“Or… why not make it simple and upload the complete version, including the video screenshots, directly to our University’s Confession Wall and all the major forums? I’ve even thought of a title: ‘Shocking! The Untold Story Between Chinese Department Campus Heartthrob Chen Min and His High School Mathematics Teacher.’ What do you think? Explosive enough?”
Every word was like an icy spike driven deep into Chen Min’s heart.
His entire body trembled uncontrollably, while sweat mixed with the grime on his face and trickled downward.
He struggled to raise his head and tried to get up from the floor, only to collapse again as agonizing pain tore through his abdomen.
“D-Don’t…” Chen Min’s voice was hoarse and dry, filled with pleading. “Lu Xuan… Brother Xuan! I was wrong! I really was wrong! We’ve never had any grudges against each other. P-Please… just let me off this once, okay?”
Struggling desperately, he propped his upper body up with his elbows until he was almost half-kneeling on the floor, looking up at Lu Xuan.
“W-What exactly do you want? Just tell me! As long as I can do it, I’ll give you whatever you want! Money? Is it money you want? I’ll give it to you! I’ll transfer it right now!”
As though he had finally grasped his last lifeline, Chen Min hurriedly continued, “50,000! No, 100,000! I’ll give you 100,000 yuan! That’s… that’s enough for you to live on for a long time! Just consider it… consider it a gift between friends, okay?”
“Friends?” Lu Xuan could not help but sneer as though he had just heard the funniest joke in the world.
He looked at Chen Min, who had humbled himself to the point of groveling, and remembered the arrogant face of this same bastard from his previous life, when Chen Min had eagerly kicked him while he was down. The resentment buried in Lu Xuan’s heart finally found an outlet and surged uncontrollably.
“100,000 yuan?” Lu Xuan slowly shook his head, making no attempt to conceal the contempt in his eyes. “Chen Min, Chen Min… even now, you still think money can solve everything? Do you really believe the disgusting things you’ve done can be erased with a mere 100,000 yuan?”
He remembered how Zhang Yining had also tried to dismiss him with money earlier. These self-important people always seemed to believe money could solve anything.
“Looks like you still haven’t learned your lesson.” Lu Xuan’s gaze abruptly turned cold.
Before he had even finished speaking, he raised his foot again.
This time, he was faster and more ruthless.
“Bang!”
A dull impact rang out, accompanied by the faint crack of bone shifting out of place. Lu Xuan’s foot struck Chen Min precisely under the chin as he tried to lift his head.
“Aagh!”
Chen Min let out a piercing scream as his entire body toppled backward. The back of his head slammed heavily against the cold, hard concrete floor with a muffled thud.
His vision instantly went black.
Agonizing pain tore through his jaw, while the thick metallic taste of blood flooded his mouth. Several of his teeth even seemed to have been knocked loose.
He lay on the floor, his body twitching uncontrollably as his terrified eyes remained fixed on Lu Xuan. He was afraid that another blow might completely ruin the handsome face he had always taken such pride in. Read this novel at novelping dot com for the best experience.
“Fuck, you’re noisy.” Lu Xuan frowned impatiently. “Stop fucking whining like that! Listen carefully!”
He bent down, grabbed a fistful of Chen Min’s meticulously styled hair, now smeared with blood and dust, and forcibly lifted his head from the floor, making those terrified eyes look directly at him.
“Tonight,” Lu Xuan said in a low voice filled with unquestionable authority, “ask your precious little sister, Chen Xue, to come out. The three of us are going to have dinner together.”
Chen Min’s pupils abruptly contracted.
At the mention of his sister, his first instinct was to resist. However, the searing pain in his scalp and Lu Xuan’s icy gaze instantly extinguished what little courage he had left.
“Also…” Lu Xuan leaned a little closer. Catching the metallic scent of blood coming from Chen Min’s face, he spoke with a trace of malicious amusement, “bring me some of that good stuff you used to knock Teacher Zhang unconscious. Did you hear me clearly?”
Chen Min began trembling violently.
Looking at Lu Xuan’s face from such a close distance, he finally understood what genuine fear and despair felt like.
He could not understand why Lu Xuan wanted those drugs.
Could it be…
“Did you fucking hear me?!” Lu Xuan tightened his grip slightly.
The pain made Chen Min grimace, tears nearly spilling from his eyes.
“I-I heard you… I heard you!” Chen Min answered in an almost tearful voice, nodding repeatedly for fear that the slightest hesitation would earn him another vicious beating.
He did not dare think about anything else now. All he wanted was to protect himself first.
“Good.” Satisfied, Lu Xuan released his grip, allowing Chen Min’s head to drop back onto the floor.
Lu Xuan straightened and looked down at Chen Min, who lay sprawled on the floor like a puddle of mud. Then he raised a hand and casually patted Chen Min’s swollen, bloodied cheek several times with the back of his hand.
“Pat. Pat.”
The sound was not loud, but the humiliation behind the gesture was overwhelming.
“If you understand, hurry up and get it done. Book a decent restaurant. Don’t choose some shabby place. Send me the address on Green Bubble.”
“Have the drugs ready too. Don’t try fooling me with something fake. Most importantly, make sure your sister arrives on time.”
After saying that, he no longer spared Chen Min, who lay on the floor like a dead dog, another glance.
He turned toward his bed, casually threw himself onto it, took out his phone, and began scrolling leisurely.
Chen Min remained sprawled on the floor for a long time, unable to recover. Waves of agonizing pain from his lower abdomen and jaw repeatedly assaulted his nerves, making him feel as though he might actually die.
With great difficulty, he turned his head slightly. From the corner of his eye, he saw Lu Xuan lying on his bed as though nothing had happened.
Lu Xuan had even casually crossed his legs, resting one hand behind his head while holding his phone in the other. The glow from the screen illuminated a face that, in Chen Min’s eyes, now seemed as terrifying and hateful as that of a demon.
That composure. That utter calm.
It was as though the person who had just kicked another human being through the air like a torn sack, struck him viciously under the chin, grabbed him by the hair, and threatened him had never been Lu Xuan at all.
An indescribable sense of humiliation and icy fear overwhelmed Chen Min, far surpassing his physical pain. It coiled around his heart like a venomous snake.
‘I’m finished.’
The thought surfaced in his mind with terrifying clarity.
The evidence in Lu Xuan’s hands was enough to completely destroy his reputation and possibly send him to prison for years.
His wealthy family background, his appearance, his identity as the Campus Heartthrob… everything he had once taken pride in would become meaningless in the face of that PowerPoint. He would become a disgraced laughingstock despised by everyone.
As for resisting?
That front kick and the precise, ruthless strike to his chin had completely shattered any remaining hope of fighting back.
Lu Xuan’s strength and speed were on an entirely different level from someone like him, whose physique was little more than appearance. More importantly, there was an undisguised ruthlessness about Lu Xuan.
He truly dared to hurt him badly.
Chen Min had no doubt that if he refused to obey, Lu Xuan would absolutely expose everything.
But… his sister…
Chen Xue…
The moment Chen Min remembered Lu Xuan’s sinister smile and that playful tone when he mentioned his sister, his heart felt as though an invisible hand had seized it and squeezed with all its strength, leaving him almost unable to breathe.