OVTTGTBE Chapter 14

Looking for trouble.

Looking for trouble.

This will probably take a long time.

Bai Yao turned his head to look at Liu Yucheng and softly asked him, “Can you walk back by yourself?”

“Yes.”

After thinking for a moment, Bai Yao said, “Then I’ll go first.”

Liu Yucheng let go of him, his voice trembling slightly, “Okay, be careful, don’t walk too fast.”

Bai Yao nodded and limped towards the school gate, then, taking advantage of the fact that the two people weren’t paying attention, he directly hid in the roadside green belt.

Something was clearly wrong with Liu Yucheng.

I should hide and observe.

“Damn, you scared me!” Zhang Yifang deliberately lowered his voice and said, “Brother Yao, why are you hiding in here too?”

Bai Yao looked at his three good roommates who had squatted in the green belt one step ahead of him, looking sneaky, and asked in shock, “You…?? What are you doing here???”

…

“Speak, what do you want.”

Liu Yucheng looked expressionlessly at the man in front of him who was disguised as a middle school student.

Liu Angran’s birthday was only a few weeks apart from Liu Yucheng’s, but his life trajectory was completely different. Liu Angran was expelled from school halfway through high school for hitting a teacher in the classroom; his parents were capable, and after he was expelled, they found connections everywhere to introduce him to work, but this guy was hopeless, not only indulging in extravagant pleasures but also causing trouble everywhere. This time, he was probably here to ask for money again.

“Brother, I’m your brother, what else would I come to you for?”

As soon as Bai Yao left, Liu Angran put away the smile on his face and directly reached out his hand, “The boss my mom introduced me to is too stupid. Just because I said a few more words to a female colleague at work, he fired me, saying I was harassing her. I don’t have any money now, lend me some.”

“Liu Angran, I already have no relationship with your family, and I’m no longer your cousin.”

Liu Yucheng stepped forward and prepared to walk into the school, “I don’t have any money to lend you now either.”

Considering the blood relationship, from the summer vacation until now, he has “borrowed” him so much money, both large and small, that it’s countless. Every penny is the hard-earned money Liu Yucheng made from part-time work.

“Who was that guy just now? Damn, he was really handsome!”

“Too bad, he’s a cripple, and it seems like he has a pretty good relationship with you?”

Liu Angran caught up with Liu Yucheng in two steps, “If you don’t have money, you can borrow it from him! Borrow a hundred thousand or eighty thousand, he definitely has it! Do you know how much that coat he’s wearing is worth? He’s definitely someone who doesn’t lack money!”

Liu Yucheng turned around and pushed him, “I’m warning you, stay away from him!”

“Hey, what’s wrong? So concerned about that rich young master?”

Liu Angran staggered back a few steps and shouted behind Liu Yucheng, “Liu Yucheng, let me tell you, the children of wealthy families all have their own circles, what are you? Eager to carry their shoes? Stop dreaming!”

“Yes, you’ve been good at studying since you were a kid, and you got into such a so-called first-class university, so what? If I tell him now what kind of lowly thing you are, do you think he’ll still bother with you!”

Liu Yucheng stopped in his tracks.

His fist was clenched too hard, and his palm had already been scratched and bled by his fingernails. Seeing this, Liu Angran snorted with extreme disdain. He had seen Liu Yucheng freeze in place countless times since he was a child.

He slowly walked to Liu Yucheng’s side, patted him on the shoulder, and said in a low voice, “That’s right, you don’t want people to know about your past, do you? I’m just borrowing money for an emergency, and I’ll definitely pay you back when I make a lot of money in the future!”

Liu Yucheng took out his phone.

“I only have 1032 yuan and 7 mao left.”

His voice was even more trembling than before, “I’ve already transferred it all to you. You can get lost now.”

“Thank you, bro! I can finally afford cigarettes and alcohol today!”

Before leaving, Liu Angran specifically told him, “Remember to borrow some money from your rich young master, I’m preparing to start a business, I’m waiting for your call! If you dare to block my number, I’ll expose all your past deeds! Let’s see how you’ll get along in school!”

After a long time, Liu Yucheng stood alone in front of the school gate, desperately raised his head, and looked at the snowflakes falling in the sky without any worries.

From the day he fell into the abyss, he had been working hard, studying hard, and working hard when he grew up, desperately trying to climb out.

But those arms from the darkness, wanting to drag him into the depths, were constantly pulling at him, tearing at his flesh, trying to drag him into the deepest part of that darkness where there was no hope of turning over.

Now he didn’t have a penny left.

Tomorrow is Monday, so he can only ask for leave. He’ll go do some part-time work and save up for some food.

…

Liu Angran lowered his head, looking at the extra thousand yuan in his phone while walking towards the intersection, planning whether to go have a good meal. Or should he buy a pack of cigarettes first? This pack in his hand was about to be finished, and then he’d buy some grilled skewers and beer, and lie down in a nearby hotel to eat.

A fat man nearly 1.8 meters tall bumped into him head-on.

“What are you doing?! Are you blind? Can’t you see where you’re walking?” Liu Angran staggered back a few steps after being bumped into by him, and said angrily.

However, the fat man in front of him just raised the corners of his mouth and smiled, nonchalantly saying, “Buddy, walking so fast, where are you planning to go? Hey, I think your phone is pretty good, it’s worth a lot of money, right?”

Liu Angran glanced at the two extremely unfriendly-looking boys who were surrounding him from the left and right, and then he realized that they seemed to be waiting here, wanting to make trouble for him.

“Big brother, I’m sorry…”

There were three of them, and Liu Angran immediately chickened out and hurriedly took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, “It was my fault for not looking at the road just now, I’m really sorry. I have cigarettes here, big brother, would you like a cigarette?”

The fat man put his hands in his pockets and didn’t take his cigarette, but instead looked at the person behind him, “Brother Yao, how should we deal with him?”

Liu Angran was shocked and immediately turned his head, discovering that it was actually the cripple who had been following Liu Yucheng just now.

“Hey, it’s you!” Liu Angran forced a smile and said, “Hello, brother!”

Bai Yao looked at him expressionlessly and softly asked, “How old are you this year?”

“I… I’ll be 19 after the New Year.” Liu Angran said truthfully.

“The same age as Liu Yucheng.”

“Yes, yes, yes, I’m just a few weeks younger than him, hehe.” Liu Angran smiled ingratiatingly, “Big brother, my brother and I have had a good relationship since we were little, I came to see him today…”

Before he could finish speaking, Bai Yao directly reached out his hand and squeezed his cheeks hard on both sides.

He looked in horror at this handsome man who suddenly revealed his fangs, “Bro… what is this…?”

These four people, looking well-dressed, couldn’t be the local bullies in this area, right?

He was really unlucky today. He had just “borrowed” money and then encountered these people. He had thought that this rich young master was a sweet and innocent person, but he didn’t expect Liu Yucheng to have relied on such a local bully in school. No wonder he was so poor from working part-time every day, with so little money in his hand. He probably got exploited a lot by this rich young master usually.

“Well, his eyebrows do look a bit like Liu Yucheng’s.”

“But you’re not as handsome as him. I’m a very superficial person, so what should I do?” Bai Yao looked at him sinisterly and said.

The other three boys followed suit and laughed evilly, also echoing that this person was getting more and more unpleasant to look at, and they definitely couldn’t let him go today.

Liu Angran had never suffered such humiliation when he was in his hometown, but because there were so many of them, Liu Angran had to be a coward and said unclearly, “Bro, do you want money? I have it, I’ll give it to you…”

“Tsk.”

Bai Yao squeezed him with one hand and casually tugged at the clothes on his body with the other, “I don’t lack money, haven’t you already seen that?”

“Then, then what do you want to do…?”

…

After entering the school gate, Liu Yucheng quickened his pace and jogged all the way to the downstairs of the male dormitory building. The legs of his Tom pajama pants were wet, but he still didn’t catch up with Bai Yao.

But Bai Yao’s leg was injured, and his walking speed wasn’t fast, and there was only this one road, how could he have missed Bai Yao? It had just started snowing, and the ground was wet. Bai Yao usually cherished the shoes he was wearing today, so he shouldn’t be staying outside.

To be on the safe side, Liu Yucheng ran to the third floor of the dormitory and took a look.

The lights in dorm 319 were off, and the door was locked. There was no one inside.

After thinking about it, Liu Yucheng took out his phone. In order to transfer money to Liu Angran just now, he had switched back to his original WeChat. As a result, as soon as WeChat was opened, he saw a transfer notification.

Liu Angran: [Initiated transfer: 1032.70 yuan]

Liu Yucheng was puzzled when two other transfer messages immediately popped up.

Liu Angran: [Initiated transfer: 3500 yuan]

Liu Angran: [Initiated transfer: 165.39 yuan]

He didn’t know what tricks this person was playing. These transfers were in odd amounts, and Liu Yucheng didn’t dare to accept them easily for a while.

Liu Angran: Brother, I was wrong just now. Keep this money, consider it as me paying you back.

“…”

Liu Yucheng even began to suspect that Liu Angran’s WeChat account had been stolen by some god who had descended from heaven?

The next second, Liu Angran sent another voice message, and the voice was his voice: “Brother, quickly accept the money… I, I have to go home tonight…”

It seemed to carry a hint of crying.

…

“Alright, Brother Yao, he accepted it.”

Li Jinyang supervised Liu Angran’s WeChat interface from the side, “Haha, he’s probably extremely puzzled right now… Maybe he’s looking for you everywhere in the school.”

“Yeah, the train ticket is bought too, the train at dawn today.”

Bai Yao nodded with satisfaction, “Now delete Liu Yucheng’s WeChat friends and contact information. If you dare to come back to retaliate against him, you know what the consequences will be, right?”

“Brother, I’m sorry brother, but you can’t do this…”

Liu Angran had just tried to resist, but the result was that his face was pressed hard on the ground by Bai Yao, smashing it. He pleaded with a crying voice, “Now I don’t have a penny left! I don’t even have money for dinner tonight! Why did you transfer all the money I originally had to him, sob sob sob…”

As he spoke, Liu Angran burst into tears.

He wasn’t admitting his mistake, but was afraid—if this was in his hometown, who would dare to treat him like this?!

“Isn’t he your brother? He’s borrowed you a lot of money, right? This money is all that you will use to pay him back tomorrow, isn’t that what you just said to me? I just simplified the process for you.”

“The train ticket is bought, and I’ve left you the money for the subway ticket, so you can take the subway yourself—it should be 6 yuan to get to the train station, right? This is even 1 yuan extra, so you can buy a bottle of water on the way.”

Bai Yao pointed to the subway station across the road, smiling gently and said, “Tonight, go back to where you came from. Considering that you’re his cousin, I’ve already been very gentle. Don’t let me see you again in the future.”