The news of Si Jinnian being stripped naked and hung from a tree spread rapidly online. Especially his disheveled and miserable appearance bound to the tree, which became the biggest laughing stock secretly passed around among the young masters of Kyoto.
The young master who was always high and mighty, looking down on everyone, had fallen from his pedestal overnight. While everyone privately opened champagne to celebrate, they were exceptionally curious about who the person bold enough to mess with Si Jinnian actually was.
Having never suffered such humiliation from childhood to adulthood, this grand young master Si had truly lost face to the extreme this time. He vowed that he must use the same method to give back what he received and make Pei Shuchen pay the price he deserved.
Unfortunately, he encountered a problem right at the very first step of figuring out how to find Pei Shuchen.
“No, Young Master Si, you don’t even know what his name is right now. How are you expecting us to find him for you?”
Gu Ming rubbed the back of his head awkwardly, staring at Si Jinnian with a very troubled expression.
Having been too busy drinking with Pei Shuchen last night, Si Jinnian hadn’t even had the chance to ask what Pei Shuchen’s name was. Wanting to find Pei Shuchen right now proved to be quite difficult indeed.
“Go find Lin Jiayi. Isn’t that punk Lin Jiayi’s friend? I refuse to believe we can’t find him.”
Having determined the direction of his search, Si Jinnian brought his cronies along to Lin Jiayi’s bar.
Yet what left Si Jinnian speechless was whether Lin Jiayi had hidden away upon seeing the news, or had fled out of fear of retaliation.
Looking at the “Temporarily Closed Due to Family Matters” sign hanging on the bar door, anger surged within Si Jinnian.
Without a name, without a photograph, and with nobody around having ever seen Pei Shuchen before, the quest to find Pei Shuchen for revenge instantly hit a dead end.
“Bastard, don’t let me catch you. If I catch you, I will definitely make you regret ever living in this world.”
Si Jinnian gritted his teeth, feeling his teeth itch with hatred whenever he thought of Pei Shuchen.
“Smash this place for me. I refuse to believe we can’t find these two bastards.”
Having drunk quite a bit the night before and being thoroughly worn out by Si Jinnian’s antics, Pei Shuchen went straight to sleep upon returning home.
By the time he woke up again, it was already evening. The setting sun spilled through the window into the bedroom, its orange-yellow glow imparting a unique and deeply desolate beauty.
Pei Shuchen sat on the bed, staring blankly at the sunset through the window, only slowly regaining his senses after the sun had completely dipped below the horizon.
Pulling out his phone from underneath the pillow and seeing three missed calls from his father alongside over a dozen missed calls from Lin Jiayi, Pei Shuchen ignored his father’s calls and chose to dial Lin Jiayi back instead.
“Jiayi, are you looking for me?”
“Goodness, you finally know how to call me back. You worried me to death! Where are you right now, and why weren’t you answering my calls?”
Yawning, Pei Shuchen got up and walked toward the bathroom.
“Sorry, I was sleeping to adjust to the jet lag and kept my phone on silent. You called so many times, is something wrong?”
Standing in front of the bathroom mirror and looking at the bitten wound on the corner of his lips, Pei Shuchen furrowed his brows slightly. Uncontrollably, the scene of Si Jinnian pinning him down and randomly gnawing on him flashed back into his mind.
“Was that stunt of stripping Si Jinnian naked and tying him to a tree your doing?”
Hearing that Lin Jiayi was calling to ask about this, Pei Shuchen hesitated for a moment before nodding, “That’s right, it was me.”
“It really fucking was you! I knew the moment I saw those words that you wrote them.”
Thinking of the large characters I am a hoodlum written on Si Jinnian’s body, Lin Jiayi burst out laughing. A moment later, he added, “Not bad at all.”
Pei Shuchen smiled and shook his head, “It’s alright. I said I was going to teach him a lesson. Did you call just to ask about this?”
Turning on the faucet, Pei Shuchen placed his phone on the sink, pressed speakerphone, picked up his toothbrush, squeezed on some toothpaste, and began brushing his teeth.
“Not entirely.”
Lin Jiayi sighed, then said a moment later, “Because of this incident, my bar was smashed by your little fiancé. I’m calling just to check if you’re okay. Did he come looking to trouble you?”
Hearing that Lin Jiayi’s bar had been smashed by that scumbag Si Jinnian, Pei Shuchen paused in a frown for a moment. Shortly after, he spat out the toothpaste foam and asked into the phone, “Why did he smash your bar? You weren’t the one who stripped him naked and hung him on a tree, were you?”