The Sick Villain Just Want to Live

CW: past attempted rape (not on main character)

In the hospital, Yuan Shaozhou was sitting on his bed. He was on the phone with someone, full of anger. 

“The accounts has been hacked? Damn, you guys are doing black accounts? How shitty are your security to have all your accounts hacked? Do you think I’m stupid?” 

The person on the phone stated some excuses. Hearing it, Yuan Shaozhou yelled “Fuck” again before ending the call, almost smashed his phone at the end.

Soon his phone rang again, he opened it impatiently, and saw the “evidence” sent by the other. 

It was a picture showing the pop-up prompt displayed on the account owner’s screen when the logged in: [Cyber police is watching you!] 

Yuan Shaozhou: “…”

<Yuan Shaozhou>: What the fuck does this string of English mean?

There was a quick reply: This translates into “The cyber police is watching you” 

Yuan Shaozhou: “…”

He didn’t understand. He just wanted to teach Shao Ming a lesson, why was it so fucking troublesome?

He couldn’t physically fight, but now he wanted to play tricks, but someone would always jump out to help Shao Ming.

Who was this hacker? 

Yuan Shaozhou looked at the pop-up window with red eyes, extremely unwilling to eat another lose. 

‘Heh, isn’t this just a one-instance thing? Let’s see how many accounts you can stop!’ 

He opened a link, found a forum account of a student from his school who usually fawned over him, and logged in on the campus forum.

The person hired by money was unreliable, so he would do it himself!

What he did was exactly the same – spreading rumors about Shao Ming’s milk tea shop. 

The eye-catching title and attractive content quickly sparked heated discussions on the forum. After posting it, he quickly found someone to spread it more on the forum.

[The Study God’s family’s milk tea shop used ingredients mixed with poppy powder? No way?]

[I’ve been to their milk tea shop. It’s so bad I almost vomited. I don’t know why the business is so good.]

[I don’t know anything else, but the fact that Shao Ming’s mother was a wine girl and that she gave birth to him when she was 18 didn’t spread in junior high school? Does anyone still not know?]

[It’s not the first time they did this kind of crime. Shao Ming’s previous business was seized because of drugs. Isn’t it only routine for him to mix some opioids in milk tea now?]

There were a bunch of posts below that attack Shao Ming personally.

There were still some who speak for Shao Ming, but compared with a group of malicious slanders, their combat effectiveness was still inferior.

Yuan Shaozhou scrolled through the comments with satisfaction, and shared the post with Xia Yang.

But when he returned to the forum, the phone screen showed that the post had disappeared.

Why did the post disappear?

Who deleted his post?!

Yuan Shaozhou immediately planned to make a WeChat call to someone he knew in the student union, but the call was automatically hung up as soon as the call was made.

His screen showed: [No network detected] 

Yuan Shaozhou: “???”

He even used his phone’s data, and his signal should be fucking fine. So how could it be that he couldn’t connect to any network? 

Looking at the upper left corner of the screen, the signal bar showed… a small but striking white cross.

No signal.

Yuan Shaozhou: “…”

In the hotel, Zhu Tong was thanking the principal via chat. 

<Principal>: No need to thank me. The campus forum was originally set up for students to exchange knowledge and learn. There has been a severe oversight on monitoring for a long time. If you don’t remind me, I don’t know that the forum has become so vitriol! It must be shut down for rectification!

Zhu Tong simply replied and turned off the phone.

If the school forum was closed, those who wanted to gossip would not be able to find a battlefield for the time being.

As for Zhu Tong himself, he just needed to busy himself with finishing his homework. He also opened up his math mock test and physics workbook. 

After studying for a while, a coffee cup suddenly appeared on the table.

Uncle Liu put the coffee in front of him and asked in confusion, “Young Master, why do you want me to install signal jammers in that boy’s hospital ward?” 

Zhu Tong raised his head and said, “Have you already installed it?”

“Of course, I will take care of what you ordered as soon as possible.”

Zhu Tong nodded without explaining, and then said, “Then can you help me with another matter? Have those gangsters sent to the police station that day been released? “

Speaking of those gangsters who almost bullied his young master, Uncle Liu’s face darkened immediately. “Of course not.” 

‘If they dared to bully my young master, unless they completely reform themselves from the inside, they will never see the sun outside!’

Zhu Tong unhurriedly turned over the math mock test, and said calmly, “Then you go and fish them out now.”

Uncle Liu: “???”

“Oh, can I meet them also?” 

Uncle Liu: “!!!”

“How can I do that? Young Master, how many times have I told you that you can’t do such a dangerous thing…”

Zhu Tong interrupted him softly, “You can accompany me. I believe you won’t let them hurt me.”

“…”

Uncle Liu was so moved that he carried himself away.

‘How many days? How many days has the young master been in Gongshui County?’

This was the first time the young master agreed to bring him by his side!

Uncle Liu didn’t even ask why. He simply thought that Zhu Tong was too kind.

 He nodded and said, “Alright, I will go now.”

The door of the room was closed, and Zhu Tong glanced at the direction of the People’s Hospital through the floor-to-ceiling windows, then lowered his head and continued to do the math questions.

After picking out the questions he could do, he took a photo of the questions he couldn’t solve and sent it to Shao Ming.

It was completely dark outside, and yet, outside of the milk tea shop was still very lively. 

In the milk tea shop, Shao Ming put on his work clothes again, and at night, the shop became busy again.

Luo Suo was still sitting in front of the computer at the counter, and according to Shao Ming’s request, he sorted out the evidence he had collected since junior high school – it was of Yuan Shaozhou’s bullying, abusing classmates, even bribery of teachers so they would let him do whatever he wanted in school. 

This evidence alone was not enough to make Yuan Shaozhou receive any strong punishment.

It could be collected together to rally public opinion, but for that reason, it was enough.

The reason why Yuan Shaozhou was able to act recklessly in No. 1 Middle School was that he had an uncle who was the deputy director of the Education Bureau – a high ranking public official. 

From junior high school to high school, he helped Yuan Shaozhou clean up a lot of messes.

Yuan Shaozhou’s parents were considered wealthy in Gongshui County. Every time Yuan Shaozhou made a mistake, they never held their son accountable. They would only find the victim and solve it with money in private.

As long as the victim did not pursue the matter, the school would do nothing to Yuan Shaozhou – after all, their reputation wasn’t tarnished, so why would they kick out a very generous “income”? 

–But if you do too many bad things, the ship will always capsize in the end.

While tidying up, Luo Suo said angrily, “Damn it, Yuan Shaozhou dared to force a girl to open a room1“opening a room” is a euphemism for having sex, as in “renting a hotel room”. So… YSZ basically attempted to rape a girl. when he was in junior high school! They didn’t even send him to the juvenile detention center after he failed his fucking attempt?!” 

Shao Ming only glanced at him, his gaze undecipherable. 

Luo Suo continued, “It’s cheap for a person like this to be sent to juvenile prison! Ming-ge, in my fucking honest opinion, it’s not enough just to beat him twice. Before sending him to prison, let’s find a chance to sack2as in, covering his head with a sack and beating him up, so he didn’t know who beat him up. It has the implication that the beating is very severe, so they need to cover their identity. him once?” 

But Shao Ming said, “Do you think he needs to be beaten?”

Luo Suo: “…”

Someone like Yuan Shaozhou who was not strong enough but was very aggressive pointed out that he actually got a lot of physical beatings from his enemies. So, it was only logical that such a method wouldn’t deter him in the slightest. 

He has troubled Shao Ming so many times, directly and indirectly, without success once, but he never gave up.

To some extent, he was very persistent. 

“Tsk,” Luo Suo scoffed with a deep frown, took his mobile phone and clicked on the forum, wanting to see the development of “public opinion” on the forum.

Then he let out a surprised “Huh”.

Shao Ming looked at him questioningly.

Luo Suo showed him his phone, saying, “The school forum has been shut down for rectification. Ming-ge, I didn’t expect you to have suitors in the student union?”

Shao Ming: “…”

He didn’t know anyone in the student union.

Was this a coincidence?

The school rectified the forum, not early or late, but when Yuan Shaozhou was targeting him?

But this was not the first time Yuan Shaozhou has targeted him. In the past, Yuan Shaozhou was domineering on the forum. Why didn’t the school handle it so efficiently?

Looking at the closed forum interface, Shao Ming suddenly thought of someone.

Suddenly, his phone vibrated continuously, and Shao Ming picked it up and looked at it. It directly curled up the corner of his mouth. 

<Shao>: Can’t solve the problem?

<Zhu>: Yup. 

<Shao>: The deadline isn’t tomorrow, so I’ll teach you tomorrow at school. 

After a pause there, he got a reply, agreeing on his proposal. 

Shao Ming stared at his profile picture for a while, thinking, ‘Could it be Zhu Tong?’

A customer approaching the counter interrupted his thoughts.

While Shao Ming was busy in the store, Zhu Tong went downstairs directly after receiving the message from Uncle Liu.

In the hotel’s underground parking lot, the older man finished a secret transaction with a certain group of gangsters. 

Early the next morning, Yuan Shaozhou ignored the doctor’s earnest dissuasion, and forced his father to find someone to handle the discharge procedures for him.

He was so bored that he was about to explode after getting no connection all night!

‘Why is there no signal in such a good hospital?’

What’s even more weird was that only the ward where he lived had no signal!

No matter how he asked the nurse to change the ward, “No Signal” followed him like a shadow. It’s like being haunted!

After he was discharged from the hospital, he couldn’t wait to find a place with a signal to open the school forum.

He wanted to see how Shao Ming was ruined now!

As soon as he thought of the insults against Shao Ming on the forum, he felt relieved and excited, and even the place where Shao Ming stepped on did not hurt. But when he opened the forum, he only saw a row of announcements: 

[The forum will be closed for rectification from now on, and the recovery time will be notified later.]

Yuan Shaozhou: “…”

He quickly dialed the number of a member of the student union, but the call was not connected when he was suddenly surrounded by several people. Mixed among them were familiar faces. 

The leader walked towards Yuan Shaozhou slowly, with a lit cigarette sandwiched between his teeth. “Young Master Yuan, I haven’t seen you for a long time, what’s wrong? Do you remember us, your brothers3兄弟, xiongdi; brothers without clear seniority.?” 

Yuan Shaozhou was surprised when he saw these people. He wondered outloud, “Why did you come out?”

These were the gangsters he brought in to teach Zhu Tong a lesson. He tried to bail them out several times, but couldn’t succeed. After several failed attempts, he didn’t care about them anymore. 

–So why are they bailed out now? 

The gangster sneered, “Yeah, I’m also curious about how we got out?”

Yuan Shaozhou frowned suddenly. 

Then, he saw a few gangsters take out wooden sticks and steel pipes in their hands.

His pupils constricted immediately, falling into a state of panic. “What do you want to do?”

The gangster in the lead stretched the metal rod in his hand, until it was long enough to be a staff. Then, he approached Yuan Shaozhou, step by step. “Young Master Yuan, you used to be kind to your brothers, so I will not hide it from you. Someone paid you to go to the hospital. Look, I’m giving you a choice: are you going back to the hospital by yourself, or are we sending you back in?”

Yuan Shaozhou stepped back, feeling dread seeping in his heart. 

‘Paid me to go to the hospital? What does it mean?’ 

He suddenly thought of the “no signal” on his phone – it didn’t hurt, it was akin to an itch he couldn’t scratch that went on for the whole night. Suddenly, something clicked. He widened his eyes in astonishment and stammered, “Who? Who asked you to do this? Di-Did you also install the signal jammer in the hospital yesterday?!”

“Hey, there is also a signal jammer? Rich people have so many tricks!” One of the gangsters exclaimed in surprise. 

‘Rich people…’ 

He was sensitive to this kind of “caste”, so he never provoked rich people. In this county, his family’s standing was quite high, so he had a lot of say – simply put, if he put people in jail, others wouldn’t be able to bail them out, and vice versa.

But in the case of this group of gangsters….

Who was rich and he had bothered before? 

Yuan Shaozhou’s face paled. “It’s Zhu Tong! Zhu Tong asked you to do this?”

The gangsters had already raised their sticks.

Yuan Shaozhou finally panicked, “How much money did he gave you? I will give you double… Ah!”

The gangster sneered. “I’m sorry, Young Master Yuan, I’m afraid you can’t afford the money that man gave us!”

Before he finished speaking, a long stick hit Yuan Shaozhou’s shoulder directly.

On the street in the early morning, a howl resounded through the sky.

“Fuck, he’s too miserable. His nose is bruised and his face is swollen. I didn’t dare to look at him when I passed by.” 

“Heh, he deserves it all! It’s retribution, I tell you! I wish someone could teach him a lesson, and now, my wish has come true!” 

“Who the hell did that to him? Wasn’t those gangsters inside Yuan Shaozhou’s pocket before?” 

“Who knew? He was lawless in school, so it was inevitable he kicked the iron plate4provoke someone he shouldn’t.! Evil people will be punished by evil people, right!” 

“Then how is Yuan Shaozhou doing now ? Is he okay?”

“What else can he do? He’s hospitalized again, this time the injury is much worse than when Study God attacked him. He basically needed at least 10 days of recuperation!” 

In the school after breakfast, the students were all discussing the wonders they saw outside the school today.

After the gangsters beat Yuan Shaozhou up, they didn’t send him directly to the hospital, but showed him at the school gate until the first class in the morning.

Almost every student who went out to eat breakfast watched Yuan Shaozhou’s tragic state after he was seriously injured.