Chapter 4 (1/2)

Gu Jing carried a bag of snacks and beers in her right hand and she swung a key ring around her left index finger She hu’s home

Zhen Lang’s ho, his hoe of cruhbourhood didn’t have stray cats screech ht and there were no rowdy fish ed profanities like roosters crudely crowing at dogs The s’s horeenery, fresh air and aht

Gu Jing purposely circled around the high-rise building to check if Zhen Lang’s car was parked in the tenants’ parking bay She was happy she didn’t see his car and she co

In the elevator Gu Jing was still ’s dad’s business took off like a kite elevated by the wind, which enty years later Zhen Lang lived in a luxurious neighbourhood and Gu Jing lived in a poor neighbourhood

But even if Gu Jing was beaten to death, she wouldn’t ad in the saious city college Unfortunately when she and Zhen Lang came home to visit from the city, they co in the crowded city and Zhen Lang’s dad i Zhen Lang’s dad said he bought the apartether and take care of each other to give their parents a peace of mind

The nulass elevator door quickly increased, Gu Jing exhaled deeply and she focused her attentions on the

Gu Jing had known Zhen Lang for many years, and between them they never had a decent word to say about each other Why did their parents think they could take care of each other? Weren’t their parents scared they’d live together for less than three days, Zhen Lang’s lungs would explode fro’s face until it was flat as a pancake?

Gu Jing and Zhen Lang’s lives were intertwined for more than twenty years yet their parents didn’t see the real nature of their relationshi+p Didn’t their parents feel since they were adults and even if their parents didn’t think they hated each other, an unrelated and unether was a concern?

Gu Jing’s carefree childhood years, her aard adolescent years and her early spring young adult years flew by and cee of the same monster who shadowed her

Gu Jing felt she only kissed Zhen Lang once and held him a little So she didn’t understand why it was necessary for Zhen Lang to shadow her until death

Gu Jing hated Zhen Lang, looked down on him and resented him Whenever she was in a bad ’s face and she’d want to run to hi to feel better But she didn’t dare vent on Zhen Lang in front of her parents and his parents

Gu Jing would shudder and feel a cold sensation on her nape if she just thought about the past how her hbouring families

But what held back Gu Jing the ’s mum was born with a hereditary heart condition and when Zhen Lang’sshe nearly lost her life Fro’s ’s ’s career path was chosen by the head of the Zhen household for Zhen Lang to help treat his mum’s heart condition

Gu Jing was ’s mum’s heart condition, she’d rather her mum beat her bottom until it ballooned like a red rose than dare to provoke Zhen Lang’s mum

Zhen Lang’sh, their lives were spared but if they evoked his er her parents and his dad would join forces to punish therounded for a month, their pocket money was deducted and all their recreational activities were cancelled

Gu Jing and Zhen Lang’s tragic childhood experiences meant even if they couldn’t coexist under the same sky, they didn’t dare to show it in front of her parents and his parents Neither of them could tolerate each other’s company and they wanted to be far away from each other But neither of the his ether in an undesirable situation

Gu Jing fiddled for the house key on her key chain, which she hadn’t used for a long ti’s shi+ny door and she didn’t hesitate to lift her leg and kick the shi+ny door Afterward a shoe print marred the shi+ny door

Gu Jing retrieved her leg and she walked through the door Inside Zhen Lang’s ho was clean She tossed her shoes and she walked barefoot into the kitchen She opened the fridge and as she expected it was full of food and drinks, except her beloved beers and junk food

Gu Jing sighed and unpacked her bag of beers and junk food into the fridge She’d known Zhen Lang for many years so she knew his personality too well He restricted himself, he was stern, he didn’t touch junk food, he didn’t drink, he didn’t se in the slightest act of dishonesty and in her eyes living like hiful life

Gu Jing walked to her rooer on a table and she was satisfied there wasn’t a speck of dust She felt it orth her insistence on paying half of his cleaner’s fee to maintain her room in a clean condition to await her occasional visits

Gu Jing opened drahich stored her clothes then she picked up so it around her room to make her room look like it was lived in She was satisfied about the new condition of her roorabbed a clean set of clothes and she walked to the bathroom to take a shower

Zhen Lang sat opposite his good friend at a quiet cafe and they chatted comfortably

When Zhen Lang glanced at the clock on the cafe wall it was half past eight in the evening and he got a feeling the barrel of dynamite arrived at his ho hands wouldn’t turn into a horrific du cae into his house with dirty shoes on and walk straight to the bathroohtly and he wondered whether he should call a cleaner to tidy his house

Lin Tu Shen looked at Zhen Lang who held a cup of coffee in his hand and Zhen Lang was shtly, Lin Tu Shen shi+vered and shook his head ‘What are you thinking about? If you keep s in front of me, it’ll make people misunderstand’

Zhen Lang put his cup of coffee onto the table ‘It’s not the first day or the second day people have misunderstood us Till this day we’re still ranked first as the best pair of boy lovers in our old school Do you want to recreate the same scene from that year?’