Chapter 115 (1/2)
Chang turned to the one-armed woman, saying, ”Zhizhi, I'll leave him to you. Please make sure he doesn't escape from the bar. Today was a long day for both of us, so when you're done, you should get some rest. By the way, Jing didn't go out today, did she?”
”Nope, I locked her in her room,” Zhizhi replied.
”Great...” Chang nodded. ”Thinking about Jing four years ago, she was so cute and quiet back then. But when the p.u.b.erty hit, she changed...”
Chang opened a door that lead to a suite, shaking his head. The layout of the bar was designed for both living and operating the business. He took out a chain of keys and picked one of them to unlock the room in front of him. The person who sat inside the room was a teen girl, her hair bleached to platinum blonde.
”I'm back,” Chang said to the girl sitting on the bed cross-legged. Her fingers were busy with typing on the keyboard, the pale light reflecting on her pupils.
”I know. I knew you're back before you even came into the bar.”
The girl glanced at Chang, rolling her round eyes.
”Can you dye your hair back to black tomorrow? And wear more clothes, can you?” Chang stood in front of the girl, staring at her pink gauze dress. A stream of blue rose in his heart, his brows tying together. ”You should wear decent clothes that suit your age. Can't you at least wear something casual at home? Or at least change into a pajama or something that covers your skin?”
”I don't care what you think, you aren't even my dad.”
The girl kept tapping on the keyboard.
”I'm your brother!” The girl's att.i.tude finally irritated Chang, but he took a deep breath instead, repressing the growing rage that swept across his mind. ”Are you still mad at me interfering with your relations.h.i.+p?”
”Oh yeah!” The girl put aside the computer upon hearing Chang bringing up the topic. She changed her posture to lean on the bed's board more comfortably. ”Who are you to interfere my life?”
”I'm your brother!” Chang exclaimed again. ”And it doesn't really even matter who I am to interfere with your relations.h.i.+p. You just can't date that guy! He is merely a ruffian fooling around on the street. He' a human disaster that has been hurting girls over these blocks! If you were to find him again, I promise you, I'll shoot him in the face.”
”Whatever, you can shoot as many people as you like. Do I look like I give a sh*t about it?”
The girl rolled her eyes again, pouring scorn on his threat.
”Then why are you dating him? Is there something wrong with your mind?” The rage was lit up completely with the girl's careless att.i.tude. He pointed his finger at her. ”Look at you! What have you become? With all this heavy make-up, what do you want with it? And your hair! You're the same as those hipsters back in 2000. Jing, what do you want? Can't you just be more mature after the bad days we'd gone through?”
”So, you like mature types?”
The girl leaned aside, making a seductive posture upon hearing Chang.
”Can you just listen to my words?” Chang pulled her ankle so that her posture was adjusted. ”Jing, return to the normal you, please.”
”I'm perfectly normal, the one who is strange is you. You can't even face your own feelings.” Suddenly, the girl was peaved by Chang's request. She kicked at his stomach with great force, then stood up on the bed, overlooking Chang. ”What has gone wrong with me? Why are you nagging about all this bullsh*t everyday after coming back? Do you even care about me?
”Did I even ask you for anything? Why are you restricting me so much? Just tell me you're disgusted by me or something, what are you doing all this for? Are you trying to forsake me?” Jing curled her lips. ”I think your life will be pretty much the same without me! Now that you've evolved even more, your nose is more sensitive than Zhizhi's, and I just became useless since you're capable of resolving any kind of difficulties. I know that I'm no longer useful to you. You can say it if you want me to leave!”
”Go ahead!” Chang shouted. ”Go ahead and live your own life then!”
”Right, right! Finally you say it!” The girl burst into tears when Chang yelled. ”You really want to drive me out from here!”
”F*ck! We can't talk on this, we'll never come to an agreement.” Her crying eased his anger, but he was even more troubled now. ”Whatever, you can do whatever you want to. But I'm telling you, if you don't get back into normal clothes and remove all that make-up as well as agree to stop dating that guy, you won't get out of this room.”
”I can be 'normal' in your sense, I can dump him as well. However,” the girl spoke while sobbing, ”you have to be normal as well. We'll share the same bed as how we always did back in the days, and you'll take me around wherever you go. Otherwise, don't expect me to change!”
”How can we... You're sixteen now! You're almost an adult, how can we share the same bed again?” His headache came with Jing's repeated request. ”Have you seen any sixteen-year-old girl sharing s bed with her dad?”
”You aren't my dad, and I don't even know who my father is!”
”Indeed I'm not your dad, but I'm your brother! Alright, alright, I don't care about what you want to be but you won't leave this room tomorrow either.”
Chang banged the door closed as he left, and immediately, a vase smashed on the other side.
The shattering sound caused Chang's headache to become more severe; his temples ached in a rhythm. He could do nothing for the situation, so he returned to his own room with a heavy sigh.
When he entered his own room, Zhizhi knocked on the door before coming in.