Chapter 55: Rational Yet Crazy

The sound of the door being pushed open rang out.

“Meow!” Xueci knew its owner had returned. It happily jumped down to the floor, then rushed out all at once.

Shen Zhoudu was quick-eyed and quick-handed. Or rather, this kind of incident had already happened more than once. He immediately shut the front door behind him, preventing Xueci from rushing out.

Xueci had indeed almost rushed too far.

Fortunately, the door blocked its path. It urgently stopped its steps, then decisively lay down beside Shen Zhoudu’s shoes. It began meowing while rolling around Shen Zhoudu.

Shen Zhoudu was expressionless. He stared at the cat under his feet for a long while, then finally sighed, bent down, and scooped it up into his arms.

“Meow meow.” Xueci acted spoiled.

“All right. Whatever you want, canned food or cat treats, I’ll give them to you.” When he said this, it sounded as if he had already given up on something.

“Ah meow.” The kitten had only wanted to come over and act spoiled. Once its goal was achieved, it quickly jumped out of his arms and ran away with light steps.

Leaving Shen Zhoudu to look at his empty arms, feeling a sense of loss.

“Shen Zhoudu.” The other person in the house called his name.

Shen Zhoudu silently and faintly sighed, then walked toward the place where the voice came from.

“Hurry, hurry!” Meng Weiyu’s tone was urgent.

Shen Zhoudu quickened his steps and walked in front of the sofa.

“Look.” Meng Weiyu suddenly popped out, holding a box in his hand. He was beaming with joy as he pushed open the lid and showed Shen Zhoudu what was inside. “I remember you really like this brand of snacks. This is their newest product. I went to buy it.”

After saying that, his eyes shone brightly as he looked at Shen Zhoudu, waiting for him to praise him.

“Mm, eat more of it.” Shen Zhoudu said.

His expression looked a little off. Meng Weiyu froze.

Shen Zhoudu loosened his tie and casually threw it onto another sofa. Then he sat on the same sofa as Meng Weiyu. He lifted his head, his neck resting against the sofa, his lifeless eyes looking at the ceiling through his glasses.

Meng Weiyu sat beside him, holding the snack box. A little at a loss, he shifted. In the end, he chose to put the box on the table first. Then he returned to his original position, turned sideways, and looked at Shen Zhoudu.

“What’s wrong? Was work especially annoying today?” Meng Weiyu could not think of any other reason that could make Shen Zhoudu so listless.

When Shen Zhoudu heard his voice, his eyes moved over and stared at him.

When Meng Weiyu had first met Shen Zhoudu, he had always complained in his heart that Shen Zhoudu sometimes looked fierce.

Later, starting from a certain day, he completely forgot what he had thought at first.

Until now, Shen Zhoudu was clearly staring at him with sharp eyes, but Meng Weiyu did not feel in the slightest that Shen Zhoudu was being fierce toward him.

“Do you want to eat something sweet? It can restore your energy.” Meng Weiyu once again wanted to pick up the thing he had just bought.

“No need.” Shen Zhoudu raised his arm and covered his eyes. He mentally prepared himself for a while. When he lowered it again, he tried his best to soften his expression.

He had not yet finished thinking about how he should communicate with Meng Weiyu when he saw a pair of hands stretch out beside him and remove his glasses.

Shen Zhoudu turned his head.

Meng Weiyu took off his glasses and put them on his own face. Before this, he had never worn prescription glasses. So after glancing once at the blurry world through the lenses, he pushed the glasses downward and casually hung them on his nose.

Their eyes met.

“Are these your favorite pair of glasses?” Meng Weiyu asked him.

“Mm,” Shen Zhoudu answered.

“If I broke them, what would you do?” Meng Weiyu deliberately asked.

“Then I’d buy a new pair.” Shen Zhoudu’s tolerance for him was truly limitless.

“On purpose,” Meng Weiyu emphasized.

“Hmph.” Shen Zhoudu was indifferent.

Meng Weiyu properly put on the glasses, then leaned closer to him.

Shen Zhoudu knew what he wanted to do. When his face came close, Shen Zhoudu opened his mouth first.

“Hehe.” Meng Weiyu propped up his head with one hand, looked at his mouth, and let out the sound of a successful prank.

“Boring… mm…”

Shen Zhoudu was about to condemn this utterly heartless behavior, but when he had only said two words, Meng Weiyu kissed him.

Although Meng Weiyu’s kissing skills were currently plain and ordinary, his main style was bold and wild, enough to kiss someone into a daze. Not to mention, toward Shen Zhoudu, he had an indescribable temptation and bewildering quality. Shen Zhoudu quickly became immersed in it.

After the kiss ended, Meng Weiyu pulled back slightly. He kept looking into Shen Zhoudu’s eyes. In his heart, there was a strange yet familiar restless feeling, and he could not help licking his lips.

Shen Zhoudu pressed his lips together.

“What’s wrong?” Meng Weiyu asked him again.

His small gesture of goodwill instantly made Shen Zhoudu feel guilty. How could he maliciously suspect Meng Weiyu of being unfaithful in their relationship?

“My meeting today ended too late. Then I went to eat with the friend I mentioned to you last time, the one called Chu Lexing.” Shen Zhoudu wanted to confess that he had seen Meng Weiyu eating with an unfamiliar man.

“Ah, you actually ate a feast behind my back.” Meng Weiyu got angry.

“Didn’t you eat a feast today?” Shen Zhoudu unconsciously sneered.

Meng Weiyu propped his elbow on the sofa back and leaned sideways. The corners of his mouth lifted, and in a tone no different from usual, he told him, “I ate at home today.”

Shen Zhoudu’s expression stiffened.

“So next time, take me out to eat… hey, where are you going?” Meng Weiyu was halfway through speaking when he discovered Shen Zhoudu suddenly stood up.

“To the restroom!” Shen Zhoudu inexplicably got angry.

“That urgent?” Meng Weiyu was frightened by his behavior and voluntarily retreated. “Do you want me to help you take off your pants?”

Shen Zhoudu took a step and quickly walked away.

Meng Weiyu looked confused, then looked at the pastries on the table.

Shen Zhoudu seemed a little overheated. Perhaps Meng Weiyu should not buy him cookies or anything like that anymore, but herbal tea instead, or medicine to reduce internal heat.

“How did it become like this?” Meng Weiyu picked up a cookie from the box in disappointment.

He really wanted Shen Zhoudu to be a little happier, but was his taste in buying things really that bad?

He clearly remembered that Shen Zhoudu really liked eating this.

Meng Weiyu dejectedly stuffed the cookie in his hand into his mouth.

Had the grown-up Shen Zhoudu already stopped liking this flavor?

Meng Weiyu sat downstairs for a long while and discovered Shen Zhoudu did not come down again. Confused, he carried Xueci upstairs. When he pushed open the door, he finally discovered that Shen Zhoudu had already finished bathing and was lying on the bed asleep.

“Is he too tired?” Meng Weiyu bent down and looked at his sleeping face.

Even in his sleep, Shen Zhoudu was frowning, looking especially unhappy.

Meng Weiyu left the room quietly, placed Xueci back into its cat nest, and ran to the guest room to brush his teeth. Once everything was prepared, he carefully returned to the room and lay down on the other side of the bed.

His hands rested on top of the blanket. Vaguely feeling something was wrong, he looked to the side.

Tonight, Shen Zhoudu was actually sleeping with his back to him.

Unable to endure the loneliness, Meng Weiyu quietly rolled over, then leaned beside Shen Zhoudu. Looking at his back, he slowly closed his eyes.

I’ve really become part of a family.

“You already are.” In the dream, a familiar voice responded to Meng Weiyu’s expectation. “Xiao Yu is my family.”

The warmth beside him was pulled away. Meng Weiyu instantly woke up and opened his eyes.

Shen Zhoudu was standing beside the bed, seemingly preparing to change clothes.

“Wu.” Meng Weiyu’s hand groped under the pillow. After finally finding his phone and looking at the time displayed on the screen, he asked in confusion, “Are you going to work this early today?”

“Mm.” Shen Zhoudu answered him.

Meng Weiyu’s eyes were half-unable to open. In the end, he still decided to speak. “Shen Zhoudu, are you throwing a tantrum at me right now?”

Shen Zhoudu suddenly turned his head.

When communicating with someone like Shen Zhoudu, not being direct was useless. Whoever stayed silent and sulked against him would never win.

After Meng Weiyu pointed out his awkward state today, Shen Zhoudu’s movements clearly stiffened.

“What did I do badly?” Meng Weiyu sincerely asked for guidance. Perhaps he really lacked self-awareness, because he completely could not find where he had offended Shen Zhoudu recently. Had he given the wrong gift? Although the thing might not have suited his taste, it really was expensive!

“Do you know you did something wrong?” Shen Zhoudu was waiting for him to confess, at least to admit that he had lied at home last night.

Meng Weiyu lay on the bed, thinking bitterly and tossing and turning. In the end, he rolled back to his original position and sat up from the bed all at once, his hair a chaotic mess.

Shen Zhoudu stared fixedly at him, his heart filled with turbulent expectation.

“I don’t know.” Meng Weiyu decisively shook his head.

Shen Zhoudu, still wearing his pajamas, stepped out of the room.

“Shen Zhoudu! Who are you showing that face to?” Meng Weiyu shouted toward the door.

“Meow!” Xueci downstairs was woken up.

Meng Weiyu instantly moved his mouth, leaned forward, grabbed Shen Zhoudu’s pillow, and threw it at the cabinet.

Bang!

“Meow meow!”

Not long after, the sound of the front door opening and closing rang out.

Shen Zhoudu had left home.

While driving, he received a call from Chu Lexing.

“Zhoudu, did you ask Meng Weiyu who the person eating with him last night was?” Last night, Shen Zhoudu had originally been about to rush directly into the restaurant, but Chu Lexing held him back and repeatedly advised him that if Meng Weiyu was just eating with an ordinary friend, then rushing in aggressively would scare him. He should calm down first, then go in. After all, if this was a misunderstanding, the atmosphere would be very awkward.

Ultimately, Shen Zhoudu was someone whose reason outweighed impulse. He felt Chu Lexing’s words made sense, so he stayed where he was and took deep breaths for more than ten minutes.

He was still just as furious.

Given Meng Weiyu’s current state, would there be someone by his side that Shen Zhoudu did not know?

Definitely not.

Then who exactly was that person?

Shen Zhoudu stood outside for more than ten minutes. Rational thinking not only failed to calm him, but instead further expanded his anger.

Just as he planned to ignore everything and directly barge in, he discovered that Meng Weiyu and that unfamiliar man were already no longer in their original seats.

Chu Lexing brought him inside to eat and repeatedly persuaded him, saying that logically speaking, aside from Shen Zhoudu, Meng Weiyu would not be interested in other men, so it was definitely a misunderstanding.

Shen Zhoudu was naturally suspicious. Before the problem was resolved, he could not relax. There was a whole table of dishes, but in the end, he barely ate a few bites before he was full.

His mood was gone, but his manners remained.

He patiently waited until Chu Lexing finished eating before returning home.

All of this must be a misunderstanding, right?

Thinking this, Shen Zhoudu had very quickly been open and honest with Meng Weiyu last night. He had not hidden anything, yet Meng Weiyu had lied.

You ate at home?

Meng Weiyu, even if my eyes are blind, I can still recognize you within a hundred meters!

“He doesn’t seem like he’ll tell the truth.” Shen Zhoudu neatly turned the steering wheel and drove onto a road whose destination was not the company. “But I’ve already guessed who that person is.”

“You’re practically Sherlock Holmes. How do you know?” Chu Lexing felt that Shen Zhoudu had already been swallowed by anger, and yet he did not know how to stop him, because Shen Zhoudu’s madness was the kind of madness that still had reason.

“Xiao Yu said before that he was hit on by an intern at the hospital.” Shen Zhoudu quickly sorted through the threads and found the only suspicious target.

“Hah.” Chu Lexing made his greatest effort. “Why don’t we observe a little more?”

Shen Zhoudu neither agreed nor disagreed with his suggestion.

“If Meng Weiyu really cheated, what would you do?” Chu Lexing knew Meng Weiyu was too important to Shen Zhoudu.

“I’ll beat that intern to death,” Shen Zhoudu said calmly.

“What about Meng Weiyu?” Chu Lexing was curious.

Shen Zhoudu did not speak.

“Tsk, tsk, tsk.”

Although saying this was very improper, Chu Lexing estimated that in Shen Zhoudu’s heart, even if Meng Weiyu really cheated, it would probably be everyone else’s fault a thousand times over, and Meng Weiyu would not have the slightest problem.

“Shen Zhoudu, I knew before that you were love-brained, but I didn’t expect it to be this severe.” Chu Lexing said, “You’re going to the hospital, right? When you get there, remember to get yourself checked too.”

“I’m hanging up.” Shen Zhoudu calmly cut off his friend’s teasing.

The phone transmitted the busy tone, but Chu Lexing was still sighing endlessly.

Shen Zhoudu displayed his extraordinary driving skills and squeezed the car into the parking spot closest to the hospital. Then he strode toward the building.

“Mr. Shen.” This hospital was actually part of the Shen family’s assets.

Shen Zhoudu walked straight toward the management office. His sudden appearance frightened everyone there.

“You have an intern here, right? Give me the file.” Shen Zhoudu rarely displayed such an impolite side, forcefully giving the order.

“We have many interns here.” The staff member was so frightened that he forgot to greet him.

“Bring them.” Shen Zhoudu hooked his hand upward. “Also, pull up the surveillance footage from Meng Weiyu’s two visits to the hospital.”

“That’s not very appropriate.” The staff member felt this behavior violated privacy rights.

“I told you to do it.” Shen Zhoudu’s tone was cold, his attitude unquestionable.

That employee anxiously exchanged glances with the manager.

“Mr. Shen.” The manager stood up awkwardly. This was the first time he had seen Shen Zhoudu like this, and for a moment, he did not know what to say to make him leave.

“This concerns my husband.” Shen Zhoudu was calm yet insane. “Close the door. Then show me what I want to see. I won’t reveal this matter, and I won’t do anything. I want you all to know that when I walk out the door, you will treat it as if I never came.”

The manager had no choice but to do as he said, closing the office door, then giving the employee a look.

The interns’ list and files were immediately handed to Shen Zhoudu. At the same time, the employee found Meng Weiyu’s surveillance footage from these past two days and played it directly.

Shen Zhoudu stood beside the employee’s position, staring intently at the computer. He saw a familiar figure appear on the screen.

It really was the man he saw last night.

While Meng Weiyu was reading a newspaper, he kept chattering beside him.

The surveillance only had visuals, no sound. Shen Zhoudu could not guess what they were talking about. He only knew that after Meng Weiyu folded the newspaper, the two exchanged contact information.

Meng Weiyu got up and left the hospital. That man held the phone that had saved Meng Weiyu’s contact information, his eyes watching him leave.

Next was three days later, when Meng Weiyu came for his follow-up.

It was called a follow-up, but in reality, he had not gone to see the doctor at all. Instead, he directly picked up that man at the entrance, then left the hospital.

Shen Zhoudu opened the intern files and quickly locked onto a face.

“Wei Ziling.”

The photo attached to the resume was simple and stiff, but even like this, one could still see that this person had extraordinary looks.

“He’s an intern from Mingda University.” The manager ran over and explained to him. “This kid really does like chatting with others. Although he’s a bit disrespectful toward seniority, he’s still a pretty good person. Did something happen?”

“Nothing for now.” Shen Zhoudu returned the file folder to him. “Is he at the hospital right now?”

“No. He’s been off these two days.” The manager was currently confused and completely did not know what Shen Zhoudu wanted to do.

“Then forget it.”

Shen Zhoudu came and went like the wind. Before leaving, he instructed, “Treat it as if I never came.”

“Yes…” What else could the manager say?

As soon as Shen Zhoudu left the room, he strode down the corridor and called Ye Hongxu, saying, “Help me investigate someone.”

“Of course, no problem.” Ye Hongxu did this kind of work. “But President Shen, you’re going to be late today.”

“I’m going to the company now.” He had left early today and originally would not have been late. Unfortunately, the road to the hospital was too congested and took more time than expected.

Following Shen Zhoudu’s instructions, Ye Hongxu used the fastest speed to find Wei Ziling’s information and handed it to him.

Shen Zhoudu roughly glanced through it. All one could say was that for a university student, his resume was already very outstanding. He was the eldest son of a single-parent family, with a younger sister below him. Since childhood, he had been excellent in his studies and then got into a good university.

Ye Hongxu looked at the information Shen Zhoudu was flipping through and suddenly felt something strange. He asked, “Doesn’t he look a little like someone?”

“Who?” Shen Zhoudu did not feel it.

Ye Hongxu looked at Shen Zhoudu and shook his head.

“Hongxu.” Shen Zhoudu closed the file, interlaced the fingers of both hands, placed them beneath his chin, and thought. “Is there any way to send this person away, far from this place, preferably somewhere he can’t come back from, and where he can’t contact people here?”

“Yes,” Ye Hongxu answered honestly. “But I feel President Shen had better calm down first.”

Today’s Shen Zhoudu was far too strange. Ye Hongxu almost did not dare work with him anymore.

Shen Zhoudu was obviously in no mood to work. He left work early.

Ye Hongxu raised an eyebrow, said nothing, pressed the elevator for him, and watched him leave.

Today, Shen Zhoudu ended work early and came to Meng Weiyu’s company, wanting to pick him up for dinner. When An Yang saw him appear, he was startled, then told him, “Boss left already.”

Shen Zhoudu froze.

“Boss looked like he was in a very bad mood. Did you two argue?” An Yang was perceptive. He linked Meng Weiyu’s state today with the rare event of Shen Zhoudu appearing at this time and instantly understood that the two were in conflict. “He said he wanted to go home and rest.”

After receiving this information, Shen Zhoudu turned and left.

He originally wanted to drive straight home, but when he thought of An Yang saying Meng Weiyu was in a bad mood today, he specially detoured to a cake shop Meng Weiyu liked, bought a large cake, then returned to the correct route home.

This was a form of cheating.

He knew Meng Weiyu would definitely like this cake.

But Meng Weiyu, who had lost several years of memories, did not know this shop. After eating it, he would only feel that what Shen Zhoudu bought suited his taste.

Shen Zhoudu carried the cake and hurried home.

When he opened the front door, the inside was dark and quiet.

He stood at the entrance blankly.

Meng Weiyu was not home.

Shen Zhoudu walked into the house and familiarly turned on the lights.

Dinner time gradually passed, but the other owner of the house showed no signs of returning. Shen Zhoudu worried the cake would melt, so he placed it in the refrigerator.

Even though the house was filled with cool air from the air conditioner, the temperature inside the fridge was still unusually cold.

“Ah.” Shen Zhoudu drooped his head and directly crouched down on the floor.

Where exactly did you run off to?

It was late at night when Meng Weiyu finally returned from outside. The moment he entered, someone immediately asked him, “Why did you come home so late?”

Meng Weiyu sighed. After changing into slippers, he turned his head unhappily and said, “You can work overtime, but I can’t?”

Shen Zhoudu sat on the sofa and turned his head away desolately, refusing to meet his eyes.

Seeing him like this, Meng Weiyu’s anger rose. He walked toward the refrigerator, wanting to take out a bottle of ice water to cool down, but then he saw the cake stuffed on the middle shelf.

“Today isn’t my birthday.” Meng Weiyu muttered, then could not help turning back to look at Shen Zhoudu.

Shen Zhoudu looked as if he had already shut himself in.

Meng Weiyu suddenly found it funny. He closed the refrigerator and walked toward Shen Zhoudu.

“Do you know now that you were wrong last night and this morning?” Meng Weiyu naturally took Shen Zhoudu’s behavior as a signal of reconciliation.

Shen Zhoudu nodded, then urgently grabbed his wrist and lifted his head to look at him.

There was a trace of amusement on Meng Weiyu’s face.

Shen Zhoudu could not help tightening his hand and pulling him over.

Meng Weiyu sat on his lap, wrapped his arms around his neck, and kissed him.

“If you encounter something unhappy outside, don’t vent your anger on me.” Meng Weiyu almost wanted to press his head against the wall. “When I ask you a question, you’re not allowed to ask me back.”

At this stage, it did not seem like Meng Weiyu had any intention of changing his heart.

Chu Lexing received Shen Zhoudu’s report and said: It was a misunderstanding, right?

Shen Zhoudu: It was indeed me overthinking.

Chu Lexing: Understandable.

Then a week later, Chu Lexing returned to that restaurant again, preparing to have dinner. Before he even entered the restaurant, he shockingly discovered something.

He had once again run into Meng Weiyu and Wei Ziling eating alone together. And in the shop across from the restaurant, Shen Zhoudu was in disguise, staring firmly at the opposite side.

Chu Lexing: “…”

He would never dare come here to eat again.