Chapter 33 (2/2)

“With your personality, even if you were in shi+ Weichong's position, you would si involved in all the drama” Lian Jun closed the file, picked up a pen and poked shi+ Jin's forehead, then moved his wheelchair fro roohtened He approached Lian Jun to courteously help push his wheelchair and asked happily, “Jun-shao, you're not angry with me anymore?”

Lian Jun did not refuse his help He folded his hands on his abdory”

“You were obviously angry” shi+ Jin enthusiastically pushed the wheelchair forward and cajoled with a zeal, “Now that you aren't angry, you will eat ry, ere you forcing himself to not eat?”

Expressionless, Lian Jun uttered coldly, “I couldn't bear looking at you Your foolish appearance while eating affected nashed his teeth but had to adnified, so he conceded the point for the sake of the general interest: “Fine, froantly”

Lian Jun turned his head slightly and ignored him However, that day, he ate half a bowl of rice more and drank a few mouthfuls of soup

shi+ Jin's face radiated with joy and pride He watched Lian Jun with an expression of an aged father gratified his disobedient child finally behaved himself

A few days later, Xu Tianhua, for, was tricked by the police into returning to China He was secretly arrested at the airport and incarcerated in a rooations of ordering shi+ Jin's kidnapping and death, Xu Tianhua dug his heels in and refused to ad However, as if a dam had broken, Xu Chuan abandoned his previous silence and started to speak He knew a large a information about Xu Tianhua's actions and revealed it all—fro to the evil deeds committed outside He also provided the account nu case

Xu Tianhua lost it After being betrayed, he decided he ed for a sheep as for a lao doith hirui's secrets to his tore into each other, both were convicted and received a pair of “silver bracelets” With the nuainst them, they were expected to spend the rest of their lives in prison

When shi+ Jin got the confessions from Xu Tianhua and Xu Chuan, hisin order to deceive him and the person behind him was not Xu Tianhua, but someone else Unexpectedly, not only were the two an ress bar decrease directly to 600 after Xu Tianhua's arrest, not knohat to say

Judging froress bar, Xu Chuan and Xu Tianhua inal ‘shi+ Jin' and they took steps to actively implement their plans However, they didn't appear to be the h the bar had fallen to the safety line, it was hardly close to e and the car accident weren't the sa over the ress bar He raised a hand to rub his forehead “It seems plausible that most of the fluctuations in my bar should be due to Xu Tianhua and Xu Chuan For example, the rise when I firstin B City was because according to Xu Chuan's confession, Xu Tianhua sent people to watch shi+ Weichong's everyforced out of Ruixing lying down He was trying to discover , so when shi+ Weichong found et, Xu Tianhua also had a lot of influence in B City…”

Xiao Si was doing his best to analyze too:

“So, it could be deter to do with the car accident because he had no reed with Xiao Si's hypothesis, then thuain The more he exarasp any clue “It wasn't shi+ Weichong, it wasn't Xu Tianhua either, so who the hell was the culprit behind the car accident? Was so in troubled waters?”

Xiao Si pondered so hard it al

shi+ Jin let out a deep sigh and ehts drift aiive up for now He got up, put away the confessions, then left the roo to accompany Lian Jun for a , the club finally gained a bit of the festive atoods and orna purchased; Fú characters could be seen hanging here and there, and the du table Fried du soup—shi+ Jin loved eating all kinds of du onto Lian Jun's plate, he found a topic to talk about: “How is Chen Qing's situation? Was there any progress?”

After deciding to take the conservative approach to saving Chen Qing, Lian Jun kept quiet and bid his ti the first assassination attempt, Black Rose's boss would definitely find an opportunity to try again

Even though half a month had passed, there was no follow-up news about Chen Qing Fortunately, his two children were still safe and sound, which let the as a throay chess piece yet

Lian Jun eyed the plu on his plate Eventually, he picked up his chopsticks again and ate it Dabbing his mouth with a napkin, he said, “The leader of Black Rose is not a rashsure the last failed attempt didn't arouse my suspicion He will act sooner or later, we simply have to wait”

shi+ Jin nodded his understanding, then requested cautiously, “Can you takeinvites you out?”

Lian Jun glanced at him and shook his head without any hesitation “No Next time we meet, it won't be a si's rescue It's highly likely ill end up in a firefight with Black Rose You lack practical experience, I can't take you with ive up “I can hide, I won't get in your way”

“There's no need to bring you You're going to stay in the club” Lian Jun's tone brooked no argument

shi+ Jin still wanted to speak Lian Jun irabbed a piece of honeydew er man's lance

Crunch, crunch

shi+ Jin shut up to munch on theslices of , “Hey, this melon is quite sweet…”

Xiao Si: <…>

Two days later, shi+ Weichong began to call shi+ Jin every day to ask hi it over, shi+ Jin declined shi+ Weichong's invitation to take hi he wanted to stay in the club with Lian Jun

shi+ Weichong was angry enough he came over

shi+ Jin remained unmoved despite his brother's face-to-face exhortation He explained reasonably, “My being who I am, how can I accompany you home for the New Year? In the past few years, father forced you to go abroad and spend the New Year with us You never celebrated with your mom and her fao with you, hoould she feel? I won't go unless you breakwas at a loss for words He really wanted to acco to abandon shi+ Jin He still had relatives to spend the New Year with, but both of his younger brother's parents were dead, leaving hi, shi+ Jin's voice softened and he ad Brother, I know you're worried about ht I have a lot of people to accompany me, I won't be alone You should take care of your faive rinned at his brother, looking nonchalant

The broader he s's frown Finally, he couldn't help but reach and pinch the teenager's cheeks “Don't set about your red envelope, so take care of your health I'll come to visit you later”

“Oh, don't worry aboutFestival if you don't put on a few pounds,” shi+ Jin said, a little unintelligibly because his cheeks were pulled He dragged shi+ Weichong's hands away, then gave hi Brother,patted hi inwardly

In the next few days, shi+ Jin receivedLike shi+ Weichong, Xiang Aoting wanted to invite shi+ Jin to celebrate the New Year together, but shi+ Jin refused hie with a ti part in this station's live broadcast of the New Year's Gala and shi+ Jin could watch it on TV

shi+ Jin cheerfully texted back: [Sure, I'll set an alar's reply was brief: [Scram]

shi+ Jin threw hi the phone It was too early to be happy: he hadn't gotten any phone calls fro for a s

In the novel, the second brother Fei Yujing and the fifth brother Li Jiuzheng's attitude towards the original ‘shi+ Jin' was interesting

Fei Yujing was an extreh he was flying all over the world, he would try to find ti hi souvenirs and photos, and also sent hireatly satisfied the original ‘shi+ Jin's' hidden desire to travel and have adventures around the world He played the role of a good brother as busy, but still concerned about his youngest sibling”

After shi+ Xingrui's death, though, Fei Yujing quickly disappeared fro his calls, didn't return his text es, and didn't visit hiinal ‘shi+ Jin's' accident, but he kept away from him Even when ‘shi+ Jin' took the initiative to talk with hiiven the cold shoulder The expression in Fei Yujing's eyes was like watching a stranger, and a stranger he rather disliked at that

He had never displayed either a strong love or hatred for the original ‘shi+ Jin' When he played a good brother and showed care, it was always very reserved, and later, he quickly distanced himself While he seemed not to care about ‘shi+ Jin' one way or another, he occasionally showed the “if only this person had never existed” attitude

In his eyes, ‘shi+ Jin' was probably like an ink dot put in a wrong place on the docu he wanted to erase Unfortunately, this ink dot couldn't be erased, so he tried to ignore it as best as he could

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Translator's Notes: “Red envelopes” [红包, hóng bāo] – given to fa Lunar New Year Also called red packets or pockets, they include money, which is supposed to help transfer fortune froiven between bosses and employees, or between co-workers ( )“May you have peace year after year” [岁岁平安, suì suì píng ān] – One of the traditional New Year's greetings