Inside the Lu Family villa, the anger that had been lingering on Lu Suyan’s face for a long time eased up a little after he stared at Xia Jin for quite a while. By now, reason had already gained the upper hand.
The next thing Lu Suyan did after his reason returned was start settling accounts. The culprit was lying unconscious on the bed, and Lu Suyan had no way to make trouble for him. He narrowed his eyes slightly, those eyes fixed on the bodyguards beside him.
“Your abilities are far worse than what you claimed.” Lu Suyan said gravely. Those bodyguards all kept their eyes on their noses and their noses on their hearts, pretending to be dead. So what if they got scolded a few times? It neither hurt nor itched. As long as the boss paid their wages on time, that was enough.
Seeing the bodyguards beside him trying to muddle through, Lu Suyan’s voice turned even colder. “Take this month’s salary and go find work somewhere else!”
Back then he must have had his brain kicked by a donkey to think this bunch of people were some peerless masters hiding in plain sight among the common folk.
“No way! Mr. Lu, we protected you so well, and this incident really can’t be blamed on us!” a bodyguard said sincerely.
“You call it protecting me well to protect me all the way into someone else’s bed?” Lu Suyan looked at the group of bodyguards beside him who still hadn’t figured out the situation, his mood extremely bad. “I spent an entire night with him, and you all stood there dutifully guarding the door and listening at the wall?”
Even if he had accidentally fallen for the drug, shouldn’t the very first thing these bodyguards did be to take him to the hospital? Thinking of how all this unhappiness came from Xia Jin, Lu Suyan wanted nothing more than to kill Xia Jin and throw him into the mountains to feed the wolves.
“Mr. Lu, when we found out, you’d already been drugged by him, and you’d already been defiled by Xia Jin. By that time it was too late.” The bodyguard practically wanted to slam his head into the floor to prove that every word he said was true.
Lu Suyan’s face darkened at the word defiled. Why were his bodyguards, one after another, so uneducated?
Seeing that he couldn’t make out anything from Lu Suyan’s expression, the bodyguard simply said again, “Mr. Lu, we’re bodyguards, not brothel madams. We really don’t have any experience dealing with this kind of thing.” What if after they forcibly split the two of them up, their Mr. Lu absolutely needed a man to neutralize the drug’s effects? Though they were bodyguards, they also had dignity. They sold their skills, not their bodies.
What if, later on, when they were dating, that loudmouth blabbed about it and they couldn’t even get wives?
Lu Suyan was furious right now, but those bodyguards were still wearing expressions of having been oppressed and bullied, leaving him with nowhere to vent his anger. Lu Suyan turned to the doctor and asked, “When will he wake up?” Right now, Mr. Lu urgently needed a punching bag.
“Young Master Xia is fine, he should wake up in a little while,” the doctor said.
“All of you get out. I want to be alone for a while.” As soon as Mr. Lu finished speaking, those bodyguards exchanged looks. “Mr. Lu, are you not firing us?”
Lu Suyan’s head hurt the moment he heard those bodyguards speak. “Not for the time being.” These bodyguards had been chosen by Old Madam Lu, so even if he was going to fire them, he would at least have to discuss it with Old Madam Lu.
“Thank you, Mr. Lu. Mr. Lu is a great person.”
“Thank you, Mr. Lu. Mr. Lu is wise and mighty, dominating the martial world.”
“Thank you, Mr. Lu. Mr. Lu is compassionate.”
“Thank you, Mr. Lu. Mr. Lu… I like Mr. Lu the most.”
Before leaving, the bodyguards each offered a word of praise. The last bodyguard happened to be standing in a bad spot, and all the ready-made lines had been used up by the ones in front. After thinking for a few seconds, he simply chose the most direct way to express his sincere heart.
The last bodyguard had buck teeth and a pancake face, such an eye-searing appearance that in ancient times he would have been none other than Wu Dalang. Lu Suyan was disgusted again for a good while by what that bodyguard said. This was the group his own mother had picked for him.
Old Madam Lu’s reason was this. She felt her son was too quiet, so she found a few lively bodyguards to protect her son.
Thinking of his own mother’s taste, Lu Suyan felt another wave of bitter tears. Against the light, Lu Suyan saw the person’s eyelashes twitch on the bed. The obvious look of someone awake and pretending to sleep made Lu Suyan even more irritated. He grabbed Xia Jin together with the blanket and threw him onto the floor. “If you’re awake, then stop pretending to sleep.”
Xia Jin was thrown so hard that his waist hurt, his legs hurt, and his arms hurt. He didn’t dare keep pretending to sleep, either. He looked tearfully at the cold-hearted, cold-lunged Lu Suyan. It really hurt!
“How should I deal with you?” Lu Suyan bent down, his well-defined hand pinning Xia Jin’s chin. “You little rapist, how many years do you want to be sentenced to?”
Xia Jin looked at the man in front of him and leaned back a little, wrapping himself tightly in the blanket until only a pair of eyes were left looking out at the world. “How can something between a man and a man count as rape? The law doesn’t recognize it.” After saying that, Xia Jin remembered this wasn’t the real world, but a story where the shou protagonist had a harem and slept with people. He added, “Even if it does count as assault, then you’re the one assaulting me.”
As he said that, Xia Jin held out his arms and legs for Lu Suyan to take a look. He was serious.
“Illegal detention is also a crime. Just wait to eat prison meals!” Lu Suyan took his hand away from Xia Jin’s chin. When bullying others, enjoying the anger and fear on the other person’s face was what made it interesting. For someone like the crybaby in front of him, who was nothing but tears, Lu Suyan really had no desire to bully him. Just hand him over to the law and let the law handle it.
“Someone, throw him out for me.” Lu Suyan ordered. This time, the ones who came in were still the same bodyguards from before. Xia Jin was thus escorted out of the villa while still wearing his clothes.
The cold wind blew past, and Xia Jin couldn’t help hugging his weak, pitiful, and helpless self. He had transmigrated into a book, into the cannon fodder green-tea older brother of the protagonist. The plot had already gone more than halfway, and the original host had ruined all his family and friends. And now Xia Jin’s situation was a little different.
According to the plot in the book, Xia Jin successfully climbed into bed, did his best to trip up the protagonist, and was killed by the shou protagonist’s protector. He could still live for one more month.
But now that it was Xia Jin himself, climbing into bed had failed, and he couldn’t become the kept man of a wealthy old man. Before long, the domineering CEO would also send him to prison to eat prison meals.
Although his fate was a little different, it was actually more or less the same as before. Either way, he was dead. Xia Jin stepped on the snow-covered road and let out a long sigh. Sending him to prison, that way of handling it was just too unlike a domineering CEO.