Transmigrated Into The Boss's Marriage Partner - Chapter 6

Realizing that this topic was somewhat inappropriate, the director belatedly apologized to Jin Yan: “I’m sorry, Xiaoyan.”

“It’s fine, Director.” Jin Yan smiled reluctantly, walked aside to resume his work, and his figure looked somewhat lonely.

Perhaps because of Guan Hongyu’s connection, the director’s attitude toward Su Youqi was also quite good.

Su Youqi walked over to the side and secretly asked the director: “Director, what happened to Xiaoyan’s older brother?”

Su Youqi had a good impression of Jin Yan, so he inevitably felt a bit more concerned.

The director sighed: “His brother? He passed away.” The director stared at Su Youqi for a few seconds and said regretfully: “If his brother had half, or even a fraction of your skills, he wouldn’t have been driven to jump from a building by those scumbags. Come to think of it, that was the campus bullying case that caused a huge sensation at your X University a couple of years ago. But it happened several years ago, and since the school intentionally suppressed the news, it’s normal that you haven’t heard about it.”

Jin Yan’s brother was a famously outstanding student of exemplary character and academic performance back at X University. There was only one thing: his personality was slightly introverted, and he didn’t have many friends.

Nobody knew where he had somehow rubbed a wealthy second-generation roommate the wrong way, leading that roommate to team up with two other roommates to constantly bully him.

Jin Yan’s brother had reported it to the teachers, and the teachers had tried their best to intervene, but that wealthy roommate relied on his family’s power and influence to completely disregard the teachers.

Later, the school transferred Jin Yan’s brother to a different dorm. They thought things might get better, but unexpectedly, this move only provoked the wealthy roommate further, making him intensify his bullying.

No one knew what Jin Yan’s brother had endured during that period. They only knew that he frequently skipped classes, and his appearance visibly withered day by day.

Then one night, Jin Yan’s brother climbed onto the roof of the dormitory building and leaped down.

Su Youqi had seen this episode before. Wasn’t this the exact script the original body was going through when he transmigrated over?

Leaving aside the fact that he had already sorted out Huang Jie and his gang.

If things had followed their original trajectory, and the original body hadn’t been required to take Su Xiangqiu’s place in a ghost marriage with the Nan family, which ultimately freed him from Huang Jie’s bullying, who knew what would have happened to the original body?

“What happened to that scum later?” Su Youqi frowned and pressed on. He wouldn’t call himself a person filled with burning hatred for evil, but he grew up under the red flag and possessed a very correct sense of right and wrong.

The director gave a light, mocking scoff and said in a slightly derisive tone: “What could happen? He didn’t murder him with his own hands. His family had connections in the hospital sector and pulled strings to get him a psychiatric diagnosis certificate. Jin Yan’s family had neither power nor influence, and after several unsuccessful appeals, X University expelled him. His family claimed they were sending him to an overseas sanatorium for medical treatment, and the matter was simply brushed aside and forgotten.”

Su Youqi’s expression darkened, and he said coldly: “Karma may be delayed, but it is never absent.” As a senior celestial master, Su Youqi understood the four words cause and effect better than anyone else.

Accustomed to the law of the jungle where the strong prey upon the weak, the director didn’t take Su Youqi’s words to heart, assuming Su Youqi was simply young, inexperienced, and still quite naive.

However, the director didn’t have the heart to shatter this naivety and merely gave an ambiguous reply: “Perhaps.”

Compared to that scum, the director cared more about Jin Yan.

“Do you know why Jin Yan works as a stunt coordinator now?” Looking at Jin Yan not far away, who had already pulled himself together and was once again instructing the actors on their movements, the director said wistfully: “Jin Yan’s grades were also exceptional, even better than his older brother’s. He skipped grades in both middle and high school, and he was originally on track to breeze into a top university. But when his brother’s incident happened, he was right in the middle of his senior year, which dealt him such a heavy blow that he didn’t do well on the college entrance exams. Later, running around everywhere to seek justice for his brother caused him to miss the window to retake his exams.

Later on, Jin Yan chose to work at a martial arts gym, becoming an apprentice under a master and stepping up one step at a time to become a stunt coordinator for film crews today. Don’t look at how thin and frail Xiaoyan seems; his martial arts skills are genuinely impressive.

I once asked him: with his level of intelligence, he could easily find a much easier industry, so why did he insist on entering this field to suffer and endure hardship? But he said—

He just thought that if he knew martial arts, would he have been able to protect his brother?”

He wasn’t learning martial arts to take revenge for his brother, but to protect him.

People with pure and kind hearts always think about how to protect others, never about harming them.

After hearing about Jin Yan and his brother, Su Youqi was still somewhat melancholic when he returned to the dorm.

Because of a single piece of trash, Jin Yan’s brother had his life cruelly snatched away, ruining Jin Yan’s much brighter future and shattering the happiness of Jin Yan’s entire family.

“What’s wrong, Third Brother? Did someone bully you on set today?” Seeing Su Youqi looking gloomy when he came back, Guan Hongyu assumed he had been bullied on set and wanted to go back him up.

Su Youqi: “No, it’s just that I heard the director talk about Jin Yan’s situation today, and I’m feeling a bit melancholy.”

“Jin Yan, the crew’s stunt coordinator? What happened to him?” Guan Hongyu didn’t have any action scenes in the film, so he hadn’t interacted with Jin Yan, but Chang Xingye had action scenes and had received guidance from Jin Yan twice, so he roughly knew who the person was.

Su Youqi recounted the whole story to Guan Hongyu, who flew into a rage and cursed indignantly: “Damn it! Why does our university have such trash! That scum only dared to bully someone like Jin Yan’s brother who was powerless and introverted. If he had the guts to pick on someone like Young Master here, I’d bring my bodyguards and beat him until his teeth fell out!”

Guan Hongyu was right. When it all boiled down to it, it was just bullying the weak and fearing the strong. That scum picked on Jin Yan’s brother because he looked easy to bully. If it had been someone with a strong personality and a good family background like Guan Hongyu, that person would never have dared to go that far.

“Speaking of which, this is somewhat similar to that Huang Jie who bullied you a while back. Luckily, Third Brother, your skills are good and you beat those pieces of trash black and blue!” Guan Hongyu spat in disgust: “People like that really shame us rich kids!”

Guan Hongyu was also a wealthy second-generation heir, but his family had raised him remarkably well.

Guan Hongyu suddenly remembered something and said: “Right, Third Brother, let me tell you. Last night while you were out, somehow Huang Jie fell from the training room of our Performance Department. He’s currently staying in the ICU. I heard it’s very serious, and nobody knows if he’ll pull through. Our training room is quite high up on the sixth floor. Fortunately, when he fell, he was cushioned by a large tree downstairs, otherwise…” He probably would have been killed on the spot without even getting the chance to make it to the ICU.

Guan Hongyu had seen the scene photos forwarded in the class chat, showing a huge pool of blood on the ground with his neck twisted at an unnatural angle. It looked terrifying, and he said with lingering fear: “Who knows if it’s just retribution for bullying people all day long? The railing in the training room is so high; nobody has any idea how he managed to fall over it.”

“That serious?” Su Youqi was a bit surprised.

That shouldn’t be the case, though.

The bad deeds Huang Jie had committed so far hadn’t reached the level of costing him his life.

Moreover, Su Youqi had seen the black fog clinging to Huang Jie that day, knowing that Huang Jie would have a streak of bad luck for a while. But judging by the intensity of that black fog, it theoretically shouldn’t have been this severe.

Could it be that Huang Jie went and did other bad things recently, provoking something else?

Speak of the devil.

Before Su Youqi could puzzle it out, a group of people barged into their dorm.

Leading them was none other than Wang Ce, Huang Jie’s little sidekick.

Behind Wang Ce followed a middle-aged couple dressed in exquisite attire, clearly people of wealth.

“Uncle, Auntie, it’s him! He must be the one who pushed Brother Jie off the building. I heard him threaten Brother Jie last time, saying he was going to take revenge!” Wang Ce pointed at Su Youqi, speaking with an urgent tone to the middle-aged couple: “Brother Jie went to the training room last night just to confront him, so it must be that he harbored resentment and pushed Brother Jie down! Otherwise, with a railing that high in the training room, how could Brother Jie possibly have fallen?!”

“What kind of nonsense are you spouting, you moron? Our Third Brother was filming night scenes on set last night. He wasn’t even at school, let alone the training room, okay?” Guan Hongyu, with his fiery temper, immediately stepped forward to retort.

Yet Wang Ce flatly denied it, speaking with absolute certainty: “Impossible! We clearly saw Su Youqi go to the training room yesterday, and that’s why Brother Jie went to confront him. So it has to be him who pushed Brother Jie down! You’re his roommate, so you’re definitely trying to cover for him and lie!”

The middle-aged noblewoman also stepped forward and spoke passionately to Guan Hongyu: “Classmate, Su Youqi is currently suspected of murdering my son. You can’t cover for your roommate and lie just like that. Do you know you’ll be held legally responsible for this? You’ll be an accomplice!”

The middle-aged man standing beside her remained silent, but his fierce glare fixed on Su Youqi, combined with his passive tolerance of Wang Ce and the woman’s actions, made it clear he endorsed what they were doing.

A timid person might have been intimidated, but who was Guan Hongyu? A wealthy second-generation heir who had never been afraid of anyone since childhood, legal liability didn’t scare him, and his family’s legal team was exceptionally powerful: “Do you know that framing someone for murder here also carries legal liability?” Besides, the production crew’s director was an acquaintance of his, and he was completely certain of Su Youqi’s whereabouts, giving him plenty of confidence to talk back: “Our Third Brother was filming on set the entire night. We have human witnesses, and as for physical evidence, we have the production crew’s video footage! What do you guys have? Just your mouths? Running your mouths and spouting absolute nonsense?”

That hit the nail on the head. The middle-aged couple, Huang Jie’s parents, truly had no evidence.

However, Wang Ce insisted that they had seen Su Youqi head to the training room before Huang Jie went up, and several other underlings who usually followed Huang Jie backed up this claim. That was why Huang Jie’s parents had agreed to let Wang Ce bring them to interrogate Su Youqi.

Consequently, everyone’s gaze converged on Wang Ce.

Wang Ce still stuck to his story: “I definitely saw Su Youqi go to the training room, and Xiaobin, Guangzi, and the others saw it too!”

Wang Ce’s expression was firm and his gaze clear; he didn’t look like he was lying about this matter at all.

Guan Hongyu’s hot temper flared up, and he was just about to snap back when Su Youqi stopped him.

While the feeling of being protected by roommates was wonderful, this matter involved human life after all, so it was better for him to handle it himself.

Crucially, Su Youqi had also spotted the exact same black fog on Wang Ce that had been lingering on Huang Jie, and this black fog was noticeably different from the one the other day.