Chapter 37#

World 1: The Tragic Supporting Male Lead Changes the Script Online#

Qin Qing peeled the apple while looking at the line of small bloody words on the intellectual brain.

Both Xu Yizhi and Cang Ming were in the ward, so he didn’t show any special expression on his face, and his movements of peeling the apple were unhurried and steady.

996 stared at his face, but couldn’t guess what he was thinking at all.

“Aren’t you happy? Aren’t you excited? This is our only way out! You don’t have to be a bitter male supporting character anymore, and you don’t have to go through the abused plot. As long as you dump Xu Yizhi and conquer Cang Ming, we can leave this world immediately! Have you ever played games? Do you know how to use the return scroll? Let me tell you, this item is simply heaven-defying—”

996’s excited narration was interrupted by Qin Qing’s leisurely voice.

“I come from the cultivation world; I know what a return scroll is.”

Qin Qing continued to peel the fruit unhurriedly, his eyes calm and waveless. Noticing that Xu Yizhi was looking at him, he raised his eyes slightly, hooked his lips, and smiled gently at that person.

Noticing that Cang Ming was also looking at him, he turned his face and said in a gentle voice: “President Cang, do you really not want an apple?”

“Thanks, no need.” Cang Ming refused coldly.

However, only Xu Yizhi knew how anxious he was at this moment.

Xu Yizhi glanced at him mockingly, and finally instructed Qin Qing: “Peel slowly, be careful with your hands.”

“I know.” Qin Qing smiled with curved eyes, and the speed of peeling the apple really slowed down a lot.

Such a well-behaved and cute little flower, how could Xu Yizhi bear to give him to others? The anxiety burning inside him was no less than Cang Ming’s.

“Since you know, hurry up and do the task! Tell Xu Yizhi to break up later! He’s dying, what are you still lingering for? A way out is right in front of you, rush!” 996 jumped onto the cabinet beside him and urged anxiously.

Qin Qing peeled the apple slowly. Seeing the peel about to fall to the ground, he hooked the trash can beside him with his toe and caught it steadily.

He didn’t answer 996 for a long time, his eyebrows calm and peaceful.

996 was so anxious that it kept grinding its claws.

Xu Yizhi and Cang Ming started chatting, talking about business one sentence after another, but their thoughts were all condensed on the little flower beside them. For the first time, they knew that the taste of waiting was so unbearable.

The apple peel was finally finished. Qin Qing handed the pulp to Xu Yizhi lying on the hospital bed, and took a napkin to pad on his lapel.

Such gentleness and thoughtfulness moved Xu Yizhi deeply, but the apple in his mouth tasted bland. Without getting the answer he wanted, he had no mind to do anything.

Cang Ming took out the pure gold cigarette case from the inner pocket of his suit and played with it irritably. His dark eyes swept over Qin Qing’s gentle face seemingly unintentionally.

Qin Qing also blinked his peach blossom eyes and looked over. Realizing that Cang Ming had no intention of smoking but was just playing with the cigarette case, he withdrew his gaze.

The cigarette case was exquisitely made, engraved with many mysterious runes that couldn’t be understood. The tiny runes were arranged in an orderly manner, forming a vortex-like totem. Looking from a distance, the totem looked a bit like an eye.

“Why don’t you speak!” 996 couldn’t hold back anymore, scratched Qin Qing’s arm with its paw, and urged again: “Are you going to do the task or not? One is a dying person, the other is the Son of Destiny who is in full swing, high-ranking, and rich enough to rival a country. What are you still hesitating about? Anyone knows how to choose!”

“I’m not hesitating.” Qin Qing picked up another apple and peeled it slowly.

No hesitation means agreed? 996 showed joy.

Xu Yizhi took a bite of the apple, his slender eyebrows slowly furrowing. Was what the tip of his tongue tasted… bitterness?

Cang Ming’s dark eyes flashed, and a faint light lit up inside.

However, Qin Qing soon sighed faintly: “But have you forgotten? I am not a human.”

996 was stunned for a long time before gradually understanding what this demon flower was saying just now.

Any human would choose Cang Ming who was healthy and rich enough to rival a country, but Qin Qing happened not to be a human, so his choice—

“Yes, it’s just as you think, I choose Xu Yizhi.” Qin Qing hooked the corners of his lips and smiled softly.

He turned to look at Xu Yizhi and said slowly and firmly in his heart: “My choice is only him, I won’t break up with him.”

Xu Yizhi’s movement of biting the apple paused for a few seconds, and then continued. He seemed to have heard nothing and knew nothing, but the bitterness on the tip of his tongue all turned into rich sweetness. Those anxious waiting, those uneasy feelings of gain and loss, all turned into extreme satisfaction and pleasure at this moment.

He bet right!

Cang Ming suddenly clenched the cigarette case and looked up at Qin Qing. The faint lights that had just lit up in his pupils were all extinguished again. Some heavy, gloomy, painful, and even desperate emotions gushed out from the cracks in his heart.

He lost the bet!

He stood stiffly by the hospital bed for a while, then pulled a chair and sat down slowly.

He was still so indifferent, hard, and tough. However, only Xu Yizhi knew that if Qin Qing was not in front of him, he would only bend his back and reveal helpless dejection.

“Why? You don’t take the good way out, but insist on seeking your own death? Are you crazy?” 996 was already going crazy, pointing at Xu Yizhi and saying: “Look at this consumptive ghost! He doesn’t have many days to live!”

“Consumptive ghost” Xu Yizhi hooked his lips imperceptibly, but the smile was somewhat cold.

996 pointed at Cang Ming: “Look at this Son of Destiny, he is so tall and handsome, rich and powerful! Are you blind? Following him, do you know you can get the best of everything in the world? This road is a way out, and also a road to enjoy happiness!”

Cang Ming started playing with the cigarette case slowly again, and the look he occasionally cast at 996 was actually much softer. For the first time, he felt that this little cat was a bit pleasing to the eye.

Qin Qing said slowly in his heart: “You are right, following Cang Ming can indeed have everything. Money, power, identity, status, all are within easy reach. But I am a flower.”

Qin Qing looked up at Xu Yizhi who was eating the apple and smiled gently.

“I want wind, rain, stars, moon, sunshine, and soil, but I don’t need wealth and power. And Xu Yizhi, he is my wind and rain, stars and moon, sunshine and soil. He nourished me with love. Without him, I can’t bloom. What is the meaning of existence for a flower that cannot bloom?”

Speaking of this, an apple was also finished peeling.

Qin Qing handed this apple to Cang Ming: “President Cang, please eat.”

Cang Ming was silent for a long time before taking this apple and taking a bite expressionlessly. Bitter, so bitter that the tip of the tongue was numb, so bitter that the blood flow was slowing down. But this bitterness was handed to him by Qin Qing personally, so he could only swallow it.

Xu Yizhi took a deep breath, and then covered his slightly red eyes with his palm. This confession made him understand that in Qin Qing’s heart, he was actually the wind blowing him, the rain moistening him, the stars and moon shining on him, and the sunshine and soil warming him.

For a moment, Xu Yizhi, who usually looked down on everything, thought humbly and uneasily—what do I rely on?

Cang Ming glanced at him coldly, as if also asking: What do you rely on?

“Are you sure Xu Yizhi loves you?” 996 glanced at Xu Yizhi and began to sow discord, “I think he just covets your beauty. His face is romantic and affectionate, he must be a playboy.”

“I’m sure he loves me, so I will love him too. In his most difficult moments, I will accompany him.” Qin Qing walked into the bathroom to wash the fruit knife and hands.

“Your feeling is not accurate at all. Don’t forget, you loved someone who didn’t love you at all before. Aren’t you afraid of repeating the same mistake this time?” 996 chased into the bathroom.

Xu Yizhi threw away the apple core, a trace of coldness appearing on his face.

Cang Ming ate that unspeakably bitter apple and said lightly: “What, you mind?”

“I just mind that he has been hurt by someone.” Xu Yizhi took the napkin off his lapel, wiped his mouth, his eyes filled with hostility.

The two pretended to chat, but actually pricked up their ears to listen to the conversation in the bathroom.

“I’m not afraid, because I know Xu Yizhi really loves me.” Qin Qing shook his head, his tone calm.

“What do you know? What do you know?” 996 mocked: “People who say this kind of thing usually get dumped quickly.”

“I just know, I have a feeling.” Qin Qing finished washing his hands, dried them, unconsciously touched the bud on his shoulder blade, and then smiled faintly at himself about to bloom in the mirror.

“Fine, fine, fine, you know. Then what exactly will make you willing to do the task? Wait until Xu Yizhi dies, then go after Cang Ming, okay? A dead person won’t be hurt, right?” 996 settled for the second best.

Cang Ming turned his head sideways, looking unblinkingly at the person in the bathroom. This was his last glimmer of hope.

“I won’t give up on Xu Yizhi unless I die again. But if I die, everything ends, so where does giving up come from?” Qin Qing looked at himself in the mirror and said firmly.

996: “…Damn it, you are bent on dying!”

“If he dies, I’ll just wait for death too.” Qin Qing finished this sentence extremely calmly, and then returned to the ward.

As soon as he approached the hospital bed, Xu Yizhi took his hand, pulled him into his arms, held his face and stared deeply for a long time, as if he couldn’t see enough, and then kissed his lips eagerly and fiercely, holding his waist firmly with both arms, tight as if wanting to rub him into his bones and blood.

Cang Ming walked out of the ward, stood in the dark of the corridor, stealing that lingering kiss and passionate love while sinking his heart into the extremely cold seabed.

He lost, completely and utterly…

The lingering kiss ended, and Qin Qing climbed onto the hospital bed, leaning against Xu Yizhi.

Xu Yizhi put his arm around his waist, kissing his slightly red cheeks and nose tip densely.

“I won’t die.” He comforted softly.

“Of course you won’t die.” Qin Qing also hugged his boyfriend tightly.

“There are so many people in the world, there will always be one who matches you. Besides, medical technology is developing very fast now, and drugs for treating cancer will be available soon. We just need to wait a few more years to cure the disease.” Qin Qing gently patted Xu Yizhi’s chest, like patting a fragile child.

He raised his eyes and smiled cheerfully and gently.

Xu Yizhi, who was completely unafraid of death, only felt a burst of heat in his heart.

He sighed with satisfaction, inserted his fingertips into his lover’s hair, and stroked his scalp gently.

Not knowing what he thought of, he suddenly laughed low: “When undergoing chemotherapy, I might have to shave my head.”

Qin Qing straightened up slightly, looked seriously at this romantic and handsome face, and comforted: “You are so handsome, and your head shape is also very beautiful. You will definitely look good even if you shave your head.”

Xu Yizhi was really comforted, so he laughed in a low voice.

“I’ll shave my head with you then.” Qin Qing lay back in his boyfriend’s arms, narrating slowly: “I also want to learn cooking to make delicious food for you. Learn nursing to take care of your body. Let’s move in together? Buy a house near the hospital, so it’s more convenient to go back and forth—”

Before he finished speaking, he was deeply kissed by Xu Yizhi.

These seemingly ordinary, but actually sour and sweet love words could no longer be heard. Hearing more, the heart would burst due to emotion and satisfaction…

Outside the ward, Cang Ming covered his painful but throbbing heart, his eyes red from enduring.

996 couldn’t stand this couple bent on dying, and had already run away angrily. Not long after, the doctor wanted to formulate a chemotherapy plan for Xu Yizhi, so he called Qin Qing to the office.

Cang Ming, hiding in the dark, returned to the ward.

“You lost.” Xu Yizhi stroked his hot thin lips, smiling with satisfaction.

“I lost.” Cang Ming’s voice was hoarse, his eyes red.

“But I feel that you haven’t given up yet.” Xu Yizhi lifted the quilt and walked to Cang Ming, looking at the other party with cold eyes.

Two equally tall, equally handsome, equally imposing men, like two towering mountains, collided with each other’s hardest edges and rocks.

“Yes, I haven’t given up.” Cang Ming said calmly: “Clearly lost so thoroughly, but I want him even more instead. Do you think it’s strange?”

Xu Yizhi shook his head: “Not strange at all, what you can’t get is always the best.”

“No, not because I can’t get it,” Cang Ming closed his eyes, silent for a moment, and then said heavily: “It’s because he is originally the best.”

Xu Yizhi was slightly stunned, then laughed: “You are right, he is originally the best.”

Cang Ming said firmly: “My letting go is only temporary.”

The two oppressed and confronted each other with violent auras until the barrier of the whole world began to tremble before slowly calling a truce.

“If you lose, you have to admit it.” Xu Yizhi sneered.

Cang Ming silently took out the pure gold cigarette case from the inner pocket of his suit.

Xu Yizhi took the cigarette case and played with it, saying with interest: “I didn’t expect you to make the origin into a cigarette case.”

“Didn’t you also make it into a lighter?”

“Is it because picking up the cigarette case makes you think of Qin Qing?”

“You too, right? When the flame is lit, it illuminates his face?”

While saying these words, the rune vortex on the cigarette case began to rotate slowly, and a vast force was continuously input into Xu Yizhi’s palm from the center of the vortex.

Xu Yizhi’s pale face soon became ruddy and healthy, and his slightly thin body was refilled with surging power.

Cang Ming frowned, as if suppressing something.

The input of power stopped, and Xu Yizhi’s aura became more terrifying. The runes on the pure gold cigarette case dimmed one by one, changing from vivid and mysterious to rigid and dull. That vortex-like eye seemed to have lost the ability to see.

“I didn’t expect I would win.” Xu Yizhi played with the cigarette case and suddenly sighed with emotion: “Even if I lost, I wouldn’t regret betting my life. But I really didn’t expect I would win. He believed so firmly that I loved him, so he loved me desperately too. It’s really incredible.”

Speaking of this, he couldn’t help laughing low, endless love leaking from his dark eyes.

Cang Ming glanced at him coldly, silent. This kind of winner’s speech and posture would only stimulate his pain and jealousy.

At this moment, Qin Qing pushed the door and came in. Seeing the cigarette case, he frowned: “President Cang, don’t give Yizhi cigarettes! I asked him to quit smoking!”

Xu Yizhi quickly raised his hands and smiled apologetically: “Darling, I didn’t want to smoke! How could I go back on my word to you.”

Darling? Cang Ming frowned. This nickname made him feel annoyed. He took the cigarette case, poured all the slender cigarettes inside into the trash can, and finally handed the empty cigarette case to Qin Qing, saying in a deep voice: “I’m also preparing to quit smoking. This cigarette case won’t be used in the future, I’ll give it to you.”

After speaking, he strode out of the ward, walked to an unmanned corner, took out a handkerchief, covered his mouth, and coughed lightly a few times.

The handkerchief was pure black, so no one noticed that what he coughed up was a large mass of blood and fragments of internal organs. This was the price of losing the bet.

In the ward, Qin Qing aimed the pure gold cigarette case at the light outside the window and looked carefully. The mysterious runes that originally shone with golden light were now covered with a layer of oxidized gray film. Did it touch some chemical reagent?

Qin Qing wiped it with his fingertips, feeling pity in his heart.

Xu Yizhi didn’t ask for the cigarette case back, but handed over his black gold lighter as well: “I won’t use this lighter anymore, take it.”

“You two are quite self-conscious.” Qin Qing didn’t refuse at all and put both things into his trouser pocket.

The doctor who walked into the ward with Qin Qing was originally going to explain the treatment plan to Xu Yizhi. Seeing his spirited face, he couldn’t help being stunned, and then said cautiously: “Mr. Xu, how about we don’t do chemotherapy first and do another physical examination? Let’s see the results in two weeks?”

Two weeks passed in the blink of an eye.

Qin Qing came to the hospital early in the morning carrying the chicken soup he stewed himself to visit Xu Yizhi.

After knocking and entering the ward, he raised his eyebrows in surprise.

Qin Zishi was sitting by the hospital bed, whispering something.

“In just one month, things have really changed. The Solomon project has started, the investment is all in place, and I have become the Executive President of Youtu’s European Region. I didn’t expect that looking back, President Xu, you actually got a terminal illness. Life is really impermanent!”

Qin Zishi sighed faintly.

“Life is impermanent?” Xu Yizhi chewed these words playfully and said with a faint smile: “I’m afraid you haven’t experienced the impermanence of life yet. Some words are said too early.”

“Any later, I’m afraid I won’t have the chance to talk to you.” Qin Zishi narrowed his eyes and smiled, deep malice hidden in his words.

He was hinting that Xu Yizhi would die soon.

Qin Qing knocked on the open door unbearably.

“Qin Qing, you’re here.” Qin Zishi stood up and said with regret: “Mom and Dad, Grandpa and Grandpa, all accepted you and President Xu. I thought you would definitely be very happy in the future. But this illness came at a really bad time. I’m very worried about you, so I came to see.”

“Is it worry or schadenfreude?” Qin Qing put the chicken soup on the bedside table and asked bluntly.

“What do you think?” Qin Zishi smiled tolerantly.

About to lose Xu Yizhi’s protection, what was Qin Qing?

That’s right, Qin Zishi just came to see the joke; there was no need to hide this. Moreover, he was now rising rapidly, gaining both wealth and power, while Qin Qing even quit his job. Comparing with this person again, Qin Zishi actually felt it was beneath him.

“I just came to see, no malice.” Qin Zishi walked towards the door, but turned back when crossing the threshold and asked: “I heard President Xu’s illness is already in the late stage? Can you wait for a match? How about I also try to match with President Xu? Maybe this disease was contracted during the inspection in Europe. That is an energy development zone, and environmental pollution is relatively serious. Alas, if he hadn’t gone to Europe, President Xu should be living quite well now, right?”

He said no malice, but did the most disgusting thing.

Qin Qing’s face turned cold, and then he wanted to go up and teach the other party a lesson.

Xu Yizhi held his hand and shook his head with a smile.

Just at this time, the attending physician walked into the ward, looking at the physical examination report while saying joyfully: “Mr. Xu, your physical examination report is all normal! We misdiagnosed before! You are not sick, you can be discharged now.”

Qin Qing was stunned.

Xu Yizhi was not surprised at all, immediately got out of the hospital bed, and hugged his lover.

“What, stupid with joy?” He smiled and kissed Qin Qing’s cheek.

Only then did Qin Qing come back to his senses and hugged Xu Yizhi extremely excitedly.

“You’re okay?” He asked in disbelief.

“I’m okay.” Xu Yizhi kissed his lips cherishingly.

“You can be discharged?” Qin Qing asked again, his eyes wide open and mouth slightly open, looking silly.

“I can be discharged.” Xu Yizhi answered these meaningless questions tirelessly.

Qin Qing’s eyes turned red, tears fell unconsciously, but his thin lips curved into a joyful arc. He hugged Xu Yizhi’s neck tightly, fitting closely with him for tens of seconds, and then took out his mobile phone to call his father, mother, grandfather, and grandfather one by one to report the good news.

Finally, he called Cang Ming, choking with laughter: “President Cang, Yizhi is fine, he can be discharged.”

Cang Ming gave a cold and ruthless hum and asked: “Anything else? If not, I’ll hang up.”

“Nothing else.” Qin Qing reacted and apologized awkwardly: “Sorry to disturb you.”

Cang Ming gave another indifferent hum, but asked when about to hang up: “When are you coming back to work?”

After all, he couldn’t pretend to be cool in front of this person, even if he could be cool to everyone.

“I’ll go back whenever Yizhi goes back.”

Qin Qing’s answer made Cang Ming hang up the phone annoyedly, and also made Xu Yizhi laugh low with pleasure.

After informing everyone, Qin Qing looked at Qin Zishi standing at the door and said with a smile: “You are right, life is really impermanent.”

At this moment, Qin Zishi didn’t know what expression to put on. Disappointment, embarrassment, anger, unwillingness… Meeting Qin Qing, he was always entangled by these emotions.

He forced a smile and nodded: “President Xu, congratulations.”

A group of medical staff walked past him, muttering: “Really strange, how can the data differ so much between the two physical examinations? Is the instrument broken?”

Instrument broken? Is this good luck or bad luck? Qin Zishi clenched the door handle, suppressing resentment in his heart.

“By the way, Dad also asked me to have lunch today, so I won’t stay long. He seems to want to invest in the Solomon project too, asking me to mediate.” Qin Zishi smiled and provoked.

With power and status, didn’t those who looked down on him in the past have to curry favor with him obediently now? Now Qin Huaichuan could rush to cooperate with him. In the future, when the interest bond became tighter, he could modify the will for him.

Qin Zishi nodded to Qin Qing, smiled, and then turned and walked out.

Xu Yizhi reminded at this time: “The cooperation between Youtu and Solomon has been stopped by the local government. There should be news on the Internet now, take a look.”

Qin Zishi stiffened all over, and then hurriedly took out his mobile phone.

When opening the webpage, his fingertips were trembling, and the news that Youtu was cheated out of tens of billions of investment by Solomon Group had already been on the hot search.

Because it violated local environmental protection laws, the project was stopped. If Youtu wanted to sue Solomon, it could only file a lawsuit locally according to the contract. But for economic benefits, the local government would naturally favor Solomon Group.

Youtu’s tens of billions of investment had indeed gone down the drain.

Because Qin Zishi had constantly guided public opinion on the Internet to portray himself as a talent unrecognized in order to jump ship before, as soon as this news was published, the Internet was full of voices mocking him.

Qin Zishi said Qin Qing misjudged the investment risk, and said Xu Yizhi did not distinguish between public and private for Qin Qing, suppressing and excluding him. But now, everything proved that he was not a victim, but had persecution delusion. He was the truly stupid one.

Qin Qing and Xu Yizhi helped Blue Universe avoid the huge pit of Solomon, while Youtu was pushed into the abyss of bankruptcy by Qin Zishi’s blindness and stupidity.

Falling from the clouds to the bottom of the valley was just a matter of moments. This is the true impermanence of life.