TL: Hua
Qin Chaoyan originally thought that the head teacher wanted to ask him about Ye Rongxu’s accident in class today.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he entered the office, he heard the other party ask him in a somewhat anxious tone, “Qin Chaoyan, how come your household registration and school registration have been transferred? You didn’t register for the college entrance examination.”
Qin Chaoyan’s mind “buzzed,” and he subconsciously said, “Impossible.”
The head teacher sighed helplessly: “It’s true. If you transferred to X province, the registration for the college entrance examination in X province has already ended, and the supplementary registration has also ended. Even if it’s not over yet, you haven’t actually studied in X province, so if you transfer at this time, you won’t be able to register.”
Qin Chaoyan’s mind was blank. After realizing the meaning of this passage, his fingers were numb, and he shook his head with difficulty: “I haven’t transferred.”
This is impossible.
But he knew in his heart that those people in the Qin family would do anything to make his life miserable. This is not the first time he failed to take the college entrance examination. In June of this year, he was locked in a warehouse on the day of the college entrance examination and was not rescued until the end of the exam three days later.
The classmates who used to study in the third year of high school with him are now in the first year of college, but he…
Qin Jingxu!
Qin Chaoyan’s pupils contracted slightly, and his face was tense and unsightly.
“Hey, go back and ask your parents what happened. The registration is almost over. See if there’s any way to solve it…”
The head teacher’s voice continued, but Qin Chaoyan could no longer hear it.
He didn’t know how he managed to get out of the office and down the school building.
In the distance, Qin Jingxu was still on the campus, whispering something to the secretary beside him.
Qin Chaoyan stood still, and after a few seconds, his face suddenly turned cold as he quickly walked over.
He stood in front of Qin Jingxu with cold eyes and asked: “Did you do it?”
Qin Jingxu was a little startled. Seeing his expression at this moment, he probably knew what he should have known. He couldn’t help but smile and wave his hand, signaling the secretary to leave first.
“What? You already know?” He looked at Qin Chaoyan’s rare expression of anger, completely composed.
Qin Chaoyan clenched his fist. The veins on his forehead were exposed, and he asked with gritted teeth: “Why?”
He had never thought of snatching anything from the other party. From childhood to adulthood, he had always avoided Qin Jingxu. But how far should he retreat before the other party stops pushing him again and again?
Qin Jingxu seemed to be in a particularly good mood after hearing this.
“Are you asking me why?” He suddenly approached, lowered his voice, and said with a malicious tone: “Because I just don’t want you to stand out, and I won’t give you any possible opportunities. You only deserve to live in the mud forever, understand?”
With that said, seeing the increasing anger in Qin Chaoyan’s eyes, he smiled deeper, with a happy light in his eyes.
Then, for some reason, he suddenly added: “By the way, do you think that with some small tricks, you can temporarily hold onto Young Master Ye’s thigh and turn things over? Do you think that with your status, Ye Rongxu will really like you? Will Ye Boxuan agree to you being with his son? Don’t even dream. You can’t take anything away, including Ye Rongxu.”
Qin Chaoyan closed his eyes, and after opening them again, he suppressed his anger and said expressionlessly: “It’s illegal to transfer the household registration without the knowledge of the person.”
“Oh, your mother is the one who transferred it. What does it have to do with me?” Qin Jingxu chuckled. “Besides, do you have the ability to cancel and transfer back? Even if you transfer back and register, will you be able to walk into the examination center smoothly? Did you forget what happened last year?”
Speaking of this, he snorted and laughed, reminding: “Be sensible, just accept your fate honestly; return to the position you should be in, like before, go to the dock to move goods; how nice is it?”
After saying that, he patted Qin Chaoyan’s shoulder condescendingly with the attitude of a winner, but the next moment he was suddenly knocked down by a punch.
Qin Chaoyan pressed him to the ground, raised his hand, and punched him again, with fierceness in his black eyes, as if he were looking at a dead person.
Qin Jingxu didn’t expect the other party to suddenly attack him. He groaned in pain and dodged with difficulty, gritting his teeth and saying, “Are you crazy? You hit someone in school; aren’t you afraid of being expelled?”
Qin Chaoyan said coldly, “I can’t pass the exam anyway.”
He threw another punch, causing Qin Jingxu to spat out a mouthful of blood, his face bruised.
The secretary standing in the distance saw the situation and hurried over to try to pull Qin Chaoyan away, but it didn’t work at all.
Qin Jingxu was almost beaten to death before a student called for a teacher, and a few people together held Qin Chaoyan and pulled him away.
Qin Chaoyan’s eyes were like those of a ferocious beast. When he was pulled away, he gave Qin Jingxu another hard kick.
Qin Jingxu groaned and fainted completely.
Qin Chaoyan’s expression was cold and stern. After being pulled apart, he took a moment to catch his breath and broke free from the person holding him. Without waiting for the head teacher, who hurried over to speak, he turned around and left the school without saying a word.
He walked with a gloomy face all the way to the hospital, to Zhang Yun’s ward.
Zhang Yun was talking to the nurse with a smile on her face.
She was obviously startled to see Qin Chaoyan suddenly walk into the ward, with a deadly cold atmosphere all around him.
The nurse saw that the two seemed to have something to say, and after explaining the precautions, she turned to leave.
Only then did Zhang Yun ask in a careful tone, “Chaoyan, what’s wrong with you?”
After saying that, she noticed that the back of his hand was stained with blood and his knuckles were purple. She seemed to have some confidence again, frowned, and accused him: “You went to fight again? How many times have I told you? Why don’t you listen? Alas, when can you be like Young Master Jingxu…”
“Why did you transfer my household registration and school registration?” Qin Chaoyan kept staring at her, and there seemed to be no breath of life in his dark and cold eyes.
Zhang Yun was stunned, and her expression was a little evasive.
“Did Qin Jingxu help you do it?” Qin Chaoyan’s voice was extremely cold. “Or, was it because he needed it, so you cooperated with him?”
Zhang Yun was still feeling guilty before, but when she heard him mention Qin Jingxu, she suddenly said, “Chaoyan, don’t talk about Young Master Jingxu like that. He’s also doing it for your own good. You can transfer to X province and fill out the application after the college entrance examination. It has a higher rate of scoring than being here…”
Qin Chaoyan suddenly laughed softly, with bitterness in his laughter: “Do you really not know, or are you pretending not to know?”
After a pause, he asked in a hoarse voice, “Mom, am I really your son?”
Zhang Yun was stunned and frowned. “What are you talking about? Of course you are my son.”
“Then why do you help Qin Jingxu with everything?” Qin Chaoyan’s tone was calm—no questioning, only pure incomprehension.
Zhang Yun was stunned for a moment and suddenly spoke cautiously: “Chaoyan, did you hear something from someone?”
After a pause, she continued: “Are you still unwilling to give up and want to compete with Young Master Jingxu? But Chaoyan, you’re born lower than him, how can you compare with him? And you said that I’m good to Young Master Jing Xu, but isn’t that because he’s kind?”
“Do you remember when you were little and he gave you good clothes to wear? At that time, he didn’t know you were his brother. Chaoyan, we should be grateful and content. Don’t try to fight or steal just because the Qin family is rich. That’s not what we should dream of…”
Qin Chaoyan looked disappointed and turned to leave the ward without waiting for her to finish.
He had heard such words more than once since he was a child. But when did he try to fight or steal? Did Zhang Yun really not know or couldn’t see it?
The other party was obviously his mother; why did she always favor Qin Jingxu? Did she feel guilty towards Qin Jingxu’s mother?
Then she shouldn’t have been with Qin Qijiang in the first place, and she shouldn’t have given birth to him. Even if she gave birth to him, why did she stay in Jiangcheng and go to the Qin family again?
Qin Chaoyan couldn’t help but feel a chill in his heart, seemingly extremely disappointed with Zhang Yun.
But when he got downstairs, he stood frozen for a moment and, for some reason, turned around and walked back to the ward.
The door of the ward was ajar, as if someone had just entered.
Qin Chaoyan paused and looked into the room through the crack in the door.
Qin Jingxu, whose face was wrapped like a mummy after his wound was bandaged, sat beside Zhang Yun’s bed.
Zhang Yun, who had always been lying on the bed and only stretched out her hand even when Qin Chaoyan came to deliver food, was standing beside the bed at this moment, raising her hand to touch the gauze on Qin Jingxu’s face, with a look of reluctance.
Her eyes at this moment were so gentle and distressed that Qin Chaoyan had never seen them before.
“Did Qin Chaoyan come just now? Did he say anything?” Qin Jingxu coughed a few times, looking annoyed, and asked coldly.
Zhang Yun said carefully: “He didn’t say anything; he just asked about the transfer of household registration and school registration.”
After speaking, she paused, looked at the wound on Qin Jingxu’s face, and said distressingly, “Jingxu…”
“Crack–” The white light of lightning flashed outside the window.
It was almost late autumn, and the sky suddenly sounded a few muffled thunders, heavy and depressing.
Qin Chaoyan listened quietly; his face became more and more ugly.
After an unknown amount of time, he turned and left without disturbing the two people in the ward.
His face was pale, and his figure was even thinner and more depressed than when he came, walking out of the hospital step by step into the sudden autumn rain.
He suddenly remembered that when he was a child, Zhang Yun wasn’t really that good to him, and it wasn’t until he grew up a bit that the other party started to care about him.
Qin Chaoyan always thought it was because the family’s economy began to improve.
At that time, Zhang Yun found a job as a nanny in a rich family. Every day when she came home, her face was full of smiles, which was an expression Qin Chaoyan had never seen on her face when he was a child.
The employer’s family was very rich. It was said that they were well-known wealthy merchants in Jiangcheng. Just a little bit of money between their fingers was enough for ordinary people to eat and drink for a year.
Zhang Yun sometimes brought back the clothes of the employer’s young son and gave them to Qin Chaoyan.
“They are all 90% new brand-name goods. Young Master Jingxu is kind-hearted. He knows that our family is poor and you don’t have any good clothes to wear, so he asked me to bring them back. You are really lucky. If it weren’t for Young Master Jingxu, you would never be able to wear such good clothes in your life. You must remember Young Master Jingxu’s kindness.”
At that time, Qin Chaoyan was only eleven or twelve years old. Looking at those high-end, beautiful clothes, it would be a lie to say that he didn’t like them. But after listening to Zhang Yun’s words, he was unwilling to wear them.
At that time, he didn’t know what self-esteem was. He only knew that he would rather wear pants with holes and T-shirts with ragged edges than wear the clothes Zhang Yun brought back.
Zhang Yun liked to tell him about the son of her employer and how excellent the young master named “Jingxu” was. At a young age, he could speak multiple languages, won some awards, and had an unmarried partner who was well-matched.
“It’s just that the young master who was matched with him is a little sick and spoiled by his family. I don’t think he is worthy of Young Master Jingxu.” Zhang Yun would say this occasionally.
Finally, she sighed: “You are all children of the same age, but you and Young Master Jing Xu are really worlds apart, like clouds and mud.”
When Qin Zhaoyan was a child, he didn’t like to hear such words, and he didn’t understand why Zhang Yun always compared him with the son of her employer. They were obviously not from the same world.
Later, he knew that Zhang Yun’s employer was Qin Qijiang, and he and Young Master Jingxu were both Qin Qijiang’s sons.
It’s just that Qin Jingxu was the real master, born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and he was an illegitimate child who couldn’t see the light of day.
From then on, he was inferior to others in every way and was repeatedly reminded by Zhang Yun that he couldn’t compete with Qin Jingxu and was not worthy of being compared with Qin Jingxu.
But when did he ever compete with Qin Jingxu?
It was Qin Jingxu who acted like a mad dog, biting him and targeting him everywhere.
He didn’t want to have such a background, so he never bothered to think about anything. He even listened to Zhang Yun from a young age and tolerated Qin Jingxu in every way.
But unexpectedly…
Thinking of the scene he saw outside the ward just now, Qin Chaoyan’s eyes showed irony.
He just wanted a chance to change the status quo, study hard, get into college, live an ordinary life, and completely leave this so-called upper-class circle.
But even so, he was not allowed. Just like Qin Jingxu said, even if he tried hard to sign up this time, what would happen? The other party has thousands of ways to crush him again, and all his efforts are just a joke in front of the other party.
He’s like a clown struggling in the mud and being easily pushed back just for the amusement of others.
What did he do wrong to be treated like this?
Qin Zhaoyan’s eyes were dead silent as he walked aimlessly in the heavy rain.
The cold rain soaked through his clothes and hit his face. It was so cold that it hurt, but he seemed to feel nothing.
He remembered again the other day when he was made to stand by the Ye family pool in the rain as punishment, and was surrounded and ridiculed. There were also those humiliating kneeling, being slapped by Qin Qijiang an unknown number of times, being locked up in a warehouse and starved to the point of unconsciousness, and missing the college entrance exam ……
Why can those people always be high above and trample on his life at will? And he deserves to be trampled on?
He is never worthy of getting up?
Qin Chaoyan suddenly stopped in the rain, his nails cutting through his palms with his clenched fists, and blood dripped down mixed with the rain.
His face was cold and pale, and in his dark eyes, the thick ink color was dense and depressing.
The phone in his pocket suddenly vibrated.
Qin Chaoyan seemed not to notice, and soon, there was another vibration.
He slowly took out his phone and tried to swipe the screen with his frozen fingers. He tried several times but failed, and the phone returned to the lockscreen.
On the screen, the message just sent by Ye Rongxu was displayed—
Troublemaker: Why haven’t you sent me any messages? Still haven’t gotten out of class?
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Troublemaker: Are you really not going to consider my offer again? There is no harm in getting engaged to me; there are only benefits.
Engagement?
Qin Chaoyan tugged at the corner of his lips and was about to turn off the phone, but suddenly remembered what Qin Jingxu said today.
“Don’t you just want to snatch Ye Rongxu from me? Want to take away everything from me?”
“Do you think that with your status…”
“Don’t dream; you can’t take anything away.”
He can’t take anything away?
If he really took something away, would it be a kind of revenge on Qin Jingxu?
As soon as this thought came up, it burned like wildfire meeting dry grass.
That’s right. Why should he keep enduring? Why should he keep enduring?
If endurance only brings endless trampling, then he might as well be the bad guy. In the eyes of those people, someone like him is never anything good to begin with.
Then he will fulfill their wish.
Qin Chaoyan’s lips lost color due to the cold, and when he reacted, he found that he had already dialed Ye Rongxu’s number.
“Hello?” The young master’s yawning voice came from the other end of the phone, lazy and delicate.
Qin Chao Yan’s bony hand squeezed the cell phone tightly in the rain, shivering slightly from the cold, his face pale.
He closed his eyes, feeling the pain of the cold rain hitting his face, and spoke softly: “Ye Rongxu…”
