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Chapter 422: Chapter 196: Intimidating Stick
Su Huai returned to his dorm room and, as usual, logged onto the platform and went on a spending spree, playing to his heart’s content.
An hour and a half later, the two brothers came back carrying a completely drunk Chu Changkuo.
"Holy shit, Kuokuo is seriously like a freaking rock..."
While grumbling, Sao Ji looked up at Su Huai, who was sitting cross-legged on his bed playing with his phone, and said with a flattering smile, "Bro, you’re not angry, are you?"
"What’s there to be angry about with him?"
Su Huai chuckled and said, "But what about you two, accompanying him until now, it must’ve been tough, right?"
"Damn it’s freaking unpleasant!"
"It was alright."
Sao Ji and Xia Yu gave completely different answers.
Sao Ji turned his head to stare angrily at Xia Yu, feeling like his good brother was about to betray him.
But Xia Yu had valid reasons: "Huai, actually I think Kuokuo has matured a lot compared to before. Even though he was rambling after getting drunk, he neither cursed at you nor vented on us, just a bit of a blabbermouth..."
Sao Ji widened his eyes in shock: "He kept cursing Wu Tianyou as a bumpkin, a poor prick from the countryside, an out-of-towner, how is that any different from cursing us?"
Xia Yu was optimistic: "At least he knows to differentiate now, right?" 𝔫𝖔𝖛𝖕𝔲𝔟.𝔠𝖔𝖒
"Fine, as long as you’re happy."
Sao Ji dumped Chu Changkuo onto a chair and then stopped caring about him.
Xia Yu was still as kind as ever, but also found himself at a loss: "What to do now? We gotta get him onto his bed..."
"Don’t ask me!" Sao Ji promptly waved his hands and dodged to the side, "He’s just too damn heavy, I almost passed out from exhaustion bringing him back..."
"Hold on, I’ll do it."
Su Huai smiled, put down his phone, climbed onto Chu Changkuo’s bed, and then stooped to lift Kuokuo up by gripping his chest.
One hand on the clothes, one hand on the leg, he lifted him onto the bed like carrying a doll.
"Holy cow! Bro, you’re so strong!"
Sao Ji was dumbfounded, gasping in astonishment, "Good thing Kuokuo didn’t dare to mess with you, otherwise, how many teeth would he have left after one slap?"
"Cut the crap!" Su Huai laughed and cursed, "Why would I hit him?"
"Right on!"
Xia Yu brought over a wet towel to help, doting like a mother hen.
Such a good person.
Su Huai went back to his own bed and was about to continue playing with his phone when Sao Ji murmured mysteriously, "Bro, do you know what’s up with Chu Changkuo?"
"Hm? What happened?"
To be honest, Su Huai wasn’t curious, but Sao Ji couldn’t control his urge to gossip and insisted on giving a blow-by-blow account.
"Actually, after the day with the flowers, Kuokuo had originally planned to give up, but your classmate Wu Tiangou was still very proactive and provoked him a couple of days ago.
Then, yesterday, news came out from the e-commerce class that Chen Nuanhan was having a birthday soon, and Wu Tiangou wanted to organize something for her. Kuokuo couldn’t hold back and went to ask her about it.
I didn’t quite catch what they talked about, but Kuokuo ended up feeling pretty defeated. It must have been pretty harsh, and it seemed to involve you too.
Today was the semifinals of the singing contest, right? Kuokuo sang a love song that was all about emotion, impressing everyone!
Then after he finished, some upperclassman confessed to him.
Kuokuo turned down the upperclassman, saying he already had someone he liked. After that, one of Kuokuo’s buddies tried to advise him, saying Chen Nuanhan is just a green tea bitch, you’re not even her backup, better move on to someone else.
Kuokuo got pissed off, started clashing with his classmate.
Someone then said ’Don’t think Su Huai is a good guy, he’s just taking you for fools, playing with you guys, he sees you like a clown,’ something like that. Basically, they used you to get Kuokuo all riled up, and since then he started acting weird when he got back to the dorm..."
Xia Yu added, "He’s also pretty pitiful."
Su Huai glanced at Nuanhan and shook his head, sighing.
This kid was too naive and too kind-hearted. By that logic, every villain has their pitiable moments.
When Chu Changkuo was a freshman, his girlfriend gave everything for him, and he dumped her without a second thought when he got tired of her and wanted to chase after Chen Nuanhan, publicly humiliating the girl as if she was worthless. Who was more pitiable in that scene?
People are complex, and the world they build is even more so. That’s why the last thing men should do is be sentimental.
Before you have the capacity to spare, don’t pity anyone.
So, Su Huai bluntly asked, "How much is your household registration worth?"
"Huh?" Xia Yu replied in confusion: "Where I’m from is just a county town, it’s not worth much..."
Su Huai patted the kid on the shoulder: "His household registration is worth ten million, his parents have hundreds of millions, and even if he can’t keep up with Chen Nuanhan, there are plenty of girls confessing to him, he doesn’t need your pity."
"Hey! That’s so friggin’ true!"
Sao Ji clapped his hands and laughed heartily.
Su Huai made his point and let it go, changing the topic: "As long as Kuokuo doesn’t give me a hard time, I can’t be bothered with him. You two don’t need to take sides, just go with the flow, got it?"
"Oh..."
After the brothers agreed, the mess was half over.
The other half, whether it passes or not, Su Huai didn’t care.
The next morning, when Su Huai left, Chu Changkuo was still not awake, and for the whole day, he didn’t bump into him again; it seemed like he was avoiding him.
That evening, Chu Changkuo didn’t come back to the dorm to sleep, and the three of them felt very at ease.
The conflict just faded away like that.
Of course, it wasn’t over, and no one could predict how things would develop later.
Su Huai didn’t plan to predict anything, who has time for that when there are so many important things to take care of.
For example... Gu.
The 27th was a Thursday, with a full schedule in the morning, but in the afternoon there was just one PE class, so Huang Mengting eagerly "led" everyone to visit Gu Jiuyue.
Yeah, it was Su Huai’s idea, but through guidance, Huang Mengting truly believed she was the one who organized it, bustling about busily and enthusiastically.
