Tit For Tat (Beloved Enemy) - Chap 111
GuQingPei’s voice shook, “YuanYang, are you crying?” He could feel YuanYang’s body trembling and even slight wetness on his shoulders, not knowing if it was just his imagination.
“Nonsense,” YuanYang spoke very softly.
GuQingPei lifted his hand anxiously to touch YuanYang’s hair. Struggling for a long time, he finally spitted out the words, “I’m fine.”
YuanYang didn’t speak. His nose rubbed against GuQingPei’s neck, continuing to hug GuQingPei tightly, refusing to let go.
GuQingPei faintly muttered, “What did you do to that person?”
“Crippled him,” YuanYang succinctly replied.
“Don’t cause real trouble…”
“You don’t need to care about it,” YuanYang closed his eyes and deeply breathed in GuQingPei’s scent, gradually emerging from that violent state and slowly calming down, “I’ll handle it. Don’t worry.” He snuffed his nose and finally sat up. His eyes turning red as he looked at GuQingPei’s head that was hastily wrapped in gauze with his face bruised.
He urged the driver, “Drive faster, how long before we reach the hospital?”
“Still four to five kilometers.”
“Hurry up,” YuanYang didn’t dare to touch GuQingPei’s swollen face nor his blood matted hair. When he reached his hand out, he didn’t know where to put it. His expression exuding an indescribable level of pain.
GuQingPei grabbed his hand, “It’s okay. I’m really fine, just a bit dizzy.”
YuanYang’s voice is hoarse, “Now you know why I need to watch over you?” Ever since LiuQiang broke into their home and took away his laptop, he began to worry about GuQingPei’s safety. If a man can’t even protect his person, he’d be too useless. Now looking at GuQingPei’s head wrapped in gauze, his swollen face looking so exhausted, YuanYang really wanted to fiercely whip himself to death.
He would not let anyone who dared to hurt GuQingPei go. But, the person that he should never have spared is himself. Everything stemmed from the video. If there is no such video, nothing would have happened. GuQingPei would not have been humiliated. He would not have left him and there would not have been today’s scene.
No matter how much he resents GuQingPei for leaving him, he was only finding an excuse for himself. In fact, the person he hated the most…is himself, his former crude and impulsive, disappointing self.
GuQingPei furrowed his brows, “That is not your reason for spying on me. Nobody wants to be spied on.”
YuanYang nestled his hand behind GuQingPei’s head to prevent it from bumping in the car due to the bouncy ride, “I don’t want to argue with you right now, we’ll talk about this when your injury taken care of.”
GuQingPei sighed. He also didn’t want to say any more.
The car soon arrived at the hospital. YuanYang supported GuQingPei into the emergency room.
GuQingPei’s wounds were cared for very poorly. Now that the blood is matted onto his hair in lumps, there is a complete mess covering the wound. To treat this, his hair must be shaved. This made GuQingPei extremely depressed. He is a person who pays a great attention to his personal image so having to leave the house bald will make him crazy. But he had no other way than to let the nurse shave off his hair. Seeing his falling hair, GuQingPei’s expression was awful.
YuanYang’s eyes stared behind GuQingPei’s head, until a ghastly outline of a half-fingered long wound is fully exposed. His eyes became stormy and his hands clenched into fists. Even when he first met GuQingPei and hated him to the extremes, not once did he use his fist on him. Not because of anything else but because GuQingPei’s refined and graceful mannerism is not suitable to use physical force. After he fucked GuQingPei, he was even less likely to hurt him. Using the fist on his own person, what kind of man is that? He never thought that under his control, GuQingPei would get so frightened and hurt. He simply wished he could bite off the security guard’s flesh piece by piece.
Because the wound was stained with blood and hair, the nurse scrubbed it with alcohol for a long time. So painful, that GuQingPei furrowed his face. He was too embarrassed to say anything as sweat from his forehead cascaded down his cheek.
YuanYang held his hand, feeling so much pain that he didn’t know what to do. YuanYang had asserted GuQingPei to be his wife. If GuQingPei was to even lose a strand of hair, it would be a cause of concern for him… yet now he is beaten to this state.
YuanYang thought of what he found out from the security guard’s mouth earlier, his expression became incomparably gloomy. He must make the masked instigator pay the price.
After taking care of the head wound, GuQingPei touched his head in a self-ridiculing manner, “With this, I don’t need to go out and see people.”
YuanYang softly uttered, “You’re not a woman, why does it matter whether you have hair or not.”
“Man also needs to have face.” GuQingPei was feeling a bit restless. Everything that he had experienced in the past two days made him afraid. Now that he is safe and sound, his whole body is infinitely exhausted. Just by closing his eyes, he felt like he could fall asleep.
YuanYang pulled him up from the chair, “Let’s go home and sleep.”
As GuQingPei was taken to the car, his eyelids began to droop. Unconsciously he fell asleep on YuanYang.
The next day, GuQingPei woke up in YuanYang’s home. At the time, he was too lazy to pick a place. When he got to YuanYang’s bed, he fell into a deep slumber.
When he woke up the next day, he took a shower and began to clearly analyze the entire situation.
“The security guard is absolutely directed by someone, this can be concluded from many of the details.”
YuanYang was in the middle of sending a text message as he lowered his head to make an ‘oh’ sound.
GuQingPei knocked on the table, “Do you know something about this?”
YuanYang raised his head and glanced at him.
GuQingPei also looked at him seriously, “If someone directed him, then it proves that there are still people who want to take advantage of my photos. So whatever you know, I should also know.”
YuanYang sternly murmured, “Do you know the company DianSheng?”
“I know.”
“Then do you know who their boss is?”
“Never had contact.”
“At the auction last time, sitting next to WangJin is the guy surnamed Xue. WangJin called him Chairman Xue.”
“Him?” GuQingPei remembered the man. At that time, YuanYang had walked over. He had heard this Chairman Xue whispering sarcastically blunt words. This is an extremely rude person. At the time when WangJin introduced the man, he had said that he is the president of the Asia-Pacific Financial Cooperation Association. This kind of shady Asia-China global associations come and go. The name is loud but there aren’t many that are legitimate. Most if not are defrauding fools, then it is used for tax evasion. At the time, this Chairman Xue obviously was not getting along with YuanYang, so he instinctively had some loathing. So much that he didn’t even leave his business card.
“Yes, he is a major shareholder of Diansheng. This time he wanted to use Yunnan’s mineral resources as investment for the Worker’s labor credit union. His offer at 15% of the shares. Initially, my dad was tempted. But I discovered that the mine had been penalized by the government for unlicensed mining and the process of applying for a mining permit was still pending with the EIA, adding on there is also legal disputes. This is a messy project. Later, the Secretary-General lowered the shares to 5% regardless of whether he took it or not. Most likely, this made him furious.”
GuQingPei pondered for a moment, “I’m afraid this is not the end of this.”
“This will be.” YuanYang lowly replied, “I talked to him on the phone this morning. I have a way to resolve this, “
“What method do you want to use again? YuanYang, don’t tell me that I don’t need to get care about this, this is also my own business. Not to mention, letting you resolve this, can you really solve it? If you really could, why is my head bandaged?”
YuanYang clenched his teeth. He looked at GuQingPei and faintly asked, “Will you hate me a lifetime for that video?” He had attempted to eliminate the influence of this video from GuQingPei’s heart. But he knew that he could make never make those pictures disappear completely. He thought that as long as he was powerful enough, he could hold up an umbrella for GuQingPei, but there are always raindrops that would inadvertently leaked in. This he can’t do much about.
GuQingPei is startled as he lowered his head and responded hoarsely, “The things that happened in the past, I would have pretended that it didn’t happen if nobody had mentioned it.”
If nobody mentions it… but he had only returned for three to four months and so many things had already happened.
YuanYang wiped his face, “I will be responsible for resolving anything relating to that video, no matter at what cost. GuQingPei, even if…. if you were to blame me for a lifetime, I will never stop caring for you.”
GuQingPei sighed, “I don’t have the time to blame anyone for a lifetime. Whatever problem arises, I just want to find a solution, not create even more problems. Now tell me, how do you plan to deal with this Chairman Xue?”
“I have something that he wants in my hands. I’ll give it to him.”
YuanYang said it so lightly, it could not be the credit union shares right? GuQingPei feels that the stake in this must be very big. He said, “This can’t be the credit union shares, right?”
“No, that must not be given to him.” That was the chip he showed to his dad.
GuQingPei sighed, “If you don’t want to say, then forget it. It’s getting more and more difficult to communicate with you. I’m going to go back first. Monday is the day to sign the contract, see you then.”
YuanYang stood up and voiced behind him to stop him, “I want to ask you something.”
GuQingPei did not turn his head back but lowered his head to wear his shoes, “Ask.”
“In these two years …. have you ever thought of me?”
GuQingPei’s body lightly paused, then calmly responded, “I have.”
“Thought of what?”
“Thought…. of the good things.” GuQingPei looked at YuanYang indifferently, “No other meaning. I’ve only thought of the good things to make myself feel better.”
Surely with the phase, ‘No other meaning,’ YuanYang revealed an arduous smile. When the two had initially reunited after two years, he had wanted to hold this man tightly in his arms and tell him how much he had missed him. But he didn’t, because what he expected was the same cold indifference and rejection from two years ago because GuQingPei had ‘no other meaning (affections)’ toward him.
Yet, he still tried hard to do what he thinks he needed to do. No matter what the outcome is, he never intended to give up on his things.
Looking at GuQingPei, his chest suppressing endless intensive desires. How much he loves GuQingPei is how much hate he has for him.
GuQingPei says softly, “I’m leaving.”
The moment he got out of YuanYang’s home, GuQingPei finally felt that he could breathe smoothly, as if the hand that was gripping his throat had let go.
Every moment that he spent with YuanYang had been suffocating. He felt that the two of them have entered an inexplicable dead end, where neither could escape. He could not fully grasp onto YuanYang’s ambiguous attitude, sometimes contemptuously teasing him, but sometimes treating him as though he still had feelings for him, not letting him go on one hand, yet parading his girlfriend around the social circles on the other hand. YuanYang’s repeated attitude of just plainly messing with him made GuQingPei even more cautious and alert. Maybe even now, this shrewd YuanYang is playing him.
All the suffering that he had endured from YuanYang is enough for him to remember a lifetime. He must be on guard every step of the way in order to not be confused and to maintain clarity under YuanYang’s puzzling ambiguous attitude.
He’s already at a this age. If he still continue to involve himself in this unclear relationship with a man 11 years younger than him and lose his dignity and his job, what is he going to do?
These foolish things, only going through once in a lifetime is enough.
The two people, separated from a door, their hearts are blocked by an entire wall.
