CH 76.2

This was not an inn, just a residential house, but it was converted into a rental area by the owner himself. Except for the load-bearing walls, everything that could be dismantled was demolished, and then made into partitions. Such partitions were more airtight than those in the corridor, many rooms had no windows, so the air circulation was not good. People who were sick would only get worse if they stayed in it.

Shen Li led Shen Zhen to door No. 3, in fact it was just a yellow wooden board, which looked flimsy and not strong at all. Shen Li just reached out to knock on the door, but as soon as he put his hand on it, the door opened by itself.

There was a very awful smell coming from within.

Like a toilet that hadn’t been flushed in ages.

“What’s so stinky!”

“It stinks! What’s going on!”

“Did the toilet blow up?!”

Shen Li and Shen Zhen’s faces also showed disgust, but they could only walk into the room and close the door.

Room No. 3 was not next to the window, and there was a person lying on the bed. Shen Yun looked very different from before. He had lost a lot of weight, his cheeks had sunken in, and his body muscles had also disappeared. Fortunately, his original foundation was still there and he was not really a skeleton yet.

“Shen Yun?” Shen Zhen called out.

Only then did Shen Yun open his eyes. When he saw Shen Zhen and Shen Li, he turned over, apparently not wanting to talk to them: “Why are you here? I didn’t invite you here, so go away and do what you should do.”

Shen Li: “Shen Yun, are you crazy? Look at yourself now, how can you stand the smell in your room? Do you remember what you were like before?”

Shen Yun didn’t react at all, like a puppet. He said after a few seconds: “It’s none of your business what I’m like.”

“Shen Zhen, are you here to laugh at me? How about it? Is a joke like me funny enough for you?”

Shen Zhen said seriously: “It’s really not that funny, but it does stink.”

Shen Yun’s expression became a little distorted.

He regretted it a long time ago, but he gritted his teeth and dared not say that he regretted it. What kind of life did he have here? He had a lame foot, and he didn’t dare to go anywhere, for fear that he would lose face for the rest of his life if he met an acquaintance.

He went out to eat the cheapest box lunch every day. There were only two toilets in this shared house, and they were basically occupied by people every day. He had no choice but to buy two plastic buckets with lids and settle them in this room.

But the plastic buckets were not completely airtight, and there was always a smell in the room.

Over time, the smell couldn’t go away at all.

If only Shen Li came to look for him now, he would have definitely accepted a helping hand, but he didn’t expect Shen Zhen to come too. In front of Shen Zhen, he must not show weakness, he must hold on even if he had to force himself.

“Now you have seen enough, can you go?” Shen Yun said, almost gnashing his teeth.

Shen Zhen suddenly asked: “Are you planning to live here for the rest of your life? Or are you still waiting for Su Shiqing to come to you or Shen Mu to pick you up?”

“You are already in your twenties, stop having such unrealistic dreams.”

Shen Li also said beside him: “Third Brother tricked me out of two hundred thousand yuan, I can’t find him anywhere.”

Shen Yun: “…..”

He knew in his heart that Su Shiqing would not come to look for him, if he had, he would have come long ago, so why wait until now? He just didn’t want to admit it, how embarrassing would it be if he had to admit it? Wouldn’t admitting it mean that he was a total loser?

Shen Li said: “Second Brother, how about I take you away, you’re lame in the leg now, go back and talk to Dad, Dad won’t drive you out again.”

Shen Yun finally said bitterly: “How can I have the face to go back?”

He was the second youngest of the Shen family. Apart from Shen Zhen, he was the most promising heir. As a result, he had put himself into such a state that he didn’t even know how to go out to see people anymore.

Now Shen Yun didn’t dare to think about the future, locked in his shell like a tortoise, living day by day, sometimes thinking, if he didn’t force Shen Li to apologize to Su Shiqing, maybe he wouldn’t have been kicked out by his father.

What if he found a job after being kicked out of the house, after all he graduated from a prestigious university, so no matter what he would not be able to starve to death.

But just for the sake of saving face, he pushed himself to a desperate situation step by step.

Why did he ask Shen Li to apologize to Su Shiqing? Because he was the older brother of the three brothers since they were children, he basically took it for granted that his younger brothers should obey him and not disobey him.

Why didn’t he go get a job? Because he thought he was the heir of the Shen family, how could he work for others?

Every time Shen Yun thought of this, he didn’t dare to think about it any further.

Shen Zhen: “Your lame leg, do you intend to let it be lame forever?”

Shen Yun gritted his teeth: “It’s none of your business, I will find a way myself.”

Shen Zhen: “En.”

Shen Zhen said to Shen Li: “You have seen him already, let’s go.”

Shen Li lowered his head so that no one could see his expression, but he did not refuse Shen Zhen’s suggestion to leave, as if he would follow Shen Zhen when he left.

Shen Zhen opened the door of the room.

“Wait!” Shen Yun finally couldn’t hold back anymore, he got up from the bed and took a few steps forward, “You, I…..I…..”

Shen Zhen turned his head to look at Shen Yun: “Go find Su Shiqing, we won’t stop you.”

Shen Yun: “He, he…..”

Shen Li couldn’t help but say: “Forget about him! It’s not like you don’t know that when you are useful, you are Second Brother Shen, to him but when you are useless, you are just a disabled and cripple living in a low-rent house. Are you that stupid?!”

Shen Yun’s face turned red and then white.

Didn’t he know? Of course he already knew!

But he would rather not know!

Otherwise, it would make him look even more stupid. He fell into this state for a person who didn’t like him, he was a complete joke to anyone who sees him.

Shen Yun finally lowered his head. Facing Shen Zhen, he finally lowered his posture, bowed at the waist and said to Shen Zhen, “I want to heal my leg.”

“I don’t want to go back to the Shen family.”

“It’s too embarrassing.”

Shen Zhen: “If you don’t go back to the Shen’s, where do you want to go?”

Shen Yun looked at Shen Zhen blankly.

Shen Zhen: “Forget it, let’s go out first.”

Shen Li also realized that they had stayed in this room for too long, such that their noses had even gotten used to the smell, but it didn’t mean that the smell didn’t exist.

Shen Li supported Shen Yun to go out, and the three of them stood by the roadside, still not having decided where to go.

Shen Yun thought all the way as he walked, and said in a low voice: “I want to find a job for myself.”

At any rate, with some accomplishments, he would then have the face to go back to the Shen family.

Shen Yun was a person who valued face more than anything else.

Shen Yun looked at Shen Zhen’s expression, and said in a slightly begging tone, “Big Brother, I want to work in your company, and I can work from the bottom.”

Shen Li also looked at Shen Zhen, as if begging Shen Zhen to agree.

Shen Zhen asked, “Why should I agree?”

Shen Yun froze.

Shen Zhen smiled and said, “But I can show you a way. It’s up to you whether you want to go or not.”

Shen Yun: “Tell me.”

Shen Zhen’s voice was very gentle: “You know the relationship between Su Shiqing and Qin Yue, right?”

Shen Yun nodded: “They are lovers.”

Shen Zhen said: “In this case, you can go to Qin Yue’s company. Your surname is Shen, and you hold a grudge against me. Qin Yue will let you in. Maybe your position will not even be that low after you go in. The starting point is comparably higher than if you were to go to my company.”

Shen Yun looked at Shen Zhen strangely. He had already put himself in Shen Zhen’s hands. If Shen Zhen wanted to deal with him and torment him, wouldn’t it be more convenient to put him by his side?

Shen Li said from the side: “Shen Yun, don’t be foolish! Don’t tell me that you still want to see Su Shiqing?”

Shen Yun suddenly said: “I understand.”

Shen Zhen looked at Shen Yun with a half-smile: “What do you understand?”

Shen Yun: “I will go to Qin Yue’s company, and I know what to do.”

Shen Zhen understood what Shen Yun meant, and he suddenly asked strangely: “Can I ask you a question?”

Shen Yun’s expression became much sturdier, like the proud young master of the Shen family from before: “Go ahead.”

Shen Zhen: “What made you change your mind?”

Shen Yun really had no feelings left for Su Shiqing?

Shen Yun: “I have to find out no matter what, how the perpetrator can live so well when I am like this.”

Shen Zhen understood.

A person like Shen Yun was always like this, he would never admit his own mistakes, and could always find someone to blame. He used to blame Shen Li, but now he blamed Su Shiqing, thinking that it was Su Shiqing who made him into what he was now.

He didn’t think of himself as being in an unrequited love, nor did he think of himself as having wishful thinking.

He only felt that Su Shiqing had seduced him, but left him at a critical juncture. He put all the problems on Su Shiqing’s head.

So now Shen Yun hated Su Shiqing so much that he gnashed his teeth.

Just like he hated Shen Zhen in the previous life.

But there was one thing about him that was better than Shen Mu, at least if he and Shen Mu’s situations were reversed, he wouldn’t abandon his younger brother so easily.

Shen Mu was a complete egoist. He had no familial affection, no friendship, only interests in his eyes.

When Shen Yun could give him benefits, he was Shen Yun’s most loyal younger brother, but if Shen Yun couldn’t, he just abandoned Shen Yun without blinking an eye.

If Shen Zhen thought about it seriously, none of the brothers of the Shen family, including himself, were normal.

“After I go to Qin Yue’s company.” Shen Yun said, “I will give you all the information that should be given to you, but now I want to treat my leg, I want my leg to be exactly the same as before, I also need a place to live, money and a car.”

Shen Zhen sneered: “Are you worth so much? I don’t need to put someone in Qin Yue’s company either.”

Shen Yun didn’t expect Shen Zhen to say that, and for Shen Zhen to act so uncaring.

Shen Yun thought the deal was a sure thing, but now he panicked. He looked at Shen Zhen and asked in an unsteady tone: “Then what do you want?”

Shen Zhen smiled and said: “Actually, it’s fine if you can also go to Qin Yue’s company. I can also find someone to treat your leg. But there is no house, so you have to squeeze in with Shen Li. There is no car either but you can choose the bus or subway.”

Shen Yun: “Okay.”

He sold himself.

When Shen Yun got into the car, he was still thinking that after he stepped Qin Yue under his feet, he must take a good look at Su Shiqing’s face.

When that pretty face becomes twisted, it must be even more lovely.