CH 72

From then on, Shi Yanyu found it hard for him to interject.

And Qin Zhongyue also found joy in the process of ignoring Shi Yanyu.Eventually, Shi Yanyu lost his smile and coldly walked off.After he left, Xie Zhongxing received a message asking him what he was doing.Xie Zhongxing asked back nonchalantly, “Is something wrong?”Shi Yanyu, “Are you ignoring me on purpose?”Xie Zhongxing, “No.”After he sent that reply, he received a text from the bank. Shi Yanyu had transferred him another ten thousand. His tone was still commanding, “Let me join the conversation.”Xie Zhongxing didn’t respond.Shi Yanyu took it as him silently acquiescing and from then on, he began to transfer him twenty thousand a day.But Xie Zhongxing didn’t have the time to pay attention to any of this. After the exams were over, he had more time than before, so he and Qin Zhongyue got together to start a business. With this, even if Shi Yanyu wanted to see them, it was difficult.Although they were starting a business together, in reality, he had it very easy for him. Qin Zhongyue provided the finance while he couldn’t do much to help. With Qin Zhongyue’s ‘intuition’, the live broadcast platform that was making a loss for two months slowly began to make profits.It was only then that Xie Zhongxing realised that Qin Zhongyue’s intuition was astonishingly accurate. His analysis of the world wide web was very on point and he was also willing to spend money to promote the platform. In just two months, the number of registered users on their Xingyue TV platform exceeded ten million.The number of active users amounted to almost five million.Although the profit wasn’t much, it had at least made up for the loss. It would likely perform even better in the near future.Because Xie Zhongxing had invested five hundred thousand yuan, he held ten percent of the shares. To Xie Zhongxing, such an amount was too much but Qin Zhongyue didn’t care. If Xie Zhongxing hadn’t refused, he would’ve given him fifty percent straightaway.They all say that close friends should keep things clear between them. With Qin Zhongyue doing all this for him, he didn’t want to only be on the accepting end.Xie Zhongxing had been very busy these past few days contacting seniors in various fields, asking for their help.He was so busy, he almost couldn’t keep up with his own classes.Qin Zhongyue’s attitude towards things had also changed somewhat.After making money using his own abilities, he started to pay attention to his own spending. Every time he spent money, he would subconsciously calculate how many people’s salary it would cover.He couldn’t help but feel that he had undergone quite a bit of change.By the time he realised what was going on, he had already been doing this for a long time.On a certain day, when Qin Zhongyue got out of the car, he noticed that it was snowing.He was a little astonished at first before he exclaimed in surprise, “Xing Xing! It’s snowing!”

Xie Zhongxing looked up at the sky and held out his hand. Small pieces of white snowflakes fell onto his tender palm, soon melting from this body temperature, turning into a small and cold puddle of water.Qin Zhongyue asked, “Does it snow down south?”Xie Zhongxing laughed, “Yes, it snows quite heavily. It will go as high as your knees.”Qin Zhongyue said, “Our end also snows quite often. It would start snowing very early in the year.”He took off his scarf and put it on Xie Zhongxing, “Take this. Don’t catch a cold.”He said this as he looked at Xie Zhongxing, his bright black eyes reflecting Xie Zhongxing’s appearance.Xie Zhongxing could sense the emotions contained inside those eyes of his. He was taking care of him like something he treasured greatly.Even despite him being an adult man.Xie Zhongxing’s thoughts drifted far like those snowflakes around him but Qin Zhongyue’s voice quickly pulled him back from his thoughts. He said softly, “Xing Xing, Li Jun invited me out for a drink.”Xie Zhongxing returned to his senses, “You want to go?”Qin Zhongyue said, “I’ve actually already quit drinking, I don’t even touch red wine anymore. And I also don’t smoke anymore. But listening to them chatting is pretty nice.”Xie Zhongxing thought for a while. Qin Zhongyue has been rather stressed these days. It would be a good idea to let him relax a little. He asked, “Can I go with you?”Qin Zhongyue scratched his head. He felt that Xie Zhongxing might not like environments like that but he still said, “Alright.”After the decision was made, Qin Zhongyue called Li Jun back.The university was very strict. Xie Zhongxing glanced at the time. There were still five hours till the dormitory gates closed, “We can only go for five hours.”Qin Zhongyue immediately nodded, “We’re just going to chat. There won’t be drinking or smoking or anything else so that should be more than enough.”Xie Zhongxing didn’t go back to their dormitory to change. Wearing the casual clothes he was wearing, he went with Qin Zhongyue to the club.On the way to the bar, Qin Zhongyue even wanted to inform him of how much of a failure that Tang Mingxin was.At nineteen years of age, he was in his third year of university, but he had been starting businesses since he was twelve or thirteen years old. His first business was an internet cafe and arcade he had opened when he was twelve or thirteen years old and now that he was an adult, he had opened a bar, a night club and even a clubhouse.Xie Zhongxing commented, “He’s quite persistent.”Qin Zhongyue, “He has always been losing money, never making any profits. If his family didn’t have that much money originally, they wouldn’t have been able to support this wastefulness of his.”Xie Zhongxing asked, “Did he borrow money from you?”

Qin Zhongyue said, “He mostly just tricked me into buying two hundred thousand yuan worth of alcohol.”Xie Zhongxing, “…..Two hundred thousand?”Qin Zhongyue hurriedly added, “Of course, I didn’t fall for it. I have plenty of alcohol in the wine cellar at home and I’m also underage so I can’t drink.”Xie Zhongxing, “…...Didn’t you just say that you quit drinking? How could you quit if you haven’t drank?”Qin Zhongyue had completely forgotten what he had told Xie Zhongxing before. Hearing him say this, there was a confused expression on his face. He then quickly remembered and laughed foolishly, “I just drank a little.”This wasn’t Xie Zhongxing’s first time feeling that something wasn’t right about Qin Zhongyue. He would often say or do things that contradicted himself.Although Qin Zhongyue wasn’t very good at comprehension, he had always been outspoken and quite bad at lying.Xie Zhongxing had some doubts but he didn’t voice it.The two soon arrived at the nightclub Li Jun was at.Xie Zhongxing had never been to a nightclub so he thought it was just a shop that opens only at night but after entering, he realised that it seemed to be a little more than a normal bar.Qin Zhongyue subconsciously wrapped his arm around his shoulder to protect him, preventing others from approaching him, and brought him over to a booth.The place was very lively. Many young men and women were dancing excitedly on the dance floor and some were even hugging and making out.Because of the noise, everyone had to get very close to talk to each other.Qin Zhongyue spoke close to Xie Zhongxing’s ear, “I used to come here often but I haven’t had time to do that recently.Xie Zhongxing wasn’t very happy but he didn’t say anything.Soon, someone called out to Qin Zhongyue, “Qin Zhongyue, come and sit here.”Qin Zhongyue made a sound of acknowledgement and tugged Xie Zhongxing’s arm, “Xing Xing, let’s go?”Xie Zhongxing proceeded to stand up and go with Qin Zhongyue.They had changed to a place that was much quieter. It was a private room. The dancing crowd below could be seen through the curtains.Li Jun knew that Xie Zhongxing was coming so he wasn’t surprised. The others however were a little surprised when they saw him.Someone asked Qin Zhongyue, “Why did you bring him here?”Those words were spoken without trying to prevent Xie Zhongxing from hearing it.

Qin Zhongyue was a little unhappy, “I can’t bring him here?”Those friends of his didn’t really like Xie Zhongxing. Because of this person, Qin Zhongyue had thrown them all aside and even him coming to this outing was because Li Jun had called him over and over again.Li Jun was aware of the thoughts of these people. He spoke up, “Don’t be like this, it’s fine as long as they’re here. I’ll get some drinks. my treat. What do you all want?”Qin Zhongyue said, “Just juice. We both don’t drink.”Li Jun made a sound of acknowledgement and gave the others a look, signalling them to tone it down.But these people weren’t people who could be restrained with that simple warning. As soon as Li Jun left, the others started to talk.“Qin Zhongyue, you’ve been acting really arrogant lately. Do I need to make a reservation in order to see you now?”“Yeah, you haven’t been saying anything in the group chat either. Have you forgotten about us?”Qin Zhongyue answered with a good temper, “I have just been too busy.”“Busy with what? Busy pursuing a man or busy starting a business? I heard from my dad that you lost hundreds of millions trying to start a business. It’s only because your family is very rich that they can support you like this. We unfortunately still need to beg our grandparents and get them involved when we want to buy a multi-million dollar sports car.”“Qin Zhongyue, haven’t you grown tired of being with a man after so long? When you’re tired of him, this brother here will introduce…….”Qin Zhongyue had never thought that there was anything wrong with the way they spoke before. It was true that he was rich so he didn’t mind others talking about it but why was he feeling sick in the stomach when he heard those words?Qin Zhongyue’s expression darkened. He was furious, “Have you all said enough?”“What’s wrong? You’re getting angry just because of that?”Qin Zhongyue, “If I say that you have ED and you need to take medicine every time to get hard, would you be angry?”“Fuck. Qin Zhongyue, what are you trying to say here?”Li Jun, who came over and saw the tense scene, frowned, “What’s going on? What are you arguing about?”“Li Jun, I’m not staying here anymore. I’m leaving.” Qin Zhongyue said.After saying that, he pulled Xie Zhongxing up and made the move to leave.Li Jun hurriedly grabbed his other hand, “Why are you leaving so soon? What happened just now?”Qin Zhongyue said, “You can go ask Jiang Cheng and the others what they said.”Li Jun turned to ask Jiang Cheng, “What did you guys say?”Jiang Cheng was the boy with bright red hair from earlier. He was overall quite handsome but long term drinking had hollowed out his body, making it look more sickly pale than a healthy pale. Even his eyes were cloudier than a normal person's eye.Jiang Cheng deliberately said, “I was just talking about how he lost a few hundred million in the process of blindly trying to start a business and then I asked if he has grown tired of playing with that top student next to him or was he that good in bed that he’s starting to take it seriously and want to be in a relationship with him.”

Qin Zhongyue’s mind was buzzing. By the time he returned to his senses, amidst the screams, he had smashed a bottle of wine on Jiang Cheng’s head.Xie Zhongxing hurriedly stopped him, “Qin Zhongyue! Stop!”Jiang Cheng was moaning on the ground with his head covered in blood, “Qin Zhongyue….Are you crazy? Just because of a plaything, you’re hitting me?!”The others were also in disbelief. They stood frozen in place. Only Li Jun was able to return to his senses and call an ambulance over.Qin Zhongyue’s chest rose and fell heavily. He was aware of what these friends of his were like. He was aware of it in his last life too, but because they had grown up together, he had tolerated them.In his previous life, although they would speak bad about Xie Zhongxing in front of him, they would more often joke about Qin Zhongyue and didn’t take it too far with Xie Zhongxing.But privately? Did they privately speak of Xie Zhongxing so nastily? With such foul language?What did Xie Zhongxing do wrong? Just because he married him, he became a joke and deserves to be spoken of like this by others?Thinking of this, Qin Zhongyue was furious. With red eyes that welled up with tears, he said loudly, “He’s not a plaything! He’s my wife! I like him and it can only be him! Don’t talk nonsense when you don’t know anything, understand?!”After saying that, he threw the wine bottle onto the ground and charged over to punch Jiang Cheng a few times.He had always been someone who was soft and easy to talk to and had never shown such a violent side of himself. Everyone didn’t know how to react.But Xie Zhongxing was the first to move. He reached out to stop him, “Stop hitting him. What are you going to do if he dies?”Qin Zhongyue’s voice was nasal and hoarse, “At eighteen or nineteen years of age, you have many lives. He won’t die!”After saying that, he punched Jiang Cheng again.Xie Zhongxing held his blood-stained fist and said in a small voice, “Stop hitting him. Be good. If you continue hitting him, he might really die. I don’t want you to go to jail.”Qin Zhongyue only then stopped.Xie Zhongxing, “Let’s go, okay? I want to go home.”Qin Zhongyue’s voice was choked up, “Let’s go. I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have brought you here.”Xie Zhongxing smiled. His eyes flickered with gentle brilliance, “It’s okay. There’s no need to apologise.”Qin Zhongyue stood back up. Because of his angry outburst earlier, his face was red and his eyes were still glistening with tears.Xie Zhongxing took in Qin Zhongyue’s current appearance. His heart once again pounded loudly in his chest. His fingers slowly interlinked between Qin Zhongyue’s, “Let’s go.”