Chapter 284 - 284 Add Me as a Friend
284 Add Me as a Friend
Guan Lei’s expression turned serious. “Nonsense, how would I lose out? Anything you give me is priceless. Of course, if you feel you’re mistreating me, you can always become my girlfriend. That would be a gain rather than a loss.”
Guan Lei spoke without considering how loud he was. “Lower your voice,” Shen Xi hissed, covering Guan Lei’s mouth in embarra.s.sment.
Guan Lei rolled his eyes and quipped with a teasing smile, “Are you feeling shy?”
His warm breath tickled Shen Xi’s palm as he spoke.
“Be serious,” Shen Xi said as she pulled away.
Guan Lei knew girls were easily embarra.s.sed, so he stopped teasing Shen Xi. “Alright, I need to take care of a few things. Add me as a friend.”
Shen Xi nodded and did just that.
“Wow, your account looks brand new,” Shen Xi muttered, surveying the blank profile and feed.
Guan Lei hid his discomfort with a cough. He was innocent! He had just bought a new number and registered a new account. After all, he couldn’t let Shen Xi know that he was San Shi, could he?
“Why don’t you help me pick a name for my profile?” Guan Lei tried to look as sincere as he could while asking for Shen Xi’s recommendation.
Shen Xi immediately rejected the idea. “That’s something you should come up with yourself. Why should I waste my brain cells on something like that?”
Pouting, Guan Lei looked at Shen Xi’s nickname, ‘Xixi,’ and an idea came to him.
“Xixi, I’ve thought about it. How about I name my profile ID, Xixi’s boy?” Guan Lei’s eyes shone comically bright as he looked up at Shen Xi.
“That’s enough! Don’t make me beat you up!” Shen Xi groused.
Guan Lei was undeterred and even stuck his tongue out at Shen Xi. “I don’t care! I’m yours.”
Shen Xi felt a vein throb at her temple, and she raised her fist threateningly. The two soon devolved into a heated quarrel.
Li Jin’s eyes never left the two who were fooling around. Zhao Yuan, who stood next to him, piped up, “Aren’t they a good match? A handsome man and a beautiful woman… Ah! I have a great eye for these things.”
Li Jin smiled, murmuring noncommittedly, “It’s hard to say if they’re a good match.”
“What did you say?” Zhao Yuan asked, not having heard him. “I didn’t catch what you were saying.”
“It’s nothing,” Li Jin answered, taking Zhao Yuan by the hand. “I was thinking about what songs I’d like to sing later.”
Zhao Yuan nodded excitedly. “Yes, yes. I was doing the same. The rest of the cla.s.s will s.n.a.t.c.h up all the good songs if you don’t make plans now.”
While Shen Xi and the rest enjoyed themselves, Jiang Xue, who had just awoken, was screaming in the hospital ward. “I don’t believe you! You’re lying!”
Xiang Cheng threw the lab report showing the DNA test results at Jiang Xue. “You think I’m lying? Jiang Xue, do you have the courage to say I was your first time? Do you have the nerve to declare I was your one and only?”
Jiang Xue lay in bed, splotchy tears trailing down her pale cheeks. She had just come out of the operation and was still weak, but that did not stop her from reading the report Xiang Cheng had dumped on her lap with trembling hands.
The evidence was stacked against her, even if she was unwilling to believe it.
Jiang Xue ripped the report to shreds and sobbed, “Brother Cheng, it’s all a lie. The child was yours; it could not have been anyone else’s. I know you are angry that my father asked your family for money, so you colluded with the doctor to falsify evidence to get revenge. Isn’t my pain enough?”
Xiang Cheng did not expect Jiang Xue to deny the truth so stubbornly. It infuriated him.
At this moment, his phone vibrated, and he noted a few photos attached to the message he had received. The photos were the same ones that had been up on display during his grandfather’s birthday banquet.
But this time, they were far more explicit. Xiang Cheng could even see the backs of the men surrounding Jiang Xue as they engaged in carnal pleasures.
Xiang Cheng enlarged the photos one by one for Jiang Xue to see, his words laced with venomous sarcasm, “Jiang Xue, what else do you want to say? Let me guess… The child belongs to one of these men, am I right? Tell me, did you hang out with these men three months ago?”
The sight of those d.a.m.ning photos caused Jiang Xue to lurch forward in panic, only to roll off the bed and onto the floor.
Jiang Xue grabbed Xiang Cheng by his pants and begged, “Brother Cheng, please believe me! You’re the only one in my heart—those photos have been photoshopped. Whoever that person is, it isn’t me!”