Chapter 100: Qian Hongxin’s Miserable Situation
After the exam, Chi Shuyan returned to school to sort out her books and ran into Yang Chenchen several times. She felt that the way Yang Chenchen looked at her was strange. Chi Shuyan raised her eyebrows, thinking that Yang Chenchen was up to something again, but she didn’t pay it much mind.
As soon as Chi Shuyan entered the cla.s.sroom, she heard Li Xiaoting’s voice crackling like she had eaten gunpowder as she argued with a cla.s.smate.
“You say it’s none of your business. As if! If you hadn’t talked nonsense in front of Shujun, would she have run away crying after the exam? It’s just a few pimples on her face, how can you be so superficial? Ye Hongwei, you’ve gone too far with your words!”
“What do you mean it’s just a few pimples? n.o.body else has pimples that look that scary, densely packed like a beehive. The problem is that she’s always hovering in front of me. I have trypophobia, so I feel a bit uncomfortable looking at her.” Ye Hongwei was unconvinced. “And I didn’t say anything outrageous; I kindly advised her to go to the hospital for a look, and she ran away crying. What did I say wrong?”
“You can choose not to look, but you can’t say something so hurtful. You must apologize to Shujun!” Li Xiaoting glared at Ye Hongwei as her voice went up in volume by eight degrees.
Ye Hongwei rolled his eyes, unable to stand being pestered by Li Xiaoting. He didn’t want things to get too ugly, so he nodded. “Okay, okay, so troublesome. I’ll apologize when she comes later, okay?”
After the quarrel, the discussion in the cla.s.sroom didn’t stop.
“Actually, Li Xiaoting, Hongwei means well. I think Zheng Shujun looks like she has some kind of skin disease on her face. It’s better for her to have it looked at sooner,” a cla.s.smate said.
“Yeah, it’s frightening to look at. Before, it was only a few scattered around, but now her face is practically full. It looks like there’s even pus inside. I don’t even dare to look anymore,” another student said.
“You should be careful with your words,” Li Xiaoting couldn’t help but say when she heard these slanderous words.
“You might be worried, but aren’t you the same? You’ve been ignoring Zheng Shujun these past few days.”
“Yeah, can you not be so hypocritical? None of us said anything. It was like eating explosives.”
“How am I a hypocrite…” Li Xiaoting shouted loudly. Seeing that Li Xiaoting was about to argue with the crowd again, Chi Shuyan hurriedly walked in and interjected with a smile, “Everyone’s here so early. ”
After Chi Shuyan’s interruption, the tension in the cla.s.sroom finally eased and the others greeted her.
“The questions were so difficult this time. I wonder who came up with the exam?” Chi Shuyan said casually, and the rest of the students immediately felt the same, their faces looking thin. They took turns scolding the twisted examiner who came up with the paper, one after another.
Seeing that the change of topic was a success, Chi Shuyan hurriedly pulled Li Xiaoting, who looked like she had lost a c.o.c.kfight, into the corridor.
“Shuyan, why did you stop me? Those people have no compa.s.sion at all, especially Ye Hongwei. Doesn’t he know that Shujun likes him? What nonsense is he talking about? He deserves a scolding.” Li Xiaoting was displeased.
“Xiaoting, I know you have good intentions, but don’t do anything bad for it. Shujun has thin skin, so you’ll only make her more embarra.s.sed.” Chi Shuyan sighed and said, “Arguing won’t solve the problem.” Chi Shuyan thought of her previous life, when she was just like Zheng Shujun, with her face covered in acne and her skin turning a coa.r.s.e yellow. She had wished that everyone would forget her and wanted to hide away inside a sh.e.l.l forever. No one else could empathize more with Zheng Shujun.
“What should we do?” Li Xiaoting calmed down and also felt that Chi Shuyan’s words made sense. Zheng Shujun was delicate and sensitive, so she probably wouldn’t be able to stand it if things got out of hand.
“Let’s wait for Shujun to come to school first.” Chi Shuyan frowned, finding it a bit tricky. It had to be known that this borrowed luck was just a loan in the eyes of ordinary people, but for Warlocks, it involved justice, human luck, and fate.
Moreover, in her previous life, her luck had been borrowed for five whole years. Just when she was about to get revenge, that Warlock was killed. The luck-borrowing spell fell apart. According to the rumors, the Warlock offended that bigshot and was directly chopped into minced meat on the spot and fed to the dogs.
The two waited in school for a long time, but Zheng Shujun didn’t show up, so they could only leave first and chatted idly as they walked down the street.
“Shuyan, I see you’re carrying so many books. Want me to carry some of them for you?” Li Xiaoting had long brought back her own books after the exams.
“No need.” Chi Shuyan shook her head. There was a storage talisman in her bag so there was no weight on her shoulders at all.
“All right. If you can’t carry them, remember to tell me.” Li Xiaoting glanced at Chi Shuyan’s schoolbag. “But seriously, this schoolbag is quite big; it doesn’t even look like it’s full. If I hadn’t seen you pack it with so many books, I would have thought it wasn’t heavy.”
Chi Shuyan smiled. It wasn’t that the bag had a large capacity, but she didn’t say anything else. Turning her head and looking around, she didn’t expect to see Qian Hongxin, who looked like he was in a hurry.
“Shuyan, what are you looking at?” Li Xiaoting followed Chi Shuyan’s gaze and saw a store for branded secondhand goods. She was a little surprised. “You want to buy a bag?”
Chi Shuyan shook her head. “Not interested. I saw a familiar person. Xiaoting, you go back first, I’ll go take a look.”
“Oh, okay then.” Li Xiaoting thought Chi Shuyan was going to catch up with the person, so she nodded and left.
Chi Shuyan walked to the bag shop which Qian Hongxin had entered on the opposite side of the street. Standing at the door, she could hear the voices inside.
“Boss, you’re such a scammer. This bag is still new and is from a famous brand. How can it only be worth 2,500 yuan? It’s at least 5,000 or 6,000 yuan.” Qian Hongxin looked at the boss in disbelief; he thought that he could sell it for at least half the price.
“Who knows if this is real or not? There’s no tag, no receipt. Imitations nowadays are becoming more and more deceptive. How am I supposed to know if it’s authentic or not? The price I gave you is already pretty good,” the boss said impatiently.
Qian Hongxin argued with the boss, but to no effect. The boss insisted on 2,500 yuan and refused to budge.
Qian Hongxin was so angry that his face turned extremely ugly and the color of a pig’s liver. He started to complain about Lin Xinfang in his heart, that she didn’t know how to keep the invoice when she accepted Yang Feiyu’s gift.
Qian Hongxin gritted his teeth and finally agreed to the boss’s price. He had really reached the end of the road recently.
He had originally been living in the Yang house, but since the matter of him and Liu Xinfang colluding to harm Yang Feiyu was exposed, he and Liu Xinfang were swept out the door and had to cram inside the simple and rough dormitory a.s.signed by the company he was interning with.
He knelt and begged Yang Wenbin with snot and tears all over his face to give him a chance to change, and Yang Wenbin, that rotten old man, agreed, but Yang Wenbin canceled his recommendation letter and never mentioned sending him to study abroad again.
Because of this matter, Qian Hongxin utterly hated Yang Wenbin and Su Yunxin. He felt that one was hypocritical and the other was unforgiving and simply bullied others with her power. Just as he had been planning to work hard in the company to achieve results that they wouldn’t dare underestimate, a phone call from Su Yunxin caused all his efforts to go down the drain. It turned out that Su Yunxin was acquainted with the company’s president, who fired him right away.
Qian Hongxin initially wanted to go and explain things to his boss, but who knew which blabbermouth started it as his and Liu Xinfang’s matter spread all over the company.
He couldn’t stay in the company anymore, so he took Liu Xinfang outside to rent an apartment while he looked for a job. The prices in Fuzhou were expensive, especially housing.
He was a fresh graduate now and couldn’t afford it at all. Fortunately, he was quick-witted and smart enough to notice the jewelry bag which Yang Feiyu had given to Liu Xinfang before. Thinking this, he felt a little smug.
Chi Shuyan looked at Qian Hongxin from where she was standing not far away. Seeing his self-satisfied look, she shook her head with a hint of sarcasm in her eyes. Was this the true love that Liu Xinfang talked about? She really didn’t know what Liu Xinfang saw in him. He had even taken out his girlfriend’s bag to sell.
Yang Feiyu was a good-for-nothing, but he was clearly still a lot better than Qian Hongxin, who piled all the blame on Liu Xinfang when things went wrong. But it could be that beauty was in the eye of the beholder, and she just liked Qian Hongxin for some unfathomable reason.
From Qian Hongxin’s physiognomy, Chi Shuyan could see that the backlash from the Soul Separation Curse had already begun. Plus, she had added a small gift of a Bad Luck Curse. In the future, his words would get stuck in his mouth any time he drank cold water. She wondered if he would still be able to smile in the future