[R18] Pretending to be a scumbag – “Pretending to Be a Scumbag” Chapter 90 [English]

Chapter 90

There was a ‘boom’ in Xie Yu’s mind, as if something suddenly exploded.

Then the blood all over his body coagulated little by little.

He has a password lock on his phone, and the text messages sent by Zhou Dalei are crowded together and occupy most of the lock screen. Although not all are displayed, the contents of several text messages are put together here and there, and the general meaning can still be seen.

…

“Big Lei he,” Xie Yu slowly curled his fingers and clenched them into fists, subconsciously choosing to keep the matter a secret, “he is just kidding, there is no such thing.”

Gu Xuelan stayed up all night and sat there from midnight to noon.In fact, she no longer knew how long time had passed. It seemed very long, but not that long. She only saw the sky outside gradually getting brighter.

Xie Yu had just finished speaking and was about to add “Don’t think too much about it”, when Gu Xuelan asked again: “What’s going on?”

When she spoke, her throat was dry, and her momentum was different from the first question. She showed an unnatural calmness after a violent ups and downs of emotions. A word stuck in her mouth, and she took a few seconds to speak.

“——How long are you going to lie to me?”

Seeing her reaction, Xie Yu guessed that Zhou Dalei probably sold him directly without even thinking about it.

My mind was so confused just now that I forgot to consider this aspect.According to Zhou Dalei’s temperament, if he really chased him and asked, he would immediately become panicked and there would be no way to hide the matter.

Faced with Ms. Gu’s question, Xie Yu was silent for a while and did not answer.

Zhou Dalei really didn’t think about these text messages of his. He hit the ground by mistake and turned the matter upside down.

Last night, after he had finished posting his message eloquently, he was about to put down his cell phone and go to sleep. A call from Aunt Lan shocked him so much that he almost rolled up his bed and fell off the bed.

Gu Xuelan didn’t ask a few questions, but he said everything that should be said and shouldn’t be said.

“I only found out about this not long ago. Boss Xie didn’t let me talk about it, but I was holding back the discomfort,” Zhou Dalei said as he opened the window to get some air, and added, “…Aunt Lan, he just wants you to have a better life in the Zhong family, with less people to worry about.”

The Zhong Group is a well-known family business in City A.

After Gu Xuelan married, the reorganized family became particularly awkward. Mrs. Zhong’s position was not easy to sit in, not to mention that there was Zhong Jie in the family who was uncomfortable without causing trouble.

Xie Yu is usually silent and looks like he’s too lazy to care about you.

Gu Xuelan always thought that he was still young and that she could bear all these pressures. Unexpectedly, what the people around him said and looked at…it turned out that he could see clearly.

Gu Xuelan’s hands trembled uncontrollably when she thought about this. She wanted to raise her hands to pull up the coat on her shoulders, but found that she couldn’t do it at all.

My mind went blank for a moment, and a strong sense of powerlessness and weightlessness swept over me.

The last remaining memory of her was hearing Xie Yu yell “Mom——” in a panic.

There were footsteps coming and going all around.

After Gu Xuelan fainted, the Zhong family was in chaos.

The family doctor came down from the second floor with a medicine box and warned as he walked: “It’s still the same problem. I told you to pay more attention to it, so why don’t you be careful? Pay more attention to rest, don’t work too hard…take good care of yourself.”

Xie Yu was still in a daze.

Afang sent the family doctor out. When she walked back, she couldn’t hold it back. She stood at the door of the master bedroom and said softly: “My wife has not been in good health these days. You may not know it because you are always at school. She even went to the hospital a few months ago… She didn’t sleep all night last night, so she was sitting downstairs waiting for you.”

Afang said this and sighed: “No matter what happens, just say it well.”

Xie Yu sat beside Ms. Gu’s bed, and the voices downstairs gradually became distant.There was no other thought in my mind except that I felt like an asshole.

He paused, and finally touched her hand gently.

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It was already evening when Gu Xuelan woke up.

A Fang happened to be packing things in the room. When she saw she woke up, she quickly picked out a few nice words to say: “Second Young Master is making soup for you in the kitchen. I was so worried that I asked him to go downstairs to eat. He didn’t even go. If he had anything to do, he just talked to her… He is a very sensible child.”

Xie Yu has been busy in the kitchen for a while.

While cutting the ingredients, Zhou Dalei happened to call. The moment the call was connected, Zhou Dalei clearly heard a “bang” from the other side.

The knife fell from the hand.

The knife struck the chopping board with a muffled sound.

Zhou Dalei swallowed: “…Thank you, boss?”

Xie Yu didn’t say anything and slashed again.

Zhou Dalei shrank his neck and continued to defend himself before his death, seeking a reprieve: “I’m sorry, I didn’t expect this. Life is really full of surprises and surprises. I was playing a game last night, and the team opposite was really good, and then I thought of you, my good brother——”

“Okay.”

Xie Yu put down the knife and saw that it was almost time. The heat started rolling up and he poured the chopped ingredients into the pot: “This has nothing to do with you.”

Zhou Dalei thought that with Xie Yu’s bad temper, he could live for two more days at most, but he didn’t expect to be directly acquitted.

Zhou Dalei got an advantage, but he still felt uncomfortable: “Huh? Are you sure you don’t want to settle the score with me?”

“Settling a score is bullshit,” Xie Yu said. “It’s my own problem… You really want me to settle a score with you. Are you sick?”

He is not that indifferent to right from wrong.

No matter how you say this, you can’t blame Zhou Dalei.

“How is Aunt Lan now?” Zhou Dalei asked, “Is she okay? You need to be careful about your health.”

After hanging up the phone, Xie Yu looked at the heat rolling up from the pot. For some reason, what He Chao said to him in the classroom suddenly came to his mind: ‘Being nice to her in your own way may not be what she wants.’

Thinking of this, he lowered his head and found the word “He Chao” in the contact list.

I typed a lot of words, but finally deleted them all, leaving only one word.

-elder brother.

This pot of soup has been simmering for most of the day.

By the time Xie Yu brought the soup upstairs, Gu Xuelan had already sat on the bed for a while, leaning on the pillow.

Rather than being angry with Xie Yu, she was more angry with herself.

In recent years, her communication with Xie Yu has become very rare.

She could feel that this child was learning to be independent little by little. He didn’t need her help with many things, and he was getting further and further away from her.

“Mom.” Xie Yu wanted to say ‘I’m sorry’ but these three words, just like ‘I love you’, are harder to say to people who are closer to you.

Gu Xuelan looked at he, neither continuing to question nor criticizing.

She took the bowl of soup and drank it in small sips in silence.

“I also hope you have a good life,” Gu Xuelan lowered her head and looked at the red dates in the bowl after a few sips, her eyes secretly getting wet, and whispered, “As long as you have a good life.”

“When I was on Blackwater Street, I thought about it all day long. I wanted to give you a better living environment. Not to mention a comfortable life, at least you wouldn’t have to worry about food and clothing.”

“I never thought…”

When Gu Xuelan said this, she paused: “If that’s the case, I’d rather I wasn’t Mrs. Zhong.”

Xie Yu calmly raised his head, his eyes visibly red.

He has had a strong temper since he was a child. No matter what happened, he would never shed tears. Now his eyes were uncontrollably wet, and he felt uncomfortable and a little embarrassed. He raised his head and threw back the wet heat, and called her again: “Mom.”

Gu Xuelan raised her eyes to look at he.

Xie Yu asked again: “Do you prefer Tsinghua University or Peking University?”

Gu Xuelan recalled the words that Xie Yu had used to choke her before, “Do you think I should go to Tsinghua University or Peking University?” She put the bowl aside and raised her hand to wipe the corners of her eyes. He laughed: “…Anything is fine. As long as you like it, any school will do.”

He Chao would occasionally go to the library for a while during the holidays, and set his cell phone to silent mode. Only when he closed the book and took out his cell phone to check the time did he see the sentence “Brother” sent by Xie Yu.

To avoid disturbing others in the library, He Chao returned the book and walked outside the library while dialing the phone: “What’s wrong?”

Then he heard Xie Yu say: “Brother, let’s see who gets the first place in the exam next time.”

He Chaozheng wanted to ask “last one”?

Xie Yu added: “It’s a positive number.”

He Chao walked out of the side door and stopped again when he heard these three words. He knew what it meant for the children to want to take the first place in the exam. They had been pretending for so long. Now that they want to take the first place, there is only one possibility left.

It was getting dark outside. He Chao leaned against the wall and asked, “Are you serious?”

Xie Yu was very brave. He sat on the balcony guardrail to blow the air, with his hands on the edge of the guardrail and the soles of his feet dangling. Looking down from the second floor, he could only see a few rows of street lights not far away.

“Seriously,” facing the wind, Xie Yu slowly closed his eyes and said, “I know what you meant by what you said to me before.”

A month’s holiday is not long at all, it passed in the blink of an eye.

During the Chinese New Year, it snowed again in City A, and a thick layer of snow piled up on the ground.

“Happy New Year” was all over the screen in the class.

In addition to exchanging blessings, the most active activity in the class is grabbing red envelopes.

In order to grab the red envelope, the administrator even kicked Xie Yu out of the group.

[Xu Qingqing]: Brother Yu, wait until we finish robbing you before we bring you in.

[Xu Qingqing]: New Year’s Eve, you’re so lucky, I don’t think we are suitable for grabbing red envelopes in a group, please let us live.

[Wanda]: Never question our friendship!We are still friends!

[Liu Cunhao]: Although I say so, friends are nothing in front of red envelopes!

[Luo Wenqiang]: Mouse, what you said is so insightful.

He Chao was pretty lucky that night. He grabbed the biggest share of the hundreds given out by Old Tang in the class.

[Liu Cunhao]: King of Luck!Fifty bucks!Awesome, Brother Chao!

[Luo Wenqiang]: Why do I only have 50 cents? This is unscientific… Do you have to hurt me, a slum boy, like this?

[Wanda]: Hahahahahahahahahahaha fifty cents, five yuan for me, suddenly I think five yuan is pretty good.Very contented.

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Gu Xuelan saw off the last guest, feeling relieved and sat down next to Xie Yu.She didn’t eat anything at the dinner table just now. She complained while eating dessert: “I didn’t even watch the Spring Festival Gala. I watched half of the skit just now. What’s going on next? How is that person?”

How did Xie Yu know? He didn’t look carefully at all: “Are there any sketches?”

Gu Xuelan: “…”

Xie Yu watched a few more programs with Ms. Gu, but couldn’t feel the laughter at all.

The phone vibrated twice, and he looked down secretly. It was a red envelope sent to him by He Chao.

Xu Qingqing and the others took precautions and resorted to destructive tricks like kicking people. They never expected that the biggest red envelope would still fall into Xie Yu’s hands.

[He Chao]: Whatever I grab, I’ll give it to you.

Fireworks were being set off outside the window.

Accompanied by several loud noises, the sky was filled with tiny and colorful stars, flashing across the night sky.