CH 37

Wan Tong tricked Hu Tiankan into giving her the address where Gu Chenyue was boxing, but when she arrived there, she found that she couldn’t get in.

The boxing arena was members-only, and as a small schoolgirl still wearing her uniform, she couldn’t possibly gain entry.

With no other options, she could only wait outside.

Tonight, Gu Chenyue fought in three matches and won them all, thanks to his superior skills and high odds. He made quite a bit of money over the course of the evening, but he was still far from paying off his debts to the night club.

Although he took quite a few punches, his face wasn’t too badly injured, with only a reddened area around his brow bone.

He splashed his face with some water and touched the spot around his brow bone. He couldn’t afford to damage this face.

The silly girl seemed to really like his face. She always stared at it when he wasn’t paying attention, and he had caught her several times.

When he picked up his phone again, he saw a screen full of messages from Hu Tiankan.

“Yueyue! Little rabbit is looking for you! Have you seen her?!”

Gu Chenyue was taken aback and quickly rushed out of the resting room with an unusual sense of urgency in his footsteps.

It was after nine o’clock, and there weren’t many people at the entrance. Gu Chenyue looked around and finally saw a figure sitting upright on the opposite side of the flower bed.

Wan Tong was sitting with her back straight, holding a vocabulary book in her hands. Her head was lowered, and she was murmuring words to herself with great concentration.

However, there seemed to be mosquitoes around, and she occasionally scratched her fair little legs or stomped her feet, looking a little pitiful.

But this small figure seemed to instantly fill the emptiness in his heart.

Wan Tong felt a gaze on her and looked up to see Gu Chenyue’s figure.

She quickly stood up and ran towards him, a hint of excitement in her voice after waiting for so long. “You’re here!”

Gu Chenyue stood on the steps, looking down at her with his black eyes fixed on her delicate little face. He didn’t rush to scold her, but simply threw out two words, “Let’s go.”

“Where are we going?” Wan Tong put her book into her backpack and followed his footsteps.

Gu Chenyue took her to buy ointment.

After they left the pharmacy, Gu Chenyue grabbed her and took out the ointment. “Stand still.”

Wan Tong was puzzled but obediently stood still.

Then Gu Chenyue crouched down and used his rough finger to apply the golden ointment onto the red spot on her small leg.

The spot, which had been so itchy just a moment ago, immediately became cool after the ointment was applied, and it relieved her urge to scratch it.

Looking at his figure squatting in front of her, Wan Tong felt a little embarrassed, especially when people passing by looked over, she felt even more blush. She whispered, “It’s okay, you don’t have to put it on…”

Gu Chenyue grabbed her ankle to prevent her from moving, “It will be okay soon.”

Wan Tong: “…”

After applying the ointment, Gu Chenyue planned to take Wan Tong for a late-night snack, but he received a call from the hospital, and his expression changed dramatically. He flagged down a car on the side of the road.

Wan Tong stumbled into the car and went to the city hospital with him.

In the plot, Gu Chenyue’s mother will die of stomach cancer, but it happens just before the college entrance examination, not now.

This time, Mother Gu was rushed into the operating room because she had committed suicide by jumping from the third-floor window of the inpatient department.

Standing at the door of the operating room and looking at Gu Chenyue’s stiff figure, Wan Tong’s heart tightened. Was it Lin Zhiwen causing trouble again?

It wasn’t until after ten o’clock that the lights in the operating room went out.

Mother Gu was transferred to the intensive care unit.

Wan Tong approached and, following her heart, reached out and hugged Gu Chenyue. “Don’t worry, she’ll get better.”

Before she could step back, a pair of arms wrapped around her tightly, holding her close.

The smell of a boy’s body filled her nose, and Wan Tong’s body trembled slightly, but she did not push him away.

Gu Chenyue buried his face in her neck for a moment before finally releasing her and saying hoarsely, “I’ll take you home.”

He was Gu Chenyue, and he never showed the slightest hint of vulnerability.

“No need, I can take a taxi by myself. You stay with Aunt Gu…” Wan Tong said softly before running away.

Gu Chenyue watched her figure disappear, his lips curling slightly.

At this moment, a nurse approached Gu Chenyue.

“Don’t worry too much, Xiao Gu. Your mother just couldn’t handle it for a moment. As you know, she doesn’t want to see you suffer too much…” the nurse said.

Gu Chenyue nodded, as he was familiar with the nurse who had been taking care of his mother due to his frequent visits to the hospital.

Then the nurse took out several photos from her pocket and said, “I don’t know who the bastard is, but he showed these photos to your mother, which stimulated her… eh…”

Gu Chenyue’s black eyes flashed with anger as he took the photos and his lips tightened. There was a hint of darkness and hostility in his eyes.

He had always kept his boxing career a secret from his mother, only telling her that he worked as a waiter in a hotel. He never expected that the photos of him boxing would end up here.

In the photos, he was leaning tiredly against the ropes, covered in sweat, with a cut on his eyebrow. He looked his most wretched and miserable.

No wonder his sensitive mother was so excited that she jumped out of the window…

He crumpled the photos in his hand, making a cracking sound.

After leaving the hospital, Wan Tong rushed to take a taxi back home.

Facing her mother’s gloomy face, she quickly explained, “Mom, I was studying in the classroom and lost track of time.”

“Zheng Wantong!” Mother Zheng was angry. “You have learned to lie? You clearly went out to hang out with boys and said you were studying?”

“Mom…” Wan Tong’s expression changed slightly and she didn’t dare to continue speaking.

Mother Zheng threw her phone directly into her arms. “Look at what you have become! You don’t want to transfer schools because of this guy, right? Tongtong, you have really disappointed me!”

Wan Tong looked at the phone screen, which showed a photo of herself and Gu Chenyue in front of a drugstore. She gritted her teeth and thought about Lin Zhiwen…

It was too easy to destroy a person, especially now that Lin Zhiwen was pushed to the extreme. She might do something crazy.

That night, Mother Zheng scolded and forbade Wan Tong from going out on weekends. Father Zheng came home too, but when he saw Wan Tong’s grades and looked at the photo for a long time, his emotions were not as agitated as Mother Zheng.

“You can date, but only after the college entrance examination.”

Later, Father Zheng also reassured Mother Zheng so that Wan Tong would not transfer schools immediately.

Lying in bed, Wan Tong sorted through her memories and anonymously sent a message to Lin Zhiwen’s parents, sending them the locations of several places where she worked.

Lin Zhiwen was reprimanded by the school and publicly criticized by the entire school. She wanted to take a leave of absence, but her family refused.

Later, she seemed to have quarreled with her family and ran away from home. Her parents even came to the school to cause a scene in the afternoon.

The Lin family was not wealthy to begin with, and Lin Zhiwen recently spent a lot of money trying to harm Wan Tong, so now she should be crazily thinking about making money.

Wan Tong intends to block her way of making money.

The next day, in the class group chat, Wan Tong saw a news about Lin Zhiwen.

It was said that when she was working as a hostess in a bar last night, her parents found her and her father gave her two slaps in the face on the spot, and then took her home.

There were still many people who recognized Lin Zhiwen as the vicious former best friend who had previously gone viral, so they recorded a video of the scene and posted it online, instantly triggering another wave of backlash against her.

Lin Zhiwen’s were relatively old-fashioned and conservative, and her act of working as a hostess had already seriously crossed their bottom line, so she was bound to be reprimanded. However, this would only temporarily calm her down.

Wan Tong had no intention of harming anyone, but she would fight back.

Lin Zhiwen ran away from home again, this time heading straight to the hospital.

Without surprise, she saw Gu Chenyue and walked up to her with her swollen face, “Gu Chenyue, what are you doing here?”

Gu Chenyue had not slept all night, came out to get breakfast but saw someone she did not want to see. She was cold and gloomy, “Don’t block my way.”

Lin Zhiwen stepped aside, but she did not leave the hospital.

On Sunday evening, when her parents left home, Wan Tong also got her freedom and quickly rushed to the hospital.

However, she did not expect to see Lin Zhiwen there.

Mother Gu was still in danger, and Gu Chenyue quietly stood outside the ward while Lin Zhiwen also stood nearby, lovingly watching… Gu Chenyue.

Just as Wan Tong was about to walk over, a hand suddenly grabbed her shoulder and pulled her aside.

“Hu Tiankan, what are you doing?” Wan Tong called softly, leaning against the wall and still shaken.

But Hu Tiankan was not his usual playful self, and his narrow eyes were staring at her seriously for the first time. “Zheng Wantong, there’s something you need to explain to me.”

“What’s the matter?”

Wantong instinctively thought of Gu’s mother.

Sure enough, Hu Tiankan took out a few crumpled photos and patted her shoulder. “Someone gave these photos to Aunt Gu. Do you recognize them?”

Sure enough…

Wantong looked closely at the photos and felt sorry for the people in them.

Before she could speak, Gu Chenyue suddenly appeared, and her long arms swept away Hu Tiankan’s grip on her, naturally taking her into her arms.

Looking at Gu Chenyue’s cold and gloomy expression, Hu Tiankan couldn’t help but speak, “Are you still protecting her? Look at what she’s done to Aunt Gu?”

Yueyue didn’t have time to investigate further, so he took on the matter and quickly discovered that it was Zheng Wantong who had delivered the photos.

“It wasn’t me,” Wan Tong finally spoke up to defend herself.

She felt the hard and hot chest behind her, as if she could still feel his steady heartbeat.

She was a bit nervous, not knowing how Hu Tiankan found out it was her, nor whether Gu Chenyue would believe her.

But in an instant, Gu Chenyue’s slightly hoarse voice came from above, “It wasn’t her.”

“But…” Hu Tiankan frowned, unable to understand where Gu Chenyue’s confidence came from.

The hospital’s surveillance footage had also been checked, and it was a little girl who had given the photos to Gu’s mother. He had spoken with the little girl and gotten a name, “Sister Tong”.

He had also shown the girl a photo of Zheng Wantong, and the little girl had confirmed it was her.

“No need to investigate, I know who it is.” said Gu Chenyue slowly.

Both Wan Tong and Hu Tiankan looked at him.

However, Gu Chenyue’s gaze glanced at Lin Zhiwen not far away.

Lin Zhiwen didn’t hear what they said, but she saw the scene where Hu Tiankan targeted Wan Tong. She thought she succeeded, but now Gu Chenyue protected Wan Tong in his arms, which made her feel particularly uncomfortable.

Where did this Zheng Wantong come from, always causing trouble in the plot, it really made her angry.

Wan Tong met her gaze but quickly looked away.

She couldn’t help but feel a little angry, the first time she wanted to kill someone.