Chapter 177: Don't Be Childish

Feeling the gaze on her face, Xiao Yun looked up to see Xue Xiu Yong staring at her face. "What is it? Is there something on my face?" she asked. 

Xue Xiu Yong picked up the chopsticks that unknowingly stopped moving and shook his head. "Nothing." 

Xiao Yun gave a little hum and continue to put some rice and the sweet and sour chicken over her mouth and noticed that Xue Xiu Yong still staring at her. "You do know that you have been staring at me since yesterday, don't you?" she asked, waking the young man up from his daze. "What is it?" she asked again. 

"You looked fresher today. Did something happen?" He hinted the corner of her lips that had been smiling on its own.

"Well, it's something good." She replied briefly putting little information to him.

He pointed over her eyelids and spoke in a whisper. "Did you cry last night?" 

"Oh- I asked her that too." Nie An chided, "You don't have to worry it's nothing that you think it is." she subtly mentioned Xue Xiu Yong's vague thoughts that Xiao Yun cried from Wang Li Lei.

Xue Xiu Yong didn't say much other than an oh and continued his dining and by the time they finished their eating and proceed to the outing, he stopped and spoke to her in the absence of the other two girls. 

"Thank you." 

Xiao Yun rose her brows at his words. "Is it about Ji Gu Na?" 

"Yes." He confirmed. "To think that I actually missed the real mastermind behind the accident in middle school." he berated his own skill to miss Ji Gu Na even though she was the one who planned the whole bullying. 

She patted his shoulder lightly. "She confessed?" 

"She did. With the help of CEO Wang, she confessed in less than a minute." Xue Xiu Yong explained. 

Last night, after Wang Li Lei brought Xiao Yun back to her room, he went to meet the headmaster and the school Vice president with the face of a Demon Lord. There was no kindness nor humane feeling in his eyes. When he came to the room, Wang Li Lei swept his eyes coldly over Ji Gu Na and when he sat down, Ji Gu Na bawled in fright and confessed everything instantly.

Xue Xiu Yong saw everything by his own eyes as he had also stayed in the room and experience the frightening air that Wang Li Lei had around him. 

Xiao Yun who heard Wang Li Lei's name gave a soft smile. "And how is she now?" 

"Expelled from the school directly. We will not be seeing her face anymore." Xue Xiu Yong filled in. 

"Your fiancee is quite an amazing person." he acknowledged having a little bitter after taste after praising his own love rival. However, the fact that Xiao Yun loved Wang Li Lei and the man also had the same feeling, Xue Xiu Yong knew that he was the third wheel in their relationship.

"I know right? Not only that he is amazing, but he is also smart, cool, kind, gentle, sweet, adorable, rich, and handsome!" Xiao Yun praised lovingly. 

The muscle over Xue Xiu Yong's lips twitched from her praises. "You two are a good fit for each other."

"Now that Ji Gu Na has tasted her own medicine, you're able to do revenge for your middle school friend. Did you ever contact her after the accident?" Xiao Yun probed softly. 

"No. I don't have the courage to do so." His eyelashes downcasted sorrow. He was the one who nearly ruined his friend's happiness and pushed her into a trauma that led her to have a social phobia.

"You should contact her. I do think she also has something to say to you." 

"What do you mean?" He asked and saw her smiling. 

"Thank you and sorry, trauma isn't something that could disappear easily but with time it should heal like a wound," she replied, walking in advance to see Zhuang Huan Wu and Su She In waiting over the hotel's entrance. "Let's go now, we're late."

Xue Xiu Yong faintly nodded and glanced at his phone in silence before following her from behind with a faint smile without his usual mischievous grin. 

When the Bus moved away from the hotel, Choi Kang So scratched his head in bewilderment. He had made sure to put a note in Xiao Yun's bag as a warning to escape from his brother. Knowing Xiao Yun, he thought that she would leave before meeting him but he saw no signal of her leaving and became even more worried. 

He jumped over from the bushes to the road and stopped a Taxi to follow Xiao Yun's bus. In the silence, he wondered 'Why Hyung would need to come to Hangzhou? He remembered the past but didn't make a single move other than killing father faster than before... staying quiet for a very long time isn't like him at all and to now suddenly appearing to Hangzhou. Why now? What's his target?' 

He nibbled his lower lips unable to understand what Choi Yeon Jun was thinking in the least. Xiao Yun's third day's trip was to a theme park with the evening festival as the main attraction. When the evening came, they lined up in a long queue with a large crowd around the place. 

Xiao Yun's group was fortunate enough to line up before the parade started. With coned ice creams in their hands, they heard a merry melody began to play from the loudspeakers near them. 

"It's going to start!" Xiao Yun spoked and saw the adorable animal mascots coming up and waved her hand like a child. Nie An and Zhi Ling Ling who spotted her from afar waved their hands to call her attention. 

"Xiao Yun!" Nie An came with Zhi Ling Ling and squeezed beside her side. 

"You came?" Xue Xiu Yong greeted with a grin. 

"What's the problem of coming, anyway?" Nie An chided and hugged Xiao Yun's hand to pull her phone. "Let's take a picture, Xiao Yun!" 

"Wait, I will also take a picture with my phone." Xiao Yun pulled up her phone and angeled it a little far so her friends would all fit into the screen. 

Xue Xiu Yong and Zhuang Huan Wu also entered the scene naturally. "Let's ask the employee to help us take one." Xue Xiu Yong suggested after they took a picture. 

Xiao Yun shook her head. "No this is fine." 

Xiao Yun replied to see the pictures that she took before with an excited smile but suddenly, a certain picture made her whole body froze. As though someone slapped her awake from her warm times, Xiao Yun covered her mouth in surprise. It was a picture of Choi Kang So taking a selfie with a notebook at his hand with Korean letters written in it.

'Hyung is here, Nuna he remembers everything. Escape from here!'

When the parade moved to the other side, Xiao Yun who didn't expect people rushing toward her pushed her away from her friends. It took her quite a long moment to understand that what she saw wasn't only her hallucination. The crowds pushed her behind and she continued to ride the waves of people until she bumped to someone. 

Choi Kang So who had been making his way through the crowds saw a man with a tall lean figure standing beside Xiao Yun. Thinking that it was his brother, cold ran down his spine and he speeds up toward her. 

"Hyung!" Choi Kang So shouted. reaching out his hand with his might. 

Xiao Yun felt a hand over her shoulder and looked across and fixed her eyes to the pair of black eyes. "Xiao Yun."

"Li Lei." Xiao Yun called his name and felt his hand embracing her shoulder to shield her from the other people that had been pushing her.

On the other hand, Choi Kang So felt a chill from the person behind his back. 

"What is it?" A voice hovered behind Choi Kang So. He turned his face in haste to see Choi Yeon Jun with his black hair tied to the left side of his shoulder. "Did you get a fright, Kang So?" his gentle smile crawled over his skin.

"Shit." he cursed. Choi Kang So frowned and quickly tried to run but his brother's hand on his wrist was much stronger to him. Finding no way out, he shouted. "Let me go!" 

"Don't be childish Kang So, you have enough of your little game, haven't you. It's time to go home now" his modulated voice hid the real self inside him well, but Choi Kang So wouldn't be fooled by him anymore. 

"I don't want to go back!  Let me go!" He wailed like a little child and saw his brother's subordinates quickly storming to take him over. He punched and kicked around, moving his body to try and bite the hands of people who seized up his body in ease. 

"Don't let him escape and bring him back to Korea. Now." Choi Yeon Jun ordered and the people received his answer with an obedient nod.

"You have made troubles to other people now it's time for you ought to learn your place as the second heir to Choi Group. And you do remember that you have been absent from school for a whole two months haven't you? I didn't remember teaching you to miss your school." Choi Yeon Jun frowned, glanced over to Xiao Yun from afar, and looked back to Choi Kang So.

"Or should I greet her now?" he taunted, giving him a choice that could only lead to one answer. 

Choi Kang So clicked his tongue. All this time he wondered why his older brother who lived with scheming and love to have something that he wants to his hand as soon as he could now didn't make a single move. It was precisely because he was enjoying the moment and was waiting for something. 

He couldn't possibly let Xiao Yun to meet his brother now. Seeing his brother not taking the chance to bring Xiao Yun to Korea, Choi Kang So guessed that he had his own arrangement to meet her. Knowing that he wouldn't want to worsen Xiao Yun's bad luck by making her to meet him faster. 

"I'll go with you." He cursed under his breath. 

"Good boy." He praised lovingly and went back to the car.