Rear-End Collision

ould be this interesting.”

Seeing that Li Yangxiao did not respond, Chi Mingyao asked: “At that time, what was your thought process?”

Li Yangxiao took out his cigarette case and pulled a cigarette out.
He held it in his mouth, his head lowered as he fumbled with the lighter.
Chi Mingyao reached over and pressed the lighter.
Li Yangxiao leaned forward a bit, and lit his cigarette with the flickering flame.
Then, he said: “Nothing much.
The person I liked at the time called me.”

“Is that so,” The elevator door opened, and Chi Mingyao walked out, “Huh, so you could afford to give it all up.
Did you two get together?”

Li Yangxiao shook his head.

“You lost your wife and the army too2?” Chi Mingyao glanced at him, before he quickened his pace, walking in front of Li Yangxiao.

Li Yangxiao followed behind Chi Mingyao.
He was a bit confused about the meaning of those words.

Lost my wife… and the army too? What does “losing the army” mean?

Li Yangxiao sat in the car and buckled his seatbelt.
Only then did he cautiously ask Chi Mingyao: “Young Master Chi, that phrase you said just now… what does it mean?”

“What phrase?” Chi Mingyao opened the car’s sunroof.

“That phrase about losing my wife and the army too… what does ‘losing the army’ mean?”

“You offended Chen Rui, does that not count as ‘losing the army’?” Chi Mingyao reached out the window and tapped the ash out of his cigarette, “Chen Rui’s always bouncing around the entertainment industry.
What kind of result were you expecting?”

“But back then… I apologized to Director Chen, and he said that it was no problem.”

“Is there really no problem just because he says there isn’t? You really are naive.” Chi Mingyao leaned his head against the seat, and cast an amused glance at Li Yangxiao, “It’s hard to tell from the outside, but you’re pretty simple-minded.”

“But Director Chen… didn’t make me pay the penalty sum for breaching the contract.”

“You’re funny.
Do you think Chen Rui needs your money?” Chi Mingyao started the car before adding, “To tell you the truth, Chen Rui is extremely perverted and petty.
It’s not a bad thing that you ran away back then, but it absolutely isn’t a good thing either.
Because you’re probably already blacklisted by Chen Rui.”

“As for how thoroughly blacklisted you are, I’m not too sure right now either.
If you want to know, I can ask around for you.”

“But tonight in the banquet hall, there were quite a few people looking over at you, no? Judging by this situation, the impact radius can’t have been too small.”

After Chi Mingyao finished, he focused on driving.
Li Yangxiao sat beside him; after listening to those words, he did not say anything more.

This person was really quite ignorant.
He had been blacklisted for the better part of year, but he had no idea? Chi Mingyao found this to be utterly unbelievable.

Chi Mingyao drove back the way they had come.
After he dropped Li Yangxiao off at home, he planned on giving Xu Yan a call and explaining this situation to him –it was not that Chi Mingyao did not want to help him, it was just that the mistake Li Yangxiao had made was too great.
He and Chen Rui were not on the best of terms anyway, so it was too difficult for him to interfere in this matter.

“We turn left up front, right?” As he was about to pass a four-way intersection, Chi Mingyao looked at the road ahead and asked.

He waited for a long while, yet Li Yangxiao had still said nothing.

“I’m turning, all right?” Chi Mingyao twisted the steering wheel and turned, before he looked over at Li Yangxiao.

This single glance made him freeze.
Li Yangxiao was crying.
His cheeks were already covered in tear tracks.

More accurately speaking, Li Yangxiao was merely shedding tears, because he had not made a single sound.

When Li Yangxiao cried, his lower eyelids would flush red, and he would exude a thorough aura of beauty.
So at this moment, a single thought flashed through Chi Mingyao’s mind–this guy would probably be able to get famous by acting in crying scenes.

Notes

HUG HIM YOU LOAF

Thanks for reading~ Sorry I couldn’t get this out on Saturday…

-总 (zǒng): if this is used behind someone’s surname, it’s a title (Boss, Chief, Director, etc.).
Not sure if he’s a director, we’ll see later~ 赔了夫人又折兵 (péi le fū rén yòu zhé bīng): “Losing your wife and the army too”.
Equivalent to “double whammy”.