescribe some painkillers at random.
“No need to take an X-ray?”
Lin Yiming rubbed Shi Song’s head with some unease.
“Hiss—”
Shi Song instantly inhaled a breath of cold air, his apricot-core-shaped eyes brimming with water mist: “It’s fine, no need.”
“Remember to talk to that friend of yours, and tell him it really is nothing.”
Lin Yiming finally couldn’t hold it back anymore and asked, “Baby, what exactly happened just now? I think I saw him push you.”
Shi Song lowered his eyelashes and didn’t speak.
His eyelashes were fine and dense, casting a small patch of shadow beneath his eyes. The way he bit his red lips made him look exceptionally pitiful.
The protective desire in Lin Yiming’s heart instantly ignited: “If there’s anything, just tell me. I will definitely take it out on him for you.”
Shi Song raised his eyes and said with some trepidation, “I want to be closer to your circle.”
“Because of me, you guys were unhappy today. You won’t blame me, right?”
As Shi Song spoke, Lin Yiming caught the scent of the soft and sweet fragrance on his body.
Lowering his head, he could see Shi Song’s strands of hair reflecting a soft luster, and his heart softened into a lump instantly.
If he hadn’t appeared today, would Xiao Song have forced himself to hold out and come back, pretending as if nothing had happened?
His baby was simply too lacking in a sense of security and too sensible, completely different from Su Tang, who had been raised with pampering. This made Lin Yiming feel deeply guilty.
He heard his own voice say firmly, “This matter… I will talk to Su Tang about it again later.”
After returning home, Su Tang received a message from Lin Yiming.
“No matter what the truth of the matter was that day, I still hope you can give Shi Song an apology.”
Su Tang clenched his fist harshly, almost wanting to smash his phone against the wall.
Although Lin Yiming hadn’t completely disbelieved him, he unexpectedly still wanted him to apologize to Shi Song?
Without even thinking, he replied: “Impossible! This matter was not done by me! It’s impossible for me to apologize to him!”
Lin Yiming sent a voice note: “Su Tang, I really treat you as a brother, which is why I’m speaking directly. It’s just an apology, why are you unwilling?”
In fact, Lin Yiming was also a bit conflicted in his heart.
On one side was his baby, and on the other side was his brother of many years. He wasn’t clear about what exactly happened, but he didn’t want either side to suffer grievances.
After finishing speaking, he also felt his tone was a bit heavy, so he quickly added a sentence: “If you are truly unwilling, I can go help you speak to Shi Song instead.”
In the end, he was still helping Shi Song.
Su Tang sat dejectedly on the bed, his eyes completely filled with the burning anger of unwillingness.
That Shi Song unexpectedly seemed to be able to read minds, executing the thought that had merely flashed through Su Tang’s own mind.
Facing his accusations, he himself was simply left with a hundred mouths but unable to explain, which also caused the hatred toward Shi Song in Su Tang’s heart to grow even deeper.
Although Zhou Jing and Zhao Yan also advised him that it would be better to just admit it, Su Tang simply couldn’t swallow this kind of grievance.
From childhood to adulthood, he had been spoiled by his family. When had he ever taken this kind of attitude from someone?
He smashed the bed harshly.
Thinking about it, he picked his phone back up, opened Weibo, and posted a message.
“A bit unhappy today [cat sighing.jpg]”
The moment he posted this message, numerous small fans instantly came to comment.
“What’s wrong, Dada? Pat pat pat pat.”
“Rubbing Dada, still waiting for you to shoot videos for us~”
“Who made our Dada unhappy! Tell me the ID! I will go confront them directly!”
Looking at the countless comments standing up for him, Su Tang finally felt a bit better.
As a result, right at this moment, his older brother Su Yi suddenly walked straight in without knocking.
Su Tang was startled and turned his head back: “Brother, what’s wrong?”
His eyes were still a bit red. Normally, Su Yi would definitely ask him with concern what was wrong.
But this time, Su Yi only knit his brows, his voice stern: “Su Tang, what good deeds have you been up to outside?”
Su Tang froze for a moment: “Ah?”
Su Yi walked forward, knocking on the desk several times consecutively in anger: “Just now, I finally managed to connect to Wei Huaichen’s phone call, wanting to cooperate on a project with him. In the end, guess what happened?”
“He refused to listen to me speak even half a sentence about the project. He only said coldly that if my younger brother has no one to discipline him, he can let someone else help me!”
Just recalling Wei Huaichen’s tone made Su Yi feel a chill down his spine. He had a stomach full of fire with nowhere to vent, and his voice uncontrollably grew even louder.
“It doesn’t matter how you cause trouble outside, but you cannot affect the family’s business. What have you been doing recently?”
Su Tang froze for a moment, the rims of his eyes instantly turning red: “You would rather believe an outsider than believe me?”
His tone was pitiful, and as he finished speaking, his eyes went red.
“You really didn’t do anything?”
Su Yi froze for a moment.
Su Tang bit his lip and didn’t speak.
Looking at his expression, Su Yi’s attitude softened by a few degrees: “Brother doesn’t disbelieve you either, but you’ve been arrogant and spoiled at home since childhood. I am truly afraid that you will cause some trouble in the future that even I cannot solve.”
“If I really cause trouble, you can just kick me out of the house.”
Su Tang lowered his eyes, saying self-abandoningly, “Consequently, in the future, there will also be no need to suspect me without proof or evidence.”
Su Yi froze for a moment, and hurriedly went to coax his brother: “Alright, I didn’t mean it on purpose either. Wasn’t I just worried.”
Su Tang turned his body away, avoiding Su Yi’s gaze.
“How about brother makes amends to you?”
Su Yi let out a soft sigh: “Didn’t you like that Porsche sports car? I’ll buy it for you in a couple of days.”
Su Tang finally smiled. The rims of his eyes were still a bit red, making his appearance look increasingly delicate and pitiful: “That’s more like it.”
The two brothers said a couple more words, and since Su Yi still had things to do, he left first.
After the door closed, the expression on Su Tang’s face cooled down instantly.
How could he have provoked Wei Huaichen? He had a sweet mouth and good popularity. Since the time he became sensible, he had never had any disputes with anyone, except for two days ago…
Shi Song?
How could it be possible!
Su Tang clenched his fists, the hatred in his heart becoming increasingly twisted.
He would rather believe that he had accidentally provoked Wei Huaichen somehow, than believe that Shi Song truly had any kind of background.
During these two days, Shi Song intermittently had quite a few dreams again. There was the wedding of Lin Yiming and Su Tang, and there was also the scenario where he himself was sued in court.
Every time he woke up, he felt his heart twitching with pain. That kind of loneliness from being abandoned by everyone almost swallowed him whole.
If this truly was a hint, how should he escape such an outcome?
Shi Song recorded the critical nodes from the dreams into a notebook.
Lin Yiming and Su Tang were an uncertain factor. Shi Song indeed used to like Lin Yiming before, but perhaps because the tragic pain in the dreams was too profound, the more dreams he had, the more Shi Song felt his feelings fading away.
Now when mentioning Lin Yiming, his mind was entirely filled with how he should withdraw completely.
Very quickly, the time arrived at Friday.
Shi Song sat in front of the drawing board and was just intending to paint his assignment when suddenly, Orange Treasure let out two meows.
He only hesitated for two seconds between painting his assignment and feeding Orange Treasure, and ultimately threw down his paintbrush resolutely, deciding it was better to take action right before the deadline.
After all, who could resist the temptation of a little kitten?
“Meow-u!”
Shi Song opened the can and poured it into the small plate in front of Orange Treasure. Watching the kitten lick and eat bite by bite, a thought suddenly stirred in his mind.
There was another piece of important information in the dream that had been overlooked by him.
There was an existence there that no one could afford to provoke: Wei Huaichen.
Although he wasn’t familiar with Wei Huaichen yet, thinking back to how he had taken Orange Treasure to see the doctor together with him before, he felt that Wei Huaichen should be a very gentle and kind person.
If he could hug his thigh, the road ahead in the future should be much smoother.
As for how to build a good relationship with Wei Huaichen, wasn’t Orange Treasure a perfect excuse!
He hurriedly pulled out his phone to send a message.
“Brother, do you have time today? This weekend I need to take Orange Treasure to see the doctor again. If it’s on the way, could I hitch a ride in your car?”
After thinking about it, Shi Song also added a small, cute emoji.
Wei Huaichen only replied after a short while: “Can.”
“Come to my company first.”
Shi Song was in an excellent mood. He found the aviation box, pinched Orange Treasure by the scruff of its neck, and stuffed it inside while it meowed and whined non-stop.
These past two days, Orange Treasure had become much more lively at home, jumping up and down in the cat villa every day. After finishing its main meals, it would even act spoiled toward Shi Song to ask for snacks. Mindful of its poor digestion, Shi Song didn’t dare to feed it too much, but it had nonetheless become significantly plumper.
When stuffing it into the box, Orange Treasure even extended its little paws, wanting to reach Shi Song’s fingers.
The meat pads were very soft, making Shi Song’s heart soften too.
“Meow-u~”
Somewhat helplessly, Shi Song tapped its nose with his finger: “Be good.”
Orange Treasure glanced at Shi Song with its clear eyes, and then, reluctantly rustling, shrank back into the aviation box.
Shi Song took a taxi to Wei Huaichen’s company.
The location chosen for Wei Huaichen’s company was in a famous commercial district of Capital City. The high-rise building was considerably grand, and even the interior decoration was very elegant.
Shi Song walked through the revolving door and saw the young man at the front desk currently hosting someone.
“Very sorry,” he smiled very politely, “Our President Wei said that he is not seeing anyone today.”
“Just tell your President Wei that I am Su Yi, and I came here today to apologize to him.”
“It’s the Su family, he should know.”
The young man hurriedly said, “Apologies, please trouble yourself to come back next time. I truly do not have this authority.”
“You…”
Su Yi had never met with this kind of closed-door refusal before. Biting his teeth, he was a bit about to lose his temper.
As a result, right at this moment, Shi Song walked up.
Seeing him, the young man’s eyes lit up: “Hello, President Wei has already been waiting for you for a long time. Please trouble yourself to come this way with me.”
That Su Yi turned his head around. After seeing Shi Song, the anger in his eyes was replaced by stark, bright astonishment.
He originally wanted to pester further, but in front of such a beautiful person, he couldn’t bring himself to say a single word.
After sensing his gaze, Shi Song could only give a very shallow smile, and then kept up with the young man’s pace, brushing past him.
Only after a long time did Su Yi pull back his attention.
His eyes were completely full of interest.
“Brother, I’m here.”
Shi Song knocked on the door, and after receiving permission, walked in light-heartedly, placing the aviation box on the ground.
“Mm.”
Wei Huaichen was currently lowering his head to look at a document. Hearing Shi Song’s voice, he said without even raising his head, “Let me see how Orange Treasure is doing.”
Shi Song felt that he must definitely like small animals very much.
“Oh.”
Shi Song wanted to laugh a bit as he opened the aviation box.
“Meow-u~”
Along with the light and soft cat meow, Wei Huaichen raised his eyes.
But his gaze fell upon Shi Song first.
The weather today was still considered warm, so the clear and beautiful boy wore a white shirt layered with a plush vest. The shirt had two buttons undone, revealing a small stretch of fair and delicate collarbone.
He felt his neck was a bit empty, so he wore a black collar to decorate it slightly. That collar was designed exceptionally well, perfectly mapping out the curvature of his neck, revealing a kind of restrained and seductive beauty.
Wei Huaichen’s gaze fixed upon it, his eyes darkening by a few shades.
For some reason, Shi Song felt the skin on that patch of his neck go a bit numb.
His Adam’s apple rolled up and down.
Wei Huaichen’s eyes shifted downward, falling onto Shi Song’s hand.
“Orange Treasure seems to have gotten fat.”
His eyes were very cool, like some sort of inorganic glass; even when he was smiling, it would give off a feeling that the warmth did not soak into the depths of his eyes.
“Meow-u——”
The moment it clashed with Wei Huaichen’s eyes, Orange Treasure in Shi Song’s arms seemed as if it had been frightened by something. It instantly broke free from his embrace and leaped down.