Chapter 7: The Mute
After that, Ruan Yi had proposed breaking off the engagement multiple times, but Shen Xun’s side stubbornly refused to let go.
Due to the close relationship between the Ruan and Shen families, they couldn’t make a big scene, so the engagement matter remained deadlocked there.
Shen Xun was a perverse weirdo. Ruan Yi could see he was trying to hint at reconciliation through various crooked methods.
But he just wouldn’t say the reason why he acted that way back then, nor would he give Ruan Yi a formal apology.
Over time, not only did the relationship between the two not ease in the slightest, but it became like a needle against a wheat awn—tit for tat.
Shen Xun discovered that the only way to make Ruan Yi pay attention to him was to bicker, so he always made snarky comments to provoke Ruan Yi from time to time.
As long as Ruan Yi was willing to pay attention to him, that was enough.
The two went past the point of no return on this path, thoroughly becoming sworn enemies.
“Bad luck. What did he send you!” Ruan Yi said grumpily.
“He said he wants to meet me again.” His tone was full of helplessness.
“What!” Ruan Yi’s voice cracked directly.
Although she clearly knew the general plot, hearing it still gave her a start.
Focusing only on the old pervert, she almost forgot to manage the little pervert.
“Where did this ‘again’ come from? Has he asked you out before? Why ask you out? Why didn’t you tell me!” Ruan Yi nervously grabbed Gu Zhi’s arm and shook it incessantly.
“Quite a few times. It was nothing, just chatting. Because Sister has a bad relationship with Shen Xun, I was afraid Sister would be unhappy, so I didn’t say anything.”
Gu Zhi was a bit overwhelmed by the string of questions, and his expression seemed a little aggrieved.
Ruan Yi realized she was a bit overly agitated and casually rubbed the spot on him she had grabbed until it was red.
Hand is so soft.
Why is it again…
Someone became restless again because sitting in a car, it was quite hard to hide such a big thing.
Gu Zhi had to cross his legs somewhat abruptly.
Ruan Yi was already itching with anger. This dead Shen Xun actually played the long game!
Refusing to break the engagement even unto death was also for this reason, right?
He just didn’t want Auntie Shen to discover he was gay!
Ruan Yi was filled with a bellyful of fire. Along the way, she kept cursing Shen Xun. When she got anxious, she even slapped Gu Zhi’s leg hard.
Actually, if Ruan Yi had just turned her head to look, she would have taken in the arc full of malice at the corner of someone’s mouth.
Too cute. Can’t hold it back. Why aren’t we home yet.
Fortunately, the remaining distance wasn’t considered far.
Nearly an hour passed. The bathroom door opened, and the man walked out from the steam.
Gu Zhi reached under the bed and fished out a black plastic bag stuffed full.
It looked like a garbage bag, completely out of place in the tidy, luxurious room.
With a light shake, the items in the bag scattered out completely.
Ruan Yi, in a fit of pique, refused to accept anything Shen Xun gave. This brainless Shen Xun actually sought him out, asking him to pass them to his sister.
Idiot.
“Pfft…” Gu Zhi couldn’t control himself and laughed out loud.
Stack after stack of reconciliation letters. The exquisite wax seals on the envelopes were still intact. What use was it to turn all the unspoken words into text? She would never see them.
As for those luxury jewelry pieces that didn’t repeat, Gu Zhi couldn’t even be bothered to look at them. He would just throw them all to the servants later.
Some things were a bit interesting: homemade preserved roses, handmade women’s rings, hand-knitted scarves.
Too many to count.
There was even a DIY pop-up apology book that clearly took painstaking effort to make, filled with photos of him and Ruan Yi before their conflict.
He still remembered being mad with jealousy the first time he looked at it.
“Sister’s appearance when she was little is truly… cute enough to make one want to eat her up.”
Pity, in the original picture, there was also a disgusting thing.
Fortunately, the eyesores in those group photos had all been slashed to pieces now, leaving only Ruan Yi, who looked like a little marshmallow in her childhood.
“My precious sister, how can she be so charming?”
Only a small lamp was on in the room. The weak light etched onto the man’s handsome features.
His exquisite side profile looked like a sculpture under the dim yellow light. His gradually twisting expression made him look incredibly sinister and terrifying.
In the dim midnight, countless letters full of deep affection were cruelly thrown into a vigorously burning brazier.
A mute who doesn’t even dare to open his mouth actually dares to dream of stealing his treasure.
Just like back then. Ruan Yi would never know that those anonymous messages Shen Xun received were all his handiwork.
Photo after photo showed his favorite little fiancée in intimate, line-crossing poses with different people at her most youthful and vibrant age.
There were photoshopped ones and ones with forced perspectives. To create these baseless things, the young him had spent quite a bit of effort.
When he saw the finished products that were hard to distinguish from reality, even he himself almost couldn’t resist wanting to kill the men in those images immediately.
He didn’t do things he wasn’t sure of. Shen Xun, that stupid pig, was also very cooperative. Everything went ridiculously smoothly.
Chaos stems from caring. Shen Xun wouldn’t spread these photos, nor would he directly question Ruan Yi, because he was afraid these were real, afraid Ruan Yi would be hurt by this.
What he feared most was that if word got out, their engagement would be canceled because of it.
Shen Xun even paid a high price to buy out all these images from the person behind the screen to destroy them all without leaving any backups.
Besides Shen Xun, no second person would ever see these photos.
Ruan Yi wouldn’t be rumored about because of these photos. Even if it leaked, it could only be from Shen Xun’s mouth.
If matters with no evidence were broadcasted, the rumor monger would be Shen Xun himself.
This would only make Ruan Yi hate Shen Xun more.
Either way, it was a dead end for Shen Xun.
But he deserved it. If he had trusted Ruan Yi enough and investigated even a little, things wouldn’t have progressed so smoothly.
Shen Xun, that stupid pig, could even accept Ruan Yi being ambiguous with other men rather than dissolve the engagement.
“A bit tricky.”
The envelopes in the brazier curled into charred, thin flakes. Everything turned into gray smoke, curling and rising, finally leaving only a pile of light gray powder, scattered by the wind.
Ruan Yi suffered magnificent insomnia last night. Thinking about Shen Xun constantly harassing Gu Zhi behind her back made her incredibly annoyed. She was choked with anger at his shamelessness.
Her stomach rumbled with hunger. After washing up slightly, she didn’t even have time to comb her hair before rubbing her eyes and going downstairs to find breakfast.
Ruan Yi yawned. Her voice was still dazed and confused.
“What are we eating? Is there the sweet soy milk I mentioned last night?”
Stretching lazily in slow motion like a sloth, she yawned loudly without caring about her image. The hem of her pajamas rolled up gently with her movement, revealing a section of fine, snowy-white waist.
“Sister!” Gu Zhi’s voice was a bit loud.
Ruan Yi casually tugged at her hem, looking toward the dining table in confusion, and instantly froze all over.
Why did this pervert move into the Ruan house early!
The man with sharp, defined angles sat opposite the dining table. His white shirt was stretched taut by his shoulder and arm muscles. The cuffs were rolled up slightly, revealing the firm tendons on his forearms.
Dammit, mature man temptation…
Despite hating the man in front of her to death, preferences weren’t things that changed so easily.
Gu Zhi noticed her expression. His brows furrowed tightly, and his face became increasingly worse.
The arc of the man’s mouth rose with a few points of playfulness. “Good morning, Xiao Yi.”
Gu Zhi stood up and pulled Ruan Yi to sit next to him, smoothing the lace on her pajama collar for her.
He reached out to tuck the messy hair by her ear behind it. Breakfast and soy milk were neatly arranged in front of her.
A trace of suspicion flashed in Fu Jingchen’s eyes, the discomfort in his heart growing stronger.
Relationship is good, is it? Too much.
“So it’s Professor Fu. Moving in so quickly? Sorry, I almost thought it was some desperate-to-get-married man~”
Ruan Yi tried to see Fu Jingchen lose his composure.
But not only did this man look as usual, the smile on his lips remained.
“Xiao Yi, please take care of me in the future.”
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