Chapter 102: Liang Liang
Shi Qingyang left to go through the formalities of signing up for college. Seeing him and Cheng Ran leave, Feng Linqiu took a deep breath and slowly calmed himself down.
He had always looked down on the Cheng family. Even though the Cheng family had developed well recently, he hadn’t paid much attention to such a newly rising family. However, judging from the current situation, he seemed to have underestimated them.
Ever since he could remember, his grandfather had mentored and taught him in all sorts of fields. He had always considered himself very powerful. Now he knew that there were people more talented than him in the world.
“Young Master Feng…” Mu Tianshi had gotten his foot taken care of, and he stopped Feng Linqiu at this time.
“Teacher Mu is injured; you should remember to have a good rest, yes? It seems like you and Zheng Gaoyuan have a bit of a misunderstanding. You should clarify things between you. If you need my help, you can also ask for me.” Feng Linqiu looked at Mu Tianshi and smiled. Then he tapped on his contact terminal and sent a contact number to Mu Tianshi.
In fact, if Mu Tianshi hadn’t held one of the Feng family’s handles in his hands at the start, and if he hadn’t been cautious and never left the city, then most likely he would have disappeared without anyone knowing where he’d gone… However, such a selfish person couldn’t be offended…
Feng Linqiu watched Mu Tianshi leave and thought of Cheng Sisi from earlier. He didn’t think that Cheng Sisi’s attitude had changed just because he had been too busy and neglected her for two days. Didn’t those women in the past come to him of their own initiative when they had been faced with treatment like this… However, although he felt that this situation was unexpected, Feng Linqiu didn’t care. In fact, he didn’t plan to have anything to do with Cheng Sisi from the beginning. After all, Cheng Sisi wasn’t outstanding, and she knew nothing about the Cheng family. By contrast, he could get things out of Cheng Ran, such as the recipe for the Almighty Elixir.
More importantly, he was eager to see Shi Qingyang left with nothing.
“Young Master Feng, that Shi Qingyang is so annoying. Do you want us to teach him a lesson?” The people around Feng Linqiu naturally disliked Shi Qingyang: “He’s just some guy from a third tier city. He thinks he can do whatever he likes since Cheng Xuze likes him…” Just now they had checked Shi Qingyang online and had found out a lot of information about him.
“No, he’s really capable. Otherwise he wouldn’t have come this far.” Feng Linqiu smiled.
“What ability does someone from a third-tier city even have…” The people around Feng Linqiu did not hide their disdain–many people in Central City looked down on people from other cities.
Feng Linqiu had been helping to say good things about Shi Qingyang, without revealing the slightest bit of disdain in his words. At the same time, he also searched in his mind for someone he could use. Finally, he actually thought of one.
Feng Linqiu’s mother’s surname was Liang. Although he wasn’t close to his mother because he had grown up with his grandfather, the people of the Liang family had always flattered him. One of those people was his cousin, who was very outstanding.
Of course, being outstanding barely meant anything. The main reason he thought of this person was that his cousin obviously liked him very much and was willing to do almost anything for him.
“Liang Liang, are you free?” After thinking about it, Feng Linqiu sent a message.
The reply arrived almost instantly: “Free, very free!” After a while, another message came: “Cousin, what’s up? I’ll come to you right away.”
Feng Linqiu smiled and put down his contact terminal.
Shi Qingyang didn’t know what Feng Linqiu was up to. At this moment, he’d found a teacher and had gone through the various formalities for further study. After that, he could watch various teaching videos belonging to the Central Radiation Energy College and listen to lectures. Because he wasn’t a student enrolled into the college, he didn’t need to listen to certain fixed courses and take exams. One could say that he was very free.
“Master, it’s not without reason that you’re so powerful. If I were you, I would definitely not study any more,” Zheng Gaoyuan looked at Shi Qingyang and expressed his admiration.
“Learning is an endless pursuit. I think I need to supervise you.” Shi Qingyang looked at Zheng Gaoyuan and smiled.
“Master, please forgive me!” Zheng Gaoyuan hurried and made a gesture of begging for mercy.
“Young Master Zheng?” At this moment, a voice sounded, and at the same time, several people came up to them with embarrassed expressions.
Zheng Gaoyuan frowned, then quickly recognized the people in front of him. Weren’t these the people who had bullied him early on?
“Young Master Zheng, it’s really good that you’ve come back. I’ve been worried about you,” the man in the front saw Zheng Gaoyuan and immediately said.
“Were you worried about me?” Zheng Gaoyuan sneered and thought it was a joke.
“Young Master Zheng, I was young and not sensible at the beginning. I’m really sorry, I really didn’t mean it…” another person immediately said.
“Young Master Zheng, I was deceived by Zhao Li and Mu Tianshi at that time, so I did something horrible. Young Master Zheng, you must forgive me.”
“Zheng Gaoyuan, it was wrong of me to make fun of you at that time. I was too young to understand…”
The group of people gathered together and apologized to Zheng Gaoyuan one after another. Their faces were full of regret.
Zheng Gaoyuan was a little surprised at first, but in the end, he smiled and walked away from the people in front of him.
“Young Master Zheng…” Those people were worried. When Zhao Li, who had followed Zheng Gaoyuan, suffered an accident, they could still comfort themselves. But now Zheng Gaoyuan had returned and obviously hated Mu Tianshi…
After Zheng Gaoyuan cleaned up Mu Tianshi, now it was time to clean them up, right? These people kept contact with each other, so they immediately sought him out after they discovered the news.
“I have nothing to say to you,” Zheng Gaoyuan sneered. He wouldn’t retaliate against these people, but he didn’t intend to forgive them. Making them feel frightened now was good enough.
Speaking of which, it felt so good to be held in awe and respect like this…
Over the next few days, the most eye-catching person in Central City was undoubtedly Zheng Gaoyuan.
Zheng Gaoyuan hadn’t been a low-key person in Central City six years back. On the contrary, because he liked to find a sense of existence, many people in Central City had known him at that time, and many people had taken many videos of him at that time. There were videos of when someone pretended to look down on him, and he would scare them by saying he would report them to his family; videos of when he went to a hotel and ate all their dishes; videos of he had been hit and was crying in the street…
In the videos at that time, Zheng Gaoyuan had been extremely stupid, but now, he had transformed himself, and even defeated a professor of the Central Radiation Energy College.
Mu Tianshi could also be regarded as a genius. He had reached level-5 before he was 30 years old. In the future, he could likely become at least level-6. If he went to a tier-3 city, he would be an expert among experts. However, a person like this couldn’t beat Zheng Gaoyuan…
Zheng Gaoyuan was popular; very, very popular. There were few fat people in these days. He was the only one who had ever been as fat as he had once been. Now he was even thinner and more handsome!
Sure enough, every fat person was a potential treasure. After Zheng Gaoyuan’s video became widely circulated, it was also well known that he wanted to participate in the Radiation Energy Competition. Therefore, before the Radiation Energy Competition even began, he’d had a support team set up for him.
By contrast, Shi Qingyang’s fame was much smaller.
Although he had a battle with Feng Linqiu, after all, Feng Linqiu had admitted defeat after only one move. Later, Shi Qingyang repeated the combat skill used by Feng Linqiu, which made many people think that he could only be so skillful because he had known the combat skill for a while.
Of course, everyone thinking this way was a product of the public relations team of Feng family. Some people in the Feng family were specially responsible for packaging Feng Linqiu’s image. After Feng Linqiu had failed, they would naturally take countermeasures.
However, even if his subordinates were allowed to deal with it like this, the Feng family would still feel bad. That very night, when the famous Qinghe Tavern from recent years explained combat skills, it specially talked about the “Dragon Strike” of the Feng family. The explanation was more detailed than the one Shi Qingyang had given at first, so people could easily learn along with it. It was also explained that this combat skill could be used by level-3 rad-warriors. Although it was easy to cause self-harm when fighting with other people, it was very useful against beasts.
Seeing that their own original combat skill had become popular on the streets, unfortunately, no one would know how the Feng family felt about it in their hearts.
“Master, many people are calling me their husband! Haha!” As the saying goes, the country was easy to change, but the nature was hard to change. Although Zheng Gaoyuan was much better now, he was still a person who liked to show off. Just because of this, after he became famous, he set up a microblog to interact with his fans.
“Oh,” Shi Qingyang answered casually and continued to search the library of the Central Radiation Energy College.
Cheng Ran was holding a handheld computer to check various pieces of news related to Shi Qingyang, and then asked, “Have you checked their data?”
“How could I check over so many fans?” Zheng Gaoyuan’s face was full of a wretched smile.
“You should check them over. I found that they’re all men. On Weibo, people are giving off the same feeling as your present smile,” Cheng Ran said.
Zheng Gaoyuan froze.
“Do you like men so much now? Before that, my uncle sighed at me a few times in private before, and thought it was a shame for me to find a man…” Cheng Ran added.
“What? Cheng Hui, he said so?” Shi Qingyang immediately jumped up.
“I think you’re better than women.” Cheng Ran smiled.
Shi Qingyang immediately leaned over and kissed him.
Zheng Gaoyuan looked at the people around him showing their love and flipped through the profiles of his fans. Sure enough, he found that they were all men. When he read their microblogs, they were all lewd men, throwing him into sadness for a while.
Those people called him husband, were they kidding him? Zheng Gaoyuan accidentally clicked into a video that had been shot of him before. He almost cried, and urgently felt that he needed a gentle person to comfort his injured heart. After thinking about it, he dialed Ye Jinyu’s contact number.
Shi Qingyang and Cheng Ran worked very hard. After they had the opportunity to enter the school library, they were in closed study for about ten days. This lasted until the day when the Radiation Energy Competition was available for sign-ups, when they went to the school together with Zheng Gaoyuan.
Shi Qingyang went to the college mainly to take Zheng Gaoyuan to sign up. Cheng Ran went with many questions prepared to ask the professors.
“Master, why didn’t you sign up for the radiation competition?” On the way, Zheng Gaoyuan asked curiously.
“I think it’s troublesome,” Shi Qingyang said. He was not interested in bullying a group of children, and the competition also took time. In contrast, he was more willing to cultivate himself.
“Since Qingyang won’t compete, you can stay with me.” Cheng Ran was more direct. He was imagining the two of them studying together, or if Shi Qingyang entered the practice room to practice radiant energy, he would be studying radiant energy inducers nearby, and was in a very good state.
“Master, you’re too sticky. Don’t you know that you’ll make people jealous and hate you if you’re so sticky all the time!” Zheng Gaoyuan said: “Some people are really bad these days, there are even professional homewreckers. They can even help destroy families if you give them money…”
In the middle of Zheng Gaoyuan’s words, a man rushed out from the side and was hit by the car they were driving.
The car was being driven by Zheng Gaoyuan, but it drove automatically. In light of the automatic brake system installed on the car, it was impossible to cause damage to someone, and that person did get up quickly.
This was a young man under the age of 20. His face was very small, but his eyes were large. Tears hung under his long eyelashes, which made him even more adorable.
As soon as he got up, he began to cry: “I’m sorry, I didn’t see the way, it was my fault, I caused you trouble.”
Shi Qingyang looked at the pitiful person in front of him with some surprise. For a moment, his mood was complicated. Wasn’t that Liang Liang?
In his last life, he and Liang Liang met by chance many times. They only met after he helped Liang Liang solve a little trouble, enacting a scene of the hero saving the beauty.
Later, Liang Liang pursued him all the time. At that time, he was bent on improving his strength and had never fallen in love. It was rare for someone to chase him. After being chased for such a long time, he naturally agreed.
After his promise, the two also fell in love like other couples, and even got along for two years, reaching the point of talking about marriage… But at that time, he was busy solving his own physical problems and making money, so he often went out of the city, and whenever they were together, one of them would end up having to leave . It hadn’t been easy to have time together. Because Liang Liang had always declined his invitations with excuses and pushed him off, he hadn’t liked Liang Liang as much as he liked Cheng Ran now. They hadn’t even shared any intimate behavior…
Later, after Liang Liang and Feng Linqiu betrayed him, he also thought about Liang Liang’s behavior. After thinking about it, he got the feeling that Liang Liang had an ulterior motive when he was with him. Now it seemed that his idea was correct.
Otherwise, how could there be such a coincidental crash? How long did it take him to hit Cheng Ran’s car?
At that time, Liang Liang chased him desperately at first, but later he didn’t pester him much. For this reason, he didn’t have special feelings for Liang Liang, but he had wanted to have a family and get married at that time, which were his sincere feelings.
He considered himself to have never wronged Liang Liang, and had basically given him whatever he wanted, because his mother had told him to always be gentle to his partner. But even though he answered all of Liang Liang’s unreasonable demands, Liang Liang still betrayed him cleanly.
Shi Qingyang’s former feelings had already disappeared. When he looked at the person in front of him, his only feeling was that he felt strange. He did not understand how he had ever liked this person in the first place.
“I’m sorry.” Liang Liang looked at Shi Qingyang and blinked. A tear fell down his face.
Zheng Gaoyuan was shocked when he saw this scene, and then quickly started the car: “Master, you can’t be distracted by him, or Brother Cheng will get angry!”
Shi Qingyang was a very outstanding person with strong strength. Compared with Cheng Ran, who spent all day in the laboratory, he was much more outgoing. After six years of obsession, it was inevitable that someone would throw himself into the arms.
Once, the son of an employee of Qinghe Tavern suddenly showed his favor to Shi Qingyang, and even found some medicine to put into Shi Qingyang’s wine and have him drink…
At that time, after Shi Qingyang had drunk it, and when the man approached him, Cheng Ran, who hadn’t said a word at first, blew up. He picked up the man and dragged him out, showing his fighting power in front of everyone…
Since then, Zheng Gaoyuan had admired his Master’s wife. He thought that for the sake of his master, he should keep his master away from wild flowers and plants.
“When did I get distracted!” Shi Qingyang immediately said: “Ranran, I hate that man just now, I absolutely don’t care about him.”
Cheng Ran naturally believed in Shi Qingyang. In fact, he hadn’t been jealous when he threw out the person who made advances to Shi Qingyang, but because Shi Qingyang had been hurt by the so-called ‘medicine to help his body’. Before he’d thrown the person out, he hadn’t even realized that person was coveting Shi Qingyang.
However, although he believed in Shi Qingyang, he still frowned: “Why does this scene seem familiar to me?”
“Heh… Ranran, I just thought this scene felt familiar, so I watched it more closely. Ha, it looks similar to the way we met…” Shi Qingyang said. It was very rare to have a car crash these days. Except for this time, the only other time they’d experienced this was when Shi Qingyang had gotten himself hit by Cheng Ran’s car.
“Grandpa Gu said that you hit our car on purpose at that time. Did this man just now also do it on purpose?” Cheng Ran asked.
“Grandpa Gu told you?” Shi Qingyang was unable to react in time.
“Of course. In fact, you didn’t care about Spark Academy at all. It was really very unlikely that you would lie on the wall and look inside before school started,” Cheng Ran said. He clearly remembered that Shi Qingyang didn’t care much about learning. “Grandpa Gu said later that you should have done it on purpose.”
“That’s right. Ranran, I fell in love with you at first sight. At that time, I deliberately bumped into you. Now that I’ve used this method 800 years ago, seeing this person use it again, it’s really not innovative,” Shi Qingyang immediately said. He had forgotten that he had learned this trick from those who had wanted to get to know him before. Saying things this way, he was the one who had the least sense of innovation.
“Love at first sight? At that time, you should have just wanted to eat?” Cheng Ran thought about the original matter again. If they were talking about the start of their relationship, it was still Cheng Ran who taken the initiative… Other people’s car crashes were a tearful seduction. Shi Qingyang had been in such a bad state that he came to get hit just to eat a bite of food… This level felt much lower.
Zheng Gaoyuan sat in the front and listened in. He became more and more speechless. It turned out that his master had gotten to know his wife this way? Although there were many people using this trick, it seemed to be very useful. He should write it down for backup.
On the one hand, Shi Qingyang and Cheng Ran were discussing whether the means of car collision was useful. On the other hand, Liang Liang had taken off the pinhole camera that he wore on his ear. He inserted the earring into a handheld computer. The reactions of Shi Qingyang and others in front of him were all displayed.
He needed to shed tears and bow his head. Naturally, he couldn’t see Shi Qingyang’s reaction clearly, so he installed such an earring to help him record everything.
Shi Qingyang stared at him for a long time. Cheng Ran frowned with displeasure. In addition, Zheng Gaoyuan’s reaction later… It seemed like this Shi Qingyang had a precedent of cheating before. In this case, it would be more convenient for him to do things in the future.
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Edited to update Zheng Gaoyuan’s dialogue, where he warns Shi Qingyang about professional homewreckers right before Liang Liang throws himself onto their car lol
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