AMA Chapter22

The school handled this matter very well. There was no movement in the grade group until the end of school. Yu Chengsong packed his schoolbag and was about to leave, but then he stepped back.

Yin Gu put on his schoolbag and looked at him. “Go together?”

Yu Chengsong nodded. “En.”

Zhou Zheyu shouted to him across the middle row, “Good brother, do you have any plans for today?”

“What plan?” Yu Chengsong put on his earphones and glanced at him. “You want to treat me to a meal?”

“How can I have money? All good brothers should split the bill.” Zhou Zheyu ran over, “Barbecue?”

“No.” Yu Chengsong picked a song and played it as background music.

“Aren’t you hungry? What did you do this morning? You didn’t even eat lunch with me. Huh? Damn, why are you so cold? You scumbag, have you done it with someone else? Why don’t you have any passion for me anymore???” Zhou Zheyu glared at him, and then his eyes moved to Yin Gu on the other side of Yu Chengsong. He widened his eyes, “You… followed?”

“Hmm?” Yin Gu laughed, “What’s wrong?”

Damn it.

Zhou Zheyu covered his mouth. What was going on? When Yu Chengsong was not here in the morning… Yin Gu wasn’t here either?

He seemed to know something extraordinary?

“Are you going to eat later?” Yu Chengsong shut his phone and turned to ask Yin Gu.

“I’m not too hungry, how about you?” Yin Gu said.

“I don’t feel anything either.” Yu Chengsong said to Zhou Zheyu again, “Then I—” will eat with you.

“No! No need to say more.” Zhou Zheyu said with a look of heartache while waving his hands sadly. “Let me bear it alone. I knew this day would come. Although we are close friends, you will eventually become someone else’s alpha.”

“No.” Yu Chengsong stroked his head and laughed, “I’m still your father.”

Zhou Zheyu: “Thank you, but no need.”

Thanks to classmate Zheyu, Yu Chengsong arrived home at around five o’clock today.

Just as he was about to insert the key in the door, it suddenly opened from the inside. His mother rushed out, dressed strangely, and bumped into his chest.

“F*ck…” Yu Chengsong was almost out of breath because of the collision. He pushed her back and slammed the door.

The room was in a mess as expected, but this time there was another person, Yu Chengyuan, squatting in the corner crying.

“Don’t stop me!” His mother looked hurried and anxious as if there was going to be an earthquake and pushed him hard.

“Are you having a seizure? Makeup like a ghost.” Yu Chengsong blocked her hand.

Her sallow face was covered with ghostly white makeup, and her hair, once tied up in a bun for some unknown reason, was now messy and half undone. She was dressed in an old-fashioned suit she had picked up somewhere, with a yellowed shirt underneath. The ill-fitting clothes made her look awkward and out of place.

She looked like a paper figure.

“I want to go out.” His mother suddenly stopped pushing him, straightened her clothes, frowned, and said, “I want to go see Yuanyuan.”

As soon as these words were spoken, the two people who were huddled in the corner trembled together.

“Isn’t your Yuanyuan squatting in the corner? What are you looking for?” Yu Chengsong pointed his chin in the direction of Yu Chengyuan.

His mother suddenly froze, her movements halted, her expression stiff. She didn’t look at Yu Chengyuan at first, and only after a long minute did she turn to him, eyes brimming with tears, her lips trembling as she choked out, “Yuanyuan is gone… gone… Yuanyuan, Yuanyuan was killed by you! He was killed by you!”

Before she could finish her words, she suddenly picked up the vase next to her and threw it at him.

Yu Chengsong blocked it without blinking, and the back of his hand turned red.

“Yuanyuan was killed by you! It’s been twelve years… it’s been twelve years since Yuanyuan was killed by you! It was you who drowned him—it was you! It was you…” His mother covered her face with her hands while her shoulders trembled, her voice was hoarse like a mother animal who had lost her cub as she sobbed in pain. “You were jealous of him, it’s all your fault, you were jealous of him, so you killed him… you are a devil, you are a devil…”

“I’ve said it a thousand times already, it wasn’t me.” Yu Chengsong looked at her sarcastically without a trace of emotion in his heart at all.

His mother raised her head and stared at him with bloodshot eyes while gritting her teeth. “It’s you, it’s you, Yuanyuan said he was so cold, the water was so cold… I want to send him clothes, I want to put clothes on him. Yuanyuan missed me! Missed me… don’t stop me, I want to go see him!”

“You are not allowed to go out.” Yu Chengsong said.

“Yuanyuan misses me, and you won’t even let me see him! You’re still jealous of him, you’re not going to let him rest in peace even after his death!” His mom pushed him hard and slapped him when he wasn’t paying attention.

“Pah—”

Yu Chengsong turned his face away and clenched his fists.

“You beast! You killed your own brother! Get away! I want to go see him!” His mother grabbed his collar like a lunatic.

“……”

“You will get your comeuppance sooner or later! Let me out, let me—”

“See then! Let’s go! I’ll let you see!” Yu Chengsong grabbed his mother’s shoulders, dragged her to the window, opened it abruptly, pointed outside the window, and shouted, “Jump! Don’t you love Yu Chengyuan? If you love him, you should go with him! Why don’t you jump? Hmm? If you don’t jump, how about I push you down!?”

“You are crazy… you are crazy… let me go! You want to kill me… I am your mother!” His mother pried his hands apart in panic and moved back step by step, but was pulled back by Yu Chengsong.

“This little substitute is only six years old this year.” Yu Chengsong pointed at Yu Chengyuan in the corner, looked at his mother, and lowered his voice. “If you die, no one will spoil him. I will spank him eight hundred times a day and make sure he lives a hundred years of life worse than death. Think it over before you die.”

“Hmm? Have you made up your mind? Do you still want to go see Yu Chengyuan?”

“No… no… you can’t hurt Yuanyuan!” His mother repeated in a mysterious voice and suddenly bit his wrist. Yu Chengsong let go out of pain. His mother immediately ran to the corner and hugged Yu Chengyuan while crying and looking at him vigilantly.

Yu Chengsong glanced at the teeth marks on his wrist, took a deep breath, walked to Yu Chengdi, and stretched out his hand. “Aren’t you ashamed crying like a girl?”

Yu Chengdi was crying and grabbing his hand. His knee was bruised from squatting for too long, and he kneeled down again. Yu Chengsong bent down and carried him.

“Don’t go with him! He kills people!” Yu Chengyuan suddenly shouted, “He killed my second brother, and now he wants to kill you too!”

“Wrap it yourself.” Yu Chengsong took out the medicine box and threw it on the bed. He took out the homework from his schoolbag and spread it on the table, then picked up the pen and started writing.

Yu Chengdi had big wounds on his knees, which were bleeding. One doesn’t need to ask to know that it was his mother who did it. After all, that’s what he went through it as a child.

Yu Chengdi was crying while applying anti-inflammatory medicine to his legs. His movements were clumsy, and he hurt himself from time to time, which made him cry even harder. “Ge…” Yu Chengdi looked at him with a pursed mouth and sniffed. “Do you hate mom?”

Yu Chengsong paused mid-writing, his pen hovering motionless over the page, leaving not a single word behind.

“You hate her?” He asked.

Yu Chengdi lowered his head and said nothing.

Yu Chengsong sneered and threw away his pen. “Hate is hate, there is nothing to be embarrassed about. I hate her. If there wasn’t a little substitute at home who had no one to take care of, I would have wanted her to quickly go dress Yu Chengyuan up already.”

Yu Chengdi cried as he wiped his tears, “Why do other people’s mothers like their own children but our mother only likes Yu Chengyuan? He is not even as good as you. Why…”

Yu Chengsong was stunned for a while, then suddenly smiled and looked at Yu Chengdi and asked, “I’m good? What’s good about me? Hmm?”

“Just… good.” Yu Chengdi said.

“What’s so good? If you didn’t look like me, you wouldn’t have to suffer this much either.” Yu Chengsong laughed at himself.

“I like it!” Yu Chengdi wiped his eyes fiercely with his sleeves and looked at him seriously with red eyes. “I like looking like you. I would rather die than look like Yu Chengyuan!”

“You have great ambition!” Yu Chengsong clapped his hands and teased him, “Yu Chengyuan will come to see you tonight!”

Yu Chengdi was instantly frightened and shrank back, but he still stiffened his neck, “He-he won’t look for me… even if he looks for me, I’m not afraid of him either!”

Yu Chengsong couldn’t stop laughing. He threw a piece of candy to the bed, lowered his head, and picked up the pen again. “Little idiot.”

There wasn’t much homework today, so Yu Chengsong finished it at around 8 o’clock. When he turned around, he saw Yu Chengdi still lying on the bed, writing.

He leaned over to take a look.

Yu Chengdi was writing an essay and has already written two lines.

The title reads “My Teacher,” and the opening line, written in spidery handwriting, goes: I have a teacher, who is both my math teacher and my homeroom teacher. My teacher teaches math…

“Oh my God, are you keeping accounts?” Yu Chengsong felt that his eyes were oppressed and laughed at him mercilessly.

“I didn’t! I am writing an essay!” Yu Chengdi’s face turned red with anger.

“The nonsense I said on the spot was even far better than yours.” Yu Chengsong sighed.

“That-that’s because you are in high school!” Yu Chengdi blocked the essay paper.

“Can you get the same grades as me when you enter high school?” Yu Chengsong looked at him.

Yu Chengdi stopped talking and puffed his cheeks.

Yu Chengsong casually picked up the English paper he had just finished, glanced through it, and felt like he was going to have a heart attack. “Are you using all your strength to match my looks? The IQ is not up to par at all. This is wrong, this is also wrong, and this…”

“Don’t criticize me if you don’t teach me.” Yu Chengdi muttered.

“I can’t teach. The level is too low. Don’t you just need a brain for this kind of thing?” Yu Chengsong paused and suddenly thought of someone. “But I do have a candidate.”

“I know that Brother Zheyu is fourth from the bottom! Don’t lie to me anymore!” Yu Chengdi’s first reaction was alert. His elder brother had cheated him at least nine thousand times already.

“I’m not kidding you.” Yu Chengsong poked his head with a roll of toilet paper. “Do you remember Brother Yin, Brother Gu, Brother Yin Gu, Yin Gu who came to sleep at home last time?”

“I remember!” Yu Chengdi’s eyes lit up. That good student brother who looked nothing like his elder brother’s friend!

Yu Chengsong looked at the time. It was nine o’clock. If he had finished his homework, Yin Gu would definitely be able to finish it as well. He did not take any unexpected factors into consideration at all.

We are all friends now, so there’s no need to worry about it.

For him, there is no need for a reason to help friends, no matter whether he is the helper or the one being helped.

He dialed the WeChat number directly, and the call was connected after a while.

“Hello? Yu Chengsong?”

“Are you busy now?” Yu Chengsong asked directly.

“I’m not busy. I just finished taking a shower, and I’m free.” Yin Gu said, “What can I do for you?”

“Wait a minute.” Yu Chengsong curled his lips. A bad idea came to his mind, and he pushed Yu Chengdi once. “Come on, tell your Brother Gu.”

“Hmm?” Yin Gu didn’t know what was going on here.

“…Gu, Brother Gu.” Yu Chengdi called out awkwardly while clenching his fists in shame. “I’m Yu Chengdi…”

Yu Chengsong held back his laughter.

“Chengdi?” Yin Gu smiled, “Good evening.”

Yin Gu’s voice, carrying a lazy smile after his shower, was captivating. It wasn’t just Yu Chengsong who thought so, Yu Chengdi’s face had also flushed red. However, the former was because of the little train in his head, and the latter was purely because he thought Brother Gu’s voice was nice.

Yu Chengdi stammered, “I, my elder brother, my elder brother wants you to…”

“What do you mean your elder brother wants to?” Yu Chengsong corrected him, “I didn’t want to. Did I fail in Chinese and English?”

Yu Chengdi was so stifled that he was trembling. After a long while, he finally said in a very low voice, “Brother Gu, I-I want you to help me with my essay…”

Yin Gu finally understood and said with a smile, “Sure, should we review it via video call? Or you send it to me and we can review it via microphone? What method do you prefer?”

Yu Chengdi was dumbfounded, he didn’t know.

Yu Chengsong was having a hard time watching this, so he took the phone and said, “Use the software that Lao Li used for his online class. Do you still have it?”

“I have it.” Yin Gu said.

“It’s a great chance to show you the messy words that stupid spider wrote,” Yu Chengsong said with a wicked grin. “I nearly went blind after reading just two lines.”

“Are you not ashamed to talk about Chengdi?” Yin Gu also laughed.

“Why ashamed? My handwriting is not good?” Yu Chengsong said.

“Have you finished copying my essay twice?” Yin Gu said.

“Go away, the child’s mother.” Yu Chengsong clicked his tongue.