Chapter 2 I am obsessed with a poisonous butterfly
I was sleeping in my own world until one day, a butterfly kissed me and woke me up. It was beautiful, it was poisonous, and I was obsessed with it. All its specialness was not an illusion.
Qi Beichen01
I am a parasite, living off all the warmth I get, and then throwing it away without mercy. Among my peers , I don't seem to fit in very well.
My father died when I was a child, before I could even speak. Sometimes I don’t understand why people avoid the word “death”.
I was too young at that time, so of course I have no impression of my father. My mother was a shrewd woman. After my father died, she used her charming and beautiful appearance to hook up with another man. This man was very rich and we lived a good life.
The man's name was Qi Huatian, and he had a "burden" with him. Later I found out the name of the "burden", his name was Qi Xiaofeng.
There are many things I have not told others, for example, about Qi Xiaofeng, who has no blood relationship with me, my mother asked me to call him brother and told me to take care of him.
What the hell is his life or death to me?
Only I know how hypocritical Qi Xiaofeng is. He knows how to please my mother and that man, and how to assert his sovereignty in front of me. He got all the love he wished for. I hope his hypocrisy will never be exposed.
Qi Huatian changed my name and arranged for a special teacher to teach me everything a gentleman should learn, just like he treated Qi Xiaofeng.
I remember the first day I attended the party, Qi Huatian asked me to play a piano piece. I could have refused, but my mother would beat me. I was not afraid of her beating me, but I was annoyed by her nagging.
A nagging woman is like a noisy duck, so annoying.
I closed my eyes and played my fingers carelessly. Qi Xiaofeng stood by and looked at me with a sad face. There was nothing I could do. Qi Xiaofeng's piano performance was not as good as mine since he was a child. I felt his jealousy and felt very happy. After the song ended, I put down my hands and smiled.
At this moment, a petite girl threw herself into my arms. She was wearing a dress and sprayed with perfume. The perfume was really pungent and it made me sneeze . I stared at her face and tried to push her away.
Qi Xiaofeng suddenly came over, his tone was more joyful than anything I had ever seen before, and he gently called her, "Xiaotong, you're here."
There is something fishy.
These three words flashed through my mind quickly, so I changed my mind, stretched out my hands, pinched her cheeks and asked her: "Who are you?"
"My name is Yin Shuitong." She raised her head and said, "Brother Chen, I have heard about you for a long time and have wanted to come and play with you for a long time."
When Qi Xiaofeng saw Yin Shuitong, he seemed inexplicably excited, and his face turned unnaturally red. When he saw me pinching her face, his face turned dark again.
At this moment I understood one thing, Yin Shuitong was the person he longed for.
I felt like the heavens were helping me. I got close to Yin Shuitong's face, and she immediately looked like a shy girl. I smiled softly, and my breath sprayed on her nostrils: "Hello, I'm Qi Beichen."
I am quite confident.
This little sheep, she's interested in me.
That was the first time I met Yin Shuitong. Qi Xiaofeng had met her many times before that. Qi Huatian had a group of business partners, and the Yin family was one of them. Qi Huatian would bring Qi Xiaofeng to many cocktail parties, and at the same time, I would stay in my room playing games.
I said that I was not as likable as Qi Xiaofeng. Qi Huatian took care of me for a while, but later he became really disappointed in me and turned all his attention to Qi Xiaofeng.
Qi Huatian said that I was smart, but too gloomy and didn't know how to manage interpersonal relationships. He was right. I just didn't want to become his pawn and live according to his arrangements.
Facts have proved that my premonition was very accurate. Qi Xiaofeng really likes Yin Shuitong. Over the years, I have seen him show his affection to Yin Shuitong countless times, like a loyal Husky.
Yin Shuitong liked to pester me and would run to my room every other day. Sometimes I really wanted to throw her off the second floor. When she was ten years old, I could tolerate her. When she was eighteen, I pressed her against the wall and warned her fiercely: "If you don't get out, believe it or not, I will do something?"
"Okay, Brother Chen, after all, we are childhood sweethearts." Yin Shuitong held his chin high and acted like a rogue.
I forgot that she is no longer the shy girl she used to be. Over the years, she has worn out my patience, her face has become thicker day by day, and my life has been greatly harassed by her.
I knew it in my heart and regretted provoking her in the first place.
I knew that Yin Shuitong liked me and Qi Xiaofeng had a crush on her. Qi Xiaofeng felt the urgency of the situation, and on his seventeenth birthday, he took Yin Shuitong to the back garden of his home, the most quiet and romantic place in the house, to confess his love to her.
The wind was gentle, and roses were blooming in the courtyard. I saw Qi Xiaofeng wearing a neat suit, with his back to me, and he said to Yin Shuitong loudly, "Xiaotong, I like you."
Yin Shuitong frowned and did not take the rose from his hand.
He went on to say, "I have decided to marry you since I met you. I will treat you well for the rest of my life. Let's date."
What a poor confession.
"I don't like you." Yin Shuitong looked at him coldly.
Wrong, it's a tragic confession.
I laughed out loud, and some coffee splashed out of the coffee cup I was holding. I gave Qi Xiaofeng a thumbs up and coughed.
"Qi Beichen!" Qi Xiaofeng squeezed out a few words from between his teeth.
"I won't bother you any more."
I was about to leave when Yin Shuitong ran over and hugged my arm. I spilled a lot of coffee again. She held my arm, looked at Qi Xiaofeng with sharp eyes, and said to him, "Qi Xiaofeng, I like him."
Hatred burned in Qi Xiaofeng's eyes.
From then on, Qi Xiaofeng kept looking at me with such hatred and targeting me.
So intense and memorable.
I am not interested in a woman like Yin Shuitong. I am interested in someone else.
She must not know that I have been following her for almost two years.
She usually shows up at school around 7:15 and brings a bottle of milk every day. The strange thing is, she never drinks it. Why would she bring it if she doesn't want to drink it?
Before entering the school gate, I saw her giving milk to a passerby, mostly to children or homeless people.
She is tall, with a fair and pretty face. When she walks, she keeps her eyes straight ahead. The sunlight shines into her clear eyes, like two clear springs.
I know her name is Xiang Qianlan. To be honest, she looks really beautiful and has a naturally cold and arrogant temperament. I think if she puts on makeup, she will be able to seduce men.
But she is not that kind of girl. She has good grades, goes to and from home and school every day, and wears her school uniform neatly, just like all "good students". But I can see a kind of longing and sadness hidden on her face. Whenever she shows that expression, my heart feels like a handful of thorns are scattered, and it hurts.
It was strange that she should make me feel this way.
I finally decided to let her know me in the most normal way, so I signed up for the Mathematical Olympiad. This competition was organized by a technology company. Although it was an amateur competition, the school encouraged students to participate. Don't ask me why they did this, I don't know either.
I guess she must be in great need of money, so that her world only consists of study and scholarships. After I signed up for the Mathematical Olympiad, I passed her by twice. Maybe she had no interest in anyone. Even though I was so handsome, she still didn't even look at me. I felt ignored and became uncontrollably irritated.
Xiang Qianlan, Xiang Qianlan...
My interest in her deepened little by little. She was like a black butterfly flying around in my heart. I was fascinated by her and was waiting for an opportunity to let her know me.
The opportunity came. The red list on the bulletin board would announce the rankings every two weeks. She often passed by there, and I knew she would pay attention to the competition rankings published there.
Then one day, I saw her stop in front of the billboard, she reached out, touched my name, and my heart skipped a beat.
I pretended to be calm and approached her, acting like a complete playboy. I thought she would be scared and stay away from me, but she didn't. Instead, she asked who I was.
I said to myself, I am a man obsessed with you.
Getting to know her was a premeditated game. I had never been so eager to play a game. My heart was clamoring: Conquer her.
I changed my seat and watched her by the window whenever I had nothing to do. She wrote the test paper very quickly. She finished a test paper in less than twenty minutes, and then she became dazed.
It seemed like she finished the test paper quickly just to daydream. This woman was born with a good brain, which makes me jealous. Of course, I am also very good, but I don’t like to compare myself with women.
Yin Shuitong is really a trouble. In the woods, she said some inexplicable words to me. I just couldn’t understand why she, a rich lady, had to marry me?
I think history always repeats itself in a surprising way.
Back then I laughed at Qi Xiaofeng for being rejected by Yin Shuitong. Now Xiang Qianlan saw me rejecting Yin Shuitong, so the saying that fortune changes has some truth to it.
So, I brought the fight to her.
Then, I watched her being entangled by Chai Quan, and I helped her and kissed her.
This was a kiss that had been planned for a long time.
She was not at all flustered and said seriously that I was a mad dog that bit people.
Qi Beichen, who had always been so arrogant, was laughed at by a little girl. When I came to my senses, her skirt had already flown away.
"I thought you were someone to her, but you turned out to be a poor creature." After she left, Chai Quan said to me. I was silent for a while, then asked, "Will you fight?"
"You want to fight me?"
As soon as he finished speaking, my fist hit his face and I was kicked hard in the stomach. We fought fiercely and finally, it was the school security guards who separated us.
I don't know how Chai Quan bribed them, but I was not criticized the next day. With a bruise on my face, I took a week off.
That night, the pair of clear eyes kept flashing through my mind. I got up from the bed, turned on the DVD, and put in a disc of "A Chinese Odyssey".
This is a well-known movie and I have watched it countless times. She looks like Athena Chu, and her frowning look is the most similar, but my favorite part is the wink and smile that Fairy Zixia gave to Zhizunbao.
I kept imagining what she would look like when she smiled? Like Athena Chu? No, she should be a little prettier than Athena Chu. She must not know that I think so highly of her.
I didn't turn on the lights, the moonlight shone through the screen window into the house, I turned off the sound of the movie, and watched Zhu Yin's every smile and frown in the movie. I knew that I thought of this woman, I missed her.
In the lonely night, I fell into a deep sleep.
A week later, I didn't go to school.
The night before the Mathematical Olympiad exam, I went to the company to find my mother and saw a well-dressed man coming to pick her up. Their actions were so intimate that it made me feel a little nauseous. When the man touched my mother's chest, they discovered me.
They were both a little surprised to see me. I smiled at them.
My mother asked me, "Why are you here?" Her tone was extremely cold.
She had a stern face, as if I was such a heinous son.
"You guys keep going, keep going."
Everything I have was given by my mother, and I have no right to control her.
I wasn't sad, but I missed the exam and spent the whole night on the roof.
When the first rays of sunlight fell on me, I returned to bed. My body was icy cold after a night of freezing, and I could not help hugging myself tightly.
It’s okay, Qi Beichen.
Don't you already know what this home is like?
