APCF -Chapter 24 (1)

When Qi Xingchen apologised to Zhou Yu and wanted to give him a gift, Qi Yuji was already on the sidelines.

This was the younger brother she had spoiled to the bone since he was a child, how could he grovel this much? Moreover, the person being apologized to actually didn’t accept it! Qi Yuji seethed with anger, and almost snapped her high-heel shoes from her stomping.

The most nauseating thing was that not only did the Zhou-dog accept the gift, he even questioned if her younger brother bought a counterfeit.

Then he even moved to hit her younger brother.

If he dared to hit her younger brother now, what would happen if they got married later on? A man who bullies her younger brother absolutely cannot be brought to join the household!

The more she looked at her younger brother’s bruised nose bridge, the angrier Qi Yuji became, commanding her bodyguards: “Hurry and strip him!”

​​The two bodyguards received the order and immediately rushed to Zhou Yu’s side.

Old Zeng, who had been watching the show from the sidelines, didn’t expect the boy he had interacted with around the clock to be this kind of person. Hence, he also angrily pushed and rolled up his sleeves, following the bodyguard to strip him together!

Zhou Yu’s eyes were smeared with chilli sauce and it went without saying that he could not see clearly. When he heard Qi Yuji’s voice, he became overwhelmed with panic: “No! Darling, listen to me, it’s not like that! I didn’t have the intention of dumping you, I was just joking with this little sh*t earlier!”

“…… Little sh*t?” Qi Yuji stomped her foot hard, “Who are you calling little sh*t? Strip, strip him for me!”

“Yuji, darling, dearest baby…… Don’t touch me, you guys- you guys let go of me!”

Unfortunately, no matter how much Zhou Yu shouted, Qi Yuji, whose reverse scale had been touched, did not listen to him. After five minutes, Zhou Yu, who could not struggle free, was stripped by the two bodyguards and Old Zeng until he was only left with a pair of underpants.

The spectacle was extremely horrible to endure. Qi Xingchen did not wish to continue seeing this, and hurriedly turned his head. Without any warning, he crashed into the cameraman, who had already filmed the entire spectacle from beginning to end and was currently dumbstruck.

And all Qi Yuji did was let out a “tsk”: “I recalled it now, this underwear was actually bought by me for him too. Li-ge, strip it off!”

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In Qi Xingchen’s impression, a gentle and somewhat naive girl like Qi Yuji for the most part would digest the incident silently on her own. That was why he never dared to reveal Zhou Yu’s true colours to her. If it was revealed, it had to hit the mark with one blow and save her from being repeatedly hurt by Zhou Yu’s deceit.

Who would have thought that she would be this ruthless enough to strip Zhou Yu of his clothes! Originally, he had only planned to force Zhou Yu to withdraw from the entertainment circle and leave Qi Yuji; but from the looks of it now, this guy’s naked appearance had already been captured by the camera without a single bit left out. It was all dependent on whether Director Zhao wished to release it, and if he wished to release it, it was not something solvable by withdrawing from the entertainment circle.

The aftermath can be summarised with five words: A complete fall from grace.

Nonetheless, green tea b*stards who cheat girls of their feelings did not deserve pity even if they descended into hell. Qi Xingchen could not feel a single strand of sympathy towards him.

At best, he was afraid of him scaring Luo Qiuman with his bird exposed, thus Qi Xingchen stopped the bodyguards in time and did not let them strip Zhou Yu of the very last cloth covering his shame.

The situation gradually calmed down; when Qi Xingchen saw Zhou Yu pinned to the ground by the bodyguards and could not budge, he turned to comfort Qi Yuji: “Jie, don’t be angry anymore, it’s not worth getting angry with him.”

“You stay out of it, he actually dared to hit you just now! Today, lao niang must settle…… Wait, Xingxing, what did you just call me?”

Qi Xingchen: “……”

“You called me jie?” Qi Yuji jumped three feet high with joy, “You called me jiejie, Xingxing called me jiejie!”

“Ever since you entered junior high, you have never called me jiejie again……” As Qi Yuji continued speaking, a layer of moisture started to surface at the rims of her eyes, “Xingxing, did you know how long I have waited for this line?”

Qi Xingchen looked at the girl who was one head shorter in front of him. Just now, when Qi Yuji rushed forward, every word and sentence was blaming Zhou Yu for raising his fists against her younger brother, and not a single bit of him cheating her of her money and feelings was brought up.

He was merely punched once; Qi Yuji who was involved in this relationship was then the biggest victim.

But when the incident broke out, Qi Yuji did not think about herself from the start but rather had placed him first.

What a selfless familial love.

Qi Xingchen then subconsciously called out “Jie”.

Zhou Yu was still hugging himself and howling in pain, thus he did not hear the conversation on this side. Continuing to stand around someone else’s drying yard was inappropriate and indecent; Qi Xingchen deflected her question: “Let’s go back and take a break for now.”

Qi Yuji also did not press him, her eyes brimming with tears: “Okay, I’ll listen to you, I’ll listen to you entirely!”

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Qi Xingchen brought Qi Yuji to Old Tie’s house. The Zeng Er’s house compound was full of cameras; Qi Yuji was already captured on camera just now, if she could have slightly less exposure to cameras, it was still less exposure.

Old Tie and Zeng Er were next-door neighbours. Qi Yuji kept sobbing because of that address of “jiejie“, making Qi Xingchen tweak his ears and scratch his cheeks in a fluster, not knowing how to communicate with her. It was only when he gave her the presents he bought in Denmark, then did the Young Lady Qi’s emotions change from a sky full of thunderstorms to a sunny one.

Qi Yuji hugged the bag, fondling it admiringly; she fiddled with it while using the tip of her shoe to kick at Zhou Yu who had both his hands trussed behind his back by the bodyguards: “How do we settle him? I was really blind in the beginning, if not, I wouldn’t have made this much of a mess.”

How to settle…… This problem was a bit of a thorny one.

Qi Xingchen furrowed his brow, when the phone suddenly rang. It was Director Zhao.

Without needing to guess, Qi Xingchen already knew that the earlier incident of Qi Yuji shredding the scumbag with her bare hands had spread to Director Zhao’s ears. He told the bodyguards to take good care of Qi Yuji and rushed back to the Zeng family compound at top speed.