Ye Zhou learned about Cheng Ran’s escape from Yu Qiuze.
Why was Yu Qiuze involved again? Well, that’s related to what happened after Cheng Ran ran away. He fled without a sound or any warning, but the impact of his escape was terrifying, nearly driving Yu Qiuze and Jiang Yu crazy.
The reason was simple. When Cheng Ran left, he was not alone. He also took all of Jiang Yu’s belongings with him.
Recently, Cheng Ran had been very stable. Even if Jiang Yu and Yu Qiuze were ambiguous with each other, he pretended not to see it. He even thoughtfully prepared condoms for Jiang Yu, always thinking of him—a perfect lover who embodied the twenty-four filial pieties1二十四孝 (Èr shí sì Xiào) – the Twenty-four Filial Exemplars, classic Confucian text on filial piety from Yuan dynasty..
So good that Jiang Yu felt a bit embarrassed. Over the years, although they called it a sponsorship, in reality, they were not much different from an ordinary couple. Although Jiang Yu had a white moonlight in his heart, after all, they spent day and night together. It was impossible to say he had no feelings for Cheng Ran at all.
Initially, he planned to have a good life with Cheng Ran. If Yu Qiuze had not suddenly returned to China and clashed with Cheng Ran, their relationship would not have directly dropped to freezing point.
Even more coincidentally, they even had the same blood type. Jiang Yu spent every day in agony. Yu Qiuze’s health was poor, and his heart problem was becoming more severe. But this was the heart, not something else. Asking for Cheng Ran’s heart was equivalent to asking for his life.
After all, he was a lover who had been with him for so many years, not only taking care of his daily life but also helping him handle company matters. Even if Jiang Yu had no conscience, he couldn’t bring himself to tell Cheng Ran to give his heart to Yu Qiuze.
But what could he do? Since the last time Yu Qiuze fought with Cheng Ran, his health had deteriorated day by day. Even though he was finally discharged from the hospital, they had to keep a family doctor at home.
On one side was his white moonlight, whose body was growing weaker by the day. On the other side was his gentle and obedient substitute lover, whom he spent day and night with. Jiang Yu was so worried that he was going bald.
A few weeks ago, when “Battle City 2” was at its busiest, Yu Qiuze was hospitalized again due to a cold. He was unconscious for seven days, and the hospital issued three critical condition notices.
If a suitable heart source couldn’t be found for surgery, his life could be in danger at any time. If the situation continued to worsen, he might not survive the year.
This news hit Jiang Yu hard. Since that day, Jiang Yu had started treating Cheng Ran very well. If this were the old Cheng Ran, he might have thought Jiang Yu truly loved him and would have given his all for him.
But the current Cheng Ran had long been awakened by Ye Zhou’s phone call. He was not a fool. Why would Jiang Yu suddenly be so good to him? Did he really think Cheng Ran could not see what he wanted? Was not it just to use his heart to save Yu Qiuze’s life?
Cheng Ran immediately put on a dramatic performance, utilizing his skills to convey a heartbreaking and utterly devastated message to Jiang Yu, officially ending their relationship.
If he wanted a heart to save Yu Qiuze, fine, but he had to pay for it.
Cheng Ran asked Jiang Yu for 50 million yuan as the cost of a heart transplant. This amount was neither more nor less than the sum Jiang Yu had raised by selling his belongings for “Battle City 2” but had not yet invested in the crew.
At that time, Jiang Yu thought Cheng Ran had gone crazy. That money was to be used for filming the movie and would be needed next month. If he gave the money to Cheng Ran now, would the movie even be made?
But Cheng Ran didn’t care about all that. He stubbornly stuck to the 50 million and would not budge. He even hinted to Jiang Yu that he was preparing to go abroad and said that once he left, he would never return.
Jiang Yu wavered for about three days before finally coming to Cheng Ran with the card on the fourth day because Yu Qiuze’s condition had become so severe that surgery was necessary. He had no time to hesitate anymore.
In addition, Jiang Yu agreed to this matter with ulterior motives. Although he gave the 50 million to Cheng Ran, how long could Cheng Ran last after the heart transplant?
After the heart surgery, Cheng Ran’s body would inevitably have major problems. It was uncertain whether he could survive2He definitely would not survive because he would not have a heart. Unless they replace it, or maybe they are just exchanging hearts. I may be wrong but Google said hearts can only be donated by people after brain death or circulatory death. “Once the heart has been removed for transplantation, the donor cannot survive, as the heart is essential for life.”. During the years they were together, Jiang Yu was very familiar with Cheng Ran’s family situation. He had a poor relationship with his family and definitely couldn’t send the money home.
After all, he and Cheng Ran had a deep emotional connection over the years. As long as he waited until after the surgery, when Cheng Ran was weak, and took care of him and coaxed him, would not the money go from the left hand to the right hand and back into his own pocket?
The 50 million was just a temporary loan. He was confident he could return the money by mid-next month.
Jiang Yu admitted that what he was doing was despicable, but at this point, it was his only option. What else could he do?
Jiang Yu’s plan was quite good. He even told Yu Qiuze about it after his health improved. The two of them looked at each other with tears in their eyes, each with their own calculations.
Yu Qiuze thought that once he had a healthy heart and received his share of the “Battle City 2” box office, he would kick Jiang Yu, that lunatic, to the curb and start enjoying a great life.
Jiang Yu thought that once Yu Qiuze’s health recovered, he would take the money back from Cheng Ran and reinvest it in the movie. All that would be left was to wait for the movie’s release and count the money until his hands cramped.
But what neither of them expected was that on the second day after receiving the money, Cheng Ran disappeared without a trace. Along with him, the 50 million and all the valuables in the house also vanished.
Yu Qiuze was stunned, and Jiang Yu was also dumbfounded.
Jiang Yu frantically tried to find Cheng Ran. However, Cheng Ran had been planning his escape for a long time. He had checked everything Jiang Yu could possibly think of. It would be a miracle if they could find him.
When Jiang Yu was in despair, Yu Qiuze’s situation was not much better. This blow was even greater for him than for Jiang Yu. What Jiang Yu lost might have been just money, but with Cheng Ran’s escape, Yu Qiuze lost his life!
If he had not held hope from the beginning, he might not be so desperate now. But that bastard Jiang Yu had to paint a beautiful blueprint of the future in front of him. Now that hope had turned into a bubble, it would be difficult for anyone to accept it in such a short time.
Moreover, Yu Qiuze’s heart was already in poor condition. On the day he learned of Cheng Ran’s disappearance, he fainted three times in one day.
With such a severe heart disease, an ordinary person might not have been able to hold on for long. But this was the world of the book, and Yu Qiuze was, after all, the white moonlight of Jiang Yu, the protagonist gong. Before he could complete his own storyline, even though it seemed like he could die at any moment, he still tenaciously survived one critical illness after another.
This time was no exception. Not only did Yu Qiuze survive, but he even secretly ran out of the hospital and squatted at the entrance of the Jiang family’s house, waiting for Jiang Tingyuan!
Ye Zhou looked at the weeping white moonlight Yu Qiuze. Although he felt that Yu Qiuze was truly miserable now, for some reason, he inexplicably found the scene somewhat funny.
“Ah Yuan, I have never asked you for anything in my life, but this time, I beg you to help me. Help me find Cheng Ran. This is really important to me…”
As Yu Qiuze said this, having been in tears for a long time, he unconsciously blew a snot bubble.
Ye Zhou couldn’t help but snicker. “Pfft.”
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