Chapter 9 - Heaven Sent Calamity (1/2)

Heaven Sent Calamity

It was his boss’ summoning, how could Xiao Jiashu refuse? While stroking his faintly aching cheeks, he walked to the front of their table, and nodded. “Ji’ge, Kun’ge, having lunch?”

“Sit.” Ji Mian pointed at the seat opposite him and then called for a waiter, “Add another plate of black pepper beef steak to my order, Medium cooked.”

“Sure, Mr Ji, would you like anything else?” The waiter asked politely.

Ji Mian looked at Xiao Jiashu. Xiao Jiashu immediately waved his hand. “Nothing else, thank you.” Beef steak again, and he even added black pepper, it really can’t get any better! He really had seen through this Film Emperor Ji now, what gentle character, what kind and charitable, what generous and easy-mannered… All lies. He was just a dictator, accustomed to using his own methods to treat the people around him, rarely giving them the right to choose. Just using the two meals with him as an example, he always orders first, and never asks others what they would like to eat.

Xiao Jiashu really wanted to completely refuse, but his good upbringing wouldn’t allow him to do so.

“Yo, who’s angered our Young Master Xiao? Why such a black face?” Fang Kun purposely asked, thinking that Xiao Jiashu was still thinking about the matter with Li Jiaer.

Ji Mian, on the other hand, didn’t bother to use any superfluous words; he went straight to the point. “How did Li Jiaer offend you, to make you block her?”

“How did you guys know?” Xiao Jiashu asked with a face of surprise. Currently, he still didn’t understand that in the entertainment world there was absolutely no such thing as “secrets”, it all just depended on whether the people around him wanted to expose it or not.

This brat is seriously no good, dares to do it, but doesn’t dare to admit! Fang Kun thought with disdain in his heart, but his face carried an amiable smile; he asked in a laid-back manner, “You two met for the first time yesterday, right? Did you get some misunderstanding about her during that time? Come, come, come, tell us, if there’s a misunderstanding, we should undo it as early as possible, don’t be so extreme. A person must compromise, so later on things won’t be awkward when you meet again. The entertainment circle is small, there are heaps of chances you’ll encounter each other again, you shouldn’t force someone into a dead end like this.”

If his friend could still speak, his friend definitely would not want to talk about Li Jiaer. Therefore, he had even less of a necessity to explain to outsiders. Let him, from now on, completely bury those unbearable, dirty memories. After all, Li Jiaer had already left, and he had been finally able to do one last thing for his friend. With that thought, Xiao Jiashu waved a hand and said, “There’s no misunderstanding. The person I’m targeting is her. I investigated before I started sabotaging her. There’s no way I’ve gotten the wrong person.”

Fang Kun, “…” Those words are so straight forward there’s nothing I can say to rebut!

Ji Mian put down his fork and looked straight at the young man. In a gentle tone, but unyielding attitude, he said, “Still, tell us. There must be a reason why you hate her so much.”

Seriously tyrannical! Xiao Jiashu mouth twitched internally, and his face revealed a look of impatience. At this exact timing, the waiter carried over a plate of black pepper beef steak. The savoury fragrance directly rushed into his nose, but he couldn’t even eat it, causing him to be even more indignant. Are all these people blind? Duped by a woman like Wang Shiqi, and even rushing to defend her; he was so pissed off! And what was even more enraging was–the steak at this restaurant was super-duper delicious but he couldn’t even eat it; he could only stare at it!

Xiao Jiashu picked up his knife and fork and started cutting the steak up into even pieces. He said slowly, “How about this? I’ll tell you guys a story.”

It’s here. It’s here. So there really is a story. Fang Kun pricked his ears and got ready to collect some gossip.

Ji Mian gave a small nod, and gently and politely said, “We are all ears.”

“Once upon a time, there was a peasant. The peasant had a big brother and a little sister. He was the middle kid, so he wasn’t really valued by his parents. When his parents died, they left his big brother a lot of land, and left his little sister a lot of dowry. When it was his turn, there was hardly any inheritance left over, and he only ended up with barren land located halfway up a mountain. He didn’t feel that his parents had been unfair to him, and merely said that this was fate, and silently accepted it. But, he was a very smart guy and he used his free time to study carpentry. He then started building furniture for the people living around him and slowly saved up some money. His brother and sister saw that he was getting more and more well off, and were really jealous. They found a beautiful girl…”

Xiao Jiashu’s story was really long. When Fang Kun and Ji Mian started listening, at first they inwardly thought that his and Li Jiaer longstanding grudge that began from the fight for the family inheritance, and that maybe Li Jiaer was the girl his brothers or sisters had found to seduce him, but didn’t expect Xiao Jiashu to see through their plan. Hm, this reason was acceptable (made sense), and the plot was very interesting, so the two became immersed in the story (were sucked into the story).

However, Xiao Jiashu went into a completely different direction than expected. “That girl was guided back to the right path because the peasant’s actions, and wholeheartedly fell in love with him. She dumped her previous fiancé…”

Oh, perhaps this wasn’t a rich family drama fighting for inheritance; it was possible that this was a grudge from a previous lifetime. When Ji Mian and Fang Kun heard the story up to this point, their brows wrinkled slightly. Inwardly thinking that the truth would be revealed in the latter half of the story, they couldn’t help but listen even more attentively.

Xiao Jiashu used over ten minutes to narrate how the peasant operated his family business, how he doted on his wife and kids, how he was friendly and kind to his neighbours, before saying, “One day, when that peasant, who had already become a well-known big official, was passing through a block of farmland, he saw a frozen viper on the side of the paddy-field path. He felt great pity for the viper, so he picked up the viper and warmed it up with his chest. When the snake woke up, not only was it not grateful, it also even ruthlessly bit the peasant to death. See guys, this is the fate of people who carelessly try to be a good person.”

“Clang!” This was the sound of knife and fork in Fang Kun’s hands falling to the ground.

Ji Mian, who was about to drink water, almost spurted water out of his mouth. Fortunately, he managed to restrain himself in time.