Chapter 094: A Confession to My Roommate

"What do you think you are doing!"

The four men who had come in shouted at Liu Sheng, who was standing on the table.

Then one of them turned to Yang He and said, "I just heard from them that you were dragged here by one man." He pointed at Liu Sheng and asked Yang He, "Who is he?"

"My wife's younger brother," Yang He said lightly.

The man who had spoken first laughed. "Ha! So the little brother-in-law caught you in the act. Let us see how you explain this to your wife when you get home."

Liu Sheng grew even angrier at that and snapped at Yang He, "These are your coworkers?"

"We are friends. Friends who grew up together!" the man said again.

Liu Sheng's face darkened completely. He wore an expression of fierce anger as he said to Yang He, "And this is the happiness you promised Xiaoya? Running around every day with a pack of worthless loafers to places like this red-light den!"

"What the hell is wrong with your mouth? I only held back because you're Yang He's little brother-in-law. Say one more load of nonsense and I'll kill you!" the man cursed at Liu Sheng.

Still standing on the table, Liu Sheng spun and kicked the speaker straight in the face.

Seeing one of their own get hit, the others rushed forward to grab Liu Sheng and teach him a lesson. Just then, Yang He shouted, "Stop! Give me some face, brothers."

When the others let go of Liu Sheng, Yang He went on, "Liu Sheng, I know you have money, but this is Chongshi, not your Xinghai City. Leave. For your sister's sake."

"Leave? No way. He kicked me, and now he wants to just walk out?" The man with the bleeding nose clutched at his face and shouted, "Take him down!"

The others wanted to move, but Yang He had pleaded for restraint, so they were caught between fighting and not fighting, circling in place without knowing what to do.

"What the hell, you didn't hear me? Move, damn it! Don't let this kid get away!" the man shouted again.

This time, Liu Sheng did not wait for anyone else to act. He strode over, picked up a chair from the private room, and hurled it straight at the man. After that, the others could no longer hold back and all surged toward Liu Sheng.

At once, Liu Sheng opened the ability in his ears and listened to every movement. Against the four of them at once, he did not take the slightest loss.

"To me, brothers come first! Even if you are Xiaoya's younger brother, if you touch my brother, I won't let you off either!" Yang He said, and then he joined the fight as well.

Liu Sheng had not meant to use brutal force, but after hearing Yang He's words, he seized him by the hair and smashed his head against the wall again and again, each blow fiercer than the last. Anyone who rushed in to help Yang He got a kick for their trouble. Yet no one could get close to Liu Sheng, because he could hear every move they made; no matter where they attacked from, he met them with calm ease.

A waiter, drawn by the commotion, pushed the door open and came in. Before he could speak, Liu Sheng pointed at him and shouted, "Get out!"

The waiter, seeing how ferocious Liu Sheng looked, did not dare say a single word. He hurried to the private room Liu Sheng had been in and told Ren Xiadong and the others that their friend had gotten into a fight with someone.

When the waiter said Liu Sheng was fighting again, Old Nine stood up at once and said to the girls, "Come on, I'll show you how impressive I am so you don't think I'm just bragging."

By the time Ren Xiadong and the others arrived, Yang He was already lying on the floor, unable to move. Liu Sheng had just beaten down the last man.

Old Nine was the first to speak. "I didn't expect Liu Sheng to be this strong."

Liu Sheng dragged over a chair, sat down in front of Yang He, and said, "Brothers matter. Women don't matter much, but one's own woman still matters. Today I'll count this as giving you a warning. If it happens again, I won't let you off."

Liu Sheng got up and was about to leave with Ren Xiadong and the others. Ren Xiadong looked at Yang He lying on the floor and understood that this had something to do with Xiaoya again. Only Xiaoya could make Liu Sheng lose control like this.

Just as the four of them were leaving the private room, the KTV manager ran over and said, "I don't care about the fighting. But anything broken inside has to be paid for, or we'll call the police!"

"I won't give you a single cent. If you want money, go ask the man lying inside," Liu Sheng said without stopping, pointing at the manager.

Seeing that Liu Sheng was being so unreasonable, the manager hurriedly shouted to the waiters, "Stop them!"

The waiters moved toward Liu Sheng and the others, but Liu Sheng kept walking toward the door. As he walked, he pointed at the waiters coming his way and roared, "All of you get the hell out! Anyone who comes one step closer, don't blame me for being ruthless!"

The waiters, faced with Liu Sheng's bandit-like aura, did not dare move again. They could only stand there and watch the four of them leave.

After Liu Sheng and the others were gone, the manager was still shaken by the vicious air around Liu Sheng and could not recover for a long while. Yet from Liu Sheng's behavior, he could also see that Liu Sheng was no ordinary person. After something like that happened, he had shown no fear at all, as though everything were under his control.

With no other choice, the manager did not call the police. He only called an ambulance and sent Yang He and the others to the hospital, planning to seek compensation from the KTV after Yang He woke up.

At two in the morning, the school dormitories had long since locked their doors. On a small bridge near Chongshi Normal University, the four of them sat at the bridgehead drinking beer.

Liu Sheng held his phone and stared at Xiaoya's number, hesitating over whether to call her and tell her everything that had happened today.

Ren Xiadong said, "Forget it. It's their family matter. Don't forget, you still have Tang Xin."

After speaking, Ren Xiadong walked to the other side of the bridge and sat down beside Old Nine and Xiaojia.

"What's going on? Liu Sheng doesn't look right," Old Nine asked, watching Liu Sheng's unusual behavior.

When they had come out, Liu Sheng had been perfectly normal. During the fight, he had become wild and furious, as though he were a different person entirely: ruthless in his attacks, vicious in the way he treated people. Yet once they reached the bridgehead, he turned into someone deeply sorrowful. Old Nine and Xiaojia, who had no idea what was going on, could not make sense of it. They also knew that today's Liu Sheng was acting erratically because he was troubled by something, and not a small matter either.

To Old Nine's question, Ren Xiadong only shook his head and said nothing, because Xiaoya was a feeling Liu Sheng could never erase, and also a shadow he could never cast off.

Seeing Ren Xiadong shake his head with such sadness, Old Nine and Xiaojia did not ask further. They only looked at Liu Sheng, sitting alone by the bridge, and felt how lonely he seemed.

At that moment, Xiaojia, with no sense of timing at all, asked, "Doesn't Liu Sheng have the big star Tang Xin? Why is he still like this?"

Ren Xiadong quickly made a shushing gesture at Xiaojia, then glanced at Liu Sheng. Seeing that Liu Sheng was already walking toward them, Ren Xiadong hurriedly turned back and said to Old Nine and Xiaojia, "Don't ask anything. Don't say anything."

"I heard you. Why can't I ask? Why can't I say anything?" Liu Sheng said as he swayed toward them.

He sat down between the three of them and spoke again. "You don't need to ask. I'll tell you. I've kept it bottled up for too long. I also really want someone to listen to me properly."

Then Liu Sheng told them everything: how he had met Xiaoya, how they had ended up together, and even how he had personally watched Xiaoya being humiliated by others.

"What happened to that bastard Wan Jiangfei who bullied Xiaoya in the end?" Old Nine asked angrily.

"What I just said, and what I'm about to say, you only need to know it yourselves. Once you get back to school, not a single word of it leaves your mouths," Liu Sheng told Old Nine and Xiaojia.

Xiaojia and Old Nine both nodded. Then Liu Sheng said, "I ended up buying Wan Jiangfei's family company. The Wang family lost everything and lived a life worse than that of ordinary people."

"Satisfying! From a rich young heir to a beggar. Serves him right!" Xiaojia said. Then, suddenly realizing something, he hurriedly asked, "You just said you bought their company. So what exactly are you? If your family really only had one hotpot restaurant, you could never have done this."

Liu Sheng drained the beer in his hand, opened another bottle, and asked Old Nine and Xiaojia, "Do you want to follow me from now on? I mean follow me while we're at school, and after graduation too."

Liu Sheng knew very well that with his own talent and present ability, he could not accomplish anything truly big. Otherwise, the Liuyao World Animation Company would have already grown far larger. On top of that, he had only just entered Huayong. If he wanted a lasting foothold there, he needed his own people.

Old Nine and Xiaojia suddenly realized that Liu Sheng was no ordinary man, and they also understood that Ren Xiadong was no ordinary man either. Whatever else might be said, Liu Sheng was at least already the owner of a company. Following him could only bring benefits, not harm. So the two of them nodded again at the same time.

They were also utterly loyal to Liu Sheng; that much had been clear from the fight on the sports field that day.

So Liu Sheng continued, "Ren Xiadong and I own an animation company in Xinghai City. I'm the boss, and he's the vice president."

Seeing the two of them staring in shock, Liu Sheng asked Old Nine, "Do you know who you were fighting on the field?"

Old Nine shook his head, saying he did not know.

"I like your attitude, not knowing anything even when disaster is already at your doorstep," Liu Sheng said with a teasing smile. "The man you beat is called Yang Yu, the young master of Chongshi's Yang Family Film and Television Company."

Old Nine first froze, then his voice began to tremble with fear. He asked Liu Sheng in a panic, "What am I supposed to do? He's so rich and powerful. Isn't he going to kill me? Stop smiling!"

Looking at the frightened Old Nine, Ren Xiadong said, "I have to say this. No matter how powerful that son of a bitch Yang Yu is, wasn't he still the one under your feet?"

Old Nine calmed down for a moment, then said, "No matter what, I got a good beating out of him today. If he comes looking for trouble, I'll accept it. As long as he leaves me with my life!"

At that moment, both Liu Sheng and Ren Xiadong felt respect for Old Nine. A true man dares to act and to own what he has done; he can bend, and he can also stand tall.

"All right, don't worry. After all, I'm still the boss of Liuyao World Film and Television Company, and Ren Xiadong is still the vice president. The two of us are also business administrators in Chongshi," Liu Sheng said.

"Liuyao? Liu Sheng?" Xiaojia thought for a moment, then hurriedly asked, "You are that legendary Liu Sheng, the great director who conquered the tropical rainforest film?"

Liu Sheng nodded. Old Nine also asked, "And you're also the boss of Liuyao World Animation Company, the world's top and most mysterious animation designer?"

Liu Sheng nodded again.

Old Nine said in disbelief, "My God. So Liu Sheng is actually my roommate, and he's even going to take me along with him."

But Xiaojia still had one more question. "What is an administrator?"

Liu Sheng did not hide anything. He told the two of them everything, and also told them to keep a low profile because he wanted to attend university as an ordinary person.

After daybreak, the four of them staggered drunkenly into Chongshi Normal University. When they returned to the classroom, Liu Sheng and Ren Xiadong still sat in the last row, ready to sleep it off. But just as the two of them had laid down, Counselor Fang came hurrying over and called them away.

Following Counselor Fang to the office building, they had not yet entered the Academic Affairs Office when they heard voices coming from inside.

"So you're the two little bastards who beat up my son?"

"Dad, there are still two more who haven't arrived yet."

"If they haven't arrived, then wait until they all get here. Beat them to death for me, damn it! They bullied my son just now and are tired of living!"

"General Manager Yang, they're just children, just students. Please calm down. Leave it to the school. We will definitely give General Manager Yang and your esteemed son a satisfactory explanation."

Liu Sheng and Ren Xiadong thought they had been called in because of their drinking, but it turned out to be Yang Yu and his father, General Manager Yang, who had come looking for them. They exchanged a smile. Liu Sheng said softly, "Saves me a trip."

"This just got interesting," Ren Xiadong said with a wicked grin.