Gu Yansheng really couldn’t imagine that he would run into Xuan Chiyi here of all places.
Had he known that the person right in front of him was Xuan Chiyi, he would rather have gone with that lecherous old man than ask Xuan Chiyi for help.
After struggling hard to hide for half a year, he still failed to escape the palm of Xuan Chiyi’s hand. Was he really fated to follow the plot written in the book?
Yes, Gu Yansheng was not a person of this world; he was a transmigrator who had fallen into a book.
He had transmigrated into a character with the exact same name and a nearly identical background to his own.
The Gu Yansheng in the novel was a pathetic, submissive shou, while Xuan Chiyi was the crazy, obsessive gong.
Xuan Chiyi was obsessive and mad. In the end, the original owner could no longer endure Xuan Chiyi’s torment and committed suicide. However, even after the original owner died, Xuan Chiyi still refused to let him go, preserving his skull and placing it by his bedside as if he were still alive.
Who wouldn’t be terrified of such a terrifying person?
Therefore, the moment Gu Yansheng transmigrated, he left Jincheng overnight and came to Jiangcheng.
He only wanted to live a good life here. He thought that as long as he didn’t run into Xuan Chiyi, he would be safe and sound.
Besides, he knew that back in his original world, he should already be dead.
In his final memories, he had been hit by a car on the street. He heard the sounds of surrounding screams and shrieks, and when he opened his eyes again, he had appeared here safe and sound.
Whether in reality or here, Gu Yansheng was an orphan.
He had no parents, and even the name Gu Yansheng was something casually given to him by someone at the orphanage.
He had been abandoned at the doorstep of the orphanage, so the people there gave him the name “Yansheng”.
When his household registration was being processed, the staff member felt that the name was too pessimistic, so they changed the character “Sheng” to “Shêng”, which was full of bright meaning.
The day Gu Yansheng was hit by a car happened to be his eighteenth birthday.
He had already been in this world for half a year. To survive here, Gu Yansheng worked various jobs, finally ending up as a waiter in a bar because it didn’t require a diploma. Neither he nor the original owner had more than a high school education, and the bar offered high commissions on alcohol sales, allowing him to support himself.
Because of his pretty appearance, he always encountered many unkind gazes at work. Gu Yansheng would dodge them whenever he could, and the only person he truly feared was Xuan Chiyi.
No one else was nearly as terrifying as him.
Perhaps it was also because he had been on his own since childhood and had never been loved by anyone, leaving Gu Yansheng with a fair amount of low self-esteem in his heart.
Yet, he never expected that after carefully hiding for half a year, he would end up delivering himself right into Xuan Chiyi’s hands in the end.
How crazy Xuan Chiyi was in the novel, and how he tortured the original owner. Gu Yansheng had shivered with dread when he first read the novel.
When Xuan Chiyi emerged from the bathroom, the room was already completely empty.
Gu Yansheng was nowhere to be found.
Xuan Chiyi froze. He didn’t know if it was just his imagination, but earlier he had felt as though Gu Yansheng was afraid of him.
Could it be that he had gone too far last night?
Looking at the empty room, Xuan Chiyi felt a bit at a loss. He was about to return to Jincheng soon, yet he hadn’t even found the time to ask for Gu Yansheng’s contact information, nor had he managed to say those words aloud.
However, he had to leave Jiangcheng today because he needed to fly abroad tomorrow for a business trip, and the negotiations for acquiring a foreign company required his personal attendance.
Gu Yansheng. Xuan Chiyi silently memorized the name in his heart.
Checking the time, there were still two hours before his flight took off. Before heading to the airport, Xuan Chiyi made a trip to the bar. He figured that since Gu Yansheng worked there as a waiter, he should be able to get his contact information.
After leaving the hotel and on his way back to his rented apartment, Gu Yansheng called the bar manager to resign.
He did this because Xuan Chiyi knew he worked at that bar.
Fearing that Xuan Chiyi would come looking for him, he had no choice but to quit.
Over the phone, the bar manager didn’t understand why he was suddenly resigning. He tried to persuade him to stay for a bit, but seeing that Gu Yansheng’s attitude was resolute, he didn’t say anything further and quickly had the accountant transfer his wages for the month to his account.
Once Gu Yansheng received this month’s salary, he sent the manager a text message expressing his gratitude.
Then, he deactivated his mobile phone number.
Fortunately, the people at the bar didn’t know where he lived, otherwise he would have had to look for a new place to stay all over again.
His current residence wasn’t very remote, had convenient transportation, and the landlord was quite nice. Most importantly, the rent was cheap.
Having only graduated from high school, Gu Yansheng found many jobs difficult to land because employers would reject him outright upon hearing, he never attended college.
Because his body was still aching, Gu Yansheng hailed a taxi from the hotel to return to his place.
When getting out and looking at the meter, Gu Yansheng felt a slight pang of regret over the taxi fare.
In the hallway, Gu Yansheng ran into his landlord.
His landlord was a man in his thirties who thought Gu Yansheng looked like a kid and usually took good care of him. Gu Yansheng also looked up to him like an older brother.
The landlord looked a bit surprised when he saw Gu Yansheng. “Sheng-sheng, your complexion looks terrible. Are you sick?”
Gu Yansheng forced a smile. “Brother Hui, I’m fine, just caught a cold. I’ll be better after a good sleep.”
His voice was hoarse, truly sounding like he had caught a cold.
Amidst the landlord’s expressions of concern, Gu Yansheng returned to his room.
Although Gu Yansheng had felt a soreness in a certain place behind him that morning, his skin felt clean and refreshed.
Therefore, Xuan Chiyi must have helped clean him up last night.
Gu Yansheng still had some recollection of what happened last night.
Xuan Chiyi had repeatedly asked him if he was willing, and in the beginning, Xuan Chiyi had kissed him so gently, speaking in such a tender voice. If only that person hadn’t been Xuan Chiyi, how wonderful it would have been.
Lying face down on the bed, Gu Yansheng silently applied ointment to his backside.
Even though Xuan Chiyi had been very gentle, it still hurt down there a lot. When Xuan Chiyi had first entered him, Gu Yansheng felt like a dry fish, as if he were about to die.
After applying the medicine, Gu Yansheng fell into a hazy sleep again. He thought that as long as Xuan Chiyi couldn’t find him, his ending wouldn’t turn out like the one in the book.
Xuan Chiyi definitely wouldn’t be able to find him.
Xuan Chiyi indeed had not been able to find him.
He went to the bar, only to be told by the manager that Gu Yansheng had already quit.
The manager presumably assumed Gu Yansheng had offended Xuan Chiyi, prompting someone to come looking for him. “Sir, the person you’re looking for has already resigned and is no longer working at our bar.”
Resigned? Xuan Chiyi obviously didn’t believe it.
Xuan Chiyi asked, “Then can you give me his mobile phone number?”
The manager looked at Xuan Chiyi. “I’m sorry, I don’t have his phone number.”
Even though Gu Yansheng had quit, he was still his former employee after all.
He certainly knew that many people harbored various intentions toward Gu Yansheng, and being too pretty wasn’t necessarily a good thing.
The manager had also categorized Xuan Chiyi as one of those harboring ill intentions.
Therefore, he refused to give him Gu Yansheng’s phone number.
Xuan Chiyi clearly saw through the manager’s thoughts, but he didn’t press the matter further.
Just as he walked out the front doors of the bar, Zhang Fang, who had been waiting nearby, walked over. “Sir, are you looking for Gu Yansheng?”
Xuan Chiyi asked, “You know his contact information?”
Zhang Fang replied, “I do, but…”
Without wasting words, Xuan Chiyi asked, “How much?”
Staring at the 100,000 yuan that had just arrived in his Alipay account, Zhang Fang was momentarily stunned, never expecting this man to be so generous, as Gu Yansheng’s phone number was actually worth this much.
With the phone number in hand, Xuan Chiyi rushed to the airport. Once there, he finally dialed that number.
A cold, mechanical female voice sounded.
“Sorry, the number you have dialed is out of service.”