Chapter 43

“Anyway, you find my elder sister first. Anyway, I can’t get out right now.” Xu Yangyi sighed and compromised on the reality.

Xu Jing seemed not to be surprised and said, “Okay. If you face any difficulties, you can talk to He Jingyan. I was with him for an hour this morning, and I think he is a good man and won’t ignore you.” It seemed that he was already well-prepared to betray Xu Yangyi. Xu Yangyi also felt it strange, so he twitched his mouth and asked, “Old man, what do you mean by that?”

‘Why do I think that he wants to leave me to He Jingyan? Am I too suspicious of it?’ Xu Yangyi thought inwardly.

At this moment, Xu Jing realized that he almost gave himself away, so he quickly calmed himself down. “Nothing. I just worried that you might face some difficulties in the troop, so I’d better remind you in advance.” ‘That’s not good. Yangyi nearly got my thoughts just now. If he knows my mind, he would definitely kill me. No, no. I can’t be so careless going forward for the sake of my own life.’

Xu Jing wiped his cold sweat. He was a spineless dad who was afraid of his own son, though it was all because that Xu Yangyi was too creepy.

“I have to speed up my drawings for the editor, so I’ve gotta go right now.” After that, Xu Jing hung up the phone in no time because he was afraid that the more he talked, the more he would reveal.

After the call, Xu Jing finally breathed a sigh of relief and said to Gong Cheng aside who was the editor and his junior alumnus, “It’s so difficult to cultivate Yangyi well as I expect!”

Although he was complaining, his eyes were dim at the thought of his dead wife. “It all blames on me. I couldn’t protect Yangyi’s mom, and now, I can’t protect him, either.”

Gong Cheng who was brewing tea knew that Xu Jing was thinking about his wife and feeling guilty about Xu Yangyi when he saw Xu Jing lowering his head. He raised his sharp eyes with a touch of weird emotion flashing across but disappearing soon.

He passed the tea to Xu Jing. “Drink it!” He softened his voice intentionally though it still sounded cold.

Xu Jing instantly put his arms around Gong Cheng’s waist and buried his face in Gong Cheng’s chest. “Gong Cheng, only you are the best! You are my warm-hearted helper.” He was already over 30 years old now, but he still acted like a kid.

As for the appearance, Xu Yangyi and his elder sister looked more like their father Xu Jing, and they three all had a small delicate face. Therefore, because of such a face, Xu Jing looked like a man at the age of 25 or 26. In addition, he looked younger and was always mistaken as an unmarried youngster because of his lively personality.

However, Gong Cheng who was actually a few years younger than him looked quite mature. Besides, his tall height and clean-cut, macho look made him a good match for Xu Jing.

Seeing Xu Jing in his arms, a touch of tenderness showed up on Gong Cheng’s cold face, but in the next second, he said indifferently, “You only have one hour before handing in your comic drafts.”

Hearing that, Xu Jing suddenly felt listless. He pushed the glasses on his nose and fawningly asked with a smile, “Can I hand them in tomorrow?”

Whereas, Gong Cheng didn’t bought it, and he just drank his coffee sitting beside on the sofa. “No,” he said stoutly.

“Fine!” Xu Jing, as if he had already known the answer, just worked on his drafts with a quite sad and pathetic look.

Gong Cheng just curved up his lips without saying more. At this time, he suddenly received a message from Xu Yangyi. After reading it, he smiled even wider because Xu Yangyi asked him to take care of Xu Jing.

It had been a long time since Gong Cheng and Xu Jing had met each other. Xu Yangyi had known Gong Cheng since he began to be sensible, which meant that he and his sister Xu Nuannuan had been taken care by Gong Cheng since they had been little babies.

Gong Cheng was the one who had accompanied Xu Jing for the longest time and known Xu Jing best, so Xu Jing had always acted like a kid in front of him. The character of Xu Jing that flinching in the face of the difficulties was probably triggered by the coddling of Gong Cheng, because if anything happened, Gong Cheng would help him deal with them upon getting a call from Xu Jing.

However, Gong Cheng hadn’t been abroad when Xu Yangyi had been forced to marry He Jingyan, so it was so wretched of Xu Yangyi to have missed the opportunity to ask Gong Cheng for help.