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When Lu Yue awoke, he realised he was in an abandoned warehouse and had been tied to a pillar. After all, this is the East District, the difficulty of avoiding Zuo Sheng’s knowledge of bringing someone back to the West District was too large and there was no point in bringing him back.
“Brother Shao, the boy is awake!”
A rough voice sounded, reminding Lu Yue of a pig being slaughtered. Looking at the person again, it was as if both his hearing and sight have been polluted once again.
Although he was discontented in his heart, he still needed to continue acting
【Lu Yue: Give me a pain protective screen later.】
Gleefully,【001: Alright, Great Host!】
Continuing,【001: Right, Great Host, when you were tied and taken away just now, Yan Bin saw the situation, do you think he’ll come and save you?】
【Lu Yue: If he wants to save me then he needs to wait till I’m done acting then come.】
Xu Shao saw the confused youth and smiled coldly: “When I wondered why Zuo Sheng would even look at you, turns out it was because you had these set of eyes!”
Lu Yue saw Xu Shao smiling disgustingly, although in his heart he was scared, but on the surface he remained stubborn: “Who on earth are you? Why did you kidnap me?”
When Xu Shao saw Lu Yue, he immediately knew that Lu Yue was not an ordinary person to Zuo Sheng, and he was more certain of his plan.
He remarked: “Don’t be afraid, I’m not here to specifically harm you, I just want you to do me a favour.”
Lu Yue stared vigilantly at him: “I don’t recognise you and you don’t particularly look like a good person, so why should I help you?”
“Why, this kid is rather strong-willed, he dared to talk to our Brother Shao like this! You must be tired of living!”
Xu Shao blocked off the subordinate that was shouting and walked closer towards Lu Yue, looking at his beautiful face, he smiled: “You are now in our hands, if you want to continue living then you better be obedient and listen to us.”
Lu Yue saw the killing intent in his eyes, although he hated them, he’s not stupid. He does not want to pay with his life here, he promised Zuo Sheng to go back.
Thinking till this point, Lu Yue unwillingly nodded his head: “Say it then, what do you want me to do?”
At the moment, Zuo Sheng was sitting in his office listening to their every word, the people he arranged had already surrounded the area and as long as he commanded them to, they could rush in and wipe out Xu Shao’s men.
But, now is not the time, he still has some answers he wanted to know.
Do not betray me, Lin Ze.
Only hearing Xu Shao’s every word: “I want you to help me kill Zuo Sheng.”
Lu Yue’s eyes widened, from Xu Shao’s eyes he saw killing intent, turns out he was not joking around!
His lips trembled: “Don’t think about it! I don’t care what hatred you and Zuo Sheng have, in any case I will not help you!”
Xu Shao never expected him to be so agitated, he couldn’t help but knit his brows: “You’d better think about it carefully before speaking. Zuo Sheng merely treats you as a pet that he owns, you’re willing to be treated like a pet? This is giving you a chance, as long as you find an opportunity to kill him you’ll be able to get back your freedom, I can give you a large sum of money and you can continue to go back to school.”
Xu Shao thought that those lures would be enough to move Lin Ze, but he never thought that the other party would not appreciate his kindness: “I will not betray him, don’t speak about it again!”
Xu Shao was angered till he laughed: “What are you doing? He is neither a relative nor a friend, are you willing to die for him? It can’t be that you fell for him right?”
Lu Yue’s gaze was unyielding, and said earnestly: “I did fall for him, so I will not betray him.”
Xu Shao froze for a moment, because the youth’s eyes were extremely resolute and earnest, in no way telling a lie. Xu Shao’s laughter grew in volume: “You actually fell for him? You fool!”
There was a burst of laughter in the room, on the other side, Zuo Sheng’s eyebrow furrowed even deeper, his whole body emitting a low pressure. Lin Ze has said that he loved him again.
Lin Ze said he will not betray him.
“Master Zuo, do we rush in now?”
“……Wait.”
“You love him, but he does not love you! You idiot!”
Lu Yue glared at him with hatred: “Stop trying to sow discord, Master Zuo loves me!”
Xu Shao was amused by his foolish look and continued coldly: “You think he loves you? He’s only playing with you! You’re merely a pet that he owns and in his life he has only loved Du Xiuran, it is a pity, that person had also betrayed him! You just look a little like that person and you actually believed Zuo Sheng would love you? Truly a fool’s dream!”
Lu Yue obviously did not believe him, so Xu Shao took his phone and dug for Du Xiuran’s picture, baring it directly to Lu Yue’s eyes.
Lu Yue saw the man in the picture, truly their eyes were exactly the same. Lu Yue suddenly felt that his heart was a little painful.
Afraid he wouldn’t believe, Xu Shao even showed a picture of both Du Xiuran and Zuo Sheng together. “Look, this was 5 years ago when they were together, how is it, I didn’t lie to you.”
Lu Yue looked at the familiar man, embracing another person and smiling so happily, it was exactly the same as the Zuo Sheng he saw that year.
Lu Yue was silent and did not speak. He felt that he could not speak, his throat was so dry that it hurts to open his mouth.
On the other side, Zuo Sheng heard up till then and almost wanted to go over and tear Xu Shao’s mouth into pieces, listening to Xu Shao say these things in front of Lin Ze, he had a terrified feeling, he does not want Lin Ze to hear these things.
Seeing that Lin Ze was not talking, Xu Shao thought he had succeeded, his tone softened a little and advised: “So, there is no need for you to give up your life for someone that was just playing around with you, hm? I’ll give you time, you should think about it carefully-“
“I will not agree.”
Xu Shao that had been interrupted froze: “What did you say?”
“I will not betray him, I love him.”
Xu Shao’s face had contorted to an ugly look, the people beside him chimed in: “Brother Shao, looks like this boy will give up only at the sight of the gallows, we should give him a little lesson, see if he’ll agree!”
“Precisely! Let’s hit him first before we say anything else!”
Lu Yue lowered his head, he was not in the slightest bit afraid of what those men were saying but his eyelash trembled, giving the impression that he was about to cry.
At the moment Lu Yue was not actually sad, he was just ridiculing Zuo Sheng.
【Lu Yue: A man that can’t protect his shou is a bad gong.】
【001: So?】
【Lu Yue: I want to switch to a different man.】
Righteously,【001: No, you can’t change.】
【Lu Yue: Why?】
Earnestly,【001: Because you love him.】
【Lu Yue: …….】
Following that, Lu Yue was caught off guard and suffered a slap to the face, the sound of the slap was clearly heard in Zuo Sheng’s ear and his eyes were red enough to scare anyone to death.
“Move immediately.” Without hesitating, Zuo Sheng immediately gave the command. Continuing, he asked the people he brought along to start the car and go to the warehouse.
Lu Yue was slapped in the face and kicked in the stomach in a row, it was all done by Xu Shao.
【Lu Yue: I feel like my face is swelling up.】
Asking considerately,【001: Do you need to exchange a medicine to reduce the swelling?】
【Lu Yue: I don’t need it at the moment, if this wound was healed before Zuo Sheng sees it, I would be receiving a huge loss. I want him to realise what heartache and regret tastes like. 】
Just as Xu Shao was about to get people to hit Lu Yue, a person suddenly rushed in from the outside, nervously saying: “Brother Shao, it’s not good! There are people rushing in from the outside!”
Xu Shao’s face sunk: “Whose men?”
“It’s Zuo Sheng’s men.”
“Zuo Sheng’s men? How many are there?”
“A lot, they’ve surrounded the area.”
The people in the warehouse were slightly panicked: “Brother Shao, we should hurriedly retreat!”
“That’s right, Brother Shao, the more I think about it I feel like this is a trap, Zuo Sheng is just waiting for us to run in!”
The more he thought, the more he thought it was wrong, suddenly someone pointed at Lu Yue’s collar: “Brother Shao, look, there is a tapping device on him! This is definitely Zuo Sheng’s trap!”
Xu Shao’s face darkened, his gaze towards Lin Ze had also became shaded. Taking large strides and removing □□ from the collar, crushing it with his foot, ruthlessly saying: “Very well, you deceived me, you two stay behind and do this kid, the others follow me and rush out!”
Zuo Sheng’s movements are seriously too slow, why isn’t he here to save me yet? Lu Yue saw the approaching Knife and ridiculed soundlessly.
Just then, there were two sudden shots of a gun and the two men had fallen.
“Xiao Ze, are you alright?” Lu Yue heard that form of address and simply didn’t know what expression to show.
Yan Bin saw that Lu Yue was not speaking and the wound on his face was rather serious, he hurriedly untied the ropes: “It’s alright now, Xiao Ze! I’m here to save you!” While comforting, he was also berating Zuo Sheng in his heart, clearly his men were all outside but did not come in and save the person inside, this shows that he’s just playing around with Xiao Ze’s life!
Lu Yue was stiff and did not say anything, his whole body had no strength, but more importantly was that he had been shocked by Xu Shao’s previous words. Zuo Sheng didn’t love him, Zuo Sheng even used him as bait for this situation, which situation was more sorrowful?
Actually, it was both the same, in Zuo Sheng’s eyes was he really nothing?
Yan Bin took advantage of the chaotic situation outside, carried Lu Yue secretly and ran outside.
At the moment, Zuo Sheng’s face was very dark, the tapping device had been destroyed, Lu Yue’s situation was very serious, there was never a situation that had him so defeated!
When Zuo Sheng hurriedly arrived, Xu Shao and his men had all been suppressed, but he could not see Lu Yue.
“Where is he?”
Xu Shao saw the gloomy look on the man’s face and laughed drunkenly: “If you’re talking about your little pet, I’ve already arranged for my men to kill him, if you look for him carefully, you may not even be able to find his dead body…… Ah!”
Zuo Sheng stepped on Xu Shao’s stomach, his gaze cold enough to freeze people: “You’d better be lucky that isn’t the case, otherwise I will make you suffer a fate worse than death.”
Xu Shao was scared by Zuo Sheng’s gaze, he knew that Zuo Sheng was definitely not lying.
It’s just that, Zuo Sheng’s men had flipped the whole place a few times but still could not find Lu Yue’s body, in the end he could only let his men go to other places to find while he brings the others back.
Zuo Sheng walked calmly, but no one saw that in his heart, he was filled with regret and blamed himself, he was too doubtful and wanted to sound out the youth’s sincerity. It was true, Lin Ze did not disappoint him, his Lin Ze actually loved him like he said, even when threatened by someone, even when he assumed he did not love him, Lin Ze did not betray him.
That was the youth’s sincerity.
【Ding! Male lead’s blackening value -50, current blackening value 15!】
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The author wants to say:\nSpeaking truthfully, writing and reading books are completely different. En, there are times when what I think is different. Reading is so relaxing.\n<hr class="wp-block-separator">\nTranslator’s Notes:
[1] Great Host – 大大 is actually translated to dad/uncle,, I thought it would be better to retain it as Great Host
[2] betray – 背板 I think the author made a typo here as the phrase translates to back panel.
[3] neither a relative nor a friend – 非亲非故 an idiom, figuratively translates to unrelated to one another in any way but I thought the literal meaning fit better.
[4] a fool’s dream – 痴人说梦 translates to lunatic ravings/pipe dream.
[5] baring – 赤/裸裸 translates to naked but I wasn’t really sure how it would fit into the sentence.
[6] give up only at the sight of the gallows – 不见棺材不落泪 translates to not shed a tear until one sees the coffin/refuse to be convinced until one is faced with grim reality/unrepentant. Not sure which one fits so I used the one I prefer hehe.
[7] shou/gong – 受/攻 pretty sure many would know but shou is the uke/bottom and gong is the seme/top
[8] □□ – originally in the text
[9] me – he uses 老子 which is an arrogant way to refer to oneself. Not sure if I should leave it as Laozi or me.
[10] do – 做 I’m assuming do as in fuck Lin Ze
[11] Xiao Ze – a nickname, as I mentioned in the previous chapter. I will not be making a note for this phrase anymore!
[12] fate worse than death – 生不如死 translates literally to death is better than living.
Notes:
Wow a long chapter as well! 3.1k Chinese characters to 2.1k English words.
This took a rather long time to translate as you can see from the long list of translator’s notes haa…
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