Sheng Xing Ze got up and walked to Pang Shi to sit down next to him.
"Do you want Senior Bin to misunderstand you like this?"
Pang Shi shook his head desperately, "I don't know what to do, it will be better if Meng Meng doesn't know."
"When I met Senior Bin Cong Meng, she was crying alone in the woods like a ghost, because you said you want to break up with her, a girl like her stays alone in that remote place; if people with ill intention were to see her there, it would be too late for you to be regretted."
"She was crying?" Pang Shi looked up at Sheng Xing Ze, his eyes were worried and distressed.
Sheng Xing Ze knew that he must feel horrible for making Bin Cong Meng cry. He patted Pang Shi's back and said to him in a soft voice, "Senior Bin Cong Meng cried very sadly. When I arrived, her makeup got smeared up due to her crying. She put on such delicate makeup to meet you, but she was met with such an ending. Can you really let go of her, Senior Pang Shi?"
Pang Shi continued to shake his head, Sheng Xing Ze knew that the other's last line of defense had collapsed, and he decided to give the other the last push, "I have no other merits, but my lips are quite tight, so Senior Bin Cong Meng was willing to tell me your stories. I know that you have something bothering you. You will feel much better saying it. Don't let it pile up inside, hm?"
Sheng Xing Ze could feel that Pang Shi's body was gradually relaxing, he stopped the movement of his hand, and took a cup of warm water to hand it to the other.
"Take your time, you can slowly tell me, I'm all ears."
Pang Shi said thank you in a small voice, took a sip of water from the glass, he thought about it and slowly opened his mouth: "Everyone in this circle only knows that I'm an orphan, so they take pity for me. However, I'm not an orphan at all, this is just a fake bio my company drafted up for me."
His eyes gradually cleared up, and his thoughts went to the long lost memory.
"Although our family was very poor when I was little, my parents were there. I was very happy. I followed my dad to work in the rice field in the morning and wore a needle with my mom to lead a thread at night. Those were the happiest days of my life."
"But then, my dad somehow got addicted to gambling. He stopped working altogether and gambled all the money. I still remember the time when he first won money, he went to town to buy a large piece of meat and said, it was for me and my mother to improve our meals and to make up for days we don't have good meals. At that time my mother asked him where the money came from. He refused to tell her, later on she found out that he had lost all of the family savings to gambling."
"My mother then hid the money and did not give any to him. He started to beat her, and after he finished beating my mother, he would turn to beat me. My mother couldn't take it anymore, so she left me behind with my father. I haven't seen her since then."
"Without my mother controlling my father, he got even more addicted to gambling. After he lost all the family's money, he went to borrow money from the villagers. Our villagers knew that he would not be able to pay them back, so none lent the money to him. Since he didn't have money to go gambling, he stayed at home and started to abuse me every day; then I finally ran away from him. I have been in the entertainment industry for so many years to gain my current status."
"He recently found me and said that if I don't give him money, he will ruin all that I have now. I didn't hear from him for so many years. When I returned to the village, the villagers told me that he started to steal valuable items from them for money and got himself kicked out, and there was no news of him."
"I thought he had already quit gambling; who would have known he is deep in debt of three million yuan. He has been telling others that I'm his son and I have money, so that the other party allowed him to borrow money for a few years; with the interest adding on top of that to this day, that is the amount he owes them. I don't know how he got my number, but he made me wire the money to him, and said if I don't send him money, he will go to Meng Meng to ask for money."
Without waiting for Sheng Xing Ze to ask, Pang Shi spoke out his own pains; it was like he finally found a catharsis outlet to pour them all out.
"Meng Meng and I are so much different in both status and background. Her family is so good and I'm just a child growing up in a rural area, and my education is low. I can't match her in anything. How can I let him mess up Meng Meng's life like he did with mine. If it was not for Meng Meng helping me, I would still be a nobody actor playing a small and insignificant role. I can't let Meng Meng know..."
"But if you break up, she is not yours."
"But at least she won't be harassed by that man. Without me, she will meet a better man. She deserves a better man. With me being like this, I don't deserve her love." Pang Shi's voice was weak, and he collapsed on the sofa, saying these words made him spend all of his energy.
"Senior Pang, have someone ever told you that your love is petty?" Sheng Xing Ze's tone was harsh, no longer having that gentle soft tone.
"Senior Bin will never hate you just because your father is a gambler. If you tell her the truth, she will only love you more than she has. Instead, you want to hide it from her and are willing to fill your father's bottomless hole, this is your most cowardly action. If you have some difficulties, you will avoid them all the time. Are you still a man?"
Pang Shi was so shocked by the other's sudden words that he could only widen his eyes and said nothing. After he eased away, he took a sigh of relief.
"I know, I will tell her."
"She had intended to propose to you that day, but before she could say it, you broke up with her first. You owe her more than an apology, she deserves an explanation and a vigorous proposal."
Sheng Xing Ze pulled Yu Bai out of the lounge after saying so, leaving Pang Shi alone in the lounge to redempt.
Sheng Xing Ze pulled Yu Bai to walk out like a wind, Yu Bai suddenly stopped in his track, which caused Sheng Xing Ze to stagger by the resistance from his hand.
"Calm down," Yu Bai said to him.
Sheng Xing Ze stood still and looked down at the ground.
"I'm ust a little angry. Some couples always think that they are thinking from the perspective of the other party, but in fact it is their own wishful thinking. If they can just be honest with each other, they will be able to save time to solve lot of problems."
Yu Bai did not quite understand the twists and turns in his feelings, he reached out and held Sheng Xing Ze's hand, "I won't hide anything from you, let's go back."
Back at the hotel, Yu Bai pressed Sheng Xing Ze down onto the sofa and hovered on top of the younger man. Most of Yu Bai's body was pressed against Sheng Xing Ze's body. Sheng Xing Ze looked at him with a puzzled expression on his face.
"I promise to tell you everything, then you should not hide anything from me in return, okay?"
Sheng Xing Ze blinked his eyes in confusion, "What am I hiding from you?"
"What's with your eyes?" Yu Bai looked down at him, and the tips of their noses were almost touching.
Hearing this sentence, Sheng Xing Ze felt a thump in his heart like a stick hit against a drum, and his heartbeats numbed his eardrums. Holding onto the last straw of hope, he continued to act indifferent, "Is there a problem?"
"Sheng Xing Ze, you really don't have to lie to me all the time, I'm not stupid, I can see it clearly," Yu Bai got off of him and sat next to Sheng Xing Ze, there was a tint of pain in his tone.
"Earlier, Pang Shi clearly did not want to talk to us; yet his emotion suddenly erupted after you looked at him, which makes no sense at all. It was the same at that time when Hui Cheng refused to speak to us at all cost, you also did something. Otherwise, things would not settle so smoothly like that, how could someone tell his benefactor that they are meant to harm the benefactor's child. Going back a bit further, Wu You's younger brother immediately told you everything after you glanced at him. These people, they don't have any reason to pour out their hearts to you, the trigger is that you keep staring at them."
Yu Bai sounded a bit tired, "Sheng Xing Ze, what's it with your eyes?"
Sheng Xing Ze knew that his ability has been exposed, so he only lowered his head and did not speak, because he did not know how to tell it to Yu Bai. He was afraid that after he told the truth, Yu Bai would look at him with disgusted eyes like looking at a monster, and then the man would gradually alienate from him. The secret buried in his heat got dug out for the first time, being laid out on the ground to be probed at.
"You told Pang Shi to not bottle up his suffering alone, why do you do it to yourself, Sheng Xing Ze, you can tell me anything."
Sheng Xing Ze laughed self-deprecatingly, "I didn't expect to be able to hear Film Emperor Yu's comforting words."
Yu Bai reached out and wanted to hold Sheng Xing Ze in his arms, Sheng Xing Ze pushed him away for the first time.
"Listen to what I have to say first, I don't want you to regret it." A monster like him, it would make other disgust by touching him.
"I knew that I was different from others since I was young. These eyes can maximize the feelings of others, even a calm and collected person cannot control their emotional outburst in front of my eyes. I rely on them to make everyone I love would want to die for me. I can easily control others and let them do many things in an impulse."
Sheng Xing Ze looked at Yu Bai's fingers and smiled reluctantly, "Is it terrible? I also feel horrible."
He slowly stood up from the sofa and headed back to the bedroom step by step, "I'll take my leave, you'll be fine without a friend like me."
"Sheng Xing Ze, you come back here."
Yu Bai stopped him.
Sheng Xing Ze stopped his footsteps, his back was turned to Yu Bai, his eyes were a bit blurry and something was flowing down his cheek uncontrollably.
He wiped his face indiscriminately, Sheng Xing Ze turned around with a smile, his red eyes exposed his emotions.
"Look at me, not everyone will be affected by you."
"Every single one of them, there is no exception." Sheng Xing Ze raised the corner of his mouth with difficulty.
"There will be."
"No way!" Sheng Xing Ze's ability got activated without his command, he immediately regretted it, and he tried to withdraw his influence on Yu Bai.
He really wanted this man but not this way.
He turned around weakly.
Sheng Xing Ze's ability only got activated for a moment, but Yu Bai could feel an unprecedented fear and an uncontrollable emotion within him; as if every cell in his body was clamoring to him, tell him you like him.
But he could not, he could not let Sheng Xing Ze feel that he had confessed due to his emotion being influenced by the other's ability. He was determined to have a life-long relationship with the younger man after thinking everything through.
Yu Bai raised his right hand with much difficulty, patting Sheng Xing Ze's shoulder with a smile.