Chapter 22: People of All Walks of Life Have Their Own Matters to Deal With

It was at the inter-academic basketball game between the College of Liberal Arts and the College of Finance. Wherever HeJin appeared, Zhou YaLi would definitely be there.

Zhou YaLi was very familiar with the people in the sports department, and she directly took over the job of sitting on the sidelines watching over their belongings. Next to her was a female senior from the School of Finance.

Halfway through the game, the senior suddenly said to Zhou YaLi, "Classmate, I have a little problem and I need to go out. Please look over the things here.”

Zhou YaLi smiled and slightly nodded, "No problem, senior, don't worry."

Then she sat between the two piles of belongings.

After the senior left, Zhou YaLi's eyes frequently moved to the pile of personal belongings next to her. She recognized HeJin's phone at a glance, it was the black one with no cover and no protective film.

After confirming her goal, Zhou YaLi’s eyes swept over the people on the field, and the game was fierce. Whether it was the people on the court or the spectators behind, they didn’t have much time to pay attention to her inconspicuous corner.

She secretly took HeJin's phone into her hand and pressed it.

The screen lit up, and the phone had a password, which was natural.

Of course Zhou YaLi thought of this, but she also knew that HeJin was lazy, and the passwords for his computer and mobile phone would all be his own birthday.

Wrong password.

Zhou YaLi was stunned. How could HeJin use a different password? As soon as her eyes turned, she understood what was going on. He really had a secret girlfriend.

This man that had been using the same password for a long time suddenly changed his password. It must be his girlfriend who had changed the password to her birthday.

Since she couldn’t get through the phone, Zhou YaLi had to put down the phone in anger. At that moment, she suddenly noticed the phone’s lock screen wallpaper.

HeJin’s lock screen was a very artistic picture.

The skies were darkening, and there was a four story building. In the center of the composition, there was a figure lit up by a dim yellow light and a figure was printed on one of the windows.

Zhou YaLi felt that something was wrong again. HeJin didn’t look like such a literary person, but this picture looked like he had taken it.

When she arrived at this thought, Zhou YaLi took out her phone to take a picture of the lock screen.

Most of the buildings near Beicheng University were small buildings consisting of four or five floors and no more than eight floors at most. However, the architectural appearances of these high end buildings were very distinctive. As long as one looked around and compared them to the photo, it was not difficult to find out.

And God did not let down the ones who persevered, and Zhou YaLi finally found HeJin’s building. She planned for some time and found a way to sneak into the community. She squatted in the stairwell and waited for HeJin to come home.

Zhou YaLi arrived after HeJin’s class ended. It didn’t take long before she heard the sound of the elevator.

Unexpectedly, it was not HeJin who came out of the elevator, but another person she knew. To be exact, it was someone she had met.

It was the man called XieYan, HeJin’s uncle.

Zhou YaLi felt like her worldview was being reshaped. The skies were falling, and the earth was opening up. Was this really HeJin? The freshmen school bully that could fight against three kids and also beat the students that attended school outside of Nanwai?

How did you become a mother’s boy who can’t be apart from his parents? No that’s not right, it’s uncle’s boy.

After all this hard work, Zhou YaLi thought that this result was boring. She thought that she could find which woman had snatched HeJin up, but she didn’t find anything.

Zhou YaLi was about to leave, when she heard the sound of the elevator arriving again.

The person who came out this time was HeJin.

Zhou YaLi quietly retracted into the stairwell, closed the fire door, and pushed open a small gap to see HeJin's actions.

She first saw HeJin walk towards the door his uncle had entered, and then he stood there for a while without moving. Zhou YaLi originally thought that he had the key, but as she thought for a bit, she thought that that wasn’t right. The door was obviously a password lock, so there was no embarrassing moment such as not having their key.

After a while, HeJin turned and walked to the other end of the corridor, opened the door and entered another suite on the same floor.

Strangely, HeJin entered another suite on the same floor, which was not the same door that his uncle entered just now.

Zhou YaLi was so stupid that she couldn’t figure out what the situation was. Her only thought was that the relationship between the uncle and the nephew was not as harmonious as it seemed on the surface. There was such a big suite, but the two had to live separately.

Zhou YaLi went back to school in confusion. On the other side, HeJin had just closed the door and was leaning on his sofa.

DuYan had come home very early today, so HeJin only had to wait a bit before seeing him.

After confirming that DuYan had entered his home, HeJin came out from the hidden place below and went upstairs.

For him, this was just a daily behavior. Every time he came back to live there, he would stay in the community to observe and confirm that his uncle had gone home before he would go up.

This was to avoid encountering DuYan in the elevator, and avoid having to explain the difficult situation. After all, HeJin had told the other party that he would only be there when there was nothing to do at school on the weekends.

The actual situation was that HeJin would only occasionally sleep at the dorm if he was too busy. Most of the time, he lived at home.

After more than a year, it had become a habit, and he didn’t feel bored staying below.

Watching the lights on that floor light up, and then seeing DuYan's figure occasionally be reflected on the curtains, just looking at it, would make him feel calm.

As for his choice in buying adjacent suites, and the reason why DuYan lived in one was simple.

In Nancheng, DuYan had moved away without saying a word and then returned to Beicheng. This caused HeJin to have a certain obsession with DuYan staying within a certain range that he could determine.

He always felt that if he didn't pay attention, DuYan would go to a place where he could never be found again.

If he could, he hoped that his uncle would stay within his sight all the time and never go anywhere. But HeJin knew that this was unrealistic.

Although DuYan looked cold and indifferent on the surface and didn’t care about anything, he was actually a very capable person. At least for now, whether it was in power or wealth, HeJin was in a weak position.

Therefore, he could only show weakness. At this stage, with DuYan's character, only by showing weakness could they maintain the current balance.

By living in an adjacent suite and ensuring that DuYan would return to this place every day, could HeJin’s heart settle down a bit. Only then could the twisted and dark things in his heart be kept safe in prison, and not come out and ruin everything.

Because DuYan was his uncle, and their relationship could only stop there.

***

At a certain bar.

Zhou YaLi leaned on the bar, looking listless.

Someone placed their hand on her shoulders, "Great beauty Zhou, why aren’t you pretending to be a good student today?"

Zhou YaLi looked up at the person, and spit a few words, "Fuck off, I have no time to take care of you."

Not long after, another hand was placed on her shoulder.

Zhou YaLi looked up wanting to drive away the person, but when she saw them clearly, she changed her expression, "SiQi jie."

Xie SiQi took Zhou YaLi to a table and drove all her friends there to another seat. Then she asked her, “YaLi, what’s the matter? You haven’t appeared for so long, but once you appear you look half dead.”

Zhou YaLi really treated Xie SiQi as her girlfriend, and she didn’t shy away, "My male god is ignoring me..."

"You mean, the brother named HeJin?"

"Yeah, I haven't been coming out to play these days and I threw myself on him, but who knew that the person didn’t even bother looking at me.” Zhou YaLi laid down on the sofa, a little drunk and hazy.

"I think there must be someone in his heart, but I still haven’t found out who the little bitch is.”

Xie SiQi looked at Zhou YaLi and sneered in her heart. She was truly worthy of being called nouveau riche, since she had no skill.

However, the smile on her face was very kind, "Didn't you say that you found his residence the other day? Why couldn’t you find his girlfriend?"

Zhou YaLi was even more frustrated when she mentioned this incident, "There is a fart girlfriend. He lives with his own uncle. I couldn’t tell that he was actually like this. HeJin-gege’s godly image is actually a person who can’t be apart from his guardian.”

Xie SiQi became interested, "Uncle, as in my cousin Xie Yan?"

Zhou YaLi nodded, she had long known that Xie SiQi was from the Xie family. The matter of HeJin recognizing his elders was a matter that her father had already told her.

Xie SiQi continued, "Do you know why HeJin is ignoring you? It’s because his uncle XieYan is very strict with him. It’s said that XieYan likes the girl from your school called Fang Xiangxiang."

"Think about it, based on how obedient HeJin is to his uncle, if he asks HeJin to be engaged to Fang Xiangxiang, wouldn’t he agree?”

"Fang Xiangxiang and I have had a good relationship recently. She doesn't see HeJin-gege much. I don't think it will be her."

"There is a reason for this. Fang Xiangxiang’s High School is also Nanwai, you know this right?” Xie SiQi said, “At the beginning, because she and HeJin walked close together, she got bullied on campus. HeJin fought for her and later my cousin came forward.”

"My cousin is a man of his word. The most annoying thing is something not going according to plan. Having him deal with HeJin’s fight probably made him very annoyed.” Xie SiQi shrugged, “Perhaps because of this. HeJin finally restrained himself in college.”

"Because of Fang Xiangxiang he fought for her? And because of her he restrained himself?” Zhou YaLi's eyes suddenly widened.

She wouldn’t allow it, absolutely wouldn’t allow it. HeJin-gege was hers. She obviously had been the person he loved most since childhood.

"My cousin has a strong desire to control, and your brother HeJin can't resist him." Seeing Zhou YaLi had taken the bait, Xie SiQi finally revealed her true purpose, "Unless you let them fall apart."

"That man has raised HeJin-gege for several years, and they seem to have a good relationship." Zhou YaLi was a little downcast, "Brother HeJin is a grateful person, how could their relationship fall apart…”

"Of course there is a way. You have to know, my cousin is not HeJin's uncle..." Xie SiQi smiled at the corner of her mouth and lightly threw the bomb out.