After the Stand-in Shou Faked His DeathCh78 - You are never a Substitute

The scene of the car accident was chaotic.

Jiang Lin hugged the person in his arms. His mind went blank, and he didn’t know what to do. 7eEQJ3

Until a pair of hands stretched out to take Qin Zhou away.

Jiang Lin raised his head subconsciously, and saw that it was He Yang.

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He Yang held the young man in his arms, but the young man opened his eyes numbly as before, completely unresponsive.

“YanYan?” He Yang called softly. JVW3vu

The young man still didn’t make a response. His lips moved slightly, as if he was saying something.

He Yang lowered his head slightly, and heard the young man’s voice——

“I’m sorry…….I’m sorry……..”

The young man kept repeating those three words.

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***

At the private hospital.

The doctor had finished examining Qin Zhou, and there was no injury on his body.

However, Qin Zhou didn’t move at all. His eyes were obviously open, but Qin Zhou seemed to be completely cut off from the outside world, completely unresponsive. dXoLOZ

The doctor found He Yang and asked politely: “Has the patient ever suffered any trauma before?”

He Yang was silent for a while, and replied: “He was in a car accident before.”

The doctor suggested: “Young Master He, it is best to see a psychologist. And, spend more time with him during this time.”

“Okay.” He Yang agreed to it. g32rsQ

When He Yang came outside the ward, he saw the young man in the room was still sitting on the bed, and looking out the window. It was not known what he was thinking.

He Yang walked over and squatted halfway in front of the young man. He held the young man’s hand, and called softly: “YanYan.”

The young man didn’t seem to hear it.

After a long time, the young man only then reacted with hindsight. He lowered his head slowly, and looked at He Yang. Sitjbx

Those beautiful peach blossom eyes were still a little moist with tears. The young man blinked, and tears rolled down his eyes.

He Yang stretched out his hand, and rubbed his fingertips against the corners of the young man’s eyes.

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“Don’t cry.”

He Yang slowly wiped away the young man’s tears. jEC6zf

But more and more tears rolled down, and he couldn’t stop them.

The young man’s eyes were red, and he murmured in a low voice over and over again: “I’m sorry……. I’m sorry……..”

He Yang stood up, and hugged the young man in his arms. He patted the young man on his back lightly, and comforted him: “It’s okay.”

“I’m sorry…….I’m sorry……..” The young man was still apologizing. He fell into a nightmare, and kind of couldn’t get out. dCWuzd

He Yang was by his side, comforting him for a long time, until the young man was so tired and fell asleep, and only then did he leave.

***

In the ward, Qin Zhou was sleeping and didn’t wake up until night.

After waking up, Qin Zhou’s condition improved slightly and he regained his consciousness. QcRm0n

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It’s just that Qin Zhou’s mood was still very depressed, and he had no interest in the outside world.

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He Yang stayed in the corridor. He took out a cigarette from his pocket and fiddled with it, but did not light it.

Instead, Jiang Lin entered the ward and accompanied Qin Zhou.

Jiang Lin bought a bowl of hot porridge. He came closer cautiously, and asked, “Brother Zhou, do you want to have some?” v859kf

Qin Zhou looked at the porridge bowl and he still took it, “Thank you.”

Qin Zhou drank a little with the spoon, but he didn’t have any appetite. After a few sips, he put the porridge bowl on the table next to him and didn’t move any more.

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Jiang Lin helped to cover Qin Zhou with a quilt, and tentatively asked, “Brother Zhou, are you okay?”

“I’m fine.” Qin Zhou shook his head with a smile on his face. yGhIzW

It’s just that Qin Zhou’s smile seemed a bit forced.

“Brother Zhou, then you rest well.” Jiang Lin comforted, and then said: “The stalker has been dealt with, and Yuan Lie has helped suppress the news.”

Qin Zhou heard the word ‘stalker’, and raised his eyebrows with hindsight.

Suddenly, Qin Zhou came to his senses. He got up quickly and said, “I still have an interview……..” Eh5tfn

Jiang Lin hurriedly supported Qin Zhou, and explained, “No need, no need. The company has already asked for leave.”

Jiang Lin sat next to him. He looked at Qin Zhou, and still said, “Brother Zhou, if there’s anything, you can tell me.”

Qin Zhou touched Jiang Lin’s head, and said, “It’s okay.”

Seeing that Qin Zhou was unwilling to speak, Jiang Lin nodded and stopped bringing up that topic. aJvoPt

Jiang Lin stayed by his side for a while, and didn’t leave until it was dark outside.

Qin Zhou stayed in the room. He was a little sleepy, so he closed his eyes and fell asleep again.

When he was half asleep, Qin Zhou noticed that there was a warm heat source around him.

Qin Zhou opened his eyes. The room was completely dark except for a faint light from the window. 762u0V

Although his eyes could hardly see anything, Qin Zhou could smell the familiar perfume on the other party.

Qin Zhou moved his body a little, and incidentally, that woke the man beside him up.

He Yang unconsciously tightened his arms, and said in a low voice, “It’s all right.”

Qin Zhou opened his eyes and suddenly asked: “His ashes, did you bring it here?” 5Cd9YO

He Yang also realized who the young man was talking about, so he replied: “Yeah. Jiang Lin selected the tomb.”

Qin Zhou: “I want to go see him.”

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“Okay.” He Yang agreed, resting his palm on the back of the young man’s head and stroking it back and forth, he said, “I’m sorry, I didn’t receive the call that day.”

Qin Zhou didn’t speak anymore. ktDP1O

“I’m sorry.” He Yang’s voice was still a little hoarse.

Qin Zhou just said indifferently: “Forget it. It doesn’t matter whether you answer that phone call or not.”

Anyway, his phone was running out of battery at that time, and a phone call would not affect anything.

That day, he was going to the stockade village, so he asked the driver to go to the village and pick up the tour guide. 9p8rhZ

Originally the tour guide was supposed to sit in the back seat, but later he changed seats with the tour guide. He still lent the tour guide his clothes and jacket to wear, and asked the tour guide to go to the front passenger seat, while he slept in the back seat by himself.

When the accident happened on the mountain road, he couldn’t even react at all.

He managed to climb out of the car with great difficulty and wanted to help the front seat, but the front seat was too deformed and he couldn’t lift it by himself.

Unexpectedly, his own mobile phone had run out of battery and turned off automatically. He threw the phone on the side of the road and then took the tour guide’s backpack from the car. 8AoET6

However, there was no signal in the mountains. He took the tour guide’s mobile phone and walked a little farther, but as a result, he suddenly heard an explosion behind him——

He couldn’t remember what happened after that. He only remembered that he fell into the nearby river.

When he regained his memory, he was rescued by a kind doctor in the nearby village.

He then rushed to the hospital in the town, but was told by the staff that the dead body was “Xu ChengYan”, and the remains had also been claimed. 5MrPd7

He originally wanted to call Jiang Lin, but ran into Grandma outside the village.

Grandma called him “Qin Zhou”.

Then, he went along with it.

It doesn’t seem that difficult to replace a person’s identity. noJlPy

The village was too backward, and the condition of the tour guide’s home was not very good. Moreover, he moved from other places, and he didn’t even update his ID card.

“If only I died that day.” Qin Zhou smiled self-deprecatingly.

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None of this would have happened.

Just because he said he wanted to go to the stockade village that day, the driver and tour guide were killed as a result. Zh2Pbm

“I should have died with them.” Qin Zhou lowered his eyes.

Death is not scary.

The terrible thing is that he was the only one survived.

“I should have died too……..” jdfAkH

It should be him who died.

He Yang patted him on the back lightly, comforting: “Don’t blame yourself.”

“I didn’t know you had an accident.” He Yang lowered his head and said, “If I received the call that day——”

Qin Zhou interrupted him: “Didn’t you hang up the phone?” RkNaoG

He Yang was stunned, and said: “I didn’t hang up.”

“You hung up.” Qin Zhou remembered very clearly that the phone was hung up.

“I didn’t see the call log until later——”

He Yang still wanted to explain again, but suddenly stopped. XvAeR7

Yes, there were no missed call alerts on the phone at the time.

It was only after Jiang Lin told him about it that he found the record in the call log.

He Yang bowed his head and said, “I didn’t hang up the phone.”

But Qin Zhou didn’t want to talk about this matter again. He closed his eyes, and said a little tiredly: “Forget it, let’s not talk about it.” nQ7RXZ

He Yang frowned tightly, but didn’t speak again.

He didn’t hang up the phone.

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***

Qin Zhou slept in the hospital, and prepared to be discharged the next day. QD7hWI

However, because of being followed, Qin Zhou didn’t want to go back to the dormitory for the time being. He was planning to find a new house.

When He Yang saw it, he said, “I have several vacant houses. The security is very good, and you can live in any of them.”

Qin Zhou looked up at He Yang, and said casually, “Any one is fine?”

“Yes.” OuLspa

Qin Zhou thought for a while, and suddenly remembered that He Yang gave the house on the Jiangnan Coast to Shen XiuZhu.

So Qin Zhou deliberately said: “Then if I want the house on the Jiangnan Coast, will you give it?”

“Yes.”

Qin Zhou was a little surprised, and asked, “Didn’t you give it to Shen XiuZhu?” Kn9eoG

“He didn’t accept it. “He Yang said, “He said that if he found a new house, he would move out.”

“After living for three years, and he still hasn’t found a new house, has he?” Qin Zhou laughed.

He Yang was silent for a while, and then said: “I will tell him to move out these few days.”

“It’s fine if you don’t feel sorry for him.” Qin Zhou didn’t care. 9n4yWG

He Yang got up and went to the balcony outside to make a phone call.

Not long after, He Yang returned to the room and said: “He will move out these two days. You will live with me for the next few days.”

“Okay.” Qin Zhou nodded.

After being discharged from the hospital, Qin Zhou went directly to the apartment with He Yang. e1YuG

Qin Zhou originally wanted to go to the guest bedroom to rest, but was brought to the master bedroom by He Yang.

The layout of the master bedroom was still the same as before. He Yang said: “The clothes are all in the closet.”

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Qin Zhou came to the closet, looked around in it, and found that it was full of new clothes.

However, the style of these clothes was exactly the same as Shen XiuZhu’s. He also saw a coat, which was almost exactly the same as what Shen XiuZhu wore the day he was discharged from the hospital. 3Upfsv

He Yang: “It’s all your size. I’ve changed the new ones.”

Qin Zhou frowned slightly, “Don’t give me this series of clothes. I don’t like it.”

Qin Zhou then opened the drawer, and took a look. Sure enough, he saw all the things inside were various thin frame glasses.

“He Yang, why do you always buy me clothes that are exactly the same as Shen XiuZhu’s?” Qin Zhou was really angry, “I don’t like to dress the same with him. Do you have to use me as a substitute?” T42B1e

He Yang was slightly stunned for a moment, he said, “No.”

“I have never taken you as someone else.”

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17 comments

  1. YanYan will find out that the clothes are from Mother He’s brand now, right? And that it was all a misunderstanding? I need them to talk about iiiiiiit 😣

    It still doesn’t excuse He Yang being so oblivious and selfish, though.

  2. Oh yeah… Finally the silly game of pretending to be someone else is over…

    Also delighted to see him loose his temper over the clothes. If you don’t tell someone they won’t know it’s an issue.

    Also in the original version you could still see that QZ had feelings for He Yang but there have been no drops this sequence of chapters.

  3. I forgot about this novel but now that I saw the update the feeling of “hell fcking no boy, forgiveness is not on my vocabulary for you. I despise you, btch”

    Doesn’t excuse sht. Hope MC leaves his sorry ass on the curb

  4. actually…i skipped from the chapter where he first saw qin zhou (Xu) again in banquet to here … i know i might be skipping a lot of important scenes but im too tired for constant push and pulls so i just want to see if its a happy ending. im not actually angry at ML or anything. i had hoped MC will forgive him. because he did not exactly maltreat Xu, not like other toxic ML that used extreme violence.

    maybe he really just have a metal disability and is not capable to freely feel or react like how others normally would. (again i did not read the other chapters and skipped to here) rememner the manhua ‘a cup full of water’ actually nevermind i cant remember the title but it has water in it. Seme was nothing but a greenlight. we all thoight he was a fresh breath out ofall manhua ML but as expected of manhua it was toxic atsome point. but that was because ML has psychological problems and cannot comprehend human emotions or process human reactions. like a robot.

    now speaking of…

    its been a while since i read that sht, let me search it now.

  5. i hope they both get a happy ending, whether separate or together (but i vote for -to be back together)

  6. Okay, reality check people. They were together for 5 YEARS, and not once they celebrated the mc birthday. Fine, we discount that wrong, maybe the gong is mentally challenged person with zero eq who is a tycoon for giant conglomerate business. He only lost MC for 3 years and he can finally THINK and care about the MC, just imagine what were the ML were doing during those 5 years? Let’s face it guys, the ML just not that into MC. It took MC to die then ML will appreciate the MC. Lets not forget about the crewpy psychologist, ML still hired him and accept that kind of creepiness and unprofessional work ethic. Ughhhh..ive read the mtl and finished it 2 times. Why do i kept abusing myself like this…wife crematorium woe me.
  7. I still dislike the ML. He’a definitely AH. He only cared about MC after his dead news. I don’t even feel sympathetic over his boo hoo story losing the MC.

  8. Although I’m angry at the ML but I feel like the ML has some emotional problems, as he seems to feel nothing or perceived what the other try to express or he can’t express it himself which shows his inability to show his true emotions

  9. The ml knew what his circle assumed about him & Mr Shen. He couldn’t be bothered to create boundaries & correct the false narrative that was built on a truth, Mr Shen was his white moonlight. Furthermore, he allowed mc to be open to ridicule. He never provided any emotional security. His neglect doesn’t magically disappear just because there was a misunderstanding about the clothes.