Chapter 008: The Substitute x Overbearing CEO x White Moonlight (8)

Chapter 008: The Substitute x Overbearing CEO x White Moonlight (8)

Two consecutive slams of the door and faint arguments were heard by those downstairs, but they all just laughed it off.

The next day, after seeing the guests off, Cheng Chenyu went to find his brother: "Are you okay?"

Cheng Junfeng seemed to have had a sleepless night, cooking noodles with dark circles under his eyes at noon.

"Nothing."

"Uh, where's Chun?"

"Gone."

Cheng Chenyu still felt worried: "Should you go and comfort him?"

"I know."

Cheng Junfeng thought himself magnanimous. He tolerated Yan Chun's outburst last night and sent an assistant to deliver a bouquet of white roses. Then, he went to Yan Chun's house alone.

When he opened the door, the young man was playing the violin by the floor-to-ceiling window, his silhouette slender.

In the beautiful melody, many memories from high school were rekindled, warming the man's gaze slightly.

He held the roses and approached step by step, enveloping Yan Chun in his arms and kissing his cheek.

"Don't be angry anymore, okay?"

Yan Chun didn't turn around, lowering his head to smell the roses: "Who has a bad temper?"

"It's me, it's me."

"But I was harsh," Yan Chun said softly: "Don't come to see me anymore."

Cheng Junfeng kissed and coaxed him, pulling him into his arms and whispering sweet nothings until Yan Chun smiled again.

Feeling better, Yan Chun stood up and found the perfect angle to play Kreisler's "Liebesfreud" for him.

The sound was splendid, the breeze gentle, everything was perfectly harmonious.

After the performance, Cheng Junfeng said: "You've always been talented, learning anything quickly."

Yet, at that moment, he lost his appetite.

Holding the white moonlight in his arms, his heart felt as bland as plain water.

But the mosquito blood had become a red mole, burning and itching in his heart.

Once, someone carefully pressed the piano keys in the auditorium, though the melody was disjointed, they would still show a naive and joyful smile.

That person came from an ordinary background, learning French for the first time, trying sea urchin for the first time—many things were taught by Cheng Junfeng himself.

Now, looking at the refined and mature Yan Chun, Cheng Junfeng's mind was filled with thoughts of Shen Xi, feeling both regret and anger towards the one he had personally discarded.

Using the same tactics, are you going to use them on my brother? If you can't get me, will you try to please him?

Did you see me last night? Why did you appear at our house?

Shen Xi, Shen Xi!

Yan Chun waited for a while and asked: "Still thinking?"

"Sorry, I can't have dinner with you tonight," Cheng Junfeng covered his distraction, got up, and kissed him goodbye: "There's an acquisition meeting with the board members, and I need to go early."

He stayed at Yan Chun's place for less than twenty minutes.

Distracted and conflicted, there was a deeper obsession gnawing at him than mere hunger.

Keding had written half of his exam paper when he saw a funny cat meme on social media and forwarded it to Cheng Chenyu.

System: "Quick, recall it! You sent it to his brother!"

Keding was startled: "Oh no! Forgot to block him!"

Cheng Junfeng silently smoked in the underground parking lot when his phone vibrated. It was a message from Shen Xi.

Having been ignored for too long, he immediately checked what Shen Xi had sent.

[Shen Xi recalled a message.]

The man frowned deeply and took another drag of his cigarette, unwilling to communicate through text and instead called back.

What did you want to say and then recall?

He monitored everything related to Shen Xi, knowing that Shen Xi had been canceling gifts he had ordered.

Some were gifts he had happily discussed with Cheng Junfeng beforehand, and after the engagement party, they were all canceled.

The engagement was canceled, the gifts were canceled, now even the messages were withdrawn, leaving nothing behind.

When he called, the screen flashed black for a moment.

[The other party has added you to their blacklist; voice chat failed.]

So, did you want to say you still love me, or curse me, or ask if I regret it?

Cheng Junfeng's eyes darkened, and he casually flicked the cigarette butt away.

Fifteen minutes later, the system suddenly said: "Hey, why is that guy suddenly getting drunk?"

"Talk later." The young man was buried in his work, his phone locked away in a drawer.

"You've been studying for so long today." The system read aloud subconsciously: "Biochemistry and Molecular Physics... Do medical students need to memorize this too?"

"The midterm and final exams are like hell." The former forced a smile, his pen never stopping: "My passion has been drained by the textbooks."

It wasn't until an hour and a half had passed that Keding stretched lazily in Shen Xi's study.

"Ahh—finally, a break. What were you saying earlier?"

"The CEO was drowning his sorrows just now," the system remembered the main point: "Now... damn, he's completely drunk, and the driver is bringing him over!"

"Over here?" Keding hurriedly tidied up his reference books: "To my place?"

"Yes, he'll be here in five minutes!"

In his drunken state, that guy would definitely cause trouble if he came over!

No way, I can't let him in; there's a bed, a sofa, and even a cashmere rug at home!

The young man swiftly found the keys and rushed out, bounding down the stairs.

As a straight man, I must protect my innocence. The square is a public place; let's see what you can do!

Two minutes later, Cheng Junfeng appeared on the other side of the square, staggering. He accurately located Shen Xi, who was playing with a neighbor's corgi.

The elderly people doing square dancing waved their fans, while children ran around laughing.

Everything else faded into the background as he hungrily wanted to get closer to him.

That person, who hadn't spoken to him in a long time, had separated from him so easily in their long relationship.

He stared at him for a long time, then quickened his pace, grabbing his wrist and pulling him aside.

"What are you doing?!" Shen Xi was startled and panicked: "Cheng Junfeng!"

The system whispered.

"Actually... you could have pretended not to be home since he doesn't have a key."

Keding: "Ouch!"

"You moved too fast; I didn't have time to stop you." The system said: "But in our line of work, selling your looks is common. I can help you block your senses."

"No!"

In the struggle, Shen Xi shouted angrily: "Let go!"

"I won't let go!"

"What do you want?"

"It's me who should ask you," Cheng Junfeng, red-eyed, demanded: "What do you want, Shen Xi? What do you want me to do?!"

The man, drunk and overwhelmed by mixed emotions, became increasingly uncontrollable.

"Shen Xi, what have you been thinking these days? When I said we should break off the engagement, you didn't show any emotion at all?"

"Have you ever loved me, even a little bit? Was everything we had before fake?"

Shen Xi asked: "What do you want me to do?"

"I want you to hate me! I want you to beg me to stay, to be angry with me, to question why I'm such an asshole for breaking off the engagement!" Cheng Junfeng gritted his teeth, almost tearing his heart out: "Speak, say what you truly feel, Shen Xi, what are you thinking right now?!"

The system: "Actually, he was planning to make dumplings for you; it's just not winter solstice yet."

Keding sighed: "Is it because he didn't get to eat instant noodles that he's falling apart?"

The system: "Don't argue with a drunk. Just placate him and send him away."

Shen Xi cleared his throat and said: "Whether or not I love you doesn't matter anymore; it's just a small hurt."

"You can rest assured that I won't pretend to be pitiful just to keep you."

Cheng Junfeng's eyebrows twitched.

"The next lyrics are forgotten," Keding scratched his head: "System, look up the lyrics for A-Mei's 'I Hate You, I Love You.'"

The system remained silent, silently projecting the lyrics in front of him.

Shen Xi continued without emotion: "It's all my fault, I'm too weak. I hate you, I love you. OH~ I hate you~"

Since the emotion wasn't quite there, he repeated it.

"OH~~ I hate you~~~"

Seeing that Cheng Junfeng still stared at him intently, Shen Xi decided to switch songs and recited more fluently.

"I'm tired of waiting for your so-called arrangements. When will the future you talk about actually come?"

"Only when it's too late do I realize how lovable I am. I want to rely on you, but you're already gone—"

Cheng Junfeng: "...I know you're reciting lyrics!"

Who's the one who's drunk and going crazy?! What are you pretending for?!

"It's really not easy," Shen Xi breathed a sigh of relief: "It's hard to recite the lyrics in Mandarin after listening to them so much."

The man gripped his wrist so tightly it felt like it might break, and he growled fiercely: "Answer me, why did you agree to break off the engagement so quickly?"

"Is there a possibility," Shen Xi suddenly said, "that on the night of the engagement banquet, Yan Chun was someone I sent?"

The two worlds abruptly fell into dead silence.

The system was stunned for two seconds before standing up and applauding: "Impressive, bro!!!"

Keding felt quite embarrassed: "Too kind; it just came to me in a flash."

Cheng Junfeng almost lost his balance, his voice trembling as if laced with blood, shaking violently from the sudden reversal: "Yan Chun, you sent him to the wedding banquet?"

"No, that's impossible. How could you know about Yan Chun..."

"That's true, I still have his contact information," he was caught between frantic denial and affirmation: "He's in my social media circle, but how could you possibly know the password to my private album?!"

"Did Yan Chun find you? Or did you approach me from the beginning for his sake? What is your relationship with him?!"

"It must be like that, no, absolutely not, it must be, it can't be!!"

"Shen Xi, explain yourself, or I'll call him right now and we'll confront each other!"

Keding: "This is so troublesome. I don't even know how to explain it. From now on, whenever this happens, I'll recite song lyrics."

System: "Alright, I'll queue up a random playlist for you."

Shen Xi waited quietly for a moment after his hysterical outburst, then continued to read the lyrics word by word: "Don't cry anymore, I'm the one who should be crying. You've already confessed your love for him, what can I do?"

Damn! The lyrics of Power Station are catchy and hard not to sing!

"Then let it be, no matter how much we loved, it's over now. Let's break up, no matter how much we loved, there's no need to struggle—"

The system couldn't help itself and started singing along, wailing in Keding's mind.

The man shook him violently, shouting: "Speak normally! At a time like this, stop reciting lyrics. Are you crazy, Shen Xi?!"

Shen Xi calmly continued: "Stop asking me how I could give him to you. Just go."

At this point, some elderly ladies from the nearby square had gathered around, worried that the young man was being violently extorted by thugs.

A security guard followed, holding a handful of sunflower seeds, ready to intervene at any moment.

The system sang halfway through, then cheerfully said: "Ha, another twenty points, the defense-breaking value is now ninety."

Cheng Junfeng clenched his teeth and looked around, dialing Yan Chun's number in front of Shen Xi.

"You put on quite a show," the man said, taking a deep breath: "Tell me, how long have you known Shen Xi?"

Yan Chun was taken aback, incredulous: "Have you been drinking? What are you talking about?"

"Yan Chun," Cheng Junfeng said sternly: "You've been planning this for so long, all to destroy me and make me never trust anyone's love again, right? You're ruthless, you're relentless!!"

Yan Chun was stunned on the phone.

"What are you talking about??"

Keding took a few steps back, joining the crowd to listen to the argument, even snatching some sunflower seeds from the security guard.

"You're tying a knot in their misunderstanding..."

The system watched with a sense of awe and asked: "If these two break up, will you still send them dumplings?"

"Of course," Keding said gently: "My pork and cabbage dumplings can comfort all the broken-hearted people in the world."

"...You're truly compassionate."