The Sick Villain Just Want to Live

At noon, the four people in the milk tea shop went out to have a meal together. After returning, Shao Ming and Lu Zheyu were busy in front of the computer, while Zhu Tong did the afternoon questions on the seat by the window.

After worrying all morning, Luo Suo was persuaded to stop worrying after receiving Shao Ming’s “positive reply”. He always seemed to have a kind of fanciful confidence in Shao Ming.

In the evening, Shao Ming sent Zhu Tong back to the hotel.

“Actually, I can go back by myself,” Sitting on the back seat of the bicycle, Zhu Tong could only say this. 

Shao Ming replied, “Now I’ll give you a question. Given the distance from the store to the hotel; which one is faster, walking back to the hotel at a constant speed, or speeding back with a bicycle?” 

Zhu Tong: “…” 

‘Can’t you just say your biking speed is faster?’ 

But since Shao Ming was still in the mood to joke, it seemed he really wasn’t affected. 

Arriving downstairs at the hotel, when Zhu Tong entered the hotel, he hesitated to speak.

Shao Ming, of course, noticed this. “You’ve been holding back for a day, so just say what you want.”

Zhu Tong: “…”

‘Am I that obvious?’

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A strange look flashed across his face. Zhu Tong didn’t beat around the bush, “We really have to wait for the results of the investigation regarding the milk tea shop?”

Shao Ming only smiled in return. “Otherwise? You want to help me?”

Zhu Tong was silent. Shao Ming’s guess wasn’t wrong. He was reluctant to help, because he didn’t dare to be hasty. 

He looked at Shao Ming, but before he could speak, Shao Ming interrupted him, “No need, I can handle this matter myself… Do you believe me?”

Zhu Tong: “…”

Yes?

He might have believed it. 

Thinking about what Shao Ming was busy with in the store in the afternoon, he hesitated for a moment, but still nodded.

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Shao Ming smiled with satisfaction. “Okay, go back and rest, don’t worry about me.”

Zhu Tong nodded again. He went back to the hotel, but didn’t immediately rest. He was willing to trust Shao Ming, but that doesn’t mean he’ll just lie down and do nothing. He will still help… but it’s nothing special.

He took out his cell phone and texted someone. He received the reply quickly too. 

<Young Master Cheng’s Love of Crime 2>: Hey, why is this Warrior willing to contact me today?

Zhu Tong: “…”

Cheng Chen, a member of the Cheng family, is the son of his auntie1. He started his business at the age of twenty, opened an entertainment company, and has done well in the past few years.

Ever since he found out that he transferred to another school due to illness, he gave him the title of “Warrior” without his permission.

<Zhu>: Do you know Xiao Mi?

<Young Master Cheng’s Love of Crime 2>: Xiao Mi? who?

<Zhu>: A female model.

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<Young Master Cheng’s Love of Crime 2>: I don’t know her.

<Zhu>: It doesn’t matter if you don’t know her, you know her now. Please do me a favor. 

<Young Master Cheng’s Love of Crime 2>: What’s the matter?

Zhu Tong recounted how Shao Ming’s milk tea shop was discredited.

Xiao Mi dared to slander the store, claiming their milk teas were laced with drugs. Someone must have made a deal with her. If the police wanted to investigate, someone would definitely help her fabricate some things. That’s why the investigation of this kind of incident by “insiders” might be more reliable than the police.

However, after he sent the message, it took a long time before there was a reply.

<Young Master Cheng’s Love of Crime 2>: You went to… a high school, right?

Zhu Tong: “…”

He can imagine his cousin’s questioning expression. After all, which high schooler can encounter such a bizarre thing?

Zhu Tong wanted to tell Cheng Chen that the world they lived in was already bizarre enough. But in the end, he didn’t bother to explain. He directly searched the Weibo of the marketing account on the Internet and forwarded it to him.

<Zhu>: By the way, let’s also deal with this marketing account. 

–Since the account’s owner dared to be paid for slandering others, let’s just destroy it on the way! 

It was silent for a long time again, Zhu Tong guessed that he was looking at Weibo, and was about to put down his phone when the phone screen turned on again.

<Young Master Cheng’s Love of Crime 2>: The milk tea shop you’re talking about is Shangming Milk Tea Shop? 

Zhu Tong fell speechless once again.

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‘Why is he focusing on the milk tea shop? The point is the discrediting and slander!’

He was about to type a reply when a new bubble box popped up on the chat interface.

<Young Master Cheng’s Love of Crime 2>: Got it, leave this matter to this cousin of yours. I will handle it well. 

It turned out that his cousin has such a sense of justice. After finishing this matter, Zhu Tong went directly to wash up.

On the way back from the hotel, Shao Ming met an “uninvited guest”.

Outside the homestay, a person stood at the gate of the courtyard. Shao Ming didn’t know when he came here, and the person kept looking in the direction of the homestay frequently.

When he saw the bicycle appearing in his sight, the young man visibly cheered up and got up to meet him.

“Shao Ming.”

The voice greeted him. Shao Ming looked up and frowned.

Unmoved, he went straight into the courtyard, but the young man blocked the entrance of the courtyard, so he was forced to stop.

Shao Ming stepped on the ground with one foot and the pedal with the other, looked at the person blocking the way in front, and said coldly, “What’s the matter?”

Xia Yang was about to step forward, but was fixed in place by his icy gaze.

“I…”

After a pause, Xia Yang continued, “I heard that something happened to your milk tea shop?”

He heard the news and waited here specially. Shao Ming needed his help now.

He was about to take the initiative to speak, but Shao Ming immediately claimed, “You did it?”

Xia Yang choked on pure air,  his eyes widened. “How is it possible? How could I do such a thing?”

He looked a little aggrieved as he spoke. “You… how can you accuse me of such a thing?” 

“Oh?” Shao Ming said with a hint of sarcasm, “Don’t you know that there have been many accidents in my milk tea shop? Do you know which one I’m accusing you of?” 

Xia Yang was slightly stunned.

The recent accidents in Shao Ming’s milk tea shop were almost all related to him. Because he was rejected by Shao Ming, and because he rejected others for Shao Ming’s sake, people would find trouble for Shao Ming.

–But he didn’t mean to.

He had no idea those people would do that!

“I…”

“If you’re here to apologize, I don’t need it,” Shao Ming interrupted him. He got out of the bike and planned to park it in the courtyard, “Get out of the way.”

Xia Yang refused to give way. He gritted his teeth, stepped forward, and said, “I’m here to help you. I have a way to help you solve your current troubles.” 

“…” Shao Ming wordlessly glanced at him. 

Xia Yang’s eyes brightened slightly, and he looked at him in surprise.

Instead of the reply he anticipated, Shao Ming only said, “Get out.” 

“You…”

Xia Yang’s face changed, and his heart felt cold.

When Shao Ming’s bicycle approached, he subconsciously stepped back to the side. Seeing Shao Ming passing him by, but he didn’t dare to reach out to stop him.

Standing at the gate of the courtyard, he clenched his hands and shouted at Shao Ming’s back, “I will definitely help you!”

Shao Ming’s expression was slightly cold when he heard Xia Yang’s footsteps running away behind him.

After parking the bicycle, he turned and went back to his room. As soon as he reached the door, his cell phone rang. Shao Ming took it out and looked at it. There was a string of unfamiliar numbers.

He suddenly smiled, swiped to answer, “Hello.”

The voice on the phone was full of suppressed anger, pronouncing every word with gritted teeth. “Shao! Ming!”

Shao Ming opened the door with ease, voice mocking and light. “What? You failed the bidding?”

The person on the phone replied in a chilling tone, “You are really good at it, I underestimated you.”

Shao Ming replied, “Where am I good at? It’s all your own doing, I am just an ordinary high school student, how can I compare with your skills? I just got a little help from others, that’s all.” 

The person only said his previous statement casually. He didn’t expect Shao Ming to reply like that. He was stunned for a while, before his voice started to bellow loudly, “It really is you?!”

Shao Ming replied slowly, “It’s me. You did it on the first day of the New Year and I did it on the fifteenth. Reciprocity is fair, isn’t it?” 

“Shao Ming!” The man said sharply, “I’m your father! You actually helped outsiders deal with your own father!”

The word “father” made Shao Ming sneer. The word disgusts him. “Father? Isn’t this just your self-proclaimed title?” 

“You…”

“Stop thinking about it, or you will regret it!” 

After finishing speaking, Shao Ming hung up the phone and blocked the number. He then opened his WeChat and found that he received a money transfer.

[Your proposal is very successful. I look forward to our next cooperation.]

Shao Ming pursed his lips and smiled, accepting his payment graciously.

On the other side, Xia Yang confidently contacted a small-time celebrity he knew and asked someone to speak up for Shao Ming.

As a result, he hit a wall as soon as he opened his mouth.

“Drugs? How can this kind of thing be clarified casually? Young Master Yang, are you trying to kill me? I can’t do this, you can find someone else.”

Xia Yang: “…”
 

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