Quick Transmigration: Why did you provoke him? He's love-struck!

Chapter 266 Thorny Rose (23)

Yan Zhen paused slightly, then passed the question back to him: "What do you think?"

"I do not know."

Yan Zhen took a while to say, "I hope you're not."

Song Yi comes from a wealthy family, and everyone around him fawns over him. At his age, he hasn't yet developed a basic sense of right and wrong. Being immersed in the atmosphere of Bihai High School for a long time, he is easily influenced and may easily go astray.

He has the means to "go bad" without having to bear the consequences.

Song Yi thought for a moment and then asked, "Qin Huai is bad, isn't he?"

"Correct."

"You hate him?"

"Ah."

Song Yi hugged Yan Zhen's arm tightly: "Then I don't want to become like him."

Yan Zhen rubbed his head, affirming his awareness.

-

With Jiang Xicun's withdrawal from school behind us, winter break arrived quickly.

Before the holiday, the school issued a notice that a fire hazard inspection and investigation would be carried out on the entire campus, and students were required to leave the school as soon as possible after the holiday.

Unable to stay at school during winter break, Yan Zhen didn't want to go back to Wang Jianchun's house, so she found herself a job. Fei Fei's father was away on a business trip and wouldn't be home before the New Year, while her mother was busy with work. So, they gave Yan Zhen a raise and asked her to come home every day from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. to play with Fei Fei.

With nowhere else to go, Yan Zhen readily agreed.

When Song Yi learned of this, his first reaction was to object.

"If you don't want to go home, come stay at my place for winter break. I'll pay for your tuition and living expenses next semester. You don't need to work..."

Yan Zhen, who was tidying up his clothes, made a "stop" gesture.

“If I were to reach a dead end, I would ask you for help, but right now the matter is still within my ability to handle, and I don’t want to rely on you for everything.”

"But……"

“Song Yi,” Yan Zhen interrupted him, “we’re friends. Don’t treat me like a little pet. I don’t need you to support me.”

Song Yi understood the warning in her words and knew that once she made up her mind to do something, there was no room for change.

He paused for a moment, then conceded, "So where do you live?"

"I rented a house for a month and a half."

Seeing that she had taken care of everything without telling him, Song Yi was clearly a little unhappy, but he didn't continue to object. He simply offered to take her to her rented apartment.

The rented house is located near a cancer hospital. It's a four-story old-style residential building with partitions made of composite panels, dividing one house into several single rooms.

The tenants of these houses are mostly low-income people and families of patients in cancer hospitals. The advantages are that they are cheap and can be rented for short periods of time. The disadvantages are that they have poor sound insulation, high turnover of people, uneven quality of people, and low safety.

Yan Zhen carried his simple luggage into the room. The door to the next room opened, and a young man with dyed yellow hair came out. As he passed by, he subconsciously glanced into Yan Zhen's room.

Seeing that there were two pretty young girls in the room, the blond-haired man paused, then curled his lips into a smile, his gaze lingering unabashedly on Song Yi's legs—he was wearing jeans and a cream-colored sweater today, which made his waist look slender and his legs look long and straight.

Song Yi's face darkened.

Seeing this, Yan Zhen calmly pulled out a chainsaw from his suitcase and pressed the start button in front of Huang Mao. The roar of the chainsaw instantly echoed fiercely throughout the entire rented room.

Huang Mao: "..."

excuse me.

After Huang Mao left, Song Yi's expression remained unpleasant: "It's not safe here."

"I know."

"You knew I was still living there?"

Yan Zhen pulled him out of the room, locked the door behind him, and then went downstairs: "You know I can protect myself. If anyone dares to mess with me, they'll be the ones who suffer in the end."

When they arrived downstairs, the car was parked there, and the housekeeper was waiting outside. Yan Zhen urged Song Yi, "It's cold outside, you should go back quickly and have a good holiday."

Song Yi said angrily, "I won't be happy, and no one will be with me."

Yan Zhen knew he was being dramatic again, so she didn't indulge him. She opened the car door and shoved him inside: "If you're unhappy, find something to have fun with. Go on a trip, meet up with friends, or just stay home, turn on the heater, and play games. You're a grown man, do you need me to teach you how to have fun?"

Song Yi: "..."

"Please be careful on the road!"

Yan Zhen said this to the housekeeper and driver, and then closed the car door.

Song Yi immediately rolled down the car window and called out to her, "Lin Xun."

Yan Zhen, who had turned around to go upstairs, turned back.

Song Yi gripped the car window with both hands, looking at her expectantly: "If I get bored, can I come and play with you?"

Yan Zhen thought for a moment and said, "I'll come find you."

A pampered young lady like Song Yi is not suited to come here.

Song Yi's eyes lit up: "When?"

"I'll talk about it when I have time."

Song Yi: "..."

After seeing Song Yi off, Yan Zhen went upstairs and tidied up the room briefly. Then, he took out his phone, dialed a number, and made a call.

The call was answered quickly, and a middle-aged woman's voice came through: "Hello?"

Yan Zhen asked, "Hello, are you Aunt Zhang Caiyun?"

"Yes, I'm Zhang Caiyun. Who are you?"

“Auntie, my name is Lin Xun and my mother is Lin Chan. I don’t know if you remember her. She worked with you at Huian Supermarket eight years ago.”

The person on the other end of the phone paused for a moment, then said, "I remember, I remember. She left without resigning. Your dad even came looking for her, saying she ran away from home... Has she come back?"

Yan Zhen didn't answer her question, but smiled and said, "Auntie, are you going to work tomorrow? I'd like to go to Huian Supermarket to meet you."

After receiving confirmation from Zhang Caiyun that she would be at work the next day, Yan Zhen hung up the phone.

Over the past few days, Yan Zhen has been reviewing Lin Xun's memories, and from those memories, he discovered the place where Lin Chan worked before her disappearance: a small convenience store.

Zhang Caiyun was a colleague of Lin Chan at the supermarket, and the two had a good relationship.

Yan Zhen wanted to try to find out some details by starting with Lin Chan's past social circle, so he made a special trip to the supermarket a few days ago.

But her timing was unfortunate; Zhang Caiyun's son was sick, and she had to take leave.

Yan Zhen got Zhang Caiyun's contact number from another aunt at the supermarket—to investigate Lin Chan's disappearance, which was also the reason why Yan Zhen insisted on moving out and not spending the winter vacation at the Song family's house.

Given the Song family's circumstances, spending the New Year at Song Yi's house would definitely be more comfortable than staying in this small single room.

But given Song Yi's clingy nature, if Yan Zhen really went, he felt that he wouldn't be able to do anything else during the entire winter break except spend time with him.

The next day, Yan Zhen got up early, wearing a mask, hat, and scarf, covering herself up completely, and braved the cold wind to go downstairs and take the bus to Fei Fei's house.

Feifei is thirteen years old this year. Taking care of a child of this age is not difficult. During the day, I supervise her to finish her homework, and the two of us play games and watch TV together. In the afternoon, when the temperature rises, I take her to the park downstairs to play skateboarding. The day passes by quickly.

At six o'clock, Fei Fei's mother came home from get off work, and Yan Zhen "handed over" Fei Fei to her before leaving for the day.