GBT Chapter 17

Chapter 17

As Jiao Bai was finishing his wontons, he noticed Shen Er An staring blankly at the restaurant entrance, so he followed his gaze.

Oh, it was that girl, Shen Er An’s secret crush.

The girl was out shopping with her family, wearing reindeer antlers on her head. When she smiled, her eyes curved into little crescent moons. She was youthful, vibrant, and adorable, and her anticipation for the future was infectious. Her personality was a perfect complement to Shen Er An’s.

Jiao Bai watched the drama unfold as a bystander, not participating, not commenting, and definitely not helping them achieve a different ending. Because his mission wasn’t to change the fates of the protagonists and supporting characters, turning a BL into a romance, or transforming a tragic ending between a “slutty shou” and a “scum gong” into a happy ending. He only cared about increasing his activity points; everything else was none of his business.

He was a BE (Bad Ending) enthusiast, after all.

“If you like her, go after her.” The BE enthusiast said this to the original novel’s scum gong.

Youthful, talented, and beautiful, mutual pining, salvation, growth, I give you my world, you light up my world, build roads, and plant big trees. This setup wasn’t bad, and he wouldn’t mind indulging in it for once.

Shen Er An, who was sitting opposite him, suddenly stood up from the plastic stool. He pressed his hands on the edge of the table, his fingertips turning white and stiff, his jawline tightened, and his dark eyes stared at Jiao Bai, as if trying to restrain his surging emotions.

He gave off the same feeling as his father, stern, imposing, and extremely dangerous.

“Don’t misunderstand, I haven’t been secretly investigating you,” Jiao Bai said with a smile. “Isn’t there a saying, if you like someone, even if you don’t say it, it will show in your eyes? Just now, when you looked at her, your feelings came out, and I caught them.”

Shen Er An continued to stare at him, but the aggressiveness he exuded, like a wild animal whose territory had been invaded, subsided slightly.

Jiao Bai said sincerely, “I’m serious, if you like her, go after her. Don’t wait until you’re older to regret it.”

Shen Er An looked at the girl walking past the entrance, lowered his eyes, and shook his head slightly.

“She and I are not suitable,” Shen Er An said almost inaudibly.

Jiao Bai stuffed the last wonton into his mouth. Oh well, whatever. In the original story, these people’s lives were trapped within the confines of wealthy families, and their romantic relationships were full of dog blood and knives—a thousand-meter-long, razor-sharp broadsword. Dog blood was poured by the ton. He was just a commoner with a mission; he shouldn’t interfere.

“Finished eating, let’s go back,” Jiao Bai said, wiping his mouth as he got up after finishing the soup.

Shen Er An didn’t respond.

Jiao Bai took a few steps, and when he saw that he was still standing by the table, he turned around and urged, “Let’s go, let’s go home.”

Shen Er An paused for a moment and followed behind him.

The two shadows were stretched long by the streetlights, and the autumn wind escorted them home.

The next day at noon, Jiao Bai was getting food in the cafeteria when a boy squeezed next to him and muttered a few words. He grabbed two dishes and went to the small grove.

A car was parked under the trees, and the rear window was rolled down a bit, revealing Qi Shuang’s soft face.

Jiao Bai opened the car door, bent down, and got in with his food bowl.

He was immediately assaulted by a strong smell of garlic.

The young master choked. “You did this on purpose, didn’t you?”

Jiao Bai said, “That line sounds familiar.”

Qi Shuang’s face turned green and white. “Last night, I said I was going to come find you today, so you deliberately got garlic sprouts, and, and candied garlic? Is that even fit for human consumption?”

Jiao Bai, who loved eating candied garlic, was annoyed. He sneered, “Who do you think you are? Do you think I would bother caring that much about you?”

Qi Shuang was so angry that he could barely breathe, and looked like he was having a heart attack.

He hadn’t slept all night, thinking about many things. Several times, he wanted to confess to his big brother. His big brother was so capable; he would definitely have a way to deal with this guy. Then, the situation he faced would directly turn from passive to active.

But he didn’t do it.

If he let his big brother know his true thoughts, he would only scold him, stop him, and maybe even have his second brother return to the country to discipline him. What about Shen Er An then? Who would help him?

Qi Shuang’s bloodshot eyes gradually became wet, and he was about to cry.

Jiao Bai said impatiently, “Spit it out quickly. I still have to go back to the classroom to eat lunch. I can’t eat without seeing a book.”

Qi Shuang: “…”

The young master’s pitiful sobbing filled the car. He looked weak and harmless, and it was easy to feel moved by him and develop feelings of pity.

But the audience member present knew him better than his two older brothers. His performance was very clumsy in the other’s eyes.

Jiao Bai scanned the outside of the car. This time, the young master had learned to be clever; no one else had come. He had brought a tall, burly bodyguard.

That bodyguard was his knight.

In “Broken Wings,” the bodyguard’s first appearance wasn’t at this time, but after Qi Shuang married Shen Ji, when he first officially confronted Li Jue.

When he was reading the comic, Jiao Bai found that the bodyguard’s appearance was a bit like Qi Yi Liao. He even thought he was Qi Yi Liao’s father’s illegitimate son.

It wasn’t until the middle and later stages that the bodyguard’s background came out. He was the bloodline left behind by Qi Yi Liao’s eldest brother and sister-in-law.

After becoming a member of the Qi family, he still couldn’t forget Qi Shuang, secretly helping him out of danger and cleaning up his messes. In the end, he gave his life for him.

“You stayed in South City instead of returning to your hometown, and even came to Three Middle School, Wang Chuqiu,” Qi Shuang said sarcastically. “No, I should call you Jiao Bai now. You even changed your name, changed your surname, you’ve been planning this for a long time, haven’t you.”

Jiao Bai smiled, revealing two small tiger teeth at the corner of his lips. “That’s right.”

Qi Shuang was so offended by this straightforward answer that he was about to vomit blood. He wanted to use pliers to twist off this person’s tiger teeth. “What exactly do you need to do to leave South City? I’ll give you another thirty million, to make it an even number, okay?”

Jiao Bai’s first reaction upon hearing this sentence was, *damn*, he should have asked for less than twenty million last time.

He couldn’t be blamed. He was used to being poor and had never seen the world.

“How about this, I’m not interested in South City. I’ll leave after I take the college entrance examination next year. Give me the thirty million then?” Jiao Bai bargained.

Qi Shuang had never seen such a brazen person. He told himself to calm down and not be led by the nose again. Qi Shuang didn’t answer but asked, “Didn’t you ask me for Zhang Zhen’s contact information that day? I thought you…”

Jiao Bai interjected, “You thought I was going to West City to seduce him and beg for a sugar daddy?”

Qi Shuang’s eyes said: Isn’t that what you’re doing?

Jiao Bai used his spoon to dig out a candied garlic clove, ate it with a mouthful of rice, and said, “Just expanding my social circle.”

Qi Shuang covered his mouth and nose to block the smell of garlic. His brain was being fried by the smell, and he forgot to respond.

“Young Master, please don’t always think about that. Although I’m gay, and a bottom, I’m not short on money,” Jiao Bai said casually.

Qi Shuang’s eyes twitched wildly. He forgot that this person was no longer the humble, straw-hat-wearing country bumpkin carrying a woven bag. This person had a sum of money in his hands, which he had extorted from him!

“Then why did you come to Three Middle School?”

Jiao Bai: “To study.”

Qi Shuang didn’t believe a word of it. “There are so many middle schools in South City, why did you choose Three Middle School!”

Jiao Bai moved away from him, also putting his hand beside the rice bowl, so as not to get the other party’s saliva into it: “The person who handle for me, only has a relationship with Three Middle School.”

Qi Shuang blurted out: “Then you can just find me ah.”

Jiao Bai: “…” No wonder people who read “Broken Wings” said that this young master was the biggest bug in it. With this occasional flash of innocence, he was actually able to survive for so many chapters.

Qi Shuang saw that Jiao Bai was silent, and he said gloomily, “Go to Three Middle School, go to Class 7, sit in the seat I used to sit in, become Shen Young Master’s deskmate. You came for him, didn’t you.”

“When I was hospitalized, you told me that you didn’t like old men with messy private lives… so you like his son, young and clean, unlike him. Last night, you appeared at Good Place building, and it was Liang Dong who brought you in. You asked me to go to the rest room to say those things so Shen Young Master could hear it? Putting on an act, can you be any more hypocritical?”

Qi Shuang’s two red eyes stared intently at Jiao Bai.

Over the years, he had been like an undercover informant in a crime film, never looking at Shen Er An more than once in front of others, and not making eye contact with him. He had been thinking repeatedly for the past few months, but he couldn’t figure out why his secret, which he had hidden so deeply, had been discovered by this guy.

Qi Shuang recalled the scenes from last night. At that time, his big brother and Shen Er An walked out of the inner room. His big brother walked towards him, but Shen Er An didn’t leave immediately, but approached…

“Bitch,” Qi Shuang said to Jiao Bai in his heart. At that time, he was preoccupied with covering up his panic and didn’t notice. He only caught that detail after calming down, and his heart was filled with jealousy and astonishment.

The variable had been there for a long time, and this guy had caused it! Was it going to spread? How could it be completely cut off?

“You, Liang Dong, Shen Young Master, what is the relationship between the three of you now? You have penetrated his circle, haven’t you?” Qi Shuang’s tone began to become hysterical. “You, a country bumpkin, what can you do for him? Other than this withered body that he doesn’t even like, you have nothing else. I’m different from you. I can become his lighthouse, and all my resources can be used by him. I can do a lot for him. As long as he gives an order, I will do my best to help him clear obstacles. He will be an adult soon, and the Shen family is already uneasy. He needs me.”

Jiao Bai rolled his eyes. “You’re sick. Please make an appointment and register with the psychiatry department as soon as possible.”

Qi Shuang suddenly screamed, “You don’t understand anything!”

Jiao Bai was startled, and his food bowl almost fell to the ground. God damn it, if it weren’t for the aftercare of last night’s mandatory mission, would he have come here to watch a severe delusional patient’s self-orgasm?

He was moved to tears by himself, an immersive performance, a lifetime actor.

Jiao Bai felt a little sorry for Shen Er An. Of course, not the Shen Er An from a few years later in the original story, but just the Shen Er An of now.

Qi Shuang was already choking up. “Have you ever seen him wearing tattered clothes? That was when he first entered the Shen family. He didn’t even get a sip of hot water and was left out in the snow. His father didn’t care about him at all. The old lady usually calls him grandson and treasures him very much, but in reality, she only stands by his father’s side at critical moments, because his mother’s identity is too low, and no one in the entire Shen family likes him…”

Jiao Bai really couldn’t take it anymore: “No, does Shen Young Master know that you’re exposing Shen Young Master’s ugly scars in front of others like this?”

The furious expression on Qi Shuang’s twisted face instantly froze.

Jiao Bai felt that his food was getting cold. Winter was a hassle. He didn’t have the patience to stay here any longer. He said in one breath: “You really think Old Lady is a decoration?”

Qi Shuang was reminded, and a light flashed in his mind, understanding what Jiao Bai meant. Shen Ji didn’t ask about Shen Er An’s social circle, but there was also the old lady.

Therefore, Jiao Bai wouldn’t do that to Shen Er An. Even if he had that idea, it could only die in the womb, and couldn’t threaten him.

Qi Shuang recovered his intelligence at this time, and put on the posture of the future Shen wife: “It’s good that you know.”

Jiao Bai opened the car door and got out: “Don’t come looking for me again. If you come one more time, the chances of Shen Ji finding out about our conspiracy will be greater. I’m full and the whole family is not hungry, and I only have one life. You’re different. You have the entire Qi family, and the beautiful, strong, and miserable Shen Young Master waiting for you to save him in the abyss. Use your brain, Qi Third Young Master.”

Qi Shuang’s face twisted. What conspiracy? Everything was your unilateral thinking, it was your own idea, I just took action.

Jiao Bai knew that Qi Xiaosha Bi had heard it. After all, there wasn’t much time left before the new year, and he still had to be his Shen wife and be busy.

The withered yellow leaves were all over the ground. Jiao Bai pulled down the mask on his chin, pressed down on the brim of his hat, and walked quickly towards the classroom. A loud noise suddenly came from behind. Qi Shuang jumped out of the car and ran over, shouting at his back: “You really didn’t come to Three Middle School for Shen Young Master?”

Jiao Bai was annoyed. This was endless. He roared impatiently, “A kid whose feathers haven’t even grown in yet, what the hell do I care about him!”

After roaring, he took two steps and saw Shen Er An squatting by the wall, sketching.

Jiao Bai: “…”

How refreshing.

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The author has something to say:

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Shen Young Master: Feathers, are complete.

Bai Bai: ok.

See you tomorrow.