CH 3

Shen Wenqiu didn’t sleep well all night.

He wonders if Lu Yong wants to imprison him.

After all, back then, Lu Yong liked him so much that he was going crazy.

Because of this, their relationship broke down. They couldn’t even be friends and had to separate as they made each other look bad.

What was Lu Yong’s reason for taking him in? Is it because he still likes him? Or is it because he was so humiliated by him when he was young that he wanted to get back at him? Shen Wenqiu tossed and turned, but he was still unable to think of an answer.

Shen Wenqiu slept very lightly.

When the bedroom door opened in the morning, he immediately woke up and pretended to be asleep to see what Lu Yong was going to do.

Lu Yong tiptoed to wash up, and left.

Shen Wenqiu got up and sat on the hallway floor, frowning, staring at the door for a long time as if he wanted to stare a hole out of it. 

Going to work so early? Is he just going to leave him here?

Just as he was thinking, the fingerprint code lock rang “ding”. Shen Wenqiu still hadn’t stood up, Lu Yong came back with a box lunch bought at the convenience store downstairs. He stood at the door and paused his footsteps out of surprise as he noticed that he was sitting on the floor.

Shen Wenqiu froze. His face flushed with embarrassment. Being looked down upon by Lu Yong like this, makes him feel like a dog.

…He thought he had no senseless self-esteem left from a long time ago.

Shen Wenqiu stood up, not knowing where to put his hands, patted the unwanted dust, and said, “Didn’t you say that cooking by yourself is healthier? How come you went to buy fast food?”

Lu Yong walked around him into the living room, and put the plastic bag on the table, “I thought you were still asleep, and me cooking would wake you up. I thought you were so tired that you would only wake up until noon, so I simply bought food. Now that you are awake, I won’t have to leave a note.”

Shen Wenqiu followed him, his brain was strangely fervent, and he said in a little bit of a prickly tone, “I tried it, but the elevator can not be swiped without the door card. How can I go downstairs? I can’t get out if you’re not here?”

Lu Yong looked back at him, paused and said, “Uh, there is a door to the right of the elevator, it is the fire escape stairway passage.”

“…” Shen Wenqiu dug his fingers into the edge of his pants.

As Shen Wenqiu was still embarrassed by his persecutory delusion, Lu Yong went into the study and came out a minute later, and found a spare room card for him. “Take this first. I only have two room cards, so be careful not to lose it. The door’s electronic code is xxxxxx.”

Shen Wenqiu put away the room card.

Lu Yong asked sincerely and naturally, “Do you still want to go back to sleep? If you are going to be up, I will make breakfast, but I have to go to work after eating.”

His offer was considerate and distant.

As if they were still friends.

Then Lu Yong really steamed a basket of steamed buns, and ate half of it. He then put on a suit and went out.

He left Shen Wenqiu at home alone, and said nothing else.

When he left, Shen Wenqiu opened the door and went out.

He looked to the right, and there was a corridor, the door was left unlocked. He took the room card to try the elevator again, and it lit up.

Shen Wenqiu rolled his eyes thinking of his own behaviour, “Idiot.”

Shen Wenqiu went downstairs and strolled around.

The environment in this neighbourhood is very good, the vegetation is sparsely scattered, and many aunts and grandmothers have taken the children out to bask in the sun early in the morning, and the children are laughing carefree.

He took a stroll in a daze.

When he went to a place to watch the depths of the forest, he met a dog.

It was a small Pekingese, probably abandoned. He didn’t know how long it had been wandering. There was no good patch of skin on its body, and it emitted a stench. A man and a dog looked at each other, Shen Wenqiu seemed to feel some sort of compassion looking at someone in a similar situation as him, but the small Pekingese looked at him vigilantly, grimacing at him, and making a threatening sound rolled from his throat.

Shen Wenqiu sneered, “What are you doing? We are so similar, you should get close to me.”

The small Pekingese barked twice and ran away.

“Boring,” Shen Wenqiu whispered and turned back to Lu Yong’s house.

He walked to the floor-to-ceiling window, and just being close enough made him feel dizzy as he trembled, with cold sweat on his back, he closed his eyes and pulled the curtains shut. He continued to lie down on the sofa and watch TV and found a few funny variety shows. He then took the drinks from the refrigerator and the snacks in the cupboard for himself, laughed as he ate and watched. 

Another day passed by again.

In the evening.

Lu Yong came back from work and asked him, “Xiao Baa, what did you do today?”

Shen Wenqiu said, “Went for a walk downstairs and watched TV. It’s kinda boring.”

Lu Yong seemed to have thought of something.

The next day before Lu Yong went to work, he told him that there was a delivery for him to sign for, it was a game console and game card. If he is too bored watching TV, he can play some games.

The game console was delivered at noon.

Then Shen Wenqiu became addicted to playing games.

He has been living a similar life in recent years, either playing games in Internet cafes or gambling, living like a walking dead.

It’s not that Shen Wenqiu hasn’t freeloaded from other friends. He has good relations with people in the past, and he has freeloaded from several people. They are divided into two categories. Either they are earnestly to persuade him patiently or they are bitter about how he is now and tried to help him turn over a new leaf, but to no avail; Or when they found out that he has the intention to stay for a long time after they play along with him for a few days, they subtly hinted first, before making it clear, and finally drove him out. The reasons vary such as the dissatisfaction from lovers or parents, and drove him away.

Lu Yong is neither.

Lu Yong treats him completely as if he was raising him, the door was opened wide for him, and he could come and go as he pleased, as if he was treated like air. However, Lu Yong prepared meals and game consoles for him appropriately, and did not make any comments on his negative and immoral attitude towards life.

Shen Wenqiu stayed on the sofa for five days.

Time was gone in the blink of an eye.

When he woke up, he would eat and play games. When he was tired, he would go to bed. His schedule gradually became chaotic. Every day he woke up, Lu Yong had already left. When he woke up, Lu Yong was already asleep.

Humans are creatures that are hard to please.

At first he still wanted to behave politely so he could stay a few days longer. Seeing Lu Yong’s good temper, and the fact that he never complains, Shen Wenqiu began to dare to play games in the living room when Lu Yong was sleeping.

Even while playing, he thought, maybe the next moment Lu Yong would rush out from the bedroom as he got annoyed and threw him out the door.

Tomorrow. Probably tomorrow Lu Yong will drive him away.

–

It’s 7:30 in the morning.

Lu Yong woke up on time.

He saw Shen Wenqiu lying on the sofa and snoring, with his feet facing the ceiling and holding the game console handle in his hand. He couldn’t help but smile and muttered, “Like a child.”

He looks much better than when he first came. At first, Shen Wenqiu was curled up when sleeping.

The coffee table, which was always empty before, is now full of snacks and drinks, and the trash can is stuffed to the brim.

Lu Yong sorted out the garbage a bit.

When he went to work, he dropped and threw it downstairs.

Then he went to the company. The journey took forty minutes.

His factory was built in the suburb of H City Industrial Zone, covering an area of 1,800 acres. It is the third industrial park invested by his holding company. In the past ten years, his development could be described as a rocket ride.

During the summer vacation after graduating from high school, Lu Yong smelled an opportunity from the new strategy issued above and persuaded his father to start a company. With his invention being patented, he steadily managed to accumulate capital for four years. He majored in metallurgical materials in his university and his scientific research results were extremely good. When other students were still stressing on how to do homework, he had published in major journals. He has skipped the grades of undergraduate and masters in multiple instances. During this period, he went abroad for academic exchanges several times, visited and studied relevant industrial companies, and it took him five years to get the graduate certificate of outstanding graduates.

Once he graduated, he took over the company that his father was managing.

At that time, the domestic energy recovery sector still had various markets that needed to be developed, and there were not many companies with excellent technology. His company did not take much effort to gain a firm foothold and made great progress. After that, things went smoothly, the establishment of the two subsidiaries was initiated by the local government.

In recent years, China has developed rapidly in the technology industry field. Lu Yong believes that H City intends to become the main science and technology city of China, and various resources are tilting towards it, so he moved his headquarters here. He has strong skills, inexplicably talented in business, and also has better luck. At the end of last year, the company reported operating income of 500 million yuan and a net profit of 80 million yuan.

He is now a vaguely leading young talent in the industry, and has won several titles of outstanding young entrepreneurs.

Lu Yong finished this week’s morning meeting.

He received a new friend invitation notification: [I am Jiang Ling, please add me. I have something to tell you.]

Lu Yong remembered this person, he was his high school classmate, and he was very close to Shen Wenqiu back then.

So he immediately confirmed to add the friend.

The other party speedily sent a bunch of messages:

[I finally got in touch with you.]

[I heard that Shen Wenqiu went to seek refuge with you? ]

[I feel really sorry…]

[Don’t feel bad just because he was a high school classmate. I have taken him in before, but in the end he just stayed, ate my food and stole my things. He is not a good person.]

[Did you know he’s in debt?]

[Shen Wenqiu is a terrible person now, be careful]

Lu Yong waited patiently for him to finish.

He replied unhurriedly: [I know.]

–

“Ding Dong.”

The visual intercom prompted a beep sound.

Express delivery? Shen Wenqiu paused the game and went over to take a look.

On the screen, it wasn’t the courier brother who had visited these days, instead it was a plump man with a crew cut, he grinned at him and said, “It’s a good place, Shen Wenqiu. You still have such a rich friend.”

“As expected of a rich young master, you have a lot of connections.”

“What, you don’t want your old friends when you have new ones? Open the door.”

Shen Wenqiu cursed, “Stupid cunt.”

But there is a feeling of “it has finally come”.

He always felt uneasy these days. However, seeing the face of this old acquaintance, he felt calm.

Damn, can’t you let me hide for a few more days in this paradise?

He had just found this comfortable place two days ago.

Shen Wenqiu didn’t want to remember at all that he was still carrying nine-figure 1 debts, some owed to the bank, and some to the private loan shark.

His life has long been hopeless.

The man with a crew cut said with a smile on his face:

“Tsk, why are you still cursing? You don’t talk civilly.”

“If you don’t open the door, I will go directly to the company to find your friend.”

“Lu Yong, President Lu, right?”

Shen Wenqiu said angrily, “No, don’t come in. This is not my house, why should you come in?”

“You wait, I will go down to see you.”

Shen Wenqiu sat on a bench in the neighbourhood with Old Wu, he didn’t care much anymore. The fact that he was in debt to him showed that he was no longer afraid of anything.

Old Wu handed him a cigarette, “You should have let me know that you’ve moved.”

Shen Wenqiu chuckled, took the cigarette, borrowed a lighter, lit it, and skillfully swallowed smoke in.

He hasn’t smoked for many days.

Lu Yong doesn’t smoke or drink, so he didn’t ask for it.

Old Wu’s eyes flashed, and he asked with concern, “How was it catching up with this old friend?”

“Don’t say I’m not thinking about you. Look how nice I am to you, otherwise I could have taken you to sell kidneys and livers.”

“How about this, you bring your friends to the new venue to play.”

“I have already asked around. This time it is a big fat sheep. If you drag this scapegoat down, won’t you survive?”

Shen Wenqiu took a cigarette, turned his head and gave a kind smile, “Oh.”

He originally wanted to rely on Lu Yong shoving him out first.

It seems that it is still not possible.

Where should he start?

He only knows Lu Yong’s mobile phone number. He has always remembered it since he heard it three years ago. It seems to be carved in the deepest part of his heart, but he has never said it or called the number. He doesn’t even know if Lu Yong has changed his number.

This is his last hidden trump card.

At that time, when he gave this number to the police, he thought, if Lu Yong also ignored him, he would commit suicide when he went out.

But he did not envision the option that Lu Yong would care about him.

nine-figure: more than 100 million.