Chapter 16 - Only Me

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Chu Yu drank the soy milk. Its taste wasn't much, but it moistened his throat.

He thought again, maybe this is common?

Just like his mother who needed to wear a professional suit while sitting in the office strategizing, but also sometimes changed into luxurious, elegant evening dresses, all in order to hold up a wine glass and chat cheerfully and wittily under mutual deception.

Each environment required its own method for survival.

Maybe on Qingchuan Road, if one didn't fight or use violence, and wasn't fiercer than others, they would be bullied and wouldn't survive.

Wei Guanglei specially grabbed a pair of serving chopsticks and a clean bowl, then picked up a few pieces of beef and put them in front of Chu Yu. "You've barely eaten. Look at Zhu Zhifei, if you don't grab it, no meat will be left in the pot!"

Chu Yu wasn't very good at rejecting the kindness of others, but he'd only just drank Lu Shi's blood and had no appetite. He simply couldn't eat so much meat.

While he was conflicted, a hand stretched over from the side and took the whole dish of beef away.

Wei Guanglei was baffled. "Lu-Ge, if you want beef there's still some in the pot. I'll get you a ladle so you can fish them out, this is-"

"Too much, he can't eat it."

Lu Shi explained and placed the beef in front of himself.

As soon as this sentence was uttered, Zhu Zhifei directly choked on the soy milk which went down the wrong pipe. He turned sideways and covered his mouth as he coughed intensely.

The serving chopsticks in Wei Guanglei's hand almost fell to the ground.

"Ai, so that's it, I see." Wei Guanglei gradually returned to earth and faced Chu Yu, who was similarly wearing a dumbfounded expression, to say, "Then- then whatever you want to eat, just pick it up, there's no need to be polite."

Chu Yu swallowed the cucumber piece in his mouth. "Um, okay."

The dishes were consumed very quickly. Wei Guanglei was wearing a sleeveless camo shirt, and his exposed arms and shoulders looked sturdy and strong. Naturally, his appetite would be large.

What surprised Chu Yu was the seemingly tall and thin Zhu Zhifei who wore glasses, appearing refined. He didn't expect that when it came to eating and drinking, his appetite would actually be on par with Wei Guanglei's.

The two of them were like a hurricane that quickly wiped clean everything off the table.

Most of the beer cans in the case under the table were gone too.

Chu Yu didn't drink alcohol, and instead, quietly nibbled at fruits as he listened to them chat. Lu Shi rarely spoke so most of the conversation was just Wei Guanglei and Zhu Zhifei talking.

"That new auto shop that opened on the street over couldn't stop the three of us, so they schemed of straightforwardly disabling Laozi to force my family into taking the initiative to move out of Qingchuan Road. Those shitheads lacked a fix up, so after beating and sorting them into obedience, they didn't dare mess around anymore."

Wei Guanglei finished the remaining beer in his can and threw away the empty tin. "It was also fortunate that Lu-Ge was there, otherwise we'd only be able to rely on the two of us to stay warm."

Zhu Zhifei smiled and said, "Exactly, my glasses were almost fucking broken!" He finished eating the last piece of mutton. "Shitou, haven't you been watching, did that store finally shut down?"

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