acfr chapter 25

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“Host, you must not let your temper get the better of you, it could really reduce favorability …” The system was very worried, fearing that its host would let himself go.

He Ziming curled his lips and grinned, about to tease it with a few words.

Just then, He Ziming’s mobile phone suddenly received a text message: “Did you know your boyfriend has always regarded you as a stand-in?”

The message was sent anonymously. He Ziming had just received the text message before he could go back. He received several photos on his mobile phone of Su Yuehe and Lin Zhixing being very intimate together, as well as several photos of Su Yuehe and Lin Zhixing when they were teenagers. At that time, Lin Zhixing did not know Fang Ming.

From the perspective of the photographs, Fang Ming and Su Yuehe were really very similar.

The difference was temperament. Su Yuehe had clear, innocent eyes that always made people  feel that he was soft and innocent, and that they can’t help but want to protect him.

On the other hand, Fang Ming bared his teeth and brandished his claws just like a monster. He wrapped himself in layers of copper and iron walls, which made people look at him and feel that he was indestructible and that nothing could hurt him.

It was easy for people to say to him, “I’m sorry. He needs me more than you, he can’t do without me. And you’re the kind of person that will still be fine without me.”

At this point in time, the person who sent him this information, except for the one who hated Su Yuehe to his very bones and cooperated with Lin Yaowen, Lin Zhixing’s younger cousin who held a long time grudge against him, he could not think of anyone else.

He Ziming guessed who sent the message, but he still chose to follow the developments of the original story and replied to Su Heng’s message: “Who are you? What do you want to do?”

“Do you want to know who your boyfriend is together with now and what he is doing?” The other party did not answer him, but asked again.

There was only silence (after that).

He Ziming repeatedly looked at the photos sent by the other party of Su Yuehe and Lin Zhixing together. He looked at Lin Zhixing gazing at Su Yuehe with eyes that could not hide his love and concern in the past and even now. In the end, he couldn’t keep his face from turning deathly pale and his hands becoming fists. Even his forehead veins unconsciously started bulging.

Lin Zhixing never had such an expression in his eyes when he looked at Fang Ming.  Never in the past and even now.

He Ziming took a deep breath, could no longer control himself anymore, and dialed Lin Zhixing’s number. The call quickly connected, and Lin Zhixing’s voice came from the phone: “Hey …”

“Where are you now? When are you planning to come back?” He Ziming interrupted him before he finished speaking.

The sounds on Lin Zhixing’s side were very loud: “I’m outside, something happened to Yue and I may not be able to go back tonight, you yourself can first…”

Before he could finish speaking, He Ziming ruthlessly hung up the phone.

He didn’t listen and didn’t want to listen …

He Ziming knew this time that it wasn’t Lin Zhixing who didn’t want to come back, because Su Yuehe had something in his hands that Su Heng wanted to take back, so he caused a car accident. Something really happened, and he couldn’t make it back.

But Fang Ming, as an implicated party, did not know …

As Lin Zhixing’s boyfriend, who originally appeared next to Lin Zhixing as a Su Yuehe’s stand-in, he could only think, why, why is it Su Yuehe again?

Is he not doing enough, is he not good enough? He is Lin Zhixing’s boyfriend, but Lin Zhixing will only revolve around Su Yuehe forever.

Clearly…

Clearly before, because of his coma, the relationship between him and Lin Zhixing had improved a lot.

Why did Su Yuehe come out again to spoil the situation, Lin Zhixing was so good. It didn’t take long for him to return to his old ways because of Su Yuehe…

Fang Ming was unwilling, very unwilling.

He Ziming smashed everything in the room, even his mobile phone screen was smashed to bits. After venting, he slammed open the door to go out, called for a taxi, and rushed to the bar.

“Handsome guy, did you fight with your wife?” The taxi driver asked him very familiarly, seeing that he was in a bad mood and went out in the middle of the night.

He Ziming’s eyes were red and bloodshot, and the blue veins on his forehead were bursting.  His anger seemed to have lingered and he didn’t acknowledge him.

The taxi driver read his body language and saw that he was aggravated, and he didn’t dare strike up a conversation again.

He Ziming, with such an angry face, said to the system in an almost teasing tone in his mind: “Even the reason for cheating and the appropriate consequences have been found by the villain for me. If I don’t cheat, wouldn’t that be letting down destiny’s arrangements?”

He felt that Fang Ming has every reason to cheat in this situation.

“… But, can you find that person?” The system felt this was too pointless.

Can you find him at a bar?

He Ziming was very relaxed: “Even if I can’t find him, I might as well go to the bar!”

System: “……”

The car quickly drove to the bar. He Ziming got out of the car with a murderous-looking face, opened the door in front of him and rushed into the bar.

The bar staff were so frightened, they almost thought he was here to catch adultery in the act and destroy the venue.

Inside the bar, the lights were green, and the clamour was loud. A group of gaudily dressed men and women embraced each other, seeking pleasure.

He Ziming paid no heed to them and went straight to the bar.

“It’s been a long time, President Fang.” He walked forward without looking left nor right, but was stopped halfway.

He Ziming hesitated for a moment before he recognized who the person in front of him was: “… President Lu.”

He did not expect that he could not find his family’s dear, but instead saw Su Yuehe’s genuine gong first…

With a large enterprise as famous as the Lin family’s, Lu Wensheng, the head of the Lu family, was also the main force behind the scenes that helped Su Yuehe and sent the original host to prison in the original track.

He Ziming didn’t expect to encounter this clean-hearted protagonist in this smoky bar. As the protagonist’s gong, Lu Wensheng had a very outstanding appearance. His nose was tall, his features are deep, he had the aura of a noble young master. From his clothes to his spoken temperament, it all revealed that his origins were extraordinary, it wasn’t something others could learn.

What’s even more frightening is that Lu Wensheng, one of the sons of destiny, had an outstanding working ability and talent for business.

He was the kind of person that the original host hated the most. He was jealous and yet can’t be jealous. He felt ashamed of himself and inferior just standing next to the other person.

“Why don’t I see President Lin?” Lu Wensheng looked at him with a smile, courteous.

He Ziming replied angrily: “Why, President. Lu misses him?”

“No, I just didn’t expect that President Fang would come to this kind of place alone.” Lu Wensheng fixed his gaze at He Ziming, and his smile deepened. “I thought President Fang didn’t like the atmosphere of the bar very much.”

He was a little surprised that the other party had an attitude today, like he had eaten a package of explosives. Fang Ming, who had climbed up from the bottom, always had a sense of inferiority and masked it with false pride in front of those from aristocratic families. He never showed weakness or exposed his emotions. He always wore two masks: that he could do everything and could resist anything. He even somewhat disdained them, those who were born with a golden spoon in their mouths.

The evaluation of Fang Ming in their circle is that he had outstanding abilities, but he was too conceited and self-righteous. This young “mistress” of the Lin family kept his hands too clean[1], he always wore a false mask every day, and was difficult to get along with.

Today, seeing Fang Ming’s emotions so exposed, in such a sorry state, Lu Wensheng couldn’t help but become curious.

He Ziming was still cold as ice: “If you don’t like it before, it doesn’t mean you won’t like it for the rest of your life. President Lu, don’t you think so?”

Lu Wensheng looked at him and smiled slightly.

After He Ziming exchanged a few greetings with him, he found a separate seat at the bar without looking back, ordered a few bottles of wine, and began to fill himself.

Lu Wensheng returned to his group of friends, but still couldn’t help looking at the direction of He Ziming who was drinking his sorrows away alone with curious and probing eyes.

“Hey, what are you looking at Old Lu?” Lu Wensheng’s friend immediately asked in curiosity when he saw his eyes constantly wandering in one direction.

Lu Wensheng withdrew his gaze and said, “Look at President Fang, it’s weird to see him come to the bar and pour himself a drink all by himself.”

“President Fang, the male daughter-in-law of the Lin family from Tianxing?” Lu Wensheng was indeed very clean [1]. Almost all his friends who came to the bar with him held one or even several young women or men (prostitutes) in their arms, but he was alone.

Lu Wensheng responded in a low voice, “…En[2].”

“It’s not easy for him. He and Lin Zhixing aren’t young anymore, but recently I heard that he turned out to be just a stand-in. Who Lin Zhixing likes is the young master of the Su family. Now that the young master of the Su family has woken up. Lin Zhixing doesn’t take him seriously. He does not care about him at all. He took the Su family’s young master to his company to keep his eyes on him every day to protect him, and they come in and out together… tut tut, what will happen to them in the future is not certain. ” His friend gossiped very well and knew many things in their circle.

Lu Wensheng frowned: “Young master of the Su family?”

“It’s the legitimate son who died(?) 6 years ago, leaving all the family property to the illegitimate son of the Su family, the one who draws pictures like a little prince and seems out of touch [3].

Another interjected: “Isn’t he vegetative?”

“Now he’s woken up. I didn’t realize that Fang Ming looks like him before, now think about it… This Fang Ming is really pitiful.”

“…”

On his side, the gossip in Lu Wensheng’s circle of friends has started, but Lu Wensheng himself couldn’t hear the gossip at all. He didn’t want to know who the young master of the Su family was. Instead, he focused his eyes and all his attention were placed on the person who was drinking his sorrows away alone not far away.

He didn’t know why, but he suddenly seemed to have an inexplicable interest in the other party …

He Ziming poured himself wine, bottle after bottle, drinking so much he looked like a flushed shrimp.

The system seeing that the situation was not good, the system asked, “Host, are you sure you are here to have fun, and not to drink to death?”

He Ziming was pouring wine and had no time to answer the system, but suddenly, without him knowing, someone stood at his side and snatched the bottle from his hand.

It was Lu Wensheng …

“What are you doing?” He Ziming looked at him fiercely with red eyes.

Lu Wensheng leaned towards his ear, and whispered softly: “President Fang, your pants are unzipped.”

He Ziming: “…”

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TL Note

Hi guys!  I died actually, but now I’m alive!  (wwx kinnie moment fr)  I really thought that I would get this chapter out earlier, but then I had finals and I finally got a job!  so it’s been really hectic hehe irl stuff kicks you in the butt.  It’s actually my sister’s birthday today!!!!  I’m hoping to translate the next chapter tomorrow, but my schedule is really full this week :0.  Let’s hope I get some personal time soon, after the holdiays are over 😛

Quick shout out to anyone who commented on chapters!  They’re really my motivation to keep translating, sometimes I feel like I’m doing all this work and no one really care LOL.  I hope you guys enjoyed your holidays!  Merry Christmas to anyone who celebrates it, and Happy Kwanzaa and Hanukkah to those who celebrate those too!  (these are belated, but who cares 😛 )  Happy holidays to all of you guys!!!!!!!

Footnotes (just use ctrl+f or if u are on mobile, use the find word feature and input [#])

[1] 洁身自好:  refuse to be contaminated by an evil influence, keeping one’s integrity

[2] 嗯: a non-verbal grunt signifying yes or okay.

[3] “就是六年前那个老婆死了，把家产全留给了私生子的苏家婚生子，会画画跟个小王子似的不食人间烟火的那个。”那朋友道。: take your best shot at translating this.  I gave up on this, it was really delaying me putting out this chapter out. 

[3] “不食人间烟火” also means “not eating the food of common mortals,” which either means (a) you’re out of touch with reality, (b) you’re really snooty and think yourself above everyone else, or (c) you seem like an immortal, or like you’re not of of this world.

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