Chapter 5 (1/2)

Fake Slackers

Translator: Jury

Editor: Noant yet polite

Xie Yu had always suffered fro asleep, he oken by the sound of so downstairs

It was the crisp and earsplitting sound of cera the sound of shattering were fary shouts The person's tone held the bone-deep pride of soh position for et out—pack up and get out! Remove your dirty hands! Who allowed you to touch me? You think you're fit to—”

Xie Yu removed his eye mask but did not open his eyes; his te master, I've 's voice, deferential ”You've drunk tooelse being thrown, then the person's shouting becaet lost! All you lower-class people, do you not understand huot This house doesn't have a place for ht? Instead, certain people who aren't surnahly of themselves”

Xie Yu tossed and turned on the bed Finally, he sat up in frustration and cursed: ”fuck”

Three years

It had been three years but this ugly scene was just the sao when Gu XuelanGuofei, the news had spread quickly throughout the city Not only Gu Xuelan, but Xie Yu, too, was subjected to all kinds of nasty speculation

The rumors spread as if they were truth

Countless onlookers, who had just co out of hand, went ahead and wrote countless 'biographies' of his life Thetheitimate kid'

Xie Yu had personally experiencedwhere his next meal would come from, and had not even been able to pay his school fees for ht have believed those endless ugly stories

No matter which of the stories about thisGuofei's biological son, couldn't accept it He didn't care what the truth was, either

He only knew the facts laid out in front of his eyes: after losing hishe owned, including the hts

After a long tirew quiet downstairs For better or worse, the eldest younghelped back to his rooainst the headboard and listened to the sound of thehs as they passed by his own door, and their footsteps as they walked back downstairs

Xie Yu's eyes were open; he was thinking

Out of nowhere he felt thirsty

It was as if a ball of fire was burning upwards through his internal organs until it reached his throat

Gu Xuelan sat on the sofa in the living roooept the floor When she saw Xie Yu cohtly, as if she was very tired ”You're downstairs? Did ake you?”

Xie Yu had guessed she would be here He wanted to say, 'How many times have I told you? If he wants to throw a fit, let hi her like this, he forced the words back down his throat and said in a lukewarm voice, ”Happy now?”

Gu Xuelan: ”…His mother's death anniversary is in two days”

Xie Yu: ”So you stood there for an hour and let hi

Xie Yu's voice held no erew thornier with each sentence: ”His mom—did you kill her? His dad—did you stealnatch him? If he wants to yell so much, let him yell But you even went so far as to help hi”

By this tih as she had been in the car before She sighed lightly ”Don't say that”

Xie Yu replied, ”No one owes hi Doesn't he realize that?”

Xie Yu went to the kitchen and poured two cups ofhis best to keep his voice ao and rest It's late”

”I'll pretend I didn't hear any of this tonight Next time, if you stand there and let him shout at you, I'll beat him until he can't speak”

”I'm a person of my word”

Gu Xuelan took the cup

Gu Xuelan was stunned for ain front of her—she hadn't realized he had gotten so tall

The youth took after her in looks His appearance shouldfierce, cold, and sharp had at some point overtaken his features He looked like soet close to, and even she, his er

Her eyes finally landed on Xie Yu's hair, where so up from sleep The strands were still so soft, just like when he was young

She momentarily wasn't sure what to say By the tione upstairs

Xie Yu had always had trouble sleeping, and evensoundly before; now that he had been awakened, he couldn't go back to sleep no ht outside theand suddenly wanted to knohat time it was

He had intended only to look at the tiot hold of his phone all drowsiness completely vanished

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