Inferior by Nature

Fresh flowers are placed on the dining table, and on the exquisite plate, there is tender, juicy, just-cooked beef fillet.

When you cut it with a knife, you can see the beautiful pink cross-section, which is the standard medium rare.As for the piece of Jinchenyu, although the outside is burnt brown, the inside is completely raw.

The bright red beef was cut into small pieces and delivered to the mouth. Jin Chenyu chewed and ate it slowly, seemingly enjoying it.

Feeling that I was looking at him, he raised his head, smiled at me and said, "Why doesn't Teacher Ji eat?"

I held the silver fork tightly, and immediately stuffed a piece of beef into my mouth, but it tasted like wax, and I couldn't enjoy its deliciousness at all.

"Maybe it's because I ate breakfast late, and I don't feel hungry at all now." I took a sip of lemonade to dilute the greasy in my mouth. I really lost my appetite, so I gave up completely and stopped eating, "I heard that you are here for the little master Yuanbao want to see me?"

It's not a solution to procrastinate like this. Since the other party didn't take the initiative to mention it, I'm the only one who will open it.

Jin Chenyu raised his head and took a sip of the red wine in the glass. Hearing this, he gently put down the glass and said, "Ah, yes. Yuan Bao came to me crying this morning, saying that he didn't want you to leave the island, and asked me to find a way to keep you behind." .”

I complained endlessly in my heart, this young master's love is really a double-edged sword.When I went to the island, I just felt lucky that I could get close to Ran Qingzhuang with a high-paying job. It was as if I was handed a pillow when I fell asleep.But now, luck has become a burden, and the pillow... has also become a reminder that cannot be shaken off.

"I'm leaving the island today just to meet an old friend, and it's not... I won't come back after I go." She tried her best to move the corners of her lips, trying to win the other party's trust by relying on sincerity.

Jin Chenyu's expression was unpredictable, his red lips were slightly raised, and he said, "But you still want to leave."

"I'm not from Chonghai. I've been away from home for many years. It's time to go back to my family and accompany them."

"Even if Ran Qingzhuang is on the island?"

"He and I have been stalking each other unilaterally, and I'm tired."

Jin Chenyu nodded: "You are tired too..."

Facing this little fox who is invulnerable to water and fire, and oil and salt, I can hardly maintain a smiling face.Kong Tan's evilness is not concealed, letting you know at a glance that he is not easy to provoke, but Jin Chenyu's evilness is hidden very deep, so that people will fall into his way if they are not paying attention.

"Yuan Bao has many teachers, but he treats you differently. I thought it was strange, so I asked him why he likes you so much. Yuan Bao said, everyone is busy, and all adults don't like to play with him, only you are willing to accompany him. He plays."

"I asked him again, how did Teacher Ji play with you, and he refused to tell." Jin Chenyu shook the red wine in the glass lightly, and said, "I think, it must be some agreement you made, right? So I promised him that I would help him keep you, but in exchange... you must tell me the little secret between you two."

There was a tiny drop of sweat dripping from the corner of my temples, I slowly grasped the table knife on the table, and I completely suppressed my expression.

"Don't worry, Yuan Bao didn't say anything." His eyes fell on my face, and he drank the wine in the glass little by little.

The two bodyguards standing behind him were like two stone statues. Not only did they have no expression on their faces, but they also kept their eyes on an unknown point opposite them, motionless.

Do it now, but give away the head for nothing.Thinking of this, I slowly let go of the knife in my hand again.

"But I also thought that the security at home has been so tight recently, but the servants always miss Yuanbao. Sometimes they let him go outside after looking at it. Why? Is it related to your little secret? "Jin Chenyu said as he stood up, walked around the dining table, and came behind me.

"You should have heard about my being kidnapped when I was a child, right?" He pressed his hands on my shoulders, obviously not too hard, but it still gave me a sense of horror of being entangled by a giant deep-sea octopus.

Fear made me subconsciously tighten the muscles of my whole body, and my mind was running fast, thinking of countermeasures, excuses, and how to successfully deceive Jinchenyu.

"I heard a little."

Jin Chenyu leaned down, leaned close to my ear and said, "They kidnapped me on the way home from school, and then they tortured me every day, feeding me urine, slapping my face, and burning me with cigarette butts. Now I still have my shoulders on my shoulders. There is a big scar. You don’t need me to tell you who saved me later, right?”

His tone was always a little smiling, as if he was just talking about some unimportant family matter.

"My father always wants me to remember who died for me, and whose son Ran Qingzhuang is. Since I was a child, I have always wanted to do my best and make him proud of me, but he will always be countless to me. He can give love to that bastard Ou Kelan, Yuan Bao, and even a wild dog that came out of nowhere, but he is the only one who is strict and stingy with me."

Ran Zheng died to save Jin Chenyu, and Ran Qingzhuang has become a helpless orphan. Jin Feisheng is grateful for Ran Zheng's kindness, and this makes Ran Qingzhuang very important, so that he can be promoted to the top of the group at a young age.But at that time, Jin Chenyu was still young, and he might not have much affection for Ran Zheng, let alone Ran Qingzhuang.

For so many years, Jin Feisheng's emphasis and repeated repetition did not make Jin Chenyu regard Ran Qingzhuang as his brother with a different surname as he thought, just like him and Ran Zheng back then.On the contrary, Jin Chenyu developed a rebellious mentality, disgusted with his father's mentioning the events of the year over and over again, and also hated the existence of Ran Qingzhuang.

This is the fundamental reason why he reuses Kong Tan and trusts him more.To him, Ran Qingzhuang was nothing more than a "wild dog" that jumped out suddenly and wantonly disturbed his life because of his kindness.

"It's far away." Jin Chenyu straightened up, patted me on the shoulder and said, "I haven't been to school since the kidnapping, and when Yuan Bao was born, my father became more cautious. He was kept captive on the island all the time. But you know, some things are hard to guard against, what if he is kidnapped on the island, right? So...we installed a tracker on his body."

"It's right here." Cold fingers touched the back of my neck, I turned around suddenly, and accidentally tore off the napkin on the table. The bell rang and rang for a moment, the plate was broken, the glass fell, and all the knives and forks fell to the ground.

I covered the back of my neck and looked at Jinchenyu in front of me in horror. I felt the chill piercing my bones and my heart, and my body began to tremble uncontrollably.

He looked down at me, slowly withdrew his pale fingers, and continued: "I checked all the records of Yuan Bao's actions in the past month, and found something very interesting. There were a few days when it was class time, but he Wandering around every corner of the castle, the servants outside the door didn't notice it, and didn't even respond when he went out. Teacher Ji, do you know what's going on?"

He got it.

I'm pretty sure he already knew about my entry into the secret passage.

Obviously, he could have dropped this bomb from the very beginning, but he had to lay the groundwork for so long, and now he still has to know why... He was just teasing me.Just like a cat that catches a mouse but is not so hungry, it repeatedly releases and presses its paws, admiring the performance of the mouse's painstaking efforts to survive, until it is exhausted from playing with the mouse, and then swallows it in one gulp.

"We are playing a game..." Looking directly into Jin Chenyu's bottomless eyes, I struggled to squeeze out a voice, "Playing hide and seek, playing cat and mouse, he told me there is a door behind the mural... I'm sorry , I just want to make the young master happy. It's because I didn't do my job well, I will... I will spit out all my salary. I will forget everything that happened on the island after I go out, and I will never talk nonsense , Eldest Young Master, don't worry!"

Jin Chenyu smiled: "You still want to go out?"

He raised his head and gave the two stone statues on the opposite side a look. Then, as if he had been revived, the stone statues moved and surrounded me from left to right.

My heart sank, I tried to grab Jin Chenyu's arm: "Believe me, I'm really just playing games with the young master!"

He took a step back and avoided it with ease.

The tall bodyguards grabbed one of my arms and forced me to kneel on the ground.It was as if he was carrying a heavy stone on his back, and he couldn't move for a moment.

Jin Chenyu dragged a chair, sat down two meters away from me, raised his long legs gracefully, and observed my embarrassment.

"That secret path was used by my father for emergencies. Even my stepmother didn't know about it. Unexpectedly, Yuan Bao discovered it. Children are really smart sometimes, aren't they?" Before I could answer, he went on He said, "It's not that I don't believe you, but you have to see when it is. I was catching the ghost, but you ended up in a place you shouldn't be in. What do you want me to do? Just let you go?"

The twisted shoulder was in pain, I was shivering, and my shirt was already drenched with sweat in just a few minutes.

"We're just playing games..." I repeated hoarsely, killing the idea of ​​playing games.

The door of the restaurant was pushed open at this moment, and Ran Qingzhuang strode in with a condensed expression, followed by Kong Tan who was watching the show.

"Rules are rules. If you break the rules, you can't blame others." Jin Chenyu turned his head, looked at Ran Qingzhuang, and said with a smile, "Youngest, your man, you can do it yourself."

Ran Qingzhuang stood still not far from me. Before he could say anything, Kong Tan took out the gun from his waist and handed it to him.

Ran Qingzhuang looked at the gun, didn't pick it up, turned to Jin Chenyu and said, "Since it's suspicious, why not lock it up for two days for interrogation?"

Kong Tan laughed sinisterly: "Are you reluctant? Or... are you actually with him? If you don't come, I will come!" As he said that, he was about to point his gun at me.

Ruthlessness flashed across Ran Qingzhuang's eyes, he held him down, snatched the gun from his hand, and looked back at Jinchenyu.

Jin Chenyu smiled and said nothing, and made a "please" gesture, the meaning was very clear - there was no need for a retrial, he just wanted to execute the sentence immediately.

Ran Qingzhuang pursed his lips, held the gun, and walked towards me step by step.

In the end, it turned out that he came to do it...

Originally it was just fear, but now because it was Ran Qingzhuang who was holding the weapon, my heart was filled with uncontrollable anger, and I even wanted to yell at Jinchenyu for not being a thing.

How could he let Ran Qingzhuang do it?

Someone who can't even accept the death of a puppy, someone who hasn't gotten used to this island for so many years, someone who is so soft-hearted towards me, an old enemy... How can such a person let him kill me with his own hands?

The heart is divided into two halves, one half is yelling crazily, Jin Chenyu is a piece of trash, and the other half is analyzing calmly, only in this way can Ran Qingzhuang be cleared of suspicion.

Victory is just around the corner, and it's good to live one...

I stared at Ran Qingzhuang's face without blinking, tears pooled in my eyes.

He came up to me and slowly raised the muzzle of his gun.

Tears rolled down my cheeks, and I tried to comfort him: "It doesn't matter... I... I was going to die."

Choking, under his cold gaze, I closed my eyes tightly, waiting for the gunshot that ended my life to finally sound.