Xiao Cheng had no idea how much his conversation with Su Jing had shocked everyone else.
Tu Wei was completely stunned.
She was also a fan of Xiao Cheng, and a junior moderator of his Weibo Super Topic.
Although Xiao Cheng had a gentle disposition...
How could a nine-time Best Actor winner with eighty million fans be so approachable??
Whatever Su Jing asked, he agreed to.
Tu Wei's face alternated between pale and ashen.
Secretary Sun, who had accompanied Tu Wei, had cold sweat covering his forehead as he kept begging Jiang Chiyan for forgiveness.
Jiang Chiyan asked only one question: "If I weren't Su Jing's brother, would you have let her off?"
With that, he leisurely led Su Jing away.
Later, the school gave Tu Wei a major demerit.
But that came afterward.
After leaving the school, Jiang Chiyan went back to his law firm.
By the time he had read every word of the half-foot-high stack of case files, it was already midnight.
The entire office building housing the firm was still brightly lit.
At an elite Red Circle firm like theirs, working through the night was routine.
Jiang Chiyan glanced at his phone, which had shut down from a dead battery, pulled a charging cable from his drawer, and plugged it into his phone-but forgot to plug the other end into the power strip.
So his phone never charged.
Naturally, he never saw the messages on it.
Xiao Cheng: "Do you need an assistant?"
Xiao Cheng: "I've accepted the male lead in Lawyer Storm. The production's Weibo account will announce it next week. Before filming starts, I'd like to shadow you and see what real court proceedings are like."
Xiao Cheng: "Ting gave me this week off, so I don't have any work commitments for now."
Xiao Cheng: "Would that be inconvenient?"
Xiao Cheng: "Then forget it."
Xiao Cheng: "Are you still angry with me? What happened in the hospital stairwell... I acted on impulse."
Jiang Chiyan never replied.
At four thirty in the morning, he finished drafting complaints for two cases and statements of defense for three others.
He had no idea...
Xiao Cheng had stayed by his phone waiting for a reply, without sleeping all night.
By five thirty in the morning, Xiao Cheng's eyes were bloodshot.
He searched Baidu again: "What should I do if my ex-boyfriend is angry?"
Baidu: "No search results."
Xiao Cheng changed his search terms: "What should I do if my boyfriend is angry?"
This time, Baidu returned over a hundred results.
Xiao Cheng couldn't be bothered to read through them and clicked the one with the most likes.
It contained a picture of handcuffs and chains.
There was a line of text beneath it.
[For even better results, use with a blindfold~]
Xiao Cheng froze for a moment.
He had plenty of handcuffs and chains. These things could actually cheer up a boyfriend?
Someone should've said so sooner.
After a moment's thought, he opened a drawer in his storage cabinet.
Inside was an entire drawer full of metal handcuffs and chains.
As for a blindfold...
Xiao Cheng took two ties out of his wardrobe.
The ties worth twenty thousand: "..."
He stuffed the handcuffs and blindfolds into his bag and went to Jiang Chiyan's villa.
It was the same one they had lived in six years ago.
Xiao Cheng entered 1023 on the keypad of the combination lock. (The date Jiang Chiyan had confessed his feelings to Xiao Cheng six years ago.)
[Click-]
[Correct code]
The automated voice sounded.
Xiao Cheng stood silently for a moment, then walked inside.
Once inside, he strode up to the master bedroom on the second floor.
The master bedroom.
Jiang Chiyan had stayed up all night. By the time he woke, it was past two in the afternoon.
He thought he heard the faint clinking of metal chains beside him.
Jiang Chiyan furrowed his brows and opened his sleepy, foxlike eyes.
There also seemed to be a sweet scent in the air-the orange-scented body wash Xiao Cheng used.
Was he hallucinating??
Jiang Chiyan turned his head and saw that beside his pillow...
There was another person.