It had been a little over half a month since Si Qin fled in panic after catching a glimpse of the small peach blossom birthmark on someone’s body. If there was anything particularly noteworthy about these past few days, it was that our esteemed President Si had successfully evolved into a glorious, card-carrying “brother-con.”
In the eyes of our newly minted older brother, everything about his younger brother was wonderful. And if there ever seemed to be any flaws, those were undoubtedly the fault of other people who had led his innocent, adorable, and obedient younger brother astray.
By this time, Si Shao had passed the final round of evaluations by a team of doctors, confirming that he had suffered no lingering aftereffects.
Now that his health was fully recovered, his studies needed to be brought back onto the agenda. At this point, S University, the institution where Si Shao was enrolled, had already been back in session for a little under a month. The second young master tapped his fingers and rubbed his chin, rummaging through the dusty corners of his memory to finally piece together his long-lost college days.
This semester, Si Shao had just advanced to his sophomore year. He hadn’t attended the opening ceremony, and naturally, he hadn’t collected his new textbooks either. However, the second young master’s notorious name was something nearly everyone in the school, from professors down to students, had heard of.
Unlike Si Qin, who was revered by generation after generation of students as an idol and a campus god due to his stellar grades and extraordinary personal qualifications, making him an unsurpassable benchmark among S University’s faculty and student body, Si Shao, the second young master of the Si family, held a “reputation” for wickedness so thoroughly despised that it practically crossed into the realm of universally loathsome.
Yet, relying on a handsome face that appealed to all ages, his generous spending, and his formidable family background, Si Shao was exceptionally popular among girls, both at S University and across several surrounding colleges.
Everyone knew that the second young master changed female companions faster than he changed clothes. Si Shao never formally entered relationships, and before meeting Su Shuer, he had never confessed his feelings to a single girl.
Even so, knowing full well that this guy was a scumbag, the moment Si Shao stood somewhere, countless pretty young women would flock to his side, waiting to be chosen.
Of course, there were also a few girls who stood out from the usual seductive sirens, those who deeply looked down on a good-for-nothing prodigal like Si Shao, who relied entirely on his family and accomplished nothing himself. But so, what? In this world, the majority of people still judged others by their looks and wealth. Society was realistic, and most beauties were realistic too.
As for Si Shao himself, though he loved looking at beautiful women and changed female companions one after another, his motives and thoughts were actually quite simple. Si Shao was an absolute visual addict, and had been since childhood, something that could easily be deduced from the various types of car models he collected.
Not only did Si Shao love looking at beauties, but he also loved looking at all other beautiful things. And since he possessed the means to indulge, why shouldn’t he satisfy this little hobby of his?
In fact, if he hadn’t been entirely certain that he was straight and that his sexual orientation was strictly limited to women, Si Shao might even have considered finding a few handsome men to admire. But he still retained a shred of sanity; he knew what kind of impact it would make if the media and paparazzi discovered and exposed him for dating men, so he could only suppress the urge to look for pretty boys deep down in his heart.
However, before Si Shao had even finished playing the field for long, Su Shuer appeared. Initially, Si Shao hadn’t liked Su Shuer at all; the demure, white-lotus type was simply not his cup of tea.
The second young master had always preferred women with striking, glamorous, and generous features, or those cold, aloof, and elegant beauties.
Yet, somehow, he had inexplicably managed to fall headfirst into the hands of a woman like Su Shuer. Confronted with a youth who wasn’t truly a bad person and was even somewhat naive in matters of the heart, Su Shuer had never genuinely loved him back, despite the boy treating her like a precious treasure and keeping himself pure for her sake.
And so, through the deliberate and calculated approaches of that little white lotus Su Shuer, the second young master’s first love was successfully nipped in the bud, ultimately ending with him losing his own life. Along the way, he had been gifted who knew how many green hats.