Chapter 18: If You Don’t Get Me, I’ll Jump into the River

Sixteen or seventeen-year-old boys are at the age of unrestrained indulgence. Some play racing, some play with women, some smoke, get tattoos, and pierce their lips. Shen Yu, however, kept a little girl by his side.

Everyone knew he treated this younger sister like the apple of his eye, spoiling her beyond measure, giving her whatever she wanted and taking her everywhere.

The little trash that the Song family didn’t want was raised by him like a little princess.

When Shuangxu talked to Lu Manman about those abandoned pasts, she didn’t feel sad at all. The trauma she suffered in her original family was compensated for by Shen Yu.

What made her sad was that she felt she was on a path that forced her to lose Shen Yu, being pushed forward, unable to stop.

Sometimes she would doubt herself, wondering if she had read too many love letters written to Shen Yu by those girls, infected by the virus hidden in the words. Otherwise, how could she like her own brother?

When she was abandoned by the whole world, it was Shen Yu who picked her up.

What would she do if one day even Shen Yu abandoned her?

She sat on the bench by the bridge and blew the wind for a while. The wind became stronger, making her hair messy.

If only she could wake up and go back to her childhood.

It would be best not to grow up.

A black sports car sped past her, then slowly backed up.

The honking horn woke Shuangxu from her long daze. She turned her head in a daze and saw the black supercar parked by the road.

He Tingzhou rolled down the window, his gaze lingering on her red-rimmed eyes for half a second, then looked behind her, raising an eyebrow.

“If you don’t get me, you’re going to jump into the river? You’re quite deep in love.”

A wave of speechless confusion crashed into Shuangxu’s wind-blown mind, shattering the suffocating heaviness in her heart.

She turned her head away, then couldn’t hold back a laugh after a few seconds.

She laughed for a moment then pursed her lips, pretending she hadn’t laughed.

What kind of person is this? So random.

“Get in,” He Tingzhou said.

Sitting in his car was easy to make people nervous, Shuangxu didn’t move.

“Is this river a must-jump today?” He Tingzhou leaned back with his arms crossed. “Go on, I’ll open my eyes.”

“I didn’t want to jump into the river, I just wanted to sit here for a while,” Shuangxu explained. “You don’t have to worry about me, I’ll go home myself.”

He Tingzhou seemed to have decided that if she didn’t go with him, she would find an opportunity to jump into the river.

“Then call your brother to persuade you?”

“…”

As soon as he mentioned Shen Yu, she became obedient, sighed, and obediently opened the passenger door and got in.

He Tingzhou didn’t rush to start the car, he looked at her from the driver’s seat for a while.

Shuangxu probably didn’t know what she looked like at this moment. Her wind-blown hair and red-rimmed eyes, combined, looked like a child who had been bullied and didn’t know who to turn to for support, only able to sit alone by the river.

She noticed He Tingzhou’s gaze, turned her head, and looked at him with confusion, “What’s wrong?”

“Waiting for you to cry.”

He Tingzhou’s wrist was casually hanging on the steering wheel, his wrist bones were lean, the protruding vein winding upwards, his tone was quite sarcastic, “When will you start, do you want me to call an actiOn?”

…Thank you.

“I’m not going to cry,” Shuangxu didn’t understand when she had given him the impression that she liked to cry, she had never cried in front of He Tingzhou.

He Tingzhou’s lips twitched ambiguously, “You’re going to cry in your brother’s arms when you go home. How old are you, still clinging to people.”

Shuangxu opened her mouth, but had nothing to say, so she shut up.

She did cry a lot when she was a child, as soon as she was unhappy, tears would fall, no need to call actiOn.

She really didn’t want to talk today, rather than finding topics to chat awkwardly with He Tingzhou, it was better to keep her mouth shut.

The top-of-the-line supercar sped along the wide and straight road, thousands of lights flashed past the window, a dazzling display of prosperity. This city’s thousands of years of history, a person’s joys and sorrows are like a grain of sand in a torrent.

While waiting for the red light at an intersection, a pink G-Wagon stopped parallel to them on the adjacent lane.

The passenger window rolled down, a clear female voice came through, “Handsome.”

Shuangxu looked over, a stylishly dressed beauty was leaning on the window, wearing a tight tank top, her figure was hot, she was sending electricity to He Tingzhou.

“Alone?”

Probably because of the height difference, and it was dark, she didn’t see Shuangxu in the car.

“No.” He Tingzhou rested his elbow on the window, his tone lazy and unrestrained, “A ghost.”

…What the hell.

“Do you have a girlfriend?” The woman asked.

“Do you think I have one?” He Tingzhou was also at ease with flirting.

The woman was also good at it, she gave him a loving glance, “You have one if you want to.”

He Tingzhou’s face was in the half-light and half-shadow, showing both cold and ambiguous contradictory textures at the same time.

He lazily bit his candy, “Forget it, I’m afraid someone will get jealous, and they’ll jump into the river again.”

Shuangxu: “…”

What does it have to do with me.

Handsome guys are everywhere, but such a stunningly beautiful and rich and handsome guy who drives a top-of-the-line sports car is very rare.

Seeing that the green light for going straight was on, the beauty was unwilling to give up easily, she leaned out of the window with her whole upper body, and threw a card over.

“I’m free tonight, Call me~”

The card, which smelled of perfume, fell from the window onto He Tingzhou’s lap. He picked it up with two fingers, with a string of numbers written on it in black pen.

Shuangxu glanced at him, his expression was casual, nothing could be seen.

But he didn’t throw the card away, he just held it in his hand and drove, occasionally when he stopped at a red light, he would tap it lightly on the steering wheel, da——da——.

Shuangxu turned her face to look out the window.

He was interrupting her chance encounter.

Moments later, the car stopped in an unfamiliar alleyway, with only dim light sources hanging down on both sides, secluded and dark.

Where is this?

Why are we here?

The car door slammed shut, and Shuangxu Order’s brain, immersed in emO, was jolted. In the quiet alleyway at night, many sensational headlines flashed before her eyes.

Young Girl Found Dead in Alleyway at Night, The Culprit is…

Knock knock – He Tingzhou knocked on the car window from outside.

Through the glass, Shuangxu Order saw his tall figure, 1.88 meters tall, backlit.

She lowered the glass a crack and looked at him through the gap.

He Tingzhou was looking down at her, and the moment their eyes met, it was like falling into an unknown abyss.

His brow bones were high, his eyes a combination of peach blossom eyes and phoenix eyes, with a sword-like sharpness, slightly upturned at the ends, and the angle of his lower eyelids was very affectionate.

They stared at each other for a few seconds.

He Tingzhou spoke slowly, “What are you doing sneaking around? You don’t think I can’t see you through a crack?”

Shuangxu Order: “…I was waiting for you to speak.”

“Do I need to invite you to get out of the car? You’re quite the princess.” He Tingzhou said, leaning on the roof of the car lazily, “Please, Your Highness.”

“…” Shuangxu Order unbuckled her seatbelt and got out of the car. “Where are we going?”

“To eat noodles.”

Only then did she notice a noodle shop nearby, an old wooden sign without an LED light, inconspicuous at night, with only a small patch of warm light in front of the door.

“I’m not hungry.”

“Didn’t ask you.” He Tingzhou said, “If you’re not hungry, just watch me eat.”

Fine.

The shop hidden in the alleyway was quite old, but it was very clean. Even before getting close, the aroma was already intoxicating.

She wasn’t hungry at first, but the smell was so tempting that her stomach remembered that she hadn’t eaten dinner yet.