When Ruan Song first saw Gu Yuzhou’s message saying that Feng Xiao was crying, he thought that she was crying because she felt wronged.
Because in the past, when Yuan Yinhai pressured him, at best, he used the ethics of an instructor to be shameless. He liked coercion and extortion, but he hadn’t yet reached the point of madness and split personalities.
It was only after Ruan Song traveled down the mountain, hurriedly following the map to Gu Yuzhou’s home and finally meeting Feng Xiao herself did he realize.
This young woman wasn’t simply ‘crying terribly’, it could be completely counted as bawling her eyes out.
On the sofa, Gu Yuzhou and assistant Li, two large men, sat beside her, covering their foreheads and had already turned silent from her crying. Other than handing her tissues, the garbage can, coffee table were all completely covered in tissue balls. It was clear that they already couldn’t find any effective words that would comfort her.
Ruan Song entered from the residence elevator, and probingly called out her name.
Feng Xiao raised her head to look at him. Previously, no matter how Gu Yuzhou consoled her, she couldn’t stop her tears at all, but now, probably because she had finally met someone who had the same experiences as her, she immediately stopped crying, then quickly stood up to run into Ruan Song’s arms.
Ruan Song was caught off guard as he was completely enveloped in her arms.
He also couldn’t understand why he had suddenly become a savior recently, when he was usually just a salted fish. First it was Sun Kaizi, now it was Feng Xiao. The both of them loved to stick to him, and even made it so that he had no way of rejecting them.
Ruan Song was immediately at a loss.
He lived for so long yet this was the first time he touched a girl. His hands were suspended in the air and he had absolutely no idea where to place them. He couldn’t place them on her back, nor could he place them on her waist.
Ultimately, it was still Ren Qinming, who had filmed movies countless times in the past, who pulled her off of him with a controlled, dark expression with considerable skill, saying: “It’s alright, no one can find this place.”
They waited until Feng Xiao’s mood finally stabilized, then once again settled down on the sofa.
The atmosphere in the room immediately became a bit subtle.
This was still the first time Gu Yuzhou and Ren Qinming met.
Gu Yuzhou sat on the left side of the sofa, and first questioned: “I understand the reason, but why did he have to appear in my house?”
Ruan Song was still tidying up the tissues covered in Feng Xiao’s tears and mucus: “Well, I had to find a reason to leave. It would be too strange if I suddenly left by myself.”
In the past when he was in school, he would say he had a fever to take a leave of absence. Now to take a leave of absence at work, he would say that his mother had a fever.
It just so happens that the bullet screen had seen their videos in the past, and knew that Ren Qinming and his mother had a good relationship. It wouldn’t be strange at all if they were both absent for this matter.
“I just don’t understand why you wanted Ruan Song to treat you to a meal alone. Clearly, doing your project well is something that is within your job duties.” Ren Qinming would only call Ruan Song ‘Song ge’ when speaking directly to him. Otherwise, his tone of voice would be strictly businesslike when speaking to others.
After watching the broadcast, Gu Yuzhou felt that he couldn’t make sense of Ren Qinming at all: “What you shouldn’t understand is how Ruan Song could have been subjected to such injustice when you were dating him, film emperor.”
Gu Yuzhou purposely emphasized the last two words.
Sure enough, Ren Qinming was stabbed in a sore spot. His counterattack had just reached his throat when Ruan Song had already interrupted him: “How about you guys continue to fight, and I’ll leave?”
The pair immediately shut up and stopped talking.
Ruan Song truly found it unreasonable and couldn’t make sense of it at all: “You can even fight about this. Haven’t I already asked for your consent to treat him to a meal?”
Ren Qinming immediately wilted after being asked this rhetorical question, and also found it embarrassing to say that he was overtaken by lust at that time and it completely didn’t pass his mind at all.
But Ruan Song immediately began to criticize Gu Yuzhou as well: “Didi, don’t feel too proud of yourself. If you were anyone else, and they secretly did a background check on me, I would have kicked you to the curb long ago. Civilized society pays particular attention to human rights and one’s privacy. In the very beginning, you lied to me saying your last name was Li, and that you were the producer of the project. If I didn’t find Fang Wei pleasing to the eye, you would have been ditched long ago, got it?”
After punishing both parties, Gu Yuzhou also shut up and didn’t continue speaking.
Ruan Song immediately had assistant Li take the both of them away.
He didn’t care whether they were taken to the office, the bedroom, or even the balcony or the bathroom. In short, he didn’t want them to stay in the living room and hinder his business.
As soon as the surrounding environment was cleaned up.
Seeing the young lady cry so hard before, Ruan Song thought he would have to spend more than half an hour to comfort her.
But as a result, as soon as assistant Li shut the door to the living room for them, the young lady had already begun to pull things out from her shabby shoulder bag.
A recording pen, a USB, printed screenshots of email records, a directory of all the staff participating in projects in Yuan Yinhai’s studio……, so on and so forth, were all pulled out and placed onto the coffee table.
Ruan Song was immediately dazed, he didn’t even have to teach her how she should gather evidence.
Just before, when Feng Xiao nearly collapsed while crying, he still thought he was about to face a fragile and weak meimei.
But Feng Xiao maintained her sobs while arranging the items clearly and explaining them to him, saying:
“The recording pen has all the conversations between me and Yuan Yinhai in the office, and I would record each meeting. The USB has all the screenplays and scripts that I’ve written on behalf of Yuan Yinhai, and I’ve saved each version after it was edited. I secretly took photos of the email records from Yuan Yinhai’s computer, and all the emails that I’ve sent him clearly indicate my name, script name, as well as the draft number in the subject line. The time can all be compared to the files in the USB. I sorted out the directory of the staff participating in projects myself after I heard him send voice messages assigning tasks to different people while I was in the office every day……”
Ruan Song heard her say all this, and gradually moved from shock to silence.
They were too alike.
Feng Xiao right now was practically the same as he was that year, exhausting all his effort to collect all this evidence, yet contradictorily not daring to let others know too easily.
So much so that Feng Xiao only cried while facing Gu Yuzhou, pulling out these materials only after meeting with him personally.
…
Because Feng Xiao came prepared, the discussion was much briefer than Ruan Song expected.
Moreover, after the extensive discussion ended, the young girl’s mood had already basically returned to calm.
In the beginning, Ruan Song was helpless when facing her, but now, he took the initiative to hug her and whispered in her ear, “It will be over soon. Everything that should be ours will be returned.”
Feng Xiao unloaded the stones that had been piling up in her heart for a very long time, and her eyes had completely relaxed: “I didn’t mean to delay contacting you until now, I just really didn’t believe it in the beginning. It wasn’t until I saw teacher Sun Kaizi look for you in the live broadcast, and then called a whole group of people did I change my mind. I thought perhaps there really might be a chance……”
Added to the fact that Yuan Yinhai’s bouts of insanity grew worse and worse recently, and she really was scared. Scared that if she made him unhappy one day, she wouldn’t even be able to keep her life.
“I understand.” Ruan Song could only pat her head through her hair, “I was the same as you, but you did better than I did.”
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Gu Yuzhou originally planned to invite Ruan Song and Feng Xiao out for a meal before separating, but assistant Li prudently suggested that before they ‘exposed their scheme’ they should maintain their distance so as to avoid having others unravel their plot.
So they simply ordered takeout to the house after a hasty decision.
Ever since Ren Qinming had been scolded by Ruan Song with just two sentences, from beginning to end, he no longer looked directly at Gu Yuzhou, nor did he speak to the other. After sitting at the dinner table, he was solely preoccupied with eating.
Gu Yuzhou thought that the situation had already reached this stage, and the other definitely already had the inside information on everything that had happened.
But in reality, Ruan Song didn’t explain anything to him at all when he pulled Ren Qinming from the program team, just saying that the other had to come with him for a trip.
What happened in the middle, and what Ruan Song once suffered under the hands of the so-called highly respected dean Yuan Yinhai, were all roughly pieced together by himself from a few words of the conversation.
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As soon as everything was over, and he once again returned to the driver’s seat, he hurried back to the variety show filming location with Ruan Song.
The atmosphere in the car couldn’t be said to be heavy, but it definitely also couldn’t be considered relaxed.
Ruan Song tilted his head, leaning against the window of the car while asking him how he felt after knowing this.
Ren Qinming realistically explained: “At first I was shocked, then I was ashamed, truly ashamed that I actually didn’t know anything about this in the past…… Nor would I have thought that you would tell me about it in this way today.”
The other didn’t tell him directly, instead had him use his own eyes to see it, and use his own ears to hear about it.
As if telling him: Because I know if I told you directly, you definitely would try every means to comfort me, but comfort is useless. Now I no longer need comfort, and simply just want you to know.
And when Ren Qinming heard Ruan Song say that in the past, he was just like Feng Xiao, holding all the proof in his hand, he and Gu Yuzhou both couldn’t understand Ruan Song.
Seeing as he already had undeniable proof, why didn’t he dare report it?
“Because I don’t believe in justice and morality.” Ruan Song answered in this way.
So what if you had exposed all the evidence?
You proved that Yuan Yinhai committed academic plagiarism, proved that the both of them had endured grassroots persecution, and then what? Would this rotten world be able to give the villains their proper punishment while not disposing of the people who raised the issue?
Perhaps this would happen.
But for those in desperate straits, who couldn’t lose anything anymore, this was too luxurious. No one dares to gamble, and better a bad life than a good death.
So this was why Yuan Yinhai dared to be so savage.
He chose students who had no way out and had no support.
Others simply felt that those who were ‘chosen’ were impressive, obtaining the favor of a great master. But in fact, it was just a blessing in disguise. How were they to know that it wasn’t a blessing?
Fortunately Feng Xiao had better luck than he did, to look forward to a miracle called ‘Ruan Song’.
He himself couldn’t hope to look forward to such a thing.
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As the sun sets, large swaths of burning, crimson clouds bathed the horizon.
Ruan Song looked directly at the front of the car and coldly said: “Let’s not go back tonight.”
Ren Qinming hesitated for a moment, as if confirming that his ears hadn’t malfunctioned.
Ruan Song sat in the passenger seat and repeated himself, like he was taking Ren Qinming to cut class back in the day: “Just say that my mother’s fever is a bit serious, and we won’t return tonight. We’ll go back tomorrow.”
Ren Qinming’s palms were scalding as he grasped the steering wheel, his eyelids seemed to burn due to the magnificent horizon in front of him: “……Does that mean I can take you to open a room1?“
In the past, they always cut class to do this. Sometimes it was because Ruan Song was in a good mood, and sometimes it was because Ruan Song was in a bad mood.
Ruan Song even seriously considered this for two seconds.
After such a long time, he had already prepared to be oppressed in his heart for the rest of his life. Now, he unexpectedly had the chance to address his grievance, and it was reasonable to say that he should be happy.
But his mood was much worse than he expected.
And verbal comfort was to be avoided.
“Just go directly to your house, and buy two extra boxes of condoms when we pass by a convenience store.” Ruan Song reached a decision after reflecting, he hadn’t yet visited the house that Ren Qinming bought after becoming famous.
As everyone knows, this was what Ren Qinming was waiting for. In an instant, he floored it while hoarsely explaining that everything was prepared: “No need to buy it, I have it all at home.”
Turns out Feng Xiao wasn’t the only one looking forward to the miracle called ‘Ruan Song’. He was also looking forward to it.
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The author has something to say:
Ren-dog: Opportunities are left to puppies that are prepared, firmly convinced.jpg
tn: we’re closing the net next chapter!
1. Open a room = 开房, essentially to book a room at a hotel for sex