117 Teachings Of Confucius

After Hui Yin got back to her hotel, she immediately fell into a deep slumber.

She had planned to accompany Liu Jun at the airport, but it was already past seven in the morning when she woke up. Her phone was ringing on her bedside table, and Hui Yin sleepily pressed it against her ear.

"Hello?"

"Wifey!" Jiang Xu's voice was full of worry. "You OK?"

Since he didn't bother to explain, Hui Yin thought that he was referring to her raspy voice.

"Ahhh, I'm fine. I'm not sick. I just got drunk last night..."

Jiang Xu actually wanted to ask her if she was still feeling hurt from her fiancé's betrayal, but her words took away everything that was on his mind.

"Wifey! You got...drunk?"

He was aghast. She was in Shanghai, a different city where she didn't know anyone. What if someone wanted to take advantage of her? He couldn't protect her there!

"Mmm." Hui Yin was already sinking back to dreamland. "Don't worry, I had someone with me."

"Someone? Who?"

"Liu..." Hui Yin yawned, grabbing a pillow close to her and covering her head. "Liu Jun."

"Liu Jun?"

On the other end of the line, Jiang Xu frowned. Why did that name sound so familiar? He knew he heard it somewhere before...

"Ah, I'm going back to sleep. I'll call you later."

Hui Yin hung up. Her head was aching, and she felt like there was someone using her head as a drum. The filming wasn't going to start until tomorrow, so she could sleep the whole day.

Ah, what bliss...

The phone rang again.

This time, Hui Yin's patience broke. Doesn't Jiang Xu know the proverb 'silence is the true friend that never betrays'? Right now, I need that friend okay!

Before he could even speak a word, Hui Yin barked at the phone, "Jiang Xu, remember the teachings of Confucius!"

"..."

Hui Yin harrumphed. Finally, that useless bum shut up. She could finally go back to sleep.

But the next words that came out of the phone chilled her to the bone.

"Then, Xiao Yin, shall I teach you a teaching of Confucius? 'Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles'. We've only just broken up, and yet you've already found yourself two men."

Hui Yin bolted upright, and looked disbelievingly at the caller ID. Why didn't she check the name of the caller before she carelessly answered her phone?!

But since she had already answered it, then fine. She lifted her chin. I'm feeling foul, you're feeling foul, we'll just be foul with each other then.

"Faithfulness? Lu Shen, don't you feel any shame by saying those words?"

"Xiao Yin, I didn't kiss her. She kissed me."

Hui Yin snorted.

"So what? I bet you still enjoyed it."

She heard his sharp intake of breath, and when he next spoke again, his voice was frigid.

"Can't you even give me an iota of your trust?"

Hui Yin leaned against the headboard, massaging her temples. Her head was aching, and she really didn't want to fight with him right now. She simply wanted to go back to sleep.

"No. You don't deserve it."

She had given it to him long ago. And she only ended up getting stabbed on the back.

The silence stretched thinner and thinner between them, until it was broken by his faint laugh.

"Xiao Yin, you're really cruel to me."

On another city, Lu Shen stared unseeingly at the city below him, his phone tightly gripped on one hand. He had not slept a wink last night, fully immersed on the video Du Peng sent him. That singer's hands on hers, those men that dared to make a move on her, the happiness that lit up her expression now that they weren't together...

He had seen everything.

And how badly...how badly he wanted to kill them all, break her wings, and chain her by his side. Leave his mark all over her body, so that no one could doubt that she was his. Bury himself so deep inside her that she would no longer be able to think of any man except for him.

His thoughts, dark and explosive, made him falter. How bad was it to have this desire? He knew it was wrong. Her smile on the video when she wasn't with him made him feel a stifling sense of helplessness and pain, but it was also beautiful.

Did he have to break that to have her?

Lu Shen didn't want to. As long as she came back to him of her own free will, then they could be happy together. He'd already taken measures to bring her to his side, but what if...what if she still wanted to leave him? This lingering sense of doubt made his agitation increase.

Thinking of this, his brow grew knit and gloomy. Lu Shen turned back to the phone in his hand as Hui Yin replied to him.

"Lu Shen, you said I'm being cruel...but believe me, I can never be as cruel as you. Please just leave me alone."

The phone clicked, signalling that she had hung up.

Lu Shen lowered the phone, gazing at the raindrops that was now leaving its wet tracks on the glass windowpane. Thunder rumbled from above, and the darkening sky threw dim shadows over his lone figure.

He stood there, clutching the phone, with everything within his reach except for the girl at the other end of the line.