Yan Sui stared in the direction where the car disappeared for a few moments, then turned back to nod at Zhong Ming and Gu Lang before getting into his own car and quickly leaving the Zhong family’s territory as well.
After he got into the car, his expression quickly cooled down. He took out his mobile phone and made a call.
“I want to know everything about Meng Ting’s three years in high school.”
The scars on Meng Ting’s palms and the marks on his hands made him unable to ignore them.
When he returned to the Yan’s residence, there was no surprise. He saw He Wan waiting for him in the living room.
Most of the servants had gone to rest at this time. She was the only one sitting in the huge living room. She didn’t turn on the TV or play with her mobile phone. She just sat there with such a standard attitude. Someone else would have been frightened by her.
Yan Sui didn’t feel anything. When He Wan looked over, he nodded slightly and then walked towards the stairs.
“Sui’er.”
He Wan sat still and called out to Yan Sui. Yan Sui stopped, turned around, looked at He Wan, and waited for her to finish speaking.
“You’ve met Meng Ting, haven’t you? Is there anything you don’t like about him?”
“No,” Yan Sui said, taking two more steps toward He Wan and nodding again, “You should rest early.”
After saying this, he didn’t give He Wan a chance to stop him. He turned around, went up to the second floor, opened his room, went in, and closed the door again.
He Wan still sat quietly. After a long time, she sneered and straightened her expression. But instead of going to sleep in the room in the old house, she went out again and went back to her own residence. She hated the Yan family and everything related to it, including Yan Sui, even if he was her son.
***
Meng Ting arrived at Meng’s residence five minutes later than Yan Sui. By calculation, the return journey, which originally took half an hour, took more than an hour.
But it was because Meng Qi received some news halfway. He went to another place and picked up Meng Xiao, who was so drunk that he almost got into trouble.
“You’re not even a man. You still want to take advantage of others. He is not even worthy of being the illegitimate child of my Meng family.”
He’s just a nouveau riche who managed to get into the banquet, not even half a member of the social circle. With a few sweet words, Meng Xiao was so fascinated that he couldn’t find his way around. He almost lost his body after being drugged. In another time and place, he would definitely not have cared about him, but he was the one who brought Meng Xiao to the Zhong family banquet. If something went wrong, he wouldn’t be able to escape blame.
The abnormalities in Meng Xiao’s body had not completely dissipated. Although his sanity basically returned to clarity, his emotions were not quite under control.
His face was blue and red, and he was extremely angry. He looked at Meng Ting with a particularly sinister expression. Meng Ting met his gaze and frowned slightly, but still said nothing and did nothing.
Meng Qi answered two more phone calls. He turned around from the co-pilot’s seat, the look in his eyes seemed as if he wanted to give Meng Xiao death by a thousand cuts, “As expected, you’re a thankless ingrate, even plotting against your own family members!”
Meng Xiao has been recognized back for so many years, how could he not be able to tell the difference between a nouveau riche and a child of a real wealthy and powerful family? It’s just that Meng Xiao saw that he was indeed rich and wanted him to spend money for him, so he kept hanging on, but breaking up was a matter of time.
When he heard that Meng Qi was going to take Meng Ting to the banquet, he had a plan in mind. The more he thought about it, the more he didn’t want to give up. But he didn’t expect that Yan Sui and the others would be guarding Meng Ting almost every step of the night.
Moreover, that nouveau riche was also a coward. He heard from a distance that Meng Ting was Yan Sui’s person, so how could he dare to get involved? Instead, he felt that Meng Xiao was harming him. The fact that he was able to sneak into the Zhong family’s banquet showed that he was quite capable. He turned around and tricked Meng Xiao, and after many twists and turns, he betrayed him again, he wanted to sell him to the Meng family.
Of course, if he had the means to find Yan Sui, he wouldn’t have come to him. At that time, the Meng family would be really embarrassed.
“Why can’t I plot against him? He’s also an illegitimate child. Why can he marry into the Yan family, but I can’t?”
What’s more, he returned to the Meng family earlier than Meng Ting. Over the years, he had spent a lot of effort to please Li Yifei and the Old Master. But in the end, when there was a good marriage, the person who was selected was not him!
If something happened to Meng Ting, Old Master Meng would definitely have to choose someone from the Meng family in order to keep the marriage from falling through. Is there anyone more suitable than him?
“Isn’t it just a face? If it’s ruined, I’ll see what you can do to seduce Yan Sui!” Meng Xiao, stimulated by the residual drugs and alcohol, really dared to say anything.
Not only did he dare to say it, but he also dared to do it. He was about to grab Meng Ting’s face with his hands, but even if he didn’t provoke him first, Meng Ting wouldn’t let him go either.
After hearing Meng Xiao admit that he wanted to plot against him, all the emotions on Meng Ting’s face disappeared. That kind of indifference was not much better than the usual Yan Sui. The way he looked at Meng Xiao was like that of a seasoned hunter staring at his prey. He raised his hand and grabbed Meng Xiao’s wrist, and with a strong twist, he directly broke his joints. One hand was twisted, but he still didn’t let go of the other hand.
“Ahhh!” Meng Xiao screamed twice in succession, almost fainting from the pain.
Meanwhile, Meng Ting still had his gaze fixed on his legs, ready to break his legs as well.
“Don’t, that’s enough, Meng Ting, that’s enough!”
Meng Qi looked at Meng Ting and gulped. Where is this still the soft and obedient Meng Ting in front of Yan Sui before, this is a vicious wolf in white rabbit skin. Even if an average person have the ability to break an adult man’s arm, they won’t be as decisive, ruthless, and efficient as him.
In the end, how did he know these methods? Let alone fighting, it is also easy to use them to kill people, right?
Compared with Meng Xiao’s miserable state at the moment, the two punches Meng Ting gave him yesterday were definitely considered merciful to him.
Meng Ting, who he originally thought to be easy to read at a glance, now became inscrutable in Meng Qi’s eyes.
Meng Qi’s gaze swept towards the driver, whose expression changed rapidly, and said in a cold voice, “Drive properly.”
“Yes.”
The driver responded and no longer dared to look at Meng Ting through the rearview mirror anymore. At that time, it was him and Meng Zhong who went to pick Meng Ting up at the beginning. He was naturally shaken at this moment.
***
When the car stopped, Meng Ting got out of the car first and went back to his room by himself. Meng Qi also didn’t dare to let him stay. He took Meng Xiao to the inner courtyard. Old Master Meng had already gone to bed, but Feng Zejiao was not asleep yet. Meng Xiao looked really miserable. She sent someone to find a doctor and then discussed it with Meng Qi. She took away Meng Xiao’s cell phone and asked someone to guard his door. She would wait until Old Master Meng woke up tomorrow to discuss everything.
Of course, the premise for such a decision was that Meng Ting was really fine. Otherwise, the marriage would definitely go down the drain.
This incident happened at the Zhong family. It didn’t take long for Zhong Ming to know the ins and outs of the matter. After a moment of hesitation, he called Yan Sui. Soon after, Yan Sui’s call came to Meng Ting.
After Meng Ting returned to the house, he took a bath and was lying on the bed trying to sleep. He felt empty in his heart, and there was no particularly obvious psychological burden. That Meng Xiao was the one who first had ill intentions towards him. He had never shown mercy to such people in the past, and this time was no exception.
He wasn’t afraid of Meng Xiao, but he was a little afraid of the Meng family’s second house behind Meng Xiao. They shouldn’t fight with him regarding winning or losing.
Still, he was quite happy when Yan Sui’s call came.
“Yan Sui,” he spoke in a low voice as he lay down. He grabbed a pillow and wrapped it in his arms. Just enough to rest the hand that was holding the mobile phone on it.
“Where are you?” Yan Sui asked directly. He wanted to ensure Meng Ting’s safety first.
“I’m in my room, lying on the bed.” Meng Ting answered truthfully.
After another few moments of silence, Meng Ting spoke again. He had decided to treat Yan Sui with sincerity, so he wouldn’t hide this matter.
“Yan Sui, I got into another fight just now.”
“What’s going on?” Yan Sui’s brows furrowed and his voice went cold. Zhong Ming didn’t mention anything about Meng Ting being involved in a fight.
Meng Ting then recounted the matter of them changing course to pick up Meng Xiao and repeated what Meng Xiao and Meng Qi had said.
“I don’t quite understand, but Meng Xiao is not good. He wanted to harm me, so I beat him.”
Meng Ting has suffered too much malice since he was a child, making him particularly sensitive to this kind of emotion. Many times, he would choose violence to solve the problem. But later, he gradually learned that violence sometimes could not solve problems and would also bring trouble to himself, so he learned to endure.
But this kind of forbearance also has a bottom line. It used to be his food and his personal safety, but now it also includes his marriage to Yan Sui. Furthermore, Meng Xiao not only wanted to scratch his face but also clearly coveted Yan Sui, so he was not going to endure it any longer.
“It’s just to make him hurt for a few days. I know, can’t kill people.”
Killing someone demands a life in return. He only has one life, and he wants to live it for himself, not for others, especially not for those he despises.
Yan Sui was rarely silent. He sensed some very subtle meanings in Meng Ting’s words. For him to say this means that he had been forced to have murderous thoughts before, and finally suppressed it in the end.
A kind of annoyance of not knowing what to do for Meng Ting spread from the depths of Yan Sui’s heart.
He should have reprimanded or advised Meng Ting for his actions, but in the end, he didn’t say anything, didn’t ask anything. He treated it the same way he treated the scars on his hands. Whatever he wanted to know, he would find out on his own, and he didn’t need Meng Ting to reopen old wounds to let him know.
Meng Ting has never looked at the right person in his two lives. The only person he can clearly see is himself. He knows that he is abnormal. No matter how hard he tried to be normal, he knew clearly that he was just pretending for others to see. He is still abnormal inside, always has been.
“Meng Ting…” Yan Sui finally spoke again.
“Um?” Meng Ting responded softly, with a bit of anxiety and confusion in his voice. He has always been so stupid, and now he has exposed his increasingly serious problems to Yan Sui one after another. He will definitely be disliked.
“I will watch over you from now on.” Meng Ting is still young, and if someone is watching, he can help him bring some things back under control.
Meng Ting, who had never had any memory of crying, had his eyes reddened the moment Yan Sui finished speaking.
“Yan Sui…thank you.”
Regardless of whether Yan Sui would treat him well in the future, he would do everything he could to repay him just for saying these words to him.
After saying this, even Yan Sui himself breathed a sigh of relief.
Although he still doesn’t know some of Meng Ting’s past events that have been deliberately hidden, he can probably guess some of them. He originally planned to take responsibility for his wife, but now that it is Meng Ting who has the position as his wife, he is willing to be more responsible.
This sentence, this decision, is just what he was willing to do.
“Go to sleep,” Yan Sui lowered his voice again as if trying to coax him to sleep, “Good night.”
Meng Ting also lowered his voice, “Good night.”
After waiting for a while, no one on either side hung up the phone. Yan Sui could only speak again, “You hang up first.”
“Okay,” Meng Ting reluctantly agreed, then took the phone away from his ear and pressed the hang-up button.
Originally, he probably wouldn’t be able to sleep tonight. But after answering Yan Sui’s call, his heart calmed down again, his eyelids gradually became heavy, and Meng Ting fell asleep soon after.
Before falling asleep, he was still thinking that he also had someone watching over him, which was really good, just as good as marrying Yan Sui.
The author has something to say:
Xiao Tingzi is very well-behaved, but not easy to bully~
Thank you for all the mines and nutrient solutions, dear~~~
Poor MT, he suffered a lot since childhood, that’s why he developed such a ruthless mindset. If he wasn’t ruthless, other would take advantage of him all the time.
List of Idiom in Chapter 015
花言巧語 (huā yán qiǎo yǔ): lit. flowery words, clever speech; graceful words, flowery speech (idiom); elegant but insincere words; sweet but insincere (usually flattering) speech; slick talk; dishonest rhetoric; cheating wheedling; sweet/honeyed words; blandishments; luring speech; originally refers to words or sentences that are extravagant and decorated with empty content. Later, it mostly refers to false and beautiful words used to deceive people.輕而易舉 (qīng ér yì jǔ): (of doing something) easy; without much effort; with no difficulty; be as easy as rolling off a log; be as easy as ABC; with little/slight effort; without the slightest difficulty.
來龍去脈 (lái lóng qù mài): the rise and fall of the terrain (idiom); (fig.) the whole sequence of events; causes and effects; (figurative) origin and development; the entire process; ins and outs; In fengshui terminology, 龍脈 (lóng mài) refers to a stretch of rolling hills, the start and end points of which are termed 來龍 (lái lóng) and 去脈 (qù mài) respectively.
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