After leaving the villa, Shen Chengyan originally planned to return to his apartment. After thinking about it, he turned instead toward the Shen residence.
When he arrived at the gate, he saw a man and a woman in front of him, seemingly in the middle of an argument.
He didn’t want to interfere, so he stayed in the car and watched.
Gradually, their verbal dispute escalated into physical contact.
Shen Zhaolin was simple-minded but physically strong and obsessed with fitness. Compared to the petite Su Yan, the contrast in their builds was obvious.
He looked like he could slap her away with a single blow.
Just as Shen Chengyan was considering whether to step out, Su Yan suddenly kicked Shen Zhaolin and ran into a car, speeding away.
Shen Zhaolin collapsed to the ground like a dog.
He covered his groin, sweating in pain.
“Did it… break?”
A voice suddenly came from behind.
Shen Zhaolin, enduring the pain, raised his middle finger. “Stop standing there enjoying my misery!”
Shen Chengyan asked curiously, “Do you really hit women?”
“None of your business!”
“A disgrace to the family.”
Shen Zhaolin laughed angrily. “If it weren’t for Jiang Yu stirring things up, would I and Yan Yan have had a fight?”
“What does my wife have to do with this?”
“She’s the one who encouraged Yan Yan to break up with me!”
And then Su Yan really did break up with him. Shen Zhaolin had just been arguing with her about that.
“She can’t even keep her own marriage together and still interferes in others. Isn’t that shameless?”
Shen Chengyan narrowed his eyes and looked at him for a few seconds, then suddenly asked, “Still in pain?”
“What?”
“If it still hurts, roll around on the ground a few times. It’ll feel better. Try it.”
“Really?”
“Really. I’ve got experience.”
Shen Zhaolin looked confused. “Have you also been kicked by Yan Yan?”
“…”
Fine. Why bother arguing with an idiot?
Shen Chengyan walked away.
He hadn’t lied—he had indeed been kicked by Jiang Yu.
Back when they had just confirmed their relationship.
At that time, she was about to graduate and had taken a job. He was also very busy then. The two of them barely saw each other once a week.
Even though they were in the same city, it felt like a long-distance relationship.
One day after a meeting, it was already around nine or ten at night. As he left the company, he saw couples walking by on the street and suddenly felt an intense urge to see her.
So he brought her favorite snacks and desserts to her school.
He called her on the way, but she didn’t answer.
When he arrived, he saw her standing at the school gate, seemingly waiting for someone.
At such a late hour—who was she waiting for?
Definitely not him.
He arrived suddenly and couldn’t reach her by phone, and soon he got his answer: a man appeared and took her away.
Near the school was an old street with many dark alleys and cheap small hotels—often used by young couples.
Their destination seemed to be one of those hotels.
Honestly, at that moment, Shen Chengyan felt like he might have been cheated on.
After a moment of silence, he quietly followed them.
He saw them stop in front of the hotel. At that moment, his only thought was: if she went in, it was probably over between them.
But they didn’t go in immediately. Jiang Yu seemed unwilling, and the man kept pulling her.
In the end, she broke free and ran.
The man chased her, but suddenly someone attacked him from behind and kicked him straight into a pile of garbage.
After kicking him away, Shen Chengyan immediately went after Jiang Yu.
The moment he grabbed her, she screamed and turned around, kicking him hard.
That kick was perfect.
He had to sit in the car for half an hour before he recovered.
Jiang Yu sat in the passenger seat nervously, looking at him like a child who knew she was wrong but refused to admit it.
“You suddenly appeared—I thought you were a bad guy. You scared me.”
He sat there with his legs apart, not even wanting to talk.
She still felt guilty. “If it really hurts, you should go to the hospital.”
He took a deep breath, turned her head away, and said, “I’m fine. Stop staring there.”
Jiang Yu’s face turned bright red.
After both of them calmed down, he finally asked about the man.
She avoided the question and instead asked why he suddenly came to her school.
He looked at her for a few seconds, didn’t press further, and took out the snacks and desserts.
“I missed you, so I came.”
She said nothing and lowered her head to eat the cake.
Then she suddenly cried.
He panicked, not knowing what to do, and wiped her tears with tissues—but the more he wiped, the more she cried.
“Why are you crying?”
She shook her head.
After several questions, she finally blurted out, “I’m moved!”
“Moved by what?”
“You came to see me so late, brought me cake, said you missed me… no one has ever treated me this well!”
He looked at her for a long time.
“Is this really enough to move you?”
“Yes!” she cried. “I’m just that pathetic, okay?”
That was the first time he kissed her.
At the time, he thought a relationship should have a strong foundation before intimacy. He had always been restrained.
But that moment, something snapped.
He leaned in and kissed her.
She was startled, the cake fell, and she pushed him weakly—but he held her down and deepened the kiss.
Her resistance slowly weakened until she completely melted into him.
He stopped only because he forced himself to.
The atmosphere in the car was heated, their breathing heavy.
Then, just as things were about to escalate, she suddenly asked:
“If I drag you down, would you still treat me this well?”
He froze.
She then told him about her father’s debts.
About how debt collectors wanted her to accompany them in exchange for debt relief.
That destroyed the moment completely.
Before she left the car, he said:
“So you’ve been hurt like this before?”
She said yes.
He didn’t speak for a long time.
Then he finally said, “Since you’re already my girlfriend… I might as well be dragged down by you.”
That night, she cried and hugged him tightly, promising she would treat him very well.
He later learned that she had staged everything that night.
And she had known all along that he was coming.