Ch57 - Lin Xun (1/2)
15 minutes later, Chen Yekai, Zhou Sheng, and Yu Hao were in front of the five-star hotel’s garden lobby, with a table filled with food in front of them.
Yu Hao, “There’s so much to eat for breakfast!”
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Zhou Sheng, “It costs 168 yuan per person after all. Eat ba, don’t hold back, just treat it as a gesture of generosity at his expense.”
Yu Hao, “You still remember that…”
Chen Yekai only took a cup of coffee and looked down at his phone quietly. Yu Hao knew that he was reading Ryuusei’s letter. Finally, Chen Yekai put his phone down, rubbed his face, and finally looked a bit more energetic.
“I’m sorry.” Chen Yekai said, “For causing you guys so much trouble. It was all my fault; that was too dangerous.”
Zhou Sheng casually replied, “It was a misjudgment on our part too, can’t blame you for that.”
For Zhou Sheng, this was the most serious and potentially perilous miscalculation that he has ever made. They had not anticipated that Lin Xun would wield so much power in Chen Yekai’s dream, and certainly not to the extent that he could suppress the sun in his conscious world. In the end, they were nearly defeated by Lin Xun and barely escaped with their lives. Fortunately, the three had joined forces and together, they overcame the many obstacles that they had faced. But this incident also added a very real precedent for both of them.
“Now that I think about it.” Zhou Sheng said to Yu Hao, “My Dad’s and Mum’s dreams are nothing in comparison.”
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“Oh yeah!” Yu Hao snapped out of his reverie; compared to Chen Yekai’s Chichén Itzá, Shi Ni’s lighthouse and the Great Wall all seemed like a tutorial mode for newbies.
“There will be countless things to overcome in the future.” Chen Yekai looked out the restaurant’s window. The sunlight spilled onto the hotel’s garden, “But I’ve already been reborn. Even though I was confined within a shell, I still thought that I was the king of the infinite universe.”
Yu Hao began laughing, and Zhou Sheng said, “Think about what to do next ba? Laozi’s eligibility for the cycling race hasn’t been settled yet.”
Chen Yekai suddenly became much more invigorated. He took his phone out and said, “Leave it to me. If the two of you……need me to do anything, just let me know?”
“You don’t have to do anything.” Zhou Sheng said, “Just answer a few of my questions. From the first day we met, you’ve always helped us like it was your duty to do so. So don’t treat us like outsiders.”
“I know.” The corners of Chen Yekai’s lips curved up slightly, and he said while lost in thought, “Okay, I won’t treat you guys that way.”
Zhou Sheng signalled to Yu Hao, which meant ‘What do you want to ask? Ask your questions first?’
Yu Hao waited until the waiters had cleared their plates. He took a sip of his coffee and thought for a moment before saying, “I don’t have anything in particular that I want to ask. But I think, Ryuusei had something he wanted me to convey to you.”
Chen Yekai’s eyebrows rose slightly. Zhou Sheng said, “Since it’s something Ryuusei said, then the two of you should talk about it in private when you’re free ba.”
Chen Yekai suddenly said, “Okay. I also have something I want to explain clearly to Yu Hao.”
“Un.” Zhou Sheng answered, satisfied.
Yu Hao, “???”
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“Then, Zhou Sheng, what do you want to ask?” Chen Yekai asked.
“I’m thinking about how to express my doubts.” Zhou Sheng said, “We’ve already clarified a lot of things that happened in the past, but Kaikai, do you have anything else you need to apologise for? Aside from having your psychological state meddled with by Lin Xun.”
Yu Hao, “???”
“Yes.” Chen Yekai nodded, “Lin Xun’s psychological manipulations significantly affected me, which caused me to……make a lot of misguided decisions. Let’s start from the beginning ba, including what we had talked about……I think, that would help clear things up for you both. We’ll need to start from……let me think about it, that period when we decided to return to the country. Lin Laoshi……Lin Xun and Liang Laoshi’s marriage has always been very problematic.”
Chen Yekai first came to know Lin Xun through one of his father’s friend’s when he went to study in New Yorks; the general idea was that Lin Xun would look out for him a bit. Very quickly, this professor couple formed a favourable impression of Chen Yekai. After all, amongst the younger generation, Chen Yekai was considered quite outstanding.
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Chen Yekai also gradually came to better understand them through his interactions with Lin Xun and his wife. Lin Xun was born to a relatively poor family in China; he dated Liang Jinmin in college, and Liang Jinmin had greatly admired his talent and self-confidence. After they got married, she funded Lin Xun’s research abroad, and she left her hometown and went with him to New York. Within the local Chinese community, Lin Xun and his wife had always portrayed themselves as a loving couple.
But only Chen Yekai knew that in private, Lin Xun’s extramarital affairs were crippling their relationship, and he had many disputes with Liang Jinmin over this. Lin Xun has a really strange hobby — he loved getting involved with married women.
“He harrasses female students?” Zhou Sheng asked in disbelief.
“No.” Chen Yekai said, “The situation was worse than that.”
Lin Xun is extremely smart; he would get complaints if he harassed students. His targets for extramarital affairs were young teaching assistants, lecturers, or wives of postgraduate students in the academic circle. These young people crossed the ocean to come to New York, and after settling down, they applied to the U.S. authorities for permission to reunite with their family, then brought their wives over who were still in the country. During the period of applying for or holding a green card, Lin Xun would look for a suitable opportunity to take advantage of, and after he found a target, he would start an extramarital affair.
Yu Hao was completely dumbstruck.
“That……” Yu Hao couldn’t believe what he had heard at all, “Wouldn’t the other person’s spouse beat him to death?”
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“It depends on his methods.” Chen Yekai said helplessly, “Don’t forget what he’s studying.”
Normally, in extramarital affairs, one party desires to hit the other, who’s also willing to endure the hits of their own accord. Lin Xun had both the connections and a shrewd approach, and he was very precise when it came to selecting his targets — he would target the wives of those male scholars who didn’t have that clean of a background themselves. Some of these male scholars might have looked for prostitutes before in the United States, while others had been involved in scandals with students.
And as a well-maintained refined man in his fifties, courting their wives was basically like child’s play.
Those young people themselves had emotional stains — such as cheating on their partners while living in the United States alone, or they didn’t dare to offend Lin Xun……in the end, after Lin Xun finished his extramarital affair, the other party wouldn’t even dare to expose him. After all, if they had an extramarital affair while they were applying for a reunion visa, the immigration bureau would doubt the authenticity of their marriage, and it would likely expose evidence that could be used against them during the examination and approval of immigration procedures.
Liang Jinmin was extremely furious about this. There was a period when she had several significant arguments with Lin Xun, and that was when Chen Yekai discovered that Lin Xun was abusing Liang Jinmin at home.
Chen Yekai was a bit baffled. After all, in his own family, his parents had always had mutual respect for each other and would never raise their voices. The scene of Lin Xun hitting Liang Jinmin left a very deep impression on him.
His first thought was to just report it to the police, but he was stopped by Liang Jinmin. After that, Liang Jinmin talked to him countless times and begged him to not call the police. After all, in the United States, domestic violence was a very serious offence, so Lin Xun would definitely be arrested. Later on, Lin Xun knelt down on his hands and knees and begged Liang Jinmin for forgiveness, which she granted..
“Why didn’t she get a divorce?” Yu Hao asked in disbelief.
“She wouldn’t get a divorce.” Zhou Sheng pulled out a cigarette box and lit a cigarette.
Chen Yekai said, “I’ve asked that very question before too; Liang Laoshi still loves him.”
Zhou Sheng sneered. Chen Yekai said, “Give me one too.”