Chapter 6: There Are So Many Lunatics in This World

His completely baffled mood still lingered.

The original host was clearly a fragile little white flower on the verge of collapse. Even if his personality was so weak it made people angry, there was absolutely no way he would deliberately hurt someone.

Now the original host had simply patted his butt and run off, but there were still many messes urgently waiting for Lin Jiangye to deal with.

Lin Yu’s accusation against him was clearly somewhat serious, he thought in distress.

Because harassing and insulting humans online was extremely vile in nature. It could land someone in prison.

For the sake of safety, Lin Jiangye had also secretly studied several human laws. He did not want to go to prison, so he typed a clarification—

[I never cursed at Lin Jingyao. I’ve never spoken to him. I wasn’t in the family group chat you all made back then.]

[It was me who didn’t want to add you to the group. Why are you blaming Xiao Yao? Is it because no one loves a malicious person like you, so you became jealous and deliberately seduced the young master of the Yu family to break his heart?! You stole your younger brother’s fiancé, and you still think you’re in the right?]

Lin Jiangye: …

This cheap eldest brother replied very quickly, but no matter how Lin Jiangye explained, Lin Yu’s responses were basically no different.

It was just the same few sentences over and over again, completely irrelevant to what he was saying.

There was no reasoning with him, so Lin Jiangye chose to give up communicating.

He turned on Do Not Disturb, then sent the request for help to Yu Wangxiao’s assistant. Afterward, he leaned back against his chair in exhaustion and sighed, “Being human is so hard…”

Across the desk, Li Liang nodded heavily, rubbing his prickly buzz cut as he chimed in, “You’re right. Being human really is hard… That Yu Lin seems kind of crazy. His name sounds a little familiar too. What exactly is his background? He won’t retaliate against me, will he?”

Jin Long said with great interest, “I searched his name online just now. Someone anonymously called him a lunatic. Can crazy people also get into A University?”

“It’s bipolar disorder,” Gu Jiu’an corrected. “No need to worry. We’re all university students. No matter what background Yu Lin has, he can’t touch us.”

The eldest son of the Gu family was infertile and had long since lost his power, while Gu Jiu’an’s father had failed to produce any more children. The entire family’s only hope for continuation was placed on Gu Jiu’an, so he had the confidence to remain so calm.

Although he had the identity of an illegitimate son, his mother had been deceived by a scumbag. After learning she had been lied to, she soon died of depression.

The Gu family knew they were in the wrong and did not announce this secret to the outside world. They merely brought Gu Jiu’an back and raised him under the care of his “legal mother.”

Not many people knew about these wealthy-family scandals. In everyday interactions, everyone tacitly avoided the topic, maintaining politeness and dignity.

Only Yu Lin spoke without restraint, scattering other people’s painful private matters in public just to vent his anger.

What a nasty personality. His soul must taste terrible… Lin Jiangye silently thought.

Li Liang soon cursed out exactly what he was thinking. “Even so, he shouldn’t randomly insult you. If he’s sick, he should go get treated!

“Jiuan-ge, you’re just too good-tempered. If he dared call me a bastard, I’d make his third leg fracture too!”

The more Li Liang cursed, the angrier he became. He was still brooding over what Yu Lin had said at the beginning.

Jin Long echoed him with a half-smile. “Hopefully there won’t be a next time. Otherwise, I’ll hack his campus network account and change all his major courses next semester to yoga and cheerleading.”

“Holy shit, bro, you’re a genius!”

The two of them laughed as they got angry, amusing themselves until they were nearly breathless. Gu Jiu’an’s lips also curved along with them, his cold expression like ice and snow beginning to melt.

Only after they had laughed enough did Gu Jiu’an suddenly speak again. “The dorm building we live in was donated by Yu Lin’s parents. He can’t touch you, but if a big incident happens, the principal will come after you.”

“Huh?”

“…Huh?!”

That lightly spoken sentence instantly cooled down the two hot-blooded brothers. They fell silent and stared at each other.

“So, Lin Jiangye, this trouble was caused by you. You have to be responsible for handling it.”

Gu Jiu’an turned his face, his cold gaze suddenly pinning Lin Jiangye in place, carrying a hint of scrutiny.

“Mm, I will. He has already suffered retribution.”

Lin Jiangye nodded seriously and forwarded the photos Uncle Chen had sent him for everyone to browse.

Yu Lin’s high-end electric wheelchair had inexplicably run out of battery in the elevator.

When they left the dorm building entrance, the bodyguard carrying the wheelchair had also inexplicably lost his grip.

Yu Lin, whose leg was in a cast, was powerless to save himself. He fell heavily onto the steps, injuring his newly fractured left leg once again.

The world’s protagonist, who would one day be able to cover the sky with one hand, no longer seemed to be specially favored.

Chen Ming had specifically photographed Yu Lin at his most miserable and sent it to Lin Jiangye, intending to cheer him up.

Lin Jiangye found this action rather puzzling, but all of his roommates expressed great delight.

Dorm 502, whose atmosphere had been oppressive, suddenly burst into relieved laughter.

And so, the absurd incident of Yu Lin forcefully barging through the door passed by with laughter.

None of the three gossiped about Lin Jiangye’s relationship problems. As if they had lost their memories, they started playing games and tacitly left him some space.

Gu Jiu’an had not spoken to him the whole time, yet silently sent him his biological cousin’s WeChat number.

Li Liang even stuffed him a business card and discount card for the top host of White Horse Club, stolen from his younger sister.

He heard there were many 1.85-meter-tall muscular male mommies there, much stronger and more powerful than Yu Lin’s kind of thin muscles. They would be very suitable for comforting his wounded heart.

For the first time, Lin Jiangye experienced the feeling of not knowing whether to laugh or cry. Guided by curiosity, he accepted the business card, planning to wait until Yu Wangxiao was free… and invite him to visit together.

After all, Yu Wangxiao had the character setting of a workaholic. His travel routine was simply work, business trips, and exercise. He definitely had never been to White Horse Club.

If there were male models to guide them, then when they acted as a couple madly in love, their state would definitely be much more realistic.

The message had been sent, but Yu Wangxiao did not reply for a long time. Instead, his assistant, He Chen, gave a response.

That young man, who wore gold-rimmed glasses and looked rather shrewd, was unexpectedly a bit gossipy.

In just half an hour, He Chen had dug up all of Lin Jingyao’s social media accounts, including his extremely low GPA abroad, his chaotic private life, and his behavior of flaunting wealth while spending money like water.

He had not hidden it very well. If Yu Lin had the intention to investigate, everything could be uncovered completely. But novel protagonists were not good at using their information resources and only preferred to listen to one-sided words. This was also already a convention in melodramatic stories.

Lin Jiangye saved the screenshots one by one, then added Lin Jingyao as a friend.

The fake young master did not delete him immediately, nor did he respond to him. Instead, he immediately posted a strangely ambiguous photo on his Moments.

An electric wheelchair, a young man with his left leg in a cast, blue-and-white hospital clothes. Even without showing his face, the young man’s identity was self-evident.

And Lin Jingyao was sitting on the young man’s lap. A pair of hands with distinct knuckles, veins bulging, were tightly wrapped around his slender waist.

Lin Jiangye carefully examined it for a moment and vaguely figured out his intention.

Lin Jingyao was deliberately showing off his love with Yu Lin on Moments to provoke him.

…There are so many lunatics in this world.

Lin Jiangye saved the photo, casually gave it a like, and did not continue scrolling.

He was worried that if he looked at Lin Jingyao’s social media account any longer, the folds in his cerebral cortex would slowly become smooth.

The fact that Lin Jingyao only used this kind of indirect attack against him meant that, for now, he did not have the strength or confidence to cause him any real harm.

Since that was the case, becoming stronger as soon as possible was the proper matter.

While eating the health-preserving lunchbox personally delivered by Chen Ming, Lin Jiangye opened his laptop and casually signed himself up for a few free metaphysics online courses.

His body was weak, but that did not mean his true form was also weak. It was just that, at the moment, he could not make use of this human vessel. If he acted recklessly, it would be very easy for him to explode and die, so all of his power had no way to manifest.

He needed to search for, learn, and master an energy expression method that conformed to this world, blend into it, and assimilate himself. Only then could he quickly obtain a trump card for self-protection.

Lin Jiangye ate seriously and studied with great focus, only regretfully stopping when faint discomfort came from his stomach.

After roughly understanding the detailed rules of divination, he took three coins out of his wallet, calmed his mind, and casually threw them onto the table.

No one saw that his ink-black pupils were covered with a thin layer of silvery white. Under the desk lamp, they were like a flowing river of light, bright and colorful, gone in an instant.

Lin Jiangye himself did not notice either, but in the next moment, an inexplicable thought suddenly surged from the depths of his heart.

—In tomorrow’s quality development class, the teacher will eat some kind of undercooked green food, causing food poisoning and endless diarrhea.

He raised his brows slightly, recorded the thought in his notebook, and casually tucked it into the gap between the pages of a book.

Interesting. He would verify it tomorrow.

It was already evening, and the temperature dropped sharply with the sunset. Lin Jiangye put on a coat and went downstairs for a walk to digest his food.

And, by the way, personally receive… a large pile of same-city express deliveries.

Yu Wangxiao was an extremely responsible contract boyfriend. He had directly arranged all aspects of Lin Jiangye’s food, clothing, housing, and transportation.

Bedsheets and quilts made of better fabric, toiletries, well-tailored seasonal clothes with excellent cuts, a full set of electronic products that could be called a complete package, and even the key to an off-road vehicle.

Almost all of them were considerate and practical things.

According to Chen Ming, there were also some large parcels that were inconvenient to move, which had been sent to the large flat at Longjing Bay near the school. Housekeeping staff were responsible for organizing and arranging them.

If Lin Jiangye did not want to live on campus, he had a place that could take him in at any time.

To him, these arrangements could not directly change his fate, but in theory, they could absolutely give the original host, who had not lived many good days, a bit of confidence, allowing him to live much more comfortably and freely, and even develop more affection for Yu Wangxiao.

Being captured by small benefits and casual acts of kindness, then developing love because of them, had always been a trap the original host easily fell into.

Of course, Lin Jiangye was also very grateful. He knew nothing about food, clothing, housing, and transportation. Practical items were like timely rain, dispersing much of his distress.

However, that warm and unfamiliar emotion in his heart came to an abrupt stop the moment he touched the cuff button of the coat.

There was a micro tracker inside this button. Faint signal fluctuations wandered across his palm. Humans could not detect them, but he could.

Lin Jiangye’s wrist paused slightly. Under Chen Ming’s plain and simple kindly gaze, he continued opening the packages as if nothing had happened.

All clothes with metal ornaments had abnormal energy fluctuations. Some electronic devices were also especially suspicious.

A pair of blue-light-blocking glasses hid a pinhole camera. A seemingly ordinary ballpoint pen was a listening device, not yet activated for the time being.

So Yu Wangxiao cared this much about his daily life. Clearly, he had never completely lowered his guard.

It was good that he was cautious in his actions. That way, he would not easily be harmed by bad people. But Lin Jiangye still became distressed once again.

If he lived outside, then he did not care how Yu Wangxiao monitored him. But there were other people in the dorm. Recording audio and video without consent was an illegal act that violated privacy.

Lin Jiangye thought about it seriously and felt that Yu Wangxiao did not seem like someone who could not be reasoned with.

Based on the trust brought about by their first meeting, he only kept the phone, laptop, and simple tracker. He picked out all the other illegal devices and neatly placed them in a cardboard box.

Lin Jiangye said solemnly, “Uncle Chen, please send all these to Longjing Bay. It isn’t very legal to keep them in the dorm.”

Chen Ming smiled gently and did not say anything. With tacit understanding, he took away the box full of “dangerous goods.”

…

Ten minutes later, Chen Ming leaned against the dark corner of a backstreet, bought himself a strawberry ice cream, and called Yu Wangxiao’s private number while eating.

“Chairman Yu, he isn’t simple.

“Without the help of detection equipment, it’s impossible for him to accurately pick out all the surveillance devices. That isn’t something a human can do. Even I can’t.

“I suspect someone leaked the information to him in advance. There are more moles than just those few places. Sir, please make sure to reduce the amount of time you spend outside. The fire equipment in your office and the cafeteria kitchen must also be inspected again.”

“I know.”

Yu Wangxiao stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, looking at the distant outline of A University’s campus. His eyes were dark and unreadable. “You’re certain he had no resistance toward those things, right?”

“Yes, Chairman Yu. He said… they can only be used in legal settings.”

“Good. Thank you for your hard work.”

Yu Wangxiao hung up and continued handling official business.

His face was expressionless, and his tone had no fluctuation at all. Regarding Lin Jiangye’s abnormal behavior, he did not seem to show the slightest trace of surprise.

Only that favorability progress bar unknown to everyone suddenly shot forward by 10%, causing Lin Jiangye to jolt awake from his carbon-dazed nap.

His heart began beating wildly on its own, as if it had been injected with a powerful shot of adrenaline. The rhythm was slightly chaotic, but strong and forceful, making him want to immediately go outside and run laps.

Suppressing his restlessness, Lin Jiangye picked up his cup and slowly drank water to calm himself down, but the shock in his heart was difficult to suppress.

So hungry.

For some unknown reason, his body… seemed to have suddenly become just a little healthier.