Chapter 152: Little Monk Helps Out, Big Sister Likes You
Huai Sheng kept biting on the spoon, and his teeth hurt.
What to do?
There’s nothing I can do.
Big Sister is so fierce, and she’s already pushed this person down.
I know monks should be merciful and compa.s.sionate. And when Big Sister hit this woman, I should have stopped her. But from their conversation, this skinny bamboo stick seems even fiercer.
Master taught me that I’m still young, so if I encounter danger, I have to protect myself first.
He bit his lip. In fact, he was just a child and didn’t understand love at all. Fu Chen had asked his master for their marriage affinity, and he had only overheard a few words.
Master Pudu looked at the name and birth characters Fu Chen gave him. “During the Mid-Autumn Festival, Old Madam came over to pray for blessings and also talked about your marriage. I didn’t expect that you’re getting engaged already.”
With him giving the birth characters, anyone would think that he was getting married soon and was here to check the best date for it.
“No, I just want you to help me take a look. Are we fated to get married? When will there be any major progress?”
Master Pudu took another look at her eight characters. “Third Master, this lady’s not eighteen yet?”
“Yes.”
“You’re being slightly anxious.” Master Pudu smiled. “Is she the girl who accompanied you here?”
Fu Chen didn’t deny it. “She doesn’t know yet. Please keep it a secret, including to my family.”
Master Pudu nodded with a smile. Young people nowadays even have underground relations.h.i.+ps?
Afterward, when Master Pudu was telling their fortune, Huai Sheng only listened to a little bit and heard that their birth characters were extremely compatible. Then he went out to play.
Only then did he realize that Fu Chen was secretly in love with Song Fengwan. Fu Chen treated him well, so he helped him out a bit secretly.
Great, now someone has exposed him.
Third Uncle, I’m afraid your thoughts can’t be hidden anymore.
***
Cheng Lan looked at Song Fengwan’s surprised face and thought about the interaction between the two. Although Fu Chen was gentle and caring to Song Fengwan, she didn’t treat him that way.
She’s not stupid. Is it just Third Master’s one-sided love?
“Haha—” Cheng Lan suddenly burst into laughter.
This is all fate. I like Fu Chen and pursued him relentlessly, but he likes Song Fengwan, and this girl doesn’t know it?
“You’re crazy.” Song Fengwan furrowed her brows when she saw Cheng Lan acting crazy. “Is there something wrong with your brain?”
I’ve always treated Third Master as an elder and never dared to think of anything else, yet she claims that he likes me?
What kind of beauties hasn’t he seen? Why would he like an underage girl like me?
Does he have some special fetish?
“This is all fate. I can’t get the person I like, and neither can he. Haha…” Cheng Lan laughed so hard that tears were about to fall.
Song Fengwan took the gla.s.s of water beside her hand and splashed it over her head. The water was cold, causing Cheng Lan to s.h.i.+ver, and her wet hair stuck to her face.
She looked at her fiercely.
“Are you sober now?” Song Fengwan looked at her crazy face.
Just moments ago, she was recounting the details of the previous incidents, and now she’s saying that Third Master likes me?
Is this person a lunatic? Who exposes the evil deeds they’ve done themselves?
“I’m very sober. Let me tell you. Third Master likes…”
Song Fengwan raised the cup of coffee on Cheng Lan’s side and splashed it at her again.
“Ah!” Cheng Lan was exasperated. The coffee was sticky and splashed over her head. Naturally, she was very furious. “Song Fengwan!”
“What nonsense are you spouting?!” What a lunatic.
“You think I’m lying to you?”
“What else could it be? You set me up and then slandered Third Master, trying to sow discord between us. What exactly do you want?”
Cheng Lan regained her energy, got up with both hands supporting her from the floor, and staggered toward Song Fengwan.
The coffee on her face was still dripping down, her left cheek was red and swollen, her hair was messy, her eye sockets were sunken, and the corners of her mouth were crooked when she smiled. She looked like a ghost.
“What are you doing?” Song Fengwan frowned.
“Do you like Third Master?”
“What does this have to do with you?”
“You don’t like him? You won’t like him for the rest of your life, right?!” Cheng Lan was selfish and crazy. Fu Chen didn’t love her, so she suddenly wanted to see him being alone for the rest of his life and dying without anyone by his side.
It seemed like only if that happened would she feel better in her heart.
“Tell me you’ll never like him back!” She screamed.
Song Fengwan took two steps back. “You’re crazy!”
“Tell me you don’t like him!”
Her body was dirty, and Song Fengwan was afraid that she would touch her, so she could only keep retreating…
“Say something. Weren’t you quite good at talking just now?! You don’t like him! Say it!” Cheng Lan was anxious and kept asking and screaming.
Song Fengwan was soon driven into a corner. “Even if I like him, what does it have to do with you? Why do I have to tell you?”
“What did you say?” Cheng Lan was enraged when she heard this.
No. No one can get what I can’t get.
Fu Chen doesn’t understand Song Fengwan’s feelings for him, yet he’s still so caring and protective of her.I can already imagine what their relations.h.i.+p will be like once they get together.
Jealousy could drive people crazy.
She suddenly stretched out her hand and pounced toward Song Fengwan.
“You can’t like him! You can’t!”
She seemed crazy, scaring the other customers in the shop to flee. But with her current state, anyone who wanted to stop the fight would find her dirty.
Song Fengwan retreated…
The pursuit continued from inside the store to outside the store.
Huai Sheng hurriedly followed them…
***
Song Fengwan retreated continuously.
Suddenly, she b.u.mped into something. She subconsciously turned her head and only saw a black color before her. She was already hugged into someone’s embrace.
When Cheng Lan pounced over, she only managed to grab the corner of this person’s clothes.
This person’s clothes were instantly stained with filth. Song Fengwan was protected by him and wasn’t dirtied at all. The black trench coat wrapped around her.
It felt impenetrable.
Song Fengwan looked up, only to see Fu Chen’s slightly pursed lips. He looked penetratingly cold.
“Third… Third Master.” Cheng Lan retracted her hand when she saw Fu Chen and turned around subconsciously to tidy her clothes.
“Are you alright?” Fu Chen lowered his head to look at Song Fengwan. Perhaps because she was a little frightened just now, her face was red. When she thought of what Cheng Lan had said, her heart began to inexplicably palpitate wildly.
She shook her head and slowly withdrew from Fu Chen’s embrace.
“Third Uncle.” Huai Sheng ran toward him.
“Bring Huai Sheng to the car first. I’ll take care of things here. The car is in the parking lot. After taking the elevator down from here, you should be able to see it.” Fu Chen handed the car key to her.
Song Fengwan hesitated for a moment, but she still left with Huai Sheng.
***
Seeing Song Fengwan walk far, Fu Chen lowered his head and glanced at the stain on the corner of his clothes.
“Third Master…” Cheng Lan was too obsessed with Fu Chen. When she saw him, her lips and heart trembled, and she couldn’t speak.
“Your father went to my company to look for me just now.” Fu Chen unhurriedly took off his coat and loosened his tie.
He had just returned from the mountains, so after a night, his s.h.i.+rt was full of creases from Song Fengwan’s grabbing. There was not a sense of exquisite beauty to it at all. It just moved along with his movements and had a hint of uninhibited laziness.
Cheng Lan stared intently at him, her eyes crazed.
“Your father got on his knees in front of me.”
Only then did Cheng Lan come back to her senses. “My dad?”
“He begged me to let your family’s company go. Actually, he should be clear why your Cheng family has developed so quickly these years. It was all by relying on the connections your family acc.u.mulated because of my family. Even if I don’t do anything, your family’s company will be swallowed up by others sooner or later.”
The Cheng family’s company was in a crisis, and Cheng Guofu really had no choice but to go and beg Fu Chen.
He squatted in the company lobby and said that he wouldn’t give up until he saw Fu Chen.
Both his children had been arrested, and netizens went to his company’s entrance to curse at his family every day. Under Fu Chen’s suppression, the company’s capital chain was broken, and his employees quit. The Cheng family was on the brink of collapsing.
He was in despair and looked miserable as he squatted in the company lobby, frightening the guests who came to the company to discuss business.
s.h.i.+ Fang had intended to send him out directly. It was office hours, and the company was located in the city center. Afraid that the impact would worsen, he called Fu Chen for instructions.
After Fu Chen came to the company, he invited Cheng Guofu to the reception room. Cheng Guofu directly knelt down to Fu Chen and begged him to let his company go.
“My dad, he…” Even if Cheng Lan was cold-blooded, she wouldn’t be indifferent when she heard that her father had knelt down to Fu Chen.
“He’s also considered my elder. But as a proud man, he knelt down and begged me. I promised him that I would no longer put pressure on his company, but I wouldn’t help him either.” Fu Chen’s tone was cold.
“It’s all thanks to you that your father and brother ended up like this.”
Fu Chen didn’t care at all whether she felt anguished or not, and every word of his stabbed her heart.
“You’ve ruined your family, and your younger brother is so young, yet you’ve caused him to be sent to prison. Your father is already in his fifties, yet he actually knelt down and begged me. Is this what you want to see?
“Things are already like this, yet you still haven’t repented and continued to pester her. You even dared to look for her in private. Cheng Lan, are you only willing to give up after your family is completely destroyed?”
In the end, Fu Chen showed mercy to the Cheng family.
Their family matters weren’t capable of withstanding the police investigation. Sooner or later, they would suffer the consequences of their actions. At this time, he only had to watch as the Cheng family perished. He was also worried that his father would feel upset if he interfered too much.
In the end, he didn’t give them the final blow.
“My dad knelt to you?” Cheng Lan’s tears fell uncontrollably.
It seemed she finally realized what kind of situation her family was in and that it could no longer withstand a single bit of her wilful actions that would trouble the family further.
“You don’t seem to understand the current situation. Your family’s capital chain has long been broken. In a few days, the bank will come collect the debt. If your family doesn’t have the money to repay the debt, your family’s company will likely be declared bankrupt and go into liquidation.”
Her heart trembled. Bankrupt? She didn’t expect that things were already this bad.
“Your father has been going around everywhere begging for help these days. Whoever he could find, he would always accompany them to drink until late at night.
“If you have any bit of conscience, you should know that you no longer have the privilege to be willful.
“But if you want to continue, I can play along.”
Fu Chen’s tone was light but extremely arrogant and proud.
Cheng Lan’s legs gave way, and she slumped to the ground.
“Actually…” Fu Chen sneered. “These things didn’t belong to you in the first place. It’s merely time for them to return.”
The Fu family was indeed indebted to the Cheng family. On account of it, Old Master Fu had helped them a lot, but their appet.i.te was too big. They weren’t cut out to do business, yet they still insisted on doing it because they had the Fu family behind them.
If they had been more honest, Fu Chen would have been willing to help them out a bit, even for the next three generations.
Greed was human nature.
After finis.h.i.+ng speaking, Fu Chen turned to leave.
“Third Master!” Cheng Lan called out to him in a sobbing voice. “What exactly do you like about her?
“How am I not as good to her?!
“I’ve known you since I was seven years old! It’s been seventeen years! Can’t I get a single bit of pity from you!”
Fu Chen stopped but didn’t say anything.
“Even if she doesn’t know?
“Even if you can’t get her in the future?
“Fu Chen, what’s so good about her?! What’s so good about her?! If not for you, she wouldn’t have even been able to protect herself!” Cheng Lan wailed.
Fu Chen turned to look at her and suddenly smiled.
“She doesn’t need to be very good or very powerful. I naturally will protect her. You don’t have to compare yourself with her. She may not be as good as you in some aspects, but in my heart, you…”
“… can’t compare to her.”
With that, he turned around and left. When he pa.s.sed by the trash can, he casually threw his coat in it.
It was just like throwing away trash, just like throwing away Cheng Lan’s feelings for him.
Just now…
It was the first time Fu Chen smiled at me.
Cheng Lan covered her face and laughed out loud like a lunatic.
***
When Fu Chen got into the car, Song Fengwan and Huai Sheng were sitting in the backseat drinking bubble tea.
Huai Sheng had never drunk it before. After tasting it once earlier, he had repeatedly turned his head to look at the bubble tea shop every step of the way when they pa.s.sed by it.
“You want more? I’ll buy another for you.”
“No thanks. I’ll treat you.” Huai Sheng took out the small cloth bag his master gave him.
Master, Big Sister has given me a lot of things. You said that if I receive a favor, I should return the kindness with a spring. So treating her to a cup of bubble tea is what I should do.
I will be extravagant for once today. Please don’t blame me.
Nowadays, people normally used mobile payment, so the shop a.s.sistant was stunned to see Huai Sheng holding cash.
“I’ll pay for it. Another cup of cla.s.sic bubble tea, please.” Song Fengwan scanned the QR code to pay in a few seconds.
Huai Sheng looked at her in a daze. Phones can be used this way? You can just take a picture?
No wonder Master always hid his phone from me.
When Fu Chen got in the car, he saw a cup of bubble tea beside him.
“Third Uncle, Big Sister bought it for you. It’s really delicious.” Huai Sheng couldn’t bear to drink it too quickly and kept taking small sips.
“Oh.” Fu Chen replied. “Wanwan, what did Cheng Lan say to you just now?”
“Just some things that happened before. I didn’t even know that my bad luck recently was all because of her.” Song Fengwan bit the straw and automatically ignored Cheng Lan’s ‘crazy talk’.
“Third Uncle, let me tell you, Big Sister was so fierce just now…” Huai Sheng spoke with exaggerated expressions in a childish voice.
“Is that so?” Fu Chen inserted a straw into the cup of bubble tea, took a sip, and then put it aside, getting ready to start driving.
“She hit someone. She was really fierce. She even pushed that aunt to the ground.”
Fu Chen’s response to his words: As long as my Wanwan didn’t suffer a loss.
“Third Uncle, Big Sister also said that she likes you just now!”
Fu Chen’s hand slipped, and the steering wheel turned. If he hadn’t braked in time, the car would have directly hit a pillar in the parking garage.
Song Fengwan almost spat out the tapioca pearl in her mouth. When did I say that?
Isn’t he a monk and not supposed to lie?
Why is he starting to spout nonsense?