NOVEL WEB
Chapter 31
Quan Zhisui took out her phone, and as expected, Kong Mingze this chatterbox had already sent her more than ten messages.
[Kong Mingze: Are you going to my hot pot restaurant to eat hot pot?!]
[Kong Mingze: You should have told me earlier, I would have gone too. We were supposed to treat you to hot pot yesterday but didn't get to eat it.]
[Kong Mingze: But my mom won't let me go out. Actually I feel fine, it was just a couple of stitches.]
[Kong Mingze: I'll get you a vic, haha, then you can use face recognition to get in like Wei Shixu!]
[Kong Mingze: Oh which friend did you go eat with? My store manager said you didn't come alone. Is it our classmates? Or your family?]
[...]
He really does talk a lot and is very nosy!
Quan Zhisui didn't even read through it all, her eyes were going blurry. She took out her phone and snapped a photo of Zuo Zichen picking dishes and sent it over.
[Quan Zhisui: I'm here with Zuo Zichen. Don't give this kid a discount, I just beat him up yesterday.]
He replied instantly...
[Kong Mingze: Wow, how badly beaten up is he with that swollen face and bruised eyes?]
[Quan Zhisui: I beat him as badly as I could without killing him. I'll chat more later, I'm starting to eat.]
[Kong Mingze: Talk to you later!]
He couldn't sit still and immediately exited the chat with Quan Zhisui and opened the chat with Wei Shixu.
[Kong Mingze: Hey, hey, guess what Quan Zhisui did when she went home yesterday?]
Coincidentally, Wei Shixu was free and replied to his message right away for once.
[Wei Shixu: Beat up Zuo Zichen.]
[Kong Mingze: How did you know?!]
[Wei Shixu: How did you know? Did she tell you?]
[Kong Mingze: [Photo] Look, she and Zuo Zichen are eating hot pot at my shop now! The store manager told me, otherwise I wouldn't have known she went! This is hilarious, look at Zuo Zichen's face and his injuries, hahaha!]
Seeing this photo, Wei Shixu raised an eyebrow, so she went to eat hot pot.
Kong Mingze kept laughing hysterically, sending long strings of mocking text.
Wei Shixu glanced over it without reading it all, just like Quan Zhisui. After a while, he sent over the photo of Zuo Zichen kneeling on the ground crying from yesterday.
As expected, this photo was explosive!
[Kong Mingze: Holy crap! Quan Zhisui is so fierce! Is this the scene of yesterday's beating? Hahaha! This photo is really...hahaha...I can laugh at him for the rest of my life!]
Followed by a dozen laughing emoji and constant bursts of voice messages like a machine gun.
Wei Shixu muted his phone and threw it aside.
On the huge TV screen was playing the latest horror movie. Wei Shixu turned off all the lights, drew the curtains, and sat on the sofa to enjoy it.
The phone screen beside him kept flashing with messages popping up on the lock screen. Mixed in with Kong Mingze's barrage of messages were notifications from another person.
Wei Shixu was annoyed by the constant flashing light and flipped his phone over.
...
Not long after Zhou Chun sent the photo to Wei Shixu, she didn't get any response. Scrolling up, Wei Shixu rarely replied to her messages either.
"He must be studying..." Zhou Chun consoled herself.
Wei Shixu was an excellent student who worked hard to maintain being top of the grade. He must study diligently and wouldn't play on his phone for no reason.
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At the Zuo family home.
Xu Zhiyi didn't fall asleep afterwards. She was worried about her son and waited downstairs in the living room.
Hearing that Zuo Zichen and Quan Zhisui went out together, she didn't understand how her son ended up mingling with Quan Zhisui. Weren't these two incompatible?
Xu Zhiyi's expression kept changing as she decided to thoroughly investigate this.
First her son had a fracture and now he's covered in injuries. Just what was going on? Did he offend someone at school?
She called over Gu Lan, the personal attendant who was responsible for taking care of the children's daily needs, including laundry, making beds, wake up calls and other intimate matters.
Gu Lan was nervous when she saw Xu Zhiyi and stood to the side with lowered gaze. "Madam, you called for me?"
"Yes."
Xu Zhiyi glanced at her, then drank her tea while leaving Gu Lan hanging.
Playing the silent treatment.
Gu Lan grew more and more anxious, at a loss of what to do. "Is there something the matter, Madam?"
Xu Zhiyi put down her teacup and acted pretentiously. "I'm asking you, just what has been going on with Zuo Zichen these past few days?"
Gu Lan quickly said, "The young master is injured..."
Bang!
Xu Zhiyi slammed her teacup on the table, interrupting her. "He's injured, do I need you to tell me that? Are my eyes blind?"
Gu Lan shuddered in fright. "...I'm sorry Madam, I don't know what happened to the young master at school."
Xu Zhiyi scolded, "Then what about Quan Zhisui? You see those two every day, do you know anything?"
Gu Lan had a difficult expression. "I also don't know what's going on with Miss Zhisui at school!"
She didn't dare to address Quan Zhisui as Miss.
Xu Zhiyi coldly snorted. "Don't know?"
Gu Lan was anxious. "I really don't know!"
Xu Zhiyi stared at her. "Yesterday Zichen was beaten up. What time did he come home? How much do you know about this? What time did Quan Zhisui come home yesterday?"
She didn't reveal too much, only asking about the timeline.
Gu Lan was also smart, only answering the questions. "The young master came home at 6pm. The young miss was at 11pm."
Xu Zhiyi's eyes widened. "That little slut came home so late? What was she doing?"
Gu Lan suddenly recalled yesterday's bloodied uniform and said, "When the young miss came home, her uniform had blood all over it. It seemed she hadn't eaten dinner yet and asked the kitchen to make a late night snack."
Xu Zhiyi: "Ah?"
This was beyond her expectations.
Could it really be that Zuo Zichen was beaten up and Quan Zhisui went to divert those people away, even getting injured herself?
So that's why Zuo Zichen came home early...
But why were Zuo Zichen's injuries more severe!
Xu Zhiyi: "What did Quan Zhisui do after coming home?"
She asked the key question.
But Gu Lan answered without thinking: "Ate a late night snack together with the young master."
Xu Zhiyi was shocked again: "Together with the young master?!"
Gu Lan nodded: "Yes, they ate together."
Xu Zhiyi: "..."
Eating late night snacks together last night, going out together today. Could it really be that Quan Zhisui had saved her son?
How else to explain Zuo Zichen's series of illogical behaviors?
It was impossible for him to accept Quan Zhisui's existence so easily!
Xu Zhiyi's expression kept changing as she eventually decided to suppress this matter. Lately Zuo Zhiyu had been favoring Quan Zhisui to an excessive degree. She couldn't let him know about this, or who knows how he might further spoil his eldest daughter.
He might let her get away with anything!
Seeing that she couldn't get any more useful information, Xu Zhiyi coldly said, "Call Zhao Lin over. He dropped the kids off from school yesterday, he can't possibly not know anything."
Gu Lan reminded, "Madam, Zhao Lin is still out right now. Also, he didn't pick up the young master and young miss from school yesterday. He went out with the old master and sent the old master to the vacation village."
Xu Zhiyi cursed, "Those two old things really are annoying! We already have a driver and they still take my son's!"
Gu Lan: "..."
Xu Zhiyi picked up her teacup again. "Nevermind, you can go. Take good care of Zichen, be more attentive. Don't tell the Master about what I asked you."
Gu Lan: "Don't worry Madam, I won't say anything."