Chapter 12 : Chapter 12
Chapter 12. When He Refused to Decorate the Venue and Chose to Take It Easy, Both Ye Chengyu and Lin Wan Grew Anxious
At the graduation ceremony rehearsal venue.
Ye Chengyu, whose looks leaned somewhat feminine, hurried into the dressing room where the performers were preparing.
The moment he saw Lin Wan, it was as though he had grabbed hold of a lifesaving straw.
“Wan’er, Wan’er.” He rushed in front of Lin Wan, tears glimmering in his eyes as though he had suffered some unbearable grievance.
Startled, Lin Wan quickly pulled him into her arms and patted his back. “Brother Chengyu, why are you crying?”
“It is that Jiang Yichen again. I wanted to bring him over to decorate the venue and prepare a surprise for you, but that bastard actually had his bodyguards stop me.”
Ye Chengyu stepped out of her embrace and held out his wrist. A patch of purple bruising stood out glaringly. “Look. I asked them to tell Jiang Yichen to come see me, and they even bullied me.”
“Wan’er, I suffered so much just to get Jiang Yichen to prepare a surprise for you.”
Hearing her friend’s tearful complaint, Lin Wan was instantly consumed by fury.
First, he had gone after her family. Then he had deliberately stopped bringing her breakfast. And now he was even bullying her best friend.
“Jiang Yichen, you bastard! I will never forgive you again!”
“That is right! You absolutely cannot forgive him,” Ye Chengyu chimed in.
Hatred filled Lin Wan’s eyes as she raised her chin proudly. She would never yield.
She was now a reserve member of the Yanhuang Team. Jiang Yichen, you were no longer worthy of her. Did he really think he could make her give in by using this method? Dream on!
“Brother Chengyu, if Jiang Yichen refuses to come decorate the venue, then forget about him. You can do it yourselves. I am sure it will be ten thousand times better than anything he could have done.”
Ye Chengyu’s crying stopped on the spot, and his eyes darted about in panic. He had come to get Lin Wan to call Jiang Yichen over to decorate the venue.
With that amount of work, there was no way the Student Union’s bunch of lazy good-for-nothings could finish setting everything up by five in the afternoon.
“Wan’er, I...”
“Brother Chengyu, I believe in you. You can definitely do a better job than that despicable Jiang Yichen,” Lin Wan said with complete sincerity.
Ye Chengyu: “...”
He tried to persuade her for quite a while longer, but Lin Wan was so furious that she remained unmoved. She simply refused to lower herself and go find Jiang Yichen.
Left with no other choice, Ye Chengyu summoned the Student Union members with a miserable expression and started decorating the ceremony venue.
“Just you wait, Jiang Yichen. Tonight, when Lin Wan publicly breaks up with you, you will have plenty to cry about!”
“When that time comes, your status as the Jiang family’s heir will belong to Brother Jiang Feng instead.” Ye Chengyu gritted out the words bitterly.
Although Jiang Yichen had been acting a little strangely today, Ye Chengyu still remembered very clearly how Jiang Yichen had once knelt before Lin Wan over a breakup.
Once the ceremony began and Lin Wan publicly dumped him, Jiang Yichen would definitely beg desperately for her to stay and become the laughingstock of the entire school.
A smile curved Ye Chengyu’s lips as he walked out to gather people, only to step on a banana peel the next instant.
Startled, he hurriedly tried to mobilize his Spiritual Energy to steady himself, but it suddenly became as stagnant as dead water, utterly impossible to stir.
Bang!
Ye Chengyu’s forehead slammed into the ground, and he went sprawling head over heels. The students passing by could not help covering their mouths and laughing.
He scrambled to his feet in embarrassment and rage, just about to shout about who had thrown the banana peel, when a turtledove flew overhead and dropped a splatter of white bird droppings onto his head.
Ye Chengyu: “...”
...
School forum.
[Huge news, huge news! Campus beauty Su was caught doing something scandalous with a boy by the school pond!]
[Shocking! Jiang Yichen, Lin Wan’s boyfriend, was acting intimately with Goddess Su!]
[Oh my God! Our hearts are broken! Goddess Su actually called Jiang Yichen “Brother”! He seems to be the dream man she has been chasing all along!]
[...]
Photos of Jiang Yichen and Su Linyu strolling around campus and taking pictures at scenic spots were uploaded to the school forum by passing students. In an instant, the posts shot to the top and became the subject of discussion for countless students.
But not long afterward, every post related to Jiang Yichen on the school forum was deleted. At a glance, it was obvious that the school administration had stepped in.
On the sports field, Tang Long and Chu Xingchen, who had been stopped earlier by Uncle Feng’s bodyguards, were dumbfounded when they saw the posts on the school forum.
They had already been puzzled about why Jiang Yichen had ordered his bodyguards to stop Ye Chengyu, and now an even more explosive piece of gossip had surfaced.
As for the deletion of the posts, neither of them found it strange. It was not only Jiang Yichen who wanted to hide his identity. His father, Jiang Zhentian, Huaxia’s number one Martial God, also wanted to conceal the fact that Jiang Yichen was his son.
Because Jiang Yichen had truly disgraced the Jiang family too badly.
“What the hell! How did Jiang Yichen end up with Linyu? In the past, it would have been good enough if he had simply not bullied her.” Tang Long was incomparably shocked.
Chu Xingchen nodded as well. Jiang Yichen and Su Linyu were both in Class 1 with them, and they crossed paths constantly.
But every time, it had always been Su Linyu who went to look for Jiang Yichen. He would then get angry and scold her, telling her not to disturb him and Lin Wan.
Other students might not have known why Su Linyu kept doing that, but these children of great families knew very well that Jiang Yichen and Su Linyu had long been bound by a marriage arrangement since childhood.
“There is something strange about that boy today.” Chu Xingchen looked suspicious. “Judging from the videos that passersby filmed, they seem to be heading toward the sports field.”
The moment Tang Long heard that, his little eyes widened. “The graduation photos are about to be taken. Brother Yichen is not coming to take graduation photos too, is he?”
“From freshman year until now, Brother Yichen has barely attended class for more than a handful of days. He poured all his time and energy into cultivating the team.”
“If Linyu had not covered for him, and if the Jiang family had not been so powerful, the advisor would have made him withdraw long ago.”
“In the whole class, anyone who had seen him twice could already count as an old acquaintance. And every time we met him, it was either because he was borrowing money, or because he was borrowing money.”
Chu Xingchen gave a cold snort. “If he comes, he has to pay back what he owes me. He borrowed three million from me. Is he planning to graduate without repaying it?”
“A debt must be repaid. That is only natural. As class monitor, go tell the whole class too. We cannot let him run off.”
The moment Tang Long heard that, he was instantly energized. Jiang Yichen still owed him eight million as well.
“Hero Chu, you truly do carry yourself like a hero.” He clasped his hands and walked toward the cluster of chatting classmates.
Not long afterward, Tang Long brought a whole group over. Even the advisor and the subject teachers joined the debt-collecting army.
“Teacher Li, why are you here too?” Tang Long asked in surprise.
Teacher Li rolled his eyes. “In freshman year, that brat borrowed five hundred thousand from me on the excuse that his family was in financial difficulty.”
The students were stunned. Good grief, Jiang Yichen, you really were a borrowing maniac. You had not even spared the advisor.
“He is here, he is here! Jiang Yichen is here!”
Just then, one of the students suddenly shouted.
Everyone turned to look at once, only to see Jiang Yichen strolling leisurely into the sports field with Su Linyu, chatting as they walked.
The students they passed all turned their heads to stare, astonishment spreading across their faces.
“Goddess Su? Why is she with Jiang Yichen?”
“You can tell at a glance that you do not pay attention to the school forum. Just now, Goddess Su was taking pictures with Jiang Yichen by the lotus pond.”
“What the hell! Doesn’t Jiang Yichen already have a girlfriend? I remember her name is Lin Wan. A huge reason he borrowed money from me was because of Lin Wan.”
“...”
The students began discussing it among themselves, but when it came to actually going over and demanding repayment from Jiang Yichen, they still felt somewhat uneasy.
After all, anyone in Class 1 was either the child of a great family or the descendant of one of Huaxia’s leaders.
And although Jiang Yichen had kept a low profile throughout his four years in university, they all had their suspicions. He was very likely a member of the Jiang family.
“What is there to be afraid of? A debt must be repaid. If you are collecting debts, then come with me.”
Chu Xingchen had always despised injustice more than anything. He was the first to stride toward Jiang Yichen.
“Hero Chu, your humble follower is willing to go with you.”
“Me too.”
With someone taking the lead, quite a few people followed suit and surged over aggressively.
“Ahhh, I actually crashed into Brother Yichen’s arms! I am so happy!”
“You are this happy over just one photo together?”
“Yes, of course I am. Today is the happiest day of my life.”
As Jiang Yichen watched Su Linyu look as though she might jump with joy over a single shared photograph, a smile lingered on his lips.
But suddenly, he sensed a wave of killing intent slowly approaching. He lifted his head to look.
Chu Xingchen and Tang Long were walking over with a large group of students and teachers behind them. If they had been carrying weapons, it would have looked like the cast of some hot-blooded delinquent school film.
In no time at all, they had surrounded the two of them.
Jiang Yichen paused in surprise. “What is this supposed to be...?”
Teacher Li stepped forward. He had wanted to say “Pay back the money” right away, but he could not quite bring himself to say it so bluntly, so he asked tactfully, “Jiang Yichen, have you forgotten something?”
“Forgotten something...”
“Jiang Yichen, we are about to graduate. You must pay back the money you borrowed today!” Chu Xingchen declared in a bold voice.
Pay back the money?
Jiang Yichen instantly remembered. In his previous life, supporting the team had always left him short of funds, so he had borrowed money from practically every classmate and teacher in the class.
Every time they had come to ask him to repay it, he had found one excuse after another to put them off, because he truly had not had the money.
And right at that moment, the system’s voice rang out in his mind.
【Ding! A laid-back choice has been triggered.】
【Option One: Just like in your previous life, find all sorts of excuses to wriggle out of repaying the money. Reward: the title ‘Top-Tier Deadbeat.’
Option Two: Reveal your status as the Jiang family’s young master and use power to suppress others, taking it easy while refusing to repay. Reward: ‘Low-Level Laid-Back Gift Pack.’
Option Three: In your previous life, you made up all kinds of excuses to avoid repaying your debts. It exhausted your mind and wore on your spirit, and with those debts hanging over your head, you were constantly upset.
Now that you have lived a second life, you are taking it easy in order to enjoy life, and maintaining a cheerful mood is the most important thing of all. Therefore, transfer the money on the spot. Reward: ‘Advanced Laid-Back Gift Pack.’】