Translator: ShiriChan
Editor: phizzlepop
Shen Ye felt his arms become empty. He looked up to find Zhou Jiaping had appeared in front of him, clutching Ye Ming’s wrist tightly, while looking at them furiously. His gaze slightly chilled, and a cold smile touched his lips. But, he didn’t say a word, and only stood there calmly to see how Ye Ming would react.
Ye Ming’s face turned pale. He hadn’t expected that Zhou Jiaping would just so happen to come across this scene. But, he soon came to a decision.
With Shen Ye’s attitude, if he didn’t handle this situation well, he was afraid that Zhou Jiaping would end up in trouble.
Furthermore, he’d planned on breaking up with Zhou Jiaping anyway. As for whether or not Zhou Jiaping would misunderstand… actually didn’t matter that much. Letting him believe that he’d broken up with him because of Shen Ye was fine too. Then, he ought to be able to give up ba.
Ye Ming’s calm expression was gradually restored. Instead of answering Zhou Jiaping’s question, he said, “We’ve already broken up. There’s no need for me to explain myself to you.”
Zhou Jiaping’s eyes blazed with fury! He’d already recognized Shen Ye as the man who’d suddenly appeared to greet them the last time he had a meal with Ye Ming. At the time, he’d asked Ye Ming who Shen Ye was, and Ye Ming had said that he’d only met him once before in the hotel, so they weren’t familiar with each other.
At the time… he’d naively wondered if he’d neglected Ye Ming and upset him, causing him to make such a request. Now it seemed… Ye Ming had probably already met this rich man a long time ago, and had been lying to him this entire time.
“Is that so… when did the two of you get together?” Zhou Jiaping looked at Ye Ming, his eyes red.
Ye Ming’s lips thinned. He remained silent for a moment, before he responded, “Just recently.”
Zhou Jiaping laughed bitterly. So is this the perfunctory answer you’re giving me? When I called you all those times, you were together with this man. When I was in trouble, you never even thought of how I might’ve been doing. Now that I’ve figured everything out… this is all you have to say to me.
You won’t even give me a single explanation.
He was the only one who’d foolishly thought that they could still be together. But, in reality, Ye Ming was no longer the person that he was familiar with, nor the person that he liked.
And he was a complete idiot for trying to cling on to him.
A look of self-ridicule appeared in Zhou Jiaping’s eyes. He knew that there really was no hope of recovering their relationship this time, but he still wanted to ask one last thing, “Is it because of him that you wanted to break up with me?”
Ye Ming met Zhou Jiaping’s gaze, looking at the hurt in his eyes, suddenly feeling a little suffocated on the inside.
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He slowly said, “Yes.”
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He was very angry and very sad, but what else could he do? Was he supposed to beg the person who’d abandoned and betrayed him?
Ye Ming watched Zhou Jiaping’s resolute, departing back. At this moment…. it felt as though he’d gone back in time to that night ten years ago when Shen Ye had fallen into a pool of his own blood, looking at him with despair and hatred.
That time, he was the one who’d left, but for him, the person who’d left had been Shen Ye.
Just like right now, where he was the one heartlessly pushing someone else away himself.
Gradually drifting apart in the end.
He felt very apologetic towards Zhou Jiaping, but the remorse and guilt he felt for Shen Ye was hundreds and thousands of times greater. The pain suppressed in his heart with nowhere to go felt like a hand firmly clenching his heart, almost crushing it to pieces, making it impossible for him to breathe.
Shen Ye had been standing aloof on the side. He’d believed that Ye Ming would make a wise decision, and didn’t care about what Zhou Jiaping might do, just like how a lion or elephant might pay an ant no mind.
But, at this moment, seeing the pain in Ye Ming’s eyes and his trembling body, an unpleasant feeling suddenly sprouted within his heart, almost like jealousy…
He couldn’t help but recall that night ten years ago.
How had Han Xu treated him before he’d left him back then?
He’d given him a cold smile, saying: This is my breakup gift to you, do you still like it?
Shen Ye would never forget that moment, nor would he ever forget that one sentence for the rest of his life. He felt that his feelings hadn’t been worth it. His wholehearted sincerity had garnered nothing but disdain in return. Even if Han Xu had really wanted the Shen family and all that he owned for himself… he would’ve just given everything to him. Why had he been able to remain so unaffected when he’d attacked him?
Had he really… not struggled over it even the tiniest bit?
Had he not ever loved him?
How could someone’s heart be cold and ruthless to such a degree?
What a joke… he was actually jealous of someone he didn’t care about at all, jealous of Zhou Jiaping, jealous of the concern and love he could receive from someone else.
While he had absolutely nothing at all.
Ye Ming let out a small sigh of relief. He looked back at Shen Ye and said, “Can I go up now?”
Shen Ye looked at him, finally concealing the various emotions buried deep in his eyes as he said lightly, “Yes.”
Ye Ming nodded, turning around and going upstairs.
However, Shen Ye didn’t leave immediately. He returned to his car and sat down, staring at the building in the night, watching as Ye Ming’s figure disappeared, but what he was thinking of was… where was Han Xu now? He’d been thinking about this question for ten years, yet had never received an answer. But, at least there was one thing that was certain.
You betrayed me, left me, and I won’t love you anymore.
Ten years ago, you severed our ties. So, you probably don’t even care who I’m with now, ba?
………………
Ye Ming returned to his dorm room, took a shower, and lay down on his bed.
【888: I already reminded you that Zhou Jiaping was waiting for you. What exactly are you doing?】
【Ye Ming: This is killing two birds with one stone ah. First, quickly make Xiao Zhou give up to prevent him from getting mixed up any further in me and Shen Ye’s affairs. Secondly~ just to stimulate my family’s Shen Ye so he realizes I’m not just the person he vents his feelings on.】
【888: But it seems like you haven’t considered the fact that both of them will be sad, oh?】
【Ye Ming: It’s okay ba, it’s just a part of falling in love ma. Lots of college students break up these days. Comrade Xiao Zhou can just consider this to be a scummy past dating experience. Someone as great as him will have true love waiting for him. But, my good little brother is in a little bit of a pickle. With a 100% favorability and then blackening value, if I don’t come back, he’ll be lonely for life with no chance at all with anybody else.】
【888: But, you still have to leave in the end.】
【Ye Ming: …】
【Ye Ming: Ke, think about it this way. A lifetime is only about a hundred years. There’s not much of a difference between living a few more years or living a few years less. Just take it as though I died young ba!】
【888: So, once you go back to the real world, are you still willing to die young? There’s not much of a difference in living a few years less after all.】
【Ye Ming: QAQ Let’s not discuss this issue anymore, okay?】
【888: He he.】
Ye Ming went on to work at the company the next day as if nothing had happened. He was very satisfied with his current role doing nothing! He went to work every day full of energy. At first, he’d still pretend to snatch up some work to do, but later on, when he realized he couldn’t find anything to do, he’d started to just laze about as a matter of course.
Guan Yuyang hadn’t mentioned anything again since the last time he had that conversation with Ye Ming. Only, when he occasionally saw him going in and out of Shen Ye’s office, he couldn’t help but sigh.
Ye Ming was practically about to grow moldy from how long he’d remained idle for when he started to consider his future plans.
Right now, Shen Ye had no idea he was even dead, still thinking he’d absconded out of fear of punishment. First, he had to find a way to let him discover his true identity, so he could realize that he was already dead. Only then, would he find a way to investigate his cause of death. Otherwise, he’d never dream of such a grudge existing between their two families.
Nor would he doubt his father’s words. After all, he’d lived well in the Shen family for 20 years.
Shen Dayao had done everything very meticulously. Twenty years had passed by since that incident. If he hadn’t made a move on him, then there wouldn’t have been any evidence at all. But, it was exactly because he’d made this move on him, that he’d left some clues behind.
【Ye Ming: Ge, speaking of… how exactly did they deal with my corpse back then?】
【888: They dug a pit somewhere and buried it, what else would they do with it?】
【Ye Ming: Ke… then right now…】
【888: It can’t be you want to dig yourself out? Then, you have to be mentally prepared. It’s rotting and won’t be a pretty sight.】
【Ye Ming: …】 No, he was especially afraid of these kinds of horror movie scenes!
【Ye Ming: Ke, ke, ke… it’s best to leave this kind of thing to my clever baby brother ba. I’m scared, yingyingying.】
888: The heck.
The editor has something to say: grave robbery, yingyingying, how spooky~
P.S. lmao it’s ur friendly neighborhood translator phizzlepop, late as usual, here to say congrats to Igaboofox, one of the winners of our CG 10k event, who has kindly chosen the SSSG prize offered up as one of the raffle prizes. that means this week, there will be 3 extra releases!
originally, these 3 were supposed to come out Sunday night, but unfortunately, yours truly has been running behind schedule… orz… let’s aim for tomorrow but like take that with a grain of salt, as in, if i can leave the hospital at a respectable time i’ll be able to work on translations… if i’m there until 6:30 PM again… urk…
Good job releasing so many chapters! 👏
AM I REALLY FIRST THIS TIME 😭
I was hoping SY would go into land development and accidentally dig up the body, which leads to investigating and realizing han xu was murdered.then going down that rabbit hole.
Congrats on being first! 😂
How will he get him to dig out his body? How will it be recognized?
Dental records?
I really want this arc to end up with Yeng Ming saying: “This is my breakup gift to you, do you still like it?” again and dying in some way or other .+:｡(ﾉ･ω･)ﾉﾞ
Thank you for the chapter *pat pat ᕙ(`▽´)ᕗ
Oh, so u work at a hospital? Cool
rightttt?? so cool :0
I LOVE YOU PHIZZLE POP THANK U FOR THE CHAPTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND ANGEL EDITOR
LMAO yes, roast him more Daddy 888! Teach that ungrateful scum of a son a lesson! ψ(｀∇´)ψ
Thank you for the chapter!~💕