SWG Chapter 23
by VolareThe noisy music seemed to quiet down for a moment, and the onlookers around fell silent, those nearby barely daring to breathe.
To put it nicely, this Miss Lin has money and a free-spirited temperament that no one controls.
To put it bluntly, Miss Lin is practically a resident thug here. It’s fine if things go her way, but if you cross her…
The last person she force-fed alcohol to the point of vomiting blood and ending up in the hospital still makes people shudder at the thought.
Lu Ke immediately recognized the person who stood up for her. She tried to pull Ruan Shengyi back, but couldn’t budge her. The woman maintained her slightly bent posture, actually overpowering Miss Lin.
Suddenly, Miss Lin smirked, “This lady, are you trying to seduce that Miss?”
Ruan Shengyi suddenly felt bored, straightened up, grabbed Lu Ke’s sleeve, and retorted, “Don’t think everyone is as stupid as you.”
Only knowing how to squander her family’s money, twisting her outdated clothes and waist under the colored lights, feeling pleased with herself, and proud of it.
Utterly foolish.
Ruan Shengyi scoffed, raised her hand, and smashed the wine bottle on the ground. Glass shards scattered everywhere, forcing the crowd to make way.
Even Lu Ke was stunned, dazedly being dragged away by her, walking outwards.
“Hold on.” The arrogant person put her hand on her hip, glanced at her, “You think you can just leave after smashing a wine bottle? Her…” The hand with the ring loosely pointed at Lu Ke, “Isn’t that a little too easy?”
“Looking down on who?”
Ruan Shengyi chuckled and looked at her, “What do you want? A drinking contest?”
“Use your hands…” Her finger dropped, touching the broken glass, “Clean this up.”
“What if I don’t?”
“Then…”
Chen Yuexin hurriedly squeezed in between the two, seemingly neutral but leaning towards Ruan Shengyi, with a flattering smile, “Give my bar a peaceful night, you two, for my sake, okay? How about this, Miss Lin, your bill tonight is on the house, okay?”
As she spoke, she led the two of them away from the center of the crowd.
Lin Simu didn’t bother to care. She only joined the fun tonight because she saw Lu Ke and rarely had the opportunity to humiliate the people around that woman. How could she miss such an opportunity?
Who knew someone with a screw loose would dare to interfere? How boring.
She waved her hand, “Whatever, I’m leaving.”
“Miss Lin, take care, take care.”
Lin Simu grabbed her clothes, casually running her fingers through her hair, but suddenly felt a cold, somewhat sinister gaze staring at her.
She turned her head, looked past Chen Yuexin’s shoulder at the person who had interfered tonight, but that person’s gaze was peaceful and indifferent, only a hint of contempt from somewhere made people extremely uncomfortable.
Maybe it was just her imagination?
Lin Simu snorted, put her hands in her pockets, and left without looking back.
With her departure, half of the bar emptied out.
Chen Yuexin grabbed the two and went into the back lounge, pushing Ruan Shengyi directly onto a chair, scolding her in frustration, “My dear, what on earth are you doing?!”
Ruan Shengyi looked up at her and said calmly, “Her last name is Lin?”
Lin Siyu’s last name is also Lin.
Moreover, when Xiao Wenyu first appeared, Lu Ke said that she had met “that person” at Le Xin.
Was it her? This delinquent?
Ruan Shengyi thought for a moment.
She was pretty, but too… too much of a delinquent.
But, not as pretty as her.
Lu Ke scratched her head, “You don’t know her?”
Why would she stand up for her if she didn’t know her?
She thought Ruan Shengyi was standing up for Xiao Wenyu.
Ruan Shengyi looked at her innocently, “Should I know her?”
Lu Ke almost said it, but remembering Xiao Wenyu’s instructions, she swallowed the words back, but then felt that with Ruan Shengyi’s intelligence, she must have already guessed the person’s identity, and not saying anything would be more suspicious, leading to great conflict and pain.
She waved her hand, “I’m leaving, thanks, Boss Ruan.”
Ruan Shengyi: “Stand there.”
Chen Yuexin: …? Is there something going on between these two that she doesn’t know about?
But, she remembered that the girl had chestnut brown hair, this one doesn’t look like it at all.
Lu Ke: “I can’t say anything, don’t ask.”
Ruan Shengyi: “…”
She cursed inwardly, broke free from Chen Yuexin’s restraint, strode to Lu Ke, used her height advantage to block her view, and said coldly, “That’s Xiao Wenyu’s ex-wife, I just helped you, shouldn’t I get something in return?”
Chen Yuexin was still holding onto Ruan, completely frozen in place—
Wait?! Ex-wife?! What did she hear?! Was she going to be silenced…?
However, her student’s crush is named Xiao Wenyu? Sounds pretty nice, hehe.
Lu Ke looked up at her and said, “I’ll only spend money at your place from now on, okay?”
“No.”
Lu Ke sighed resignedly, “Okay! That’s Xiao Wenyu’s dross ex-wife, Lin Simu, Miss Lin, as you can see, is a A playboy, but she’s also good at pursuing people. She and Xiao Wenyu were classmates in college, she was Xiao Wenyu’s senior, one year above, she seemed normal back then, but later turned out to be brain-dead.”
“Enough?”
Ruan Shengyi continued to press, “Why did they get divorced?”
“Because Lin Simu PUAed Wenyu and forced her to give up all her work and return to the family, the most serious time was when she couldn’t even take pictures with her phone.”
Forcing Xiao Wenyu, who loves photography so much, to give it up, even taking pictures with her phone? Xiao Wenyu, who can survive on just a little bit of food all day long, wouldn’t have reached the point of divorce if there was any other way…
Ruan Shengyi’s breathing hitched, her brain short-circuited for a moment, and her eyes were even filled with soreness.
So, how painful was that experience back then, that even someone with Xiao Wenyu’s good temper couldn’t control her emotions when she saw the Lin family…
She, what should she do?
Lu Ke exhaled, “Boss Ruan, that’s all I can say. Now, I want to ask you…”
But Ruan Shengyi didn’t give her a chance to speak. She rushed out, grabbed her bag from the bar, and ran out of Le Xin’s door, disappearing around the street corner in a few turns.
Lu Ke looked at the afterimage and slowly said the remaining words, “Can you really see your own heart clearly?”
The answer was self-evident.
Although she couldn’t quite understand how such deep feelings could develop in such a short amount of time.
But it’s normal.
No one wouldn’t like Xiao Wenyu.
Except for that bunch of brain-dead people in the Lin family.
Chen Yuexin leaned languidly on Lu Ke’s shoulder and asked, “What kind of person is that person?”
Lu Ke looked down at her palm and said, “A very, very good person, gentle and strong, firm and brave, and very beautiful.”
Chen Yuexin fiddled with her hair and sighed lengthily after a long time.
*
“Xiao Wenyu!”
Ruan Shengyi’s voice was too urgent, making the Xiao boss, who was mopping the floor, dazed for a moment, almost thinking she was hallucinating again.
But the woman appeared in front of her, carrying a bag, panting slightly, with sweat on her forehead, looking like she had run a long way, appearing exhausted.
Xiao Wenyu watched her adjust her breathing, stood up straight while holding the mop, suppressing a smile, and asked, “What’s wrong?”
Boss Ruan’s appearance was really hard not to laugh at.
Ruan Shengyi looked at her, staring straight at her, trying to calm her breathing, and became even more anxious when she saw Xiao Wenyu trying to suppress her smile.
She wanted to say—
I know a little bit about your past, I want to replace that past.
Lin Simu is a dross, but I’m not, I fully support you in doing anything you want to do.
Do you want to try being with me, we can get along very well, do you want to?
I like you, I like you even more after hearing those things, can you be my girlfriend…
…
Countless words were playing in a 3D loop in Ruan Shengyi’s muddled brain, making it even harder to find a thread to unravel the tangled mess of thoughts.
She opened her mouth, but didn’t know what to say, but Xiao Wenyu, who was startled by her, was looking at her with gentle light, her eyes full of encouragement and appreciation, expecting to hear what she had to say.
It would be better if there wasn’t a forced smile on her lips.
Finally, Ruan Shengyi said in a trembling voice, “Let’s, continue to be friends, be good neighbors, okay?”
“…” Xiao Wenyu was silent, silently turning her encouraging gaze away, looking at the ceiling not far away.
She remained silent for a long time, and said softly, “Okay.”
Ruan Shengyi: “Then…”
Xiao Wenyu: “I have to shoot outdoor scenes all day tomorrow, and there’s a Film Festival in Beishi the day after, I estimate I’ll be gone for a few days.”
“…Oh.”
“Did Boss Ruan run so hard tonight just for this sentence?”
Of course not, she had a lot more to say, but she knew that saying it would push this relationship into the abyss, and she hadn’t figured it out yet, and couldn’t open her mouth rashly.
So, Ruan Shengyi said, “This matter is also important enough.”
“…Okay.”
The air fell into an awkward silence again. After a long time, Ruan Shengyi tugged at her clothes, exhaled, and said, “Then I’ll go first?”
“Go ahead, don’t let Xie Yu work herself to death, I don’t even know which of you two is the boss.”
The two smiled almost at the same time, Ruan Shengyi: “Okay, then I’ll go first.”
As soon as she touched the handrail, the person behind her suddenly said, “Do you want to come upstairs for a while? After I finish mopping the floor…”
“No, thanks.” Ruan Shengyi clenched the handrail, “Xie Yu would kill me.”
Xiao Wenyu breathed a sigh of relief, “Goodbye.”
After the door was closed, she said again, “Thank you.”
Thank you for always maintaining a sense of restraint, so that I can always remain calm.
She turned back to continue mopping the floor, silently mopping the entire first floor, then straightened up, touched her waist, remembered something, and took out her phone—
bright: Grandma, she is much calmer and more restrained than I am.
After a long time, so long that she rarely felt sleepy tonight without using any special methods, her phone suddenly lit up, she sleepily reached out to check.
Wen: That child is a very good neighbor, cherish her.
Her restless mood was finally soothed, and a long-lost feeling of sleepiness surged up, pulling Xiao Wenyu into the darkness.
She thought: Why? Why can she feel sleepy so easily this time?
She also thought: Okay, a good neighbor is also good, just being good neighbors is also good.
If all she wants is a good neighbor, then many things will be much simpler.
Thank you, Ruan Shengyi.