Villainous Sick Beauty Chapter 38

TL: Hua

Qin Chaoyan didn’t drink much wine. Ye Rongxu only smelled a faint scent when the other party approached him.

It appeared to be red wine, with a sweet and intoxicating fruity aroma.

Qin Chaoyan’s gaze remained clear the whole time. He didn’t know if the warmth inside the car had caused him to be intoxicated or if the fact that Ye Rongxu had never liked Qin Jingxu had given him a reason, but somehow an inexplicable emotion arose in his heart.

There was a glimmer in his eyes as he stared at Ye Rongxu for a long time. As if he were really drunk, he slowly leaned over, pressed his slender fingers on his forehead, and made a nasal sound: “I seem to be a little drunk.”

The inexplicable emotions that suddenly emerged were entangled in his heart.

He leaned on Ye Rongxu’s neck and ears, his forehead lightly touching the back of the chair. If it weren’t for Young Master Ye’s poor physics, he might have leaned on the other’s thin shoulder and neck.

But it made no difference at this moment. Although he didn’t touch Ye Rongxu, he was very close to him. When he gently opened his eyes, he could see the fine hairs on the young master’s fair face, and even his breath fell on the other’s shoulder.

Ye Rongxu had already tilted his body to the side, and there was no more space for him to evade; he could only try to deviate his head again. He closed one eye tightly like an ostrich, his tone stuttering: “You, can you lean over there?”

Qin Chaoyan looked at his white jade ear that gradually turned pink and asked in a hoarse voice, “Where?”

“Right, right there.” Ye Rongxu turned his head stiffly, and his nose tip almost touched the other person, but the next second, he said, “Eh.”

His nose tip moved and his delicate eyebrows slightly scrunched together, asking: “Did you put on powder?”

Qin Chaoyan was visibly stiffened and subconsciously wanted to move away.

Ye Rongxu suddenly grabbed his collar with his thin white fingers and pulled him close, sniffing his face.

The situation instantly reversed, and it was Ye Rongxu who approached him instead. His thin body almost completely fell into Qin Chaoyan’s arms, and his forehead was almost against him; his cheeks had even touched; his skin was delicate and smooth.

This time it was Qin Chaoyan’s turn to avoid him, but the young master was still flirting without even realizing it himself, like a small animal sniffing him.

In the rearview mirror, this scene looked like Ye Rongxu kissing Qin Chaoyan in his arms.

Chen Jiang, who was driving, looked embarrassed, and then he raised the screen for the two of them.

Ye Rongxu and Qin Chaoyan: “…”

The two of them froze, and after looking at each other, Ye Rongxu got angry: “Uncle Chen, why did you raise the screen?”

Chen Jiang: “Eh?” Don’t you need it?

He quickly lowered the screen again.

In the back seat, Ye Rongxu has black hair and fair skin, and his beautiful eyebrows and eyes were tinged with a little redness. His slightly wide, open eyes appeared somewhat angry and embarrassed.

Qin Chaoyan had already sat back in his seat, coughed lightly, and seemed a little embarrassed.

“Why does this car have a partition?” Ye Rongxu asked, feigning anger, trying his best to put on an appearance that he hadn’t tried to do anything in the car just now.

After all, he has read a lot of melodramatic love novels, so he should know more than he should.

“Well, this car has it when it leaves the factory.” Chen Jiang explained, looking equally embarrassed, and quickly changed the subject, “Young Master, where are we going next?”

Ye Rongxu calmed down for a second and said calmly: “Let’s go home.”

But his attention wasn’t diverted, and he turned his head, pulling Qin Chaoyan’s face close again.

Qin Chaoyan had his face held by the beautiful white hands, and froze for a moment, his black eyes fixed on him, and his body seemed to be cast under a spell, unable to move.

Ye Rongxu clasped his face with both hands, determined to prove that he had indeed smelled the fragrance just now, that he had no improper thoughts, and that Uncle Chen had misunderstood.

He looked serious and earnest, and under Qin Chaoyan’s slightly stunned gaze, he suddenly used a little force with his thumb to wipe the side of his face.

Qin Chaoyan let out a “hiss” and frowned slightly.

After wiping, Ye Rongxu found that his fingertip turned white, and there was indeed a substance similar to powder. He said happily, “I knew you must have used powder…”

Before the words were finished, he was suddenly struck dumb, and his squeezing fingers froze slightly.

A small bruise appeared on the side of Qin Chaoyan’s face where he had rubbed it with his thumb. The bruise had obviously existed for more than a day, and the blue color had faded.

Ye Rongxu was stunned for a while, and after coming back to his senses, he subconsciously wanted to continue wiping.

But the hand he just raised was held by Qin Chaoyan.

Ye Rongxu stared at him blankly, belatedly realizing that he was a little rude just now.

“I’m sorry.” He said in a stammering voice.

Qin Chaoyan loosened his hand slightly, seemed to laugh a little, and then he comforted him: “It’s okay. I accidentally bumped into something. It’s not a big deal.”

Ye Rongxu sat back in his seat and said “Oh” with a sullen look.

Of course he didn’t believe such words, nor did he think that Qin Chaoyan only had that small bruise on his face. However, did the other party not go to the Ye family a few days ago because of the bruise on his face? Who did he fight with?

No, it’s unlikely.

Qin Chaoyan has a dull personality and won’t take the initiative to provoke anyone. Even if others take the initiative to provoke him, he may not fight back. He will only… uh, secretly hold a grudge?

Even if he fights back, Qin Chaoyan is unlikely to let himself get hurt. Besides, his current status is different from before. Who would suddenly attack him without a reason? Who dares to beat him…

Ye Rongxu froze and suddenly thought of two people—Zhang Yun and Qin Qijiang.

Now there are only these two people who can beat Qin Chaoyan.

It goes without saying that Qin Qijiang, albeit being Qin Chaoyan’s father, has never liked this son. Ye Rongxu had seen him beat Qin Chaoyan when he was a child.

As for Zhang Yun…

Ye Rongxu frowned slightly. He had heard that Qin Chaoyan and Zhang Yun had some disagreements, but Zhang Yun was Qin Chaoyan’s biological mother after all, and the mother and son had been depending on each other…

He turned his head subconsciously and looked at Qin Chaoyan hesitantly.

Qin Chaoyan noticed his gaze and asked, “What’s wrong?”

Ye Rongxu hesitated to speak, and after a long while, he still asked tentatively, “Is it Uncle Qin?”

Qin Chaoyan was stunned for a moment, then shook his head, with a smile in his eyes: “No, don’t think too much.”

Ye Rongxu tried again: “Then your mother…”

Before he finished speaking, he noticed that the smile in Qin Chaoyan’s eyes had lost its warmth, so he stopped talking.

The answer seemed obvious.

That’s right, Qin Chaoyan’s household registration and school registration were moved before he registered for the college entrance examination, which was related to Zhang Yun. According to Qin Chaoyan, it seemed that Zhang Yun gave the household registration book to Qin Jingxu.

Ye Rongxu felt that Zhang Yun was a very contradictory person. She was obviously a mistress of Qin Qijiang and gave birth to an illegitimate child, but she was full of guilt and indulged the legitimate wife’s son in every way, and even went so far as to ruin her own son’s future for the sake of another.

But to say she had a sense of morality, she once returned to the Qin family to be a nanny when she could have taken her biological son far away, further being a loathsome third party right under the first wife’s nose. Even the first wife’s accidental death was said to be indirectly related to her.

It can’t be that she finally has a clear conscience and is atoning for her sins, right?

Ye Rongxu thought about it carefully and felt that this was the only explanation.

Otherwise, he really couldn’t understand why Zhang Yun was good to Qin Jingxu, but treated her biological son Qin Chaoyan harshly.

Maybe the bruises on Qin Chaoyan’s face were caused by her anger when she learned that Qin Chaoyan had “robbed” Qin Jingxu of his equity and marriage contract.

This is not an unfounded guess. In his dream, when he was raised by Qin Chaoyan like a canary in the villa, he saw Zhang Yun making such scenes because of Qin Jingxu’s imprisonment and even tried to slap Qin Chaoyan.

However, the Qin Chaoyan four years later wasn’t as easy to mess with as he was now. In the dream, Zhang Yun couldn’t even touch Qin Chaoyan’s hair before she was dragged out by the bodyguard and thrown on the roadside very rudely.

At that time, Qin Chaoyan didn’t seem to have the slightest emotion towards Zhang Yun, his mother, and was cold as if he were treating an enemy.

And the only impact of that incident was that Ye Rongxu finally found a new way to satirize Qin Chaoyan in bed at night, and then he was…

Ye Rongxu covered his face.

But then again, no matter how powerful Qin Chaoyan was in the dream, he was still a little pitiful right now. If Zhang Yun wanted to atone for her sins, she could do it herself. Why hit Qin Chaoyan?

Didn’t she know that Qin Chaoyan was now the prospective son-in-law of the Ye family, and the person he, Ye Rongxu, was engaged to?

Ye Rongxu felt inexplicably unhappy.

Speaking of which, Qin Qijiang’s wife, Qin Jingxu’s mother, Xie Yunzhao, was a close friend of Ye Rongxu’s mother.

When Ye Rongxu was a child, he called her Aunt Xie, and he liked her very much. Later, when he grew up, he heard that Aunt Xie’s death was related to Qin Qijiang’s cheating, and he hated Zhang Yun because of this, and even disliked Qin Chaoyan.

It wasn’t until he inexplicably dreamed that this world was a book that he realized Qin Chaoyan wasn’t the kind of person he thought.

But he still didn’t change his mind about Zhang Yun.

So at the last engagement banquet, he and Qin Chaoyan, the Ye family and the Qin family, tacitly didn’t mention this person. After the engagement, he didn’t go to the hospital to visit the other party either.

In any case, his and Qin Chaoyan’s engagement was fake, so he didn’t regard Qin Chaoyan as his future spouse, let alone Zhang Yun as the mother of his spouse.

Ye Rongxu twisted his fingers while pondering, then turned to look at Qin Chaoyan, but hesitantly asked, “I heard that Zhang…she has cancer? I haven’t visited her since we got engaged; you don’t mind, right?”

Qin Chaoyan froze for a moment, seeming to understand what he meant only after a long time.

“No, it’s okay.” His tone was a bit strange.

After saying that, he looked at Ye Rongxu again, not understanding why he asked that.

Stripping away the identity as a son and looking from the perspective of a pure bystander, Qin Chaoyan didn’t think the Ye family would appreciate Zhang Yun’s existence. Ye Boxuan probably wouldn’t want to treat Zhang Yun as an in-law, much less would Ye Rongxu take Zhang Yun as…

The other party’s willingness to let him and Ye Rongxu get engaged was already a great concession, and it was impossible to let it go any further. In fact, the best way is for both families to tacitly agree not to mention Zhang Yun.

So Qin Chaoyan didn’t quite understand why Ye Rongxu suddenly asked that. Even after going through so many things, he couldn’t treat Zhang Yun as a mother anymore in his heart.

Could it be because… he was considering his feelings?

Qin Chaoyan suddenly turned his head and looked at Ye Rongxu with a scorching gaze.

Ye Rongxu was caught off guard by his deep eyes. He made a sound and looked away in panic.

After a while, he turned back quietly and whispered, “You said it yourself.”

After a pause, he added, “But I won’t go even if you ask me to.”

He just doesn’t like Zhang Yun, especially when she hits Qin Chaoyan. If she wasn’t Qin Chaoyan’s mother, he might have asked his bodyguard to fight back.

“Let me tell you,” he said, raising his hand to block the side of his face, leaned over, and whispered to Qin Chaoyan, “The Internet says that you don’t need to take a test to be a parent, so a lot of parents failed and are not worthy to be a parent. If you are unlucky enough to meet such parents, stay away from them, stop the loss in time, and don’t be manipulated.”

Finished, he sat up straight, coughed twice, then turned his head to see Qin Chaoyan’s surprised expression and blinked again: “I didn’t say that Zhang… you know who.”

Qin Chaoyan couldn’t help but laugh, and after a while, he suddenly remembered that when he was a child, Zhang Yun had whispered in his ear, “Young Master Ye is in poor health and is not worthy of Young Master Jingxu,” and other slightly disgusting words, so his expression gradually became cold.

“You don’t have to think about these, and you don’t have to take my feelings into consideration. Just treat her as if she doesn’t exist.” His tone was slightly lowered but serious.

Ye Rongxu was very satisfied with his attitude: “I didn’t think about these things in the first place.”

If he hadn’t seen the wound on Qin Chaoyan’s face, he wouldn’t have remembered Zhang Yun…

No!

“I didn’t take your feelings into consideration.” He denied with his eyes wide open.

Qin Chaoyan looked at him, and the frost in his eyes that had gathered because of Zhang Yun’s words gradually melted away. He nodded and said, “Well, not on purpose, then subconsciously?”

Ye Rongxu: “!”

“It was an accident.” He quickly corrected him like a cat whose tail was stepped on.

Qin Chaoyan’s lips curled up unconsciously.

*
After the car drove into the Ye family villa, Chen Jiang got out first to get the wheelchair.

Before Ye Rongxu got out of the car, he turned his head and stared at Qin Chaoyan’s face carefully. Suddenly, he raised his hand and gently rubbed his thumb on the side of his face, spreading it evenly to cover the small bruise, and asked curiously: “Is this powder? Where did you buy it from?”

Qin Chaoyan coughed lightly, in a rare moment of slight embarrassment, and said in a low voice, “I heard that it’s a kind of cream that can cover up flaws, and it belongs to Grandma Zhang¹ next door to my rented room.”

“Ah?” Ye Rongxu was surprised.

Qin Chaoyan: “Her daughter bought it for her. She rarely uses it.”

After a pause, he explained: “I only used it today since I have to sign a contract with President Lu of Hongsheng. I was afraid that it would affect the company’s image.”

After a while, he explained again: “It’s not that I’m afraid of the impact; it’s Grandma Zhang who said it would.”

After a while, he added more explanation: “I didn’t want to apply it on my face, but Grandma Zhang insisted on helping me, and it was hard to refuse.”

As soon as he finished speaking, he seemed to be dissatisfied with this statement, and explained carefully: “When I was a child, Zhang Yun was often absent from home. It was Grandma Zhang who helped me grow up, and we usually have a good relationship. I happened to meet her when I went out this morning. She saw the wound on my face, so I asked her how to cover it up. She came up with this solution and was very enthusiastic and insisted on helping. I have a good relationship with her… In short, it was hard to refuse, so I put on powder, that’s about it.”

After speaking, he took a deep breath, his expression calm, but his hands were tightly clenched at some point.

Ye Rongxu looked at him quietly for a while and finally couldn’t help laughing and said, “Why are you nervous that you have to explain so much? I didn’t say you like to put on powder.”

Qin Chaoyan obviously breathed a sigh of relief. From his expression, he was probably really worried that Ye Rongxu would think so.

Ye Rongxu shook his head and said, “What’s so strange about putting on powder? It’s normal for men to put on makeup now.”

Although he doesn’t put on makeup.

“And…” He touched the side of Qin Chaoyan’s face with his thin white fingers and whispered, “This cream is close to the shade of your skin. I didn’t even notice it at first.”

Qin Chaoyan tilted his head to look at him and suddenly grabbed his fingers.

Ye Rongxu was startled when their eyes met.

Qin Chaoyan slowly approached, getting closer and closer. At this moment, a cough suddenly came from outside the car door.

Ye Rongxu stiffened, abruptly separated from Qin Chaoyan, and hurriedly turned his head to look out the car window.

Ye Boxuan was standing outside the car at some point with them noticing him.

Ye Rongxu’s face flushed, and he quickly pushed Qin Chaoyan to let him get out of the car first.

Qin Chaoyan quickly got out of the car, walked around to the other side, called out “Uncle” first, then bent down and carried Ye Rongxu to the wheelchair.

Ye Boxuan nodded, said nothing, and told the two to hurry to the villa.

After saying that, he walked ahead with a serious expression.

Qin Chaoyan frowned slightly and pushed Ye Rongxu to catch up.

Ye Rongxu didn’t notice at first until he was pushed into the living room and saw his dad and grandparents sitting upright, then he realized that the atmosphere wasn’t normal.

“Dad…” He hesitated to speak and was interrupted by Ye Boxuan before he finished.

“Where did you go today? Why didn’t you tell your family? Why did it take so long for you to come back?” Ye Boxuan’s brows were slightly furrowed. Grandma and Grandpa Ye, sitting on either side of him, were looking grave and worried.

This posture is like a three-judge court.