AWDC Chapter 14

Chapter 14: Chuang-ge Doesn’t Eat People

This shout was obviously directed at Liu Jingjing. He hadn’t expected this woman to reveal her true colors like this, spewing venomous words and being so narrow-minded. If he had married her, he definitely wouldn’t have had a good life. Luckily, Lin Xi had provoked her true nature, otherwise he might have chosen the wrong person.

He had originally planned to gradually distance himself from her while still being polite, thinking of saving her some face, but now, he couldn’t take it anymore and had to shout.

Liu Jingjing was stunned by his shout. Only after a beat did she realize her mistake.

“Chuang-ge…?” She panicked, subconsciously feeling like she was done for. “I misspoke in a moment of impulse, please don’t take it to heart, okay?”

On the verge of tears, she rushed to Mu Chuang, shamelessly sat next to him, and even reached out to grab his arm. “Chuang-ge, we’ve known each other for so long, when has Jingjing ever been disrespectful to you? I was really confused this time, please don’t be angry with me, okay?”

Lin Xi stopped eating and watched quietly from the side.

The other two women didn’t even dare to breathe loudly. They realized how important Lin Xi was in Mu Chuang’s heart, and at the same time, reminded themselves not to provoke Lin Xi in the future, otherwise the consequences would be the same as Liu Jingjing’s.

At the table, Mu Chuang pulled back his arm from Liu Jingjing’s grasp, his words icy cold, “Let’s end things here. Please leave. I don’t want to get physical with you, considering you’re a woman.”

Then he picked up his chopsticks and resumed eating, ignoring Liu Jingjing’s pleas and apologies.

Lin Xi also started eating again. Liu Jingjing clearly became superfluous at the dining table.

Seeing that the situation was irreversible, Liu Jingjing stood up and stubbornly said, “Leaving, so what? A girl like me isn’t afraid of not finding a man! As long as I want, finding ten wouldn’t be a problem. Don’t think you’re so great, hmph!”

After speaking, she turned and left, her thick-soled boots stomping on the floor “thump, thump, thump,” venting her strong dissatisfaction.

“Um… Chuang-ge, I won’t bother you today. I can call Qingqing to go with me later, I’ll leave first.” Fu Xiaoling observed the situation and pretended to be understanding. After Liu Jingjing left, she also found an excuse to slip away.

“I’ll leave too.” Liang Ting followed suit, quickly running away as if afraid of being implicated if she was a step too slow.

The room fell silent.

Lin Xi lowered his head and ate silently. He wasn’t sure if he had done the right thing. At this moment, his heart was tense, afraid that Mu Chuang would blame him afterward.

Mu Chuang was also quiet, eating by himself, temporarily not saying anything. This made Lin Xi feel like he was blaming him.

“Chuang-ge…” Lin Xi called out to him hesitantly, afraid that the other party would suddenly burst into anger, “…I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have been so talkative, shouldn’t have interfered in your relationships, or else…”

“Or else what?” Mu Chuang suddenly interrupted, “You want to move out again, is that it?”

His voice was faint, and it was difficult to discern much emotion if one didn’t listen carefully, but Lin Xi didn’t dare to relax for a moment.

“I…” He stuttered, and after being seen through, he became even more nervous, even afraid to admit it. “…I don’t know.”

In the end, he could only be ambiguous, neither saying he would move out nor saying he would stay, waiting to see what Mu Chuang would do.

“Are you lacking food or drink living with me? You say you want to move out at the drop of a hat, what do you take Chuang-ge for?” Mu Chuang’s expression suddenly darkened. “It’s just a woman, if she’s gone, she’s gone. Someone like her would be a misfortune for anyone who marries her.”

Hearing this, Lin Xi’s tense heart finally relaxed, but it didn’t completely dispel his self-blame, and he still felt like a sinner.

“Thank you for not blaming me, Chuang-ge,” he said guiltily, “I’ll be more careful in the future and try not to interfere.”

“Alright,” seeing him so cautious, Mu Chuang felt like he was in the wrong instead. “Chuang-ge isn’t the kind of person who values women over friends. You don’t have to always consider them and wrong yourself.”

“Unconditional tolerance won’t bring out a person’s true nature. Appropriate attacks can reveal a person’s true face.” He continued, as if he had a lot of experience with this kind of thing, “Before, it was because of my tolerance that she pretended for so long. If you hadn’t angered her today, I don’t know when I would have been able to make a choice.”

Hearing this, Lin Xi’s sense of guilt finally disappeared, but Mu Chuang’s next words gave him a warning.

“Actually, what made me the angriest wasn’t her venomous tongue, but that she treated you like a pervert and indirectly implied something about me. I really couldn’t stand it. It’s already good that I didn’t beat her up.”

Lin Xi felt a burst of guilt upon hearing this. In order not to let the other party see through him, he had to pretend to be calm and eat the meat in his bowl, and then gave Mu Chuang a piece, “Chuang-ge, hurry up and eat, the food will get cold later.”

He wanted to end this topic as soon as possible, fearing that the other party would get angrier and angrier, and then catch him and ask some random things, which would make him panic just thinking about it.

“Okay.” Mu Chuang responded, and then seriously started eating.

After the meal, Lin Xi took the initiative to do the dishes and cleaned the kitchen thoroughly, saving Mu Chuang a lot of trouble.

When he finished cleaning up and was ready to go to bed after washing up, he saw Mu Chuang playing with his phone on the bed. Every page that slid out on the screen was a beauty.

Lin Xi only glanced at it and then looked away, pretending he hadn’t seen anything, and went to bed, deliberately keeping his distance from Mu Chuang.

“Does Xi Xi not like looking at these things?” Mu Chuang caught his little action out of the corner of his eye and couldn’t help but ask.

Lin Xi wanted to answer “yes,” but was afraid that he would see something, so he asked, “After looking at so many, Chuang-ge, is there one you like?”

Mu Chuang looked at his phone again, swiping back and forth, beauties appearing on the screen in turn, and then looked at Lin Xi, a hint of teasing in his eyes, “I don’t know why, but I feel like the women on here aren’t as good-looking as Xi Xi. No wonder you don’t look at these things.”

Lin Xi looked back at him helplessly, with a hint of shyness, “Chuang-ge, don’t make fun of me. If there were outsiders, they would probably misunderstand again.”

“Haha…” Mu Chuang suddenly burst out laughing, throwing his phone on the bedside table, “Alright, since Lin Xi has said so, then Chuang-ge will be honest.”

After speaking, he took off his clothes, lay down, and prepared to rest, only to find that Lin Xi was sleeping too far away from him, so the blanket wasn’t warm at all.

“Sleep closer, why are you so far away? Chuang-ge won’t eat you.” As he spoke, he went to pull him over, forcibly pulling him over and hugging him tightly.