At ten o’clock the next morning, Fan Rong entered the room precisely on time to wake Yan Jingyu up. Yan Jingyu, who had stayed up very late, yawned repeatedly as he sat up from the bed.
“Brother, Brother Ding is coming to pick you up at eleven o’clock. Hurry up and get ready.”
Only then did Yan Jingyu’s brain clear up. He got out of bed and went to wash up. When everything was prepared, he still couldn’t help asking Fan Rong, “Going to see my brother… is there anything I need to pay attention to?”
“Ah?” Fan Rong was somewhat bewildered by his question.
Seeing his bewildered face, Yan Jingyu realized what nonsensical thing he had just said again, so he said, “Do you know why my brother is meeting me this time?”
“This…” Fan Rong shook his head. “I don’t know.”
Looking at his evasive eyes, Yan Jingyu figured he must know something. It was just that he really couldn’t figure out what kind of terrible monster Chi Dianqing’s older brother was that they all acted so nervous.
From their scattered words, it could be heard that Ding Zhi and Chi Dianqing’s older brother were friends, and Ding Zhi was also Chi Dianqing’s manager. However, it seemed that the relationship between Chi Dianqing and his manager couldn’t be called close, and he himself didn’t seem willing to see his own brother…
The relationships among these people were quite complex.
Earlier, he had heard people say that the Chi family, the Chu family of Chu Tianyi, along with the Yong family, the Lin family, and the most mysterious Chu family, were the five great prominent families that covered the sky with one hand in Yancheng.
More than ten years ago, after Chi Dianqing’s parents suffered a car accident, Chi Mobai, who had not yet graduated from university, propped up the Chi family. But because evil people acted behind the scenes, the Chi family was severely damaged.
Over all these years, relying on Chi Mobai pulling the Chi family step-by-step out of the deep abyss with great difficulty, although it was not restored to its former glory, he was already an existence in the Yancheng business circle that could not be ignored.
For such a formidable older brother, he was presumably also extremely domineering, and getting along with Chi Dianqing…
Yan Jingyu twitched his mouth and shook his head with a sigh. Although thinking of these things did make him feel slight sympathy for Chi Dianqing’s encounter, that was a completely separate matter from his distaste for Chi Dianqing himself.
Anything that could make Chi Dianqing uncomfortable, he was willing to learn about, so that he could use it to block his heart in the future.
Ding Zhi arrived very punctually. He had even put on a relatively grand suit, and even his hair had been groomed more meticulously than usual; he looked to be in a very good mood.
Yan Jingyu tutted in his heart: What a flashy old fox.
However, even this flashy old fox had times when he was stood up. Only ten minutes after their car drove out, Ding Zhi answered a phone call midway through and immediately executed a heroic U-turn, swinging the tail of the car.
Yan Jingyu, whose face was slammed against the car window once again, really couldn’t endure it anymore. “Can you drive or not?! If you can’t drive, let Fan Rong do it! What kind of terrible driving is this?!”
Fan Rong, sitting in the passenger seat, shuddered visibly to the naked eye. He swallowed his saliva silently and glanced at Ding Zhi, whose surrounding air pressure had dropped to the extreme, not daring to say a single word. To tell the truth, at this moment, if there were a stealth spell, he would get it at all costs.
“Your brother has something to do; he can’t meet today,” Ding Zhi said in a very faint tone.
“He says he won’t meet, so he just doesn’t meet? Is he treating people like monkeys?” Yan Jingyu blurted out.
Ding Zhi glanced at him from the rearview mirror. That single glance made a chill run down Yan Jingyu’s spine, making him realize that the sentence he had just spoken was something Chi Dianqing’s personality would never say.
“I helped you adjust your recent itineraries. You should take a rest for a few days first.”
Yan Jingyu’s suspended heart settled down. He figured Ding Zhi must think he had been too abnormal recently and was afraid his mental state would have problems due to work pressure.
However, this Ding Zhi seemed to have quite a few skills. To be able to clear out several days of dedicated rest time for him from such a dense schedule was a capability that Hu Lai couldn’t match even if he exerted the force of nine bulls and two tigers.
Originally, Yan Jingyu was very resistant to the matter of working for someone else. Now it turned out even better. Even if Chi Dianqing really questioned it, this blame could be thrown directly at Ding Zhi, letting them bite each other like dogs while he sat back and watched as a spectator.
Before even arriving at the destination, Chi Dianqing’s phone call came through. Yan Jingyu looked at Ding Zhi and Fan Rong in the car and hung up the call.
After an interval of two minutes, the phone vibrated once. It was a message sent by Chi Dianqing, with only three words:
【Speak less.】
Yan Jingyu let out a sneer and immediately replied: “Are you teaching me how to do things?”
【If you don’t want me to use your body to do things that will make you regret, then you had better listen to advice.】
Although Yan Jingyu took these words in, the next moment he felt that if he was threatened by Chi Dianqing like this every time and let him discover he was so easy to manipulate, then he would definitely push his luck further and get bolder. Therefore, he had to let him know that he wasn’t someone who could be easily bluffed by a few of his words.
He also didn’t tell Chi Dianqing about the matter of being stood up, and directly replied: “Then you had better think clearly. It’s not like I don’t have leverage. As far as the control of the body is concerned, we are evenly matched. On what basis do you think you can use this as a condition to threaten me every time?”
【I am not threatening you. I can’t allow you to use my identity to act recklessly without making any response.】
Yan Jingyu couldn’t help letting out a sneer. This laughter attracted the two people sitting in front to turn their heads and look over. He lifted his eyelids and glanced at them very displeasedly. It was not until the two people tactfully turned their heads back that he continued to send messages to Chi Dianqing.
“Are you sure you want to burn the bridges? Then don’t blame me for sinking the ship together with you.”
Until Yan Jingyu returned to Chi Dianqing’s villa, he did not receive any more messages from Chi Dianqing. Presumably, he was truly bluffed by his threat.
Yan Jingyu changed out of the suit of clothes that made it inconvenient for him to move and put on pajamas before continuing to lie on the bed. Anyway, he didn’t have to rush itineraries, so such time should naturally be spent lying down. Besides, this person, Chi Dianqing, was quite good at enjoying life; the mattress he bought was simply too comfortable.
Bored with nothing to do, he opened his mobile phone, intending to check what had happened on Weibo today and, by the way, see where he, who resided on Weibo’s trending searches, was living on which floor of the trending search today.
As a result, what he saw upon logging on shocked him so much that his mobile phone smashed directly onto his face. Although it smashed Chi Dianqing’s face, the person who felt the pain was him.
“This idiot!” Yan Jingyu roared. He hurriedly picked up the mobile phone beside his face again, opened the trending searches, and took a few more glances. After confirming he hadn’t misread it just now, he swore again, “No, is Chi Dianqing sick?!”
The trending search topic ranked at the very top was appended with a word: “Boiling.”
#Yan Jingyu Admits the Rumors Are True#
With trembling hands, he opened the topic and clicked on the video of Chi Dianqing’s interview.
Host: “I see Little Yan’s popularity on the internet has been very high recently.”
Chi Dianqing: “It’s alright, thanks to Teacher Chi.”
Yan Jingyu spat, “Selling dog meat under a sheep’s head.”
The moment he said this, he frowned himself, only then realizing something was wrong.
Host: “Since we are talking about Teacher Chi, how do you view some of the rumors during this period of time?”
Chi Dianqing: “What rumors?”
Host: “Little Yan is someone at the forefront of surfing the net; surely you must know some of the things widely spread online recently, right?”
Chi Dianqing paused for a moment, and then said: “Is it the internet rumor about liking Chu Tianyi?”
When Yan Jingyu heard this sentence, he really wanted to rush up, grab his collar, and give him two punches. For an old fox like Chi Dianqing who had been mixing in the entertainment industry since childhood, he could casually gloss over and fool his way past such a question. But that pause of his just now was clearly him holding back a bad idea.
The host froze for a moment, seemingly also not expecting that they were only tentatively digging, yet “Yan Jingyu” would state his own scandal so directly.
Host: “Then this rumor…”
Before the host’s words were finished, Chi Dianqing directly said: “The rumor is true.”
“Ah!” Yan Jingyu directly jumped up from the bed in anger, roaring at the top of his lungs, “Chi Dianqing, you dog! I want to… I want to… I want to kill you! Ah!”
Fan Rong, who heard Yan Jingyu’s roaring downstairs, immediately ran up. As a result, he saw this extremely frantic scene of Yan Jingyu.
“Crazy, crazy, really crazy. How did he even start cursing himself?” Fan Rong paced back and forth, muttering at the door. Looking at Yan Jingyu’s crazy appearance, he really didn’t dare to go in. Just as he was hesitating whether to call Ding Zhi to report, Yan Jingyu actually jumped down from the bed and walked straight toward him.
Fan Rong instinctively turned his legs to run, but his back collar was grabbed by Yan Jingyu. “What are you running for?!”
“Brother.” Fan Rong almost spoke in a crying tone, wanting to break free from Yan Jingyu’s hand, while trying to say something to divert his attention, lest he go crazy and bite himself. “You… do you have anything you need from me?”
Yan Jingyu looked at him furiously. As for what he grabbed him to do, he hadn’t thought it through for the time being. He wanted to think of a method that could deal a heavy blow to Chi Dianqing.
“What can deal him a heavy blow?” Yan Jingyu released Fan Rong’s clothes and walked downstairs, muttering to himself.
Fan Rong watched him go downstairs muttering words, and crawled and scrambled to pick up his mobile phone to call Ding Zhi.
Yan Jingyu went down the stairs, directly kicked off his shoes, and paced back and forth barefoot in the living room. The pad of his thumb was almost chewed raw by him, but his brain was currently a messy blur; he simply couldn’t think of any move that could defeat the enemy in one stroke.
Chi Dianqing, this despicable villain, actually admitted the scandal in front of the media. Damn it, is he crazy about liking Chu Tianyi, overwhelmed by lust for a moment, forgetting that he is still wearing my skin? He even dared to admit this; now it’s even harder to explain clearly! Chi Dianqing really deserves to die!
“Fuck!” Yan Jingyu grabbed an ornament at hand and threw it onto the floor. Seeing the shattered porcelain pieces exploding on the floor, the fire in his heart seemed to finally find an outlet to release.
“Brother, are you alright?” Fan Rong, who ran down from upstairs upon hearing the noise, saw this floor full of shattered porcelain pieces and hurriedly checked him up and down. Seeing that he wasn’t injured, he breathed a sigh of relief. “Brother, why are you doing this? If there’s anything, just say it out. Brother Ding is so powerful and resourceful; he will definitely be able to find a way to solve it. Doing this…”
Hearing Ding Zhi’s name, the anger that had subsided a bit in Yan Jingyu flared up again. He violently shoved Fan Rong aside and stepped past him, but accidentally stepped on a shattered porcelain piece, cutting open a long gash on the sole of his foot.
“Hiss…” He lifted his foot to take a look; it was at least two centimeters long. As for how deep, looking at this amount of bleeding, it wasn’t shallow.
Fan Rong immediately stepped forward to support him, “Brother, brother, brother, lift your foot first. I’ll support you to the sofa.”
Yan Jingyu left behind a phrase, “It’s fine,” and directly took big strides upstairs, leaving behind only a trail of horrifying blood footprints.
All the way to the bedroom, only then did he lift the injured foot with a contorted face. Hopping on one foot to the bedside, he sat on the bed holding his foot, hurting so much that tears streamed down, “Ah, it hurts so much, it hurts so much…”
“Chi Dianqing, you dog, this account must be counted on your head, and then settled one by one.” Yan Jingyu pulled out several paper tissues to pad on his leg, but after a short while, they were dyed red.
Presumably on the way over, Fan Rong told Ding Zhi about his foot injury, so Ding Zhi brought a doctor along on the way.
Yan Jingyu was grimacing and gasping in pain on the inside, but maintained a calm surface, holding his arms across his chest, looking coldly at the doctor treating his wound, while secretly cursing Ding Zhi in his heart for being meddlesome and delaying his plan to let Chi Dianqing die of excessive blood loss.
And on the other side, he was still thinking about how he could make Chi Dianqing suffer a setback for once.