Chapter 17: Illegitimate Son Identity — “Wouldn’t sleeping with her chase her down directly…”
Lu Xunye didn’t care if he was stunned. He grabbed the boy’s collar, making a move to drag him out the door. “Come, come, let’s talk outside.”
“Don’t act crazy, Lu Xunye!” The boy slapped his hand away and swung a fist. Lu Xunye tilted his head to dodge and simultaneously let go.
He knows me. So, the original owner’s friend?
Lu Xunye raised an eyebrow, watching the boy impatiently adjust his wrinkled collar. “What do you want?”
The boy glared at him, walked over to the coffee table, poured a glass of water, drank it in one gulp, and then sat his butt down on the table.
Lu Xunye’s mouth twitched at this entitled behavior, secretly marveling that the original owner—such a self-closed shut-in—actually knew this kind of friend.
Just as he was thinking, the boy tossed something over. Lu Xunye caught it. looking closely, it was a room card for a luxury hotel. He narrowed his eyes. “What does this mean?”
“Don’t tell me you lost your memory again.” The boy scoffed. “I’ve already done the three things I promised you. From now on, we go our separate ways.”
“Again…” Is amnesia a hereditary trope in this manga world?
But this made things easier. Lu Xunye mulled over the meaning of his words and nodded to himself. He walked past the boy, stirring up a breeze, and sat lazily on the sofa.
“You’re right. I… just treat me as if I was struck dumb by lightning a few days ago. I really don’t remember who you are.”
“As for the three things you did for me, since the current me doesn’t remember, then they weren’t done for me. So…”
He tapped the room card on the table and pushed it forward. “You still owe me three things.”
“First thing.” Lu Xunye looked at him with composure. “Tell me who you are, and everything you know about me.”
Instead of being angered by his shamelessness, the boy froze for a moment. He spoke in a daze, “Are you still the Lu Xunye I know?”
Lu Xunye seemed unafraid of exposing the brand-new soul inside this shell.
His deep eyes surged with obscure emotions as he chuckled and asked back.
“What was the Lu Xunye you knew like? A shut-in? Gloomy? A simp? Or an unpopular… illegitimate son?”
The original owner watched others’ bright and extravagant social media feeds, while his own private space—never made public—was written full of resentment about being kicked out of the house, anger at friends avoiding him, and… a perverted obsession with his goddess.
There were too many names involved; Lu Xunye had no way of knowing how much space this person in front of him occupied in the story.
“Feng Chengyu.” Feng Chengyu said his name, frowning in displeasure. “I never thought of you as an illegitimate son. You are just you.”
Before Lu Xunye could lament that his face was completely different from the mean and bitter face described by the original owner, and just as he was feeling moved, he heard Feng Chengyu smack his lips.
“But I’ve always thought you were a piece of sht. A drama queen piece of sht who does whatever comes to mind.”
Lu Xunye: “…”
“As for you…” Feng Chengyu pointed his index finger straight at him. Meeting Lu Xunye’s half-smiling expression, he blinked stiffly and suddenly curled his hand into a fist.
“After your car accident and amnesia four years ago, your father found you and raised you for a year and a half, right… Then he felt you were useless, gave you five million, and kicked you out.”
“Five million…” Lu Xunye repeated.
“But don’t be happy too soon.” Feng Chengyu interrupted him, pouring cold water on him.
“You turned around and gave that five million to your goddess. Proving you really were useless. Can’t blame them for kicking you out; you were a total prodigal simp.”
When he said the second half of the sentence, his tone carried a mix of ‘iron not becoming steel’ disappointment and schadenfreude.
Lu Xunye couldn’t understand how two almost contradictory emotions could appear on one person’s face.
The more he looked, the more punchable the face became… his fist hardened. Lu Xunye blurted out, “You little brat, you looking for a beating?”
He actually said it so smoothly. The moment it came out, even Lu Xunye was surprised, let alone Feng Chengyu, who was even more furious.
“With you looking like this? You think it’s the past?” Feng Chengyu jumped up, sneered, rolled up his sleeves, and threw a punch.
“F*ck, you don’t know how long I’ve put up with you! If it weren’t for our past friendship, do you think I would…”
His words came to an abrupt halt because Lu Xunye pried open his fist with one hand and grabbed his throat with the other, slamming him against the wall like lifting a chick. The vase on the shelf crashed to the floor, exploding into shards and dirt.
“You would what?” Lu Xunye’s dark eyes flashed with a ruthless, fierce light. He tightened his fingers, watching the person’s face turn blue and red, raised an eyebrow, and then suddenly let go.
Feng Chengyu lost strength and slid down the wall, clutching his neck and gasping for air.
Lu Xunye teased, “With just these moves, you still fight people? If it were someone who really wanted you dead, do you think they would let go?”
Just as he turned around, his leg was grabbed. An ear-splitting wail erupted. He looked down at the boy hugging his thigh and crying loudly. “…”
No! Does this rich second generation have some masochistic fetish?! Lu Xunye’s eyes went wide.
“Stop howling.” He had a headache from the noise and rubbed his ears. “Sounds terrible.”
Feng Chengyu cried so hard he couldn’t breathe, pulling hard on Lu’s pants. “Brother Lu, don’t lose your memory again in the future, it’s scary. With your crappy social skills, who would play with you without me?”
“F*ck,” Lu Xunye pulled hard on his belt, kicking his leg. “Let go, let go! Are you schizophrenic?! Let go!”
Ten minutes later, Feng Chengyu was holding an ice pack to his neck, looking at Lu Xunye resentfully.
Lu Xunye was speechless. “Didn’t you want to cut ties with me?”
He glanced at the door. “Need me to invite you out?”
“I just didn’t want to see you destroying yourself! Besides, all the trouble you caused chasing that little celebrity over the years, I was the one cleaning up your mess. That little celebrity has quite a few sugar daddies.”
“Plus, our family didn’t land a contract recently, and my dad thought I was messing around, so he froze all my cards and grounded me!”
Lu Xunye listened to his rambling absent-mindedly. He didn’t expect this twist. The original owner, a writer kicked out of his home with no background, could actually offend people.
And he didn’t expect this obviously unreliable rich kid… was actually a wealthy young master, and seemed to be close friends with the original owner. Logically, the two shouldn’t have any connection.
“I didn’t even rat you out! You, you, you can’t kick a man when he’s down!” Feng Chengyu shouted in exasperation.
The roar brought Lu Xunye back to reality. After listening carefully, his expression was indescribable.
Who is kicking whom when they’re down? Who was the resolute person swearing to cut ties just now?!
“If you hadn’t saved me six years ago, I wouldn’t bother with you.” Feng Chengyu’s voice got smaller and smaller as he spoke. He pouted, looking at the room card lying quietly on the table.
“Then… are you still going?”
Lu Xunye narrowed his eyes, landing on a certain object sleeping sprawled out on the windowsill, drooling.
Receiving no answer for a long time, Feng Chengyu looked up confusedly, following his line of sight.
Outside, the sunlight was just right. Warm yellow rays spilled over the entire windowsill. Aside from that, there was nothing. “What are you looking at?”
“Nothing,” Lu Xunye slowly withdrew his gaze. “Just something that doesn’t know if it’s dead or alive.”
“Damn!” Feng Chengyu jumped up from the sofa, the ice pack hitting the floor. “Lu Xunye, don’t tell me you still haven’t cleaned up the cockroaches in your house!”
Lu Xunye frowned at him. “…” Psycho.
Helpless, he had to bring the topic back. “What did you want to say earlier? What room card?”
“Your third request, for me to help you chase your goddess?” Feng Chengyu said frankly, looking at Lu Xunye suspiciously. “Don’t tell me you forgot this too!”
“So.” A ridiculous guess rose in Lu Xunye’s heart.
The two looked at each other.
“That’s right, I had someone tie her up.” Feng Chengyu admitted openly. “Didn’t you like her? You sleep with her, wouldn’t that chase her down directly? One step to success, saving who knows how much trouble.”
“Relax,” Feng Chengyu patted his shoulder solemnly. “With me here, her sugar daddies won’t dare touch you.”
Lu Xunye laughed speechlessly. “Oh, I asked you to help me chase her, and this is how you help?”
Now it was Feng Chengyu’s turn to be confused. “How else?”
“Have you ever chased anyone?” Lu Xunye was genuinely curious now.
“Of course I have!” Feng Chengyu stared at him dissatisfied. “You even told me not to fantasize about him back then.”
“How did you chase him?” Lu Xunye’s gaze fell back to the room card. “Did you also have someone tie him to your bed?”
Mentioning this old matter from five or six years ago, Feng Chengyu looked a bit sentimental. “That, no.”
Lu Xunye was just about to say, At least you have some brains, when he heard the other party make a wild statement: “I drugged him and climbed into his bed myself.”
Lu Xunye choked on air. Hearing Feng Chengyu sighing and lamenting, he thought: You should be thankful he didn’t call the police, and you’re disappointed?!
With this method of chasing people, it’d be a miracle if it worked! Lu Xunye clicked his tongue in wonder, deliberately speaking sarcastically. “Who was it? Daring to reject Young Master Feng, were they tired of living?”
Feng Chengyu didn’t catch his tone. “Yanghai University’s youngest, most unapproachable beauty professor. Can’t help it, who made this Young Master like him?”
That’s the top ten university in the country in this book. Lu Xunye thought for a moment. “You’re right.”
Feng Chengyu: “What?”
Lu Xunye said to him earnestly, “You’d better stop fantasizing about him.”
Feng Chengyu was indignant. “You’re saying it again!”
Thinking about it, he comforted himself. “But it doesn’t matter. I was seventeen or eighteen and didn’t know better. I stopped liking him long ago. Plenty of people are fighting to be liked by this Young Master.”
“Let’s go.” Lu Xunye stood up. “You caught the person. Let’s go see what this goddess looks like. Don’t let her run away and call the police to arrest you.”
“Tch,” Feng Chengyu sneered. “I’ll lend her ten thousand guts, would she dare?”
Just as they walked out the door, Feng Chengyu suddenly said, “I heard the Shen family’s youngest son reconciled with Si Jinyan. Seems like he lives in this complex too, have you seen him? I remember you seemed to have met him.”
As he spoke, he turned his head, but there was no one beside him. “…”
Lu Xunye had gone out but turned back, standing in front of the windowsill. He slammed the blackout curtains shut, curling his lips into an evil smile.
Thinking that his Life Points only had 16 hours left, while the culprit who dragged him here was sleeping soundly, Lu Xunye punched the head of the system, which had changed form and was sleeping heavily.
The force was just right—dazed but no brain damage. The system thought the sky was falling. Just as it opened its eyes, Lu Xunye grabbed the data cable on top of its head. “You’re coming with me.”
System: “?”
As for that cat, it was just another body controlled by the system from the same source; it should also be sleeping in Shen Yunqian’s house right now.
Feng Chengyu saw him come out. “Why did you go back just now?”
Lu Xunye said lightly, “Curtains weren’t closed.”
Feng Chengyu frowned. The next second, his head felt heavy. He touched it, but there was nothing there.
Dihua Hotel
Presidential Suite
Lu Xunye looked at the magnificent and luxurious decoration. While swiping the room card, he couldn’t help but sigh. “Didn’t expect you to be quite rich.”
Suddenly praised, Feng Chengyu’s tail wagged up to the sky. “Not to brag, but in the whole of Haicheng, there isn’t anything I can’t handle.”
Lu Xunye took the topic naturally. “What about Si Jinyan? Which family is more powerful?”
“Why bring up that psycho?” Feng Chengyu didn’t even think. “Of course it’s my family. But for him to seize power from those old bones in the Si family and reverse the decline of the Si Group in three years, he does have some tricks.”
“Let me tell you, don’t provoke him. Otherwise, if he stabs you to death, he doesn’t even need to go to jail.”
Lu Xunye was surprised. “Medically certified insane?”
“Sigh, let’s not talk about it, let’s not talk about it.” Feng Chengyu didn’t want to discuss this topic further.
“I really didn’t expect you to be so devoted. Tsk tsk tsk, you really changed your nature, actually liking a little celebrity for a full four years!”
He whistled ambiguously at Lu Xunye, making Lu Xunye shudder all over.
“Bro won’t disturb your moment of passion. Bye-bye~”
Saying that, Feng Chengyu greased his soles and prepared to flee.
Lu Xunye had quick eyes and hands, hooking his back collar and dragging him back. “Running where? Stay and watch together.”
Feng Chengyu’s face burned red instantly. Meeting Lu Xunye’s sharp eyes.
His tongue tied in knots. “T-T-This isn’t appropriate, right?”
Lu Xunye smiled kindly at him, pushed open the door with one hand, then instantly changed his expression. Feng Chengyu only felt a chill on his back before being shoved inside with great force.
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