The Sick Villain Just Want to Live

Meanwhile, in a ward of the inpatient department of the county People’s Hospital.

Yuan Shaozhou laid in the hospital for a whole day, feeling bored and depressed. After his continuous WeChat bombardment, Xia Yang finally agreed to come visit him in the hospital.

Putting a bag of fruit on the bedside table, Xia Yang sat down beside the hospital bed.

He took out his phone directly, and pointed his screen at Yuan Shaozhou’s face. He looked a bit annoyed. “What do you mean by sending me this?”

Yuan Shaozhou glanced at it, with a smug smile on his face, “It is exactly what you see.” 

On the screen was a photo of a familiar milk tea shop. It was taken yesterday by some spectator. It was a photo of Shao Ming taking care of Zhu Tong’s foot injury. 

He found it on the school forum.

Yuan Shaozhou watched Xia Yang’s face turn pale, while in contrast, his mood became more and more cheerful, “Not only these, but there’s also other fresher news that came today.” 

He opened an anonymous group chat he just joined not long ago, and he didn’t know who in the group went to Shao Ming’s milk tea shop today, but they took a few photos and sent them to the chat, which sparked a wave of discussions.

[Today I came to Study God’s milk tea shop on a whim, and found a surprise.]

[Zhu Tong went to Shao Ming’s milk tea shop? He also sat directly at the VIP seat at the counter?]

[There is another handsome guy in the milk tea shop, is this a milk tea shop? This is actually a high-class host club, right? (PS: only joking, no malice.)] 

[It’s not in vain that I’ve been queuing for so long! So worth it to get this picture!!] 

The chat records also included photos of Shao Ming helping Zhu Tong into the store and checking his foot injury.

Xia Yang didn’t want to look at it at all, but his curiosity overwhelmed that feeling, so he glanced at it. And just as he imagined, the pictures stuck in his mind as if it had taken a root. 

Yuan Shaozhou was also surprised that Shao Ming’s shop would not be affected in the slightest after being reported. But after seeing these photos, he didn’t come up with zero gains. 

He said to Xia Yang, “Did you see it? Shao Ming doesn’t have you in his heart at all, and he fell in love with that transfer student in just a few short days. He is not worthy of your love at all. Why do you keep clinging to him? Let him go.”

Xia Yang looked at the photo on his phone and bit his lower lip hard.

Seeing his slightly red eyes, Yuan Shaozhou felt his heart getting painful. He immediately made a distressed look, and regardless of his injuries and his inability to freely move, he put his hand on Xia Yang’s shoulder, “Okay, okay, what’s the big deal? If you’re too angry, how about gege helping you out?”

Anyway, the report on the milk tea shop was just an appetizer in the grand scheme of things.

Xia Yang slowly bent his hands and curled up. He lowered his head and did not respond to Yuan Shaozhou’s offer. Instead, he covered his drooping eyelids.

–In actuality, he wasn’t sad. He was calculating. 

Afternoon, in the milk tea shop.

After queuing for nearly two hours, the flow of people in the store finally dropped.

Zhu Tong finally had a chance to ask a question that he had been wondering for a day.

“Report? You mean, the one that surnamed Yuan told us about?” Luo Suo sat in front of the computer and said with a relaxed expression, “The investigation is over. Our raw ingredients are not a problem at all. Why would an upright body be afraid of its own shadow1?” 

Zhu Tong: “…”

So Yuan Shaozhou spent a lot of trouble running to gloat, but in the end, there’s no thunder or rain, and the sky was still clear? 

“Then… if someone is gossiping…”

“What gossip?” Luo Suo said, “The business of the milk tea shop is so good, so it must be because there’s addictive narcotics in it?” 

“…”

Zhu Tong was silent.

It’s so hot but the store was still packed to the brim. It’s not weird to doubt its popularity, right? 

“How could they say that?” A voice interjected, and he sounded offended. “My family’s business is good. It’s obviously my face that attracts people here. What does it have to do with banned ingredients?” Shao Ming said as he mixed a cup of pudding into a drink. Then, he came over and sat down beside Zhu Tong.

Zhu Tong looked at him speechlessly.

Shao Ming was definitely the most narcissistic person he knew in his life. 

–But what he said was strangely reasonable.

Didn’t the customers who came to line up in the shop today actually came because they were bewitched by Shao Ming’s face?

Shao Ming handed the milk tea in his hand to Zhu Tong, “Am I right, Mr. Deskmate?” 

Zhu Tong wanted to refuse the drink, but when his hand touched the milk tea cup, he was startled again, and looked up at Shao Ming.

Shao Ming smiled and said, “For this drink, I made it hot with less sugar. Give it a try?”

Zhu Tong: “…”

‘Why does he know that I can’t drink cold drinks? He looked careless, but he’s actually very attentive.’ 

Zhu Tong didn’t refuse anymore. He took it and thanked Shao Ming. 

As soon as he took a sip, Shao Ming asked for praise with a “How is it?”

Zhu Tong didn’t answer. He was busy immersed in the taste of the drink. The pudding was smooth, the sago’s texture was wonderful and it had a hint of milky fragrance. The temperature also enhanced the taste. 

He nodded and said, “It’s delicious.”

He rarely drank these things before, and he never understood why some people were always addicted to something as unhealthy as milk teas.

Now he seemed to understand a little bit.

He took a sip, tasted it, making his eyes lit up. He then took another small sip. He held the cup of milk tea in both hands, his face overflowing with happiness. Occasionally, he would look down at the packaging of the milk tea cup, as if he had never drunk milk tea before.

However, this idea was rejected by Shao Ming as soon as it came out.

–How could this young master, who can book a five-star hotel suit for his daily accommodation, haven’t even had milk tea?

Shao Ming smiled and shook his head.

Next to him, Luo Suo suddenly let out a loud shout. He sounded unpleasantly surprised.

Zhu Tong was so frightened that he almost choked on the sago balls. 

Shao Ming almost laughed out loud, looked at Luo Suo and said, “What are you yelling for?”

Luo Suo said with an ugly face, “Ming-ge, someone left a bad review for our shop on this food delivery platform! Shit!”

Zhu Tong was puzzled. “What bad review?”

Luo Suo replied, “If it’s a bad review that slanders our store, forget it, damn… forget it, you can read it yourself.”

He turned the computer so it faced Zhu Tong. The numerous bad reviews immediately greeted the young master’s face. 

[There’s opioids detected in the milk tea’s ingredient, why isn’t anyone aware of this? Are the customers not afraid of drug addiction? ]

[Unbelievable, the report was unsuccessful. What kind of shady deal did the shop owner and the people from the Food Administration do?]

[The owner of this store used to run a bar, but the bar was closed down, and her husband is still in jail!]

[The store owner used to be a wine girl2 even when she’s underage. And now she’s opening a milk tea shop in Congliang?] ()

[I heard she gave birth to a son and nobody knows who the father is. And this bastard is still around walking in public? Have you no shame?] 

[Maybe she even contracted STD3 a long time ago…] 

The remarks in the comment area were very unsightly, and Zhu Tong’s eyes widened in disbelief – he couldn’t imagine why these people said such vicious words. 

He subconsciously looked at Shao Ming, but was stunned.

‘Shao Ming… can still laugh?!’

idiom, the original is 身正不怕影子斜 “the upright body is not afraid of its slanted shadow”. It means that so long you do things in the honest way, there’s nothing to be afraid of.

the hostess hired to accompany people drinking in clubs.

it’s not explicitly written that the OP implied she had STD, but the context clues pointed at it. FYI, STD is sexually transmitted diseases, e.g HIV, chlamydia, etc

a slang for a character getting axed.