AWDC Chapter 35

Chapter 35: Mu Chuang Wants to Strangle Lin Xi

Chapter 35: Mu Chuang Wants to Strangle Lin Xi

Tears fell like pearls, the shattered beauty causing heartache.

Mu Chuang sat back down, turning his face away from his tearful gaze, and tossed out a cold sentence into the void, “If there’s nothing else, go back. Don’t stand here being an eyesore.”

However, Lin Xi’s feet seemed to have taken root. This was the man he had been accustomed to clinging to since childhood. He possessed an innate attraction that made him want to get close all the time, even if he was disliked by the other party, he didn’t want to leave.

“Brother Chuang,” he slowly opened his mouth again, summoning the courage to confess for the first time, “I admit I like you. Even if it makes you angry, I have to say it. There’s nothing wrong with liking someone. I don’t think it’s anything heinous, and I don’t accept your attitude towards me. Even if you don’t like me, you don’t have to dislike me so much, even wanting to hit me.”

“I’m used to following you around since I was little. I can’t adapt to a life without you. I won’t force you if you don’t like me. I hope we can still be brothers. I promise I won’t interfere with your marriage or affect your family. Please don’t treat me like this, okay?”

His logic was clear, taking a step back. He had done a lot of mental preparation last night to make this decision, and even now, saying these words, his heart was bleeding.

Mu Chuang didn’t say anything, as if suppressing a fire, which finally erupted after a moment.

“Get out!” he roared at Lin Xi, “Now everyone knows you’re that kind of person. You want me to continue to call you brother? Can you silence everyone’s gossip?”

“Even if you do nothing, being with me will attract gossip. How can I have a normal married life? How is it possible that you won’t affect my family? Are you out of your mind to even say such a thing?”

“For the sake of our many years together, I won’t hit you. Get out of here if you know what’s good for you, and don’t annoy me.”

Lin Xi listened silently, carefully analyzing, and felt that what he said was not without reason.

“Okay,” he softly agreed, “Then I’ll go. I won’t bother you anymore from now on. If I encounter anything, you don’t need to help me anymore. Life and death are up to fate. Anyway, there’s not much meaning in living.”

Who knew that as soon as he finished speaking, just as he turned around, an arm hooked around his waist from behind, then pressed him onto the bed. Immediately afterward, a large hand grabbed his neck. “Damn it, you dare threaten me? I risk everything to protect you, and you want to die that much?”

As Mu Chuang spoke, he increased the force in his hand. He didn’t know what he was thinking at the time, but hearing Lin Xi say those words, his anger surged up.

“You want to die, don’t you? Then don’t move! What the hell are you struggling for?!” He continued to choke him forcefully, saying a lot of nasty things, and didn’t realize when the person under his hand had stopped struggling and wasn’t moving.

The sudden silence gradually extinguished his anger. Only then did he realize that Lin Xi was lying there with his eyes closed, his face flushed red from suffocation, and it took a long time for him to recover.

Mu Chuang’s heart skipped a beat. He quickly reached out to check his breath and felt a faint trace of it. Only then did he breathe a sigh of relief.

He sat silently beside where he was lying, as if quietly waiting for Lin Xi to slowly wake up.

After a long while, Lin Xi finally recovered from the suffocation. As his breathing smoothed out, he finally opened his eyes.

After a moment of confusion, he realized that Mu Chuang was sitting beside him. The previous scene replayed in his mind, but he didn’t have the heart to think about right and wrong.

He slowly got up, filled with exhaustion, and walked out of the room that had started his nightmare without saying a word.

Mu Chuang looked at his thin back. The young man’s figure was slender and tall, originally full of vitality, but now it was as if his soul had been drained, like a walking corpse.

Just looking at him made him angry, wishing he could knock him awake with a stick.

Lin Xi dazedly went downstairs. As soon as he walked out of the stairwell, he heard a burst of noise from outside the factory gate, as if someone was acting unruly, or as if someone was pulling and shoving, giving a feeling of chaotic scenes.

He looked in the direction of the sound and saw a crowd of people gathered at the factory gate, including several public security police, as if they were arresting someone or coordinating something.

He wasn’t in the mood to join the commotion. After watching from a distance for a while, he went straight back to the dormitory.

The next day, rumors began to spread in the workshop that Li Weili’s affair had been caught red-handed by his wife, and the two sides had fought together, and the scene was out of control.

Li Weili accidentally seriously injured his wife, which led to a kind-hearted person calling the police, attracting the public security police, and then taking him away.

Afterward, Li Weili was fired, Liu Jingjing no longer stayed with him, and his wife was determined to divorce him, leaving him with the same fate as Zhang Qingyang.

Lin Xi swallowed his anger and worked for another half month. In another month, he would get paid.

But the gossip in the workshop, coupled with Mu Chuang’s cold looks every day, made it really hard for him to stay.

He had originally planned to continue working if he could, but now he had to submit his resignation.

If Mu Chuang approved, then the money he made this month would be enough to pay off his debt.

He wrote a letter of resignation and handed it to the group leader, Li Chun, but Li Chun didn’t approve it and told him to go directly to Mu Chuang.

He hesitated again and again, and finally bit the bullet and went.

At this time, Mu Chuang had just made tea. After taking a small sip, he was preparing to start working, but unexpectedly received the letter of resignation from Lin Xi, and his face immediately turned colorful.

Lin Xi stood in front of his desk, not saying a word, just quietly waiting for his response.

Mu Chuang glanced at the reason for his resignation, a few simple sentences, with no important reason, mainly wanting to leave, and directly rejected it.

“Who resigns after working for such a short time? Now that the recruitment period is over, and you can’t recruit people for a while, and nothing’s happening at home, you have to work until the end of the year anyway, and then go back with me.”

It wasn’t that he was reluctant, but he felt that since he had brought him out, he had to bring him back, hand him over to his father intact, which would be considered fulfilling his promise to him.

“Didn’t you fire Wu Liangde as soon as you said so? Didn’t someone still take his place? Why doesn’t it work when it comes to me?” Lin Xi was not convinced and argued with him.

Mu Chuang glanced at him, and from his harmless, handsome, and lovable appearance, he could see an expression that deserved a beating.

But now, in front of so many people in the workshop, he couldn’t show his true character. He had to maintain his managerial image to avoid being discussed by the people below.

“Can you be the same as him?” He tried to suppress his temper, completely different from his attitude towards Lin Xi in private. “He broke the law. What did you break? Comparing yourself to that kind of person for no reason, aren’t you afraid of ruining yourself?”