The Taming of the Ruffian Hero

Chapter 135 (All that You Know) Lin Wenxi Tried Hard to Find a Sound Strategy

Chapter 135 (All that You Know) Lin Wenxi Tried Hard to Find a Sound Strategy

The storm was over, and all the boys from Dorm No. 216 fell into a long silence.

Lin Wenxi could not break the ice at all, so he could just let it go on. He didn’t know when the silence would end. Only Wang Xiang would occasionally tell some jokes, but these jokes were like the wind blowing over the surface of a rock. When the wind of the joke passed, nothing changed.

Lying alone on the bed, Lin Wenxi recalled many people and many things.

The group of girls often came to visit together, but it was a pity that one of them was not here. Zhou Nannan was now busying helping Wang Zhengjuan.

When all the others had left, Zheng Kai spoke to Lin Wenxi when he saw that there was no one else around. “Tell me everything you know. My dad mentioned to me that he met you before the New Year.”

Lin Wenxi told him everything factually, but he omitted all the overheated rhetoric of Zheng Kai’s father.

Lin Wenxi murmured. “Everyone blessed them. They got married and had children, but in the end, death separated them.” Lin Wenxi thought for a moment and then said to Zheng Kai, “Brother Kai, your father...”

Zheng Kai knitted his brows tightly and closed his eyes to rest. “My father was great.” Zheng Kai thought. “Isn’t that so? Since my childhood, my father never paid too much attention to managing my culture courses, but he focused on my physical training. He sent me to Green Fields Military Academy in junior high school, and I spent six years there. When he was home, I could feel how much my mother loved him. He ate the ready-cooked meals my mother prepared for him and wore the clean clothes my mother washed for him. However, I never saw him treat my mother with much enthusiasm. As for the wonderful scenes full of love when families got along very well with each other, it seems I never had memories like that.

“How could such a father and husband be great? In my eyes, he was only a symbol—a symbol of a father.”

“Shameful,” Zheng Kai said with a smile. “So are you.”

Lin Wenxi slightly gnashed his teeth but didn’t say anything.

That night, Lin Wenxi lay alone on the bed, tossing and turning restlessly. “I heard that my mother and my father had a shotgun marriage, which was almost a joke at that time. Even if my dad was a government official, they were still unable to restrain their feelings and had sex, risking universal condemnation. My dad must have loved my mother for years. On significant matters, my mother believed in my father, but my father would be scared out of his wits and instantly drop all his principles once my mother began to cry. That was the reason why I escaped many beatings from father’s leather belt.

“My mother must always love my father. Many times in my memory, she leaned against the door and waited for my father to come back. My mother would still hand my father a cup of hot tea with a smile whenever he came back even though the dishes she made had become utterly cold.”

Lin Wenxi thought of Yun Che and Zhu Ziping, and the love between them that might last forever, the blessings from everyone during their wedding and their sweet smiles. He also remembered Gu Xi and Zheng Kai. Gu Xi said that no end was also an end. “But did he make it?” Lin Wenxi asked in his heart.

“The love between Zhang An’an and Wang Xiang is so the indistinct such that others have never felt the intimate relation between them. But who knows, maybe like still waters run deep, they hide their feelings so deep that others cannot see it.

“Chen Wanxin, a girl who is usually very bossy, will become someone like a bewitchingly charming peony under Zhao Yuan’s gaze. Before Zhao Yuan, Chen Wanxin will abruptly turn herself from a woman like a bright red pony into a shy little lady like a pink pony. How much does she love Zhao Yuan?”

Thinking of this, Lin Wenxi suddenly felt that he didn’t hate Chen Wanxin that much for what she had done.

“But how Shu Xiaoman treated me?” Thinking of this, Lin Wenxi suddenly felt a little terrified. He remembered Guo Ciyun, who had written 1000 love letters. “To be with me, is Shu Xiaoman more persistent than Guo Ciyun who wrote the 1000 love letters?” Then Lin Wenxi remembered what their life was like after Guo Ciyun had married Zheng Zihuan successfully.

“As for Wang Zhengjuan and Zhou Nannan, Xiaoman said that Wang Zhengjuan’s grandma forced her to break up with Zhou Nannan and threatened her with her life. Her grandma even came to find Zhou Nannan herself and gave her a large sum of money in order to make her break up with Wang Zhengjuan. Zhou Nannan could not bear to get Wang Zhengjuan into trouble once again, so she took the money, boldly and unashamedly. Then, she announced the end of their relationship. But to everyone’s surprise, Wang Zhengjuan did such an extremely crazy thing. Now that Wang Zhengjuan is still in prison, the person responsible for the traffic accident has not yet been identified. Wang Zhengjuan and Zhou Nannan, a pair of star-crossed lovers, what would happen to them in the future?” Lin Wenxi remembered that Zhou Nannan once said, “I only wish that I could have an ordinary but peaceful life.”

“But how can she have an ordinary but peaceful life? Right! Zhou Nannan!” Lin Wenxi seemed to have heard from Zhou Nannan that Chen Wanxin got a lot of things done for Wang Zhengjuan. But why didn’t Chen Wanxin do anything when such a big thing happened to Wang Zhengjuan this time?

“Chen Wanxin.” Lin Wenxi frowned.

Zhao Yuan had noted return to the dorm. Instead, he had decisively moved out to live with Chen Wanxin. Lin Wenxi did not even try to stop him. He only cast a glance at Zhao Yuan and smiled without saying anything.

However, Lin Wenxi had slept with Zhao Yuan so many nights. Now, with the chill in the spring air, how could he spend the long night alone? Every night, Lin Wenxi would grasp the pillow firmly while things that had happened flashed across his brain. “As the son of Director Lin, I was locked in a cell of the Yangzi County, and Chen Wanxin proudly saved me. Because I had overstepped my authority to help Zhao Yuan, I was punished by being sent to teach at a remote and poor area and was separated with Zhao Yuan for three months! And I was so useless that I failed to protect the life of Zhao Yuan’s father! But what about Chen Wanxin? She openly took the helicopter during her wilderness training. When she went out, her driver was actually a military instructor. She has lots of money to burn and much power to abuse. She was even involved in murdering the exchange student, who had become a scar that Zhao Yuan and I could not mention!

“Chen Wanxin, unless you don’t know about all of this, can you sleep with Zhao Yuan? Aren’t you afraid that you will tremble with fear when you wake up in the middle of the night?”

It so happened that Shu Xiaoman invited Lin Wenxi and Gu Xi to visit Zhang An’an together. Lin Wenxi still had his eyes closed while resting, and he let Gu Xi go there first. Gu Xi knew the Lin Wenxi’s current situation, so he didn’t force him to go with him and left with Shu Xiaoman. Before leaving, he cast a stern glance at Wang Xiang, who was still indulging in a game.

However, when Gu Xi came back, Lin Wenxi was gone.

When Lin Wenxi saw the two at the school gate on their way back, he had immediately gone out to look for Zhang An’an. However, he was greatly frightened when he saw her.

“How did you become like this?” Lin Wenxi hurriedly helped Zhang An’an to sit down to have some rest. Zhang An’an, who had always been chubby, now looked like an extremely withered frost-touched flower. If it were not for the fact that her forehead and face still looked young, she would be as emaciated as a seventy- to eighty-year-old woman. What surprised Lin Wenxi more was that her baby bump had disappeared and her belly had become flat!

Lin Wenxi set aside his thoughts at once and asked her why.

“There is nothing to say.” The minute she opened her mouth, her tears flowed down. “Just now, I have said all the things that I wanted to say to Xiaoman and Gu Xi. I don’t want to repeat it.”

“If you have anything to say to me, just say it.”

“An’an, can you not be so smart?” Lin Wenxi could not help exclaiming.

“Gu Xi came to visit me, how could you not have come with them? And just when they left, you came here. You avoided them, so you must have something you want to say to me without them around.” said Zhang An’an.

“I want to tell you that Wang Xiang...”

“Do you want to tell me that Wang Xiang has a new girlfriend? You saw them, right? So, what do you want to exchange for this news?” Zhang An’an asked him, a little bit wearily.

“An’an... I...” Lin Wenxi suddenly became speechless.

Zhang An’an uttered a sigh and turned to look at the window.

“Wang Xiang attended the funeral of Zheng Kai’s father. Ever since he came back from the funeral, his whole person has changed. Wang Xiang kneeled before me and begged me to have an abortion. Wenxi, previously, he wanted this child so much! The child was six months old at that time! Six months old!” Zhang An’an murmured tearfully.

“I guess he didn’t want to do you any harm.” Lin Wenxi said, “He made a bad decision, didn’t he?”

“He had always been very good to me... But all of a sudden, he made this decision. Was it because I became fatter, or I’m not pretty anymore? In order to make me end the pregnancy, he deliberately found another girlfriend! Hehe, she is the one you saw before. Wang Xiang is publicizing this matter everywhere as if he is afraid that there is someone who doesn’t know it yet. He tells everyone that I, Zhang An’an, is bearing his child, but he has already abandoned me!”

“No... An’an...” Lin Wenxi whispered. He wanted to say something but stopped on second thought. Lin Wenxi believed that Wang Xiang was trying to cover up his misdeed. He did not want to harm Zhang An’an the way Zheng Zihuan had harmed Guo Ciyun, but Lin Wenxi could not draw a firm conclusion. He did not want to say this to Zhang An’an, either.

“Okay, let’s talk about your things.” Zhang An’an said, “What do you want to know?”

“All that you know about Wanxin,” Lin Wenxi said.

“Wenxi, Wanxin and you are like water and fire now!” Zhang An’an said in a deep voice.