The Consequence of Judging Others by Appearance

“I say, you are so good at keeping secrets. I can’t believe you got with the most popular girl in our faculty.” Wang Hang poured a full glass of wine for Lao’er, “You have to down this wine, or you can’t face us.”

“Hehe,” Lao’er glanced at his girlfriend and finished the drink in one gulp without hesitating. His coolness left Wang Hang speechless and sighed at his girlfriend Liu Wei, “It’s the first time I saw him so happy, you have a lot of effect on him.”

Liu Wei glanced at Lao’er shyly and turned to look at Qi Yan, who was drinking tea with his head down. She said to Lao’er, “Don’t drink so much, you just recovered from a cold a few days ago.”

“Wow, now he has someone who worries about him,” Wang Hang put his hand on Qi Yan’s shoulder with a sad look, “Qian Qian, there’s no place for us singles in this world.”

“Tsk,” Qi Yan pushed his hand away in disgust, picked up a piece of cooked fish and dipped it in sauce, “Speak for yourself. I’m enjoying my single life.”

Liu Wei smiled and looked at the two of them, her beautiful face full of tenderness. Lao’er had so much affection for her, and hurriedly put the best fish belly meat into her bowl, “Hurry up and eat the meat when it’s cooked. With these two animals here, they will finish everything if you’re not quick enough.”

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“You don’t care about your brothers anymore,” Wang Hang hurriedly scooped up some fish from the pot, “As though you eat like a gentleman.”

“Lao’san, please save me some face today,” Lao’er poured wine for Wang Hang with a smile, “Don’t destroy my image in front of my girlfriend, I’m begging you.”

“Okay, okay,” Wang Hang shut his mouth and turned to Liu Wei, “Liu Wei, although Lao’er has many flaws, he is sincere and considerate, and he is also strong. You can treat him as a servant when you go shopping in the future.”

“Hmml,” Liu Wei’s cheeks blushed, “I know he’s good.” When she lowered her head, she secretly glanced at Qi Yan, who was still eating fish with his head down. There were already a lot of fish bones on his plate.

“Qi Yan…likes to eat fish?” Liu Wei leaned against Lao’er and said casually, “You haven’t spoken much.”

“Well,” Qi Yan put down his chopsticks, took a sip of his drink, and continued to scoop the fish in the pot without raising his head, “I don’t talk much.”

“Don’t believe his nonsense,” Lao’er hugged Liu Wei’s waist and said with a smile, “He might look like a gentleman among the three of us, but every time he eats, he eats the most. His stomach is just a black hole.”

“Black hole?” Liu Wei smiled while covering her mouth and accidentally dropped her chopsticks to the ground, so she bent over to pick them up, and asked the waiter to replace them. 

“Thank you.” Liu Wei took the clean chopsticks from the waiter and looked at the steaming pot, “I know that Qi Yan has a good appetite. Once we were having dinner in the dormitory and Qi Yan ate a lot.”

“That’s why you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover,” Lao’er said with a smile, “Come on, it’s a little hot, I’ll take some for you.”

Wang Hang looked at the gentle and thoughtful Lao’er, shook his head and smiled. He turned and nudged Qi Yan, and said regretfully, “If Lao’da is here, it will be even better. “

“Lao’da has recently passed the civil service examination, and his family is preparing a blind date for him.” Lao’er always felt that it was a pity for him to return to his hometown. With their school’s reputation and their abilities, they could have a bright future. But everyone had their own aspirations, and he really couldn’t say anything. In addition, his family had a strong position in the local area, so it should be easier for him to get started in his career.

“It seems that Lao’da is going back to his hometown to get married,” Wang Hang poured a glass of beer and smiled, “That’s good.”

Just as the atmosphere became more gloomy, Qi Yan suddenly said, “It’s time to add fish and more soup.”

Wang Hang laughed and patted Qi Yan’s back, “I won’t call you Qian Qian anymore, you should be called ‘Rice Bowl’.”

“Men should eat like tigers,” Qi Yan put down his chopsticks and wiped the oil stains from the corners of his mouth, “I think you must be jealous that no matter how much I eat, I won’t gain weight.”

Wang Hang, who had gained weight recently:  …

“Qi Yan is so funny.” Liu Wei blinked, “But it is true that many people are jealous of someone who won’t gain weight no matter how much they eat.”

Qi Yan smiled at her and did not speak.

Seeing that Qi Yan ignored her, Liu Wei’s smile stiffened and lowered her head to pick out fish bones in her bowl. She suddenly felt gloomy.

After the meal, Lao’er and Liu Wei were going to watch a movie. Qi Yan helped Wang Hang, who was a little drunk, into his car, turned around and said to them, “Have fun. I’ll take him home.”

Be careful on the road,” Lao’er with a smile, “We have to get together again when we have time.”

“Okay,” Qi Yan opened the driver’s door and sat in. When he buckled his seat belt, he heard Liu Wei calling him. He looked at Liu Wei suspiciously and waited for her to speak.

“Goodnight, see you.” Liu Wei smiled at him.

“See you.” Qi Yan nodded and drove away.

Liu Wei watched Qi Yan drive away, until she could no longer see the car, and then turned to Lao’er and asked, “Do you think Qi Yan doesn’t like me?”

“No way,” Lao’er smiled, “He’s not like that.”

“But why do I feel that when I talk to him, he always ignores me?” Liu Wei lowered her head and looked at the long shadow on the ground. The dark shadows twisted like a faceless monster, “I think he’s probably not happy with me being your girlfriend.”

“You’re overthinking. It’s definitely not true.” Lao’er hugged Liu Wei and he subconsciously frowned.

After he sent the drunk Wang Hang back and rejected the Wang family’s enthusiastic invitation for him to stay. He got into the car holding the snacks that the Wang family forced into his hands. At nine or ten o’clock in the evening, there was not much traffic on the road.

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Opening the car window and feeling the night breeze, he felt that the smell of alcohol in the car had dissipated a little and let out a comfortable sigh. When he was waiting at the traffic light, he saw several people pestering a fashionably dressed young woman at the entrance of a building in a corner. He recognized the woman as Liang Feng’s sister, Liang Yun.

The people around Liang Yun were dressed in plain clothes, their voices were quite loud, and they were crying and yelling. He could hear them from a distance.

After passing the traffic light, he turned the car and found a place where he could park, and walked towards where Liang Yun was. Sure enough, the people who were surrounding Liang Yun were still there.

As he got closer, the quarrel between Liang Yun and these people became louder and louder, and Qi Yan could guess the identities of these people.

“How can you be so cruel, my son had a car accident and now the doctor says that his leg is disabled, you have to be responsible!” The old woman with dry hair hugged Liang Yun’s leg. Not caring about the passersby, she cried, “You are an unlucky star and you have no conscience. Something happened to my son and you just ignored him!”

“My son!” The old man next to the woman also sat on the ground and kicked his legs, “Why did my son meet such a heartless woman…”

Behind the two old men were two middle-aged women with haggard faces. They wiped away their tears and expressed their grievances, so that people who didn’t know would think that Liang Yun was really immoral and cruel.

“I’ll tell you again, before Zhou Wenhan had the car accident, I had already broken up with him,” Liang Yun looked at the Zhou family blankly, “Even if you’re making trouble in my company every day, I won’t give you a penny.”

“You shameless woman!” Mrs. Zhou saw her arrogant attitude and thought of her son who could no longer walk normally. She suddenly became furious, pushed Liang Yun held her down. She wanted to scratch Liang Yun’s face.

Before she could do that, she was pushed away. She was stunned, and then rolled on the ground with her head in her hand, “Someone hit me! Someone hit me!”

Qi Yan was used to this kind of sloppy tactics when he was a child. He didn’t even look at Mrs. Zhou, and helped Liang Yun up from the ground, “Miss Liang, are you alright?”

“Thank you, I’m fine.” This was the first time Liang Yun encountered an incident like this. After she was helped up by Qi Yan, she couldn’t process what happened. It wasn’t until she heard Mrs. Zhou’s cries that she came back to her senses, “Excuse the scene.”

“This is nothing,” Qi Yan looked at Mrs. Zhou and said softly, “I have seen someone hit a cow from across the hill.”

“Across the hill?”

“It means that someone fell to the ground even when no one touched them. It could either be that they are fragile, or shameless,” Qi Yan put his arms in front of his chest and looked at the dramatic Zhou family, “Their skills are not as good as those from my town.”

Mr. Zhou saw Liang Yun joking and chatting with a strange man and widened his eyes. He pointed at her with trembling hands, “No wonder you’re not willing to even visit him in the hospital. It’s because you’re involved with another man! What a shameless slut!”

Liang Yun pursed her lips. Zhou Wenhan mentioned that his parents were uncultured, but it seemed to her that his father was quite eloquent.

“What kind of person is your son?” Qi Yan raised his chin and looked at the Zhou family with a mocking expression, “I earn 10 million a year, have a house and a car, have a better education than your son, and look better than your son. Women of course know who to pick. I have never seen such a useless man. He broke up with his ex-girlfriend and impregnated his current girlfriend. When he had a car accident, he asked his ex-girlfriend to be responsible. Shameless beyond words. Is shamelessness your family trait?”

The surrounding crowd had long thought that the Zhou family’s acting skills were exaggerated. Now, hearing Qi Yan’s words, some people laughed out loud.

“You, you…”

“What? Your son has no house and no car. He has been relying on Liang Yun and cheated on her. Does he think he’s some sort of god?”

“Our son is the only child in our town who has taken the university entrance exam. It is more than enough for such a demonic woman!” Mr. Zhou felt very wronged. Many envied their family. He couldn’t bear his nonsense!

“So why does your great son still want to have anything to do with this so-called demonic woman after he had a car accident? Isn’t that shameless?” Qi Yan sneered, “Don’t you just want money? Since you went all out with the acting, we should at least pay you some fee.”

He took out twenty yuan from his bag and threw it in front of the Zhou family, “As far as your acting skills are concerned, twenty yuan is enough.”

Mrs. Zhou, who was still rolling on the ground, got up. She didn’t care about the dirt on her body and pointed at Qi Yan and cursed. Every word contained some reference to the private parts and involved Qi Yan’s ancestors, especially the women. She insulted all women in Qi Yan’s family,

Because the scolding was so unpleasant, the people watching the scene couldn’t listen anymore, and everyone’s impression of the Zhou family almost dropped to minus one hundred.

However, Mrs. Zhou felt that the other party was stunned by her sharp words, and she seemed triumphant, but she did not know that her scolding had been filmed and posted on the Internet. 

The title of this video was called “Scumbag cheated. After becoming disabled from a car accident, his whole family blackmailed the poor ex-girlfriend. Is this the loss of humanity or the corruption of morality?”

Looking at Zhou’s family, Liang Yun suddenly felt that she was lucky to meet Master Qi. He exposed Zhou Wenhan’s cheating and let her leave such a family. If she stayed with these kinds of people after they got married, she would go crazy.

“Don’t you just want money?” Liang Yun took out a wad of money from her bag and threw it in front of the Zhou family, “See it as a reward to the dog.” After that, she didn’t care about the Zhou family and left.

The Zhou family still wanted to continue, but the crowd who was leaving blocked their way. When they left, Liang Yun was already gone.

“Miss Liang, you are too generous.” Qi Yan held the steering wheel and looked straight ahead. He was not driving fast and was very steady. “There are more than a dozen bills in that stack of money.” 

“They showed me an absurd drama of life, it was just a reward for them,” Liang Yun said with a relaxed expression, even a little happy. “It’s just like paying for my education.”

Qi Yan smiled, turning the steering wheel to make the car turn a corner, “However, when encountering this kind of monster, it is best to choose a long-range attack method, not close combat, because they may become mad.”

Liang Yun was amused by Qi Yan’s description, she put her hands on her knees, “I hope I don’t encounter it anymore in the future.”

Qi Yan smiled indifferently and said, “Of course, you definitely won’t.”

There was soothing music playing in the car, Liang Yun listened quietly, she looked up at Qi Yan, only to realize that the young Master Qi had a good-looking profile. She released her clasped hands, and her tense shoulders gradually relaxed.

Perhaps, meeting Master Qi was a turning point in her life.

“Thank you.” Liang Yun stood under the lamp at the door, looked at the slowly leaving car, and bowed slightly. Although he couldn’t see the bow, she wanted to do it regardless.

Sometimes a person has no choice in life, because they don’t know that there are choices. She was lucky enough to have a choice and chose the right path.

She felt immensely lucky.

“Liang Feng,” Cen Baihe raised his head from the document and looked at Liang Feng who was silent, “You are in a bad state today. If you are not feeling well, you can take the day off.”

“Thank you boss, I’m fine,” Liang Feng clenched the document in his hand, “I’m sorry, I am distracted.” 

“What happened?” His competent personal assistant was distracted. The first thing the boss, Cen Baihe, should do was not to blame him, but to be concerned.

“It’s nothing, it’s just a some family matter,” Liang Feng smiled, “I would also like to thank Master Qi, if it weren’t for him, my sister might still be hurt.”

“What does this have to do with Qian Qian?” Hearing Liang Feng mentioning Qian Qian, Cen Baihe looked at Liang Feng suspiciously, “Why should you thank him?”

Liang Feng told Cen Baihe what happened, and only after he said, “If I knew that the Zhou family is like that, I would rather she hate me than let her be with Zhou Wenhan.”

Cen Baihe clicked on the video with the verbal abuse mentioned by Liang Feng, and watched the woman in it yelling at Qian Qian. Because the photographer was facing Mrs. Zhou, he could only see Qian Qian’s back, but not his face. Cen Baihe’s brows were furrowed even tighter after he heard the vulgar swearing words. Before he finished the video, he had to turn it off.

“Pa!”

His earphones were thrown on the table, making a loud noise.

It was the first time that Liang Feng saw his boss so emotional. He was startled. He looked at Cen Baihe cautiously, “Sir, you…” 

“It’s nothing,” Cen Baihe handed him the document. “Make a few copies of this document and send it to the managers of various departments.”

“Okay.” Liang Feng gave Cen Baihe a worried look, but unfortunately he had returned to his usual expressionless face. He couldn’t observe anything, so he left.

After Zhou Wenhan was discharged from the hospital, although he couldn’t really walk, he still found a good job because he graduated from a prestigious school and had several years of work experience. But after the video was released, it went viral on the Internet. He felt that his colleagues in the company were secretly laughing at him behind his back.

Because of this incident, he called and quarreled with his family, and wished he didn’t have such embarrassing parents. He fidgeted every day, and whenever someone laughed, he couldn’t help but wonder if someone was talking about him behind his back.

They might be talking about his disability, his shameless family or his cheating.

Even when he was walking on the street and sitting in the subway, he could feel that everyone around him was looking and laughing at him. On the subway, he listened to three girls across from him pointing and laughing at him, and finally he could no longer contain the anger in his heart and shouted, “Shut up, shut up!”

The three girls were stunned for several seconds after being yelled at, and then scolded, “You are crazy, what we watch is none of your business, just take medicine if you are sick!” 

Zhou Wenhan paused and looked at their screens. They were indeed playing the video of his family.

When the train stopped, he walked out of the subway entrance dazedly following the flow of people, and suddenly thought that he was going to see his girlfriend. They had not seen each other for almost a week. She was still carrying his child. He finished his work and wanted to give her a surprise.

He came to the door of his girlfriend’s rental house with fresh fruit, and heard the chatter and laughter of his girlfriend and her friends.

“That idiot really thought the child was his. If I knew that the house he lived in and the car he drove were not his own, I wouldn’t waste so much time on him. He doesn’t have money but pretends like he does, shameless! Should I abort the child?”

Zhou Wenhan felt as if something was choking him. His heart was beating so hard and he couldn’t breathe!

So…he was lied to?

His ears were buzzing and something finally snapped in him. His body swayed weakly, and fell to the ground.

A few days after the Zhou family went to cause trouble for Liang Yun, she heard shocking news that Zhou Wenhan had gone crazy. His parents went to his girlfriend’s house and cried. As a result, his girlfriend had a miscarriage. His parents were arrested by the police, and his girlfriend was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment. She suffered a lot of injury and needed to rest for a long time to recover.

“Heh.”

Liang Yun laughed, and she was no longer interested in the Zhou family. She didn’t care whether her ex was dead or alive.

On an afternoon when he should have taken a comfortable nap, Qi Yan received a call from Lao’er. Lao’er had a very bad tone, and seemed to be angry at Qi Yan.

“What do you mean by that?” Qi Yan frowned, “What does your girlfriend have anything to do with me?”

“Whether it has anything to do with you, you know it yourself. We have been friends for several years, I didn’t expect…”

Lao’er swallowed his words and hung up.

“Du du du…”

Qi Yan looked at the phone with a blank face, and was very puzzled by the call that had no beginning nor end. Frowning, he called him back, but Lao’er didn’t answer his call.

At this moment, Cen Baihe called him.

Qi Yan relaxed his brows and answered the call.