PPS Chapter 102
by VolareGu Yusen gave his short-sleeved shirt with the rose pattern to the little beggar to ward off birds.
After returning home shirtless, he sneezed non-stop. Before receiving any loving care from his mother, he received a beating from his father.
Gu Yusen met a beautiful little beggar when he was twelve years old.
After that, he was always absent-minded, and would go to the mushroom house in the park every so often to check, but he never saw the little beggar.
Gu Yusen had several dozen hundred-yuan bills in his pocket, taken from the cabinet, thinking he could help the little beggar,
seeing as he was so good-looking.
But he didn’t expect to see him again until a week later, when Gu Yusen was wandering aimlessly in the park, feeling upset.
Recently, a hornet’s nest was discovered in the park, and a notice was posted warning everyone to be careful. Gu Yusen saw the sign but didn’t pay much attention, simply looking around for a small figure.
His gaze stopped at a patch of trembling grass, and he narrowed his eyes.
He felt like someone was there.
Listening carefully, he indeed heard a familiar whimper.
Gu Yusen’s eyes sharpened, and he grabbed a large rock and strode over.
Behind the bushes, the little beggar’s beautiful hair was messy, surrounded by several boys who were saying something. Judging by their expressions, they weren’t up to anything good.
Gu Yusen had seen this kind of thing many times, and he was furious.
“What the hell are you doing!”
Gu Yusen roared, rushing towards the boys bullying the little beggar, his eyes burning with anger. When Gu Yusen got angry, he resembled his father a bit. The boys were frightened by Gu Yusen’s aura and retreated, some even dropping what they were holding and running away.
Gu Yusen pulled the little beggar out of the bushes and shielded him behind him. He glared at the fleeing boys, his eyes full of warning and threat. Seeing this, the boys were even more afraid to stay and fled the scene.
The little beggar was stunned to see it was Gu Yusen; he hadn’t expected to see him at this moment.
“They were bullying you?” Gu Yusen turned his head, feeling a headache seeing the little beggar’s disheveled state. What was worse, the boy was still clutching a worthless short-sleeved shirt tightly in his hands.
“Why didn’t you run? Just let them beat you! Little weakling, what are you holding?” Gu Yusen slapped the dust off the little beggar’s body, exasperated, his gaze falling on his palm.
It was the short-sleeved shirt with the rose pattern.
His own.
“Returning it to you,” the little beggar said, noticing Gu Yusen’s gaze, and timidly handed over the short-sleeved shirt. Even though the older brother’s tone was harsh, he wasn’t afraid at all.
Gu Yusen sighed heavily, took the short-sleeved shirt, and, seeing the bruises on the little beggar’s face, his anger flared up even more.
Gu Yusen took the little beggar back to the mushroom house where they first met.
What Gu Yusen didn’t see was that the little beggar had been hiding a bottle of honey, and when he got up, someone pushed him, and it rolled into the grass and disappeared.
Gu Yusen magically pulled out a tube of ointment from his pocket, squeezed some onto his hand, and slowly applied it to the little beggar’s wounds.
He had been carrying a tube of ointment with him ever since that day.
Now it finally came in handy.
The little beggar felt a little pain and instinctively tried to dodge, but Gu Yusen reached into his pocket again, and after a while, awkwardly pulled out a wrinkled rose and stuffed it into the little beggar’s hand.
“Don’t you dare dislike it! It got damaged in my pocket. You play with it first; I’ll bring you a new one tomorrow,” he said in a stern tone.
The little beggar received another rose, though it wasn’t very pretty.
But it was enough to distract him.
Even the pain from Gu Yusen applying the ointment was ignored.
Children don’t know what red roses represent, but little Gu Yusen knew that a beautiful little beggar liked this thing very much.
So, he spent the whole night when he got back planting red roses all over his garden.
The two agreed to meet at the mushroom house every day at six in the afternoon.
Every time they met, the little beggar would receive a beautiful rose.
Gu Yusen, with the little beggar on his back, gathered his friends and gave the boys a beating.
The little beggar received Gu Yusen’s temporary protection.
The two barely got through a happy time. Gu Yusen was mischievous, and every time he made the little beggar angry, he could only run to pick roses to coax him.
The little beggar looked at Gu Yusen’s back as he tinkered with a remote control car, thinking absentmindedly,
If only it could always be like this.
But things don’t always go as planned.
Children don’t understand power struggles; they only know that if they are bullied, they must retaliate, even if it means facing the Gu family’s only son.
Gu Yusen had been spending too much time with the little beggar lately, and rarely stayed with his friends.
One day, on the way to the mushroom house,
a slightly older boy who had been tailing Gu Yusen, Suddenly, a dull thud broke the silence of the night—the sound of a stick colliding with a skull.
Gu Yusen felt a darkness before his eyes, and the whole world seemed to collapse at that moment. He staggered a few steps and finally collapsed helplessly on the ground.
His fingers inadvertently touched the back of his head, feeling wet and warm—his own blood. Rain began to fall in a drizzle, mixed with the smell of earth, hitting his face and mingling with the blood, indistinguishable from each other.
The face of the older boy was blurred in the darkness. The stick in his hand was still dripping with Gu Yusen’s blood, and a hint of ruthlessness and determination flashed in his eyes. After hitting the blow, he didn’t pause at all, turned and ran, disappearing into the vast night, leaving only a string of chaotic footsteps echoing in the alley.
Gu Yusen lay there, his consciousness gradually fading, the surrounding world becoming more and more distant.
It wasn’t until someone happened to pass by and discovered the figure lying in a pool of blood that he was rushed to the hospital.
The lights in the emergency room were glaring and cold. Gu Yusen was pushed in and out repeatedly, the doctors’ faces filled with seriousness and tension. His temperature continued to rise, and the fever made him delirious, mumbling words that no one could understand, clutching a red rose intended as a gift in his hand, refusing to let go.
After the Gu family found out about the incident, they dragged out the boy who had struck the blow and the other boys who had plotted behind the scenes and taught them a lesson. And this so-called lesson, falling on their families, was naturally a devastating blow.
Fortunately, Gu Yusen was not seriously injured.
A week later, Gu Yusen had fully recovered. He was in his bedroom, the clock on the wall slowly turning to six in the afternoon, while the red roses in the garden outside the window were growing vibrantly.
Gu Yusen touched his head.
Suddenly, he saw a beautiful butterfly entangled in a spider web, landing on a rose.
The butterfly originally had dazzling wings.
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Gu Yusen’s memory stopped abruptly, but Chu Zhaoyi’s life continued. He would stubbornly wait under the mushroom house, hoping for someone to appear.
But no one ever did.
Chu Zhaoyi had been different from others since he was a child. It was difficult for him to feel emotions like anger and sadness, so he squatted in the mushroom house, gazing into the distance, his mind only filled with confusion.
Why wasn’t Gu Yusen coming?
Was he lost?
Then I should go find him.
This search lasted for six years.
At fifteen years old, Chu Zhaoyi learned the truth about his biological parents amidst the arguments between Chu Yu and Li Yurong. He had intended to use the “biological parents” relationship to leave the Chu family, but after a brief observation, he realized that the trouble brought by that family would be even greater.
Chu Zhaoyi, who hated trouble, chose to give up.
At sixteen years old, Chu Zhaoyi heard that Chu Yu had accidentally saved the Gu family’s elder. He knew what kind of person Chu Yu was:
Weak, yet ambitious.
As if comparing himself to someone, he worked desperately, trying to develop his business.
But in the end, he was an idiot.
This time, the Gu family’s connections were presented right in front of him, and Chu Yu wouldn’t refuse.
But unexpectedly, Chu Yu refused.
Chu Zhaoyi didn’t quite understand at first, since it was all business matters, but later, through Li Yurong and Chu Yu’s conversations, he understood.
Although Chu Yu was a brainless businessman, he had some skill in manipulating people’s hearts.
He placed himself on the moral high ground, portraying himself as a selfless good person, using the Gu family’s gratitude to achieve his own goals.
If he directly made a request, asking for something worth a hundred points, he might only get a hundred points.
But if he didn’t ask, the Gu family, out of gratitude, would always take care of him a little in business.
And even a little bit that slipped through the Gu family’s fingers was enough to make Chu Yu covet it.
Chu Yu achieved his goal.
And Chu Zhaoyi searched for a lot of information about the Gu family on his hidden phone, and also found a photo of the Gu family’s only son, Gu Yusen.
Chu Zhaoyi was stunned, and a bit of light gradually appeared in his dark eyes.
So it was him.
Later, he heard her plan through the monitoring software on Li Yurong’s phone. Li Yurong finally couldn’t bear Chu Yu anymore and decided to divorce him.
However, Li Yurong was Chu Yu’s fig leaf for his dirty heart, so he naturally wouldn’t agree.
In the long tug-of-war,
Li Yurong had murderous intentions.
Chu Zhaoyi came up with a plan, a plan that would allow him to stand in front of that person openly.
He cooperated with all of Li Yurong’s plans, even though her methods were clumsy. Fortunately, it succeeded.
But it wasn’t enough; Chu Yu’s death alone wasn’t enough.
Li Yurong shouldn’t live either.
He had read the relevant laws. In his situation, with both parents deceased, the state would help find a foster family, or in the worst case, he would go to a mental hospital for treatment.
So he needed to lose his “parents” and then let the Gu family know about it.
Oh no, the Gu family was loyal and valued relationships, so they naturally paid attention to Chu Yu, their life-saving benefactor.
The Gu family would know about Chu Yu and Li Yurong’s deaths. To repay their kindness, they would naturally take over Chu Yu’s child.
However, what he didn’t expect was that the Gu family’s solution was to directly adopt him as their son. He had thought that the Gu family would give him a sum of money and find some people to take care of him. Then, he could pay a visit under the guise of gratitude.
He formulated a detailed plan, ensuring that the police wouldn’t suspect him after Li Yurong’s death.
But he didn’t expect Li Yurong’s psychological endurance to be so poor. Under the thought that “she had really killed someone,” she showed an abnormal appearance when questioned by the police.
Guilty.
Under immense pressure, Chu Zhaoyi simply stimulated her with a few words.
She ran to the rooftop and jumped down.
Chu Zhaoyi had considered that in this situation, he hadn’t committed a crime.
Even if it was found out that the two had spoken on the phone before Li Yurong’s death, the crime couldn’t be pinned on him.
There was nothing more perfect than this.
Except for the fact that Sanmu didn’t recognize him.