Chapter 165: Spanking (1/2)

Mr. Lu was an elegant and refined man, but he had a particularly crass friend named Baldy. Thus, his understanding of relationships and romance were discussed in conversations like, “Are you doing it today?” “Yes!” “You want to do her, don’t you?” “Yes!”

Although Lu Chenzhou of course knew how to be tactful, he felt that being vulgar sounded better, perhaps because of Baldy’s “education.”

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This side of Lu Chenzhou really scared Lu Chenming silly.

He looked at his older brother, and his entire face and neck area turned a deep shade of red. However, he didn’t dare to admonish his brother for being too crass. In the end, after quite a while, all he said was, “Oh.”

After Lu Chenzhou forcefully transmitted his incorrect understanding of love and relationships to his younger brother, Lu Chenzhou even thought that he had finally enlightened him. He felt somewhat gratified and a little proud. And when he returned home to Cheng Xi that night, he immediately told her, “Chenming has seen the truth.”

Cheng Xi was shocked. “Really?” She had assumed that for someone as introverted and stubborn as Lu Chenming, it would be very difficult to change his way of thinking. Thus, she asked, full of genuine interest, “You convinced him? How did you do it?”

“Yes.” Lu Chenzhou seemed to be trying to act modestly. “He’s still young, so he doesn’t know what love really is.”

……The words “doesn’t know what love really is” didn’t seem like they should be coming from Lu Chenzhou’s mouth, and it made Cheng Xi feel discombobulated. Cheng Xi didn’t fully trust Lu Chenzhou’s appraisal, but she nonetheless smiled and said, “Actually, I think that you’re right. He’s too introverted, so if you have the time, you should find some more opportunities for him to temper himself on.”

Cheng Xi’s choice of words was already very neutral: Lu Chenming wasn’t just introverted; at this point, he was most likely already starting to develop a social impediment. If his environment didn’t quickly change for the better, his future life and emotional development would be greatly impaired.

In Cheng Xi’s opinion, the best course of action for Lu Chenming would be to immediately undergo therapy. However, because of Lu Chenzhou’s instinctive dislike for doctors and hospitals, she didn’t explicitly say this. Perhaps she’d have a chance to mention it to some other members of the Lu family in the future.

But Lu Chenzhou actually understood her insinuation, and he asked back, “Are you sure that it’ll be effective?”

“Didn’t you say that he’s still young? If so, then his personality is still forming. Also, in my opinion, it’s always better to do something than nothing.

Lu Chenzhou thought her words over for a little and then nodded. The next day, he called Lu Chenming over again, this time throwing him into a job as a basic salesperson for Donglai Corporation. Since Lu Chenzhou knew that his younger brother was still in school, he didn’t assign him much work, and even gave him some choices. “You can work wherever you want—hotels, pharmaceuticals, supermarkets, or something else. I don’t care where, but the main point is that you have to go out and help the team with sales on the weekends. Treat it like an internship or something.”

Lu chenming’s mouth made a wide round “O,” and it seemed like he was about to burst out into tears. “Brother~~”

But his brother remained hard-hearted, merely glancing at him coldly. “Yes?”

And Lu Chenming had nothing else he could say.

When he returned to school, he felt completely disheartened; he was studying applied mathematics, and even if he wasn’t a nouveau riche, he had the credentials to become a future engineer. What was his brother thinking, forcing him to enter sales?

He didn’t even have any real life friends to complain to, so he tapped around on his phone, aimlessly trying to find someone to talk to. And, almost as he thought that he wouldn’t, he finally did. Yes, it was actually “‘Sweetheart’s’ Brother, Cheng Yang.”

Lu Chenming didn’t dare directly call Cheng Yang, so he instead texted him: Brother, I’m about to die……

When Cheng Yang received this message, he was busy and didn’t see it. However, when he did, he was so shocked that his heart skipped a beat. Poor Cheng Yang was surrounded with people who rarely ever exaggerated; when they said that they were about to die, they meant it. For example, his grandmother, on the day that she had killed herself, had called her grandchildren on the phone and merely said, “Grandma’s going to leave now. Take good care of yourselves in the future.”

And then she really did leave, forever.

Due to this incident, the Cheng family never talked about death frivolously, not even as a joke. When Cheng Yang suddenly read this message, his horror was only exacerbated by the fact that it had been sent by someone who was suffering from mental trauma and wasn’t in a good mental state to begin with. So when Cheng Yang read the words, “about to die,” he automatically assumed that Lu Chenming was being serious.

In that moment, he disregarded everything else at hand, quickly turned his phone on, and called Lu Chenming. Crap! His phone was off! Cheng Yang’s scalp went numb, and he became so scared that he started sweating buckets. He threw down everything he was working on, ran outside, and called Cheng Xi as he did so. “Sis! Something big’s happening! Something really big! Lu Chenming sent me a text about an hour ago, saying that he was about to die! Contact his family, and tell them to contact the university!”