"Which one of you is his grandpa? He was being bullied, pelted with stones nonstop. Are you going to do anything about it?" Shen Chi could still remember what he had said back then.
"You old men only know how to play chess. You don't even know when the children in your own family are being bullied." The old master of the Shen Household had loved chess too, and Shen Chi had held quite a grudge over it.
Because every time Grandpa had clearly promised to take them somewhere fun, he would end up getting drawn in by the people playing chess in the park. He would run off to play chess and leave them to play nearby. He missed out on his amusement park every single time.
After saying that, Shen Chi felt that it might not have sounded serious enough, so he lifted Su Nanxing's clothes to show those people.
He still remembered the wounds covering that child's body. Back then, he had only thought that after being hit by so many stones, there might be red, swollen bruises, which was why he had lifted his clothes to show them. He had never expected there to be other injuries on his body.
After that, an old man stood up in a fury and took the child home by the hand.
Even as the child was being led away, he kept turning back to look at Shen Chi. At the time, Shen Chi had felt like Lei Feng, so thrilled to have done such an important good deed.
He had even waved goodbye to the child. He seemed to have blinked and silently mouthed, "You won't be bullied anymore."
It seemed that he truly had not been bullied afterward. Otherwise, how could he have grown into someone like this, someone who dared to confront Shen Chi head-on?
[In any case, Su Nanxing was grateful to Third Brother in his heart, so he definitely could not let Third Brother end up being toyed with by others. He had not considered that Third Brother's fighting ability might mean others would not necessarily succeed anyway. He simply called Third Brother out in advance.]
[He was also afraid Third Brother would still think about running back, so he said he would invest in him. But he was worried Third Brother would think he had ulterior motives and suspect his purpose, and he wanted to prevent anyone from plotting against Third Brother in the future, so he told Third Brother to stay with him.]
[Afterward, the people around him changed their attitudes again. Everyone went back to fawning over him as they had before. Especially since the new film he had joined was a project created specifically for him, the entire crew was exceptionally attentive to Third Brother.]
[If he had not experienced all that cold treatment before, he might have been happy. But he had experienced it. He knew that everything he had gained was because he was being kept by Su Nanxing, the young master of the Su Household. It disgusted him enough to make him want to vomit.]
[Because he did not allow any of the staff around him to mention Su Nanxing's name, and because he avoided every rumor about himself and Su Nanxing, as well as anything related to Su Nanxing, he actually did not know that everyone outside was saying Su Nanxing liked him and that they were together.]
[There was not a single rumor outside that he was being kept. Instead, they said Su Nanxing was a simp. Shen Chi had fallen so low, yet Su Nanxing still liked him—wasn't that just stupid?]
[After all, it would have been one thing to just bring him in for a night. Third Brother had fallen to such a state that he might not even dare refuse, yet Su Nanxing had specifically spent so much money to create a project for him. It left them utterly dumbfounded.]
Shen Yu had never expected his younger brother to end up like that, all because of him. How wonderful it would have been if he had died. If he had died, they would not have needed to think about treating him. While they still had some money in hand, they could have gone abroad, somewhere no one knew them.
Perhaps not letting him die was meant to give Shen Chi and Shen Yao an even more miserable future. Without him, Shen Chi could have gone abroad, and Shen Yao could have completed his mission and returned to the army. The two of them might have been lucky enough to survive.
Yes, he did not think Shen Chi would have a good ending. Shen Chi had always been proud, and now he had walked into a dead end. Su Nanxing might not explain things to Shen Chi, and Shen Chi himself would not listen to what people outside were saying.
The two of them felt destined for tragedy. But in the Original Plot, who among them had not been tragic? Sigh.
[Because of Su Nanxing, the industry no longer dared treat Third Brother coldly. With the new film receiving a flood of praise after its release, Third Brother returned to the position that had always been his.]
[At the film festival, Third Brother won another award for his performance. Everyone applauded for him, but he felt they were only applauding to curry favor with Su Nanxing. He attended that awards ceremony filled with rage.]
[As he was leaving, he ran into an actor he had clashed with before. The actor sneered, "How could we possibly compare to Shen Chi? Even after going bankrupt, he still has looks he can sell."]
[He was actually just jealous and deliberately trying to provoke and mock him, but Third Brother did not know that people outside were saying Su Nanxing liked him and that he and Third Brother were boyfriends. Naturally, he did not know the man was deliberately trying to drive a wedge between them as a couple.]
[Third Brother thought the man was mocking him for being unable to let go of the fame and fortune of the entertainment industry, to the point of being kept by someone. The man even went on about how Third Brother should hold on tightly to Su Nanxing. Third Brother became even angrier, furious that his family had happened to go bankrupt.]
[He was also angry at himself for getting upset here despite having agreed to it himself, for not being forthright enough. Third Brother decided to accept his fate. He had clearly agreed to be kept, yet he was pretentiously avoiding contact with Su Nanxing. Besides, Su Nanxing had already fulfilled his promise to invest in him. It was time for him to give something in return.]
[Then Su Nanxing, who knew nothing, encountered Third Brother, furious and provoked. Third Brother strangely said that since they were in a keeping arrangement, would it not be wrong if he did not fulfill some of the obligations he should? Since Su Nanxing had chosen to keep him, he should probably know what position he was in, right?]
[Su Nanxing, whose fighting ability was no match for Third Brother's, was thoroughly tossed around by him and went straight to the hospital the next day. Third Brother even told the newly awakened Su Nanxing that he would fulfill his obligations often in the future.]
Shen Chi fell silent when he heard that Su Nanxing had been hospitalized. In his furious state, and with no experience in that regard, he must have put Su Nanxing through quite an ordeal.
He had been spotted by a director and entered the entertainment industry as soon as he started university. Later, he had wanted to achieve something on his own. By the time he really had achieved something, he had not even had the chance to date.
If not for Shen Can, something would definitely have happened to their family. How could he have been in the mood to look for someone then? So he really had no experience in that regard.
[If I were Su Nanxing, I would have been scared to death. Wouldn't he have to keep going to the hospital afterward? And Third Brother was not gentle at all in that respect.]
[Maybe he still resented things in his heart. Anyway, Third Brother was quite ruthless every time afterward. Su Nanxing often could not get out of bed the next day, while Third Brother would just pull up his pants and leave.]
[Though anyone who fell into that situation would inevitably have some resentment, Su Nanxing was wronged too. It was not like he had caused it. But Su Nanxing did not show any dissatisfaction.]
[Su Nanxing had initially done it to repay a favor. It was just unclear what happened later, whether he ended up falling for Third Brother.]
[But they spent little time together and much time apart, and every time they were in bed, Third Brother did not care much about his feelings. Third Brother treated it like completing a task and only cared about his own pleasure. Could any feelings really develop?]
[If he did not like him, then why did he keep Third Brother by his side all along? Why did he keep giving Third Brother resources? But perhaps he merely regarded Third Brother as a bed partner.]
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