After The Honest Person Was Discovered For Simultaneously Pursuing Three People - Chapter 66

Chapter 66: Favorability Reached 80%…

A chilling coldness shoots from the soles of his feet into his limbs and bones, like a poisonous snake hunting in the grass that can no longer restrain itself, revealing its sharp, cold fangs and completely blocking the prey’s escape route.

Tao Ning has nowhere to retreat. He wants to shrink back, but there is only a wall behind him—he is not only stunned by Xu Jun’s straightforward words, but also by his expression at this moment. When that face, which has always been cold and has no extra expressions, says those lewd words, his eyes seem to want to devour him whole.

He feels that Xu Jun has gone a little crazy. First, a sudden confession is dumped on his head. Tao Ning hasn’t even recovered from the daze of “Xu Jun doesn’t see me as a friend, he actually likes me,” and then he is stunned by his demon-like words.

It seems to be getting worse.

“Calm down…”

Just one step closer, and he can bite the young man’s plump, swollen lips. If he goes a little further, he can pry open his pearly white teeth and taste the crimson tip of his tongue hidden in that small gap. Then he can forcefully suck and lick him, right here, trapping him between his arm and the wall, making his clear, clean eyes cry until they are red and swollen.

Xu Jun thinks cruelly, let Tao Ning see clearly who is making him shed tears now, and in the future, he will never have the thought of thinking about other men through him.

Feeling something hard against his lower abdomen, Tao Ning can’t help but tremble slightly. This is the dorm… what does Xu Jun want to do? His warm lips are only a millimeter away from biting his mouth.

The man who is trapping him senses Tao Ning’s trembling. The eyes behind his gold-rimmed glasses freeze for a moment. He closes his eyes, turns his head, and avoids the extremely tempting red lips in front of him. The breath exhaled from his nose is heavy, as if he is using his last bit of rationality to restrain his behavior that is about to cross the line.

He can’t scare his little Ningning… and he has no right to do anything to Tao Ning.

After a while, Xu Jun opens his eyes. His eye sockets, which were red from holding back, slowly release the hands that were trapping the person in his arms. He takes a few steps back. On the outside, he is calm and no longer has any of the madness from before. But as soon as he speaks, his hoarse voice reveals his unsettled thoughts.

“I won’t do anything out of line to you. Don’t be afraid of me.”

Hearing this, Tao Ning is stunned. His body gradually stops trembling. He wants to say something, but he sees the man in front of him suddenly reach down with an expressionless face. He frowns slightly. After a moment, the hard thing that was making him feel pain has been forced to lie low, completely without its vicious appearance.

Tao Ning’s pupils dilate. This, this is also possible? …It must hurt a lot.

This is the first time he has realized that Xu Jun’s calm exterior hides a terrifying madness, but Xu Jun is also contradictory. He is an extremely restrained person, with a self-abusive ruthlessness towards himself. Just now, Tao Ning thought he would kiss him, but he didn’t. Other than the straightforward and terrifying words, nothing happened.

It seems that no matter how uncontrollable a situation is, Xu Jun can pull it back on track.

Terrifying self-control.

But Tao Ning also lets out a small sigh of relief, because he feels that if Xu Jun hadn’t stopped himself, he would not have been able to handle the consequences.

“Tao Ning,” Xu Jun interrupts his thoughts. The crimson in his eyes gradually fades. “Do you understand now? I don’t want to be your friend.”

His heart seems to sink into a sour liquid because of these words. Tao Ning feels a little sad, because he really, really wants to be good friends with Xu Jun. He has never had a person he could call a friend since he was a child. He is very lonely.

Xu Jun doesn’t say anything else. He turns and walks towards the trash can. The torn-up love letter is suspended above the trash can. Tao Ning can’t see his expression.

“What I just said… is my limit.”

“I’m sorry. I scared you.”

The man’s back is to him. His once handsome and tall body now shows a hint of defeat. After a moment, he lets go of his hand. The shredded papers fall like snowflakes, and the love that hasn’t seen the light of day falls into the trash can. “Tao Ning… please forgive my outburst this time. If you can’t accept it, then in the future… I won’t bother you again. Please also keep this a secret for me.”

Tao Ning stares blankly as the papers disappear like snowflakes. For a moment, his heart pounds fiercely.

A familiar mechanical voice sounds in his mind: Congratulations, favorability has reached 80%.

The door is closed, and only Tao Ning is left in the dorm. He walks to the trash can and stares at the shredded papers inside. The mechanical voice in his mind suddenly laughs: Don’t forget, you still have a mission to have a crush on Xu Jun. You only have three days left. Have you made him feel it?

Tao Ning ignores the system. Instead, he squats down and picks up the papers from the trash can, carefully placing them in his hand. Xu Jun cleans the dorm very well every day, and even in the trash can, there is only this shredded love letter.

There are a total of nineteen pieces.

Only one piece is left. Tao Ning picks it up. When he sees the handwriting on the paper, he freezes in place.

“Tao Ning, my heart is for you. To be precise, I love you.”

“I humbly offer my heart, hoping for a response—Xu Jun. October 12, 2012.”

This is the last part of the letter that he didn’t get to see.

His long eyelashes tremble slightly. Tao Ning silently puts these papers back into the kraft paper envelope. After a moment of hesitation, he picks up the phone under his pillow and turns it on.

Zhao Jingqun had given him a new phone, but Tao Ning refused, saying he would use his old phone to contact him when he returned to school. As soon as he opens the chat box, countless messages pop up.

Sweetheart, have you arrived at the dorm? ^-^

Baby, why aren’t you replying? How about I make you shrimp and broccoli stir-fry when you come back tomorrow?

Sweetheart, are you asleep? Why aren’t you replying.

The first hour since you left.

The second hour since you left.

…

Until the last message: If you don’t reply, your husband is going to come to the school to get you.

The message was sent half an hour ago. Tao Ning can’t help but clutch the envelope. He makes a call. In less than three seconds, the other side answers, as if he has been waiting for his call all this time.

The voice on the other end is slightly hoarse. After a moment, he speaks. “…Sweetheart, why are you just now thinking of me?”

Tao Ning apologizes quietly. “I’m sorry… Zhao Jingqun, I want to discuss something with you.”

The man laughs softly. “Is there anything you want to discuss that I haven’t agreed to? What is it?”

An unprecedented sense of guilt and apology tugs at Tao Ning’s heart. “I… I’m not going home from Monday to Wednesday next week.” Worried that the person on the other end won’t agree, Tao Ning quickly adds, “Just these three days. I’ll go home on Thursday.”

The other end of the phone is silent. Only the man’s shallow breathing can be heard through the receiver. The hands on the wall clock tick. Tao Ning suddenly feels nervous for no reason. Just as he is about to explain, the other end of the phone still laughs softly. “Okay, your husband agrees. But when you come back on Thursday, you have to make it up to me.”

The man says the word “make it up” with a hint of teasing.

Tao Ning’s ear tips instantly turn red with shame. After the last time he was helped, he knows what “make it up” means.

In the hidden, dim office, the young man on the other end of the phone is so shy that he quickly “Mhm”s and then whispers goodbye before hanging up.

In an instant, the atmosphere in the office drops to a freezing point. Sun Er quickly lowers his head, too scared to even breathe. On the black rosewood desk, there are countless photos. In every photo, the handsome young man is either holding hands with Xu Jun or they are talking and laughing.

Some photos have been crumpled so much that they are full of wrinkles. Some even have vicious marks from a sharp object. The man’s handsome face in the photos is unrecognizable. Only the young man’s smile is quiet and beautiful.

Smack!

The phone is heavily smashed onto one of the photos. The sound is so loud that it echoes throughout the office. Sun Er wishes he could jump out of the window with the sound. He doesn’t want to be here to endure the wrath of Zhao Jingqun, who has turned from a young master into the King of Hell.

He just said that he wanted to check on that kid named Xu Jun and his relationship with the angelic sister-in-law this afternoon. The other side was very efficient. They not only turned Xu Jun’s family background upside down but also checked every behavior they could find from his childhood. The result was a series of awards, papers, and so on. Even other people’s evaluations of this kid were consistently very high.

Sun Er still remembers the extremely disdainful expression of Zhao Jingqun, who has always respected scholars. He sneered, “What kind of trash is this? Hypocritical. It can’t even compare to a single strand of hair on my baby’s head.”

In reality, that paper was entirely in French. The topic was “The Application and Performance Optimization of Quantum Dots in Nanoelectronics.” Sun Er didn’t understand it either. It was a translator who knew French who told him. And Sun Er remembers that his young master only went to high school and then dropped out. Of course, the most fundamental reason was that the family Zhao Jingqun was kidnapped into as a child was very poor, and he was forced to give up his studies.

After he was found and brought back to the Zhao family, because the Zhao family’s affairs were too complicated, and his life could be at risk at any time, the pressure was something that ordinary people couldn’t bear. So, there was very little time left for Zhao Jingqun to study.

Fortunately, their young master can be said to be a born business genius. He is ruthless enough to face a pack of wolves and tigers, and he managed to get through it. And because of the angelic sister-in-law, all of his previous plans to study abroad were disrupted, but the young master still managed to stand firm in the man-eating Zhao family.

Sun Er is both afraid of and admires such a ruthless person. It’s a pity that as long as it has something to do with the angelic sister-in-law, the tyrannical young master becomes just an ordinary man in love. Sun Er quietly sighs that indeed, since ancient times, a hero has always had a hard time getting past a beautiful woman.

But now, it’s not a question of getting past a beautiful woman. Because Sun Er feels that his young master’s head is very green at this moment.

Because the detectives and the forces above checked all the surveillance near Xu Jun’s house, they found some photos that were enough to make this “hero,” who always has a smile on his face, become a “jealous husband.” When Zhao Jingqun saw those photos, those sneers made Sun Er’s skin crawl. A sinister chill shot from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.

After a long time, Sun Er hears the man behind the black rosewood desk say in a cold voice, “Go check on Song Yucong… check on everything related to him and Tao Ning.”

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