Chapter 51: Being Bad in Bed Seems Harder to Accept Than Being Ugly
Lin Huaizhi: “…”
Lin Huaizhi laughed out of anger. He leaned close to Huo Chen, not only were his eyes cold, but his words were even colder. “Don’t you know that men are animals that think with their lower halves?”
“You can only believe half of what they say. Regarding words spoken in bed, it’s best not to believe a single word.”
Huo Chen’s expression was so terrifying it looked like he was about to kill someone. “So you lied to me?”
“So what if I lied to you? You can call me ugly, but I can’t lie to you?”
Lin Huaizhi knew he was ugly.
He had looked in the mirror when the doctor was bandaging him. At that time, the eye wasn’t covered, only half-bandaged, and it looked even uglier.
His current appearance was the best-looking version Lin Huaizhi could come up with. Yet, Huo Chen didn’t say anything else upon arrival, just that one word.
Ugly.
How could he not be angry?
A few days ago, he had forced himself on him. Fine, even if Lin Huaizhi hadn’t refused, legally speaking, it was coercion turning into… well, whatever. But to wipe his mouth clean and not acknowledge the person was one thing; to then disparage him with a few wordsâwasn’t that a bit excessive?
“I didn’t say you were ugly.”
Huo Chen finally realized where the problem lay. He took a step forward, wanting to grab Lin Huaizhi’s hand, but was slapped away again.
The man’s eyes darkened.
Then he walked directly behind Lin Huaizhi, wrapped one arm around Lin Huaizhi’s waist, and lifted him up.
“I did not say you were ugly.”
As if afraid Lin Huaizhi couldn’t hear, he specifically emphasized the tone this time.
Lin Huaizhi scoffed. “I’m not deaf. There’s surveillance in the entryway too. Why don’t we check the footage?”
His wound was still hurting, and Huo Chen was holding him so tight his waist felt like it was going to break. The more Lin Huaizhi thought about it, the angrier he got. He broke free from Huo Chen’s hand and then directly kicked the person out the door.
“Stay away from me. Looking at you is annoying!”
The door slammed shut with a bang.
Huo Chen had the door slammed thoroughly in his face.
Lin Huaizhi was truly very beautiful.
Not a feminine kind of beauty, but a beauty with exquisite features that didn’t lack grandeurâvery eye-catching.
When he was a child, he couldn’t eat his fill; he was thin, shriveled, and dark, with sunken cheeks. Even if his face was revealed, no one could see any outstanding qualities.
Later, after leaving home and starting to make money, he could eat properly. As he grew older, his body filled out and his features developed, becoming increasingly striking.
There was nothing to be embarrassed about; Lin Huaizhi admitted that this face had indeed brought him quite a few conveniences.
After all, that’s just how the world is.
Lin Huaizhi started as an extra.
Back then, he left that place which couldn’t be called a home and came to Dragon City. When he first arrived, he did everything: lying about his age to be a waiter, washing dishes for people, and even moving bricks at construction sites. But because of his age, those jobs eventually came to nothing.
One day, he heard people chatting, saying that the film studio two kilometers away was recruiting extras, offering fifty yuan a day plus a box lunch.
Lin Huaizhi went without hesitation.
Fortunately, because it was for extras, no one asked about his age. Even more fortunately, relying on his emotional intelligence and hard work, he was successfully selected, and thereafter became a professional extra.
The year he turned seventeen, a big director was filming a major productionâa historical drama about political intrigue.
The villain in the drama was a treacherous official with supreme strategic skills. When he was young, his clan was exterminated overnight by the emperor because their merits overshadowed the master. Before his parents died, they made him swear to take revenge. Thus, wrapped in hatred, he changed his name and lived in disgrace. Later, he schemed to encounter a prince, helped the prince usurp the throne, and step by step, rose to become a top official through his contribution to the dragon’s ascent.
But this was not his goal.
Relying on his status, he obtained the border defense map and finally colluded with foreign tribes, wanting to use their power to overthrow the entire dynasty and establish a new dynasty with himself as the new king.
Of course, blocked by the protagonist group, he failed unsurprisingly in the end.
However, the villain was demonically intelligent. He had long made all preparations and left himself enough avenues of retreat. What truly defeated him was a truth.
A truth that his clan’s extermination was not because their merits overshadowed the master, but because of the crime of corruption.
His parents had hidden everything from him, forcing him to swear revenge, making him live his whole life for vengeance. They made everything he persisted in become a lie, and made his entire life become a joke.
In the end, he chose suicide.
Because the villain’s childhood storyline was interwoven throughout, the director wanted to find a boy of eleven or twelve.
And this boy would be responsible for the scenes where the villain’s family is exterminated overnight due to corruption, and his parents hide the truth from him while ordering him to take revenge on their deathbeds.
This segment was extremely important.
Not only was it the turning point of the villain’s life, but it also played a decisive role in the villain’s subsequent personality shift.
The director searched for a long time but couldn’t find a suitable candidate. Later, while clearing his mind in the film studio, he discovered Lin Huaizhi.
At that time, Lin Huaizhi was fighting with someone over a box lunch.
Because of that fight, the director noticed him, feeling that the gloom and ferocity in his eyes, as well as his slightly outstanding appearance, were very suitable for the villain’s role.
Lin Huaizhi was already seventeen.
Whether in terms of height or body shape, seventeen wasn’t suitable for playing a boy of eleven or twelve.
Fortunately, Lin Huaizhi hadn’t lived a good life yet at that time. Even though he had started to grow, he still looked small and thin.
The director invited him to audition.
And so he became that villain named Wei Qing.
The role of Wei Qing gave Lin Huaizhi fame. Subsequently, with that director’s introduction, he acted in two more plays and earned quite a bit of money.
It was also during that time that Lin Huaizhi completed his transformation.
From an ugly duckling to a white swan.
But when a person is weak, beauty becomes original sin, a source of disaster.
Lin Huaizhi had been invited to dinner more than once, and more than once, bosses wanted to develop a relationship with him, wanted to keep him as a sugar baby.
Acting on the principle of not offending anyone, Lin Huaizhi gave everyone a pleasant face. But he couldn’t handle the fact that some people were just cheap and insisted on reaching out to touch him.
China is a land of propriety; it is impolite not to reciprocate. Lin Huaizhi was a polite person, so for those bosses who got touchy-feely, he returned the favor with a fist for each of them.
Of course, the result lived up to expectations.
He was blacklisted.
So what if he was blacklisted? Being an actor meant taking abuse. Whoever loved this lousy job could do it; he was going to become the capital.
Thus, Lin Huaizhi became the capital.
Along this journey, his transformation became even more complete. The audience still remembered Wei Qing, but they had long forgotten Lin Huaizhi.
Lin Huaizhi never denied that his success was related to his face.
But after becoming powerful, beauty often became something cheap, because everyone would think that any achievement you made relied on that face.
Lin Huaizhi was often thought of in this way.
Of course, he was different now than before; few people dared to dance in front of him.
So he didn’t care.
Moreover, regarding how much Lin Huaizhi cared about this face now, it was hard to say. But Huo Chen was different.
In front of the person you like, even a flaw as small as dust can make one feel inferior and self-deprecating.
Especially since Huo Chen directly said he was ugly.
Lin Huaizhi also knew that he was the active one in this relationship. No matter how Huo Chen treated him, he deserved it. The problem was that he and Huo Chen had just experienced the most intimate thing.
He hadn’t even despised that dog for his bad technique, yet that dog dared to say he was ugly?
Lin Huaizhi’s anger stopped abruptly at this moment. He stroked his chin. “It seems that being told your technique is bad is a bit harder to accept than being called ugly?”
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