Chapter Seventeen: A Satisfying Revenge

  The commendation conference was held at the Municipal Grand Theater, and all main leaders of the municipal party committee, municipal government, Communist Youth League municipal committee, education bureau, general trade union, industry and commerce bureau, municipal chamber of commerce, municipal secondary schools, and relevant district committees attended. This commendation conference is a summary of the spiritual civilization construction propaganda year that Qingzhou vigorously carried out since last year. The specific commendations include seven major awards such as Top Ten Entrepreneurs in the City, Top Ten Youths in the City, Top Ten Community Workers in the City, and Top Ten Communist Youth League Members in the City.

  Wen Qian and Xu Yao sat on the right side of the third row, surrounded by other award-winning teenagers. From the moment he sat down, Xu Yao looked excited, after all, for a child to attend such an occasion was a great honor. Wen Qian kept his head down, looking unenthusiastic, participating in such activities was boring, but since he came, he wouldn't scowl, mainly because he saw Gu Wen Yuan.

  Some people, no matter what the occasion, no matter how many people are around, you can always spot him at a glance. Gu Wen's outstanding appearance and impressive background always put him in the spotlight, and Wen even saw Zhou Yutian come over to greet him with a smile, disregarding his identity. This treatment is shocking to hear about.

  Wen Jie shrank his body into the chair, his face calm and unruffled. The girl beside him obviously felt something was off, turned her head to look at Wen Jie, and asked in puzzlement: "What's wrong? Sitting next to me makes you unhappy? Or do you want to switch to that side?" She pointed to another pretty girl three seats away, her face not very kind.

  "Cough... " He let out a gentle cough, and then smiled: "You're speaking too unkindly. Look at that girl, her skin isn't as white as yours, her eyes aren't as big as yours, and her nose is so small it could hang a soy sauce bottle on the wall, yet you still come to humiliate her? If you have what it takes, go find someone prettier than you!"

  Can't help but say, this flattery is really shameless. Xǔ Yáo narrowed her eyes and smiled, hypocritically complaining: "It's not as bad as you said, eagle nose is very beautiful, okay?"

  He sized her up with a warm and gentle gaze, thinking to himself: "I'm quite the high achiever, being able to make such a beautiful girl say something so unseemly." Ah, Amitabha, in order to placate Mother Tigress, I'll just have to take a loss...

  A program went on, and when it was Wen Qian's turn to go on stage, the conference had already proceeded to the eleventh item. Ten boys and girls stepped onto the podium in a row, receiving certificates from the leader. Xu Yao and Gu Wenyan stood in the middle, Wen Qian at the far left, next to him was the pretty girl who was just criticized earlier. Wen Qian felt a bit guilty, honestly lowering his head, not moving at all.

  The host of the meeting began to invite leaders on stage, the first was Municipal Party Secretary Xu Fuyan, who presented an award to Xu Yáo, followed by Zhou Yuanting, who presented an award to Gu Wenyan. Other leaders took turns going on stage and standing in front of the ten children. Wen Ze suddenly caught a whiff of refreshing fragrance, and a pair of beautiful legs wearing black stockings appeared before his eyes. Following the long legs upwards, he saw a light-colored suit dress, a slender waist, a flat abdomen, two high and round bulges, and finally, the lovely face of Yu Xi, with an ambiguous smile.

  Since that night, Zuo Yu Xi had been searching for Wen Qian. She arranged many people to investigate around Dong Street Hutong, and she also went there several times herself. However, Wen Qian rarely went out in the past month, so naturally, she didn't have any results. But unexpectedly, they met at today's gathering, and even more unexpected was that the little hero who had been talked about recently turned out to be him.

  It's actually nothing strange, isn't he the one who pulled you back from despair?

  Zuo Yuxi stretched out her hand, grasped Wen Qian's hand, and exerted a slight force, as if she had caught hold of something extremely important to her. Her charming and captivating big eyes flowed with waves, telling thousands of emotions.

  "Congratulations to you, Wen Qiang, our little hero!"

  He's also my little hero, Zuo Yu Xi added silently in his heart.

  "Thank you!"

  A gentle and courteous reply, when withdrawing his hand, he suddenly felt a tingling sensation in the center of his palm, where Xi Yu's soft and delicate fingers had lightly drawn an "=" sign.

  She didn't have to be like this, wanting to get in touch with Wen Qian, she could have just talked to him openly after the meeting, as the deputy director of the Education Bureau, it was her right and no one would suspect anything. But strangely, Zuo Yu Xi saw Wen Qian pretending not to recognize her, still calm and peaceful, as if nothing had happened that night, or it was insignificant to him, she felt inexplicably angry, and a provocative thought arose, since you pretend not to know me, let's play a game of secret signals.

  Wen Cen was harassed by the beautiful woman like this, if he still didn't react, then he would have truly wasted his decades of life. Immediately, as if injected with chicken blood, he curled up his index finger and wrote an "OK" on Zuo Yu Xi's palm.

  To outsiders, the two just shook hands and parted ways, who would have thought that there was so much going on behind the scenes? The men in the audience almost all followed the gaze of this most famous cold and proud beauty from Qingzhou, countless people fantasizing about pinning down that heavenly body, but no one could have imagined that this unattainable beauty would be secretly flirting with a boy in plain sight.

  When all the ceremonies were over and I turned to leave the stage, a girl who was walking past me from Wen Qiang's side suddenly said coldly: "Classmate, my nose can't hang an oil bottle, I've tried!"

  He almost fell down from the stairs with a stumble.

  When the meeting dispersed, Xu Yao was nowhere to be seen. This girl had always been elusive, and Wen Jian didn't think much of it. Wen Huai Ming came over to say a word to him, then busied himself with his own affairs. Just as he was about to go look for Zuo Yu Xi, he saw Gu Wen Yuan walking towards him with a smile on his face.

  She stopped in her tracks and quietly looked at him.

  Sarcasm? Contempt? Or lift that handsome face and look down on oneself with an extremely arrogant gaze?

  A warm smile in his heart, a cold laugh. Child's play, it can only strengthen one's determination to climb up and cannot harm oneself in the slightest.

  Gu Wenyan stopped three steps away, his lips curled into a smile that made Wen Qing's eyes narrow. "Isn't this Wen Qing? I'm really curious, how did you manage to get into this circle? Is it through ability or connections? With the strength that can only make you Mu Shanshan's sandbag, and your dad's connections that can't even get him out of the policy research office, personally, I think there must be a problem here."

  The surrounding area was filled with people leaving the scene, making a chaotic noise, and no one would care about the content of the conversation between the two children. Perhaps no one would have thought that Gu Wenyan, who looked gentle and elegant on the surface, was using his usual sharp tongue to lash at a boy's self-esteem.

  Gazing at Gu Wenyan with a cold and calm expression, he suddenly remembered that classic movie line: When one can no longer tolerate it, there is no need to tolerate it anymore!

  "Hmm, Gu classmate, I also heard about your deeds just now. Bravely saving the drowning children, entering the water three times and rescuing people three times, it's truly a heroic feat that moves heaven and earth! But personally, I think that during our spring outing in junior high school, you were still standing far away from the water, not even daring to touch the fish by the reservoir... how did you become a good swimmer? Your father's connections are indeed impressive..."

  It was indeed Xǔ Yáo who had a sharp tongue, she found Wēn Qīn and came over just in time to hear Gu Wen Yuan's extremely sarcastic words. She couldn't help but retort back, Wēn Qīn smiled slightly, not knowing how Xǔ Yáo knew that this guy couldn't swim, but also didn't want her to stir up trouble. Gu Wen Yuan was a person who would definitely retaliate, spoiled by Gu Shí from a young age, with extremely vicious means at a young age, doing things without any scruples. Although Wēn Qīn wasn't afraid, he also didn't want Xǔ Yáo to provoke him, so he shook his head at her, signaling her not to speak.

  Gu Wenyan saw Xu Yao and didn't get angry, but instead politely nodded at her and glanced at Wen Qian with a mocking gaze. "Oh, now I know how you got in," he said. "Kid, looking at your usual honest appearance, this standard of freeloading is actually pretty good! But looking at your silly expression, was it someone from your family who taught you?"

  These words are extremely vicious, not only insulting Wen Qian but also implying that Wen Huaiming wants to climb up by relying on his connections.

  "What's soft rice? What does it mean?" Xǔ Yáo looked at Wēn Qiǎn with a puzzled expression.

  "It doesn't mean anything, someone just got a little annoyed!"

  With a warm and gentle smile, she suddenly raised her hand and slapped Gu Wenyan. This sudden move was unexpected, and the empty theater echoed with a crisp sound.

  "Bang!"

  Gu Wenyan covered his face, momentarily stunned on the spot.

  Two lifetimes as a human, countless days and nights. Every time I see Gu Wenyan's distant and unreachable back, there is always an inexplicable sorrow that trembles in my heart. One falls lower and lower, the other rises higher and higher. Do you know the taste of looking up at heaven from hell? Three parts desperation, three parts pain, three parts self-abasement, and one part self-torture-like cruelty.

  At this moment, Wen Cheng finally made a choice that was impossible in his past life: a slap in the face, not only bidding farewell to his weak self, but also pushing himself into a desperate situation with no way out. Only by doing so could he move forward, and only by doing so could he be fearless!

  Xu Yao didn't understand what "soft rice" meant, but as a beauty, not asking right or wrong and only looking at closeness was their privilege. She stood behind Wen Qian without hesitation, her eyes flashing with excitement, ready to rush up and take action at any time.

  "How dare you hit me?" Gu Wen yuan had never thought that this seemingly weak and vulnerable, in the class who could mock a few sentences of Wen family's young master dared to strike himself? This strong contrast made his thinking pause for a few seconds, until the scorching pain on his face came, he suddenly woke up, and instantly burst into great anger.

  Gu Wenyan didn't think twice, raised his right hand and slapped him back with all his might. In that instant, he even thought of how to humiliate the kid when he knelt down to beg for mercy. Even with Xu Yao standing beside him, her identity couldn't stop the miserable scene that was about to unfold.

  In Gu Wenyan's heart, ten Wen Qiangs were not his opponents. The previous move was purely careless. He firmly believed that as long as he had one second, Wen Qiang would be beaten to kneel on the ground and kowtow for mercy, just like that night, the winner would always be him - Gu Wenyan!

  He understood even more that even if Xu Yao took the lead, it wouldn't matter. Her father would never bother with such trivial matters for a deputy director of a political research office.

  Wen Qing smiled coldly, raised her hand and easily grasped Gu Wenyan's wrist, pressing her thumb on the pulse point with a sudden burst of force. Gu Wenyan let out a cry as his arm was completely twisted around, his handsome face still bearing a hint of arrogant ferocity one moment, then contorted in shock the next.

  No matter what, he didn't expect his full-strength blow to be broken so easily, and the situation was instantly reversed. Since they had torn their faces apart, Wen Ze no longer held back, taking advantage of the momentum to pull him forward, using his shoulder to collide with his falling body, and slamming his left fist downward fiercely. Gu Wenyan only felt a sharp pain in his chest, and at the same time, his abdomen suffered a severe impact, as if all his strength had been drained away in an instant, his body went limp and collapsed to the ground, curled up into a ball, and started coughing violently.

  He lowered his head, and the smiling face was expressionless again. His eyes gleamed with a chilling light as he said in a low voice: "Gu Gongzi, you always think you're so powerful, your classmates are afraid of you, your teachers fear you, and the whole world revolves around you. But look, without your old man, you're not even worth one of my fingers."

  Gu Wenyan was also quite bold, panting heavily as he said word by word: "You... you wait!"

  Wen Ze stood up, from Gu Wenyan's perspective, his tall and straight figure, firm facial features, clear and profound eyes seemed to be silently revealing some kind of mystery. For a moment, Gu Wenyan was slightly dazed.

  "I'm waiting for you! Gu Wenyan, from today on, you are no longer you, and I am no longer me!" After finishing speaking, she didn't look at Gu Wenyan's resentful expression, but instead pulled Xu Yaoyang away with her.

  "Hey, silly kid, Gu Wenyan's family seems to have some influence, you'd better..."

  "It's nothing, his dad is rich, can't he just take revenge on me for a fight between kids? At most, it's just that little brat Gu Wenyan getting Mu Shanshan to bring people to beat me up. But when it comes to fighting, don't you have the female knight?"

  "Haha, that's also true!"

  The poor and proud little girl smiled with satisfaction, unaware that she had been pulled into the water by a lecherous old man.

  "By the way, how did you know about Gu Wen Yuan's embarrassing incident during the spring outing? We didn't attend the same middle school, did we?"

  "I have a best friend who is a family friend of Gu Wenyan, I know all about his misdeeds! Oh, and I forgot to tell you, my best friend is a stunning beauty!"

  After finishing, Xu Yao had a sinister look on her face. Wen Qing was so clever that she seemed to have not heard the phrase "big beauty" behind her and calmly said: "Gu Wenyan is a lifelong friend of your dead party, and you are still so unkind to him? Be careful that your dead party knows it and blames you..."

  "Hmph, I just can't stand Gu Wen Yuan's arrogant attitude! And to make matters worse, he's even more beautiful than a woman, it's disgusting!"

  Warmly smiled wryly and silently, looked up at the white clouds in the sky, quietly said: "He has arrogant capital, but it doesn't matter..."

  Soon I will have it too! And I can trample everything of yours underfoot!

  After breaking up with Xu Yao, Wen Cheng saw Zuo Yu Xi's car turn right at the gate and hesitated for a moment before following her.

  Maybe getting close to this young director of education isn't a bad thing either.

  Last time, things happened suddenly, and Wen Ze had to consider that Zuo Yu Xi had offended a powerful figure, so she didn't want to have too much contact with her. But after all this time, the other party is still sitting in the director's seat, and there are no other changes, it can be seen that they are still very wary of her. This shows that Zuo Yu Xi herself has a strong background that is not inferior to others.

  Well, it's always good to meet in person anyway.

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