chapter 70

Du Yucheng, however, hugged Ai Changhuan even harder, preventing her from escaping. “I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I lied to you. I… I didn’t mean to do that, Changhuan…”

After struggling for a while, Ai was still trapped in his arms. Exhausted, Ai Changhuan gave up trying to break away from him. Instead, she just sneered as she listened to him. “So you finally admit that you are Qin Zhan? Or is that just my creepy fantasy again? Actually, you want to say that you are not him, right? Tell me, please! Tell me! Who are you?”

Then, Ai Changhuan couldn’t help crying again. Fed up with this insufferable game, trying to guess, Ai now longed for nothing except a clear answer. If Du Yucheng refused to tell the truth directly, she would leave without any hesitation.

“I …” Before Du Yucheng could explain, his arm was suddenly grabbed and pulled back by someone. Then, his face was beaten. He was beaten back three times in a row, and a trail of blood ran beneath his nose.

After he regained his footing, he found that it was Lu Zhanke standing angrily in front of him. Lu Zhanke foamed at the mouth, and a fire burned in his mind. He pointed at Du, gritted his teeth, and said, “Du Yucheng, what are you doing!”

Du Yucheng touched his nose, the blood smearing on his hand, but he didn’t care. His eyes narrowed, flashing with coldness. “Haven’t you seen all that I’ve been doing?”

“Go to hell!” Irritated, Lu rushed forward without a word and hit Du Yucheng with his fists and feet. Du parried, Lu’s first punch missed, and Du Yucheng immediately fought back. The two guys soon got into a fight.

Ai Changhuan was indifferent to all of this. Just let them fight. She would like to see when these two men could abandon their childishness.

As for Lu and Du, both of them had been soldiers for more than decades. They used all their strength to fight, but each of them clenched the teeth, no one slacking off, both fighting silently.

By the time Pei Mu arrived, their two heads had been bruised with bloody noses and swollen faces.

What was happening astonished Pei Mu. He rushed in to stop the fight, but he only ended up suffering from several of the two fighters’ kicks.

Pei Mu got angry and went directly to help Du Yucheng fight Lu. Judging from the current situation, it was Lu that made a mistake, so Pei Mu chose to hit him without any reason.

Inevitably, facing the two attackers, Lu Zhanke was on the edge of being defeated. He yelled at Pei Mu, “Pei, are you insane? Why are you helping him hit me?”

As soon as the words were spoken, he was punched by Du Yucheng.

Du Yucheng also yelled at Pei, “Pei, leave me alone. I don’t need your help.”

Pei Mu twisted Lu Zhanke’s right leg, making him unable to move. “I’m not helping either one of you. But Lu, you must stop right away!”

Lu Zhanke returned a punch to Du Yucheng. “I won’t stop until I kill him!”

How could this fighting end? It seemed that they would last until one side was defeated.

The three fought again, and it took a long time for them to determine the outcome of the fight.

Pei Mu and Du Yucheng joined forces to control Lu Zhanke. Pei was exhausted. He would not be able to control Lu without the help of Du Yucheng. But after several breaths, Lu would recover, so he must quickly resolve this matter.

He looked at Ai Changhuan, who had been standing by the side, and said, “Changhuan, come on! Persuade Lu!”

Ai Changhuan’s eyes fell on Lu Zhanke’s face, her eyelashes fluttering then dropping. A bitter smile appeared at the corner of her mouth. “Whatever. Let them do what they want.”

Saying so, she staggered up and walked away.

Seeing her leave, Lu Zhanke quickly broke away from Pei Mu and Du Yucheng’s restraint, chasing after her. “Changhuan, please let me explain. The truth is not what you saw.”

Du Yucheng also wanted to chase after Ai, but he was pulled back by Pei Mu. “What are you doing? They are a couple!”

Du Yucheng shook Pei Mu off. “You don’t understand.”

Pei caught him again and said, “You can’t leave.” During their entanglement, Ai Changhuan and Lu Zhanke had already gone far.

Seeing this, Du Yucheng could only silently be furious.

Lu chased her all the way to the hotel room. As Ai Changhuan was about to close the door, he quickly put his hand in to stop the door from closing. “Changhuan, let me explain…”

Ai Changhuan pushed his hand away. “You, go out. I don’t want to see you.”

“Then you can just close the door right now.” Lu stretched his arms out straight, refusing to retreat.

Looking at the bruises on his arm, Ai was not heartless enough to close the door, but she did not want to let him come in either. “Leave me alone. We have nothing to say to each other.”

“Why? Du Yucheng hugged you, and now you won’t even listen to my explanation?” Lu Zhanke pushed the door open and squeezed in. “Is that so?”

Ai Changhuan was so angry about his mentioning Du Yucheng. More irritated, she answered, “Yeah, we did hug. So what? Can’t we? Why did you suddenly appear?”

She might have gotten that answer if Lu had not suddenly appeared. However, in the end, she was back to where she started.

Lu was enraged. He approached, looked at her fiercely, and gnashed his teeth. “What did you say?”

“I said, please go out! I don’t want to see you right now!”

“Then who do you want to see? Du Yucheng?”

“Yes!”

“Ai Changhuan!”

“What!”

What? What he wanted to do was to crush her fiercely and hide her in his heart so that she would never be coveted by anyone else, and her eyes would not linger on others. Damn Qin Zhan and Du Yucheng. She was forbidden to think about them!

Lu Zhanke grabbed Ai Changhuan’s shoulders and slammed her against the wall. “Ai Changhuan, I’m warning you. I’m your husband. Don’t hook up with other men!”

“You’re the one who hooked up with others, aren’t you?

Her eyes lingered upon Lu’s naked upper figure, which made her furious. She pressed hard against his chest. “Get out of my way! It makes me sick to look at you.”

Lu Zhanke remained rooted to the ground. No matter how hard Ai Changhuan pushed him, he stood still. “I said, that’s not true.”

“So, what’s the truth?”

“I can explain!”

“Then you explain!”

“Didn’t everyone go looking for Ouyang Zhenzhen separately at that time? I found her. She was lost and frightened, and her leg hurt. Thus, I took off my T-shirt and bandaged the wound. Then, I put my coat on her and walked back with her in my arms. What’s wrong with that?”

“But that’s not what I saw. I saw you and her…” Ai Changhuan didn’t want to mention the disgusting picture.

“We stepped in a puddle and fell, and I… I accidentally fell on her.” Lu Zhanke inexplicably felt some guilt.

Ai Changhuan’s fiery eyes had pierced him, “Won’t you get up if you fall down? Why were you… hugging her the entire time?”

“Hearing your shouts, I wanted to get up right away, but Ouyang Zhenzhen was holding me down the entire time!” Saying this, Lu Zhanke finally realized that Ouyang Zhenzhen must have done it on purpose. Perhaps the incident had even been planned. But how could she be sure which way he was going?

While he thought, Lu didn’t notice that Ai Changhuan’s anger had soared to a new height.

“Is that so? You didn’t want to get up until you knew we were coming. If we hadn’t come, would you have stayed up all night and done something else? You, get out.”

Ai Changhuan was absolutely furious. While Lu was not paying attention, she forced him out. “Get out. Don’t show up again.”

It was so difficult to squeeze in. How could Lu be willing to go out? Besides, he hadn’t explained clearly yet! But Ai Changhuan’s anger had spread to every corner of the room, and he was relentlessly pushed out by Ai.

Pei Mu asked Du Yucheng to bring the fellow villager with Ouyang Zhenzhen back to where they were staying. Then, he went to pick up Yang Anxin and Pei Xiaopang, so when Du Yucheng and Ouyang Zhenzhen returned, they saw the scene where Lu Zhanke was being pushed by Ai. Both of them were a little stunned.

Ouyang Zhenzhen looked at Lu Zhanke. “Brother Lu …”

Lu Zhanke looked slightly cold. If it weren’t for Ouyang, he and Ai Changhuan wouldn’t be like this.

He stepped forward, looked at Ouyang coldly, and asked, “Was it all planned by you? Did you want to destroy my relationship with Changhuan? Tell me!”

Stabbed by Lu’s sharp gaze, Ouyang couldn’t help shrinking. But she still understood that she couldn’t tell the truth at this time, or else she would be screwed.

She turned away from those questioning eyes and said unnaturally, “You… What are you talking about? I don’t understand.”

“Hm, now that I think about your little tricks, it was full of flaws. I’m guessing that you must have had a helper who told you the direction I went, and then you led me all the way to the woods. At that moment, there were only four people. Changhuan and I were definitely not your accomplices, and Pei Mu couldn’t be, so there was only…”

His eyes turned to Du Yucheng. “It was you, right? After I left, you immediately chased Changhuan. Am I right?”

Du Yucheng did not speak. Nobody knew whether this kind of silence was acquiescence or just an unwillingness to answer.

Ouyang felt so guilty that she was afraid Lu Zhanke would find the truth if he kept asking. She moaned and groaned, “My leg hurts. Brother Lu, can you help me?”

Lu Zhanke sneered scornfully. “Go to the doctor. Why ask for my help?”

After that, Lu Zhanke stopped looking at her and turned away.

“You …” Ouyang Zhenzhen was annoyed. “How can he treat me like this? Doesn’t he know I like him? It is because I like him…”

“Well, I advise you to deal with the wound quickly. It will be troublesome if it becomes infected,” Du Yucheng said indifferently.

Ouyang Zhenzhen shivered and finally left.

Du Yucheng stood in front of Ai Changhuan’s room and knocked, but he only heard a roar from inside. “Go away, I don’t want to see you.”

Ai Changhuan was still angry. Du Yucheng sighed and turned away.

So much had happened that night. It was so chaotic. Each thinking about their own worries, they were bound to have trouble sleeping.