Chapter 116#
The fireworks sizzled, and blood instantly rushed into Lu Muchi’s brain. The flow was too fast, causing his temples to throb painfully, his head to spin severely, and his vision to blur.
Yan Heqing’s face was very close, yet very far.
Lu Muchi clenched the ring tightly. The burning heat spreading from his fingertips made it difficult for him to breathe.
Fiancé?
Yan Heqing has a fiancé?
What kind of joke is this!
He struggled to pull the corners of his mouth, trying to find a flaw in Yan Heqing’s face.
“Qingqing, don’t make such jokes.”
He knelt on one knee, and Yan Heqing looked down at him, the cold fireworks outlining his jawline devoid of warmth.
“I never joke.”
“I don’t believe it!” Lu Muchi roared. The ring fell into his palm. He clenched it tightly and stood up, grabbing Yan Heqing’s shoulders, bloodshot streaks bursting in his eyes. “You still don’t believe me, you’re deliberately provoking me, right? Go find Lin Fengzhi now and make it clear, the one I love—”
He couldn’t continue.
Yan Heqing looked calm and didn’t struggle against Lu Muchi’s hands, just watching him go crazy so indifferently and coldly.
The calmer he was, the less Lu Muchi could deceive himself.
His worry had come true.
It wasn’t that he didn’t feel it, but he didn’t want to think deeply about it. He was terrified, afraid that Yan Heqing really didn’t like him, so he couldn’t wait to trap Yan Heqing with marriage.
Lu Muchi’s back molars were almost crushed, his voice so deep it sounded like he wanted to kill someone.
“Who, is, he!”
Yan Heqing sneered, “You are not qualified to know him.”
“I asked you who he is!” Lu Muchi reacted almost subconsciously, his hands choking Yan Heqing’s neck.
He realized what he was doing and let go as if burned, his eyes terrifyingly red, panting heavily. “You are mine, you only belong to me in this life! Whoever dares to touch you, I’ll cripple him!”
Yan Heqing raised his hand to look at his watch. “I only belong to myself. Are you done? I have to go.”
Only then did Lu Muchi notice Yan Heqing’s watch. It wasn’t a brand name; he thought it was just an ordinary watch. Now that the light was dim, he could see the dial was a glowing compass.
This was a custom-made handmade watch.
It wasn’t Yan Heqing’s consumption level, nor was it Yan Heqing’s habit.
Yet Yan Heqing was willing to wear it! Just because that man gave it to him!
Lu Muchi’s whole body was tense to the point of pain, his facial muscles twitching rapidly. “The more you protect him, the worse his end will be. If you break up with him now, I can consider letting him go.”
Yan Heqing smiled. “Suit yourself. I will weather the storm with him.”
He walked towards the road, stopped after a few steps, and said the last sentence, “Don’t contact me again in the future. I don’t want him to misunderstand.”
These words completely enraged Lu Muchi. Looking at Yan Heqing’s back, there was only one thought in his mind—
He couldn’t let Yan Heqing go. If he left, he would lose Yan Heqing forever.
He wanted to completely possess Yan Heqing tonight!
Yan Heqing heard footsteps. He was not timid; he wouldn’t provoke Lu Muchi without any guarantee.
He knew Lu Muchi’s character well. It’s hard to change one’s nature. Even if Lu Muchi liked him, once he found he couldn’t have him, he would reveal his true nature and force him regardless of his will.
Yan Heqing looked at the road ahead, his heartbeat starting to accelerate.
Besides laying his cards on the table with Lu Muchi today, he also had to lay his cards on the table with another person.
He deliberately revealed Luo Pu Winery. With Lu Lin’s wisdom, he must be somewhere here now.
He once asked Lu Lin, “Can you choose an existence more important than blood relations?”
Tonight he would know the answer.
If on the other end of the scale were your biological father, brother, and nephew, would you still firmly choose me?
There is nothing 100% certain in the world.
So he dared not make a mistake in every step after his awakening. He couldn’t make a mistake; one wrong step would be his eternal damnation.
But Lu Lin, he was willing to believe once that Lu Lin would be his 100% certainty.
When Lu Muchi grabbed Yan Heqing’s arm, Yan Heqing’s gaze remained on the road.
At the same time, a beam of headlights cut through the darkness, approaching from far to near.
Here it comes.
But it wasn’t Lu Lin.
Two vans stopped one after another. The doors slid open, and several tall men in uniforms jumped out.
Shining flashlights over, “Fireworks are prohibited here! Remove them quickly…”
The staff went directly to Lu Muchi, showing their work badges from the Ecological Environment Bureau, demanding he immediately restore the site to its original state and inspect the mountaintop to avoid causing a forest fire.
Yan Heqing was seemingly blocked by them. Yan Heqing didn’t make a sound and left by himself. Lu Muchi wanted to chase Yan Heqing but was held back by several staff members. “Hey hey hey, don’t think about running! You have violated the Beiwan Mountain…”
Seeing Yan Heqing walking to the road entrance, Lu Muchi was furious. “Get lost, do you know who I am!”
The staff’s voice was louder than his. “I don’t care who you are, violations of regulations must be dealt with! Do you know how serious it is to cause a forest fire!”
Lu Muchi completely ignored it. If the proposal site couldn’t be set up on the top of Beiwan Mountain, the planner would have contacted him long ago.
Surrounded by staff, he was blocked tightly, watching helplessly as Yan Heqing walked away.
On the other side, Yan Heqing walked past the van. A middle-aged man rolled down the window and called him, “Young man, no car? I happen to be going down the mountain, want a ride?”
Yan Heqing remembered Chu Ziyu saying that when Lu Lin was in the third year of junior high, someone asked to meet him after school, and Lu Lin brought the dean over.
This time it was the Ecological Environment Bureau.
Yan Heqing revealed a sincere smile for the first time tonight. “Trouble you.”
The van went all the way down the mountain. The driver was very talkative, and Yan Heqing occasionally chimed in, but he didn’t miss a Land Rover coming out from a fork in the road, following them at a moderate distance.
Yan Heqing looked in the rearview mirror. The driver was saying tomorrow would be a good day. A faint smile appeared in his eyes.
Indeed, tomorrow would be a good day.
“Mr. Lu, the driver picked up Mr. Yan down the mountain. The destination is your residence in the Beijing University family area.” The assistant didn’t know Lu Lin was following the car and reported in detail. “Young Mr. Lu is still blocked from going down the mountain. It is estimated he will leave in three hours.”
Lu Lin instructed him to do another thing. “Pay close attention to the news about Beijing University today and tomorrow. If it’s suppressed, find a few big media outlets to expose it and push it across the entire network.”
He saw Yan Heqing recording.
That time going to Twenty-Four Bridges, Yan Heqing suddenly wanted to change to a new phone with high pixels, it was to take videos of Zhao Weifang.
Lu Lin looked at the van ahead, holding the steering wheel, and suddenly laughed a few times.
Yan Heqing was born to fish. Young as he was, he was so patient, neither arrogant nor impatient in the face of prey, waiting for the opportunity to deliver a fatal blow.
According to the information he obtained, Zhao Weifang would be a senior next semester and would graduate soon.
As long as the video Yan Heqing took was exposed, Zhao Weifang’s years of university would be in vain, and the offer he got would be scrapped.
Chu Ziyu’s call came in, and Lu Lin hung up the assistant’s call.
“Ah Lin, what’s the situation?” Chu Ziyu woke up at his doorstep.
And the car was changed, plus an extra driver!
Lu Lin said simply, “Something came up.”
“You’re not still at the winery, are you?”
“On the way home.”
Chu Ziyu laughed at him. “What home? A place where a lonely man lives is called a house—” He suddenly raised his voice. “Damn, you’re not living with Heqing, are you???!”
Lu Lin chuckled and didn’t reply.
“You either don’t date, or you go all the way at once… Bye!” Chu Ziyu hung up enviously.
…
Under the supervision of the Environmental Protection Bureau staff, the people Lu Muchi called quickly tore down the light strips. The previously dreamy and romantic proposal scene was now left in a mess.
Lu Muchi stood in front of the railing, overlooking the unobstructed bustling night view.
A moment later, he opened his sticky palm and threw the ring heavily into the darkness.
The ring disappeared silently. Lu Muchi took out a cigarette from his pocket, put one in his mouth, and lit it. In the ethereal mist, his eyes were obscure.
After finishing the cigarette, he took out his phone. “Check all of Yan Heqing’s itinerary during this period.”
His fingers gripped the railing tightly. When he dragged out that wild man, he would definitely make him wish he were dead!
Early the next morning, an anonymous tip was posted on Weibo.
The title was simple and powerful—Luo Pu Winery Sex Trade.
It posted a video of Zhao Weifang introducing female college students to several men.
The girls’ photos were mosaicked and names silenced, but Zhao Weifang and the men’s faces and voices were clear.
It became a local hot topic as soon as it was posted.
“Is Luo Pu Winery the one in the southern suburbs? I even bought their wine! Ugh, want to vomit!”
“I know this pimp, a student from Beijing University!”
After Beijing University students appeared, it exploded even faster.
“Holy shit! Someone exposed it! It’s Zhao Weifang from Beijing University Software Engineering!”
“Ahhh! The photos are all female students. Could they be secretly taken? Must investigate strictly!!!!!”
…
Within half an hour, the video spread throughout the Beijing University student groups, and the Biological Science Class 2 group was also discussing it heatedly.
[Damn, Zhao Yong, do you know Zhao Weifang? Is it really him?]
Zhao Yong immediately cleared his relationship. [Met a few times at Publicity Department events, not familiar.]
…
The assistant paid close attention to the hot search. Within half an hour, someone tried to withdraw the hot search. It was the other men in the video. But with Lu Lin’s word, the hot search naturally wasn’t withdrawn and was instead pushed to the top spot.
Public opinion fermented too quickly. Before noon, Beijing University’s official Weibo issued a statement that they would deal with this matter seriously. Once verified, Zhao Weifang would be expelled immediately.
Zhao Weifang was still sleeping soundly at the winery. When he got up in the afternoon and left the winery to retrieve his phone, his phone had been blown up. Seeing the messages, Zhao Weifang’s legs went soft and he fell directly to the ground. He hurriedly called Lu Muchi.
Lu Muchi didn’t answer the phone for a long time. Zhao Weifang’s eyes lit up, thinking of Yan Heqing. He had secretly asked Zhao Yong for the number privately. He found Yan Heqing’s number and dialed it.
Beep, beep, beep…
Clearly only a few seconds passed, but Zhao Weifang felt it was longer than a year.
After the unbearable suffering passed, the other side finally picked up. Zhao Weifang was so anxious his mouth was full of blisters, speaking urgently, “Junior, only you can help me this time. You must ask A-Chi to help me. I’m graduating soon, I can’t be expelled, otherwise, these dozen years of studying will be in vain, and it will be recorded in my file. My future, my life will all be ruined!”
His teeth chattered with anger. “It’s really too unlucky. A reporter actually sneaked in last night. Blame those damn reporters! And there were so many people, why did they only film me!”
A clear laugh rang out from the receiver.
“No, you misunderstood.”
Zhao Weifang suddenly had a very strange feeling. He swallowed nervously. “Junior, what misunderstanding are you talking about?”
Yan Heqing walked to the fish tank with fish food. Both fish were fatter than when they first arrived. He freed one hand, scooped a spoonful of fish food, sprinkled it into the fish tank, and said calmly, “It wasn’t a reporter, it was me.”
“This is thanks for your care for me at school.”