Chapter Thirty-Seven: Flying Too High

  On a weekend morning, Chen Xin rubbed his eyes and woke up, the places where Su Yifan had beaten him started to ache.

  Although I've taken medicine, the swelling still hasn't gone down.

  Yesterday, Chen Jianguo had already seen Chen Xin's injury. After seeing it, he returned to the study room without saying a word and didn't speak to his son. Instead, Chen Xin's mother rolled her eyes at her old man for a while.

  "Why aren't you saying anything? Your own son got beaten up, and you're just going to let it go like that? You, Mr. Chen, don't care about losing face, but I do! It's up to you whether or not to avenge your son, but I'm definitely going to the school to have a word with that kid."

  Chen Jianguo's wife, Zheng Hong, was someone he met during his entrepreneurial early days. At that time, Zheng Hong was a waitress at a state-run restaurant and had a good figure and was beautiful. Chen Jianguo fell in love with her at first sight and pursued her aggressively. Later, Zheng Hong accompanied Chen Jianguo through the most difficult period of entrepreneurship and also developed a strong personality. Chen Jianguo usually doesn't show his emotions on his face, and sometimes when he can't say something himself, his wife would speak for him, and they have always cooperated well.

  Now the son has been bullied, Chen Jianguo didn't say a word, Zheng Hong felt angry and took Chen Xin out to make trouble at school.

  His wife's fiery temper was not the first time, Chen Jianguo didn't even raise an eyebrow, only saying: "You'd better ask your precious son what he's been up to."

  "What can Chen Xin do? He had some conflict with his classmates, and now he's been beaten up like this, but you don't say a word?" Zheng Hong yelled in the living room at home, not caring if the nanny and driver would laugh at her. "Even if our kid did something wrong before, are you still shameless enough to go out?"

  Chen Jianguo looked at Chen Xin with a humble and obedient expression, and slowly and cautiously asked: "That classmate of yours, Su Yifan, how well do you know him?"

  Chen Xin was deeply respectful of his father, and didn't dare not answer: "Not very familiar, I've heard he's just an ordinary family's child, usually acts like a little follower, and in front of me has hardly ever spoken up."

  Chen Jianguo asked again: "Did you let Jiang Chuan call someone to find trouble with him?"

  Chen Xin heard this and immediately shrunk his neck, knowing that his old man was clear about everything, and didn't dare to hide it: "I, I told Brother Chuan once."

  Zheng Hong heard this and angrily said: "How does Jiang Chuan handle things? He confiscated the little brat's stuff, but still let him beat our family's child?"

  Chen Jianguo didn't bother his wife and continued to ask Chen Xin: "That Su Yifan, what does her family do, you don't know?"

  "I don't know." Chen Xinru replied truthfully, "For a kid who even pinches pennies on bus fare to go to school, I didn't think much of it."

  Chen Xin's heart began to feel a bit uneasy as Chen Jianguo repeatedly asked Su Yifan about his family.

  "Dad... what's wrong with that kid?"

  Chen Jianguo was also uncomfortable in his heart, but facing his wife and children, he couldn't help but say, "What's wrong? Do you know who went to bail Su Yifan out of the police station yesterday?"

  "Who is it?" Chen Xin asked cautiously.

  Chen Jianguo suddenly raised his tone: "It's Secretary Liu Ming of the Political and Legal Committee! I, your father, have to be polite when speaking with Liu Ming. He had Liu Ming personally go over there to bring that kid out. What kind of family did you offend?"

  He paused, and then Chen Jianguo said to his wife: "I had Zhou Bing investigate Su Yifan's background, but nothing was found. Neither he himself, nor his parents or relatives have any actual connection with Liu Ming. You don't even know the person's circumstances, yet you rushed to the school to cause trouble, who is losing face?"

  Yesterday, Du Weikang's experience of being treated as air was not an illusion. Chen Jianguo knew that if Su Yifan had something to do with Du Weikang, it wasn't necessarily a sure thing. Now that it has been dragged to the Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee, he can't help but weigh his options.

  Hearing his own father speak like this, Chen Xin's most unwilling guess finally came true. He looked at his father with a helpless face: "Dad... what can I do? Am I just going to let him bully me?"

  Chen Jianguo was annoyed: "You asked Jiang Chuan to call someone, and then you ambushed them at the school gate. Why didn't you discuss it with me first? Do you think I should always be cleaning up after you?"

  Zheng Hong couldn't bear to see her son being bullied, so she went there and scolded: "Chen Jianguo, are you intimidated by a secretary of the Political and Legal Committee? Your son is being bullied and you're tolerating it? If you don't stand up for my son, I'll go stand up for him!"

  Chen Jianguo shook his head: "No way, all of you stay at home and be honest. Chen Xin will call the teacher today to ask for leave, let's see how things go, absolutely do not allow anyone to take the initiative to find that kid trouble."

  Zheng Hong wanted to say something else, but after exchanging a brief glance with her husband, she stopped herself.

  This family, after all, still flips through the household registration book from front to back...

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  The news that Chen Xin didn't come to school quickly spread to many people's ears, and Cheng Shuiyan looked back at Su Yifan with a meaningful gaze.

  Chen Xin didn't come, which means he's admitting defeat. Otherwise, with Chen Dashi's temperament, he would have probably led dozens of people to the school gate to beat up Su Yifan by now.

  As it turned out, Chen Xin really thought about it and even took the initiative to contact Huang Shao. However, Huang Shao had recently left Bin Hai, so Chen Xin could only suppress this idea and bite his back at home.

  In school, Chen Xin was nowhere to be seen, and Su Yifan really felt refreshed. The feeling of hitting someone without having to take responsibility was too wonderful, he thought he was even a little excited.

  This idea is too bad, Su Yifan feels that he has already learned badly and is a little happy. In the process of competing with Chen Xin, Su Yifan understood a truth.

  Being good requires strength; the more you want to be a good person, the more you need to have ways to suppress evil.

  Otherwise, good people are not good people, but can only be bullied cannon fodder.

  When class was over, Zhang Chao pulled Su Yifan who was about to leave and asked in a low voice: "Do you want to go to the internet cafe for an all-nighter tonight?"

  Internet cafe all-nighter is a distant term for Su Yifan, almost filled with various chaotic memories, and when Zhang Chao mentioned it, he was actually a little moved.

  Thinking of his evening training task, Su Yifan wanted to refuse. After what happened yesterday, Su Yifan hoped that Oola would add more training subjects for himself.

  Zhang Chao was rejected by Su Yifan and walked away pitifully, making Su Yifan feel a bit embarrassed. Now that he's busy, his former good friend has been cast aside, seemingly a bit excessive?

  Walking out of the classroom to call Oola, Su Yifan suddenly realized that he now seemed to have a desire to rush forward. This transformation occurred imperceptibly, and by the time he became aware of it, Cheng Shui's attitude towards him had undergone a huge change.

  The phone was connected, and Su Yifan made his request, but unexpectedly Oola rejected him outright.

  "I don't have time in the evening, I'm busy."

  Su Yifan only then realized that Oola came and went hastily each time, apparently living at a pace several times faster than his own.

  "Hmm..."

  Su Yifan wanted to say something else, but then heard Oola say coldly from the other side: "Be prepared for the weekend, special training won't be that easy."

  Su Yifan took a deep breath in, hearing Oola hang up the phone, and stood there dazed for a moment.

  Weekend... it seems I won't be doing too well?

  Since he didn't have to go find Oula for training at night, Su Yifan turned back to the classroom and made an appointment with Zhang Chao to go to the internet cafe. Zhang Chao looked very happy, his introverted and lonely personality was revealed without a trace of reserve.

  In the evening after school, Su Yifan didn't manage to have dinner with Zhang Chao, as he was dragged away by Cheng Shuiying.

  Su Yifan himself didn't even realize that he had been spending more time with Cheng Shui'an recently.

  "Let's go have Western food tonight." Cheng Shui proposed, "That unmarked place your sister took us to last time was pretty good."

  Su Yifan suddenly thought of the membership card Su Xiaqing had given him.

  "I think we can change our tone."

  In the coffee shop where Su Xiaqing treated the two, Cheng Shuiheng tasted a better-tasting steak.

  A quiet corner where no one will disturb you, very suitable for young men and women to sit together and have a meal and chat.

  "I had planned to invite you to dinner and apologize. Looking at the steak on the table, Cheng Shui Xin smiled self-deprecatingly and said, 'I didn't expect to end up taking advantage of your kindness again.'"

  Su Yifan picked up his knife and fork: "Others want to invite you but can't even get an invitation."

  "That's different," said Cheng Shui, "Do you know what Chen Xin did to me yesterday?"

  "I don't know, I just saw him seeming to want to fight you, and he rushed over in a fit of rage," Su Yifan answered honestly. "I thought he was going to physically assault you."

  Upon hearing Su Yifan's words, Cheng Shui'an's calm heart slightly stirred, and then she let out a sigh: "Chen Xin confessed to me."

  Su Yifan wasn't surprised at all. Chen Xin's determination to win Cheng Shuiyan over was obvious to everyone, except perhaps Cheng Shuiyan herself, who thought this was an impossible feat?

  "What's next?"

  "Then I rejected him." Cheng Shui Xin's eyes wandered, recalling that scene without any embarrassment, "He said he could give me many things, and the proposition of enjoying life was automatically fulfilled on his part."

  "Did you reject him?" Whenever Chen Xin was mentioned, Su Yifan couldn't help but feel a hint of secret pleasure.

  Cheng Shui Xin raised her wine glass and took a sip. The red wine swirled around her lips, shining brightly under the light.

  "I rejected him." Cheng Shui Xin seemed to be muttering to herself, yet also speaking to Su Yi Fan, "You should have guessed it a long time ago."

  Su Yifan thought for a moment and nodded honestly.

  "Chen Xin is not suitable for you."

  Cheng Shui Xin smiled. Many people had said this to her before - "So-and-so isn't suitable for you." When someone says something like that, it means they themselves have feelings for the person in question.

  "Why?" asked Cheng Shui Xing.

  Su Yifan's knife had already fallen onto the steak, he stopped moving, looked up and stared into Cheng Shuiyan's eyes, his gaze clear.

  "The freedom you want, Chen Xin can't give it to you, his pursuit of you is filled with possessiveness."

  When Cheng Shui heard Su Yifan's words, her heart skipped a beat.

  Su Yifan's words were like those of an old friend she had known for over a decade, spoken so naturally. Cheng Shuiyi had only known Su Yifan for just over a year, and she had never thought that someone would understand her so easily.

  Thinking of this, Cheng Shui Xin's heart couldn't help but have some ripples in its lonely determination.

  Su Yifan's personality couldn't help but be a bit serious, he didn't care about Cheng Shui'an's reaction and continued to say: "Your heart is flying too high, a boy like Chen Xin can't catch you."

  Cheng Shui Xin couldn't help but admit that in this school, the male student who understood her best was the guy in front of her who always played the role of a good person.

  "How did you think of this?" asked Cheng Shuiying.

  "Because you think so." Su Yifan replied quietly.

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