Lin Qingping and Gu Juncheng

Chapter 305 Go find Gu Juncheng!

When the police came to invite her, Lin Qingping had no choice but to go to the police station to satisfy her curiosity.

When Chen Xia saw her, his eyes lit up, and he seemed very happy.

Lin Qingping: ??? Please, we are enemies!!!

When Lin Qingping arrived at the police station, she finally learned what had happened.

Chen Xia, a professional backup dancer at a dance hall, was arrested. At the police station, she tried to gain sympathy and get someone to bail her out.

Lin Qingping was stunned.

What is this operation?

Why was she chosen to protect him?!

"Chen Xia, are you out of your mind?" Lin Qingping snapped. "Why don't you go find Gu Juncheng? Go find him! What do I have to do with you?!"

Chen Xia was very calm at the moment. "I looked, but I couldn't find him. He's not at school."

Lin Qingping rolled her eyes so hard they almost reached the sky!

What's wrong with Chen Xia's thinking? He went to find her even when he wasn't at school!

"And in this huge capital city, you're the only person I know—" Chen Xia began to whine tearfully, "What am I going to do if you don't take care of me, waaaah..."

Lin Qingping was truly dumbfounded and learned something new. With her sleeve being tugged at like that, her eyes widened in disbelief, and she even forgot to pull her clothes back.

"Bottle, sob sob..." Chen Xia forced out a few tears. "I didn't want to either. I was deceived and led astray. I just wanted to find a good job. People lied to me, saying they had good jobs, but they wanted me to work as a dancer. I refused, and they even beat me up. Look..."

Chen Xia rolled up his sleeves, and sure enough, there were several marks on his arm.

"Bottle, I'm a victim too... Bottle, please, save me, save me, you're all I have..."

Lin Qingping felt completely stunned, and it took her a while to recover from the shock. She forcefully pulled her sleeve back, saying, "No, Chen Xia, where do you get the nerve to come looking for me?!"

"What's wrong with that?" Chen Xia looked pitiful. "I'm the victim, I didn't do anything wrong... Besides, who else do I have besides you?"

Lin Qingping turned and left, waving her hand as she went, "Go find whoever you want, but don't come looking for me! We have absolutely nothing in common, so don't bother me!"

"Bottle!" Chen Xia suddenly burst into tears. "If you don't care about me—then no one will care about me—I have no relatives or friends in the capital—I'm just a weak woman who has been harmed by bad people—what am I going to do—"

The way she cried was like singing; the tone was familiar to Lin Qingping. Back in her hometown, you could hear it from two or three miles away!

The more someone sings like that, the more they're acting!

Lin Qingping remained unmoved until Chen Xia called out from behind, "Lin Qingping, save me, and I'll tell you a secret."

Lin Qingping subconsciously stopped in her tracks.

"About Chengzi."

Gu Juncheng's secret?

In fact, Lin Qingping felt that she vaguely knew something, and she would get angry whenever she thought about it, but it was all just her guess...

She turned around and faced Chen Xia.

Chen Xia smiled shamelessly at her, "Deal?"

Lin Qingping spent most of the morning at the police station, so she couldn't teach her class anyway, but she did manage to get Chen Xia released.

The deposit paid resulted in Chen Xia writing an IOU.

Although it's uncertain whether the IOU has any credibility with Chen Xia, Lin Qingping would never act as her guarantor. Chen Xia's character is unreliable, and she doesn't want to affect Lin Qingping herself.

As Chen Xia left the police station, she clutched her stomach, which was rumbling loudly.

"Bottle—" After this morning, Chen Xia called Lin Qingping very affectionately.

Lin Qingping felt like she was going to throw up her dinner from the night before. "Stop, stop! You're already out, stop acting."

"But I'm hungry..." Chen Xia said, clutching her stomach, "I haven't eaten anything since last night..."

Lin Qingping waved her hand dismissively, "You're already out. Finish what you need to say and then go wherever you want!"

"But Chengzi's secret is definitely worth the price of a meal!" Chen Xia blinked her eyes, revealing an innocent expression.

Lin Qingping really felt pain in her eyes, "I already..."

"Don't tell me you've already paid my deposit; I gave you an IOU for that money," Chen Xia interrupted her.

Lin Qingping: ...

“If I don’t pay it back, just take the IOU to Chengzi and he’ll definitely give it to you.” A sly glint flashed in Chen Xia’s eyes.

Upon hearing this, Lin Qingping knew the conversation was over!

"Hey, hey, don't be angry!" Chen Xia pulled her back. "I was just joking, can't you take that kind of joke?"

Lin Qingping turned around, her face filled with anger, "Chen Xia..."

"Stop talking, stop talking! I'll tell you about Chengzi right away. Come with me!" Chen Xiaonen pulled her to the small noodle shop next door.

Lin Qingping...

In a small restaurant like this, a bowl of noodles would only cost a few cents. She must be really starving!

What is the most bizarre thing in the world?

If it were yesterday, Lin Qingping would never have imagined that one day she would be sitting at the same table eating with Chen Xia!

Seeing that Chen Xia had ordered noodles, Lin Qingping didn't know what to say.

"Two bowls!" Chen Xia shouted, then said to Lin Qingping, "Both bowls are mine. Order more if you want some."

Lin Qingping: ? ? ? Is this a trap? Two bowls of noodles? But two bowls of noodles really are... very cheap.

Lin Qingping shook her head. "No, Chen Xia, you don't even have enough money for two bowls of noodles?"

Chen Xia glared at her, "Don't be so stingy! I'll just write you another IOU for the money for two bowls of noodles. When I'm rich, I'll treat you to Peking duck, okay?"

"I don't need it." She didn't want to eat noodles either. "Just tell me already."

"Can't I eat my fill first?!" Chen Xia actually had a point.

The noodles were served quickly; Chen Xia finished a bowl of egg noodles in just a few bites. She only slowed down when she ate her second bowl of shredded pork noodles, saying as she ate, "Chengzi's divorce from you has nothing to do with me."

Lin Qingping was not shocked.

She knew it had nothing to do with Chen Xia.

“I admit that when I first came to the capital, I did have the idea of ​​sticking to Chengzi, but he didn’t mean it that way.” Chen Xia slurped up a big mouthful of noodles.

"You also went astray back then?" Lin Qingping remembered that Gu Juncheng had protected her once, when he bought her a coat.

Chen Xia sighed, "I really went astray that time!"

"So this time it's fake?" Lin Qingping could tell from how skillfully she acted!

Chen Xia was taken aback, realizing her slip of the tongue, but having been through so much these past few days, she had become quite the seasoned pro, and immediately put on a playful smile, "Does it really matter whether it's true or false?"

After taking another bite of noodles, she said, "However, I was really deceived back then. I came to the capital alone, with no relatives or friends. I wanted to find Chengzi, but I didn't know where to look. I knew his school, but I couldn't get in. I sent someone to deliver a message, but I still couldn't find him. I did know where you went to school, but I waited and waited behind your school, and Chengzi never showed up. You definitely wouldn't talk to me."

“I ran away from home without paying much. If I kept wandering around, I wouldn’t even have enough to eat. So I wanted to find a job. Someone introduced me to a job as a waiter, and the pay was pretty high.”

"I thought being a waiter would be fine, I could survive first, and there's so much salary to be had. They even told me that if the customers were happy, they would give me extra money, which would be mine. So I went there happily."

"When I got to that place, I was terrified. It was so beautiful, with big colorful lights spinning and flashing. It almost scared me. The men and women inside were dressed so beautifully, dancing together. It really startled me."

"My job is to serve drinks to the guests. Haha, back then I really thought it was just about pouring drinks, but when I got there I realized..." Chen Xia glanced at Lin Qingping, a little embarrassed, and said, "Do you understand?"

Lin Qingping has a soul inside her that has lived a whole life; what doesn't she understand? She's seen far more amazing things than this!

But when Chen Xia saw that she didn't speak, he thought she didn't understand. "You definitely don't understand. You're so lucky. Where have you ever suffered like this? Anyway, it's all bad stuff. I won't go into details with you. If Chengzi knew I was telling you these dirty things, he'd kill me!"

Lin Qingping: ? ? What does that mean? She can't even hear about these things? Who made that rule?

“My luck was just bad. Not long after I started working there, I ran into two drunk guys who were very rude to me… well, you know, really rude…” Chen Xia stammered. “In that private room, the two men took off all my clothes. To make matters worse, the police came and took everyone in the room away. I told them I was the victim, and then I needed someone to vouch for me. In the whole capital, I only knew you and Chengzi, so I told the police Chengzi’s name and school.”

“This time, I found Chengzi quite easily. He came to vouch for me and even paid a deposit. My clothes were all taken off, and I didn’t remember putting them back on when I was taken away. He even bought me a new outfit and then wanted to find me a decent job, so I went to Old Zheng’s shop.” Chen Xia suddenly smiled bitterly. “I even caught a cold. Lin Qingping, have you ever experienced having a fever of 40 degrees Celsius and not having money for medicine? I went to the hospital to see a doctor, and when it came time to pay for the medicine, I didn’t have enough money on me to buy just one item.”

"I don't know how Chengzi found out later. Old Zheng probably told him. He came and asked me what happened. What could I possibly do? Lin Qingping, you don't understand. After my divorce, I went back to my brother and sister-in-law's house, and I became a thorn in their side. I would get scorned for even eating one more bite of food. The reason I came to the capital was because I couldn't stay in my hometown anymore. They wanted to marry me off to a widower who was almost sixty years old! Do you know how old he is? And he's poor!"

Chen Xia gulped down a bowl of noodle soup, choked, and coughed for a while before continuing, "I told Chengzi about my situation, and Chengzi went to get me some medicine. Suddenly, I saw hope. I felt that Chengzi still cared about our past relationship. So, I started to cause trouble. Every time he left, I forced him to come see me every few days, or I would kill myself in front of him. I was thinking that one day when he came, I would have sex with him. That way, given his character, I would definitely have him under my control, and I would have a backer in the capital."

Lin Qingping listened to these absurd remarks, but then she realized that since Chen Xia had said them, they weren't surprising.

"Don't look at me like that," Chen Xia scoffed. "I know you look down on me. You're a college student, you own a shop, you're rich. How could you understand how hard life is for someone like me? How can I survive without scheming and planning for myself? Unlike you, you're so lucky!"

"No! Don't blame your shamelessness on fate. My starting point is the same as yours, a small mountain village, starting out toil in the fields. What happened later was the path I chose!" Lin Qingping couldn't stand Chen Xia's excuses anymore. "Get to the point!"

Chen Xia retorted, "That's right! I chose the wrong path! I should have chosen Chengzi instead of listening to my family and choosing that guy from town! You're lucky to be where you are today because you married Chengzi!"

Lin Qingping felt that there was no way to communicate with her. She actually believed that a woman must rely on a man to achieve anything, which was fundamentally incompatible with her values, so there was no need to waste words.

"So what? Why didn't you stay with him later?" It's no surprise that Chen Xia, such a pragmatic woman, would abandon Gu Juncheng because of his blindness, but in the end, she didn't.

Chen Xia rolled her eyes at her. "I would like to be with him, but he has to want me! I forced him to come see me, and I even pretended to be familiar with him in front of you and teased you. Do you remember that time at your shop? I don't know what he said to you, but he cooperated with me to make you angry, right? I thought to myself, he's on my side, so there must be a chance, right? But in the end, he told me to focus on my work and not to think about anything else, and that he wouldn't come see me again."

“I was thinking to myself, was I not pushing him hard enough? So I pushed him even harder. I even staged a suicide attempt, but he still didn’t grant my wish. He just told me that besides growing up together, there was nothing between us, that I was no different from those other boys, and that now that we’re all grown up, he doesn’t remember anything from when we were kids. He told me to behave myself and that there was absolutely no possibility between us.” Chen Xia glared at Lin Qingping. “Tell me, what hope do I have? Later, I worked for Lao Zheng, but it was pointless, and I didn’t earn much money. Besides, Chengzi never came to Lao Zheng’s place again, so I quit.”

Lin Qingping sneered, "This time, you deliberately slipped up, didn't you?"

"That's not important, Lin Qingping." Chen Xia waved her hand. "What's important is that with this job, I get to meet a lot of rich people. You have no idea what kind of people I'm in contact with! Besides, I get to wear nice clothes, eat good food, and I can buy whatever I want at the Capital Department Store!"

"Really?" Lin Qingping stared at the bowl of noodles in front of her, which was completely empty of soup. "So you can't even afford two bowls of noodles?"

Chen Xia smiled and said, "Live for today! Of course, I should enjoy the money I earn, otherwise why would I earn it?"

Lin Qingping was speechless...

"Is that all you've said?" She had been listening to Chen Xia's rambling for a long time, and all she heard was him saying that life was hard.

"Here's the important part!" Chen Xia blinked. "Didn't you two get divorced? You hate me so much because you think I broke you up? Let me tell you, no, not at all! So, you're really silly. I'm just trying to make you angry, and you're so angry that you want to divorce him. Now I'm making things clear for you, so you should hurry up and remarry him!"

The divorce was deliberately orchestrated by Gu Juncheng, and Lin Qingping knew this all along.

She lost money in this deal with Chen Xia.

Just consider it paying to hear a story!

“Oh, right.” Chen Xia became smug. “Do you know what happened after you paid me to take care of the blind Gu Juncheng?”