The Scum Shou's Survival GuideChapter 108.1

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Editor: mantou

Because the accident just so happened to be at the entrance of the hospital, Lu Xiuwen was quickly sent to the operating room for rescue. UplDYw

Ye Ming stood outside the operating room, his hands squeezing a bank card that was covered in dust. It’d fallen out when Lu Xiuwen had been hit by the car, and he’d picked it up.

【Ye Ming: Uncle also prepared some money for me, fearing I wouldn’t live well after I left him.】

Story translated by Chrysanthemum Garden.

【888: How flawless, everything went according to plan. You can follow these stairs right down, then express that you believe in his love now. According to my calculations of human emotions, he will very likely happily lower the blackening value for you again.】

【Ye Ming: Looks like he won’t die then, ke ke】 doNMQZ

【888: He won’t die, protagonist lives are all relatively sturdy. Only, their luck isn’t too great to bump into you, ah.】

【Ye Ming: …】

【Ye Ming: Someone shouldered the condemnation of his conscience to so earnestly do missions and eliminate blackening values. If you don’t encourage me a bit, then whatever, yet you make fun of me all day long instead, aggrieved.jpg】

【888: Please be sure to clearly understand these few points: Firstly, if you hadn’t courted death when you first left, then you wouldn’t have even needed to come back again to eliminate blackening values. We would’ve happily disbanded already. Secondly, you doing these missions is for unfreezing your own experience points. It doesn’t have much to do with me. Don’t try to threaten me by kidnapping my morals. Lastly, I don’t care if you do your missions properly or not. Because I’m rich, I’m not lacking the tiny commission from your experience points. What I need even more is a reliable host. If you don’t cause trouble for me, then I’ll be grateful to you.】

【Ye Ming: My dear, you don’t love me anymore QAQ] That last bit was too large of a blow. To a penniless pauper, a critical hit, -99999 HP.】

Ye Ming’s expression was deeply distressed. This was the nth time that he completely regretted his brains-soaked-in-water actions at the time. He felt that he might really need some medicine for regret.

【Ye Ming: Ge… since you have so much money, how about you lend me some more?】

【888: Raise your hand and stroke your face.】 c6zpIn

【Ye Ming: ?】

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【888: Look how big your face is, how thick your skin is.】

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Because something had happened to Lu Xiuwen, his assistants, subordinates, and others rushed over quickly. The lights of the operating room stayed lit for a long time. Ye Ming wasn’t familiar with any of these people. Although they probably recognized him, right now no one was in the mood to pay attention to Ye Ming, leaving him isolated over there. Ye Ming just sat outside the ward alone, in a trance-like state.

Just when Ye Ming almost couldn’t hold on anymore and was about to fall asleep, suddenly someone sat next to him, handed him a warm box lunch, and said, “Young Master Gu, you haven’t eaten dinner yet, right?”

Ye Ming held onto the fragrant box lunch, so touched the rims of his eyes moistened. He turned his head and saw that it was the driver, Uncle Li– one of the few people around Lu Xiuwen that he was actually familiar with. AaL9ed

Uncle Li often frequented the Lu home, and had also helped Lu Xiuwen pick him up and drop him off before. He could be regarded as an elder he was relatively close with, who had also known Ye Ming for many years.

Sure enough, the people familiar with him were the ones that’d be concerned about him.

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Probably because he was hungry, even though it was only an ordinary box lunch, Ye Ming looked at it and felt his stomach rumbling. But what was even more miserable was… he felt that he shouldn’t have an appetite right now. After all, Lu Xiuwen was still in the operating room, so how could he be in the mood to eat?

Thinking of this, he couldn’t hold back his tears as they flowed down. tu6GmS

Uncle Li saw that Ye Ming was staring blankly at the box lunch, silently shedding tears, but still not eating, and couldn’t help but sigh, “Young Master Gu… President Lu will be fine, don’t blame yourself.”

Ye Ming had a lump in his throat, and said in a low voice, “It’s all because of me… that Uncle…”

Uncle Li’s gaze was also a little dim. He actually wasn’t sure whether or not Lu Xiuwen would be able to pull through, but Ye Ming was a child he watched grow up. The most important thing was that if Ye Ming wasn’t okay, then Lu Xiuwen wouldn’t be at ease even if he died. Blaming this child now wouldn’t fix anything. After all, it wasn’t like Ye Ming wanted things to be this way.

He paused, then reached out and patted Ye Ming on the shoulder, and said, “If you’re really worried about President Lu, then don’t do this kind of foolish thing in the future.” uCvlZf

Ye Ming sniffed a bit, seeming very upset.

Uncle Li saw Ye Ming like this and couldn’t help but sigh. After hesitating for a while, he finally said, “Some things may not be very appropriate for me to say, since I’m an outsider…”

Ye Ming looked up at him and said hoarsely, “I’ve always thought of you as my family, so if you have something to say, then you can just say it.”

Uncle Li nodded. “Okay, I’ll just say it then. I’ve been with President Lu for many years. As for the matter of him liking your mother in the past, indeed, the number of people who know about it isn’t few. There are all kinds of conjectures out there, but no one understands the actual situation, so inevitably, false reports were relayed from person to person, resulting in excessive exaggeration. I’ll just talk about my own perspective, which can be considered fairly objective. President Lu did like Young Lady Gu before, but that was just in the past. Who hasn’t liked one or two people before when they were young? It’s just that once some things have passed, then they’ve passed. They were never together. Young Lady Gu had her own lover and family. Since long ago, President Lu had already stopped thinking of her like that. Young Master Gu… do you understand what I mean?” 3iWGEq

Uncle Li looked at Ye Ming and slowly continued, “To President Lu, Young Lady Gu is like family, and it was because of these feelings that he adopted you. But, his love for you is different from that for Young Lady Gu. President Lu is no longer young. All of these years, he’s never had anyone else by his side. He’s always been waiting for you to grow up. We all noticed this… the only person who didn’t know was you, but even if you didn’t know that he had these kinds of feelings for you, his sincere care and consideration for you all these years were not fake. Sincere or insincere… if you carefully think about it, you should still be able to feel it.”

Ye Ming’s fists were tightly clenched, and his face paled a bit. He couldn’t take in these words before, and always felt that Lu Xiuwen was lying to him no matter what he said, the fury from learning the unexpected truth completely dominating his mind.

But why he was struggling so painfully… probably was just as Uncle Li said. Whether a person was sincerely good to him or not could be felt… but it was exactly this man who was so good to him who had also lied to him.

Because of this, he felt so conflicted. l9rLye

Uncle Li paused, and then sighed, “Sometimes, when someone loves another person too much, mistakes are made because of impulsivity. Some of President Lu’s actions were indeed inappropriate, and he went a bit too far. It’s normal that you can’t forgive him. You can leave him… but, you don’t need to call his feelings into question.” With these words, he didn’t stay any longer and directly left. Because of Lu Xiuwen’s accident, everyone was very busy. No one had time to stay and accompany Ye Ming the entire time.

Ye Ming sat there holding the box lunch. Before long, the box lunch turned cold, so he no longer had any desire to eat.

【Ye Ming: I really didn’t notice it before, but when the reserved Uncle Li opens his mouth to speak, he’s actually pretty glib. There’s not much logic, but the simplicity is effective…】

【888: The other was only saying a few words of the big truth.】 KR8NfY

【Ye Ming: ke ke ke.】

Lu Xiuwen was saved as expected. Everyone else’s expressions looked as though they’d released huge breaths of relief, except for Ye Ming’s, who had a clear idea in his heart and wasn’t too surprised. After going through so many worlds, it wasn’t as though he didn’t even have this bit of a foundation. His capture targets were very tough ah, with full protagonist halos.

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En, the only thing not too good about their lives was that they were the targets in love-capturing worlds. Even if he hadn’t come, someone else probably would’ve come to capture them instead.

It was nothing more than being apart in life and separated by death. The results wouldn’t be much different. cFMlqb

This was their fate. Who could fight against fate? Anyway, Ye Ming thought that he couldn’t, and didn’t have such grand and lofty aspirations anyway.

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Lu Xiuwen stayed in the intensive care unit for a few days before he was finally no longer in critical condition. Only, he still hadn’t woken up yet.

Ye Ming didn’t leave. He said he’d wait for Lu Xiuwen to wake up, so Uncle Li arranged a place for him to stay, and let him do as he wished. ekmp6H

Lu Xiuwen had been seriously injured and was in a coma for a long time.

He was a person who had died once before already, and that time there was also a car accident. He thought that if he died again this time, the heavens probably wouldn’t give him another chance at rebirth. This made him feel a bit regretful, yet it was also somewhat freeing, because to him, rebirth didn’t have much meaning.

His life was like a vicious cycle. No matter which way he went, or how many times he tried again, the result was still the same. Nothing could be changed.

It was just that he somewhat couldn’t let go of Ye Ming… that child was still too simple-minded. If he lived, he could still secretly look after him. If he died, then he really could only struggle his way through society by himself. No one would be able to help him. R6SU0G

When Lu Xiuwen thought of this, he felt that it wouldn’t be too good for him to die this easily, almost like a cowardly escape, so he opened his eyes.

The light in front was a bit dazzling. It should be daytime, the weather not bad and the sun shining high up in the sky.

Lu Xiuwen moved a little, and the nurse taking care of him immediately noticed. “President Lu, you’re awake?” After, she excitedly rang the bell to call for the doctor.

The doctors hurried over, seriously examined Lu Xiuwen, and consulted among themselves. It was a good thing that he could wake up. Now they could finally be completely at ease. He only needed to slowly recuperate and he’d be fine. MIo0x8

Lu Xiuwen was calm from beginning to end. He thanked the doctors with a smile. After everyone left, the ward was quiet again.

He looked outside the window. His cold side profile seemed a bit reticent, his complexion pallid and feeble. After a long time, he grabbed his phone, ready to ask about Ye Ming’s situation. He had an accident at the time, and Ye Ming left by himself… he didn’t know how he was doing.

Only, he stared at his phone and didn’t move for a long while.

Lu Xiuwen raised the corners of his lips in a self-mocking arc. He thought since Ye Ming already left by himself, he should really let things go. It looked like he really hated him quite a bit, and hated him to death at that. His concern was really just him flattering himself… but with feelings, these things, they weren’t something that could be let go of at will. uYvJtS

Lu Xiuwen shut his eyes. In the end, he decided to just ask tomorrow. He was fairly tired. It should be okay for him to rest a day first. And Ye Ming should be okay, otherwise someone would’ve already dropped by to tell him about the situation.

Besides, Ye Ming probably didn’t care for his concern anyway.

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The translator has something to say: To a hapless reader, a critical hit, -99999999999 HP (ᗒᗣᗕ)՞