My Perfect Enemy is Finally Broke Novel - Chap 78
Chapter 78
In the restaurant. Popular variety shows are playing on the large central TV.
The TVs in restaurants are usually for decoration, but today they were surprisingly busy, with many customers looking up from time to time.
Ji Wei didn’t move the steak in front of him, and kept his eyes on the TV.
”They are together.” After a while, he said this.
Xu Lin didn’t react at all and put the cut steak in front of him in exchange for his share.
”I saw it with my own eyes——”
”I know.” Xu Lin responded calmly.
”I checked.” Ji Wei took a sip of water, “They are not in a relationship, they are in a nurturing relationship.”
”Not necessarily.” Xu Lin picked up the towel and wiped his hands, “Eat, and go back after eating.”
Ji Weida paused: “Where are you going back to?”
”Where else can we go back?” Xu Lin smiled, “Of course, back to your home.”
”I said, I won’t go back until the matter is thoroughly investigated.” Ji Wei swallowed a piece of beef.
”But that’s your family’s business.” Xu Lin said in a normal tone, “It has nothing to do with your fiancée. She is a very good woman and should not be implicated in your family’s grudges. What will she do if you run away from your marriage?”
Ji Weidao: “I don’t like her. I only agreed after listening to my father’s words.”
Now that he has discovered that the person he has always admired may not match his image in his mind, how can he still act according to the other person’s words?
”Ji Wei.” Xu Lin stopped his knife and fork and looked up at him, “You are a human being, not a puppet.”
”No one forced you to do anything you did before, you did it yourself.”
Ji Weidao: “I know, I will make it up to her.”
Xu Lin had nothing to say. He wiped his mouth with a tissue, nodded and said, “Then you eat slowly, I’ll go back first.”
Ji Wei immediately raised his head: “Where are you going?”
”Going home, of course.”
”What about me?” Ji Wei asked.
”Go back to the hotel to sleep, or go home… it’s your freedom.” Xu Lin stood up and said goodbye to him, “If there is nothing necessary in the future, I think we don’t need to contact you.”
Ji Wei looked at Xu Lin’s back, his heart was heavy and he couldn’t explain what he felt.
During this time, he seemed to have been looking at this person’s back.
Be decisive and never look back.
Xu Lin used to treat him very gently and never gave him a cold face.
He endured the discomfort in his heart and threw the knife and fork aside, making a noise.
People around him looked at him, but he didn’t care at all. He picked up his mobile phone and made a call.
It took a long time for the other end to pick up.
”What are you doing?” You can hear the other party’s impatience.
”Ji Ran, let’s meet.” Ji Weidao, “I have something important to ask you.”
Ji Ran didn’t even think about it: “No, I don’t have time to talk to you. Don’t call me, we don’t know each other that well.”
After Ji Ran finished speaking, he hung up the phone, threw the phone aside, and continued to stare at the iPad in front of the pillow.
The phone rolled a few times on the quilt with his strength. Just when it was about to fall to the floor, a big hand caught it firmly and put it on the bedside table.
Qin Man leaned close to him: “Are you still watching?”
Ji Ran hugged the pillow and looked at the screen with a dark face.
He had just watched it once, and now he was watching it a second time, and specially opened the barrage.
The previous barrage almost took up the entire screen, so he had no choice but to watch the non-barrage version first.
He thought about it at first, and it didn’t matter even if the variety show filmed them. Qin Man didn’t confess to him at that time, and the communication between them should have been normal. Can’t figure out where the fire point is?
Until he met one of the most rejuvenated professions in today’s society-editor.
When He Suiran came to see him guessing, the photographer took a close-up of Qin Man. Qin Man was looking at him at that time, with four big characters “P” in the middle: “can’t take his eyes off”.
Then when it came to the dialogue of “Can you do it?” and “Why can’t I do it?”, the editor added an ambiguous “wow” sound effect.
Then it was when Qin Man was wrestling with his arms.
He put an arrow on Ji Ran’s face and wrote “Nervously cheering secretly”.
In the end, Qin Man won the arm-wrestle and eagerly asked him for gifts. The scene was also captured by the other party’s camera.
The total footage they appear in takes less than ten minutes.
It happened to be in these ten minutes that the number of barrage reached its highest climax in the entire film.
[What kind of fairy farmhouse is this? Are all the guests so handsome? ? 】
[Ah ah ah these two guys are wearing couple’s outfits! 】
[The two people sitting on the right are also very handsome. I couldn’t tell who was a celebrity and who was an amateur at once… I suspected it was someone arranged by the show crew, and he was probably going to make his debut soon! 】
[I… I know these people… I suggest you be cautious when investing in stocks. 】
[The little brother in white and the little brother in black look alike. The little brother in white has gentle eyes. There is definitely something fishy! 】
[…Why didn’t you say that He Suiran looked at the little brother in white with tenderness in his eyes? Don’t mention it, He Suiran grew up abroad, so it’s not surprising that he likes men. You are eating white clothes and black clothes, why not eat white clothes and He Suiran! 】
[I must say that the editor is very understanding! The black T guy is so cute in his coquettish style. 】
What a fucking couple costume.
They were just wearing T-shirts.
Seeing that the scene between him and Qin Man was once again covered with pink bubbles, he had already hammered the editor into pieces in his heart.
Is this considered infringement? This crappy program put them on TV without even saying hello to them beforehand?
He picked up his phone and was about to send a message to Yue Wenwen. I saw the person next to me suddenly stretched out my hand.
Then clicked a like on a certain barrage.
[Don’t be a cult, it’s better to be black and white, He Suiran doesn’t have any sense of CP with anyone. 】
Ji Ran clapped his hand: “If you know what it means, just like it…”
”I know.” Qin Man said, “We are right.”
”Whoever competes with you, don’t flatter yourself.” Ji Ran’s ears warmed up, “You are the one who competes with me!”
Ji Ran called Yue Wenwen, but he couldn’t get through. He was probably hanging out in some bar.
He had no choice but to give up and plan to contact him again tomorrow morning.
Qin Man took out his mobile phone and downloaded the video from the APP. When I raised my eyes, I saw a sentence floating on the barrage.
[Are all those who accept their husbands serious? The one in white clothes on the screen is Zhao Qingtong’s son who was revealed some time ago. 】
Ji Ran locked the screen of his phone and raised his head to continue insulting the editor when his iPad was suddenly pushed hard and fell straight onto the bed sheet, with the entire screen invisible.
”Stop looking, come and change my medicine?” Qin Man asked.
Ji Ran threw the iPad on the bedside table without much hesitation. He had no interest in variety shows, and celebrities had no filter in his eyes. He didn’t want to waste time watching a few adults play games.
At four o’clock in the morning, Ji Ran was woken up by the ringing of the phone.
He was so sleepy that he even forgot to say: “Hello?”
”Are you convenient now?” The unknown caller said the voice was Cheng Peng.
Cheng Peng has always done things in a measured manner. There is nothing urgent and he will not call him in the middle of the night.
”Yes.” Ji Ran sat up, rubbed his eyes, and asked, “What’s wrong?”
”Come pick me up.” Cheng Peng said in a tired voice, “By the way, have a supper with me.”
Ji Ran felt something was wrong and asked, “Where are you?”
”Police station.”
After hanging up the phone, Ji Ran got out of bed without thinking. A long hand hugged him from behind, and the man’s voice was sleepy: “Where are you going?”
”Pick Cheng Peng, something happened to him.” Ji Ran opened his hand and stood up to put on his pants.
”I go with you.”
”No.” Ji Ran paused, “This is not a good thing. Cheng Peng may not want too many people to know about it. You are waiting for me at home.”
”I’ll buy you breakfast.”
Qin Man squinted at him, and finally said: “Drive carefully.”
——
Cheng Peng was detained for 72 hours on suspicion of illegally detaining others.
The person who reported him was a relative of Chen An.
Only three hours after they left the bar that night, the police came to arrest them.
Ji Ran paid the fee with a dark face, and Cheng Peng walked out. His clothes and hairstyle were sloppy. He had known Cheng Peng for so long, and this was the first time he had seen him look so dishonorable.
He immediately became angry: “Where is that piece of shit?”
When the police heard this, his expression changed: “What are you doing? Are you trying to find trouble with others at the police station?”
”It’s okay.” Cheng Peng said, “Let’s go out and say… is the car coming?”
When they got to the car, the two of them were silent for a long time.
Ji Ran was completely awake. He was not good at comforting people and couldn’t find anything to say for a long time.
Cheng Peng asked: “Is there any smoke?”
”Yes… no.” Remembering that he gave all the cigarettes to Lao Xing, Ji Ran pinched his eyebrows and asked, “Do you want an e-cigarette?”
Cheng Peng smiled: “Forget it.”
Ji Ran stopped at the roadside, got out of the car and brought a pack of cigarettes to Cheng Peng. It’s almost five o’clock, and the breakfast shop is almost open, let alone late night snacks. The two of them had nowhere to go, so they simply sat in the car.
Ji Ran asked: “Why should I lock you up for 72 hours? What exactly does Chen An want to do?”
That little stutterer seemed submissive, but I didn’t expect him to be so courageous.
”It’s the company that snatched the land from me. We had a falling out over a project before. They were prepared for it, but I didn’t react at once. The auction was spent.” Cheng Peng blew out the smoke and said, “Forget it. It’s only been three days, and nothing happened to me in there.”
Seeing his dejected look, Ji Ran knew that the other person was not suffering because of the detention, or even because of the land.
The two have known each other for so many years, and this is the first time he has seen Cheng Peng be so interested in his young lover.
”I’ve long thought something was wrong with him.” Cheng Peng suddenly said, “Last week, I caught him talking on the phone with someone else, and what he said was a little strange. But I just thought it was because we were quarreling recently, so I subconsciously became overly concerned… It seems that I have lived too comfortably these years and never thought about this.”
Ji Ran pursed his lips and said after a while: “If you are reluctant, I will help you deal with him.”
”Don’t.” Cheng Peng said, “I don’t want to dirty your hands with my own affairs. I will handle it.”
That night, Chen An came to him with a blushing face, saying that he wanted to have some excitement.
Chen An was always the one who took the responsibility in bed. This was the first time he took the initiative. Cheng Peng didn’t think much, took the rope and tied up his hands.
In the past few days, Chen An said that he was not feeling well and did not even go to school. He stayed at home.
Then the police came in and handcuffed him.
Cheng Peng had never been so embarrassed before and laughed angrily.
He still remembered that before he left, Chen An was sitting on the bed, crying as if he was the one who was taken away.
Ji Ran clicked his tongue and interrupted his thoughts: “Okay, let’s learn a lesson and gain wisdom. What kind of sincerity can money buy?”
Cheng Peng laughed: “Don’t you feel your face hurt when you say this yourself? If this matter were left to you and Qin Man, wouldn’t you be in trouble?”
”Yes.” Ji Ran answered without hesitation.
After a while, he took out the e-cigarette and played with it in the palm of his hand without smoking. “But I won’t be like you, lost and heartbroken. How embarrassing.”
Cheng Peng glanced sideways, took a deep look at him, and then laughed: “Then I am indeed not as good as you.”
Ji Ran smiled back at him and looked out the window calmly, with no emotion in his eyes.
Compared to Cheng Peng, he was already prepared.
One day Qin Man really tricked him, then he could pat down his clothes and climb out of the pit neatly.
