DLOBML CHAPTER 8

Chapter 8 — F*** Your Abusive Romance (6) | The Male Lead’s Daily Routine: Risking His Life to Be Dumb

Xing Ge shifted a little farther away. She could not stand people breathing hot air by her ear. She smiled lightly at Meng Hui. “Repay me double? Do you have any idea how much my wedding cost? Meng Hui, if you relied on a day job, you would not repay it in your entire life.”

After getting snubbed several times, Meng Hui’s face turned ugly. She addressed her directly and by full name. “Chen Feng, are you really going to make this so hostile?” Where had the steady, protective upperclassman gone? She looked at his striking profile with wounded eyes.

“From beginning to end, you are the only one making a scene,” Xing Ge replied.

“Fine. Fine! Since you are so heartless, we are finished!” Meng Hui shouted through tears. “One day you will regret this. Even if you beg me to come back, I will say, ‘Sorry, get lost!’” She stamped her foot and ran off.

Then go. I will not be seeing you out.

Xing Ge almost said it out loud, but she held it in. She could not ruin Chen Feng’s image as the steady gentleman.

“What… what was that?” Meng Hui’s aunt stared, dumbfounded.

“Your niece tried to marry me while pregnant with another man’s child and was exposed,” Xing Ge said with a faint, almost pleasant smile. “So, are you staying to compensate me for the damage?”

“Son-in-law, what a joke,” Mrs. Meng forced a laugh. But seeing that his face was not joking at all, she panicked and pretended to chase after her daughter. Two of the four relatives scurried off. The rest exchanged looks and hurried out as well.

“Throw these things out,” Mrs. Chen said with disgust, averting her eyes from the pile of blankets and pots they had dragged in.

Xing Ge propped her chin and sighed. The heroine was exhausting. Now she had even run off. Was she supposed to lower herself and coax her back? The very image made her shiver. Forget it. She was not that masochistic. She would go confess to Lord Egg instead.

With that decision, she no longer felt as suffocated.

But the plot beats still came knocking. One day at the office, the internal line rang. A few people were making a scene outside the building, shouting about a heartless man who abandoned his wife to wed a new beauty.

As expected, the Meng family would not shed tears until they saw the coffin. Unlike the soft-hearted Chen Feng of the original plot, Xing Ge did not indulge them. She told security to call the police and file charges for defamation.

The Meng relatives, who had planned to squeeze a fortune out of Chen Feng, were stunned. They ended up in jail, crying to the heavens with no answer. In only a few days they were a pitiful mess, which gave Meng Hui a shock when she went to visit.

Unable to bear their suffering, Meng Hui swallowed her pride and went to beg Chen Feng for mercy. She changed into a cream-colored dress and, gritting her teeth, pulled the straps lower.

But when she reached Chen Feng’s office, she froze at the scene inside.

“Feng, drink a little more. Auntie said you have lost weight. You need to nourish yourself,” said a tall beauty, carefully ladling chicken soup. Tenderness shone in her eyes. She was Chen Feng’s ex-girlfriend. They had broken up when he went abroad.

Hearing about his sham wedding and under Mrs. Chen’s gentle prodding, the tall beauty’s heart had begun to stir again.

Xing Ge wanted to cry without tears. She accepted the bowl without a change of expression, finished it neatly, and gestured for the woman to leave. That only made the beauty’s eyes glow with even deeper infatuation.

The tall woman thought, surprised, that Chen Feng’s coolness was devastatingly attractive. She absolutely could not let such a man slip away again.

If Xing Ge had known what was going through her head, she would have regretted this visit.

Outside the door, Meng Hui covered her mouth and fled. So Chen Feng had been two-timing all along. He had hidden it from her so well.

“Those people made bail?”

When the call came, Xing Ge raised an eyebrow. Then she realized who must have helped. It had to be the male lead. She figured Meng Hui had returned to Wei Yue’s side. She actually felt relieved. Maybe the plot was finally back on track.

Three years later, an alumni reunion invitation arrived. Mu Qing urged her to go. Chen Feng had become a terrifying workaholic who never went out, not even on weekends. Friends who cared about him tried to include him whenever something fun happened.

Reluctantly, Xing Ge went to the gathering after work and was surprised to see Meng Hui, with a little boy at her side.

Meng Hui wore expensive clothes and heavy makeup, but she could not hide her exhaustion. The boy at her side glared at the world like everyone was the enemy. Clearly she had not been living well with Wei Yue. They had married, yes, but after a brief stretch of good behavior, Wei Yue had gone back to playing around with a few young models. Meng Hui cried herself to sleep most nights.

Xing Ge sighed inwardly. Fairy tales were illusions. The script was not even as neat as before.

“Ah Feng…”

Meng Hui looked up as a man in a tailored suit approached. He was even more handsome than before, his youthful charm tempered into mature restraint. It only made him more dangerously attractive.

Unfortunately, she no longer had the right to stand at his side.

A little drunk and full of regret for mistaking glass for pearls back then, Meng Hui’s guts grew with the alcohol. When Xing Ge stepped out for air, she sneaked after him.

What the! You are just going to leave your discount son behind?

When Xing Ge turned the corner and found herself blocked, she was stone-cold shocked.

As expected, the heroine of a CEO drama is pure trouble.

“Ah Feng, I am sorry. It was all my fault…” Meng Hui sobbed until her makeup streaked. “I finally realized the person I love most is you.”

Xing Ge went blank.

Maybe… she had run into a counterfeit heroine.

“Ah Feng, let us start over, please?” While Xing Ge was distracted by disbelief, the heroine seized the moment and grabbed his hand. Tears glimmered in her eyes. “Do not worry. I will cut off all ties with Wei Yue. I will not have anything to do with him. My heart is only yours!”

Xing Ge glanced at her trapped hand and tugged. It did not budge.

Taking that as encouragement, Meng Hui puckered her lips and leaned in for a kiss.

Excuse me, even if you are the female lead, you cannot just assault people!

Xing Ge calmly considered her options. Slap the heroine? Slap the heroine? Or… slap the heroine?

“Meng Hui! How dare you betray me!”

Then the shout came like thunder. A tall figure charged over.

The male lead had arrived and walked in on the “affair.”

His eyes were bloodshot. He swung a fist at Xing Ge, the supposed “homewrecker.”

Meng Hui panicked and let go of Xing Ge’s hand at once. Then she bolted like a startled rabbit.

Xing Ge: “!!”

Wait a minute. What happened to staying together through thick and thin?

The fist was a centimeter from her face when Xing Ge’s body shifted. She sidestepped.

Wei Yue could not stop his momentum and barreled into the street. He ignored the traffic, pivoted, and charged back at her, intent on finishing the job. Those long male-lead legs moved too fast. His left foot stepped on his right foot and he ate pavement with a thud, just in time to be clipped by a speeding Mercedes and sent flying.

Sent flying…

Flying…

The male lead was risking his life to be dumb!

Xing Ge was so moved she almost cried.

A few days later, she heard he had woken up. He had survived, but both legs were severely crushed and might never recover. For a prideful CEO like Wei Yue, this was a fate worse than death.

As his rival in both business and love, Xing Ge asked Mu Qing to prepare a bouquet and a fruit basket. She went to pay a friendly visit. Purely out of concern. Definitely not to laugh.

Wei Yue erupted the moment he saw the culprit. He grabbed whatever was in reach, pillows, water cups, and hurled them at her. She dodged everything with ease and leaned cheerfully against the doorframe, the picture of harmless mischief.

“Oh my, our great CEO. Even sick in bed you look so pitifully charming. Legless or not, you will still have a line of people fighting to take responsibility for you. Relax. If you keep raging like this, you will scare them off.”

“Get out, get out, get out!”

Wei Yue’s chest heaved with fury.

Seeing you miserable makes me very happy, she thought with satisfaction, and sauntered off.

She was still too naive.

After the whole Meng Hui fiasco, Chen Feng’s parents pushed him to go on blind dates. One young woman took a liking to him. They exchanged numbers and were about to get to know each other when…

“Sorry,” the girl said bashfully, “I already like someone else.”

A few days later, Xing Ge watched Wei Yue swagger past with that same girl tucked under his arm, flaunting her like a trophy.

This was not scientific. The male lead’s legs had healed. What was he, a gecko?????

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