"I always see you dressed in military uniform. You look so dashing. What do you do in the army? You must be a very important person in the military, right?"
Yu Xiuyuan wore a somewhat proud look on his face.
"Life in the army is extremely tough. It might be different from what you little girls who stay at home embroidering and writing imagine. We undergo arduous training every day. After all, bullets on the battlefield are merciless, and artillery fire shows no mercy. One slightest mistake can cost us our lives. But that's not the most important thing. What matters is the dignity of a soldier and the honor badges on our chests."
"Of course, you don't need to know about these things. After all, we're fighting for your current comfortable life."
His tone was arrogant, and it was obvious that he was quite satisfied with his military career. There was an undeniable air of superiority in his words, as if he were saying, "Your comfortable life today is the result of my hard work. You should worship me."
Li Chuchu's smile on her face was so stiff that it was about to fall off. Finally, someone came to serve the dishes. "Sorry to have kept you waiting, everyone. Please enjoy your meal."
Mu Wan quickly tried to smooth things over. "Everyone must be hungry. Let's eat first and talk later."
Yu Xiuyuan still seemed to have more to say, as if there were unfinished points he wanted to add.
When they were halfway through the meal,
Yu Xiuyuan glanced out of the window, and his face changed slightly. He suddenly stood up and said he was going to the nearby restroom.
Li Chuchu gave Chen Junsheng a look, and Chen Junsheng nodded. He had been keeping an eye on this guy all along.
He had been so fed up with Yu Xiuyuan's long - winded speech that his ears were about to grow calluses. He was just waiting for the real show to start.
Mu Wan didn't notice Chen Junsheng. She was whole - heartedly chatting with Li Chuchu, afraid that Yu Xiuyuan had left a bad impression on her. She took Li Chuchu's hand and explained, "Chuchu, don't misunderstand. Yu Xiuyuan is just too nervous, so he wants to perform well in front of you."
Li Chuchu shook her head. "It's okay. I can understand."
Although these words were rather off - putting, they weren't the key to seeing a person's true nature. It was just to make Mu Wan aware of it.
After all, the real drama was yet to come.
It's easy to tell a good horse from a bad one just by making it run.
...
Originally, according to Li Chuchu's plan, she wanted Chen Junsheng to find an opportunity to provoke Yu Xiuyuan. After all, a person like Yu Xiuyuan, who was self - important, irritable, and had a tendency to be violent at home, was emotionally unstable and easily provoked by trivial matters.
Then his true nature would be revealed.
Chen Junsheng was thinking that he would give Yu Xiuyuan a hard time when he returned to the restaurant.
But to his surprise, Yu Xiuyuan walked across the street. This wasn't the way to the public restroom.
Chen Junsheng smelled something fishy and quickly followed him. He saw Yu Xiuyuan enter a shop opposite the restaurant. Before long, there came the sound of a man - woman argument from inside.
"Who told you to follow me here?"
"Yu Xiuyuan, you've betrayed our love! You're actually going to marry another woman!"
The veins on Yu Xiuyuan's forehead bulged, and his eyes were filled with anger. "Didn't I tell you that it's impossible between us?"
"No! I don't agree!"
The girl's eyes were sad, but her expression was determined. "If you marry her, I'll never let your family have a good life!"
Yu Xiuyuan didn't expect this girl to be so stubborn.
He frowned, looking extremely impatient. "Are you out of your mind? I can no longer stay in the army in my current situation. I need to find a job through connections, and you can't help me. If we continue like this, we'll only end up starving."
The girl looked miserable and asked unwillingly, "Can she help you then?"
Yu Xiuyuan sneered from his nose. "Of course. Otherwise, why would I take a fancy to her? She's the only child in her family, and her family has connections in the political circle. As long as I marry her, her parents will help me enter the political arena. In the future, all her family's resources will be mine."
Chen Junsheng sighed and shook his head. This guy was really shameless.
He could be so brazen about marrying into a family to inherit all their wealth.
What on earth were Mu Wan's parents thinking? How could they choose such an unreliable son - in - law?
To Chen Junsheng's surprise, even at this moment, the girl was still asking whether the guy still loved her or Mu Wan. If it were Li Chuchu, she would probably have slapped him twice already.
He had only recently realized how authoritative Sister Li was.
Moreover, from Yu Xiuyuan's eyes, it seemed that he was quite reluctant to part with the girl. It seemed that they had developed feelings for each other after being together for so many years. Chen Junsheng couldn't wait to run back and tell Li Chuchu this news, but he was afraid of missing some crucial information, so he had to be patient and continue listening.
The more the girl asked,
the more painful Yu Xiuyuan's expression became. He dug his fingers into his scalp and tightly grasped his hair. "Stop asking. Just pretend you've never met me."
Tears welled up in the girl's eyes and streamed down her face.
Chen Junsheng watched as the two hugged and kissed,
and quickly turned his head away.
Oh my god, it's not suitable for children.
After a while,
Yu Xiuyuan finally came out. Chen Junsheng quickly turned around and went back to the restaurant.
...
The appearance of this girl made Yu Xiuyuan feel irritable, and he had a bellyful of anger with nowhere to vent.
He should have composed himself in front of Mu Wan to avoid letting her notice anything.
But after getting along with her recently, he found that Mu Wan was sometimes quite naive. He could easily fool her with a few words. Such a person was just suitable to be his wife. Even if he did something wrong outside in the future, she wouldn't make a big fuss.
Although her friend seemed a bit special, her status was too low and her words carried little weight. Mu Wan definitely wouldn't listen to her, so she was of no importance.
So Yu Xiuyuan was too lazy to control his expression.
He entered the restaurant with a gloomy face.
Because he was lost in thought, he didn't notice the person in front of him.
Chen Junsheng was walking past him with a bowl of soup. Yu Xiuyuan bumped into him, and the soup spilled all over.
The hot tomato and egg soup splashed onto his military uniform, and his originally well - groomed appearance suddenly became extremely disheveled.
Yu Xiuyuan looked down at the egg soup on his body and got angry immediately. But Mu Wan glanced over, so he quickly tried to suppress his anger.
But before he could say anything, the guy opposite him started shouting exaggeratedly, "Ouch, how can you walk without looking? Can't you see there's someone carrying something in front of you? Where are your eyes?"
"What bad luck. I finally came out for a meal, and I meet someone like you. My shoes are all dirty from the soup." Chen Junsheng muttered.
Yu Xiuyuan stared at Chen Junsheng angrily, and his fist hanging by his thigh tightened instantly.
"You—say—what?"
His voice was almost gritted out.
It was clearly this guy who had spilled the soup on him, yet he was blaming him?
Chen Junsheng raised his eyebrows. "I didn't know you were deaf? But even if you're deaf, you can't just bump into someone without apologizing, right? My outfit is not cheap. Hurry up and figure out how to compensate me."
His voice wasn't very loud, and Mu Wan was a bit far away, so she couldn't hear.
All they could see was Yu Xiuyuan's increasingly gloomy face, looking as if he was about to swing his fist and hit someone at any moment.