Chapter 3 (2/2)

Xie Yu got in the car ”Mo

Xie Yu followed up: ”Actually, you didn't need to coe—fro A real villain wouldn't keep blathering on proudly about how he'd 'been to jail;' otten drunk and only dared to go over to Guang Mao when it was teh to call the police hi in the air When the car had traveled some distance, Gu Xuelan said: ”You still remember that I'm your mom? What did you come all the way out here for? Even the police said you weren't the one who beat hih, wasn't it”

Xie Yu leaned back in the seat and said in an indifferent tone: ”It was me who beat hihtened its grip on the plush seat cover, her knuckles showing After a pause, she said harshly, ”Yes, you e then stop doing these ehed and interceded: ”Second youngabout you the whole ti had happened to you”

Xie Yu wanted to say, don't callfa master

Every tihly unco outfit that wrapped around his neck so he couldn't breathe

Gu Xuelan caled the subject ”I found several tutors for you Starting too anywhere, just stay at horades are like”

Xie Yu said: ”No need My grades are just like that Don't waste your tio overseas and you didn't want to You stayed in the country, but now look at what you do all day Just like a pile of wet mud that can't even be used to patch up a wall Tellto do?!”

The car slowly entered the underground garage This was a private bungalow surrounded by green hills and blue water It had rained several days ago and the humidity hadn't cleared Wet air rushed toward his face

Xie Yu opened the car door and got out, replying, ”My own matters—I knohat I'll do about them”

Gu Xuelan was infuriated beyond endurance by his attitude The driver coaxed, ”He's in his rebellious phase He's a boy, it's inevitable Edges sharp enough to cut My boy was like that before, too After it's over, it gets better He'll come around”

Gu Xuelan sat in the car She rubbed her te, Boss Xie You said you'd come to see me and you went to the police station instead I'm really so damn touched

——Are you out of the station yet? Do you need the guys to coe was froes as he entered the house

He was busy changing and didn't have the time to type, so he just called instead

At this ti out at the barbecue stall

As expected, when the call connected it wasn't Lei-zi's voice that first reached his ear but an unknown voice saying, ”Another ten sticks of laht up, table three, ten sticks of lamb”

Lei-zi pulled off his apron, bent at the waist, and slipped out the back door ”Boss Xie, are you all right? Are you hoet into Your teo”

Xie Yu had just taken off his t-shi+rt and his upper body was bare ”What could have happened to e I'e: big brother Dog He forgot Hu-ge (Big bro Tiger)'s naht about it for a bit and cae?”

Xie Yu: ”Sa difference”

Lei-zi kept asking: ”You were always like that, couldn't remember people's names Do you still re with you?”

”Good that you re that with a personality like yours, you otten”

Lei-zi found a sarette fro, ”Aunt Mei doesn't need my protection More like she protects me At most I'm the little prince of a barbecue stall She's the one with the big reputation, the eldest sister of Black Water Street”

Xie Yu sensed there was so between the lines ”What?”

”You left early so you didn't see Aunt Mei found so to prison and killing soht by the owner of the house on the spot… I think he won't be able to go on 'doing business' in Black Water Street Hoill the protection fees be nearly as good now?”

Xie Yu put his phone on his bed and prepared to change his pants

Lei-zi kept talking Maybe because it was lonely s about it now, it was very good when the few of us were together But I' so well in A City A branch of the company has even reached B City Ever since your mom took you with her when she married into the family… you don't have to worry about food or the clothes on your back You don't have to keep running away from debt collectors like before, either”

Xie Yu didn't continue to take off his pants anyfro He wasn't sure if he was talking to Lei-zi or himself: ”Is that so”

It was noisy on Lei-zi's end and he didn't hear what Xie Yu said at all He sucked in a finalyou any longer Table three is waiting and, damn it, they dared to smash the table Careful I don't scoop out the ashes and rub them on his face…”

The call cut off

Xie Yu lay on his bed in a daze

A et up and go to shohen he found a hard little square in his trouser pocket When he pulled it out he saas a flyer—the flirtatious porn ad he hadn't throay earlier

Unexpectedly, the li Tournament

Xie Yu raised an eyebrow This bait-and-switch tactic was quite novel

He turned the flyer over

On the other side ritten: Here are the newest andarena massacres The questions encoy, chely wrote these questions An addictive experience you'll never expect No such thing as most difficult Only -awaited Question King?

Mysterious, isn't it! Thrilling, isn't it! Big brother~ ah~ come~

Xie Yu: ……

Translation notes:

[1] 'what street are you fro are you with

[2] ‘socialism with Chinese characteristics': Chinese communism