After Running Away With a Cub, I Became Everyone’s Favourite - Chapter 53

Chapter 53:

Xia Ji closed the door behind him and told Xia Qingshu not to wander off, and only left after seeing the other party obediently agree.

Xia Ji found Xia Yubin outside the flower room on the ground floor. Xia Yubin was drinking with a middle-aged, balding man, and was a little embarrassed by what he said, but he pulled up the corners of his mouth and laughed. When he saw Xia Ji approaching, Xia Yubin’s eyes lit up and he immediately stood up and greeted him, “Second brother.”

Xia Ji nodded at him and looked at the man behind him.

“This is Mr. Wu of Duoyao Entertainment, my current company’s boss. Mr. Wu, this is my second brother, Xia Ji.”

Mr Wu stood up and extended his hand towards Xia Ji, “How do you do? Your Xia family is full of talent.”

Xia Ji narrowed his eyes and gave Mr Wu a careless glance, “Hello, Mr Wu.” He didn’t shake his hand back, but picked up the bottle on the table and filled their glasses with wine. He avoided shaking hands with the other man. Wu was a veteran, not caring at all about the other party’s little tricks, and asked eagerly, “Is it done?”

Xia Ji didn’t answer the question, but looked at Xia Yubin and asked seriously, “Yubin, do you really want to do this?”

Xia Yubin blinked twice, his eyes moistened, and with an airy tone, he said, “Second brother, I ……”

Xia Ji turned towards Chief Wu and said, “Chief Wu, excuse me, can you let me talk to my brother alone for a moment?”

Wu smiled greasily, “I understand, you guys take your time, I’ll go to the side for a stroll.” After saying that, he left knowingly and wisely.

After Mr. Wu left, Xia Ji sat down and sighed. To be honest, he quite liked this Xia Yubin as a younger brother, Xia Yubin had loved to pester him since he was young. Many of his friends also had younger brothers, but most of those brothers were naughty and smelled of sweat and stink. Xia Yubin was cleanly dressed and smelled good at all times, not like a younger brother, but like a younger sister.

Xia Yubin often pampered him, and he was happy to spoil him like he would a younger sister. When Xia Yubin expressed his intention to seduce him, he did not refuse. He knew Xia Yubin very well. He was not very capable, but his heart was higher than the sky, and he especially loved to show off. It was good to have his family to hold him up, but when he’s adopted son’s status was put out and that his parents were critical of him, putting all their focus on Xia Qing Shu. It was a bit difficult for Xia Yubin to make a good living on his own.

Although Shen Xunyi is arrogant and has a bad temper, he is also a caring person. The person he identifies with would be treated well with all his heart. If one follows him, they can live a lifetime of luxury until they are old. And Xia Yubin chose the entertainment industry, where the class hierarchy is very clear-cut, but with a big capital like Shen Xunyi to back him up, he can become very popular.

Just now, when Shen Xunyi was in his room, he deliberately let him in the door, just to test his opinion on the matter. Although flustered, but expectedly, he agreed. Unfortunately, Shen Xunyi did not look at him and looked at Qing Shu. The way Xia Yubin and Wu got along always made him feel that this younger brother was not that good. He can’t let him develop with Shen Xunyi.

“Don’t look for trouble with Qing Shu.” These words of Xia Ji were a kind reminder. He didn’t want Xia Yubin to experience Shen Xunyi’s tactics now that he wants Xia Qinshu.

Xia Yubin bit his lips, his eyes trembled, and two lines of tears fell down his cheeks, “Why? Brother, you just promised me …… How did you back out ……”

In the past, when he saw Xia Yubin crying, his heart would immediately go soft. He didn’t know if it was because he just talked to Xia Qing Shu, but he now felt Xia Yubin’s softness and kindness felt….. forced and unfitting.

“How exactly did he offend you, that you had to use this way ……” Xia Ji looked at Mr. Wu’s back and frowned, “That person is also…. he’s too bad…..you’re all my brothers ……”

“At school, he deliberately made a fool of me, causing me to have my stomach pumped, and he wrongly accused me of bullying him, and my parents kicked me out to get him home ……” Xia Yubin sobbed in a small voice, “The worst thing is that he also set me up……”

“What did he set you up for?”

“He seduced Zhou Qian and Zhou Qian gave him a room card,” Xia Yubin cried, “Then he secretly put the card in my school bag…. I left from home that day, my biological father’s side wouldn’t let me in, I thought the room card was from my big brother ……”

Facing Xia Ji’s probing gaze, Xia Yubin hastily set aside, “But, Zhou Qian didn’t touch me.”

He blushed with shame, “I’m still clean. Zhou Qian messed with him last time and his hands were smashed to pieces, I went to see him in hospital and his hands were full of steel nails, he’s vicious.”

“Second brother, I did this, it was just an eye for an eye …..he forced me to do it.”

Xia Yubin said, taking the initiative to hold Xia Ji’s hand. Xia Ji felt a little disgusted, he just saw very clearly, this hand, Mr. Wu had just squeezed. He untraceably pulled his hand out, “Do you have to make an enemy of him?”

Xia Qing Shu was dumb and naive, but he was sincere, not like Xia Yubin, who played smart in front of him.

Xia Yubin gritted his teeth and nodded his head deadpan, “It’s either him or me.”

Xia Ji sighed, “I don’t care, feel free to do whatever you want, but, not in front of me.”

After saying that, he walked away without looking back. Xia Yubin gritted his teeth and stomped his feet in indignation. When Chief Wu saw Xia Ji leave, he ran over in a frenzy, “What’s going on? Did you get it done?”

Xia Yubin said with resentful hatred, “No, he backtracked.”

He didn’t know what kind of ecstasy Xia Qingshu had given him, he had just said it was fine, they were all smart people, the price was agreed, and now at this time he suddenly reneged.

What bad luck.

Mr. Wu smiled grimly, “Yu Bin, you promised me, I came, what should I do now, should you not give me some compensation?”

Xia Yubin took a step back, his face dark, “Mr. Wu, what are you saying, I don’t understand.”

Mr. Wu grabbed his hand, “What don’t you understand, I see that you know more than me.”

As the two men were arguing, Shen Xunyi came out of the shadows and said with a smile, “I can help you yo.”

~

As soon as Shen Xunyi appeared, Mr. Wu immediately let go of Xia Yubin’s hand and said flatteringly, “Hello, Mr. Shen, I’m Xiao Wu from Duoyao Entertainment.”

Shen Xunyi glanced at him and nodded arrogantly as if he knew.

Mr. Wu laughed, “Mr. Shen, this is the Xia family issue, how can you help with this favour? How about we find some other time and talk alone?”

What Mr. Wu was thinking was that no matter how powerful Shen Xunyi was, there was no way he would be able to get into trouble in someone else’s home. Shen Xunyi smiled and said mysteriously, “I have an inside man.”

Xia Yubin was a little afraid of him and timidly asked, “Mr. Shen, why are you helping me?”

Shen Xun Xiong walked behind him, leaned down to his ear and laughed, “Of course it’s to achieve something good.”

The slightly playful tone was indescribably ambiguous, and Xia Yubin’s face instantly flushed.

“Your brother is too pedantic ……”

Shen Xunyi’s popularity in the north was no less than Chen Zhiyu’s, and he was also so handsome. Xia Yubin’s heart was chaotic, and that embarrassment of wanting to serve two people at the same time instantly disappeared.

“I’ll listen to Mr. Shen.”

~

Next to the flower room was the aunts’ room, all of them were busy in the kitchen hall tonight, they were responsible for the drinks and food, and when the guests left, they had to clean up and couldn’t return until midnight. However, the room, which should have been quiet and peaceful, suddenly came with a low moan.

The moans were out of tune and intermittent, after the two people making the noise started to gradually peak, the person hiding in the shadows, only then, quietly left.

Immediately afterwards, there came the sound of an eager footsteps.

“Pop–”

The incandescent light switch was pressed, and the blinding white light woke up the darkness. Mr. Wu was bent over Xia Yubin naked. Illuminated by the glare, the two closed their eyes.

“Ah…”

Chen Qixi let out a miserable cry and turned her head away. Xia Jing stepped forward, pulled the tablecloth on a side table and covered them, saying in a stern voice, “You have five minutes, no, two minutes, to get up quickly.” As he turned his head, he ordered, “Xia Ji, take your mother and Qing Shu out, don’t stain their eyes. Xia Shan, you close the door. Don’t disturb the guests.”

Xia Yubin gradually came to his senses.

Mr. Wu’s hand was still on him, and although he was covered by the tablecloth, he could see clearly the oiliness of the pimples on Mr. Wu’s face, the red pimples with white pustules in the center. It was disgusting and made him want to vomit. All this time, the old toad hadn’t come to his senses. He struggled and pushed the old toad away.

He didn’t listen carefully to what Xia Jing said, but he it sounded like: he was shameless and willing to degenerate himself,  let him leave the house and fend for himself.

It was clear that Shen Xunyi had promised to help him, and the second before he lost consciousness, they had just discussed a countermeasure to lure Xia Qing Shu here and drug him, and after the discussion, they raised their glasses to celebrate. After drinking the wine in the cup, he became unconscious. Wine, there was something wrong with the wine.

Xia Yubin reacted, “Dad, I, I’ve been drugged, check it out, someone is trying to hurt me.”

He pulled over the sheet on the bed, wrapped his body around it and crawled over to Xia Jing, “Dad, I was just drinking with Mr. Shen, where is Mr. Shen, is he passed out too, Dad, how could I be so stupid as to think of doing something like this at home? Think about it, who told you to come here? Is it Xia Qing Shu? It’s Xia Qing Shu, he wants to harm me!”

When Xia Jing heard the word “drugged”, he frowned and said, “No one told us to come here, someone went over the wall and triggered the alarm system, so we came here. It’s none of Qing Shu’s business, don’t make wild accusations!”

“As for Mr. Shen, he’s in the hall, fine.”

“If you’ve been drugged, there’s test paper at home for an immediate urine test. Xia Shan, bring the test strips over here,”

When Xia Yubin heard the words “Mr. Shen is fine”, a light suddenly flashed in his head, and he understood something. The person who had fixed him was probably Shen Xunyi. But why?

Why did the second brother’s attitude change, and why did Shen Xunyao’s initial gaze… Before Shen Xunyi clearly liked him, why would Xia Ji come over and advise himself to stop. Was it because Shen was fond of him and Xia Ji was jealous ……

What was the benefit of knocking him into the abyss? Was it a tactic used to get him to accept Shen Xunyi without resistance?

Xia Shan quickly brought the test paper and Xia Yubin was stared at by Xia Ji and did the test. The test paper did not change colour, he had not been drugged.

Shen Xunyi was really good at, he could do it so silently.

Now that the matter had come to this, Xia Yubin did not want to explain too much more. The other party had come prepared and was highly skilled. Since he dared to attack him, he must have thought of a way out.

This time, he had been completely abandoned by the Xia family.

Xia Yubin smiled mockingly. In his last life, he had lived a good life without the Xia family, so he could leave.The day will come when all that he has suffered will be returned to Xia Qing Shu intact.

Afterall, he still has Shen Xunyi.