Cyber Ghosts Chapter 138 We Have the Same Misery But Different Fate

It was the second time that Zhe met the men who once saved his life. It was with the greatest difficulty for Zhe to speak, but in an easy manner.

Hao Ning couldn't stop thinking about this over and over until Liu Suai led him to the table. As they sat down again, Hao Ning came to himself. In front of him was Zhe who looked sincere and honest. After saying the secret, a high wall in his heart, Zhe's shuddering clenched fists released. Hao Ning was born in a normal family that was happy. According to those unreliable TV plays, Hao Ning knew that the bastard was usually not accepted by the entire family. So, he was, for a lack of better words, frozen.

Zhe seemed saw through what Hao Ning was thinking. Gazed at the cups in front of him, he held Ye's hands and said slowly, "From the day I went into this family, I knew that I would not have any right to inherit heritage or do things I'd like to do. Even if I work someday, I don't have the right to independently manage any company that belongs to this family. What I have is money. Just like giving some food to dogs, they gave me more money than normal people would have. They made me look like a rich young man. Though many people admire this kind of life, for me, it is a shame that can never be forgotten."

Zhe hadn't finished speaking, but Hao Ning understood why Zhe behaved so strangely before. Though he loved Ye, he argued with her. Though he was bad at expressing his love for her, he'd rather sacrifice his soul to ensure the safety of Ye in her entire life. Though he just used many superb tricks, he was not skillful that Hao Ning saw right through it. Because he learned all of these from the people around him, instead of his own ideas. His words seemed to make sense yet full of holes, because he made it up just now. Why he would rather be misunderstood by Hao Ning and others, instead of telling the truth? Because he knew the great distinction between true or false in terms of his identity. Also, he always collected the photo with his brother Wang Shiming, so that he could show it to those who had doubts with his identity. If they were real brother, who would collect such photos and show it immediately when people doubted him? These were all the remedies in case of the exposure of his identity.

Now it seemed all these details made total sense if Zhe was a bastard. However, Hao Ning couldn't deduce that result despite he was proud of his logic. Now, he recalled the first time he met Zhang Chi Hang. "You are talking of logic to a Bodhisattva. Why don't you discuss acting with stars?" Zhang said sarcastically. He realized that the Bodhisattva guided him: Don't completely depend on logic. The world has so many things to be experienced by himself. But he didn't understand it until now.

For no reason, Liu Shuai suddenly asked Zhe, "You must be a good student, are you?" Hao Ning could make neither head nor tail of this question.

"Yes, I was." Zhe answered. It was obvious that Zhe also had no ideas on why Liu Shuai asked that. He recalled the past with a smile but then he frowned. "I could do nothing but go to school. At that time, I didn't go to the Wang family and my mother paid for me to go to school." he said.

Then, Zhe suddenly interrupted.

Hao Ning figured it out. Liu Shuai lived with her mother as well and he once said he scored good grades when he was young. As for why they studied well, Hao Ning thought it was natural. Zhe's words gave Hao Ning a clue: because they could do nothing but study. Then, Hao Ning remembered his analysis of Yufei. The reason he worked so hard was that maybe he wanted to escape from something. What did Zhe want to escape? At that time, he should have no ideas that he was the kid of Wang.

Hao Ning was thinking when he heard Zhou Yuan said, "You seemed to have some painful experiences during this time, didn't you?" After saying this, Zhou Yuan looked at Zhe who was staring at him. But there was an unbelievable surprise and indescribable sadness about what Zhou Yuan asked in his eyes, instead of anger.

Zhou Yuan nodded his head and pointed to his own heart while he said, "Because I can feel that your heart was hurting when you just said that."

After a long time, Zhe lowered his head and said:" ...Yes, I had."

Zhou Yuan smiled and looked at Zhe. He said slowly:" If you speak it out, you will feel better. We are not bad people."

When Zhou Yuan said this, Hao Ning seemed to see some faint light that surrounded Zhou Yuan. The light was not created by Zhou Yuan's magic power, but from what he felt, as if it was Zhou Yuan's true gift of "goodness". Before Hao Ning had an exclamation of amazement, Zhou Yuan whispered to Hao Ning: "Well... I feel that Liu Shuai also hurts. And, the pain has increased by thousands of times ..."

Zhou Yuan quickly shook his head slightly when he saw Hao Ning looked at him with eyes opened. Hao Ning knew what he meant, so he said nothing and just looked at Zhe.

"At that time... I was still young, and I worked hard to become a good student in the eyes of the teachers. Some of my classmates began to make fun of me by saying me a bastard who has no father." Zhe choked when he said this. Ye held his hand firmly but didn't interrupt him. "Then I fought with them. At that time, I was too weak to beat them. They dragged me to the men's toilet. Several hooligans slapped my face and spit on me." Zhe told his story in a very calm tone. Hao Ning never expected that this rich kid in front of him had such experiences. "There was one or two of them who put the cigarette butts on me." Zhe said and rolled up his sleeves. Hao Ning and others could clearly see the scars of several cigarette burns. "At that time, I was 10 years old."

Bang! Liu Shuai suddenly thumped his fists on the table and he glared at Zhe. He said, "You had to fight! You couldn't let them say that you were a bastard. It was not only for yourself but also for your mother. She was a woman who couldn't be insulted like this! You couldn't be afraid! Because you were the only man in this family. If you fell down, your home was gone!"

Hao Ning had never seen that Liu Shuai suddenly got so excited. He looked at Zhou Yuan and wondered whether he should talk Liu Shuai out of it. But unexpectedly, Zhou Yuan quickly shook his head to Hao Ning and beckoned him to do nothing. Although Hao Ning did not know the reason, he still sat quietly without any reaction.

"I was not afraid! I was not afraid of their beating!" Zhe raised his voice. He was obviously affected by Liu Shuai's excitement. Zhe clenched his fists again, nodded his head and looked at Liu Shuai. He almost stood up when he said, "You are right! Although I was much thinner than I am, I can't be bullied. Especially I could not allow them to insult my mother!"

Zhe continued to recall, "So I strengthened exercises. And I hadn't eaten any breakfast every morning to save the pocket money for three months. I paid some senior students to beat the students who called me bastard one by one!"

Hearing this, Hao Ning had instantly an internal storm of contrasting emotions. How much courage and perseverance did a child who was born in this family need to grow up? Thinking of this, Hao Ning suddenly remembered Liu Shuai's attitude towards Zhang Quan and kind of understood it.

Hearing Zhe's words, Liu Shuai smiled and stood up. He said to Zhe: "You are a man." Then he turned his back on people and looked at the hall outside through the glass. But Hao Ning seemed to vaguely see that Liu Shuai closed his eyes and his tears dripped down when he turned around.

"But no matter how much pocket money I saved and no matter how many times I asked the students of high grade to beat those guys, I couldn't prevent my mother from leaving me when I was 15 years old." Zhe said it with a sad smile. He lowered his head when he said, "At that time, my dad found me and let me went to the Wang family. But from the eyes of other people and my dad's words, I knew very well that they couldn't give me anything other than more money than ordinary people could have. Well, I told my dad nothing else but that I wanted to learn Kung Fu. I don't want ..."

Zhe looked at Ye and said: "I don't want my girl to be bullied one day and I have no ability to protect her."

Ye said nothing. She smiled and looked at Zhe, but her cheeks were bathed in tears.

"Recently, I was very happy when I knew that a subway station would be built around the temple of Long Fei." Zhe did not call Long Fei "Master", but by his name directly. "Ye and I planned to go to the Dragon King Temple to redeem our wish in the next few days. But later I heard from Wang Shi Ming that the Dragon King Temple would be demolished and a shopping center would be built. I thought he couldn't do that. I had a great tug to persuade him to change his mind. But he had one condition: A business is a business. So I need to spend money on it. But as I counted all my money, it is still far from it."

Hao Ning nodded and he did guess correctly. Zhe didn't take the Back Mountain into consideration at all. But he did not expect that, "What are you going to do with it? Even if you borrowed money from friends, it is still difficult to collect a large sum of money. Right?"

"His friends knew Zhe's future more or less. So they are fair-weather friends, rather than friends in need." Ye said and shook his head. This girl knew them backwards and forwards. No wonder Zhe liked her. "They are very pally when Zhe has plenty of money but when he has nothing...I don't want to talk about them. Zhe will be upset." she said.

Ye pursed her lips and apparently didn't plan to talk about Zhe's friends anymore. Ye said for Zhe, "so Zhe made a deal with his brother."

"What kind of a deal?" Hao Ning asked when he thought that it was unfortunate for Zhe to have wealth.

"His brother said that he didn't want to bully Zhe. As Zhe likes to practice Kung Fu, he asked Zhe to play to his strength. If Zhe can suffer fifty movements from his top three bodyguards, he will lend him 100 million without any interest," continued Ye, "If Zhe can beat them, he'd like to give 100 million for free."

"This condition ... is very attractive." Long Fei nodded.

"It depends on who does this." Hao Ning looked at Long Fei carelessly. Hao Ning knew that if the money was given to Zhe himself, of course, it was very attractive. But the money was only given to Zhe after he had a fight. And then even if he won the money, he would immediately use it to buy the Dragon King Temple. It couldn't be regarded as in the hands of Zhe. And if he failed in the fight, Zhe needed to pay the debt of 100 million. If this person was not Zhe but someone else, they would likely muddle through the Dragon King Temple by only donating some Sea Lanterns. Zhe did not do this, but tried to accomplish it in other ways.

At this point, Hao Ning gradually admired Zhe's integrity. Although Zhe once used some tricks to learn his kungfu, deep in his heart he was sincere. Still, the merits of him outweighed such flaws.

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