Chapter 86: Zhao Xin’s Pressure
Chapter 86: Zhao Xin’s Pressure
"Mom, you… Thank you, mom. I… I am sorry for talking to you like that!"
Ling Yun apologized with guilt. She knew that her mother only wanted the best for her, but she could not accept the so-called happiness imposed on her.
But there was a silver lining after all in this. At least she finally changed her mother’s opinions. Her relationship with Ding Ning wouldn’t be objected by her anymore. However, Ding Ning, would he forgive her?
Oh, if she could make up her mind earlier, maybe her mother would have already accepted Ding Ning.
Chu Yunxiu stroked Ling Yun’s hair and sighed slightly. "My girl has grown up."
She suddenly felt a sense of relief that was lost and recovered; perhaps as her daughter said, happiness sometimes was as simple as that.
Chu Yunxiu couldn’t resist Ling Yun’s request to stay Ding Ning’s room but went back to her room helplessly to rest.
Ling Yun sat at the table and started eating the dishes, even if they were cold. While eating and remembering the bits and pieces of them together, this was a birthday banquet Ding Ning prepared for her. Every dish was full of Ding Ning’s affection for herself. She didn’t want to waste.
She picked up the phone several times wanting to dial the familiar number but didn’t have the courage.
She didn’t know how to explain to Ding Ning, who was as stubborn as a donkey. Trying to convince him was not that easy.
Ding Ning did not feel as lost as Liu Junwei had imagined. He didn’t show any signs of going to a bar to drink himself down but found a chain hotel to stay with a blank expression.
That made Liu Junwei somewhat unreconciled. Didn’t he really like Ling Yun? Why didn’t he react as he imagined after finding out being betrayed?
His scheme to make a film of Ding Ning sleeping with a woman after getting drunk fell through.
He was certainly not satisfied with an act of soft revenge that only made Ding Ning upset. He wanted to take away everything that Ding Ning had and make him lose all standing and reputation, once and for all.
On the sixth floor of the chain hotel, Ding Ning hid behind the curtain looking down at the Mercedes-Benz off-road that was parked in front of the hotel, trying to figure out his purpose of tracking him and his brows tightly wrinkled.
He soon became aware of being tracked in the distance by this guy after he left the housing estate, which made him quite sulked. He didn’t like this guy who seemed to be very hypocritical at the first impression.
What happened before made him feel very sad, but it was not as unacceptable as he imagined.
His anger came more from Ling Yun’s deception. After he turned away, he began to worry about whether he overreacted that Ling Yun would not stand it.
His feelings for Ling Yun were very complicated. If Ling Yun did not start to kiss him, he might not talk to her about love in this life but protect her like a best friend, watch her get married and have children, bless and pray for her, and be a good friend for her for the rest of her life, a good brother, a bestie.
Since he came to Ninghai alone five years ago, he met the long-legged girl who was only sixteen years old but laughed with magic and brought the family’s warmth to his trembling heart. From then on, he made her his best friend in his life.
This kind of feeling was precious to him who had no peer companion since he was a child.
He cherished the friendship between them. When Ling Yun and he broke through the window paper, his heart was both excited and confused.
Some people said that there was no absolute pure friendship between men and women. Ding Ning used to spare no glance for this.
As it turned out, it was still very reasonable. Ding Ning did grow an affection about Ling Yun, but Ling Yun was even more obsessed with him and gave him her first kiss.
He would not deny that he had a physiological impulse to Ling Yun. After all, he was a young man full of sap. Ling Yun was getting more and more beautiful and sexier. But falling in love with her always made him feel obstructed.
From best friends who talked to each other about everything to lovers, the rapid development of this relationship had made Ding Ning quite tangled.
The relationship between the two was closer than besties but less than lovers. It seemed there was always something missing for love. Perhaps a family was a better definition for them.
If there was one who Ding Ning did not want to hurt the most in this life, it must be Ling Yun. Therefore when Ling Yun confessed her feelings for him, as usual, he played a sidekick role who grinned and born everything. As long as she liked him, he would not care a scrap.
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Perhaps it was because of this complicated feeling after he calmed down from what happened tonight, Ding Ning didn’t get hysterically desperate or decadently corrupt. Instead, he forced himself to face it calmly.
Although he did not think that the guy who was called Brother Junwei by Ling Yun was a good guy, if Ling Yun really liked him, he would silently bless her and let her get the happiness she wanted.
He was not the kind of person who was full of jealousy. As long as that so-called Brother Junwei liked Ling Yun sincerely, Ding Ning would not say anything even if his character was a bit weird. After all, that was Ling Yun’s choice. He could only suggest. But he had no right to interfere.
Although Liu Junwei did not say much at that time, Ding Ning was keenly aware of a hint of hatred that he showed him.
If it was because of his hostility to Ding Ning as a rival in love, it was normal. But his hatred afforded much food for reflection.
Liu Junwei made him leave like a disowned dog in victory and followed him right away. How could he not get suspicious about his intention?
It was just that he couldn’t figure out anything that he had to do with this man, no matter how hard he tried. Not to mention that he had started a feud with him.
There was no love or hatred for no reason in this world. Why was this guy that hostile to him? This made Ding Ning puzzled.
Under the streetlights, the Mercedes-Benz off-road quietly stopped there, as if there were no one in the car. But Ding Ning knew that the guy had never got out of the car. He was in the car.
That made him very curious. What was that? Monitoring? Or a demonstration?
Ding Ning snorted and thought to himself, "Since you like to monitor, then I will play with you."
He took a shower and made a phone call, "Lao San, are you free? Come out. Let’s have a drink."
"Lao Liu, are you back? Oh man, you are very popular now. I will not be surrounded by your fan group when I drink with you, right."
The laughter from the phone made Ding Ning’s heart warm.
Although Ding Ning seemed to be harmless and smiling all the time in university, he had an indifference that kept people a thousand miles away behind his politeness. He was a person of noble indignation in many people’s eyes.
Among the six roommates in the dormitory, Lao San who was talking on the phone was on good terms with him. Lao San’s autonym was Zhao Xin, who was now the legal medical expert of the municipal public security bureau.
He was a man of character. His biggest hobby was reasoning and picking up girls. His famous saying was that "The dead can tell us the truth!"
Therefore after he got his master’s degree, he decisively gave up a better choice and went to be a legal medical expert without hesitation. It also caused a hot discussion in medical school.
Ding Ning laughed and taunted, "Don’t talk nonsense. Just tell me if you are coming or not."
"Hey! I want to go too. But I can’t do it. And I am still working overtime. There are three bodies needed to be dissected."
Zhao Xin complained incessantly.
This answer made Ding Ning somewhat surprised. This guy who had always been a maverick and said "Rather die than overwork" now also came to terms with reality?
"Don’t you always refuse to work overtime? What body can’t be dissected until tomorrow?"
"No, I wasn’t asked by my leader to work overtime. I offered to work overtime. The cause of death of these bodies is a bit interesting. I will tell you. But keep it a secret!"
Zhao Xin’s voice suddenly turned low. With a mysterious voice, he clearly wanted to tell Ding Ning some secret gossips, "There have been six murders in Ninghai in the past two days. And the way of death was extremely odd. The blood of the victims were all sucked up. Now there are rumors that there are vampires in Ninghai…"
Ding Ning’s mind was full of noise and did not pay attention to what Zhao Xin said after. His mind only echoed the word "vampire".
It had only been a few days, Chu Yunna couldn’t help but start to suck people’s people?
Ding Ning’s face turned pale. He felt sympathetic for Chu Yunna, but that did not mean that he could accept the fact that she harmed people.
That also made him somewhat self-blame. If it wasn’t that he procrastined Chu Yunna’s treatment, she would be able to keep herself from hurting people. After all, her nature was kind.
Chu Yunna? Chu Yunxiu? Ding Ning suddenly thought of a problem that he had always ignored.
Because he used to call Chu Yunxiu Aunt Chu, he subconsciously ignored that the difference between Chu Yunna and Chu Yunxiu was only one word.
However, as far as he knew, Chu Yunxiu did not have any sisters, and she was much older than Chu Yunna. They shouldn’t be sisters.
The Bone Demon, meaningly, Ling Yun’s father, stayed with Chu Yunna, was it a coincidence? Or because their names were similar that he loved Chu Yunna on account of Chu Yunxiu?
"Hey, Lao Liu, what’s wrong with you? Is the line disconnected? Hey, hey, are you still there?"
After he talked a lot, Zhao Xin shouted through the phone thinking that he lost connection because Ding Ning was quiet.
Ding Ning came to his sense and said, "Oh, I am listening. Since you have to work overtime, let’s talk again later. We will meet next time when we are free!"
"Meet my ass. But hey, Lao Liu, my sister wants to meet you. She super admires you. She will come to Ninghai in two days. I will call you when she arrives."
Zhao Xin had been showing off in front of Ding Ning for a long time that he had a super beautiful sister. Ding Ning had no doubt about that. After all, Zhao Xin was a handsome man at the best-looking student level. Therefore, his sister would definitely be also good-looking.
But this guy always worried about his sister marriage as if no one would want her. When Ding Ning got in the school, he was only 17 years old. But he already wanted to introduce his 13-years-old sister to Ding Ning. However, there was all thunder and no storm. Five years past, but Ding Ning didn’t get to meet her even after his graduation.
Ding Ning said with a funny voice, "No problem, I have been waiting for my dream lover. Don’t you fool me."
"Haha, I am telling you, Lao Liu. I wanted her to meet you. But she was too young. My parents didn’t trust her to leave home. She is coming to Ninghai to study soon. We are brothers, and we don’t let our own fertile water flow into others’ field. You need to hurry up before anyone take my sister."
Zhao Xin said with a profligate and unrestrained voice, which made Ding Ning feel speechless, "Okay, okay, okay. I have never seen any one’s brother like you, talking about your sister like this. Was your sister found in a trash bin by your parents?"
"Damn you. You were the one who was found in a trash bin. My sister has been very different from me since we were kids. She studies very well, and she’s tough. My parents always favored her from childhood. You don’t know how pressured I am to be her brother. Therefore, please do a favor for me and make her fall for you. Then I will be relieved."
Zhao Xin had a stomach full of bitterness. It was clear that his sister had cast a lot of struggles on him.
"Then I really want to see what kind of girl that can put you down."
Ding Ning was indeed a bit surprised. Zhao Xin was already an influential man in medical school. He got a master’s degree at the age of twenty-three. It was enough to be amazing. But his sister was way better than him. How good would his sister be?
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