AM Chapter 38

The plastic bag holding the groceries was almost completely torn, spilling seafood and bloody fresh meat all over the living room and dining room floors. Some vegetable leaves drifted onto the sofa, while others stuck to the wall lamps in the dining room.

The majority of the leafy greens were still stuffed into a thicker plastic bag that was less damaged. Chen Mo grabbed it and tossed it onto the dining table.

With a blank expression, Chen Mo picked up a bunch of stemmed greens, turned, and forcefully smashed the vegetables, one by one, against the frosted glass sliding door of the kitchen.

The person hiding inside was still verbally provoking him.

The other person’s mouth was relentlessly chattering, occasionally spitting out swear words, and sometimes, as if driven mad, erupting into strange laughter. Chen Mo ignored the taunts and jeers, their volume halved by the door, as if he hadn’t heard them at all.

He dragged a chair from the dining table and sat on it backward outside the frosted door, resting his arms on the chair back, quickly scrolling through his phone without really processing anything.

He knew that the Yu guy had called Liang Jingren. He didn’t know when Liang Jingren would be back. At this moment, he and the Yu guy shared a rare common feeling—they were both anxiously waiting for Liang Jingren to return.

Half an hour later, the villa door, repeatedly battered by the storm, was finally opened.

Liang Jingren, soaked by the rain, entered the house and was stunned to find that the inside was even more of a mess than his leaf-covered suit.

“What the hell is going on…” Liang Jingren walked into the living room and turned to see Chen Mo standing up from the chair with a dimmed expression.

Seeing Liang Jingren walking towards him, Chen Mo’s eyes slowly focused, and his pupils regained their brightness.

He opened his mouth and said, “Liang Jingren, I’m really angry. This guy broke into our house for no reason and even called himself the master…”

But Liang Jingren didn’t seem to be listening to him at all. Even though he was standing in front of him, he turned his head to look at the kitchen door.

The unappeased anger in Chen Mo’s heart resurfaced and intensified. He wanted to shout, but Liang Jingren shouted at the shrinking turtle inside, “Liang Jingyu, get the hell out here!”

“Explain the situation to me right now!”

“What the hell are you doing! Making my house a mess!”

Although Liang Jingren was scowling and cursing, the way he was scolding was incredibly cool in Chen Mo’s eyes.

The sliding door, which had been hit by vegetable leaves countless times, finally moved. It opened a crack wide enough to reveal half a face.

“I didn’t do it. Take a look at who’s throwing vegetable leaves around,” the person said.

Liang Jingren glanced at Chen Mo. Chen Mo had been tossing a vegetable stalk to relieve stress, but now, with a “puff” sound, he missed it, and it fell to the ground.

Liang Jingren stared at the face for a while, then said in a commanding tone, “Come out.”

The eyes in the crack slanted toward the direction Chen Mo was standing, “Make him go away first.”

“Chen Mo,” Liang Jingren called his name.

Chen Mo crossed his arms, “Hmph,” and turned to walk toward the sofa in the living room.

The long sofa faced away from the kitchen. After Chen Mo sat down, he didn’t see Liang Jingren coming over for a long time, so he got up and walked back a few steps.

He heard Liang Jingren chatting with the despicable person who had come out:

“What are you doing here for no reason? Where’s Little Zhuang? Where did Little Zhuang go?” Liang Jingren asked.

“I caught a big fish today! You have to come and see it later! Little Zhuang went to the main store to check the accounts. After all, it’s rare to come here, and this place is close to the main store! He’ll be back around lunchtime~”

“Do you know it’s pouring rain outside! You still told Little Zhuang to run around in this weather!?”

“Oh, it’s okay. He drives much more carefully than I do…”

Halfway through the sentence, Liang Jingyu’s voice faded, and he gradually closed his mouth, but the corners of his lips were slightly raised—this wasn’t a habit brought about by a smiling lip, because paired with his expression at this moment, anyone could see that it was a kind of sneer.

Liang Jingren turned back slightly puzzled and found that Chen Mo had silently stood behind him.

“Brother Ren,” Chen Mo called out, “Can you kick this guy out?” Chen Mo stared at him with a faint gaze, asking him in a tone that allowed no room for discussion.

Liang Jingren was still confused. He stood in the middle, looking left and right. While looking around, he finally remembered that the house had become a mess like it had experienced a storm because of these two people.

He tried his best to suppress his annoyance and said, “What are you two doing? This is my house! Logically, you two should get out!”

Chen Mo pouted slightly, putting on a pitiful and aggrieved look as he looked at Liang Jingren. He knew that he was the one who caused the biggest mess, but he didn’t want Liang Jingren to come down on him now, especially in front of that despicable person.

On the other hand, that despicable person was still smiling as he put his arm around Liang Jingren’s shoulders, saying, “Don’t be angry~ I’m just playing around with him~ We were just discussing college application choices, right~ Little Mo?”

The ends of that person’s hair, which hadn’t completely dried, hung in front of Liang Jingren. Chen Mo stared intently at the guy who was deliberately leaning his head on Liang Jingren’s shoulder and posing intimately with Liang Jingren.

“What are your choices? Haha, I know!”

Chen Mo remembered this topic. He hadn’t paid attention to him at the time.

“Liang Jingren is your first choice, right? But you still have second, third, and fourth choices~”

He hated this topic.

“Actually, you also know that Ren is a top-tier school that you can’t reach, right? But you’re not willing to give up. You want to try and seize every opportunity, to be reckless…”

Perhaps what this smiling lip braided man said was right, but…

“But reality is always cruel. No matter how many times you try, you just can’t get the score you can’t get! So I advise you to give up as soon as possible.”

Heh. Chen Mo clenched his fists.

“Oh, right, Ren, do you know,” the despicable person said, wrapping his arms around Liang Jingren’s neck and smiling as he reported, “This guy once listed me on his choice list too~”

“Enough,” Liang Jingren looked disgusted as he pried that despicable person’s hands off him, “Don’t call me ‘Ren’ anymore, it’s disgusting. Also, stop expressing your college entrance exam fantasies, no one wants to listen…”

“No way!” The despicable person interrupted Liang Jingren, “We’re so loving, of course, we have to put on a big show in front of outsiders!”

As he said that, he wrapped himself around Liang Jingren again, smiling in a vicious manner, and then, facing the young man who was only clenching his fists and trembling, he let out a curse-like murmur from his mouth that was gaping like a demon:

“What do you say, darling?”

Instantly, Chen Mo went crazy. He rushed forward and grabbed the only head of black hair he could see, pulling that smiling head away from Liang Jingren—

“Go to hell, you bastard!!!”

“Ahhh! That hurts! You bastard! Let go, ahhh—Liang Jingren! Liang Jingren!!”

Chen Mo tightly grabbed the despicable person’s hair but couldn’t stop his screaming mouth.

The heart-wrenching cries of “Liang Jingren” hit him in the face at close range, and Chen Mo thought with a ferocious expression: That’s right, the target is wrong, he should tear his mouth!

In an instant, Chen Mo’s right hand released the head of hair, and two fingers came together, preparing to violently poke into the barking mouth.

However, his raised hand was immediately grabbed by Liang Jingren, and within half a second, he was easily twisted around, taking his entire arm and half his body with it.

After his hair was released, that despicable person took three steps back, bumped into the dining table, and immediately grabbed a handful of vegetables from the table and threw them forward—

The vegetable leaves hit Chen Mo, and Chen Mo was furious, his orifices smoking with anger, wishing he had a knife in his hand to rush up and draw blood!

But at this moment, what made him the most uncomfortable was that the biggest obstacle in front of him was actually Liang Jingren!

Liang Jingren clearly saw that despicable person’s actions, but he resolutely stepped to the side to block him, unwilling to let go of the hand holding his wrist.

“Why are you stopping me! Are you being so partial to him! As expected, the feelings between you are sweeter and deeper, after all, he even calls you ‘darling’!” Chen Mo hysterically balled his other unrestrained hand into a fist and punched him.

Liang Jingren hugged him, frowning slightly, and said, “Chen Mo, calm down. He’s my brother, my biological brother.”

Chen Mo, regardless of everything, looked up to face him and roared, “So what if he’s your biological brother! You can sleep with your son, so what can’t you do with your biological brother!!”

Ugh!!!!

The moment Liang Jingren’s hands pinched his neck, Chen Mo’s nerves reflexively rolled his eyes back.

As his pupils slowly returned to the center, he encircled Liang Jingren’s bulging hands with his own, looking at the face in front of him that he had once desperately hoped to see up close like this, and thought:

Ha… Did I hit the mark?… Why are you looking at me with such an angry and painful expression?

I’m the one who’s the angriest and in the most pain!!

He glared back with a rebellious and angry expression, but it provoked Liang Jingren, who was pinching his neck, to double his force.

Ah… Huff……………. Heh… Not at all… Not planning to… Let go…

Breathing… Ha erh… Help…

It seems… It seems like, I’m about to…

Suffocate…

Don’t, are you kidding me?

Chen Mo was so uncomfortable that he leaned his head back and squinted his eyes. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Liang Jingren still tightly biting his back teeth, with no intention of letting go.

What to do? Should I beg for mercy now? But… My voice…

It seems…

I can’t make a sound.

His vision gradually blurred, but his eyes opened wide again. Chen Mo tried to wedge a thumb between his red neck and the knuckles he had kissed at night.

Huh? In front of me… A snow screen on the TV?… In this day and age… Does anyone still watch… TV…

Ha… This kind of near-death gallows humor… Would it make Liang Jingren laugh now…

Chen Mo clenched his teeth and lowered his head, using force in his chin. When he looked down, he saw clearly again the face of the owner of the hands that were pinching his neck, wanting to kill him: He didn’t seem to be kidding.

At the same time, Chen Mo also heard someone constantly calling this person’s name beside him: “Liang Jingren! Liang Jingren!”

“Liang Jingren, you’re crazy! Stop it!”

Only that annoying voice was getting further and further away.

Liang Jingren… Liang Jingren…

Brother Ren…

Am I… Going to die…?

I never thought… I would die in your hands… Ren… Brother…

A snow screen flashed again in front of his bloodshot eyeballs. This time, he discovered an unusual reflection hidden in the white snow.

It was a glimmer of light flowing in the eyes of the person who was trying to kill him by pinching his neck to death.

Chen Mo had never seen Liang Jingren cry.

He saw Liang Jingren’s tears for the first time when Liang Jingren was pinching his neck.

Chen Mo thought: I really deserve to die.

At this point, his hands drooped down, no longer struggling.