"Qizhao, come out for a drink." Jiang Yu's voice came through the receiver, sullen and agitated. "I'm fucking suffocating here!"
Duan Qizhao leaned against the corridor wall and raised an eyebrow. "Having trouble adjusting to dorm life?"
"Adjusting, my ass!" Jiang Yu swore, then abruptly lowered his voice as though afraid his roommates would hear.
"Do you know who kicked me out? My eldest brother! He actually threw me out of the house for that bastard from the orphanage!"
Duan Qizhao frowned and held the phone a little farther away.
Jiang Yu needed no response from him. His grievances poured out like water through an open floodgate. "That thing spent seventeen years running wild outside, then kicked out two of my teeth on his very first day back!"
"Instead of standing up for me, my eldest brother made me move into the dorms. He even said I wasn't allowed to set foot in the main house without his permission-that's my home too! What gives him the right?"
"Come to Nightfall tonight. I've invited a few buddies. We'll work something out." Jiang Yu gritted his teeth. "I refuse to believe I can't deal with him. I heard my eldest brother's transferring him to Jinghua too. I'll make sure he can't last a single day at school!"
"Sure." Duan Qizhao switched the phone to his other hand, his lips curving. "What time?"
After hanging up, he glanced upstairs toward Jiang Xun's room, his blue-haired head working at full speed.
He wasn't surprised Jiang Yu wanted to cause trouble for Jiang Xun. Jiang Yu was just like his mother, Liu Wanying. Once wronged, they could hold a grudge into their next life.
But Jiang Yu didn't know that he, Duan Qizhao, was no longer the Duan Qizhao he used to be.
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