Chapter 24
Chapter 24: The Unlucky One Turns Out To Be Me?!
Everyone in the Du family deeply agreed, and they all wanted to give Du An Rao a thumbs up.
Just from hearing this whole story, they already wanted to get some pomelo leaves to wash themselves and drive away the bad luck.
Father Du and Mother Du especially now finally understood why Du An Rao had been so nervous when she first saw Bai Xiu Qing at home. If they got tied up with someone like that, even if the family did not get destroyed, they would still lose a whole layer of skin!
[Oops, I went off topic. Every time I think about how my second brother got ruined by those two, my stomach hurts with anger.]
Du Jun Yan rubbed his temples and said: “Exactly. My head is buzzing right now too.”
Du He Xuan frowned and said: “???” Then he protested: “Hey, if you want to talk about big brother, just talk about big brother. What does this have to do with me?”
[That Boss Jia, if you put it nicely you can say he holds grudges. If you put it bluntly, he is just petty. No matter if what Bai Xiu Qing said was true or not, as long as the Du family took her in, he had to take revenge. He believes in paying kindness back with hatred.]
The Du family all fell silent: “…” In their hearts they thought, they were really speechless about these two. One was a beast, the other was human trash. May they be locked together forever and never come out to hurt anyone else.
[My second brother was really unlucky. Back then, the first person Boss Jia wanted revenge on was big brother. Everyone else was just collateral. But second brother just happened to have his own trouble at that time, so didn’t he run right into the muzzle of the gun?]
Compared to Du Jun Yan, who had been in the business world for many years, Du He Xuan, who mixed in the big dye vat of the entertainment industry, was much easier to deal with. On top of that, this was a knife that Du He Xuan had stupidly handed over himself. Not stabbing him with it would not fit Boss Jia’s style at all.
Just like that, with Boss Jia pushing from behind the scenes, Du He Xuan, who had already been set up by Jiang Huai Ying, was completely turned into a target for everyone to attack.
At the time, the Du family members were either being held back or busy trying to take care of their own messes. No one could help him.
The only person who could come out and explain, the person involved, was still stuck in the police station, so they could only watch people twist right and wrong and smear him however they wanted.
By the time Du He Xuan got out, and the Du family finally had their hands free, it was already way too late to fix anything.
Du He Xuan: “…”
He had laughed at his big brother’s misfortune for so long, only to find out in the end that the real unlucky one was actually himself?!
What hurt the most was that after Mother Du found out about this, she immediately pulled the whole family into a gossip group chat, and even changed the remarks for her older son and second son ahead of time: Unlucky Guy No.1 and Unlucky Guy No.2.
Father Du and Du Yu Xi followed right after and each sent a meme with a huge laughing face.
Du Jun Yan: “…”
Du He Xuan: “…”
Enough. They were laughing so loudly that it was getting on the brothers’ nerves.
Jokes were jokes, but everyone was truly scared in their hearts.
If not for Du An Rao, even if they had doubted the child in Bai Xiu Qing’s belly, they still would have given her a place to stay for the sake of her late parents.
But just like their An An had said, once they took her in, their names would be added to some pervert’s revenge list.
Who would have thought that one day being kind could become a crime? It really made people feel like they could never guard against it enough.
Thinking of this, everyone felt the same as Du An Rao right now and let out a long breath of relief.
[Now things are fine. Mom and Dad can tell right from wrong and did not believe Bai Xiu Qing’s false accusations against big brother. Big brother also did not get fooled by that little white lotus look of hers. Everyone’s connection with her ended that morning. I wonder which poor soul that walking disaster has gone off to harm now.]
In Du An Rao’s eyes, a clinging vine like Bai Xiu Qing could not possibly survive on her own outside.
Since the road to Du Jun Yan was blocked, she would definitely go find some other sucker.
This whole thing was a kind of butterfly effect. Du An Rao did not know that, but that did not mean no one knew.
Father Du knew that after they had almost suffered a hidden loss that day, his older son had sent someone to keep an eye on Bai Xiu Qing. Now that his curiosity was stirred by Du An Rao, he immediately @ed his older son in the group chat and told him to explain.
Seeing this, Mother Du and Du Yu Xi also started sending all kinds of sweet words, begging Du Jun Yan to quickly post some follow up to satisfy their curiosity.
Du Jun Yan: “…” He muttered to himself: “You were just laughing at me, and now you remember how useful I am?”
Complaints were complaints. In the end, Du Jun Yan still fulfilled everyone’s wish and sent what he had found out recently into the group.
Just like Du An Rao had guessed, after losing the high quality stock that was Du Jun Yan, Bai Xiu Qing could only depend on Fang Cheng for the time being to get by.
But Du Jun Yan had already followed the trail through her to investigate Fang Cheng, so there was no way he would let her live a happy and easy life.
Not long after, Fang Cheng was fired because of a work mistake.
Bai Xiu Qing had already looked down on his tiny income as an outside hire doctor. When she saw that he had lost even that job, she could not hold herself back. That night she packed her things and ran away, then hooked up with a real estate manager with the surname Dou.
Du Jun Yan had been hesitating over whether to keep making trouble for Bai Xiu Qing, but then he found out he did not need to do anything at all. That Manager Dou was already running into one problem after another and could barely protect himself.
Before, Du Jun Yan had not thought too much about it. Now, after listening to Du An Rao’s whole analysis, he felt that eight or nine times out of ten, it was Boss Jia who had made a move.
He sent this guess into the group chat, and it immediately stirred up a heated discussion.
Everyone agreed that their An An had been right. Bai Xiu Qing really was a jinx. Whoever got involved with her would have bad luck!
After going through the whole storyline and confirming that the only hidden danger that had led to Du He Xuan’s tragedy had already been cut off early in the cradle, the tight knot in Du An Rao’s heart finally loosened completely.
She let out a light breath, stretched lazily, and looked around, then suddenly widened her eyes.
[Huh? Am I seeing things? Why did I just see second brother’s forehead suddenly flash for a second?]
Father Du and Mother Du were in the middle of drinking water and almost sprayed it all over each other’s faces. They finally swallowed it down with difficulty, then quickly turned to stare at Du He Xuan’s face, but they did not see anything.
Father Du and Mother Du were very disappointed. Just a moment ago, they had thought their second son’s genes had suddenly mutated and given him a third eye!
Du He Xuan did not even need to think to know what these two unreliable people were imagining. The corners of his mouth twitched twice.
He was just about to raise a hand to touch his own forehead to check if there was really something wrong with it when a phone call stopped him just in time from doing something stupid.
He answered the call and said: “What did you say? Jiang Huai Ying got arrested? When did that happen?”
“Jiang Huai Ying got arrested?” Father Du and Mother Du were also shocked.
They had wanted to send this vicious woman to jail as soon as possible, but the police had their own procedures for handling a case. Even if they had suspicions, they could not just arrest someone right away.
They had already prepared themselves to stay here for ten days or half a month to slowly grind it out with her, but now… she had already been arrested?
“You are coming up to find me? Okay, I will wait for you upstairs.”
Ten minutes later, two people knocked on the door of Du He Xuan’s hotel room.
He opened the door and asked: “Director Gao, how come you are here too? What is going on?”
Director Gao awkwardly pointed at Zhou Shun Zhe beside him and gave a silly laugh as he said: “I came with him.”
“…Since when are you two that close?”
But that was not the main point. The main point was…
“How did you find out that Jiang Huai Ying was arrested? Is the news confirmed to be true?”
The one who answered was Director Gao: “A friend of mine who works in news media told me. It is absolutely true. He took the photo himself.”