TLSOTMTKOGAYWHTDI Chapter 52

Chapter 50: Complete Rupture

Zhuo Huaimo stood at the doorway, his face as pale as paper, his fingers clenched tightly on the doorframe, his knuckles white.

His gaze was fixed on Qi Yanwang, his eyes filled with disbelief and anger.

Gu Chenzhou’s words were like a sharp knife, piercing his heart fiercely, instantly tearing apart all his trust and love.

Zhuo Huaimo suddenly felt a little foolish, perhaps the Hokkaido incident had given him prior immunity.

Yes, how could someone who had betrayed him once, betray him only once?

Hokkaido was Qi Yanwang’s doing, but he hadn’t expected that even “Early Spring” was his doing, even though he knew how important “Early Spring” was to him.

He couldn’t even imagine how the man sleeping next to him had opened the safe. It was all too terrifying.

He stared fixedly at Qi Yanwang, his jawline visibly tense. A large hand gripped his heart tightly, making even breathing feel like a luxury.

His career was completely ruined. He had already lost everything, but he still wanted to preserve his last shred of dignity, unwilling to be a laughingstock like a stray dog.

Especially in front of Gu Chenzhou, who had orchestrated everything from the beginning, someone he loathed.

Today’s stage was clearly set for him. Why should he let him have his way?

Gu Chenzhou’s laughter echoed in the room, tinged with smugness and mockery.

“President Zhuo, it seems your little wolfdog has sharper teeth than you imagined.”

He got up and circled behind Zhuo Huaimo, placing a hand on his shoulder.

“How does it feel to be bitten by your own dog? Does it hurt?”

Qi Yanwang rushed over immediately, but Zhuo Huaimo knocked Gu Chenzhou’s disgusting hand away beforehand.

He didn’t even give Qi Yanwang a glance, using the last of his strength to calmly look at Gu Chenzhou.

“Who doesn’t know that whatever Zhuo Huaimo does, he’ll do best!”

He gave Gu Chenzhou a contemptuous smile.

“This time, you should understand why I look down on you!”

Zhuo Huaimo patted him on the shoulder.

“Even the dog I raised can use you. Tell me, what do you have that’s worth my attention?”

Gu Chenzhou looked at the man he had dreamed of fucking, even in his current state of looking down on him, it was enough to make his blood boil.

Having his self-esteem trampled by the man he wanted most, Gu Chenzhou’s face was distorted with anger.

“Zhuo Huaimo, you motherfucker—”

Just as his fist was about to land on Zhuo Huaimo’s face, Qi Yanwang immediately grabbed his wrist.

The force was so great that Gu Chenzhou suspected his bones were cracked, but he couldn’t struggle, and even less could he let Zhuo Huaimo lose face again.

The bodyguards immediately pulled Qi Yanwang away.

“Zhuo Huaimo, one day I’ll play you to death!”

Gu Chenzhou roared hoarsely, as Qi Yanwang landed a solid punch on his face.

The bodyguards stepped forward and pinned Qi Yanwang down. Zhuo Huaimo leisurely walked to the table, chuckling softly.

“Alright, I’ll give you the chance!”

As soon as he said this, everyone was shocked. Qi Yanwang rushed forward like a madman.

“Zhuo Huaimo, how dare you?”

He glanced at the insane Qi Yanwang, then turned back to Gu Chenzhou, his slender fingers gliding over the crystal coffee table.

He grabbed an ashtray and slammed it down on Gu Chenzhou’s head. The splattering blood made him feel perversely excited.

He stepped on Gu Chenzhou’s shoulder.

“Looks like those seven stabs back then were too cheap!”

Zhuo Huaimo’s eyes were as calm as a dead man’s.

“What else do you want to play with? Let me go. I’m done playing in this circle. What other rotten tricks do you have? Use them all. I’ll play along to the end!”

Having said that, he turned and left. Qi Yanwang immediately followed.

By the time he reached the parking lot, he couldn’t hold on any longer. The betrayal of his lover, the crushing of his dignity, his proud career, everything came crashing down.

He had clearly filmed so many dramas, but in a daze, he could only remember the small supporting role he played when he first debuted.

Thirty seconds of screen time, not a single line, in 5° winter, he stayed in the mud for three whole hours.

Everyone said he was lucky, a rare legend in the entertainment industry.

No one knew that everything he had today, no, everything before today, was built up from one small role after another.

All, everything, completely turned into nothing.

He couldn’t forgive anyone who had led him to this point, including Qi Yanwang, including himself.

If only he hadn’t provoked him in the first place!

The car was clearly so close, just a few steps away, but why was the handrail so far?

His legs went weak, and he almost fell.

A strong arm caught him around the waist.

This scent, this embrace, he was all too familiar with.

Qi Yanwang, who had once made him feel so at ease, now only disgusted him.

* *SLAP *

A loud slap landed heavily on Qi Yanwang’s face. He didn’t even flinch.

Zhuo Huaimo raised his hand again, but this slap ultimately didn’t land.

“Hit me, as long as it makes you feel better!”

Things were already like this, and all arguments were meaningless. He was burning up now. He just wanted to leave this place as soon as possible.

Zhuo Huaimo reached out to open the car door to leave, but Qi Yanwang pressed him back heavily.

“Let go!”

“I won’t. Let’s talk!”

“Talk about what?”

Zhuo Huaimo looked at him coldly, his completely cooled eyes covered in frost.

Qi Yanwang opened his mouth, but found that he didn’t seem to know what to say, or what he could say.

“Let go!”

Zhuo Huaimo said again in a cold voice.

Qi Yanwang stubbornly refused to let him leave. He knew that they had to talk things out today, otherwise, he would lose the person in front of him forever.

Zhuo Huaimo grabbed Qi Yanwang’s collar and slammed him against the car door.

The sound of metal denting mixed with a roar, exploding in the parking lot.

His fingertips dug into the crimson mark on the other’s collarbone, left there when he was aroused tonight. Now it seemed so ridiculous.

“You started plotting against me with ‘Early Spring’? Why doesn’t Emperor Qi just give himself an Oscar?”

Qi Yanwang let him tear at him, his Adam’s apple bobbing as he reached out to grasp his trembling wrist.

“Listen to me, I didn’t mean to hurt you. I just wanted to at the time…”

“Wanted to make me so desperate that I could only rely on you?”

Zhuo Huaimo grabbed his collar tightly.

“You arranged for the paparazzi to expose the intimate video of us in Hokkaido. At the time, I thought I had dragged you down. I didn’t expect that it was all arranged by you! You calculated that I would help you pay the penalty, calculated that I would give up Xingyue shares!”

He suddenly laughed, his eyes glistening with tears. “Qi Yanwang, you really played a good game!”

Qi Yanwang staggered forward to grab his sleeve.

“Listen to me, I didn’t expect Gu Chenzhou to get involved. I didn’t know he had that kind of video. In the beginning…”

“Is there a difference?”

Zhuo Huaimo looked at him coldly. “You handed him the knife! You gave him the opportunity to completely destroy me… Oh, no, that’s not right!”

He laughed coldly. “You wanted to destroy me too. You’re the mastermind!”

Qi Yanwang locked him in his arms, roaring, regardless of everything.

“I never wanted Xingyue. I just didn’t want to break up. I just didn’t want to break up with you!”

“And then what?”

Zhuo Huaimo pushed him away fiercely, his eyes filled with ice.

“Yes, you just wanted to use Xingyue to threaten me. When you go crazy next time, what else are you going to use to threaten me?”

He stepped back two steps, leaning against a pillar. “Qi Yanwang, your kind of love is more disgusting than Gu Chenzhou’s.”

He looked at him coldly. “You know what? What disgusts me the most isn’t your scheming, but the fact that you did all these things, but you still have to pretend to be so affectionate.”

“I, I didn’t…”

“You did! Qi Yanwang, put away your act. Don’t forget, I’m also in this circle. You don’t love anyone. You only love yourself!”

* *BANG *

Qi Yanwang punched the wall behind him. “That’s bullshit!”

“I admit I used methods!”

Qi Yanwang grabbed Zhuo Huaimo’s wrist. “But I never wanted to hurt you! It’s you, why did you have to break up with me? We were fine. Why did you have to break up? Zhuo Huaimo, think about it. Do I love you or not? In that heavy rain, the rescue team wasn’t allowed in. I only had one thought, that I would give up my life to find you! My heart aches like crazy when you look at someone else, and when you agreed to go traveling with me, I really gave you countless, countless opportunities. But you always said we should break up so decisively, so calmly!”

He hugged Zhuo Huaimo tightly.

“The thought of you leaving me, you being with someone else, it makes me jealous and crazy! I’ll die. I’ll die!”

“Then go die!”

Zhuo Huaimo pushed him away, his face full of disgust. He could no longer trust someone who was constantly scheming against him.

Qi Yanwang was stunned, looking at him coldly, his eyes filled with resentment.

Zhuo Huaimo suddenly raised his hand to caress his face, as gently as a snowy night in Hokkaido.

“You know what?”

His fingertips suddenly tightened, pinching his jaw. “This affectionate look of yours is more brilliant than the scene where you won Best Actor.”

Qi Yanwang suddenly laughed coldly, grabbed his hand, and brought it to his lips.

“If I die, will it let you continue to live happily with other men?”

He gripped his wrist tightly, preventing him from moving.

“Since you’re so determined to leave me, I can’t let you have your way! When I took this step, I knew that the shareholding couldn’t be hidden, which meant that many things couldn’t be hidden. But what I want, from beginning to end, is only you. You must be mine. Our lives are destined to be entangled!”

He forcefully pulled Zhuo Huaimo into his arms, as if nothing had happened, and comforted him.

“Don’t worry, you won’t lose everything. Xingyue is still yours, and I’m yours too. Everything I have is yours!”

“Madman!”

Zhuo Huaimo pushed him away and drove off, passing right by Qi Yanwang.

When Yu Fengran opened the door, he saw Zhuo Huaimo drenched.

He didn’t ask anything, just stepped aside to let him in, offering a towel and hot tea.

In the rain at three in the morning, Qi Yanwang was pounding on the carved iron gate of Yu Fengran’s house.

Yu Fengran stood on the steps with a black umbrella, his gaze behind his glasses as cold as a scalpel.

Qi Yanwang pushed him away. “Let go! I want to see him!”

“He doesn’t want to see you!”

“Get out of here. This is between him and me!”

Yu Fengran didn’t budge.

“Yu Fengran!”

Qi Yanwang grabbed his collar. “What right do you have to stop me?”

“Because I’m his friend. And you’re a liar.”

“Friend?”

Qi Yanwang let go of his hand and took a step back. “You’re just a coward who doesn’t even dare to confess his feelings!”

Obviously, this sentence touched Yu Fengran’s sore spot. He threw aside the umbrella, grabbed Qi Yanwang’s collar.

“That’s still better than you, you beast who uses the name of loving him to hurt him all over. Qi Yanwang, you completely ruined him. What right do you have to see him?”

“That’s between him and me. What right do you have to make decisions for him?”

A flash of ruthlessness flickered in Qi Yanwang’s eyes. “Don’t forget, I’m now the largest shareholder of Xingyue.”

Yu Fengran sneered. “Is that so? Want to pressure me with your boss status? Then you better pray that the other shareholders are on your side.”

He stepped closer, lowering his voice. “Qi Yanwang, you think you’ve won? The game has just begun. From today on, Xingyue, and everything else, I will take it all back, bit by bit! Including—”

He patted Qi Yanwang’s cheek. “Zhuo—Huai—Mo!”

Qi Yanwang stared at him. “Are you threatening me?”

“Not really!”

Yu Fengran stepped back. “Just reminding you that there are no eternal winners in this circle.”

He looked at Qi Yanwang’s livid face and turned to walk into the villa.

Qi Yanwang stood there, rainwater dripping from his hair.

He looked at the window of Yu Fengran’s house.

“Zhuo Huaimo, I won’t give up. Even if you hate me, I will chase you back…”