Chapter 25 – Well, I know a few good lawyers.

Editor: Xinghe

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Translator: YuQiChen/Churen

I was listening to the podcast Rotten Mango Episode 202 while translating this. So I apologize if there are any sentences that don’t make sense. It’s a true crime podcast btw ._. Check it out if you have time.

At that moment, all doubts seemed to be answered.

From the time Xie Qing learned that the young man who pretended to be pitiful and followed him home was the young master of the Qi family, he had just one question on his mind: ‘What did Qi Huaiyu intend to do?’

He had been trying to get along and communicate with him as if nothing had happened.

It was only now that he knew the actual reason.

Qi Huaiyu’s eyes were beautiful. He knew how to take advantage of his appearance as he looked at Xie Qing, who seemed to be able to see the beauty of springtime in the other person’s eyes. Xie Qing’s fingers, which were placed on Qi Huaiyu’s shoulders, trembled. He lifted his hand and placed it under Qi Huaiyu’s chin.

Slender porcelain-white fingers clasped onto the chin and turned the young man’s face towards his as Xie Qing used his fingertips to brush against the young man’s red lips while softly asking, “Do you think I don’t know how to read lips? Dearest Qi-Dashao¹young master Qi.”

Those bomb-like words only stunned Qi Huaiyu for two seconds before the young man, whose inner thoughts and identity were exposed, put his hand on the back of the sofa and leaned closer to Xie Qing.

At that moment, the two were very close, and their breaths seemed to intertwine and melt together.

Xie Qing heard the young man’s hoarse voice ask him word by word, “So, is my proposal alright?”

The young man’s fingers brushed against Xie Qing’s slender waistline. His every movement and word was filled with ambiguity. He looked at Xie Qing and said, “I want to be gege’s boyfriend. Could gege please consider me?”

Xie Qing felt that Qi Huaiyu looked like a pitiful big dog that was begging for a hug.

Every movement of his, every expression, was trying to tempt Xie Qing.

Fortunately, Xie Qing still had some sense left in him. He put his hand on Qi Huaiyu’s shoulder to push him away. Qi Huaiyu seemed to realise something and turned to hold Xie Qing’s fingers in the palm of his hand, rubbing Xie Qing’s fingertips lightly. He looked up at him pitifully. “Is it okay, gege?”

The two words ‘gege’ that came out of the young man’s mouth struck Xie Qing so much that his heart almost turned into water.

He allowed the young man to move his hands and feet around. However, his slightly lowered eyes covered his inner expression. He tried hard to suppress the feeling of his trembling heart, tried to calm down, and asked, “From the moment you showed up in the community with Berry, to sending Yu Kaize to prison, to becoming Yu Jun’s backer, was it all because you like me?”

“Hmm.”

He admitted it without hesitation, lowered his head and touched Xie Qing’s fingertips with his lips as he said softly, “It’s because I like you. I can do anything for you. If you don’t like them, I can be your knife, as long as you’re with me.”

After all these years, Qi Huaiyu was still unable to forget the memories back then in Chaoyun Sect.

He had guarded his unconscious Shizhun, watching the sun rise from the east and set in the west every day, watching the spring pass and autumn come, watching the flowers at the foot of the mountain of Chaoyun Sect wither and be covered by heavy snow. Qi Huaiyu really didn’t want to relive those days where there was clearly a tomorrow but it seemed like dawn would never come.

The one thing he knew was that the existence of those scums would threaten Xie Qing’s safety.

“As long as you are willing.” Qi Huaiyu knelt down on the ground on one knee, raising his head to almost piously look at the clear and pale face in front of him. “As long as you are willing.”

His tone was mixed with a trace of sadness that couldn’t be understood. This made Xie Qing’s fingers hanging on both sides of his body curl up.

But he was also confused by this.

In his memory, he clearly couldn’t remember any trace of himself ever interacting with Qi Huaiyu. Why did Qi Huaiyu like him? This was completely illogical.

Thinking about this, Xie Qing couldn’t help but question him on this matter.

The young man in front of him didn’t change his gentle aura as he said, “I can’t tell you. You’ll be angry if I do. You might not want me to be your boyfriend if you knew.”

Xie Qing, “…”

In an instant, he was almost angered to the point that he laughed.

He was making it sound like he had agreed.

This little liar.

In the end, Xie Qing returned to his flat and changed his clothing. This time, he learnt his lesson and wore a set of dark casual clothes. After cleaning himself up, he went back to Qi Huaiyu’s flat to help with Berry.

By the time they finished bathing Berry, almost two hours had passed.

This was the first time that Xie Qing felt tired to this extent.

He looked languid as he waved towards Qi Huaiyu, “I’m leaving. Don’t come to bother me. I’m going to sleep.”

“Good night, gege.” Qi Huaiyu’s eyes shone brightly. Since his inner thoughts were revealed, his speech gradually turned more and more unscrupulous. “I hope that I appear in your dreams, gege.”

Xie Qing gave him a glance, turned around and left.

In the afternoon of the next day, Xie Qing received a phone call. When he answered it, he found that the caller was a family relative, Zheng Jie’s cousin. From her explanation, it seemed that the other party had planned to go to her cousin’s place this afternoon to see how her cousin-in-law was recovering.

However, not long after her arrival, she encountered the old lady of the Gu family and her son, Gu Jinghao, who came to look for trouble.

“Xiao Qing²little Qing, its a way to refer to someone younger., I heard that the old lady said that she seemed to have seen some news saying that you’re originally a child of a rich family. The old lady asked your mother to call you, but your mother refused and they started to quarrel. Can you come over to take a look?”

Upon hearing this, Xie Qing immediately said bye and hung up the phone.

As he was leaving his flat, he happened to encounter Qi Huaiyu who came out from the door across from him. Before the other party could smile and say hello, Xie Qing said directly, “Are you free right now? I need you to drive me somewhere.”

“Of course I’m free.”

The car quickly arrived at the community where Gu Mingguo and his wife lived. Xie Qing said thank you to Qi Huaiyu and immediately got out of the car. His hurried back made Qi Huaiyu tilt his head and follow behind him.

Walking to the door, Xie Qing noticed that it was open at this time. Zheng Jie’s cousin was walking back and forth anxiously outside. Seeing Xie Qing and a strange but very good-looking young man walking towards her, she didn’t care about anything else and just pulled Xie Qing aside, saying, “That old lady from the Gu family has gone mad. She keeps cursing at your parents, saying that they have no filial piety. Mentioning that they have raised you for so long yet you don’t remember how good the family is. All sorts of nonsense.”

“Don’t worry, aunt, I’ll go in now.”

Zheng jie’s cousin responded quickly. Just as she was about to follow behind him, the young man who had come with Xie Qing suddenly smiled at her and asked in a gentle voice, “Hello, aunt, I am gege’s friend. Can you tell me what they said about gege?”

The cousin exclaimed in confusion.

…

When Xie Qing walked into the hall, the old lady, Gu Jinghao and his wife were face-to-face with Gu Mingguo and Zheng Jie. The old man of the Gu family was sitting on the side, smoking a cigarette with his head lowered. The old man’s eyes passed over Gu Mingguo, who was sitting in a wheelchair. It could be seen that Gu Mingguo really wanted to stand up to bring the old lady away countless times, but he still had some sense to know that he was currently acting as a weak patient who had just woken up.

The old lady was as powerful as a one-man army, swearing incessantly as she degraded Gu Mingguo, his wife and Xie Qing with countless insults.

“You’ve raised that little bastard for twenty years! The Eldest even stayed in a hospital bed for ten years because of that little bastard. Now that the little bastard is a rich man, has he forgotten his roots? Did he just forget that our old Gu family raised him for so many years?”

“I think the two of you are also heartless. Eldest, your surname is Gu. Now that the old Gu family is in trouble, you’re still unwilling to help?”

“Since your son is so rich, what’s wrong with you helping out?”

“You have no conscience and are not filial! I’m going to find a TV station to expose you. I heard the little bastard is an internet celebrity now, right? I’d like to see what the TV station’s reaction will be when they find out what he’s like. Could he still be popular if people find out that he’s a white-eyed wolf³ungrateful person?”

Just as she said this, even Gu Mingguo, who had a good temper, also became angry. “Forget about it. How could you ask my A-Qing to help that bad thing, Gu Xuan? Besides, you refer to him as a little bastard when you open your mouth. Is this also the attitude one should have when they are begging for help?”

Zheng Jie sneered, “I think you, dead old woman, are the real beast! My A-Qing is very good. There is no need for him to come and help!”

“Aiya! Da-ge⁴Big brother, sister-in-law, please don’t say that. Our mother is just too anxious. A-Xuan is in such a situation. As a younger brother, I can only come here to beg you. Could you please help speak for me and A-Xuan?”

Gu Jinghao’s wife, who was next to him, didn’t speak. Her eyes were red and she looked a little pitiful.

Xie Qing stood in the corner of the door. Both parties were so angry at each other that they didn’t notice his arrival. Just listening to them quietly for a while, Xie Qing got the general idea of what happened. It seemed that something had happened to Gu Jinghao’s son, Gu Xuan. Gu Jinghao and the old lady found out that Xie Qing was actually the youngest son of the Xie family, so they came over to beg him for help.

It was a pity that the old lady wasn’t a good thing. So she was directly rejected by Gu Mingguo and his wife. After she became angry, she began to curse at them without restraint.

Xie Qing laughed and walked slowly to Zheng Jie. He squeezed Zheng Jie’s hand gently and looked at Gu Jinghao with a smile on his face. “Second Uncle, you are young, yet you don’t have a good memory. Don’t say ‘our mother’ to my parents, that’s just your mother. My grandma passed away a long time ago. You—”

After two to three encounters, he knew best where the old lady’s Achilles’ heel was. Sure enough, when the word dead was mentioned, the old lady’s face darkened. She stared at Xie Qing and opened her mouth to curse again.

When Gu Jinghao saw this scene, he felt a headache forming as anger came over him.

He was angry at his mother for having a bad temper. Even if she wanted to scold Xie Qing, she should’ve restrained herself as they still had to ask for help. Couldn’t she pretend first? She had to make the atmosphere tense and tear each other’s faces. Who would be willing to help you?

Gu Jinghao finally couldn’t bear it anymore and shouted, “That’s enough! Do you still want your grandson to go home safe and sound?”

The old lady, who had never been yelled at in her whole life, was startled, and she looked at Gu Jinghao. Her face was expressionless and when she opened her mouth, nothing came out. Her son was now forty years old and she had never heard him roar so loudly.

The old lady was so frightened that her lips moved, but no sound came out. Her anger gradually calmed down.

Gu Jinghao quickly said sorry to Xie Qing: “I’m really sorry, A-Qing. Your grandma had said something unpleasant. I’ll ask her to apologise to you. But… I heard from the news online that you’re the youngest son of the Xie family, right? Could you help our A-Xuan?”

“What happened to Gu Xuan?”

Gu Jinghao’s old-looking face turned red when he mentioned this matter. He then explained with some shame, “That, A-Xuan got into a fight with a student from the same school and he pushed his classmate down.”

Xie Qing raised an eyebrow.

His intuition told him that things were definitely not that simple.

If it was just a fight between children, Gu Jinghao wouldn’t have yelled at his mother for him. After all, this pair of mother and son were completely the same thing.

After Zheng jie’s cousin finished telling Qi Huaiyu about what the old lady of the Gu family cursed at Xie Qing, she almost laughed out loud after hearing what Gu Jinghao said as she walked in. She pushed the old lady aside, who was blocking the way. When she noticed the other party staring at her with a pair of triangular eyes, she tsk-ed angrily.

“I say, Gu Jinghao, from what you said about what your son did, I thought he really had a little fight with his classmates.” Zheng Jie’s cousin rolled her eyes and directly told Xie Qing, “A-Qing, don’t listen to his nonsense. How can things be so simple? In order to compete with a classmate for a girl, his son picked up a rock and hit the back of the other person’s head. The classmate is still lying in the hospital, his life and death are uncertain.”

Gu Jinghao’s face turned white and red.

Hearing this, Xie Qing narrowed his eyes and smiled. “I didn’t expect that this excellent grandson of the old lady could be so wild. This bad temper seems to be inherited from her.”

Gu Mingguo and his wife saw that their son had come back. They had some worries that these people, who pretend to be family but are actually blood suckers, would kidnap Xie Qing morally⁵guilt him. They were really worried. But hearing their son’s words, Gu Mingguo and his wife almost laughed out loud.

Their son knew how to talk.

How could he not follow the old lady’s temper? Otherwise, would he have hit someone on the back of the head with a rock? What consequences would this have? Did they really have no idea?

Gu Jinghao almost lost his temper after being ridiculed. However, he remembered that only Xie Qing could save their family at this moment. He had even gone to check the Xie family. Only then did he find out that Xie Qing’s family background was really good. It was a real wealthy family. While people from ordinary families like them were still working hard to collect money for a down payment⁶on a house, for these people, they could just burn money for fun.

To put it bluntly, even if Gu Xuan’s classmate died, Xie Qing would still be able to help them.

He hurriedly pulled on his wife’s arm. His wife’s arm was pulled so hard that she staggered and knelt straight on the ground. The sound of a thump made the others’ hearts tremble.

Zheng Jie looked a little distressed.

Xie Qing actually understood Zheng Jie’s mood. Although Gu Jinghao’s wife was from Gu Jinghao’s family, she was a rare person who didn’t look down on or insult Gu Mingguo and his wife. What’s more, the two of them were the daughter-in-laws of the Gu family. The old lady disliked and cursed at everyone. To a certain extent, the two daughter-in-laws had a common topic to talk about.

Xie Qing stepped forward and pulled Gu Jinghao’s wife up with a rare hint of gentleness in his voice. “Second Aunt, I know how you feel as a mother at this moment. However, I think you can also understand the feelings of the mother of the child that Gu Xuan harmed.”

Xie Qing continued in a calm tone, “Gu Xuan will have to bear the consequences if he does something wrong. He injured someone on impulse. This is his mistake. None of you can bear it for him and neither can I make up for his mistake.”

“Little bastard, what do you mean? Are you not going to help our A-Xuan? I knew you were a heartless white-eyed wolf! Heavens! Why did our Gu family encounter such big trouble? You’re such a white-eyed wolf!”

After being scolded by her, Xie Qing’s expression didn’t change. He even pulled up a chair and sat down while casually saying, “Am I not a little bastard? How could I be a part of your Gu family again?”

“Look at him! Look! I’m telling you all that he has never thought of our old Gu family as his family in his heart!”

The old lady shouted as she sat down on the ground and rolled around. She wiped her eyes with both hands from time to time as if she was trying to wipe her tears, crying and howling. Her voice attracted the neighbours nearby.

Xie Qing glanced at the neighbours who peeked from the outside in an uncaring manner.

Anyway, it was the old lady who lost face.

“Continue scolding. I want to see if you can come up with anything new.” Xie Qing said, “Anyway, it would be hard for you to talk about Gu Xuan’s matter to anyone. I don’t have half a dime of relationship with the Xie family that you speak of. If you want to beg me, you might as well beg them instead. Maybe they might feel that they have a lot of money and are willing to help you. Don’t you think this is a good idea, old lady?”

At this point, Gu Jinghao finally reacted. With a pale face, he rushed towards Xie Qing and grabbed his arm. The force of the hold made Xie Qing lower his head and glance at his arm. But then a shadow came over—

The young man grabbed Gu Jinghao by the back of his collar and threw the adult man away casually.

It was only when Gu Jinghao’s body hit the table with a bang that Xie Qing finally reacted and looked at Qi Huaiyu twice.

The young man who had his back turned to him was smiling like a flower, but his beautiful peach blossom eyes were full of anger. He looked at Gu Jinghao’s ferocious face, which was filled with pain. His voice was soft as he spoke, “How can you touch him with your dirty hands? This is a body made of gold, can you afford to pay for the damages?”

Xie Qing, “…”

‘What the—’ Xie Qing’s face turned red when he heard this.

He quickly reached out and tugged at Qi Huaiyu’s clothes, but his palm was held by the other man. Qi Huaiyu’s fingers gently rubbed Xie Qing’s palm as he and Gu Jinghao looked at each other with no smile in their eyes. “Since you think that a human life can be measured with money, I happen to have an endless amount of money. I can also use a few million to buy your life. It only takes a few million to make you disappear and never appear in front of A-Qing forever, which is a very cost-effective deal for me.”

Seeing that Qi Huaiyu was getting more and more excessive, Xie Qing glanced at the side where his parents stood, shocked as if they had seen some strange alien species. He quickly stood up and pushed Qi Huaiyu down on the chair that he was previously sitting on.

Telling him, “Shut up.”

Only to receive an innocent expression from Qi Huaiyu.

He hadn’t said anything wrong.

Xie Qing held his forehead and turned to see the old lady rushing over towards them. The old lady stretched out her hands and yelled, “You little bastard! You just don’t like our old Gu family. You won’t save our family’s Xuanxuan, right? See if this old lady will let you die first!”

However, no matter how mobile the old lady’s legs and feet were, she couldn’t compare to Xie Qing, a young man. Xie Qing’s body turned to the side and the old lady jumped and fell directly to the ground.

Just like before, it seemed that she was addicted to acting dramatically.

She laid on the ground, crying and shouting. Saying that her waist was so painful and that she almost fainted from the pain.

Xie Qing was a bit impressed and even wanted to introduce the old lady to Zhao Jing to see if she could win the Golden Crane Award next year for Best Actress. Perhaps she could even be the oldest Best Actress in history.

He clicked his tongue and said, “Old lady, you might not know much about me since we don’t spend much time together. Under normal circumstances, Gu Jinghao’s family affairs have nothing to do with me. What can I do? If I don’t do anything, I’ll still be giving you face⁷He means: I’m also respecting you for not doing anything else to push him even further. But looking at how you’re acting now—”

His voice changed as he gave a fake smile. “You seem to want me to do something. Well, I happen to know a few good lawyers. How about I ask them for help?”

“W-what?”

The old lady felt a little overwhelmed by Xie Qing’s words.

The smile on Xie Qing’s face became more and more vivid. “What do you think of making Gu Xuan stay in prison for two more years? The charges for intentional homicide seem to be quite serious, right?”

“No…no, you can’t do this!” Gu Jinghao suddenly pushed the old lady’s body away. He hugged Xie Qing’s calf without regard for his own age. He shook his head in panic and shouted, “Xie Qing, I’m your Second Uncle. You can’t do this!”

“I’m calling you Second Uncle because I’m giving you face. So I hope that Second Uncle can also give me face. If anything else happens in the future, please don’t come to my parents’ place to cause trouble for them. Is this okay? If you still insist on coming, I will only feel sorry for my didi⁸Younger brother. No they aren’t related. You can refer to people of the same generation that are younger than you as didi.”

Gu Jinghao looked at his nephew who had a smile on his face. There was clearly no sincerity in his smile. Additionally, that beautiful young man next to him was so full of oppression.

Thinking that his son would be staying in prison for several years when he was only in middle school made Gu Jinghao’s whole body tremble with panic. He quickly said, “Okay, okay, okay. I promise you! I’ll never come to see my ge again! Mom, don’t you think so? You should also respond—”

He pulled the old lady up in a panic, wanting to give Xie Qing a definite reply. However, Gu Jinghao was stunned in place.

His hands were covered in blood.

The old lady had been pushed by him and she had hit the table, causing her head to bleed.

Xie Qing gave her a glance and knew that she was fine. At most, she only had a concussion.

He just said nonchalantly, “Second Uncle, it’s best for you to take the old lady to the hospital immediately. In case you think that Gu Xuan has no one to accompany him in prison, perhaps you can go in to accompany him.”

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  young master Qi
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  little Qing, its a way to refer to someone younger.
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  ungrateful person
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  Big brother
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  guilt him
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  on a house
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  He means: I’m also respecting you for not doing anything else to push him even further
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  Younger brother. No they aren’t related. You can refer to people of the same generation that are younger than you as didi