OVTTGTBE Chapter 29

Power Outage

Power Outage

Bai Yao regretted asking the question as soon as he did. Some things are better left thought about in your heart. They had already broken up, and he had no right to ask Liu Yucheng such a question face to face.

But words spoken are like water spilled, and reality didn’t give Bai Yao any room to regret it.

Liu Yucheng asked him expressionlessly, “Does it matter to you?”

Bai Yao was stunned.

“If it matters, I can tell you where I went last night and who I met.”

Although he had signed a confidentiality agreement, if it really came to the point where he had to confess to Bai Yao, Liu Yucheng wouldn’t mind offending Bai Junyi (White Beautiful Jade).

“I care about nothing.”

Bai Yao’s brain was racing, and he quickly grabbed an excuse from yesterday’s experiences: “There was still homework from yesterday’s lab class, and it’s due tomorrow. I’m worried you forgot to do it and will lower my group score.”

“So, you only care about your homework.”

“I didn’t return to the dorm all night, and you weren’t worried at all.”

Liu Yucheng wanted to confirm once more whether Bai Yao knew that he was Honey Peach Milk.

If Bai Yao already knew, then he couldn’t possibly not be worried. After all, from Bai Yao’s perspective, Honey Peach Milk had also disappeared for an entire night.

“I’ve already said, I have a boyfriend now.”

Bai Yao turned and entered the dorm building, “I can’t worry about anyone other than him, don’t be so presumptuous.”

Fortunately, he hid it. He almost couldn’t hold back just now.

If he admitted it at this time, that he had been thinking wildly all night, which led to not sleeping well, and then had to get up for a morning run before dawn, then Bai Yao’s face would have nowhere to go.

In the afternoon, Bai Yao took out the business card that middle-aged man had given him in the morning during class, searched his phone number on Wechat, and actually found a Wechat account with a landscape as its profile picture.

Honey Peach Milk: [Pouting] Can you pay attention to me?

Honey Peach Milk: My phone really got water damage last night. I went through a lot of trouble to borrow a phone from someone else so I could contact you.

Two messages popped up at the top of the phone screen. Bai Yao was too lazy to look at them carefully, swiped them away, and applied to add that landscape profile picture as a Wechat friend.

Liu Yucheng finally saw the messages he had sent to Honey Peach Milk last night and was willing to reply to him.

It’s just that the lies he made up were a bit too outrageous, and Bai Yao didn’t want to pay attention to him right now.

……

“That kid said his dad passed away a long time ago. If you had told me this earlier, I wouldn’t have agreed to help you with this.”

“How can you blame me? I only found out after you told me.”

In the afternoon, in a small restaurant, Liu Angran (Willow Towering Radiance) cursed and lit a cigarette, “If it weren’t for my idiot brother suddenly appearing and causing trouble, I would have had that 50,000 yuan today!”

“How reliable is your information anyway?” Tang Sen (Hall Forest) sat opposite him, drinking the beer in his glass, “Who provided you with the photos?”

“The information is absolutely reliable!”

Liu Angran gestured to him, “The woman who gave me the photo and information drives a Maserati! Even if you don’t recognize people, that car is the real deal! This must be the legendary wealthy family drama… She told me that as long as I take this photo to that person named Bai Yao and tell him that the person in the photo is his biological father, he would be willing to chat with me more. Look, you and the person in the photo look so similar, and that Bai Yao is a generous young master. This is a pie in the sky!”

“Also, where did you get this ID card?” Tang Sen slapped Cheng Tianyang (Journey Heaven Rising)’s ID card on the table, “Isn’t this fake?”

Liu Angran glanced at him with disdain. This Tang Sen wasn’t very good. He had so many concerns when he wanted to make money. No wonder he lost everything doing business.

This ID card wasn’t fake, was it real? The woman gave him some information about Bai Yao’s biological father. Thanks to this information, Liu Angran came up with this plan to make quick money.

“Hey, someone added me on Wechat.” Tang Sen put his phone on the table, “Look, isn’t this that kid?”

Liu Angran had already seen Bai Yao’s Wechat profile picture in the information, and he quickly nodded and said, “Quick, quick, quick, chat with him, get the 50,000 yuan first. I borrowed a lot of money for this suit for you, I have to pay back some of it first, and then talk about the subsequent money-making plan.”

……

For an entire class, Bai Yao was holding his phone and chatting with this “Cheng Tianyang (Journey Heaven Rising)”.

He asked several questions, such as the names of his deceased maternal grandparents, and this “Mr. Cheng Tianyang” answered them all.

Some things are reported by the outside media, but there is one thing that the outside media does not know. Bai Yao hesitated for a long time, but still asked.

That is, when did his mother Bai Junyi (White Beautiful Jade) get pregnant. The age of Bai Junyi (White Beautiful Jade) announced to the outside world is fake. After the death of his maternal grandparents, the only people who knew her real age were Bai Yao and Assistant Zhou.

Cheng Tianyang (Journey Heaven Rising): 19 years old.

Bai Yao: Yes, that’s right. Although I don’t know if you are really my biological father, there is something I have wanted to say for a long time: You are really a bastard, you almost ruined her.

Cheng Tianyang (Journey Heaven Rising): Uh… she was still in college when I was dating her, it was really my fault.

Cheng Tianyang (Journey Heaven Rising): But she is now a director of a listed company, and you have grown up healthy and have gone to a good university, so I can’t say that I ruined her, right?

Bai Yao: Hehe.

Liu Yucheng (Willow Radiant Deep), who was sitting behind Bai Yao, watched him sending messages on his phone for the entire class, but the chat box on Honey Peach Milk’s side was quiet, and a bad feeling surged in his heart.

Who was he chatting with? Was it the small group from dorm 319 before? It didn’t seem like it. Zhang Yifang and Tao Lin were both here in this class, and they also looked at their phones from time to time, but it was obvious that they were not chatting; as for Li Jinyang, the possibility that Bai Yao would chat with Li Jinyang on Wechat for an entire class was negligible.

In the next few days, Bai Yao was very mysterious. Liu Yucheng was almost sneaking into Bai Yao’s bed in the middle of the night to check his chat history. He even asked Li Jinyang indirectly, but in the end, no one knew who Bai Yao was chatting with these days.

On Friday evening, Li Jinyang packed his luggage and went home, and Yan Hao (Strict Brightness) also made an appointment with his friends to go to the internet cafe all night because he could smoke in the internet cafe.

Only Liu Yucheng was left in the dorm. Bai Yao’s water glass for fitness was on the table, and he didn’t know where he had gone.

Helpless, Liu Yucheng told Bai Junyi (White Beautiful Jade) about this and told her that someone had impersonated Bai Yao’s father a few days ago.

Bai Junyi (White Beautiful Jade) only replied with a very short sentence:

[Don’t stop him, he will naturally know the pain when he gets hurt.]

Liu Yucheng thought, how could this work? Was Bai Junyi (White Beautiful Jade) too trusting of her son? What if Bai Yao met a trafficker?

……

When Bai Yao returned to the dorm at more than eight o’clock in the evening, he found that Liu Yucheng was wearing a set of clothes ready to go out, and he felt a little uncomfortable.

Yan Hao (Strict Brightness) and Li Jinyang were not there. If Liu Yucheng went out to spend the night on Friday night, then Bai Yao would be the only one left in the dorm tonight.

“Going out? Where are you going?”

Bai Yao asked casually. They hadn’t spoken for several days. Although he had been sending messages to Honey Peach Milk these days, greeting him in the morning and evening, and reporting his daily life, Bai Yao hadn’t mentioned a word about Cheng Tianyang (Journey Heaven Rising).

“No.”

Liu Yucheng (Willow Radiant Deep) naturally took off the coat and shoes he had just put on, “I’m trying on clothes.”

Bai Yao wouldn’t believe this nonsense. Those coat and shoes were what Liu Yucheng often wore. He was definitely planning to go out just now, but he was caught by himself.

But in order to avoid the scene of the two of them being alone for the next two days being so awkward, Bai Yao simply said generously: “If you want to go out for the night, go ahead.”

Liu Yucheng (Willow Radiant Deep): “?”

Bai Yao said seriously: “I basically spent the weekends alone last semester, it doesn’t matter.”

After a moment of silence, Liu Yucheng (Willow Radiant Deep) confessed: “I was planning to go out to find you just now.”

“Haha, okay, I appreciate it.”

Bai Yao sat down at his desk, turning on the computer and saying perfunctorily.

He didn’t even know what he was going to do tonight, and he said he was going to find himself, no one would believe it.

It felt like he hadn’t played games for a long time. Bai Yao updated the game and found that Zhang Yifang was online, so he pulled Zhang Yifang to play a few five-person dungeons together.

After the fourth dungeon ended, Bai Yao found that Honey Peach Milk was online.

He couldn’t help but look up at Liu Yucheng’s (Willow Radiant Deep) bed curtain. The curtain was pulled very tightly.

Honey Peach Milk: Baby, team up with me.

Bai Yao: Okay.

As a result, as soon as Honey Peach Milk entered the team, Zhang Yifang, who was also in the team, began to nag, saying, “Brother, you have to take good care of my friend, meet up offline as soon as possible. His ex-boyfriend is in the same dorm with him.”

Honey Peach Milk: Yeah, I heard about it.

Honey Peach Milk: I’m so jealous of him, he can see the baby every day.

Zhang Yifang: So cheesy.

Honey Peach Milk: Baby, have you been back to our home? I bought a lot of furniture, you can arrange it however you want.

Bai Yao was halfway through typing when the lights in the dorm suddenly went out.

He looked at the disconnection prompt in the game and hadn’t reacted yet when the corridor outside the dorm suddenly became lively.

“What the hell? Power outage?”

“No way! I didn’t save my homework yet!”

“Are you kidding me, doing homework on Friday night?”

“Which university dorm has a power outage on Friday night!”

……

The counselor sent a message in the group, saying that a circuit fault in the men’s dorm caused a power outage in the entire building. It would be restored in a few hours, and he hoped that everyone would pass it on to each other.

Bai Yao opened the dorm door and looked outside. The corridor was full of mobile phone flashlights. He heard the people in the next dorm discussing whether to go to the internet cafe for the night since the opportunity was rare.

Bai Yao would never want to go to a place like an internet cafe. He had gone with his friends once when he graduated from high school, and the experience was extremely bad. The smell of cigarettes in the internet cafe made him cough for a long time.

What made Bai Yao most desperate was not that it was only a little past 10 o’clock and not yet time to sleep, but that his phone only had 9% battery left.

He had never bothered to charge his power bank. If he had known this would happen, he would have plugged in his phone as soon as he came back tonight!

After a while, Liu Yucheng (Willow Radiant Deep) opened the bed curtain, and the flashlight of the mobile phone made Bai Yao subconsciously block his eyes.

“There’s a power outage.” Liu Yucheng (Willow Radiant Deep) asked him in a low voice, “What are you going to do?”

“What else can I do, go to bed early.”

Anyway, there’s no internet. Bai Yao simply turned off the computer and took his toiletries to the bathroom.

The bathroom was pitch black. Bai Yao braced himself and rummaged in his toiletries bag for a long time, but he couldn’t find his facial cleanser. Bai Yao, who usually went everywhere confidently, remembered the rumors about this dorm building that people on the Goose Group (QQ Group) were discussing. He didn’t even dare to look up at the mirror at this moment.

If he didn’t see himself in the mirror, then he could go to hell.

The beam of light outside the bathroom climbed down the ladder, gradually getting closer and closer to the bathroom, and finally came to Bai Yao’s side.

“What I meant just now was that the people in the next dorm seemed to have gone to the internet cafe.”

Liu Yucheng (Willow Radiant Deep) held up his phone, illuminating Bai Yao’s toiletries bag, “Maybe this floor will be very quiet tonight.”

Bai Yao pursed his lips and said nothing.

This bastard Liu Yucheng (Willow Radiant Deep), did he guess that my phone was running out of battery?

He knew that he could only go to the bathroom in the dark, so he deliberately came over with a light to scare him?