The Hot-tempered Young Master and His Village Flower Child Bride - Chapter 1
CHAPTER 1
The room was plunged into darkness, lit only by the faint glow of a small, old flip phone screen.
Zhao Xunyu, an eighteen-year-old young man who had stubbornly endured two days without food, huddled under his blanket and leaned against the headboard. Now his body was weak and he was trembling with hunger.
He had thought that the end of the college entrance exams would mean boundless freedom. Instead, only a few days into this freedom, his wings were clipped by his own father. He had been banished to this godforsaken village to work under his grandmother’s supervision. He was to reform and turn over a new leaf.
This was undoubtedly the darkest moment of his life. Two days without food or water, his hands and feet swollen from mosquito bites, even his chin swollen, penniless, without a smartphone, possessing only an antiquated brick-like phone that could make calls.
Zhao Xunyu had never imagined that he would become so destitute. His resentment towards his father grew, and his hatred for Gu Jie doubled.
Throwing his head back, he pulled his hair roughly, sighed, turned on the light, got dressed, and got out of bed.
Chu Zhi Lu had just entered the house when she saw Zhao Xunyu coming down the stairs with a dark expression on his face. He was wearing a black tank top and beach shorts; his strong arms and incredibly long legs were exposed, the mosquito bites clearly visible.
“I’m hungry. I want to eat.”
He went on a hunger strike for two days in protest, but his grandmother remained unmoved, as hard as a rock. If he didn’t eat something else, he would faint. He had no choice but to swallow his pride and submit to the evil forces.
Chu Zhi Lu saw that he was no longer on a hunger strike and thought that this ordeal was over. She didn’t tease him about it. Instead, she quickly cooked some noodles and brought him a bowl of spicy sauce.
‘Man is made of iron and food is made of steel.’ Two days of hunger could break even the most ambitious spirit.
Zhao Xunyu, who could bend as well as stretch, was quite stubborn when he wanted to be. But now he devoured the noodles with gusto, not at all embarrassed. Soon, sweat began to trickle down his nose.
It seemed like he was really starving.
Zhao Xunyu finished his meal in no time, walked out of the kitchen, and asked Chu Zhi Lu, who was watching TV, “Where’s grandma?”
“She went to town.”
“Oh… uh, don’t tell her I came down to eat.”
Zhao Xunyu planned to wash the dishes and destroy the evidence, then return to his room to continue his hunger strike. He hoped his grandmother would relent.
Chu Zhi Lu found him childish.
“It’s useless. Even if you starve to death, your protest won’t work. For the past two days, after every meal, Grandma has taken the leftovers to feed the dog. There’s nothing left to eat in the house except a bitter melon. The noodles you just ate were bought at the grocery store after Grandma went out.”
“…”
Does that mean that even if he were to go downstairs in search of food after dinner for the past two days, he wouldn’t be able to find anything?
Grandma Chu was a particularly strong-willed and cold-hearted woman. Once she made a decision, nothing could change her mind. Zhao Xunyu’s little tricks were completely ineffective against her.
“You should stop pretending.”
Zhao Xunyu was filled with grief and indignation. He felt that his fate was tragic.
This whole mess started with his ardent pursuer.
After being firmly rejected by Zhao Xunyu countless times, Liu Yin Yin continued to feign affection, claiming that she would continue until he was moved. He was so fed up with her that he forbade everyone around him from mentioning her name and avoided her as much as possible. So he didn’t know that she was telling everyone that she was his girlfriend.
When his nemesis Gu Jie found out that Liu Yin Yin was Zhao Xunyu’s girlfriend, he began to approach her and seduce her on purpose. He wanted to spite Zhao Xunyu. He wanted everyone to know that he’d been cuckolded, so he often acted ambiguously and intimately with Liu Yin Yin in public.
Liu Yin Yin had personally admitted that she was Zhao Xunyu’s girlfriend many times. She couldn’t slap herself in the face now. So when others caught her being ambiguous with Gu Jie, she didn’t choose to clarify that she and Zhao Xunyu weren’t a couple. Instead, she complained that Zhao Xunyu, as her boyfriend, was hot-tempered, capricious, and inconsiderate, and that he wasn’t willing to publicly acknowledge their relationship, which made her feel insecure. It was only after her meeting with Gu Jie that she realized that if she were truly in love with someone, it would never be like her relationship with Zhao Xunyu. She said that after thinking it over, she was considering how to break up with Zhao Xunyu.
When Gu Jie walked past Zhao Xunyu holding hands with Liu Yin Yin, Zhao Xunyu found it rather unbelievable. After all, Gu Jie was proud and aloof, and Liu Yin Yin had been rejected by him. How could he be with her now?
Maybe it was the power of true love.
There were still seven days until the college entrance exam, and Zhao Xunyu was too lazy to pay attention. He did not understand what Gu Jie was bragging about, nor did he take it seriously.
It wasn’t until after the exams that his friends told him about it.
Zhao Xunyu couldn’t understand the idiot’s thoughts at all.
He almost felt sick to his stomach when he heard those words! To be called a boyfriend and then cuckolded, Gu Jie’s appearance right before the exams was definitely an attempt to sabotage his mental state.
Unable to swallow this bitter pill, he quickly clarified his relationship with Liu Yin Yin, vehemently denounced Gu Jie, and enlisted his cousin’s help to teach Gu Jie a ‘lesson‘.
This ‘lesson’ caused quite a stir. When Gu Jie’s father saw his son looking like a pig’s head, he flew into a rage and threatened to settle the score with the Zhao family.
After much arguing, the incident was barely resolved. However, the friction between the two families’ businesses increased significantly. Zhao Qingtang had only thought that his son was headstrong and unreasonable, but he never expected that he would dare to incite his reckless cousin to attack someone!
If this continues, who knows what kind of bigger trouble he might get into.